The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-09 00:00:00

CITY OF GLASGOW UNION.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held on Tuesday, in Glasgow ; Mr. J. R. Stewart
in the chair.

The report stated that since the last half-yearly
meeting the contractors had confined their opera-
tions almost entirely to the formation of the bridge
carrying the Shields road over the Pollockshields
Junction, and to the completion of the diversion of
the canal and works in that neighbourhood. The
directors, however, were now empowered by the
approval of the recent meetings both of this and
the other two contributing companies to carry
out the scheme then approved, and the works
on the north side of the Clyde necessary for
effecting a junction with the Coatbridge Railway
would at once be resumed. It had been resolved
to form a passenger station at Dunlop-street
for the accommodation of the Glasgow and South-
Western Railway Company's traffic. This object
would immediately engage the attention of the
directors. In terms of the act of 1867, the shares
raised under the original act, other than those sub-
scribed for by the North British and Glasgow and
South-Western Railway Companies, had been con-
verted into preference stock, the proceeds of which
were devoted to the construction of the stations
at Dunlop-street and the College. The directors
congratulated the shareholders that the financial
difficulties that had so long encumbered the pro-
gress of the undertaking appeared now to have been
overcome, and they looked forward with confidence
to the completion of their scheme.
The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report,
which was agreed to.
The meeting was then made special for the pur-
pose
of determining whether or not an application
should be made to the Board of Trade under " The
Railways' Extension of Time Act, 1868," for an
extension of time limited by this company's Acts,
1864, 1865, and 1867, for the compulsory purchase
of lands and buildings required for the undertaking,
and for the completion of works.
The CHAIRMAN explained that the compulsory
powers of the company for the acquisition of pro-
perty would expire in July, 1869, and therefore it
was necessary to obtain an extension of time, the
works having been delayed during the last year by
monetary difficulties. It would be necessary to
appoint three scrutineers to ascertain and record
the proportion of capital held by shareholders in
favour of the application for an extension of time.

Messrs. Leek, Anderson, and M'Grigor were ap-
pointed scrutineers; and, after a short adjournment,
they reported that the whole of the returns from
the shareholders assented to the application to the
Board of Trade, and that none dissented.

The CHAIRMAN then declared that the requisite
proportion of assents had been obtained, and that
the application would be made accordingly.

NORTHERN RAILWAY OF CANADA•

The traffic receipts on this company's line from
the Ist of July to the 12th of September amounted,
on 97 miles of railway, to £22,593, and for the cor-
responding period last year, on 94 miles, to £25,986,
showing a decrease of £3,393.

GALLANT CONDUCT OF A YOUNG NAVAL OFFICER.
—On the night of the Ist of Tune last, while her Majesty's
sloop Myrmidon was lying in Banana Creek, River Congo,
Western Africa, an able seaman, named Torrance, ftll
overboard. Sub-Lieutenant Lionel De Sausmarez was
officer of the watch, and though a strong current was
running at the time, and the river is infested by sharks,
this gallant young officer, with the utmost promptitude,
jumped overboard, laid hold of the drowning man, and
swam with him to the pier, supporting him until assistance
came. As the man could not swim there is no doubt that
he owes his life to the courage of Mr. De Sausmarez, and
we trust such noble conduct will be noticed in the proper
quarter.

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,Belfast, are the largest
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Yertisement.)

GENERAL GRAM'S LETTER TO HIS

FATHER.

A letter has been published, written by General
Grant to his father during the Vicksburg campaign'The letter is a striking expression of the Generals
character, and is worth—when the circumstances are
understood under which it was written—a grail
many speeches and eulogies. The New Ir°r.
Nation says that justice has not been done to t 1315
very remarkable part of Grant's life. He was thes
.0
a comparatively obscure man ; he was fighting
an unknown and most difficult country ; his In
" trusted military friend and coadjutor, Sherman, had
very strongly expostulated with him as to the ph'
of campaign which he had resolved upon, and, when
the expostulation did not shake Grant's purpose, 113 d
written out and tendered his resignation ; Mr.Lincol.3
had written to him to tell him he was mistaken
.°
his strategy— and that meant, that all Mr. 1-)13
colu's military advisers thought him inistake°'
and that the commander-in-chief gave hinls
chance to withdraw his army before it should
become necessary to remove him from ee,„',
r,t
mand ; the press was raving about his manifest
incompetency. But he made no reply to the let'
ter, for writing which,Mr. Lincoln afterwards aPnisl
gized. He put Sherman's resignation in his pocket
without forwarding it, and afterwards, when Vieics
burg was taken, gave it back to him. Sher°
tells the story. He made no public justifieal.
of himself till he telegraphed that Pemberton bad
surrendered ; and but for this letter to his father;
which by the way he requested should be burett. 11
should not have known of his magnificent exercise
of moral courage, and how much it cost hum
We are curious, adds the Nation, to see the
men who, as members of Grant's Cabinet,
are going to tulle him a mere tool and puppet
The New York Sun points out what it consicle
to be mistakes into which the Nation falls. The
is that General Sherman tendered his resignatll
as described, as he on the contrary said he vrea`..4
execute zealously any portion of the plan assign'.
to him though he did not approve it. The next 1/
that Mr. Lincoln condemned his strategy, as, 11)6
Sherman, he merely preferred another mode of au.
tack. The paper returned to General Sherlaaa
after the fall of Vicksburg was not his resignation+
but a simple argument of his against Grant's pine'
The subject of interest, however, is independent.%
these small matters of dispute. Grant's posittee
when he wrote the following letter was, on th l
whole, accurately stated by the Nation, and 1
shows that he can hold so tenaciously to his plos
that it is earnestly to be hoped that he may form
good ones, and not follow the illustrious exalPP
of the retiring President :
" MILLIKEN's BEND, LowsrAtiAl

April 21, 1863.
Dear Father—Your letter of the 7th of AP
ril
has just this day reached me. I hasten to ans°ltelif
your interrogations. When I left Memphis, °/`;,i
my past experience, I prohibited trade bolo
Helena. Trade to that point had previously bee
opened by the Treasury Department. I give I'°
permits to buy cotton, and if I find any one
gaged in the business I send them out of the ve'
partment and seize their cotton for the Government.;
I have given a few families permission to leave t'
country and to take with them so far as MenWilis
d
their cotton. In doing this I have been deceived
by unprincipled speculators, who have successfully
:
smuggled themselves along with the army in spite
of orders prohibiting them, and have been COT:,
polled to suspend this favour to persons anxious
get out of Dixie.
sq understand that Government has adop-0
some plan to regulate getting the cotton out of the
country. I do not know what plan they bane
adopted, but am satisfied that any that call ""0
adopted, except for Government to take the cot°
themselves, and rule out speculators altogetbetr;
will be a bad one. I feel all army followers 'Of
are engaged in speculating off the misfortunes °ro
their country, and really aiding the enemy In°
than they possibly could do by open treas°°'
should be drafted at once and put in the first Pr
lore hope.
" I move my head-quarters to New Carthm„A6
to-morrow. This whole country is under NO
ter+
except strips of land behind the leeves, alOO,
the river and bayous, and makes operation;
almost impossible. I struck upon a plan vtbiebe
I thought would give me a foothold on t
east bank of the Mississippi before the eget
could offer any great resistance. But the diwdo
culty of the last one and a half miles next

Carthage makes it so tedious that the enemy 03
not fail to discover my plans. lam doing lIIp
best, and am full of hope for complete sue°,
Time has been consumed, but it was absoluteili
impossible to avoid it. An attack upon the 01?
works at any time since I arrived here must .1110
evitably have resulted in the loss of a h.rge Porti°
of my army, if not in an entire defeat. There we',0
,
but two points of land, Haines Bluff and
burg itself, out of water at any place from Wll',
troops could march. These are thoroughly ler-4,
fied, and it would be folly to attack them as 1011 D,
as there is a prospect of turning their positleil,
I never expect to have an army under my etSila
mand whipped unless it is very badly whipped 3/
can't help it, but I have no idea of being driven to
do a desperate or foolish act by the howlingoet
of the press. It is painful to me, as a wattof
of course, to see the course pursued by some
the papers. But there is no one less disturbed Pa,
them than myself. I have never sought a large 0).11313,
mand, and have no ambitious ends to accoraPl!Si
Were it not4or the very natural desire of provl7o
myself equal to anything expected of me, and tot
evidence my removal would afford that I was ners4
thought equal to it, I would gladly accept a I 0
responsible position. I have no desire to he sor
object of envy or jealousy, nor to have this WI
continue. I want, and will do my part toward i 6,
to put down the rebellion in the shortest
time, without expecting or desiring any other re
cognition than a quiet approval of my course. t
" I beg that you will destroy this letter ; at lea.s
do not show it.
" Julia and the children are here, but will go 11110
by the first good boat. I sent for her come
and get instructions about some business I W
attended to, and see no immediate prospect of t,
tending to myself. " ULYSSES.

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