The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCrOBER 7, 1867.

was held at Hartford, Connecticut, on September
18th, and a quarterly dividend of 5 per cent. was
declared. The income of the road for the year end-
ing August 31st was $1,685,334 59 ; the expenses
amounted to $1,141,337 70 ; the nett income of
the year, after deducting all the expenses, was
$543,996 89, being an increase of $84,800 28 over
the nett earnings of last year. The old board of
directors have been re-elected, excepting Charles M.
Pond, of Hartford, who takes the place of Samuel
H. Parsons, of Middletown. The management of
the road is in the most satisfactory condition.
RAILROADS IN MINNESOTA.—We are informed
that the rails have been laid on the Minnesota Cen-
tral Railroad as far as Austin, Mower County, in
this State, and that trains will commence to that
point on Monday next.
The work up on the M'Gregor Road, starting
from M'Gregor, lowa, opposite du Chien, has been
completed to Leroy, also in Mower County.
Austin and Leroy are distant from each other
about twenty-eight miles. Over this intervening
gap the roads are at both ends being rapidly pushed
forward, and trains will doubtless be running over
the whole length of the road in October.
Some idea can be formed of the importance of the
completion of this link of the chain that in winter
as well as in summer gives us regular railroad con-
nection with the other parts of the country, when
it is considered that until the completion of the St.
Paul and Chicago Railroad there is in winter no
direct steam line to the South and East, and until
the completion of the road between Winona and
La Crosse, no other steam communication whatever
in that season of the year.
In this connection it may be right to state that
the work upon the St. Paul and Lake Superior Road
in this vicinity is being rapidly pushed through the
bluffs at quite a number of different points, and
that the prospects throughout are particularly en-
couraging.

Add to this the rapid progress being made upon the
St. Paul and Pacificßoad, the efforts made and strong
force at work on the road between Winona and La
Crosse, as well as the work being done on the other
railroads of the State, and some idea can be formed
of the great results speedily to be attained in the
way of facilitating communication, and conse-
quently in developing the wonderful resources of the
North Star State.—St. Paul Press, Sept. 14.

bers, as active and organized—is in favour of sacri-
lege, of Republicanism, and of Revolution. On
the other, a large, but somewhat inert or intimi-
dated majority, is filled with a profound reverence
for the Church—for priests and monks—and bears,
above all, a filial attachment to the holy Father,
and a traditional reverence towards Rome as the
seat of the Papal sovereignty. Westminster
Gazette.

expect to find in a literary paper. With the resources at
our command, we will (sic) be able to offer a brilliant array
of talent, unsurpassed in American periodical literature ;
wits, poets, humorists, artists, critics, travellers—all who
have anything witty, wise, clever, humorous, brilliant, or
interesting to say, will be welcome in Southern Society,
whether they possess the "magic of a name" or not.' We
shall not, however, criticise prophetically, and trust that
the new-corner may command success."

Dr. J. G. Holland's purposed two years' trip to
Europe will not, as has been rumoured, be made until next
year.

The controversy is continued in the 10th Septem-
ber number of the Nation between J. F. Kirk and that
journal on Thomas Carlyle. Although Mr. Kirk is a
forcible writer, he is unable to maintain his position against
the Nation, and Mr. Carlyle consequently comes to grief.

Miss Adah Isaacs Menken is said to be preparing
a volume of poems for the press.

Madame Ristori, with her dramatic troupe,
reached Now York, September 12, from Havre, in the
steamer Europe. She commenced her performances on
the 18th in the French Theatre. She will play in the
now tragedy, by Giacomo, from the History of Marie An-
toinette.

Mr. Edwin Booth, the tragedian, applied to the
War Department for a trunk kept these belonging to the
assassin, John Wilkes Booth. This trunk contains
clothing and a few books and papers, but the Government
refuse to surrender it.

Wilkes's Spirit says :--
"Dramatic.—General Beauregard making a
Union after-dinner speech in the New York Hotel.

" Edwin Booth has suddenly terminated his en-
gagement in Baltimore through the accidental infliction of
a severe sword cut on his hand.

" Tom Taylor wields the sceptre on the dramatic
throne of the London 7 imes during the visit of Mr. Oxen-
ford to this country.

" Mrs. Lander is playing Elizabeth in Boston to
crowds of cultivated Bostonians."

Mr. T. S. Clarke, who has attained a high repu-
tation in the United States in broad comedy, will shortly
appear at the St. James's Theatre.

Mr. D. E. Bandmann, from America, will, in
February, replace Mr. Fechter at the Lyceum.

Miss Bateman (now Mrs. Crow) has been en-
gaged on the following provincial tour, which is her first
appearance since her return from America :—Theatre
Royal, Liverpool, Oct. 7 ; Theatre Royal, Birmingham,
Oct. 21; Theatre Royal, Manchester, Nov. 13; Theatre
Royal, Bath and Bristol, Dec. 9.

William Lloyd Garrison is to be at Frankfort-
on-the-Maine this week. It is proposed to give him a
public dinner there. He is worthy of all the feting he re-
ceives, being the pioneer in the anti-slavery cause. Ho
was honest, faithful, and true.

➢ir. Wendell Phillips has issued the folio ring
Presidential ticket : For President, Thaddeus Stevens;
Vice-President, Frederick Douglas.

General Mower, who is in temporary commani in
Louisiana, has prohibited tho assembling of armed men
for political an€l other purposes.

Mrs. Theresa Longworth Yelverton is now giving
Readings in New York, and attracting some attention.
The Tribune asserts that Major Yelverton was forced to
resign his commission in the army, because he was living
with another woman not his wife. The Nation corrects
this by stating that he was dismissed for having, on his
own confession, gone through a marriage ceremony in
Ireland which ho did not believe to be legally binding, for
the purpose of betraying her, and for divers other frauds
and falsehoods there anent. The truth is that the lion.
W. C. Yelverton was placed on half-pay, and not dismissed.
Ho was an officer of the Royal Artillery, being a captain,
with the brevet rank of major, as there is no such regi-
mental rank in that corps. He obtained his promotion for
seivice in the Crimea, and was removed to the half-pay
list on the scandal being made public. But ho remains an
officer of the British army, eligible at any time to be brought
in on full pay.

The Imperial Court of Paris, on Thursday, the
26th ult., confirmed the sentence of a month's imprison-
ment and a fine of 100 francs, from which the hotelkeeper,
Lemoine, had appealed. Our readers are nct likely to
forget that this was the ruffian who assaulted an American
lady, and who seemed to concentrate within himself a
more than usual amount of the extortion and insolence of
Paris hotelkeepers. One would suppose that the gang
might be content with the rich harvest they had made out
of American gentlemen without insulting unprotected
American ladies. We hope that Lemoine will not find his
punishment end with his release from imprisonment.
Indeed, any one who goes to his hotel will deserve the
treatment in store for them.

Count Wydenbruck, for several years past the
Austrian Minister at Washington, has returned to Europe.
Ile was entertained before his departure by the Secretary
of State at dinner, at which the diplomatic corps were
present. Ile will be succeeded by Count von Frankenstein,
the present Austrian Ambassador at Copenhagen, and
pending his arrival the Secretary of Legation acts as
Chargd d'Aibires.

The Dean of Westminster and his wife, Lady
Augusta Stanley, returned from Scotland to entertain the
American bishops now visiting England. The news of the
death of her ladyship's brother, Sir Frederick Bruce, pre-
vented this intention. The Pall Mall Gazette says :—" It
is well known that the Dean of Westminster declined to
give permission for a week-day special service in the
Abbey during the meeting of the Pan-Anglican Synod.
The Conference sat with closed doors, and it is said the
Dean and Chapter did not wish, even in this indirect way,
to appear as endorsing all that might take place. The
Dean, however, is said to have sent a very kiwi letter,
inviting all our American episcopal visitors to the Abbey
last Sunday." _ . _

A letter from Garibaldi has been published at
Florence, in which the General declares that he accepted

he offer of liberty to proceed to Caprera without agreeing

to any conditions. In consistency with this information
we aro told that the Italian Govcrnment continues its
precautions on the Papal frontier. The King has arrived
at Florence.

The Porter prize of $6O for the best examination

for admission to Amherst College has boon awarded to
Theodore M. Osborne, of South Danvers, Western Massa-
chusetts.

The Rev. George NV. Sheldon, son of Rev. Dr.
Sheldon, formerly of Northampton, who has been for the

last two years tutor in Princeton College, New York, has
declined the professorship of Greek in Miema University,
Ohio, having been appointed instructor in Hebrew in the
Lnion Theological Seminary at Now York.
.

George, W. Ballou has been chosen cashier o

the First National Bank of Greenfield.

E. G. Everett, of Greenfield, the well-known con•
ductor of twenty years' service on the Vermont and bias•
sachusetts Railroad, is going to resign and try farming a

the West.
The editors Henry J. Raymond and Park Godwin
arrived at Now York in the steamship Arago, from Europe,
on Thursday, the 19th ultimo.
The Assistant-Secretary of the Treasury, Mr.
Chandler, talks of resigning, and recommends Colonel
Thorpe, of St. Louis, as his successor.
Mr. Callicott, the Brooklyn collector of Internal
Revenue, has been suspended, and arrested until the pro-
secution against him has been decided.
The remains of J. Wilkes Booth are to be re-
moved from the arsenal grounds in consequence of improve-
ments. It is not yet decided what is to bo done with
them, but they have been refused to his brother, Edwin
Booth, as well as those of Mrs. Surratt to her daughter.
General Grant, who is noted for fast driving, ran
over a small boy without inflicting much injury. He has
to pay the doctor's bill.
W. S. Andrews, second deputy, will act as col"
lector during Callicott's suspension.
Senators Nye, of Nevada, Cameron, of Pennsyl-
' vania, and Cattell, Now Jersey, addressed a mass meeting
of Republicans at Philadelphia.
General J. T. Reynolds has been assigned the
command in Texas, and General W. Heaton in Louisiana.
General Joseph A. Mower, who temporarily as-
sumed command of tho district on General Griffin's death,
has been attacked with yellow fever, as well as General
Heaton, but both are recovering.
The United States screw steam frigate Franklyn,
Flag Admiral Faragut, now lying in the Thames, was on
Monday inspected by Commodore Edmonstono, C. 8.,
A.D.C. to the Queen, who went down from Woolwich,
accompanied by his Flag Commander Jackson, and paid
a complimentary visit to the gallant admiral by previous
arrangement. The frigate is accompanied by the steam
tender Frolic. Admiral Faragut is expected to visit
Woolwich and inspect the dockyard, and probably the
departments of the arsenal, in a few days.
A laughable mistake occurred in the seizure and
confiscation of some journals in Cologne by order of the
Prussian Government for some political article. T ho order
was to open the mails and seize the Cologne papers, but
by mistake it was sent to Dusseldorf and ono of the pro-
minent journals. These were seized and confiscated by
mistake. This is a rich thing fora free country to do.
We suppose the Government does not make any amends
for such conduct.
General Beauregard spoke at a dinner given him
in New York by some Southern gentlemen in terms of
high admiration of the Government of the United States.
It was sheer nonsense to talk of another rebellion. The
dogma of State sovereignty had been whipped out of him,
and he urged his hearers to support the Government, and
add lustre to the glories of a united people.
Mark Twain, special correspondent of the New
York Tribune, has sent to that journal an account of the
entertainment given to the tourists of the Quaker City by
the Emperor of Russia at his summer palace. Ile appears
to have boon much impressed with the simplicity of attire
coupled with the dignity of manner in his entertainers.
General Washburne, member- of Congress, from
Wiscons4 was at I;lFaukfort-on-the,la4ae on Friday last,

General Dix is in Paris, but his family are still
at the Spa in Belgium.

making a hurried tour through Germany. Ho also visited
Homburgh. He was with M. Gibbs, Esq. Mr. Wash-
burne is ono of the noted members of the Washburne

family.

George H. Pendleton, the distinguished Copper-
head disunionist of Ohio, is advocating the payment of the
United States' debt in greenbacks. Mr. Pendleton opposed
the war, and now does this out of unpatriotic motives. He
does not like to see a debt paid which was created to carry
on the war for the restoration of the Union.

Mr. Ernest Jones, counsel for the Fenian priso-
ners at Manchester, has been severely condemned by the
press for his conduct in conducting the prosecution.
The daughter of Captain Cook, who was last week
reported to have died, turns out to have been a myth. Cap-
tain Cook was married towards the end of 1762 to Miss
Elizabeth Batts, at Barking, Essex, by whom he had six
children, three girls, who died in infancy, and three boys.
D. A. Hills, Special Internal Revenue Commissioner
of the United States, and who visited Europe last summer,
arrived home in New York on the 14th September. Letters
from him to prominent bankers at Frankfort-on-the Maine
give a favourable account of our finances and crops at
home. Mr. Hills anticipates a fall of gold very soon, and
says every sensible man laughs at the idea of paying the
5-20's in greenbacks. No prominent man, unless ho is a
Copperhead, sustains this doctrine, with perhaps one ex-
ception.

M. Gousset, the chief restaurateur at the Exhibi-
tion, is a bankrupt, with liabilities estimated at 1,500,000
francs.

Governor Dyer and family are at Homburgh les
Bains, and purpose going to New York in the Bremen
steamer Deutschland on the 24th of October inst.

The Greek Minister is negociatiug at Washington
for the purchase of two ironclads, which the Government
are willing to sell.
Messrs. Peter Buchanan and Co., of Glasgow,
have suspended payment, their difficulties having arisen
from the want of punctuality in receiving their remittances
from Canada.

Mr. Charles Dickens is to leave Liverpool for
New York on the 2cl November.

The Presidential party returned to Washington
from Antietam on the 18th ultimo.

General Grant was not even invited to attend the
ceremony at Antietam.

A very gallant French officer died at the St.
Julian Hotel, New York, on Saturday, Sept. 14. Ernest
do Fleury, formerly Baron do Lille, had escaped in the
most romantic manner from Queretaro, where ho hold the
post of Colonel in the Imperial Chasseurs under Maxi-
milian. When captured ho was tried by court-martial,
and sentenced to be shot. He bribed his guard and
escaped, only poor fellow to die within a few weeks after
at Now York.

General ()'Horan was shot at Queretaro on the
22d August, in spite of the earnest remonstrance of the
United States through the Minister, Mr. Otterburgh.
The following particulars of his execution have been
given in the New York papers :—" At six o'clock
General °Moran was conducted from his prison at the
palace to the Plazuela de Mix (Jalco in a carriage,
accompanied by two priests and a guard. A force
of about 3,000 soldiery were formed into a square, and the
prisoner conducted or marched up to a wall on ono side of
the Plazuela. Hera he stopped, and standing on one foot

folded his handkerchief over his knee and adjusted it over
his eyes. Ho then requested the detail of soldiers, who were
but three or four yards in his front, to fire at his heart and not
at his face, exclaiming, ' Viva Mexico ! Viva Mexico ! Viva
Independencia 1" and fell pierced in the body and lungs by a
dozen bullets. The shooting was poorly done, as four
different (single) shots were required afterwards to insure

his death, owing to the soldiers not hitting his heart.
O'iloran refused to turn his back to the muskets, claiming
that he was not a traitor. Accordingly, just before the
volley, an officer took him gently by the shoulder and

turned him." He was a nativo of Guatemala, but had
been naturalised at a very early age in Yucatan, where
he was much beloved and possessed groat authority. A

letter to his countrymen, written the night before his death
and published in full, though without comment, by the jour-
nals, is considered the most effective check yet applied to
the regime of political proscription. He says that in the
difficult circumstances he judged the cause of order to be
the cause of country, and that he only consented to serve
the Empire when he could no longer discover the
Rebpulie.

Two fatal cases of cholera have occurred at
Omaha, Nebraska, J. B. Sutton, a prominent citizen, being
one of the victims.

THE « PALL MALL GAZETTE" ON
SAVAGES.

We beg leave to add a few more observations to
the remarks which we made last week respecting
the savage state. That that state was not the ori-
ginal condition of mankind, hilt, a declension from
an anterior civilization, is proved, as we showed, by
the magnificent remains of rich and highly-refined
languages, and still better preserved fragments of
primeval doctrine. But there is another proof
which ought to carry conviction to every mind,
and which we will state as succinctly as possible.

It is now nearly four centuries since Columbus
discovered America, and during that long period
the savages scattered through the northern and
southern portions of that vast Continent, when
not converted to Christianity, have not advanced
a single step in moral and intellectual culture.
They still present the same sad spectacle of pro-
found moral and mental degradation, and still re-
volve in the same circle of cruel superstitious and
hideous practices, unchanged by time, unreformed
even by the sight of a Christian civilization, where
of they obtain occasional glimpses. And there is
reason to believe that for several centuries at least
before Europeans planted their feet on the Ameri-
can Continent the same state of things existed.
Progressiveness, which is one of the most distinc-
tive traits of civilized man, is null in the savage.
And yet external nature, which a materialist philo-
sophy represents as the sole motive power of
civilization, is nowhere more magnificent than in
the New World.
What conclusion are we, then, to draw from these
facts ? What other but this, that if, in the course
of four, and, we may safely say, seven, centuries
at least, the savage, unaided by the Christian reli-
gion, has been unable to emerge from the abject
condition to which he has been reduced, it follows
that those flourishing kingdoms, Egypt, Assyria,
India, and others, which appear on the threshold
of sacred and profane history, could not have been
evolved from the savage state. In other words,
man's first state, as Holy Writ shows, was that of
a high civilization ; for he had been favoured with
a Divine Revelation, and had in his early years held
converse with the angels. And this account of
man's origin and primal history, as recorded by
Scripture, is corroborated by the testimony of uni-
versal tradition. " The first men," says Cicero,
" were in communion with the gods, and received
instruction from them." And an old Chinese sage,
quoted by Abel Ranusat, observes, "that a bright
light shone round the first men. Man," he con-
tinues (and many moderns would do well to weigh
his words), " man is a child born at midnight,
who, when he sees the sun rise, thinks that yester-
day never existed."
Thus on the matter under inquiry the voice of
Scripture and of general tradition coincides with
the results of modern observation.

And yet the savage, impotent as he is to raise
himself from his intellectual, moral, and social de-
basement, is far exalted above the primitive man
imagined by materialism. The former lives on the
remains of a glorious patrimony ; he has still the
mutilated fragments of religion, moral and social
obligation, law, and lastly, language, which he once
received from the civilized community, whence by
force of circumstances he seceded. But the primi-
tive being, whom Materialism loves to fancy, was
thrown on this world without Revelation, without
religious, moral, and social instruction—without
li
language, in fine, and thus, unaided, rose by his
own spontaneous energy, to the heights of all civili-
zation. But surely, the continued degradation of
the savage, under circumstances infinitely more
favourable, as has been shown, would alone dis-
prove an hypothesis, repugnant as it is in many
other respects to Reason, and adverse to the testi-
mony of Scripture and of Tradition.
There have been found two or three examples
of individuals devoid of all intellectual and moral
ideas, without religion, without language. But
they were individuals isolated from all human inter-
course; and thus destitute of the gifts which God
once imparted, and which, however disfigured,
society alone can transmit. But never was a tribe,
however savage, found in the like condition.
The Pall Mall Gazette says that history never
shows us a nation falling into the savage state.
But the writer should remember that there are
many social phenonaeria, which are either unnoticed
by her, or lie beyond the reach of her ken. Be-
sides, the savage, has no hit or his monotonous

existence offers no subject-matter for historic record.
The barbarians, for example, whom he men-
..

tions as overturning the Roman Empire, could
not have fallen into the savage state, for they
were, on the dismemberment of that empire, either
converted to Christianity, or, at all events, by
conquest and by settlement, had become more com-
pact and more vigorously organized communities.
In either case, as we have seen, a lapse into the
savage state was a sheer impossibility.
The savage state has been profoundly called by
De Maistre, " The second Fall of Humanity." And

if our opponent wishes to see how religion can
raise man from that " second fall;" can bring out
those germs of civilization which lay inert in the
bosom of the savage—a treasure he could not him-
self elicit—let him read the history of the Missions
in Paraguay.

In conclusion, we beg to say that a portion of the
preseit argument has been taken from the masterly
reflections on the savage by M. de Bonald. In the
treatment of this subject he even surpasses his
illustrious friend, Count de Maistre.— Westminster
Gazette.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

NORWICH-SATURDAY.

White wheat (weighing 631 b), 68s to 74s ; red aitto,
(weighing 631 b), 60s to 68s per qr. Flour, 498 0(1 to 50s Od
per sack. New barley, 42s to 44s per qr.

NOTTINGLIAM-SATURDAY.

Old white wheat, 71s to 74s ; old red, 66s to 72s ; nevi
white, 67s to 75s ; new red, 608 to 70s per 36 stone. Oath,
old, 34s to 38s; new, 27s to 33s per 24 stone. Beans, old,
48s to 52s ; new, 46s to 52s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 50s
to 52s per sack.