The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Union Pacific Railroad is now completed
460 miles west of Omaha, Nebraska, and the
Kansas branch 278 miles west of the Missouri
River. The gross earnings of the Kansas branch
for August were $236,000, and the Government
business for some time was $BO,OOO.
The following is from the New York Daily Tribune
of 21st September, 1867 :—" The Saint Louis and
Iron Mountain Railway is under contract for an
extension to connect with the Mobile and Ohio Road
at Columbus, Kentucky. By adopting the same
gauge a line of transit will be open at all seasons
for the vast commerce of the Mississippi Valley.
The line passes through the great iron and tin
mountains of Missouri, a region remarkable for its
rich and varied mineral deposits, and which already
afford a unique, permanent, and profitable traffic.
An enormous trade also concentrates at or near the
mouth of the Ohio, employing numbers of large
steamers, and giving heavy traffic to the Illinois
Central and the Mobile and Ohio Railroads. Sr.
Louis has now a population of 220,000, and is the
principal point of trade west of New York for the
Southern States.

The Brown Brothers, of New York, and other
capitalists, propose to connect Springfield by rail
with the Erie Railroad, by means of a road to run
from Springfield to or near Collinsville, Connecti-
cut, thence through New Hartford, Winsted, Nor-
folk, and Canaan, Connecticut, and through
Dutchess county, New York, to Newburg, which is
on a branch of the Erie Road. A corps of engineers
are already surveying the route, which is believed to
be a perfectly feasible one. They call it in Con-
necticut the Connecticut Western Railroad, and
the people of Winsted and vicinity are enthusiastic
on the subject.
The negotiations which have been some time in
progress with a view to a line of railway between
St. Louis and Indianapolis, under one management,
are at length bearing fruit. The Terre Haute and
Indianapolis Railroad having refused to come into
the arrangement desired by the eastern companies,
the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad company
has been formed to construct another line of road
between Indianapolis and Terre Haute, there to
connect with the St. Louis, Alton, and Terre Haute
Railroad.

The following items are from the Wall-Street
Journal, of September 21 :
The Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad is rapidly
approaching completion. The track at Bethlehem
is now connected with the North Pennsylvania
Railroad, and also with the Bath Railroad, and in
a very few weeks the rails will be down and the
road opened to Mauch Chunk, there to connect
with the upper division extending thence to Wilkes-
Barre and Scranton. The Lehigh and Susquehanna
Railroad (which is the property of the Lehigh
Navigation Company) will have steel rails on the
48 miles of the lower division, and is throughout a
well-built line, everything about it having a look of
strength, solidity, and permanence.
It is reported that Mr. Oakes Ames has the con-
tract to build the mountain section of the Union
Pacific Railroad, some six hundred miles, receiving
therefor over $47,000,000. This is the largest
single railroad contract ever made in this country.
THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, EAST DIVISION.
—The Omaha Republican has authority for stating
that the great Pennsylvania Central Railroad Com-
pany, which was heavily interested in the Kansas
branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, has with-
drawn all its interest from it, and transferred it to
the Missouri and Mississippi Railroad Company,
through which to make connections with the Union
Pacific proper. Such immense changes show how
things are going.
All the railroads between Pittsburgh and Keokuk,
via Steubenville, Columbus, Piqua, Logansport, and
Peoria, are to be consolidated of ter the Ist January,
1868, under the name of the Pittsburgh, Indiana,
and Mississippi Railroad, forming a continuous line
of 673 miles. The link between Logansport and
Union City, Ind., will be completed on Dec. 1.
The Black River Railroad stockholders, who
recently held a meeting in Utica, to decide upon the
extension of their road, have already entered vigor-
ously upon the work. Mr. Phelps, the contractor
for building the railroad from Lyon's Falls to Low-
ville, began work lately, with a force of fifty men, at
Snugboro, in the town of Turin, and intends to begin
at the Lowville end of the route in a few days.
The Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad
has been completed to Des Nloines, the capital of
lowa. Four miles of the track were laid in forty-
eight hours. This is the first railroad completed to
Des Moines, and the people of that city are rejoicing
with exceeding great joy.

The bridge which the Hartford and New Haven
Railroad Company is building over the Farming•
ton River, at Windsor. is rapidly approaching com-
pletion, and will be the finest structure of the kind
in New England. It will be 460 feet long and 35
feet above the water.

The Eric Railroad Company has sent 25 tons of
iron to the Syracuse Steel Works, to be made into
steel rails, by the Bessemer process, which makes
steel ductile and tenacious without impairing its
durability.

The Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Com-
pany have expended on buildings and other im-
provements in 'Meadville, Pennsylvania, the sum of
$712,000. It has 600 employes living in Mead-

ville, to whom it pays $40,000 per mouth. 'The
disbursements of the company for repairs and sup-
plies at Ahadville amount to $150,000 per annum.
Railroads are projected from Jackson, Tennessee,
to Paducah, and from Memphis by the river route
to Cairo.

The Pacific Railroad is now receiving hemlock
railroad ties from Chicago, 500 miles, and then up
the road 400 miles-900 miles by rail—at a cost,
delivered at the Missouri River, of not over 8 cents
per tie.
A railroad is grading from Corinth to Pittsburg
Lauding, and a route is further projected from
Pittsburg Landing to Nashville, Tennessee.
The Winona and St. Peter's Railroad is open to
Waseca, one hundred and five miles west of the
Mississippi River.

TIIE HARTFORD AND NEW HAVEN RAILROAD
ComrANY.—The annual meeting of this company

was held at Hartford, Connecticut, on September
18th, and a quarterly dividend of 5 per cent. was
declared. The income of the road for the year end•
ing August 31st was $1,685,334 59 ; the expenses
amounted to $1,141,337 70 ; the nett income of
the year, after aeducting all the expenses, was
$543,996 89, being an increase of $84,800 28 over
the nett earnings of last year. The old board of
directors have been re-elected, excepting Charles M.
Pond, of Hartford, who takes the place of Samuel
H. Parsons, of Middletown. The management of
the road is in the most satisfactory condition.
RAILROADS IN MINNESOTA.—We are informed
that the rails have been laid on the Minnesota Cen-
tral Railroad as far as Austin, Mower County, in
this State, and that trains will commence to that
point on Monday next.
The work up on the M'Gregor Road, starting
from M'Gregor, lowa, opposite du Chien, has been
completed to Leroy, also in Mower County.
Austin and Leroy are distant from each other
about twenty-eight miles. Over this intervening
gap the roads are at both ends being rapidly pushed
forward, and trains will doubtless be running over
the whole length of the road in October.
Some idea can be formed of the importance of the
completion of this link of the chain that in winter
as well as in summer gives us regular railroad con-
nection with the other parts of the country, when
it is considered that until the completion of the St.
Paul and Chicago Railroad there is in winter no
direct steam line to the South and East, and until
the completion of the road between Winona and
La Crosse, no other steam communication whatever
in that season of the year.
In this connection it may be right to state that
the work upon the St. Paul and Lake Superior Road
in this vicinity is being rapidly pushed through the
bluffs at quite a number of different points, and
that the prospects throughout are particularly en-
couraging.

Add to this the rapid progress being made upon the
St. Paul and Pacificßoad, the efforts made and strong
force at work on the road between Winona and La
Crosse, as well as the work being done on the other
railroads of the State, and some idea can be formed
of the great results speedily to be attained in the
way of facilitating communication, and conse-
quently in developing the wonderful•resources of the
North Star State.—St. Paul Press, Sept. 14.

CBE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCIDBER 7, 1867.

bers, as active and organized—is in favour of sacri-
lege, of Republicanism, and of Revolution. On
the other, a large, but somewhat inert or intimi-
dated majority, is filled with a profound reverence
for the Church—for priests and monks—and bears,
above all, a filial attachment to the Holy Father,
and a traditional reverence towards Rome as the
seat of the Papal sovereignty. Westminster
Gazette.

expect to find in a literary paper. With the resources at
our command, we will (sic) be able to offer a brilliant array
of talent, unsurpassed in Ameiicau periodical literature ;
wits, poets, humorists, artists, critics, travellers—all who
have anything witty, wise, clover, humorous, brilliant, or
interesting to say, will be welcome in Southern Society,
whether they possess the "magic of a name" or not.' We
shall not, however, criticise prophetically, and trust that
the new-comer may command success."

Dr. J. G. Holland's purposed two years' trip to
Europe will not, as has been rumoured, be made until next
year.

The controversy is continued iii the 10th Septem-
ber number of the Nation between J. F. Kirk and that
journal on Thomas Carlyle. Although Mr. Kirk is a
forcible writer, ho is unable to maintain his position against
the Nation, and Mr. Carlyle consequently comes to grief.
_ _

Miss Adah Isaacs Menkca is said to be preparing
a volume of poems for the press.

Madame Ristori, with her dramatic troupe,
reached New York, September 12, from Havre, in the
steamer Europe. She commenced her performances on
the 18th in the French Theatre. Sho will play in the
new tragedy, by Giacomo, from the History of Marie An-
toinette.

Mr. Edwin Booth, the tragedian, applied to the
War Department for a trunk kept the.-e belonging to the
assassin, John Wilkes Booth. This trunk contains
clothing and a few books and papers, but the Government
refuse to surrender it.

Wilkes's Spirit says :
"Dramatic.—General Beauregard making a
Union after-dinner speech in the New York Hotel.

"Edwin Booth has suddenly terminated his en-
gagement in Baltimore through the accidental infliction of
a severe sword cut on his hand.

" Tom Taylor wields the sceptre on the dramatic
throne of the London Times during the visit of Mr. Oxen-
ford to this country.

"Mrs. Lander is playing Elizabeth in Boston to
crowds of cultivated Bostonians."

➢ir. T. S. Clarke, who has attained a high repu-
tation in the United States in broad comedy, will shortly
appear at the St. James's Theatre.

Mr. D. E. Bandmann, from America, will, in
February, replace Mr. Fechter at the Lyceum.

Miss Bateman (now Mrs. Crow) has been en-
gaged on the following provincial tour, which is her first
appearance since her return from America :—Theatre
Royal, Liverpool, Oct. 7 ; Theatre Royal, Birmingham,
Oct. 21; Theatre Royal, Manchester, Nov. 13; Theatre
Royal, Bath and Bristol, Dec. 9.

William Lloyd Garrison is to be at Frankfort-
on-the-Maine this week. It is proposed to give him a
public dinner there. He is worthy of all the feting he re-
ceives, being the pioneer in the anti-slavery cause. He
was honest, faithful, and true.

Mr. Wendell Phillips has issued the following
Presidential ticket : For President, Thaddeus Stevens ;
Vice-President, Frederick Douglas.
General Mower, who is in temporary commani in
Louisiana, has prohibited the assembling of armed men
for political and other purposes.

Mrs. Theresa Longworth Yelverton is now giving
Readings in New York, and attracting some attention.
The Tribune asserts that Major Yelverton was forced to
resign his commission in the army, because he was living
with another woman not his wife. The Nation corrects
this by stating that ho was dismissed for having, on his
own confession, gone through a marriage ceremony in
Ireland which he did not believe to be legally binding, for
the purpose of betraying her, and for divers other frauds
and falsehoods there anent. The truth is that the Hon.
W. C. Yelverton was placed on half-pay, and not dismissed.
Ho was an officer of the Royal Artillery, being a captain,
with the brevet rank of major, as there is no such regi-
mental rank in that corps. He obtained his promotion for
service in the Crimea, and was removed to the half-pay
list on the scandal being made public. But he remains an
officer of the British army, eligible at any time to be brought
in on full pay.

The Imperial Court of Paris, on Thursday, the
26th ult., confirmed the sentence of a month's imprison-
ment and a fine of 100 francs, from which the hotelkeeper,
Lemoine, had appealed. Our readers aro not likely to
forget that this was the ruffian who assaulted an American
lady, and who seemed to concentrate within himself a
more than usual amount of the extortion and insolence of
Paris hotelkeepers. One would suppose that the gang
might be content with the rich harvest they had made out
of American gentlemen without insulting unprotected
American ladies. Wo hope that Lemoine will not find his
punishment end with his release from imprisonment.
Indeed, any one who goes to his hotel will deserve the
treatment in store for them.

Count IVydenbruck, for several years past the
Austrian Minister at Washington, has returned to Europe.
Ho was entertained before his departure by the Secretary
of State at dinner, at which the diplomatic corps were
present. He will be succeeded by Count von Frankenstein,
the present Austrian Ambassador at Copenhagen, and
pending Ms arrival the Secretary of Legation acts as
Charge d'Affaires.

The Dean of Westminster and his wife, Lady
Augusta Stanley, returned from Scotland to entertain the
American bishops now visiting England. The news of the
death of her ladyship's brother, Sir Frederick Bruce, pro-
vented this intention. Tho Pall Mall Gazette says :—" It
is well known that the Dean of Westminster declined to
give permission for a week-day special service in the
Abbey during the meeting of the Pan-Anglican Synod.
The Conference sat with closed doors, and it is said the
Dean and Chapter did not wish, even in this indirect way,
to appear as endorsing all that might take place. The
Dean, however, is said to have sent a very kind letter,
inviting all our American episcopal visitors to the Abbey
last Sunday."

A letter from Garibaldi has been published at
Florence, in which the General declares that he accepted
the offer of liberty to proceed to Caprera without agreeing
to any conditions. In consistency with this information
we are told that the Italian Government continues its
precautions on the Papal frontier. The King has arrived
at Florence.

The Porter prize of $6O for the best examination
for admission to Amherst College has been awarded to
Theodore M. Osborne, of South Danvers, Western Massa-
chusetts.

The Rev. George W. Sheldon, son of Rev. Dr.
Sheldon, formerly of Northampton, who has been for the
last two years tutor in Prin'eton College, New York, has
declined the professorship of Greek in Miema University,
Ohio, having been appointed instructor in Hebrew in the
Union Theological Seminary at New York.
George W. Ballou has been chosen cashier of
tho First National Bank of Greenfield.

E. G. Everett, of Greenfield, the well-known con-
ductor of twenty years' service on the Vermont and Mas-
sachusetts Railroad, is going to resign and try farming at
tho West.

The editors Henry J. Raymond and Park Godwin
arrived at New York in the steamship Arago, from Europe,
on Thursday, the 19th ultimo.
The Assistant-Secretary of the Treasury, Mr.
Chandler, talks of resigning, and recommends Colonel
Thorpe, of St. Louis, as his successor.
Mr. Callicott, the Brooklyn collector of Internal
Revenue, has been suspended, and arrested until the pro-
secution against him has been decided.
The remains of J. Wilkes Booth are to be re-
moved from the arsenal grounds in consequence of improve-
ments. It is not yet decided what is to be done with
them, but they have been refused to his brother, Edwin
Booth, as well as those of Mrs. Surratt to her daughter.
General Grant, who is noted for fast driving, ran
over a small boy without inflicting much injury. He has
to pay the doctor's bill.
W. S. Andrews, second deputy, will act as col.
lector during Callicott's suspension.
Senators Nye, of Nevada, Cameron, of Pennsyl-
vania, and Cattell, New Jersey, addressed a mass meeting
of Republicans at Philadelphia.
General J. T. Reynolds has been assigned the
command in Texas, and General W. Heaton in Louisiana.
General Joseph A. Mower, who temporarily as-
sumed command of the district on General Griffin's death,
has boon attacked with yellow fever, as well as General
Heaton, but both are recovering.
The United States screw steam frigate Franklyn,
Flag Admiral Faragut, now lying in the Thames, was on
Monday inspected by Commodore Edmonstone, C. 8.,
A.D.C. to the Queen, who went down from Woolwich,
accompanied by his Flag Commander Jackson, and paid
a complimentary visit to the gallant admiral by previous
arrangement. The frigate is accompanied by the steam
tender Frolic. Admiral Faragut is expected to visit
Woolwich and inspect the dockyard, and probably the
departments of the arsenal, in a few days.
A laughable mistake occurred in the seizure and
confiscation of some journals in Cologne by order of the
Prussian Government for some political article. The order
was to open the mails and seize the Cologne papers, but
by mistake it was sent to Dusseldorf and one of the pro-
minent journals. These wore seized and confiscated by
mistake. This is a rich thing for a free country to do.
We suppose the Government does not make any amends
for such conduct.

General Beauregard spoke at a dinner given him
in New York by some Southern gentlemen in terms of
high admiration of the Government of the United States.
It was sheer nonsense to talk of another rebellion. The
dogma of State sovereignty had been whipped out of him,
and he urged his hearers to support the Government, and
add lustre to the glories of a united people.
Mark Twain, special correspondent of the New
York Tribune, has sent to that journal an account of the
entertainment given to the tourists of the Quaker City by
the Emperor of Russia at his summer palace. He appears
to have been much impressed with the simplicity of attire
coupled with the dignity of manner in his entertainers.
General Washburne, member of Congress, from
Wisconsin, was at Frankfort-on-the-Maine on Friday last,

General Dix is in Paris, but his family are still
at the Spa in Belgium.
making a hurried tour through Germany. He also visited
Homburgh. He was with M. Gibbs, Esq. Mr. Wash-
burne is ono of the noted members of the Washburn°
family.

George 11. Pendleton, the distinguished Copper-
head disunionist of Ohio, is advocating the payment of the
United States' debt in greenbacks. Mr. Pendleton opposed
the war, and now does this out of unpatriotic motives. He
does not like to see a debt paid which was created to carry
on the war for the restoration of the Union.

Nr. Ernest Jones, counsel for the Fenian priso-
ners at Manchester, has been severely condemned by the
preas for his conduct in conducting the prosecution.
The daughter of Captain Cook, who was last week
reported to have died, turns out to have been a myth. Cap-
tain Cook was married towards the end of 1762 to Miss
Elizabeth Batts, at Barking, Essex, by whom ho had six
children, three girls, who died in infancy, and three boys.
D. A. Bills, Special Internal Revenue Commissioner
of the United States, and who visited Europe last summer,
arrived home in New York on the 11th September. Letters
from him to prominent baukeis at Frankfort-on-the Maine
give a favourable account of our finances and crops at
home. Mr. Hills anticipates a fall of gold very soon, and
says every sensible man laughs at the idea of paying the
5-20's in greenbacks. No prominent man, unless he is a
Copperhead, sustains this doctrine, with perhaps one ex-
ception.

M. Gousset, the chief restaurateur at the Exhibi-
tion, is a bankrupt, with liabilities estimated at 1,500,000
francs.

Governor Dyer and family are at Homburgh les
Gains, and purpose going to New York in the Bremen
steamer Deutschland on the 24th of October inst.

The Greek Minister is negotiating at Washington
for the purchase of two ironclads, which the Government
are willing to sell.

Messrs. Peter Buchanan and Co., of Glasgow,
have suspended payment, their difficulties having arisen
from the want of punctuality in receiving their remittances
from Canada.

Mr. Charles Dickens is to leave Liverpool for
New York on the 2d November.

The Presidential party returned to Washington
from Antietam on the 18th ultimo.

General Grant was not even invited to attend the
ceremony at Antietam.

A very gallant French officer died at the St.
Julian Hotel, New York, on Saturday, Sept. 14. Ernest
de Fleury, formerly Baron de Lille, had escaped in the
most romantic manner from Queretaro, where ho held the
post of Colonel in the Imperial Chasseurs under Maxi-
milian. When captured ho was tried by court-martial,
and sentenced to bo shot. He bribed his guard and
escaped, only poor follow to die within a few weoks after
at Now York.

General O'Horan was shot at Queretaro on the
22d August, in spite of the earnest remonstrance of the
United States through the Minister, Mr. Otterburgh.
The following particulars of his execution have been
given in the Now York papers :—" M six o'clock
General O'Horan was conducted from his prison at the
palace to the Plazuela do Mix Cale° in a carriage,
accompanied by two priests and a guard. A force
of about 3,000 soldiery were formed into a square, and the
prisoner conducted or marched up to a wall on ono side of
the Plazuola. Here he stopped, and standing on one foot
folded his handkerchief over his knee and adjusted it over
his eyes. He then requested the detail of soldiers, who were
but, three or four yards in his front, to fire at his heart and not
at his face, exclaiming, Viva Mexico ! Viva Mexico ! Viva
Independencia 1" and fell pierced in the body and lungs by a
dozen bullets. The shooting was poorly done, as four
different (single) shots were required afterwards to insure
his death, owing to the soldiers not hitting his heart.
O'Horan refused to turn his back to the muskets, claiming
that he was not a traitor. Accordingly, just before the
volley, an officer took him gently by the shoulder and
turned him." He was a native of ' Guatemala, but had
been naturalised at a very early age in Yucatan, whore
he was much beloved and possessed groat authority. A
letter to his countrymen, written the night before his death
and published in full, though without comment, by the jour-
nals, is considered the most effective check yet applied to
the regime of political proscription. He says that in the
difficult circumstances he judged the cause of order to bo
the cause of country, and that he only consented to serve
the Empire when ho could no longer discover the
Rebpulic.
Two fatal cases of cholera have occurred at
Omaha, Nebraska, J. B. Sutton, a prominent citizen, being
one of the victims.