The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-26 00:00:00

AMERICA.

Mr. Wells's report on the existing tariff and revenue
system is attracting a good deal of attention. Mr. Wells
has carefully collected his facts, and shews that the
labouring and middle classes have been growing poorer every
day under the present system. All household expenses,
according to his tables, have risen 79 per cent. since 1860.
Every class of the community suffers, and producers and
consumers alike grow poorer. It has been argued that
much of this evil is due to excessive protection. The
lumber tax of 25 per cent. on foreign lumber is loudly de-
nounced, as it presses heavily on the people. The New York
Tribune contends that a distinction should be made be-
tween the protective duties and the duties on imports
which have nothing to do with protection. The latter class
it ranks at five-eighths of the whole import duties. It is
necessary to maintain a high tariff to fill the Exchequer ; the
receipts of the Custom House ought to go to the reduction
of the National Debt. The Tribune argues that the whole
mischief is owing to the excessive volume of the debt,
which ought to be at once acknowledged and reduced.
The imports of the States, says Mr. Wells, are too large
in proportion to the exports, and the Tribune advises those
who want the duties removed to consider the alternative
of increasing the imports yet further, or of dimini;%hing the
already impoverished revenue.
It is said that Admiral D. D. Porter will be appointed
Secretary of the Navy pro tem., and that he will hold the
office until the naval survey, which creates three admirals,
is completed. Admiral Porter will then resign the secre•
taryship, and take one of these three posts. Gener3'.
Schofield is to take a position in the Cabinet on the same
conclitiong.

At the regular meeting of the California Aca-
demy of Natural Sciences, Dec. 7, Mr. J. E. Clayton read
a paper describing the earthquakes in the Kern River re-
gion, as observed by Dr. Farnsworth. A discussion on the
theories of earthquakes followed. Dr. Gibbons remarked
that it was a natural tendency of the human mind to aim
at new and novel theories to account for phenome-
na, and if a theory has the merit of being one's own,
and novel, a man would defend it as earnestly as a
parent will defend his deformed and ugly brat, and
s seek u fso r s
o strange
simple
that simply because it is his own. The Electric theory
was unphilosophicae and unworthy of a scientific man.
W and mysterious causes
whenh geologyshould
ve e
gives
and reasonable an ex-
planation? The study of the earth's surface would satisfy
any candid mind that our globe was once much hotter
y
than now, and at some distant period in a melted state.
If so, only the outside has cooled as yet, and the in-
terior is still a molten mass. Combustion need not be
g on—the beat is there and retains the matter oi ng
iu a melted form until time is given it to cool. The
present contortions of
the earth's surface must have been
caused through this igneous agency, and when such
action takes place, vibrations and tremblings must ensue.
Humboldt stood upon the brink of a crater and observed
that an eruption was always preceded by rumblings and
shocks, exactly like our earthquakes. In this case we
know that fire and gases are concerned, and the cause
is in the interior; then why not allow that our shocks
are produced by this same agency in subterranean
caverns This molten matter is at rest, but when
water gains access, combustion ensues, and volcanoes and
earthquakes result. Mr. Clayton said he once unintention-
ally illustrated another cause in the following manner :
He had constructed a tub four feet deep and five feet in
diameter. Having filled this tub with water, and wishing
to heat it, he inserted a pipe in the water through which
he introduced steam for the purpose. The result was that
a series of shocks was produced, and the tub danced
around the room like a thing of life, till it was finally rent
in pieces. We might have reservoirs of water beneath
us--which no one could deny—and a stream of hot
water might gain access ; the result would be an
earthquake. The Geysers were an illustration of these
causes on a quiet scale. As a further corroboration of
this, he said earthquakes were more frequent in countries
where there has been the greatest disturbance of the
earth's surface, and hence caverns were more likely to
exist. The settling of the earth iu places most probably
filled these caverns, and we had seen instances of the
water from these reservoirs rising to the surface and forming
sprirgs. The earth has also been rent in the same manner that
the tub was. Very light shocks are continually taking place
from these causes. Mr. Yale thought that earthquakes were
perpetual, and not exceptional, but it is only the more se-
vere oues that we experience. When a boy he once en-
tered the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky with a party, where
he remained 48 hours. While there a tremendous thunder
storm took place in the "outer world." "but no sound of
that e'er came down to the everlasting depths of those
dark solitudes." Dr. Kellogg also thought the electrical
theory unphilosophical. If electricity throws down a
chimney simply, it makes a deafening report; how then
could it throw up inoun ains, or shake the earth so
silently ?

General Dix has succeeded in procuring a circular
from M. Pinard, Minister of the Interior, dated Bth De-
cember, 18(8, doing away with the necessity of passports
for Americans in France. This order relieves the citizens
of the United States, more particularly in the south of
France, from much inconvenience. " The Emperor's Go-
vernment has decided that citizens of the American
Union shall hereafter be permitted to enter, travel, and
sojourn in France, on the simple declaration of their
nationality, and without being subjected to the necessity
of passports."
LADTERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills.—Safety amidst
Dangers.—Surrounded. on all sides by the causes of disease
man must keep up a constaat watch if he would preserve
or recover his health. These purifying pills present the
most certain and effectual means of removing all obnoxious
matters from the blood, at the same time that they regu-
late any disordered actions which their presence has in-
duced. The harmless and strengthening balsam of which
Holloway's pills are composed renders them peculiarly
well adapted for the young and delicate, who can with im-
punity bear only tender treatment.

Y 26, 1869.

THE PHILADELPHIAN CORRESPONDEN7

OF ?WE " 71131E5"

We conclude from his letter, dated Jan. 5, that
the Philadelphia correspondent of the Times has
been told by the oracle of Printing-house-square to
sing to another tune, otherwise we are utterly at a
loss to account for the sudden disappearance of
every " dismal prospect," all of which, with the
New Year, have vanished—except some financial
troubles. Our own intelligence was that last year
closed with heavy commercial failures in some of
the great cities of the Union, and that anxiety was
manifested regarding the soundness of trade. Its
very basis was threatened in cases now on trial in
the Supreme Court, wherein the constitutionality
of the Legal-Tender Act is disputed. Fraud had
grown to an overwhelming extent, the revenue was
not increasing, an Indian war was on hand, and
there certainly are as many causes now to make up
"dismal prospects" as when the wonderful corre-
spondent wrote of them some months ago. Indeed,
to a strongly pronounced Democrat, the " dismals"
ought to have increased in the election of GRANT
and in the success of the Republicans. But some-
how or another, although the announcement of
GRANT'S majority,according to him, had sent up gold
4 or 5 per cent. at a hound, yet by one of those
graceful swings round the circle, for which those who
work in and for Printing-house-square are celebrated,
the correspondent of the luminary, which from these
purlieus enlightens the world, now discovers that
the election of GRANT has transformed the "dismal"
into "cheerful" prospects. Here is what he says :
" The New Year opens with a cheerful prospect for
the United States. Trade is somewhat better than
it has been for a good while, and a marked im-
provement is. anticipated. All classes of the mer-
cantile community, even the shipbuilders, have re-
covered from the despondency of last year, and now
hope, not without cau.,e, for better things The
South is almost completely tranquillized, and the
asperities of politics have to a great extent disap-
peared from both sections." We imagine that he
got his cue from the office of the Times, where it
was perceived that the misrepresentations he has
been disseminating throughout Europe are shown
up to the damage of the Times itself, in quarters
wherein they are likely to do harm, and that the
recoil in America tends to influence injuriously the
friendly feeling desirable to cultivate, and those
very negotiations England considers essential to
settle quickly and for ever. The letter referred to
is really worth reading, and because it bears out
all we have urged during the year just expired, we
reproduce this portion as a sample of the writer's
consistency, and ask our readers whether the Times
correspondent or the Anglo-American Times has
given the more correct information on American
affairs :

" Financial troubles alone seem to beset America;
for in everything else her prospects are bright. As
both Congress and the new PRESIDENT, however,
show a commendable desire to practise national
economy, and keep the expenditure much within
the income, it is probable that the country, without
any great derangement, will be able to return to a
normal condition of finance. This cheerful prospect
is due to a great extent to the popular confidence in
General GRANT. They expect to find in him an
honest, energetic, and judicious Executive, who
will endeavour to tranquillize instead of stirring up
strife, and who will try to make the burdens of
Government rest as lightly upon the nation as pos-
sible. This feeling is shared by both parties, and,
Iwith the exception of a few restless politicians, the
mass of the people intend to give him their support
from the outset of his Administration, confident
that their trust will not be misplaced. They expect
to dud him a moderate ruler, who will check the
extremes of both parties, and who will try to keep
that middle path which, under the American sys-
tem, is the only one that can insure tranquillity. The
American people are heartily tired of the bitter
and vexatious strife that has been waged between
President JOHNSON and Congress, and will therefore
welcome a change that can give them a President
and Congress who will act in harmony. The cost
of all the expensive measures devised by Congress
to check the Executive will be saved ; the demoral-
ization in the revenue service caused by the dis-
putes between the two branches of the appointing
power will to a great extent be checked ; and, when
the public mini is quiet, these members of Con-
gress who desire to reform abuses and reduce ex-
penses will be heard and heeded." The first ques-
tion suggested to the mind of any of our readers is
—Why then did the writer to the best of his
ability aid the canvass of SEYMOUR ?--how comes
it that the nation whose trust i 3 in GRANT to-day,
had a strong belief in SEYMOUR three months ago ?
for, did not this same correspondent then say that
" a careful survey of the field" had convinced him
that the country was in favour of SEYMOUR, who
would therefore be elected. We endeavoured
then, and long before, to point out the very facts
now shining so brightly before this correspon-
dent's eyes, whose light, he then did not choose to
see, though at present desirous of shedding it abroad.
It did not require much discernment to perceive the
folly of placing a Republican Congress in the Capitol
and a Democratic President in the White House ;
and as the former could not fail to he Republican one
of the strongest reasons we advanced for the election
of a Republican President was to secure this very har-
mony. Nor did it require much knowledge or any
great amount of acumen to predict that the cause
which had tended so much to keep alive Southern
political violence and ill-feeling would, if continued
in Washington, be continued in the South, and that
therefore it would be ill-advised, if the country was
to be tranquillized, to encourage either in the White
House or in the Capitol the Southern spirit of re-
sistance to a policy upon which the Northern mind
was fixed. Indeed it differs but little from the part
of the vicious boy, who, desirous of fanning the quar-
rel of his friends into an open fight, pats one on the
back, and asks if he is afraid ? and whispers in the
ear of the other, " he calls you a coward and a snob,
and says he will punch your head." Yet any per-
son who recollects what the correspondent has pre-
viously written must know that no such truths before
found a place in his letters, and that all the influ-
ence he dared to give in the columns of the Times
was exerted in favour of what he now shows would
have been so disastrous. Nor was he alone among
correspondents to English papers in these efforts;
for it was the bias of their communications which
spread throughout the country the general but
erroneous opinion that GRANT would be defeated ;
that it was desirable he should not be elected ; and
that it was still more certain and more true that the
Republicans would be unsuccessful in returning
their candidates to the House, a prediction even more
to be desired, though the Senate would remain
overwhelmingly Republican. Immediately after the
nomination in Tammany Hall this cry was so loud
that it deceived the world, and it was not till the
Republicans fairly set to work and got accurate re-
turns of their strength that the error began to be cor-
rected. It was the actual defeat alone that stopped
the facile pens of many—the 2 lines correspondent
among the number. Then his " careful survey ," pre-
dicting an assured success, gave way to his " dismal
prospects." Still, however tardy may have been the
change—to whatever cause is attributable the dis-
covery of his errors—their open renunciation is
satisfactory to us, and, if spontaneous, creditable to
him. Yet it may be that he adopts all the well-known
habits of the Times; that be drops on his knees like
a Parsee to worship the rising sun, though his face
and his prayers may have been turned the day be-
fore towards Mecca with the exclamation on MS
lips, 4, There is but one GOD, and MAHOMET is his
prophet !"—Anglo-Anzerteati Times.

Mr. Alexander S. M'Crae, the Liverpool broker,
in his last weekly produce statement, publishes a corres-
pondence be had with the American Minister on the sub-
ject of repealing the late Order in Council imposing re-
strictions on the importation of American hay. The cor-
respondence is introduced with this remark :—" Anybody
wishing to learn bow the American Ambassador can re-
move restrictions on trade, as well as pacify a nation,
should read the following It is to be hoped that this
simple record of facts will show the American people the
vast and judicious influence their Ambassador exercises
amongst us, and prove, that however great, or however
small the occasion may be, he is always equal to it.'"
DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest
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commended by the medical profession in preference to French
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tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co.,
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vertisement.)

"ECONOMY AND REFORM."

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The speech of ELIIIU B. WAstinuaNE, of Illinoie,
ou the 6th instant, in the House, on the Appro-
priations for the Session, is taken to indicate the
policy of the incoming Administration. The bark of
" the Treasury watch-dog" comes with a deep bay'd
welcome to the national ear, sick of hearing stories
of gross corruption, of lobbyists, of rings, of pecu-
lation, and of speculation ; of contracts, and of
shoddy. The speech was well-timed, preceding as
it did the discussion on the appropriations. Mr.
WASIIBURNE asserted that the Republican party
triumphed in the last election because it was pledged
to honesty and economy ; to uphold public faith and
public credit, and to execute the laws. The strength
of the party which enables it to set at defiance exe-
cutive vetoes fixes on it the responsibility of go-
vernment. They have elected to the White House
a man true to the party, emphatically an honest
man, an enlightened statesman, to administer the
laws without fear, favour, or affection :

" Added to other terrible evils brought upon the coun-
try by the war for the suppression of the rebellion is the
demoralization incident to all great wars and to the ex-
penditures of vast and unheard-of amounts of public
money ; to the giving out of immense contracts by which
sudden and vast fortunes were made, the inflation of the
currency, which engendered speculation, profligacy, ex-
travagance, and corruption, by the intense desire to get
suddenly rich out of the Government and without la-
bour, and the inventions and schemes generally to get
money out of the Treasury for the benefit of indivi-
duals without regard to the interests of the Govern-
ment. While the restless and unpauding energies
of a patriotic and incorruptible people were de-
voted to the salvation of their Government, and were pour-
ing out their blood and treasure in its defence, there was
t.o vast army of the baso, the venal, and unpatriotic, who
rushed in to take advantage of the misfortunes of the
country and to plunder its Treasury. The statute books
are loaded with legis'ation which will impose burdens on
future generations. Public land enough to make empires
has been voted to private railroad corporations; subsidies
of untold millions of bonds, for the same purposes, have
become a charge upon the people, while the fetters of vast
monopolies have been fastened still closer and closer upon
the public. It is time that the Representatives of the
people were admonished that they are the servants of the
people, and are paid by the people; that their constituents
hive confided to them the great trust of guarding their
rights and protecting their interests ; that their position
and their power are to be used for the benefit of the
people whom they represent, and not for their own benefit
and tho benefit of the lobbyists, the gamblers, and the
speculators who have come to Washington to make a raid
upon the Treasury."

The time has come to hold public men to a more
strict accountability—to scan with a more critical
eye their actions in the discharge of their duty.
General GRANT alone cannot secure the reforms in
the Public Service imperatively demanded. lie
must have an earnest and cordial support from the
other branches of the Government, particularly
of the Legislature. The responsibility of this Con-
gress to the next is complete. By its recklessness and
extravagance it can make appropriations of land
and won y, which will destroy the national credit
and make the country an object of scorn to the civil-
ized world. Then without money or credit, unable
to command respect at home and abroad, the Re-
public will be held in contempt by the weakest and
the most pusillanimous of nations. " But," con-
tinued Mr. WASHRURNE, " one thing is clear, if
Congress cannot control the expenditures of the
Government ; if it cannot curb the executive
officers of the Government in spending the public
money, and if such officers are to be left practically
to determine the appropriations, then, I say, let
Congress abdicate, and let the people be saved the
expense of keeping up this expensive and somewhat
ornamental institution." It must always be a treat
for the lobbyist to hear "the watch-dog's" bark, and
it was all the louder in his late speech, as it heralded
the advent of his friend GRANT. The St. Louis
Democrat gives a report related by a prominent
citizen of St. Louis of a conversation he heard be-
tween General GRANT and a Senatorfrom Louisiana.
A Judge wanted the Government to guarantee
the State bonds for the restoration of the levees.
In reply to GRANT'S quick and decisive utterance,
" I hope the Government will not do it ?" he re-
marked that the signature only was required to
enable the State to sell the bonds at other than a
ruinous discount without costing the United States
a cent. GRANT replied, "I never knew a Govern-
ment to become responsible for any annunt that it
did not ultimately have to pay. You now want
the endorsement of the bonds. If that is given,
you will soon want to legislate for the payment of
the bonds." It was in vain that they urged o❑
him the millions of fertile acres under water. " Let
them overflow, and let them stay under water,"
said GRANT, " until their owners are willing that
Northern men and Northern capital should come in
and protect and improve them. Northern men
with ample capital are ready to make a garden of
your State, and you won't let them do it. Your
large landholders are as hostile to this United
States Government to-day as they have ever been ;
and if that Government should rebuild their levees
it would not change them a particle. I know no
way the Government could have adopted for re-
building the levees but to have confiscated the lands
of those engaged in rebellion, and used the proceeds
to restore the country. As that was not done,
nothing remains but to set your negroes to work,
and invite in and welcome Northern men ;" closing
the conversation with the remark, " that the
Louisianians will have to build their own levees or
stay under water until men should come in who will
build them." The Senator who waited on him about
the Union Pacific Railroad was served out with the
same saume, and there is a good deal of blank des-
spair and a bad time expected, at least in the Wash-
ington lobbies. The statesmen at the Capitol have
to learn the lesson GRANT taught the Generals in
the field. The President Elect is so quiet, silent,
unpresuming a man that those accustomed to " tall
talk" find the greatest difficulty in not believing him
to be a goose ; and the number of people sold in
this way exceeds the number of geese sold for
Michaelmas-day in England. The Generals, even
after some of GRANT'S most brilliant victories, could
not persuade themselves that he was anybody, and
often thus impressed presumed in a way they would
not otherwise have dared to do. The politicians,
even in spite of his renown, cannot refrain in pre-
sence of this modest being from trying the same
game. But they are beginning from practical ex-
perience to learn the style of man with whom, for
at least one term, it is decreed they will have to deal,
and the lobbyists do not admire the prospect.
We expect, if the opportunity offers, to see a furious
onslaught made on the General ; but a child might
as well fire a pop-gun at a man in armour, for he is
clad in proof, and he but requires the support of
the Legislature to sweep out of office a great deal
which has settled down there during the term of
his predecessor. GRANT knows that nothing grows
more rapidly than corruption or assumes so many
plausible disguises ; and being a plain, straight-
forward man, with a singular facility for pene-
trating at once to the core of a matter, he is
determined not to parley with, or entertain schemes
directed against the Treasury, no matter how pa-
triotic, in appearance, may be the motive. The best
patriotism is to raise the credit of the country, and
to lower the burdens of the people ; but plain a
truth as this may be it is too often forgotten and
too frequently set aside when any pet scheme has
to be forwarded, even by good men. If we be-
lieve one thing more than another about GRANT,
it is that he has no pet schemes except the national
one of increasing the credit of the country and
reducing the taxes, and the strength of his posi-
tion lies in the fact that the people generally know
this too.

Ilarper's Weekly opposes the new international
Postal Treaty between the United States and the United
Kingdom, which has just come into operation, on the
ground that the preference given to the circulation in
America of English thought and opinion amounts to a
direct discrimination in favour of the English subject over
the American citizen. The writer argues that through it
the United States Post Office will carry from one end of
the country to the other English book parcels up to 1001 b.
at 16 cents per lb., the charge on American books being
96 cents per lb., making a difference of 600 per cent. against
American books, authors, readers, and publishers. The
writer overlooks the fact that the advantage is reciprocal
the American author being placed on the same footing
regarding the United Kingdom. England, too, under-
takes to carry through the kingdom American parcels on
very favourable terms, addressed to continental or colo-
nial countries.

SO UTH ERN AFFAIRS.

Arkansas is in a nice state ; but what that state
is cannot be to easily told. On one side black militia-
men, without uniform or badges to show the nature eL
their employment, drag their white fellow-citizens t'e
gaol, and shoot them without going through eve
the form of a trial. They throw up entrenchments
and threaten to burn down the town if attacked.
On the other hand, the Hon. Thorns Boles, Con'
gressional Representative from the Third District
in Arkansas, has published a statement to sh°l
why the Governor organized the militia. rolitie!,o
murder had for months been reduced to au art,
prominent leaders and over 200 negroes having been
assassinated in cold blood. Constables and Sberiff6
who interfered were themselves killed, and the Iwo
who did these deeds publicly boasted of them while
threatening others. The Governor finding it
possible to arrest the murderers and to save t 1:
loyal citizens in any other way called out the 1331'
litia, arrested those accused of the crimes, while be
fortified and guarded the gaols against a rescue'
According to Mr. Boles, the cry on this is raised
of military persecution. We hope to have better
tidings from Arkansas after the inauguration °,
I
Grant, although that event will not be a universal
panacea. But if the right and the wrong is denbt.tj
ful in Arkansas, there can be little question who
is in fault on the Ogeechee River, Georgia. lb:
Standard's correspondent who may be relied on for t'
most Copperhead aspect, writing from New York 011
New Year's-day, says " that country is alive wit 4
gangs of negroes who murder the plantation watch.:
men and carry off the crops. On Tuesday a sheriff
and two constables left Savannah furnished with
warrants for the arrest of 17 negroes accused of
shooting watchmen. Five of the blacks were cal):
lured and placed on a railway train. The train
was stopped at an obscure station by about 1-%
negroes, who rescued the prisoners, robbed
sheriff, taking from him his arms and warrants'
and promised that death should be his portion
should he ever attempt to execute another process
upon a negro in that vicinity. The blacks then
marched away, crying out, 'The war has all'
menced. We will have the heart's blood of every
white man on the Ogeechee River.' Hearing °f
these threats the white citizens of the vicinity hag'
tened to Savannah, not supposing that their wives
and children would be molested. But the negroes
drove the women and children into the Nvceds;
and now hold them as prisoners. The greatest
indignation and excitement exist in Savannah',
The news from Savannah, up to Dec. 31, is as
follows :—" The Ogeechee troubles still continua
Mr. Middleton's house was burned last night 813
his crops ruined. All the whites came to the 611
except one man, who has not been seen since the
d
trouble. The Sheriff, with a posse, went out 01'
morning, but returned without making any arrests'
The negroes are fully armed and in large force'
and are determined to resist the authorities. Scouts
sent out this afternoon were stopped six miles froal
the city. All six of the roads leading to the eitl
are picketed by negroes. A public meeting wag
held to-day at the Court House, and affairs were
discussed by General Jackson and others, and to-
morrow they will decide upon what course t°
pursue." It is reported in Washington that
coloured delegation from Georgia will submit
memorial against the admission of the Senator
elect from their State, their argument being that
the admission of the Senators will be regarded by
coloured voters as an approval by Congress Of the
action of the Democrats in expelling coloured meta'
bers from the Georgia Legislature. Ex-Govern°t
Joseph E. Brown is leading the movement againS
any interference by Congress with the affairs
,°tf
Georgia. The Freedman's Bureau ceased to elt'
on the Ist inst., and 711 clerks and others were
thrown out of employment. Their salaries alone'
since the inauguration of the Bureau in 1866
amounted to $2,517,240.

THE STRAUSSINE DIA3IOND.—For some time
variety of experiments have been in operation to aseertsl
the possibility of the production of a substance having $0
the hardness and lustre of the true brilliant, the capabilitia
of being used in jewellry in place of the goDui,is li
stone, and so reasonable in price as to make
the saying is, " almost common." After Tari°l
failures, the end has been accomplished by
•
Jeffery, of Tottenham-court-road, whose artistic Wor:
has already secured medals in various national exhibitl°ll'
He has produced a "diamond" of remarkable
highly refractive, and so purely white that it takes all '11"0
talent oven of a connisseur to discover that it is not the
real stone. Whilst carrying on the experiments for
production of the " Staussine" diamond, the clover oPerivf
tor achieved another success by discovering a method
aOO
producing a mock opal with the beautiful emerald gin,
colour clearly defined, thus solving another matter vilDe
has for a long time puzzled the curious in such matters' 0
Mrs. Foot, wife of the. Commissioner for Pater3t:
and a daughter of Senator Henderson .`"', is a successful
ventor herself. She has contrived a skate without st111:4
and several other things.—Thaddeus Hyatt is now eiji°:-
ing a large income for his patent for glass light in Pll.B.
ments.

Among the eminent Americans who died during
18G8 were the following :—Alexander Asboth, /13u"a
O
Jacob Astor, jun., Col. Francis Markoe Bache, General
Lafayette C. Baker, Richard H. Bayard Moses
Beach, Rear-Admiral 11. H. Bell, James Buchanan, .„ri
Liam Curtis, Peter Cagger, John H. Campbell, Kit CarS33,
George Christy, Howell Cobb, Captain J. J.
stock, Julia Dean Rayne, Rear-Admiral Fred°"-,.
Engle, Robert Ewing, Peter Force J. Heron Footer'
Commodore Gansevoort, General William Cit't,,°,4:6
General Alfred Gibbs, John A. Gilmer, Frances
Granger, C. F. Hargedorn, Fitz Greene Halleck, Char;
G. Halpine, Henry Hartstene, T. 0. Hindman, 1318‘n"
Hopkins, Joseph R. Ingersoll, George W. James
son, Rev. George Junkie, Heber C. Kimball,
bert P. King, Rev. Isaac Leeser, E. Leutze, Levi Lille();
Daniel Lerd, Providence Ludlam, David M. 1"5:0,
General George A. M`Call, J. J. Wltae, Abijah .„
James Mann, Adah Isaacs Menken, Matthew x'°.ic
kirk, George W. Nebinger, Samuel Nicolson, Frederic
liner,
A. Packard, Alonzo C. Paize, Admiral James S.
Commodore George A. Prentiss, Morris J. Raphall,
thong L. Robertson, Commodore Daniel C. Ridgley,
C. Rives, Joseph W. Byerns, John Sefton, Thomas.
Seymour, Conger Sherman, Gen. A. T. Slemmer, Ad°. r„,„
John D. Sloat, General P. P. Smith, Casper Scuder, Ju—o
General Frederick Steele, Edwin A. Stevens, Thadall/,
Stevens, Rev. Thomas A. Stockton, General Walter
Stevens, David L. Swain, William M. Swain, Frah°l°
Troubat, Patroon Stephen Van Rensselaer Matthew ,0..
sar, David Wilmot, William B. Wright.
The Right lion. John Bright, who has been
a visit to his mother-in-law, Mrs. Leatham, of Beech
lawn, Heath, on Sunday attended the Friends' Meeting
house in Wakefield. It bacoming known that in all 17—,.
bability he would be one of the congregation, the hurab,heo
of attendants was somewhat larger than usual, and at 0
hour of the service closing a crowd gathered outsi,
This anxious curiosity to catch a glimpse of the red
sident of the Board of Trade appears to have roils
the righteous wrath of one of the staid Quakeressabo
who, being fully imbued with the doctrine that evvilito
wearers of purple are but men, indignantly exclaimec'
she beheld the peering throng, "One would think lie We',,
more than mortal to see the people gathered together Stto
and at once turned off on her homeward way. Ait,ja
right hon. gentleman walked through the streets scesn
irel
panied by his wife he received on all sides the most raid.'
tokens of respect.

Births.
St,
TIERTEY—On the 23d inst. at at Ickworth Park, Bgrfa
Edmund's, the Lady Augustus Hervey, of a daugh;oo,
TRACY—On the 25th inst., at 28, Chesham-place, the Mrs. Charles Hanbury Tracy, prematurely, of two:l''.
son and daughter, the former stillborn. TAO
TREVOR—On the 23d inst., at 36, Belgrave-squarot
Edwin Hill Trevor, of a son.
Marriages.
Ohl
CHIDLEY—ROUTLEDGE—On the 21st inst., at Christen&
Forest-hill,l John George, eldest son of Richard Cl°,-.00;
Esq., of Wellington Chambers, London-bridge, to
Harriet Halsey, only daughter of Mrs. Routledg°'
Forest-hia.
ST. AUEYN—TIOLDSWORTII—On the 21st inst., the
barn, South Devon, the Rev. Edmund St. .Aul:ll3;tiiee
youngest son of Sir Edward St. Aubyn, Bart., t° p 44
Mary, third daughter of Arthur B. E. Ifoldswortll7
of Widdicombe House.
Deaths.
BLAKE—On the 22d inst., Mr. Joseph Blake, of rOjr
on-the-hill, aged 78.
torie
17-•
BROCK—On the 21st inst., William Brock, Esq., • le
road, Guernsey, aged 80.
late °I
GOWARD—On the 24th inst., Zachariah Cloward,
GREEN- On,the 24th inest., at 5, Kensington-Pa- c"°-
'-
Woodford Essex, agd GO.
1, gilt'
dens, Bevis E. Green, Esq., aged 75. valwa
KNlGHinst.,
T— On the 22d at Sandgate, Kent,
-$
Knight, solicitor, aged 43.

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