The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-15 00:00:00

MISTAKES.

Those who believe that journalists always check
figures, references, and assertions before they un-
dergo the magic of being transferred from manu-
script into print must be surprised at the errors in
plain statements which often appear even in leading
papers. A writer may hazard an opinion in pre-
ference to breaking the thread of his thoughts, and
forget to look out the reserved point, when he is
startled by seeing his conjecture published.
Last week the Spectator spoke of England as being
7,000 miles from America—but if the editor was
carried 7,000 miles West, and dropped, he would find
himself swimming in the Pacific Ocean. The Star
not long ago asserted that when the Union Pacific
Railway was opened the traveller might go from
New York to San Francisco in two days ! Not bad
travelling that, considering that it would average
70 miles an hour for 48 hours ; we imagine six
days will be the quickest attainable for a long time
to come. A curious number of errors is contained
in the following " Occasional Note" in the Pall
Mall Gazette:—

"New England, the stronghold of the Republican party,
will certainly b 3 true to the cause. Vermont has given
the leaders a majority of '27,000, a gain of 7,000 as com-
pared with the last election. If the East did not make a
fight with the West now for the possession of power, it
would be the strangest thing in American history. The
West has begun in earnest a long-expected campaign, and
the East will have to Sght hard for what it has gained by
the war, or see the last chance of power slip through its
fingers. We may expect to see all the New England
States go as Vermont has done; but New England alto-
gether only casts 33 votes in the Electoral College, and
New York alone casts the same number. The victory in
Vermont was anticipated by all parties alike, and conse-
quently it does not throw any light on the probable result
of the contest."

The six new England States cast 39, not 33 votes.
They will not all go as Vermont has done ; Connec-
ticut being Democratic Maine, and. New Hampshire
doubtful. The whole question hinged on the in-
crease or decrease in the Republican majority, as
throwing a light on the probable result. But
numerous as are the errors in the statements, they
are surpassed in the meaning conveyed. The West
is represented as having begun in earnest its long
expected campaign against the E.tst. The New
England States are to combine against the West, and
so we might naturally suppose would other Eastern
States. But New York is made to neutralize the New
England combination with its 33 votes. here we
suppose the writer classes New York among the
Western States, and he certainly represents the Re-
publican party as the champion of the East. That
New York will vote the Democratic ticket no one
doubts, as will Maryland and Delaware, very likely
New Jersey, certainly Connecticut, probably Penn-
sylvania. These, we presume, the writer considers
to be Eastern States. here then we have the East
fighting against itself and knocking down its own
champion ; and strange to say, if we look West we
shall see the same result, for the most thoroughly
Western States will most probably throw their votes
ou the same side as the New Euglanders. This

paragraph is a curiosity of error, and one he who un'
consciously produced it, might try in vain to equal.
—Anglo-American Times.

An American paper says :—" Oh Thursday, the
19th August, the first number of a new journal, called the
West African Herald, vt as published at Sierra Leone, the
editor, publisher, and printers being natives of the West
Coast. The paper is printed on a decoy sheet, and is got
up as well as could be expected under the circumstances.
Mr. C. Bannerman, the editor, must have some good friends
at the courts of the kings and chiefs of the West African
coast. For instance, iu his prospectus to his subscribers
—cash in advance—he states that parties desiring to be
supplied with the West African Herald at the following
places :—Winnebah, apply to Aquah, King of \Vint-kebab ;
at Jellah Coffee, to Tay, prince of that place; and at Aqua-
pim, Akim, Croboe, Dinkerah, Wassah, Fautee, and Domi-
nassi, by applying to the kings and chiefs of those coun-
tries. Pending the appointment of several other eminent
"blue bloods" at eight other places on the coast, sub-
scribers must communicate with the editor."

The National Intelligencer says :—" Through the
efforts of Colonel Norton, of Paris, the American banking
house of Norton and Co. have Imui authorised by the Se-
cretary of the Treasury to attend to all business connected
with the distribution of official information among the
bankers and brokers of Europe."

N:. N:. Pomeroy, commonly known as " Brick"
Pomeroy, is remarkable for his extraordinary success as a
journalist. He was born on Christmas-day, 1803, at
Elmira, New York, and being left an orphan was
brought up by his uncle, S. M. White. He was un-
educated, and spent his boyhood in working on the
farm, and selling the berries he picked on the hills from
door to door in Elmira. In 1850 he learnt the printing
business in the ()Zees of the Corning Journal. For two years
he published the Athens Gazette in Pennsylvania,
but removed to Wisconsin in 1837, where he set up
the Horicon Argus, without a dollar in his pocket. This
he sold for $2,000, and worked as city editor of the Mil-
waukee News. In 1860 he took up a bankrupt concern
called the La Crosse Union and Democrat, dropping the
Union. He accompanied the army as a correspondent,
but his uncompromising Democratic principles found
little favour, and in 1863 he was driven off for a severe
criticism of the Northern generals. When the war closed
in 1865 the circulation of his paper was only 150 a week,
now it is over 300,000, and his income little short of
£40,000 a year. His printing office at La Crosse, Wis-
consin, a town which owes to him its name and reputation,
is the finest in existence, filled with curiosities like a
museum, and with luxuries like a palace. He has lately
started a Democratic daily paper in New York, with s
circulation of 20,000 to begin with. The style of journalism
which has met with this marked success reflects little
credit either on the United States or on the Democratic
party, although we believe Mr. Pomeroy to be thoroughly
honest in his convictions.

George, " Artemus Ward's" favourite boy, is now
at work in Houghton's "River-side Press" priuting-(15°1
under a provision of the humorist's will, which required
his apprenticeship to be "the best printer in America."
There was a rumour that Garibaldi bad .100
Caprera, which is now said to be untrue.
It is said that Lord Napier's share of the sig
months' batta granted for service in Abyssinia Will
amount to 29,850 rupees.
The death is announced of an accomplished
United States literary man, Mr. George J. Adler, best
known as the author of a German and English dictionary"
which has become a text-book in American public schools.
The Chair of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy
at the University of Vermcnt has been accepted by new
H. A. P. Torry of Vergennes, and Rev. John B. Perry el
the Museum and Comparative Zoology at Harvard bag
been secured as lecturer on Geology.
Mr. Watts has received his instructions ag
Minister to Austria, and will depart immediately Of
Vienna. Baron Charles Von Lederer, the new Austriall
Minister to tho United States, arrived in New York, °l2
Wednesday, August 26, from Liverpool.
General M'Ciellan has promised to return t°
Pennsylvania in time to take an active part in the Presi-
dential Election campaign.
David L. Swayne, LL.D., late president of the
Raleigh, North Carolina, University, died at that place °II
Thursday, August 27. Some weeks ago he and Professor
s
Fetter were thrown from a waggon, and Mr. Swayue

seriously, and, as it has proved, fatally injured.
At the annual meeting of the assured members of
the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, °II
Monday, August 24, the old board of directors was Ed,
elected, as follows :—Caleb Rice, Henry Fuller, jun.,
mund Freeman, Otis Childs, W. C. Sturtevant, 59•133'113
Bowles, Ephraim W. Bond, James Kirkham, Joseph Stoat%
Clark W. Bryan, F. B. Bacon and Sylvanus Adams
Springfield; Elliot C. Cowdin and Alfred Lambert
New York ; A. J. Benyon and R. W. Holman of Boston
William Bross and Benjamin Lombard of Chicago ; ll'
Erringer of Philadelphia, John S. Kidder of Manchester,
New Hampshire ; George J. Stannard of St. Albans, Ar°r-
mont ; James M. Churchill of Portland, Maine.
Colonel C. D. Poston, formerly of Arizona, b°
late of Washington, accompanied the Hon. J. mss,
Browne as Commissioner of Agriculture to China. 301
Richthofen also went with the mission as a geologist"
The ol,ject of his mission will be a thorough and scientio°
examination into the mineral resources of China.
Mr. Edward Anthony, for many years the re-
sported President of the Lamar Fire Insurance 00n12501

died on August 25, in the 61st year of his ago.
James Mann, the only Democratic member el
Congress from Louisiana, died, Wednesday morning, Ae,,13::
26, of congestion of the brain, and both branches of tm"
State Legislature adjourned out of respect to his rners°roi.
The Hon. J. H. Cameron and the Hon. Al•'r
Cameron are to defend Whaler, charged with the inari,"heo
of Mr. M‘Gee, who is about to be tried at Ottawa.
former gentleman is well known for his high Conservative
principles and Orange proclivities.
The Rev. J. C. Lovejoy used a horsewhip on the
shoulders of Mr. Fisher, editor of the Cambridge CAN'libel:
who attacked him in his paper while "stumping" Massae.;;
setts in the Democratic interest. The rev. gentleman `"-ii
compelled to apologize, and in doing so excused hi°'se,
by saying, " It is better to endure the hell of your psi,,,
"'
thailthe self-reproach of one wrong act." The editor ylvt
swered by acknowledging that he was apt to irritate, b°
his intentions are good, and he forgave, being a s f°rgilt-
ing disposition.
The portrait painter Charles L. Elliott was buried
on the 28th August. His funeral was attended by nearly
all the profession in New York.¢Od
An " Assassinating Italian" knows of an A,,sir.
in the Pacific which nobody else knows, and being "'los
ous to sell this treasure, and knowing where togo',. Of
turned up in Washington at the office of the Secrets
n,
State. Signor Moreno only asks for a ship to be so not
der his direction, and if the Government officers de
e,
report favourably the United States need not porch° yer.
In the last 14 years nearly 4,000 aliens, an 310.
age of 283 a year, have obtained certificates of sat": De-
tion from the Secretary of State for the British 001'
partment under the provisions of the Act 1844'A
,y,erica
The virulent cattle disease raging in '7„ you
seems to be not without danger to human beiegs•
at Troy, New York, whose hands had bees 15`.°31:00
scratched by berry bushes, afterwards skinned tvr"
which had died of the disease, and soon after his strapiiedi
oculated, it is believed, by virus from the coWs---SW"
and speedily resulted in death. One of his xis
covert
attended him also fell ill in the same way, and her rece
was declared doubtful. A
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Births. 134 r
GRANT—On the 13th inst., at 102, Hereford-road,
water, the wife of John M. Grant, Esq., of n scd3;c4 tha
ROUTLEDGE—On the 13th inst., at 294, Camden
wife of Edmund Routledge, of a daughter.
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ti eft
URQUHART—On the 29th ult. at Craigston
deenshire, the lady of Will. rollard-1101".
M.P., of a EOM

BROOKE—CARDEN—On the 12th ienss elif
oho 0
Dunkeld,o_., N. 8., George H. Brooke, 48th Bniiir°°"outlfi
of 'Vier. and Lady Arabella Brooke, of A.slibrooke, cuter 0
sfirF
jorLanagh, to Beatrice Georgina, second o°soo
Craven Carden, Bart., of Tereplesiora
Ireland. Marriages.
at St.Diall'ii fit, sed
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ROSTROW RILEY—On the 12th inst., at Great Facipl, lar;
Church,—
Simpson Rostrow, of the Middle Telltile 0
Win. -law, to Christina Jane,only daughter
Riley,' of the Outwoods, Warwickshire.
Deaths. tills
ARC lIIBALD —On the 12th inst., at 13, Palace-garde° a 3.
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Lnsington, Chas. D A li.b ld E FE S" t'gel4e'r
D. rc i 3, sq., • • ~,.
HARRIS—On the 13th inst., at 9, P'ark-terrace, Styr
llington, Richard Harris, Esq., of Lloyd's, aged 6 gajti,if
KritouN—On the 12th inst , at Tunbridg-Wetot $()-
Jinies G. Hathorn, Artilleryßoyal* (Ben,al), 0 1303"
of 11. V. Hathorn E- f rtiuuset
, by., aowa
gardens. Carlyle
CO
NANSO
, N —On tho 10th inst., at 16, Victoria-plauei
William N
anson, Esq., aged 76. , 0011
SLADE—On the 12th inst , at LoWknor Vicaral pcle,
-Matilda Ellen, widow of . the late General Sir "
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