NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 155, 10 January 1867, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The war spirit among the Fenians throughout America just now exceeds what it ever has been before. The sentences to death, by Canadian Judges of Colonel Lynch and Father M'Mahon, for being engaged in the raid on Canada last spring, is the cause of it. They hence resolve and swear by everything that is holy, that if the two men are hung, they will retaliate in the most terrible manner. At all points they are holding meetings for the purpose of raising men and money to carry out their purposes. It was supposed, until yesterday, that Head Centre Stephens had left tliis country to open the campaign in Ireland, nevertheless he still remains here. He still, however, unhesitatingly declares that the ball in Ireland will be opened before the beginning of the year 1867. The health of New York is most excellent. The cholera has entirely disappeared. Returns lately sent in to the Census Office at Washington give us an interesting glimpse into the growing prosperity of the country. It would seem from these returns that, notwithstanding the ravages of the late war, the population of the United States has been and is increasing ( at the rate of a million a year. The Western and North-western States are mainly absorbing this added population, but after the South has accepted the Constitutional amendment and re-entered Congress, a strong tide of emigration will set in southward. Colonies of Scandinavians are already leading the way. The climate of many of the Southern States is preferable to that of the North-west, and in the variety of their products and the fertility of their soil, the Southern States have great additional advantages. Emancipation opens the way for immense changes and developments in the South. The Old World system of agriculture which slavery perpetuated must disappear. Agricultural machinery and white labor will gradually supplant, in fact is gradually supplanting, the uncertain hand labor of the negro. The effect of such a change will be to multiply almost indefinitely the producing power of the country. There is a grand future before the South if she does but recognise her true interests, and a grand future before the country at large. The population to-day is probably not less than thirty-five millions. In 1870, when the next Government census is taken, it will probably exceed forty millions. We regret to have to announce the sudden and untimely death of Harry Grimshaw, the well-known jockey, who on the night of October 3rd, was thrown out of his trap on his return home from the Northampton races, and was killed on the spot. The name of the deceased jockey has long been familiar to the public as a successful rider, but he will be clueny remembered for having steered Gladiateur to victory in the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby and St Ledger of last year. Grimshaw was originally apprenticed to the late Mr John Osborne, the trainer, and repaid the care and instructions of his master by winning the Cambridgeshire upon Red Eagle, in 1859. For the last four or five years he had been closely identified with the French stable, and was an especial favorite of Count Lagrangc. Grimshaw was about 22 or 23 years of age at the time of his death, and it was only some three months since that he married one of the daughters of his former employer, Mr Osborne. The suddenness and shocking nature of the event has created a most painful sensation among the racing community, by every member of which the deceased jockey was held in the greatest respect. We regret to announce the death of Mr Charles Davis, for nearly hah 0 a century huntsman of the royal staghounds. He had been ill for nearly a month, and Sir James Clark, her Majesty's physician, visited ' him on Sunday last for the second time. Since then he has been gradually sinking. On Wednesday, he became speechless and insensible, and half-past one o'clock on Friday he very peacefully died. He will be buried at Sunninghill, but on what day is not at present decided. Had Mr Davis lived to the 15th January his age would have been 79. He entered the royal service 65 years ago as wliipper-in, under his father, to his Majesty's harriers On the 9th of November, 1821, after being first whip to the royal staghounds for eight seasons, he succeeded his father-in-law, George Sharpe, as huntsman, and only retired on his pension at the end of last session. The Standard Theatre was destroyed by fire early on Sunday morning, October 21. On the Saturday night previously there had been a performance (for the first time) of "Der Freischutz," the burlesque on Weber's opera, and the building, which was calculated to accommodate between 3000 and 4000, was crowded from floor to ceiling. After the performance the lights were put out, and the house was closed, as usual. At three o'clocknext morning a watchman who sleeps on the premises examined the place, and, finding everything as he thought safe, he went to bed.

A few minutes after six o'clock ho was awakened by the violent ringing of a bell. He jumped out of bed, and very soon became aware of the presence of lire, wnich had been discovered in the first instance by persons outside of the building. An alarm was immediately raised, and there appeared in quick succession most of the land steamers in London, with Captain Shaw and a numerous body of the Meropolitan Fire Brigade. From the first it was seen that any efforts to save the building would bo useless, and therefore the attention of the fireman was directed to the buildings adjoining. For three hours the fire burnt furiously, and at the expiration of that time not a vestige, save the shell and a few iron pillars of the building remained. Scenery, dresses, and the whole paraphernalia of the theatre wore consumed, and the vast wooden framework of the main and subsidiary portions of the building converted into a charred wreck, lii their efforts to save the adjoining premises the fireman happily succeeded, as, with the exception of a small cottage the surrounding property remained uninjured. But such was the rage of the fire that it extended under the railway (North London) wliich runs at the bade of the theatre, and destroyed a quantity of scenes stored in one of the arches. It was not until 11 or 12 that the fireman were called off their duty. After that hour there was no cause to apprehend further mischief. The Standard Theatre was situated in Shoreditch, immediately opposite the Great Eastern Railway station. The principal entrance — to the boxes and pit— was from Shoreditch. ' The main building was 150 feet long by 60 feet broad. It was built twelve years ago by Mr Douglass, who had previously acquired the freehold of this and a considerable amount of adjoining property. A very shocking affair occurred at Preston on Sunday night last. An oiler at a factory, named George Osbaldiston, living in Crown street, has been out of employment for some time, and has been maintained by the earnings of his wife, Agnes, who is a rover at a cotton mill, and those of an- elder son, a youth of about 18 years old. The wife has been in the habit of taking drink at the end of each week, and, as their income was necessarily small, this enraged the husband, who frequently beat her, and then followed her example at the public house. About 9 o'clock on Sunday night she Avas in the house, airing a shirt, when he came home, and seeing that she had had something to drink he began to curse and swear, then struck her several times with his fist, and Knocked her down. She struck him in return; but eventually they ceased blows, but cmtinned the abuse. She began to prepare supper for her son, and whilst doing so her husband called her some very foul names. She became very passionate, and threatened that if he continued to act as he had done she would run into him a knife with which she was cutting some bread. Ho then jumped up furiously and struck her again, whereupon she brandished the knife and threw it at him. It struck him on the neck, severed the principal artery, and caused his death almost instantaneously. The woman was subsequently brought xip at the police court and remanded.