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

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1868.

CANON M'NEILE AND CANON LAW.

The following letter has been addressed to
the Guardian by the Rev. Mr. Skinner
am afraid that these two propositions
are not convertible ; and that the energetic
Canon of Chester has ventured into a country
where, having lost his way, he only flounders
about hopelessly. It is a pity that " gasconad-
ing talk" is so different from solid learning.
Canon McNeile might else have aspired to
fill the vacant place of Dean Goode in " the
Evangelical party," as well as in the Chapter-
house of Ripon.
I do not wish to interpose between so able
and vigilant a critic as Mr. Haim of Wigan
and the " great and good" Canon ; but all
your readers may not see the Times ; and
you may agree with me in thinking that, if
fairness is of any value in controversy, it is
only right that Dr. MeNeile's claim, to alarm
the country with the " canon law," should be
fairly estimated by as many intelligent people
as possible. I ask, leave, therefore, to point
to the exact position in which the Canon's
final answer to Mr. Haim leaves that claim.
We are threatened in England (according to
Dr. McNeile, writing, for an electioneering
purpose, to the Times), with that " terrible
decree" known as "de coercendis Hcereticis,"
" contained" in the De,cretum Gratiani; be-
cause we are threatened with " the canon law"
in England ; for whatever is in the Decretam,
Gratiani is canon law ! _ _ _

Mr. Haim suggests that Dr. McNeile can-
not know the Gratiani De,cretunt ; for there is
no such " decree" as "de coercendis Hcereticis"
under the reference Pars ii., Causa xxiii.,
Questio vi.; and he asks " the secret"—whence
does the Canon of Chester get this alarming
information ?
Dr. McNeile accepts a " compliment to his
honesty and fearlessness," and " will not keep
the secret." " The passage is in the genuine
text." It is true that " Questio was a
misreference. But "it is in Gratiani's summing
up of Questio v., very near the end of it." The
words are these—" Si ergo viri sancti et
publicce potestates bella gerentes non fuerent
transgressores illius mandati, non occides,
quamvis quosque flagitiosos digna morte per-
tinerent ; si miles 51193 potestati obediens non
est reus, homicidas et venenarios punire non
est effusio sangainis 'sed legum ministerium;
si pax EcclesiEe mo3stitiam consolatur perdi-
torum ; si illi qui zelo Catholicce matris accenis,
excommunicator interficiunt homicides non
judicantur; patet quod malos non solum flagel-
lari sed etiam interfici licet." " This," says
the Doctor, "is literatim from the genuine
text, and contains every one (sic) word of the
terrible decree,' the horrible passage,' which
I I said might be found in the writings of

Gratian."
Finally, in the exuberance of learning in
canon law, he " adds farther—what is of more
consequence"—" a letter of Pope Urban I. to
Bishop Godfrey" (sic) " instructing the Bishop
how to deal leniently with such as kill excom-
municated persons." And he leaves Mr. Haim
and the subject with an air of having " done
it." _ . _

There are two things very apparent which
I desire to state publicly, with all due defer-
ence to Canon McNeile. First, that he seems
to be entirely ignorant of the place of the De-
cretum, Gratiani in the canon law. Secondly,
that he misrepresents wholly the character of
the passage in the Decretum to which he appeals.
And I add that it is hardly possible to exagge-
rate the loss to the truth which such controver-
sialists, through such ignorance and misrepre-
sentation, are certain to bring, sooner or later.
1. The Decretum .Gratiani is not " the canon
law," though Dr. McNeile seems to think it is.
Gratiani (considering his age) could hardly
help himself; but, with all his wonderful dili-
gence, he committed the gravest errors. He
took his documents not from original sources,
but from the lying collections of Burchard and
Ivo, and others who, in their turn, drew from
the untrustworthy fountain of Isidore Merca-
tore. He quotes the false decretals just as if
they were true ; he confounds the canons of the
Quinisext Synod with those of the Sixth
General Council ; he confuses the opinions
of individual fathers with the decrees of Popes
—one Council with another—and one Pope
with another ; blunders over the names of
places and writers ; and exhibits supreme igno-
ranee of antiquity and of Greek.
The rule of the canonists concerning the De-
cretum is (1), that it has no authority in itself
—nullum per se habet publicam auctoritatcm;
and (2), that the documents contained in it
rest on their own merit—" quo in eo reperi-
untur tantum valent quantum valerent, sr ea
non collegisset Gratianus, ita ut nulla ipsis
ex collectione ipsa supervenerit publica aucto-
ritas. I quote from one of the highest autho-
rities, a treatise On the Principles of Canon
Law, published by command of the present
Pope, by D. Bouix, 1853.
If Dr. McNeile had known this, he would
hardly have committed himself to the De-
cretum Gratiani, with that triumphant security
which he exhibits of having found therein a
" terrible decree" of the Canon Law, which
he hurls at the heads of Mr. Gladstone and
those who support him.
2. But where is this terrible decree ? The
Gratiani Decretum contains no such decree.
There is no such title it the book as "de
coercendis Hcereticis. Mr. Haim said he could
not find it, neither can I. The editors of St.
Augustinis Epistles classify some of his letters
under this head, and Gratian refers to letter
50 under it. But Dr. McNeile evades the ques-
tion, " Where did you find this title ?" Of
course, Mr. Rains knows where to find Gra-
tian's " summing up" of the argument de
homicidis better than Dr. McNeile. What he
wanted to know was, where is the " decree"
de coercendis Hcereticis ? And Dr. McNeile
cannot tell.
He quotes the summary of Gratian, and
says that it " contains every word of a decree."
The summary contains no decree, and it has no
sort of authority. He professes to quote "every
one word," and leaves out the passage which
explains the whole ! But as to the decree
"de coercendis Hcereticis," he has not a syl-
lable to say. Can misrepresentation go fur-
ther ?

The simple facts are these :
Gratian quotes a supposed letter from Pope
Urban 11. to Godefred Bishop of Lucca (whom
Dr. McNeile calls " Bishop Godfrey"), which
he heads with this title—" Non sunt homicide,
qui adversus excommunicates zelo nzatris Eccle-
sice armantur." The Bishop wanted to know
how he was to punish those who killed certain
(quosdam) excommunicate persons ; and the
Pope gave him for answer that, in a righteous
cause (as the glos has it), the crime was not
murder; but that, nevertheless, mortal sin might
enter into it, and therefore that a suitable pen-
ance must be enjoined.
Gratian gives the letter verbatim from Ivo,
using the " Decretum" and the " Pannormio
Ivonis." Dr. Il'lsTeile blows his trumpet over
this discovery, as if he had now fastened the
" terrible decree" upon the rightful author.
I will not discuss the genuineness of the letter.
I will only say it is at best but a letter of Urban
11., and, as such, it has no canonical authority.
It would not rank beyond a " rescript," of
which the canonists say that it is not a " de-
cree of law--." " Inter decreta Pontificia jus
facientia reponi non debent litter illa gum
rescripta dicuntur, et gum pro privata aliqua
persona aut negotio aliquo transitorio decer-
nunt."—Bouix para. ii., sec. 2, cap. 8). If
the Canon of Chester had known this, he would
hardly have imposed his flourish upon Mr.
Hains, or any more learned body of hearers
than the Lancashire working men.
But Gratian refers the whole subject-matter
to the decisions of St. Augustine and St. Am-
brose. He sends those who consult him to St.
Augustine's letters to Boniface and Marcelli-
nus ; and to St. Ambrose's Book ii. de Cain et
Abel.
Of this Dr. McNeile says nothing. Either
he did not know it, or he concealed it.
Grad= concludes his summary of the subject

with a question whether, when the evil-doer is
punished by those who have no legitimate autho-
rity to punish him, they are guilty of his blood ;
and he refers to St. Ambrose and to St. Augus-
tine for the answer. But Dr. McNeile leaves
off his quotation of the " summing of Questio
v." at the words "interfici licet." He leaves
out " sed quceritur, si contingat, aliquos malos
punir ab his, qui non habent legitimam potesta-
tem an sint rei efusi sanguinis, hi per quos
puniuntur." He leaves out also the whole of
chapter 49, which answers the question and
explains, and is part of, the summary. And
this by a " great and good" divine, who de-
clares that he quotes " literatim from the
genuine text containing every one word !"
Either Canon McNeile does not know the
book which he uses, or he misrepresents the
book.
The real subject under discussion is the
duty and the power of authority to punish
transgressors. Those who break the unity of
the Church are transgressors. Therefore it is
discussed how may those who break the unity
of the Church be punished by authority, and
are the instruments of authority guilty of sin.
Gratian refers to the " 50th" letter of St.
Augustine (Epistle 185 in the Benedictine edi-
tion). Part bf the title of this letter distinctly

opposes Dr. McNeile's statement. The latter
is said to declare " qua moderatione per lnetunt
leguan, Hceretici possunt ad Ecclesne Socie-
tatem reduci." The 48th chapter of the
Questio v. is entirely a quotation from the great
Bishop of Hippo. He refers also to the letter
of the same father to Marcellinus. It is Epistle
139 (Bend. edition). And the title of the
letter relates to the proceedings against the
Donatists, " utque rei castigentur mitius et
citra mortis pcenam. The very opposite of Dr.
McNeile's assertion ! .

St. Augustine's opinion is clear. Again
and again he says that, though authority has
power to take away the life of the transgressor
(and nothing but authority can lawfully do
this), yet of the Donatists and other trans-
gressors against the Church of Christ he says,
"Let them be punished short of by death ; " Let
them be won by mercy." His letter to Donatus
the Proconsul is in these terms—" at Donatistus
coerceat non occidat. (Ep. 100). (See vari-
ous Epistles, as 86, 97, 98, 185, 204).
In sum :—Supposing the " terrible decree"
of Chester, culled from the Gratiani Decretum,
to be really there, it must be interpreted by
the language of St. Augustine and of St.
Ambrose to which Gratian. appeals. But the
Gratiani Decretton has no such " decree ;" and
if it had, the Gratiani Deeretum has no autho-
rity, per se, to represent the Canon Law.
Canon tcNeile must therefore begin again,
as Dean of Ripon, under the Goode omen, if
he would really frighten us into his, as yet,
peculiarly unlearned and inaccurate Protestant
convictions. Moreover, he must really study
the principles and the history and the matter of
the Canon Law.
Meantime he has been amusing the readers
"
of the Times in " the silly season" with " a
mare's nest, at nobody's expense so. much
as his own."

JAMES SKINNER.
Newland, Great Malvern, August 29, 1868

GEO. FRANCISCIFIC RAILW 7H TRAIN AND E UNION
PA

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
Dublin, Four Courts, Marshalsea,
August 30. - _ _

Dear Anglo-American 7imes,—Nly pocket history
of the Union Pacific Railroad, Credit Mobilier, and
Credit Foncier, published in the Anglo-American
Times, copied in the Sun and other journals, was
deficient in this—it did not mention that the Pacific
Railroad is best represented by a two-tined fork—
one branch passing through Kansas, the other, or
main line, through Nebraska, where the handle or
Grand Trunk connects. Bat as the main line, as
mentioned in the above telegram, is almost to Utah,
the Kansas branch will most likely get a new grant
of $50,000,000, and run off through Colorado and
New Mexico to Arizona and Lower California,
opening up the finest cotton and grain lands in the
world. A.sthehistoryof the Kansas branch antecedes
that of Nebraska, laddthefollowing additional link.
As I am about writing the history of the Atlantic
and Great Western Railway, that absorbed £20,000
of English money, and Hallett was the man wh o
helped me to make the negotiation, this sketch of
his death, which has never appeared in England,
may be of interest to many monied men in London
and Paris

-
THE ASSASSINATION OF SAMUEL HALLETT.
(Special Correspondence of the New York, Express.)
Saratoga Springs, U.S. Hotel, 29th July, 1864.
Wyandotte, Kansas, JulY27--" Samuel Hallett was Om
that would bring him early
dead this afternoon." Nothing more. Hero my despatch
stopped, but my surprise is still active, and yetl feared
toh the grave.
and impetuous
en-
gine, this galvanic battery, this bunch of nerves, this man
Ispe it t.uous possible audacity
this human steam
seducer, this extraordinary financier, has gone to his long
home ? I knew him well, better than other men kuew
him. In Paris, in London, in New York, in Kansas,
in Washington, and, it seems but yesterday since, at
the Liddell House, St. Louis; he introduced me to
Talcott, the discarded engineer, who was his assassin !
Hallett was his own enemy. If he dil wrong, it was de-
fective organization. He bore neither envy, jealousy, nor
malice. He was as ready to forgive as to forget. His in-
fluence on man was fatal to virtue. I would give him
twenty minutes alone to corrupt the best man of the nation.
His power was electric. When gross flattery failed, pro-
mises of money, or fame won. He owned Greeley in ten
minutes, and Fremont was his at the end of the half hour.
Everett was seduced by his siren voice, and Clay and
Sumner, and a dozen shining moths of Abolition hovered
about his burning candle. To-day a hundred fortunes are
promised to as many men. Ha aPproachel men with diffe-
rent tones and different voices. He saw a man's weak point
instantly. Presented to Napoleon.—Presented to Victoria
he seemed to own the American Ministers, Mr. Mason and
Mr. Dallas. Three capitalists called upon Mr. Chase about
the first five millions. W. H. Aspinwall, Samuel Hooper,
and Samuel Hallett. The Indiana f
•Taud affair prevented
Cheover from organizing with Hallett a great bank. Jay
Cook, Livermore and Clews, got the business instead.
Everything that everybody did he assumed as his own.
He used men as he would eat his dinner, or suck an
orange. The writer first met him in Paris, introducing a
Nautilus—a submarine affa'r for engineers. About thirty-
six. Born in Western New York. He went into the
lumber business, and removing to the city he got country
banks to pass currency through his hands. The result to
the bankers was failure. The Nautilus was a failure.
Here Morton and Doolittle, the engineers and contractors
of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, in 1857 placed
the enterprise into Hallett's hands in London. James
Millenry and the writer were intimate. Hallett made
our acquaintance. There came contracts and strange
incidents. Hallett goes out. But in New York, ma-
naged, through Kennard, to squeeze a half million out
of the road. Kennard's salmi of five thousand pounds
a year is in the writer's handwriting, and signed by Hal-
lett. That road is nearly completed, and many express
surprise to see the writer's name left out of the programme.
Some day letters will be published, and Hamlet will ap-
pear in the play ; meanwhile too much notoriety has made
him sick. A plate of ice cream is palatable. A pail-full is
nauseating. Hallett's power was in starting game.
He seldom shot clear. The birds seldom fell into
his hand. As for money, it was like pouring water
into a rat-hole. His energy was terrific His appli-
cation was marvellous. Like the winch that slowly pulls up
the huge piece of iron he would work up his scheme to the
top, when down it would come, not on the pile he was
driving upon, but on the heads of the workmen. He would
milk the pail full and then deliberately kick it over, His
power of complication was marvellous. His friends always
suffered. The cabbage was on the end of the stick and
the stick was on the donkey's back, and hence the pro-
mised reward was always ahead, whether the animal moved
fast or slow. He was on the top round when the Indiana
bubble brbke, but to this day he swears that the fortunes of
the Jeromes were made on his balances. Poor Stover was
ruined. Many remember his speech in the New York
Club. Hallett was saved through the influence of
Mozart. Elijah Ward was more active than usual, else
Fernando Wood would have placed Hallett in Congress.
His groat ambition was to take Jim Lane's place in the
Senate. Lane and Governor Garrey are fighting, as usual
a third will step into the chair. Tho writer prefers Ne-
braska to Kansas. It is less bloody. Tho pure minded will
marry a virgin. Hallett passed his life is playing out and
in being played out. Everything with him was providential.
His schemes were gigantic, but he never realized them. He
met Fremont. Mariposa is Spanish for Butterfly, and
Maurice Ketcham, David D.Field,Mayor Opdyke,and Simon
Stevens know that it was the Grub that made the Butter-
fly. McKinstry Fremont depended upon Hallett's foreign
relations —Hallett depended on Mariposa. Ewing Mac-
Dowell, Stone, and Isaacs sold Leavenworth, and pawned
railway franchise to Hallett and Fremont for $200,000,
assisted by Haskell, Mcßuck, and Edward Learned. - Fre-
mout tried to play Hallett out. gallett instead played

them out. Fremont, like the Patent Hen Scratching
Machine, gently scratched himself out of the Pacific Yard.

Contracts were made with a New York millionaire, Tho 3.

C. Durant, to build that Kansas Road, and Hallett's death
in no way changes the early completion of the road
_ _

or the value of the securities. His wife aud four chil-

dren are in Germany, and it is believed that they will
have an ample competence after paying creditors from

Hallett's one-third interest. Hallett's ambition was to

build tho Pacific Railway. Hence changed the name of

Kansas branch from Leavenworth and Pawnee to Union
Pacific, E.D. The Grand Trunk Line, Union Pacific Rail-

way, runs from Sacramento, in California, to Omaha in
Nebraska, there connecting with the Mississippi and Mis-
souri and Rock Island Road to Chicago. The Kansas
Road will also connect with New York, via Cincin-
nati, by the Ohio and Mississippi and Atlantic and
Great Western, the Great Broad Gauge Route. It

will be seen that Edward Learned, as financial agent
fur Fremont, with sublime audacity, assumed to own the
entire Pacific Rtilway. Tho audacity of the live man

only surpassed that of the dead. E lward Learned was not

a subscriber or even a prompter--nor has he invested one
shilling in the Pacific Railv;ay, but on the contrary did all
he could to defeat the bill in °ingress. There is a photo-

graph of a small boy pouring water intu the sea to illustrate

i4e;.rnnd's energy in stopping the great world's highway
Poor llallett, lam sorry he is glue. He had virtues as
well as vies. His vices were faults. His passion for
notoriety led him always into the newspapers. Two
thousand invitations were ready for the opening of the
first forty miles of the Kansas Read. Newspaper mon at
Washington have suffered at his hands. But when his
purse was full it was open to all. As Humphrey Marshall

said of the China merchant, if Hallett failed his ambition was
to burst wide open! His life is a failure. But how strange
that this man of so many parts, in the midst of his active.
life, while his brain was so full of gigantic plans, should
be assassinated by a crippled engineer whom Hallett had
punished for writing a libellous letter to the President of
the United States about this railway. Verily, truth is
etranger than fiction. Alas! he has returned to dust and
the God who gave him. He lived a violent life and died a
violent death. " Pax Vobiscum." G. F. T.
[Two letters from Mr. James Mllenry here fol-

low, the one dated 1857, the other 1858, which
show-the connection with Samuel Hallett, but as
they allude also to other subjects, we do not feel at
liberty to publish them. Mr. Train says they are
two out of two hundred, adding that when he pro-
secutes the Ebbw Vale Company for damages, his
suit will be a cause celebre.—ED.]
These groundwork letters will show you the dan-
gerous game those are playing who keep me in the
Nlarshalsea. Two hundred letters from the leading
London monied tnln of the Atlantic and Great West-
ern World will read like a romance in my " Train
extras." No wonder they want to let me out if I
will pay costs and agree to bring no claim for da-
mages. Our advertising bills with the London press
cost some ten thousand pounds.
TILE 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, Esq.
Dear Sir,—Referring to our conversation to-day upon
the Union Pacific Railway enterprise in all its continental
magnitude, I bog 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. harmony. Our Vice-President,
the Hon. A. J. Isacks, will soon proceed to Wash-
ington, there to represent the interests of this com-
pany officially. ' 11.3 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, Dec. 10, 1863.

George Francis Train, Esq.
-Dear Sir,—I want three hundred thousand dollars
($300,000) for the Uuion 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 (V 40,000,100) 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 aro authorized to be issued.
The company leas not a dollar of acceptance or obligations
of bills payable oat ;tanding, acd 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 ne other obliga-
tions to Mr. Perry than to pay him the money borrowed
with the commission agreed on. Will you procure for me
this £300,000 for a monied consideration, and, if so, upon
wh it terms ? You will please telegraph me on your
arrival at New York or Washington, and oblige, faithfully

yours,
SAMUEL HALLETT, General ➢tanager, &c.
Leavenworth, Dec. 10, 1863.

Geo. Francis Train, Esq.
My dear Sir,—l am ready, and have tho 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 Europ3an bankers into co-opera-
tion, and particularly your id as 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, 1861.

My dear Francis,—Withmy Indians on hand 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 11%1IIEL 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. One hundred and fifty thousand
($150,600) settled ; . leaving three hundred thousand
($300,000) still due.
(Extract from contract between Samuel Hallett and
Thomas C. Durant, for building the Union Pacific Rail-
way (E. DO, 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):—
"'l'o 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,(00 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 a'ceptance of each section of 40 miles of said rail-
way; such iocurity of said Train to be held by said Durant as
trustee for the benefit of Wilhelmina Davis Train, wife of
said George Francis Train, and not to be sold, nor put on
the markets 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, Now York, Jan. 15, 1867.
Tho 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, 186 G.
My dear Sir,—l take great pleasure in advising you that
an arrangement has been consummated with the Union
Pacific Railway Company (Eastern 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 seven
per cont., and are regarded as worth par, as they
are
perfectly secured. This arrangement, however, they
ot
settle the three hundred thousand dollars coming to your-
self under these 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.—
CLAI ways
ELtL.ruly
ARK B

yours,
George Francis Train, Esq., Nebraska.
I never imagined that I should play the historian
of the Uniou Ito,ilroal for the Anglo-kneri-