The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1866.

by the current. The Mayor of Manchester had a narrow
escape on leaving his house at Lower Broughton.

In Yorkshire the flood was no less disastrous. The banks
cf the Calder, at Wakefield, rose to an almost unprecedented
height. Two vessels were carried over the damstakes, and
two men were drowned. It appears that early in the
morning the billyboy The Peace, of Beverley, was being
lowered from the hoist in Thornes-lane to Fawcett's mill,
when the hauling rope broke, and the vessel swept down
the stream until it reached the damstakes, where it stuck
fast. A small boat, containing two corn millers, named Hep-
worth and Bates, went out, aided by a rope, to the assist-
coca of the men on the vessel, four in number. but the cur-
rent was too strong for them, and they were compelled to
loose their hold of the ropes, the boat upset, and Bates was
carried away, but llepworth managed to cling to a rope
which was thrown to him, and regain the shore. The
vessdt threatened every moment to be washed over the
weir, and the mate, fearful of being drowned, tried to gain
land by walking on a mooring rope thrown across, and
holding on to another, but he bad hardly gone ten yards
before his foot slipped, and he bung a few minutes by his
hands, screaming out piteously for help, and then fell into
the water and was seen no more. Shortly afterwards a
:jetty in front of Dunn's warehouse gave way, and a sloop
moored to it was let loose, and went swiftly down the
stream. It struck first against a vessel on the left bank,
gave a sudden twist round, and then flow with great velo-
city over the damstakes and banged against the bridge be-
low, shaking the butresses to their foundations. The other
vessel had previously gone over. The banks of the river
were lined with people. The river rose until the water
above and below the dam was on a level, and until there
was but a small portion of the arches of the bridge visible;
and the captains were taking advantage of this to float their
emptied vessels back over the weir. At a late hour in the
afternoon they had not succeeded. The Manchester corn
factors never reached the market at all, in consequence of a
tunnel on the lino being flooded. Yesterday afternoon the
rain was coming down in torrents, and the river nearly
15ft. above its ordinary level at the damstakes, and was
continuing to rise.
At Leeds the Aire yesterday overflowed itsbanks like the
other Yorkshire streams. A corn-mill chimney, the founda-

tions of which were injured by the water, fell about 2 o'clock
yesterday afternoon near School Close-bridge. It fell in a
body from the foundation, and stretched across a branch of
the Aire, and in its fall broke the roof of a house on the
opposite side of the stream. A man, woman, and child in
the house suffered some injuries, but they wore not very
serious.

BRIGHOUSE, Friday Evening.

The flood here is greater than in living memory. The
waterside factories were stopped early in the day, and are
many feet under water. The roads are flooded, and the
access to Huddersfield on the south, and Lightcliffe on the
north, are alone open. The valley of the Calder from Elland
to Cooper-bridge (four miles) is one sheet of water. Much
damage has been done. The water has risen steadily all
day up to 7 p.m., and is now beginning to fall.
The railway to Manchester has been closed sinco noon.

has arrived here with 156 American immigrants,
members of an association which had been formed
to colonise Palestine. Preparation had been made
for them, and plots of land outside Jaffa—one about
half a mile north and the other a couple of miles
east of the town—have already been secured and oc-
cupied by them. Both of these locations are in the
close neighbourhood of our famous orange gardens,
which perfume the ' Valley of Sharon' almost away
to Eamleh. The local authorities have afforded
every facility to the new corners, their baggage and
a large cargo of building wood which they brought
with them, having been allowed to pass the custom-
house duty free. They are likely to do well, and,
if so, the experiment will be one of unusual interest
and importance. The American frigate Ticonde-
roga arrived here on the 29th ult., and left to-day
for Alexandria and Malta."

Indian reports from the West during the week
are to the effect that a party of mountain men, en-
camped at the mouth of Milk river in Montana,
were attacked by fifty Sioux, and after five hours'
fighting were driven off with a loss of twenty-one
killed ; and that the Ute Indians are committing
fearful ravages in Colorado. The governor of
the territory had an interview with the chiefs
shortly before the outbreak, when they appeared
friendly, and he thinks that peace can be secured
without more fighting. General Sherman thinks
differently, it would seem, if the report is true that
he is hurrying troops into the territory.
The freedmen are largely taking advantage of the
Southern Homestead Act of the last Congress, thou-
-sands of homesteads having been occupied by them,
according to General lloward. In Alabama there is
no opposition to this by the whites, but in Missis-
sippi the planters are opposed to the scheme, chiefly
on account of the scarcity of labourers. General J.
D. Sewell, assistant inspector-general of the freed-
men's bureau, has been on a tour of inspection in
Alabama, and reports an unusually short crop, and
a prospect of much suffering next winter. The
freedmen have been industrious, but the failure
of the crops leaves them destitute, especially
as many of their employers take advantage of the
stay-law of the state to evade the payment of the
wages due. In Henry county, Ga., the civil autho-
rities have agreed to protect the rights of the freed-
men hereafter, and General TilLson has withdrawn
military supervision. General Gregory, who has
investigated the recent outrage upon coloured per-
sons at a camp-meeting in Anne Arundel county,
Md., says the riot was instigated by white men,
and that the negroes acted only in self-defence. In
the case of the vagrant negroes who were recently
sent from the workhouse at Nashville to a Missis-
sippi plantation, the military authorities, after a
full investigation, have required their employers to
bring back those under age.
The national Catholic council at Baltimore closed
on Sunday, 21st October, with imposing religious
services, President Johnson and family-being among
the vast audience at the cathedral. Archbishop
Kenrick of St. Louis preached on the authority of
the Church. After the sermon the Archbishop of
Cincinnati, as oldest by consecration, addressed
Archbishop Spalding, expressing the high sense of
his devotion to and qualifications for his position
entertained by all prelates and clergy, and eulo-
gising the ability and devotedness of the American
priesthood as inferior to none in the world, and
worthy of the noble people and great republic in
which they had the happiness to live ; concluding by
begging God to bless America and to make of us a
united people, blessed by God and exhibiting to the
world an example of every virtue. The council in
its proceedings declared its unreserved loyalty and
attachment to the Pope; insisted strongly on the edu-
cation of the children of the Church inCatholic schools;
made provision for the conversion of the freedmen, and
in general expressed their purpose to labour ener-
getically for the spread of the true faith, as they
consider it, on that Continent.
The Freedmen's Union Commission celebrated its
anniversary at Cooper Institute, on Wednesday
evening, October 24, when addresses were made by
Mr. Beecher, General Howard, and others ; and a
letter from Chief Justice Chase was read, accepting
the presidency of the Commission. During the past
year the Commission sustained 301 schools, with
760 teachers and 50,000 pupils. There are still over
700,000 coloured children in the South old enough
to attend school, for whom no educational facilties
have as yet been provided, and there are quite as
many white children equally in want of them. The
commission has done much in this great educational
and Christianising work, and daily the leading
, Southerners are becoming more willing to co-operate
with its agents. The Commission needs liberal
II contributions to enable it to do the great work it
has undertaken.

The postal money order system seems to be ad-
vancing in popularity in America every day. When
started it was a novelty to people, and although the
utility of the idea was acknowledged, still all were
unacquainted with the forms, and many were slow
to learn. Another obstacle to a wide success of
the system was the fact that the number of offices
from which orders conld be sent was very small.
Last year there was a considerable increase in these
offices, and the results have been proportionate.
This year the amount of money sent through the
Post-office in money orders is four million of dol-
lars, against one million three hundred thousand
dollars sent the former year. This increase shows
to understand and
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of
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system. There is
every reason to believe that before many years the
business of this branch of the Post-office will be

immense.

In connection with the decree that all slaves
brought from Cuba or Porto Rico into other parts
of the Spanish dominions shall be free, is a proposi-
tion totally to break up the slave trade, which has
been proposed to Queen Isabella, but which has not
yet been adopted. From the tenour of the remarks
of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, it may be
gathered that the project is more thorough than
any that has yet been proposed in the breaking up
the traffic by Spain. It proposes that the bringing
f negroes from Africa shall be punished by death,
making captains, pilots, mates, and supercargoes of
such vessels liable to the punishment. Other and
very stringent regulations are prepared for the
acceptance of the Queen. This decree has not yet
been issued, but from the fact that the subordinate
one which abolishes slavery in all Spanish dominions
but Cuba and Porto Rico is adopted, it may be in-
ferred that the other will soon follow.

The internal revenue receipts for the year ending
Oct. 21 amount to $4,651,808.28 ; to-day's receipts
were $884,428.10, and the total amount received
from this source during the fiscal year amounts to
$117,818,107.32. Amount of national bank notes
issued during the week, $251,245 ; amount issued
to date, $274,377,304. Amount of fractional cur-
rency received during the week, $511,600 ; sent to
the assistant treasurer at New York, $200,000 ; sent
to the national banks, $262,600.20; fractional cur-
rency destroyed during the week, $239,800 :

" does" the Central Park in that city from four to
ten dollars for the enjoyment. A cheap cab service
would be a great public blessing, and prove to be
immensely profitable also. Something of the sort
is wanted in Philadelphia, the carriage rates there be-
ing only limited by the conscience of the hackmen,
which usually is too indurated to be susceptible
either to shame or honesty. Would, says the Inquirer,
that we could chronicle the establishment of a cheap
cab service.

Some misapprehension having arisen, as to the
class of saws which is intended to be exempt from
revenue taxation, under the head of handsaws, we
think it may be useful to state that the Hon. E. A.
Rollins, Commissioner of Internal Revenue of the
United States, has recently decided that the hand-
saws exempted from tax by the new law are held to
be the common small saws ordinarily used by joiners
or carpenters, and known by that name. The ex-
emption is not regarded as being applicable to pit
and cross-cut saws. This seems to set the question
at rest.

Although there are far more men at work on the
California end of the Pacific Railroad, yet the pro-
gress there is far slower, for its path is over the
grand Sierra Nevada mountains. About 12,000
Chinamen are at work on the railroad in Cali-
fornia, and an additional 10,000 have been con-
tracted for to be put upon the line next spring,
when the contractors will be grading on the slope
of the Sierras, and beginning to stretch their
labour out on to the plains and into the valleys
of Nevada. Now the track is completed to
within 16 miles of the summit of the mountains,
and the following table of statistics, distances and
altitudes, from Sacramento on to the summit, shows
how the iron pathway is mounting the great hills of
the Pacific slopes of the continent. At Cisco,
which the completed road has now reached, the loco-
motive screams on a spot as high as Mount Wash-
ington, the highest of our New England moun-
tains :

Distance (Miles). Elevation (Feet).
Sacramento 54
Arcade ... 71 76
Antelope 15 ••• •.• 180
Junction 18 189
Rocklin ... 22 269
Piuo 25 ~. ... 420
Newcastle ~. 31 980
Auburn 36 ~, ~. 1,385
Clipper Gap 42 ~. ~, 1,785
Colfax 62 ... 2,443
Gold Run 641 ... 3,245
Dutch Flat ~. 67 ~. ~. 3,425
Alta ~. ~. 69 ~. ... 3,625
Cisco 93 .., ~. 5,911
Summit 1051 ... 7,012
Some of the structures of the work on the last
section of the road are grandly massive. A Cali-
fornia journal says one culvert, at the crossing
of Canyon Creek, is a noble piece of solid masonry,
twenty-eight feet in height and fifty-four feet
in breadth. The forests of lofty pines, the
towering mountain peaks and yawning rifts
and chasms, traversed by the railroad between
Alta and Cisco, present a sublime panorama. The
California end of the railroad is open to Dutch-flat,
67 miles from Sacramento, and 3,416 feet among
the Sierras. At the other end, trains are running
125 miles from Omahas, and the overland stages
start from the end of the rails at the town of Colum-
bus, instead of from the Missouri river at Atchison.

The _lron Age states—" It gives us much plea-
sure to announce that the Whipple File Company,
which has for some time been, as the trade is aware,
in pecuniary embarrassments, has finally settled
all its difficulties, and at once proceeds with the
active prosecution of its business. The capital,
we are informed, is increased to a million and a
half of dollars, and with the advantage of past ex:
perience, as well as the possession of ample pecu-
niary resources, we anticipate for it an honourable
and profitable career. It gives us great pleasure to
make this announcement. Let the fact be accepted
as an earnest of the vitality and power of American
hardware manufactures."
A STEAMER FOR THE TRADE OF THE RIVER PLATE
--On Saturday last was launched from the building
yard of Messrs. Lewis and Stockwell, Blackwall,
the iron screw steamer Ericlano, built for Messrs.
Negretti and Zambra, the eminent opticians, of
Hatton-garden, &c. The Eridano is a fine screw
of 400 tons, and is to be fitted with a pair of direct
acting screw engines of 120 horse power, by Messrs.
J. and A. Blyth, of Limehouse.
At three o'clock precisely the dog-shores were
knocked away, and the Eridano glided gracefully
into the water, amid the cheers of the spectators.
The vessel and engines have been constructeduuder
the superintendence of T. C. Hide, Esq., and the
Eridano, when completed, is to be commanded by
Captain Nicola.

Programme of Leamington and Warwick-
shire Hunt Meeting.

TUESDAY.

The Donningtou Handicap of 10 soya each, 3 ft, with 50
added; winners of any handicap after Nov. 16 (at ten
a.m.) 61b, twice 101 b extra. Three quarters of a mile.
35 subs.

Age st lb
Out and Outer 4 9 6 Elfeta
Wild Agnes ... 4 8 7 Grappler ...
Overture ... 6 7 12 Blackthorn
The Beadle 5 7 10 Thalassius...
Moose 6 7 8 Brigand. ...
Beoswing ... 3 7 7 Wild Bee ...
Cedric ... ... 4 7 6 Goojerat
The Princess of Clatford
Wales ... 4 7 5 Nukuheva...
Batthyany... ... 4 7 3 Ben Battle...
Vigorous ... 3 7 3 Landlord ...
Paris ... 5 7 2 The Bugler

Confederate
Mistletoe ...

Age st lb
... 3 6 7
... 4 6 6
•3 6 4
... 4 6 4
•4 6 3
...4 512
• 3 512
... 3 5 10
...4 510
•3 5 9
▪3 5 9
•3 5 7

...5 7 0
....3 610

Effervescence ... 3 5 7
Violent ... ... 3 5 7

lsca ... 5 6 10 Stabber 3 5 7
Her Ladyship ... 3 610 Tina 3 5 7
Vigilant ... 4 6 9 Chibisa ... 3 5 7
Indian Star ... 3 6 9 Pluto ... ... 3 paid
Match 500, p. p. ; 12st each. Three miles, over the Ilunt
Cup Steeplechase Course.—Mr. Halford's Whalebone,
agst Mr. Robertson's The Vet.
The Nursery Handicap of 1
for two-year-olds. T
st lb
... 8 10
... 8 9
... 8 4
... 8 1
... 7 13

The Rescue ...
Stokeley
Salamanca ...
Python ...
The Rock ...

Challenge ...
My Love ...

... 7 12
... 7 12