The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOND IN, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, 1868.

added to th, l.Tuion ;vial nearly four millions of people
strongly imbued with a love of the Old Country,
an element which would soon make itself felt in
American politics. England would frankly say,
" We trust you as our kindred with a power that
must overshadow the world, believing that you will
use it loyally and justly towards us, your kindred,
in particular, and the human race in general ;" and
few who know the American character can doubt
the result.—Anglo-American Tintes.l

1867 the company divided 6 per cent. ($1,837,668)
in cash, and $1,190,000 in new shares of stock,
reduced its indebtedness $460,000, and carried
forward $163,877 surplus. The money divided in
the form of new shares was expended in laying
extra lines of track to accommodate increased traffic.

The New Haven and Northampton Railroad has
opened the Williamsburg Extension, and trains.
will leave that town at 6 and 10.30 a.m. for New
Haven, and at 4.30 p.m. in addition for Westfield.

The conductors' uniform on the New York and
New Haven Railroad will be a suit of navy blue,
with the road's initials in gilt letters on the lappels
of numerous pockets.

The project for a railroad from Whitehall to
Plattsburgh, New York, running along the west
shore of Lake Champlain through the counties of
Washington, Essex, and Clinton, is spoken of as
one of the most important enterprises now in pro-
gress in that State. It will lead to the iron mines
of that region, and afford an outlet for vast quan-
tities of lumber and wood.

The Hartford and New Haven Railroad Com-
pany have reduced the wages of their track labour-
ers from $1.75 to $1.50 a-day.
The stockholders of the Boston and Albany Rail-
road re-elected the present board of directors and
president at their annual meeting in Boston.
The reduced freight tariff on the Connecticut
River, Vermont Central, and connecting northern
railroads, which was agreed upon by the freight
agents of the different roads at their recent confer-
ence in Springfield, will be submitted to the super-
intendents at a meeting which they will hold at
Boston on the 18th, and if accepted by them was
to take effect on the Ist of March. The principal
reductions are upon through freight, though the
Connecticut River road will also cut down its tariff
on local freight. This road likewise contemplates
a reduction of its passenger fares, to begin on the
Ist of May.

George A. Merrill, superintendent of the Rutland
and Burlington Railroad, has issued orders to its
employes requiring them to "do their work not
only well, but pleasantly, and to give every facility
to travellers by information and by acts." It is said
to work admirably, and it would not be amiss for
all superintendents to imitate the order.
The Rhode Island locomotive works at Provi-
dence have orders for 24 locomotives, 19 of them
for the Union and Central Pacific Railroads.
They will complete them in six months, about one
a week.

James E. Shepherd has been indicted by the
grand jury of Worcester, Massachusetts, for the
murder of his wife, Nov. 15. Mrs. Ellen Burke,
brutally shot by her husband, at Bennington, Ver-
mont, a month ago, is likely to recover. Green,
convicted of poisoning his wife, practises with suc-
cess ornamental penmanship in Litchfield Gaol,
Connecticut. Mrs. Timothy J. Spooner, of Barre,
Massachusetts, hung herself in the cellar, leaving
two children. The part her husband had in this
affair is not stated, but the fact is not encouraging.
In the newspaper that gives these items sympathy
is expressed for a Boston lady. who is considered a
sad warning 150 dilatory lasses, as she lost her en-
gagement by being ten minutes too late for a train !
Here is a New York " Speke" disappearance :—No
tidings have been received in regard to the missing
man Colton, nor has any clue to his whereabouts
been ascertained since he was seen on Broadway,
New York, December 21, the day he was expected
home. Search for him has been abandoned, and
the whole affair is still a mystery. The Lake Shore
disaster accounts for some of the late disappear-
ances. It is thought that Perry Stannard, of New
Marlboro, may have been one of the unrecognized
victims, as he left Michigan a month ago to return
home, and has not since been heard from. A Nevada
paper gives an account of the disappearance of John
Williams, for whom Wm. Moile, foreman of the
Occidental Mine, offered a reward of $lOO. The
missing man is a native of the parish of St. Just,
Cornwall, England. He was temperate in habit,
and had left a Chinese wash-house to return with
some clothes to the mine when he disappeared.

A horse belonging to Mr. Leonard, of Meriden,
Connecticut, was on Jan. 27 frightened by a rail-
road train and ran a quarter of a mile race with it.
Reaching a crossing at the same time the horse
made a dash upon a platform car, and was carried
some rods before he jumped off and resumed his
own powers of locomotion. The animal was con-
siderably but not. fatally injured by his wild ad-
venture.

Mr. Brewster Russell, an Englishman, employed
on the Mexican and Vera Cruz Railway was mur-
dered in a manner truly characteristic of Mexicans.
He was travelling to Mazatlan with Captain Ochoa,
of the Juarist army, who induced him to take an
unusual route, via Durango. Ochoa, when near
Mazas, persuaded Mr. Russell to let him carry
the pistol, by way of relieving the owner from part
of his burden. Ochoa, on obtaining the revolver,
shot Mr. Russell, and was aided in disposing of his
victim by two boys of the party. The trunks were
broken open, and all that was valuable carried off.
None of the murderers have as yet been captured,
nor is it known that any attempt has been made to
take them.

An extraordinary gaol mutiny took place at St.
Joseph, Missouri, Feb. 1, by which 18 prisoners
escaped, and the leader of the gang was killed by
the wife of the Sheriff. Mr. Andrew Craig entered
the gaol to lock the prisoners in their cells at 5 p.m.,
leaving a young man named Fish to bolt the outer
door after him. Mr. Craig instantly found him-
self iu a cell and the door locked, and before young
Fish had time to lock the outer door Oscar Leland,
the leader, jumped into the cylinder, which was
rapidly revolved by accomplices, and he had gained
the hall. Fish ran up stairs to Mrs. Craig's room,
and she divining the danger seized a revolver, ran
down, and, seeing Leland outside, shot him, in-
flicting a mortal wound. With horrid imprecations
he turned upon her and knocked her down with a
billet of wood. Young Fish then appeared with a
revolver and shot Leland in the left shoulder. At
the same moment Leland who had obtained a
pistol, mortally wounded Fish, who fled, pursued
by Leland,till he was knocked down by the same bil-
let of wood. As soon as Mrs. Craig could recover
she rushed out and gave the alarm. Barker,
who followed Leland, stayed to protect Mrs. Craig,
down whose face blood was streaming, until the 18
prisoners had made their exit, when he fled. All
this was the work of a few seconds— Mrs. Craig
was severely injured, her brother in the agonies of
death, her husband locked up in a cell, and the 18
desperadoes gone. Deputy-Sheriff Springer coming
up Fifth-street heard the alarm, and saw the fugi-
tives running towards the Court-House. He gave
chase, and captured Leland, who was unable to
make much progress in his dying state. He was
brought back, and laid at the feet of the corpse of his
victim. Barker also was recaptured, when he was
fervently thanked by Mrs. Craig for the protection
he had given her.

In one of the singing saloons of Liverpool, a fort-
night ago, a young man named Carstairs, said to
be respectably connected, while singing the " Bon.
nie Blue Flag," a Confederate song, was interrupted
by an American captain named Howard, who in-
sisted upon Carstairs " shutting up." Carstairs
refused to comply with the demand, an altercation
ensued, and Howard struck Carstairs violently over
the head with a water bottle. Carstairs was re-
moved to his hotel, and afterwards taken home to
his mother's house, where he died.
A boy about ten years of age, named Potter, was
instantly killed at South Adams by being run over
by three freight cars run down the grade from
Maple Grove by Oscar Marsh, station agent there.
The little fellow and several playmates were trying
to see how many times they could cross the track
before the cars came. He made one attempt too
much, and was literally torn to pieces.
The story of a convict in the Charleston State
prison, who has just died of consumption, is a sad
one. Six or seven years ago, in the western part
of the State, he fell in love with a young woman,
and, her friends opposing, eloped with her. They
were pursued and overtaken at a hotel, where they
begged one final interview alone, and then, he
asserts, mutually agreed to commit suicide. At the
last moment, however, her courage failed her, and
she called him, as he says, to do the deed for her.
He then cut her throat and his own. She died, he

recovered, and was tried at Lenox and convicted of
murder, but was saved from the gallows by a com-
mutation of his sentence to imprisonment for life.
Six years have elapsed, and now he has passed
away, after showing that he was contrite and peni-
tent for the crime which he committed.

The Niagara Falls Gazette says that workmen are
engaged in putting cables over the river for the new sus-
pension bridge at that place. The ice bridge, instead of
being a formidable rival. is a most valuable aid in this work.
The first wire cable was thrown across from the Canada
side on Monday. It is a two-inch wire rope, and is in-
tended as the pioneer of tho large cable, which will be
thrown over the chasm when milder weather comes.

AMERICAN MARKETS.

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(From Beldiny, Keith, and Co.'s Circular.)

80, LOMBARD-STREET, LONDON, March 6, 1868.

Oar advices by mail, which are from New York to 22d
February, and which, from various sources of very high
authority, financially, are very sanguine that nothing will
be done as to changing the matters of loans, and also that
entire good faith will be kept in the payment of 5-20
Bonds, are, we regret to say, somewhat marred by Cable
despatches reporting the resolutions passed not only by
the Conventions of one, but by both parties, in such influen-
tial States as Ohio and Pennsylvania, and in the face of
which even thehighest individual authority, however true
it may prove in the end, is very damaging for the present.
Without attempting to forestall the action of Con-
gress either as to this matter or attempt to indicate
what will be the result of the impeachment of
the President, we think we offer sound advice to all
intending investors in United States Bonds to purchase
those of 1864, or Ten-Forty issue, the interest and princi-
pal of which by the Act are payable in gold ; and to such
as hold Five-Twenties and feel in any measure unsettled
as to their ultimate payment in gold, we would advise
them to exchange for the Ten Forties, or the first Mort-
gage Bonds of the Central or Union Pacific Railway, in-
terest and principal payable in gold. In both cases there
is an advantage in cash in hand by the transaction, as will
appear by our pro fornza of exchange herewith, while
with the Railroad Bonds there is a gain in the amount of
interest.

Pro forma account of exchange of United States 5-20
Bonds for 10-40's, and Union and Central Pacific Railroad
Bonds at market rates :

51,000 5-20 1862 Bond realizes, at 74 nett,
to-day's price £l6o 6 3
$l,OOO United States 10-40 Bond costs, to 65f
nett, price same date