The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-18 00:00:00

(From the Hudson Miss. Review.)

" GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ON WIIISKY.—Goorgo Francis
Train withdraws from the canvass as a candidate for ter-
ritorial delegate to Congress from Nebraska, for reasons
which are thus set forth :

"I am told to-day that money is wanted for carriagos
to bring up the voters, and to scatter among the beer
shops and groggeries. Any spare money I have, or mai
have, I prefer to devote to education and Christian chari-
ties. Purchasing votes debases the franchise and de-
moralizes the people. I have lectured too often for the
Irish Father Mathew Societies to go back on thorn hi
treating the voters. No wife or little children shall have
reason to complain of a drunken husband or father oil
election day on my account. Whisky is the curse of our
time. It is ruining our young men, and hurrying our old
men into the grave. Rich and poor, high and low, alike
are being destroyed under its blighting- influence. When
we have fewer breweries, fewer distilleries, and more
Christian churches, more universities, and more schools/
the law courts, the gaols will be less patronized, and the
world would be better for it.

(Extract of a letter from the Editor of the Revolution.)
New York, July 25, 1868.
Geo. Francis Train, Esq.
My dear Sir,— * * * * The intensely hot weather,
the depression in business, the droning, do-nothing course
of Congress, and the endless screeches of a Presidential
election make times rather dull with us ; at least I over'
hear that from our counting-room, into which I seldom
have occasion to enter. The Presidential contest is to be
fierco. Both sides are full of confidence; the sporting
men tolling of the many hats, and large sums they ill.°
ready to stake on both sides. For my part, had I the club
of Hercules, I would smash them both into pumice, never
again to be restored. We aro calling for a new party,
people's party, or some kind of party that shall at leas'
leopard both, if not defeat them. But there is no leader,
chieftain.no Our Rome has lost the breed of noble blood,
or never had it, and so every attempt at third-party.oper3;
tion fails. We know why Grant was nominate°,
but Seymohr is a mystery, and Blair more so.
have
can get as good as they, but they would I,fiv'c'
no prestige, at least of the right kind, and nothing could
be done with them. And, besides, we cannot harmonlo
between North and South. The People's Weekly l3,11:1
able journal, published in Washington and Baltimore, "1,
full of negro hatred, and every way behind the nineteenth
century. It would win the South and West by the rebei
claim—or against "negro supremacy," and long 511.
learned disquisitions in support of negro slavery, and ter-
rible denunciations of John Brown and the Garrisoni3,.
school of abolitionists. But the North, where most strongt;
and virtue are, will not brook such nonsense, and so mite
harmony seems out of the question. And then the "
man question" will be a still more disturbing demon. '
and so prejudice, not principle, proscription, not justic°.
and equality, will, I fear, hold sway for years yet to col lo
We appear to need a new Messiah able to take up tuo
nation by the four corners, and shake the dust of dark age©
out of it, and spread it out anew. But whence shall f t
look for his coming? or for even his John the 13aPt15,.
heralding his approach? The country is in qreat conuoo
tion. Strikes among workmen more extensive than eve,.
before; robberies, burglaries, suicides, and assassinations'
railroad and steamboat disasters unprecedented, and gee
rally through most wanton carelessness ; Washington
:Co,A
den of forty times forty thieves, its weakness for
only paralleled by its omnipotence for wickedness ;_ t'
°r.'obt
gress disgracing itself every hour it sits, and yet not de
to adjourn and go home through fear of Andrew Jolins°,,ia;
pulpit, the deadest, dumbest dog of all the kennel ; if ,t1:1,
be not an alembic out of which to distil the millenten_4
then it cannot always be true that one extreme folio
another. We keep the revolution bell ringing and of
whistle blowing as well as we can in the raids
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the darkness. In the threatened deluge, if all else Pot
under, we hope at least that it shall find its Alrld,
Ararat, and save the seed corn for a new YOroll
Pardon the haste with which I write. The news ,
get daily per under the ocean, and weekly over it, SiCieo
need not waste time on its tedious recitals. With kin
regards, and remain yours in bonds as bound with Y 01.., "
am, very truly yours,
PARKER Piamoglia*

Many pick up and pervert anything r. m
Spurgeon says to his detriment. As a plain, practio;
straightforward person he detests humbug, and is acit,ti
show this in a way his enemies can misconstrue. F°r:,,-;
stance, when urging some of his friends to take part in
approaching political campaign, he was mot with the °'t
cant that they were not of this world. It was then 015
he burst out with " Why you might as well assert, bei?„o
sheep of the Lord,' that it was cannibalism to eat a gal,,,-
chop." Of course, the remark went the rounds of t;0
papers without the story which gave the meaning t°

point, • tea
Governor Andrews, just before his death, re,3
the following to a writer in the Transcript :—"I ist#
Washington just before Mr. Chase was nominateu tio
Chief Justice ; and, at Mr. Lincoln's request, called ilt„ir,
White House. Here I am,' said Mr. Lincoln, ""tbe
rounded by documents relating to the vacancy 031 31r,
Supreme Bench, and requests to appoint Mr. Chase. rued
Chase is a man of ability ; a public officer, of rat the
fidelity ; as a politician, ambitious ; on the subject ca, 0,0
Presidency, a little insane. He has said things 00,3! ;
which have sent discord where there should be harm elito
but a man in my position should not harbour resent°
and I shall appoint him."

• Births. gaol,
Burr—On the 17th inst., at Whalebone House, Vireo" -
the wife of George R. Birt, Esq., of a son.
MeuDE—On the 16th in , at the Rectory, Toddiogtoy,
the Hon. Mrs. H. Maude, of a son. liarl‘et
ROWLEY— On the 14th inst., at Walesby Rectory,
Eason, Mrs. Julius H. Rowley, of a son.

Mas. ire%
DAVIS DouGLAss —On the r
li6thage inst ,at St. Paul's m
p (14
Ball's-pond, Herbert Hall, eldest son of G. Dayt.,,,,e06
of St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, to Fanny Maria, Y,°",--iol
daughter of Thomas Douglass, Esq., of Soutu-gors-
East, Mildmay-park, Stoke Newington, N., and D°
commons, London.
WITHYCOMBE—GILL—On the 15th inst., at East 01,01
month Church, Wm. Withycombe, Esq., of G°ltter
House, Bridgwater, to Ann Palmer, eldest dattg
the late Robert Gill, Esq., of Shurton, StogurseP

Deaths.
Asa—On the 14th inst ,at 12, Fortess-terroc, elltisll-
- N.W., William.aged 74. iors"
HUXTABLE—On the 15th inst , at Craven Cottage_, Fiweet9
ogreivkee,
nCllyaopilhanl,John Iluxiable, Esq., of St.Jobli-s-
-9 aged 47.
LDAXE—On the 15th insL, a Cheltenham, major-ael3.
lIA
Charles Hanhury, HALL A.. (Bengal), aged 71. Jolla
LIDDELL—At Monzievaird, near Orloff, the 11°13.
Liddell, aged 65. 1313e1‘-
Mobitur.rnEeY—MoOnh,tyh,ewli-dltohwiourstt.haetißatro uompatoorgn, Franc°9 A'
e Aforloil
of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law.
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