The New York Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1869, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. the of the two governments cobcucred im the taine wish, amd were hones {t, as he had no doubt they were, who Suppose that the peaceful relations beiween tries could be disturbed ? 4 woys lived at the base of the moi but when he was at its ment had #o many claims fag been discovered to exist the society at whose anaiversary be present that evening, he ypathized 1m them an tions which bear on this subject, The full extent of the convention. Gur moral ‘aad cannot trivunal, me are toad try | ment avd ot | ww honor of being only say that he ‘that he would carry with aim to ¢ was about $001 recollection of the clreumatance that the Uterary mea of Englan services aad mo! days of their less { (Cheers) It tg probably well tat President Grant has hasten the departure of Mr, Mot- ACROSS THE CONTINENT. From Salt Lake to Wehsatch Station—Dim- culties ef the Route—The New Town of Kcho—interesting Scenery—Condition of the Pacific Railroad—Mach Work Yet to Be kK, embraced in ivy is another any by ae pecte eee acts vow: of the United States into wil by, a3 We must afirm, the unscrupu- jul faction, aud of the masses of the EUROPE, The Inman steamship City of Brooklyn, Captain Brooks, from*Liverpool May 6, via Queenstown the 7h, arrived here yesterday morning. detatls of our cable despatches up to date of sailing, ENGLAND. he could not say lous intrigues of a st the wishes and protest og'tsh people, who were then without assert that the sorrow which should feel ior the wrong it has committed is gen- eral and all but universal in this country, and that he highest class of our statesmen that rance insvead of in ‘The sentunent to which Lord Kussell—a man not accustomed to make confessions of this sori—gave expression at the breakfast to Mr. Gar. rison did but echo the prevailing feell those whose sympathies rected during the war, moral redress, there is every reason why redreas should be given. Mr. Chandler, indéed, from his piace in the Senate, ie Canada as co. Injustice with wiuich we have treated. 1s country. must be aware tha: Canada 13 coa- | 20t ours to give. ‘The day bas gone by for the bar- of great and free commu- peop! 4 are masters of their own destinies; and their fate can never be decived by any bargain struck in London or 1n Washington. We are giad that a New York paper has taken Mr. Chandler to task for a speech which suggests that one wrong should be patched up by creating an- other, aud thai, too, & Wrong inflicted upon a per who, at ail events, are noc responsible for the depre- dations of the Alavaiua or tie shortcomings of the for the Confederate motuer country, and also a large amount of assistance rendered to it, Here is a te! ing display of materials for a case against British government. But there has been, and very possibly there will be, the very same abundance of jnst the American govern- [ Wausarcn Station, Union Peale a HOW 1 REACHED HERE. ‘ I hardly know how to relate my expertence since leaving Salt Lake, It has been chocquered, and not free from the trouble and annoyances incident to a passenger working his way along a new railway in anew country, 1 left Mormondom on the morning of the 3d inst, at seven o'clock, and it was two P. M. before we reached Taylor’s Mills, the true name of the Ogden station, Under ordinary circumstances [ should have been compelled to wait at this terrible hole—I can use no milder term—until some time next day, the eastern traim having left only two hours before we arrived; but good for- again favored me, found the car of Dr, dent of the road, who, with some other gentlemen connected therewith, was about starting for this point, and 1 was kindly tendered a passage which I accepted without the slightest hesitation. This car and its tender are similar to those of the other road that I have before described, the only difference being that it has rather more accommoda- tion, If that is possible. Neither of them, however, has a whit too much when the hardships and priva- tion of being at the iront are considered—when re- maining in @ wilderness surrounded by the hardest kind of characters ts | matter of necessity. humana being then wants some comfort around him, and he can only have it in this way. We left Taylor's Milis about dark. This was unfor- tunate, for I wished to have a view of Webber Cailon, said to be one of the most striking points on the entire line of the road, It did not take long after starting to discover that we were going over a track none of the smoothest, the motion of the car was like that of @ ship in a heavy sea, so much so that a lady who formed one of the party was made very sick. We crept along at a snail’s pace— not over eight miles an hour—yet we rolled and pitched as if in the Gulf stream in a northeaster. $ care to look at that track in order to dis- cover its condition, for it spoke plain enough for itself, It told the whole story in words too plain to be misunderstood. About seven miles from Taylor's Mills we entered the mouth of the cafion, and soon atter the dark walls of rock on either side left but a narrow strip of sky in view overhead ; even in the become accustomed to it, lim outline could be traced of some precipices that seemed almost to overhang the track. the depths of the ravine couid be dis- cerned, and the swift running stream warned us to areful how we moved, for to be turned over into it would have been a serious and perhaps fatal misnap, and one likely to occur if we moved over the crooked rails at increased speed. area to understand the situation. e an eye to number one, and did not run‘any chance of being the first to show us the way into the depth of darkness below. over the two bridges that are thrown acioss the ber and another river, and the sound of rushing waters told us that @ current of no mean strength and velocity was below us. We at twelve o’clock (midnight) reached Echo, another station, located at the mouth of the caiion of the same name, and here it was concluded to wait until railroad officers had business I turned out early to inspect the new town, and found only what I saw at other points at and near the end of the track—a line of rough shanties and eanvas houses that served to cover the roughs who inhabited they are, truly, holding lif ready for any act of desperation. breakfast when information was brought ebber river had risen during the might and that the bridge had been washed some ten feet out of line, and was rendered ti ‘This was the very bridge we hi afew hours before, and truly we danger, or else ‘we a TOSS. a This information rendered it necessary for the Doctor to reiurn to the scene of the disaster, and my companions and myseif were turned over to tne Lincoln car, as it 18 called, the one that was formerly used by the late President. Here we found comfort- able quarters; but we were compelled to forage for meals, Getting away from Echo now became a matter of chance; the trains either Way, an me that nyland, od 5y to the object of render fortunave brethren peacefi Briti#h Bohemians on the Alabama Quese tionA Singular Speech from the Great American Turtle Eater. Kk ite root in 4 until it is determined where chey are to be e3- plished. - Herein ts another fruitful sourée plaint; and yet there is no 0 state of atfuirs evinced a desire to ley tor his post at the Koglish Court, The Tone of the English Press Over Senator Sumner’s Speoch, The London Times for the fourth time opens out on Mr, Sumner'’s speech, This time it starta with a revival of the old copperhead argument that Charies Sumner contributed, more than any other man, tothe war which broke up tne Union, and his mode of handling political questions acts, ag the Times tends, towards @ reconciliation of the two sections of the country. The article concludes thus:— Mr, Sumner’s argument is of that intuitive sort Which has been cominon in all the tribunals of des- potism, Whether it be @ Star Chamber or an Inquisi- tion, the court of a Bourbon tate, it has aiways been sufficient to condemn a that he should be known to wish a thing, and should bave been done. large aman of sympathy good reason for it. The will be found on the Central Toad, east of Echo; and, indeed, there it is worse, for side have a caboose car only, ways on the train rough travel, No Lonpon, May 6, 1869, Fifty-seven years ago, when the war cloud gath- ered over England and America, the English Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, the unfortunate Spencer Percival, rose in bis place in the House of Commons and preferred a bill of indictment against the United States on the part of the Briish government. charge against America,’ were his memorable words, spoken on the 8th of January, 1812, “is that she has been during our troubles too acquiescent and too partial to France; too partial to her cause aud opinions, aNd too acquiescent im her decrees. A great change has come over British states- men since those days, for can now be found willing to concede that wo ready acquiescence too great partiality to the cause and opinions of an enemy are just grounds of complaint on the part of one nation against another, even though the enemy be stained with the crime of rebellion and endeavor- ing to destroy a@ liberal, beneficent and prosperous Judging from the tone of the English press Great Britain, instead of being muicted in damages for the aid she extended to the slavehold- ing States during the American rebellion, deserves honors and rewards at the hands of the United States government for having refrained from making that aid more effective by drawing the sword openly and casting tt into the scale on the side of the South. Impressed with passengers on that whereas here a p: for _ SOCOAINOCa ans 4 One is more iond of grumbling and fault finding than myself; but tt 18 not for ime teiet iny own feelings in- h parties. 1 can’t were unhappi If the Americans look for calls upon us But this gentleman Way in this fashion decry) called upon to condition and the reasons therefor, or, in other words, have given a correct and anvarnished road so far as | have passed over it pare peat my companions wi Bal It will take several months yet before all is done, rs will experience any great ween Walsatch on one side and Keho on the other; they will have to put up with inconvenience and detention, but they will be saved ‘the annoyance and discomfort of changing to, and riding tn, a crowded, dirty stage or mud wagon; this is worth something at any rate, and will pay for a little extra fatigue, It will take a little while for the oad to have suilicient cara accommodation of travellers, Tuese they haye been waiting for and they can only be had meet; the first instalment of six will be here in a day or twoand more are to follow quickly. no sleeping cars yet on taat road, and two nights passed between Ogden and Sacramento, All this, however, will be remedied shortly, and Call- me East to pass the summer will be enabled to return overland in tho fall with all the conventences to be found on the best Eastern At present I would not advise ladies to go unless in a case of imperative necessity, where time is everything. If they attempt it are fora certain amount of rough travelling be willing to submit to the annoyances that are sure to occur in a greater or less degree, it is different; they can stand ali this; and those on business had better take the railroad even 1m tts present unfinished state, It is my business alone to examine into the con- dition of this great highway for merchandise and ger traific, and not to go into the other de- partments, 1 know no; how it has been built, by whom, or through what means, but if the land grants therewith are considered a big thing for the Tespective companies I can only say that I wish them Joy of their bargain; for nine-tenths of all I have passed through { would not take at any price, not even for a gift; it 18 utterly wortnless—a dreary th canever be made of; it is the mer.ca—a country that appears blasted, that looks as if it might at one time have shared the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah; as if con- demned to be for all time @ soil unpi unable to support even the beasts of the feld or the What a fate it would be to be con- demned to reside for any length of time in such a ‘Sing Sing would be a paradise in com- Parison and deato a reiief almost from such a lite. A great hue and cry has been raised agal who have had the charge of the location and con- struction of the Union Pacific Railroad and the manipulators of other matters connected therewith, All that oA meron: may be ae for coed know hing of, and am consequently unable to speak about; but when we consider what has been done here, and that in so short @ space of time, me one is entitled to very great praise. taken into consideration the country that the through; the amount of labor in cu! ing and bridging; the rapidi jousand miles of iron has been carried to track laia, wita all the iMculty of maintaining for the army of 18,000 working men in the wilderness, surely some persons are entitled to very great credit, We have now a railroad com- pleted from New York to Sau Francisco, when such a was considered impossibie be the benefits Durant, Vice and those who ly coniirm all I not one of them or of an italian poten- and before passe! the wishes and amount of comlors FRANCE. The Approaching Electioas, The Zmpartial du Loiret publshes the following letier from the Minister of Fmance to the heads of service of tus admunistration:— materiais for a case ment in respect to vur own Irish diiculties. scarcely does full justice to the feeling of the educated classes in this country. It must be admitted that the were against his government and his cause. Could they heip that teeling? Had they no reason for it? If they were wroug, who is to blame for itt It 1s the themseives, their most popular organs of public opmion, and, it must be added, the tone of ther diplomacy, that create the soreness they complain of in this country. always shown the greatest elation of spirits and the wildest hopes at our worst dangel disasters, and whenever the opportunity otfered they have done someththing more, Jt has always been evident that no politician could caiculate on the support of the American people, unless he had done his best to Win some advantage over this coun- try, wheter right sed when the roaas great majority of them MoNaIKUE—I have no necessity to remil functionaries and ageuts of this ministeria’ deparunent sbould, on the occasiun of the elections about to be beld, atlord to the government the active assistance which ft has & right to expect from their devotedn isu, To that end I can only recommen to place Seif at the disposal of the Prefect, and follow the instructions which he may give. In the arrcadissements your subordi- ates, on their side, wi!l conform to the indications trans Freect, As for yourself, in of chief, while maintaining the fundamen freedom in voting, you will endeavor to enlighten tae ur employment as to the importance of the ich they will have to fultil, and I shall be ‘ou for the exertions you may make to second the matter. Be kin enough to or wrongly. Can they be sur- | acknowledge the receipt of this letter and to bring It to the }oue pinved under your orders. Accept, nd you that the fornians who have loyalty and patriot- The Americans have English journals grow more and more angered against the American people, who persist in de- manding a reckoning with their half-way enemy, and especially against the United States Senator who has so happily put into forcible language the sentiment of that people and rescued the contro- veray between the two nations from the fumes and Jog with which tippling secretaries and diplomats had surrounded it. The English journalists do not, however, better their side of the argument from their loss of temper, and one cannot but smile at the lamentable tgno- rance of statesmanship and lack of tact displayed in thetr treatment of the subject. war, and, above all, a War With the great republic. Her army 18 at the present moment insuffictent in numbers and scarceiy to be trusted on the score of loyaity. Her navy, a8 an invincible power, 1s a thing of the pi Across one channel lies France, across an- other Ireland; both dangerous neighbors in case of In her midst smoulders the restless desire of the masses for those larger liberties and more equal rights, the budding hopes of which would be blighted by the destruction of democratic repubil- canism on the American Continent, The bone and swew of Englana—the tolling, laboring people woo have hitherto been powerless in the political arena— never sympathized with the anti-American senti- ments of the government and the governing classes and although their voices were scarcely heard in a whisper through the press, and although their influence lay dead in the land, they waiched with anxiety the struggle whose resuit Was to prove the success or failure of republican institutious, A war with America, waged only for the purpose of justify: the aristocracy with the eifort to destroy republican- ism in America would, therefore, be ruinously un- popular with chat class of Englistimen from whicn, uf at all, the rangs of the Britisu army must be re- cruited, But, popuiar or ‘would be utteriy hopeless tor could secure the aid of France, to whom she would trust—as in the Crimean campaign—to do the hard in the fleld. Yetin the teeth of ali these facia the Enzlish journals are doing their utmost, &@ war with America utterly persons in yor political duties wh: e government in the ? 16 is that the British people generally, after being continually threatened with 4 repeal of their own Union, in which the Enited states not take very much amiss the prospect of @ similar catastrophe in the States themselves. Such a policy might not be magnani. mous or wise, It has been balked by the event. Bul the question to be decided is not one of feel whether English or American. It is a question oI law, and it remains to be shown that the Britis government Can be held answerable for any tuirac- uon of law or excess over the ordinary practice of both countries im this matter. The Pall Malt Gazette of the the 4th inst. has an article relative to the Alabama claims controversy, entitled “American Complaints and English Sym- pathizers,”’ from which the following extract ta are to lend @ hand, di GERMANY. Von Bismarck aud Von Beust—An Unplensant We have alread; after the eye noticed the publication in an Count Bismarck's despatca to Count Goltz, dated July 20, 1866, There cau be no doubt taat the revelation of a document in which the Prussian Chancellor declares that King William insisted upon large annexations of German terri- tory, and cared comparatively nothing for a Con- federation, must have caused Berlin. The Paris Liberté says that Count Bismarck hly exasperated, and explanation of Count Beust. But it appears that tos despatch is not all; a worse reve- ‘The Lajenpost of Gratz says that the Austrian Chancellor has now in his possession documents dated far back beyond the war of 1366, and proving that Praxsia contemplated an alliance with Italy against Austria at the time when King Wiliam met the Emperor Francis Joseph at Gastein, shook him by the hand and called him protuer. How did the Austrians get these papers? It is said that the telegraph wires were “milked” to get tie Juty despatch, but this process could not have been applied before the war, otherwise Austria would have been on ber guard. FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. There sre partial strikes or lock-outs of masons in Kugland at Bolton and Bradiord and Wolver- Sahara of North England dreads a roducsive and «reat annoyance at birds of the air. ‘The London Spectator admita and even asserts that a large and influential people were unfriendly to sympathized warmly with the South; that this feel- ing did aid and encourage the secessionists and en- abied them indirectly to obtain ships and money from private sympataizera in this country, as weil as somewhat “daunted our government deavor to preserve a friendly attitude towards the States,” and that for this uniriendiness of a portion the ee States Pa apology and expression ‘of regret.” ground are such admissions to be de- fended, or could such apology be made? It is no- torious that throughout the struggie the conduct oi our government was as impartial as it well could and that where it swerved from the strictest impar- its deflection was practically Northern side, Our of biockade (no Rreatest Possibie in possession of an overw! ance over its enemy. lation is to come. ion of the English orthern cause ana t over safely, and luring the great the next day, ag the our countrymen the front, and that amount side tracks, &c. and providing the sympathy of We had hardly jar, “pes oo tb recognition of the right to us a8 a crime) was the udvautage to the heiming The Prince and Princess of Wales and suite passed over Mont Cenis on tue atu which was | on their way to Paris. ‘The cashier of the convent of Prémontrés, est: (selgium), near Villorde, has absconded with ali the fuuds belonging tu the insii- tution, The Pope's Nuncio has gone to the spot to open an inquiry, The Mayor of Cork took his name off the vooks of the Cork Yacht Club on the 6th insiant, just m ume to avoid the disgrace of expulsion, @ requisition, with that object in view, being in course of signa- ture. He came to Dublin yesterday evenig. Prince Arthur was expected at the Isle of Man on the 4th instant, where great prepar: vo us to acknowledge the independence of the south | made for his reception. ‘The Legislature has held a special meeting to adopt au address on behalf of the Jubabitants of the isiand, aud addresses Lave been prepared by other bodies. In the Chamber of Deputies on the 3d inst. General Menabrea and Count Cambray Digny, in reply to & question of Signor Villa Tomuasso, stated that the iucome taX Was deducted irom ‘tae coupons of te Poutthcial debt precisely in the same manner us from the other coupons of the Italian public debt. The semi-oficial Correspondence Italienne of Florence denies that @ special mission to the Frencn and itauan courts las been contided by the spanish government to Sehor Montemar relative to the can- didature of the Duke of Aosta to the throne of Spai ‘The same paper adds that the Duke 1s not beiievi Ww have any ainbiuon in that direction, Al the national conference on the ballot, held in Loudon on the 6th inst., @ resolution was passed de- clariug that the vove by ballot has become a national poiitical necessity, aud that there can be neituer tranquillity, purity nor treedom of municipal or Par- ameautary elections in this country until it becomes About # dozen members of next five years, What will the country by reason rapid completion? The answer can only be, incalcu- lable. Some men will doubtless make fortunes by it. Weil, let them; for the country mi 1n proportion; hence we should not com- Plain. {do not betteve that an incorruptible corpo- Tate body ever existed, nor do I think the Union Pacific Company any better than the rest have built the road, and for that aione Uitled to all credit, THE GREAT FIBRE IN HELENA, MONTANA TERRITORY. instant, by special train, ad & narrow e3- The amumunitions of war sup- plied (in defiance of the Queeu’s prociamauion) by our merchants to both combatants went in tenfold abundance to the North; with British weapons that Were conquered. if they did not exceed the law, in the seizure of the rams, and, if accidentally tardy in the case of the Alabama, they have ton to arbitration. ‘They were actively aud most at the most critical moment of peror of the French proposed will make another urst, to render and it was practically by making the issue the justification of England's the Confederates past and present hostility to republican government and by assailing the raling otates, and next, to offend an striving to drag Napoleon by the throat mto the cou- twat, willing or unwilling. The London Times, for instance, in its fourth direct article on Sumner’s vinees @ Inost maliguant spirit. the old copperhead argument which has sent a noto- rious New York daily and several other sheets to destruction, and accuses Senator Sumner and his party, now wielding the power of the United States government, of contributing more than any other men “to the war which broke up the Union and to the differences which keep the breach still open.” With inconceivable stupidity and insolence it thus Drande the great and victorious pi General Grant to the Presidency, and whose mem- bers form bis adm.nistration, of the biack crime of promoting the war of (ne rebellion, and of the equally grave oifence of tostering hatred between the north- ern and southern sections of the Union. This sort of stang has been common among the tre-eaters of the South and the copperheads of the North; but it comes with @ pecullarly bad grace from a lead English newspaper, and it is @ curious method of healing the breach between the two nations without But the Times in its angry tirade uot oniy vilifies the raling party in America, but jus- tifles the fact that “the British people generally did not take very much amiss the prospect’ o! destruction of the American Union, on the shat America has always sympathized with attempts to break up the uoion of England and Ireland. incident of the Canadian rebellion 1s cited to show that America “largely assisted the rebels .not so much for their own sakes as for a certain feeling” it is known to every person who has intelligence enough to understand the position countries that the American’ govern- jnent has with # strong and determined hand pi slop to every attempt to Invade the soll of Canada, janadian rebeilwn or in the later romptness, Vig or Staves England arty in the United alienate France, by to submit that ques. infuentially friend! were cut off going the war, when the Ei returning to The east hugely dis- y and bear it, however, as best they could. came and bo opportunity. promise that in the morning there would be a train, and that we should be cailed in ime. we were cailed, but only in time to see an engine thundering by, leaving us com- pletely in the lurch, and again hanging by the eye- lids, Through the kindness of the family of one of the engineer officers we mani fast and dinner. auous have been _ i oe —& proposal which, if it had not been repudiated by empty = cars. us, Would have insured # very diferent uwsue to the yy the way, which, botn aa to its mitiation and repudiation, ir. Sumner, with de- liberate un¢andor, throughout bis enure argument Two Hundred Buildings Destroyed—Tweuty Acres Burned Over—{0es Half «a Million confiict—a pro We wens to bed wisn Helena (Montana Territory) papers of April 28 give For what, then, could the English government or the following particulars of the great fire in that lish nation express regret or offer an apolu- ‘hat was the bead and iront—the sum tota! —ot our offending? That a portion of our people sympathized with & portion of the American people. Neituer more nor leas. Did the suffering Lancashire operatives, the impoverished Liverpool merchants, ruined Manchester manulacturers, express any sy m- pathy with the slavehoiders or any hostility towards the North? Did either House of Parliament? Lid aby cabloet or government of either poittical party tr an any single action or declaration of the aduinis- single despaten Of @ Secretary of state, any vote of either Lords or Commons, be por as expressing unfriendiiness to the United States, grief and pain at the unnavural our House of Representatives ever ake the faintest approacn in this respect to the in- decent votes of tue House of Representatives Washington in the cases of Cuba, of Ireland, of Hu gary? Lp a word, can anything be alleged against us (pulting aside the questionabie instance of the Ala- ond Wiis—that individual members of the Legisiature, special classes of the communiiy, certain poilticians of eminence, particular organs in the press, did, im their private capacity, sympathize with the beater cause? And for this sin—this ex- pression of teeing, strictly within that individual competence and right which is never questioned except by the most intolerant of despots—the Eng- lish nation, in its corporate capacity, 8 expected Lo atone and to apologise. The London Standard, & tory organ, is scared over Mr, Chandler's proposition to annex Canada, and speculates upon the possibility of Messrs, Sum- ner and Chandler acting in concert. Bir. Sumner develops the Alabama claims for damages of almost mpossible magnitude, and Mr. Chandler points out away to settle the matter without John Bull having to put his hands in his breeches pockets and pay out in bard cash, The Standard vhinks that a terri- torial cession is a proceeding which it is possible to contemplate. After drift and caboose car go Jt again becomes our painfut duty to chronicle the particulars of a coniagration by Which our city uar- rowly escaped entire destruction. short time since been visited by a calamity of the same kind, which destroyed @ nuiaber of our best business houses, and hardl, ourseives upon the fact that when this morning, about two o'clock, a fire brake out in Chinatown, on the corner of Cutier and West Main atrects, burning both sides to Bridge, crossing Bridge and sweeping down both sides of Main, as well as both sides 01 Jackson and the east side of Clore street the distance of three biocks, betug arrest- in that direction by tae fireproof buildings by E. 5. Mansfeld drug store opposite—leaving in its track King & Gil- lette’s block and Hussey & Dahler’s banking house alone standing. From the foot of Briage and Wood streets, taking everything both sides and between those streets, it swept up as far as Joiliet street, where The following 1s » list of business houses destroyed as near as we Can asceriain:— MAIN STREET. Meagher & Co., junk store; Leiser, tailor shop; Jornell’a paint shop; F. to obtain a break- ee re At two o’clock another train was to start; butin the meantime the oilicers’ car came back from the bridge, and as it was going on took us all aboard once more, and off we started, highly delighted at our luck and at the prospect of being at ® point where we could depend upon trains leaving with some regularity, ‘The track here appeared to be a little netter than that we passed over the night before, but not very much, | saw that twenty miles an nour would be fast enough for safety and too fast for comfort. had several freight cars ahead of us and had gone about tweive mues when the forward truck of one of them jumped off the track, and it ran a distance of nearly half a mile before it was discovered; when brought to a stand the truck was much broken and it had to be taken out and the car slung and taken easily lo the next siding before we could pro- Here was two hours’ delay, and during that time we amused ourselves shooting at a mark closed congratulating was not more serious, 4 resort to arms. the jaw of the reaim, Parliament were present. ‘The Emperor of the French received on the 24 inst. @ commission from the Institution of Civil Kngi- neers, which had been appointed to present to tum lus diploma as anu honorary member of the His Majesty expressed is gratification at the honor conferred upon tim, and invited the mem- bers of the commission to a reception at the Tuileries next day and to 4 dinner on the loliowing evening. The Paris Temps says that the forthcoming elec- tions tn France have caused tue most active agita- tion througaout the country, aud that as the hour of contest approaches the importance .of the siruggie becomes all the more felt, Tue mdependent caudi- re hard at work; the democratic and liberal press redoubie their ardor; private meetings increase in number and public meetings are com- mencing. The /emps calls upon the leading men in each district to call the electurs together aud prove use of the evils from which present system of personal government, and tat ine only means of patting an end to that system is to resviutely reject aii the ofi- cial canuidates, {BE LATE ACC.DENT ON THE PORTLAYD AND BOSTON RAILROAD. towards England, it Was stopped. either during tue Fenian raids, aud that vut for the and entire good faith of the United would at the present moment have no foothold on the banks of the St. Lawrence. Had the American gov- ertiment recognized some thirty years ago the ‘*belli- gerency” of the Canada revels, and closed its eyes do the organization of raid’ along the borders, there mignt have been some reason ior citing its ac- oD a8 & Sebo against the course of England in the As itis, England’s cause can Huntley's express office; Bohm & Co.'s assay office; L. H. Hershileld & bro., Rein’s oflice; Jerry Sullivan, Molitor, assay office; Nick Mu- ler, boot and shoe store; St. Louis drug store; Phil tobacco store; Gans & Klein, cloth- loch, clothing store; Wells, Furgo & Co.'s express Office; John Kinna, hardware siore; Parchen & Paynter, & Union brewery; upper billiard hall; Jonn Beckuey, concert saloon; Travis Bros., livery and sale stables; yng, keg saloon; William Brown, George Rayfeld, saloon and oilliard ij saloon; Woll’s barber shop; Smith & Cullen's law oilice; Marks’ sample rooms; Diamond City stage rother, hardware store; Levy’s bililard hail; Frank Huns cider de; Joon; Morris & Conen, clothing store; Hotel; Joe's bakery; George Bantz, Helena brewery; Zimmerman & Lehman, restaurant; L. Goldberg, clothing store; T. Steudeman, Magnolia restaurant; Ele Harris, clothing store; Silas Kich & Oo., livery stable; J. J. Williams, law ofice; Laventhal’s cloui- & Son, book store; M. Goldberg, clothing store; H. M. Bryant, news depot; Dra. Glick & Maupin; Gaus & Klein (basement new building considerably damaged); Miller & Hiuly, La- fayewe brewery; Wooilolk & ‘Toole, Paonix saloon; Bartos & WiiL The scenery through Echo caiion, where the mishap occurred, is very interesting, but not so wild or picturesque as in the Wel novel, and tuat is all, only vegetation being the valley, if I may term it s0, on either side, wo Occasionally we see along the track axles, and often a freight car bottom up, All these serve to show that railroading hereabonts i not the safest thing in the world, and that going out for a walk ts very apt to be attended with more or less danger to person and We passed two very large camps of con- struction where the men live Who are working upon the tunnels and embankments, Where the permaneat track is to be laid that crosses the suimmut of the Wahsatch Mountains, the one in use now being only These were the only signa of ihe we saw. © When within six miles of this piace we com- menced the steep grade that leads to the Z track that is now used to cruss tue mountain, all that it could do, and wheu we got to the zig-zag we had to leave half the cars on a side track before commencing the ascent. This was made with com- parative case. although at times the grade was 190 feet \to the mile, While going up we lad a good view of done for the permanent track. ‘This is nearly completed, and | suppose that m a month more the cars wail be ranning over it, and the line now used will be dispensed with, be a great saving of time aud jabor, and add much to the comfort and safety of travel. Jt was dark Whea tie ascent was completed. and we made our way Into this place, which present the actual tertninus of the Uni Railroad, or from where the tratus a larly on perfect time tables, that a train would leave to-imorrow on time, and that we could depart on our journey eastwacd wich | sowe probability of geting Uird Jewelry store; 801 h me grass that grows in Kobnigaberger, autes, it adds, broken wheels, American civil war. be scarcely helped by such assauits and the government of the Unit Morning Post, the ergan to them that the sole France is suffering is sore; of th» high tory party, who all; McClellan's believe im the divine right of Kings and nobles and the serfdom of the common peopie, is equally a equally impolitie with the Times. Sumner and Chandler are “biatant dema- gogues,” Secretary Fish is a filibuster and America y4 & whole is a “howling democracy,"’ whose few re- ns lidden under the “seething surface” of ‘platform mobs,"* ‘Th lard, also @ loty organ, affects to find iu Chandler's speech more dangerous material than gh ong nidy Cog that woll¢ ie might laugh at the guigds idea pe jpon to pay another Tabulous amount of money in the shape of position to square accounts by a transfer o! verritory is quite another affair: There are men in 8 the Slandard, and some of them high Ja power, who have shown already British hoaor, cially have not hesitated to advocate the aban- “Philo- Americans, republican sympathizers, eager advance the democratic cause and strike any blow at monarchical institutions, have jong been in the habit of assuming that im the pro- gress of events Canada must necessaril: to the Union,” and hence the cession o' North American provinces may not excite the same feeling of indignation that would be aroused by any According to this omice; Zeigler & along in this jine of Tt sams up thus:— ance of averting war which remains to ‘Us now Is to be secured by letiing the Americans know clearly where our concessions will stop and at What point exactly our their antinosity will cease. questions are mixed up with the tripie relations i@ and the United States that we of course would shrink at this stage of the and while we are in the dark cou janner in which the American government it advance to an atiempted annexation of Canada, from laying down im advance a defiuite scheme of policy im reference to the negotiations with which we are now menaced, but certain principles stand out clearly enough from ail the 1 those negotiations cau posaibly become invoived. we hold colonial possessions in the , present day is very unlike that on which they were iirst acquired, We do not expect any pecuniary advantage trom them now. We have been for a long course of years | cai accustomed to fimd that the Briush taxpayer in ac- count with the colonial possessions of the crown 1s distinctly the loser Hoaucuily; but, at the same Ume, Goldwin Smith's view of the subject—that England would be better off if whe were deprived of all her possessions abroad and confined witiin the limite of these iiands—lad only to be enunciated co disgust ail Classes who were animated by a spark of chivairous or patriotic feeling. parately may, perhaps, be an expense to the mother country; vut the greatness of the British It will be remembered by our readers that the ac Mp th pond cideut which befel the express train from Portland for Bostoo, on this road, on Wednesday morning last, near South Berwick Junction, by being thrown from the track, Was reported as being but a slight Pro- | mishap, without loss of life. however, that the accident was quite a serious nation being called the heavy work bei It now transpires, too careless Jewelry store; » gallery; Kea & Adams, dental |. Gillette, tobacco store; Joe Appolonio & Co, Walla Walla Hotel; Cantranus, ciothing store; Stein & Lillential, fruit store; Western Laon onice; Trott & Lee, barber shop; Ex- house; Joan Ih ‘Train’¢ daguerrean baguage-master, two cars and & number of passengers. Messrs. A. Lawrence, of 203 West Twenty-first street, and ©, No, 72 Amity street, who were ou t time of the accident, make the following state- Boh & Aub, sing, book and stationery store. N. Moody, of The theory on which It Was & rene to Know Hancock's Hall, used by the Odd Pellows and ‘onn & Peel, meat mark: LL. Rea, provision store; Baser & and sale stavies; I. Harris, dry goods store: Lavenderg & Brother, Pozuainsky, dry goods store; Charies Blum, dry woods sture; Hall & Miter (corner); a. J. Harri provision store; Murphy & Stevenson, grocery and comrission merchants; Hotei; H. Meyers, tailor shop; Dr. Ingersoil’s ofice; Parkinson's tailor shop; Woieott & Hursch; Hurdy Gurdy House (owned by Helena Fire Company, No. Klauie, furnivure store; Mrs, TWogvod’s mauliinery ste The train, which was the regniar express, and Good Templars rried about one hundred and flity passe Portland tor Boston at forty minutes o'clock on Weduesday morning. nd @ halt miles east of South Berwick Junction ‘The first intimation that these being wrong was # suaden jerk, and then by seeing the smoking car forcing its way through the end of the first pas- senger car, in which they were #eated at the time of The smokimg car tore ite way avo fifveen feet through the first passenger car fortunately contained There is no use denying t of the track to this polut the road ts execrable, tirely wuiltted for travel and unsafe in every particu- In the first place, 1 Was butit fact that trom the end The Standard, theretore, desires to “establish the principle” on the part of the “upper classes” that under no circumstances Will Great Britain yield up Canada at the dictate of a foreign Power unl every | Jobo bull shall have been vurued ito his favorite beet. While the English papers are thus lashing shem- | selves into a fury keverdy Johnso hold-over Minister, continues to His last effort was made last even- Literary Fond dinner, ve read with surpr.se by Americans, as, indeed, it has been by Englishmen. Mr. Johuson, to say the Jeast, takes a singular View of his duties as the re- proseatauve of bis goverament in foreign court, when he andertakes to crisicise publicly its acts in relation to an important treaty, and accuses the Senate—the treaty-making power—over the shoul- ders of their spokesiman, the chairman of the Com- mittee on Foreign Relations, with rmisrepresepung “the real, honest, patriotic sentiinents of their coun- uy.” The following is the speech as reported ia the lar; but why is it so in the Winter, when the ground was frog Of course now that the thaw las iakeu place the banks have settled and thrown the track every conceivable shape. Droieito, City You cannot tmagine any- tam more crooked; in many places the ties project over the edges of the euivai puss the earth erurabies beneati it, cuttings around the edge of # Lill, especially when you enter Webber cavon, the bauk has seuled 80 as | to throw the outer road Cousuderably beluw the mner ng ue passage Of trains, as the ravine beiw sully testuy. Again, the tes do not appear to be suifigient in number of certainly do not compare in this with the Cevtrai Kalroad, aad tere are polats with Which 1auit cau be considered finished xcuse given for ils preseus condition. stated, Wie track Was laid upon frozen ground, aud unui the frost is entirely out of it it Would be folly to pair, for Wen the Work would all have to over again. It 14 the intenuon of the ofl soon as the ends of the two tracks lave ‘ put ae MALY MeN As DOssIDie On Lhe Work, and Urung reondition, Ho that it wil ‘This can be done in sixty the jinpression that by the firatof August Do fault can be found with the road not being sale #0 far as the rack is concerned. There are also several temporary bridges on tha station that are Wo be Fe placed by UoW wud permanent siruc- tures. It was one Of these over the Webber that gave way the morning After We passed rt. These sen erectod for Lhe passage of constructio to serve 8 scoffoiding (or tne erecuon Of the the Aterican | Any one coluny ine, drink and iment and as the trains On some of tie Californis saioou; George Secord, saddiery slo; ket; Coronel Shed, Kiyus saioon Buop; MeFarlaad, Chrysopolts saloon daguerrean gallery; Leliman & Ne lock; Justices Duke and building (owned by ©, O. Huntley); grocers and ilquor dealers, Engiand Were reduced to the rank of It would be vain to imagine, therefore, tuat Kugland could part with and not part at ine uk, power and pres tige. We cling v@ our colonies ior our own sake, but in spite of this we cling to them on one con- We are only prepared to insist on the maintenance of the Loud between us as long a» each colony, Tor her own wulur Belginin. one, thus endany wrecked cars in th an unknown lady, with a child in leg broken, but th Willa Curke had his leg badiy crusted and frac- tured, and the engineer ana firey calded. It ia the opinion of Me: ab had the first paswenyer ful) complement of passengers the w have been of @ much wore serous char Hlement consed had in @ measure subsided, bad been removed from the ¢ cars, Mr. Lawrence, who had lortunately excaped Without @ ScrMleh, Walke Janetiun, and tn doing so clorely examin dition of the track, wiich he reports as being in an exceedingly neglected and dur 1 1 this be is substantiated by . ing It a doty which he owes to humanity and to the travelling public he evalis hinusetf of tunis o, to make these facts kaown to the public at believes that the acctiont was caused condition of the road, y were a8 @ general (hing 80 ro'ten that they could not firmly hold the spikes that had been driven them, and in some instances where the hold they were fearfuliy sprang up, enough so to have thrown the Whole train of cars from the track. Where the raila connect the “chair? (iat fastens tue rails together, and Which should have bes cured with four epikes, had no spike whate in short, the whole Foad between Lie juncuor thescene of the accident Was found dangerous couditiva, Jarge enough; the, wad if tne rowed yond Werery is (ie The only dry goods establishment that escaped tue | fire was Uhat of Messrs, Lewch & Go, on ‘The loss in goods Was Dot heavy, the owners succeeding im removing their ke, desires its main- al charactor of the in the eyes of hich imagines Mr. Reverdy Johnson anid he wae happy to find that the ‘arith of the reception whica be had met with since his ar- Mal fo this country had in no way been diminished oy cir cumatauces which bi pe some other Powers: but thegnatic that it can be brokea by wuy force shor spontaneous desire of the colonists rakes a ‘This is the principle which abov others it 18 important to estabush just now, | might have been circuinstances wader wh! Canadians Would bave found it am easy motter wo throw off such control as the British governinent at present exercises over them, but that control saail never be resigued at the dictate of a foreign Power. Never mind What the consequences of a refusal to subiolt to such dictation may be, the national pride of England 18 not yet dead, the national hoor ix not yet suited, and it Will be ulterly vain jor the Ameri ‘cans to inagine that while the innabitanw of tie brush provinces across the Atlantic remain true aud attached to their allegiance the frontiers of Canada y troops of the United States wt @ Jess Cost than that of @ War with tae Who power of Great Britain. The London Star (Minght's organ) conclades an tke | @tticle on the sutyect in this manner:— We have no desire to ignore tue moral considera bvery barber shop in the city was burned but in no instance Was Ue stuck Lost, hovograpll galleries were destroyed. rug stores remain, Six hotels were burned, meluding the largest—the Invernational. Only six out of twenty-seven saloons were un- | 7 v urisgot the demo recently ovcurred. tt 0 those circumstances. 8 as not in them auything him to believe that peace to. WWkely to be distarved. Jab Which Oy man might sae alter he got to the summit oinaterial, nor wae it of vital Car] a whe rack Up to lus pro, give uo trouve in iuture, days, and | am tnd ‘ous condition, a of the mountain was Ail of the assay offices were consumed. Only one jewelry establishment escaped. All of the tobacco stores were destroyed. ‘Three livery stables were burned. No stock lost, Kivery book aud stationery store but one Was con- the real, honest and patriotic He had been cautioned by his " two lodge rooms were destroyed, viz.:—Odd Fel- In the former the Good Tem tuing of @ political ebaracter, but must be allowed to ob vat there was one thing in hich literary men ere concerned, and that wan that the pence’ te. ch countries as Engiand and America should te pree | served; for It could not be broken without disturbing litera, us well as other asageiath I fully agree with those who have written concern. ing the condition of this sec Kailroad, but 1 do 200 wy convey the idea that vi tended to be ran in its present conditio fair to the comipany and to the puvite tion, or West oF Wahsatch, rificed to construction teont In order WO lave the tracks lows and L. of A. B. pias aixo held fort, All oF the taro and principal gambliag houses were in of the Uuton phic with them in trymy to Toad 1% fplwted and ine can ever be outraged (Hear.) He hoped, be treaty in reintion tothe Ai uuld not prevent those claims from being con wnanner as would lead to an early any ‘And in that hope the successor of sole lord beside bit ih ofide, he Was happy to may, concurred. TAR DESTRUCTION. lings destroyed Is variously 6% The namber of & verything haa been Ung material to the ted: this was were business houses, ‘The loss is estimated at from larger dgures bows the este mate of one of our best informed and most considerate merchanta. In many branches of iudusiry and trade there was not @ representative with @ roof over him yesterday. ‘The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is the generally accepted belief that it was fired pur- posely +4 an incendiary. From the oblanous made and intent expressed yesterday, full one hall Fd the Bontucan Sree will begin rebuilding within weel ‘The burned district covers a space approximating close to twenty acres—swept biack and bare and desolate by the besom of destruction. But the morn of the terrible it in Helena dawned on men. ‘There was no yielding or depression. The blow had fallen, but not to crush, Like Trojans they had worked; a8 #0 many Ajenee they now bid disaster defiance, fundreds of contracts for lumber and building bat passing room is getting at a premium. ‘The Phoenix was a slow bird compared to tielena, In a fortnight more Main street will scarce show the scar. Ver- haps one-third of the new buildings will be of stone, while the remainder will be mostly temporary aod replaced by substantial structures during tuo season, atter laborers and mechanics can be more easily had, On the whole, the general character of the buildings will be materially improved. ‘There is no real distress. Nine-tenths of the property owners are abundantly able to rebuild at once. BROOKLYN CITY. THE COURTS. (ITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COURT Alleged Mlicit Distilling. John Burns, arrested a few days ago on a charge of carrying on the business of a qatiller in King street, without having paid the special was called up for examination. The evidence showed that the only entrance to the still was through the junk shop, that the pipe ran from the still into the junk shop, over waich Buros lived and had control. Decision reserved, CITY couar. Action for Alleged Sland»r. Betore Judge Thompson. Mary Shaughnessy vs, Hugh Farron.—Plaiotig alleges that defendant, on the llth of May last, called her a disreputable character and brought the suit to recover damages of $5,000. The defence ses up was @ general denial. Verdict not rendered. Decisions. Simpson va, Dearing.—The cover and enforce their lien for amount claimed. Green vs, Dearing.—Same decision. brie v8, Clark.—Case should be tried before court and jury. Pence vs, City of Brooklyn.—Plaintitf should have jadgment for amount claimed. cOURT OF sess A Notorious Thief and Juil Breaker Sen- tenced. Before Judge Troy, Justices Hoyt and Voorhies. Martin Costello, who has the reputation of being one of the most notorious thieves in the country, was brought up for trial this morning. The prisoner, it will be remembered, was confined in the Kings county jail, on Raymond street, on a charge of hav- ing robbed aman named John Shubert of a watch, but managed to effect his escape in November last, with another notorious character named Ryan. Alter a diligent search the authoriues found Kyaa confined tn the jail in Rhode Island under a serious charge. A few days after the discovery of es Costello was caught and again lodged in jail. This morning when placed on trial he pleaded guilty to the charge of robbery, and Judge Troy sentenced him te imprisonment in the State Prison for a term of five yeurs at hard labor. Tar Tammy DisTRIcr AssEssoRSHIP.—Yeaterday afternoon Mr. Richard Scanlon called upon Assessor 8. _D. Maddox and took formal possession of che ofice for the Third district, Mr, Maddox introduced his deputies to Mr. Scanlon, after which he retired to private life, Tae Navy Street Homictpx.—The prisoners whe were arrested on a charge of being implicated in the homicide of James Donegan, in Navy street, on the 2d instant, were taken before Coroner Jones yester- day afternoon, and held to await the action of the Grand Jury. Patrick Gtiroy, one of the prisoners, in- sisted on having an explanation. Wuiskey Riot.—Between cleven and twelve o'clock yesterday four or five United States marshals proceeded to a house in Little street, near Johan, for the purpose of seizing a still. They commenced operations, but in a very short time the street was filled with men, women and children. They finally as- sailed the officers with a shower of bricks and stones and other missiles. Finding it was impossible to remove the still, the oMcers commenced to break it up. ‘This seemed to exasperate the crowd and the assailants became more violent.80Micers Nodine and Brennan were severely beaten about the head and body. The others managed to escape uninjured. The injured men were conveyed to their homes. SHOOTING AFFRAY IN A BARROOM.—A man named James Maher, together with three com- panions, entered the barroom of William Trott, on the Clove road, near the Penitentiary, on Saturday night, and, after partaking of the hospitalities of the place, abused the landlord, and, moreover, refased w pay for what they had been furni hed. The landlord remonstrated with the fellows, but they only oecame more abusive, and finaily knocked him down. He found it nece#ary to defend himseif, and discharged his revolver at them. Maher wae wounded in the arm, and his cowardly companions fled from the piace. Mr. Trott then gave himself Wd to the custody of Captain Leich, of the Forty-nintl precinct. Yesterday he was taken before Judge Walsh, and held to await exammation, APPOINTMENT OF 4 BOARD OF FIRE CommissioN- ERS. yor Kalbfeisch, Alderman Bergen, Prest- dent of the Board of Aldermen; Street Commissioner Farey, Comptroller Johnson and City Treasurer Sprague met at noon yesterday in the office of the Comptroller for the purpose of appoint- ing @ Board of Fire Commissioners in accord- ance with the enactment just by the Legisiature. Several informal ballots were taken, when Mr. Furey moved that a formal ballot be taken, Alderman Bergen moved, as an amendment, that the caucus adjourn until next Wednesday, at eleven A. M., as it wouid be unjust to make the ap- potntment at the present time; besides, they had not wet to appoint under the act. The amendment was Jost and the original motion adopted. The formal ballot was then taken, wita the tollowing resui Hugh McLaughiin, aemocrat. Fred, Massey, democrat. Wm. A. Brown, democrat. oe. Anthony F. Campbell, republican. Rodney Thursby, democrat. D. D. Briggs, democrat. 1 The chairman, Mr. Johnson, declared the firat four gentlemen duly elected Fire Commissoners, they having received the highest number of votes. ‘The,Board shortly after adjourned. MEKTING OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN.—The Board of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon, the President, Alderman Bergen, tn the chair, At @ previous meeting of the Board Alderman Armficid moved to rescind @ resolution passed some three or four years ago empowering the People’s Gaslight Company to lay pipes in various streets. This waa adopted, and yesterday the Mayor returned the resolu- Uon without his approval, He recommended that the whole subject be not only reconsidered but carefully examined into, and the counsel to the Corporation be requested to furnish a written omit asto the power of the Common Council and the rights of the company ta the premises. Alderman Armieid offered @ resolution to the effect that the Street Com- missioner be notified not to permit the People's Gasight Company to take up the street pavements to lay mains or for any other purpose until further action of the Board of Atdermen. Adopted. The Water and Drainage Committee, to whom was referred the budget of the permanent Board of Water and Sewe r- age Commissioners, reported that they had ex- amined the same and fonnd that the amount named in the boudget was gg ed for the proper manage- ment of tue Water Department. The report waa adopted, The contract for putting an additional story on the Porty-fourth precinct station house was awarded to David W. Reed for $3,740, No further business of Importance was tran! weve ‘Tit BROOKLYN TRAGEDY—FUNERAL OF SAMUBL D. TaLbor,—The faneral of Samuel D. Talbot, whose tragic death by his own hand in brooklyn, N. Y., on ‘Thursday, after or attempted to kill Miss Scrio- ner, for Whoin he had an overpowering affection, took place in this city on Saturday, at the resi- donee of bis family, in Rutland street. | The coremo~ nies were solemnized by Rev. George H. Hepworth and Rey. W. A. Alger, and the remains were interred at tho Forest Hills’ Cemetery. The arteniance was confined to the relatives and immediate triends of the amily and were peculiarly aifecting, The ountenance of the deceased resembled that of a per- sou m sleep rather than in death. He was thoroughly beloved by all who knew him, and his end, a8 wei as the tragedies which accompanied it, were ax sad fund meiancholy in their character as they were foreign to his nature and iife, Mr. Valbot was a Bostonian, and his relatives are among some of the most estumable of our citizens.—Bos'ou Posi, May Lig It 9 said that at the close of 1868 there were 109,1)7 mies of ratiroad in the world, Of this amount Burope had 66,060 miles, Asia 4,474, Africa 683, 08 trava 759, South America 1424 The United Stat « teads every other country, having 42,260 mics, ond Great britain siands next with 14,247, or only & more than @ third aa much as we, rrance bs Bu with 4,004 Wiles, aid Prussia hag 6,906 tiem