The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-09 00:00:00

them out. Fremont, like the Patent Hen Scratching
Machine, gently scratched himself out of the Pacific Yard.
Contracts were made with a New York millionaire, Thos.
C. Durant, to build that Kansas Road, and Hallett's death
in no way changes' the early completion of the road
or the value of the securities. His wife and four chil-
dren are in Germany, and it is believed that they will
have an ample competence after paying creditors from
Hallett's one-third interest. Hallett's ambition was to
build the Pacific Railway. Hence changed the name of
Kansas branch from Leavenworth and Pawnee to Union
Pacific, E.D. The Grand Trunk Line, Union Pacific Rail-
way, runs from Sacramento, in California, to Omaha in
Nebraska, there connecting with the Mississippi and Mis-
souri and Rock Island Road to Chicago. The Kansas
Road will also connect with New York, via Cincin-
nati, by the Ohio and Mississippi and Atlantic and
Great Western, the Great Broad Gaugi Route. It
will be, seen that Edward Learned, as financial agent
for Fremont, with sublime audacity, assumed to own the
entire Pacific Railway. The audacity of the live man
only surpassed that of the dead. E lward Learned was not
a subscriber or even a promoter—nor has he invested one
shilling in the Pacific Railway, but on the contrary did all
he could to defeat the bill in Congress. Thereis a photo-
graph of a small boy pouring water into the sea to illustrate
Learned's energy in stopping the great world's highway !
Poor Hallett, lam sorry he is gone. He had virtues as
well as vic2s. • His vices were faults. His passion for
notoriety led him always into the newspapers. Two
thousand invitations wore ready for the opening of the
first forty miles of the Kansas Road. Newspaper men at
Washington have suffered at his hands. But when his
parse was full it was open to all. As Humphrey Marshall
said of the China merchant, if Hallett failed his ambition was
to burst wide open! His life is a failure. But how strange
that this man of so many parts, in the midst of his active
life, while his brain was so full of gigantic plans, should
be assassinated by a crippled engineer whom Hallett had
punished for writing a libellous letter to the President of
the United States about this railway. Verily, truth is
etranger than fiction. Alas! he has returned to dust and
the God who gave him. He lived a violent life and died a
violent death. " Pax Vobiscum." G. F. T.

[Two letters from Mr. James M'Henry here fol-
low, the one dated 1857, the other 1858, which
show the connection with Samuel Hallett, but as
they allude also to other subjects, we do not feel at
liberty to publish them. Mr. Train says they are
two out of two hundred, adding that When he pro-
secutes the Ebbw Vale Company for damages, his
suit will be a cause celebre.—ED.]
These groundwork letters will show you the dan-
gerous game those are playing who keep me in the
Marshalsea. Two bunked letters from the leading
London monied min of "the Atlantic and Great West-
ern World will read like a romance in my "Train
extras." No wonder they want to let me out if I
will pay costs and agree to bring no claim for da-
mages. Our advertising bills with the London press
cost some ten thousand pounds.