The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-21 00:00:00

--SU.N, LONDON, • MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1E69:

A CITY WINE WAREHOUSE.

Amongst the many extensive ranges of buildings
the great and increasing trade of the City of London
has caused to be erected, none certainly can exce' d,
and very few surpass, those built in Lime-street for
M-ses. IL It. Williams and Co., the wine importers.
A great portion of the site was originally occupied by
the old East India House, but now, instead of the
space being devoted to records and official docu-
ments, it is appropriated to the storing and maturing
of wine for borne consumption. The great pile of
building has with the cellars eight floors, on each
of which the special_ offices for the transaction of
theibusiness of- the department are attached. Steam
machinery has been erected for the purpose of
assisting the numerous " hands" employed by the
firm, end, in fact, everything that science and
skill could suggest has been taken advantage of in
order that the building might be perfect in every
particular. Un descending to the cellars the visitor
is at once surprise 1 with the extent, the cleanlineas,
and perfect ventilation of the long subterranean
avenues, on either side of which hundreds of thou-
sands of bottles are to be seen, all binned with
mathematical accuraoy. Wines of all kinds
and of all vintages are here in store,
and in one particular out c,f the way spot
is kept the curious and rare wines from
the stores of Prince Metternich, the Grand
Duke of Nassan,and other celebrated connoisseurs,
with as much care and safety as though they were
the crown jewels. Having made a tour of the
cellars, the visitor then steps on " the lift," and
ascends, first to the street level, and here sees the
admirable arrangements for the despatching and
receiving wine without the inconvenience of block-
ing the roadway. The next floor contains, at the
very smallest computation, over3oo butts of sherry,
in addition to which there are three or four enor-
mous vats capable of holding upwards of 6,000 gal-
lons for the purposes of "fining," thus rendering
the quality and flavour of the entire quantity
alike throughout, which could not be sup-
posing each cask was treated separately. Then
the visitor is carried to the port floor, where the
same extensive range of casks with pumps worked
by steam machinery meets the view. From there
he ascend; to the spirit floors, where, in addition
to the liquids in casks, he sees innumerable ranges
of attractively-Lbelled bottles all ready for the
London market. From thence be rises to the
packing floor, where all is order and regularity ;
and finally he arrives at the summit of the building.
where numerous matters are carried on, the most
curious burg the bottle washing by machinery, and
so rapid is the operation that not less than from 16
to 20 gross a day are properly washed by one ma-
chine only. Some notion of the quantity of bottles
required annuallyby the firm may be imagined when
the cost of its corks &one, for th period, amounts
to no less than £l,BOO. This great firm bas been
called into exis,ence by the alterations male in the
wine duties by Mr. Gladstone, and the enormous
popular trade carried on is a proof of the quality of
the articles supplied. To those curious in such
matters a visit, to the premises will be highly inte-
re,ting, where they will meet with a polite recep-
tion, and no fear of unpleasant results need lie en-
tertained, for a lady may walk through the entire
building without the slightest harm being incurred
to the most delic ite dress, or being overpowered by
the fumes ustrally prevalent in otdinary wine ware-
houses.

BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEsiS.—lloratio C. Bus-
chard has been nominated by the Republicans in Illinois
to succeed Elihu B Washlmirne, in Congress.— lion. Ben-
jamin F. Wade was commissioned as a Director of the
Union Pacific Railroad, May 31.—The. Governor taf_Penn-
'Sylvania has al po:ntt d John E. Addicts Health Officer of
Philad Iphia, to stscCeed General Sickles, reeigned.--The
IVC7O York Times thinks "there never was a period when the
public:Men of A nicrica— Senators,Congressmen,Calitiet offi-
cers, and publie functipnaries of all sorts were as vigor-
ously interviewed' as at thi. tlme."— Gen. E. T. Winslow
pays the heaviest income tax inlo wa,his return beingSGo,ooo
Major-General George H. Thomas and staff arrived at
San Francisco in seven days and ten hours travelling time
from New York, and expressed themselVes pleased with
the management of the railroad.—John N. Maffif, com-
mander of the late rebel pirate Florida, has instituted
legal proceedings at St. Paul, Minnesota., to recovt.r some
$lO,OOO werth' of property c mfiscated in the United
States District Court three years ago, and sold by the
United States Marshal aboiit £3,ooo.—Judge Perk,
the United States Consul to Aix-la- Chapelle, arrived
in 01E, City of Paris at Liverpool on Wednesday, 9th inst.—
The President has appoint,d another coloured Postmaster,
Rev. Henry M. Turner, at Macon, Georgia.—Mr. Harvey,
Minister to Portugal. has been paid his salary so long
withheld.—Reveidy Johnson's house in• Washington has
been robbed of $2OO worth of silver ware.- Bar,n Rutbs-
chld, of Frankfurt, is said to have
.purchased a piece of
laud in Berlin, on W Melt he intends to erect a splendid
=osier. It is a part of Prince Radziwili's park which
lies opposite the Thiergarten.—General Kilpatrick, United
States Minister to Chi:i, arrived at Lima On April 30,
on the way to his post.—Dr. Long had entered on
his duties as United States Consul at Panama.—Gene-
ral Sherman and Admiral Farragut accepted invita-
tions to the Boston Peace Jubilee.—Senator Cole, of Cali-
fornia, left New York for Washington, May 30.—General
Sherman and staff, accompanied by a party of ladies and
gentlemen, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. and the
Misses Dudley Field, arrived from Washington, May 31,
at Fortress Monroe, on the United States steamer Talla-
poosa, Commander Chandler. The party went to attend
the wedding of a daughter of General Barry. General
Sherman received the usual salute of 17 guns from the
heavy water battery of the Fort.—Mr. Dudley Field has
purchased the elegant estate in Dcbb's Ferry of Mr. J.
Steymus, consisting of 20 acres, for $37,000. General
Schenck was to. sail for Europe in the Cunard steamer of
the 9th lust., and may therefore be expected to-day or to-
morrow.—The Hon. Michael Connolly was to sal for
Europe June 5. A number of his personal and political
friends were to accompany Mr. Connolly down the bay in
steamboat which they had chartered for the occasion.—
'Mr. Seward's residence in Washington is to be converted
into a boarding-house:—Vice-president Colfax is expected
to visit ex-Congressman Cornell at Rondout this month.
General Leo has expressed himself in favour of the
adoption of the expurgated Constitution,- and 'the election
of Mr. Walker, the candidate of the Conservatives, for Go-
vernor.—Dr. Erni, United States Consul- to Basle, Swit-.
zerland, and R N. Hanson, United States Consul to Bre-
men, from Baltimore, arrived in the steamer Leipzig last
Tuesday.—Hon. S. S. Cox, M.C., from New York, now
travelling in Africa, writes home that he has seen a woman
weighing 600 pounds.—Horace Greeley's daughter Ida is
one. of the officers of the " Women's Suffrage Association."
—Ole Bull has accepted the invitation of the managers of
the peace festival at Boston to be leading violinist. He
will perform his own arrangen.ent of "Auld Lang Syne,"
accompanied by the orchestra of 1,000 instruments.—
Judge Asa. Walker, a lawyer, formerly of Bangor, Maine,
and at one time editor of the Bangor Gazette, committed
suicide in Brooklyn, California, last month, by drowning
himself. Franklin Coffin of Claremont, New Hampshire,'
fell from his velocipede dead of heart disease.—Governor
Stearns was inaugurated Governor of New Hampshire at
Concord on Thursday, June 3. Governor Harriman de-
livered a brief valedictory to the Legislature, in which he
congratulated the members upon the genoral prosperity of
the State, and expressed his gratitude to the people for the
confidence reposed in him during his two terms of office.
George Lowry, a well-known citizen of Burlington, died
there in his 60th year on Sunday, May 30. Hehadser-ved
in the customs service nearly 27 years.—Colonel E. N.
Phelps, a tobacco manufacturer, of Windsor, Connecticut;
was arrested, May 29, and about 200,000 cigars and seve-
ral thousand pounds of tobacco, valued at about 610,000,
were seized by order of Collector Deming for alleged ex-
tensive frauds on the revenue. Colonel Phelps does not
deny irregularities, but denies any fraudulent intention.--
Mrs. Vernon, a well-known popular actress, died on the
14th June, at her residence in New York, in the 77th year
of her age.—Mrs. Parker, a lawyer's wife, shot anti fatally
wounded Mrs. Baker, a milliner, at Portland, Maine, June
2, incited by jealousy.—The Viceroy of Egypt will arrrive
at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday next.—Mr. Andrew
Johnson has made a grand speech, the greatest in his life,
some journals say.—Colonel Frederick Hecker, a well-
known political exile from Germany, living on a farm
in St. Clair County, Illinois, has become a wine-grower.
•—l'arsrit Brownlow- has written a letter in which
ho pronoucea in favour of Dewitt C. Senior for Go-
vernor of Tennessee.—We hear that the 'Hon°. rattle
Wiliiam IT. Wisener is to bccorna an independent candie
date for the post, but Stokes says he is sure of the elec.-
tion.—Sir H. Bulwer has given notic • that on the 9.11. of
July be would call the attention of the House of-Come
mons to the case of tho Alumetha.— Thomas P. May aod
witu. • B. Whittake", charged with embezzling over in
million of dollars from the office .of the sub-treasurer,„,:at
New Orleans, lnaye lately been acquitted by a jury din
that city, though the (-videnco was clear against them.
- Judge John Wilson died at his residence iie. Westmins-
ter. Cacads, June 3. - General Longstreet 'has alSo been
looked up for 13:4 debts by the Auti..l Or of the Treasury,
who is likely o succeed in :his instance better than he did
with General Beau, egait d. General C. C. aaanaw,i,
States Minister to weden, left New York`by the
Cio; r, f Paris, Jute n. - George W. Childs, of the Phpa-
nelphet Public Ledger, is at the it:ft. is Hotel, :New
York.—Mr;. E.' B. Washburne is a cousin of Madame
Mont holon, and, like her, a descendant of the early French
trader's whs.; iktli'd in -Illinois.

THE RED INDIANS.

(From the Anglo-American 1 Imes.)

We learn by cable that the Washington Govern-
ment hare determined on vigorous war against the
Indians, and General SIII4.:RIDAN has gone West to
take the command. Additional troops arc to protect
the Pacific Railway, and General SCHOFIELD is to
raise volunteers for the defence of Kansas. This
cannot be called a new war, considering that it has
been in active progress for two years, and in apas-
sive state since the opening of the Smoky Hill
route. Last summer the Indians committed great
atrocities in the valleys of the Solomon and the
Republican Rivers, and no sooner has the season
opened which enables their cattle to find food on
the plains and thus to move freely, than these mas-
sacres have been repeated. The system the Indians
pursue is to divide into small parties, to appear
suddenly at an outlying settlement; when he
lonely fatnily or small group of families are con-
fronted, unprepared, with these savages. They
demand what the house has to supply in food, treat
the intrates rudely, eventually pick a quarrel, and
proceed-to perpetrate atrocious barbarities on the
persons of their unwilling hosts. By this system
they enter the stronghold, they disarm their vic-
tims, they enjoy the agony of their suspense as a
cat does the terror in the mouse with which it
plays, while the satisfaction remains that a delight-
ful massacre is in store. Those who meet their
foes as open . enemies with barricaded doors and
rifle in hand generally escape, for the wary In-
dian has no no:ion of fairly pitting his life against
that of the settler, and unless the opportunity is
tempting the threatening bands disappear. The
Sioux and Cheyennes, probably the lodges to whom
CIISTAI: made the winter so unpleasant, have in-
vaded the settlements in which during last summer
they left so disastrous a trace. On the 2Gth May
a Scandinavian colony, south-west of Lake Sibley,
Kansas, was attacked, and at least five persons
were killed. The operations of the savages ex-
tended from the Solomon and Republican Rivers
to the end of the Kansas Pacific Railroad ; and 20
more settlers were murdered, while several women
and children were carried off. At Topeka Saline
County fourteen men, women, and children ware
massacred, and the inhabitants fled in a pule to
more settled Eastern districts. Nor is it surpris-
ing when this is the way the poor people were
treated :
" The tongues and hearts were cut out of their d-tad
bodies; the calves of their lags were slit down and tied under
their shoes; pieces of flesh were cut from their back;
pieces of telegraph wire were stunk into the bodies ; the
ears cut off and heads scalped. • The Indians boiled the
hearts of their victims for medicine. The Swedish settlers
who were attacked all lived•in one house. Only those
were killed who left the house and attempted to reach a
place of greater security. Those who remained in the
house were not molested. 1 his occurred in two in-
stances. The calamity is mainly attributable to the lack
of arms. Whenever a gun was fired the savages made no
fight."

At Fossil Creek Station, on • the Pacific Railroad,
the Indians tied a sleeper on the track with the tele-
graph wire. which threw a loco votive and two
cars froth the rails, and furnished the opportunity
of killing two men and wounding fonr. • Se-veral
of-the. railway stations have been attrcked,_ and
where the savages succeed in disposing -of the
guard they tear up the track. In consequence of
these atrocities the movement of the troops under
General SCHOFIELD is active all along the country
in the neighbourhood of these outlying settlements.
Scouting parties traverse the land in whatever
directions their limited number will allow. Gene-
ral CCSTAII has started from Fort Hayes, Colonel
lIamILToN from Fort Riloy, Colonel MERRILL from
Fort Harker; Colonel WEIR, with a troop of
cavalry, is passing up the-. Sali le River ; and Go-
vernor HARNEY has organized two companies of
scouts, who have been armed by General Scuo-
FIELD. . The Governor has telegraphed to the
PRRSIDENT to request that orders may be sent for
the despatch of troops to the Southern part of
Kansas, as he anticipates an insurrection of the
settlers upon the Cherokee neutral land, but
this is an affair, among the whites, arising from
a dispute about land. The intelligenee is clear that
strenuous measures will be taken by the Govern-
ment to punish the • Cheyennes and the Sioux.
Senator Ross had an interv:ew-on the sahject with
GRANT, who as-ured hiin of -his stern determirratioi
to suppre a future depredations ; and Gen. SHERI-
DAN has been ordered to-treat as enemies all Indians.
found outside their reservations, while the strength
of the troopS is to be considerably arigMented The
latest news is that the savages captured a Govern-
ment waggon train in Arizona, burnt it, and. Lilted
three soldiers and woundol three. The manner of
.dealing with the Indians is a subjectattracting much
.attention at Washington. In proportion to the in-
dignation excited in- some by the ferocious acts of
the savages are the earnest efforts of others to save
an ignorant, barbar:ie.d race from a threatening
annihilation. There are many philanthropic Ame-
ricans who cannot divest themselves of the idea that
-the Republic has not done its whole duty in at-
tempting •to reclaim and save from extinction the
original possessors of the Continent. The settle-
ments of some tribes, now among the most peaceful
of inhabitants, have proved that there are Indians
who can be civilized, although it must be allowed
these were always of a far higher order than such
nomade Indians of the Plains as the Cheyennes and
Arapahoes. It is asserted that 14,000 of the Da-
cotah nation, located- on three reservations on the
west bank of the Upper Missouri, have been re-
strained from depredation and preserved in a pas-
sive and peaceful state through the honest efforts
and the personal influence acquired thereby of Gen.
\V. G. Haßsay. Twenty. years ago be conducted
against them a successful campaign, and they de-
scribe him as the man who fought Indians,but never
. told them a lie. What the Government allows
is distributed amongst them to the last cent,
and in consequence of his uprightness, the In-
dians have faith in his wisdom, his intentions,
and his word. A writer in the Tribune proposes
that the policy be adopted of gathering, the Indians
into at most three reservations, over which the
Government could really exercise efficient control
and protect the inhabitants against swindling
agents. He would make Isle Royale,. in. Lake
Superior, the northern one, where he would -plant
30,000 Sioux and 20,000 Chippewas and other In-
dian bands of the North-West. There are, perhaps,
15,000 Chippewas, who have 14 reservations in Wis-
consin and Minnesota, many so remote that they
cannot be visited by the Commissioners. In con-
sequence the Indians suffer from the cupidity of the
agents, and rapidly disappear. For instance, the
Stockbridge Indians in Wisconsin once numbered
10,000 warriors. They immigrated from Massa-
chusetts to New. York in 1789, to Ohio in 1809, and
to Wisconsin in 1821, many of them having resided
in Stockbridge until a few years ago. The remnant
of the tribe, numbering about 300 men, women,
and children, reside at Shawano, and are now suf-
fering for fool. The writer above alluded to ex-
presses the hope that the whole Indian population
between the Missouri River and Rocky Mountains,
not exceeding in all 150,000, may soon be gathered
into the • Indian Territory, where the Cherokees,
Choctaws, Creeks, and others form a civilised In-
dian community, entitled to lead in the experiment
of,
.creating an Indian Republic in the American
Linen. I: is but fair to the savages, whose fright-
ful
whites, deeds
with
iwt
h whom
e have htel
ey n recording,
come i
contact,n to state
a rthat f
often
mere vicious and savage than they. Indeed it has
been conjectured that among the Cheyennes and
Arapaho. s who perpetrated the late atrocities were
white men and half breeds. The PRESIDENT is as
anxiols to ext.mrl clemency and to pr; serve these
people from the effects of their own barbarism as he
is determined to put a stop to their depredations.
The Commission of Friends be selected to look after
their interests is sufficient proof of what we assert.
Friend SAMUEL M. ;TONES, the new Quaker Super-
intendent of Indian Affairs, together with five Quaker
Indian agents for the Omahas, Ottoes, Nempas,
Pawnees, and
,Sautees, arrived at Ornahi, May 28,
and proceeded to their various stations at ce,
where, it is to be hoped, they may be of service iu
protecting settlers, and, we may add, the Indians as
well, and carrying out the policy shadowed forth
by the writer in the Tribune of gathering the tribes
into one reservation, eventually to form. a State..

I.

1111-Si:TLEAAIEO-lis NEWS.

Iff a garret, and In close proximity mere was -a
" sister " with a cane. Taking the side of the weaker
one, and dcspiting the law and the police, some
Protestants executed summary vengeance upon the
corrector of the servant. For two nights dis-
turbances have taken place.