The Sun. — 1868-12-24 (London, England)

THE ELECTION RIOTS AT BLACKBURN.--The trial of Thomas Fallon and Daniel Duxbury, who were indicted for the murder of Thomas Whittaker, at Blackburn, on the 17th November, took place at the Liverpool Assizes yesterday. The jury, after an absence from the court of three hours, returned a verdict of Not Guilty.  A lady, the wife of an officer, gives her experience of the plains in a book she calls " Absaraka," which, being interpreted, means "Home of the Crows." It is by this name that a place in the Territory of Wyoming was known to the Indians, and it has so captivated the authoress that she hopes to make it the name of what will one day be A STATE of the Union. The Crow Indians, the original owners, were partially dispossessed by the Sioux and Cheyennes. The object of the book, and the reason of this notice, is that it clears the character of Col. Carrington from the imputations of cosi ardice and incompetency, cast on the affair of Fort Philip Kearney of Dec. 21, 1866, wherein 81 of the men under his command were massacred by the Sioux and Cheyennes, near Fort Philip Kearney. The facts are that an expedition was sent out in May, 1866, under H. B. Carrington, to secure by forts the new route to Montana by Wyoming. He built Fort C. F. Smith and Fort Philip Kearney, but as peace prevailed when he went out, he was unprepared for the incessant hostility, for the harassing attacks to which his trains were subjected, and the constant loss of stray men and horses. He applied then to Washington in vain for reinforcements. It was after an attack on a wood train that he sent forth a party with strict orders to rescue and defend the train, but not to pursue the Indians. The officers in command, unable to resist the temptation to follow the retreating Indians, pursued till the party was drawn by the feint out of reach of the fort, when it was surrounded, every man falling, the officers, it is said, by their own hands. A second party sent out to assist arrived too late, for the Indians (about 1,500) were then dancing and yelling about the mutilated soldiers, and invited the rescuing party to come down and be scalped too. Reports were circulated that this massacre occurred within sight of the fort wherein Col. Carrington, with two companies, remained so terrified as not even to admit through the gates the soldiers who reached it flying for refuge. These tales are shown to be untrue ; and the authoress, though with little literary skill, achieves her purpose of clearing away such imputations. Mr. E. Hepple Hall arrived in New York on the 30th of October last, having left in February, 1867, on a tour of the world, which he had then completed. He has taken voluminous notes, which from so practised a pen are likely to take the form of a most interesting book of travels He crossed the Atlantic in time for the opening of the Exhibition in Paris, whence he sailed for Egypt, reaching Abyssinia Thenin on to time fo India,the wherealr y h operationse spent o somef the British Army. weeks, lectures,duriwwhhe nichhhee From Japan he made the trip via San Francisco to Now oiveeeereddeda tsoeriCeshoinf ahiagnhdly olanoptuolaJrapa. York in 34 days, 12 of which were passed in the Overland route across the Continent. While on his travels he published that excellent guide to America, "The Great West." Being editorially connected with the New York Times, he furnished that paper, as well as the Chicago Evening Journal, with graphic descriptions of China and Japan. Mr. G. W. Curtis is delivering a lecture on "Morals in Politics," wherein he mentions Captain Kidd, the renowned pirate, in illustration. Recently he delivered this lecture in Salem, where some of Butler's friends, taking Kidd to be a hit at their hero, hiss)ed down the lecturer, who was compelled to explain that Kidd was not introduced for the occasion, but had always been there, the lecture having been composed in New York long before the fight in Maseachussets over Butler's return.