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What About the 



The Atlantic Telegruph Cable has been success- 

 fully laid— the " Celebrations " have had their day 

 — wo have ceased to burn powder and publio and 

 private properly In glorification thereof, and, in 

 the calmness which has succeeded so fierce a 

 storm, questions which the hey-day of success put 

 aside for a brief moment— again assume a promi- 

 nent position. The perfect continuity of the cable 

 is chief among these. Is it likely to lost for any 

 length of time? Dpon this point tho London 

 rgOM favorably. It has already been 

 proved that submarine cables run but little risk of 

 injury near the shore,— shipping constituting the 

 greatest danger,— and in tho case of the Eastern 

 termini of tbo Atlantic, everything is exceedingly 

 owing to the almost entire absence of 

 ehippiug on that portion of the Irish const- The 

 Newfoundland end h also supposed to be well 

 ■electa*. In reference to the deep-sea portion, 

 although nothing but surmises can be drawn, the 

 i'difluww ean eo« do reason for apprehending its 

 detraction, and remarks;— "It has already existed 

 lor two weeki, and tbia affords excellent groand 

 for confidence in its durability, at least for a con- 

 siderable period. It is, of course, impossible to 

 predict how long the insulation of the wires may 

 remain intact, after the many forces and novel cir- 

 cumstances to which the cable has l_n en subjected. 

 There are good reasons for believing that the con- 

 ditions of water low down in tho deep seas are 

 highly favorable to the durability of a cable. We 

 may conlldeutly believe that the greater part of the 

 Atlantis cable is now surrounded by water which is 

 so still, and ao low in temperature, as to retain it 

 in security for a long time to come." Thus mueb 

 forthebrightsideoflhe subject The aetionof the 

 company, In placing the control of experiment* in 

 the hands of those who are incompetent electri- 

 cians— persons who are the Inventors of "systems," 

 •adof transmitting Instruments which are Inca- 

 p *' eof performing what is required', together 

 with the wcrocy that enshrouds all mov 

 Tcry much weakened the faith of the 



enterpme. We a,* ^ qMt|1| 



been a imf-mtum of ih, CCi <,/ t w , 



dispatches?" At the cdebr 



Fiszp said 



Has there 

 4 "suspension 

 York, 



1st inst., Ctri 



Of the Company * C re 

 tie, and that the line would t* ImmediawU thro w^ 

 opes to the pub'.- 



ither as regards the action of the Directors, 

 e ultimate iuccese of the enterprise. Mr. 

 Fi*u>, under date of Sept. 6th, has attempted an 

 explanation in the Sew York TrUrvue. which we 

 give below: 



forming; roe that, although the insolation of the Oc*an 



i **s regarded t>j all pmtti 

 ■I perfect ebildiab.it is qu 

 Inlay in transmitting intelligei 



F-rofeuor Ilsghss 



We hope for the beat, bat when men are given 

 control, whose " system is regarded by all practical 

 telegraphers as perfectly childish," we, in common 

 with others, can but have our fears. 



Railroad Accidents. 



ir last issue we chronicled the fatal results 

 Railroad accidents — one on the Allegany 

 Valley Railroad, near Pittsbugb, Pa.; the other 

 T., near Albany — and since the 

 the telegraph Is daily making 

 additions to the fearful list It would almost seem 

 iftbeBe shocking catastrophe?, passed over the 

 country in a circle, and that the date of their return 

 had again arrived. 



The last steamer brings intelligence of a terrible 

 accident on the Oxford. Worcester and Wolver- 

 hampton Railway, England. It occurred to a cheap 

 Sunday School Excursion train, on which some 

 2,000 persons were passengers. The train of forty- 

 five coacheB waa divided into two trains, one hav- 

 ing twenty-nine closely packed cars, and the other 

 en. At'Round Oak statioo, which is situated 

 sleep inclined plain, thirteen of the coacheB 

 le train became detached from the rest, by the 

 breaking of coupling iron?, oud these cars at once 

 an backward down the incline, with gradually in- 

 creasing velocity, until it met the second train, 

 which had started out fifteen minutes behind the 



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'ains came into collision, with a shock which 

 split the two rear cars, (the guard's van and car- 

 l next to it) into matchwood, and badly shat- 

 tered another carriage of the train. The scene 

 that ensued it ia impossible to describe. Fragments 

 f the crushed and broken cars, mutilated hu- 

 aan forms, some still in death, some writhing in 

 heir last agonies, others seriously but not fatally 

 injured, shrieking with pain and terror; were com- 

 mingled in a general metet, hardly distinguishable 

 amid the darkness and the dust occasioned by the 

 collision. It waa soon apparent that the loss of 

 as lamentably great. Eleven lifeless forms 

 discovered among the rubbish, in addition to 

 many frightfully mangled and disfigured. 

 On the morning of the 7th inst, a shocking 

 itastropbe occurred on the Hudson River Rail- 

 road, by which two persons were killed and others 

 injured. A freight train, laden with cattle, stopped 

 Fishkill to cool a hot axle, when another 

 train ran Into it, smashing two locomotives 

 and Beveral cars, running into a machine shop and 

 knocking down an immense chimney; killing 

 wounding others, and destroying a large 

 number of cattle. 



On the 7th inBt, B. P. Feasenden lost bis life on 

 the Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, and his wife 



day, a young man named Ritner was killed on the 

 Dayton Western Railroad, and his brother injured. 

 Both of the cases were the result of attempting to 

 across the track when a train waa approach 



Tan 2 30 P. i 

 the 10th inst, r 

 Hiring James i 

 son, baggage m 

 freight c 



lin from Fall 





r two others. Three 

 cattle aud hhds, of 



i ? 10,100. 



smashed. I 



On the night of the 10th, a terrific accident oc- 



irred upon the Steubenville (O.,) and Indiana 



Railroad, about seven miles from Steubenville. A 



telegram from tho scene of disaster, states that 



while crossing the bridge, a car and the rear 



ogine jumped from the track, knocking out some 



f the main timbers, when the bridge gave way. — 



lie baggage car and front passenger car went 



down with the bridge, twelve feet, the rear end of 



:rain remaining on the abutment. The first 



vas completely broken up, and the seats in the 



of the car were broken from their fastenings." 



Strange as it may seem, according to the dispatch 



Salt Lake Matters— The Sail Lake mail had 

 arrived. It was 21 days en route. The Mormons 

 and l_*. S. officials were attending to their business. 

 The trials for treason would commence as soon as 

 the Associate Judges arrived. No arrests had yet 

 been made. The Indiana were troublesome about 

 the city, and hud killed several Mormonp. One 

 family was massacred while moving South. Dr. 

 Forney, Indian Agent, was among the tribes ma- 

 king treaties, and had been successful thus far.— 

 Engineers were locating the four posts on the 

 western division of the mail route. 



.-.*— Leavenworth date* of the 7th 

 inst., are received. Orders had been received for 

 two companies of the 1st cavalry under Col Sum 

 mer?. The command under Maj. E*Ing was to 

 art Arhuckle. At the municipal elec 

 lion at Leavenworth on the 5th, L. B. Denmann, 

 Free State Democrat, was elected by about 20( 

 majority. Lyman Scott, Republican and Know 

 Nothing, and Adam Fisher, Republican, were tht 

 opposing candidate?. 



Political Intelligence. 



EimmcAs State Convention. — The Republi- 

 cans of this State met in Convention, at Syracuse, 

 last week, and put the following ticket in nomine- 

 Uon;— Governor— E. D. Morgan, of New Tort 

 Lieut. Governor — Robert Campbell, of Steuben. 

 Canal Cornmuiicntx— Hiram Gardner, of Niagara. 

 Slate Pruon Inspector— Jo*. P. Everest, of Clinton. 



AmkbicanContention.— The American party of 

 the State also met at Syracuse, on same date with 

 the Republicans, and nominated a ticket, as fol- 

 lows: — Governor— Lobenzo BrsRowe, of Orleans. 

 Lieut. Governor— X. R. Benton, of Herkimer. Canal 

 Commissioner — James B. Thompson, of Genesee. — 

 Stele Pruon Inspector— Vim. A. Russell, of Wash- 

 ington. 



State Tempibanck Convention. — The State 

 Temperance Convention met at Syrscuse on the 

 7th inBt, and the following candidates were nom- 

 inated — Governor— Gerbjt Smith, of Madison. — 

 Lieut. Governor— Sidney A. Bears, of Kings. Slate 

 Pruon Inspector— Silas T. Fyler, of Madison. 



MASSACHCsarra Bwcblioam. Convention.— The 

 following is the Republican ticket for Massachu- 

 setts:— Governor— H. P. Banks. Lieut. Governor— 

 Elipbalot Trask. Stau Treasurer— Moses Tenney. 

 Secretary of State— Oliver Warner. Attorney Gen- 

 eral— H. Phillips. AuMor— Charles White. 



Thb returns of the Vermont election exhibit 

 largely In favor of the Republican party. Hall's 

 majority for Governor will probably exceed 10,000. 

 Returns from 144 towns, show Representatives to 

 be elected as follows:— Republicans, 118; Demo- 

 crats, 21; no choice, 5. Returns of the Governor 

 vote from 89 towns foot thus: Hall, Rep, 13,250; 

 Keyes, Dem., 6,350; scattering, 81. 



Thb Frazbb River Gold Mines. — The Rev. 

 Bishop Scott, of the Methodist chnrch, who is now 

 on an official visit to the Pacific, has recently visit- 

 ed the neighborhood of the newly discovered gold 

 mines. The last California Advocate contains an 

 interesting letter from the Bishop, written at Es- 

 quimault Harbor. He says everything is inastate 

 of glorious uncertainty — gold products, and all. — 

 "I found," he remarks, "the people at Bellingham 

 Bey and Victoria in great painful suspense in re- 

 gard to the future, but the prevailing feeling is 

 that of discouragement. Many have spent all their 

 funds, have nothing to do, end know not how they 

 are either to live bere or to get away. So it is 

 also, I am told, on Ftazer River. If the trail can 

 be cut through, if the water fall sufficiently in the 

 river, if the mines prove rioh and sufficiently ex- 

 tensive, if and if— it is all if. 1 am not, you know, 

 a miner, and my opinion is not worth much, but at 

 any rate I have no motive to be partial; and my 

 opinion if, that tblB Frazer River excitement will 

 prove to be the greatest humbug of the age, and 

 that many people will suffer even to the last ex- 

 tremity. This was my opinion before I left Cali- 

 fornia, and I have seen no reason to change it since 

 I ceme here, but mnch to strengthen it. I fear 

 that some p&rtieB will have an awful account to 

 settle in regard to this matter in a coming day." 



The Proiti e Trade or P,i-ffalo.— The Buffalo 

 Commercial Advertiser has been summing up the 

 grain trade of the season, in its issue of the 0th 

 inst, and remarks:—" The first of September may 

 he considered as the dividing point between the 

 harvest of different years. From tbls'time forward 

 so far as flour and wheat are concerned, we shall 

 be in receipt of the harvest of 1858. The trade in 

 this new installment of nature's bounty opens 

 briskly. Since noon of the first of September we 

 have received 16,935 barrels of floor, and 227,504 

 bushels of wheat The amount of wheat now in 

 store in Chicago, is a million and a half bushels, 

 most of which must come this way, We propose 

 to place a few figures before our readers, confident 

 that their cheerful character will gratify every lover 

 of our noble city. The following table will ex- 

 press briefly the comparison of our produce trade 

 in 1858 with that of 1S57: 



From Arizona.— Col. Sayles, agent of the Post- 

 olflce Department, arrived at St Louis, on the loth 

 inst, from Arizona. He reports the existence of 

 a very lawless state of things in that conntry — the 

 pistol and bowie-knife being the only laws recog- 

 nized. Indian depredations were very frequent — 

 Mr. S. speaks favorably of the mineral resources of 

 the Territory, but deems the annexation of Sonora 

 of the utmoBt importance to their successful de- 

 velopment. The El Paso and Fort Yuma wagon 

 road expeditions will complete their work in due 

 season. The agents of the overland mail to Cali- 

 fornia were found busily engaged in esUblUhing 

 statfonp, Ac. Col. Sayles reports that the difficul- 

 ties with the Navajo Indiana were still unsettled.— 

 Gen. Garland bad assured them that the murderers 

 of Maj. Brooks' servant must be given up, and in 

 view of pending trouble, bad ordered CoL Miles 

 from Fort l'illmoro to Fort Defiance. 



From Santa Fe. — A despatch from Indepen- 

 dence, dated 6th inst., per !_'. S. Express to Boon- 

 v ille, gays that the Baste Fe mail, with dates to the 

 lith alt, has arrived, and the news Is unimportant. 

 Dr. Conolly, who had arrived at Santa Fe, from Rio 

 Abijo, reports that a Urge number of emigrants 

 passed through Albuquerque, this summer, en 

 route to California, via the J5th parallel. They re- 

 port the grass between Fort Smith and Albuquer- 

 que in excellent condition, and the wood and water 

 abundant The mail party saw very few Indiana 

 on the plains. Col. Sumner'a command was on the 

 Arkansas river, about 20 miles below the crossing. 

 AU welL 



New York Sabbath School Teachers' Con- 

 vention.— The Sabbath School Teachers of Now 

 York State are to hold a Convention in the Pierre- 

 pont St Baptist Church, in the city of Brooklyn, 

 commencing on Tuesday, Oct 5th, at 10 o'clock 

 A. M., and continuing through Wednesday and 

 Thursday. Each Evangelical Sabbath School in 

 the State Is requested to send at least one delegate 

 to the Convention. 



grws faragrapUs. 



A subscription is circulating in Hawaii, Sand- 

 wich Islands, headed by the King and Queen, for 

 the purpose of raising funds to establish an Epis- 

 copal Church at Honolulu. 



Common people are hung for committing mur- 

 der, and imprisoned for minor offences, but "re- 

 spectable" people are not held answerable to the 

 same rule. A man In Connecticut recently 

 ■•amused" himself by putting arsenic in his wife's 

 coffee, which, however, did not prove fatal in its 

 result On account of the great "respectability" 

 of the parties the matter was hushed up. 



It is estimated that from 250 to 30rj head of 

 beeves were lost by the recent disaster on the Hud- 

 son River Railroad. Some few wandered into the 

 woods and pastures in the neighborhood, having 

 escaped from the cars with alight injuries. Many 

 cattle did not sutler from the collision, but were 

 almost suffocated in the general smashing and 

 mixing up. 



Captain Cuauncbv, Lieutenants Mullany, Bar- 

 nett, Nelson, Mitchell and Drake, together with 

 Purser Upham, have been ordered to the steamer 

 Niagara, which Is to be ready within seven days to 

 proceed to Charleston and receive on board the 

 captured Africans. Tbey are to be taken to the 

 coast of Liberia, under the charge of a special 

 agent, and kept and supported there by our Gov- 

 ernment until they can be otherwise provided for. 



The Court Journal relates with naive pleasantry, 

 the fact that on the recent visit of Queen Victoria 

 to France, the Emprees and Prince Albert were 

 seriously affected with sea-sickness, while sailing 

 in the royal yacht, and Victoria and the Emperor, 

 exempt from such weakness, enjoyed the suffer- 

 ings of the other twain hugely. 



The Amerioan Consul at Maderla, Mr. March, 

 declares i hat not five pipes of wine are now made 

 in a year, in all the Inland of Maderla. Yet there 

 is never a lack of Maderla in the United Statea— 

 Where is it manufactured? and what are its ingre- 



Tiie receipts of flour at Buffalo on the 10th inst, 

 were large, reaching 1G,85G barrels. The receipts 

 for the week ending the evening of the 9th were 

 70,193 barrels; or an average of over 12,700 bar- 

 rels per day. 



Some excitement has occurred in Catalonia, 

 Spain, with reference to the discovery of two very 

 rich mines— one of gold, and the other of lead.— 

 A quintal of the lead ore is said to contain three 



It is estimated that the YangteseKiang, the 

 largest river of China, is larger than our MisBis 

 sippi. Their comparative length is 3,300 miles tc 

 3,200; at New Orleans, the breadth of the Missis 

 sippi is 900 yards, depth 100 feet, velocity of cur 

 rent, lj miles an hour. At Kiangyin, 100 miles 

 from the sea, the Chinese River is 1,900 yard* 

 broad, 99 feet deep, with a current of two miles 



In Paris, in a late attempt to remove a cancer 

 the lady sufferer waa so stuplfled by Chloroform 

 that breathing ceased and life appeared to be ex 

 tinct. The physicians immediately expanded her 

 lungs several times by breathing into them, ai 

 those of a person drowned, and she was re 

 tated. 



A UEA9E has been promulgated prohibiting the 

 teaching of the Latin tongue in all the Colleges of 

 the Russian Empire. The hours hitherto devoted 

 that study, will be devoted to the positive sciences.' 



On Wednesday, forty-nine slaves, having been 

 granted their manumission by a Kentucky lady, 

 passed through Covington, Ky., on their way to 

 Green Co., Ohio. 



Thb balance wheel of John Fitch's Model En- 

 gine, for the first Philadelphia steamboat, in 1"SU, 

 twenty-one years b:fore Fulton's New York boat, 

 in 1307, Is on exhibition in Philadelphia. 



Tub ships of the American navy are entirely 

 clothed with sails made of hemp duck, of Scotch 

 or Russian manufiictuie, notwithstanding the fact 

 that the cotton duck, now made in this conntry, is, 

 npou the whole, ,:,:cuUd!y superior to the forelgi 

 hemp duck, aa is shown by the fact that for the last 

 six or eight years all the vessels in oor merchant 

 service and whale fisheries ubc it in preference 

 the foreign article. 



The first case of the discharge of a debtor from 

 durance, under the new Canadian statute abolish 

 lng imprisonment for debt, occurred at namiltor. 

 last week. 



The Boston Traveller says:— "Our manufactur- 

 ers of domestic goode are already realizing the 

 beneficial effects of the China treaty. One house 

 in Boston has received oiders for 3,000 packages, 

 and another is reported as having received orders 

 for 1,500, making in the aggregate i,500 packages. 



Baron Humboldt has predicted his own death. 

 A letter written by him lately read in one of the 

 Prussian law courts, caused a sensation from its 

 containing the declaration — "My death will take 

 place in 1869," and urging that it would be better 

 to postpone a certain publication of his work till 



The winter of the Southern Hemlspher 

 been one of the coldest ever known. Immense 

 bodies of snow have fatten in Chile, and all Valpa- 

 raiso letters speak of the excessive cold of July. 



An Illinois correspondent of the New York 

 Tribune, says:— " One thing appears encouraging 

 to the farmers of Illinois — that is the prospect of 

 raising our own sugar and molasses. The Chinese 

 sugar cane has been tested, and remains no more 

 an experiment The prospect Is, that there will 

 be made in this State more sugar and molasses 

 than will be consumed here. Molasses will be an 

 article of export'' 



The American Boahd.— The Annual Report of 

 the Treasurer of the American Board of Commis- 

 sioners for Foreign Missions was read at the An- 

 nual Meeting, at Detroit, on the 7th Inst The ex- 

 penditures amounted to S374^Sfl 35 — receipts, 

 Balance, $-10,870 &7. 



Maceeefx-— The Portland Advertiser says the 

 mackerel men begin to come In, but generally with 

 slim farep. The fish are plenty, but they obstinate- 

 ly refuse to be caught. 



Site |»nrjs Comhusrr. 



— Great Britain has now 

 l India. 



— Cape May county, N. J. 



» army of i 



be without 

 ety clerks are employed In the Chicago 

 fever has almost depopulated 

 1,007 bounty hud « 



Vlckabnrg. M 

 —There w« 



during Augui 

 — The actual length of the Great Wall of China 





l Wisconsin on tho 29th o 



— A monument is to be erected in Mississippi to 

 he memory of Cen. Quitman. 



— During the last jear the Government expend- 

 d f 19.00(1,000 tor military purposes. 



— The British soldiers, stationed in New Bruna- 

 •ick, are deserting In large numbers. 



a have just been purchased In N 

 ior me use of Lools N" " 

 .. __ity thousand dollars a 



tho same t 



— The i 

 about 1,700. 



nan, seven feet In height, was at the 

 Hotel, Indianapolis, on Thursday r,eek. 



— Ohio, in 1857, exported to New York, Phila- 

 delphia, and Baltimore alone, 70,000 head of cattle. 



— The New York and Erie Railroad Company 

 have resolved t> 



— It ia said I 



: Chin. 



ion francs, as indemnity for t 



-The "Rainbow." a steel ship of lfiO t 



dead. Does the occupant of the throne of Frano 



— The New York Commercial says It knows i 

 gentleman who gave $0,300 for a pair of horse: 



— There is Blored in Chicago a million bnshels 

 of wheat, and this, too, right in the face of an in- 

 coming crop. 



— It is expected that at least 350,000 gallons of 

 wine will be made from the native grapes in Cali- 

 fornia this year. 



— An Inconsiderate cow at Nantucket switched 

 her tail around a post, and starting suddenly, broke 



— The receipts of Hour at fluffalo have averaged 

 12,700 barrels per day, during the week ending 

 Thursday last 



— Rod. Frank Blair, of St. Louis, Mo,, will con- 

 test the seat in Congress of Mr. Barret, on the 

 ground of fraud. 



— An effort is being made to Becure Dr. Ken- 

 drlck, of Rochester, for the Chicago University, as 

 Greek Professor. 



— There has been a manifest fall In tho price of 

 wheat throughout France. The new crop is housed 

 in good condition. 



— An anti-Mormon paper ia about to be estab- 

 lished in Great Salt Lake City. This is " bearding 

 the lion in his den." 



— The Liberals In Mexico have captured Tam- 

 pico. A force of 10,000 men Is concentrating to 

 march on the capital. 



Tiie Hiieou's I!"ncli in England have decided 



that ill health is sufficient e,\oase for a breach of 

 promise of marriage. 



world, which contain more Germans than New 

 York and Its environs. 



— John C. Bishop, an able lawyer In Chicago, 

 has been arrested for committing land frauds to 

 the amount of $100,000. 



— The stump of the old Charter Oak has been 

 dug np, and sold to a speculator, and the place Is 



iieve that Charles DickenB 

 visit to the United States. 



— The planters of Georgia have 

 harvesting their rice, and tliere Is a nattering pros- 

 pect of an abundant yield. 



— It is proposed to vary the size of bank notes, 

 according io thcii dencmlnationa, as a preventive 

 against the alteration of tho same. 



— A mechanic at Newtown, Pa., has Invented a 



_ W. C. Bond announces that two faint teles- 

 copic comets were discovered at the Cambridge 

 Observatory, od the night of the 5th. 



— The American Consul at Maderla, Mr. Man),, 

 delares that not five pipes of » 



N. Y. city. We presume it is composed of gutta- 

 percha and is seasoned with ocean salt. 



— A Texas paper mentions that, Jn one of the 

 counties, of that State, nine children lizve been klU- 

 ed by their parents within three months. 



— A mass for the repose of tbe " nnU r -' f W ! <^ 

 and his companions was oelelnelM in the St Lotus 

 Cathedral In New Orleans, oo ihe 1st Inst 



— Cape of Good Hope d*tet are to July ■■!. Dr. 

 Livingstone has arrived safely in Zambezi river, 

 and was ascending It m his aitom launch, 



— It is reported that no less than three hundred 



„„.'HUed by the Inhabitants of „ 

 ney islsnds in two days, during last menth. 

 There ha' 



n ,-!-:- 



ri-jfs ' 



Kilkenny, Ireland, among the laborers, In 

 qoence of the introduction of reaping machines. 



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