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w • *' i ' ' ■ ' VOL. 2-NO, 80. Tri-Weekly News and Herald ia published on MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, AT No. 11l BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA„ PY MASON & ESTILL, [S. W. MASON ] (j, H. ESTILL.] AT SIX DOLLARS PER YEAR, OR SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH. J&y* ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at liberal rates. The Daily News and Herald T ANARUS» published at $lO per year, or $1 per month; and POST M A S T E 11 S Are auth( zrd to receive subscriptions for the NEWS * "»• HERALD. Daily ar-d Tri Weekly at our ad vert tjel rates. 4 ** 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.