The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-02 00:00:00

rEE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1869.

in the peat specified were In the proportion of to
every 10,000. In other manufactures the mortality
was from 10 to 40 times greater. Further testimony
in favour of the preservative action of copper was
supplied by a society known as the Bon Accord, which
is entirely composed of workers in bronze. During
the whole of the five visitations of cholera, this
society, the members of which were scattered in
quarters where the epidemic raged with the greatest
virulence, had not only not had a single death, but
had been called upon to pay only for 106 days of
sickness, divided among ten members of the society.
Facts supporting the theory were also supplied from
other sources. The conclusion drawn from this state-
ment was that if further inquiries established the
truth of the theory, exceedingly valuable results from
a hygienic point of view would follow.

granting Tree oraers. Tney ioalLced Optia 0115 cY"rn.3z..9,77
absentees to go to school for a while. But the voluntary
subscriptions proved so insufficient, that the free order
system, had, in part, to be abandoned. "No wonder, after
so patent and terrible a failure of the voluntary, system, if the
society went estop further, and organised—as the only hope
—a National Educational League, the main objects of which
are—To compel local authorities to find schooling for
every child in England and Wales ; to pay, for such school-
ing out of local rates ; to provide that the schools so paid
for shall be unsectarian and free, without payment ; and
lastly, to compel by law the attendance of children not
otherwise educated." In Manchester the results of the
voluntary system had been found very similar. Canon
Kingsley then referred to the prize essay on " Education,"
by Mr. Greenwood, and, after complimenting the
author, expressed himself disposed to contest
that view of the essay which advocated the
continuance of school pence. " I question, from twenty-
five years' experience, whether it is really better to make
the labouring class to pay school-pence for the education
of their children; whether the wisest method is not to
make them pay, school-rates, as they do poor-rates, and
to open the schools free. My experience is, that as long
as they pay, both the ignorant, the stupid, and the unwill-
ing (and it is with them we have to deal) will persist
in considering schooling as an article which they may
buy or not, as they see fie, like beer or fine clothes, or any
luxury ; that they will persist in thinking, or pretending to
think, that they ;are doing the school managers a favour,
and putting money into their pockets; that they will per-
sist in thinking, or pretending to think, that they pay for
the whole of their children's education, and ignore tho
fact that three-fourths of tho expense is borne by others,
and that the only method to make them understand that
educating their children is an indefeasible duty, which, as
citizens they owe to the State itself, is forthem to be taxed
by the State itself, and for the State to say—There is your
money's worth in the school. We ask no more of you ; but
your children shall go to school, or you shall go to gaol.
But as one who for many years advocated the opposite
opinion, I have come here to learn, and not to teach, upon
this important point. All I ask—not those who have
studied National Education, but the general public—to
keep in mind is this broad, ugly, dangerous, disgraceful
fact: That there are now—according to the computation
of those who ought to know—about one million two hun-
dred and eighty thousand children in this kingdom who
ought to be attending some elementary school or other,
but who aro not ; one million two hundred and eighty
thousand children growing up in ignorance, in a country
which calls itself civilised but which will be called by a very
different epithet some 200 years hence, unless she mend
her ways right speedily." Canon Kingsley then called the
attention of the Congress to the education of women, to
the intellectual wants of the two and a half millions of
the weaker sex who were compelled to gain their own sub-
sistence. "If the vast and steadily-increasinc, number of
women who must earn their own bread in these days are
to be aught but a sorrowed misery to themselves, and of
confusion to society.in ways which I foresee but shall not
particularise here, then wo must have offered to them an
education which will at least enable them to get their own
bread. And is not the necessity for some higher, and for
that reason more practical education of women just as
needful in the ease of those will will hereafter become
wives and mothers, who will have the training, of children,
the management of a household ; who may be, and should
be, helpmeets for their husbands, and not mere costly
playthings? I can conceive few objects, if any, more
important to a well-ordered State than the education of
its women, for that will, in the long run, educate the men.
But as yet so little has this, to me self-evident, truth been
acted on that, while boys of the middle class everywhere
in these islands have rich advantages in grammar schools,
public .schools, universities, scholarships, fellowships, girls
have, to speak roughly, none. . Even where the generosity
of our ancestors has endowed foundations for girls as
well as boys, the boys have been allowed, again and again,
to appropriate the whole, or nearly the whole, of the
endowments, till we have cases like the otherwise
noble institution of Christ's Hospital, which founded
originally- for girls as well as boys, now educates (I
quote from the report of the Schoolsi Inquiry Com-
mission) 1,192 boys and 18 girls. A people like
our own, so rapidly increasing in mere material
wealth, and; let me say it, brute prosperity, can
only be preserved from ostentatious frivolity and more
tinselled barbarism by instilling a true and lofty civilisation
to its sisters, wives, and mothers of every class. One word
more, and I have done. Whatever wo do, for primary or
secondary schools or for our advanced ancient universities
themselves, let us see that our primary education, and
still more our advanced education, includes some better
teaching of nature and of fact. Let us see that the childrea
or these realms aro taught, if not the principles of physical
science,at least some of those habits of careful observation
and sound induction which alone make physical science—
indeed, which alone make health and wealth upon this
planet—possible. Let us remember the words spoken by
Mr. Joseph Payne last year at Birmingham—words which
so exactly express my opinion on a subject on which I felt
with intense earnestness that I shall do myself the
honour of repeating them at length. Some = mea-
sures ought to be taken to open the eyes of the
people to the world which lives around them ;
to the beings with which they come in contact in daily
life. In order to accomplish this, they must begin with
the clods of the earth on which they stand. The results
which are now paid for must include the opening of the
children's eyes to the wonderful phenomena by which they
are continually surrounded, and which continually ask to
be examined and s,ppreciated' No one is more deeply con-
vinced than I me id the need of sound religious teaching.
But no one is more deeply convinced than I am that even
the best religious teaching, especially in these days, will
bear but stunted and shrivelled fruit, unless accompanied
by physical teaching; and thus supported (as all human
thought should be), humanised in the minds of teachers
and of children alike on a substructure of truth, reason.
and common sense." _ _ _

There was an overflowing attendance to hear the Rev.
Canon, who delivered his address with much vigour. It
was applauded to the echo. Sir Stafford Northcote, in
expressing the thanks of the audience, praised the
address as magnincent. nu raged c, cc,
not to overlook the great results which the voluntary
system had effected. If it was true that the State must
now take national education in hand, it was also true that
the voluntary movement had been the means of awakening
tho nation to its duty. For himself, he thought that if
the work could ho done as efficiently, the voluntary was to
be preferred to the State system.
To this department a paper was contributed by the Rev.
H. G. do Bunsen, being one of several preferred on the
special question, How can the State best help in promot-
ing the education of neglected children ? The subject
was dealt with in as exhaustive manner, the different
systems in vogue on the Continent and in America, and
the various Acts passed in this country bearing upon edu-
cation being passed in review. The improvements
deemed necessary to be made for the benefit of our
neglected children, were also discussed. The practical
result of twenty years' experience was stated by the author
to be, especially as regarded the working classes, that there
must' be adopted some kind of compulsory education, that
the State must insist on every child being in acme way
instructed. To do that it must enforce in the first place,
directly or indirectly, or both, the attendance of
children at school; first as full-time scholars, then as half-
time scholars. But it must not stop at that point. It
must eventually insist upon a certain amount of profi-
ciency being attained by each child as the result of such
education. As the State paid school managers according
to the results attained by the examination of each indi-
vidual child, so should the close of the school career of
each child be mashed by a certificate of a minimum
amount of proficiency, without which it should not be
allowed to start upon its independent career of labour in
life.
Miss Carpenter read a paper on the same subject
advocating the adoption of a local education rate,
In support of this view she instanced the
beneficial working of the same plan in Ame-
rica. But, in order to reach the lowest portion of
the population, good general schools should be supple-
mented . by special schools, supported by voluntary
effort. It was necessary, however, that any legis-
lation for the establishment of a local education
rate must provide for its administration by an unsectarian
body. Miss Carpenter approved of the programme of the
Birmingham Education League.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The Springfield Republican replies to the assertion
of the Nation that Senator Sumner had written to
John Bright recommending Mr. Johnson to him in
the highest terms, denying first, on what it declares
to be good authority, " that Mr. Sumner ever ex-
pressed the opinion that Reverdy Johnson would
settle the Alabama question ; and, second, that he
added a postscript after dining with General Grant
on the 19th of last January, ' with even a stronger
commendation' of Johnson's treaty." These asser-
tions being contrary toMr. Sumner's well-known se n
timents, the Republican considers that they cannot be
allowed to stand on the sole dictum of a journal that
loses no opportunity of carping at the Senator. Mr.
Sumner himself is represented as calling the state-
ment " wicked,and in its substance essentially false ;
on the first letter absolutely so, on the second, in
spirit false." Throughout, the Republican main-
tains this report to be the mere tattle of London,
and warns the Nation against receiving as the
words of a statesman " what may happen to be
quoted at a London dinner table, or even com-
municated in an irritated moment to a respectable
gentleman about sailing for New York."
While awaiting the Treasury Return, which, if
not reported in the present issue, will, at any rate,
reach London to-day, we may say it was confidently
expected to show a diminution in the National Debt
of $10,000,000, making the total decrease under
Grant's Administration close on $60,000,000. On
the 14th ult. the amount of available coin in the
United States Treasury was $102,832,343 40c., in-
cluding $21,355,040 in gold certificates outstanding.
The coin, with the exception of about $4,000,000, is
at the United States Sub-Treasury, New York. The
total receipts from Customs from Sept. Ist to 17th
were $9,750,131 74c. ; the Internal Revenue re-
ceipts for the same period were $8,131,231 41c. ;
total from both sources, over sl7,ooo,ooo,being about
the same amount collected for the corresponding por-
tion of the month, of August. The comparatively
small amount of gold sent from the country is noticed
as a financial feature of the year. In the first eight
months of 1868 there was exported, from the port
of New York alone, $65,022,527 in gold ; in the
same period this year only $25,215,640, while a
third more gold and silver has been imported. This
shows that specie is accumulating in America, a
process which, if continued, will eventually enable
the nation to return to specie payments, and is
an additional proof that the cry against the dis-
parity between exports and imports and the accumu-
lation of American indebtedness in foreign bonds is
not well founded. Asaproof of thesuperior efficiency
of the revenue officers this year, the following
figures are interesting :—The internal revenue re-
ceipts for July, 1868, were $16,189,642; for August,
$13,900,385. The receipts for July, 1869, were
$21,578,634, and for August, $15,015,396, showing
a very large gain.
The Western Union Telegraph Company of New
York, established by Professor *ors° when tele-
graphy was inaugurated in America, advocates the
plan about to be adopted in England of the Postal
Department taking up the telegraphs as a branch
of its duties. The Western Union Company has
absorbed the leading lines of the United States till
it stretches over 104,584 miles of wire, borne on
52,092 miles of poles, having 3,462 stations. Its
capital stock equals eight millions sterling, and its
bonded debt one million more. The receipts last
year amounted to nearly a million and a half, the net
revenue being over half a million. The proposal of
the company is for Government to value the stock
on a basis of ten per cent. per annum, equalling'
par, which would make their 6} per cent. equal 65.
Against this it is alleged that the company has in-
corporated numerous lines of little value at a very
high price, tho transfer being made the means of
enriching those who conducted the operation ; that
the patents having expired, may be used by any-
body ; that the poles, wires, and insulators arc far
gone and will require to be replaced. The ques-
tion is, however, one more of principle than of price.
If it be right that the telegraph should be in the
Gnvprrunpnt. thn by
matter of very great moment, and the nation must be
prepared to pay the outside value, together perhaps
with a little over, whenever it assumes the property
of its loyal citizens. This was,the case in England
in making the transfer to the English Government,
and the Republic will be able to make no better
bargain with its own people. The Western Union
Telegraph Company has, we now learn, purchased
the lines of the Atlantic and Pacific States Tele-
graph Company for about 60 per cent. of their
actual cost of construction. By this arrangement
the old company increases its facilities for doing
business at once, instead of awaiting the con-
struction of new lines over the same territory as
contemplated. The purchased property was all
new within the year, and is in excellent condition.
A material reduction in rates to all points is an-
nounced for the Ist of October, the ucw tariff being
calculated on an air line, and the division of the
Union into 500 squares, the rates to all stations in
each being equal.
It is asserted that the proposal to remove the
National Capital to the banks of the Mississippi has
passed from the stage of banter to that of serious
consideration. In the first place, in a military
point of view, the weakness of Washington has
been made painfully apparent, more especially dur- '
iog the great Civil War. The drawback of not now
being central as at the date of its foundation is
ob-
viated by the greater ease of travel, and that it is easy
to get at is shown by the crowds of office-seekers
who lately flocked there. A great objection is the in-
tolerable heat in July and August, but St. Louis is
as hot. The chief consideration is the expense of
the change, which would not be less than 100,000,000
dollars ; this, and the impossibility of getting all
to agree on a new site will effectually, at least
for a long time, keep the seat of Government at
Washington.

Mr. Peabody acknowledges, in a letter from Bal-
timore, dated August 31, the satisfaction he re-
ceived from the manner in which his statue near the
Royal Exchange had been inaugurated. We have
always pleasure in testifying to his thorough Anglo-
American character, which he expresses very grace-
fully in the following words :
" The international character which was gives to the
ceremonies has been especially gratifying to me, as every-
thing has over been which could tend to connect more
closely the two great nations of England and the United
States, both of them very dear to me, and never more so
than at tho present time."

He is at present at Salem, in slightly improved
health. Having done so much for others, he is now
erecting a mausoleum for himself, with a sarcoph-
agus cut from granite. He was recently accorded
a reception at Georgetown, 11.1assachusetts, from
which State, General J. Watson \Vebb writes to
correct this slander, that the actuating motive of
the philanthropist in his gift to Baltimore after the
rebellion was to encourage the rebels ; whereas
General Webb states that the intention existed in
1853-4, when he (Webb) was in London in Fen-
ton's Hotel, where he took rooms for the Hon.
Reverdy Johnson, who had been sent to England
to argue some claims before a joint commission then
in session. Being Baltimore men, Mr. Peabody fre-
quently saw them to discuss the persons they thought
best qualified in Baltimore to become the trustees of
his contemplated endowment to that city. We can
only say that a defence of Mr. Peabody is net unlike
the gilding of refined gold, still there are men like
George. Francis Train who can so twist circum-
stances as to attribute evil motives to the purest
actions.

The sentence of two months' imprisonment passed
on Mr. Daniel S. Curtis, the " nose-pulling Boa-
tonian," as he is caked, still continues to be dis-
cussed in New England, and appears to us a much
better subject for discussion during the "silly sea-
son" than the "Byron Scandal." Every man, but the
very unfortunate one who has lost it, has got a nose
to-be pulled, and nearly every man has fingers and.
thumbs to pull it, therefore the nose-pulling-ques-
tion comes home to us all. The judge seemed to con-
sider it necessary not only to defend the noses of the
public, but to uphold the wajesty of the law against
the haughty, arrogant nose-puller, who showed
clearly if the law had a nose he would immediately
have taken hold of it. He disdainfully denied
that he had done Anything wrong, and sneered at

the statutes he had broken. This aristocratic spirit,
manifested by a member of an aristocratic family
had to be humbled, so he is sent to acquire what a
Massachusetts paper designates a practical know-
ledge of the Suffolk Gaol or the Cambridge House
of Correction, which cannot fail to be of great ad-
vantage to the 5,000 prisoners annually incarcerated
in Boston. Another gentleman named Boynton, in
an influential position, has also been sentenced to
imprisonment, and the study of gaol discipline is
earnestly pressed upon the attention of both. Whe-
ther the futureßepresentative from Boston willcorn-
mence his speech on Prison Reform, with allusions
to the time when he served out his sentence, re-
mains to be seen ; but our own opinion of the proud
spirit actuating the nose-pulling Curtis is that it
would dictate instead, a violent grasp of the judge's
proboscis. A Radical journal considers the sen-
tence a Divine judgment on the Curtis family for
trying to send back the Crafts to shivery 20 years
ago, and thus it moralizes :

"It is a strange instance of Time's revenge, that they
who left Boston to escape slavery, with the Curtis family
on their track, now return to find slavery dead, and a
younger scion of that family, innocent perhaps of the d:s-
gram of his kindred, locked up in a Boston gaol, with
20,000,000 of State-street and Milk-street property
powerless to get him out."

We may observe that the point of the affair is the
high standing and wealth of the family, Massachu-
setts having taken one of its periodical fits of snub-
bing the aristocracy into its bead ; but, having
gratified this pique, we hope soon to hear that Mr.
Curtis has been released.

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur visited the
Niagara Falls last Monday, and accompanied by
Governor Sir John Young, proceeded to Buffalo,
where they dined with ex-President Fillmore. The
Canadian Parliament has been prorogued until the
11th of October. From Hong Kong the news is
to Sept. 2, where extensive preparations were being
made for the reception of the Duke of Edinburgh.
Intelligence had not reached China of the arrival
fof his Royal Highness at Yokohama. It is also
said the Austrian Embassy has opened negotiations
at Pekin for the conclusion of a treaty ; but that
the Envoy is annoyed at the needless delay on the
part of the Chinese authorities in arranging terms.
The other telegrams of most interest relate to the
passage through the Suez Canal now filled, of a
steamer with M. de Lesseps on board, going direct
from Port Said to Suez, without interruption in
fifteen hours. In Spain disturbances had been sup-
pressed at Barcelona. The King of Portugal had
declined the throne, but the Duke of Genoa was to
be proposed to the Cortes, with the sanction of the
Emperor Napoleon. Reinforcements were still
leaving for Cuba.

The Indians of Wyoming territory are renewing
hostilities. At Santa FC also they had perpetrated
several murders of women and children, and stolen
much cattle. Col. Green had retuined from his
expedition to the White Mountains. He had killed
and captured twenty-two of the savages, destroy-
ing several camps and a large amount of property.
After the subsidence of the gold excitement, Mr.
Boutwell ordered the sale of $2,000,000 in gold and
the purchase of $2,000,000 worth of Bonds weekly
until Nov. 1, in addition to the fortnightly pur-
chase of $1,000,000 worth of Bonds under the Sink-
ing Fund Act. The Gold Board adjourned last
Saturday until Monday, to give time for settlements,
but continued its adjournment to facilitate them,
and probably to help those hard hit in the pitched
battle of Thursday and Friday,
The editors of the South show the fiery national
temperament by the reckless and unrestrained way in
which they write of each other. In Memphis, Tennessee,
the Evening Post, the only Republican paper, has suc-
pended. That journal another Memphis paper called the
Avalanche describes as worthless for any good pulpose,
though energetic in the other direction. That Governor
Senter held an elevated opinion of it is evident from his
withdrawal from it of State aid, which killed the poor Post;
bat, according to the Avalanche, the sooner the remaining
journals of Memphis die and leave it the sole occupant of
the field the bettor. The Ledger, the Appeal, and the Sun
have done little more arm follow its shadow till it sup-
ported universal suffrage, when they turned round and
abused it with that vigour which the hope of rising on the
downfall of others always inspires as the Avalanche says.
For two or three days +I,. rodope wanld peg away; it
would sting, it would bite, it would gouge; then the Ap-
p.:R.7 .17.111r1 fah-A up Ma rlinnincr. che ll no 41...1
phthisicky, deerepid thing could. But though the Post
vigorously aided, finding they were not strong enough
against their old mentor, they called on the Sun, when,
instead of having three assailants as formerly, the Ava-
lanche was confronted with four. It shows signs, how-
ever, of descending from its resting place, so these jour-
nals, all but the poor dead Post, I ad better "stand from
under," while the Avalanche thunders down.
The appeal of General Rawlins has been an-
swered by his countrymen almost before ho was buried
by an amount sufficient for all the wants of the family he
left so badly off. General Rawlins could have relied
with the utmost certainty on this result, for the nation
never neglects to act its part of sovereign in such cases.
Among the generous gifts was one from the Central Cuban
Junta, which forwarded to the itawlins's fund $20,000 in
bonds of the Republic of Cuba, and a subscription of one
dollar each had been commenced in addition. The present
of Louds is not a bad stroke of policy, and it was accom-
panied by a strong expression of grief at the untimely loss
of such a noble, true, and sympathetic friend of the Cuban
cause. We do the Cubans no more than justice when we
state that they have shown a singular liberality in all their
arrangements, freely giving to those who in any way
have aided them in their struggle.

An American paper tells the story related below,
which has doubtless been derived from that most imagi-
native of human beings, the correspondent of a New York
daily." in the first place, no British officer of the British
army during the Crimea war was sentenced to death ; in the
second, there is no such punishment as perpetual reduction
to half-pay, half-pay being the provision for officers whose
services may not at the moment be requires', or whose in-
juries, or maladies contracted while on duty, unfit them for
active employment ; in the third place, there is no such pu-
nishment as rivetting an officer's sword to the scabbard,
and no person connected with the British army, from he
Majesty downwards, has the power of passing these ar-
bitrary sentences. No officer not employed with troops
ever draws his sword to salute ; and an aid-do-camp to a
governor never being so employed could not be flourishing
his naked sword in anybody's face. But the amusing part
of it is, that such a story could circulate in America in any
other way than as a joke—affirming that an officer in high
official position could attach to his personal staff a person
found guilty of a crime which had caused such a punishment.
"A British officer committed an offence in the Crimean
war punishable by death, but being influential, bad that
penalty commuted to perpetual reduction to half-pay, and
to have his sword rivetted to the scabbard. He is now on
duty in Halifax. His position requires him on public occa-
sions to be in close attendance upon the Governor, and
this brings him conspicuously forward. At tho reception
of the Prince, as the latter with his suite stepped upon the
platform prepared for him, upon which were standing the
Governor and other dignitaries, all the officers saluted
with the sword, the single exception being this attendant
upon the Governor, who, with his sword by his side, was
yet compelled to salute with his hand." Wo may add,
that if they go through all this parade and fuss about a
subordinate officer who went out to join the Rifle Brigade
with a great flourish of trumpets that the quarters he was
to occupy were to be no better than those allotted to offi-
cers of his army rank, they aro either defeating the in-
tentions of her Majesty, or there must be some mistake in
the previous announcements. Another ridiculous story,
which we trust will prove equally untrue, is that the Fe-
nians are conspiring to abduct his Royal Highness.
The funeral of the late Senator Fessenden took
place at the First parish Unitarian Church of Portland,
Maine, on Saturday, Sept. 11, Rev. Mr. Bailey, the pastor,
officiating, assisted by Dr. Carruthers. The edifice was
thronged, the crowd filling the vestibule, and reaching
into the street. Among the distinguished persons present
were ex-Senators Foster of Connecticut, and Morrill of
Maine, Representative John. Lynch, ex-Governor Wash-
burne of Maine, President Harris, and Professor Packard,
who acted as pall-bearers, with the faculty of Bowdoin
College, his alma mater, Senator Hamlin, Speaker Blaine,
Sidney Perham, Governor Chamberlain and, his council,
Judges Fox, Kent, Walton, Barrows, and Goddard, with
the Cumberland bar, the Machigonno and Eastern Star
encampments of Odd Fellows, and the Mayor and City
Council. The service lasted two hours, consisting of a
voluntary performed by Mr. Kotzschmlr ; a chant by the
church choir; reading the 13cripture by Rev. Mr. Bailey ;
address by Dr. Carruthers, who paid the highest tribute to
this much lamented public servant; prayer by Rev. Mr.
Bailey ; chant by the choir; closed by a touching prayer
by Dr. Carruthers. The funeral cortege was very long,
including the persons and organizations above narm2d, 20
carriages, and a procession of citizens. The body was
buried at the Western Cemetery, in the family lot, the city
bells tolling while the procession moved. The city build-
ings were draped in mourning, all flags in the city were at
half mast, and the public offices closed. A post mortem
examination of the body of Senator Fessenden was made
on 9th Sept., and it was found that just above where the
smaller bowels enter the larger, the canal had contracted
so as to be entirely closed, and the bowels for a foot or
more above the obstruction were in a high state of inflam-
mation. A perforation was also found above the obstruc-
t tip, anti it was the opilii9A 9f the physiciguti that at the

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time when Mr. Fessenden first called tho doctor, 0%.J1
31st of August, having made this rupture, human
could avail nothing towards saving his life ; and tb
when he felt the severe pain a few hours before his dee'
after returning to his bed, he probably
increased this VI;
ture, bringing on immediate dissolution ; that it had bee,
coming on for some time, Mr. Fessenden having Wend
sufferer from chronic diarrhoea for at least a year P3st'-lie
that the few days before the physicians were called i 0
constipation, which ho looked upon as a favourable ow
rodi
towards restoring a healthy action to the system, WO

a most alarming symptom.
The news of Lopez's defeat has been confirmetl
and the Paraguayan war is now said to be at an end. °r:
the 16th August, at Curupaity, 5,000 Paraguayans 'le
defeated by the Braziliana, who captured 20 guns; :
on the following day another body of 1,600 Paragu3Y;!,!
were defeated, with the lost of 12 guns. President P:
pez had " fled with his troops, who aro almost witb°::
arms ;" and six steamers, the last which the Paragnalri',
possessed, had been abandoned by them. Forty-f°ur 'rho
tish subjects had, it is announced, been set at liberty.
nows by the West India mail, with dates to the 13is
Sept., is that the Haytian President Salnave was slita
an assautt on Aux Cayes. and the wounds are belis'eed
to be mortal. Nissage Saget is expected to Ssece

Salnave.
b 1
A feeling of uneasiness having been arouse`; 0s
the uausual activity of the United States ICavr4l,t3
in fitting out war-vessels, the Government has thoug-iij
necessary to explain its object, which is to check thellic
decay and renovate the best ships in ordinary. 1-SreL''Tib,,e
that to commission and send to sea a man-of-War '11,,111
an effective way of making her wear out, instead :31
out, but it is by no means an economical proceedia,"evt
we are inclined to put very little faith in the Goverili'l

explanation.
BUDGET OF PERSONAL.-A Boston paper —cly
Wendell Phillips to be less temperate in his living rig
more temperate in his language.-Alexander 3-Eitel! ijio
described as the "railway king" of the North-Wes' f/
lives at Milwaukie, and controls 2,000 miles of railsqscli.ifi
Robert Bonner lately sold 375,000 copies of one issue °`l",
Now York Ledger -the largest circulation in the sc°ri;r
James Gordon Bennett, of the New York lleraa "e
ported to be confined to his room by illness. --Geilarri-
Sheridan denies that ho is engaged to be nuvriew-- tif°
Stonewall Jackson, described as a youthful and atßlco,4
widow, is at Rockbridge Alum Springs, Vitginia'-f
Ruth A. Damon, for the past two years pastor of th° co
versalist Church at Cavendish, Vermont, has resie`" Dr,
marry a brother minister from Illinois.-The
Stowe, husband cf Mrs. H. B. Stowe, being ill
was introduced to an English gentleman, who 05P-,j55;0
himself very glad to see him, and added, "181°1' Pr'
much more pleased to see your wife." " Yes," s°ldver
Stowe, "so should I."-Tom Thumb and his party
5119 of
tised their performances in San Francisco:by vief(leo
posters in Chinese as well as English. lu tsvo ip
they took $15,000 in gold.-Brigham young iv,e bid
two hundred and forty pounds avoirdupois, renderfi'o,oo
eligible for the "fat men's" clambake.-The ,
poetess is Miss Eliza Snow.-Major Powell has con 0d
his exploration of the Black Canon of the Colerild°'

is expected to be home in two weeks. •
Senator Sumner, in his address to the gass, to
setts Republican Convention on the 22d Se t , 311a;c1e-1).4
the Alabama question "sadly, not bitterly."P 1.111'er":1:et
suffered fearfully at England's hands, but, in ad°. -ft
complicity with rebellion, he would not attempt toe se-:vi
price on the debt England owed to the United slat 1r t/i
he would not make any formal demand for 0, ",° ifsoir
money cr a word of apology, but would leave it "°
land, after due consideration of the subject, to offer
reparation she deemed to be proper, it remaining' t°
41100
rica to decide what reparation she required. IV; for
Lion had been asked, why not claim against Villa'
injuries done ? but the reply was, while France 913.-r 1)01°!,
land alike sinned in according belligerent rights t°,,eotc;
the damage was not done openly to American C°' to
sheltetier,
by an enemy's blockade runners built under the
the French Government as-in the case of England.
has evidently been some communication hetsfe„ tIO
Motley and the State Department at Washington onor
sulject. The New York Times has discussed's 1,4°1.'0/
porting to come from Mr. Motley, wherein he illt•-•is11°
that good terms could now be got from Eaglan'A
were authorized to act. That paper says it is 00 1°4'19 till
State secret that Mr. Motley has been instructed to °l,
Lord Clarendon that whenever it is thought best toftelifill
negotiations for a settlement of the Alabama claisls I"
is tb93 ti
op
be done at Washington. Another account
Motley is not restricted in reopening the negotistinE;
the Government has clearly signified this. fl W3s,lnlset
intended that a favourable opportunity should b° `"beeo
settling the question. The American Minister 1'3,5140
engaged in negotiating a Consular treaty with the

Government.
A telegram, purporting to be dated IV.Mhingstt''lB
Sept. 28, has been published in the Paris papers' bee°
that in consequence of the explanations which herl—ci aerti:
exchanged between the Spanish and AmericsAmericanita)
ments,tlml,...tte!-12?!ley2m1that it had..,nefor o"ego'sir'i)-3
tuated solely by humanitarian motives. This tliaite3
characterized simply as "bosh." The feeling in tile;:tl'B
States strengthens in favour of Cuba ; and althet;°o,lo,
Cubans lost a warm friend in the Cabinet in Gen• lb:L;(0 e.
who quarrelled with Secretary Boutwell on the
co
recognizing the belligerency of the insurgents, o'er' 101
vention now assembled adopts that recognition s' rose
in its platform. Gen. Sickles, in a private letter, esPto th°
e°
his belief that the propositions submitted by A
i° ;;
h
Spanish Government though delayed will be ,oo
cepted. The danger really is that, though Screts`l
favourable, it may take so long to make some luculd 036
his Cabinet and the people generally understt° t
it is their best way out of the difficulty ,9p°rl,
opportunity may be tor ever lost. Admiral Hoff
t 6
the execution of Americans at Santiago rd,„°,3, a°,
affair to a massacre. Castillo was killed in act'' I,ol'
Angel Castillo avenged his death on the Spam' arty ca,
under Colonel Portal, by whom he was slain, In; 009::
ting it to pieces. General Jordan, writing to
ral Forrest to join him, tells him not to fear the 10,01 i
which in tho interior was, when he wrote, oaf try "s
than ,in Tennessee. He describes the COuu:Ariv
noblest he ever saw, and worth fighting for, ania'vef,,
with 3,000 Americans as a neucleus, there Nola
difficulty in driving out the Spaniards. Glen s 9
writing on the 29th August, speaks of the stragb:og
tbof
fearful sort of warfare." The Cubans did everYthlroeo.,
could to induce the Spaniards to conform to theh,-T
Eltb
civilized war, but in vain. In their blind rage t",;tb
of
no life nor property, and will be driven out .„lotit3 14
curses of mankind on their heads. It was this 'weal'
conducting their operations which Gen. Sickle °err
tbe telt
to the notice of the Spanish Government, With
alO *ler'
so far, as to obtain orders that prisoners slioul, hOOB,lO
and exchanged. The; Government at Madriu, ;00 '
can have little effect on such blood-thirsty save‘g- of
volunteers operating in the interior of Cuba. 00,
ej
The Philadelphia Revenue detective,
whom we wrote last week as being seriously ai
while in the performance of his duty, is said ned, C:f
and has died. When his end was hourly exP—
°Po°i lii
f
missioner Delano granted him a leave of aged 0- 06
raised his pay from $4 to $lO. Those Beloo.i of
murder, Stockton, Keenan, in whose 'Wig .0 toit
crime was perpetrated, and Agen, were htu,`".,•ll P,,te
$5,000, Hamilton being committed without ul-0.001,10t
Apple, whose distillery Brooks closed, has been eno,ort„:oo4
to gaol without bail, as implicated. Witnesses' ,ter 061
stereord,ll,j,
Hamilton went from Keenan's to Apple's
to the shooting, when the latter gave 10131;11:10 Ocfri
Hamilton drove the hack in which the assase— ,iOOl ey
Mr. Falb's predictions of the destruct"' they 40
earthquake, of the coast of South America ahlicco:o3
sent time have been so far verified that severe sv,eo'
been felt at Copiapo, at Iqueque, at Arica, 3t ere s'; IV
at Arequipa on Aug. 18. The inhabitants Wsrotti,t,
alarmed, and business was suspended. Frota
news is of severe shocks at St. Thomas on the were,
the damage being serious, though no lives aa'°
t 1
Mount Etna has also again burst into eroPtielcie o,o°
torrents of lava are flowing down the eastern °oco el,ofi
Valle del Bue. A most extraordinary distitrhoot evifi
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suddenly retreated, not returning for DO fr
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