The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1867

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MANCHESTER, Saturday.

The Commissioners resumed their inquiry into
the operations of trades' unions in the Manchester
district this morning ; Mr. Pickering, Q.C., in the

chair.
Police-sergeant Sutcliffe, of the Manchester de-
tective department, proved having served a notice
on Samuel Wood, landlord of the Crown and
Cushion, to produce the boxes belonging to the
Manchester Brickmakers' Society. Wood said, " I
darcn't let them go without some of the men being
here, or they'll kill me." He then sent out for
some members of the union, and five or six of them
came. After conversing with those men Wood
as3isted witness to remove the boxes. The books
produced were found in those boxes.
Hubert Barker was recalled, and examined at
seine length, but he gave his evidence with great
reluctance, even the smallest facts being drawn from
him with the greatest difficulty. Ile said the iron
chest of the Manchester Brickmakers' Society had
six locks, and there were six keyholders, whom wit •
ness, as secretary, used to meet every week ; but
the only one of them whose name he remembered
was Chadwick. It was the duty of the keyholders
to pay the money received from members into the
bank, except a small surplus for current expenses.
The weekly subscription for members was 6d. in
summer and lid. in winter, and for non-members
lid. all the year round. Money was withdrawn
from the bank by the trustees, of whom there were
16. The trustees acted togetber, in groups of four.
Witness was one of the trustees, but could not say
who were the other three with whom he was
associated. _ _ _

The Chief Commissioner read from a book the
names of Samuel Hare, Joseph Harrison, and W.
Seholefield.

Witness said they were the trustees with whom he
was associated. In January, 1864, witness and his
co-trustees drew a cheque for £3OO. That was re-
quired for loans to members. It was customary
about Christmas to lend the members each.
The other trustees would doubtless draw a similar
amount about the same time. The loan was gene-
rally made to 700 or 800 members. The members
paid an entrance fee of £l. In 1865 witness and
his co-trustees drew £6lO, of which £4OO, drawn
in December, must have been for leans. In Decem-
ber, 1866, witness and his co-trustees drew £450
for loans. The members were expected to repay the
loans before the end of the twelve months. There
was a dispute between the Manchester and Stock-
port Unions, which had lasted for three months.
Witness did not know exactly what the dispute was
about.
On being told that he might leave the box, wit-
ness said he wished to say a word as to his expenses.
He had been in court four days, and at this time of
year be could earn 1.25. or 13s. a day, but he under-
stood he should only receive ss. a day from the
court.
The Chief Commissioner said it was a question
whether he would receive anything at all, as he had
admitted having destroyed the books of the society
for the purpose of defeating the objects of this in-
quiry.
John Maybury, chief of the Manchester detective
police, confirmed the evidence of Sergeant Sutcliffe
as to the bringing away of the boxes of the Man-
chester Brickmakers' Union from the Crown and
Cushion.

•-• y •-• •
Henry Green said he was a brickmaker, and was
at the present moment secretary to the Manchester
Brickmakers' Union. Was present at a recent meet-
ing of the society, and believed he made an entry
in one of the books of a man being fined 2d. for
swearing. (Laughter.) On Saturday n;g,ht last,
after the officers of the court had been to the Crown
and Cushion, and take away the boxes of the
union, witness was so disgusted with that proceed-
ing that he took the cash-book, in which he had
made the one entry just referred to, and stuffed it in
the fire of a brick-kiln on the premises where he
was employed. Did not know what there was
in the book, and if witness had not been asked
about it by the commissioner he should have
told the society he had lost the book. Was
not advised by any one to burn the book, and took
it to the kiln in order that the members might not
know what he had done with the book. Remem-
bered being present at a meeting on Thursday week.
Did not know what resolutions were passed ; in
fact, he did not know the meaning of the word re-
solution. Heard nothing said at that meeting as to
any money being given to get James Kay out of
the way. Did not know what a minute book was.
Made no entries except in the ledger.
The witness was told his expenses would not be
paid after his conduct in destroying the cash book
of the union.

James Cooley, a member of the Manchester Brick-
makers' Union, said he was concerned in the de-
struction 'of some bricks some years ago in the
brickyard of Messrs. Topley and Hayfield, in
George's-road, Manchester. Witness was appre-
hended and tried for the offence, and on conviction
was sentenced to four years' penal servitude.
Mr. Thomas Shepley said he superintended his
father's brickworks at Hyde, which was about 31
miles from Ashton, and in the district of the Ashton
Brickmakers' Union. In 1860 there was a wages
strike among the men employed by witness's father,
and in the beginning of 1861 some non-union men
were employed. A deputation of union men asked
to have the non-union men turned away, but wit-
ness's father refused to comply with the request.
The result was that in February a notice was posted
np in the yard warning the non-union men of what
would be done to them if they did not leave the
yard, and on the same occasion the tools used in
the yard were destroyed. The notice was pinned on
the door of a hut in the yard, and it threatened the
lives of the non-union men. Shortly afterwards
needles, card tacks, and short nails were thrown
into the clay, but the men who did this seemed to
have been disturbed, as a handkerchief was left be-
hind containing many hundreds of packets of needles.
The needles did not destroy the clay. Witness came
to Manchester and bought a pair of mittens for his
moulder, and the clay was moulded up. In August
two valuable horses were injured in the stable;
one was worth 50 guineas, and the other about
30 or 40 guineas. They were both hamstrung, and
had to be destroyed. Witness's father offered a
reward for the apprehension of the perpetrators of
the outrage, but without effect. There had been
no outrage in witness's father's yard since. The
watchman, named Wyatt, had frequently been
waylaid and threatened by union men.

Joseph Wyatt gave confirmatory evidence a 3 to
the outrages committed at Mr. Shepley's. The
notice on the cabin door threatened that if witness
did not leave an attempt would be made upon his
life. Was often watched by union men. On several
occasions he had found tipples and oranges on the
road he had to take to his work, and on examining
the fruit he found it bored much in the same man-
ner as cheeses were bored, and something green
placed inside. On one occasion there were four or
five oranges, and as many apples, all of which were
bored in the same way, and stuffed with some green
substance. He threw the fruit away, and told Mr.
Little, the deputy chief constable of Cheshire, what
had occurred. Witness believed the fruit contained
poison, and remembered having found fruit stuffed
in the same way four or five times. Once he found
the fruit at a place where he had seen some men
watching him. One of those mai was named Win.
Barker. These events occurred in the spring of
1861. In April of the same year Barker told witness
that before 200 bricks had been made in Shepley's
yard, he (witness) would have a ball put into him,
and that the others would remember the coming of
the " butterflies"—meaning the men who committed
the outrages. Witness was often disturbed when he
was watching Mr. Shepley's yard, and frequently
had to be guarded by policemen.
Mr. Little, deputy chief constable of Cheshire,
said he was stationed at Hyde, and remembered the
last witness reporting that he had found fruit placed
along the road he had to go, and that the fruit was
stuffed as Wyatt had described. Witness did not see
any of the fruit, but he believed Wyatt's story, and
thinking that the fruit was placed in Wyatt's way
for the purpose of destroying his life, witness
adyiscd hua „whenever he found such fruit to

bury it. Witness did not think it necessary at the
time to examine some of the fruit, and submit the
contents to a chemist, but that would undoubtedly
have been the better course. He believed Wyatt's
statement, because he knew that the union men
were at that time committing many other out-
rages, and because Wyatt was particularly obnoxi-
ous to the union.

Mr. T. Blocksage, a master brickmaker at Du-
kinfield, stated that up to May, 1860, he employed
union men, but having a dispute with them about
the way in which the work was done he suspended
his business for two years. When he recommenced
in 1862 he employed non-union men. Soon after
that he had about 50,000 bricks destroyed. When
he gave up business in 1860 the union fined him £5,
but witness declined to pay it. An attempt was
made to set one of witness's sheds on fire, and in
1861 a horse belonging to witness was stabbed in
the breast, but witness did not know whether it was
done by union men. The union men had been very-
lenient to him since 1862. By " lenient" he meant
that they had not destroyed all the property they
might have destroyed had they been so disposed.
(Laughter.)
James Barker said he was a brickmaker, in the
employ of Mr. Blocksage, in 1862. Was not in the
union then, and used frequently to be called a
" knobstick," and threatened by union men. Wit-
ness was formerly a member of the union, but he left
it because he did not like their ways, and objected
to certain charges that were made for sundry ex-
penses.

James Sidebottom said he was employed by the
Lancashire Brick and Tile Company, at the new
prison in Manchester, and he and another man were
violently assaulted by some brickmakers. Witness
was not a union man, and the union men had pre-
viously objected to his being engaged by Mr.
Blocksage, and he had not been engaged in conse-
quence.

Police- sergeant Buckley, one of the Cheshire con-
stabulary, spoke to having seen a body of men,
about twenty in number, in Mr. Blocksage's brick-
field one night in 1862. lie went for assistance,
and when he returned found that they had de-
camped.
The inquiry was again adjourned.

s exec, of Albano, rendered orphans by the cholera,
have been received into a hospice, hastily got up
by the exertions of his Eminence Cardinal Sacconi,
who continues to exercise the functions of Car-
dinal Altieri.

At Rome "La Commisione dei Sussidi," or the
Committee of Public Beneficence, distributes a
great number of blankets and flannel waistcoats,
and medicines to the indigent.
It is difficult to fix, day by day, the exact num-
ber who have been carried off by the cholera. In
the] official bulletin those are not regarded as
cholera patients who have succumbed to one of
those maladies often engendered by this scourge,
and which yield to prompt and energetic remedies.
His Holiness will assist next Sunday at the
Papal chapel held every year in the church of
Santa Maria del Popolo, on the occasion of the
festival of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin.
It is announced that a Consistory will be held in
the course of September. If we are well in-
formed, the Pope will there pronounce an allocu-
tion against the spoliation of the Italian clergy.
The news given by the journals that the Holy
See would authorize, or had authorized Catholics
to take bonds created in Italy for facilitating the
sale of ecclesiastical property, is utterly false.
The day before yesterday the Sovereign Pon-
tiff gave an audience to M. de Sanglau, director
of the American photography at Rome, who has
had the honour of presenting His Holiness with
an album comprising the portraits of 250 of the
cardinals, patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops
whom we saw on the 29th of last June, gathered
around the chair of Peter. The album, magnifi-
cently bound, is adorned with the escutcheons
of Pius IX. in alto relieve. His Holiness has ex-
pressed a regret that this collection is not com-
plete ; but this is not the fault of the photo-
grapher, but was owing to the multiplicity of
occupations in which, during their abode at Rome,
the bishops were engaged. Such as it is, how-
ever, the album is a splendid memento of the
great festivals of June ; and the Holy Father has
given orders that it should be deposited in the
Vatican library. It is thought that he will send
copies of it to the different Sovereigns of Europe.

The Nation criticises the Queen's book in one
aspect most freely, and all the more so, as the English
papers, in its opinion, had evidently " been restrained by
social considerations, which have, in England, extraordi-
nary power, from speaking their full mind about it." The
Nation maintains that the publication was a political mis-
take, and a very serious one ; and its reasons may be thus
summarised. A despot holds real power, but a Constitu-
tional King reigns only by aid of legal fictions and popu-
lar delusions. With the educated classes the Queen is a
leader of society, the first lady in the land, a person of
groat influence capable of changing the fashions. But with
the middle and lower classes the Queen is a real ruler.
Mr. Bagshot points out how the throne rests on the popu-
lar delusion as to the life and character of Court per-
sonages, the popular reverence for royal glitter and dis-
play, and that the danger is in tho growing spirit of
realism in such countries as the United States and Aus-
tralia, in which political business is conducted through the
understanding, and where the attempt would Le derided to
conduct it through the imagination. This delusion gone,
it would be seen that the House of Commons conducted
the Government with an Executive, called a Cabinet, ap-
pointed by and composed of its own members, while the
Queen was a splendid supernumerary, whose sole mission

was to impose on the vulgar. "Now," says the critic,
" the tendency of the Queen's book is to destroy this delu-
sion utterly." It represents the Queen in anything but a
majestic light. It strips off from her all her most valuable
disguises and paraphernalia, and exhibits her to the world
in the commonplace character of a gushing sentimental
girl, and then of a devoted wife and mother." Tho error
in this is that the writer does not give sufficient weight to
the hold the throne has on the affections of the people.
The lapse of ages has made this country essentially a
kingdom, and there is a depth of sentiment in the matter
which a native American would fail fully to appreciate.
Something of the same reverence that the Englishman has
for monarchy the American once held for the Constitution.
It may be said that the one was based on sentiment, the
other on reason; the one was a reverence, the other an
exercise of the intellectual faculties. But it must be borne
in mind that the English constitution is the arc of a bridge
of which the Sovereign is the key-stone, and which, how-
ever patched and old fashioned, has sustained the people
in their passage across the river of life for generations
upon generations. It is in vain to try and persuade them
that the venerated key-stone of the venerated bridge is a
heavy, cumbersome, useless block, concealed behind a
stucco ornamentation. John Bull knows that, however
the bridge may have groaned and trembled under the
tread of marching armies of contending factious, and of an
ever-increasing commerce, the only effect has been to
shake it more solidly together, and the nation believes
that if the keystone wore removed, the whole would be
very apt to fall in ruin. They have seen bran now
structures on all sides, however imposing in appear-
ance, break down under the first serious trial, which
their own structure had borne unmoved. The mis-
take American writers so often make in predicting the
approaching end of monarchy in England is in judging of
the Sovereign as a useless show intended to delude the
crowd, and this is the error into which the reviewer in the
Nation falls. Whoever had to perform a Sovereign's duty
in England would find that a very considerable amount
of labour came to his share. No writing could represent
the Royal Family in a more commonplace way than the
photographs found in every album on every table, drawing-
room and kitchen, throughout the kingdom. We are not
aware that these dissipaters of illusions injured the prestige
in the smallest degree, though they were quite as much
calculated to do so as the Queen's book. There is probably
no sentiment in Europe so deeply implanted as loyalty
to the Sovereign in the British breast. When the Nation
therefore imagines that the loading English papers were
restrained by social considerations from speaking their
full mind, it is wrong ; they are restrained by their very
instincts, and, what is of more weight, the instincts of
their readers.

The Nation remarks :•—" A more revolting and
yet amusing illustration of the hold of great names on the
popular imagination we do not know of than the attention
paid by the press to Mr. Thomas Carlyle's last rhapsody,
" Shooting Niagara." There is hardly a newspaper of
respectability on either side of the Atlantic which has not
"noticed" it with greater or less elaboration, and many
have solemnly and in set terms refuted it. And yet, no matter
by what standard we judge it, it is pure rigmarole, the non-
sense of a foolish and conceited old man, which, if written
by a person unknown to fame, no intelligent writer would
dream of wading through. Tho American who has borne
" a leading part" in the events which have led to emanci-
pation, and whom ho cites as an authority for the assertion
that the negroes "are being improved off the face of the
earth," is probably a noted feuilletonist, whose share in
bringing on the war was about as important as his share
in conducting it.

Major H. S. Barrage, a recent graduate of New-
ton Centro Theological Seminary (Massachusetts), is pre-
paring a volume the design of which is to perpetuate the
record of the graduates and non-graduates of Brown
University who entered the military or naval service of
the United States during the war of the rebellion. Major
Burrage will be assisted in the preparation of the volume
by Professor Lincoln and Professor Dinman.
Professor J. C. Watson, at Ann Arbour Observa-
tory, Michigan, announces that on the evening of August
24 he discovered a new planet. It rose about 11 p.m., and
was invisible excepting through telescopes of superior
power. Its position was right ascension 1 deg. 40 min.,
declination 3 deg. 10 min. south, and at present it is mov-
ing west and south. It was in the constellation Cetus.
General Sheridan was born at Albany, February,
1831, and- is therefore over 36 years of age. His parents
are natives of Ireland, and emigrated to the United States
in 1829. While he was young they moved to Somerset,
Ohio, where the father worked as a day labourer on the
turnpike. Phil served as a clerk in several stores until ho
was appointed a cadet at West Point, by General Thomas
Ritchie, a member of Congress.
Richard Trevellick was chosen by the Chicago
Labour Congress as its delegate to Europe to act in behalf
of the working men of America, and to acquire information
on the system of co-operation here.
Captain Jeffers, in command of the United
States gun-boat Salvatara, arrived at Constantinople, from
Smyrna, last Wednesday.
Mr. F. W. Prideaux, of the India office, has for-
warded a letter for publication in the Pall-Mall Gazette,
from his son, one of the prisoners in Abyssinia, dated Mag-
da'a, June 30th, 1867. The prisoners appear to be living in a
house, ,where they have at least enough liberty to culti-
vate a little garden. The writer describes Magdala as a
nasty place for colds and coughs, though the health of the
party continues good. He goes barefoot, for the excellent
reason that he has not any shoes, though experience seems
to have satisfied him that it is the healthiest plan. He
writes in good spirits, anticipating a happy Christmas
meeting with his father, though he confesses that Theo-
dore, who, he believes, will retain the prisoners to the last,
might in a fit of blind fury be tempted to commit any
atrocity. His letter shows him to be full of determination
and pluck.
Prince Salm Salm has had the sentence of death
commuted to seven years' imprisonment. Santa Anna was
to be tried at Vera Cruz by court-martial. Losado had
abandoned his position to Juarez, and Terriozabal has or-
dered the arrest of all Catholic priests crossing the Rio
Grande into Mexico.

The hotel in which Mrs. Truefield was so shame-
fully illtaatecl wag the hotel deo Cele:lies, ih the ,Rue

Choiseuil, and not the Hotel Choiseul]. The News of the
Week gives it as the Hotel des Italiens, 29, Rue do
Choiseuil, furnishing the following items in the account :
Two candles, 2f.; bedroom candle, if.; a bath, 6f.; two din-
ners, 16f.; strawberries, 3f.; four days' room, 40f.; four
days' ditto, 80f.; service eight days, Bf., &c. We agree
with our contemporary in considering that this hotel ought
to be marked to be avoided, so long as it is kept by the
culprit Lemoine.

The meeting of the World's Young Men's Chris-
tian Association was hold at Paris, in the Salle du Con-
seil Presbyterial, commencing on Tuesday, the 3d instant,
and closing on Sunday last. The delegates from the
United States, as reported, were the Rev. Dr. Hogarth,
Detroit, Michigan ; L. F. Mellen, Cleveland, Ohio (Sec.
U.S. Commissioner to the Paris Exhibition); Rev. J.
Milton Holmes, Jersey City, N.J. ; and Henry Wilkes,
New York. Tho various addresses were of groat interest.
The names of George 11. Stewart, Philadelphia, as the
father of Christian. communion in America, was received
with great applause. On Friday the delegates were in-
vited to Versailles to partake of a banquet given to the
convention by Madame Andre.

Escobedo has denied the authenticity of the letter
attributed to him, calling for the expulsion and slaughter
of all foreigners—Americans in particular. This he does
through General Gormez, Commander of the lino of the
Bravo. One of the General's reasons is that General
Escobedo knows a Republican should have no prejudices,
and that in whoever he sees industry, good faith, virtues
civil or social, there he should meet a brother, whatever
might bo his nationality.

Senator Sherman delivered an able speech at
Canton, in Ohio, reviewing the whole controversy between
and Congress and the Demo-
craticthe
Presidentparty. He
and
ite Congress,howed
that Congress, in exempting
national bonds from State taxation, had but adopted the
padoctrine laid down by repeated decisions of the Supreme
Court during the last forty years.

Governor Brownlow has taken possession of the
Memphis and Ohio Railroad. Obligations to the State, ho
says, have not been fulfilled.

_ .
The report that General It. E Lee has accepted
the presidency of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad is
entirely unfounded. lie has no idea of quitting Washing-
ton College, Lexington.

On the 24th of August the Duke de Penthievre,
with 16 Imperialist officers and some 250 Austrian troops
who had been brought from Mexico by way of New
Orleans, sailed from Now York for Europe in the steamer
Western Metropolis. This vessel arrived at Southampton
on Sunday with her main shaft broken.
President Johnson has been made honorary
member of the "Mutual" Base Ball Club of New York.
A murder occurred at the Union Hotel, Sara-
togafr from
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which
Mr. Kirby remonstrated,
August 24th. Mr. Jones,
deputy sheriff, in a state of intoxication attempted to take
when Jones struck him on the face, and stepping back
placed his hand in his pocket as if to draw a revolver.
Mr. Kirby, under this impression, drew a pistol from his
pocket, and shot Jones dead.
Sir Roderick Murchison and Sir Samuel Baker
have expressed, at the meeting of the British Association,
conflicting opinions as to the probable fate of Dr. Living-
stone. Moosa, Livingstone's companion, affirms that he is
dead. " But then," argues Sir Roderick, "Moosa is an
African, and we all know that Africans are terrible liars."
" So they are," replies Sir Samuel, " but my experience
has taught me that black men, like white ones, seldom tell
lies unless they have some object to gain by doing so.
Now Moosa has nothing to gain by representing Living-
stone to be dead if ho is alive, and has something to lose
if the reappearance of Livingstono should prove him to
have told a wanton falsehood." On the whole, we think
that Sir Samuel has the best of the controversy.—Pall
Mall Gazette.

Mr. Ben. Wade spoke at Marietta, Ohio, osing
his address with an outburst of indignation on the Demo-
cratic attacks on the integrity of the National debt and
credit.

General Thomas is suffering from liver complaint,
for the proper treatment of which he is residing at some
springs in West Virginia. It is said it, would bo as much
as his life is worth were ho to go to Now Orleans in his
present bodily state.

SANDUSKY, Onio, Aug. 30.—0 n Wednesday last
John 3fcGreen and Charles Kinney of Kelly's Island,
near Sandusky, swam
a race on Lake Erie, from Kelly's
Island toward the mainland at Marblehead, a distance of
four miles and a half. After swimming tbree miles, Kin-
ney gave up and was taken into a boat. 31eCrreen accom-
plished the whole distance in two and a half hours with-
out resting, and seemed verz little fatigued. This is said
to be the most remarkable swimming feat on record.
General Rousseau telegraphed to Washington
that ho would sail for Sitka, August 31.
The Hon. 0. H. Browning, Secretary of the In-
terior is becoming worse, and all visitors are forbidden.
The Cabinet has decided not to publish the cor-
respondence between Sickles, Grant, and the President.
General Steedinan arrived at Washington on the
30th August, and had a long interview with the President.
It is thought ho will take the War Department folio.

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Governor Brownlow has suspended the disband-
ment of the State Guard, assigning as his reason the dis-
loyal tendencies of the people of Tennessee.
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The grand jury of Bergen County have found
six bills of indictments against the monster Sigler, late
keeper of the Paterson Alms-house.
General Hussein, Secretary of War to the
Sultan of Turkey, arrived at Toronto on Thursday even-
ing, the 29th of August, and is stopping at the Rossin
House. The General and suite intend spending three
weeks in Canada, and will then proceed South. Their
visit to America will occupy threo months.
John T. Daly, of New York, has purchased the
Carbon Hill Coal Mines.
Rev. Dr. Barnas Sears, the late honoured Presi-
dent of Brown University in hia official relations to the
Peabody Education Fund for the South, takes up his resi-
dence at Staunton, Virginia.

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headDeclarationthirtythe and 25 men of the sth Regiment have died of cholera
at Fort Wallace.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

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comple-
tion of the great tunnel through the crest of the
announce the San Francisco despatches
Sierra Nevada range for the Central Pacific Rail-
road, and that the track is being rapidly laid east-
ward. This disposes of the last obstacle on that
end of through line, and it is represented that 600
miles through the Great Salt Lake Basin can be
buiit for less than the last 100 miles of mountain
passage. This is an important step forward in the
National Pacific Railroad.
The New Fork
Tribune, August 31, gives the
following railway accidents :—" The Northern
Railroad 8.10 a.m. train from Pierrepont to Jersey
City, ran off the track yesterday, opposite the North
River Brick and Tile Company's premises, near
Tappan, and was delayed there nearly four hours.
Nothing occurred more serious than the delay. The
New York and Eri©
from Piermont to Suffers, broke down at Munsey
an
yesterday evening, 5 o'clock p.m. freight train,
accident having happened to
the engine. The Munsey 6.50 P.m.
train was de-
layed an hour in consequence. No harm done."
Railroad returns, which for some time past have
shown a decrease in earnings, compared with those
of 1866, are now again on the increase in every
case. The prospect that the large roads will do a
larger freight business this autumn in IVestern grain
carrying than lastyear, is certain. The harvest is just
ended, and the increase of grain shipments, though
large, are nothing to what they will be later in the
season. The largest receipts of wheat at Chicago
for one week have been 355,911 bushels, while last
year, an unusually bad season,
they reached in a
single week in October upwards of 900,000 bushels.
The increase from June begins slowly, but will in-
crease all the time through the autumn.
The Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company are
making arrangements to lay a third rail (narrow
gauge) from St. Louis to Odin. This will be ac-
complished this fall, when cars will run through to
Cairo and Chicago without change. ,
RAILROADS IN lOWA.---The Des Moines Rail-
road, already running Qo hundred and 15ilty-two

miles up one of the richest and most fertile valleys
in the world, to the capital of lowa at Des Moines,

will be extended fifty miles further up the valley
next summer, intersecting the line of road already
running across the State to Council Bluffs and

Omaha.

The Mississippi and Missouri Railroad from
Macon City via Edina, Knox County, to Feokuk,
has been put under contract to have the grading
and tieing done by the Ist of May next, and
$lOO,OOO county, city, and local individual sub-
scriptions are already made to it. A bridge to be
built by this road over the Mississippi, is, besides its
railway track, to be constructed for the passage of
wagons, carriages, horsemen, and foot passengers.
On August 7th the last rail was laid upon the
railroad connecting Nashville, Tennessee, with
Pad lleall, Kentucky. This new.road greatly shortens
time and distance between Nashville and Memphis.
The track of the Minnesota Central Railroad
between Cresco and Owatonna is now going down
at the rate of two miles per day. At the present
rate of work the road will be ready for the cars ou
the 15th of September.

The people of South-western Illinois are greatly
interested in the proposed Illinois Farmers' Rail-
road, which is to run from Virginia City, Cass
County, South to Du Quoin, Perry County, where
it will join the Illinois Central. The route is
through a splendid farming country, to which the
road would be a great advantage.
The contract for rebuilding the Mannassas Gap
Railroad to Mount Jackson, in the Valley of Vir-
ginia, has been awarded to Messrs. Placide and
Clarke, of Baltimore, at an estimated cost of
$400,000. The contract is given out by the
Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company, the
present owners.

The bridge which the Hartford and Newhaven
Railroad Company is building over the Farming-
ton River, at Windsor, is rapidly approaching
completion, and will be the finest structure of
the kind in New England. It will be four hun-
dred and sixty feet long and thirty-five above the
water.

The track of the Cincinnati, Dayton, and
Eastern Railroad, from Sandusky to Dayton, is to
be entirely relaid in the course of a few weeks.

RAILROAD ENTERPRISE ON THE PAClFlC.—Cali-
fornia capitalists are taking much interest in a pro-
posed railroad from Marysville, in their State to
Portland, Oregon. The land grant given by Con-
gress of twelve thousand eight hundred acres a mile,
is extremely liberal, while the route is feasible, not
difficult, and through a rich agricultural country.
The California corporators have begun a survey of
the end of the line, which runs for its entire distance
through the Sacramento Valley over an unbroken
plain. The valley is one of the most fertile regions
of the State, the first forty-two miles being an
almost unbroken succession of harvest fields.

It is estimated that the cost of the first eighty
miles will be only twelve thousand dollars a mile.
The San Francisco Bulletin thinks that with good
management this section of the road could be made
one of the best railroad investments in the United
States. The serious difficulty would be found
further north.

The construction of railroads throughout West
and South Jersey within a few years past has been
of the most advantageous character. That one to
Mount Holly from Camden is about finished ; an-
other between Bridgeton and Cape Island is soon to
be commenced, and the route of another from Atison
to Vineland, and thence to the Delaware river, is
being surveyed. Another will be commenced in a
short time connecting with the Raritan and Dela-
ware Bay Road at Jackson, and will extend through
Williamstown to Pennsville.

The work of extending the Chicago, Rock Island,
and Pacific Railroad westward is progressing ra-
pidly. The rail is being laid to Des Moines, and in
a few days the capital of lowa will be connected
with Chicago by iron bands, and trains will run
through without change of cars.
The projected new suspension bridge at Niagara
Palls is being pushed forward with great prospect
of speedy success. Contracts have already been
made for all the materials except the wire, which
the chief engineer will soon sail for Europe to
procure. The towers will be 105 feet high ; the
span, 1,250 feet ; height above the water 175, and
width of roadway 10 feet. The bridge is intended
for the passage of carriages and pedestrians, and
will be one of the most substantial structures of the
kind in this country. The towers will be completed
in about four weeks, and the bridge opened to the
public early next spring.
George A. Thompson, President of the Western
Union Railroad, has returned from Scotland, where
he has obtained a loan of $5,000,000 for the com-
pletion of his road, which will effect a direct com-
munication with Chicago, by way of the Western
Union Railroad.

Work is about commencing again on the Stam-
ford and New Canaan (Connecticut) Railroad, a
new contract having been made to finish the grad-
ing, lay the ties, rails, &c., and put the road in con-
dition for use.

The Iron Mountain Railroad, in Missouri, is to
be extended one hundred and thirty miles by the
first of next January.
The Mississippi and Missouri Railroad is to be
extended forty miles the Ist of next May.