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In GTeneral.
—Mrs. Surrat t is said to have beenjoeholt
ed to death. — World.
—lt is said to be almost as easy to gel
married iu lndiaua as to get a divorce.
—Why is a loafer in a printing office like
a shade tree ? Because we are glad when ht
leaves.
—The most difficult feature to the sketch
er in penciling Rebecca at the well is draw
ing water.
—General McClellan writes to a friend that
he will probably arrive home on the 25th in
stant.
—One reason why General Grant don’t say
more, is because he cannot talk and smoke
at the same time. '
—An Ohio editor has ciphered out the
number of grasshoppers in that State —42,-
026,150,000.
—Dr. Hall, while in the North Pole re
gions, dines off nine pounds of frozen meat
to keep him warm.
—Butler is already on the high road to the
Democratic parly, aud Forney will not lag
far behind him.
—Some fifty ladies in Linn county, Kan
sas, have adopted short skirts, which fall
about to the knee.
—The latest new word—it started iu New
York—is “suicided.” Its friends say it is as
good as “collided.”
—The Tribune’s critic, speaking of Ris
tori in Aider's tragedy, says, atrociously,
that she “held the Myrrha up to nature.”
—There is a society ia Nashville, Ten
nessee, called the “Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers.”
—Savannah had a “sea cow” on exhibition.
Quilp thinks his milkman must have a herd
of such animals, from the consistency of his
milk.
—A Memphis paper says it will “present
to its readers on each Sabbath an editorial
suited to the day,” and begins with an essay
on graveyards.
—The Mayor of Memphis resigns because
his pay is too poor. Iu this instance
it is the want of money that makes the
mayor go.
—Probably.—ls you don’t know a man
very well, loan him money and then call at
liiS your pay, uutl jrulf Will proba
bly find him out.
—Among the Indian chieftains of such
names as Spotted Wolf, Now-a-Day, Horse
back, Little llicer, etc., there is oue who
boasts the title of George Washington.
—Governor Browulotv hopes to be U. S.
Senator from Tennessee, to succeed Mr.
Patterson, if tin; Reheats can Stand it.
so can the Democrats. But alas for the
country.
—A gentleman iu Albany stated in a
speech, which he made there recently, that
the Radical party was just now in “yellow
mulatto fever” aud in the last state of “black
vomit.”
—The Cincinnati Gazette sends greeting
to its Radical friends, the following plaintive
wail: “A deadly political simoon seems to
hfl.ve swept over the State, turning our great
Repcbli au majority into dry bones.”
A Prudent Cook.—“ Biddy, did you put
au egg iu the coffee to settle it?” “Yes,
mum, X put in four; they were so bad I had
to use toe more of them. ” Biddy was
cleared out.
—On one of the public buildings and at
other points of Venice, might be read on
sight the subjoined words posted up in large
characters: “Give unto Caesar that which is
Ctesar’s. Rome the capital of Italy! Long
IfVe Victor Emanuel !•”
—A lady of Ridgeville, Lorain county,
Ohio, having the rheumatism in her hip,
recently employed an Elyria doctor, who
administered morphine, by blowing it into
the veius. 11,I 1 , effected the whole system,
went to the heart, and caused her death in
an hour.
—A young lady went out with a rather
timid beau sleighing one evening, compla
cently remarking to him that sue seldom
went a sleighing hut she got chaps on the
lips. The young man took the hint and
chapped.
—Mamma—“Charlie, I was very much
shocked to hear you singing -Pop Goes the
Weasel’ in church,”
“Charlie —“Well, mamma, I saw every
body was singing, and it was the only tuue
I knew.”
—A beautiful little female child, apparent
ly about forty-eight hours old, neatly
wrapped up and dressed, alive and kicking,
and as docile as if at its mother’s breast, was
found last Thursday morning, on the step of
Franklin Academy, at Montgomery, Ala.
The junior took it home.
—A German newspaper says : “Two
years ago Mr. Christian Segemeyer became
father of his fllty-eightli child. His first
wife gave birth to twenty-three, of w hich
six were twins and eleven single-born
children. Oi these fifty-eight children
twenty-eight are living, all beiug daughters,
and the man lias never been sick, and en
joys good health, as do his children.
—William P. Solomon, Esq., offers 8500
reward for the apprehension of Captain Wil
liam Jordan Walker, who eloped from the
Buffalo Springs on the loth of September
with Mrs. Solomon. They were last seen at
Greensboro. North Carolina, going west.—
Petersburg Express.
—A private letter from Cincinnati says
that the country along the railroad between
that city aud Cleveland is so parched and
dried up that it lias been set ou fire in
numerous places by sparks from the engines,
and the country l'arand wide has been burned
over. And an intelligent, well-informed
Ohian gives it as bis opinion that the farmers
of the State had well nigh lost their whole
year’s labor in consequence of the long con
tinued and severe drought with which the
State has been visited.
A Case of Identity—or Not.—A strange
cate is now pending in the Essex Market
Police Court, in which a woman named
C itharine Peterson claims the defendant,
Christopher Peterson, as her husband. Her
two children look very much like him; her
sister positively identifies him; his name is
confessed to be the same as hers, and the
woman herself swears positively that he was
married to her eleven years ago in Montreal,
and is the father of her children. On the
other hand, the defendant stolidly protests
that he does not know the woman or the
children; that he never was in Montreal,
aud brings witnesses to prove that he was in
Norway at the lime the marriage is alleged
to have taken place in Montreal. The Judge,
having heard all the evidence, reserved Ids
decision until next Saturday.—AW York
&r<Uu.
A SllOlt r LECTURE DM POETRY.
BV A POET WHO KNOWS HIS CAPACITY, IF
NOBODY else appreciates lUM.
This leclure, is unpublished heretofore,
because an unappreciative public will pay
for no hall. But the buried diamond has
the same qualities as one deposited as
collateral. “Full many agent,” Ac.
But to my theme:
I shall to night enlighten you on the sub
ject of Poetry.
There are two kinds of poetry, „ which I
classify as follows:
1. Blank verse, which don’t rhyme.
2. Poetry that rhymes.
I have put blank ver?e in*l because it is a
heap easier to write, though some laney,
kid-gloved poets, with spectacles and
moustaches, they say, claim tiiat blank
versa is the hardest, but I never have found
it so.
In regard to the origin ot poetry authors
differ. Some have claimed that the Bible
has poetry iu it. I have looked it over,
carefully, and I never have found any, not
even blank verse. The error probably
arose from the arrangement of chapters in
verses, uot metrical ones, but merely di
visionary one3. My first discovery ot the
slightest evidence of poetry is away yonder
back in the vista of the past, somewhere
about three thousand years ago, but I dis
covered no irrefragible chain of evidence to
support the theory that poetry had a being
in those benighted times of barbaric
tongues.
The fact is, Utility is my watchword, and
I never have spout time in poring iver the
musty tomes which contain the literature ot
in age forgotten. You w r ould scarcely be
lieve it, but I don’t know a worn of Greek,
French, Latin, German, Indian, or any other
dead language. And, by avoiding these
by-paths, so tempting to those who have no
single eye to a cherished life-time’s object—
that is how I have acquired my purity of En
glish—by concentration. But lam obliged
to a learned friend (to whose assistance in
the revision of these pages I am also greatly
indebted i for the inspection of three vol
umes, purporting to contain poems of writers
who entered the arena of letters long be
- the Christian era. The name of one
was called Homer’s Iliad, who is said to have
written a poem called Hesiod in two vol
umes, and the other was TEueid, as I wrote
it down, aud his poem (so-called) is entitled
Georges, as nearly as I can remember, for I
forgot to take that down. He lived in Vir
gil, a towu iu Latin, according to the apoc
ryphal but generally received traditional ac
counts. 1 examiued the books, aud saw
some sigus of blank versa iu them, tiut, my
opinion is they are either forgeries outright,
>r plagiarisms ou modern authors. The sub
ject, however, is not worth considering.
The first real poets I find authentic trace
it are Isaac Watts and Shakespeare. They
lived iu England, and died before my time,
out their poems live. The former was a
niuister, aud wrote the regular poetry’,
(Class 2;) it is a little solemn, but the rhym
ing is mellifluous, so charming the car tiy the
sweet blending of sounds ia the termina
tions as to materially soften the grating of
harsh anaihemalical terms, which, I regret
to say, were sprinkled in too freely to make
his works live in these enlightened days.
.Shakespeare belonged to a theatrical com
pany, and wrote blank verse mostly. I sup
pose his duties at the theatre occupied his
time so he couldn’t get leisure to rhyme his
works up. His style was very old-tashioned,
but his class 2 poetry indicates to the accom
plished critic that had he lived in these times,
with our advantages, he would have made
his mark.
I will mention one or two other English
poets. Byron is very good iu some of his
pieces, and generally succeeds iu evening
off the lines right well; but he often accom
plishes this desirable object by splitting a
word in two, which would not answer in a
country of refined literature like ours of the
United Slates. Ha has been mucu con
demned ou account of the immoral tone of
his pieces, but mo3t geniuses have our weak
nesses, and he drank gin to excess, so we
musl’ut judge him too harshly if a word
did slip off his pen occasionally when he
had stimulated too freely. He that ia with
out sin let him cast the first stoui. Ten
nyson has learned the trade regularly, and
has now got a permanent journeyman’s po
sition at Court, with good wages, aud not
much to do except when somebody dies.
Had he Yankee shrewdness, how easily lie
might get up skeleton elegies, or songs of
triumph, leaving names and dates out, aud
then publish them with the filling next day
after the event as impromptu. He’s
slow, but If he has competent teachers will
be a right prominent author when he is a
few years older.
Delicacy forbids my criticising the Amer
ican autnors with whom I am coutempora
ry, as comparisons might be odious. I will
leave our merits to be determined by others.
I never had much acquaintance with Willis’
works, having obtained a dislike for him by
hearing a literal quotation, from one of the
pieces I had read, once ascribed to tlie
Book of Kings by a minister, who used it
fora text of a funeral discourse. I allude to
the line—“Absalom! oh Absalom! would
to God 1 had died for thee,” or something
like that. A plagiarist will steal from
Byron for a fancy poem, it he would from
the scriptures for a religious one. The only
other Amerieau poets worthy of notice who
have passed away were the Ilutchinsons.
They acquired great renown, especially in
their dialectic produetio ns. Father Riley,
Lougfellow and Bryant have some merit—
but I forbear.
I have no doubt many of you, my Readers,
would be glad to avail yourselves of my
talents and experience for some instruct ion
in the art of writing poetry. I will give
a few hints cheerfully, lot it is an evidence
of genius to take Urn novice by the hand
and aid his ascent of the rugged hill ot Sci
ence or guide him through the iutricate
paths of Art, overhung with rose! but beset
by thorns.
In regard to blank verse I need not oc
cupy much space. Os course you can ail
write first class prose. Weil, just choose
some poetic subject, and write up about as
much us you think you’ll need, in prose.
Then divide it off into lines, of about, say,
seven or eight long words, or nine or ten
abort ones. After you get this copied, even
off the lines carefully. If, to get symmetry,
it seem 9 necessary to split a word in two,
think of some shorter one. Big words 100
SAVANNAH. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1867.
well in blank verse. Sometimes three will
make a line. But blank verse must be either
very dignified or very funny to go well.
This will answer tor Class 1, but many of
the rules for Class 2 will- apply to blank
verse.
Poetry that, rhymes requires more labor.
To the novice a rhyming dictionary is in
dispensable. I carry one in my pocket.
You must Inyo a note-book, and write down
all the good poetry-words you run across,
such as “sheen,” “glamour,” “shimmer,"
Ac. A useful occupation for leisure moments
is to run over a dictionary, selecting such
words as you think will work in well, and
classify them. Where you get one striking
word, you can often write a tcHn.. . vvxse t<
it—it will tone all the rest.
If you beginners feel diffident, you can get
a good start by copying lines from other
folks’ poems, and sandwiching in lines of
your own For instance, iu seudiug a rose
to a lady—
'fis the last rose of summer,
The very last one.
The rest where I plucked this
Were laded aud gone.
Or this —-
The lives of Rreat men all remind us,
No goods no-.v are sold on lime.
Cash in pocket—come and find us;
Come lor credit—not a dime.
That, you see, is racy, aud agreeable, and
will please all the merchants.
But enough, at present.
Regarding newspapers—don’t you work
for them; they wont pay: they always say
they have got more poetry than they can Ac.
I have got enough of my own best composi
tions now ou hand to start a newspaper.
I will reserve further information till I see
whether the colleclion now altput to be taken
up will warrant me in spending my time and
voice, aud straining my intellectual organ
ism in the degree required to risk hall-hire
for another night. Jabjso.
State Rights and Manhood Suffrage.
Mr. John Quincy Adams, in his letter ac
cepting the nomination tor the Governorship
of Massachusetts by the Democratic S;ate
Convention, uses the following language—
rather remarkable for the times, and more
so for the latitude of New England :
lam glad to see the doctrine of State
lights, as understood and promulgated by
the founders of our Commonwealth and by
the fathers ot our National Union, rescued
from uumeiited obloquy, and cherished by
you, as it must be by all, if the New England
States are to retain their Senatorial prepon
derance in Congress.
That there is a possibility of this becom
ing a practical question, is shown by the
language of ex-Governov Seymour in his late
address to the New York Democratic State
Convention. Said Governor 3. :
' They solemnly declare they are in favor of
what they call manhood suffrage. Be it so,
but with it must go manhood representation.
Manhood suffrage must not be used, to de
stroy the right of the majority of the people
of tuis country. If it is the natural l ight ot
the uegro in Florida to have a vote, it is not
his rigut to have it count, forty-fold more iu
the Sw ate of tUe United Smfo - MiTliSt..
man in New Volk, if it is the natural light
oi a man in New York to have a vote, it ,s
also his natural right to have a vote; it is
also his natural right to have it count as
much in the controlling branch of the Gov
ernment as that of a man iu Rhode Island.
If this revolution is beguu, it must go ou
to its logical, just end. It. must not roil ou
the necks of the mujoriiy of the Americau
people and stop there, out numbers must
be represented, uot rotten boroughs or sham
States. We implore Senators not to begin
revolution. Your organization Is at war
with impartial suffrage and impartial iepre
sematiuu. If you continue your usurpation
the country may uot be content with diiving
you back within cousdtutional limits, it
may go furtUer, and, acting upon doctrines
you assert, it may crush you out and make
another Senate based iu truth upon man
hood suffrage. The country needs peace,
but if you will have revolution, it cannot
stop at any ciialk lines you may mark out.”
TUe Political Effect.
Only the blinded and demented fail to see
what the political changes mean, aud only
madmen will dare coutiuue the legislation of
tiie past,—and yet we are uot without ap
prehensions that the fortieth Congress, al
ready elected, will be as bad as the thirty
ninth, aud coutiuue iu the course marked
out iu the spring aud summer. If so, so
much greater will be its condemnation and
so much more certain its further rebuke by
the people in the future. The Newburyport
Herald (Republican), from a Massachusetts
standpoint, says :
“These elections show that the reaction is
universal, and therefore it ia uo use to attrib
ute the changes to local questions. It ex
tends from New Eugland to California, fi
has come sooner aud faster than we ex
pected.
* * * if they (the Radicals) had car
ried tlie-Stai.es assweepingiy this year as last,
(he impeachment ot Fresideut Johusou
would he among the “fixed facts” which would
be but the beginning of further revolution
and anarchy. The reaction in the Ninth
will restore the President to the powers that
were indisputably his before the rebellion,
aud head tile impeachment policy lorever.
The wise men of the party will see what is
before them—they will leam the determina
tion of lhe people to maintain the govern
ment; and as they hope lor power hereafter
they will be cautious in the future.”
A Dentist Wlio Outfit to be Hung.
A young lady ot Canandaigua, N. Y , went
to u dentist to have some teeth extracted,
and iu ttic operation he cracked her jaw, but
she being under the influence ot chloroform,
was insensible to her misfortune. The
dentist did not discover it, but attempted to
extract another tooth, pulling out a piece oi
the jawbone ot sufficient size to contain two
teetu. By this time she began to recover
I from the effects of too opiate; and it was
again administered, and a physician and
surgeon being immediately summoned, her
jaw was set. About six weeks after, (he
young lady (being obliged to breakfast, dine
and sup on gruel) was informed by her
physician iu attendance that she might
loosen the bandage aud commence to use
her jaw, which being done, sbe found that
her jaws were set; and after vain efforts to
operate them they gave up iu despair, feel
ing that they were locked forever. At the
latest accounts she was still unable to
open her mouth, and was led through a
silver tube.
Death off Ur. lolling.
On Sunday last, Dr. J. D. Cutting died iu
our city, of which tie has been a ciiizen for
many years. He w ill be rememberrd as the
State Geologist. He also stood high as a
Mason, both in his native State Massachu
setts, and in Georgia. He received his
collegiate education at Harvard and Dart
mouth colleges, aud occupied at different
times several professorships. Ho was atone
time a Congregationalist Minister. He was
a man of ieafning and scientific attain
ments, and an author ot a work on chemistry,
geology, Ac.
He was born in Middlesex county, Mas
saebusetts, and at the time of his death was
about eighty-four years of age. He leaves
two sous aud daughters, one ot which is D.
G. Dotting, the editor of the National Re
publican, Augusia, Ga. After a life of use
fulness and honor, he has gone to his eternal
rest. — MUkdyeville Recorder, 10 ih inst.
FHOff WASHINGTON.
Maryland Negro Apprenttf- Casc-Thc
Secretaryaiiii) off War In Phase-
Tenure off Civil Office Bill|VneonslUu
tlonal—A Dire-'l Issue—Mrs# Stimlou to
be removed Outright, Ac.
[Special Dispatch to the Haiti WuXe Sun.]
Washington, D. 0., October 14 Chief
| Justice Chase returned tuisj morning from
Ohio. He goes to Baltimore to-morrow to
hear a case upon a writ A habeas corpus
allowed some weeks since, iburnable Octo
ber loth, to bring before liii.la colored per
sou alleged to bo detained illegibly under
tlie apprentice laws of Maryland, which are
alleged to be in violation of J. • Civil Rights
act ol Congress.
It is ihe general repori )V! ay that the
President b~*., sen* for Gca.iv.. . :o pome
and take the War Department, as the suc
cessor ot Mr. Blanton, but there is no good
ground for the report; in fact, there is
authority lor saying that uo selection has
been made for that office} the President
having determined to canvass well the quali
fications of the persons suggested for the
position.
Whoever shall take the pjice will receive
an appointment outright (is Secretary of
War, vice E. M. Stanton, rimoved; for it is
the purpose of Mr. Johnson to make an ab
solute removal of Mr. Stautlu under the law
as it existed prior to the passage of the tenure
of office act, which is held jby the Adminis
tration to be uncoD9titu|onal. iu this
opinion Mr. Stanton concurred when the bill
was passed, and himself prepared a portion
of the Vito message, deny ijig the power of
Congress to pass such an apt.
The removal ot Mr. Station being accom
plished in the manner bertin indicated, the
President will simply seurj his message to
the Senate, nominating A.lB- to be Secre
taiy of war, vice Stanton, removed. By this
means it is expected, in caie the nominee be
rejected, that possibly Mr. Stanton may
claim that he shall be reinstated, but being
out of the office, he will be pi impelled to seek
his legal lemedy by mandamus, or any other
mode, if there be any othej 1 pointed out by
law.
This will bring the question as to the
constitutionality of the tenure of office act
before the Supreme Court of the United
States for adjudication, and by its decision
the right of Mr. Stanton to hold office will
be decided.
Under the old law the Executive had the
power to suspend or remove, and the sus
pension of Mr. Stanton its adopted for the
time being out of abundant caution, and iu
order that this act might also be within the
terms of the tenure of office bill. But it was
• i the first instance the purpose of the Presi
dent to make an absolute removal of Mr.
Stanton, sooner or later. Such are in sub
stance the views and purposes ot the Ex
ecutive on this subject. Data.
DISCOVERY OF THE REMAINS OF
THREE MASTODONS.
The Chicago Times gives the following ac
count of the exhuming of the remains of
three huge animals near Fort Wayne, In
diana, by Dr. Stimpson, ot’he Smithsonian
Institute. The Doctoi, assisted by other
gentlemen, has been at work assiduously id
prosecuting the search, aud the most pleas
ing degree of . uccess has rewarded their
labors. The remains ol three mastodons, a
male, female and calf, have been discovered
iu an excellentlstato of preservation. Di.
Stiuipsou was ia the city only a tew days
~-o : - f At—ianila-ied the,folio wing informa
tion reiaiive to -ho stUuVug Ci.- uveiy.
An intimation was conveyed him nut long
ago that, a farmer in Hunterdon, Indiana,
had, in the cultivation of his farm, come
across; at various time*, large bones, evi
dently the remains of seine huge monster,
lhe tarmer, not being a naturalist, of course
look uo notice of me circumstance other
than to drive a stake iu the spot to mark it
usbelng low and marshy. When Dr. Stiuip
suu heard of the discovery he proceeded to
the spot and obtained the farmer’s permis
sion to dig. He ihen began the work ot dis
covery. After digging some five feet iu the
earth lie came across the huge remains im
bedded in the earth. Bone after bone was
taken out; the skull, four leet in length, was
found, and the work was carried ou vigor
ously.
lhe other day three team loads of the
bones were taken to Fort Wayne,thence to tie
conveyed to Chicago. The bone at the
Aoadi uiy ot Sciences is a thigh bone, aud in
stz iit conveys some idea of its former,
owner. It i9 about four feet iu length and
tour inches iu diameter. Dr. Slimpson es
timates that the animal to whicii it belonged
must have been at least seventeen feet iu
length aud fifteen leet in height. The re
mains are supposed to beat least 3.oooyears
old—a supposition based by Dr. Btimpson
upon lhe usual methods for determining the
age aud the character of discoveries iu na
tural science.”
A Noted Change.
[From the Augusta Constitutionalist.]
Hitherto the Charlottesville (Va.) Chroni
cle has staunchly upheld the seneme of re
construction iu Virginia. It now opposes it.
This is, unquestionably, the very ablest
journal published outside of Richmond, and,
indeed, for brilliancy, point and trenchant
logic, is not surpassed anywhere m the Old
Dominion or the South. When, therefore,
a paper of this character changes its base,
the reasons for such change must be weighty
and irresistible. It says:
“The astounding revolalions at the North
—the sudden aud unexpeted development ol'
a just and conservative public sentiment in
that region, as evidenced iu ■Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and all of the recent'elections—has
emboldened ns to change our opinion, aud
we are now in favor of a uniled and deter
mined effort, on the 22d of this month, to
vote down the proposed convention. In
spired by the noble prolest of the people of
Ohio and Pennsylvania, we think it now pos
sible to rally the conservative voters oi Vir
ginia to the polls for the purpose ot defeat
ing the iniquitious measures of the Radical
politicians.
We care nothing if we may be charged
with iuconsi-teupy, provided we can secure
what we believe 10 be the best interest of
the people of Virginia. We regard the
whole lace ol American politics as changed
by the emphatic verdict of the Northern
elections; and what was policy yesterday is
no longer demanded by the situation now.”
These are startling revelations and us eun
did as wholesome. Have we-any of the same
manliness in Georgia ? Is the pride of Lu
cifer too all-absorbing to counsel a recanta
tion.
We know not what chance the Virginians
may have for voting down Convention. Un
der present circumstances, it cannot bo thus
defeated in Georgia. Wherefore, we have
persistently urged the people to keep away
from t> e polls. We sec no cause to reverse
the decision. While warmly welcoming
tardy brethren to the true fold, we cannot
bat remember, with becoming exultation,
that the Constitutionalist has been faithful
tinougli good and evil report, through dis
appointments, gloom, trials and desertion ;
that it has never faltered iu the good work,
never grown weary, never compromised with
dishonor, aud aid not need the “emphatic
verdict of the Northern people’’ to mould its
policy or direct its course.
Can’t Support a Wife.—A young man
gives his experience thus : “My income is
820 a week. My average expenses are for
board and room, 87 Cos; clothing, $6 ; bil
liards, $2 50 ; (f play a poor game ;) chinks,
$1 50 ; horse line, $5 ; literary, T rue Flag
and Fulieo Gazette, 10 cents : washing, 25
cents ; church contributions, Sicents ; total,
823. For the balance I draw ou the old
man. My washing bill last year was S4B,
but, as my necessary expenses were so high,
I was able to pay only sl3 of it. 1 would
like to marry, but don’t see how I can. The
ladies are so extravagant aud nave so many
expensive habits that I can't support a wile.”
—A pretty female artist can draw the men
equally with a brush and a bit ish.
By Telegraph.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Gold Coin to l>e Paid Out-Ititernnl Rev
enue Receipts—Revenue Decision*, &c.,
&e.
Washington, October 16.— 52,469,000 in
coin, interest on 5-20s, will be due and pay
able Ist of November.
The amount ol.lnternal Revenue to-day
was $272,000.
James W. Hancock has been appointed
Collector of Customs at St. Luria, Texas,
vice Charles Taylor deceased.
- Seuiduir-Nyffowill stump New York in be
half of the Radicals.
The inquest evidence over the victims of
the riot at Springfield, Mass., shows that the
State Constables fired into the crowd alter
tne riot had been subdued.
Six hundred Brooklyn shop keepers have
been reported for violations of the Revenue
laws.
The following Revenue decisions have
been made: “When a deed is made for real
estate sold for taxes after the time for re
demption is past, it must contain a recital of
the facts, and the form must be in accordance
with the law of the State iu which the real
estate is situated.”
On the subject of sales under execution,
sugar cane is considered a farm product,
but sugar is not. A person who manufac
tures sugar to an amount exceeding SI,OOO
per annum pays a special tax, though the
cane producing the sugar be made on his
own farm.
The President has not ordered or requested
the attendance of District Commanders here.'
A dispatch from Vicksburg says there have
been no deaths in that city for the last forty
eight hours.
The picture of two children feeding a
horse, held at the dead letter oflice, was
claimed to-day. The portraits are of two
deceased children, and the claimants say the
loss of the picture was more deeply felt by
them than all their property, swept away
by the war. The claimants reside in Co
lumbia, S C. Mr. Beverly, Third Assistant
Postmaster-General,.«t whose instance the
notice wa9 telegraphed, wiil restore the pic
ture at once.
The House Committee to inquire into the
Southern railroads, aud to arrive at an equit
able adjustment of railroad liabilities, con
sisting of J. W. McClung, Chairman; W.
Mercer, F. Sawyer and General Washburne,
accompanied by N. G. Ordaway, Sergeant
at-Arms of the House of Representatives; S.
D. Lloyd, Messenger, and Capt. Meigs,
Clerk, leave to-morrow for Richmond, where
they will remain a couple of days; thence
via Lynchburg and Knoxville to Atlanta,
Chattanooga and Nashville; or they may go
Jrqrn Richmond to Charleston and Sawatmah,
and thence via Macon to Atlanta.
Lund Oiii< c iiecorils—Politic* in Ohio, &c.
Washington, October 17. —After eighteen
months’ labor tbe General Laud Office has
completed duplicates of public land records
destroyed during tlie w ir. For Louisiana
they are said to be perfect.
Mr. Vallandigham is prominently men
tioned as Wade’s successor.
At the request of the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, the Attorney Gen
eral has promulgatted an opinion of
which the following is the closing para
graph: “Neither a railroad owned by a
Slate, or the gross earnings thereof, oi the
profits accumulated therefrom, or dividends
paid upon its bonds, nor articles manu
factured by convict labor in lhe Penitentiary
of a State tor the use of the Stale or on ac
count of the State, are subject to taxation
either under tbe act of 1864 or under any
other of the Internal Reveuue acts.
FROM RICHMOND,
Political Nominations.
Richmond, October Iff.— The nomination
of Marmaduke Johnson, N. A. Sturdivant,
Wm. Taylor, Thomas I. Evans and A. H.
Sands, gives satisfaction to the Conservatives,
and the ticket will be well supported.
The ticket of the moderate Republicans,
with Doctor Sharp, a brother-in-law of Gen.
Graut, at its head, and Fields Cook, a mu
latto preacher, at its tail, also meets with fa
vor, but the Conservative ticket spoils its
effect. It is thought the best men from both
tickets will be taken by way of compromise.
The ladies of the Oak Wood Memorial As
sociation are holding a bazaar to raise funds
for the preservation of the graves of the
Confederate deud in that cemetery. They
have been very successful.
The State Horticultural and Pomological
exhibition, now being held, was crowded
to-night with the fair people of the city to
hear General Wise make a powerful speech
of two houis. He reviewed the past, and
advised the people to devote themselves to
agriculture, .manufactures and tabor
generally. To develope the resources of
the State, and thus recover material pros
perity.
Dr. Alexander Sharp, a brother-in-law of
General Grant, aud postmaster in this city,
will publish a card in to-morrow’s Dispatch
positively declining the nomination tendered
him by the moderate Republicans lor the
Convention.
Col. Chaffin, in a letter to the Registrar of
Culpeper county, explains that only persons
who are entitled to register under the law
are eligible to the Convention as delegates.
A person who was a Clerk of the County
Court before the war, and as such took an
oath to. support the Constitution of the
United States and afterwards engaged iu the
rebellion, Is not eligible to the Convention.
Jerome Park Races.
New York, October 16. —During the hur
dle race in Jerome Park to-day, the mare
Nigreta fell, killing her rider instantly.
The champion, Kentucky, will not start
in his race against time until the track is
better.
A Prize Fight Pustponei).
London, October 16.— The fight between
Mace and Baldwin, the pugilists, has been
indefinitely postponed, on account of the ar
rest of the former.
Release off a Colored Apprentice.
Baltimore, October 16. —Chief Justice
Chase has delivered a decision releasing a
colored apprentice held under State laws.
FROM CHARLESTOS.
Au Important Judical Decision.
Charleston, October 16.—Judge Bryan
the United States Court to-day, iu a case
testing the validity of the paanel of a jury
drawn from voters and tax payers irrespec
tive of color, decided that, although the Act
of Congress required the jurors to bo drawn
as prescribed by the Legislature of each re
spective State—yet that this must be con
strued iu reference to the changes created
by the war. He held that Coucress as now
constituted was the legal Congress of the
whole country, and that the reconstruction
act of Congress conferring suffrage upon the
uegro was valid aud was the provisional
.constitution and law of the State. He held
that President JoliiisS'u nan t„ rc _
store any seceded State to the Union.
He says : “I say it with a great sense ol
responsibility, it was not competent for tbe
President, by any act of his, to bind Con
gress and restore the State to the Union,
and connect with it by Constitutional liga
ments and relations.” He held that there
was no legal government or State constitu
tion, and that under the existing provisional
government tbe reconstruction acts of Con
gress were the supreme law aud constitution
of the State. He says if there vva9 any Con
stitution in South Carolina, or any legal
State government, the act of 1840, com
mandingthe Judge to accept as jurors alone
those who are voters under the Constitution
of the State, and who are qualified by the
act of its Legislature, then it would be deci
sive of this question, aud the paunel should
have been drawn all white, but it is other
wise.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Removal of Civil Officers—The Yellow
Fever.
New Orleans, October 16.—Special orders
No. 162 from the Military Commander of
this District removes the Sheriff and Clerk
of the Fourth Judicial District Court of the
Parish ot St. Landry for being obstacles to
reconstruction, and appoints others to fill
their places. The same order removes the
Council of the city of Jefferson for passing
an ordinance for the election of city officers,
in violation of special order No. 7, current
series.
There were twenty-eight deaths from yel
low fever to-day. At the preseat rate of de
crease the fever will soon cease to be epi
demic.
FROM NEW YORK.
The New Yorit Times on the Election
Results—Mail Contract.
New York, October 16. —The Times con
cludes an article with, “But we arojoclined
to think that the Northern States will not
surrender their own rights quite so compla
cently as they have consented to the over
throw of those of the South.”
Mr. Mansfield, President of the Vicksburg
Packet Company, has obtained the contract
for a semi-weekly mail between Vicksburg
and New Orleans at $25,000 per annum,
with the privilege of changing it to a tri
weekly at 830,000 per annum, at the option
of the Post Office Department. The former
contractors will be prosecuted for failure to
carry out their contract.
FROM EUROPE.
More Fenian Rumors—The War In
Italy—Spain ami France.
London, October 16. —A wild rumor is
current that the Fenians are planning an at
tempt to seize the Queen at Balmoral, in
consequence of which the guard has been
doubled.
Florence, October 16. — The Papal troops
are falling back on Rome.
Paris, October 16.—1 tis reported that
Spain has tendered Napoleon assistance in
sustaining the temporal power of the Pope.
Napoleon and Eugenie have arrived at St.
Cloud.
Affairs in Italy.
Florence, October 17. —The party of ac
tion gains strength. Almost the entire press
of Italy favor the seizure of Rome. The
Pope has called a meeting of the Cardinals
to consider the situation.
FROM EUROPE.
Washington, October IG.—Great activity
prevails in the Toulon naval arsenal.
Garibaldi has issued another address urg
ing the Italian nation to arms.
Mazzini has issued a proclation calling on
the patriots in Rome to lise and proclaim a
republic.
If pressed, the Pope will take refuge in
Bavaria.
Skirmishing with the Papal troops con
tinues. Reports are conflicting, both sides
claiming the advantage, but no important
engagements have taken place.
Menatto Garibaldi drove the Papal troops
into Monte Maggiore. Three hundred Gari
baldians blockaded the road to Mouto L’.b
eiate, but were driven away.
Important Political Movement »n Novell
Cuiolina •
Raleigh, N. C., October 16.—Strenuous
efforts are being made by the influential
leading men to revive the old Democratic
party for tlie purpose of co-operating with
and encouraging the Northern Democracy
in its endeavors to deteat Radicalism.
Some of the most prominent men in tbe
State are the working spirits in the effort.
From all appearances the movement bids
lair to succeed. All the elements of conser
vatism rejoice in the triumphs ot the Dem
ocrats in Ohio and Peunsyl vania.
From Wastiln gton.
Washington, October 16. —Col. Gilbert,
implicated in destroying a newspaper office
in Arkansas, has been fine.l oue thousand
dollars and reduced to the rank of captain,
taking rank at the foot of tho list.
News from the Indian Frontier.
Medicine Lodge Creek, October 14.
The Commissioners have arrived. The In
dians assembled aud talk well, but insist
upon arms and ammunition. :>eiug furnished
them. The Council will continue eight
days. So far peace prospects are good.
Yellow Feivrr.
Mobile, October 16.-ITbcre were bnt two
interments by yellow fever to-day.
PRICE. 5 CENTC.
FROM CALIFORNIA.
The Judicial Flections.
San Francisco, October 17. — Tlie Judicial
elections have passed off quietly. The
Democrats claim the city by 2,000 majority
From Galveston.
Galveston, October 16. —The brig Gal
veslou from Boston will be in to-day all
right with the exception of the loss of top
spars and sails. The Steamer Sedgwick is
discharging cargo and is reported all right
thus tar.
Gen. Reynolds has removed bis Head
quarters to AusUd.
[From tlie New York World.]
A. Comparison Extended.
While at the great Russian Fair of Nijni
iVwv < --.vo<* Aiiuiirgl Fnrragut was invited to
a banquet by the impel lai gryvex uu>, end. in
the eouise of after-diuiiner oratory, took oc
casion iu “comparing the chief institutions
of Russia with those of the United States,”
to say that a similar state -of thffigs pre
vailed on the banks of the Volga to that on
the banks of the Mississippi. Allusion was,
of course, bad to the great common fact of
emancipation, and so 'far the distinguished
speaker was eminently correct. Both upon
the banks of the Mississippi and the Voiga
there has been witliiu these few years past a
liberation of divers millions bondmen. To
extend this comparison has, however, oc
curred to us, and the scenes imagination
has pictured to us in Russia are sucli as to
make us almost refuse to believe that in our
own country they are either enacting or on
the verge of occur'. Though liberating
her sells, Russia has not extended them the
measure of political power possessed prior
to such liberation by their masters, and
then abased those masters to the depths
wlienee the serf has just been raised.
The statesmanlike wisdom of this kind of
see-saw has not presented itself to the Rus
sian mind, and the consequence is that there
the conditions of national prosperity are not
so fatally reversed as to put ignorance above
intelligence, aud virtue beneath the heel of
vice. How lar otherwise, is the case under
Radical domination in this country—a coun
try capable of such noble things if but
freed from the governance of bigotry and
avarice—will appear from the one .single
tact that in a population where whites are to
blacks as. eight to three, tbe operation of
Radical laws is such as to give, even in the
crude first returns of registration, that black
minority an actual majority of 87,560.
White being a synonym for tbe wealth, in
telligence aud experience of that population,
•and blaqk convertible with the poverty, gul
libility and ignorance of a naturally inferior
race, intensified ten-told by bondage, the re
versal of qualities is as glaring as the d*B
-of numerical power.
Here, though from the slowness of ret urnß
in a necessarily imperfect form, are som e ot
the black majorities, representing just 80
much pauperism imposing taxes on
and just so muoh brutal iguorance laying
down the law to culture :
Whites. Negroes.
Alabama 15,511
Arkansas 5,000 .. . ■
Florida 4.G55
Georgia 1,880
Louisiana 89,142
Mississippi 17.505
North Carolina 3,908
South Carolina... 24,843
Texas 11,000
Virginia ... 13.667
Total 24,450 112,016
Nagro m«jority
Remembering that Tennessee has a major
ity of, in round numbers, 30,000; remember
ing also that these figures, as above given
for the o,he." States, are being daily swelled
for the blacks out of all manner of propor
tion to any white increase; and then remem
hcring again that the proportion of white
voters at the recent elections for a Conven
tion was in Louisiana oue out of ten, and in
Alabama, taking Mobile—a white stronghold
as au example, as 160 to 7,921, it cun readily
be seen bow the negro wilt rule this country
if the stamp of popular disapprobation be
not put on a policy that tends inevitably to
that end. Ten large aud beautiful States—
just think of it—to be handed over to bar
barism; and then this control made, by the
working of the balance of power, to extend
itself to all the rest of this great family of
States. Truly, the banks of the Voiga "and
the Mississippi, do uot, in all senses, present
the same view. The autocracy slopped with
the emancipation of the serf—the Great lie
iniblic is rushing to the enslavement of the
frei.
Ttie Pan-Anglican Council.
Danville, Ky., Oct. 10. 1807.
Ta the Editor of the Ij/uisville Courier:
Ah several articles have recently appeared
in your paper conveying incorrect notions
of the Fan-Aoglican Council lately in ses
sion in England, let me say a word to re
move these notions. I observe especially an
article ou this subject in the Courier of the
9th, taken from a Memphis paper. This
article is said to be from the pen of a Dr.
Nudgers, a Memphis clergyman, now in
England. This son of the church writes iu
a rash, hap-hazard and unfortunate way,
when he makes au invidious comparison be
tween this council and the late assemblage
of Roman Bishops and clergy at Rome, ou
occasion of the canonization of certain per
sons said to be martyrs, affirming that the
council at Lambeth has shown itself au
impotent body, while a council at Rome can
issue decrees binding authoritatively every
member in her communion.
The Pan-Anglican Council is named from
the Greek word “Pan,” meaning “all,” and
is so called from the fact that it consists of
representatives from the whole Anglican
Church; that is, from the whole of that
church or communion of winch the English
church (whence the term Anglican) is the
mother. This council, though justly re
garded as a very weighty body, is not an
authoritative one. It is a meeting of the
bishops of the Anglican Church, called by
the Archbishop of Canterbury merely for
the purpose oi friendly consultation upon
the affairs of the church. Certainly a cler
gyman ot Ihe church shows inexcusable ig
norance when he finds fault with this indi
vidual council, informal and uuauthoritative,
because it is not competent to pass decrees
or make canons binding every part of tho
Anglican Communion.
The' goodio result from this council can
not now he foreseen. The evident good is
the visible union of all parts of the Anglican
Church. The Anglican Church is a large
and powerful body, consisting of the estab
lished Church of England and Irelaud, tbe
Episcopal Church of Scotland, the Episcopal
Chuich in the United States, the Church iu
Canada, in South Africa, in Australia, aud
in other parts. The essential unity of all
these parts is found, is their being governed
by bishops, in their adopting, as their belief,
the historic taith contained in the Apostles’
creed, and in their making the prayer hook
the basis of public worship. And had the
council at Lambeth done nothing else, it
would have done a great and glorious thing
as recognizing, iu the strongest manner,
this unity. And tho hope is high in the
hearts of many that this (as it wore) pre
liminary council will lead to others more au
thoritative, binding more closely the whole
Anglican Church, and probably conferring
upon Christendom boons iu the richest char
acter. Yours truly,
—A Fenian demonstration was held at
Jonos Wood, near New Yolk, on Tuesday,
on which occasion tho Fourth Regiment of
tho Irish Republican Army paraded and was
reviewed. I’rcsident Roberts made an ai
dless, iu which he said that within the past
two weeks the Fenians had bought 8140,000
worth of war material. This statement was
received with loud cheers.
—Agassiz says the Florida reefs were 70,-
000 years iu building.