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 Atutralian
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 Zealand 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 mr..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 Hokatiki, 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 MUNCIIAUSEN 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 dotibt. 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 Humboldt see from the cars the smoke of camp
fires arise here and there in the bleak, uninviting
looking 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 cast
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 atandoning 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 i 3 re-
porte t 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
operations. Alen ore =stoutly turniug 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 Pacihe
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 distric+, in quantities said to be un-
limited, the yield 's from $5O to $lOO. This, as the
found remarks, is exceptional, for experience
has shown that silver deposits in limestone have
proved limited in extent, which is notably the cvc
in the Comstock lode. The White Pine ore is 3
chloride of silver in a limestone formation, in pockets
or great masses, which i❑ 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 nieet-
ing.held last Saturday at the Merchants' Exchange, New
York, "to devise means of support for the efforts noic
being made to overthrow the present irrational and unjust
tariff, and thereby to lessen the costs of the necessaries of
life." The meeting was called to order by Mr. Alfred Pell,
jun., at whose motion Mr. James M. Brown took the Oa.
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 cowl:
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
Free-Trade 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 SODS;
£500; W. D. Morgan, $500; Jas. M. Brown, $1,000; Alf-ed
Pell, jun., $250 ; H. W. and T. Malley and Co., $500; Dan.°'
Rogers, $250; Louis Windmuller and Roelker, $100; `!1"
Poor Man," $5 ; Fleitman and Co., $250 ; Henry Dickin-
son, $lOO ; Charles Congreve and Son, $100; T. B.
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 lion'
the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Tina°
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 11
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
ported in the form of ores (per lb. of fine copper contain6a
therein), three cents ; all regulus or copper, and all blank
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, five
cents ; copper in rolled plates, called braziers, coppersheetB'
rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, eyelets, and all mslinfac-i
tures of copper, or of which copper shall be a component °,
chief value, not otherwise herein provided for, ad valorem, 4'
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 Jam, 1867.
Their lordships have also received through the same ehan:
nel copy of a despatch from her Majest'ys Minister at Madrid,
inclosiug 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—hither!:
enjoyed under articles 8 and 260 of the Customs Online"
by Spanish vessels only—of going on to foreign ports wit"
cargoes from foreign America (by the term foNign
America" is meant all parts of America not belonging to
Spain), and with cargoes of drie i fish from the sane" parts
with a consular register, under the same rates and
formalities as are established by the afor, said article:
Their lordships have also received from the Secretary ntr
State for Foreign Affairs a copy of a despatch frora he
Majesty's Consul-General at Lima, reporting the expira-
tion of the Treaty of Friendship and Navigation betsreis
Peru and Italy. In consequence of the cessation of the a
treaty Italian ships will bo subject to the seine fiscal an.
municipal duties as other foreign ships trading in the u
fro
public of Peru. Intelligence has also been received hat
her Majesty's Consul in Crete that the blockade of tu.ts
island has been raised, and that consequently all the Pe'
in Crete will henceforth be free and open to co-)l'er°'
conformably with international maritime regulations'
The ribune tells how Grant received his
appointment in the War destined to place him in the Fr,
0,1
sidential Chair. Mr. Washburne carried his Congressional
District in his pocket, just as great lords in England
her
in olden times. Grant was a clerk in his father's t
store, living in an airy little cottage on the top ofll.Dtluthe
to reach which he had to ascend a stairs of 200 ft. „
first war meeting held in Galena, to muster volunt;i:
Washburne offered resolutions and engineered the ,t33,8a
ing, and Rawlins made a ape. ch. Captain Gran:tis to
present, but seems to have been too inconspien" bow,
be called on to take part. At the second meeting, The
ever, Captain Grant was nominated for chairman' cap-
first company raised, however, elected one Chet'aTarat,
tarn, and Jesse Grant's partner, Collins, a Peace
P soldiers
said to Washburne, "A pretty set of fellows r.. 110 why'
are to elect Chetlain for captain !" When luestionwho was
ho answered because they could have got Grant, eleven
educated at West P int, served in the army
,bortldr
years, aid came out with the best reputation was
after. Grant expressed his doubts whether
irthon-
one of the few men competent to command
sand soldiers. Washburne, however, who then kilincolni
pressed his claims for a brigade, and President„nois se-
who had sent a printed notice to each of the Illsja re-
nators, asking them to nominate four Brigadiers, and
sponse promoted Grant, Hurlburt, Prentitee'wash-
M'Clernand. It was not till October, 1861, the AA
burns paid Grant a visit at Cairo, where he cilrnora whichand foresaw that he was the coming man! fpieuce
time he had " Grant on the brain," and his Ln, d hie
red
necessary till the capture of Fort Donelson ruaG
putation on a basis of its own.
bilious, nervous,
'rated
LADYERTISEUENT ]— Consumption, and all , soo•ra
stomach,and liver complaints in every stage are oinY_,..,'sr(ectll
and accelerated by drugs of every description, b_u_•`,,re„ Fooda
curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Araf:asidere
as proved by thousands of cases which had been_Zina, non_
hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, ,gi'e &rang°
sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhcea, all gaz ...ervousue?t
ments, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency,
hus colds, ina.
biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, est.arr
fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatisni,Sn'e'ssness
rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleep drops*.
acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debi
na'ocy or 5,1
cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in Preg, cheer
sea, sinking flts, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness 0'
boulders, '3'•?,
pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the 8 ,a
We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by r
;2t!
Food. Cure No 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866. health 0,!
the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning
Du BarrYl
other remedies, he has confined himself entirelY tu,.. piatefu!
Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he cons.uplry
I beneticiasi
at every meal. It has produced a surprisuia
praise
.tbi.
effect on his health, and his Holiness
~ccaannette du 311d4er
excellent food too highly." From the -az tiniber _
July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts,
cli eased lungs,
chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty and deafness••••:
spitting of blood, liver derangement, and •
L utenant
Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies,
NLoordo,Bl3B2. Feifstls,
Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.— • . nervousu d
years' indescribable agony from dyspepsias,
sickness any
asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, tt of
vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.B—Paßeware tliNsrie %%nut
unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which,,attaebed.
authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously i. 12 lbS,
In tins, at Is. lid. ; 1 lb. 2s. ad.: 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; 51b
s. 6100-
225. ;24 lbs, 40s,—Also Du BARRY'S ItsvALENTA ARABIC
LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups 76 cups
at 55s.—being about one penny per cup. The 30s.
Office
cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at 65., for 288 cups at 305.,,n;57eti0 l
fords
are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post
n
Order. - BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77,
don; and all Grocers and Chemists.
Regent:street. To

Births.
PAnycy— On the 22d inst., at 20, Upper Gloucester place?
Dorset-square, the wife of Mr. Sergeant Parry, of a
daughter.
TING—At the Chantry, Bradford-on-Avon, the wife of
IRI
the Rev. J. 0. Thring, of a daughter.

Marriages.
Gyßuox-SpILLsBuY-- st
FunNELL—On the 27th in., at St.
it
John's, Fulham, J. H. Gybbon-Spillsbury, t
Laura, youngest daughter of W. H. Purnell, Esq.,
W °l
Fulham.
MOURIS--TURNER—On the 9th inst., at St. John's, Eict
moud, James Morris, M.D., of 13, Somers-place,
I{Pe"
park-square, to Agnes, only daughter of John Turner,
Esq , late of Glasgow.

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

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