The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-13 00:00:00

MR. HOWARD'S TRIP 70 AMERICA.

One of the best lectures on America delivered in
this country was that by Mr. James Howard to the
Bedford Literary and Scientific Institution early last
year. It followed shortly after the paper read be-
fore the London Farmers' Club upon " Things in
America," on which we commented. Mr. Howard
is the senior partner of the eminent manufacturing
firm whose wonderful works at Bedford have at-
tracted the notice of travellers, and where it is said
that pig-iron goes in at one end and is delivered at
the other in the shape of the most highly-wrought
implements. While we write we sae a notice in
the morning papers of a trial of ploughs before the
Tynemouth Society, in which John Moor gained
the first prize against numerous competitors with a
Howard's plough, and the society presented to the
firm a silver medal as the makers of the first win-
ning plough. Mr. James Howard, who has ac-
quired a high scientific knowledge of agriculture,
and whose business enforced an intimate acquaint-
ance with the implements required in that greatest
branch of industry, took it into his head to pay a
visit to America. He crossed the ocean and tra-
velled over the States and Canada, and, as a
thorough practical English agriculturist, he embo-
died in his paper upon " Things in America," and in
his lecture at Bedford, the experience of his trip. The
former has been published, and was extensively
noticed by the American press. It is well worth
the careful attention of American farmers, and will
furnish agreeable reading and useful information to
all who speak the English language. The latter,
now also published, is descriptive of the country,
and gives the lively and interesting sketches that
might be expected from so intelligent a traveller.
Mr. Howard's sympathies were with the North in
the War, as he felt strongly upon the question of
slavery, though he adds, " he thinks the arguments
are with the South." But, as an English manufac-
turer, Mr. Howard is an advocate for Free Trade,
and his views on this subject may have given an
undue weight to Southern " argument." He con-
siders that a pacific policy of ter the war would have
been successful, had it not been for the ill-ad Vised
tour of the President, coupled wifh his extrava-
gances of conduct. Speaking of the President, he
tells us that he came home with an old member of
Congress, many years a Senator, who visited him at
Bedford. He had been 16 years the colleague of
Andrew Johnson, and was elected with him for
Tennessee. That gentleman declared the charges
brought against the President were pure inventions,
for there was not a more temperate man among his
acquaintance, "Is it within the range of probabi-
lity," he asked, " that an habitual drunkard could
have risen from obscurity to his present eminent po-
sition ?" Abraham Lincoln, Mr. Howard remarks,
" abolished slavery by virtue of the power vested in
him as the Commander-in-Chief of the American
Army and Navy, it being, in his opinion, a fit and
necessary war measure for suppressing the rebellion.
To use his own words, He had promised God that
he would do it.'" Mr. Howard maintains that
slavery was the cause, the sole cause, of the war,
and Mr. Lincoln never intentionally said anything
to the contrary. The Hudson River, in Mr.
Howard's opinion, surpasses the Rhine in majesty

if not in beauty. He makes a striking remark
about the church accommodation, the extent of
which is everywhere far in advance of that in Eng-
land, notwithstanding the existence of the richly
endowed Establishment. The great number of
churches impresses a stranger, and he marvelled how
they managed to raise the necessary funds. "It is
a very common notion on this side that in America
sects are far more numerous than in England. I
have often heard it asserted they spring up like
mushrooms.' Like many other statements about
the country, it is totally untrue ; if you exclude the
churches of the Germans and other foreigners, there
are fewer sects in the great cities of Chicago and
Philadelphia than we have in the small town of
Bedford." Mr. Howard fairly summarizes the argu-
ments of the Protectionists, of whom he says, " You
may talk to them till your hair turns grey, but back
they come to the same point." "Do you know what
Free Trade means?" asks the newspapers of the work-
ing classes. " WLy, bringing down America❑ wages
to the level of a Dorsetshire labourer." The time will,
however, come, he thinks, when this great question
of buying in the cheapest market will be looked into
more narrowly, and the result may be foreseen, as
the producers are infinitesimal compared with the
consumers. In the Radical Convention in Phila-
delphia Mr. Howard stood next to General Butler
and heard him speak; but neither his speech nor
looks raised him in the traveller's estimation. The
notorious Parson Brownlow was rushing about like
a wild man, and H. Ward Beecher brought upon
himself the whole artillery of the Radical press for
advocating a pacific policy. If the congregation of
the Plymouth Church then split, it may be gratify-
ing to Mr. Howard now to learn that they are
pretty well united, at least if we may take the late
biddings for pews as a test of the question. The
remarks, in conclusion, are as sound in doctrine as
they are beautifully written. If he spoke these
words as they are here given, it was a grand perora-
tion, and we only regret that our space is too limited
to transfer to our columns ideas in which we so
thoroughly sympathize.—Anglo-American Times.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Rich deposits of gold it was some time ago an-
nounced had been discovered in Russian America.
A despatch to the State Department reports that
an assay had been made of the gold ore found there,
at San Francisco, and it yields at the rate of
$13,000 per ton.
The directors of the Imperial Silver Quarries
Company, 114, Palmerston-buildings, Old Broad-
street, have received from Mr. Lewis Chalmers,
Mining Superintendent, a report on their mines,
dated Monitor City, Alpine County, California,
December 10, 1867. On the whole the communica-
tion may be considered highly satisfactory, the in-
dicatious in Mr. Chalmers' opinion abundantly
justifying the application of capital to the en-
terprise, when he looks forward to great results.
After examining the surrounding Mines, he agrees
with General Hall that it is the best property in
the district, not even excepting the now famous
Tarshish and Morning Star mines, when an equal
amount of labour shall have been expended on it.
He describes the work accomplished as a tunnel
Mt. Bin. by 6f. Gin., with a double track driven
180 ft. at right angles to the mineral-bearing veins.
The rock through which this has been constructed,
hard at first, is now more easily wrought, though
not so loose as to require timbering. He says that
rock taken from the Esmeralda assayed £420, and
from the Florence. £1,272 per ton of 2,000 lbs.,
and he will soon have an opportunity of satisfy-
ing himself ou the wealth the of Florence, on which
work is to be commenced immediately. The
Schenectady Mining Company commenced opera-
tions on an extension of the company's Esmeralda
lode in October, 1866, and they are now working
at a depth of 300 feet only below the surface out-
croppings, and producing bullion at the rate of
nearly £lOO sterling per English ton. He esti-
mated that he will reach the Triumph in one hun-
dred and thirty days, and the Florence in two hun-
dred days more, although good lodes will be struck
before that. The whole expense of tunnelling and
erecting mill machinery he calculates at £8,669,
and this estimate is borne out by Mr. Graff,
the superintendent of the Tarshish mine. Mr.
Chalmers closes his report in these words :
" Finally, I consider this property, as I have
already said, the richest in this rich district. I
have given you the figures for its development, and
I am satisfied that, when developed, it will realize
the most sanguine expectations of the shareholders."
The directors accompany this report by an intimation
that at present " they will only receive applications
for 2,000 debentured shares (fully paid up), at the
par value of £5 each. These shares will be allotted
according to the order or date of application, and
such application must be received by the let of
March from the city, and 2d of Mat.ch, 1868, from
the country. In the event of no allotment being
made the money will be returned to the applicant
in full.

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Births.

JEAFFRESON —On the 12th inst., Mrs Alfred M. Jeaffresev,

of a daughter.
NOEL—On the_9th_inst., at 82, Inverness-terrace, the o°l3'

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Mrs. Henry Noel, of a daughter.
SMITH—On the 11th inst., at Highgate, Mrs. Orton Sraia3'
of a son.

Marriages.
CAULFEILD—CRAMPTON—On the 11th inst., at Kensing:
ton, St. George Francis R. Caulfeild, eldest sou of
George Caulfeild, Esq., of Donamore Castle, co. 131 •
common, to Louisa Anne, only daughter of Thomas
Crampton, Esq., of Kensington.
MILLWOOD—Amos—On the 11th inst., at Claphare-9°113:
mon, William Millwood, Esq., 8.A., of the Middle 111,
ple, barrister-at-law, to Saran Elizabeth, second daag
ter of C. E. Amos, Esq., C.E., 5, Cedars-road, Claphslll
common.

Deaths.
ASKEW —On the 10th inst., at Castle-hills, Berwick-O°W-
Tweed, Hugh Bertram Askew, Esq., aged 85.
Drought,
DitouGirr—On the 11th inst., George Wm. F. Drovo
Esq., J.P., King's County. Welt"
DUMBLETON—On the 11th inst., at Denham House, .
teridge, Iferts, Mr. James Durnbleton, aged 82.
vtcati,
M.EwAN—On the 10th inst., at Bordeaux, Jas. NV' -
Esq., Australian merchant, London.
, 4 sdtii
PRATTEN —On the 10th inst., at Ramsgate, Robert -I are,
Pratten, Esq., of 28, Welbeck-street7 Cavendish-olu
London. rburP
TASWELL On the 10th inst., at St. Martin's, Can'°'
George M. Tasviell. Esq., aged 83. Ijtalir
WHITE—On the 12th inst., at /I.fornington-place,
stead-road, the Rev. Arnold White, aged 75.

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