The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1868

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-Amersiean Times.)

The Central Press is coming out in an enterprising
way, which the English public ought to encourage.
They have supplied within the last few days many
telegrams from America. One of these gives the
result of the great boat race which was run on
Wednesday on the Connecticut river at Springfield,
the Ward brothers against the New Brunswick
crew, who distinguished themselves by whipping
Europe at the Paris Exhibition regattas. The Ward
brothers were supposed to be the best oarsmen in
the world ; but this honour really belongs to the
four oars of St. John's, New Brunswick, for in a
course over six miles they beat the Ward brothers
by forty lengths, doing their work in 39i minutes.

The extraordinary nature of the convulsions in
the greatest of the volcanic belts has received fur-
ther illustration by an earthquake which last
Wednesday wrecked the lower portion of San
Francisco, and was felt throughout the whole of
California and other States. According to the Cen-
tral Press telegram—
"The town in many parts is a complete heap of rubbish
—houses, stores, churches, and other buildings being
razed. The lower part of the city has experienced the
greatest amount of damage. The fissures loft in the
ground in many places are from seven to eight feet in
width. Tho effect on the water in the bay was very
striking, but as yet no word has been received relative to
any damage to shipping. The loss of life is thought to
bo inconsiderable ; but, of course, no correct idea can be
formed as yet of the number of persons who are missing.
The damage to property is estimated at over a million
dollars."

The advices which have reached Messrs. Campbell,
Heatley, and Co. are so far reassuring that busi-
ness has not been interrupted, their correspondent
advising them that the loading of ships continued,
of which one was to sail on the following day.

There has not been much business of late before
the Washington Cabinet, hence we are not surprised
that the session of the 9th inst. was passed in dis-
cussing whether a marble statue of Washington
sent for safe keeping from New Orleans during the
rebellion, and stored in the Patent Office, should be
returned on the demand of the State of Louisiana.
The President, Mr. Welles, and Mr. Randall joined
in the discussion, and eventually concluded that the
statue should be sent back. The Foreign measures
of importance before the Cabinet were the re-
cognition of the new Government of Spain, and
the protocol signed by the American Minister
with the British Government regulating the
rights of naturalized citizens. There was little
question as to the course to be taken in the former
case, for the Cabinet rather enjoyed the opportu-
nity of paying Isabella back in her own coin, re-
membering that she was the foremost Sovereign in
Europe to urge the recognition of the Confederacy.
She has, we are told, $2,000,000 invested in Philadel-
phia in the name of the Duke of Riansares, accu-
mulated during ten years, and George M. Dallas
was a trustee at the time of his death. The nature
of the protocol had only been communicated by the
cable, and therefore the particulars were unknown
further than that the compact was similar in feature
to Mr. Bancroft's treaty with the German Powers.
General Gordon Granger has arrived at Memphis,
where he has established the head-quarters of the
department of the Cumberland, in relief of Gen.
Thomas, who has, as we last week announced, been
appointed by Mr. Johnson, president of the Court
Martial, which is to sit on General Dyer. We may
here mention that Dyer has been relieved from the
charge of the Ordnance Department, and he is to
be assisted in his defence by Colonel S. V. Ben-
nett. Granger's friends are pressing strongly for
his promotion for the Brigadier-Generalship in the
regular Army, vacant by Hooker's resignation.
Granger is now a Colonel of Infantry, and though
the Senate could reject the promotion, yet, as in
the case of Rousseau, that Chamber is slow to
interfere with the appointment of the President as
Commander-in-Chief.

General Sherman is blamed for neglecting the in-
terests of the exposed settlers in Kansas, who be-
came the victims of the late Indian raids. " The
savages have, however, re3eived severe punishment ;
the affair with Forsyth, the 9th Cavalry action
near Fort Davis, Texas, and the pursuit of 2,500
Arapaho warriors beyond the Arkansas river by
lcavalry, all show activity on Sherman's part. Rein-
forcements have been telegraphed for to Washington,
and the following is an authentic despatch from that
city :—" Gen. Sherman and Gen. Sheridan, in their
dispatches from the frontier, are both of the opinion
that there will be a serious war with the Indians
from this time until winter sets in. The latest in-
telligence shows that the Arraphoes, Cheyennes,
Kiowas, and Comanches have all cut loose, and are
ready for robbery and murder. The Kiowas and
C
already Fort swept across the country
from rt Dodge. The total force
lr to
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of these tribes is about 4,500 warriors. Fortu-
inan
Fortehes
have
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Fortu-
nately we have a larger force to meet them than
last year, though still not large enough to punish
them as they deserve. General Sheridan will take
the field in person, and lively work may be ex-
pected in that quarter very soon."
The speculators have had a fine time lately in
New York and Chicago. In New York they got
some banks, and it is also asserted, tbough strenu-
ously denied by Mr. Van Dyck, the sub-treasurer
of New York, that officers of his department
joined in the scheme, which was to sell gold from
the New York Sub-Treasury, while the banks
locked up all the greenbacks. In this way 17 mil-
lion dollars were withdrawn from circulation, per-
haps half the amount afloat in the city ; the banks
called in their call loans, while the bears not onlysold
largely but threw on the market a quantity of
speculative stocks. Gold fell five per cent. ; Go-
vernment securities on an average 2 ; the deprecia-
ton on shares ranged from 2 to 5 ; while discount
immediately doubled. This lasted a week, when
the "bears" themselves began to take fright, and
the market recovered its natural tone, but not till
after great loss and some failures. The intention
was to catch those who had large obligations to meet,
and who, unaware of the plot, trusted to their credit
and securities to realize what they required. On going
to the bank at the last moment to make arrange-
ments, the answer is, " No money." They then
fall back "upon the street," but all the greenbacks
have been cleared away ; when they awake to their
" tight" position, having to raise funds or to allow
their bills to be dishonoured. Then they hurriedly
press for sale whatever securities they have ; down
goes the whole line of Governments, Railways, Ex-
press and Miscellaneous Shares, helped at first by
the clique, who wait till the securities touch bot-
tom to buy and realize profits on the rise. In
Chicago it has been a " corner in corn," and both
these events are fully noticed in the comprehen-
sive money article we publish from the Springfield
Republican.
The defence of the sub-treasurer, Mr. Van
Dyck, of himself and the Treasury officers, has
been generally criticised. He asserts that Govern-
ment held between eighty and ninety millions of
gold, but less than thirteen millions of greenbacks,
and for their increase it was necessary to sell gold,
which he the more readily did on an easy money
market, at from 141 to 143. On finding that the
speculators had grasped the opportunity to forward
their own ends, he at once stopped sales. Various
plans have been suggested for turning surplus
coin into currency, but all are liable to abuse.
The best is to sell in the open market at
the current price, but the discharge of these
duties brings the Treasury officers into collision
with the selfish and speculative interests in Wall-
street by whom their characters are aspersed. He
goes on indignantly to deny any connection with
these jobbers who have circulated this scandal be-
cause their schemes have been defeated. By figures
he shows how well and favourably for the nation
he and his chief have managed the duties entrusted
to their care, and he closes his letter in the follow-
ing words :—" All this payment, purchase, and ex-
Change, involving incessant labour, vigilance, and
responsibility, has been carried through with scarcely
the slightest disturbing influence on the monetary
or business interests of the country. While claim-
ing no particular praise for these results, accom-
plished under trying circumstances incident to the
deranged state of the currency and the business de-
pression resulting from an exhausting war, it is
respectfully submitted that they ought at least to
shield the officers of the Treasury from continued

reproach, even if they did not entitle them to the
confidence and gratitude of the community."
Among the surmises anent the Chinese Embassy
is its desire to co-operate for a ship canal through
the Isthmus of Darien, to which it is said China
is willing to contribute $15,000,000. That his Ex-
cellency Anson Burlingame may have given the full
weight of his diplomatic influence while in Ame-
rica to forward such a scheme is highly probable—
valuable as it must be to all countries of the Pacific.
We know that the President used the controlling
influence of the Washington Government to urge
the necessity of this work, and by a telegram from
New York on Wednesday it is announced that Mr.
Seward delivered a long speech at the meeting of
the company now definitely formed to effect the
object, strongly advocating its interests in the per-
formance of a service so beneficial to the maritime
world.

The rumour spread by the New York Herald that
a movement was in progress to nominate Chief
Justice Chase in place of Governor Seymour, and
General M'Clellan for Frank Blair, has been so far
confirmed that the National Democratic Committee
convened a meeting to consider its propriety ; hut
finding, we presume, that this would savour of what
the late President Lincoln so quaintly condemned
in his saying that " the time to swap horses was
not when crossing a river," they have determined
to abide by their ticket. They took the opportunity
of the meeting•to issue an address urging the most
earnest support for the Democratic candidates,
which they will surely require, as even the Times
Philadelphia correspondent announces the demoral-
ization of the Democratic party and Grant's election
as secure.

The Royal International Coinage Commission
has published its report, with the following signa-
tures affixed :—Halifax, C. P. Villiers, Stephen
Cave, J. Wilson Patten, M. Longfield, John Lub-
bock, Thomas Baring, L. N. Dc Rothschild, J. B.
Smith, Thomson Hankey, John G. Hubbard, Thos.
N. Hunt, G. B. Airy, Thomas Graham, and C.
Rivers Wilson, Secretary. The gist of it is, that
in view of the probability of a much larger measure
of change than that now proposed being hereafter
required to be carried out, they cannot recommend
the mere adoption of a gold coin of the value of 25

francs to bo substituted for the sovereign. They
consider the English sovereign and pound would
form the most convenient basis and unit. It repre-
sents the greatest interests which would be dis-
turbed by the change ; but as there are many
considerations upon which all nations must be
agreed before a universal system can be adopted
they are disposed to think that authorized repre-
sentatives of the different countries should meet in
conference before action be taken. Mr. J. B. Smith,
Sir John Lubbock, and Mr. Hubbard made supple-
mentary reports. Meanwhile the French decimal
system of coinage spreads,having now been adopted
by Spain.

Secretary Schofield congratulated Grant on his
nomination by the Chicago Convention to the Pre-
sidency, but though the letter was written on the
25th May it has only just been published—

"I have always believod that the Union could be fully
restored only by the men who put down the rebellion,
while I have not been without serious apprehensions that
by forcing upon the country extreme Radical theories the
stability of the Government might be endangered. Great
reforms require time for their full development—time in
which theories may be analyzed, and that which is sound
and of practical utility separated from the unsound and
chimerical. Wisdom and moderation in Congress will
now give the country restoration and peace. Your elec-
tion to the Presidency will be the end of our political
troubles, as your accession to the command-in-chief of the
army was the end of the Southern rebellion."

John Quincy Adams has accepted an invitation
from Wade Hampton and other prominent
Southerners to visit South Carolina and deliver
some lectures. His letter has been published, and

I it expressed the sentiments of all his party, many

Americans who are now Republicans would not be
sorry to see the Democrats in power. Mr. Adams
intends taking the opportunity of expressing opinions

which may be little palatable to the South ; but if
they desire to hear him, he will not shrink from
honestly stating what he believes to be facts be-
cause they may be distasteful to his hearers. This
letter is one which well becomes the future repre-

sentative of the family, and shows how narrow is
the line between the Conservative Republican and
the Liberal Democrat. On passing through Gains-
boro', North Carolina, on the 7th inst., he was met

by the citizens of both races en masse; he then stated
it to be untrue that so atrocious an outrage was
contemplated by the Democratic ,party as the re-
enslavement of the negro, which the North would

never permit, when unanimous cries arose " Nor
the South either ;" he had learned more of the
Southern people during his two days in the South
than he could during his lifetime in Massachusetts,
and he was astonished and pleased at the amicable
relations between the two races.
Indignation is expressed at Brooklyn against the

board of supervisors for their appointment of in

spectors and canvassers to serve at the coming elec-
tion. By some shuffle, if a Radical authority is to
be believed, they have managed to obtain this re-
sult.

"ln the 22 wards of Brooklyn there ara 102 election

districts. In 40 of these districts, all of which are Repub-
lican, the inspectors of election are divided equally be-

t ween the two parties. In 50 districts, mostly the same,
the canvassers are divided evenly. In t wenty-nine districts,'

all Democratic, all four of the inspectors of election are
Democrats ; and in 20 of these districts we have no Re-
publican canvasser. In one in five of all the districts in
Brooklyn, 20 in all, and these the worst and most Demo-
cratic, the Democrats have all the inspectors and both the
canvassers, the Republicans having no official moans
whatever of checking fraudulent voting."
The citizens are invited, innocently enough, with-

out distinction of party, to assemble en masse at the
Academy of Music to express their indignation.
The town elections of Connecticut show large
Republican gains. They were held on Monday, the
sth instant, and had just been officially published,
when the mail left on the 10th, all but 9. Out of
the 164, 86 went Republican and 69 Democratic.

The net Republican gain in 110 towns out of the
164 was 2,626, a result scarcely looked for in that
State, preceding as it did the great elections on the
13th instant.

That Grant's influence has been pretty strongly
felt by his enemies, is apparent from the fact of
Ashley's defeat in Ohio, and the tight position in
whichßutler finds himself to be placed in lassachu-
setts. Ashley of Impeachment notoriety, when the
" War-horses" were in the ascendant, not only
endeavoured to impeach the President, but to force
a measure through Congress for the impeachment
of the General. Butler is said to be roaring like a
mad bull, and he is down horns, and after any-
thing which shakes the red rag of Congressional
defeat before him. His two weak points are his
former virulent hostility to Grant, and his financial

heresies.
The Congressional Committee on retrenchment
sat, as announced, at New York. One of the first
witnesses examined was Solicitor Binckley himself,
who was closely questioned by General Van Wyck
of New York. For a long time ➢lr. Binckley re-
fused to be sworn, urging many reasons why he
should not be, but finally yielded and was examined
at length. He refused to answer questions as to his
authority and instructions from the President.
Without concluding his testimony the committee
adjourned. By a telegram received this week from
New York we learn that, on the further hearing,
the case was not only dismissed against Commis-
sioner Rollins, but M'Henry, one of the witnesses,
had been arrested on a charge of perjury. It ap-
pears, then, that Binckley has so completely broken
down as to have placed himself in a very awkward

position.
Au American paper of the true Republican stripe
illustrates the difference between the Democrats
and the Republicans by an incident in the life of a
subscriber, the truth of which is vouched for,
although it sounds uncommonly like a campaign
paper brought out at a very auspicious moment,
for there was but an interval of three days to the
elections on the 13th instant. The family de-
scribed sought to set up a business in a New York
village which had much to recommend it in position
and facilities. A few weeks residence showed that the
dra wbacksso swamped its advantages that the family
moved on. They " found it a place of no churches,
dilapidated school-houses, and run down buildings
and fences. Every third how) was an ' hotel' or

groggery. No woman called on the wife during '
their entire stay; none offered the new, corners
little neighbourly kindnesses that are so plea-
sant to a stranger—the only tender of hos-
pitality was in the shape of frequent invitations
to 'take a drink,' the only social gatherings
were held in the bar-rooms, and the end of the
evening's entertainment was often anything but
healthy for the participants, or pleasant for the
other residents of the place." The town to which
they removed was in comparison a paradise, con-
trasting strangely in its churches and schools, in
its being clean, orderly, and cheap. 'tasteful
houses, highly cultivated farms, fruit in abund-
ance, every necessary readily procurable, made up
a picture to be placed in juxtaposition. All this
we can easily understand, but what was the cause ?
That is the rub ; and one word supplies the ad-
swer to the satisfaction of our authority—" Cop-
perhcadism." " The inhabitants of the former are
some of Governor Seymour's friends,' who still
believe the war a failure, 'APClellan our greatest
general, and who always vote ou the same side as
the plug-uglies and Water-street roughs of New
York city. In the latter Grant and Colfax will
have almost the unanimous vote." Who can say
that the wicked do not meet their deserts even in
this world, and that the good are without their
reward ?

If the Philadelphia correspondent of the Times likes
eating his own words ho must lately have had many feasts.
The Times had but published the " dismal prospect" state-
ment a few days ago, when it was followed by this an-
nouncement from its correspondent :--" During the month
of September the public debt increased $1,645,275 80c.,
and since January 1, 1868, there has been an increase of
$1,575,307 33c. A large amount of money, some nine and
a half millions, was paid out of the Treasury during Sep-
tember forinterest. The total sum in the Treasury on Oct.
1 was $110,257,841860. ($96,891,847 being in coin), as com-
pared with $107,641,971 98c. on September 1 ($92,570,901
in coin). During September the disbursements of the Go-
vernment wore $30,027,731, and were about one million
less than the receipts. The gold in the Treasury, and also
the total sum, show an increase. This exhibit is much
more favourable than was anticipated, and has been grate-
fully received by the country, which has of late got into
the habit of expecting only bad news from the Treasury.
The secretary will have no interest to pay out during
October, and as he anticipates less disbursements than
during September, with quite as much revenue, it is be-
lieved that the next debt statement, on November 1, will
shot,/ a marked decrease in the total." It will be amusing
to watch him floundering out of his other predictions.

Part of the sea-wall at San Francisco is sliding
out to sea, and we are not surprised at its betaking itself
to the sea, as the Bulletin declares the city to be a lazar-
house, the small-pox having increased, and no precautions
taken to check it.

A new weekly paper, the Sentinel, has beenstarted
at Worcester, Massachusetts, published by E. S. Gould.
It is Republican in politics, and aims to be the special
organ of the soldiers.
The editors of the Williams' College Quarterly,
chosen by the class of '7O for next yew:, are : Robert B.
Hall of Ashfield, Arthur Robinson of North Adams, W.
H. H. Hollister, jr., of Coxsacksio, N. Y. ; C. A. White of
Wardsboro, Vt., and Robert G. Fitch of East Sheffield.
The chief subjects before the annual meeting of
the American Social Science Association at the old South

Chapel, Boston, Wednesday, the 14th, were, besides the
ordinary business routine, addresses in opening by Prof.
W. B. Rogers, president; on "The Relations which Law
holds to Social Science," by Judge Washburn ; on "Re-
cent Phases of Thought in Political Economy," by Prof.
A. Perry of Williams College ; on " The Connection of
Civilization with Health and Longevity," by Dr Edward
Jarvis ; and on "Recent Educational Progress," by J. D.
Philbrick. Two questions of great importance were to be
brought before the meeting : the appointment of a general
agent, with a salary and an office, which will fix the head-
quarters of the association ; and the limitation of the field
heretofore assumed by the association, but soon to be en-
tered by a Western organization of kindred purposes.
At Laramie City they have a live paper called
the Frontier Index, 14 by 16 inches, which is published in
a house on wheels, and keeps at the terminus of the rail-
road.

The Spirit of the Times tells us " Fanny Janauschek has
come back from Germany, where she has papered her
drawing-rooms with Five-twenty Bonds, and has set seri-
ously to work to similarly adorn the rest of the house.
The henchmen of Mayor Hoffman turned out in festival
strength to welcome their gifted countrywoman, and
the fair Fanny. had on the opening nights over
sixteen hundred dollars, the largest receipts on
that night of any theatre in the city. The circus
is back in its old place on Fourteenth-street—horse,
foot, and brass band. The Theatre Comique is as
well patronised as ever. Lingard has introduced new
imitations; Alice Dunning wins hearts by her yellow hair
and pretty face. Miss Susan Gallon and the Comic Opera
Troupe, formerly al Wood's, are among the additional in-
ducements to spend money with Charley White. Law-
rence Barrett, having failed to find a leading lady
disengaged to fill the position in the new Cali-
fornia theatre, of which be and ll'Cullough are
lessees, sails to-day, October 10, for England, in quest
of that very necessary personage, together with other talent.
Jerome Ravel, with the " Great Leotard," has arrived in
New York, and will soon present his acrobatic protegd to
the public. The Bowery thinks it about time to revive
the "Black Crook," and is doing a piece called the "Crim-
son Shield"—twenty coryphees, forty female warriors,
and thirty corps de ballet. Zavitowsky directs the ballet.
Harry Raynor, the Australian comedian, appears at the
San Francisco Minstrels next Monday evening, Oct. 12.
Professor Cronnell's Stereopticon at Irving Hall presents
lovely views of England, Ireland, Scotland, France, and
local views."

George W. Jamieson, a well-known actor, was
run over and instantly killed at Yonkers by the express
train on the Hudson river road. He had been engaged to
play a part in the new drama at Niblo's of "After Dark,"
wherein he was to save a friend from death by a coming
train.
General Pope has established the headquarters
of the " Department of the North-west" at Milwaukie.
Mr. J. W. Ewer, senior editor of the San Fran-
cisco Mining and Scientific Press, is on a visit East for his
health. He will probably be absent for several months.
Mr. William Schall has come to Europe to
join the banking-house of Messrs. blarcaurd, Andre, and
Co., of Paris. The firm of Messrs. Schall and Co., in
New York, is succeeded by Messrs. A. Goettel and Co., of
which Mr. W. Schall and his brother, Mr. Charles T.
Schall, are made special partners.
The Canadian delegates have arrived in Eng-
land, with a view to enter into nego3iations relative to
the North-Western Territory.
Professor Coleman, Professor of Natural Science

in the Female High School of Louisville, Kentucky, was
recently nearly blinded by nitric acid, while making ex-
periments in the presence of his class. None of
.the class
were injured.
John 11. Young, of the New York, 7? ibune, has
been left half a million of dollars by an uncle he had never
seen, and seldom heard of, who died in the East Indies.
Lion. Charles Fisher has been appointed Judge
of the Supreme Court of Now Brunswick, vacant by the
elevation of Judge Wilmot as Governor of that Province.
Prince Nicolaus of Nassau is about to visit the
United States of America. The absence of the Prince
from Europe, it is said, will bo for several months.
Thomas Hansbrow, a much-respected citizen of
California, died at Sacramento of paralysis, August 31.
Ho was, in 1856, Superintendent of the San Francisco
City Waterworks; in 1860 and 1861 a member of the
Board of Supervision for the Second District • member of
the Legislature in 1855-6, and represented the State of
California by appointment of the Governor, at the World's
Fair, in London. Mr. Hansbrow was Superintendent cf
the machinery department at the State Fair of 1867. He
was the inventor of " Hansbrow's Challenge Pump,"
" Hydrostatic Engine," " Amalgamating Pan," and other
inventions suggested by the wants of the community.
The President has appointed Jas. Barnes to be
Commissioner to examine the entire road and telegraph
lines of the Union Pacific Railroad, vice J. L. kVilliarns,
resigned.
Chief Justice Chase, who has lately been on a
visit to his son-in-law at Rhode Island, is going South to
hold Court.
Baron Von Gerolt has officially announced that
the States recently merged into the North German Con-
federation aro now represented by North German Con-
suls.
M. Alfred Paul, the French Consul General at

Havanuah, is dead.
Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, who was
severely injured a few weeks ago, by the falling of a horse
on which ho was riding, having on) of his legs fractured
in three places, is rapidly recovering, and is now able to
take out-door exercise every day.
Mr. Z. Eastman, American Consul at Bristol, is
at present at Chicago, where wo perceive his system of
street rails is attracting attention.
Thomas Ball, of Boston, the sculptor, intended to
sail for Liverpool on the 15th, and on arrival at Florence
will at once give his attention to the marble statue of John
A. Andrew, which he hopes to complete in two years.
The equestrian statue of Washington by Mr. Ball, now
casting at Chicopee, will bo ready for dedication on the
next Fourth of July.
Judge Munson of the Montana territorial courts,
accompanied by his wife, will probably spend the winter
in Springfield, New Haven, and Washington. He reports
Montana as not having gained much in population or
mineral development within the last year, but holding sure
and rich promise for the future.
The salaries of the four professors and of the
financial secretary of the Hartford Theological Institute
have been placed at $2,500 each.
Dennis C. Wilcox, of Meriden, Connecticut, has
sold his home, near the State Reform School, together
with the furniture and sixteen acres of land, to his brother,
Horace C., for $90,000. Dennis has purchased a residence
on Madison avenue, New York, for $lOO,OOO, where he
will become the resident representative of the Meriden
Britannia Company.
A. P. Marble, formerly professor of mathematics
in Wayland University, Wisconsin, has been appointed
superintendent of schools at Worcester, Massachusetts, in
place of Colonel Chonovath, resigned on account of ill-
health.
The pay of the executors of the Pollock estate, at
Pittsfield, who presented a bill of over $36,0u0 for their
first year's services, has been fixed by thejudge of probate
at $B,OOO or $2,000 each.
A beautiful volume containing the resolution of
thanks to George Peabody, adopted by Congress at the
last session, has just been finished. The book is bound in
blue morocco, tastefully paneled and gilt, with a splendid
raised monogram of solid gold and silver on one of the
panels. The covers are lined on the inside with watered
silk, and opposite the title page is another neat monogram
in colours. It does credit to the Government and to those
who prepared it, and is to be forwarded to Mr. Peabody
through the State Department.
The senior class of William College ('69), Western

Massachusetts, have held their class-day election, with
the following result :—President, Henry C. Lowe of Day-
ton, Ohio; Orator. Horace H. Leavitt of Lowell; Poet,
Rodney L. Tabor of San Francisco, California Ivl
Orator, J. L. Ketchum, jun., of Indianapolis, Indiana;
Library Orator Edward H. Cole of Nyack, New Yolk;
Orator to the lower, Classes, James White of Godman-
chester, C. W. ; Historian, S. P. Winslow of Pittsford,
Vermont ; Prophet, C. D. Howk of New Albany, Indiana;
Marshals, Samuel Knox, jun., of St. Louis, Mobile, and
H. S. Smith of Tioy, New York; Chairman of the Cora-
mitten of Arrangements, Avery L. Billings of Rutland?
Vermont.

Miss Harriet Hosmer, the artist, arrived at Lenox,
Massachusetts, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, from a long Profes-
sional sojourn in Rome.
J. Lothrop Motley, our recent Minister to Aus-
tria, is one of the lecturers in the Parker Fraternity course
at Boston, and was to speak in the Music Hall ou the
evening of October 20 in behalf of Grant and Colfax. It
was Wendell Phillips's evening, but he postponed
lecture for one week in favour of Mr. Motley. The litter
calls his subject The four great questions before the
people."

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James D. Martin was found guilty on Thursday'
Oct. 8, of defrauding the Hide and Leather Bank and ?r,
deceiving its officers, but not guilty on similar charges:"
regard to the Northampton Bank, and that one at Angasft
Maine. Judge Lowell's charge was very long, and tile
'
jury were out an hour and a half. The case will go to
Supreme Court of the United States. t of
William 11. Dail. the son of Mrs. C. H. Dal', ks
Boston, reached San Francisco, Septernbor 25, from Alas
and British Columbia, with two thousand specimens fort
the Smithsonian Institution and the Chicago Academy Sciences, including eggs, birds, fishes, and animals. I,
Sir Roderick Murchison says that the letters
Dr. Kirk has received from Dr. Livingstone were written
in October and December last at Marangu and Cazerehe'
places which lie to the S. and S.S.W. of Lake TanganYik.'"
Dr. Livingstone had been living during three mon
with friendly Arabs, and waiting for the close of a native
war before proceeding on his way to Ujiji, and he told tb
Arab messenger who took his letters to Dr. Kirk that lifter
exploring Lake Tanganyika he intended to return to Zan;
zibar. Sir R. Murchison thinks that weeks may elel3l
before we can know of Dr. Livingstone's arrival at Zan„
bar, and that he may, indeed, bring the news himself: at'T
enable his admiring countrymen to give him hen'
welcome before Christmas.
The Hon. Thurlow Weed, whose health, we regret
to say, is still delicate, and his daughter are at Edward:
Royal Hotel, George-street, Hanover-square.
field,
The family of Mr. B. K. Bliss, of Spring —,ia
have removed to New York for the winter. TheY -
occupy the house of Mr. Decius Beebe, of North W,
ham ham and New York, who, in turn, will occupy theirs in
Springfield for the season. Mr. and Mrs. Abel D. 011,nrdor
have sailed for Europe, and intend to winter in
southern France on account of Mr. Chapin's health. '-'"eiva
eldest son accompanies them.—Mrs. Stoeckl, wife of
"cd,
Russian Minister, and her sister, Miss Fanny floscathe
formerly of Springfield, were to go in the same steamer/
Vile de Paris, on the 19th, and will winter in Rome.
The Baltimore Commercial says ‘4 Artercle:
Ward's last joke was his will ; one of his executors sa,_
that he left no money to carry out the provisions of dal
will. After paying the expenses of his sickness and bun
nothing is left. Artemus was flowing over with wit
humour even in his last moments, and no doubt his si':;d
was made partly to show what he would have done !i'sr,
his fnnd3 been sufficient to carry out his wishes:"
can certify that he was coining money at the Egyptian" had
Piccadilly, just before he died—that one of his executors 0
the whole management of the entertainment, but that eoet
the account Artemus Ward owed this newspaper has not ?;
been paid. We can also bear testimony to the fact
the humorist lived in a quiet, unpretending lotlgig'n3ers,
if he expended money in any way it was in newsParnor
With which his room was generally lumbered. Even itb
posing that he did not bring a penny to London viand
him, the charges to hear him were very high' gar'
dozens were turned away daily, so that a large,,,e3s
plus must have accrued which his subsequent t""for
could not much have affected. It would be advisableisbs
the executors to stop such scandal by a plain, unvarn tto
statement of the circumstances. We would be the las the
make any claim on the estate of Artemus Ward had., to
assets been in the state the executors desire the publl
believe. But we know what we have stated to be can on
and that our application has not met even the COin
civility of a reply from the executors.
aos 00°
A. T. Stewart's legal adviser is said to get Id ill
a year. This information, we presume, was obts',l'ol
consequence of the row at his store between Mrs. G'' tatr•
Mrs. Spinola. It appears these ladies met at that es
nd-
lishment, and, as one seemed to have a better understnalt
iug with the other's husband than with herself, the ,sps,
was extremely unpleasant for everybody except, per"tbat
for the injured lady. If women insist upon making dot
great house the scene of their conflicts, we cannot w°"
that the legal adviser of the firm is so liberally paid.
giol3'
The Vermont Legislature began its annual See-noll
October 8, and both Houses promptly and harmen,,"siers
organized. In the Senate Henry Clark, of Rutlan"
elected secretary ; Major James S. Peck, of Moilt,,Pe„at-
assistant secretary; and Rev. D. C. Roberts, a ,-o-rge
pelier, chaplain—all unanimously. In the House CI 0.
W. Grandee, of Vergennes, was chosen speaker; n of
Flagg, of Wilmington, clerk ; and Rev. Isaac APAIVa
Montpelier, chaplain. Mr. Grandey received 195 To
11 for Waldo Bingham, Democrat, and 10 scattering' he s(
The marble statue of Commodore Matt oo
Colbraith Perry, unveiled at Newport, Rhode 'slan r-
Thursday, October Bth, is modelled from a bust and n':,
trait taken from life. The costume is intended to
accurate representation of the naval uniform, the 43701'
being relieved by a military cloak thrown over the sh yre
ders. It stands upon a granite pedestal, upon Whicroline
the simple inscription of the names of August and Ca' dates
S. Belmont as thepersonswhoerected the statue, the end'
of Perry's birth and death and his name, and also the,'e'e Its
" Africa.lB43; Mexico,lB46; Treaty with Japan, 18°4.06'
cost was about $20,000. Dr. Vinton, in his addreSsc
speaking of the kind of men who aro worthy of snecoo;
inorials, gave an account of the life and services c
mender Perry, and more especially of the importspege
-
his negotiations between the United States and JaPaniiicb
also treated at some length of the admirable style in wt e
the Commodore's reports were written, and said "As'
attained it by a careful study of Addison. While 340
midshipmen were idle, he was buried deep in the
of the Spectator or of the Tattler, some of which 13.?.,c0rl
mitted to me Dory, furnishing a rare example of
culture in a seaman. Astolh
At the recent town cattle shows at Hubbar" st's,S
Massachusetts, the report of the committee on swirle
as follows:
No swine to-day, not even one,
We know not what it means ;
We hope that those who slight these shows
Will get no pork and beans!
No swine to-day, oh what a pity—
And five old mon on the committee.
A condensed statement of thd number of e
in the various departments of the Berkshire aril, 100,
fair recently held at Pittsfield is as follows :—Frnworo
bread and butter 119, cheese 11, floral department 14roatic;
of art 65, agricultural implements and mechanical P cture
tions 41, vegetables and seeds 87, household manutssoiee
237, cattle 43, cows 90, bulls 23, herds 2, sheep 559100
10, poultry 27, crops 314, orchards 14, fruit trees _,
14, dairies 3.
THE BIBLE IN SPAIN. —The Honorary Segroieot
of the Financial Committee of the Edinburgh in th
Evangelization Society, Mrs. R. Peddie, publishes ;as fr.
Edinburgh Courant an advertisement soliciting fil'-‘,Ol
the printing and circulation of the New Testaw'red
Spain. It states thai " General Prim has detsburgli
Senor Cabrera, one of the agents of the B"`"oilett
Spanish Evangelization Society, and other tvit',,„. they
that they may enter Spain with their Bibles and
arms to preach its doctrines."

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