The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1868.

RAILWAY AND 07HER COMPANIES.

FRENCH RAILWAY RECEIPTS.

The aggregate traffic receipts on the six princi-
pal railway systems in France, including old and
new lines, from the Ist of January to the 30th of
December, 1867, both dates inclusive, amounted, on
9,065 miles, to £25,593,397, showing an increase of
£1,880,230, and of 433 miles. The traffic receipts
on the Paris and Mediterranean Railway amounted
on 2,331 miles, to £8,338,386, against £7,736,183,
on 2,183 miles, showing an increase of £602,203 ;
the traffic receipts on the Paris and Orleans Rail-
way amounted, on 1,851 miles, to £4,213,372,
against £4,062,049, on 1,812 miles, showing an
increase of £151,323 ; on the Eastern of France
Railway the traffic receipts amounted, on 1,650
miles, to £4,182,782, against £3,923,443, ou 1,594
miles, showing an increase of £259,339 ; on the
Northern of France the traffic receipts amounted,
on 870 miles, to £3,721,951, against £3,297,496,
on 788 miles, showing an increase of £424,455 ; on
*the NVestern of France Railway the traffic receipts
, amounted, on 1,301 miles, to £3,370,272, against
£2,986,093, on 1,245 miles, showing an increase of
£384,179 ; and on the Southern of France the
traffic receipts amounted, on 1,062 miles, to
£1,766,634, against £1,707,903, on 1,010 miles,
showing-an increase of £58,731 ; making the aggre-
gate receipts, as above, £25,593,397, against
£23,713,167, showing an increase of £1,880,230.

5 per Cent., the Fitchburg Railroad $4 per sharp,
and the Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation $2
per share. _ _

The Springfield Republican says :—" A new rail-
way project has been commenced by Connecticut
and New York capitalists, under the name of the
Erie and New England Railway Company, by
which Derby will be connected with Turner's sta-
tion on the Erie Road, by as direct a line as possible,
not probably over 40 miles long, and ready and di-
rect communication thus opened from New Haven
to the Pennsylvania coal fields. N. D. Sperry and
Charles Atwater, of New Haven, have been chosen
directors of the company, and Col. M. 0. Davidson
appointed chief engineer to conduct the surveys in
Connecticut. The corporation is backed by New
York capitalists, and enough money for he preli-
minary operations has already been secured. The
new movement is designed to take the Boston,
Hartford, and Erie Railroad to the Hudson from
Willimantic, through New Haven, instead of Hart-
ford, and by a route which is said to be 21 miles
shorter.

Ward and Broad, of Hartford, have contracted
to build the bridge of the Boston, Hartford,
and Erie Railroad, crossing the Quinebaug
near Putnam. It will be a very expensive and im-
portant piece of work.
company of Lawrence
gper cent. The Cocheco
manufacturing company of Dover, New Hampshire,
hasT declaredheEveretat idnivainduefnadctoufrisn
has declared a dividend of $4O a share. The Stark
mills at Manchester divide $5O per share paid out
of funded profits. The Hartford and New Haven
railroad company has declared a quarterly dividend
of three per cent. The New York city National
banks are generally declaring 5 and 6 per cent.
semi-annual dividends. The Shore Line Railroad
has declared a dividend of 3 per cent., and the
Norwich and Worcester the same. The Boston and
Providence 5 per cent. ; the Old Colony and New-
port 3 per cent., though netting 4 on the six
months; the Vermont and Massachussets, $1 50.
The New York Tribune has lately divided $lO,OOO
to its stockholders—sloo per share—the first in a
year and a half, after large investments in real
estate and other permanent improvements.
The following January Semi-Annual Dividends
have been declared by the New York City Banks :
—Marine Natiotial 6 per cent., Eighth National 5,
Fifth National 5, New York National 5, Irving
National 4, Ninth National 5, Mechanics' National
5, Citizens' National 5, Shoe and Leather National
5, Merchants' National 5, Second National 5, Bank
of New York National 5, Bull's Head 4, Atlantic
National 5, Market National 5, Hanover National
5, Chatham National 6, Metropolitan National 6,
Importers' and Traders 5, North River 5, Fourth
National 5, Tenth National 5. Grocers' National 5.

Seventeen incendiary fires have occurred at
Northampton, Massachusetts, within six months,
most of which, it is believed, were caused by them.
Kingsley is said to be their leader. lle was ar-
rested before the war, charged with similar crimes,
but no direct evidence could be obtained against
him. He enlisted, and while campaigning, not a
single incendiary fire occurred in the town. The
new mill of the American Print Works at Fall
river was also burnt on the 15th by au incen-
diary fire. It was one of the first structures of the
kind in the country, and its loss will be a great
blow to the industry of th city, 500 hands being
thrown out of employmo it

The negro fomenter of insurrection in Alabama,
Shorter, has been convicted and sent to prison for
six months, but he escaped from gaol. The Stan-
dard's correspondent says the evidence in his exa-
mination showed that he was furnished with funds
by parties in the North to go South and create a
disturbance.

In Greenville, Alabama, a negro asked a white
woman to marry him ; she refused, and he shot her.
Mr. Nethercutt was murdered near Newbern, North
Carolina, and his wife shockingly abused. Num-
bers of murders of negroes by negroes are also re-
ported.

The House of Representatives has lost two of its
members, the one by murder, the other by suicide.
The Hon. C. S. Hamilton, of Ohio, was killed on the
22d December by an insane son, who struck him on
the bead with a plank while engaged in feeding his
cattle. The maniac then pursued his mother with
an axe, and failing to catch her, severely wounded
his brother, and having cleared the neighbourhood
covered his father's body with corn-stalks. Mr.
Hamilton was a Republican, and was elected for
the Eighth District of his State, October, 1866.
On the 24th Deceml)er the steamship Raleigh,
from New York for New Orleans, when about 20
miles off the Carolina coast, caught fire and was
totally destroyed. The conflagration broke out at
noon, and in five minutes the whole steamer was in
flames. The boats were lowered, and 31 of the pas-
sengers and crew are known to be saved, but the
commander, Captain Marshtnan, and many more
are missing. Eighteen persons arrived at Charles-
ton on a tug, and 13 more in the third boat reached
Kiowa inlet. Tugs from Charleston were sent to
cruize on the scene of disaster, but failed to pick up
any of the missing. The Raleigh was a long side-
wheel steamer belonging to the Atlantic Coast Mer-
chants' Steamship Company, and was worth 175,000
dollars, and was partly insured. The total loss is
estimated at 400,000 dollars, but no account of her
cargo has been received, as the purser has all the
papers with him. The following are among those
who safely reached the shore :—Purser M'Manus
and his wife ; D. B. Rice, chief engineer ; Margaret
Murths, stewardess ; Capt. N. R. Mills, officer of
the New York police ; C. IV. Bartlett, chief officer ;
Gordon Young, second officer ; Chas. Smith, quar-
termaster ; C. P. Marchman, jr., son of the cap-
tain ; Dr. J. Cass, Lawrence Sweeney, Jas. Brad-
ley, John Sloan, and Angelo Girragan, passengers,
and seven of the crew.

The lion. Elijah Ilise, of Kentucky, shot him-
self, declaring, as a letter in his pocket signified,
that he could not look upon the destruction of the
American Republic. The hallucination of this un-
fortunate gentleman has led to a most lamentable
act, as the probabilities favour the chance that the
man who is to live to see the end of the American
Republic would have a very lengthened existence.

A fire occurred in the Cumberland county poor-
house, Pennsylvania, which destroyed that portion
of the building in which the coloured people and
insane were confined, and a white man, and a white
woman, and a negro were burned to death. The
white man, who was insane, was chained to the
floor, and in that position was literally roasted alive.
A locomotive exploded at Reading, in the same
State, Dec. 23, killing a fireman and an engineer. A
patient in the Illinois State insane asylum, at Jack-
sonville, named Nicholson, was beaten to death
with the leg of a table by Peter ichael, another
inmate.

As two policeman were running to an alarm of
fire in Haverhill, Monday morning, Dec. 23, about
two o'clock, they heard a noise in the Merrimack
ti ational Bank, then a report, and saw a flash in
the building. Policeman Burnham ran into the
bank room, and was shot dead by a burglar, who
ha'l.just made an abortive attempt to open the bank
vault by blowing up the lock of the outer door. Officer
Burnham was a man much respected as a citizen,
and had been in the police force but a short time,
having been detailed on account of the recent
numerous petty robberies. The fire is supposed to
have been done by the burglars, it being in a paint
shop not far off, to divert attention. No one has
been arrested.

Policeman John Fenton, of Memphis, Tenness.:3,
while attempting to arrest three drunken men on
Christmas-day, was shot and mortally wounded,
and a German lad named Joseph Schiller was killed
by a stray shot. The assassins were arrested and
held for trial. A negro boy named Boswell was
shot in the head, and instantly killed, by another
boy ; and some dozen persons, mostly negroes, were
accidentally shot during the day by promiscuous
firing of pistols.

George Harc.trt, au Englishman of good family,
disappeared mysteriously from St. Paul, Minne-
sota. Mr. Harcourt proceeded, from a drug store
at St. Louis, to St. Paul, t) accept an offer made
to him by one Masters, of a surgeon's position in an
expedition about to be formed. A man named Van
Solen, who had previously made Mr. Harcourt's
acquaintance, accompanied him from St. Paul on
the 18th August, 1863, on a fishing excursion. On
that evening Van Solen returned, declaring that
Harcourt had robbed him and decamped. This
was widely published, and Harcourt's property was
sold, and the proceeds appropriated by Van Solen.
Six days after a corpse was found in the river near
St. Paul's, and after a coroner's inquest was in-
terred. As Harcourt's friends heard nothing fur-
ther of him they became uneasy, and wrote to Van
Solen, whose reply was seen to be in the handwrit-
ing of Masters, whose communication, offering the
post, Harcourt had forwarded to his mother. In-
quiries were instituted, Van Solen arrested, and
the case is now being tried. The skeleton of the
body found in the river was produced in court,
which the counsel declares can be shown to be that
of Harcourt.
The wholesale theft reported in our last, of which
a bank messenger was the victim, has had a more
agreeable denouement than generally expected. On
Christmas morning a lad entered the chief police
office in New York and gave the superintendent a
parcel, which he said contained a Christmas present.
Upon opening it he found all the checks, drafts,
and other papers, to the amount of $3,683,439,
which had been stolen from the bank messenger.
The thieves, afraid to attempt their negotiation on
account of the precautions taken, had adopted this
novel mode of returning them to their owners, the
Bank of the State of New York.

If Mr. Hepworth Dixon had gone far enough
West ho might have changed his opinion and given another
sketch of Western morality than that supplied by Denver.
In the Reese River Reveille we find a Dr. Todd and a Mrs.
Ada Hoyt Foye, free lovers and spiritualists, shown
up in no measured terms by a brother editor, who
considers it his duty to follow these spiritualists and
expose them :—" We can conceive no more disgusting
exhibition than that afforded to the citizens of Washoe
last Sunday evening, when Todd preached that matri-
mony inaugurated a family Hell upon Earth, and Foye
exhibited the beauties of Free Love by hugging his splri-
teal affinity iu public."
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