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

THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.

These letters from Samuel Hallett, never before
published, show how early I was acquainted with
this great enterprise, and who raised the money :
Leavenworth, Dec. 11, 1863.
George Francis Train, t sq.
Dear Sir,—Referring to' our conversation to-day upon
the Union Pacific Railwa.y, enterprise in all its continental
magnitude, I beg you will on your arrival at Washing-
ton confer' with our friends and representatives, to the
end that they may know that it is my desire to co-operate
with all who are friendly to the general enterprize, and
thereby secure complete success. You represent men of
large capital and influence, and it is my desire to act with
you and them in entire har.nony. Our Vice-President,
the Hon. A. J. Isacks, will soon proceed to Wash-
ington, there to represent the interests of this com-
pany officially. Ho will be aided by Mr. .Win-
chell, Mr. Latham, Mr. Ball, Mr. Stedman, Gene-
ral Stone, and a number of other gentlemen of cha-
racter and influence, particularly interested in the success
of the work lam now prosecuting. You will do me a
particular kindness by frankly stating to all persons who
may desire to know the precise condition of this enterprise.
Assure Mr. Durant and all his friends that lwillcordiallygive
them such assistance as I may be able to render. Thank-
ing you for your visit, I am, dear Sir, faithfully yours,
JAMES HALLETT,
General Manager, Union Pacific Railway
Company, E.D.
Leavenworth, Doc. 10, 1863.
George Francis Train, Esq.

DearSir,—l want three hundred thousand dollars
($300,000) for the Union Pacific Railway Company, E.D.,
upon the Land Grant Bonds of the company. Our exact
condition is simply told : The Construction Bonds for the
first section of 40 miles ($640,000,100) have been trans-
ferred to John D. Perry, President of the Exchange Bank
of St. Louis, to secure him and his associates for money
advanced. No other bonds of the company have been
issued, and no others are authorized to be issued.
The company has not a dollar of acceptance or obligations
of bills payable out ;trading, and I have already explained
to you fully the state of our finances and the reason why
we desire to make this loan at the present time. The con-
tract of construction by resolution of the board of direc-
tors is in my name alone. lam under no other obliga-
tions to Mr. Perry than to pay him the money borrowed
with the commission agreed on. Will you procure for mo
this £300,000 for a monied consideration, and, if so, upon
what terms ? You will please telegraph me on your
arrival at New York or Washington, and oblige, faithfully
yours,
SAMUEL HALLETT, General Manager, &c.
Leavenworth, Dec. 10, 1863.
Geo. Francis Train, Esq.

My dear Sir,—l am readi,, and have the power, forthwith
to conclude and carry out the plan proposed by Mr. Durant
through you. I like exceedingly that feature which con-
templates bringing the European bankers into co-opera-
tion, and particularly your ideas of emigration. Upon
your return to New York or Washington you will imme-
diately advise me by telegraph as to the time when your
friends will be ready to close this affair for joint action.
Faithfully your, SAMUEL HALLETT,
General Manager U. P. Ry. Co., E.D.
Willard's Hotel, Washington, June 3, 1864.

My dear Francis,—With my Indians on band and my own
personal expenses here, I shall need one thousand dollars
here. I intended to name this to Mr. Durant, and put this
to you that you may ask him. Please telegraph me on
Monday that I may draw this amount.—Faithfully,

S IMITEL HALLETT.
MR. TRAIN'S COMMISSIONS FOUR HUNDRED AND
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, ON ONLY ONE TINE OF

THE PACIFIC FORK.

Original Contracts and Letters Printed Some Time Since

for Counsel.

George Francis Train vs. Union Pacific Railway (East-
ern Division)—John D. Perry, John E. Thompson, Thos.
A. Scott, et als. Re commissions for early negotiations in
said company. Oue hundred and fifty thousand
($150,600) settled ; leaving three hundred thcusand
($300,000) still due.
(Extract from contract between Samuel Hallett and
Thomas C. Durant, for building the Union Pacific Rail-
way (E.. 1).), expressly prepared by Mr. Train's legal ad-
viser, Mr. Charles Tracy (Messrs. Tracy, Tallmadge, and
Olmstead), dated at Washington, February 13, 1864, with
a view of protecting Mr. Train's interest, and handed to
Mr. Train by Mr. Tracy at the time) :
" To George Francis Train, in kind, as Hallett has left
for profits $300,000, except the amount payable to George
Francis Train, for his services when required, until the
whole railway is completed, including his services
heretofore rendered ; which last mentioned amount is to
be paid by said Durant- for said Hallett to said Train,
out of said Hallett's securities, pertaining to his two-third
part of the net profits. Such $300,C00 to be paid in the
above-mentioned securities at par, in like proportion of
such class of said securities as the same shall be received
from the said company, payable one-ninth part on and
contemporaneously with the payment to said Hallett of
securities for his two-thirds of net profits, upon the com-
pletion and acceptance of each section of 40 miles of said rail-
way; such security of said Train to be held by said D urant as
trustee for the benefit of Wilhelmina Davis Train, wife of
said George Francis Train, and not to be sold, nor put on
the market, before the completion of the whole of the said
railway, without the written consent of the said Hallett
and said Durant. Said Durant shall also pay, at his own
expense, to said Geo. Francis Train, for the same service,
in like manner, at like times, and in like proportions, and
hold on like terms, for said Wilhelmina Davis Train's
benefit other $150,000."
50, Wall-street, New York, Jan. 15, 1867.
The •foregoing extract, from the contract between Mr.
Hallett and Mr. Durant, was furnished by me to Mr. Train
at the time the contract was executed.
CHARLES TRACY.
(Copy of a letter from Mr. 8011, Counsellor.)
Office, Union Pacific Railroad, 13, William-street,
New York, April 20, 1866.
My dear Sir,—l take groat pleasure in advising you that
Itn arrangement has been consummated with the Union
Pacific Rallway Company (E tstern Division), by which
Mrs. Train receives $50,000 in first mortgage land grant
bonds in full for the $150,000 to which she was entitled pro-
spectively under the contracts between that company and
Mr. Hallett and Mr. Durant. These securities aro seve❑
per cent., and aro regarded as worth par, as they are
perfectly secured. This arrangement, however, did not
settle the three hundred thousand dollars coming to your-
self under those contracts. The necessary papers were
executed to perfect your title to this claim, and proper care
taken that it was not embraced in or affected by the settle-
ment which the company well understand. I await your
instructions and directions in regard to it. I shall feel
obliged if you will send me $l,OOO on account of my ser-
vices as your counsel in these matters.—Always truly
yours, CLARK BELL.
George Francis Train, Esq., Nebraska.
I never imagined that I should play the historian
of the I,blioA Pacific Railroad for the Anglo-Ameri-

can Times in the cell of a British bastille. The
lane is long that has no turn.

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.

P.S.—My political article fell like a bombshell in
the Democratic ranks. My private secretary writes
that the Democratic papers begin to cut me again.
You see I hold the balance of power.
Extract from lettor on the Anglo-Amsricata Times article,

"Re Seymour and Blair :

New York, Aug. 19, 1863.

The World would come out with some leaders similar to
that copied from the Dublin Nation on your case but for
your late letter in tho Anglo- American Times of Ist instant.
That was probably the reason that * * * would not
call. You cannot look for much from those papers who
have endorsed Seymour and Blair under such circum-
stances. You see the Irish papers have endorsed that
ticket and intend to stand by it—S. J. Moony, W. J.
Nagle, and all the leaders. Sorry you cannot be hore for
Savage's Union Convention of Feniams on the 24th inst.
G. P. B.

Iwish 1 was at liberty to tell you what will hap-
pen in America about the middle of October. On
the nineteenth of that month England lost America
at Yorktown, when Cornwallis surrendered to
Washington. G. F. T.

711 E SOU7HEIM STITES.

The Alabama Democrats at a recent meeting de-
nounced the law the Legislature passed which was
vetoed by the Governor, authorising itself to choose
Presidential electors. They appeal to the people
to vote for electors next November. The Republi-
cans of the Georgia Legislature have agreed to a
bill empowering the Legislature to choose electors,
but it has not yet been publicly introduced. The
Democratic Managers generally are preparing to
have votes cast for the Presidential electors in all
the Southern States under the old laws, setting aside
those of Congress and the new State Legislatures.
As such votes will not be counted this may lead to
trouble hereafter. In the Alabama Democratic
meeting resolutions were adopted promising the
vote of Alabama to Seymour and Blair. Messrs.
Akerman and Farrell have been nominated electors
at large by a Republican Convention in Georgia.
Mr. Johnson has officially announced that Georgia
has ratified the 14th Constitutional Amendment.
Its Legislature has rejected the bill which proposed
to exempt foreign capital invested in manufactures
from taxation. In Atlanta on the 18th August
there was a torch light procession in honour of
Grant and Colfax, when a dispute arose from the
arrest of a drunken negro by the police, which
ended in one negro being killed, besides a policeman
and two negroes wounded. The recent legislation of
the South Carolina Legislature shows an effort to
place the negroes, not only on an equality, but as
superior to the whites. Governor Scott has vetoed
several measures, and excited thereby the intense
indignation of the blacks and their " carpet-bag"
leaders. One of the acts was to repudiate the
foreign claims represented by Messrs. Baring
Brothers against the State Bank. It instructs the
Governor to seize the Bank's assets, which are to
be sold and money raised to pay the members of
the Legislature, who for a long time have not re-
ceived anything. A bill has been filed in the Court
of Equity demanding the sale of these assets by the
holders of the currency of the bank, and bonds are
to be issued to redeem that currency. The bonds
held in London under the Act of 1838, " for the
rebuilding of the 'city of Charleston," provided for
the payment of the principal and interest, and
made the assets of the State Bank a special and
inalienable claim to the holders—a contract which
cannot be impaired, as the Messrs. Baring argue, by
any subsequent legislation. In answer, the Legisla-
ture states that Reconstruction has swept away the old
system and every contract connected therewith. The
people either cannot, or will not, pay any taxes, and the
Governor has tried in vain to negociate a loan.
Reports are current that the blacks in different
parts of the State are arming and threatening
violence. Never did a retribution more terrible over-
take a country, and never was a contrast effected
within a sh3rt period more striking than that of the
Palmetto State in 1860 and 1868. Imagine the feel-
ings of a planter in the former year who dreamt
that in his State's Legislature, largely composed of
. negroes, he saw a full-blooded black on the floor
rebuking the whites who had sneaked into the lob-
bies to avoid a vote on a bill admitting negroes t 3
the social privileges of white men, wherever they
could possibly meet ! and how would such words as
these sound in his ear —" But when the coloured
m in asks to be recognised as a nun, and to be pro-
tected, without stooping to the performance of
menial duties, then he becomes an object of aver-
sion, and the member talks about social equality,
and imagines he must take you into his arms, as he
probably would your sister, if she is good-look-
ing. This is an outrage upon the coloured man."
A number of citizens of Charleston have peti-
tioned President Johnson to provide protection
for the city against the threatened lawlessness, as
the civil authorities are unable to preserve order.
The new Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, ap-
pointed, by the Governor, was inaugurated on the
17th August, when the City Council met. The
police force is half black, and many of the city
officers are coloured men. In three States, militia
laws had been passed giving to the officers who are
appointed by the Governor extraordinary powers.
In North Carolina they may arrest without war-
rant or civil process not incurring legal liability. The
former Mayor of Columbus, Mississippi, who was
removed by military authority, has issued a pro-
clamation stating that as military domination has
been withdrawn, he and the City Council are the
rightful rulers of the city, and advising citizens who
may be arrested and imprisoned by the military to
bring suit against such for false imprisonment. The
committee of five appointed by the Constitutional
Convention of Mississippi to count the votes at the
late election in that State, to announce the result,
and, if necessary, to reconvene the Convention, are
about to issue a proclamation declaring the election
in six counties illegal and void, on account of frauds
and violence. They have decided not to call the Con-
vention together again. As Gen. Gillem refuses to
recognise this committee, they intend to call upon
Congress to sustain their action and to complete the
work of reconstruction in Mississippi by appropriate
legislation. The Democratic State Committee met,
but adjourned till September 22 to ascertain the
action of Congress before acting. If Congress fails to
meet on the 21st September the Democrats will
choose their Presidential electors, as will Virginia
and Texas. The Freedmen's Bureau agents in.
Louisiana report fourteen murders where Governor
Warmouth said there were 150, which is a slight
difference.—Governor Warmouth headed a confe-
rence of the Radical leaders with the Conserva-
tives on the 15th August when opinions were inter-
changed, and a further interview appointed. The
Republicans desired to know what their opponents
wanted, and what should be done to preserve the
peace, to which the Democrats replied that the
Legislatures should stop the enactment of arbitrary
and oppressive laws. They intended if their wishes
were consulted to act only in a legal and constitu-
tional way, and they would sustain the Governor if
he threw himself upon the people. Tha Governor
said that for peace he would concede anything in
reason, and that he was authorized to state that
measures obnoxious to the people would be modi-
fied. The officers commanding Federal posts have
been ordered by General Buchanan to gather in-
formation on the condition of affairs in their neigh-
bourhood and keep him informed. In case of dis-
turbance they were not to interfere with the civil
authorities, and to act only on instructions received
from head-quarters. The China's news is that the
negroes in Northern Louisiana are effecting armed
organizations.—Gen. Stoneman has issued an order
directing the State auditor of Virginia to receive
from the railroads indebted to the State the whole
or part of their debt, to be paid in current funds
or in State bonds at par. The amount of State
bonds received is not to exceed two-thirds of the
total payments made by a road. The whole amount
due by the roads is almost 300,000 dollars. There
has not been a case of yellow fever this sea-
son at New Orleans. A. correspondent says the
Legislature will, without doubt, resolve to vote for
the Presidential electors, and thus secure the State
for Grant ; adding that if they fail to do so there
will be a majority of 20,000 for Seymour. Frank
Blair was expected at New Orleans about the 22d

ult. The crops of cotton, rice, and sugar were
never better ; the fruit cropis so heavy that peaches
barely pay the carriage. The first bale of this sea-
son's cotton from Mississippi reached New Orleans
on the 10th August, and came from the plantation
of Jefferson Davis, now under the management of
his former slaves, B. F. Montgomery and Sons, Who
have 300 hands at work, and calculate on 12,000
bales.

ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.

The news just received by cable that the Repub-
licans carried the election on the Ist of September
in Vermont by a majority of 27.000 shows that
there is none of the reported reaction against the
Republicans in the New England States. In the
Vermont election of 1866 the majority was 22,825;
in 1867, 20,184 ; which gives in the election of last
Tuesday a Republican gain of more than 4,000
over the former year, and of 7,000 over the latter.
The tickets run as follows, with the exception of
the Democratic candidate for Congress of the
district :

Republican. Democratic.
Governor
Lieut.-Governor Stephen Thomas Murillo Noyes.
Treasurer
Congress, 1
Congress 2
Congress, 3
The next election takes place on Tuesday in Cali-
fornia. The Democrats feel confident they will
carry the State, their majority last year being 9,546;
but the Republicans assert that their defeat thee
was owing to splitting their votes, a mistake they
will now avoid. In 1861 the Republican majority
wts the highest known in California, being 18,293 ;
but in 1867 fully a third of the Republicans of the
State did not vote at all. The question hinges on
the action of those 20,000 Republican voters, and
although the Democrats are confident, yet, if thesa
remain true to their party, the State will be carried by
the Republicans. The election, however, which ev
cites most interest is that of Maine, which will take
place Sept. 14, as, like Vermont, it will indicate
the feeling of neighbouring States, while California
only gives an isolated opinion. Last year the Demo-
cratic gain was',l6,ooo votes, chiefly due to liquor laws
and other side issues. Mr. PENDLETON, encouraged
by this recollection, arrived at Boston on August 1-81
when he told the Constitutional Democratic Club,
which serenaded him at the Parker House, that he
was on his way to Maine to take part in the poll"
tical campaign in that State. He was received by
the Democrats of Maine with great enthusiasm,
which boiled over when he approached his favourite
topic of greenback redemption, one currency fer
the producer and the bondholder. He complained
that the men who heaped abuse upon him were
now crowding him off his own platform, having
discovered that the people intended to, support la
The adoption of a forty years' Funding Law wow,
make the debt eternal, while its payment
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paper as the bonds became due would extingui
it in a few years without loss to the holders,
as they would get in paper at par, what they
had bought in paper at a discount. He referred
to Senator FESSENDEN (whose name elicited nine
cheers), as the man who had foiled the Radicals It
their attempt to remove the PRESIDENT. As the
Senator has announced his intention of "stump"
ing" Maine for GRANT and COLFAX, it is more than
probable that they will meet and have an oPP°;
tunity of paying each other compliments. A In!:
interesting meeting still, took place at Denver, be..
tween the two candidates for the Vice-Presidenel;
Mr. COLFAX halted there a few days, addressi°:
-the citizens socially, but not politically. If FE .4b0,,
BLAIR arrived to time he reached Denver on '
10th, and COLFAX was not to leave till the 11th
a
August. It is stated that they met, and hatuhe
long and friendly talk, each freely reviewing*.
political field and predicting his own election. 'the
COLFAX and party reached Georgetown on a,
12th, and on the 19th they had returned to ue
oh
tral City, which is north-west of Denver, and 'la
up among the clouds. They had just arrived frte
Hot Springs, Middle Park, but on crossing the
tha
mountains on the 18th, 15,000 feet above
level of the sea, they had been overtaken 114
heavy snowstorm. General GRANT remains
Galena, 711inois, his intention, as annoneeebo
being to return to Washington to-day Oa
sth September) Mr. SEYMOUR remains at ljtici;
New York, and General BLAIR continues the
the West. It is now considered certain that t
PRESIDENT will support the Democratic ticket, as
will most of his Cabinet ; but Secretary
is reported to favour the Republican ticket, tbon,
he has not said so officially, as will the Attoo e
General, Mr. Evairrs. a
in
The election in Idaho territory has resulte ,
Democratic success. Judge Schaeffer, the neo3o
eie
elal
cratic candidate for delegate to Congress, is
vsllae
to be elected by 600 majority. Clement L. ,he
digbam has been nominated for Congress by the
Democrats of the Third District of Ohio. In
Tenth District of Ohio, J. M. Ashley, Present ja 0
b
cumbeut, and the " Original Impeacher," has eie
n
nominated by the Republicans for re-election.
bas
ludiaua, in the Sixth District, AR. 17-°°rhe was
been nominated by the Democrats, though he 4
lty. Ts°
expelled from Congress in 1862 for disloYe tb°
nominations are becoming numerous,
and
selections show the feeling of the people. Dane
of extreme views are picked on either al'
of
even General Butler is said to be confident n,
a re-election for the Fifth District of Massse'ea
setts. It is noticed that Mr. Seymour, Wh°
his nomination had little hope, is now buoYed 1 lir,
with a confident assurance of success. Fenn°
vania is more than ever recognized by Republic
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as the doubtful State, and even Ohio is n°1',..,00..
claimed as certain. It is said that Senator 13d
dricks will be beaten as Governor of Indiana, rt‘oo,
that he will not even secure his re-election to ob.
gAr r
greys next year, his term expiring on the 4th
as
This prediction is likely to prove true, jot
readers will remember that Indiana has bee° or,
successfully " gerrymandered." Senator ,2; A
who returned to Washington, August 20,
tour through the West, spoke hopefully of ReaPront
lican prospects, as the movement towards `"
was marked through all parts of the West.

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MOORE —On the 7th •Bic" lii,
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