The Sun. — 1868-08-24 (London, England)

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD.—Wo learn from a reliable Fource that a telegram has been received this day from New York, announcing that this company has passed a resolution calling in one million dollars of the Seven per Cent. Construction Bonds at the rate of 120 per cent. It will be remembered that, by the terms of the mortgage given by the company to the trustees to secure the Construction Bondholders, it was agreed that the mouoy received upon sales of land mortgage should, as received, be applied to the cancellation of said bonds, either by purchase in the market, or by calling them in and paying accrued interest and principal, with a bonus of 20 per cent: The numbers of the bonds:called in will, no doubt, be shortly announced. This step is gratifying, as a proof that the affairs of the company are progressing in a most satisfactory way. The previous retirement of bonds was for $3,000,000 in October, 1861.*  Mrs. E. Cady Stanton, writing from Peterboro', New York, August 1, speaks of Judge Elbert Herring, from New York, who, though in his 92d year, performed the long journey alone. He is described as being the life and soul of the house, telling good stories at dinner, and being wide awake to all the fun and wit that was flying. Being a good judge of feminine beauty he invariably selected as his partner a sister of General John Cockrance. " Like G. F. Train," says E. C. 6.1 " Judge Herring neither smokes, nor drinks, nor choirs,' nor lies, nor steals, nor swears;' no wonder, with clear conscience, and good habits, he is what he is, et ninety-two. . . . . On last Sunday morning we had the pleasure of preaching in the Free Church' on the Women of the Bible,' to a large and attentive audience. At five p.m., as is the custom here, the congregation assembled to criticise the morning discourse, when we bed a spirited discussion on'the whole question of suffrage for women. At the close, a rising vote was taken, which was almost unanimous in the affirmative, only one maiden lady, and one coloured youth, Theodore West, rising in opPesi; tion. Walking in the cemetery that evening, we lone' Theodore wandering among the tombs. We remarked t° our kinsman that he seemed wholly given over to the dead past. Approaching him, Mr. Smith said, So VII, are not willing that the women should vote ?' No, sir, he replied. ' Why ?' we asked. 'Because,' said he, 'the Bible forbids it.' But suppose,' we said, 'that women have lunatics, idiots, drunkards, thieves, or murderers, for husbands, or have no husbands at all, what then ?' Theo' dere thought a moment, and said, ' When I am better in' formed, I will answer.' " The same lady gives a beautiful picture of the home of Gerrit Smith, and thus describes his wife :—" lA a tasteful, rustic frame-work sat this beautiful worane, just in the prime of life. She was dressed in pure whitej with no ornament but that of a meek and quiet spirit, et a bunch of forget-me-nots upon her breast, her dark curl" sprinkled with grey, falling on one shoulder, and her soft eyes gazing upward with the depth of expression that r.e," veals spiritual insight. This is Ann Fitzhugh, the Wl': of Gerrit Smith, and this is the place where she communed with the invisible world, with the spirits of just men 9'll women made perfect through suffering Here she roeo Davis and Harris, and discusses the doctrines of modera spiritualism, in which she is a firm believer." for [