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

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY 18VENIN3, SEPTEMBER 2, 1867.

lost when the hollow square be, mme engaged in the
contest. John Leonard was fatal lysta'abed in the neck
by William Burns, who was arrest ed. A Fenian
named Jeremiah O'Brien was lately hanged for
murdering a woman, on whose waf ;es be had lived,
because she stopped the supplie3. One of the
Generals of his order superintende 1 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 religious principles of many
of his brethren. A Congress had been called to
assemble in Moz ►rt's Hall, New York, on the 21st
instant, to receive official reports, to elect new
executive officers of the Irish Republic, &c., &c.
Circulars had been printed detailing the objects
which are signed by Mr. A. Griffin.
Sonic prominent citizens of St. Joseph's county,
Missouri, have been arrested with other men for
complicity in burning a bridge o Ter the Platte River,
on the Hannibal and St. Joseph It Lilroad, in 1861,
in order to destroy a train loaded with Federal
soldiers. By this act a ptssenger train was de-
stroyed, and many persons killed. The information
was laid by a man who had boon 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
had 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.
He 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 Congress 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's 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 has
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, I'ellicer, Parreta,
and Ruis, with 663 insurgents, have availed them-
selves of the amnesty. Pierrad had crossed into
France, 4,000 insurgents had submitted 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
obliged to leave. Being reinforced, the Cretans
pursued the Turks, compelling them to descend into
the level country. Several were killed on both sides ;
fevers and dysentery prevailed among the Turkish
troops. Greek accounts maintain that the Alussul-
mans continue to massacre women and children, and
vessels of all nations were conveying them into
Greece. The blockade runner Union continues her
voyages.
Senator Morrill, of Vermont, ani 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 iu the trade between England and the
United States. It is surmised that the valuable
information acquired will lead to certain modifica-
tonlses of British manufacture.
iu the rates of duty im-
ptioosnesd,
uponif n ot
certainto redu
ac
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Eastman's Street Rails.

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to be drawn by horses on street railroads, which
we discussed some months since,
Mr. Z. EASTMAN S system of rails and carriages,
has been most
favourably reported on by the engineer of the
Paris Municipal Board of .Public Works. That
gentleman, after giving full details of EASTMAN'S
system, observes " that the intention is to furnish
an iron road for the public use, liberating it from
the control of a monopoly. The object deserves
great encouragement, and to be put seriously into
practice. It is an old idea to secure for horses a
solid footing, and at the same time to reduce the
resistance on the public roads ; but to create in a
city iron tracks for every kind of vehicle is a radical
and important innovation." In Italy, for instance,
in certain towns wheels were made to run on flat
hard stones, while the horses travelled on the paving
between. Such a plan would not answer iu any
great thoroughfare,for the obvious reason that the
track would be obliterated in mud, while the ad-
vantage would not be sufficient to induce drivers
to keep the way. The case would be very different
with EASTMAN'S rails ; just the difference between a
part of a road freshly macadamized and a part worn
into a solid even surface.
with Where drivers see a
clear advantage (as they do there), they will avail
themselves of it even at the risk of colli-
siontheir neighbours' vehicles. Let the
people believe in the gain to their horses, to
their carriages, and to their comfort, and they
will keep the track. The
only objection the en-
gineer alludes to is, that in conveyances following
each
‘other the slow would detain the quick, and
the speed would be reffulated at the minimum. Now
it is on this point Mr. EASTMAN mainly urges the
utility of his invention. The rails are especially
constructed for getting out of the track with the
greatest ease. When a fast conveyance drives up
to a slower one the driver turns from the rails,
passes the obstruction, and re-enters, as we see
coachmen act when striving to keep on the worn
and smooth way, the other portion being under
repair. Indeed, this is Mr. EASTMAN'S grand point.
Ile says to the public—l will construct a way better
than ordinary paving
in the ratio we have already
observed. It is only possible to form this road by
making parallel lines of tracks, for it must embrace
two irreconcilable advantages over the present sys- 1
tem. It must be harder than paving for the wheels '
and softer than paving for the horses. The advan-
tages will accrue to those who keep the track. A
slow vehicle will only check a faster so long as the
faster romaine ballad, and it is raised ao an objec.