The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-05 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NETVS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
THE SAVAGE MINING COMPANY OF VIRGINIA
CITY, NA.—We have received the report of the
President of this Company, from which we condense
the following :—lt shows the gross product during
the year of the enormous sum of $3,000,000 in
bullion, and dividends to the amount of $1,400 per
foot. In the twelve months the mine has returned
a clear profit of $1,120,000 in specie to its owners,
leaving a balance of $149,201 in the Treasury. The
gross product of the mine up to the 10th of July
last, was $6,515,378. The dividends for the past
year have been equal to an interest of 10 per cent.
on a par value of $14,000 per foot or share of the
mine. Litigation has cost the company during the
year $lOO,OOO, but no more trouble is apprehended
from this source. There have been extracted
from the mine during the year 70,721 tons of
ore of all classes. Of this and 1,574 tons on hand
July Ist, 1866, there have been reduced 69,430
tons. These yielded $2,914,161 37, being at the
rate of $ll 97 per ton, and there remain on hand at
the mine and mill 2,865 tons to be carried over to
next year. The total cost of production, including
litigation, taxes, purchases of land, &c., has been
$559,581 52, $7 91 per ton, and the total cost of
reduction has been $974,333 23, or $l4 04 per ton,
which gives as the cost of mining and milling per
ton $2l 95. The cost of production, excluding
taxes, legal expenses, &e., was $6 66 per ton. The
reserves of ore "in sight" have by careful calcula-
tion been estimated at 100,000 tons.
The following items are from the Wall-street
Journal :

The Memphis and Ohio Railroad, from Memphis
to Clarksville, 130 miles, has been leased to the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad Company (James Guthrie, owner,)
for a term of ten years, with a provision looking to ultimate
comelidatien. The immediate ocetteiou lox this waa

the threatened seizure of the road by Governor Brownlow
for delinquency in meeting the interest on bonds for
which the State is responsible.
The grading of the line of the Boston, Hartford,
and Erie Railroad, between East Thomson and Mechanics-
ville, is completed, and the cars can soon be run to that
point, and probably Will soon run to Putnam, eitkor on the
Norwich and Winchester Road, or on a track to be com-
pleted by the Boston, Hartford, and Erie Company.
The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company,
lowa and Minnesota division, had only seven miles of
track to lay on September 30th to complete the line, 222
miles, from M'Gregor to St. Paul. The line will be open
for traffic on October 15th, when freight and passengers
can pass without change of cars, from lsre w.York to Min-
neapolis, St. Paul and St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Contracts have been taken at St. Louis and
Memphis for building the long-projected railroad between
those points, and work is to be commenced immediately
by the construction of a levee about 25 miles above Mem
phis, for which the present low stage of water presents a
favourable opportunity.
THE WHITEHALL AND PLATTSBURGII RAILROAD.
—Ground for this road was broken at Plattsburgh on
October Ist amid great enthusiasm. A large concourse of
citizens were present, and spirited addresses were made by
Hon. John A. Griswold, of Troy; Hons. T. Hoyle and N.
Lapham, Senator Platt, and others.
The St. John (N. B.) Telegraph reports that
contracts have been concluded for the construction of the
whole 88 miles of the International Railroad between St.
John and the Maine boundary. About 600 men are em-
ployed ou this portion of tho line.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company are
straightening their line between the Relay House and
Baltimore, so as to avoid that long double curve that winds
around by the brickyards, near the Spring Gardens, and
turning northward again crosses Gwynn's Falls, at the
Carrollton viaduct. The distance gained by this opera-
tion will be nearly two miles, and the time gained as well,
by shorter distance as straighter line, will be some thirty
minutes. The road is nearly completed, and will be in
working order in November, when the time between Bal-

timore and Washington will bo reduced to sixty minutes.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company have
projected the extension of their branch from Harper's
Ferry to Winchester down the Shenandoah Valley, cross-
ing the Virginia Central a few miles east of Staunton, and
terminating at Salem on the Virginia and Tennessee Rail-
road. It will open up a region of country to which access
is now possible only by most fatiguing staging, for the
stages of this section are fearfully and wonderfully made.
It will also open a market to the crops of the valley, and
the yield of the Valley of the Shenandoah, even under
the ancient style of farming in use there, is remarkable.
A movement has been started at Detroit with a
view to connect the Detroit and Milwaukee and the
Southern Railroad depots with the Central and Grand
Trunk depots by means of a track along the river front.
The Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad has been
leased to the Illinois Central Company.
The following were on October 2d elected direc-

tors of the Union Pacific Railroad Company on the part of
the stockholders for the ensuing year :—T. C. Durant,
New York; C. S. Bushnell, Connecticut; John J. Cisco,
New York ; H. S. M'Comb, Delaware ; Oliver Ames, Mas-
sachusetts ; John Duff, Massachusetts ; Josiah Bardwell,
Massachusetts; Sidney Dillon, New York; William H.
Macy, New York; John F. Tracy, Illinois; E. Cook,
Iowa; John B. Alley, Massachusetts; Win. F. Gliddon,
Massachusetts ; F. Gordon Dexter, Massachusetts ; Ben-
jamin E. Bates, Massachusetts. The remaining five direc-
tors on the part of the Government are appointed by the
President of the United States.

The election of directors of the Erie Railroad
Company, on October 8, resulted in the following choice;--
Josiah Bardwoll, Boston ; John S. Eldridge, Boston, Pre-
sident of the Boston, Hartford, and Erie Railroad; Eben
D. Jordan, Boston ; Henry Thompson, Boston ; James S.
Whitney, Boston; J. C. Bancroft Davis, New York;
Alexander S. Diven, New York ; James Fisk, jun., New
York; Jay Gould, New York; George M. Gions, New
York ; Frederick A. Lane, New York ; William B. Skid-
more, :New York; Frank Work, New York; William
Evans, London ; Dudley S. Gregory, Jersey City ; Homer
Ramsdell, Newburgh ; and Levi Underwood, Vermont.
[Of the old direction.] The directors have elected
Mr. John S. Eldridge President, and re-elected Mr.
A. S. Divon, Vice-President. Since the election
Mr. Levi Underwood has resigned under an ar-
rangement with Mr. Daniel Drew, and the latter
has been chosen to fill the vacancy, and to be the
Treasurer of the Company. The following is the unsuc-
cessful ticket:—Robert H. Bordell (late President), Alex-
ander S. Divon, Samuel Marsh, John Arnot, Ambrose B.
Murray, If. L. Pierson, Daniel Drew, William B. Skidmore,
Dudley S. Gregory, William Evans, J. 0. Bancroft Davis,
D. A. Cushman, Thomas W. Gale, Isaac F. Phelps, and J.
F. D. Lanier.

The stockholders, of the Woodstock Railroad to
White River Junction, thirteen miles, have instructed the
directors to put, the road under contract and proceed with
its construction as rapidly as possible. Two hundred and
thirteen thousand dollars of the stock has been sub-
scribed, Hosea Doten appointed engineer, and the surveys
are now in progress.

The New York, Housatonic, and Northern Rail-
road has secured a loan of $1,000,000 from Lovell Hol-
brook and Francis A. Palmer, of New York, and its con-
struction, which has been suspended for several months,
will be immediately resumed. All the property of the
road is pledged as security for the loan.

NEW RAILROAD PROTECTS.-NEW YORK, Oct.
17.—A meeting of citizens of Now York took place this
evening at. the Coopet Institute, for the purpose of taking
action in regard to the contemplated improvements in the
means and cost of intercommunication through all parts of
the Union by the establishment of a system of railways,
constructed and managed with special reference to a re-
duction of cost in transportation and freight. Mr. Peter
Cooper, Judge Daly, and other influential citizens, were
present. Mr. Freeman Clark, of Rochester, presided, and
Mr. S. P. Densmore acted as secretary. Letters approv-
ing the proposed project were read from Secretary
Seward, Governor Fenton, A. Gans, President of the
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. Afterwards resolutions
were adopted favouring the objects of the meeting, when
the meeting adjourned.—Baltimore Commercial.

Among the names of persons of Providence,
Rhode island, taxed for $50,000 or more, aro Crawford.
Allen for $155,600 ; John Cartor Brown, $1,757,100 ;
Mary R. Burnside, $100,000; Alex. Duncan, wife, and
children, $1,165,200 ; Robert 11. Ives, $1,414,000 ; Earl
P. Mason, $587,000 ; Byron Sprague, heirs, and wife,
$177,600; Jonah Steere, $502,000; and Marshall Woods
and wife, $740,000.

The Hon. Henry W. Williams, of Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, the Republican candidate for Judge of the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court, was a graduate of Amherst
College in 1837.

The Springfield Republican says :—" Ex-Gover-
nor Gregory, having instigated a suit against Hiram
Aikins, of Montpelier, for libel, the latter retorts on him
that an indictment by a grand jury does not always break
a man down, as the ex-Governor ought to know, for ho
was once under arrest for bigamy in Massachusetts, held
to bail, and his case carried before the grand jury.' "
Simon A. Howe, son of the late Elias Howe, jun.,
will conduct the factory for sewing machines at Bridgeport,
Connecticut.

If the Springfield Republican is correct, and the
following true, it is strange :—"John J. Conklin, the de-
faulting cashier of the National Bark at Now Milford, was
arrested at Poughkeepsie, Now York, on the Bth October,
but the bank refused to prosecute, and unless the United
States authorities interfere ho will bo released. Conklin's
personal property will secure the depositors from loss, and
the directors of the bank are said to bo willing to restore

him to his position, although its capital is impaired 15 per
cent. by his rascality."

Sir G. Bowen will succeed Sir George Grey as
Governor of New Zealand.

A few days ago, at Berlin, an American clown,
called the Man-fly, was going through his part before 2,000
persons, when he took out a pistol, put it to his mouth,
discharged it, and fell dead.

Berezowski, who made the attempt upon the Em-
peror of Russia's life at Paris, and was sentenced to penal
servitude for life, is on his way with other convicts to the
French penal settlement of Saigon.
General Butler has signified, in a letter to a friend,
his refusal to become a candidate for the next Presidency.
We think that the General has no cause to be distressed
by the pressure or importunity likely to be brought to bear,
and the prospect he surrenders ought not to give him more
cause for distress.

General Beauregard has applied for the restora-
tion of his estate, and the President and General Grant aro
said to favour his application. _ _

The San Francisco Mining and Scientific Press
gives an amusing account, which it heads "Politics,
Hand-organs, and Orphans," which is illustrated in a late
number of Frank Leslie. It appears that Michael Hayes
had arranged with William S. Higgins that if Haight was
successful iu the recent election that Higgins should carry
a hand-organ along Montgomery-street, San Francisco,
from Jackson to market, playing a tune before each of the
principal hotels, and collecting contributions in Savoyade
style, the proceeds to be equally divided between the Pro-
testant and Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums. if Gorham
was elected, Hayes was to be the performer. The winner
appeared to take an equal part in the performance, indeed
in the end we believe Mr. Hayes' task proved the most ar-
duous. Higgins ground away at his organ, and Hayes
made the collections, which were so bountifully given by
the citizens, who had assembled in thousands to see the
sport, that the winner staggered under the weight of silver
accumulated in his tin box. Nono had an opportunity of
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judging of the merits of Mr. Higgins's organ, as the sound
was drowned in the uproar of the people, which proved
lucky for the performer, as ho had not informed himself of
the manner of changing the tune, tho same old thing being
repeated from one end of the street to the other. The or-
Plutug appear to haYobOnalt9(449ot by thin "lark," 46 the

regular performances were supplemented by an irregular
proceeding got up ou the spur of the moment, by which six
waggons were filled with provisions and goods of all kinds
and despatched with the money to the two asylums.
A man named Roffman murdered a woman from
whom he had been divorced, in a church on Sunday, 13th
Oct., at Canton, Ohio. The congregation were at worship
when the ruffian advanced to Mrs. Just, who was about to
kiss him, in compliance with his demand, when he stabbed
her with a knife, inflicting eleven wounds, believed to be
fatal. He was removed to gaol, where he lies in extreme
peril of being lynched.

Perhaps the most appropriate of all spots was
selected by Rocky Moore,• of New York, and George Rooke,
of Providence, for a prize fight, in which they engaged on
the 2d of October, for $l,OOO aside. That spot was one of
the Isle of Shoals, named Smutty Nose Island, on which
Moore stood triumphant after 25 rounds, lasting one hour
and four minutes.

Judge Fisher and Mr. Bradley, late counsel for
Surratt, have been reconciled ; but the matter must still go
before the Bench, and out of the four judges it is believed
that three at least will sustain the action of Judge Fisher in
suspending Mr. Bradley from practising in the Criminal
Court.

•
Ex-Governor H. V. Johnson, of Georgia, consi-
ders the Cotton Tax to bo unconstitutional, and is about to
test the question in the Ct,urts.

Bishop Thompson left San Francisco Oct. 9 for
Nicaragua in the steamer America.

The Maryland Republican State Convention as-
sembled at Baltimore on the 11th October, and made the
following nominations :—For Governor, Judge Hugh Len-
nox Bond; Attorney-General, Hon. H. li. Goldsborough;
Clerk of the Court of Appeals, Wm. L. W. Seabrook, Esq. ;
Comptroller, Frederick Schley, Esq., of Frederick County ;
Commissioner of Labour and Agriculture, Captain Jones, of
St. Mary's county.

The seat vacated by General Hayes, for the
Second District of Ohio, will be filled, it is believed, by a
Democrat, Mr. Cary.

Mr. William H. Brady has publicly announced
that he is authorised to receive subscriptions for Mrs.
Abraham Lincoln. •

General Lersundi will be appointed Captain-
General of Cuba, and he is to leave very shortly to take
possession of his post.

M. A. de Stamis wrote an article reflecting on
General Zappi, of the Pontifical army, in the La Rue, in
terms of abuse so strong that Count de 0-, a relative
of the General, called him to account, when tho parties
met last Saturday, at Vincennes, with rapiers, and the
C3unt was very seriously wounded.

General Imboden has applied to the United
States Court at Richmond for a mandamus to compel the
registrars to record his name as a voter. He served with
distinction in the Confederate Army, and is by law ex-
cluded from the register, but he claims under a full pardon
from the President to be reinstated in his right to vote.
He announces his intention to carry the case, which will
be tried on this question, to the highest tribunal in case of
defeat. The Hon. Ben. F. Wade's term in the Senate
expires on the 4th March, 1869. It is thought that his
successor will be George H. Pendleton.
Bills of indictment for treason and treasonable
conspiracy have been found by the grand juries in Dublin
against Gen. Octave Louis Fariola, Gen. Wm. Halpin, Gen.
William Nagle, Col. John Warren, Augustine E. Costello,
William C. Nugent, Patrick Nugent, Daniel Lee, Denis
O'Connor, Robert Kelly, Thomas Frewham, Frederick
Fitzgibbon, Patrick Kane, John Rooney, Michael Fitz.
gerald, Michael J. Greene, William Sheehan, John Harley,
Laurence Doyle, Arthur Dowling, Jeremiah Murray,
James Lawless, John• Cado, Patrick Cogan, Michael
Walsh, Patrick Toche, J. Fitzsimons, and Andrew
Leonard.

Mr. Scallan is employed as solicitor for two
American colonels, and Mr. John Lawless for General
Fariola.

Among the departures ly the North German
Lloyd's steamship Deutschland, from Southampton to Now
York, on Tuesday evening, were the Hon. Elisha and Mrs.
Dyer and two sons. Mr. Howard Bullingbroke, Mr. F. and
Mrs:rime, Mr. Thomas Scott and family, Mr. R. Slark
and ra'mily, Mr. James L. Glentworth, Mr. J. Adams and
family, Mr. W. H. Wobb (builder of the Dunderberg, re-
cently purchased by tho French Government), Baron
d'Eschwego, Baron do Dessal, the Right Rev. Bishop of
Alton, Mrs. Hamilton Glentworth, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Godberry, Miss Mathilda Weguelin, and eight Sisters of
Mercy.

The Court of Arches on Tuesday heard the
charge against the Rev. A. IL Mackonochie for ritualistic
practises at St. Albans, Holborn. The constitution of the
Court was objected to by Mr. James for the defendant, on
the supposed partisanship either of Dr. Travers Twiss or
Dr. Robertson, whom Sir,R. Phillmore, formerly a counsel
in the case, appointed to act for him, on being elevated to
the post of Dean of Arches. Both parties would prefer
him to try the case. It has been adjourned for a fort-
night, and it is understood a prohibition will in the
moan time be applied for in the Queen's Bench.

Treasurer Spinner, in his report to the Secretary
of the Treasury, says that the sensation statements relative
to abstractions or over-issues of coup.ons, bonds, and other
securities, aro without foundation in fact; but what about
the duplicate 7-30's? Mr. Spinner is probably now pain-
fully aware that the reports which have been so freely
circulated about bogus bonds, have some foundation.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr.
T. N. Molloy as Consul at St. John, Newfoundland, for
the United States of America.

Kossuth's second son has been elected member of
the Lower House of the Diet for Klausenburg by a large
majority.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

COLCHESTER—Not 2.

This market was fairly supplied with wheat to-day,
and the business done was more brisk, and generally at is
per qr advance on last week's prices. Barley was in good
supply, and prices is dearer for malting sorts. Beaus
and peas were unaltered.

Wheat. white. ?4s 80s Beans, Mazagan......40,8 428
red &is 72s Middle and small_ 448 48s
Barley ... 42s 4,Js Peas, white. 38s 92s
Oati .• •—s s grey ...36s 42s

CHELMSFORD—Nov. 1.
There was a good show of wheat on sale to-day, and
a fair amount of business took place in all kinds at the
quotations of last week. Barley, except the best samples,
at a reduction of is on late rates. Oats and peas firm in
demand. Beans the turn cheaper.
Wheat, old white... .66s 77s Peas, Partridge 43s 958
new 6Bs 79s White ..36s 408
old red 6's Vs Bailing 38s 425
new. COs 72s Dun.... ..... —405 428
8ar1ey..... 26s 33s ditto, new --s —e
Chevalier 415 53s Beans, Tick, 01d......42s 478
Grinding 268 32s new....39s 43s
Malt 66s 74s Barrow I'icks.42s 468
Chevalier 68s 768 new....41s 958
Oats ... 2os 26s Mazagan. :10s 448