The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-01 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN NEWS.

It is said there is little doubt that the fire in the
League House was the act of an incendiary. It
originated in a large closet in the laundry on the
third floor, used for keeping buckets, brooms, and
other household articles. In the rubbish in this
closet a piece of gas-pipe was found, which had been
sawed off at both ends, in rough and unworkman-
like manner, but until the wreck is somewhat cleared
away it is impossible to decide certainly whether
this is the proper clue to the fire. There are some
indications of the fire having been started simul-
taneously in more than one place. Fire-Marshal
Blackburn is investigating the matter, and it is
hoped that the mystery will be cleared up. The
fire was discovered at half-past 12 o'clock, and when
the population had assembled the roof was blazing
out in sheets of brilliant flame. Far above the
burning mass stood the flagstaff tearing the old flag
flapping and beating as the currents of hot air rolled
past. The people gave them up for lost when four
firemen suddenly appeared on the roof at the foot
of the flagstaff ; the halliards were lowered, the
stars and stripes swept gracefully downward and
were thrown to the ground. The engines deluged
the place with water and the fire was extinguished.
The total cost of the Union League building was
about $200,000. The total insurance is $120,000, of
which $60,000 is on the building, and $60,000 on
the furniture, paintings, &c. The latter amount is
divided equally between the following companies :
State of Pennsylvania, North America, Delaware
Mutual, Metropolitan, N. Y., and Pennsylvania.
The loss is roughly estimated at $40,000, of which
$25,000 is upon the building, and $15,000 upon the
furniture, &c.

The Philadelphia Inquirer informs us that Major-
General John A. Hartrnaft, now Auditor-General
of the State of Pennsylvania, a volunteer officer,
who did himself and his State much credit during
the war, has received the compliment of a commis-
sion as Colonel in the regular army. When we
recollect that there are many officers who during
the war held the position of major-generals and
brigadiers of volunteers who have been remitted back
to their old positions as captains and lieutenants in
the regular service, we can understand that this
tribute to General Hartrnaft is particularly flatter-
ing. Our feelings upon the subject are divided, for
while we know that the army will get a good colonel,
we also know that the State will lose a good
Auditor.

The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times
states that there are rumours to-day in eonuection
with the case of Jefferson Davis, and published
principally by the New York Herald, that the Pre-
sident has announced his intention of releasing Mr.
Davis conditionally on bail or parole, if the judges of
the United States' Court at Richmond, Chase and
Underwood, delay his trial after October. The Pre-
sident says he has done all he can to bring on the
trial, and that the responsibility for the delay rests
with these judges, and if in October they still de-
cline to try him, no good purpose can be served by
keeping him longer in custody. The Court at Rich-
mond meets on the Bth of October, at which, if the
programme of last summer is agreed to, Mr. Davis
will be arraigned. If released, the distinguished
prisoner will give bail or his parole to deliver him-
self up when wanted. Mr. Davis declines to give
any promise to leave the United States as the price
of his release.

The Fenian Congress at Troy is emulating the
National Congress in the last hours of its session.
It sat for twenty-four hours before it adjourned
sine (lie except an intermission of two hours. Mr.
Roberts was unanimously re-elected President.
General Sweeney has been deposed as Secretary at
War. General O'Neill declines the post, and it is
rumoured that it will be offered either to General
Sheridan or General Logan. The thanks of the
brotherhood were given to General Banks and Con-
gress. Radical changes were made in the govern-
ment and the organisation, greater power being
made over to the Senate. O'Neill has been ap-
pointed Inspector-General of the Fenian Army, and
Colonel Michael Bailey, of Buffalo, chief military
organiser. It is thought that if the financial re-
turns continue to increase that another movement
will be made on Canadian soil.

The President replied to an invitation from Mayor
Monroe, the Mayor of New Orleans, who has lately
earned an unenviable notoriety, to visit that city, as
follows :—" Bon. John T. Monroe, Mayor.—Your
kind invitation of the Bth inst. has been .received,
and, in reply, I am compelled to say that important
arrangements will prohibit me from complying
therewith. Please accept my thanks for your
courtesy. ANDREW JOHNSON."
It is singular that the name of Cyrus W. Field
should be omitted in the category of those to whom
we owe, the Atlantic Telegraph. There is an old
saying, " Out of sight, out of mind." We should
prefer, however, that it were true, in this instance,
than that the benefits of services by Americans to
this country should be passed by in England with-
out recognition. The feeling is common among
Americans that excellence, scientific attainments,
great proficiency in any department on the part of
American citizens, is apt to be ignored here. There
has been a wonderful American pianist at Alfred
Mellon's concerts, who has been habitually ignored
by the London press. Narrow-mindedness and the
rivalry of the profession might induce medical men
to endeavour to exclude their American brethren
from practising in their own preserves ; but we
would be slow to believe that such a feeling extends
throughout the community.
A party of five young men, while on an exploring
expedition recently along the Colorado River, dis-
covered an immense pyramid on a barren plain. It
was composed of layers of stone from eighteen
inches to nearly three feet in thickness, and from
five to eight feet in length. It had a level top of
more than fifty feet square, though it was evident that
it had been completed, and that some great convulsion
of nature had displaced its entire top, as it was evi-
dently lying on one of its sides, a huge and broken
mass, nearly covered by the sand. Its present length
is one hundred and four feet, and it must have been
formerly full twenty feet higher. This pyramid differs
in some respects from the Egyptian pyramids. It
is, or was, more slender or pointed ; and while
those of Egypt are composed of steps or layers, re-
ceding as they rise, this American pyramid was un-
doubtedly a more finished structure. The outer
surface of the blocks was evidently cut to an angle
that gave the structure, when new and complete, a
smooth or regular surface from top to bottom. A
recent writer stated that originally the Pyramids of
Egypt were constructed as this is described, on a
smooth inclined plane from top to bottom. Time
had worn out the stones which filled up the steps,
and left the great blocks in the form which we now
see them.

The Philadelphia Inquirer tells the following
interesting story of the' War : —We have been
informed of the facts in a case, another of the sad
results of the Rebellion. During the first years of
the war a young man named Lisetor, whose parents
reside in this city, enlisted in an artillery company,
leaving a wife and child in Stark county. During
one of the heavy battles he was wounded in several
places, taken prisoner, and conveyed to Libby Pri-
son. He was reported mortally wounded, and
afterwards announced as dead. Since then, nearly
three years ago, not a word had been heard of him,
and his wife, after having buried her child, and
losing all hope of ever again seeing her husband,
whom she truly loved and unaffectedly mourned,
married again. On Thursday evening, just as the
parents of young Lisetor were about to engage in
family worship, they were startled by a knock at
the door, and upon opening it the mother was
astonished to see her son, so long mourned as
dead, and fainted in his arms. He told his story—
how after lingering for months in Libby Prison, as
soon as he was able to be removed he was taken
farther Soutb, but finally managed to escape. His
letters all miscarried, and he was unable to hear from
home or friends. After weary months of wandering,
and many adventures in Texas and other parts of
the South, he finally secured money enough to
take him home. On Wednesday evening last he
arrived at the village in Stark county, where he had
left his wife and child, but before arriving at the
house where his wife was then living he was met by
her sister, who informed him of the bad situation of
' affairs. The blow was as terrible one to hin3, but

like the hero he was he left his wife undisturbed
with her new husband, and came hither in search
of his parents.
We extract from the "resident's speech at Cin-
cinnati the following passage :—" Mars has been in
the ascendant long enough ; let that bloody star be
driven away by the bright sunshine of peace. If I
have pardoned traitors, I have only obeyed the in-
junction of Scripture to forgive the repentant. Who
of us would be living if for his first or second error he
had been struck down ? I believe men may repent,
and then they should beforgiven. Hang eight millions
of people ! Who ever heard of such horrors ! Yet
because I refused to do this I am called a traitor.
If more blood is needed erect an altar, and upon it
your humble speaker will pour out the last drop of
his blood as a libation for his country's salvation."

At Vermont the vote on the Union ticket for
governor was 29,671 against 27,586, last increase
2,085. The Democratic vote was 9,642 against 8,866
last year, increase 776. In Maine the Republican
majority has increased to 30,000 this year against
22,000 last year, sending to the 40th Congress five
members. The result of these elections is felt
strongly throughout the Union. The Fenian vote
went to increase the Republican majority, but it
could have had little influence in determining the
result of the election. The Republicans have nomi-
nated Governor Fenton in New York as their can-
didate for re-election, and the Democrats in Con-
vention',have nominated John T. Hoffman, the pre-
sent mayor of New York city, for Governor. It
is calculated that the Senate will-be composed of at
least 37 Republicans to 15 Democrats. On the 2d
October Colorado votes, and on the 9th Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Indiana, lowa, and Minnesota.
Henry Ward Beecher closes his second letter
with these words :—''Better days are coming. These
throes of our days are labour-pains. God will
bring forth, ere long, great blessings. In some
moments which it pleases God to give me, I think I
discern, arising beyond the present troubles, and
over the other side of this abyss in which the nation
wallows, that fair form of Liberty—God's dear
child—whose whole beauty was never yet disclosed.
I know her solemn face. That she is divine, I
know by her girdle of purity, by her sceptre of
justice, and by that atmosphere of love that, issuing
from her, as light from a star, moves with her more
royal than a king's apparel. In this, too, I know
her divinity, that she shall bless both friends and
enemies, and yield the fullest fruition of liberty to
those would have slain her ; as once her Master
gave his life for the salvation of those who slew
him."

Secretary AP Culloch, notwithstanding the efforts
of interested parties to induce him to part with a
portion of his gold reserve, has steadily declined to
do so, being determined that the strength of the
present financial condition of the Treasury shall be
maintained and increased. The more gold held by
the Government the greater the intrinsic value of
its securities, and the nearer its return to a specie
basis. While gold continues to flow from Europe,
and the receipts from California are as large as at
present, it is believed that all legitimate demands
for it can be easily supplied, notwithstanding the
increasing amount held by the Government, and
the premium reduced as rapidly as is consistent
with public interest.
General Grant's address to Mr Baker, at Cincin-
nati, is characteristic of that great general. It is
just such an address as the Duke of Wellington
would have made under similar circumstances.
The general was in the Theatre. A large crowd
and the " Boys in Blue " paraded outside. The
noise disturbed the performance, but the General
they wished to honour -sat regardless of the tu-
mult. Mr. Allen, the manager, was requested
to carry the information that there was a crowd
of citizens outside who desired to see him. General
Grant replied " I cannot, and will not see them.
Please tell their commander to come to me." On
Mr. Baker's approach he at once accosted him.
" Sir, lam no politician. The President of the
United States is-my Commander-in-Chief. I con-
sider this demonstration in opposition to the Pre-
sident of the United States, Andrew Johnson. If
you have any regard for me you will take your
men away. lam greatly annoyed at this demon-
stration. I came here to enjoy this theatrical per-
formance. I will be glad to see you all to-morrow
when the President arrives." Outside they took
the disappointment in good part, dispersing after
giving " three cheers for General Grant, next Pre-
sident of the United States."

Mr. Seward wound up his eloquent speech at
Indianapolis as follows :—" Other nations have
passed through precisely the same crisis. Rome, at
the end of the Republic, met the crisis and bent
under it. What might not have been the fortune
of Rome if, instead of Julius Caesar, she had chosen
Cato for Consul and Dictator. This is the privilege
God has.vouchsafed to us. Instead of having Jeff.
Davis or some other revolutionary leader to preside
over us at the close of so fearful a struggle, he
has allowed us to have Andrew Johnson, the Cato
of our nation, at the head of our Government. Sus-
tain him by your free suffrage—that all of you can
do. Let him be sustained, and then the world will
begin to see how quietly our noble ship of State will
glide through the surges of the revolutionary sea,
and attach herself to the ancient wharves, where she
may be expected to rest henceforth in safety and
unchangeable tranquillity."

Charles A. Dana has secured most of the $200,000
capital for his new Radical daily at New York, and will
probably make it an afternoon p'por.

The anniversary of the independence of Mexico
was celebrated on the 15th at Miramar, the Emperor's
estate in Austria, with a religious service, a salvo of guns,
and a festival dinner.

MlNNESOTA.—Minnesota will produce this year,
it is estimated, 16,000,000 bushels of wheat, and that in
1860 she produced but 2,195,812 bushels. It is doubtless
true, as is believed in Minnesota, that if the railroad to
Lake Superior had been running, so as to raise the price of
wheat in out-of-the-way neighbourhood; the quantity this
year would have been very much increased. To the
knowledge of the writer of this wheat grown three years
ago is only this year brought to market, low water in the
streams, and want of railroad facilities, preventing the
farmers from bringing it forward. In far-off settlements
much wheat is grown, which sells for 30 or 40 cents per
bushel, the cost of marketing it being so groat. All this
is changing rapidly. Minnesota is to be the greatest of all
the wheat-growing States, for it is a sure crop, and a very
heavy one, producing twice as much on the average as
Illinois or Ohio, and its grain being of a better quality.—
Baltimore Weekly Commercial.
'6MR. USHER AND THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—The
Spring field Weekly Republican has the following :—" Great
surprise is expressed among all classes, not even excepting
politicians, at the appointment of Mr. James M. Usher as
commissioner to the world's Exposition at Paris, and I
must confess that it strikes me as ono not eminently ' fit to
be made.' Our manufacturing and mechanical interests
are of sufficient consequence, it would seem, to be well re-
presented ; and this can only be done by a man who has
some practical familiarity with them, or is distinguished
for commanding talents or extraordinary general attain-
ments. No one would think of sending a mere blacksmith
to represent grave public interests in a congress of nations,
but that would be scarcely more inappropriate than the
selection of a more politician to represent our
manufac-
turers, mechanics, and artisans ; our diverse industrial in-
terests at the forthcoming Exposition ha Paris. An
apologist for the appointment suggests that as Mr. Usher
has been a coastantand unfortunate applicant for officeever
since Governor Bullock's inauguration, his excellency may
have been influenced by a desire to secure his own peace
and quiet, but that is a view to which I do not sub-
scribe. By tho way, a story is told in connection with
ono of Mr. Usher's business operation; which will bear
repeating. After the death of ' Father Whittemore,' Mr.
Usher got control of the two Universalist papers in Boston
—The Trumpet and the Christian Freeman—with the design of
uniting them, and thus concentrating upon one the patro-
nage that had hitherto been divided between two esta-
blishments. The arrangement, however, failed to meet
the views of the leading men in the denomination, and
they proposed to buy him out. As the parties were unable
to agree upon term; the matter was finally submitted to
referees. Among the witnesses introduced at the hearing
was Thomas Drew, at one time, as you know, connected
with the Worcester Spy, who was introduced as an expert.
When he was called upon to testify, the case was presented
to him hypothetically, as for instance : What •ought a
newspaper establishment, with a given number of sub-
scribers, a given amount of advertising patronage, and
with a given amount due upon" its book; to be worth ?
Of course, Mr. Drew know nothing of the particular in-
terests to be affected by his testimony, although he might
possibly have guessed pretty nearly, from the fact that he
had the principal dignitaries of the Universalist denomi-
nation around him. He answered that to meet the ques-
tion fairly he ought to know something of the character of
the paper,—whether it was political or religious, and if
political! what party interests it Advocated, or if religious

with what denomination it was identified. Passing over
his testimony as to the political aspects of the case, and
coming directly to the point, he said that if it was a Uni-
tarian paper ho should estimate its value at such a figure,
if an orthodox at such a figure, and naming the other de-
nominations in turn, ho came finally to the Universalist,
which he named last and estimated lowest. This, of
course, could not fail to create quite a sensation in such a
presence, and one of the referees, more nettled than the
rest, interposed :—' You do not mean to say, Mr. Drew,
that other things being equal, a Universalist paper would
be worth less than an orthodox ?" Yes, sir, that is exactly
what I mean to say.' Why, how do you make that out ?'
' Well, gentlemen, your theories are all very well, but I
tell you when it comes to the case in hand, these orthodox
have such a dread of hell-fire that they don't like to go
into the other world with their newspaper bills unpaid.'
Parties in an adjoining room became suddenly impressed
with the idea that the roof of the building was coming off,
but it stood the storm, and the consolidated paper changed
hands.' "

A locomotive lately ran the distance from Berlin
to Hartford in fourteen minutes, or nearly a mile a minute,
under steam produced by a peat fire. The Etna peat com-
pany now have three machines in operation at Berlin,
capable of turning out 33 tons of dried peat per day.

Dr. R. M. Morgan, of Pittsfield, has formed a
company for the manufacture of peat for fuel, and will
soon have necessary machinery and buildings for the
successful prosecution of the business. The peat is
upon his farm, about a mile from the village, and there is
an inexhaustible supply of it.
COURTESIES TO AMERICAN OFFICERS.—GRAND
Hor ON THE BRITISH FLAG-SHIP.-11ALwAx, N.S., Sept. 8.
-The flag-ship Rhod© Island, Commander Fairfax, with
Rear-Admiral Palmer on board, sailed yesterday at six
o'clock p.m. During the admiral's visit here he and his
officers have been the recipients of marked courtesies from
Sir Fenwick Williams, whose guests they were ; also from
Vice-Admiral Sir James Hope, Major-General Doyle, and
the officers of the garrison and fleet, and from leading
citizens. Yesterday aftern lon they attended a hop on
board the flag-ship Duncan, and wore received with all
the honours. Admiral Palmer and tho officers of the
Rhodo Island express themselves highly gratified with the
courtesies shown them. They were honoured with a
parting salute from the Citadel and the flag-ship Duncan.

Mrs. Beecher Stowe's new cottage home at Hart-,
ford is described as having nothing in location or appear-
ance to attract attention or indicate it as the home of
genius. You cross the railroad and pass down a narrow
lane to roach it. It is a two-story brick-house, in the cot-
tage style, which sits very low, with a factory and ice-
house adjoining. The posts of the old rail fence have not
been removed. The trees are without uniformity or cul-
ture, and the lawn is crowded with a luxuriant crop of
rank weeds, and the whole style of the thing is untidy
and neglected. In the neighbourhood are elegant houses,
splendid locations, trees and shrubbery, kept in exquisite
taste, contrasting strongly in appgarance with the cottage
house of one of the first prose -iv-titers of the age.

The tobacco crops in the river towns above
Hartford is a remarkably large one, though about a week
later in ripening than usual. The farmers in Hartford
county talk of the largest crop ever harvested, which will
be worth a million dollars. _ _

The harbour of Galveston, Texas, is fast closing
up with sand. Light draft vessels now ground in tho
channel whore the water was formerly 20 feet deep.

Carl Schurz on the State of America.

The eloquent and temperate address of this powerful
speaker at the National Hall, Philadelphia, Sept. 8, is so
deeply interesting at the present moment that we regret
our limited space prevents us from transcribing it in full
in our columns. Major-General Carl Schurz was intro-
duced to the assembly by William H. Kern, Esq. He
commonced.by noticing that—
" No discerning man can survey tho present situation
of affairs in this Republic without perceiving that, al-
though the war is over, the country is not yet at peace.
There is a fierce contest going on between the executive
and legislative branches of the National Government, in
which the masses of the people are called upon to take
sides. In the South we see symptoms of dangerous fer-
mentation sporadically breaking out in bloody deeds. In
the North the war of opinions is carried on with passionate
violence. A gathering of men, euphoniously styling
itself The National Union Convention,' has already
called upon the people of the South not to submit if the
policy adopted by the Congress of the United States should
prevail: Everywhere the air is heavy with threats and ap-
prehensions. • • •
" When the civil war had come to a close the problem
presented itself of what is commonly called reconstruc-
tion. The principal difficulty of that problem consisted
then, and consists now, in this—the political system of
this Republic rests, upon the right of the people to control
their local concerns in their several States by the opera-
tions of self-government, subject to certain restrictions
imposed by the National Constitution, and in the right to
co-operate with ono altogether in the government of the
whole.

" This system was not to be changed in the work of re-
construction ; but it was evident also that if reconstruction
was to accomplish only the mere setting in motion again
of the machinery of Government as it had been previous
to the war, and nothing else, it would have forthwith in-
vested the very people who had been in rebellion against
the Government with the power in a great measure to con-
trol the very results which had been won, and against
which they had struggled ; and this would have been a
surrender of the consequences of our victory to the dis-
cretion of the defeated.

" Here was a difficulty which struck the mind of every
candid man at first sight. The immediate and uncondi-
tional restoration of the rebel States to the absolute con-
trol of their home affairs, and to power in the general Go-
vernment, was so obviously incompatible with the best in-
terests and sacred obligations of the Republic, so mani-
festly against all common sense, that when one of the
greatest heroes of the war, led astray by a too generous
error of judgment, admitted it as one of the stipulations of
an armistice, the people, startled out of their equanimity
by the mistake, raised a general outcry against him all
over the loyal States. The hero I speak of undoubtedly
soon saw his error, and the country remembers nothing but
the gratitude it owes him. (Applause.)
It was, therefore, agreed that as quickly as possible all
the attributes of the Democratic system of Government
should be restored ; but that the Rebel States should not
have full participation in the Government of the Republic
till by the imposition of irreversible stipulations it would
bo impossible for them to subvert, or impair, any of the
results of the war, or to violate any of the obligations the
Republic had taken on itself. At first, the speaker main-
tains, the President was anxious that the Government
of the States and of the nation should be confided only
to the tried, over-faithful friends of the Republic. The
people of the Rebel States were also ready for submission.
They expected nothing better than that the North should
dicate the terms of peace. This was the moment imme-
diately after the close of the Civil War—when all that
was needed could have been accomplished with ease.
President Johnson next took the work of Reconstruction
into his own hands ; issued proclamations appointing pro-
visional governors for the Rebel States, and ordered them
to call State Conventions. He declared that if there were
but 5,000 men of tried loyalty in a State, theirs must be
the Government.

"But political power in the States naturally belongs
to those who have the right to vote and to be voted for.
Andrew Johnson began by prescribing the qualifications
of voters. The loyal blacks were at once excluded from
the suffrage ; the right of voting was to be confined to
the loyal whites. But who were the loyal whites?
The President issued a proclamation, of amnesty, and
decreed that all participants in the Rebellion should
bo regarded as loyal men if they would take the oath of
allegiance, fourteen specially enumerated classes ex-
cepted."

The result was that the true Union element was every-
where helplessly overwhelmed by rebel majorities. It it
true Andrew Johnson deemed it necessary to impose con-
ditions before their full restoration. He demanded that
their State Conventions should declare the Secession ordi-
nances null and void, which, however, not all of them did.
General Schurz next tells us what he saw in the South as
the result of the President's policy :
" President Johnson had honoured me with a confiden-
tial mission to investigate the condition of things in the
late Rebel States, and I endeavoured to show myself
worthy of that confidence by honestly reporting what I
had seen and heard, and what I conbcientiously under-
stood to be true. Subsequently it appeared to me as if I
had misunderstood the nature of my mission. But I dare
to assert that every truthful man who knows what has
occurred in the South will testify that if the official state-
ments I have made convoy erroneous impressions at all,
they do so only by their studied mildness. My report has
not had the good fortune of winning the applause or of
exercising an influence upon the mind of him who sent me;
but I console myself with the confident belief that in this
country no individual, however powerful, can seal the
eyes of the people by merely closing his own. (Tremen-
dous cheering.)
" The people lately in rebellion, as soon as they saw
their State Governments once more in their hands, saw
also a chance to turn their power to account in a reaction-
ary movement against emancipation. They were deter-
mined not to permit the emancipated slave to become a
true freeman, nor a systeni of true free labour to supplant
that of slavery. They used their power in that direction
as far as the General Government suffered them to go,
and, Heaven knows, President Johnson, although anxious
to keep up appearances, suffered them to go far enough."
After powerful arguments in favour of giving every
support to Congress, and hearty encomiums on the virtues
and merits of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, the
lecturer concludes in the following words:—
"Americans, the lines are drawn, and the issues of the
contest clearly made up.
"You want the Union fully restored. We offer it to
you—a Union based on universal liberty, impartial justice
and equal rights, upon sacred pledges faithfully fulfilled,
upon the faith of the nation nobly vindicated_; a Union

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without a slave and without a tyrant ; a Union of truly
Democratic States; a Union capable of ripening to ful
maturity all that is great and hopeful in the mind and
heart of the American people ; a Union on every square
foot of which free thought may shine out in free utterance;
a Union between the most promising elements of progress,
between the most loyal impulses in every section of this
vast Republic ; in one word, a Union between the true men
of the North and the true men of the South.
"The reactionists, with their champion, Andrew John-
son, offer you a Union based upon deception unscrupulously
practised, upon groat promises treacherously violated, upon
the national faith scandalously broken ; a Union whose en-
trails are once more to be la'corated by the irrepressible
struggle between slavery and liberty ; a Union in a part
of which the rules of speech will be prescribed by the
terrorism of the mob, and free thought silenced by
the policeman's club and the knife of the assassin ; a
Union tainted with the blood of its truest friends •and
covered with the curses of its butchered children ; a Union
between the fighting traitors of the South and the scheming
traitors of the North ; a Union between the New York
rioters of 1863 and the Memphis and New Orleans rioters
of 1866.

" You want magnanimity to a beaten foe. We offer it
to you. We demand no blood, no persecution, no re-
venge. Wo only insist that when the Republic distr
butes the charitable gift of pardon and grace, the safety
and rights of her faithful children are entitled to the first
consideration. We aro ready to grasp the hand of the -
South. We only want first to ascertain whether the blood
of our slaughtered friends is already dried on it. Peace
and good-will to all mon is the fondest wish of our hearts,
and we aro anxious to give and secure it even to the bit-
terest of our enemies, as soon as they show an honest wil-
lingness to grant it to all of our friends.

"We have passed through gloomy days of late ; days
of grievous disappointment, of deep humiliation, of
sorrowful anxiety. But when, the other night, I stood
upon the balcony of the Union League House and saw
the countless multitude surging below, a multitude
greater to number than the hosts which marched with
Sherman to the sea, or the army of the Potomac when
it swept over•the ramparts of Richmond ; and that mul-
titude, as once our battalions were summoned to the
battle-field by the paternal voice of Abraham Lincoln,
now following the solemn call of the same voice
issuing from the grave; and when I saw from that ocean
of human faces radiating forth the electric light of intelli-
gence and love of liberty ; and when I thought that the
volcanic bursts of enthusiasm there were but one throb
of the patriotic emotions which are to-day again swelling
the great heart of the loyal North, then my soul felt itself
lifted out of the gloom of dark apprehensions, and I ceased
to fear for the future of the Republic.
" Then it became certain again, to my mind, that the
great people of the Now World, who fought a four years'
battle of conscience, have not forgotten -their exalted mis-
sion on earth, and that the very gates of hell cannot shake
their mighty determination to wield, with a firm hand, the
national power, until justice is done to all, and until, with
safety to all, the Republic can beset afloat upon the broadest
channel of self-government.
" We have heard-already the triumphant morning gun
of Vermont booming with increased volume ; far off San
Francisco has merrily responded ; old Maine, in the North,
stands ready to send us a cheering echo, and all over the
land our hosts are mustering with the inspiring confidence
that to march on is to conquer.
" Our time has come. Forward into line, Republicans !
This is to be the final battle of the war. Let it be the
greatest victory of right and justice. (Tremendous ap-
plause and three cheers for the speaker.")

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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NORWICH— SATURDAY.
The supply of wheat at market to-day was larger than
of late, and the trade may be quoted at last Saturday's
prices. Barley is weekly increasing in supply, and all
bright and dry malting qualities maintained full prices ;
stained and damp samples are becoming sluggish in sale.
All harvest operations have been brought to -a close in
Norfolk.

White wheat (weighing 641 b), 54s to 56s ; old red aitto
weighing 631 b), 47s to 52s ; new red ditto (weighing
'6olb to 631 b), 51s to 525; best malting barley (weighing
521 b to 531 b), 42s to 45s ; runs ditto (weighing bulb to 521 b),
40s to 41s ' • distilling ditto (weighing bOlb to 521 b), 34s to
36s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, &7s to 39s ; peas (maple), 368
to 38s per qr. Flour, 38s Od per sack.

LEICESTER— SATURDAY.
Our market was fairly supplied with new wheat to-day,
and there was a few samples of old. Business was good,
and prices were is to 2s per qr. higher than last week.
Barley was in more active demand, and buyers had to pay
an advance of is per qr. on the rates of last week. For
oats a steady consumptive demand took place, and prices
were a shade higher. Beans in request at remunerative
prices.

New white wheat, 50s to 51s ; new red, 45s to 50s ; old,
white, 51s to 56s ; old red, 48s to 52s per 36 stone. Bar-
ley, for malting, 32s to 43s per qr.; grinding, 31s to 35s
per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 34s ; new, 24s to 30s per 24
stone. Beans, old, 51s to 53s ; new, 53s to 54s p©r 38 stone.
Fine flour, 42s ; seconds, 38s to 40s per 20 stone.