The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-02 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

VALUE Or A TOOTIL—At the Dudley County Court, a
Mrs. Barnett sued a Mrs. Baker for £5 damages, for an
assault. The action arose out of a quarrel within the pre-
cincts of the court. The parties had been before the judge
in a summons case on a previous occasion, when his
Honour decided against Mrs. Baker, who no sooner got
out of the court than she struck the plaintiff and knocked
her tooth out. His Honour gave judgment for the amount
claimed.
MURDEROUS ASSAULT WITH AN AXE.—At the Black-
burn Police-court, a lodging-house keeper, named William
Thompson, was brought up in custody, charged with
murderously assaulting Richard Hodgson, a weaver,
about midnight on Saturday. An altercation took place,
which ended in the prisoner rushing at Hodgson, and
striking him in the centre of the forehead with an axe,
inflicting a terrible wound, from which the blood flowed
in copious streams. The skull was fractured, and the
injury of such a nature as to seriously endanger life. The
prosecutor was unable to appear, and as the surgeon was
unable to say when he could be present, or what the result
of the wound would be, the prisoner was remanded for a
week.

KNOCKING A WO3IAN'S EYE Our.-At the Liverpool
Police-court, a lad named William Taylor, whose head
scarcely reached the top of the dock, has been charged
with assaulting a woman, named Bridget Rogers. The
prisoner, while quarrelling with another lad in the
street, threw at him a piece of a broken jug. The
missile missed the boy, but struck the complainant
in the face and knocked. out one of her eyes. As the
woman was in a dangerous state, the prisoner was re-
manded.

AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—At the County Petty Ses-
sions, before Mr. Thomas W. W. Browne, Samuel
Rogers, alias " Harry the Traveller," a powerful-looking
man of Horsehay, was brought up in custody, charged
with night poaching on lands iu the occupation
of Mr. Thomas Sumners, of Growgreaves, in the
parish of Stockton, over which Mr. W. 0. Foster,
M.P., has the right of shooting. It seemed that Botley,
a watcher, with four others, was watching, and about
twenty minutes to twelve heard men talking. The
watchers immediately went in the direction of the sound,
and on getting up to the prisoner the latter said to his
brother poachers, " Stand, boys, and fight." Botley
caught hold of a net, when the prisoner struck him.
Penny, another watcher, came up to his assistance, and
the poachers, after doing some other damage, ran away.
The prisoner had nothing to say in defence, but denied
striking Botley on the head with the stake. He was sen-
tenced to three months' imprisonment, and was required
to find, at the expiration of that time, two sureties in £5
each and himself in £lO ; in default he would be further
imprisoned for six months.

Mr. J. C. E. Weigall offers to fit a train with
Bontet's system of breaks, if any railway company will
accord him the use of a train and a suitable line of rails—
which might easily be found on a branch lino—and under-
take to pay him the cost of it in case he succeeded in stop-
ing a train of thirty carriages, travelling at express spoed—
say forty-five miles an hour—within a distance of 150
yards.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.-011
Sunday last, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales, Prince John of Denmark, and their
suite, attended divine service in the church of Crathie.
His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, who is on a visit to
his Royal Highness at Abergeldie, was also present. The
Rev. Robert Stephen, of Renfrew, preached from Ist
Samuel, xxviii. 2, the last clause of the verse—" Bring me
up Samuel." A grand ball was given last week at
Abergeldie Castle by their Royal Highnesses.
SUNDAY RECREATION IN LEEDS.—On a recent
Assize Sunday in Leeds, Mr. Baron Bramwell and Mr.
Justice Lush visited the exhibition, and for several hours
enjoyed an inspection of the splendid art-works there
collected. On the same Sunday Mr. Councillor Clapham
gave a band performance of sacred music in the Leeds
Royal Park, for which " offence " he was fined £5 and
costs by the local magistrates. Mr. Clapham has issued a
bill, in which he says that he has during the present sum-
mer been compelled to pay £Ol in fines (exclusive of costs)
fur giving performances of sacred music on Sundays.

SERIOUS FIRE.—A serious fire happened on
Tuesday night about 8 o'clock at Bermondsey-wall, and at
midnight the flames were far from being entirely extin-
guished. the premises were the well-known granary and
corn stores belonging to Messrs.• Darnell. The ware-
houses stretched back to the waterside, and at one time
the numerous vessels lying at the side of the wall of the
Thames were exposed to imminent danger. The river
floating engines, by Shand, Mason, and Co., were at (nce
drafted alongside the burning property, as well as
numerous engines of the metropolitan brigade and another
powerful land steamer from Ilewett's brewery. The
granary and contents have been destroyed, and the
damage is roughly estimated at £50,000.

TENACITY OF LIFE IN A LAMB.—A few days
since a most singular cirzumstance occurred at Royden,
showing how long animal life may be sustained without
food. Three weeks and three days since the flock upon a
farm was counted, and one lamb found to be missing.
Search was made, but nowhere could the lost one be
found. Last week a well-digger was called in to inspect
a dry well some 46 feet deep, which had been recently dug
upon the premises, with a view of sinking it deeper,
when, much to his astonishment, the long.lost lamb
was found at the bottom. It had broken its shoulder, but
was otherwise unhurt, and when brought to the surface
immediately ran away upon three legs, and commenced
feeding, apparently much delighted at its most miraculous
escape.

•
INCENDIARISM IN IRELAND.—The Wyse family,
who are the owners of extensive estates near Cork, have
been made the victims of the cowardly malice of some
concealed enemies, who on Sunday night kindled no less
than three incendiary fires on different parts of their pro-
perty. The most destructive was discovered about two
a.m., on Granabrahr, the estate of Mr. Francis Wyse,
where three large ricks of hay, containing 130 tons, a portion
of the barn, thirty tons of straw, and a large quantity
of other property in the farmyard, were destroyed.
Another fire at Mountlesert, the estate of Miss Anne
Wyse, also destroyed an immense amount of property
and on the farm of Mr. Edward Wyse, of Leemount,
several stacks of corn were simultaneously fired, It Is
stated that the large crowds who assembled at each scene
of conflagration showed no willingness to arrest the pro-
gress of the flames, or to Ova any portion of the property.
The Pergetratcra Qt giq (Atop itm 414-

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, Aug. 27.—Her Majesty's surveying
steamer Newport left for Girgenti on the 17th, con-
•eying on an excursion to the ruins of ancient Agri-
gentum Mrs. and Miss Fanshawe, the wife and
daughter of Rear-Admiral Superintendent Fan-
shawe ; Deputy Inspector of Hospitals Dr. Dora-
ville and wife; Mr. R. C. Legh, auditor of accounts,
and wife, and Mr. Oates, the British Vice-Consul
at Girgenti. She returned on the 23d last from
Syracuse, with the Azov still in tow, the excur-
sionists being divided between the two vessels for
greater personal convenience during the prevailing
stifling hot weather. Her Majesty's screw steam
corvette Cruiser left Malta on the 22d of August
for Patras, to protect the many British ships now
there, some with capital in specie for the purchase
of fruit for England and Holland. Her Majesty's
steamsloop Antelope arrived from Corfu on the 25th,
bringing accounts from the British squadron in the
Adriatic to the 13th, then getting under weigh at
Trieste for Lissa, the coast of Albania, and Corfu,
for which last-named port the ironclad screw steam
frigate Prince Consort, which arrived from Ply-
mouth and Gibraltar on the 19th, has this morning
taken her departure to join the Commander-in-
Chief. His Italian Majesty's 40-gun steam frigate
Principe Umberto arrived on the 23d from Tunis,
and continues in port.

The Government (hired) screw hospital ship
Golden Fleece, J. Smith, commander, arrived at
Spithead early yesterday morning from Annesley
Bay with officers and military invalids on board, in
charge of Government Staff officers.
The large iron caisson constructed for the en-
trance to No. 4 dock at Chatham is ordered to be
fitted in its place as soon as the clearance of the
dock has been effected, after which the dock will be
prepared for the reception of the double screw iron
armour-plated turret ship Cerberus, built by the
Palmer Shipbuilding Company at Jarrow-upon-
Tyne, which is to be completed and fitted at
Chatham.

The floating iron dry dock was launched to-
day from the building-yard of Messrs. Campbell,
Johnstone, and Co., at North Woolwich, having
been constructed by that firm under Admiralty
contract for service at the island of Bermuda.

Yesterday morning the Ist Battalion Coldstream
Guards, under the command of Col. the Hon. J.
Fielding, paraded at the Sheet-street Infantry Bar-
racks, Windsor, for the purpose of marching by
road to the metropolis. The route taken was via
Datchet to Hounslow-heath, which was reached
early in the afternoon. The Ist Battalion on its
arrival at llounslow took possession of the camp
which had been vacated in the course of the morn-
ing by the 2d Battalion of the same regiment. The
Ist Battalion remained last night under canvas upon
the heath, and this morning will march via Brent-
furd and Hammersmith to Chelsea.
The 2d Battalion Coldstream Guards, which slept
in the camp at Eiounslow-heath on Monday night,
paraded at about 8 o'clock. and marched from
Hounslow at half-past 8, en route for Windsor,
where they arrived shortly before 1 o'clock.
The troops in garrison paraded yesterday morning
on Woolwich-common, and were put through a
series of field-day evolutions by the Commandant,
Major-Gen. E. C. Warde, C. 8., B.A.

Lieut.-Colonel J. 11/. Lovell, C. 8., has been ap-
pointed commanding Royal Engineer at Sheerness,
succeeding Col. S. Freeth.

The colonelcy of the 93d (Sutherland High-
landers) Regiment of Foot is vacant by the death
of General Alexander Fisher Macintosh, K.H.,
which occurred onFrilay last. The gallant general,
who was in his 74th year, entered the army as cor-
net in the 3d Dragoon Guards in 1811, and served
in the Peninsula from August, 1812, to the end of
the war in 1814, including the retreat from Madrid
to Salamanca and action at Alba de Tormes ; the
retreat of Ciudad Rodrigo and action at San
Mnnos ; passage of the Tormes above Sala-
manca and attack on the French rear-guard
under General Villate ; the action at Hormasa be-
fore Burgos ; and the battle of Vittoria, investment
of Pampeluna, action at Tarbes, attack on the French
cavalry rear-guard at St. Gaudens, and battle
of Toulouse. He had received the war medal with
with two clasps for Vittoria and Toulouse. He
was made a Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guel-
phic Order in 1833: His commissions bore date as
follows :—Cornet, Oct. 13, 1811 ; Lieut., June 11,
1812 ; Capt., June 9, 1816 ; Major, Sept. 18,
1823 ; Lieut.-Col., Dec. 15, 1825 ; Col., June 28,
1838 ; Major-Gen., Nov. 11, 1851 ; Lieut.-Gen.,
Aug. 2, 1858 ; and Gen., Dec. 27, 1864. He had
held the colonelcy of the 93d Regiment since June,
1862.

Yesterday morning, at 8 o'clock, the 2d battalion
Coldstream Guards, under the command of Col.
Baring, paraded at the Chelsea Barracks, prior to
marching by road to Windsor. Shortly after
eight o'clock the regiment, headed by their
band, left Chelsea, and marched by way of

Hammersmith and Breutford to Hounslow

heath, which was reached soon after noon,
where the troops halted for the day and night.
A detachment of the Military Train, under the
command of Capt. Keogh and Lieut. Roberts, with
thirteen waggons carrying camp equipage for the
Guards, quitted Aldershott Camp between 2 and 3
o'clock in the morning, and marched to llounslow,
a distance of about 24 miles, where they met the
Coldstream Guards. Another detachment of the
Military Train, consisting of four waggons with
provisions and stores, and an ambulance waggon,
commanded by Lieut. Braine, left Kensington
Barracks at six o'clock in the morning, and arrived
at Hounslow-heath in the course of the day. Upon
the arrival of the Guards tents were immediately
pitched on the Cavalry exercise-ground, and a
camp formed with its front towards the high road
leading to London. The encampment was formed
in several lines, for the security of which a front
and rear guard were told off and posted. The
bead-quarters were near the centre of the camp.
The Military Train encamped on the east of the
Guards, and on the south-east were the trenches.
There was an evening parade at five o'clock.
Yesterday the proceedings and finding of the
general court-martial which assembled at Chatham
so far back as the 30th of June, under the presi-
dency of Col. R. H. Crofton, Royal Artillery, for
the trial of private Arthur Yeomans, of the 109th
Bombay Infantry, were promulgated to the troops
in Chatham garrison, the prisoner having been kept
in confinement ever since his trial. The charges
on which the prisoner was arraigned were for de-
sertion and using abusive, obscene, and threatening
language towards Staff Assist.•Surg. F. Ferguson,
M D., at the time he was undergoing his medical
inspection. Since he has been in the service the
prisoner has been a very bad character, and has
several times been tried by a court-martial, besides
being branded with the letter " D." The Court
sentenced him to be dismissed from her Majesty's
service with ignominy, to be branded with the
letters "8.C.," and to undergo five years' penal
servitude.

The Highflyer, 21, screw (unarmoured wooden)
corvette, 1,161 tons, 250-horse power, Captain
Thomas M.. Sabine Pasley, recently returned to
England from foreign service, was paid out of com-
mission at Portsmouth yesterday, under the super-
vision of Capt. W. C. Chamberlain, commanding
the steam reserve at the port. The ship was put
out of commission in very excellent condition. She
was commissioned by Captain Pasley, son of Ad-
miral Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, Port Admiral and
Naval Commander in Chief at Portsmouth, on the
13th of December, 1864, for service on the East

India station. In the Persian Gulf she was en-
gaged in coast operations against the Wakasses.
She was next employed in the suppression of the
slave trade on the coast of Africa, during which
time she captured nineteen dhows and liberated
five hundred and eighty-six slaves. Duriug the
latter part of her commission she was employed in
sending on stores to Annesley Bay for the Abyssinian
Expedition, and remained there until her receipt of
orders to return to England, where sbe arrived at
Spithead, after a good passage, on the 12th of
August. Since her arrival at Portsmouth £2,290
sterling has been paid on board in part liquidation
of prize money due to her officers and crew.
The unarraoured composite-built gunboat Cracker

(twin screw), Commander 11. Fawkes, recently
commissioned at Portsmouth for foreign service,
made the usual speed trial over the measured mile
in Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, on Saturday, pre-
vious to sailing for her destination. Non-condensing
with her engines, out of six runs made over the
measured mile, she attained a mean rate of speed of
10.039 knots. With her engines condensing she
attained a mean rate of 9.6 knots. ller tonnage is
467, her draught of water Bft. forward and 9ft. aft,
and her nominal power of engines, combined, 120
horse. The Cracker is under orders to sail imme-
diately for her station.

The Megera, screw steamship, Staff Commander
Jabez Loane, arrived at Spithead early yesterday
morning from the Thames, and, after embarking
some naval supernumeraries, was under orders to
proceed thence to Ascension.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Captain Henry Harvey to the
Eclilse, vice Capt. Moore ; Commander Thomas
11. Buyes, to the Impregnable ; and Navigating
Lieut. George J Tomlin to the Eclipse ; the Hon.
Maurice A. Bourke, W. C. S. Hathorn, 11. W.
Target, and W. Corbett, midshipmen, to the
Forte.

THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATIO.V FOR 7HE
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.

This association held its seventeenth meeting at
Chicago, Aug. 5. Among the papers read were—
The Boulder Field of Cedar county, lowa, by Pro-
fessor Rush Emery; the Discovery of Cretaceous
Rocks in Guthrie county, lowa, by Dr. White,
State geologist of lowa ; on the Crania of Bothe-
rium and Castorides, by J. W. Foster ; The Stra-
tigraphical Relations of the Fossil Horse in the
United States, by Col. Charles Whittlesey ; The
Botany, Mineralogy, and Geology of Mount
Mansfield, Vermont, by Professor James Myatt ;
The heritable Features of the North American
Continental Plateau near the line of 35 de-
grees, north latitude, by Dr. C. C. Parry, of Da-
venport, lowa ; On a New Species of Protechuites
from the Potsdam Sandstone of New York, by
Professor 0. C. Marsh ; On the Progress and Pre-
sent Condition of the Geological Survey of Cali-
fornia, by Professor J. D. Whitney ; The Quebec
Group in Northern New Hampshire, by Professor
C. H. Hitchcock, of Amherst.

At an evening meeting of the association, Dr.
Gould read a eulogy on the life and services of the
late Professor Alex tnder Dallas Bache, Chief of
the United States Coast Survey, which concluded
the proceedings of the second day.
The first paper presented on Friday, August 7,
was by Professor Charles Whittlesey of Cleveland,
who read "An Abstract of the Geological Evi-
dences of Man's Antiquity in the United States."
He said, in regard to the race of mound builders,
that he had come to the conclusion they were not
only a prior race to the red man, but that there are
evidences of an intermediate race, or a race that
may have been contemporary, but a people of diffe-
rent characteristics, a different state of advance-
ment in the arts, particularly in agriculture, and
especially different in reference to their military
character. There are fortified points unquestion-
ably military, but entirely different from the works
on the Uhioriver, notextensive, but with no evidence
that the people were agriculturists. They intrenched
themselves in strong positions, where they were pro-
tected by bluffs and near ravines. The works all show
a people who were anticipating attacks from abroad,
or else who were in the habit of attacking each
other. There are no evidences that this people were
great in the arts of agriculture. The table lands of
Ohio have a belt of country destitute of works, and
which does not appear to have been occupied. On
the northern streams that run south of Ohio into
the Mississippi and discharge themselves into the
Tennessee, Cumberland, and White Rivers, and so
on to the Gulf of Mexico, very extensive ancient
works are found, but they are entirely different ;
they are more permanent, and they seem to be de-
signed to different objects. Some are evidently de-
voted to the purposes of religion, with here and
there fortifications and works showing some density
of population and great labour. As a rule these
evidences are of a people highly religious and de-
voted to agricultural pursuits, the implements found
exhibiting some nearness to the ornamental. In
this district he thought the relics did not denote a
military people.
He then proceeded to recite the instances where
remains have been found. 1. The refuse shell heaps
on the shore from New Orleans to Florida. These
do not show any great antiquity, but that there was
a population here, similar in point of character to
that the existence of which has been traced in
Europe. In this location implements have been
found showing a different age of man, principally
of the flint and stone age. 2. The discovery of
flint arrows in Missouri, beneath the skeleton of a
mastodon, in the ancient alluvial formation. This
he considered to be an evidence of human existence,
cotemporary with the mastodon. 3. A flint knife
found in Kansas beneat'a stratified gravel and
clay, at a depth of 13 or 14 feet. 4. In a cave
near Elgin, Ohio, three skeletons and two crania
were discovered. There were found here charcoal,
reptiles, and birds, and a mass of bones, and at
the bottom three skeletons laid out horizontally.
These have been examined, and have been declared
to be the skeletons of Indians that had been there
two thousand years. 5. When a spring at Sara-
toga was cleaned, there was found, at the depth of
nine feet of muck and seven feet of tufa, and, again
ppeared to have been
twoused f. e e below,ir. Gau
ilroegh that
saida
that muck was de-
posited above the log 4,840 years ago and that the
people who used it were Indians who wore moc-
casins. 6. Near the falls of St. Lawrence (Brock-
ville) copper tools were found at a depth of fourteen
feet, with charcoals and skeletons, radiating from a
common centre, the heads forming the central
point. He understood these tools to belong to the
race of mound builders. 7. In a cave near Louis-
ville there have been discovered a large number of
skeletons, of which the crania were not procured
in condition so that the race could be determined.
There were, however, some implements which be-
long to the race of the red men, such as axes and
knives, going to confirm the idea that the race
has occupied this country a long time. 8. Pot-
tery has been discovered on Ashley river, near
Charleston, of the same age as the mastodon. 9.
Un the Florida reefs there had been found a frag-
ment of a human jaw with one tooth. This had
been calculated to have been there ten thousand
years. There is another case which, if true, car-
ries us still further back. Along the valley of the
Mississippi for about two hundred miles is what
may be called the loess formation, which he con-
sidered identical or cotemporary with that of the
loess of the Rhine. In this are bones of the masto-
don and other animals, and among them portions
of human bone, which were not taken from their
place. If it be true that this was a genuine bone
of a human being, it would carry us back as far as
any of the European discoveries, for the discovery
of human remains in the tertiary is now denied, so
that none have been found but in some member of
the drift v
fol. Foster,rmation,or of Chicago,som ethingn
ando rerecent
Dr. Professor
Blake, of California, followed on the same subject..
They agreed with Professor Whittlesey that the
place of man in the creation is much earlier than
that usually given him, and that the age cf the
mound builders should be fixed much further back
than the six thousand years commonly allotted as
the age of the human race. They enlarged upon
the evidences of civilization among this ancient race,
and showed, by exhibiting examples of their work,
that they were not only much further advanced in
the arts than the red man, but that the form of the
features and the outline of the face were very dif-
ferent from those of the more recent race. Others
followed who were sceptical about the antiquity of
the remains.

Meetings were held in the evening by sections.
In section A an interesting paper was read by Pro-
fessor 0. A. Stoddard, ou the hot term of July,
1868. The general features of the hot period were
given, its intensity, long continuance, the belt of
country in which it was most marked, the unusual
moistness of the atmosphere during the whole term,
its apparent origin and progress westward. There
WAN no explanation attempted, but reference was

made to the changed direction of the Gulf Stream,
and the possibility that that might have contributed
to this result. This paper was followed by two
others : On Phosphoric Acid a constituent of Butter,
by Professor E. N. Iforsford ; and on the princi-
ples of Statistics as applied to the Census, by Prof.
F. B. Hough.
In section B papers were read on the following
subjects:—Notice of some new vertebrate remains
from the tertiary of New Jersey, by Professor 0.
C. Marsh ; the Physical Geography of the Conti-
nent of North America, by Professor J. S. New-
bery ; and the Geological Section of Ohio, by E. B.
Andrews.
The American Association for the Advancement
of Science finally adjourned on Wednesday. Its
next meeting is to be held at Salem, August 18,
1869. The following officers were elected :—Presi-
dent, Colonel John W. Foster, of Chicago ; vice-
president, Professor Ogden N. Reed, of Columbia
College, New York ; general secretary, Professor J.
C. Marsh, of New Haven ; treasurer, Professor
Flynn, of Philadelphia.

TBE PRESIDENTIAL ELECHON.

(From the Anglo-American Times)

Indiana has been " gerrymandered," so that the
majority of the Democrats are grouped by them-
selves in a district devoted to Seymour and Blair,
while the others are strengthened for Grant and
Colfax. There is " a ludicrous lack," as a corre-
spondent says, of symmetry in the form of some
districts, but symmetry was not what the Republi-
can party aimed at in redistricting Indiana. What
they wanted was to group the votes, so as to secure
the majority for their candidates, other considera-
tions being ruthlessly thrown over, and we fear will
be in other States besides. The word derives its
origin from a Mr. Gerry, once Democratic Gover-
nor of Massachusetts, and afterwards Vice-Presi-
dent of the United States. Desirous of perpetuat-
ing the power of his party, he hit upon the happy
expedient of mapping out the districts so as to neu-
tralize the opposing majority. All the towns about
to throw a large excess of votes against the Demo-
crats were, if possible, brought into the same dis-
trict, there to be wasted, and this skilfully
done, as the tide is likely to run one way in particu-
lar localities, neutralizes a large majority. The
district thus " gerrymandered" would look like a
bottle of ink dropped on the paper, streaming away
in one direction, solid at another, and opening
out in an unaccountable manner at a third point.
Districts thus delineated were named after the
originator, and the verb to " gerrymander" was
added to the vocabulary. General Grant has had
a quiet time lately at Galena, Illinois, where he has
smoked the pipe of peace. Speaker Colfax remains
among the mountains of Colorado. A despatch
had been received from him dated August 6, end
of track Union Pacific Railway :—" We are at the
end of the Pacific Railroad, 1,240 miles west of
Chicago, and 300 east of Salt Lake. The road is
graded for a hundred and fifty miles between this
place and Salt Lake, and they are laying the track
at the rate of four miles a day. This afternoon
the rails were laid on the continental divide be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific." We mentioned
some time since that Mr. Colfax's family accom-
panied him, for although he is a widower without
children, his mother, with the two Miss Matthews,
a niece of Senator Wade, Miss Bowles, and Mrs.
Matthews went with him. The gentlemen of the party
are Lieut.-Governor Bross, Mr. Samuel Bowles, Mr.
Matthews, and Mr. Todd, the Speaker's private sec-
retary. They net with an enthusiastic reception in Ne-
braska, and had made speeches on their way to Colo-
rado both at Council Bluffs and at Omaha. Ho-
ratio Seymour has established his head-quarters at
the Butterfield House, Utica, where the Demo-
cratic State Committee of New York assembled on
the 13th inst., and called the State Convention to
meet at Albany, September 2. Governor Seymour
was introduced at a meeting of the various Demo-
cratic Committees, and tersely expressed his con-
fidence in the success of the party at the coming
election. He had been serenaded on the 13th inst.
by the Conservative veteran soldiers and sailors to
whom he was introduced by General James
M'Quade. Again he asserted his knowledge of the
character of the services, having given more than
15,000 commissions to officers. He does not ex-
plain what has become of the other thousand,
16,000 being the number he had announced before.
" I pledge myself," said Mr. Seymour, "in
whatever station I may be placed, to struggle for
the restoration of that Union for which you have
periled your lives in the contest of arms ; and in our
struggle for constitutional rights we are strengthened
in our convictions of duty by the fact that a majority
of our soldiers uphold us in this political contest."
The most active of the four appears to be General
Blair. He made a speech at St. Joseph, Missouri,
when, in allusion to what General Sherman had said,
he assured the crowd they should not be insulted by
him by being called " fellows," or with the advice
to throw a man into the river who differed from the
sentiments expressed, as he understood had recently
been done by a distinguished military gentleman.
His adversaries assumed too dictatorial a tone to-
wards the people. " They denounce me as a revo-
lutionist—say that I wish to inaugurate another
rebellion, because I say it is time for the rule of the
bayonet to be checked. The people of the State of
Missouri and of the whole country are tired of being
bound to obey the dictates of their military com-
manders. We believe it is time for the will of the
people to be carried out. This will be done. (A
voice—" We'll fix that in November.") Yes, we
will settle that in November, and we will do it
peaceably by the ballot." He went on to state that
" if the fragmentary Congress and the carpet-bag-
gers acting under the Rump are allowed they will
degrade the white man below the negro. Against
this iniquity the people have risen in their might
everywhere, from Maine to California, and have by
their votes said they will not have this negro su-
premacy kept up in this country. They will not be
shaken in this purpose to turn aside the bayonet
that is still kept pointed at the throats of the white
men of the South. Neither will the Radical party
in its hopeless minority be able to defeat the will of
the people. I feel an abiding confidence in the suc-
cess of the Democratic party of to-day, because it is
right." General Blair was on his way to Wash-
ington to consult with his family as to the future.
On the 13th instant a Democratic mass meeting to
ratify the nomination of Seymour and Blair was
held at Faneuil Hall, Boston. There were more than
4,000 people inside, and about 5,000 outside, who
could not obtain admission. Colonel Charles G.
Green presided, and spoke a few words on the
bright omens of the future. Josiah G. Abbott made
the speech of the evening. He defended the Tammany
Convention, saying that Joe Brown, of Georgia, a
worse Secessionist than Wade Hampton, Forrest, and
the others, was heartily welcomed by the Radicals
at Chicago. Of course he dwelt on Republican ex-
travagance, their efforts to perpetuate their power,
regardless of the patient and suffering people. E.
C. Bailey, of the Boston Herald, also addressed the
meeting, urging with vigour the necessity of a
change in the administration of national affairs.
His remarks were confined to the financial question
and were vociferously cheered. Remarks were also
made by James A. Keith, Charles Levi Woodbury,
ex-Mayor Wightinan, T. J. Gargan, P. A. Collins,
and others.
The riot we reported last week in Richmond,
Virginia, arose from some incendiary speeches by
Hunnicutt, wherein Seymour and Blair were de-
scribed as rebels, desirous of re-enacting Slavery,
which would be the result of Democratic success,
and be followed by a massacre of the negroes. The
blacks, thus aroused, resolved to prevent Democratic
meetings; and, after cutting down a Democratic
flag, they attacked a Conservative ratification meet-
ing, hurling bricks at the speakers ; but the whites,
being prepared, drove off the assailants, mortally
wounding one negro, and slightly wounding
several more. in R sleigh, North Carolina, a dis-
turbance resulted from an attack on a De-
mocratic procession, which was only prevented
from being serious by the Governor's precau-
tions. General Grant, in reviewing some troops

at Denver while he was in Colorado, found that

the soldiers carried a Seymour and Blair banner,
and on biii way back to Cialenal when he arrived

at Carlinsville, Illinois, ho -was saluted at the rail-
way station by cheers for Seymour and Blair, and
it is even said that he was insulted on the occasion
by an " unmannerly ruffian," which shows that the
campaign is growing hot, and the sooner the candi-
dates settle down quietly in their native villages, to
be no more seen till they emerge in victory or de-
feat, the better for every one concerned.