The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-24 00:00:00

Death of Dean Richmond.

The intelligence of the death of Dean Richmond
will create a profound sensation in business and
political circles throughout the country. He had
been long and conspicuously connected with rail-
way transactions throughout the country, and was
president of the New York Central Railroad. His
life was one of adventure, generally resulting, in
later years particularly, in success. He love d
daring financial hazards, yet was never devoted to
the hoarding of wealth. He loved to make money,
but was generous and often prodigal in its expen-
diture. Personal he was frugal, temperate, and
free from ostentation or display.
Dean Richmond was born at Woodstock, Vermont,
on the 31st of March, 1801. His parents were poor,
and he was early compelled to make his own way
through the world, with little education except such as
he acquired in his intercourse with men. He was
employed for some time, we believe, on the Erie
Canal; after which he lived for several years at
Salt Point, now the first ward in the city of Syra-
cuse. He gained in this time the reputation of being
a shrewd, observing young man, a little reckless,
as was too much the case with dwellers in that
locality, but honourable and faithful in all his
dealings with men. A peculiar manner was ac-
quired by him at this time, which adhered to him
through life.
lle removed to the western part of the State, and
finally made his home at Batavia. Here he was
successful in business beyond expectation, having
great luck in making investments. For example,
in 1842, when the stocks of the State of New York
had greatly depreciated, as a result of the ruinous
Whig canal policy, he invested his entire capital in
them. Mr. Flagg, the Comptroller, remonstrated
with him. " I expect," he replied, " that under
your administration they will rise to par. We made
you Comptroller for that purpose." His anticipa-
tions were fulfilled.
When the two great factions became actively
hostile in the ranks of the Democratic party, Mr.
Richmond planted himself upon the side of the Radi-
cal wing. In 1848 he gave his energies and money
freely to the advancement of the free-soil Democratic
party ; but directly afterward became favourable to
the reunion of 1849.
After this he was widely known in political circles
as among the railroad kings. lie gave his days to
business and his leisure hours to politics, excelling
equally in both pursuits. He became known as a
power" at Albany by the passage of the famous
Consolidation Act of 1553, by which the fifteen
lines of railroad extending or projected from the
Hudson River to Lake Erie were united into one
corporation ; and he was ever afterward a leading
manager in the affairs of the New York Central
Railroad. For many years he was vice-president
of the Central Railroad Company, and on the re-
tirement of Mr. Corning three years since he suc-
ceeded to the presidency.—Netv York Post.

" There is no shame to our manhood if we distrust
our own ability to endure the anguish of the b .. It
is no secret that of late 100 anesthesia has been produced to
such a degree that the patient, retaining his consciousness,
can watch the surgeon's knife as ft cuts to cure, and yet be
without the slightest sensation of physical suffering."—Dally
1 elegraph, July 13, 1865. "To none is the public more in-
debted than to Mr. Day."—lllustrated News, page SA, June
9. -Mr. Day has succeeded in robbing tooth extraction of its
horrors, and we think we are onlsyaffeu.llllElinvegryandaecsteorifpdtti:otny lont
g:ving- publicity to the fact."—Court Journal, p. rst p., nay 2%
Painful teeth, or diseased stumps extracted without pain.
teeth,N :ng the latest oci'lcoormobtbrmirand perfec
iinlyventions and improveiren's
dental mech taism, may be procured from 31r. DAY, dentist
date principal Assistant to Mr. Eakell, of 8, Grosvenor-street,
W.), 291, Regent-atrcot (3 doors frwu the roYtecll4lo),

LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 24, 1866.

The arrival of the Asia from Halifax and Boston,
brings us news from New York to the 11th inst.
The accounts of the PRESIDENT'S reception during
his tour are of a very similar kind to those which we
bad previously. There is the same vehement con-
flict of feeling, the same feeling on the part of the
populace, the same outrageous vindictiveness on
the part of the Radicals, carried, however, at
some places to au extreme which they have not
before reached. The Radicals have felt for some
time that their cause was becoming desperate,
and consequently are prepared to stop at
nothing,. They have openly avowed their convic-
tion that blood will be shed, and have threatened
that riots will occur before long. They have already
bean to carry out these threats, and it is notice-
able that it has been in the West the greatest con-
fusion has prevailed. At ludianopolis, the capital
of Indiana, the PRESIDENT was welcomed by Gen.
MEREDITH on behalf of the citizens. He then began
to address a large crowd that had assembled round
the hotel, but was prevented from speaking by yells
and groans, and shouts of " Traitor." Mr. JOUNSON,
upon this, very naturally retired from the balcony,
When the confusion increased and violence began, a
number of shots being fired, several persons wounded,
and one man who was attempting to defend one of
the complimentary inscriptions shot dead. At
Cincinnati the city council have refused, by a ma-
jority of three to one, to • receive the Presidential
party. A number of prominent merchants have re-
solved to provide a suitable reception on their own
account. It is rumoured that the Radicals will
attempt to create a riot,- being apparently deter-
mined to show themselves to the country in their
true colours. They do not attempt to disguise the
extravagance, of their schemes, or the vindictiveness
and greed of their policy. One would imagine that
no rational man could dream for a moment of put-
ting such theories into practice, but THADDEUS
STEVENS, one of the recogns. eclleaders of the Radi-
cals in Congress, deliberately announces the policy of
his party to be " territorial government in the
and negro Suffrage."
South, confiscation,
On what
ground 3 he proposes to confiscate the lands in the
South he dues not say. A year and a half an the
war was closed, and the so-called rebel States' have
every one expressed their readiness to acknowledge
the Central Government. What could the _North
du In,„:„.' if they had maintainel open disaffection?
The sin of attempting to dissolve the Union is in their
eyes unpardonable, but they appear to be totally obli-
vious of the fact that they arc themselves committing
it. That cannot be called a union of States in which
one part keeps the other part in enforced subjec-
tion, even supposing wich a state of things to be
possible, which any one of the least acquaintance
with the facts must know it is not. But the Radi-
cals go on recklessly, heaping unmeasured abuse
upon the PRESIDENT; though, as he shrewdly
observed in one of his speeches, they are a little

puzzled when called upon to substantiate their ran-

door accusations.

At St. Louis Mr. JOHNSON made a speech of some
length in his usual vigorous manner. his speech
may be rough and unpolished when compared with
the more reticent language of English statesmen,
however impassioned. But the PRESIDENT mea-
sures his words by his audience, and his plain, reso-
lute, and unspoken addresses carry weight with the
populace. He is remarkable for his courage, and
never troubles himself when anything he says is
evidently unpopular to retract or modify it. He
is ready at retort, and does not spare his opponents.
Ile knows what they say of him, and calls upon
them to prove what they say. He is asked why he
does not hang JEFFERSON DAVIS, and he asks, in
return, why he should not hang THADDEUS STEVENS,
since treason at one end of the line is as bad as at
another, and both have forsaken the Constitution.
He is plain enough in his accusations if the Radicals
are vague in theirs. They are, he says, endeavour-
ing to ingratiate themselves with the soldiers, but

what have they done for them ? They have given
him a bounty of $5O after two years' service, but
they have done something else for themselves.
"The patriotic young man who slept in the tented
field, and perilled his life and perhaps left his limbs
behind him, he can get $5O bounty if he has served
two years ; but the members of Congress, who never
smelt gunpowder, can get $4,000 extra pay."
Well might Mr. JOHNSON call this " a quaint pic-
ture ;" but it is very suggestive of the real motives
and intentions of theparty. As for the negroes, there
is equally good reason to suspect the professions of the
Radicals iu their favour, and Mr. JOHNSON plainly
declared his conviction that " the Freedmen's
Bureau was a simple proposition to transfer four
millions of slaVes from their original owners to a
new set of taskmasters." Under this system he
added, those interested would work the shares, and
call on the Government to bear all the expenses,
and if there were any profits left they would pocket
them. This is, in fact, a very simple statement of
the case, and the Radicals may well fear to hear the
truth so plainly spokes.

It would really seem as if the Prussians would
never have done with their celebrations and triumphs.
Such a fuss as they make is quite absurd, and show
that they are quite resolved to make the most of
what has taken place without regard to sense or
propriety. A grand banquet took place at Berlin
on Saturday in honour of the return of the army,
and, of course, the occasion was seized for the dis-
play of the usual extravagance of speech that cha-
racterises the Prussians when discoursing upon their
own doings. The military representatives of Eng-
land, France) Italy, and Russia were present at the
banquet, and the KING made a speech concluding
with these words, "May peace be lasting, and of
equal benefit to the future of Prussia and Germany,"
proceeding with the usual palaver of the Father-
land and the people in arms. No term in modern
days is more twisted and turned to suit the con-
venience of the moment than this one of " Father-
land," and it will fairly puzzle any oue to define its
exact meaning, especially after the changes wrought
by the tactics of the Berlin authorities. In pursuance
of this scheme we find that the KING has addressed
a letter of thanks to the civic authorities and popu-
lation of Berlin, in which he expresses his gratitude
for the " brilliant reception" which they have ac-
corded to the army ; and adds, " Such
moments as these unite more closely that which was
already united, and place the aims which we pursue
with a unanimous, persevering, and self-sacrificing
spirit—namely, the good of the fatherland in an
even clearer light." All this sounds very grand, but
when we come to analyse it we perceive that it con-
tains no truth whatever. As for what was united
before the war, it was not the KING and the
people, neither was it the KING and the Cham-
bers ; and as for the self-sacrificing spirit that is
mentioned in the royal letter, we do not see a
particle of it. The Prussians are giving up
just in order to further the selfish and grasping
aims of their rulers, very much on the same principle
that they did at the time of the Danish war, and
hence it is quite out of character to write in this
strain. Those whom he addresses cannot be de-
ceived, and the world at large will quickly detect
the subterfuge, and appreciate the worth of the pro-
fessions.

It appears that the affairs of Saxony are still in
confusion, and that no settlement has been come to
on the point so long debated by the plenipotentiaries
at their preliminary conferences. It is asserted by the
Zeidler Correspondence, that it has been erroneously
given out that au understanding had been come to,
and that at the present moment no negotiations
whatever are being carried on with Saxony. If
this be true, it only proves what we have all along
suspected, that the agents of the Berlin Government
are trying to carry on a very desperate game, and
to undermine the independence of the little kingdom
altogether. It is really monstrous the way in which
these ruthless aggressors are carrying on their
game, and the perversity with which they
conduct their plans when but little is to
be gained shows their utter want of consideration,
and their little regard for treaties. Saxony has been
shamefully treated, and perhaps it has been one of
the worst features in the case, when we bear in
mind that a special stipulation was made in its
favour at the late treaty. Notwithstanding the
fact of the Emperor NAPOLEON having gone to
Biarritz considerable uncertainty still prevails re-
specting his health, and, no doubt, BISMARCK
turns all these surmises to his own advantage, and
it seems as every chance conspired just now to
be in.his favour.

Another proof of the great danger that ensues
from delays has been given in the case of the
Abyssinian captives. A most sad account of their
position has reached us; and, indeed, we have some
reason to believe that they have by this time been
sacrificed to the fury of their fierce and relentless
captor. It appears that a battle was fought at the
end of July between the army of THEODORE and
the insurgents of Tigre and Choa, twoofthemoat
civilised provinces of that country. Unfortunately
it was supposed by the EMPEROR that
they
English were implicated with the rebels, as
were in constant communication with Aden, and
the insurgents drew armies and supplies from that
place. Mr. RASSAM has addressed a letter to the
Nice journal, in which he states on the authority
of one of his own colonists that THEODORE was
greatly enraged at the doubtful issue of the contest,
and having recognised the hand of the English on
the side of the insurgents, he, supposing his failure
to be due to them, had a fit of fury, of which none
around him remembered to have seen the like,
and which, says the letter, " made the whole
army tremble." He ordered the immediate
execution of all the captives excepting the women
and children. " All that we could do was imme-
diately to inform the EMPRESS " adds the informant.
Upon her resolution rested the' only chance of safety
for the captives. She had authority, for she is
hßeergteent ;
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If she had the courage all may yet be well, but
otherwise, long before this time RASSAM, CAMERON
sTERN, and the red will have been beheaded. This

will, indeed, be a dreadful thing after all
the hopes justly entertained of their release.
It shows, moreover, the exceeding folly of
leaving things to chance in the affairs of those who
are in the hands of despots. The late Government
mismanaged things very much in respect to these
prisoners, and offended the irascible THEODORE by
treating him with disrespect, while at the same
time they did not impress him with an idea
of their power so as to insure the proper treatment
of his captives. We hope that the worst has not
happened regarding these unfortunate victims of mis-
chance, and that their friends may yet see them return
to their native land to enjoy the blessing of freedom.