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Secretary Seward addressed the governments of several nations in behalf of Mr. Collins' scheme, the government of his country was the first to answer the invitation, and offered its support to Mr. Collins, as Chili was fond of telegraphs, and of everything that meant progress. (Applause.) That they had more than one thousand miles of telegraph wire already laid out in the country before the war with Spain commenced; but that as soon as war was declared by Admiral Pareja, the Chilians replied to his dastardly attack somewhat as Columbus did to the Inquisition of Salamanca when they wanted to prevent his coming to discover this continent-ordering one thousand miles more of telegraph wire to be run for the internal defense of the country. (Applause.)

He further remarked that Chili, south of Panamá, was the only country in South America fitted for the Collins telegraph passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic, over the Pampas of Buenos Ayres; that this part of the line could be easily made in three or four months, as it was only one third of the length of the overland line to California, constructed, through the perseverance of Mr. Collins, in five months; that already the building of two railways was contemplated, to cross the Pampas from Chili to La Plata-the northern line from Copiapó to Rosario, on the Paraná River, and the other from Curicó south to Buenos Ayres; that two enterprising Americans were the promoters of these grand projects-the well-known Mr. Wheelwright, of Newburyport, of the northern line, and Henry Meiggs, of California, of the southern line. General Mitre, the enlightened and patriotic president of the Argentine Republic, a man who will stand forth prominently among the patriots of South America, had offered his warmest support to Mr. Meiggs' idea, believing that the best frontier against the wild Indian of the Pampas would be an iron track, which would thus spare the Argentine Republic the expense and the danger of maintaining six thousand soldiers to protect that part of the country from the raids of the savages. The orator added that another engineer, an American, too-Mr. Goldsborough-had laid before the Chilian Government a plan to build a submarine telegraph from Panamá to Valparaiso, running from port to port, on the line of the English steamers of the South Pacific.

Apropos of English commerce and enterprise in the South Pacific, Mr. Vicuña Mackenna observed, that not a single mercantile steam vessel, carrying the American flag, had been seen south of Panamá for years, and that through the fault of the Americans, that splendid field of commerce had been monopolized by the English since 1842, who maintained there a fine fleet of twenty or thirty steamers. He further observed that the Chilians would be grateful to England for having come to their relief in the war with Spain; because, although Mr. Blunt, in rather a blunt manner (laughter), remarked that England was prompted in that case by her copper interest, still, no matter why, she was sustaining their rights, and they would feel grateful to any country for coming forward from the same motive.

The speaker further observed that, although Chili was a great copper country, the Chilians were not copperheads. (Applause and laughter.) He advised the Americans to study the South American countries, especially Chili, to change their false policy towards them, and to go and see what they are. "Don't argue," he said, "that our doors are shut now, because if you go you will find some fair hand to open them. And then, gentlemen, if they are still shut, since you built the "Monnadnock" and the "Dunderberg," you have in your hands the keys of the world." (Applause.)

As in the course of his address, Mr.Collins, in a very pictorial manner, said that he purposed to enclose South America with a kind of North American lasso, in the form of a circular telegraph, Mr. Vicuña Mackenna closed his remarks with the following words, which were enthusiastically received by the assembly:-I hope the day will come soon when the lasso of progress will enclose all the South American Republics, each one coming forward in support of Mr. Collins' enterprise. But allow me to remind you, gentlemen, that there is a yet more glorious and ancient lasso which binds the two continents of America in a single world of liberty and democracy, and that South American and North American lasso is the Monroe Doctrine.(Great applause.)

Allow me further to say, that in South America we understand the Monroe Doctrine to be, not an empty wordnot a platform word-not a newspaper word-we understand it as two great men of this country understand it—

as General Schenck understands it in Congress, and as General Grant understands it on the field of battle: I . mean to say that we understand it at the mouth of the cannon. (Renewed and great applause.)

A vote of thanks was unanimously passed to the speaker; and further, that his address should be printed at the expense of the Club. The meeting then adjourned.

The New York Tribune, of December 15th, gives the following account of the proceedings of that session of the New York Union League Club:

"Last evening, the regular monthly meeting of the Union League Club was held at their rooms in East Seventeenth Street, Charles Butler, Esq., presiding.

After the transaction of business, Mr. P. McD. Collins was introduced, and delivered the same lecture which he read before the Travelers' Club on the 8th of November.

Señor Don Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna, Special Envoy from Chili, was then introduced, who spoke as follows:

GENTLEMEN-After hearing such an eloquent lecture, on a subject so interesting to the world, and by a man so superior in intelligence, I think I am justified in saying that your kindness in calling on me to speak amounts almost to cruelty.

But as Mr. Collins has mentioned in his lecture the name of my country, and I find myself among gentlemen. whom I consider friends of Chili, I venture to say that that country was the first in South America to offer its cordial and effective support to the great idea of encircling the world with the telegraph. While, in fact, by its geographical position, Chili is in want of such a means of shortening distances, the telegraph will benefit it more than other nation, owing to its exclusion by nature from intercourse with other nations. Chili is fond of telegraphs-is fond of everything that brings progress. (Applause.) We had our pivot line of telegraphs in 1850, and now we have the whole country spanned by them.

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A line has been proposed from Panamá to Valparaiso. Chili is the only country through which telegraph lines could go from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.It will not be adventurous to say that this line will soon be completed.

I hope these facts will induce some of your enterprising men to study it, and invest their capital.

Señor Mackenna alluded to the monopolizing of the commerce of Chili by England, a fact which he hoped would not long continue.

The speaker ended with a brilliant allusion to the Monroe doctrine. Its vital principle was the power which bound together the republics of this continent, and without which they could not exist. He hoped the time would come when it would be enunciated not only by editors and orators, but by such men as General Grant and General Schenck through the mouth of the cannon. (Immense applause.)

A vote of thanks to Señor Mackenna was passed unanimously."

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

To the Hon. Thomas H. Nelson, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary from the United States of America to Chili, as a slight testimony of sincere friendship and profound sympathy with him in his just sorrow for the irreparable loss suffered by America in the death of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, sixteenth President of the United States.

"One mournful wail is heard from shore to shore,

A Nation's heart is stricken to the core;

And Freedom, kneeling with uncovered head,

Weeps by the altar of Our Country's Dead."

ALBERT EVANS-On the Death of President Lincoln.

I.

A sudden and overwhelming calamity has befallen America!

The bells of all the cities have tolled mournfully; the flags of all nations have been draped with the habiliments of woe; all countenances display deep anguish; days of humiliation, fasting and prayer have been observed by all creeds-in a word, it may be said, without hyperbole, that the world discovered by Columbus has been overwhelmed with grief.

And wherefore ?

Is it perchance that tidings of some unheard-of catastrophe have been received at the same time throughout all countries? Of fire, shipwreck, pestilence, overwhelming inundations? What fearful plague has the wrath of Heaven let loose upon the earth? Alas! it is none of

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