The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDoiv. -MoNoAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1%7.

i not formidable, they ordered them all to turn out
of bed and assemble in one room at the door of
which they posted sentinels, while the rest pro-
ceeded to ransack the house. Having despoiled it
of everything moveable, the loss complained of
only amounts to 80 scudi (£l6) showing the wan-
tonness of the attack.
I send you the text of the address which the
people of Albano have sent up to the Holy Father,
as it is one of the shortest, and it will serve to
show you the tone adopted by all the towns of
State.
" Beatissimo Padre !" The city of Albano
deeply deplores the attempt at rebellion which
—though only for a few moments—she was
desolated on the 29th of last October, through the
act of turbulent foreigners who took advantage of
the absence of any armed force to oppose them.
They were assisted by but two or three of the
lowest of the population. The whole population
was moved to sorrow and indignation. No sooner
were we again free than wit jubilant acclamations,
and amid the joyful strains of the town band,
the honoured insignia of the Pontifical Govern-
ment were raised aloft in their due place.
" The Municipal Commission, the organ on this
occasion of the sentiments of all classes of the
people, cannot praise too highly the attitude of
the local authorities, the courage and firmness
with which they entered their solemn and energetic
protest against the acts of those seditious men. The
people have now no greater desire than to lay at
the feet of your Holiness this expression of their
united disavowal of all seditious acts and of heart-
felt sorrow that they have occurred; and to renew
the sincere homage of fidelity, love, and veneration
to the Government of your Holiness, protesting
that there is nothing which can ever separate us
from it or diminish our devotion to the Holy See
and you, our supreme Lord and Sovereign."
A word about the town bands, mentioned in the
above address, may not be out of place. It says
something for the cultivation of this population,
that in the poorest and remotest towns of the
State there are always some twenty or thirty men
who spontaneously unite to spend their evenings
in the practice of music. They wear (on festive
occasions) a kind of military uniform, including a
sword, and on all occasions of rejoicing, ecclesiasti-
cal or secular, they serve greatly to enliven their
fellow townspeople. They generally play very
creditably. The French garrison of Monte Ro-
tondo did not disdain, I noticed the other day, to

march to the strains of the local town band.
The Times, faithful to its plan of giving its
readers third-hand news on Roman subjects, I see,
has fallen into the natural errors of such a mode of
procedure in its account of the battle of Mentana
on the 12th. There is one hearsay account from
Paris, and one from Florence. " The allied troops
left Rome at five on the morning of the 3rd,"
writes the Paris correspondent, " and in an hour
were in presence of the enemy's advanced posts.
A severe combat ensued before the walls of Men-
tana. After a combat of four hours, as night
was approaching, the, Pontifical troops attacked
Mentana." It is strange that any one could have
written such nonsense, but a person writing from
the spot would have corrected his want of know-
ledge of Italian by his acquaintance with the lo-
calities. Monte Rotondo and Mentana are each a
good fifteen miles from Rome, reached by two
nearly parallel roads. That to the former, which
is the more important place, is a good, broad, fine,
high road throughout, but has been rendered use-
less for reaching it at present, as the Ponte Salara
was blown up in a late encounter. When the
troops set out for Monte Rotondo, therefore, they
were obliged to go round by Mehtana, a large
portion of the road to which, running ;over two
or three miles of clay, is shockingly out of
repair, and most difficult walking for men
in heavy marching order. Now, that this
could be got over in one hour no one here
could have written. Our " Own Corre-
spondent" evidently copied from an Italian paper,
which said, " Un ora dopo mezzo giorno," or one
o'clock in the day, as that is about the time at
which all accounts agree the engagement com
menced. Had they engaged the enemy " in an
hour" after they set out (at five a.m.), how could
night have been approaching at the end of four
hours' fighting (i.e., 10 a.m.) ?
The Florence correspondent of course gives us
an Italianised version. The Garibaldians say they
were only 5,000, so of course the French and Ro-
mans lie in saying they were more. That they were
for the most part Italian soldiers is a " ridiculous
assertion." I have already given you proof enough
to show that however "ridiculous" the latter fact,
it was nevertheless true. With regard to the num-
ber, I can only say I counted above 7,000 muskets
at Monte Rotondo, and I cannot possibly have
seen all ; nor is it likely that every musket in use
was brought in and left there, so that we may
from this alone infer that General Kanzler's esti-
mate of 9,000 is quite within the mark. I have
never heard it stated lower here, though I have
heard their number estimated much higher, and
as high as 19,000 by an inhabitant of the place.
Notwithstanding these two misstatements, he is
forced into some very rational deductions. First,
that the numbers, organisation, and efficiency of
the Papal army make it quite sufficient for all
emergencies short of an inroad, strengthened by
the manifest connivance of the Italian Govern
ment, and secondly, that the Pope's subjects have
no sympathy with the invaders.
We are then also treated to a leading article,
founded, it is asserted, on the three official state-
ments of the Roman, French, and Garibaldian com-
manders ; but as these documents are not given in
the same paper, the ordinary reader has not the
means of checking the statements supposed to be
taken from each. The article in its general tone
is written as much from a Garibaldian point de vue,
as if " inspired" by some Secret Committee or Head
Centre of the sect. The writer seems well ac-
quainted with Garibaldi's ideas and intentions, for
he gives us boldly and without hesitation the rea-
son of his moving out of Monte Rotondo, which
has never been very satisfactorily accounted for.
" However destitute of political capacity, there is
no doubt he possesses great strategical and tactical
ability," he continues. This is the first time I ever
heard strategical ability imputed to him, and 1
should think there was great " doubt" of it. The
most that has ever been claimed for him hitherto
has been a kind of stubborn brute courage, which
made him a good whipper-in of incapable and re-
luctant troops; but even this has utterly failed
him on this occasion, as I will show further on, if
facts have not already shown it plainly to the most
careless observer. That he was not attacked una-
wares, as he was " struggling across the narrow
and woody gorge between Mentana and the
adjoining hills," we have the testimony of the Gari-
baldian Bersagliere Cacciami, whose account I
sent you the week before last, and whom the
Florence correspondent of the Tithes quotes as
gospel. His testimony agrees perfectly with that
of General Kanzler, that the Garibaldians were
posted in command of every bit of rising or
vantage ground. De Failly's account throws ad-
ditional light on it. He says :—" We crossed the
Nomentana bridge, which had only been aban-
doned by the Garibaldians the night before." The
Nomentana bridge is some twelve miles nearer
Rome, and it is most probable the Garibaldians
left it on hearing from Mrs. Mario White that the
allies were coining that way, in order to concen-
trate their forces. " At about an hour after midday,"
continues the French General, " the Garibaldiah
outposts stationed in the woods flanking the road
opened fire on the Pontifical vanguard." General
Kanzler, who may surely be trusted as well as the
Condotierre, Fabrizzi and Messori, " not to put his
name to deliberate falsehoods," expressly tells us
of the strong barricades behind which they had
entrenched themselves, evidently showing delibe-
rate preparation and no " surprise." The natural
barricades, however. are strong enough, and any
one who is familar with the spot may wonder at the
daring of any troops which should venture to dis-
lodge an army in possession of such a position.
The road for some distance before the Vigna
Santucci is completely commanded by a steep bank,
at the base of which, skirting the road, runs a thick
hedge forming a perfect-breaotwork. The §lope is

covered with stout trees, every one of which would
afford abundant cover for three or four men.
There is no doubt that when the Papal troops came
up they found every bit of this natural fort well
occupied with muskets, and that yet they dashed
into it and cleared it of the enemy.

The article goes on :—" On the night between
the 2nd and 3rd the Papal and French fog -ees had
marched out of Rome. " Four o'clock in th e morn-
ing is not night.' Neither is Mentana situated
to the south-west of Monte Rotondo," but r ather to
the south-east. Nor can the buildings of the former
be called " straggling." They are all situated on
the top of a steep hill, bound together by strong
medieval walls, and it is as compact a little town
as could be found in any part of the world. These
are only minor inaccuracies ; however, let them
pass. _ .

"The French column was made up," the :article
proceeds (after stating the strength of the Papal
column with tolerable accuracy) —" of three batta-
lions and a battery, according to Papal accounts, of
five battalions, as we learn from French authori-
ties. General Failly computes the whole force at
3,000 Pontifical and 2,000 French combatants." I
do not know the writer's object in trying to make
out a discrepancy between the two accounts, but
it is most unfair ; my previous quotations from them
will have shown you how nearly identical they are.
In order, however, to show the wilful malice of
the above paragraph and its misstatement, I will
copy General Kanzler's statement of the French.
forces :

"1 Battalion of Chasseurs.
" 1 Battalion of the Ist Regiment of the Line.
"1 Battalion of the 29th Regiment of the Line.

" 2 Battalions of the 59th Regiment of the Line.
Five Battalions in all ; then why say the Papal
account says there were only three battalions and
a battery.
" Further, a platoon of the 7th Chasseurs on horse-
back, a platoon of Pontifical dragoons, half a bat-
tery of artillery, making a total of about 2,000
men." He had added up above the various bodies
of Pontificals at 2,913, and he adds, " so that the
two columns together made up a figure little short
of 5,000." Could any two accounts coincide better ?

I do not know either what is the object of the
Garibaldian account in denying that Italians failed
to recognise the French. But in spite of the Times'
remark that "the uniform of the Papal army " [a
slip of the pen, doubtless for the Antibes or
Roman Legion]" differs in nothing, as all -are
aware ; " but the cockade from that of the French"
every street-boy knows the difference at first sight
—the comparatively tight trousers with a broad
black stripe down them in place of the Turkish
trousers of the French, the small jacket coming a
short way below the belt, the different buttons and
many other tokens distinguish them at once.

After speaking of the success of the Chassepot
rifle, he says—" The advantage of arms told even
more significantly against the Garibaldians than
mere superiority of numbers might have done."
What an insidious sentence ! not daring, of
course, to go the length of asserting that the allies
had the advantage of numbers, but just throwing
it in by the way to lead the careless reader to infer
they had ; and all the while it was the Garibal-
dians who had the superiority of numbers, being
nearly double !
" The mass" of Garibaldini " were not only
unskilled, but worn out and half-starved." These
are gratuitous assertions invented to screen his
favourites. We have seen enough to know they
were by no means unskilled, seeing they were for
the most part regular soldiers ; and as to worn-
out and half-starved,' how could that be? What
had they had to wear them out? The Pontificals
and French had to fight after a long and fatiguing
march ; but these sheep,' what had they done ?
The article begins by telling us they had had four
days' inaction—that is, rest—at Monte Rotondo,
and there is no reason to apprehend that they
starved themselves out of regard to the rights of
property of the corn and cattle dealers of the neigh-
bourhood.
" The French accounts describe both places as of

great natural strength, and it is evident that all
attempts at storming them were put off till the mor-
row." How he pounces on the assertion, as if he
had made a mo t sagacious discovery in the teeth
of an attempt to imply ithe contrary ! But has he
General Kanzler's report at all, or can he not read
Italian ? Why does he not honestly tell us from
it that the Generaldecided at nightfall to defer all
further operations till daylight, and the wise fore-
sight on which he acted ? The paragraph in the
report giving these details you will find quoted in
my last. _ _

The numbers given of dead, wounded, and pri-
soners are not sneeered at as the easiest way of
getting out of acknowledging that the rout was
utter. "The prisoners, according to the same ac-
count, amounted to 1,600 brought by the con-
querers to Rome."
In spite of this hint at possible error the official
Florence Gazette, which cannot err in the eyes of
such papers as the Times, announced on the 17th
that Government had received the list of the pri-
soners in Rome, and had found their number
amounted to 1,775 !

But the strangest bit of special pleading is in
the final paragraph. After confessing that "war-
fare like Garibaldi's in other lands" (he does not
condescend to explain why not in this land also)
" would ,be filibustering ;" that " it was against, all
national no less than international laws that he
drew his sword ;" that " he was no less a rebel to
his King and country than a common foe to the
neighbouring States," and that " such means can
be justified by no end." After all this he still claims
admiration for him and his troops on the plea that
they fought well! If blazing away at an unpro-
tected enemy from behind a thick hedge, or the
trunk of a tree, or the wall of a house, is fighting
well, then all praise be to them ; but that a force so
well provided with arms could suffer themselves to
be driven out of such a series of commanding positions
is an instance of such wretched incapacity that one's
only regret is they were not worth conquering.
Certainly they would not have been but for their
overpowering superiority in numbers and position.
The immense strength of both Mentana and
Monte Rotondo is sufficient, one would think, to
have induced any general of spirit to have made
some effort to hold them. The mediaeval walls
and castles of each, built into the solid rock, an
almost perpendicular steep of many hundred feet,
invite an attempt at defence, and only eight days
before a few over 300 Pontificals did hold Monte
Rotondo for thirty hours against more than 3,000
of the enemy. The magnificent view from its
tower, embracing the whole valley of the Tiber
and all the country up to Rome itself, gives you a
good idea of its elevation. Aud then it is not de-
nied that there were at least five pieces of artil-
lery. But what shall we say of a general who,
during " four days of inaction" and with thou-
sands of idle men at his command, does not make
the least effort to repair the gates or walls of
such a stronghold ? Just as his bands knocked
them about to get in, just so they remained when
the allies entered.
When I went in through the Porta Romana
(which his men burnt down at last on the 26th of
October, by firing barrels of petroleum and sul-
phur against them), and saw the small charred
remnants of the former gates floating high in air
like two great blackbirds of ill-omen, and no at-
tempt at replacing them, I felt half inclined to
give credit to the wild story which the people,
ever fond of the marvellous, are prone to believe,
that the real Garibaldi was killed years ago, and
that the present holder of the name, set up to keep
up the advantage of the prestige attached to it, has
neither genius nor bravery.
A more melancholy instance of weakness, in-
capacity, and absence of all soldierly qualities was
probably never displayed. But to challenge
admiration for their "good fighting" is simple
mockery. The writer of the Times article has yet
one plea more. He has most unluckily deprived
them of one excuse for running away, namely
terror at the approach of the French, by making
out that they did not recognize them. He says
they had spent all their ammunition—they had
fired away seventy rounds. Seventy rounds
• TAW) there were V,OOO omen, amount to

630,000 charges, or even at the false computation
of 5,000 men 350,000 charges. And with this
fabulous number of charges only 172 were put
hors de combat, giving them the benefit of adding
in the one man who was " missing ;" and this is
what the Times calls " good fighting !" I wonder

—rather one need not wonder—how it would
have qualified such wretched inefficiency could it
have occurred on the Papal side !
And now, would it have been anything more
than bare fairness if the writer of the article had
inserted the testimony which De Failly's official
report bears to the conduct of the Papal troops ?
Does any one think he would have omitted it had
it been to find fault? This is what he says :
"The troops under General Kanzler had the
honour of marching forth to the attack." Fur-
ther on—" The woods were rapidly and most
brilliantly stormed by the Zouavcs, who succeeded
in taking possession of all the heights commanding
Mentana. . . . The Roman Legion and the
Pontifical Carabineers had suffered considerably,
and continued to offer a determined resistance' to
the enemy. . . The two wings being strongly
placed in position, it remained to attempt an
attack with the centre. An active reconnaissance
was vigorously pushed forward towards Mentana
by the Pontifical troops, to whom had been assigned
this assault. . . . Our losses were" so and so,
":those of the Papal army, having to sustain the
principal attack, were, consequently, far more
considerable. . . . I cannot close my report

better than by adverting to the impetuosity
and valour which the Pontifical troops everywhere
displayed." The French army takes a pleasure in
rendering this testimony. I wanted to follow
the: various errors of the Times about Mentana
to the end without interruption, so I have deferred
till now noticing an absurd paragraph in the
same letter from the Florence correspondent,quoted
from the Diritto as follows :—" The prisons,
crammed with nearly 3,000 individuals arrested for
mere precaution's sake by the Pontifical police,
are emptying by order of the French." Comment-
ing on this, the correspondent adds—" The most
determined enemies of intervention admit that
they at once put an end to the species of terrorism
which the Papal Government imposed upon the
city." I showed the paragraph to one who deeply
interests himself in all. public affairs here, and
who must know the state of the case as to the
political prisoners, and he treated the whole thing
with contempt, unable to see how any one could
care for the statements of a paper which could let
itself be so miserably led away. " But," I said,
" tell me what I shall say in answer to it.'
" What can you say ?" he replied. " When a man
asserts a thing which is completely and utterly
false, there is no answer to be made but that it
is false—false from beginning to end." This, how-
ever, led him to speak of how the Papal Govern-
ment is far too much inclined to err on the sidelof
lenience than on that of severity. " What other
country of the world," he asked, "is there, in
which the conspirators who concocted the ,horri-
ble plot of blowing up the Serristori barracks would
not have been hanged or shot forthwith ? Yet this
Government hesitates to punish them. This re-
minded him of another proof, which he also gave
me. He said, "When we were patrolling the streets
within a few days of the Serristori affair, and
when several similar plots were dejoues by the
police, we used to walk along in company with the
Gendarmi. Of course we challenged whoever we
met after a late hour of night. During the first
hours they were generally Romans, who gave a
rational account of their business out of doors, their
names and addresses and were suffered to pass un-
molested, the gendarmi always exercising their
office with great courtesy. But after lor 2 o'clock
in the morning those we met were invariably for-
eigners. Have you any papers?' the gendarmi
would ask. Oh, yes, here they are,' was always the
ready answer ; and then they always produced an
Italian (Piedmontese) passport, all of them worded
identically as if each had been traced off the other
with a copying machine, showing forth that so-
and-so had set out to Viaggiare per l'Africa of
l'America.' Miserable objects, who hardly looked
as if they had a penny to bless themselves with,
trying to make believe that they had come out
with the indefinite intention of travelling through
either Africa or America, they were not sure
which ! When we had passed a certain number of
these I grew impatient, and I said to the gen-
darme "Why do you let all these fellows go. They
must be bent on mischief. What good can they
be doing at this time of night ? They ought every
one, be arrested if we are to preserve public
s tfety.' 'Of course they ought,' replied the
gendarme; there is no doubt of that, but what are
we to do ? Our orders are to meddle with people
as little as possible, and not to touch any. whose
papers are en regle. Of course, I know the
trick about l'Africa o l'America that is all a blind
Last year everybody's passport was for la Grecia,
but their papers are en regle for all that." This
is not exactly like "iterrorism." I know many
naturally timid people living here—several in-
stances of single ladies living by themselves, some
with the very smallest establishments—the class of
people, I suppose, the most easily frightened, but
who did not appear to feel any " terror" at all.
The fact is a little: more severity would be very,
salutary, and if a little terrorism were but ex-
ercised it might set our Piedmontese conspirators
to learn some more creditable trade than throwing
bombs and blowing up houses.
Where people are perversely determined to dis-
tort events, it is, I suppose, a waste of words to set
them right. Yet there is one statement quoted
from the Roman letter of the Pall Mall, in your
article on " False Notes from Rome," of the 16th,
which is so ludicrous to us who witnessed the
facts, that I cannot forbear adverting to it. It
is the following, alluding to the entrance of the
Garibaldian prisoners :—" The melancholy pro-
cession was watched by 40,000 spectators, whose
presence alarmed the authorities, and troops were
drawn up at the Quirinal in anticipation of a dis-
turbance. But the vast crowd preserved an un-
broken silence, only uncovering to the Garibal-
dians." Now, I walked beside the procession
from outside Porta Pia into the centre of Rome,
and I will undertake to say that through the
whole line of march there were nothing like even
40 hundred spectators. 400 would be a much

nearer guess. Had the Government had the
least apprehension of a " disturbance," is it likely
that the Garibaldian officers would have been
suffered, as with much too great forbearance they
were, to carry their swords, or that they would
have been marched through the city (there were
over 1,000 of them, remember) escorted by less
than 300 soldiers? The troops drawn up on the
route had no connection with any idea of " dis-
turbance." Had the Pall Mall correspondent been
better informed, he would have known they sim-
ply stood there to relieve the guard of the tired
soldiers who brought the prisoners in, and who
could from that spot conveniently reach their
barracks at the Macao. I will further undertake to
say that not one Roman " uncovered to the:Gari-
baldians "—that is to say, openly or ostensibly. If
any sneaking American or Piedmontese raised his
hat for the sake of enabling it to be said the thing
had been done, he must have taken good care not
to let it be observed. I was there to watch the
attitude of the people more than anything else,
and I was particularly struck by the absence of any-
thing like sympathy. Sometimes, when a dejected
wretch, more ragged and footsore than another,
limped by, he might elicit an exclamation of com-
passion, but it was always of the kind of compas-
sion linked to contempt.
These English advocates out-Herod Herod with
their special pleading. While they are pretending
to bear testimony to sympathizing which never
existed, the Italians themselves, with greater
honesty, at least, are vituperating the Ro-
mans for their absence of sympathy.
" It must be spoken out," writes the Ri-
forma, "in order that there may be no illusion on
the subrct in the future, all these populations are
so brutish, that they care nothing about Italy, or
Unification, or Liberty ; nothing about the cause
' which the volunteers are supporting, and the Flo-
rence Government is abandoning. For what, for
whom, is it we are getting ourselves shot down ?
When we entered Montana, not one cry of rejoice

ing or encouragement greeted us. During the
struggle, no hand was held out to help us, and
after it was over, no one of the inhabitants admi-
nistered a word of consolation over our discom-
fiture."

By a slip of the pen—excusable, as I was very ill
when I wrote—l see the population of Mentana is
stated in my letter in your impression of the 16th at
6,000 ; it should be " under 600."

The railway service is now completely re-esta-
blished, and runs regularly, as before, between
Florence, Rome, and Naples.
In spite of the predictions of certain Italian jour-
nals, and, one may add, the erroneous statements
of the English Crown Speech, there is, so far, no
indication of any intention on the part of the
French to forsake us. They are strengthening
the defences round Rome and Civita Vecchia,
and they go halves with the Papal troops in gar-
risoning all the towns of the provinces. The troops
now here comprise the two divisions under Generals
Dumont and Bataille, but they have brought artil-
lery enough for four divisions.
It may be a relief to some timid travellers to
learn that the barricades erected round those of
the gates which were not altogether closed, and
which have been guarded sedulously up to the pre-
sent time, are now being removed, which may be
taken as an indication that there is no further
attack expected.
The Triduo for the peace of the Church has
been largely attended on Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday this week. In fact it is necessary
to come to Rome to acquire the idea of what
church-going can be. It is something " strange
to an English eye" to see congregations too large
to number easily, in which men hold a larger pro-
portion than women, and that in the middle of the
day on a week day. Yet that might have been
seen in many churches during these three days.
The devotions at the Gest' were probably the most
followed of all. The General of the Order sang
the Mass ; the choir was very successfully led by
the German College.

There was a grand Requiem office this morning at
St. John Lateran for the repose of the souls of all
who have fallen in the defence of the Holy See.
The catafalque was very imposing, surrounded by
flaming torches and appropriate inscriptions, in-
cluding the names of the various victories, alter-
nated with texts. All the officers of the staff of
both armies were present, ariu au immense crowd
of people; filling the huge Basilica in every part,
testified how popular is the object of the office.
The following quotations from Italian papers
are, I think, both interesting and instructive.
The first shall be from the Italia. In an article
in its impression of the 15th, speaking of the men
composing the present Ministry, it writes thus :
" We have fallen so low that we are obliged to
raise to the Ministry men whom formerly we should
have thought hardly fit to fill the office of inspec-
tors of police."
The next shall be from the Nazione. It gives
us some insight into what manner of men the
Garibaldian leaders are :—" We know for certain
that a certain De 8., a lieutenant in the Garibal-
dian army, has been put on his trial for robbery
with violence. One Spinozzi, colonel in the same
army, who was Commandante di Piazzi.at Monte-
fiascone, is charged with embezzling 1,262 lire,
belonging to the account of duty on salt and to-
bacco, which came into his hands in the exercise
of his functions.

The Sentinella Bresciana may be quoted next
in confirmation of the above :—" One of the
bravest of the Genoese Carabineers, who has fol-
lowed Garibaldi on six occasions, said three days
ago—" I shall certainly not go out with him a
seventh time ; the impure element in these expe-
ditions is now far too strong, and our name stinks
in the nostrils of the Roman populations. They
have seen so little good of us that they rejoice
over our discomfiture. They have shown us this
in the most energetic way, and we have made them
hail the advent of the French soldiery as their
very liberators."

THE WALK FROM PORTLAND TO
CHICAGO.

As Weston's pedestrian feat is exciting attention
in England, as well as in America, we give the
following from 11, likes' Spirit of the Times:—
Edward Payson Weston, the young pedestrian, who
created somewhat of a sensation in 1861 by walking
from Boston to Washington against time, averag-
ing fifty-one miles for ten consecutive days, has
been pitted against his old antagonist to walk from
Portland, Maine, to Chicago, Illinois, a distance of
1,200 miles, in twenty-six walking days, for
the sum of $lO,OOO a side. George F. Good-
win backs the pedestrian, T. F. Wilcox, risk-
ing his money on Weston's failure. The articles
of agreement provide that Weston is to perform
his arduous labour in 30 days, without walking
between midnight on Saturday and midnight on
Sunday. He is to follow the Post Road; is to
walk 100 consecutive miles inside of 24 consecutive
hours as a part of the feat, Weston being privileged
to make five trials, on such days as he may select,
provided he fails in his first attempt; be will be ac-
companied by two sworn witnesses for each side,
who are to follow him in a waggon, and are each to
make statement under oath as to his progress, and
the stakes ($20,000, less $1,200 already up as for-
feit) are to be handed to the winner at Chicago as
soon as the result is ascertained. The start from
Portland will be made between the Ist and 15th
of October.

The following is Mr. Weston's calculation as to
the points at which he will stop, and the number of
miles he expects to make on each day :
Leave Portland at 12 o'clock, m., Tuesday, Oc-
tober 15 ; walk to Keunebunk, Me., 23 miles ;
Wednesday, 16th, Salem, Mass., 60 miles ; Thurs-
day, 17th, North Attleboro', 46 miles ; Friday,
18th, leave Attleboro' at 5 p.m., walk to East Hart-
ford, Connecticut, a distance of 100 miles, arriving
at 4.55 p.m. on Saturday ; Saturday, 19th, Hart-
ford, 2 miles; Monday, 21st, Cornwall Bridge, 54
miles; Tuesday, 22d, Chatham Four Corners,
N. Y., 52 miles ; Wednesday, 23d, Schenectady,
46 miles; Thursday, 24th, tit. Jones, 47 miles;
Friday, 25 h. Rome, 46 miles ; Saturday,
Warner's, 47 miles; Monday, 28th, Palmyra, 49
miles; Tuesday, 29th, Byron, 47 miles; Wednesday,
30th, Buffalo, 45 miles ; Thursday, 31st, Brocton,
43 miles; Friday, Nov. Ist, Erie, Pennsylvada,
49 miles ; Saturday, 2d, Geneva, Ohio, 50 miles ;
Monday, 4th, Cleveland, 45 miles; Tuesday, sth,
Wakeman, 43 miles; Wednesday, 6th, Tremont,
39 miles; Thursday, 7th, Springfield, 39 miles;
Friday, Bth, Bryan, 45 miles; Saturday, 9th,
Ligonier, Ind., 54 miles; Monday, 11th, Misbanaka,
45 miles ; Tuesday, 12th, Calumet, 49 miles ;
Wednesday, 13th, Chicago Junction, 111., 32 miles ;
Thursday, 14th, reach Chicago, 6 miles, at 12 m.
On this trip Weston will pass through parts of
ten different States and more than 300 cities and
towns. Iu a private letter he says—" The calcu-
lation for each day's travel is made on the supposi-
tion that I do not fail to make 100 miles in the
walk from North Attleboro' to East Hartford. Fail-
ing in this, however, I have four other trials, which
I shall make at intervals of five days. In 1861 I
made an average of 51 miles per day for ten conse-
cutive days, in the worst season of the year for
walking—February and March. On this trip my
average will be but 47 miles, and the feat is to be
performed during the pleasantest part of the year.
I have tried nine different times to walk 100 miles
in 24 consecutive hours, but have never succeeded.
On one trial I came within two miles of it. I think
I can accomplish the feat after a week's practice,
and if I am successful on the fourth day of the trip,
I would not give ten cents to be insured the vic-
tory."
Should Weston fail, on each trial, to make 100
consecutive miles in 24 hours, his backer forfeits six-
tenths of the stake, whether the whole distance be
accomplished in the given time or not.
On the 29th ult., at 12 m., Weston started from
Portland on his herculean feat, and arrived at Saco,
Maine, at 3.25 p.m., being thirty-five minutes ahead
of time. He dined there and started again, arriving
at North Berwick at Midnight in fine condition.
He missed the road twice and went three miles out
of his way.

[By the latest intelligence ho had arrived al

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Buffalo on the 14th inst. ahead of time. This
brings him 699 miles, and he is therefore more than
half way on his road to Chicago. On the 15th he
left Buffalo to make another attempt at his 100
miles in 24 hours. If successful in this he will
reach Erie, and he is said to be in excellent spirits,
so that his backers are confident of his success. M
the mail left on the morning of the 16th the result
was not known.—ED. A. A. T.]
INDIANS AGAINST TIME.—DEEHFOOT RUNS FIVE

MILES IN 24 MINUTES.—A novel and exciting
race came off on the 24th of October, on the track of
the Zanesville Driving Park Association, County Fair
ground?, which excited no little excitement among

the fancy, a, race by three Indians, Deerfoot, Stevens,
and Steeprock, against time. Two o'clock was the hour
for the start, but it was nearly three before the In-
dians with moccasins, tight breeches, and large
shawls, appeared at the northern part of the grounds,
and slowly walked arround the waggon road to the
judges' stand. The judges announced that the young
Indian Steeprock would only run two miles and then
draw off, owing to ill-health. At the proper time, the
Indiansat the word " Go," started. Young Steeprock
soon took the lead, Deerfoot next, and Stevens be-
hind. In this position they ran the first four rounds,
two miles, with increasing distance beween Steep-
rock and Deerfoot, and Stevens falling still further
behind. At the close of the fourth round young
Steeprock drew off from the track. Deerfoot, at
the close of the sixth round, was half the length of

the track ahead of Stevens, and this distance lie
gradually kept increasing until at the close of his
tenth round, Stevens had but little more than com-
pleted his ninth. The whole distance (five miles)
was made by Deerfoot in the following time :--First
mile, 5.02; second mile, 5.16 ; third mile, 5.27;
fourth mile, 5.20 ; fifth mile, 5.25. Whole time,
26 min. 30 sec. Stevens occupied 28 min. 35 sec.
completing the distance. The track was in excel-
lent condition, smooth as a floor.