The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-28 00:00:00

EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1869.

lion of the most experienced has a similar commotion men
witnessed in the country. On Sunday, at the termination
of Mass, three or four hundred thousand persons
pressed into the narrow streets of Pera in order to obtain
a glimpse of the fair visitor. It is noticed that the Turkish
women are most eager in their efforts to see her Majesty.
The Sultan seems to take real pleasure in the re Me assigned
to him, and his urgent entreaties induced the Empress to
prolong her stay for a few days. The Empress herself has
explained her feelings by declaring that she is in a dream.
and dreads the moment when she must awaken.

Last evening tho Emperor went to the Opera accom-
panied by a distinguished suite. The directors of the
opera were only informed of this visit at the beginning of
the performance. The Emperor arrived in the middle of
the second act, he was received with cheers by the entire
audience, aud remained for some time. His visit was a
complete success, especially under the circumstances of the
case. Contrary to a report that has prevailed, the Prince
Imperial has not accompanied his father to Paris, but
remains at Compigne.
The Li/Tee is very indignant at the rumour of an
alliance between Austria and Prussia, which the
Crown Prince is said to have ccnaludcd during
his recent visit to Vienna. The Minister for Foreign
Affairs has now heard, it appears, that the Emperor
Francis Josei.,h told the Prussian prince that he should
rejoice if the old confidence were renewed between their
respective countries.
Strikes are the order of the day. It is announced that
the working ironmongers, the clerks of the attorneys and
notaries, and the chemists' assistants are all to join the
ranks of the disaffected employes in the course of the week.

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.

The year has been singularly chequered in its
weather. Heated terms followed instantly by cold
snaps, broken up by a bowling storm or deluged by
floods. Those on their " summering" trips caught
out in the cold were hurried back to fird themselves
in town during the hottest period of the year, and
laughed at by citizens chained to their desks as "sold"
by the weather, This week set in with heavy rain
and a hard blow; freshets followed as the rain poured
down along the coasts and far back inland, and the
consequence has been heavy inundations. Many
merchants have been cut off from their business by
the floods, cars ceasing to run, banks overflowing,
and the country in large tracts being under water.
Along the North and East rivers much property
has been damaged, and there have been several
shipwrecks, although the steamships off Sandy
Hook weathered the storm. Among these were the
City of Brooklyn, the Cleopatra, the Sisal, and
Vera Cruz. The newspapers thus summarise the
loss throughout the country :—" Among the prin-
cipal losers are the Pulp Works and Nixon's Paper
Mill at Manayunk, $30,000 to $40,000 ; A. Camp-
bell and Co.'s cotton mills, $20,000 ; J. M. Pres-
ton's woollen mill, $17,000 ; Waitzfelder and Co.'s
mill, $B,OOO to $lO,OOO ; the Girard tube works,
$15,000. The Lehigh Valley suffered severely from
the flood. At Bethlehem, the Pennsylvania House
and Felter's Hotel were much damaged, and large
quantities of lumber were carried off. The Lehigh
Valley and the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroads
had part of their tracks washed away. A Potts-
ville despatch says many of the collieries in the
Schuylkill region were ' drowned out.' In Con-
necticut the town of Manchester suffered losses
estimated at over $300,000. The loss at Hudson,
New York, is estimated at $500,000. The loss to
lumbermen at West Troy, New York, is stated at
$lOO,OOO. The damage by the flood in New Hamp-
shire is estimated at $1,000,000. In four counties of
New York, along the Hudson, the losses are esti-
mated at $3,000,000. A number of lives were lost
in various localities inNew York and New England."
But every hour adds to the list of loss of property
and life, which now we begin to understand is some-
thing awful. Not less chequered perhaps has been bu-
siness in Wall-street. There also have been "heated"
terms and " cold snaps." We are in a cold snap, hav-
ing had a very heated term broken up by a hurri-
cane. The failures are over twenty, the greatest being
that of Lockwood and Co. The bead of the firm,
Mr. Legrand Lockwood, is much liked and re-
spected, and everywhere sympathy is expressed for
him. He has been noted for hospitality and the
generosity of his donations, and the instant mea-
sures he took to place all he possessed in the hands
of an assignee have much tended to confirm this
favourable impression. Many of the creditors have
arrived in town, and it is generally desired that the
house should resume, but nothing will be decided
on till the accounts have been laid before the credi-
tors. The board of the Lake Shore Road have for
days been in session at the Farmers' Loan and
Trust Company. The sum due to the railroad
from the house is known to be large. Mr. Lock-
wood's resignation as treasurer has been accepted,
but no one as yet has been chosen in his place,
though Messrs. Alanson Robinson, Horace F. Clark,
and James H. Banker form a committee to settle
the affairs of the house. The first is head of the
firm of Robinson, Cox, and Co., and he succeeds
Mr. Lockwood as director. The creditors of the
firm met on Thursday to ascertain the extent of the
loss, if possible ; but all that has transpired is that
$2,000,000 of equipment bonds will be issued to run
for 10 years, bearing 7 per cent. per annum, payable
half yearly. At the same time that general sympathy
is expressed for Mr. Lockwood, the public desire that
a statement of his affairs should be made in his own
interest. Two more stock firms have been added
to the list of failures, both in Wall-street—Adams,
Kimball and Moore, of No. 14, and Puleston, Ray-
mond, and Co., of No. 5. The latter are reported
to be victims of a trusted cashier, who, though receiv-
ing $5,000 a year, was content with only $50,000.
He did not appear at his post as usual, and it trans-
pired on inquiry that he had made a free use of the cash
placed in his care. Suits for differences continue to
be brought against Fisk, Gould, and Co. ; one by
Brown and Co. is for the recovery of $2,500,000 lost
through an irregular sale of $7,000,000 in gold by
the former. Fisk bas created another sensation.
In a letter, accompanied by affidavits, he endea-
vours to prove that Mr. Corbin, the President's
brother-in-law, was not' only implicated, but was
the originator of the late Gold Gamble, and, as he
plainly insinuates, with the privacy of the Presi-
dent. Mr. Fisk is always amusing, and in no small
degree original. His connection with Mr. Corbin,
when interviewed by the Tribune's reporter, he
termed " a business affair, all going in to bull
gold, Corbin being the biggest toad in the puddle."
He was expected to carry them through, but he
did'nt, and that was the head and tail of the affair.
George Francis Train proclaims publicly in all his
speeches, in his usual reckless style, that Fisk, jun.,
is Grant's younger partner, and the Democratic
press are blowing up these embers into a fierce
flame to make the most of in the coming elections.
Many of the newspapers have been unsparing in
their denunciation both of Mr. Boutwell and General
Grant, and the Journal of Commerce calls on them
to cease such attacks and gross insinuations, or to
bring forward the evidence on which they ground
them. It considers all, without distinction of party,
interested in protecting the President from such
attacks, which, if true, would affix an indelible
stain on Republican institutions. America has
had incompetent men, but never Presidents so dis-
honest as to tamper with the national prosperity
and happiness to fill their own pockets. If General
Grant had done one-half of what the papers accuse
him, the form of Government would be called in
question as a failure through which such men at-
tained to the Executive Chair. This is plain talking,
and is aimed against the President while professing
to be written in his interest, but the extraordinary
documents published by Fisk, and the fact that Jay
Gould is bringing an action against Mr. Corbin
for some half million of dollars, the differences be-
tween the buying and selling price of three mil-
lions in gold and two millions in stocks, have given
so much colouring to the rumours that the agent
of the Associated Press at Washington, called on
the President, who spoke freely on the subject,
raore especially in allusion to an interview with
Fisk on board the steamer then about to leave New
York for Newport. Some surprise has been ex-
pressed at the way in which the President bore the
insolence of the proposition to give him prior in-
formation as to the financial designs of the Trea-
sury. The Post says that President Jackson would
have hurled a chair at the man's head who dared
thus to approach him, and it is a thousand pities

that the " Admiral" was not seen making a quick
retreat from his own boat, and the President of ter him
with a sharp stick. He has now the insolence. in a
letter to the Sun to allude to that interview as
one exceedingly pleasant to both parties. When
this blows over it will, I suspect, leave a useful im-
pression on the President's mind to avoid all con-
tact and all parleying with such people, to deny
them any interview, and to take care when their
presence is forced upon him that he has a Secre-
tary at his elbow. The scandal must be injurious
to any reputation, and, worse still, injurious to a
post of perhaps the highest dignity in the world.
It will end, if such things continue, in more cere-
monial and a greater difficulty in reaching a Pre-
sident. A delegation from the Citizens' Associa-
tion has been urging the Mayor and Common
Council to allow dummy engines to be run on the
roads down to Fourteenth Street. The Chamber
of Commerce has just met to consider a communi-
cation from the Liverpool Chamber to dircet the
tare to be allowed as iu England, of 41bs. per cwt.,
and a draft of 21bs. per bale. Proceedings have
been taken against the owners of the Quaker City
for violating the neutrality laws, having hoisted the
Haytien flag when at Hayti, and received from the
town an armament ; and it is added that military
uniforms were in the vessel when she left New
York. Dougherty and Hugh Marra have been
brought before Judge M'Cunn, charged with im-
plication in the assassination of Brookes, the revenue
officer of Philadelphia, and the case was adjourned,
theDistrict-Attorney pledging himself to furnish con-
vincing proofs of their guilt. There has been a grand
review by Governor Hoffman, in Madison-square, of
the First Division of the National Guard. The regi-
ments, mostly in new uniform, turned out in fina
condition, with full ranks. The weather was beau-
tiful, and all the buildings around were crowded
with spectators ; and next day it was the turn of
Brooklyn, Governor Hoffman as Commander-in-
Chief, with his Staff, also reviewing the Militia
there. The Second Division, on that occasion,
turned out under the command of Major-General
Woodward. There has been a strike of the la-
bourers employed at night on the new Post-office,
who want an extra half dollar a day, and eight in-
stead of ten hours. The contractors say, " Let
them go," as labour is plentiful. The European
steamers continue very full of first-class passengers
recrossing the Atlantic. Affairs in the Gold Ex-
change have not yet shaken into their place. There
was a meeting on Thursday, two-thirds of the re-
gular members being present to receive the report
of a committee they had appointed to prepare a
plan to clear contracts in gold. Delinquent mem-
bers were directed to withdraw, and the Secre-
tary has requested them to refrain, as a point
of honour, from doing business in the Gold
Room until their accounts have been satisfactorily
settled. Mr. Underhill, a director of the Gold Ex-
change Bank, declared that it was sound and solvent,
and will immediately resume ; and he requested the
Exchange to postpone action on the Committee's
resolutions. He hoped the members would deal
magnanimously with the Bank, adding that the stock-
holders would elect a new board of directors. Mr.
Hodgkins, in reply, spoke of the Bank as failed ; it
was not the Exchange which had withdrawn from
the Bank, but the Bank from them. Mr. Clarence
H. Seward has been employed as counsel for the
officers of the Gold Exchange to act in the matter
of the injunctions served upon them. Injunctions
are everywhere flying about, and much law business
is anticipated during the winter. An acoustic tele-
graph has been successfully tried in Brooklyn. How
it works lam not prepared to say. Many steam.
boats, in anticipation of the predicted tidal wave,
got up steam, yet the tidal wave did not come, but
the terrible earthquakes in South America had
followed too closely on the prediction of Mr.
Falb for people to sneer at the other prediction.
We have had one of those shocking murders the atro-
city of which arrests attention. It was in a street
of the Fourth Ward, misnamed Cherry-street,
where lived a woman from Yorkshire, England,
who bad married a Chinaman, named Acong, a
steward in a vessel trading between Liverpool and
Hongkong. In the same house, No. 67, was another
Chinaman, a tobacco-roller, called Archoea. Lately
Acong returned from a voyage greeting his family
and his old friend Archoea warmly, but more re-
cently he had shown strange symptoms, laughing,
crying, jabbering broken English, affected, it was
supposed, by jealousy, On Tuesday night Archoea
was aroused from sleep by Acong offering to repay
two borrowed dollars. While the drowsy Archoea was
replying " there is time enough," a double edged knife
with a blade like a razor was plunged into his heart
and he died without a groan. The Yorkshire lass
was asleep on a sofa in her own room, and though
she received the same weapon in her breast with
more than one wound she appears to have rushed
down stairs and fallen dead at the threshold. The
amiable Celestial then turned on a boy named Chas.
Acong, but the lad escaped, howling " Murder !
police !" which alarmed the house, and a woman
running into the room found the Chinaman on
the bed, dying from seven gashes, with the deadly
knife still in his clenched and stiffening hand.
Placing a tumbler of water to his lips he ground the
glass to pieces and died. The house was instan-
taneously turned into a pandemonium. A mob had
gathered, the screaming vultures of the " Bloody
Fourth ;" within lay the woman in the pool shed
from her heart, with her long dishevelled hair and
agonized face pressed against the floor. In one
room, on the dripping mattress, was the murdered
man ; in the other, a more horrible picture still, the
murderer and the suicide. Touching ,the trouble
in the Methodist Book Concern, the Rev. James
Porter ably defends himself against the aspersions
for the rumoured defalcations. During his official
connection with the concern all such purchases as
paper were made by Mr. Goodenough, the super-
intending printer, and neither he nor his son, as far
as Dr. Porter knows, supplied anything for the
bindery. Instead of defrauding, he has been out
of pocket $l,OOO a year by his connection with it,
to which might be added the literary labour given
gratis to aid the Concern when it became embarrassed
with the Church south. Finally, he states that he
is willing to be branded as a thief and a robber on
its being shown that he took any commission on
purchases for the Concern, adding that no such
charges had emanated from it, the rumours neces-
sitating his denial arising from outside parties. Mr.
Koopmanschap is at the St. James's Hotel, having
just arrived from New Orleans.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.

Secretary Boutwell had left for Philadelphia, but
was recalled by business, but more still by the storm
which has deluged the country, rivers overflowing
their banks and sweeping all before them ; dams
bursting, railroads under water, and, I fear, a great
loss of life. The papers are tilled with accounts of
the devastation. The Secretary will, however,
manage to speak before the elections come off, a
the leaders of the Republican party see the necessity
of counteracting the injurious and untruthful stories
lately put in circulation against the Administration.
Commissioner Delano has been compelled by the
press of business to give up his intention of stump-
ing Ohio, contenting himself with going home
to vote. General Sherman returned thanks for the
Cabinet on the opening of the Art Gallery last
Wednesday. The speech was remarkable for
a bold allusion to the removal of the capital. As
a Western man, he desired to see it at St.
Louis, but he was opposed to removing a stone
of the piles connected with great American names,
and from spots where such men as Webster, Clay,
and Calhoun had made their fame. Ex Secretary
Staunton is here, and better; but Amos Kendall has
been dying for some time. The plan for an interna-
tional exhibition, to be held in this city in 1871, gains
consistency and strength. Though suggested by
persons of little influence, it has been taken up by
leading citizens, headed by the President, who shows
a great interest in it, and desires its success, as do
Sherman, Admiral Dahlgren, and many others, be-
sides the liberal banker, Mr. Corcoran. There was a
meeting yesterday evening, Henry 1). Cooke in the
I chair, and a draft of a charter from Congress was
adopted. The excess of the profits over 6 per
cent. ou the capitalemployed it is proposed to devote
to any national object the President sanctions,
and the corporate authorities of the District of

Columbia will be empowered to appropriate half 3
million of dollars -to the enterprise. Not 0011
is a land reserve to be made for the building, sr°
Foreign Ministers and Consuls asked to co-operate
and will goods be transported in Government vessels'
but an Executive Committee has been appointed,
at the head of which is that able and earnest wag'
General 0. 0. Howard, with Henry D. Cooke 85
Chairman of the Finance Committee. I think I are
justified in informing your readers, many of wll°lll
will doubtless take a deep interest in the matter'
that this is something more than an embryo enter'
prise. You know how quickly ideas that suit the
public mind assume a reality in America, and thi3
is one of them. Money will be forthcowing ig
abundance, the executive will give its full weight,
Congress will follow, and in a few months hence
there will be a louder ring of preparation over the
Union than that sounded by the "Anvil Chorus" a',
the "Hub." Mr. A. Delmar is here, as is the
of the late Gaieral Rawlins. There are several
Senators and other influential gentlemen new
Washington. A monument of Quincy granite bsa'
been finished in memory of Colonel Bowers, killed
on the Hud•on River Railroad, when on Generat
Grant's staff. It is to be carried to and erected at Alirei:t
e
Point, and is now to be seen at the shop near t
Executive Mansion. There are some delegations als
at present here; one of Quakers fresh from the
dians of the Plains, who have seen the President;
another from Maryland to tender him an invitation
to the State Fair. There has been a meeting of
the Universal Franchise Association to elect officel r
for next year. Senator Pomeroy had the 110°1:
of being re-elected president, hut all the vice-Pr";
sidents are ladies. The session of the SnUrelll,
Court of the United States commenced on 1)10.
day, but adjourned in the absence of a quern es
Chief Justice Chase was present, as were JustLe,o
Clifford, Davis, and Swayne. At the bar we'
Attorney-General Hoar, Cushing, Ashton, 13e:
jamiu Butler, T. M. Carlisle, and many others.
Reductions in pay are sharply following reduetiebo
in strength. The New York Custom-house is to
ard
cut down annually $22,000. In the Navy-lo
here second-class painters were reduced from $360,
$2 75 per day, wheelwrights from $2 75 to $2 60.
and second-class labourers from $l. 75 to $1
This is so unpopular that the mechanics have beeo
0,
deeply stirred, the more as a commission has act td
ally been appointed by the commandant of the late
report whether the reduction should be made°, bf
general. An interesting trial has been orderee
Admiral Porter to test the boat-detaching aPPara;ce,
invented by Noble, the "let-go" or lifeboat de b°
and Admiral Dahlgren is to name the officers DoE
are to pronounce on its merits. The Solic:,„rpo
the Treasury is considering the question whetloo
United States collector can engage in the collecith
of State and Municipal taxes on a dispute :00
some shipowners whose clearance papers had
cvvere
withheld after all legal United States dues ''tbe
paid until State taxes had been likewise paid; ited
Commissioner of Customs considers that varier
States officers have no right to exercise their Pejo
in the collection of any other debts than if 13,1..
States debts. Strange reports are often here e[cheo
lated ; one has just been published that des&euell
had reached the Secretary of State from the Fr 01
and English Governments, to the effect that ordersaboo
been given their ships to capture or sink the ag
privateer Cuba, and to hang the officers and cret re'
pirates. On Sunday night the Governmee
ceived a telegram stating that possession had or 3
,
taken of the vessel, but this was not till 24 l'ooeot
after her capture, and intelligence was thee
to the foreign representatives, and an order teeigoo
mington detain the privateer pending the deal
of the judiciary. Another delegation has beetiot
Washington to give a reply to the allegatieecssteel.
frauds were being perpetrated in the import e""
The Pennsylvania and other manufacturers ra
eti,
tain that they are subjected to an unjust cernPoti
Lion by untruthful invoices, and the other their
complain of the Consul declining to sign 0
papers. I suppose this is the beginning of a cOO
about the merits of which I confess my ign°ll

COURSE OF EXCHANGE•

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PRICE OF GOLD.
and
Par,
the quotation of gold at Paris is about s' torll°l
tle short exchange on London is 251. 15.3. Per 'rioh:t
~n comparing these rates with the English 31'11,
£3 tie. 100. per ounce for standard gold, lt 491);
gold at the above price is slightly dearer in rdi.'"
London, bill' st6cllo
The course of exchange at New York on London for
tl'•j
days sight was 1071 per cent. on the 19th inst. At this it°
would be a loss on the transmission of gold 11.01 tl's °
States.
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RAILWAY NEWS.—An application will bt:
tan r4O
oret
to the Parliament of Canada, at its next sessial i' t
porate a company for the purpose of building' virestes
under the Detroit River, to connect the Gre93nnd 06;
Railway with the Michigan Central Railrond,v7ll dsor
ill
cure to other railroads terminating either in N;l3
f
Detroit the use of the same on fair term%• p,,3
also be asked to work the same by steam and 13°- e .
, it
for local passenger and freight traffic between ve,°
*"
Windsor. 1/ote
5c
Eugene Schuyler has been appointe- the
States Consul at Revel, in Russia. He has f°ru ael'efl49o
three years been the Consul at Moscow, Fh tot ff,
Grant unfortunately removed him to give the r
old and valued army surgeon who had served osis
tor- bls g
the newly appointed Consul at Moscow, LIP° te
was dissatisfied, and has sent in his resign 3 iall°,lt
The following amusing incident is relste vou'i°s,
2, page 151, of the battle of Waubatchie, ne4e2oo
Mountain :—" When the battle began about 0-" f $t
frightened by the noise, dashed into the ran es eclAb-°:0
federate Gen. Wade Hampton's Legion and Pi'dilel; Im3r°'ol
Panic* • • ." The incident inspired s rat'coutrie,/
poem of six stanzas in imitation of Tennysen'g, goiVO'
the 600 at Balaklava, two verses of which are tts'°
" Forward, the mule brigade,
Was there a mule dismay'd ?
Not when their long ears felt
All their ropes sundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to make them fly,
On to the Georgia troops
Broke the two hundred.
Mules to the right of them,
Mules to the left of them,
Mules all behind them,
Pawed, neighed, and thundere

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