THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam out faciam." DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1123, 26 July 1865, Page 4

THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam out faciam." DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26.

Although the civil war in the Northern American States is over, the difficulties to which it has given rise have yet to be met. To meet and overcome physical force hy superior physical force is a comparatively easy task with that of devising measures for the restoration of the Union, on terms calculated to ensure its permanency, and to heal the deep and festering wounds which have been inflicted on both sides in the course of the late bitter contest. But there are other evils, inevitable from wars, which have to be dealt with. A great change has taken place in the character of the population of the Northern States. Four years ago, the military spirit had not been excited. The small standing army maintained prior to the war, was almost exclusively composed of naturalised Irish or German troops. The native population were a hard-working, energetic race, earning, as a rule, wages too high and too easily to induce them to accept the smaller military pay ; and enjoying too much liberty of action and independence of spirit to submit to the monotony and subordination of a military force in time of peace. Fortunately none of the Volunteer troops have been connected with the army a sufficient length of time to iuduce a lorgetfulness of the dntie3 of industrial life. In European countries, whenever it is thought advisable to disband large bodies of troops, difficulties of no small magnitude present themselves. They are usually men who have served many years in the army. If ever they have learnt a trade, the place they once occupied has been long since fdled up. They cannot so readily forget their military habits as at once to cast them aside, and because for so long a lime they have been unaccustomed to labor at the trade to which they were brought up, it even they were once skilful artizans, their "hands are out" —they cannot do the amount of 'work, nor execute what they do in such a finished style, a3 an employer has a right to expect. The disbanded soldier, therefore, in Europe, is a comparatively useless citizen, and he has little but poverty and privation to look forward to. Fortunately for the American States they have, to a great extent escaped this difficulty. Thereisscarcely in the ranks, a soldier who has been half-a-dozen years in the army. As soon aa peace is fairly established, there are innumerable openings for employment. The restrictions which have fettered commerce, both foreign and inland, are removed, and although war has, of necessity, for some time back, directed inventive and manufacturing effort, principally to the construction of military and naval equipments, the wide field that renewed commerce and agriculture will unfold, affords ample room for profitable employment to all whose military services may he dispensed with. The Federal Government have not been slow to perceive this, and have with equal prudence and energy taken advantage of their position to disband great numbers of thearmy. But favorably situated as they are in this respect, it has not been done without incurring some risk of embarrassment with their foreign relations. While the civil war in the States was progressing, a similar smaller affa.:r was also enacting in Mexico

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Our Chri.stchurch telegram contains some important items of news. The Wcreroa pah has at last been taken, without loss on our side. The capture was ctfected without ttie assistance of the military, the colonial forces and friendly native* only being employed. Sir George Grey led the assault. Amongst , the prisoners taken are said to bo some of the ! murderers of the Rev. Mr Volkner. An attack upon Pipiriki resulted in the repulse of the rebels,, with considerable loss, two men on our side being wounded. Other important items are the return home of General Cameron, and the assumption of the command of the troops by Major-General Chute—and the order home of fire regiments of troops. The election of a Member of tho House of Representatives for the district of Bruce, takes place this day. For the information of voters, the Returning Officer requests us to state that the Dunedin polling place will be the Bailiff's Office, at the Resident Magistrate's Court.

We remind ger llemen desirous of obtaining tickets for tho Assembly Ball, to be held on Friday night, that the Secretary will attend to-day, at St. George's Hall, between the hours of three and five, for the purpose of

ssuing cards. At the invitation of a number of gentlemen who had subscribed towards an experimental trial of a certain process of flax manufacture, its alleged inventor, Jlr Donaldson, of Christchurch, has visited Port Chalmers, and yesterday a conference between the subscribers and Mr Donaldson was held at Dodson'a Provincial Hotel. Its object was to ascertain, by personal interview, whether the inventor's desire and ability to experimentalise were equal to the professions made in his written communications. It was considered that the specimens of flax brought by Mr Donaldson were of a description such as might probably be introduced to the European market ; and it was resolved to proceed with some experiments at the situation selected for the purpose in Sawyer's Bay, as soon as some matters of a personal nature were arranged, and provided that the plant and chemicals necessary for the experiment conld be obtained. Until this could be done, the meeting adjourned, leaving the Committee to act ia the meantime.

" Morgan's British Trade Journal" for May an advertising publication, wbfch furnishes a good deal of interesting information on the practical application of modern scientific discoveries, throws interesting light upon the various devices adopted for the use of the magnesium wire for illuminating purposes. It contains several illustrative engravings. One represents a simple " holder," sold for a mere sixpence, for the manipulation of the wire when intended to be used merely in

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The qnarrel wag resolved by the s? 1*!! quantities, and for immediate effect. It intervention of France, and the is nothing more than a tube with spring new Mexican Monarchy is sustained points/like a patent pencil case ; and the diby French and Austrian troops. Now rection is to " project as much of the wire there is a - peculiarity in the political from the raetallic Point,, as ™ay, * «*?"* theories of thefNorthern States of America, /*° be. baf nt a'°n*T ' t fftXSS j,. ..... ~ - _, .. .' { tion is given that "the wire should be inclined which since their separation from Britain { .. . , - , , r » » ~i •„ »ji *»,« , , ,-a ,1 ,- i at an angle of nearly 45deg;' and in all the has led them to look malignantly upon arrangementß that are sketched, or monarchical institutions. They claim tho wire drops and is designed to America as the theatre in which democracy bum upwards _ A simple form of lamp conshall develop itself. They look with s i stg o f a stan a an a a reflector. Behind the jealousy upon the great monarchical reflector is a coil of wire, to be unreeled by a powers of Europe, and have expressed a small baud wheel. The wire thus released, determination'to repel any interference on passes through a tube in the centre of the their parts, with the affairs of the American reflector and is ignited by a email spirit lamp, continent. There is also this characteristic supported by a projecting arm. If the operafeature ia the American soldiery—each tor cease to tarn the wheel, the wire will burn man, whether rank or file, is a politician, to the point of the tube, and then be extinHe is not content merely to receive his guided. On turnip again v will be proorders from his superiors, and to execute Jected and a Sain {? ait(f h *. the f pint l f amp; , , , , , . , Either a tvnsted wire of two or three strands them, but reasons and feels as an mdc- bcßt tQ butbyaaother arrangement pendent member of the Union. He will fte aeM jg m&de ia the form of a flat band or not accept the doctrine which prevails in ribbonj j n w hicli case, of course, the conductthe Continental armies of Europe, that the ing tabes must be flattened, instead of round. " soldier has no business to think," but For photographic or other instantaneous adopts political opinions as freely and effects, a kind of open h-uid lantern is decherishes them as pertinaciously as the signed with triplicate wires. The more elabocivilian. However efficiently therefore rate forms of lamps comprise a cy'toder, he may perform his military duties, in containing, clockwork apparatus, by means of subordination to the commands of his which the w^e or ribbon is continually proofficers, when dismissed from the army he J<*ted to the point of ignition. The whole , ■ , ,• „_ rpi, n ft,,,- of these apparatuses are adx-erMscd at an exis ready to become a parhzan The four ccedi ,/^ iee> and it lookg a 8 if th e y ea r 9of war just concluded, have no famo J^ ligbt wercaboilt to becomo doubt, given to great numbers who arc a common und household rcahty as an illu now or sonn will be, at liberty, a thirst lor military adventure, and the struggle not yet ended in Mexico, affords an opening for its indulgence. The experience of past years has proved how readily the American imagination is excited by -vis;ons of conquest and of the acquisition of new territory, and the expulsion of the French and Austrians from America, has undoubted allurementa. The expedition to Cuba, to wrest that splendid island from Spanish dominion, during a time of peace, shows how easily an aggressive expedition can be organised! and with Juarez in the rield, still maintaining a stuggle against French supremacy, it is more than probable that many of the restless spirits who served lin the civil war will take service under him Our telegraphic intelligence gives reaion | to believe that such is the case. Brief as it necessarily is, the demand from Mexico for twenty-five thousand additional French troops, is significant. With equal brevity it is intimated that the Federal Government discourages illegal enlistmeut; and, therefore, it seems evident that there is every desire to avoid a (parrel with France. In fact, such a result must ether be the consequence of intention or mismanagement, and could have no other than a disastrous termination. But, howe% rer desirous to avoid a rupture with so powerful a nation, the controlling and directing the war spirit, now that it is roused, is a difficulty added to the suffiI ciently complicated problem which the Federal Government has to unravel,

minator. @ A correspondent of the " Dunstan Times" gives the following account of a fatal accident.—"On Wednesday last, about to 1-past five in the afternoon, a fatal accident occurred on the Clutha Bridge Works, at Cromwell, whereby a ship-carpenter, named James Gray, lost his life., It appears that the chord, or lower rib of the briige, which being launched and a'most acros3 the river, wns fastea-cd to a block sf'ung on the wire ropes, when one of the carpenters e.is-jd the block lino too suddenly, causing the wire rope to rebound, striking Gray under the chin, and killing him almost instantaneously. Dr. Corse, of Cromwell, was qiilci.'., : attendance, and after tryi, ~ ■ v-i*'ve nT" >- T>" jvrviTTMJ^rnrl life extinct. The unfortunate msin leaves a wife and family in Dunedin to mourn his j loss, for rhoin I understand a subscription list lias been opened in Cromwell, and already a considerable amount has been subscribed. The chord or rib of the bridge, which seems uninjured, is still hanging to the wire ropes, and it is expected ■will be put into its position in a few days. Since writing the above, the subscription list has been shown to me, and amounts to the very handsome sum of over LIOO.' 1

Mr John Griffcn, one of the candidates for the representation of South Ward, -will address the electors at M'Guire"s Imperial Hotel, this evening, at seven o'clock.

Several dangerous precipices on the Dunedin and I'ort Chalmers road have recently been made less dangerous to travellers by the erection of strong fencing along the edge of the road. This is an improvement which bus come better late than never. Only the other week a man was precipitated ov*jr one of tho most abrupt cliffs, only escaping death by a miracle ; and the number of buggy accidents which have occurred from time to time, have been quite an acquisition to the eoachbuilding trade. The Congrcgationalists at Tort Chalmers, having now the Rev. Mr Forsaith settled among them as their ordained pastor, are building a manse for his accommodation, and some improvementsare-lso being effected on the church. The manse is situated contiguous to the church, which, with several other new buildings, occupies a site in Wick elide terrace, overlooking Mussel Bay. We *-.re requested to call tho attention of the members of the Philharmonic Society to the advertisement that the weekly practice will be resumed this evening, ««<! that ™era" bers possessing copies of " The Creation" are requested to bring them.

Mr Dick addressed a crowded meeting at the Theatre Royal last evening, and Mr M'Glashan addressed a meeting at Caversham. This evening Mr M'Glashan Trill be at Dodson's Commercial Hotel, Tort Chalmers, and to-morrow Air Dick purposes being

at Oamaru. The correspondent of the " Dunstan Times, writing from Dunstan Creek under date- 15th July, says:—"A monster meeting assembled at the Commercial Hall on Monday evening, to consider what steps might be considered necessary to secure the cutting and formation !of the main sludge channel. Mr Coates, the Government Mining Surveyor, kindly attended, and gave much valuable information on the subject. He was followed by many elaborate speeches from various members or the Improvement Committee and other gentlemen present on the occasion. Eventually it waa determined that the Improvement Committee should be formed into a select committee, with power to add to their nunioer to issue scrip and draw up a prospectus, and that the Government be applied to for suphis intention of Donne, are proceeding vigorously with the clausing and renovation of the interior of to Princess Theatre, preparatory to the new season, which is to commence on Monday next The ceiling is being cleansed and retouched ; the. lighting will be improved, not only in front of-the stage, but behind the scenes, within the dress circle, and in that part of the pit which, is underneath the circle. The seats are being re-stuffed, and foldingdoors are being placed so as to exclude from the house, as far as possible, any noise from the lobby and the vestibule. New properties and new scenery throughout are being pre-

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pared for "The Daughter of the Regiment," and the burlesque, "The Pilgrim of- Love," which is by H. 3. Byron, and is said to be in his Very" best style. Miss Julia Mathewswill be well supported: Mr J. Hall, who was a great favorite, will appear, with Mrs Hall fMiss E.: Wiseman), and Miss P. Wiseman j Mr Tom Fawcett has also been engaged ; and we believe tbit the company will include other established favorites here, although we are not at liberty at present to mention their names. We anticipate the most pleasant dramatic season there has yet been in Dunediu. The "Dunstan Times " of the 22nd inst. informs us that" The river still continues to fall rapidly, and there is every prospect of its continuing to do so- In a week's time we may expect to see many of the beaches being worked to advantage. It is to be hoped that miners will profit by the experience gained in former seasons of the fickle nature of the river, and will pile their wash-dirt out o£ reach ; the flood, instead of washing up at the time. Should they do this, they may be able to iccure the greater part of the gold in their claims, and not, as has ofcen occurred when having but just tasted the sweets of fortune, a sudden and unexpected flood has occurred, and they have in consequence lost the greater part of the fruits of their labor." Mr James Turner, a candidate for the representation of Leith Ward in the Municipal Council, has announced his intention to address the electors this evening, at the Albion Hotel.