The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, IE6B.

MONEY AND BUSINESS.

(From the Springfield Republican of Nov. 28.)
The money market at Now York is improved in tone
and condition, but from various causes business is light
and without excitement. Money is plentiful at from 6to
7 per cent. on call, and without commission, and at Boston
the rates are a little higher. The uncertainty and want of
confidence in the stock market., the Thanksgiving holi-
days, and the near approach of Congress, have all produced
a quiet and general inaction among the money lenders,
which has not occurred for some weeks. Sufficient de-
mands are, however, still made for moving the crops from
the West and the cotton from the South, in order, we pre-
sume, to keep the rates of loans up to a steady and rather
rigid price, and there is no probability money will become
a drug in the market at least until the Christmas holidays
and the quarterly bank statements for January 1 are over.
There are no further rumours of a lock-up in currency, and
the unscrupulous speculators who have been at that busi-
ness are likely to have something more important, if not
quite as pleasant, to occupy their time for the next few
weeks. Secretary M'Culloch has informed Treasurer Van
Dycke at New York that he shall sell no more bonds dur-
ing Lis administration, and it is to b 3 hoped that he will
stick to his resolution, and to his principles, which are
better than his actions. At the West matters are not
much improved, and at Chicago and Cincinnati the money
market is still stringent, 12 to 18 per cent. being the ruling
rates. Several failures of large houses havq•been reported
in Cincinnati, but the stories do not appear to have beer.
well-founded, although a number of small concerns are
known to have collapsed.
The business in Government Securities has improved in
consequence of the troubled condition of the Stock Market,
and capitalists turn to the public funds as the safest and
most satisfactory investments of their money. The trans-
actions during the week have been large, and prices of all
issues have held up firmly, with a slight advance all along
the line. A "corner" on the Five-twenties of 1862 is sus-
pected in Wall-street, but the experiment has been too well
concealed, thus far, to cause any general attention or ex-
citement. Large orders for Government Bonds are daily
being received at New York from Havana capitalists, who
aro fearful for the safety of their gold, while the rebellion at
the eastern end of the island is prospering so well, and are
taking this prompt and sensible way their treasures out of
harm's way. The German bankers are also investing
largely in our Five-twenties. The financial action of Con-
gress already begins to attract much attention, and will
continue to create wider and general discussion. The
schemes for tinkering our finances multiply rapidly, and
there will be no lack of earnest advocates of every known
remedy for all our difficulties of revenue, expense, debt,
and tariff. The contractionists will have advantages ou
their side, at the assembling of the session, which they did
not enjoy at the meeting of the last Congress, and General
Grant's known conservative opinions on financial matters
must give them greater unity and strength in the contest.
The election of Grant was a national verdict f_r retrench-
ment, economy, contraction, and the most sure and direct
return to specie payments, and the leaders of the party will
do well to organise and make practical and tangible the
results of the victory. The December debt statement will
probably show a slight increase, the receipts being about
the same as last month, while $23,000,000 in coin interest
has been disbursed.
The grain markets of Chicago and the West have been
more active this week in consequence of the near approach
of winter, and the impending danger that many dealers
would be caught with large stocks on their hands. The
ease of money at New York has also lubricated business,
and during the week the aggregate stock of wheat in storo
diminished 600,000 bushels. One million bushels are still
on hand, or nearly twice as much as last year at this time,
and the most active efforts will be made to move it East
before the closing of navigation. Boats on the New York
canals will stop running December 7, and the navigation
of the lakes will not keep open at the latest much longer.
Cotton is more active, both in the home and the foreign
markets, and prices are advancing, while the supply on
hand is growing less and the receipts aro falling off.

(From the Wall-street Journal)
NEW Yoiuc, Friday Evening, Nov. 27.
A correspondent requests us to state the difference
made in favour of new Virginia State Bonds, as compared
with the old, at the Stock Exchange. The actual differ-
ence in the cost of the Bonds is really the other way.
Most of the new bonds are dated a year after the rule of the
Exchange as to the number of over- due coupons they should
bear, and the sellers have to abate six per cent. in cash to
make them a regular delivery. Thusthenew bonds, quoted
at 561, if lacking- the coupons of 1860, cost the buyer
only 501 per cent Foreign Exchange is dull, but strong.
In Border State Bonds there is little change, and the
business is generally small. Mining Stocks continue quiet,
with little doing, except in Consolidated Gregory, Grass
Valley, Montania, and Smith and Parmelee. Petroleum
Stocks, in consequence of the rise in oil, are in increased
demand. Bennehoff Run is active at 60 cents bid, but no
stock is offered. National at $3.40, Rynd Farm at 18
cents, Union at $8.50, Northern Light at 30 cents, and
Buchanan Farm at 42 cents.
Express Stocks are quoted as follows :-
Adams ••• ... 49 to 491
American ... ..• ••• ••• ... 441 to 43
Merchants' Union 194 to 191
United States ... ••• 47 to 48
Wells, Fargo, and Co. ... ... 26+ to 27
NEW YORK RATES OF EXCHANGE,
Sixty Days. Thi-ee Days.
London Bankers
Loud. n, Prime Commercial lOB-1091
Paris, Bankers - 5.161 5.161-5.13;
l3remen, Bankers
Hamburgh, Bankers 351-361
Frankfort, O.M 4O -41
Berlin and Cologne
Antwerp 5.20-5.16f
Amsterdam, Bankers
Swiss

The following are the quotations for coin :
Amer. silver... 96 to 97 I Eng. sovs 486 to 490
Mex. d011ar5...104 „ 1041 20 francs 381 „ 3881
Eng. silver 480 , 485 Thalors
Five francs 96 „ 97
CLOSING PRICES.
PUBLIC FUNDS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Sixes, 1868, registered — to
Sixes, 1868, coupon ... — to
Sixes, 1881, coupon ll5l to 1151
U.S. 6s. Pacific Rail' oad — to
Five-twenties, 1862, coupon
Five-twenties, 1864, coupon
Five-twenties, 1865, coupon
Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new
Five-twenties, 1867, coupon
Ten-forties, coupon lO6l to 1061
U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 lll to 1111
RAILROAD AND MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS.
N. Y. Central 1271 Fort Wayne
Erie
Hudson
Reading
Mich. South. &N. 901 W. U. Telegraph
Illinois Central
Cleveland & Pittsbrg BBl Ohio and Mississippi... 311
North-West
North-West Preferred 873, Cumberland
Canton..
Rock Island
Cleveland and Toledo 991 IM & St. Paul Preferred 88
a RAILROAD MORTGAGES.
Chi. & N. W. Ist M 9O
Tol. & Wab. Ist M Ex
Gt. Western 2d M '93 77
Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist 31 —
Gal. & Chic. Ext 100
Gal. & Chic. 2d M 95
Chi. & R. I. Ist M
Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's 941
Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund —
N. J. Central Ist M —
N. J. Central 2d M 100
Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. Ist M 102
Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch.2dM. 99
Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 3d M. 92
Cleve. & Pitts. 2d M 771
Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc.
Chic. & Alton, S.F.lstM.lo2l
Mil. & St. Psul Ist M 9l
Mil. & St. Paul 2d M —
Marietta & Gin. Ist M —
Morris & Essex Ist M 95
Morris & Essex 2d 51 9l
Joilet & Chic. Ist M...
Chi. & GLEa.st'nlstM... 742
N. Y. & N. H. 6s 9l

CLOSING QUOTATIONS FO
N.Y. Central 6s, 1883 88
N. Y. Central 6s, 1887
N. Y. Central 6s, It Est 85
N. Y. Central Gs, Sub'n 85
N- Y. Central 7s, 1876 120
N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76
N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-76
Erie Ist Mort, Ex.. —
Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879
Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 93
Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880
Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 85
Long Dock Bonds
Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M,'77 9l;
Hud. It. 7s, Ist M, '69 101 i
Hod. It. 7s, 3d M, '75 —
Harlem let M, '6B '72 991
Mich. C. Ist M, 'B2 113
Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'B2 114
Mich. So., 7 p. c. 2d M 9O
N. Ind. oshen Line '6B
7p.c.
111. Cen. 7 p. c, '7O 114}
Alton & T. H. let M
Alton &T.H. 2d pfd 81
Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc. 80
Han.& St.J . Land Warts.lo9
Ilan. & St. J. Con
Chi. B. &Q., Ist M —
Chi. & N. West, S. F 95
Chi. & N. W. Con Cony. 93
Chi. & N.W. Ex'n 8....

Dubuque StS.Oity,lst M.
Peninsula Ist M
Ohio & Miss. Ist 11 —
Ohio & Miss. Con
Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D —
Atlantic & G. W. Ist M —

Auction sales of Stocks ani
by Muller, Williams, and Co.

Bonds, New York, Nov. 21.

_ .
Per Cent.
$3,800 Now York City 6 per Cent. Water Loan 991
2,200 New York Central Park 6 per Cent 991
19,760 New York Central Park 6 per Cent 99
10,000 State of Ohio 6 per Cent. , lO2l
8,000 State of Ohio 6 per Cent.
10,000 City of Memphis 10 per Ct. Coupon Bonds 51
10,000 City of Memphis 10 per Ct. Coupon Bonds 53}
10,000 Wilmington and Manchester RR. 2d mt l5
5,000 Manhattan Gas Light, 7 per Cent.
20 shares New York and New Navon RR.
100 shares New York and New Haven RR.
50 shares Bank of Commerce, N.Y
100 shares Ohio Life Insurance and Trust
90 shares Merchants' Nat. Bank of Memphis 26
25 shares Now York Life Ins. and Trust
9 shares National Bank of Commerce 123

(Prom Messrs. Satterthwaitc's Circular.)
London, D..c. 9.

In the London market for American Securities, United
States 5-20 Bonds remai❑ steady at the quotations of our
last; the transactions have been on a comparatively limited
scale, and the fluctuations during the week unimportant.
Little business is recorded iu Illinois Central Shares, but
they close firm at 9Gi to Erie, after receding to 211-,
leave off 261 to 271. There has been a rise to-day from
yesterday of three per cent. in A tlantie and Great Western
Consolidated bonds and Debentures; the former close 40
to 41, and the latter 39 to 40. Central Pacific Bonds, on
increased demand, are last quoted 70i to 71k.

DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest
holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re-
commended by the medical profession in preference to French
Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports.
tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co.,
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FOREIGN NOTES.-

GERMANY.

The commission appointed to consider the confiscation
of the property of the ex-Elector of Hesse, has held a sit-
ting, at which Count Bismarck made an important
speech. He said that the Elector had taken no notice of
the warnings that had been given him to discontinue his
intrigues, because he counted upon the speedy outbreak of
war. Nor were his anticipations without founda-
tion. The danger of a European conflict during
the preceding summer had been averted only by
an accidental and unlooked-for circumstance. Hes-
sians, Hanoverians, Danes, and Republicans were
continually intriguing against the integrity of Prussia
and the maintenance of peace. Count Bismarck inciden-
tally mentioned that be knew nothing of the famous
despatch sent by Count Usedom to the Italian Govern-
ment in 1866 until it was published in the newspapers
during the present year. He did not, however, state what
was the unexpected circumstance which had saved
Europe from war.

and sit fix the splendid court yard of the
hotel. I.".hey walk around the corner into the Rue
Scribe, to di •op in at the different bankers, see if
there are let ters for them ; glance at the American
journals oa file in the reading-rooms, and then back
they go to the Grand Hotel. They do not seek to
become acquainted with the people or the place—l
mean the Parisians and Paris—and after a few
weeks or nulnths spent thus, vote the capital a bore ;
include the e ntire nation in one sweeping and most
uncomplimeu tary decision ; and go away with about
as much idea. of Paris as they have of Timbuctoo.
There are, it is true, Americans who take a more
serious and iele:tsant view of a visit to the place—
they study the: :language, associate with the people,
visit the many a ttractions which Paris contains, and
to these it b. !c owes indeed a charming residence.
Those with f tstnilies arc very likely to settle in
Paris, because, of the ease with which Americans
obtain the en tree into society here. To be invited
to Court or T ilinisterial balls and fetes they need no
former Ares, intations, no recognised position at
home as do Europeans visiting Paris. Ame-
ricans come. here as Republicans—the sovereign
people ; awl if in too many cases they derogate
from this position by mesquin and quite unneces-
sary amb',tion, tent pis for them, they in no wise
bettering their condition thereby. That the season
is nearly at hand in Paris may be judged from the
show -w indows of the leading establishments,
wherein the fashions take their rise. These show
windows seem irresistibly attractive to the passers
by. The dresses displayed are so elegant, the com-
binations of silks, satins, and laces so tasteful, so
exquisite, that even the most indifferent can but
pause to admire the effect produced by the etalage.
At " L'Hermite," 19, Rue Boissy D'Anglas, this
may be particularly noticed. Paris possesses a
rival to even the most celebrated beautifier of the
fair sex. M. Legrand, the person in question, has
invented a creme Oriza,.which he styles " de Ninon
Lenclos," and which, duly examined by physicians,
is pronounced free of all deleterious mixtures. It
is recommended to the ladies. A rather singu-
lar decision rendered here a short time since by the
French Courts is puzzling Americans some-
I what. A very beautiful and well-known Ame-
rican lady was pleading here for separation
from her husband, a member of a leading New
York family. The court has decided that a divorce
be pronounced, that the husband be made to pay
an annual revenue of 72 thousand francs to the
former wife, and that she have the control of the
children. By what power a French court thus
decides is a mystery to many here, and how it may
enforce in America the payment of the annuity
seems still more uncertain and strange. The mar-
riage took place in the United States, both the
parties are Americans. How can a French court
take action in this case is the somewhat universal
inquiry. In a week or so the fetes at Compiegne
are to cease, and the Imperial party return to Paris.
The palace of the Tuileries is being now prepared
for the winter residence of their Majesties, and of
course the moment they shall have been installed
the season will commence. I understand that a
number of American families here will give some
splendid entertainments this season. Being the
recipients of much courtesy and attention from the
higher circles they will thus make a return there-
for. I should have noticed, while speaking of the
unnecessary display made here by some over-am-
bitious Americans, that, in great contrast to this,
is the excellent taste evinced by others resid-
ing here ; such as Mr. Lorillard Spencer, of
New York, whose equipages are universally
admired. He drives splendid horses and his
carriages are neat, but in the best style. His
four-in-band would attract attention and entire ap-
proval in Hyde Park. The same may be said of
the fine turn-out of M. Elisha Riggs, a townsman of
Mr. Spencer. Mr. Lewis Cass also drives some fine
horses here, while a number of American gentle-
men attract attention at the Bois with their light
waggons and fast trotters. Mr. S. P. Dewey, of
San Francisco, has one of the neatest and best ap-
pointed equipages in the place. Its elegant sim-
plicity, being in contrast with those more showy
attelages referred to above. It is understood here
that on the night the Emperor reaches Paris the
Place du Caroussel will be most gorgeously illumi-
nated by a new process—a strongly brilliant gas,
which is to be so brilliant and so cheap as to'super-
cede coal gas. I hear wonders of this new inven-
tion, in which a number of leading Americans are
concerned, and shall doubtless have the opportunity
of furnishing some more definite information con-
cerning it, as I am to assist at the illuminations to
take place next week. I believe that some of the
theatres here are to be lighted with this portable gas.
In addition to a company here, the parties interested
in this discovery have also formed a company in New
York.
At the Grand Opera we are soon to have Mlle.
Nilsson as Marguerite in " Faust." The manage-
ment are making great preparations to produce the
opera with unparalleled splendour. It was expected
at first that the Opera Comique tenor, Capoul,
would sing with Mlle. Nilsson as Faust, but since
then Collin, a late addition to the troupe of the
Grand Opera, has revealed so much talent that he
will sing with the favourite artiste. This will be
all the more acceptable to the public, as Offenbach
needs Capoul for his new work " Vert-Vert," which
is now in rehearsal. At the Italiens, la Patti will
give one or two more representations, and then she
will go to Brussels, where she is to sing two or three
nights. Thence she will disappear amid the snow
and ice of Muscovy. It is said that the Czar is so
pleased to have the Diva•in his capital, he has per-
sonally revised the list of subscribers for seats at
the opera, and that at no single representation are
there any places left. Of course the tour will be
one of triumph for Patti, who will return to us all
the more popular and attractive. In the mean-
while Miss Hauck will endeavour to assume a pro-
minent position at the Italiens here, and I may add
that there can be little doubt she will succeed.
Graede Duchesse Schneider leaves the Varietes
this month, and will make her debut in Janu-
ary at the Bouffes, in a new Offenbachism,
"La Diva." Messrs. Meilhue and Halery are the
coadjutors of the Muestrino in this fresh attempt.
At the Gaiete, M. Victor Sejour's new drama,
"La Madonue des Roses," is having an immense
success, owing to the wonderfully well-executed
last scene in the play. It represents the burning
of a palace, and anything more real to nature it
were impossible to see on the stage. The flames
leap and encircle the walls and beams, the latter
fall to the ground all ablaze, the smoke and sparks
rising in clouds. In short, so very natural is the
scene, the audience on the first night were fright-
ened, and the next morning the authorities sent
the officers of the Fire Department to assist
at a day rehearsal of the fire scene ere
they would permit the second performance of the
play to take place. The result was satisfactory.
The inspectors concluded there was no danger, and
now all Paris must witness the incendie. Each
night the scenic painters and the machinists are
called out to receive their share of the public ap-
plause. As for the drama, no description of the
plot is needed, it being filled with the usual inci-
dents, terminating iu the same way—the triumph
of virtue and the downfall of the heavy villain.
" Straws show which way the wind blows."
At the Folies Mariguy, a little box of a thea-
tre on the Champs Elysees, the first repre-
sentation of a " Revue de I'Annee," took place
last evening. All Paris was present, and the per-
formance passed off amid much laughter. Two in-
cidents were significant. In oue an actor, made up
to resemble Henri Rochefort of Lauterne notoriety,
produces what he calls a " spoken journal" for his
' subscribers. While his editors are commenting upon
the events of the day, he watches,:and the moment
a policeman appears the whole party cease abruptly
all discussion, and dance a child's round. The hit
told, the audience cheering in the most uproarious
manner.

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SHERMAN ON THE INDIAN WAR.

General SHERMAN'S Report, dated St. Louis, Nov.
1, 1868, tells the story of the Indian War. It is a
plain, unvarnished document, evidently within the
truth, relating only facts officially ascertained, and
the General's opinion thereon. SIrEriMAN not only
commands the military department embracing the
country west of the Mississippi River extending
from the northernmost boundary of Dacotah to the
south of New Mexico, but he is President of the
Peace Commission, to the counsels and determina-
tions of which he was directed to subordinate all
military measures. Two great routes run west
from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains—
the one through Kansas, the other through Nebraska.
Over both roads, broadly speaking, railways have
been constructed, for we are far from asserting they
follow the identical paths ; but between them is the
finest buffalo country in America, the Southern or
Smoky Hill route, penetrating right through it.
The Commission held to the necessity of removing
the Indians from this locality if peace was to be
preserved, or indeed if the Red men were to be
saved from extermination. Accordingly treaties
were concluded with the Cheyennes, Arapahoes,
Kiowas, Comanches, Navajoes, and Crows, the
vital part being two reservations for these tribes,
the one north of the State of Nebraska and west of
the Missouri River, and the other south of the State
of Kansas and west of Arkansas. To get the tribes
from the country of the railways running up to the
Rocky Mountains was, as might be expected, the
great object of the Commission, the General recog-
nizing that justice dictated compensation for depriv-
ing the savages of lands whose wild game had
hitherto fed, clothed, and sheltered them, as well
as the necessity, if possible, of procuring their eon-
sent to the transfer. During the period of discus-
sion, the tribes urged on the Commissioners the
advisablity of withdrawing the military posts on
the Powder River road, which had been built in
violation of an old treaty guaranteeing that country
to them for ever, as the construction of the Union
Pacific Railway had rendered this road compa-
ratively valueless, the Commissioners made the
concession, and by order of General GRANT, Forts
Reno, Philip Kearney, and C. F. Smith being dis-
mantled, their stores were withdrawn. Congress
adjourned without taking action on the treaty
which guaranteed the reserves to the Indians,
who, construing the withdrawal from the Powder
River route as a sign of fear, became excited, being
stimulated by emissaries who from Fort Larned to
the line of the Pacific Road agitated for the abandon-
ment as well of the Smoky Hill route, the essential
point, as the surrender of that country was tanta-
mount to the interruption of the Union Pacific
Railway. It is dangerous to concede to savages—
a fact never appreciated by the philanthropists of
Exeter-hall and Boston, who mean well, but with
great good often do much harm. We in possession
of the broad facts, who know Uncle SAM'S power,
his desire to be just and generous, the necessity
of holding free from interruption the country
in dispute, may find some difficulty in believing
the ignorance on those points of the Cheyennes
and other hostile tribes. 'I hey .see a few strag-
gling settlements invading their country, they see
teams and waggons here and there passing over
their plains, and they are often engaged in raids on
the settlers or in defending themselves from scout-
ing parties. Their notion of the white man's
strength is derived from this experience, and they
neither know nor believe in the immense power
away towards the rising sun, of which, it is true, they
may have heard dim rumours, which they receive as
fairy tales. The tribes count their white scalps
and laugh derisively, while here in England people
are lost in amazement that there should be men who
have lived all their lives in the United States of
America who know no more of a might whicn over-
shadows the world, than any African on the banks
of Lake Nyanza knows of the military power of
NAPOLEON. The reason is, that few Britishers who
have been little beyond their island can form a con-
ception without an effort of imagination (which they
will not make) of what the North American Conti-
nent is. It is easy to generalize, but it is not easy
to create in the mind of another the features of a
country differing altogether from that in which
he had been born and bred. Ten thousand men
might be located on a tract, build towns, cultivate
land in the Territory for generations, without any
one in the United States outside their community
knowing of the fact. Where the villages are of
these tribes only the best-informed scouts can learn;
the Red men doubtless thought that looking for
them was like looking for a needle in a bundle of
hay. Impressed, then, with the idea that the
earnest desire of the pale faces for peace was dic-
tated by fear, and that the withdrawal from the
Powder River road would be followed, on more
decided measures being taken, by the abandon-
ment also of the Smoky Hill route, they threw their
treaties to the wind, and on the 3d or 4th August
a party of 224 took the war-path nominally
against the Pawnees, who, as we described some
time ago, were trespassing on their hunting grounds,
but in reality against the Kansas settlers.
On the 10th of August they appeared on the
Saline River north of Fort Harker, and, as usual,
entered the houses, insolently demanding what the
settlers could give in the way of food, with which
they found fault. Professing to be offended that
the coffee was offered in tin cups they threw it in
the faces of the women—a sure sign to those well
acquainted with them that they had come on an errand
of murder and outrage. They burnt the houses,
slaughtered the men, and conducted themselves
with the greatest brutality, till troops arrived from.
Fort Harker, who drove them away, although being
mounted on fast ponies, and knowing the country
well, they retreated with little loss from the scene
of their devastations. The General declares
it to be proved beyond dispute that up to
that moment, so far from having given cause
for offence, the Peace Commissioners and all their
agents had treated them with the greatest kindness,
as also had the soldiers and frontier people. The
military dislike an Indian war, which involves
terrible hardships, the danger of death by tor-
ture, without glory, distinction, promotion, or
plunder, and they desired the success of the Com-
mission, which would end trouble by withdraw-
ing the savages. Complying with the terms of
the treaty the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes
had thus grossly violated, General SHERIDAN de-
manded, through Colonel WYNCOOP, agent of the
Cheyennes and Arapahoes, the surrender of the
perpetrators of these outrages. In this he utterly
failed ; indeed the Cheyennes commenced a general
war along the Smoky Hill and Arkansas roads, at-
tacking every party unprepared for this sudden out-
break, and therefore unprovided fully with the means
of defence. In August and September 79 persons
were murdered. Denver was surrounded by hostile
Indians, who occupied the country to within 12
miles of the city, and in one day killed nine whites.
A train was attacked and captured at Pawnee Fork,
and 16 men slain, scalped, and burned. Another
was captured at Cimarron Crossing, the drivers
escaping after a severe fight on some of the cattle,
and similar attacks were reported almost daily. Un-
til winter set in the Indians had the best of it, as all
will readily believe who know anything of military
matters, fur they then offered no objective points,
while the settlers had trains and teams to
guard,
farms and villages, flocks and herds. The warriors
therefore at first had rather a fine time, and doubt-
less greatly enjoyed the licence of rapine and mur-
der, while they rested in the fancied security which
their profound ignorance of their enemy gave.
Winter drew on, and snow began to cover the
plains; the reports weeks back announced it to
be two or three feet deep, and before that white
mantle, the Indians withdrew to their villages,
where, whatever supplies the squaws had provided,
were stored. It did not occur to them that this
was the time for which SHERIDAN was preparing,
as it enabled him exactly to turn the tables on
them, for they then gave what civilized war
demands, points of attack, when left them the alter-
native to fight for their supplies or starve. Hence
the late actions reported, and the terrible punish-
ment which has overtaken the wretched Indians.
The war will probably teach them how powerless
they in truth are to stand in the way of a United
States object, and doubtless their crippled tribes
next summer will be grouped on the reserves al-

lotted to them by Congress, where they will be fed,
while learning how to cultivate the earth and to
rear tame stock. Finding all war outside the re-
serve—not war bythem against the scattered settlers,
but against their own villages, which wonderfully
changes the aspect, whether they view it with horror
or as a pastime—and all peace within, the tendency
will, it is thought, be towards those reserves as the
only means of escape from utter annihilation.
General SHERIDAN fears that the Indians will even-
tually fall on the hands of the Government, a
mere mass of helpless paupers. He states, that at its
Chicago session the Peace Commission was forced
to the conclusion that the management of Indian
affairs should be transferred to the War Depart-
ment, as the only one enabled to use force
promptly, and to act with sufficient vigour to give
hopes that the plans and purposes of the Com-
mission will be carried out. The Indians and the
settlers cannot occupy this country together, which
differs from lowa and Missouri, being only fit for
grazing, and not susceptible as they are of close
settlement. Therefore the scattered whites will
always offer tempting opportunities of attack to
starving Indians, who, when hungry, will not be
restrained by any consideration from stealing
flocks and murdering if necessary. In such case
Indian wars would never cease ; hence the neces-
sity of the removal of the tribes. General SHER-
MAN has fully proves his case, and we doubt not that
the Government will act on his recommendations.
—Anglo-American Times.

RUSSIAN OPPOSITION TO UNCLE SAM•

A book now exciting much interest maintains
that the Union Pacific Railway will not prove the
true route to Europe for the more valuable articles
of Chinese commerce, asserting that they would go
by rail direct through Central Asia. 'lbis opinion
of one who has travelled to San Francisco, and
afterwards made a tour through Asia, seems to have
been arrived at also by the Emperor of RUSSIA, as
he has sent two civil engineers to examine the ope-
rations of the Union Pacific and other great rail-
ways in the United States, in contemplation of lay
ing down an iron road from China across Asia to
Moscow. The EMPEROR evidently fears the trans-
fer East instead of West of this trade. Against the
long sea route open to the world there was no use
contending, but the case differs widely as against
the United States, who desire to form an especial
route, which will divert trade from Russian chan-
nels, and once established would act injuriously' 0°
the future Russia hopes and expects. Americans
have always supposed they could never come In
contact with the colossus of the East, but they real
find themselves in Japan and China face to face
with the Moscovite, and here is the first sign of the
great opposition. It matters little to Western
Europe who the carriers are, beyond the fact that,
if limited to one line, the English would infinitely
prefer the road to be in the hands of their kindred.
The policy of an EMPEROR must be uncertain, for if it
does not change in himself it changes with himself,
involving the double insecut ity of personal instabilitY
of character, and instability of tenure ; whereas °
Democratic Republic may be relied on not to rue
counter to the interests of the mass, and therefore
not to permit the interruption of the road for e°l
purpose short of some great national object. Th
security then is with the Republic as against the
ci
EMPEROR, and on purely selfish grounds Engl3ll
should desire the firm establishment of the Jill°
e
through the States. The point favourable to dg
EMPEROR'S road is the non-shipment of gooui:
If the line reached a central point in China ol*
and tea would be hurried to Europe without break;
ing bulk, whereas by the other way they would fini
to be shipped at a China seaport, transferred to ra.i
at San Francisco, and reshipped at New York.
is the disadvantage, but the Asiatic road has Ye
to be built ! and there is some curious country
between Peking and Moscow. Before the first e°o
is turned of the Moscovite line, the America;
channel will have worn off obstructions to the
smooth flow of the traffic, and every one knows
bow persistently produce will follow the ae°l,
theb
tomed course unless diverted by overwhelming
advantages. We do not think, therefore, that d
EMPEROR will be able to pull up lee-way'
the fact of the Union Pacific line being alreadithe
operation will tell heavily against him in
money market, when funds are asked for to
carry out the scheme, so we doubt if it will assliel;
another form than that of a paper project during t 411..
existence of the present generation. The ter
PEROR'S agents are to spend a couple of NO°
months in New England, to learn how railvo',
tracks are there kept clear of snow, and they 1:7,
learn enough to show that a railway through Cell,
tral Asia, where the cold is more severe and for
during than in any part of the United States, 19
the present at least, impracticable. It is emus re
to see Russia going to the United States to lea.oo
how she may be best able to run an oPP°siti
against Uncle SAM, but JONATHAN iS SO happy
the conceit that he can beat creation that he reeel,„,
her emissaries hospitably, and furnishes all the
'ormation asked.—Anglo- American Times.

v/
An American Philological Society is n-o the
course of formation by the professors of languages °wept
different colleges of the country. Letters from emivecl,
linguists approving of the movement have been rece_eet
and a convention of literary men has been called to the
next summer. An organized society, having in v.ie.
ten
interests of philology, already exists, and it is antiellit,
that a combination of the two societies would res the
giving afresh impetus to the study and comparison °
different languages in use throughout the world. btest
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Births.
,r,„a• ble 0
BOODLE-0n the 12th inst., at Mayfield,
common, the wife of Henry Trelawney 800 Roe
a daughter. roeet" El.
WYATT —0 n the 10th inst., at 4, Torrington-st,
sell-square, the wife of Thomas HenryWYatt" j
of a son.

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vtehris
u3sd, inst.,seeon datsoSnt.of Maret'lstef y,,,,P
ter °
Henry Gear It.
Y 7 A., to Martha, eldest daugn bite. t.
W. Palmer, Esq., J.P., of Hanham, Gloucester° ,stiPilio
M ERRICK —JOHNSTONE—On the Bth inst., atWest°llilPt° a
no
Mare, Major T. C. Merrick, Bengal S.C., to
youngest daughter of the late Spearman'"°
Esq., of Dringhouses, Yorkshire.
tO°
Deaths. 4 13,'
BAILLIE —On the Cth inst., at Hastings, •1"° it
Baillie, Esq., late of the 78th Highlanders. ,e, CC
fie
PETRE—On the 11th inst., at Oscott, Birming,lttal
Francis, second son of the Hon. Arthur aro Of
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therine Petro. g cio f
PHILLIPS On the Bth inst., at Hollow Combe, lee 0
suddenly, Henry Wyndham Phillips, second 9
Phillips, Esq., 8.A., aged 48. pd, 'IP j
MANSELL—On the 12th inst., at Upper Norwo
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ward Mansell, aged 69.

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