The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-02 00:00:00

lost when the hollow square beca me engaged in the
contest. John Leonard was fatally •stabbed in the neck

by William Burns, who was arrested. A Fenian
named Jeremiah O'Brien was lately hanged for

murdering a woman, on whose wages he had lived,
because she stopped the supplies. One of the
Generals of his order superintended the obsequies.

Roberts appears to be losing the confidence of his
party from his action in Italy against the Pope,
which is opposed to the religions.: principles of many
of his brethren. A Congres3 1 tad been called to
assemble in Mozart's Hall, New York, on the 21st

instant, to receive official mports, to elect new
executive officers of the frith Republic, &c., &c.
Circulars had been printed detailing the objects

which are signed by Mr. A. Griffin.
Some prominent citizens of St. Joseph's county,
Missouri, have been arrested with other men for
complicity in burning a bridge over the Platte River,
on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, in 18G1,
in order to destroy a train loaded with Federal

soldiers. By this act a pasienger train was de-
stroyed, and many persons killed. The information
was laid by a man who had been convicted of theft.
A point will arise on the trial of considerable in-
terest, as it will involve the acts committed by citi-
zens as belligerents during the war, and how far
they are amenable after the war, even if those acts
were contrary to the rules of war,
If the news from Mexico is to be believed, Lopez
has been assassinated. He was residing at an hotel
in Puebla, when a Mexican called, had Lopez
pointed out to him, took a seat opposite him at
dinner, drank a glass of wine, leant across the table,
and with a knife he had drawn from his coat
stabbed Lopez nine times. On departing, the
Mexican said, " This is the way all traitors should
be paid." Santa Anna is confined in the Castle of
San Juan d'Ulloa, Vera Cruz, where his wife and
companions are also prisoners._ A reward of $lO,OOO
bad been offered for the capture of Marquez, who,
it is reported, has been taken. Prince Salm Salm

had been sentenced to be shot. Juarez had entered
the capital on the 29th July, and, according to
some accounts, had been enthusiastically received.
11e had issued a moderate proclamation, in which
he urged the people to lend all their efforts, warned
by a long and painful experience of the calamities
of war, to obtain and consolidate the benefits
of peace. The people are to be convoked to elect,
at entire liberty, him to whom they shall choose to
confide their destinies. The Congreas was to be
convened in November, and the Presidential elec-
tion to take place in December. The Ministry
stands thus :—Minister of Foreign Relations, Sebas-
tian Lerdo de Tejada ; Treasury, Jose Maria
Yglesias ; War, General Ignian Mejia ; ;Justice,
Jose Martinez de Castro. Admiral Tegethoff
was in New Orleans, where he has detained the
frigate Elizabeth. Canales was said to be marching
on Matamoras with a strong force, and Castillo
had escaped from that town. The Mexican
army has been divided into four grand departments,
each under a general. The doctor who embalmed
Maximilian'E, body charged $15,000 ; and it is said
did his work badly. It is reported to be lying in
the Church of Queretaro, and not delivered, as
reported, to Baron Magnus.
The reports which have lately been so freely cir-
culated of large over-issues of national securities
and gross frauds ou the U. S. Treasury, implicating
officers of high official position, have received an
emphatic contradiction from Mr. M'Culloch.
The items of intelligence by the cable are that
the Dominican Republic has agreed to sell Samna
Bay to the United States. President Johnson hA,s
removed General Sickles, and appointed General
Canley in his stead. General Grant had protested
against the removal of General Sheridan, and held
the order for his removal in abeyance; but, after an
interview with the President, the order is to be

carried out.
If the despatches of the Spanish Minister of
War are to be believed, the insurrection in Cata-
lonia, in Taragona, and Arragon have been almost
suppressed. The chiefs Zamora, Penicer, Parreta,
saeuldv
esR uoisf,
thelvit with
m66n3e insurgents,sty. have availed them-
selves had crossed into
France, 4,000 insurgents had submittal to the autho-
rities in Catalonia, the band at Cuenca had also sub-
mitted, and that at Bejar had taken refuge in the
mountains. The Spanish Consul at Bayonne an-
nounces that Contreras, with the insurgents under
his command, has been defeated and driven across
the frontier.
Accounts from Rio de Janeiro to the 9th August
state that the allied army is advancing into the in.
terior of Paraguay. A battle is imminent. Porto
Alegre remains at Tiguly with 6,000 men. The
fleet was to force the passage of the Humaiti on the
29th of July.
Accounts from Athens, received on Thursday at
Marseilles, state that the Turks attacked the insur-
gents at Omalos, in Candia, and after three days'
fighting entered the town, when the insurgents fired
the houses, closed the wells, and the Turks were
gthem to descend into
obliged to leave. Being reinforced, the Cretans
Turks,con
Severalp were killed on both sides ;
el
fevers and dysentery prevailed among the Turkish
troops. Greek accounts maintain that the Nlussul-
lin
mans continue to massacre women and children, and
pursuedthele vel thec country. u ntry.
vessels of all nations were conveying them into
Greece. The blockade runner Union continues her

voyages.
Senator Morrill, of Vermont, and Mr. M. Gibbs,
the European agent of the United States Treasury,
have recently visited the principal manufacturing
towns of England, and have been received everywhere
with great courtesy by manufacturers and others
interested in the trade between England and the
United States. It is surmised that the valuable
cquired will lead to certain modifica-
tions,in the rates of duty im-
posed upon certain articles of British manufacture.
information
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reductions,

tion that the more speedy is compelled momentarily
to abandon the advantage and drive on the ordi-
nary paving. If this be your only objection, the
inventor may assuredly remark, you acknowledge
in the fullest degree the advantage of my system,
and the sooner you set to work to secure its bene-
fits for all your cities the better.
Monsieur BUFFET observes :

"In Ehort it is proposed to diminish in a great
degree the noise, mud, and dust, of the great roads
of Paris, and to very largely reduce, much to the
profit of the city, the expenses necessary to keeping
the roads in repair. And to the people at large it
would reduce the cost of tr.iffic, as well as saving
horses and rolling stock. The inventor aims withal
to give more order and greater security and profit
to commerce. There is in our opinion a reason-
able claim in his invention to justify a trial
which is so little expensive." He closes his
remarks with the following proposition :—" Con-
sequently we propose to establish at the ex-
pense of the city, and with the concurrence of
the inventor, a, double track of his new system, on
quays of the left bank, from the Bridge du Car-
rousel to the Champ de Mars ; and to appropriate
to this double track a paved area or space of 5.00
(5 metres), which would be laid alongside of the
pavement nearest to the houses. If the city accepts
our propositions, we shall hasten to examine in de-
tail and give au estimate of the cost. The question of
the carriages would be reserved for the time being."
The progress of this experiment should be narrowly
watched by the Board of Public Works and the
municipal authorities of Great Britain, and Mr. Z.
EASTMAN, United States Consul at Bristol, will,
we doubt not, answer inquiries with pleasure.—
Anglo-American Times.

The boats carrying the cotton to Now Boston could return
loaded with coal for the use of the people in this delta
and adjacent country. Large quantities of coal are con-
sumed every year at Memphis and on and along the
Mississippi River. I understand, likewise, that your coal
could be mined and delivered on boats at New Boston for
52 50c. per ton. It would fiad a ready sale at Memphis for
56 per ton, leaving 53 50e. per ton to pay for transporta-
tion and profits to dealers. Thus you see how intimately
blended ought the interests be of the two enterprises
managed respectively by you and myself.
The United States Cotton Company has its principal
office in the city of New York, and its principal agency at
Memphis. Its object is to stimulate and promote the cul-
tivation and increase of cotton by a judicious system of
loans of money to resident cotton planters, at good rate
of interest, secured by bonds and mortgages created
by the planter on their unencumbered real estates ;
employing the money in the production of cotton,
and they to consign the crops when ready for market to
my company for transportation and sale in the domestic
and foreign markets. In this way we shall direct the
transportation of cotton to such lines as we find best.
!laving perfected your financial plans, you can aid me by
giving me your influence in the solo of the bonds of my
company for ten yens, bearing 7 per cent. interest per
annum, secured by a mortgage upon the real estates of the
company. These bonds and the interest are payable in
gold. The real estates consist of 6,000 acres of sea island
cotton lands in South Carolina, about 500 acres being cul-
tivated this year in Sea Island cotton:; and 10,000 acres in
Georgia, on the line of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
—Yours truly, It. V. EICIIAItDSON.

Spirit of the American Press.

(From the Nation.)

The Mexican paper Libertad has been attempting
a justification of the Mexican dislike of foreigners,
to which Escobedo has recently been giving such
brutal expression, and alleges truly that foreigners
have been the cause of a considerable portion of the
Mexican troubles, owing to the attempts of their
Governments to interfere on their behalf for the
redress of their grievances of one sort or another.
Now if the Libertad will consider a little, it will
find that there is no such perfect guarantee against
foreign interference, and against all troubles from
the presence of foreigners, as good government, in-

eluding a good police, sensible legisiation, and a
pure administration of justice. It is this, far more
than physical strength—this, and not savage procla-
mations and decrees, plunderings and slayings, which
preserves weak states from the meddling of power-
ful neighbours. Poland fell because she had one of
the worst Governments the world ever saw, and not
because Russia and Prussia were greedy ; Turkey
is for ever under the thumb of the foreigner because
she has neither police nor courts of justice; but
Switzerland and Holland, though weak states, and
surrounded by powerful ones, have never to com-
plain of foreign meddling, or to propose to cut
foreign throats. If Mexicans would put Escobedo
to hard labour in macadamising roads, hang her
brigands, collect her taxes, and establish tolerable
courts of justice, we warrant there will be little talk
anywhere of regenerating her from the outside.

(Front the Springfield Republican.)
The general aspect of public affairs is not alto-
gether pleasant to contemplate. During the war
the patriotic devotion of the people elevated the tone
of politics, and led to the hope that they had been
lifted permanently out of the slough of small part-
nership and personal self-seeking. But disappoint-
ment has fallen upon these hopes, and at this
moment we seem to be in danger of sinking back
into worse degradation than that from which the
war lifted us. The contest between President and
Congress is not wholly wanting in earnest convic-
tions as to principle and policy on either side, but
the means and the spirit in which the controversy is
waged shame the moral sense of the country. What
more monstrous could be conceived than public
charges against the President of the United States
by members of Congress that he procured the
assassination of his predecessor ; or the hurling
back by the President of counter charges that these
men have been trying to suborn false witnesses to
fix the terrible crime upon him. And all this for
party ends, and against the peace and honour of the
Government and the country. The disgraceful
violence connected with the close of the Surratt
trial, and the spirit of partisanship so often seen
cropping out in the trial itself, are smaller exhibi-
tions of the same degeneracy, which seems to mark
everything at the national capital.
Yet we must not despair of the Republic. In
spite of all perversions and hindrances, the
restoration of the national unity is assured, and
with it eventually the freedom and equality of
all citizens. The scum that always comes to the
surface in troublous times will be thrown off and
leave the body politic sounder and purer. The
people are quiet, but they are; not indifferent spec-
tators of events ; when their forbearance reaches
its limit they will move with irresistible force, and
sweep away at once the whole sw arm of plotters,
of whatever party, who would keep the country in
perpetual turmoil in order to promote their petty
ambitions or gratify their personal revenges. These
are dog-days in Washington politics—and the
dirtiest dogs must have their day ; but the cool
breezes of autumn will drive away the fog and fetor,
and bring clean and invigorating air once more.
Deep in the heart of the people there is a sound
basis of honour and patriotism, and while that lives
the Republic cannot die.

SARA? OGA DURING THE RACE WEEK

Saratoga has lately been unusually gay, as the
racing week ended on the 10th instant. The sport
was good, the prizes generally being closely con-
tested. Mr. Jerome's famous thorough-bred Fleet-
wing was advertised for a three mile dash against
any horses that might enter the lists for a purse of '
$l,OOO. None took up the challenge. Nor did
Kentucky appear, as expected, to attempt his
famous running match against time, of seven miles
in seven minutes twenty seconds. The admission
to scats on the stand is high, being from two to
three dollars. Several grand balls have been given,
and the season, although late, appears to have been
a profitable one to hotel keepers and others.
The correspondent of the Springfield Republican
says :—" The Union Hotel has 700 guests, the
Clarendon 400 or 500, and the American, Colum-
bian, Marvin, and one or two others, from 150 to
200 each. Among the notables here are Com-
modore Vanderbilt and August Celmont, Governor
Swami of Maryland, ex-Mayor Opdyke of New
York, with his family, A. B. Medina, secretary of
the Peruvian legation at Washington; MM. Bassano
and Brumdeth, attaches of the French legation, and
Major Gen. Allen. Two other military gentlemen are
also here, whose presence is attended with less per-
sonal hazard than it might have been a year or two
since, when their acts of rebellion were more recent,
and treason less thoroughly abashed in the presence
of victorious loyalty. They are General Magruder,
who defeated Ben Butler at Big Bethel, the first
battle of the war, and afterwards the hero of
M'Clellan's Yorktown campaign, and General Tom
Taylor, a staff officer in the early days of the rebellion.
Both are men of good personal presence, more cre3it-
able than their reputations, but not that which con-
veys the idea of thorough manliness nor honest
loyalty. Congressman John Morrissey is stopping
at the Union House, and is a constant attendant at
the races. He appeared to-day in an immaculate
suit of white duck and flannel, with a generous
amount of straw hat,ailooking altogether well worthy
the questionable honour which lie has lately secured
from his constituents. Mr. Morrissey is a gentleman
in his address and appearance, courteous and af-
fable, and popular in the extreme among his friends
and fellow-townsmen at his native city of Troy.
The reports of his appearance have not done him
justice, and many better men, I. am positive, have
voted for worse-looking represeutatives. Webster
and Murray are not standard authorities with Mr.
Morrissey, but he does not lack words nor the method
of their forcible expression without the rules of these
venerable dogmatists."

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COIIMER

,IGENCE.

It is now impracticable to obtain any rate whatever for
loans of money on Government securities, and large sums
that would willingly be placed out by capitalists at one per
cent. aro lying idle. In the open market money is barely
worth more than two per cent., and yet the same stagna-
tion continues to exist in almost every Stock Exchange
security. The public have been so deceived during the
last two or three years that the best names in the City
command no longer any kind of confidence. Every week
seems to add fresh grounds of distrust, as the half-yearly
reports of many companies are far from giving that full
information that the times require. It is only by giving
a very full account, so as to show the correct and exact
position of affairs, that confidence can be restored. Those
companies which at their half-yearly meeting have been
able to answer every inquiry, and give full explanations,
are already held in greater esthnation, and their shares
are held at higher prices in the market, as they have been
able to show better future prospects. On the other hand,
no new company, however good, can be brought out with
success at present. The public have seen enough of these
limited liability companies, and they now know that the
calls make the liability a very heavy risk and that those
companies only which have called up all their capital really
represent a limited liability. It is probable that a large
amount of capital unemployed is at present held to meet
liabilities which, perhaps, will never be called up. It was
with the view of gettingover that difficulty that the Ovens
Company, formed for working one of the Government
concessions in Nova Scotia, proposed that the shares should
be paid up in full on application. But in spite of the great
richness of the ores said to exist in those mines, the public
have not as yet subscribed the necessary capital, but it is
hoped that the company will soon be able to complete their
subscriptions, so as to enable them to get the machinery
into full operation. A recent assay of ores from the mines,
brought over in the Duncan, made by Messrs. Johnson
and Sons, of Basinghall-street, shows the very extraor-
dinary yield of 212 ounces of gold, and 16 ounces of silver
to the ton of quartz. This is not the only company, re-
cently formed, that has not been able to find its capital,
although there exists so large an amount of unemployed
money. The public, no doubt, feel that limited liability
companies require rest as much as foreign loans or any
other speculative investment, and until the list of most
of the old companies stands again at par price it will be of
little or no use to invite subscriptions, as the market

is already too much burdened with shares which ara
quoted under their intrinsic value.
At the meeting of the Great Northern Railway Com-
pany the shareholders expressed their feelings against any
further extensions or branch lines. A motion was pro-
posed by Mr. Hughes to the effect—" That no preliminary
arrangement or negotiation be made on behalf of this com-
pany for any amalgamation, extension, or guarantee, with-
out the previous consent of a meeting of the proprietors
duly convened for that purpose ; and that no Bill in Par-
liament be permitted on behalf of this company without
such consent." The chairman explained that it would bo
unwise to tie the hands of the directors, who, one and

all, are against extensions, and promised that everything
should be done to abandon, as far as possible, even those
lines authorized by Act of Parliament. This promise wag

accepted by the meeting, and the motion was lost by
show of hands, there being 31 to 13 against it. The audi-
tors' now plan of publishing the accounts was much
approved.• It would be difficult to show better the exact
position of the company and the extent of its liabilities.
All railway companies would do well to adopt a similar
statement of accounts. It speaks much in favour of the
auditors, and a cordial vote of thanks was given to them
at the close of the meeting.
The directors of the Great "Western Railway Company
recommend a dividend for the six months ending the 31st
of July last of per cent. on the ordinary stock; of ss.
on the West Midland, Oxford; of 10s. ditto Newport ; of
31 on the South Wales ordinary stock; of 5 on the Vale of
Neath ; carrying forward, upon a sum to be divided of
£132,800, the sum of £20,431 ; and they propose to pal
these dividends in debenture warrants of 6 per cent.
The directors of the South-Eastern Railway Company
have resolved to recommend the proprietors at their next
half-yearly meeting, on the 29th instant, to declare a divi-
dend at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum.

The return of the Bank of England for the week ending
the 21st of August, shows the stock of bullion to be
£23,532,661, and the stock of bullion held by the Bank of
Francois £37,350,000.
The Southampton Dock Company have an available
total of £10,062, including a previous balance of £1,137,
and pay a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annuli,
for the half-year, leaving a balance of £1,054 for the neat

account.
The Markets for Stocks and Shares continue in a veil
fluctuating condition ; little activity is apparent. A! good
deal of interest attaches to the development of the Con-
ferences between the Emperor Napoleon and the Emperor
of Austria at Salsburg, particularly with regard to the
position of Prussia and the state of affairs in the East, but
their influence has been unimportant from a want of ap-
parent authority. There is no change in the price of 10"
reign stocks. In railway shares the tendency is less ad-
verse.—Westminster Gazette.