The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-27 00:00:00

covering of his body, and that his wants should
have given rise to so many different branches of in-
dustry. A jester would laughingly observe that
clothing has greatly improved since our first parents
left Paradise. In my future letter I will give some
details on the wonders achieved and exhibited at the
Champs de Mars in 1867.

FRANKFORT-ON-TILE-MAINE, April 22.

On Wednesday last, William Cornell Jewett,
Esq., of Philadelphia, was married to Miss Char-
lotte Berna, daughter of Anthony Berna, Esq., of
New York. Consul-General William Walton
Murphy, assisted by liobard Miller, Esq., Attache
of the United States Legation (late Adjutant of the
19th Michigan Cavalry), performed the marriage
ceremony, and pronounced them " one and insepa-
rable," as the stars and stripes of the glorious ban-
ner under which the bride and her attendants stood,
surrounded with rare plants and brilliant flowers.
After a recherche dejeuner, the happy pair started
for Baden-Baden, and their health was drank in a
parting bumper of champagne. Among the guests
were—Mrs. Murphy, Baron Reinach, Consul for
the Kingdom of Belgium, wife, and son ; Sir Chas.
Shaw, Brigadier-General in the British army, an
old war-worn hero, with . his wife ; E. S. Wheeler,
of Philadelphia, late of the United States navy ;
Dr. Bernhard, correspondent of several English and
American newspapers, &c., &c. Mr. Jewett has in
his employ, as a free man, Robert Brown, a coloured
man, late servant and slave of Jefferson Davis,
with whom he was, at the time of the capture of his
master by the Federal troops.

THE UNION PACIFIC RAILTVAY.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
The Central Division extends from Denver to
Salt Lake City, a distance, by the proposed line, of
403 miles. There are two passes by which the
road might be carried. The present mail coach
runs through Bridger's Pass, forming a sort of semi-
circle to the route by Berthond's Pass, which may
be described as the diameter, the former the circum-
ference, being 612, that is '209 miles longer than the
latter. Not only is the present mail coach road
longer, but it is more difficult, involving the passage
of two Snowy Sierras—the Rocky Mountains and
the Wasatch. The direct road from Denver to
Salt Lake City follows the 40th degree of latitude,
and has therefore an almost due east and west course.
It ascends Clear Creek to Empire City, crosses the
Snowy Sierra at Berthoud's Pass, and descends im-
mediately into Middle Park. From the Snowy
Sierra to the Sierra Wasatch the line crosses the
valley of the great Colorado, descending by the bank
of the White River to Green, and ascending by the
bank of the Wintah River to the Wasatch. It tra-
verses a succession of parks and valleys, free from
any considerable altitudes, pursuing a river border
continuously through a country depressed among
mountains covered and protected within them,
fertile in soil and genial in temperature throughout
the year. The saving in distance is closely calcu-
lated by Mr. Leland, and he shows that nearly
$179,000 would have been economised had the mail
coach road been originally formed by this route, in
the mere expense of running the conveyance, and
in time, two days would have been saved. Nor would
these have been the only gains. The route would
have carried the traveller through a vastly superior
country, with a better climate, with timber, fuel,
and water in uninterrupted abundance and good
quality, offering to settlers along the road attractive
farms within the parks. When the railway reaches
Denver, the Eastern States will be in connection
with the great mining city. Denver stands at the
head of the rolling prairies, and is termed the City
of the Plains. As it stands also at the foot of the
Rocky Mountains at a high elevation, it might as
aptly be termed the City of the Mountains. Mr.
Hepworth Dixon described it " as containing 4,000
people, with ten or twelve streets laid out, with two
hotels, a bank, a theatre, half-a-dozen chapels, fifty
gambling-houses, and 100 grog-shops. As you
wander about these hot and dirty streets you seem
to be walking in a city of demons. Every fifth
house appears to be a bay—a whisky shop, a large
beer saloon. Every tenth house appears to be a
brothel or a gaming-house—very often both in one.
In these horrible dens a man's life is of no more
worth than a dog's. Until a couple of years ago, when
a change for the better began, it was quite usual for
honest folks to be awakened from their sleep by the
noise of exploding guns, and when daylight came
to find that a dead body had been tossed from the win-
dow into the street. No inquiry has ever been made
into the cause of death ; decent people merely said,
" Well, there is one sinner less in Denver, and may his
murderer meet his match to-morrow." A great
change has been wrought, as Mr. Dixon allows, in
these two years, and no doubt Denver, when opened
out by this line, with its immense mining wealth,
will grow with amazing rapidity. The other Ter-
minus of the Central Division is the Mormon city
of the Great Salt Lake. " This singular town
covers an area of about nine square miles—that is,
three miles each way. It is one of the most beauti-
fully laid out cities in the world. The streets are
very wide, with water running through nearly
every one of them. Every block is surrounded with
beautiful shade trees, and almost every house has
its neat little orchard of apple, peach, apricot, and
cherry trees. In fact, the whole nine square miles
is one continuous orchard." The further the
line penetrates westward,. the more difficult it be-
comes ; and it is in the westward division that
nature has piled up its greatest obstacles to test the
skill of engineers and the enterprise of the inhabi-
tants. The Government grants $48,000 per mile
for 300 miles of the most mountainous and difficult
part of this road, and $32,000 per mile for other
sections more easy of construction, while the line
across the prairies and through the valleys is sub-
sidised at only $16,000 per mile. The line is now
being carried from the navigable waters of the
Sacramento eastward through California. The
laying of the track was commenced in June, 1864,
and a considerable distance has been completed. The
Californians declare they will finish their section in
two years and a half from the beginning of thi. year.
10,000 coolies are kept constantly employed. However
energetic and skilled in mining, penetrating moun-
tains, and blasting rocks, the Californians may be,
Mr. Leland considers this estimate too sanguine, and
gives from five to ten years as the time allotted by
those who ought to know. The road will penetrate
through Utah, Nevada, and Upper California, tra-
versing the richest mining districts of these States.
The distances given by Mr. Leland are from New
York to Kansas City, via Pennsylvania, 1,357 miles.
From Kansas City to Denver, 601 miles; from
Denver to Great Salt Lake City by Berthoud's
Pass, 403 miles ; giving a total distance from the
City of the Mormons to New York, by the Pennsyl-
vania road, of 2,361 miles, or, to Philadelphia 76
miles less. What the distance is from the Mormon
City to San Francisco we have no means of ascer-
taining. 'The completioir of this road will, as we
have all along maintained, work a revolution in the
course of travel, and will exert a marked influence
on the United States. The best mining tracks will
be fairly opened to the world, and the yield of sil-
ver and gold promises to be so large that these
metals cannot escape a heavy depreciation. The
Mormon institution of polygamy will be over-
whelmed without the necessity of a blow. The vast
States of the Union will be knit together; and if
the plan advocated by Mr. Partridge be adopted,
and the capital removed to St. Louis, the Central
Government will hold a central post with every
wire in its hand that thrills to the vast extremities.
It would be easier for the Supreme Government to
rule from St. Louis over the United States by means
of the rail and the telegraph, than it was in older
days for the British Government to rule without these
aids over the United Kingdom. The holders of the
"Manifest Destiny" doctrine, founded in reason
and patriotism as it is, will gain an accession of
strength by the tide of events, and those who have
been in the habit of sneering at what they are
pleased to consider the extravagant boasting of
Americans will be compelled to confess in the ex-
traordinary speed with which these advances have
been made, that time but adds cohesion to its
strength, and that there is no necessity in nature for
the weight of this gigantic Republic to break it in
pieces.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Mr. Corry, M.P., and the members of the Board
of Admiralty who have been engaged on a visit to
the several outports, returned to London yesterday
from Portsmouth, where they disembarked from the
paddle yacht Enchantress, Staff Commander Pettey.
Rear-Admiral R. S. Robinson, Controller of the
Navy, also returned to London from Portsmouth
yesterday. Previous to the departure of their Lord-
ships from Portsmouth the Roads and Wrorks eau'
mittee of the Borough Council had an audience, by
appointment, with Mr. Corry—Sir S. C. Deeres'
K.C.8., Major Clarke, R.E., the Admiralty three-
tor of Works, and Capt. Brandreth, R.N., private
secretary, being present—to submit plans for pre'
venting the encroachment of the sea and for the
formation of an esplanade between Southsea Castle
and Fort Cumberland—a continuation of the Pre-
sent esplanade along the line of beach between
Portsmouth town fortifications and Southsea Castle'
Mr. Corry promised the most serious consideration
of the Board of Admiralty, in conjunction with the
War Department, to the scheme submitted. It
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necessary that some decisive steps should be at once
taken in the matter, the stone apron or gincis .
front of Southsea Castle being already destroyed by
the action of the sea in S. and S.E. gales, the ditches
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of its supporting and as yet unfinished iron-shielded
earthworks cut through and filled up with shingle.
The same destructive action is at work, indeed, along
the whole 4,000 yards' length of sea beach betweedo
the Castle and Fort Cumberland, and unless rowel
dial works are at once entered upon Forts LtimPS
and Eastney, which have been constructed at Wl'
mense cost, will soon have their ditches eateu
through, and their ramparts levelled with the shingle
of the beach. The deputation to Mr. Corry from
the Borough Roads and Works Committee consisted
of the Mayor, Mr. E. Emanuel ; Mr. Chambers'
J.P., ex.-Mayor ; and Mr. Councillor E. Galt.
The paddle frigate Terrible, Capt. Comnaerell,
C. 8., V.C., is under orders to sail from Spithead
this morning for the Mediterranean.
The Chanticleer, screw sloop, Commander
Bridges, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning
'rota the Thames en, route for the Pacific.