The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-15 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1867.

FRENCH GALLERY, 120, PALL-MAI-414.-
Ihe FOI;ItTEKINTII ANNUL EXIIU of
PICTURES, the i'ontril,utions of Artists of the Freneh and
Elernish Schools, 13 At) Ar OPEN.
Admission, Is. C4tAlo;-zue, rd.

ENTRANTS IN 1867 PARTICIPATE IN FIFTH DIVISION OF
PR, /FITS.
3.IUTUAL ASSURANCE 'WITHOUT MUTUAL LIABILITY.
PROFITS APPLIED SO AS TO MAKE POLICIES PAYABLE IN
LIFETIME.
AND SO AS TO• RAISE SECOND CLASS LIVES, AFTER A
DEFINED_ PERIOD, TO FIRST CLASS RATES.
BRITISH. EQUI BEE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,

4, Queen-street-place, Southwark-bridge, London, E.C.
DIRECTORS.
George Thomas Dale, Esq., Bayswater.
Edmund Dunn, Esq., Croydon.
William Gover, Esq., Blackheath.
William Sutton Gover, Esq., 4, Qneen-street-place.
John Middleton Hare, Esq., Forest Hill.
Fountain John Hartley Esq Dalbton.
John Smither, Esq., Wellclose-square.
Joseph Warmington, Esq., Lee-grove, Blackheath.
MANAGING DIRECTOR AND ACTUARY.
VV illiam Sutton Gover, Esq., F.S.S., F.I.A.
AUDITORS.
Mr. Deputy Obbard, Blackheath.
Charles Brown, Esq., Waddon.
William George Lemon, Esq., Blackheath
BANKERS.
The London and Westminster Bank.
PHYSICIAN.
William Munk, Esq., M.D., F.S.A. (Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians of London), 40, Finsbury-square.
_ SURGEON.
Thomas Carr Jackson, Esq. (Fellow 'of the Royal College
of Surgeons, Surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital,
King's-cross), 3, Weymouth-street, P.ortland-place.

Railway and other Companies.

GREAT NORTHERN.

This company's extension from Lincoln- to Hon-
ingtgn was opened for traffic on Friday. The
contractors, Messrs. Kirk and Parry, in conjunc-
tion with the directors, made liberal arrangements
to celebrate the event, and a dinner for that pur-
pose was given in the afternoon at the Caythorpe
station.

to 4 per cent. for at least three years, and to allow
time for its gradual extinction. At least £40,000
of the pre-preference stock would be taken by the
creditors in reduction of their claims, conditionally
on the other portions of the arrangement being
carried out. This, with the produce of the sale of
the Deeside shares, would reduce the balance due to
the banks to little over £200,000, which the direc-
tors hoped might ultimately be entirely liquidated
by the disposal of the pre-proforence stock to be
created under the bill. The total exponditure on the
main line and branches amounted to /2,873,332.

MIDLAND AND GLASGOW AND SOUTH-
. WESTERN. _ _ .

At a recent meeting of shareholders in the latter
company support was accorded to a proposal made
by Mr. J. Burns, to the effect that in amalgamating
with the Midland the SOu:11-1Vestern Company
should be allowed to retain a lien on their own line.
Mr. Burns had since been in• conimunication with
the two boardsof directors on the subject, and they
have agreed to the proposed lien in the following
modified form :—",lf the
amalgamated lines shall
not yield a dividend equal to what the Glasgow and
South-Western by itself has produced, the share-
holders of the latter shall have a lien on the pro-
duce of their own line up to but not.exueding four
per cent. ; such arrangement to terminate at the
expiry of 10 years from.the date of opening the
amalgamated railway throughout from Glasgow to
London.

Miscellaneous American News.
_ -4.-

The Legislature of Virginia has passed an Act
providing for the payment of 2 per cent. interest on
the State debt on July 1, 1867, and 2 per cent. on
January 1, 1868. Until there is a settlement of
accounts with the new State of West Virginia, the
Legislature does not consider that Virginia owes
more than two-thirds the debt, and " 4 per cent.
per annum oh the whole" is, according to the
Richmond Inquirer, " equivalent to 6 per cent. on
two-thirds of the debt."

After a debate the Senate has almost una-
nimously ratified the treaty with Russia for the
cession of Russian America to the United States.
The Times, in a leading article yesterday, contrasts
this sale with the proposed cession of Luxembourg
to the French. Russian America overlaps British
America exactly as the Duchy of Luxembourg over-
laps Belgium. Although a little alarm was felt on
the first intelligence of the transaction by the British
public the agitation quickly subsided, and the news
of the final ratification was received with little con-
cern. The Times proceeds to explain why the Eng-
lish people regard this cession with indifference, and
why the Germans interfere to prevent the sale of a
duchy to France by the King of Holland, which
they have no more right to veto than the British
have the Russo-American bargain. Our transat-
lantic possessions must, says the Times, in the very
nature of things some day or other, be lost to us,
and we have no desire to struggle against the natural
course of events.

Tire North German Lloyd's steamship Hansa ar-
rived at New York on Monday, April 8 ; the
Inman steamer City of Antwerp on Tuesday, the
9th ; and the .Great. Eastern on the same day.
The New York and Havre Company's steamer
Guiding Star, Commander Van Sice, arrived at
Falmouth on Thursday, with 30 passengers, $143,900
in specie, and proceeded without landing mails or
passengers. The Africa 'and the Malta reached
Queenstown on Sunday from New York. The
North German Lloyd's steamer Union arrived
at Southampton on the same day. The Ham-
burg American steamship Hananonia arrived
on Tuesday at the same port. The Inman steamer
City of Washington reached Queenstown, also, on
Tuesday, both vessels having left New York on the
30th ult. On Thursday the Erin, belonging to the
National Steam Navigation Company, arrived at
Queenstown from New York.
Portland (Maine) is $l, 103 600 in debt.
The citizens of New London subscribed lately
nearly $4,000 in aid of the Baptist literary and scientific
institution at that place. The whole fund now amounts to
$50,000, and it will be increased to $lOO,OOO.
The gold medals voted by the citizens committee
at Worcester to the Harvard crew, the winners of the
college regatta last summer, have just been struck. They
are of solid gold, and on one side is the design of a six-
oared boat and crew,Massachusetts, July 27, with the inscription, "Lake Quinsi-
gamond, Worcester,
the other a triumphal wreath, with flags and oars crossed,
1866," and on
and in the centre the name of the recipient.
A curious way of obtaining a hearse for, a rural
town in Maine is given in one of our last files of news-
papers. A dance was got up, and by this lively method
the dread vehicle was secured. Did the thought arise in
any of the dancers' minds that they were thus promoting
the means of hastening their approach to the tomb?
Surely there ought to have been a skeleton at that festival.
Rhode Island, the smallest State in the Union,
has the densest population per square Wile of any, and in
this particillar exceeds any nation of continental Europe
except France, which it nearly equals; and sixty per cent.
of this population is located oa eleven per cent. of her
area. Of her inhabitants, one iu every nine over fifteen
years of age cannot write; and more than one in thirteen
can neither read nor write. The amount of capital invested
in manufactures is $33,000,000, Nv h jell produced since the
last census $103,000,000 of products, and the labour of the
State shows the annual production of each man, woman,
and child to be $6Ol, while in Massachusetts it is only
$4OB.
The Southern Famine Relief Commission, of New
York, has received a letter from General Swayne, dated
Montgomery, Alabama, March 23, stating, in regard to the
amount of supplies which should be sent, that the only
true limit is found in the means of the purchasers. The
ship Purveyor which sailed from New York, on Saturday,
took 18,000 bushels of corn to Alabama. The people are
suffering terribly in northern Georgia. The commission
is informed from a reliable source that many of the people
have no bread, and nothing to buy it with. In one family,
near Dalton, four children actually died of starvation in
February.

The Springfield &publican says that only one Re-
publican Congressman from New England voted against
the bill authorising General Howard to food the starving
people of the South, without regard to their previous.
opinions, and that was Ga;leral B. F. Butler, nominally re-
presenting the Massachusetts fifth district, but most cer
ex and tbeir
tainly and shockingly misreprssenting his humane and
Christian constituents in this manner. Not a Demo-
cratic member dared incur the odium of voting against the
bill, although Fernando Wood and others opposed it in
debate quite as violently as did General Butler. The
voted to feed the
RepublicanfBrieed
m.en
n
representatives
but
to
who
leave -rebels
wives and children to starve, were :—Butler of Massa-
chusetts;
Unionists,d
Benjamin, Gravely, and Loan of Missouri; Coke,
Covode, Finney, O'Neill, Scofield, and Stevens of Penn-
sylvania; Clarke of Kansas; Cook, Colburn, Farnsworth
and Logan of Illinois; Dodge of Iowa; Driggs of Michigan;
Eckley, Lawrence, Sehonck, Shellabarger, and Walker of
Ohio; Fields of New York; HOpkins, Paine, Sawyer, and
Washburn° of Wisconsin; Hunter, Shanks, and Williams
if Indiana ; and Moore of New Jersey.
Dr. William Reed, city physician at Boston, re-
ports that the health of the city last year was above the
average. Tho number of deaths from smallpox was only
49 against 114 in 1865, and 113 in the year previous. The
positions assumed by Dr. Reed a year ago in regard to
Asiatic cholera, that to human agency aloe° is its progress
from one place to another due, and that it never attacks broad-
side, but makes its entrance at isolated points on the sea-
board, where by energetic and stringent sanitary measures
it may be checked, as in the case of II difax, last summer,
are sustained by au accumulated mass of testimony and by
the theories of eminent medical authorities.
ANOTIIEIt HORRIBLE INDIAN MASSACRE,--A
letter just received from Fort Rica, Dakota, February 11,
contains the following ;—Our latest reports from Buford,
if true, are horrible. Three Indians, belonging to the
friendly Sioux, camp in and reported that Fort Buford, at
the mouth of the Yellow Stone River, was attacked on
the sth of January by hostile Indians, who wore re-
pulsed by the little garrison. On the 15th, after being
reinforced, the Indians made a sudden rush on
the weakest point, succeeded in getting into the
fort, and butchered every. man, woman, and child, not
one being left to tell the tale. Tho fort was under the
command of Colonel Rankin, and company C, 31st United
States 'infantry, was the only company garrisoning the
fort. The report is current that these hostile Indians have
made a declaration that they intend to drive the United
States troops from the Upper Missouri, and that they have
conunertood With Fort Evarnoy and Fort Buford. Takias

man.

into consideration the small number of troops at each post,
it would be an easy matter to capture and massacre overy

TERRIBLE PANIC IN A CI itc us.—A. furious horse
was brought to the "Coliseum" in Chicago, where a horse-
tamer was i?xhib!ting. The building was densely crowded
with spectators. The horse-tamer was about to cotton ?nee
to manipulate th 3 irritable. bmto, bat before any result
could be achieved the latter made a sudden h fund from the
hands of his owner, who let go the bridle, and sprang
wildly
animal,
nearly
into the circle among the audience. A scream of
terror rose from every part of the house, and this had the
strugg,ed and pranced from one circle of seats to another
effect.amongof
t Ile still
thickestfurther onfng spectators, the infuriated
till
liereached
to the roof of the circus. At this point the flooring gave
way right above the cages where the lions are kept, and
the horse fell through, carrying with him a number of the
spectators who could not get out of the way A cry was
raised that he had fallen directly into the lion's den. Some
inconsiderate person shouted at the top of hit voice, " The
lions are loose !" which produced an unparalleled sensation
among the audience. The portion of them who wore
nearest to the dreaded spot made a rush for the other side
of the house in the direction of the dress circle, and the
fear that the flooring there was about to give way, together
with the knowledge that the black lioness and the leopard
were immediately beneath, caused an excitement wild be-
yond all description. The doors were at last thrown open
and the crowd escaped with few injuries. The alarm about
the lions proved untrue, and when the excitement had sub-
sided the professor tamed the horse, which had also escaped
serious injury.—Boston Advertiser.
It seems not unlikely that an attempt will soon
be made to " flank" Bringham Young, and dispose satis-
factorily of the troublesome question of polygamy, which
for some years has loomed large and demanded settlement.
The Nevada Legislature has been informed by Senator
Stewart that he had good reasons for believing that Con
grass would be found quite ready, if Nevada would say
she was willing, to make the Territory of Utah a part of
the State of Nevada. Nevada appears to be willing; and
on Feb. 6 the State Senate, by a vote of 14 to 2, ordered and
engrossed a resolution favourable to accepting Utah, or the
'State of Deseret ;" for it is true, though not very well
known, that the Mormons have a shadowy sort of State
Government, with Young as governor, and other Mormons
as senators and members of assembly, who annually go
through the form of ratifying the acts of the Territorial
and National governments. It was, of course, to be ex-
pected that the citizens of Nevada should entertain a ro-
bust
self-confidence in their ability to " handle" any num-
her of Mormons and "to clean out Brigham," if need be
within a brief period of time. But still it looks very much
' as if Nevada, when she gets Utah, will find that she has
been swallowed instead of swallowing. There are, per-
haps, says the Salt Lake City Union Vedette, 3,000 legal
voters in Utah. But there were in 1860 about 20,000 male
inhabitants, and although a great majority of these are
foreigners their disabilities could soon be removed, and
they be made voters. The estimated population of Nevada
is 30,000 souls, of whom, to be sure, fewer are women and
children than in an equal number of Mormons ; bat yet
the voters in Nevada could be outnumbered, it is likely, by
those in the Territory. So it is not wonderful that Young
expressos his satisfaction with the proposed measure, de-
clines to send money to Neveda to defeat it, and only stipu-
lates that the new State shall be called the State of
Deseret.— The Nation.
The time occupied in a trip from the Missouri
River to Salt Lake City now is only eight days. Three
of them are occupied on the trip from Omaha. to Denver,
and the remaining five from Denver to Salt Lake. In
this eight days' travel there are 300 miles of railroad
and 900 of staging.
At a recent meeting of the Academy of Natural
Sciences of California Professor Blake exhibited about 20
fossil vertebrae of what he believes to have been a great
marine saurian, or crocodile. These bones are each about
four inches long and three in diameter, and, together with
teeth of sharks and other remains, were found in Tulare
Valley, 1,500 feet above the ocean.

Ben Wade is 67 years old, George William Curtis
is 48 years, and Horace Greeley 56.
David Johnson, who has had charge of the Go-
vornment coal fleet at the Mound City (Illinois) navy yard
for several years, has committed suicide, because, through
a mistake of his in ,measuring, the Government lost four
hundred bushels of coal. On this the Watchman and
Reflector remarks :--"If all officers who have voluntarily
or involuntarily defrauded the Government possessed like
tender consciences what a scene of hari-kari the ranks of
Government official: would present."

Mr. Henry John Lewis, first saloon, embarked
at Falmouth on Thursday, in tho Mississippi, ' for Now
York.

The Round Table, of the 23d ult., says :—" Dr.
Samuel G. Howe and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe sailed
last week for Europe. Dr. Howe will leave his
family in Italy while he proceeds to Greece to
superintend the distribution of the Cretan relief
fund ; he will act during his absence as correspon-
dent of the Boston . Advertiser and the Chicago
Tribune. Mrs. Howe's departure will have the
effect, it is said, of causing the removal to New York
and publication in newspaper form of Northern
Lights, the weekly magazine to which the news-
papers have given a singularly unpleasant recep-
tion, partly probably because it was a new thing
and they didn't understand it, partly because they
dislike "Edmund Kirke," which is quite intelli-
gible.
In this week's number of The Galaxy is com-
menced " Steven Lawrence, Yeoman," the new
story of Mrs. Edwards, author of " Archie Lovell,"
published in the same magazine. The Galaxy will
print the story from advance MS. somewhat ahead
of its appearance in England.