The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-15 00:00:00

MISTAKES.

Thole who believe that- journalists always check
figures, references, and assertions before they un-
dergo the magic of being transferred from manu-
script into print must be surprised at the errors in
plain statements which often appear even iu leading
papers. A writer may hazard an opinion iu pre-
ference to breaking the thread of his thoughts, and
forget to look out the reserved point, when he is
startled by seeing his conjecture published.
Last week the Spectator spoke of England as being
7,000 miles from America—but if the editor was
carried 7,000 miles West, and dropped, he would find
himself swimming in the Pacific Ocean. The Star
not long ago asserted that when the Union Pacific
Railway was opened the traveller might go from
New York to San Francisco in two days ! Not bad
travelling that, considering that it would average
70 miles an hour for 48 hours ; we imagine six
days will be the quickest attainable for a long time
to come. A curious number of errors is contaim.d
in the following " Occasional Note" in the Pall
Mall Gazette:—

"New England, the stronghold of the Republican party,
will certainly b 3 true to the cause. Vermont has given
the leaders a majority of 27,000, a gain of 7,000 as com-
pared with the last election. If the East did not make a
fight with the West now for the possession of power, it
would be the strangest thing in American history. The
West has begun in earnest a long-expected campaign, and
the East will have to fight hard for what it has gained by
the war, or see the last chance of power slip through its
fingers. We may expect to see all the New England
States go as Vermont has done; but Now England alto-
gether only casts 33 votes in the Electoral College, and
New York alone casts the same number. Tho victory in
Vermont was anticipated by all parties alike, and ~onseq-
uently it does not thmow any light on the probable result
of the contest."

The six new England States cast 39, not 33 votes.
They will not all go as Vermont has done ; Connec-
ticut being Democratic Maine, and. New Hampshire
doubtful. The whole question hinged on the in-
crease or decrease in the Republican majority, as
throwing a light on the probable result. But
numerous as are the errors in the statements, they
are surpassed in the moaning conveyed. The West
is represented as having begun in earnest its long
expected campaign against the East. The New
England States are to combine against the West, and
so we might naturally suppose would other Eastern
States. But New York is made to neutralize the New
England combination with its 33 votes. Here we
suppose the writer classes New York among the
Western States, and he certainly represents the Re-
publican party as the champion of the East. That
New York will vote the Democratic ticket no one
doubts, as will Maryland and Delaware, very likely
New Jersey, certainly Connecticut, probably Penn-
sylvania. These, we presume, the writer considers
to be::astern States. ll re then we have the East
tii;ltting z4.,itinst itself and .t.nocking down its Ow:,
; and strtage to sity, ity,i;
shall see the same result, for the most thurougniy
Western States will most probably throw their votes
on the same side as the New Euglanders. This

paragraph is a curiosity of error, and one he who um
consciously produced it, might try in vain to equal.
—Anglo-American Times.

An American paper says :—" On Thursday, the
19th August, the first number of a new journal, called the
West African Herald, a as published at Sierra Leone, the
editor, publisher, and printers being natives of the West
Coast. The paper is printed on a decoy sheet, and is get
up as well as could be expected under the circumstances.
Ur. C. Bannerman, the editor, must have some good friends
at the courts of the kings and chiefs of the West African
coast. For instance, iu his prospectus to his subscribers
—cash in advance—he stat..3s that parties desiring to be
supplied with the West African Herald at the following
places:— Winnebah, apply to Aquall, King of Winuebah
at Jellah Coffee, to Tay, prince of that place; anti at AV!'
pim, Akim, Croboe; ankerah, Wassail, Fautee, and DoT
uassi, by applying to the kings and chiefs of those 000'.
tries. Pending the appointment of several other eminent
"blue bloods" at eight other places on the coast, sub'
scribers must communicate with the editor."

The National lutelligencer says :—" Through the
efforts of Colonel Norton, of Paris, the American banking
house of Norton and Co. have been authorised by the Se"
cretary of the Treasury to attend to all business connected
with the distribution of official information among the
bankers and brokers of Europe."
M. M. Pomeroy, commonly known as " Brick"
Pomeroy, is remarkable for his extraordinary success as
journalist. He was born on Christmas-day, 1803, 3t
Elmira, Now York, and being left an orphan 103
brought up by his uncle, S. M. White. He Was lir
educated, and spent his boyhood in working on the
farm, and selling the berries he picked on the hills froal
door to door in Elmira. In 1850 ho learnt the printing
business in the offices of the Corning Journal. For two years
he published the Athens Gazette in Pennsylvania,
but removed to Wisconsin in 1857, where he set Id
the Horicon Argus, without a dollar in his pocket. This
he sold for $2,000, and worked as city editor of the Atli-
waukee News. In 1860 ho took up a bankrupt concern
called the La Crosse Union and Democrat, dropping
-Union. He accompanied the army -as a -correspoutlell"
rid
but his uncompromising Democratic principles fon
little favour, and in 1863 ho was driven off fur a severe
criticism of the Northern generals.
.When the war close'
in 1865 the circulation of his paper was only 150 a week'
now it is over 300,000, and his income little short 0'
£40,000 a year. His printing office at La Crosse, Wir
cousin, a town which owes to him its name and reputati°°'
is the finest in existence, filled with curiosities like
museum, and with luxuries like a palace. He has lateu
started a Democratic daily paper in New York, with,:
circulation of 20,000 to begin with. The style of journali67
which has met with this marked success reflects 0:
credit either on the United States or on the Dernoensli
party, although we believe Mr. Pomeroy to be thoroughly
honest in his convictions.
George, "Artemus Ward's" favourite boy, is 13°,2.15f
at work in Houghton's " River-side Press" printing-IP'—a
under a provision of the humorist's will, which recite
his apprenticeship to be "the best printer in America. ft
There was a rumour that Garibaldi had le
Caprera, which is now said to be untrue.
It is said that Lord Napier's share of the
months' batty granted for service in Abyssinia /1
amount to 29,850 rupees. bed
The death is announced of an accomplis fit
United States literary man, Mr. George Adler, I)e,,
known as the author of a German and English dictiona_r s.J
which has become a text-book in American public sob i
The Chair of Intellectual and Moral Philos°P
at the University of Vermcnt has been accepted b)'
H. A. P. Torry of Vergennes, and Rev. John B. ger,llo9
the Museum and Comparative Zoology at Harveru
been secured as lecturer on Geology.
Mr. Watts has received his instructions fa
Minister to Austria, and will depart immediately
Vienna. Baron Charles Von Lederer, the new Ausittrr'll
Minister to the United States, arrived in New Ir°r''°
Wednesday, August 26, from Liverpool. 0 t°
General M'Ciellan has promised to rota
Pennsylvania in time to take an active part iu the Pre'
deutial Election campaign.
David L. Swayne, LL.D., late president of tijo:
Raleigh, North Carolina, University, died at that Placsasor
Thursday, August 27. Some weeks ago he and Prae 09
Fetter were thrown from a waggon, and Mr. S waYlle
seriously, and, as it has proved, fatally injured.
ns of
At the annual meeting of the assured raerabe Co
the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance COW/IL re
Monday, August 24, the old board of directors 0.
elected, as follows :—Caleb Rice, Henry Fuller, ju ;01,01
muud Freeman, Otis Childs, W. C. Sturtevant, Sstove,
Bowles, Ephraim W. Bond, James Kirkham, Josephos of
Clark W. Bryan, F. B. Bacon and Sylvanus Ada t of
Springfield; Elliot C. Cowdin and Alfred Laraberst al
New York ; A. J. Benyon and It. W. Holman of 13° I.°/)
William Bross and Benjamin. Lombard of Chicago ; "ster,
Effinger of Philadelphia, John S. Kidder of Manebeirer
New Hampshire ; George J. Stannard of St. Albans,

mont ; James M. Churchill of Portland, Maine. bat
Colonel C. D. Poston, formerly of Arizona,
sr
late of Washington, accompanied the Hon. J. Kryro4
Browne as Commissioner of Agriculture to Chine.
l t,
Richthofen also went with the mission as a goeue'cijo
The object of his mission will be a thorough and seiet/-1
examination into the mineral resources of China. re,
Mr. Edward Anthony, for many years the
spected President of the Lamar Fire Insurance COl4B
died on August 25, in the 61st year of his age.
,„t. of
James Mann, the only Democratic ineintie.
Congress from Louisiana, died, Wednesday In°rhieg.' -f
tho
26, of congestion of the brain, and both branches ory,
State Legislature adjourned out of respect to his 11/. 0.
The Hon. J. H. Cameron and the g°ll':„rtiet
Cameron are to defend Whaler, charged with them The
of Mr. M'Ciee, who is about to be tried at Ottaw' ~hl,O
former gentleman is well known for his high Conserv,'
principles and Orange proclivities. 00 t"
The Rev. J. C. Lovejoy used a horse vviliP ,roiciff
shoulders of Mr. Fisher, editor of the Cambridge I's, Inv
who at acked him in his paper while "stumping" lle's o°o.
gentle
setts in the Democratic interest. The rev.
compelled to apologize, and iu doing so excused. u_notry
by saying, "It is better to endure the hell of Pur.tr;
than the self-reproach of one wrong act." The edits, bat
swered by acknowledging that he was apt to irriniforgii.
Isis intentions are good, and he forgave, being 0f a
ing disposition.bprt
The portrait painter Charles L. Elliott was oesrli
on the 28th August. His funeral 'was attended
by a
all the profession in Now York. isias
An " Assassinating Italian" knows of ap, de a 3
in the Pacific which nobody else knows, and be i"10 /111
to
ecri 0
ous to sell this treasure, and knowing where
turned up in Washington at the office of the Seerost 01rt
State. Signor Moreno only asks for a ship to her; do II
der his direction, and if the Government offic'e;.ooo.
report favourably the United States need not Pnr" ayer,
•4g.
In the last 14 years nearly 4,000 aliel3 7 torol,'"0.
age of 283 a year, have obtained certificates 0' 11100 '1"
tion from the Secretary of State for the British
partment under the provisions of the Act AtelB44" gle:
The virulent cattle disease raging 14 -111„::t
seems to be not without danger to human bei135';A:00"4,5
at Troy, New York, whose hands had bee°A-tso
co
scratched by berry bushes, afterwards skinned
min
which had died of the disease, and soon after 0,40114
oculated, it is believed, by virus from the CO tars
b ei
and speedily resulted in death. One of big 6r
re 13 O'er'
attended him also fell ill in the same way, and e
was declared doubtful. Pilltre•
LADvEnnsßuENT.]—Helloway's Ointraent AP,ao°
These wonderful productions have now formbec°- ",(isl
elated in every part of the worldc that the, won-ro,
plate household treasure; the worst cases of ulcers, 0i ,0
• h so In' fel,'
and every variety of skin diseasec, for ine- cilca,,,s9
medies have been tried without effect, read osteTid
their power, they act so miraculously upon of lisoetierS
to be considered a complete phenomenon °' the 10,00°
art. For this reason they are advocated 11
practitioners after everything else has prO,:fet the se 0 to
ful. Those complaints especially which anec"..iegeeclili
tary and studious give way as mist before the _ 11,
the influence of the pills. External wounds are
healed under the ointment.

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