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

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

Mr. F. M. Shaw writes from Camp 20, Central
Pacific Railroad, as follows As this great artery
of commerce nears completion to this point and be-
yond, it may be interesting and profitable to take
a brief survey of some of the various legitimate
openings for enterpriseand capital which it presents.
The first paying business, and the one that will
strike the observer most forcibly, is the timber and
lumber production, and the facility with which
it is convertible. The unlimited water-power
of the Truckee and its tributaries offer un-
usual inducements for embarking in this branch of
business. Who will doubt for a moment the pro-
fitableness of this business conducted by organised
experience and capital, when we consider the de-
mand that already exists for the product of the
forest and saw mills throughout the entire mineral
regions for 200 miles eastward—entirely destitute
of timber suitable for any purpose except fuel—
and the increased demand which cheaptrranspor-
tation must inevitably create ? The unlimited
amount of water-power afforded should induce
the manufacture of every article of utility ca-
pable of being produced from the pine, cedar,
and tamarac, such as all the varieties of finishing
materials for buildings, furniture, sash, doors,
blinds, buckets, staves, clap-boards, shingles, laths,
mouldings, paneling, flooring, &c., to say nothing
of fencing, logging, and cheap lumber.
" Next in magnitude and importance will be the
getting out, sorting, and reducing to shipping order
the rich copper and silver ores so abundant in the
Peavine and Humboldt districts. Already far-see-
ing and moneyed men are preparing to take ad-
vantage of these unequalled opportunities for en-
riching themselves, and it would be well if many
more should come and take a share in the harvest
which so surely awaits the enterprising."—Mining
and Scientific Press.
The Sterling Fire Insurance Company, announce a semi
annual dividend, 17th August, of 5 per cent. The Stay-
vesant Insurance Co. also that dividend.—The Oswego and
Syracuse Railroad Company four per cent. and the Chi-
cago and Allon Railroad Company five per cent.— The
New York and Allegheny Oil Company pay their regular
quarterly dividend of 10 per cent, August 21st.—The
Triumph Oil Company of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, have
declared a five per cent. dividend, and the Wallace
Oil Company of Philadelphia one per cent.—The
August dividends of the following Nevada mines are :
The Savage Silver Mining Company has declared $250 in
gold per foot ; the Chollar Potosi Mining Company, $25
per foot : and the Imperial Mining Company, $lO per
share.— Wall-street Journal.

The following letters are of great interest and
importance, and will be read attentively by many who have
been rendered uneasy by the infamous reports circulated to
add to the gains of dishonest speculators in Now York :
Treasury Department, Aug. 17, 1867.—A. 11. Van Dyck,
Esq., Assistant Treasurer, New York.— Sir—l have received
from .you Nos. 1 and 2 of the Globe, which seems to be
devoted to assaults upon the Treasury Department and
the national credit. No man in the country has a deeper
interest than myself in knowing whether or not there
have been over issues in the Printing Bureau of the
Treasury Department. I have, therefore, as you have
already been advised, caused a searching examination of
that bureau to be made, from its organisation up to the
24th of January last, by some of the most com-
petent and reliable employes of this department.
From their report I am satisfied that there
have not been any over issues of Government
securities, or Government obligations of any kind ; and
that the reports whichave been so industriously circulated
in your city and in other parts of the country, in regard to
the frauds in the Treasury Department, are without foun-
dation. Tho public may rest satisfied that the monthly
statements of the condition of the Treasury, over the sig-
nature of the Secretary, aro entirely correct. All state-
ments in regard to the suppression of reports of examining
committees aro likewise groundless. 1 enclose a copy of
the partial report of the committee, made to me on the 22d
of March last, which was extensively published at the time.
The full report confirms the conclusion of the com-
mittee as stated in their partial report. I am, very truly,
yours, 11. la:tilled', Secretary of tho Treasury.
Treasury of the United States, Washington, March 22,
1867. Sir,—The committee appointed by you "to
examine all securities, perfect or imperfect, prepared or in
course of preparation, together with all plates, dies, &c., in
the possession of Mr. S. M. Clark, Chief of the First Di-
vision National Currency Bureau," respectfully report—
That since January 31, the date of a partial report made by
themin reference to the examination thus directed, they
have been daily employed in the duty assigned them ; and
as some time must elapse before a final report can be made
they deem it advisable to make a further partial report :
viz.: That the committee have made a careful investiga-.
tion with reference to the issuo of bonds, Treasury notes,
and coupons, and, up to the present time, find no evi-
dence that there has been any fraudulent or over issue
of such securities by the Government of the UnitodStates,
through the Treasury Department, or otherwise; and they
do not hesitate to express the opinion, based upon the in-
vestigation, that no fraudulent over issue has lnen made.
An examination of the office of the Register of the Trea-
sury, in which redemption of such securities are registered,
confirms the opinion; the apparent duplication, to a very
small amount, of Treasury notes and coupons, being most
reasonably accounted for, as being errors made in num-
bering, cr by alterations made after their issue. Very re-
spectfully (Signed), A. S. Pratt, L. D. Moore, A. U.
Wayman, S. W. Marsh, Committee. Hon. Hugh APCul-
loch, Secretary of the Treasury.

The sloop Prussem Augusta proceeds for the pro-
tection of North German. subjects to the East Coast of
Mexico.

Gold mining is about to be commenced at Bluff-
ton and Huntington, Indiana. At the latter place a quartz
mill is being erected at a cost of $lO,OOO.
The underwriters' agent at Key West reports, by
the American mail, the wreck on a coral reef near the
American coast of the Jersey ship Oracle, bound with a
cargo of mahogany from Chiltepec, Mexico, to Liverpool.
The crew escaped in safety, and subsequently saved 140
sticks of mahogany.
Emigration to the United States from Germany
at the present time is more extensive than ever, many
young men flying from the military service. A new sort
of emigrants are the Czechs, but this is not attributable to
political reasons, bat to the impossibility of getting land to
cultivate in a country where so much property is yet in the
hands of the nobility and the monasteries.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 20.—0 n Monday, the 12th
instant, the United States Marshal of New Orleans seized
the brig IV/Ilium Robertson, which recently arrived there
from Havanna, with twenty-two coolies on board. The
Captain claims that he has fully complied with the re-
quirements of the law, and asserts that the coolies emi-
grated voluntarily. The vessel has been released under
bonds of $15,000. _

The Sisters of Mercy arrived at Chicopee on
Tuesday, the 20th August, from the Notre Damo Con-
vent at Cincinnati, Ohio, to take possession of the convent
now being erected there, and will have the supervision of
certain of its arrangements. They were received by the
women of the Roman Catholic Church, all of whom, young
and old, were dressed in white.
The ironclad ram Stonewall has sailed from Nor-
folk for Japan.
The Springfield Republican gives the following
losses by fire for the week ending Saturday, August 24 :
Shute and Von Pelt's flour store at Now York—loss
$30,000; four frame buildings near 140, Broad-street, in

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the same city—loss $lB,OOO ; the cotton batting factory of
Trempen and Benson at Kilderhook, New York ; the prin-
cipal business portion of Plattsburg, New York, including
Pratt's and Blake's blocks ; the steam tug Dispatch, of De-
troit, burned at Sandusky, Ohio —loss $16,000, three-
fourths insured ; half a million feet of lumber at Bay City,
Michigan—loss $140,000; the store of George Brothers at
Detroit, Michigan, a fireman being killed during the fire
by falling from a fourth story window—loss $15,000;
Schenck and Barrier's pork packing establishment, and
several manufactories, at Burlington, Indiana—loss
$106,000, with only a small insurance; a block of build-
ings owned by William Derby on Michigan-avenue, at
Chicago—loss $30,000 ; Frey and Shockler's machine shop
at Bucyrus, Ohio—loss $12,000; and Middleton's coal oil
stores at Montreal, with 600,000 gallons of oil, the loss
being $150,000. Several small buildings were burned at
Highland Falls, New York, on Monday, and during the
firo an old man, named Joseph M'Clarrin, died of fright.

The Boston Congregationalist suggests a Minis-
terial bureau for the purpose of bringing parishes with-
out pastors into correspondence with ministers with-
out parishes. The idea is a good one, and the bureau
would contribute to systematise and abbreviate the un-
pleasant business of candidating.

A Belgian has made a discovery which may be of
some utility ; it is that the rusting of nails employed to
fasten the branches of fruit trees to walls,can be prevented,
by driving into the wall, in contact with the nail, a small
piece of zinc.

A fine church organ has just been completed at
Boston for a native church edifice at Honolulu.

Six months ago, a Boston house sent out a cargo
of 500 hoop skirts to Japan as a venture. The Japanese
put a cover on them and used them for umbrellas.

A Maine judge has
,decided that the marriage of
a black man and a white woman, or vice versa, is illegal.
The Buenos Ayres Standard of July 26 says :--
" Thera is up near Matto Grosso, on the very confines
of Brazil, a town composed of some 4,000 runaway
slaves. They have established a Municipal Govern-
ment of their own (far superior to the Municipality
of Buenos Ayres), have streets well laid out, houses built,
and it is now by the merest chance that the Govern-
ment has heard of it. The town is called Manso, and near
the mountains of St. Jeronymo. The townspeople are in-
dustrious, but, as women are scarce, they make raiding
parties to run away with women in the settlements. It
was one of these women who escaped who gave notice to
the authorities of this extraordinary town."
California promises to become a great wine-pro-
ducing country. This year there have been made there
3,800,000 gallons of wine and 100,000 gallons of brandy.
William Thompson, a telegraph repairer on the
Union Pacific Railroad, was scalped by the Indians just
before the capture of the train at Plum Creek station. lie
escaped with his life, as ho had sufficient firmness to re-
frain from calling out while undergoing the terrible pro-
cess he describes. He had been removed to Omaha, where
he told the following interesting story :---" About 9 o'clock,
Tuesday night, myself and five others left Plum Crook
station, and started up the track on a hand-car to hunt up
where the break in the telegraph was. When we came to
where the break proved to be, we saw a lot of ties piled on
the track, but at the same moment Indians jumped up from
the grass all around, and fired on us. We fired two or
three shots in return, and then, as the Indians pressed on
us, we ran away. Au Indian on a pony singled mo out,
and galloped up to me. After coming to within ton feet
of me ho fired, the bullet entering my right arm ; seeing
me still run, he "clubbed his rifle," and knocked mo
down. He then took out his knife, stabbed me in the
neck, and then making a twirl round his fingers with
my hair, ho commenced sawing and hacking away at my
scalp. Though the pain was awful, and I felt dizzy and
sick, I new enough to keep quiet. After what seemed to
be half an hour, he gave the last finishing cut to the scalp
on my left temple, and as it still hung a little, he gave it
jerk. I just thought then that I could have screamed rei
life out. I can't describe it to you. It just felt as if the
whole head was taken right off. The Indian then mounted
and galloped away, but as he went he dropped my scalp
within a few feet of DIP, which I managed to get and hide.
The Indians were thick in the vicinity, or I then might
have made my escape. While lying down I could
hear the Indians moving around whispering to each other,
and then shortly after placing obstructions on the track
After lying down about an hour and a half, I heard the
low rumbling of the train as it came tearing along, and I
might have been able to flag it off had I dared."