The Sun. — 1869-10-20 (London, England)

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.  (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, Oct. 2. Mr. Butler, a nephew of the General and the theatrical critic of the Spirit of the Times, has got into another fisticuff difficulty. If anybody is to be shot I hope it may not be one who affords so much amusement, although it may be at the expense of the eyes and the nose, and the feelings generally, of particular individuals. Surely these persons will not be so selfish as to regret their sufferings, knowing how much merriment they cause. This time the fight was with Samuel Wilson, whom Butler struck in a car on a railroad, by way of a clencher, in a dispute. He has very knock-down arguments has this Butler, and he freely uses them, as one on the staff of a sporting journal should. Wilson tried law, but got little satisfaction, for the judge dis charged Mr. Butler for want, as he alleged, of jurisdiction ; but the affair is not to be permitted to end thus, for the principals exchanged cards before leaving the court, and I tremble to think that the life of my brother correspondent is in danger, and one who in dull times gives us a topic to write on. Messrs. Burnham, Rice, Fisher, and Lyman arrived in the City of Paris, and would have been publicly received by the Boat Clubs could they have waited two days, but they had to go on at once to Harvard, and the Boat excitement has subsided in view of the terrific storm raging in Wall-street, but some of the newspapers still continue to discuss the great match. Mr. Simmons, I hear, is in Dresden, where he is to learn the German language before proceeding to Vienna to study medicine. Mr. Loring is to become a lawyer, and has entered the office of Chandler, Shattuck, and Thayer, in Boston. Mr. Blaikie, the Secretary, has entered on the duties of his office of Pardon-Clerk in the Attorney-General's office at "Washington. the same crew cannot, therefore, be again got together, still Yale might try its strength. Nothing bas been talked of all this week but the great gold fight, until people are growing quite weary of the subject, and I rejoice that it is so, for it never had any great interest for me, and is injurious to the credit of our country. Senator Wilson visited the Gold Room yesterday with Mr. Henry Clews, who then took him on to the Long Room and the Board of Stockbrokers. This being his first visit to the locality he was naturally surprised at finding important business transacted in a scene of such hurry and excitement. He intends to try and do what the late Thaddeus Stevens failed in, that is, to restrict by law gold sales to the actual delivery of the metal, making any transaction beyond this a misdemeanour. Viscount Adare, of the Ist Life Guards, is here preparing for a shooting expedition in the west. He proceeds to Fort Leavenworth, and will direct his steps according to the information there given. I suppose he will fol, low a good deal in the footsteps of Capt. Tow nshend, of the same regiment, was he not ?* General Sherman and his daughter have passed through this city for Washington, and Postmaster-General Creswell has arrived from Washington. Senator Patterson and the Hon. Jacob Benton, M.C., of New Hampshire, were also here for a night on their way home from a tour ou the Pacific Railroad. I may here mention that the road to California averages 100 mi-1 grants a day, carried to San Francisco from Omaha fors42. The trip is made from this in ten days in goods cars of the express freight train. The Union Pacific is earning in the gross about $750,000 a month ; its working expenses being $300,000, to which profit added land sales averaging $200,000 a month. A suit has been brought hero by Luther C. Challis, against the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad for $500,000, for services in negotiating a treaty midi the Kiekapoo Indians, and in procuring a grant of $1,600,000 in United States Bonds, to aid in constructing the road. Horace Greeley has given the result of his trip to Vermont, whore lie found temperance to prevail and liquor scarce. Mr. Grceley is said to grow cabbages at $1 a piece an his little place near the city, and being a farmer on so costly a scale he is qualified to deliver opinions. He finds fault with the scarcity of timber in Vermont, attributing much of the sterility and poor pasturage to this cause, but he praises the immense  * Viscount Adaro belongs to the Ist and Capt. Townsbend to the 2d Life Guards. We believe the former is the son and heir of the Earl of Duuraven.—ED. 4.4. T.  quantities of butter, cheese, and maple sugar, " white as loaf and fine as powdered Havanna," and is much pleased with the " bread that is bread and not spoiled dough." There has been a grand affair in presenting a $5,000 silver service to the late President of the Great Western Insurance Company at New Rochelle. Mr. Evarts delivered the speech, and there were several leading men prereut. At the same place, which is in Long Island, Thomas H. Fields caught himself in his own grapery with his spring-gun, and was killed. Admiral Poor sailed on Sunday from this port for Key West to assume command of the squadron in Cuban waters. The delegation of New York steel importers, on their way to interview Secretary Boutwell, have left this for Washington. Their object is not to pump the Secretary, like ordinary interviewers, but to implant in the mind of that important functionary some alleged facts which may increase the price of steel. In my last letter I mentioned suicides were likely to be caused by the flurry in the Gold Room, and one at least has resulted, that of a broker named Solomon Mahler. John D. Culcrr, a broker of St. Catherine's, Canada, has absconded with $20,000 belonging to that and other banks. The papers give an account of the wreck of the steamship Trade Wind, from New Orleans to Belize, which was lost at sea on Sept. 24th. The crew and passengers,the latter numbering only three, embarked in the boats. One of the boats has reached New Orleans, and steamers have been sent in search of the other. In the Gulf of St. Lawrence the schooner Crown Point was run down, and the captain and two seamen were afterwards drowned by the boat upsetting in which they were.