The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-06 00:00:00

VIE SUN, _LONDON, TUESDAY' EVENING, OCTOI3ER 6, 1868,

LAW AND POLICE,

THE CHESTERFIELD MURDER.—The prisoner George
Hughes, alias Corley, accused of the murder of the unfor•
tunate man George Kelk, on the 26th ult., has been
brought up for examination at the Municipal Hall,
Chesterfield. When the accused arrived he was greeted
with a burst of groans and hisses, and the mob was
with difficulty kept in order by the police. On the
prisoner being arrested, he said : "My proper name is
George Hughes. I belong to Matlock. I am not aware
that I have murdered anyone. I went to Chester-
field on Saturday morning, and got drunk. I
remember having a row with a man, but don't
remember stabbing him. I had a brass hafted knife
when I went to Chesterfield before I got drunk. I
lost it somewhere that "night—l don't remember where.
I am very sorry for what I have done, but I hope they
won't hang me." Superintendent Wheeldon proved the
reception of the prisoner from Superintendent Sykes, of
Barnsley. Prisoner's trousers were saturated with blood,
as well as the front of his shirt. The prisoner was then
formally charged, and in reply said, "I was very drunk."
He was committed for trial at the next assizes.

GAMBLING IN THE METROPOLIS.—The police are putting
into force the provisions of the new Act for the suppres-
sion of street gambling. At five metropolitan police-
courts, on Monday, several persons, mostly youths,
were brought up for having played at what is
known as " pitch and toss " in the public thorough-
fares on Sunday. At Clerkenwell the policeman
had no corroborative testimony, and the prisoner was
discharged; at Worship-street and Marylebone, fines, with
the alternative of imprisonment, were inflicted ; at West-
minster, the youthful delinquents were sent to prison for
four days, with hard labour ; and at Bow-street they were
released with a caution.
A BETTING PROSECIITION.—The recent convictions of
betting men at Canterbury and Wingham were followed
up by the magistrates sitting in petty sessions at the
last-named place on Friday, who fined William Green,
of 1, Albion-gardens, Hammersmith, London, £5O and
costs, or three months' imprisonment, for plying his avoca-
tion in a stand erected on the ground used for the races at
Dover in August. The defendant did not appear, but the
case was clearly proved by Sergeant Gowar, of the Kent
County Constabulary, and the chairman, in announcing
the decision of the bench, reiterated a statement that the
magistrates were determined to use their efforts to put a
stop to the operation of " lists " betting men, which had
so pernicious an influence upon society, especially the
humbler classes.

THE RESULT OF PASSION.—A woman has been charged
at the Lambeth Police-court with having killed her little
boy, seven years of age. The deceased, who was sitting at
tea, had been guilty of some slight misconduct, when the
mother, in a moment of passion, threw a table-knife at
him. The knife entered his side, and in a short time the
child bled to death. The prisoner was committed for trial.

A sentence of five years' at the galleys bas been
passed on the station• master at the Roman terminus, in con-
sequence of two trains started by his orders having come
into collision, and so causing the death of five persons. The
station-master has fled.

It is stated that a suit has been commenced
in the United States District Court against Mr. Laird, the
builder of the Alabama, by the owners of the Sonora, one of
the vessels which she destroyed. It is claimed that the
Alabama was fitted out in violation of law, and that
her owners and builders are liable for damages sustained at
her hands. It is stated that Mr. Laird has funds in America
which are accessible, and that they have been attached and
are held liable for whatever he may be directed to pay.
The amount claimed is one hundred and nineteen thousand
dollars.

The Earl of Shaftesbury, writing to Colonel Maude,
says, " I am not in a condition, much as I approve your under-
taking, to contribute largely to the ree Labour Journal.
God grant that the workpeoplo may bo emancipated from the
tightest thraldrom they havo over yet endured. All the
single despots, and all the aristocracies that ever were, or
ever will be, are as puffs of wind compared with these tor-
nadoes of trades' unions. But I have small hope. It was
observed long ago by great practitioners in democracy,
'Poplins vult decipi et decipiatur.' So it will bo now. The
masses seem to me to have less common sense than they had
a year ago.—Faithfully yours, Shaftesbury."
The " Edmunds Scandal" case will shortly again
come prominently before the public, in the shape of an
action for libel, to be tried during next Michael-
mas Term, by a special jury, in the Court of
Common Pleas. The action is brought by Mr. Leonard
Edinun&s against Mr. Greenwood, Q.C., the solicitor to the
Treasury, to recover damages for an alleged libel contained
in a joint official report made by him and the late Mr. Bind-
marsh, Q.V., alleging defalcations iu Mr. Edmunds's accounts
as Clerk of the Patents. The particulars of the alleged
defalcations the public aro already acquainted with, but par-
ticular interest attaches to the pending trial on account of
the witnesses who 'will be callod by the plaintiff in sup-
port of his case, including amongst others several ex-Cabinet
Ministers.

ELOPEMENT AND MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—A few
weeks since a well-to-do person named Jelley, largely en-
gaged in the South 'Wales coal trade, and a residentof Here-
ford, caused considerable sensation among its inhabitants by
eloping with a young lady over whom he had been appointed
guardian. As he did not return, his creditors laid hold of
his effects, and an assignment was made for their benefit.
Jelley and his wife had previously become estranged, and on
the assignment being effected she found herself and her
family left dependent upon their own resources for a
living. It was suggested to her by her friends that if she
appealed to the Hereford board of guardians for support
they would soon find out and bring back her fugitive hus-
band. She acted upon their advice, and on Thursday last
Superintendent Davies, of the Hereford city police, visited
the metropolis, where he found Jolley and the lady living
comfortably together. He was much astonished to find
himself in the presence of a police-officer, and alarmed when
he found himself a prisoner. He desired to be allowed to
retire for a few minutes to change his dress, which was
not permitted, and, subsequently, he told the officer that
if he had only given him one minute he would have had
his corpse to convey back to Hereford. On Saturday, Mr.
Jelley was taken before the Hereford city magistrates,
charged with having left his wife and family, who had
become chargeable to the common fund of the union, and
he was then remanded to Monday for the appearance of
his wife, who, it was said, did not wish to arpear. How-
ever, about eleven o'clock on Saturday night, Jelley, who
was a remarkably fine and well-built man, was said to
have been suddenly taken ill, and before a medical man
could reach the Hereford city prison he died in one of the
cells.

In the neighbourhood of the Borough-road there
is a beerhouse, called the White Hart. The usual
and inevitable drunken row took place there some
time ago, a fight being the result. A man inter-
fered for the protection of his brother, and had the
end of his nose bitten off for his pains. It seems that
there was a great amount of biting in the business, and
that the man who suffered most had bitten his opponent's
thumb. The combatants appeared before the magis-
trate, who pronounced a decided opinion that the whole
affair was a very savage one. Taking such a serious view
of the matter, he fined the defendant who had bitten off
complainant's nose 205., remarking that one was as bad
as the other. Whatever provocation the defendant had
received, he took an extreme course, for it was given in
evidence that the prosecutor would be disfigured for life.
There was no counter-summons, or the magistrate might
have dealt with both ; as it is, the loss of a nose is valued
at 20s. All we can say is, that this is very cheap and very
nasty.

Browes Trist, gilder, and Elizabeth Rogers, servant,
were bent upon having some amusement at the Alhambra.
The attractions of the stage proved insufficient for the
lively couple, and they supplemented the entertainment
with a display of their own. Pieces of paper were lighted
by them and dropped from the gallery on to the audience
below. The managers of the palace very naturally
objected to this novel feature, and gave the offenders
into custody, when the female offender protested
against such an indignity by scratching the policeman.
They were locked up, and the next morning made their
appearance at the Marlborough-street Police-court, where
they received a lecture from Mr. Tyrwhitt, and the
woman was fined 55., the man being discharged. When it
it is remembered that there were 5,000 persons present,
who might in a moment have been trampling each other
to death at an alarm of fire, it will be thought that the
punishment was very inadequate to the offence. Such
fully is little better than crime.

The new gold diggings at Gympire Creek and the Mary-
borough goldfields, in Queensland, are represented to be
very rich. They are not, however, " poor men's diggings."
Most of the gold is found in reefs which can only be
worked by the aid of capital. But there can be no doubt
that many of these reefs—and new ones are being disco-
vered daily—contain much gold, some beyond all prece-
dent. A large tract, holding out promise of precious
deposits, remains to be explored.

The news by the River Plate mails chews that the
operations of the war were being concentrated round
Tebicuary. The fortifications of liumaita on the river
side had been completely demolished, Timbo had been
evacuated, and the navigation of the River Paraguay was free
as far as Tebicuary. One important considerattilon appears.
It is feared by the allies that Lopez will withdraw to the
impregnable position of Cerro Leone, fortrmiles from
Villa Rica, thus prolonging the campaign. inelefulitely if
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the Paraguans remain steadfast.

PROGRESS OF ELECTIONS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

Mr. Seymour addressed the County Agricultural
Society at Saratoga, but as he carefully avoided
politics, devoting himself wholly to agriculture, the
circumstance does not enter into the political cam-
paign. This reticence was rewarded by the har-
mony of the meeting and the many courtesies he
experienced from political opponents. Even the
attempts of his Democratic friends afterwards to
draw a political speech from him failed, though he
thanked them from the balcony of the Union Hotel
for the compliment of a serenade. He would ever
remember with pleasure his visit to Saratoga, and
that in the time of an exciting election they were
able for a day to lay aside differences of opinion,
and unite in discussing measures calculated to
benefit the interests of their common country. He
concluded by introducing a gallant soldier who had
maintained the character of the State of New York
on many a battle field, Gen. Gordon Granger. Gen.
Granger came forward and said that Mr. Seymour,
as the foremost statesman of the country, had come
there to speak on agriculture. It was not proper
for him to speak on politics now. General Grant
says, "Let us have peace." He believed that voting
for Seymour and Blair would bring peace. The
crowd dispersed with cheers for Seymour and Blair.
Mr. Seymour, however, is reported to have said at
Albany that he bad no doubt of Democratic suc-
cess. Indeed, his confidence remains unabated, and
appears to be shared by many of his friends and
advisers. They assert that the political symptoms
never were better than at the present, though we
imagine, that like the Times correspondent, they must
sleep a week at a stretch. Mr. Seymour asserts his
large experience and that of his friejids in elec-
tioneering, and their conclusion is that the Demo-
cratic ticket will be successful by a majority of
300,000, including the vote of the Southern negroes.
The New York Herald, however, does not see
things in the same light. That indicator of public
feeling shows symptoms of swinging round the circle,
evidently more anxious to be on the right side, than
for consistency. When Democracy began to rise in
national estimation the Herald was early in its
abandonment of the Republicans, into whose views,
after the failure of the Chase nomination, it had
fallen. Now it says "if Grant is elected it will be
in spite of the Radical Congress and its policy, and
not through any aid it can extend to him." This is
what the Spectator's correspondent, "A Yankee,"
affirms. But that the Herald does show a tendency
towards the Republican party is a strong proof of the
present direction of public opinion. It is said to have
lately lost a very large measure of support, and we
suppose it is bewildered by the eddies and whirl-
pools it meets in its endeavours to reach the full
flow of the popular current. The Tribune, on
the contrary, if we are to believe its own figures,
must rapidly be rising. Within a few days, if
its figures are correct, it increased its circulation
from 275,000 to 301,000 copies. As suspicion gene-
rally:attaches to these " whopping" figures shouted
out by ourselves, it goes into a minute detail, giving
the number taken in each State from 120,978 in New
York to 42 in Arizona. The election in Maine is of
course hailed by the Republicans as a great triumph.
The latest news comes from the Boston Advertiser,
which gives returns from 346 cities, towns, and
plantations, embracing all the State incorporated
for election purposes, with the exception of about
100 small places which will not swell the majority
very materially. These returns are mostly official,
and show that in the 346 towns there has been cast
a total vote of 121,290, Governor Chamberlain hav-
ing a majority of 21,214 over Mr. Pilsbury. This
majority is above the estimate of the State Repub-
lican committee, owing to the unexpectedly large
increase of the Republican vote in the smaller
towns. The remaining towns may bring the total
vote up to 127,000, and give a Republican majo-
rity of between 22,000 and 23,000. The Senate of
Maine will be unanimously Republican, with the
exception of the delegation from Knox county,
where Democrats were elected. The dominant
party will be stronger in numbers in the House of
Representatives than it was last winter, while in
the list of members elect, but one or two names of
Democrats of any prominence in public life can be
found." General J. L. Chamberlain has been
re-elected Governor for the third time, and the
Republicans return five Congressmen as follows :
John Lynch, Samuel P. Morrill, James G. Blaine,
John A. Peters and Eugene Hale, Messrs. Lynen,
Peters, and Blain being re-elected. The Repub-
licans likewise elect nearly all the county officers
and a large majority of the members of both branches
of the Legislature. The value of the victory lies a
good deal in the way of putting it. " The Demo-
cratic party is dead," cries the New York Tribune
lsof struckeonlinbgy success," shouts
screams
—Wo" World, "The shouts the
the Tribune. " See them caper,", roars the Wor/d.
" n hat a fright they must have been in !" Look at
indications
rebels
e be
this picture, and on that :
From the American. f From the National Intern-

gencer.

Maine. .
Grand and Glorious Victory.
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp—the
Boys are Marching.
Grant and Colfax Endorsed,
Twenty-two Thousand
Majority.
Vermont Fired the First

Maine.

Democracy Victorious.
Immense Republican Losses.
The Majority Reduced
10,000.
Radical Majority in 1866
27,687; in 1868 only 17,000.
Great and Unexpected
Democratic Gains.

Shot.
Maine Responds with a
Broadside.
Rejoicings Over the Result.

The Jacobins Virtually
Defeated.
A Democratic Gain Suffi-
cient to Insure Success
in October and November.
Democratic Gains, 14,876.
Radical Gains, 4,850.
The plain fact is that the men of the Pine-Tree
State were canvassed from one end to the other,
and instructed on the questions at issue by orators
of both parties, the Democrats spending the larger
sum. Pendleton himself stumped the State, and
there are not, it is said, five hundred able bodied
men in Maine who had not attended several politi-
cal meetings since the beginning of August. The
people then decided on the questions before them,
as the children say, " out of their own heads."
Many interested in these elections have read with
care a letter which appeared in the Spectator, Aug.
29, from " A Yankee." The Round Table, in its
issue of Sept. 19, comments on this letter in a lead-
ing article, fully endorsing all its statements, and
asserting that notwithstanding present appearances,
the truth of " A Yankee's" prediction will even yet
be verified that " General Grant will not be elected
unless political changes which I do not now look
for take place next November." The Nation "sup-
poses Pennsylvania to be safe for the Republicans
on the 13th inst., and though the loss of that State
then would not injure Grant, the carrying it would
make the November election a mere formality."
This paper bears out what we state in our leading
article—already in type when it reached us—" that
Pennsylvania must yet be set down as a doubtful
State, but as being on the whole a good deal more
likely in October to go Republican than Demo-
cratic." Colonel Forney estimates the Republican
majority at 30,000, but his figures are said to be
wholly unreliable. Senator Cameron's idea is that
the majority will be between 15,000 and 20,000, but
these are Radical figures and not worth much. The
nominations have been carefully made, and with
an earnest desire to steer clear of last year's mistake
of putting an inferior against a superior candidate,
and trusting to party strength to carry the election.
Regarding Ohio the Nation says that there is no doubt
about it and Indiana returning a Republican ma-
jority both in October and November, in spite of the
former's neighbourhood to Kentucky, superfluously
abounding in Democrats, and in spite of its absurd
law to allow votes to residents of only 20 days'
standing. Nebraska will vote next Tuesday. It has,
however, but one Representative and two Senators,
therefore its electoral vote is only three. We
have discussed in our leading article the States
which vote on the 13th inst., when decisive indica-
tions will be given of victory or defeat, unless they
split more equally than expected. On the 22d
West Virginia will vote, and while electing the
State officers will show how she intends to throw
her five electoral votes.

_
The Republicans of the 18th New York Dis-
trict have nominated Stephen Sanford, of Mont-
gomery County, for Congress. The Hon. John 11.
Ketchum has been re-nominated for Congress by
the Republicans of the 12th District, and the
Hon. Wm. H. Kelsey for the 25th-District, New

York ; also the Lion. Alexander 11. Bailey, of
Rome, for the 21st District; the Hon. William B.
Allison for the 3d District. The Republicans of
Kansas have re-nominated Sydney Clark for mem-
ber of Congress, though he was strongly opposed
on account of his repudiation notions ; also the fol-
lowing. State ticket :—For Governor, General Jas.
M. Harvey; Lieutenant-Governor, C. V. Esk-
rydge ; Chief Justice, M. Valentine ; Secretary of
State, Colonel Moonlight; Auditor, A. Thomas ;
Treasurer, George Graham ; Attorney-General Mr.
Danforth ; Superintendent of Public Instruction,
E. M‘Vicar ; Electors, Messrs. Anthony, Kalloch,
and Horton. The Delaware Republicans have
nominated for Presidential Electors General Henry
Dupont, Major J. R. Lofland and Isaac M. Fisher ;
and for Member of Congress General A. T. A.
Torbert of Milford, a distinguished Union soldier.

Both parties have completed their nominations
for Congress in Missouri. They are as follows :
Dists. Republicans. Democrats. Rep. maj. in '66
I. Wm. A. Pilo Erastus Wells
11. Geo. A. Finkleburg...James J. Lindley 3,310
111. John F. Bush *Jas. R. AN:cum:lick f 11l
IV. Sempronius H. Boyd-Charles B. M'Afee 4,154
V. Samuel S. Burdett ...John F.Phillips 3,533
John IL Stover John P. Ross _
VI. *Robt. T. Van Horn... James Shields
VII. John F. Asper Mordecai Oliver 6,962
VIII. John F. Benjamin ...John F. Williams 1,532
IX. David P. Dyer William F. Switzler l7B
* Renominated. f Democratic majority. t Vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of the Hon. Joseph W.
M'Clurg.
In Georgia the Republicans have made the fol-
lowing nominations (Democrats italics) :
Present RT. Maj.
Dists. Nominees. Members. Last Spring.
I. J. W. Clifft J. W. Clifft
IL Wm. P. Pierce
111. John H. Caldwell ...... Wm. P. Edwards 1,215
IV. James Fitzpatrick Samuel F. Govo l6l
V. Charles 11. Prince Charles H. Prince ... 15,064
VI. John A. Wimpy John 11. Christy
VII, James Atkins
.

* Democratic majorities.
The new State Constitution decrees that " the elec-
tion of Governor, members of Congress, and of the
General Assembly, after the year 1868, shall com-
mence on the Tuesday after the first Monday in
November, unless otherwise provided by law." A
question has arisen whether an election this Fall is
legal. In answer to an inquiry, Governor Bullock
says legislation is necessary to order an election.
The Republican nominations for electors in Louisi-
ana are as follows, the first two named being at
large and the others for the five Congressional dis-
tricts : B. F. Joubert, M. A. Southworth, A. L.
Lee, J. M. G. Parker, D. 11. Reese, Cornelius Do-
nato, and 11. R. Steele. The citizen's Washington
correspondent thus writes of the Democratic candi-
dates in Illinoisi:—" The Democratic candidate for
Governor (Hon. John R. Eden) is a sound, prac-
tical, earnest, and energetic man, of Moultrie Co.
He represented the Seventh Congressional Dis-
trict in the Thirty-eighth Congress, having been
elected by 1,358 of a majority, whilst at the
previous election Lincoln carried the district by
over two thousand. General Jesse D. Phillips, of
Montgomery County, is the candidate for State
Treasurer. General Phillips entered the Union
army in 1861, as Captain in the Ninth Illinois, was
soon promoted to Major, and during the war re-
ceived rapid promotion. He was in the thickest of
the fight at Fort Donelson. At Shiloh he was
wounded three times, and had his horse shot from
under him. At Tupello, Florence, Nyatt, Resaca,
and throughout, he bore himself like a brave and
gallant hero." It adds that " considerable grumb-
ling was exercised by the Radical employes of Con-
gress when they received their pay for the month
of August.. From twenty to thirty dollars was
exacted from each employe for the general corrup-
tion fund. This is the second levy made upon the
employes during the present year. The same exac-
tion and for the same purposes is going on—though
more covertly and secretly—among the departmen-
tal clerks—four-fifths of whom are opposed to the
Democratic party.
The next Legislature of New York State is to
choose a United States Senator to succeed the Hon. Ed-
win D. Morgan, whose term expires on the 4th of March
next. The State Senate holds over until next Fall. It
consists of 17 Republicans and 15 Democrats. The mem-
bers of the Lower House are to be chosen in November.
This year the Assembly stood 73 Democrats and 55 Re-
publicans. We must gain nine members to secure a
United States Senator. To do this the best and most
popular men should be nominated by the Republicans of
each district. The nominations thus far made, with the
maj' rities at the last election, are as follows (Democrats
italic):—
Dists.' Rep. maj. j Dists. Rep. maj.

Broome.

1 William Ely

Cattaraugus.
1 C. V. B. Barce f772
2 Wm. H. Stewart 142
Cayuga.
1 *Charles H. Weed 796
2 *Sanford Gifford
Chautauqua.
2 *W. S. Cameron
William B i07.-stacer.
Chonango.

1 Charles PearSOll... 98.2

Cortland.

Madison.

2 Leon'd C. Kilham 242
Niagara.
1 *Rans'm M. Skeels f 246

1 Hiram Whitmarsh 1,255

Delaware.

1 Bonj. J. Bassett ... 613
John 7'monshend.

Onondaga.
1 Jas. V. Kendall 558
2 Moses Summers 58(
3 Miles B. Mick-at 316

2 John Ferris flo

Ire. B. Kerr.
Dutchess.
2 Wm. W. Hegeman flB3

Ontario.

IV m. A. Ross.
Erie.

4 B. F. Smiley fsoB

Essex.

1 *Samuel Root

Franklin.

1 *Edm. F. Sargent... 733

2 George Cook

Orleans.

Elerkitner.

1 Marvin Harris 1,090
-Oswego.
1 Benj. Doolittle
2 *James D. Lasher 214
3 N. B. Smith
Otsego.
2 Clifford S. Arms t6l

1 Erasmus W. Day... 583

Jefferson:

St. Lawrence.
1 *Geo. M. Gleason 1,937
2 *Julius M. Palmer 2,121
3 *Alex. H. Andrews 2,338
Schuyler.
11 *Cleo. Clark

1. Jay Dimick 1,196
2 W. W. Butterfield .1405

Lewis.

Steuben.

1 Chester Ray 2B

2 Samuel Mitchell ... 812
Suffolk.

Madison.
1 W. M. Carpenter... 1,420
*Renominated. f Democratic
—New York Tribune.

1. W. A. Conant .... f 491

Tioga.
1 Lyman Truman 510

Tompkins.
1 *John 11. Selkreg 918
Wayne.
1 *ElijahMeK. Glenn. 458

Westchester.

1 Claiborne Ferris ...

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Wyoming.
1 Marcus A. Hall 1,189
majorities. No opposition.

NEW AMERICAN INVENTIONS.

America sends some new things in inventions.
Captain Ericsson undertakes to supply a new fuel in
place of coal, and a new motive power instead of steam.
For several years lae has been experimenting with a view
of collecting and concentrating the radiating heat of the sun
with which, so to speak, to heathis furnace. Atlength, at
the beginning of the present year, he was able, according to
his statement, to construct three " solar engines," of which
the first was driven by steam formed by the concentration
of the heat of the solar rays ; and the other two by the
expansion of atmospheric air, boated directly by concen-
trated radiant heat. His experiments show, he asserts,
that the concentration of solar heat on loft. square, or 100
square feet of surface, developes a power exceeding one
horse's power. We are curious to learn the exact nature
of the concentrating mechanism.. It would be difficult, we
should say, to secure the new fuel on a rainy day, but it
would be a stupendous discovery if its use were limited to
days of sunshine. Mr. Dellamater, proprietor of the iron-
works known by that name, declares that the enterprise
is already a success, and that, "before the termination of
the present season bread will be prepared from flour
ground by the power of the ' solar engine." Hitherto,
however, Captain Eriesson's ingenious caloric inventions
have not been found available on a largo scale as practical
machines.

A still more interesting discovery is that of Mr.
J. H. Mower, who, we learn, is about to visit Eourope to
secure the patent right for which tho caveats have been
filed in the United States. What ho professes to do is to
convey messages without a wire under water by a sub-
merged machine. The principle is not disclosed, but he
affirms that electric currents can be transmitted through
water, salt or fresh, without deviation vertically, or
from the parallel of latitude. The difficulty from the
unequal level of the tidal waves in the two hemispheres
will be obviated, it is claimed, by submerging the appa-
ratus at sufficient depth. Ho and a coadjutor have
already tested the invention. Selecting the greatest clear
distance on an east and west line in Lake Ontario—
from a point near Toronto, Canada West, to one on the
coast of Oswego county, New York—at his first attempt
lie succeeded in transmitting his message, without a wire
from the ;submerged machine at one end of the route to
that at the other. The messages and replies were con-
tinued for two hours, the average time of transmission for
the 138 miles being little loss than three-eighths of a se-
cond. What he undertakes to do is to establish telegra-
phic communication :between Spain and Long Island at
an outlay only of slo,ooo.

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every nerve its proper duty.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

Mr. Longfellow, the popular American poet, is
now, as is generally known, an honoured guest in this
country. One object of his coming is to superintend the
publication hero of his forthcoming production, entitled
"New England Tragedies." This is the first of Mr. Long-
fellow's works of which he has been enabled, in conse-
quence of a recent decision in the louse of Lords, to se-
cure a copyright in Great Britain, and we understand that
Messrs. Routledge and Sons have acquired the sole right
of publishing the work, on terms so liberal as to have
given the author much satisfaction. The volume will ap-
pear on the 10th October.

Clarence S. Wason, of the Boston Advertiser, and
Samuel F. Richards, are about to establish a weekly paper,
"independent in politics," in Charlestown, and George 11.
Smith is to be the local editor.

A new London penny " weekly" is out to-day,
called the Free-Labour Journal. It is designed to supply
a cheap medium of intercommunication between em-
ployers and operatives of all denominations. It aspires to
promote harmony between the employer and the em-
ployed, while forwarding the interests of both. It says—
" The Free-Labour Society, the views of which this jour-
nal will advocate, has the names of upwards of 14,000
workmen on its books, comprising no less than 154
different trades and callings. In addition to which,

it is supported by some of the leading firms in
every branch of industry. This alone will render the
Journal an invaluable medium for advertisers, inasmuch
as their announcements will meet the eye of employers
and employ cis in every trade. And wo have, therefore, no
h'sitation in recommending advertisers to take advantage
of our columns."

The New York Citizen has changed hands, having
been purchased from the estate of the late General Hal pine.

It now throws itself wholly into tho Democratic ranks.
Hiram Calkins is the editor, and it is clear from its issue
of Sopt. 19 that he intends that there shall be no mistake
regarding the policy of the Citizen.

Tho Spirit of the Times says :—Miss Kellogg has come
back from London in the managerial custody of Max Stra-
kosch, who will present her to the public fresh from her
European triumphs. After the next season she returns to
Europe, under the management of Maurice Strakosch,
Patti's manager, who has engaged Miss Kellogg for four
years from this month. Mapleson will not come to Ame-
rica, but will go to Dublin, which is nearly the same
thing, as New York is doubling every sixteen years.
Talons, like Mrs. Micawber, will never desert Maple-
son—so, she goes to Dublin, and away goes the stock-
holders' dream of winter. There is another chance for
Maretzek now, and the Pawnees may yet be deprived
of their opera, in which case we may expect another In-
dian war, for Lo must be amused. The interesting facts
of the above paragraph we glean from the enterprising
Season, which issued an extra on the arrival of the great
news.—The past season at the Boston Theatre was a los-
ing ono in spite of the admirable acting of Mrs. Chaufrau,
who played "Dora" to the delight of the Bostonese. Mrs.
Chaufrau has been re-engaged at a salary of one hundred
and fifty dollars a week. Our managers haVe been dere-
lict in their duty in permitting ono of the few good leading
actresses in our midst to be captured by the Puritans.—
La France Musicale gives a curious list of the refresh-
ments taken by distinguished operatic artists between the
acts. According to our contemporary, Madame Sontag
affected sardines, Madame Dorus cold veal (1.), Madame
Desparres warm water, and Mademoiselle Gruvelli Bor-
deaux mixed with champagne, Adelina Patti drinks
beer, Mme. Sass eats beefsteaks, Mme. Gabel devours
pears, 3111 e. Trebelli munches apples, Mlle. Lucca sucks
pastilos and bon-bons, Michot imbibes black coffee, Troy
swallows milk, and Marro smokes cigars.—Lotta opened

in Boston in "Little Nell," and drew full houses. Edwin
Booth is announced at the Boston Theatre on the sth of
October.—liitty Blanchard, who was in the Flash of
Lightning,' has returned to Boston, and is at Selwyn's.
—Miss Jean Hosmer is playing `The Poor Girl'
at Willard's, in Boston, and gains much applause.
She is billed for a historical play called Mary Tudor ;
or, the Queen, the Mechanic, and the Jew.'
Le Sleur Barbo Bleue has been to see his 11357 palace,
which he occupies on the 12th October, and avers with
uplifted hands that he never saw so magnificent a dramatic
structure. The other artists are equally pleased, and
Pike's Opera House is in a fair way to carry off the
musical honours this winter in ona of the greatest cam-
paigns known to the profession. It will be a high tribute
to Mr. Pike's genius if he vanquishes the Academy stock-
holders on their own ground ; and from his energy, per-
sistence, and liberality, we look to see him do it."

Gen. Ponce, of Panama, who, about eight weeks
ago, overthrew the lawful Government, has in turn been
ejected by Correoso, who has been proclaimed Provi-
sional President, and other revolutions were anticipated.

By direction of the President, a Court of In-
quiry is appointed to inquire into the nature of tho trans-
actions of Gen. Dyer, Chief of Ordnance, regarding accu-
sations against that officer contained in the report of the
Select Committee on Ordnance of the Sonato and House
of Representatives, submitted to the Senate on the 17th of
July last.

Mary E. Ackerman obtained $4,000 from her
father, James Ackerman, on a suit for libel decided in New
Jersey, on the 12th September. it appears the young
woman persisted against the wish of her father and step-
mother in encouraging a young man, and left the house

in spite of their opposition, taking shelter with a neigh-
bour. Through the Sheriff she succeeded in getting her
clothes, and it was then that her father uttered the words
which led to the suit for libel. Tho jury had to be locked
up all night before they could agree on a verdict.
The Moscow Gazette states that the hereditary
Prince of Greece will receive the title of Duke of Sparta.
The New York World asserts that John Allen,
the reformed " wickedest" man, is a Republican, which the
Tribune denies, repudiating the convert. The latter hopes
that " if the process of regeneration continues, that it will
bring him over to the Republican faith; but the justice of
history compels us to say we regret that the ' Wickedest
man in Now York' is still a lusty champion of the Demo-
cratic party."
Hiram Ketchum, the newly appointed collector
of Alaska, has been in Washington to receive instructions
on the organization of the revenue service in that terri.-
tory, preparatory to his departure for Sitka. Two special
agents of the Treasury Department accompany him, and
he is directed by the Secretary to make a full report of the
condition of the country, especially as affects revenue, and
to report what additional officers will be required to carry
out the revenue laws. Later reports announce his de-
parture.
Governor Crapo, of Michigan, is seriously ill, and
General John A. Logan is prostrated with fever at Joliet,
Illinois.
A Working Women's Association has just been
formed in New York, with the following officers :—Presi-
dent, Mr. Tobitt ; vice-presidents, Augusta Lewis, Susan
Johns, and Emily Piers ; secretary, Mrs. L. C. Browne ;
treasurer, Susan B. Anthony. Speeches were made by
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others.
Professor William N. Rice arrived at New York
in the steamship Napoleon 111. from Havre on Sunday,
Sept. 13, and reached Springfield next evening. He will
enter upon the duties of his professorship at Middle-
town the present term.
The Springfield Republican says—" Silas C. Her-
ring proposes to sell at auction, October 27, his property in
Brimfield. It embraces a farm of 110 acres, with a house
40 feet by 75, fine thoroughbred cows and horses (anion;
the latter the famous Blind Tom,' 25 years old,) carriages,
and all farm implements, outlying lands, and buildings.
Some of the steeds have trotted inside of 2.40. Everything
is first-class, and will compare favourably with similar
appointments of the most princely estate in any section.
Mr. Herring proposes returning to Europe."
Mr. Jarvis Raymond, father of Henry J. Ray-
mond, editor of the New York Times, has just died in De-

troit.
The bodies of Lieutenant Dyer and wife, lost
with the Fredonia in the recent South American calamity,
have been recovered. heir children were boarding at
_

James S. Grienell, of Greenfield, Massachusetts,

for three years chief clerk of the Department of Agricul-
ture, and for the last three years an examiner of patents,
has been appointed chief clerk of the Patent Office, in
place of Gen. Stout, resigned.
M. De Champs, the French interpreter attached
to the Chinese Embassy, will, it is said, soot return to
Boston to marry the widow of the only son of Harvey
D. Parker, proprietor of the Parker House in that city.
Captain David Elwell, who commanded the ship
Endeavour, of Salem, Massachusetts, at the time she had
the honour of being the first American vessel to pass
through the Straits of Magellan, is still living in Salem at
the ago of 80 years, and his two chief officers at that time,
William B. Smith and Daniel H. Mansfield, are also resi-
dents of that city. •
A court of inquiry, presided over by General
Silas Casey, was ordered by the President to meet at
Watertown (Massachusetts) arsenal, Sept. 21, to examine
into the nature of and necessity for the arrest of Brevet
Major A. R. Buffington and Brevet Captain Phelps of the
Ordnance Department, by Brevet Brigadier-General Kings-
bury commanding at Watertown Arsenal.
The new Queen of Madagascar has abolished idol
worship, and openly declared her contempt for the idols
and their priests. The Queen herself has not yet espoused
Christianity, but the impetus given to the work of con-
version is reported to be such that "the Christian
churches cannot contain the crowds who flock to hear the
Gospel."
_

Two Armenians have arrived in Richmond, Vir-
ginia, as agents of the Turkish Government, in search
of lands on which to settle a colony of 600 Armenian
Christians.

Senore Garcia, the new Peruvian Minister, was
presented to the President, on Tuesday, September 15,
and the usual friendly and complimentary speeches were
made.

Colonel L. B. Gregsby, of Kentucky, has been

appointed a deputy collector for the port of New York
having charge of the transition merchandise between the
Atlantic and Pacific States.

The upper portion of the residence of Jas. Gor-
don Bennett at Washington Heights, New York, WO
burned on Thursday, Sept. 17. Damages $20,000.
Mr. John Taylor Johnston, President of the Cen-
tral Railroad of New Jersey, sailed with his family for
Europe, on September 19, in the steamer Napoleon. ifs
purposes to spend a year abroad, and in the meantime hio
duties as President will be performed by Mr. S. Dillon,
the Vice-President of the Road.

The Tribune says that Mayor Hoffman is not
running for Governor of New York, the real Democratic
candidate being Fagin B. Sweeney and Tweed Sykes;
and if elected a $6,000,000 new Court House may be
looked for in every county of the State, a new Harlem
bridge over every mill-stream, and a $l6 arm-chair for
every private in the National Guard. "If," adds Horace
Greeley's organ, " Mr. Hoffman wants to give a spice of
interest to his campaign speeches, let him give us the full
particulars of the bargain under which he became the pro-
perty of Sweeney and Tweed."
A CABINET.—The New York correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer indulges in the following specula-
tion about the Seymour Cabinet :—Socretary of State,
Edgar Cowan, Pennsylvania; Secretary of War, George
B. M'Clellan, New Jersey : Secretary of the TreasurY,
George H. Pendleton, Ohio ; Secretary of the Navy, David
G. Farragut; Attorney-General, Charles O'Conor, ew
York ; Postmaster General, John Quincy Adams, Massa-
chusetts, or W. L. Sharkey, Mississippi; Secretary of the
Interior, Charles Haight, California.
The representative Chinaman of California,
Chun-Lock, better known es Chy-Lung, recently died in
San Francisco. He settled there in 1850, where he esti'
blished an extensive mercantile firm. Just before his death
he expressed his intention of visiting New York and Chi"
cago on the completion of the Pacific Railroad, but
seized with dropsy, he obstinately adhered to Chinese
treatment, and his five celestial doctors finished him off I
like a true son of the Flowery Empire, at the ago of 53.
Chief-Justice Chase is in Concord, New Hamp-
shire ; the Hon. James G. Blaine is in Washington ; E%-*
President Pierce is recovering ; Ex-Governor Curtin of
Pennsylvania is at the Albemarle Hotel, N.Y. Judge G. O
Munger of Rochester ; Col. L. T. Woodruff, Mobile ; and
Col. J. I French, Boston, aro at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Gen. 11. H. Baxter, Vermont, is at the Brevort House'
Capt. Baker of the British army, and the Hon. D.
Wood, Syracuse, are at the Metropolitan Hotel.
The speech of the Hon. John Hillyard. Camera
in defence of Whelan was, as might have been expected
from the leading lawyer of the Dominion, a masterpiece of
forensic eloquence. He endeavoured to show that the evi-
donee of Lacroix was untrustworthy, but the story was,
too direct and clear to ba neutralized evan by the skill 01
the most able advocate. Whelan had done much by 1115
incautious language to render Mr. Cameron's task impcf.'
sible, for it was in vain for a lawyer to strive to prove his
innocence when he himself admitted his guilt. Whelan
declared, on returning condemned to his cell, that no one
could have seen him shoot Mr. M'Geo. He danced a how
pipe and behaved outrageously. Patrick Blackley, latelY
arrested for the M'Gee murder, is said to be insane. Bell
will probably be accepted for Eagleson Enright: 3110-
phy most strongly protests that he (Whelan) did not shoot
M'Gee, but knows who did. It is expected Murphy will
make a full confession.

The New York citizen says :—Governor Fenton,
after spending several days in New York, and getting tb°
affairs of his party in a general muddle, has now gone to
Chautauqua county, to increase the muddle there. Charles
E. Smith, editor of the Albany Express, has been PP"
pointed his Private Secretary, vice Colonel George S.
Hastings, for three years. The former private secre-
tary who held the post has left the Executive Chamber,
and accepted a position under the Board of Health .
New York."

The same paper informs us :—" George IV,
Demers, the editor-in-chief of the Albany Evening Journa
is absent from his duties on account of sickness. George
Dawson acts as his "sub," aad, contrary to his usual
custom, seems to be losing his temper. He is fairly boil-
ing over with rage on Mayor Hoffman's exposure of Racli°
cal rottenness and deceit."

General Charles E. Lippincott, doorkeeper of the
House of Representatives, is the Radical candidate for
State Auditor of Illinois.

It appears that the captain and fourteen others
of the 35 persons on board the Hippocampus were saved,
but we have not been able to procure their names far
publication. . _

Captain Sherard Osborn, the Liberal candidate
for Birkenhead, opposes Laird of Alabama notoriety, who'
we hope, he will sink with a few broadsides as the her
seage did the privateer. Considering the injury done to
this nation by Mr. Laird, it is surprising that he can WO
the audacity to offer himself as a representative in Parll
ment. As he commands the bodies and souls of a lot of
Birkenhead men, we fear that the gallant and distinguished
naval °facer may not be successful.

Rear-Admiral Yelverton has been appointed by
the Admiralty to proceed to Geneva to meet the commis'
sioners of all other foreign countries chosen to arrange
system by which an exchange of prisoners, in the event °
a war, may be arranged.
GOOD FOR ALL.—A satisfactory solution of the
dispute between Mr. William Scully and his tenantry ht'fi
been found. Mr. Moore, M.P. for Tipperary, has, it i 4
stated, purchased the property, allowing Mr. Scully tb
improved value of the laud.

Gerritt Smith has given Oswego $3,000 for pub•
lie improvemeuts.

One of the greatest finds of Phoenician and
Greek antiquities made of lata times is described by a ea'
respondent of the Levant Herald. It is' at the village cf
Dali, in Cyprus, the site of the ancient Idalium, the naPi-
tal of one of the four kingdoms, and the site of one of the
largest temples of the Cyprian Venus. [t is the American
Consul at Larnaka who has profited by this discovery of lb
peasant. The surface covers a Greek burial-place of seven
or eight acres. The Greek graves are only about three feet
deep ; but six or seven feet underneath come numerong
Phoenician tombs, all oven-shaped, and closed in With
large blocks of stone. On these being removed, the nit
within is often so foul as almost to stifle the labourers al;
ployed. In these vases with Phoenician inscriptions and
statuettes of Phoenician women are found. The numeron4
articles, Phoenician and Greek, include gold ear-ringt
medallions, finger rings, statuettes, necklaces, &c. ;
bracelets, rings, spoons, coins ; copper and bronze spear
heads, lances, battle axes, mirrors, rings, fibulas, tripoc%
cups, cooking utensils, statuettes, coins, &c ; precion4
stones—cornelians, amethysts, rubies, agates, some well'
cut scarabel ; glass cups, bottles, plates, unguentarieol
lachrymatories, ornaments ; limestone statuettes of Venlig.'
votive offerings, life-size heads, statues, small sarcophagi+
sepulchral columns, figures of animals, terra.cottas,
tuettes of Venus, groups, vases, cups, animals, heads and
busts, statues, votive offerings, lamps, &c. Some of the
painted vases are three feet high.

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