The Sun. — 1868-08-18 (London, England)

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ON WIIISKY.—Goorgo Francis Train withdraws from the canvass as a candidate for territorial delegate to Congress from Nebraska, for reasons which are thus set forth :  "I am told to-day that money is wanted for carriagos to bring up the voters, and to scatter among the beer shops and groggeries. Any spare money I have, or mai have, I prefer to devote to education and Christian charities. Purchasing votes debases the franchise and demoralizes the people. I have lectured too often for the Irish Father Mathew Societies to go back on thorn hi treating the voters. No wife or little children shall have reason to complain of a drunken husband or father oil election day on my account. Whisky is the curse of our time. It is ruining our young men, and hurrying our old men into the grave. Rich and poor, high and low, alike are being destroyed under its blighting- influence. When we have fewer breweries, fewer distilleries, and more Christian churches, more universities, and more schools/ the law courts, the gaols will be less patronized, and the world would be better for it.  (Extract of a letter from the Editor of the Revolution.) New York, July 25, 1868. Geo. Francis Train, Esq. My dear Sir,— * * * * The intensely hot weather, the depression in business, the droning, do-nothing course of Congress, and the endless screeches of a Presidential election make times rather dull with us ; at least I over' hear that from our counting-room, into which I seldom have occasion to enter. The Presidential contest is to be fierco. Both sides are full of confidence; the sporting men tolling of the many hats, and large sums they ill.° ready to stake on both sides. For my part, had I the club of Hercules, I would smash them both into pumice, never again to be restored. We aro calling for a new party, people's party, or some kind of party that shall at leas' leopard both, if not defeat them. But there is no leader, chieftain.no Our Rome has lost the breed of noble blood, or never had it, and so every attempt at third-party.oper3; tion fails. We know why Grant was nominate°, but Seymohr is a mystery, and Blair more so. have can get as good as they, but they would I,fiv'c' no prestige, at least of the right kind, and nothing could be done with them. And, besides, we cannot harmonlo between North and South. The People's Weekly l3,11:1 able journal, published in Washington and Baltimore, "1, full of negro hatred, and every way behind the nineteenth century. It would win the South and West by the rebei claim—or against "negro supremacy," and long 511. learned disquisitions in support of negro slavery, and terrible denunciations of John Brown and the Garrisoni3,. school of abolitionists. But the North, where most strongt; and virtue are, will not brook such nonsense, and so mite harmony seems out of the question. And then the " man question" will be a still more disturbing demon. ' and so prejudice, not principle, proscription, not justic°. and equality, will, I fear, hold sway for years yet to col lo We appear to need a new Messiah able to take up tuo nation by the four corners, and shake the dust of dark age© out of it, and spread it out anew. But whence shall f t look for his coming? or for even his John the 13aPt15,. heralding his approach? The country is in qreat conuoo tion. Strikes among workmen more extensive than eve,. before; robberies, burglaries, suicides, and assassinations' railroad and steamboat disasters unprecedented, and gee rally through most wanton carelessness ; Washington :Co,A den of forty times forty thieves, its weakness for only paralleled by its omnipotence for wickedness ;_ t' °r.'obt gress disgracing itself every hour it sits, and yet not de to adjourn and go home through fear of Andrew Jolins°,,ia; pulpit, the deadest, dumbest dog of all the kennel ; if ,t1:1, be not an alembic out of which to distil the millenten_4 then it cannot always be true that one extreme folio another. We keep the revolution bell ringing and of whistle blowing as well as we can in the raids e 9 the darkness. In the threatened deluge, if all else Pot under, we hope at least that it shall find its Alrld, Ararat, and save the seed corn for a new YOroll Pardon the haste with which I write. The news , get daily per under the ocean, and weekly over it, SiCieo need not waste time on its tedious recitals. With kin regards, and remain yours in bonds as bound with Y 01.., " am, very truly yours, PARKER Piamoglia*  Many pick up and pervert anything r. m Spurgeon says to his detriment. As a plain, practio; straightforward person he detests humbug, and is acit,ti show this in a way his enemies can misconstrue. F°r:,,-; stance, when urging some of his friends to take part in approaching political campaign, he was mot with the °'t cant that they were not of this world. It was then 015 he burst out with " Why you might as well assert, bei?„o sheep of the Lord,' that it was cannibalism to eat a gal,,,chop." Of course, the remark went the rounds of t;0 papers without the story which gave the meaning t°  point, • tea Governor Andrews, just before his death, re,3 the following to a writer in the Transcript :—"I ist# Washington just before Mr. Chase was nominateu tio Chief Justice ; and, at Mr. Lincoln's request, called ilt„ir, White House. Here I am,' said Mr. Lincoln, ""tbe rounded by documents relating to the vacancy 031 31r, Supreme Bench, and requests to appoint Mr. Chase. rued Chase is a man of ability ; a public officer, of rat the fidelity ; as a politician, ambitious ; on the subject ca, 0,0 Presidency, a little insane. He has said things 00,3! ; which have sent discord where there should be harm elito but a man in my position should not harbour resent° and I shall appoint him."  • Births. gaol, Burr—On the 17th inst., at Whalebone House, Vireo" the wife of George R. Birt, Esq., of a son. MeuDE—On the 16th in , at the Rectory, Toddiogtoy, the Hon. Mrs. H. Maude, of a son. liarl‘et