The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1867.

THE GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY.

tioned the instance of the fantastic drains "Black C:ook,"
which, on the strength of scenery and dancing alone, has
attracted crowds to Niblo's for more than 100 nights, and
oven now gives no signs of mortality. But the best scenes
of " Black Crook" came from England, and generally the
scenic artists of America aro not oven remotely comparable
to those of London. Tho drop scenes for the most part
are very crude spocimens of art, nor do I anywhere find a
trace of the talent which is so conspicuous in our Beverley,
Telbin, Calcott, and Fenton." _ _ _

Office, florseferry-road, Westminster,
11th October, 1,67.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a
HALF YEARLY GENEKAL COURT of the Pro-
prietors of Oils Company will lyit held at this 0111:e on
F DAY, the Ist day of November neat.
1 he Chair will he taken at Twelve o'cipck preci,ely.
NOTiCE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that at the same
Meeting the Annual Election of Audi,ors will take place,
and, should a Ballot be required, it will continue open for
tour hours from its commencement.

By order,
JOHN ORWELL PHILLIPS, Secretary,

The houses in Now York look large to the Londoner
accustomed to those pretty little band-boxes which afford
such delight in the old country, and who no longer takes
for his standard the dimensions of Drury-lane. Notwith-
standing the success of Mr. Robertson's " Caste," the
writer considers that Americans do not like the represen-
tations of the short comedies prevailing in the smaller
London theatres ; the habits of the people oven present a
serious impediment to the formation of a programme com-
posed of several small pieces. None of the theatres open
before 8 o'clock, and they all close at 11, which would not
give time for throe pieces to come within the prescribed
limits unless too short to be of value. At almost rtll the
theatres on Saturday morning, performances called Ma-
tinees, commence at half-past two, and in Barnum's Museum
there are two performances every day. " 1 may
hero mention," concludes the writer, in allusion to
the liquor laws of the United States, a droll instance
of a dramatic joke answering a purpose which the author
never intended. In Mr. Robertson's " Caste" the drunken old
plebeian is advised to retire to Jersey, and there drink
himself to death, reference being, of course, to the absence
of Customs laws in the Channel Islands. As the privileges
of these islands do not greatly occupy the mind of the
Britishers, the wholesome oounsol did not produce much
effect at the Prince of Wales's ; but wh04.,.i11e piece was
brought out at the Broadway the smart American instantly
applied the passage to New Jersey, and the roar was louder
than at any other line of the comedy

WALKER'S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
are superseding, all others Prize medals, London,
186 z, Parisi, 1867. Gold from £l5 155., silver from £6 66.-
68, Cornhilt, and 230, Regent-street.

nANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per-
tectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers
and wholesale of JOHN BUtiGESS and SON, 107, Strand
(corner of Savoy-steps), London.

BARRACK CONTRACTS FOR THE SUPPLY OF
PAILLASSE STRAW IN GREAT BRITAIN.
War-office, Pall-mall, London, S.W.,
sth October, 1867.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN; that the
SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is prepared
to receive TENDERS for the SUPPLY of STRAW for
PAILLASSES at the various Barrack Stations in Great
Britain for a period of One Year, from Ist November next.
Tenders will not be entertained unless made upon the
proper printed form, which may bo obtained, with every
requisite information, upon application at this Office, or to
the various Barrack Masters, between the hours of 10 and
4 o'clock each day, Sundays excepted.
The Tenders must be sent to this Office, addressed to
the Director of Contracts, marked on the outside "Tender
for Paillasse Straw," on or before Thursday, 17th instant,
after which day no Tender will be received.
The Secretary of SO:* for War reserves the right of
rejecting any or all of the Tenders.
THOMAS HOWELL, Director of Contracts.

KOTAH PRIZE MONEY.
INDIA OFFICE, Oct. 8, 1867.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that PRIZE
ROLLS for the undermentioned Corps of her Ma-
jesty's late Indian Forces, on account of the first distri-
bution of PRIZE MONEY for the capture of KOTAH in
1858, containing the names of those whose shares have
not been paid in India, have been received ; and that dis-
tribution of such shares will commence at the Military
Department of this Office on the Bth Nov. next, and will be
continued daily (Saturdays excepted) between the hours
of eleven and two o'clock... :
Officers on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief in India.
Officers of the Meena Battalion.
Officers of Bengal Army attached to the 2d Regiment
Bombay Light Cavalry.
Head-quarters Staff.
Ist Brigade Staff.
2d Brigade Staff.
Rajpootana Field Brigade.
Artillery Brigade Staff.
2d Troop Bombay Horse Artillery.
3d Troop „
Ist Company, 2d Battalion, Bombay Artillery, and No. 2,
Light Field Battery, attached.
4th Company, 3d Battalion, and No. 8 Light Field Battery.
4th Battalion Bombay Artillery.
Ist Regiment Bombay Light Cavalry.
2cl 11
2d Regiment Sind 11
Horse.
3d Regiment Sind (Belooch) Horse.
10th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry.
12th 17 11 11 11
13th „ 11 11
3d Company Bombay Sappers and Miners.
Ordnance Department.
Applications from soldiers who belonged to those forces
(men now serving in her Majesty's British Regiments ex-
cepted) must be addressed to the Military Secretary, India-
office, and must contain full particulars of Corps, Regi-
mental numbers, &c.
Applications from men formerly belonging to her Ma-
jesty's Indian Forces, who have re-enlisted into Regiments
of her Majesty's British service, can only be received
through the officer commanding the Corps in which such
men are now serving.
Pensioners must apply through the Staff Officer of Pen-
sioners of their districts.

TILE GREAT REPUBLIC GOI:D AND SILVER
IIILVING COMPANY.

The bonds offered by the Great Republic Gold
and Silver Mining Company have some points worth

he careful attention of investors. They combine a

good solid security for a high interest, with a pleas-
ing prospective or speculative gain, which men
generally can only procure by risking the total loss
of the money invested. If bonds for £lOO be given
for £6O, on which 7 per cent. is payable in London,

half-yearly, such an investment, if the security be
good, is sufficiently attractive. But the real in-
ducement to take up these bonds does not lie in this.
We have no hesitation in asserting that the most

splendid prizes offered to the world are in the mines
of Nevada. Scores of them are yielding fabulous
returns for the capital employed. Whatever may
be the merits of the Great Republic, it is situated
in the very core of this wealthy mineral country.
A celebrated mining engineer asserts that the geolo-

gicalformation is far in favour of the Manhattan and
the Peak, and the result shows that the capital ex-
pended, has in the space of three months given a
dividend which excels the Comstock in its palmiest
days. Our readers know what that dividend ;s. If
the Great Republic can approach the mines of the
Comstock—for every £lOO the investor should re-
ceive £5OO a year. There is no reason why this com-
pany should not return as good dividends. Thus
the bondholders may eventually secure an
enormous prize, for there is a clause in the
contract offered by which they may convert
their bonds into shares at any time within
three years upon application to the trustees, re-
ceiving the shares at par. By taking up the
bonds they incur no risks, but if the mine turns
out to be as rich as reported the holders may drop
into a prize they little anticipated. Our sources
of information show it to be beyond question that
the State of Nevada is the richest silver country
of the world. The Reese River district is among
the most famous, and the Smoky Valley is now
exciting great interest in the mining regions from
its enormous wealth. Austin, the second city of
the State, stands to the east of Reese River Valley,
and is the rapidly growing metropolis of the rich
mining country where it is so well placed. The
direction of the hills is in parallel lines, running
north and south, and the roads trending through
the vallies join at Austin. The Reese River Valley,
for instance, maintains a generally parallel direc-
tion with the Smoky Valley and that with the Ral-

T. T. PEARS, Major-General,
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DFL SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS
PILLS.—A NEVER, FAILING RESlEDY.—Pro-
tared without any mercurial ingredient, trom the recipe of Dr.
'tett, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
suffer from bilious and liver nomplainte, indigestion., wind,
spasms, giddiness, dizzinebs of the eyes, Btc. For habitual
mstiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro-
mote ilgestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, Chemist, 8, King
William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most drug-
gists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one,
2s. ild. Be mare to ask for Dr. Scott's Billow) and Liver Pills.
The genuine are a square green paokkge, with " William
Lambert." engraved on the stamp.

ston Valley. The Manhattan district is situated on
the eastern range of the Smoky Valley, about 75
miles south of Austin. The road runs up the valley,
passing by several mines, till it reaches Manhattan
District, when a branch road joins through the
Asteroid " Canon," as the vales are termed in
Nevada, which road penetrates the Great Republic
Gold and Silver Mining property. The whole State
is healthy, the Indians few in number and quite
harmless. They belong to the Shoshone tribe, and
do not exceed 800, scattered over a wide area, of
which Austin is the centre. Most of the ore in the
country round Austin is reduced in the quartz mills
of that city, of which there are seven constantly at
work. As the ore increases in quantity and
the more distant mines are developed mills
have been erected over the district, several
are in course of construction, and some completed
in the Smoky Valley. The yield of silver per ton
from the Austin quartz mills is from $lOO to $6OO,
the average being at least, according to the last
accounts, $2OO. The cost of extracting ores in that
region varies widely, being dependent on the body
contained in the mine and the facilities for reaching
it. Ore is delivered at Austin as low as $8 to $lO
per ton, and as high as $25 to $3O, averaging about
$l5. From 43 ledges in the immediate neighbour-
hood 1,451 tons of ore were reduced during the
first quarter of the present year, from which the
lowest yield was $36 44c., and the highest
$520 05c. per ton, the average being $l7O ; a con-
siderable increase on the yield g:ven by the ores
during the preceding quarter, and showing a ten-
dency to increase in richness in proportion to the
depth. The shipment of bullion for the first quarter
of the year from Austin through public channels
amounted to $389,307, which would be very largely
increased if the sums conveyed through private
hands were added. Labour throughout the States
commands from $4 to $6 a day without board, and
in the Reese River district, where the demand is
large, to develope the vast mineral wealth, it ranges
even higher. The country is volcanic, hot springs
abounding, emitting steam and sulphurous vapour.
The plains stretch in monotonous, dry, and sage-
covered valleys, with parallel mountains covered with
the same vegetation, and differing only in their
rock formation. This changes from the strata of
slate, granite, syenite, and marble, to the volcanic
rocks of scoria and trachyte. The whole country
through the Smoky Valley and Charnock's Pass,
and to Hot Creek mining district, 100 miles south
east from Austin, is fabulously rich in silver ore;
even the surface yield, in some instances, ranging
fram $3,000 to $12,000 per ton. As far as explored
Horn silver or native chloride of silver is the predo •
minating ore at the surface. The country round
is the core of the very richest silver region ever dis-
covered. The famous mines of South America and
Mexico sink into insignificance when brought into
comparison.
The Mining Journal of Saturday last has the fol-
lowing remarks on this property :—" As observed
in last week's Journal, the Great Republic Gold and
Silver Mining Company have some of the most
valuable mines in Nevada, and it is fully antici-
pated that their mines will pay dividends equal to
the best in that country. That silver mines are
paying, that legitimate investments may be made in
them, there is no question, and the bonds of this
company are offered as a safe and profitable invest-
ment. The arrangements for the payment of the
interest upon the issue of £lOO,OOO 7 per cent. bonds
is such as to secure their prompt payment; there is
also the option to the holders of converting their
bonds into fully paid-up shares, at $5 to the pound,
while the bonds are issued at 60 per cent., equivalent
to the fully paid-up shares, costing but $3 per
pound upon their value. The bondholders not only
hold the entire mining property of the company,
but all the machinery, reduction works, and deve-
lopments which are to be made from the sale of the
bonds as a security for the loan."
speaking of the security, the Morning Post

observes :—" The payment of each bond amply-
securrd by a deed of trust, or mortgage from the:
company, conveying all the property they now own,
or may hereafter acquire, including all the machi-
nery, fixtures, land, and property of every kind and
description, which fact is fully set forth in the body
of the bonds, and endorsed thereon by the trustee.
There can be no risk to the investor, as the property
now owned by the company free and unencumbered
by any other debt is more than sufficient to pay the
entire loan."

The Standard says, " The company, knowing the
advantage of working all their mines at the same
time, have issued bonds payable in six years from
their date, and drawing 7 per cent. interest, payable
semi-annually, for the purpose of meeting the
necessary large expense in procuring machinery and
transporting the same to the mines."
The following summary of the report on the lodes
is given by the Mining Journal :—" The mines
have been inspected and reported upon by Mr. W.
M. Murray, mining engineer, and by Professor J.
E. Clayton, the report of each of these gentlemen
being appended to the prospectus. Mr. Murray re-
ports Manhattan to contain a vein of black an-
timonial ore five feet thick, assa):ng from
$53.69 to $270 ; Cherokee, a vein seven feet
thick, ore sulphuret of, copper holding gold, assay-
ing $45.23 to• $308.63 ; Choctaw, a vein 6 feet
thick, sulphoid of silver, assaying $29.63 t
$196.23 ; Seneca, a vein 15 ft. wide, ore sulphuret
of silver (this vein is described as well defined, and
cropping out for 1,000 feet), assaying from $63 to
$372; and Wyoming, a vein 5 ft. thick, showing
free gold, and assaying from $91.13 to $516. Mr.
Murray considers that " this district when deve-
loped will far exceed Silver Peak, in the said county.
My reasons for making this statement will be plain
to all who may visit either—the geological forma-
tion is far in favour of the Manhattan, and the
Peak, considering the capital expended, has in the
space of three months given a dividend which ex-
cels the Comstock in its palmiest days." Professor
J. E. Clayton reports that he has traced one vein
that is from 6 to 15 feet thick, well defined, good

true walls, and crops out boldly for about 1,000
feet in length ; he made some tests of the ore that
yielded over $2OO per ton. This is a good silver-
beat:ng district, the veins contain a great deal of
horn silver, and compact chloride ore in great quan-
tity, which can be easily extracted from these mines.
The supply of wood and water is convenient, and
sufficient for all practical purposes. The district is
easily acc-Isible by a good road."
Our work as American journalists throws in our
way information in advance of the English public
on these subjects, and we are satisfied that the
wealth of Nevada and some of the adjoin ing States
and territories is so enormous, the facilities by
which it can be reached are so rapidly completing,
that the drift of British capital cannot fail to
tend soon in that direction, and those who are early
in
the
field will, we feel sure, reap the reward of
their enterprise.—Anglo-American Times.

STARTLING DISCOVERY IN STAFFORD•

SHIRE.

An extraordivary discovery has just been made in. pointed to the office of Secretary of State, and then
a remote part of Staffordshire. That counv at its elected to the highest office in the gift of the people.
west-south-west extremity projects out, throsts So that to be appointed Secretary of State then was
itself by a narrow neck some half dozen miles in equivalent to a nomination for the President's office
length by two miles in breadth at its widest part at the next election. Previous to 1824 the members of
between Shropshire on the north-west and Worces- Congress usually consulted together and recom-
tershire on the south-east, and at its west-south-
mended a suitable candidate for President. This fora
est it is crossed by the Severn, which at that
time was successful; but in 1824 the members of Con-
from gross were divided. One party recommended Mr.
point only touches Staffordshire on its way
Shropshire into Worcestershire. The extremity of Crawford, the other party opposed his nomination,
this tract of land is a wild territory, composed chiefly and, owing to this division, the plan was abandoned
of two rude coppices, belonging the one to Mr. of Congress recommending candidates.
Woodward, a Liverpool merchant, but a magistrate Then came the period of conventions. Party
of Staffordshire, who resides at Areley Castle, not nominations were made by conventions of delegates
from all the States. At first they worked well, re-
far off, and the other to the- Earl of Dudley, and
re-
Bewdley Forest joins up to the coppices. fleeting the will of the people. But a rule was in-
At a remote period mining was cal:ied on vented that no one should be nominated unless two-
throughout the tract of land now used for the growth thirds of the members of the convention approved
of underwood, but so little ar3 the traces of mining of him. This enabled the minority to control the
or erations visible that neither Mr. Woodward nor his majority, and proved of immense service to the
steward knew that there were any pit shafts in their slave party. To manage the convention was to
coppice. There are, however, several there, though rule the country, for so strong was party discipline
they are scarcely visible by reason of the thickness that whoever was nominated was certain to receive
of the underwood, by which they are a'ike over-
the votes of the party represented.
grown and surrounded. One of these shafts, situate The adoption of the two-thirds rule changed the
so near to the extreme west-south-west point as to current of events. The majority of the Democrat
be withiu 20 yards of the parish of Stottesden, in Convention that assembled in 1814 was pledged to
Shropshire, is now revealing dark deeds years ago support Van Buren for President. Yet by the
committed. working of the above rule Polk received the nomi-
Some charcoal burners were at work there, and, nation. The war with Mexico followed, and all the
wanting water, obtained it from this pit shaft, other evils arising from the attempt to extend
which, however, they conceived was the evidence slavery, including the secession and the rebellion.
merely of scale open workings that had once been The rule enabled a minority to accomplish its par-
used in the getting of coal, for they did not think pose by intrigue and indirection. Men distin-
that it was more than Gft. deep. The land had guished for their ability, such as Van Buren, Cass,
drained into it, and for some time easy obtained an Wright, and Douglas, were superseded by men dis-
abundant supply. Presently, getting near to what tinguished for their inability, such as Pierce and
they thought wrs the bottom, they brought up in Buchanan. The rule was a weapon with which the
their bucket a portion of the sleeve of a woman's ambitious but unsuccessful politician could strike
nightlre:s. Searching further they brought up a down his more successful competitor. Strong-
guano bag, and in it the corpse of an infant, which minded men could obtain a vote of the majority,
fell to pieces when the bag was opened. The body but not two-thirds of a ccnvention, and when a
had been wrapped in the nightgown, and to the bag division took place political nobodies were brought
a brick had been tied. The brick also was re-overed, forward professedly to make peace and secure unity,
but not the string which had tied it by which there but really to serve the slaveholders.
is es :deuce it had been tied to the bag. The election of Mr. Lincoln was the result of a
The police were communicated with and an in- division in the Democratic convention in 1860.
quest opened before Mr. W. H. Philips, Deputy Had the convention been united and nominated
Coroner for that part of Staffordshire. The re- Senator Douglass, the numbers and discipline of
mains had been submitted to Dr. Holyoake, of the party would have secured his election es
Kinver, and he pronounced them those of a full President.
grown child, which had been in the water perhaps Treaties and laws are affected by the popular
18 months. More than this he could not say. The sentiment of the place where they are made, and
state of decomposition in which the body was found this is equally true of nominating conventions.
precluded all possibility of arriving at the cause of With but few exceptions the pro-slavery and slave-
death. The Deputy Coroner adjourned the inquest, holding Presidents were nominated by conventions
and ordered a further search of the pit to be made, meeting in the Slave States, while the anti-slavery
and if necessary, th 3 pit to be drained. Mr. Wood- candidates for President were, without exception,
ward lent men to carry out the coroner's instruc- nominated in the Free States, and never by a two-
tions. They had scarcely set to work before they thirds rule, but always by a majority vote.
found that their tesk was not only laborious, but It may be observed that a Convention assembling
also a most offensive one. The water was shock- in the West would be more likely to select a
ingly polluted, and stimulants had to be served out Western than an Eastern man as candidate, and an
frequently to keep the searchers at work. That it Eastern Convention would prefer an Eastern man.
was so polluted they soon ascertained there was no My own impressions are that if in 1860 the Repub-
great cause for surprise. Among a quantity of lican Convention had met in New York instead of
filthy animal and earthly matter in which were Illinois, Mr. Seward, an Eas
tern man, would have
many branches of trees that appeared to form the been nominated instead of . Linoln.
The earlier
bottom of the pit they raked the bones of a second That the people at the app
believe.roaching elections will
infant, some of them blackened and othersblanched. make a wise choice I fully
ed men, but when the
This body had evidently been there a much longer Presidents were distinguih
time than the one first discovered, for not only were electors trusted to slaveholders and party machinery
there no traces of fle-h, but also no clothing :n they were rewarded with weak presidents. The
next President will mate-
which the body might have been wrapped could be power, however, of the
traced. e discussions preparatory to
rially depend on the state of the public mind, and I
Still prosecuting their search, portions of a third think the tendency of th
body were found deeper in the apparent bottom of the election will spread know.ledge, remove preju-
the pit before described. These remains, too, were dice, promote justice, and bring all parties nearer
fleshless ; and they were those, Dr. Holyoake pro- together.
flounces, of a boy quite six years old. He poor At no period did the antislavery cause make
and the ablest
fellow, there can be very l'ttle doubt, was foully such progress as on the eve of a Presidential election.
murdered. His legs had been tied together about Anti-slavery nominations were made,
and in their
1 the anl-les so tightly that the cord rema 'led fast speakers travelled through the. North, • '
even after the flesh had all wasted ft'Way. So addresses reviewed the whole history of the Govern-
tightly, indeed, was the cord still fast to We bones ment, and the whole influence
ex-oofoverno slavery
Slade speak
. On such
that when the cord was held up in the middle the an occasion I once heard r
five hours. It was iu V
bones dangled securely at either end. Exceptingermodn.t. There was a short
the skull, nearly all the bones of this body were intermission during
the perio The people followed
found, and they are now in the possession of ,Dr. him in his facts and arguments with the keenest
interest, and by his appeals were aroused against
Holyoake.
The searchers had scarcely made the discovery of slavery. There are now four parties—two in the
the third body Lefore they found that there were rat North and two in the South. In the former the
least 14 feet of water below the apparent bottom Republicans and the Democrats in the latter
upon which the remains described had long lain the White Man's
Re partyublicans and
have a the Justice-to-
buried. Branches of trees had fallen into the pit, All Party. The p strong
so large in size and in so much profusion, that case ; the Democrats a weak oneat . The fare
coupled coupled with the silting of the surface drainage,trier will be able to show th they
and combined with the decayed animal matter— ; !educing to practice the principles announced
for, in addition to the human remains described, ial the Declaration
.of Inde.pe.ndence. What
this ? He
the searchers found also the skull of a dog—had can the Democrat say in opposition to
gone to make up what at one time appeared to be a will be twice beaten, first in discussion, and then at
solid bottom. i the ballot-box.
Efforts have been made to drain the jihalt, but, [ In the South, too, now, there is happily au in-