The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-14 00:00:00

Miscellaneous American News.

The following are the earnings of the Pennsylvania
Railway for March. The table shows a decrease
both in receipts and expenditure, from the result of
the preceding March, which, under the recent de-
pression, was fully anticipated. This return must
be highly satisfactory to the proprietors :

Gross warnings. Expenses. Net Earnings.
Mar. 31, 1867 ...$1,201,093 16 $928,516 31 $272,576 82
Do. 1866 ... 1,281.190 36 953,340 42 327,849 94

Decrease
The second track of the Western road between
Westfield and Russell was opened for travel on
Monday, April 15, and several trains passed over it.
About a year bas been spent in building the road
from Springfield to Russell, 16 miles, and only 22
miles now remain to be built to complete the double
track from Boston to Albany.
Real estate at Shelburne Falls has gone up at an
astonishing rate in anticipation of the early com-
pletion of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad to that
place, and houses of all kinds are scarce and firmly
held.
A number of Pittsfield capitalists and business
men met at the Pittsfield National Bank on Satur-
day, Aprill3, and talked over the Sheffield Railroad
matter. All were anxious to have the road com-
pleted as speedily as possible, and the only thing
now necessary to accomplish it is to dispose of the
stock. About 150 shares were taken at the meet-
ing, and these having the matter in charge are
sanguine that the necessary amount will be raised
and the work commenced the present season.
Some persons in the interest of the Troy aad
Boston Railroad made a raid upon North Benning-
ton on the night of the sth April, and stole niue
cars held by an officer under a writ of attachment,
and one belonging to the Cheshire Road, which was
loaded with ties and belonged to Smith and Page,
the lessees of the Rutland and Bennington Road,
and ran them all into the State of New York.
Work on the Hoosac Tunnel in the past six
weeks has advanced more rapidly than was expected,
and at the same rate would be completed in eight
and a half years, at a total cost of $3,700,000. On
the east side 91 feet heading was made in March,
and 39 feet in the first two weeks of April.
No express matter of the Adams Express Com-
pany is now carried over the Norwich and Wor-
cester Railroad and by boat to New York, on
account of a difficulty between the companies ;
and, iu the meantime, the railroad is carrying on a
local express business to accommodate people along
their line. The difference between the companies
is about $B,OOO, the sum heretofore paid by the
express being $15,000, and that now demanded
$23,000. The Merchants' Union Company are
negotiating with the Transportation Companies for
the privilege formerly accorded to the Adams.
THE EASTERN SHORE RAILROAD.--The bill to
incorporate the Eastern Shore Railroad Company
has had its second reading in the House of Dele-
gates, and as it passed without opposition to en-
grossment will, in all probability, speedily become
a law. The bill provides for the opening of books
of subscription at Drummondtown, iu Accomac
county, under the direction of Messrs. E. P. Pitt,
George T. Garrison, Abel T. Johnson, John D.
Tyler, E. 0. Finney, Thomas Hall Kellam, S. W.
Powell, W. D. Cooper, W. S. Byrd, and John W.
Field, or any three of them, and in Eastville,
Northampton county, under the direction of Mesirs.
S. B. Nottingham, John C. Dalby, W. H. Parker,
Thos. Shady, John E. Nottingham, jun., A. W.
Downing, R. A.S. Carter, Wm. J. F. Peed, E. C.
Fitchelt and L. L. D. Heath, or any three of them.
The capital stock of the company is halite:l to
$2,000,000, divided into shares of $lOO each, but
the company is entitled to the privi tges granted in
the act of incorporation, when $lO ),000 shall have
been subscribed.
The road is to extend from some point on the

boundary line between Maryland and Virginia, to

some point on the Chesapeake Bay in Northampton
county. It is to connect on the boundary line with
some railroad brought down to said line, and the
connecting roads will be of the same gauge, in order
to allow the cars of either road to run upon the

other, and any railroad company in which the State
of Virginia holds no interest may subscribe to the
stock of the company.—Richmond Inquirer.
THE WESTERN FLOODS.—KANSAS CITY, MOBILE,
April 18.—The river is higher at this point than it
has been since 1844, and is still rising. The track

of the Missouri and the Union Pacific Railtoad be-

tween the State line and Wyandotte is overflowed
to a depth sufficient to extinguish the fires in the

locomotives. Most part of the bottom lands on the

north side of the river is inundated, and it is feared
the entire bottom will be submerged. The water

comes mainly from the Platte river, which is now
reported as receding slowly.

ST. Louis, April 25.—The Government Commis-
sioners to-day accepted the 7th section of thirty
miles of the Union Pacific Railway, Kansas Branch.
This brings the road to Salina, fifty miles west of
Fort Riley, to which point freight and passenger
trains will run on Ist May. The amount of tran-

sportation done by this toad for the United States

Government for the month of March was $34,865

one-half of which was returned to the United States

Treasury, in accordance with the Pacific Railroad

Act. This is equivalent to 8} per cent. per annum
on the whole amount of Government bonds issued

in aid of the road ; in other words, the company is
paying all interest for the Government, and refund-
ing the principal of the loan at a rate which will
nearly extinguish the same at maturity. The
Democrat's Omaha special says the Pacific Railroad
has been repaired to North Platte, two hundredand
ninety-three miles west of Omaha, and trains will
run regularly after to-morrow. The road east of
Council Bluffs is still badly out of order.
Rev. Dr. David D. Field, himself one of the pro-
minent New England theologians and preachers of
the last generation, and the father of one of the
most widely known and distinguished families of
the country, died suddenly at his residence in Stock-
bridge, Connecticut. Rev. Dr. Field was born at
East Guilford, Connecticut, in 1780, and was 86
years old at the time of his death. He graduated
at Yale College in 1802, and after a pastorate at
Haddam, Connecticut, was settled at Stockbridge
in August, 1819, where he continued until his dis-
missal, Feb. 12, 1837. He then returned to his
old parish at Haddam, where he resided for seve-
ral years, but afterwards came a second time to
Stockbridge, about 1848, and spent the remain.
ing years of his life with his son, Jonathan E
Field. . _

Dr. Field was a worthy successor in a

pastorate which had been filled by such men as
President Ewards and Rev. Dr. West, and during
his ministry was marked as one of the strong,
earnest thinkers of his day, and a vigorous de-
fender of the strictest New England theology.
Latterly, however, his mind had utterly lost its
early powers, and though his physical strength
and health continued undiminished, all thought
and intellect seemed to have abandoned him.
The members of his own family were strangers
to him., and his only recollections were of events
many years past. Though a graduate of Yale,
Rev. Dr. Field was for many years a steadfast and
active friend of Williams College, and that insti-
tution conferred on him the degree of doctor of
Divinity in 1837, besides graduating four of his
sons and a grandson in its regular academic course.
The Field family, all of whom, with the excep-
tion of the eldest, David Dudley Field, were born
at Stockbridge, have attained a national fame,
and the name of the father is rendered more dis-
tinguished by the reputation of his sons. David
Dudley Field, who has few peers at the New
York bar; Matthew D., of Southwick, formerly an
extensive civil engineer and bridge builder in the
Southern and Western States; Jonathan E., a Stock- '
bridge lawyer and president of the Massachusetts
Senate from 1863 till 1866 ; Cyrus W., of Atlantic
cable fame ; Stephen J., of San Francisco, Cali-
fornia, and judge of the United States Supreme
Court ; and Henry M., for many years the
editor of the .New York Evangelist, are the six
brothers, sons of the Rev. Dr. Field, who have each
made themselves a conspicuous and prominent
position in the professions in which they have
been engaged. All of the brothers but Matthew
and Cyrus are graduates of Williams College,
and it is a curious fact that the attempt was not
made to educate the latter because he wasn't
thought worth the experiment. Besides the sons
above mentioned, one other, Timothy, entered the
naval service, and is supposed to have died on some
foreign station, many years ago. Of the two
daughters the elder, Amelia, married Rev. Mr.
Brewer, a missionary to Greece, and, after a long
and useful life in that service, returned and died
several years since. The other, Mary, the youngest
child, married Mr. Frederick Stone, the business
partner of her brother Cyrus, and, -after his death,
went to Paris for the improvement of her own en-
feebled health, where she died. Dr. Field had been
riding out in the afternoon, and returning home sat
down in a chair, when he died in a minute. He had
been telling the family of his grandson, with whom
he lived, all the afternoon, that he wanted to go
home'and see his father, imagining himself, as he
often did, away from home and in a strange country.•
Although the big horse show at Springfield is more
than fuur months distant, the gentlemen concerned in
the enterprise are working up the preliminaries with
an energy and enthusiasm which augur a brilliant
success. A disposition to make the exhibition a finer
one than Springfield or the country has ever seen
was manifested at the meeting of the Springfield
Club, April 15, and thousands of dollars are already
pledged for this purpose. A committee of eleven
was appointed to report in a week a complete or-
ganisation for the Exhibition, with the most desir-
able date of holding it, and other like details.
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horses in the country, and nothing will be spared
to make the Exhibition a magnificent success.
A champion silver ball has been procured by the
Fraxklin County Base-ball Association, to be
played for by the clubs of the association during
the season.
While crossing a field where base-ball was being
played at Meriden, John Logan, 12 years old, was
struck in the head by the ball and killed.
BOSTON CRICKET CLUB.—The following is a list
of officers of the Boston Cricket Club for the pre-
sent year :_President, S. Frank Crockett ; Vice-
President, George E. Collamore ; Treasurer, A. J.
Mercer; Recording Secretary, W. H. Davis ; Cor-
responding_ . Steic.rieltaarigyb, LDa.nßeeeyid;,
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The club intends to visit New York and Philadel-
phia during the season, to meet their friends of the
St. George, New York, and Young America.
THE YOUNG AMERICAN CLUB AND ITS
OFFICERS.—This club, which belongs to German-
town, -and has recently erected a new club-house
and enlarged its grounds, held an election a short
time since, with the following result :—President,
E. M. Davis, juu. ; Vice-President, George M.
Newhall ; Secretary, Alfred Mellor ; Treasurer,
Bayard Butler ; Ground Committee, E. M. Davis,
jun., Rodman Wister, W. B. Johns, jun., C. A.
Newhall, and W. K. Wright. Between the Young
America and the Philadelphia Clubs cricket pro.
rises to be exceedingly lively in and about the
Quaker City this season.
MANHATTAN CRICKET CLUB.—At a meeting of
this club, held April 5, the following gentlemen
were elected officers for the ensuing season :—Pre-
sident, Jos. Fearless; Vice-President, C. Tyler;
Treasurer, S. F. Simpson ; Secretary, J. F. Love ;
Managing Committee—B. F. Jenkins, Jas. 'Scores,
J. Higgins. The address of the secretary is J. F.
Love, 243, Hudson-street, New York.
ST. GEORGE CLUB.—The new grounds on Bergen
Hill, purchased at a cost of $35,000, are expected to
be in fit condition for play and the acconunoda-