The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1865, Page 5

* political or politic reasons, is now am applicant ~ fog a similar position on another road. Gen- eral Humphreys has within: 9 few days bee flected Governor of Mississippi, and another rebel general has been elected to Congress from the same State. General Mansfield Lovell is raising turnips and squashes, and indulging in other agricultural pursuits, sub tegmine fagi, ona Southern farm. Another general ig act- ng as inspector of docks in New Orleans, General Tappan '9s gone -back to the iron and paper trade in Vickburg. Robétt H. Ander- son has gone back to the law; and G. M. Sor- rell to the banking business at Savannah, Sam. R. Anderson, of Nashville, who used to boast that he forced Andy Johnson to advo cate Breckinridge’s election in 1860, is await- Ang Andy’s pardon at Nashville. William B. Bate has resumed the practice of law at Pu- laski, Tenn., while Joel A. Battle has done the stgamae at Gallatin and George Maury at Nash- -wille. Beauregard and Bragg have taken the oath and are cultivating their plantations, the Arst in Esplanade and the latter in La Fourche parish. Henry L. Benning, finding that his “hopes of being Governor of Georgia were shed by the appointment of a Provisional Governor, has're-engaged in the practice of Jaw at Columbus. Albert G. Blanchard is liv- ing on his plantation in Louisiana. Milledge L. Bonham, Samuel McGowan and James Con- ‘Bor, are prominent candidates in South Caro- lina for the United States Congress. George B. Crittenden has returned to Kentucky and to his brother’s family, content to take the oath and henceforth behave himself. Ben F. Cheatham is dividing his attention between his farm and the race courses, and is the séme reckless gambler of former days. Hardee is cultivating the plantation of his wife in Alabama, and Buckner looking after his wife's confiscated property in Chicago and Louisville. Mahone is back again to the scene of his first traitorous act at Portsmouth. For- rest is running a sawntith on the Mississippi. Wade Hampton is in South Carolina, trying to earrange his farm, which was left so desolate by Sherman that Wade could not find a horse ito carry him to the convention at Columbia. William T. Martin, of Mississippi, has been for- Hunate enough to get his plantation back n good order, and is cultivating it on the free abor system. Henry W. Hilliard is at home if Alabama, trying to prove that he has always een an out-and-out Unionist. General Jordan 8 writing for Northern magazines, and all the of them have resumed their old positions ound the’ barrooms of the Southern cities. hus the rebel generals are more leisurely, * not midve prominently, employed than they ave been for the past four years. ming the Industria} Resources of the South. Every day we hear of something new in the ray, of reopening the trade with the South, nd development of her industrial re- ources. At one time a new steamship line is stablished, at another a railroad is rebuilt; gain we hear that financial institutions, large ommercial houses, places of amusement, colleges, schools, large and handsome news- fapers, are being commenced or revived. “his is all outside the agricultural development f the country, which may be said to be at resent in the infancy of its new and changed But the. most important of the ent reopenings in the South is the “revival a line of railroad from Northern Virginia larough East’ Tennessee to Montgomery and fowile, Alabama. This, with the branch ads, and the connections which will soon be e with direct Northern routes, will eventu- lily restore pertect intercourse between the forth and the South, and link both sections gain in bonds of common interest and common e . Now can all sections of the country fully unite in assisting to plant the South an industrial position in the Union which has not hitherto enjoyed. Her former pulence was more the result of a monopoly she ed in the growth of a single staple than all her other industrial employments com- ined. She can be aided in restoring that terest successfully, with her changed labor tem, by the introduction of white labor and site or black Iabor-saving machines. Her and canals must be re-established, pr telegraph lines rebuilt, her mineral re- uurces developed, her cotton fields ploughed, rowed and planted, and her population urred to emulate the example of their North- n brethern in engaging in worthy industrial its, This ean be done with a little ouble, if Northern agitators would cease bbling about abstractions, and permit the ork of restoration in the South to go on ithout their mischievous interference. Most of the railroad lines in the South were il by Northern capital, and many Southern hdesmen have been deeply indebted to hern houses for goods bought prior to the This shows the pecuniary interest the prth has had in the South. In view of these pts, a pleasing feature has heen disclosed oe the war ended. Not a few Northern tore expressed doubts of the honesty of ir Southern customers, and declared their prehensions that they would never liquidate bir claims against’ them. But, contrary to ir expectations, they find their Southern cus- ers coming North after the war, paying off old debts in gold and silver, making new hases, and leaving extensive orders for fur- ¢ supplies, One Southern merchant brought lew York a short time ago a huge bar of the product of melting his silver plate, sold it here to pay off Northern debts tracted before the war. This act speaks for the intentions of the Southern mer- ts to liquidate Northern claims, no ter what their ability may be. But ir ability is not so meagre as some conceive. In nearly every part of South we hear of large quantities of cotton, and other products coming to light ¢h had been stored in the interior for lack sportation or from a desire for conceal- it, At the same time pots and bags of gold silver coin, and bars of bullion, are being fumed and ‘brought forward to help swell specie basis of the country. At the break- out of the war private parties in the South e probably as rich in precious metals as reputed more wealthy ih the North, It pvident that this Southern wealth has not exhausted, and the use made of it in pay- off qld debts due the North should inspire with a noble impulse to help restore South to her former if not a higher position e Union than she ever before held. To do the best way to begin is to help hor to de- her industrial resources. Wasuinatoy, Oct. 8, 1865. QRNEY AND THE NEGRO SUFFRAGE PROBLEM, Forneg's Washington organ gave notice this morning, in a laudatory article upon Governor Morton's late speech, which it PepToduces nearly entire, that tt had finally discovered which Way the popular mind was tend- ing regarding the question Of negro suffrage. In with- drawing his support from universal suffrage his Excel- lency is styled ‘a close observer of passing events, who has weighed weil all the knot interrogatories which have arisen respecting tho status of thd febellious rates, the abolition of slavery, and particuia ly those regarding negro suffrage, and that his argument Wwanswerablo upon the latter question.”” : > THE BRISCOR TRIAL, ‘The court mart‘al in the Briscoe case will conene again on Wednesday at noon, when Captain Girard, °f Lynchburg, the last witness for the proseoution, will be brought forward. Inasmuch as all- tho witnesses for the prosecution have told the same story, the color of Gen- eral Briscoe’s crime has not been heightened by the trial. The aceused is quite confident of his ability to prove a conspiracy to ruin him. CONDITION OF CAPTAIN WIRZ. Captain Wirz is suffering from inflammation of his right arm, which was wounded by a shell. He seems to recovered from the depressing effects of his nervous attacks and has therofore exhibited marked calmness during the trial of late. THE REMAINS OF SOLDIERS BURIED IN GOVERN- MENT CEMETERIES, The Wa@Department and Quartermaster General's office are troubled with constant applications from friends of deceased soldiers interred in government cemeteries for permission to remove the remains to their homes in the Northern States; In most cases these ap- plications are made under a complete misapprehension of the condition of these cemeteries, It will re- lieve the minds of thousands’ of anxious relatives throughout the North to know that most of these burial places are carofully laid out, tho graves all marked by substantial heddboards bearing the name and rank of each, and the company, regiment and State he belonged to. The work of putting the balance in similar condition is still going on, by order of the War Department, under the supervision of Captain Moore, The goverument cometeries around Washington arc@legantly adorned, We doubt whether one of similar age can be fougd in tho country to equal the Soldiers’ Home Cemetery, near this city, in the elegance of its appointments and careful keeping. Except in extraordinary cases, bodies interred there should not be remov A visit to the place gene- rally satisfies friends, and dispels all thoughts of re- moving remains, UNCLAIMED NAVAL PAY—THE PENSION FUND. Over two million dollars of unctaimed pay remains in the hands of the Navy Department, and its pousion fund, accumulated from captures, is somewhere between eight and ten million dollars. Those most familiar with the necessities and desires of sailors think a radical change demanded in our asylums for this class of public ser- vants. The popular idea that a pensioned or superan- nuated sailor desires nothing but alittle tobacco and grog, and a chance to bask in the sun while ships go sailing by, isan exeecdingly erroneous one. A eailor is not so unlike other mortals, Ho wants society and the presence of his family if he has one. Asylums should be arranged to furnish rooms and water for their inmates, and allow the beneficiaries to draw their pen- sions and live with their families. Perhaps no better disposition could be made of the unclaimed pay and the accumulated pension fund than to focnd an institution where a sailor would not be compelled to don his abomi- nation—a long tailed eoat—into which he would go will- ingly, without having to be fired in with fifteen’ inch guns, ag at present, and where his perceptions and intel- ligence would not be regularly outraged every Sabbath from the pulpit, by nautical slang phrases from preachers who know too little of nautical matters to speak of them understandingly. The nation will be glad to learn that in all probability no more appropriations will be needed by the Navy Department for the next four years at least. RESIGNATION OF DARIUS FORBES, THE SANITARY COMMISSION CLAIM AGENT. Mr. Darius Forbes, who has long been agent for the United States Sanitary Commission in the gratul- ous settlement of soldiers’ claims against the gov- ernment, bas resigned, and William F. Bascom has been appointed in bis place. Mr. Forbes has built up, the claim agency business of the Sanitary Commission to its present colossal proportions, ‘arid estimated that he had saved to indigent soldiers forty thousand dollars in fees, reckoned according to claim agents’ scale of prices, during the time the sanitary claim agency had been in operation. The Sanitary Commission has yet a large surplus fund, which will be used in the gratuitous pi cution of soldiers’ claims; but it is stated that no claims * will be undertaken after the first of January next. THK NATIONAL GAME AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. ‘The majority of the Excelsior Club arrived here to-day and have been in the hands of the hospitable Nationals. ‘The base ball match between the Excelsiors and the Na- tionals to-morrow will draw a large crowd of spectators. A delegation of the Athlotics are expected here to- morrow. Their gentlemanly action with regard to the proposed game with the Atlantics has won for them hosts of friends, while it has cost the latter the loss of many admirers, The refusal of the Atlantics to fulfl their engagement to mect the Athletics in Washington will probably result in there being no games this season between the champions and the Athletics, as there cer- tainly will not be with the Nationals. On Tuesday the Enterprise Club, of Baltimore, enter the lists with the Nationals. ‘The President, it is expected, will visit the grounds to- morrow for a brief time. THE TUNISTANS. It is understood that the Tunis Embassy, whose reoep- tign at the Presidential mansion bad been arranged for Tuesday, will not arrive in Washington until about tho middle of the week, and their visits at the President's and State Depariment will probably occur on Friday or Saturday next. SETTLING UP DRAFT BALANCES. Captain P, B. Crandall, Assistant Provost Marshal in the Western district of New York, under Major Haddock, has boén in Washington several days, striving to secure to Oneida county the credits for two hundred recruits, an overplds from the several drafts to which that county is entitled, and from which it was defrauded by the malfeasance of Major Haddoc¥, who has recently been convicted of thd fined ten thoussad dollars for his frauds in filling Western New York fugtas. Captain Crandall bas bectr eminently succossful in it# tavegtt- gations, and has placed something like four huivet thousand dollars to the eredit of his county in the s¢t- tlement of ita war debt with the Empire State, GOVERNMENT RATIONS FOR INDIGENT FREEDMEN. Captain J. J. Hof, Commandant of the Soldiers’ Rest in Alexandria, Va., received an order to-day directing him to report for duty to the Freedmen’s Bureau. It is un- d rstood that he will be charged with supervising tho issue of government rations to the indigent freedmen of Loudon, Fairfax and Alexandria counties, Va.—this duty not to prevent his retaining the command of the Soidiers’ Rest, that institution having been built up and managed under bis direction solely. THE MEDICAL INSPRCTORS MUSTERED Ov. ‘The corps of Medical Inspectors, organized soon after the commencement of the war, has been practically ished by mustering out the officers as voluntcers and throwing them back upon their original Tank as army surgeons in the regular service. Now that their services are no longer needed, why are not the Provost Marshal General, Commissary General of Musters, and many other supernumeries alao dispensed with. GREEN CLAY SMITH TO VISIT NEW JERSEY. Hon. Groen Clay Smith, of Kentucky, leaves here to night to participate in the New Jersey canvass, He speaks at Trenton to-morrow night, and 1s expected at «several other prominent points of the State during the week. RESPECT FOR THE LATE GENERAL SANDERS, The citizens of Wisconsin now sojourning in the capi- tal have called a mee! for to-morrow night, to take Appropriate action in feapect to the death of General Horace T, Sanders, of that State. 4 PERSONAL. General Champion Vaughan, of Kansas, arrived in the city yesterday, SALES OF SURPLUS GOVERNMENT PROPERTY. The government yesterday realized several thousand dollars.from the sale of quartermasters’ office furniture, under the direction of Captain J, M. Moore. Sales of this kind are constantly taking place at this and adjacent posts, and no inconsiderable amount of revenue is de- rived by the government from:them, RETURN OF COLORED TROOPS. Tho First District of Columbia colored rogiment roturned to Washington. thie afteraoon from the NEW -XORK, HERALD, MUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1865. — South. The" 4, mense crowds of m pagticularly. Their « them a formal receptor Campbell Hospital. ‘pearance on the street attracted im- ectators, of their own complexion colored fellow citizons will give and dinuer to-morrow at the “asreR, MET HIS hb. » of the One Hundred I a in Aloxandria, ¥a., Colonel Frou, attacked last Ulebt and Ninety-tiith Obio Volunteers, wa by an ox-rebel soldier. Tho lattor ** Most severely punished. A COLORED MAN SHOT. A colored man named Hunter was shot am.’ Serely wounded in the head this afternoon by a you, * named Richardson, of this city. Theatres and Their Influence on thé Public Morals and Manners, The above was the subject of discussion last aven- ing at Metropolitan Hall. The hall was well filled by am audience in which there was nothing very re- markably different from the meetings that generally as- semble there. The first speaker was Mrs, Yoffman, & Indy who appeared to be more fair than frail. She was rather plainly dressed, wore her hair in ringlets, and had the air of one who seomed to feel ready to say, “I know my busies4."” She said the surest way to make the stage pern‘cious and immoral is to denounce it, That is the way to n’ake anything bad. Danging was denounced and thea it was done im violation of conscience. The in- ference from this, a8 we understood it, waa that indecent theatricals are encosraged in violation of conscience, therefore it is right to pursue and encourage thent. The “Test of Friendship” she once heard played and it brought out her very best feelings—her very holiest nature. She then entered into a somewhat curious description of her feelings and sensations while witnessing ‘the Test,”” There are moments when the inner being would ‘be inspired with more love. We should now live m deeds and heart throbs. We hould look at things as they exist, Wo want more of the religion that tones the voice—one that goes into. the family and keeps the hus- band from being cross. We want a religion that shall in- ‘torpose between the rocks and gulleys of life and the sen- sitive nature that has to travel overthem, We want a re- ligion that will exclude buttons from the collection box, (Laughter.) She then entered into the antecedents of some of the most prominent actors, stating Bar- ney Williams was a regular ‘dock watloper;’? For- rest was an errand boy;. Charlotte Cushman was a sewing girl; another actor was a pill- maker; Laura Koeno was a protty waiter girl in a saloon in London, and could make a giu cocktail a3 well as any oue, She mentioned the original occupation of several other prominent actors and actre: ch were of @ kindred character to thosg men’ The lectorer doseribed how Adam and’Eve were tired ouce, and hand in band and arm in arm lay down upon the sand, and in this condition were visited, first by the archanget Michaol, and afterwards by the dovil. A passage of Scripture was brought in as a conclusion to this rare specimen of eloquence and argument. The lady then flounced off the stage with the air of an actress and was absorbed in the audience. Mr. Robinson, a gentleman with biack coat, pants and necktie and white vest, smoothly shaved, was called upon as Mr. Robinson, but hoped the reporters would eall him Mr. Jones, ashe did not want his namo in the papers, Ho entered into a dissertation upon Shakepere and his ideas, admiring them all. His speech would not be a combative one, (How could it?) He thought, however, the stave was injurious on the whole. As'a general thing, nowadays, you eco alot of botches, You have Camille done by modern actresses. And what was Camille? A French courtesan, These French sensa- tional corruptions of morality have by these means boen transplanted to America, and to some ex- tent popularized, We have ‘no tragedians now- adays. Then hoe spoke of Edwin Booth and other well known actors, expressing his opinion ot them and their performance. If we could have Shakspere’s, Jolinson’s or Voltaire’s plays presented, whore intellectuality is presented without. immorality, all would be well chough. But our plays nowadays aré all blood and thunder, You hear low sentiment. The Am rican Cousin, for instance, is all a bundie of trash. We can laugh at somo of thom, but when we reiloct we find we have been Janghing &t nothing. There is no Denefit from laughing. I am in favor of dancing, but 1 would not Lke my danghters to be out all mghit with somo fellow that I knew neuhing about. I would like to seo him any how, to see what kind of a son-in-law he would make. I don’t oppose Quakers, but if God wanted the world drab he would have made it drab. Don’t have such a passion for the theatro that younz people will steal money to go there, and never think of school or anything but love and theatres. Many of the ‘Worst characters aro the patrons of the theatre. In the present condition of the stace it is doubifal whether it does more harm than good. Let us bave liberty in everything, without licentiousness, There is more vice than virtue inthe theatres as they are managed at present, Gnardians of youth must louk after th's theatre business. Don’t have the young go and seo what is im- moral. The managers don’t care what they put on the boards, as long as it “takes.” They don't want to ele- vate morality, but to elevate their pockets, I Would have tho theatre purified Wo want amusement in this fast city, but we want amcral stage for New York. This ardiress was well received by the audience, and the frequent flings at the well-known abies of the stage were frequently applauded, and sometimes pro- ter or. Asdhsiblo looking young man now arose and ciatmed the floor, which was contested with him by another, The Chair was in doubt who should have it, but, on the young gentieman’s appealing to the audionee, on the ground that he had the negative side of the question, it was overwheliningly deeided in his favor. He did not look for morality among young men who attended the theatres and concert saloons, Such people as N. P. Banks and Hannah Moore did not receive their edu- cation in the theatres, Nine out of ten actors and actresses who marry become divorced. ‘The most sacred social tio is not much honored by the theatrical perform- ers. The most disastrous and devilish act of modern times—the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the best friend of civilization—was plotted and carried oift in a theatre and by an actor. He preferred schoolhouzes, churches and Christianity to theatres, George Washing- ton did not get his education from the plays of Shak- spore, Voltaire or anyone cise. Spurgeon and all such men fake their stand against the théatres. Spain gos in for bull fights and theatricals, but she has gone back almost to barbarism. The speaker was proceeding with considerable energy when it was announced that his fifteen minutes were up. He was frequently applauded. Two other speakers followed, but their arguments were not very forcible, and presented the subject in no new light, They took’ opposite sides. ‘The conclusion of the diccussion was then announced for that time. Musical, We have received further particulars of the names and merits of Manager Grau’s company. Besides Madame Gazzaniga, whose capabilities aro well known hero, '¢ has secured Sighora Noel Guidi, sald to possess a fin voice and great dramatic power and to have a great repu tation throughout Italy, Mlle, Boschetti, another acqui- sition, 18 spoken of as the queen of Margarettes in Faust, She is young, beautiful and has performed this part with flattering suceeas in all tho principal theatres in Italy. ‘The tenor is Musian!, Polint is the basso profundi, Roceg the buffo, and a fine chorus, al ee Mr. George W. Morgan, the celebrated organist, has just returned from a successful concert tour through the West and Southwest, where he has been received geuc- rally with distinguished applause and approbation. Broapway THRaTRE.—A new season commences this evening at the Broadway with a five act comedy, by De Walden, entitled fam, ia which Mr, Frank 8. Chanfrau will play the title part, assisted by Messrs. De Walden, Paraloe, and an excellent company. BhrroTnxaTRON,—A flew programme is announced for this ¥4#k at the Hippotheatron, styled the Riggs of Mr. Briggs, of tho Ploasiires of Houeckeeping and Horve- keeping. Thy piece is based upon Punch’s illustrated story of Mf. Briggs, and promises to be very rch. All the other attractions of the cirgme will be presented as usual, we Hoouey’s Orgs Hous? Brooxtyx.—A very attractive programme is offered at this house to-night, inelnding the comic pantomime 0? Speko, the Brazilian Ape, Which is @ more varied and li¥#y pleco than that presented last week. The renowned’ Deny Denier and George Christy will appear in the leading parts. Mr. Hooley is always adding fresh talent to his company. He hax now engaged Tim tayes and M. Kanane, who will appear this evening in their famous challenge clog dance, Buxp Tow at Dopwortn HaLt.—The suppression of the rebellion has at least released one Southern curiosity in the form-of the blind negro pianist, who some years since was engaged in travelling through the country. Blind Tom has never performed ia the North. He is « curiosity well worth seeing and hearing; for, though an insane negro, he js not repulsive in apy ince, and his execution on the piano is really ver ine. He will exe- cute on the pianoforte not only the most dificult of pieces, but will perform two of ‘them at the same time and onthe same piano, Ho will repeat, after having only once hoard it, any piece of music which has or can be written; and will accompany a performer on the [oer] playing the second of airs which he bas never eard before, He does many other equally wonderful things, and a visit to Dodworth Hall will be well . City Politics, SIXTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Some delegates representing the various German democratic ward organizations of the Sixth Senatorial district, comprising the Ninth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Eighteenth wards, mot yesterday for the purpose of tak- ing some measures to urge the nomination of Mr. Nicholas Quackenbush, a lawyer of this city, for Senator for the abovenamed district. A committee, composed of three members of each ward organization, will be ap- Pointed to confer with the Tammany Convention, and, in case the Convention should refuse to adopt this nomina- tion, the Germans are determined to defent the Tam- many ticket, as they can command some two thousand ‘Votes in thia district, ITALY. Heavy Deficiency in the Ital- fan Revenue. Onerous Taxation---Dissatis-- faction of the People. De“orations Conferred Upon Distinguished ytalians by the Emperor of Mexico, THE rmon.-CLAD PALESTRO. Projected Railroad Through the Appenines, * Appointment of the Archduke Leopold to the Command of the Austrian Navy. Death of the Celebrated Miacstro Villanis. ke. &e, &e. Our Florence Correspondence. FLoneNox, Sept. 21, 1865. The letter of the Marquis di Pepoli to Minister Sell upon taxation has been most favorably received, having been published by nearly all the organs of the press without distinction of principles, It has proved a serious blow to the Ministers, and caused additional trouble to the already embarrassed and struggling Cabinet, The duty proposed to be levied upon incomes cannot possibly be equitably distributed, owing tothe defective terms of the law by which it is sought to be authorized, and, moreover, the Minister of Finance has failed to porcelve that the revival of this species of taxation must imperil the public safety of the State. The idea that the country will consent to pay four times as much as for the latter half of the year 1864, without manifesting apposition and discontent, is a. financial blunder whick is unpardonable ina man endowed with the sound practical sense and financial talent of Sig. Sella, In the matter of taxes the moral effect should be well considered, Taxation being generally considered by tax- payers as an evil, notwithstanding that the evil is in reality absolutely necessary, all the talent of the legis- lator should be employed to make the burden weigh as lightly as possible upon the people, In England, where the income tax has been longer in operation, a large class of persons are exempt— viz: all whose incomes do not amount to one hundred pounds sterling; but false declarations are quite com- mon, and the statistics show that this cannot be avoided and that fraud is inseparable from this class of impost, however closely the financial circumstances may bo scrutinized by the revenue officers. Besides, this tax has noyer beon sanctioned by the English Parliament except as a measure required by extraordinary circum- stances, such as a war tax. From all parts of the kingdom of Italy confidential reports of a serious nature have been forwarded to the general government describing the excitement created among the people by this fourfold increase of the half yearly amount of taxation, a portion of the original estimate having been already paid. ‘The southern dis- tricts are the most discontented, This state of affairs is the more to be rogretind from the circumstance that we are on the eve of a general election, and the propos-d measure, if carried into effect, will furnish the extreme parties with a powerful weapon—one that will act most offectlyely against the crushing and tyrannical system of taxation by whitch the country is being despoiled and ruined, Tho question of the nationul finances is one that will bo considered of great importance in th 1- of the candidates for election to the ties, inasmuch ag it reets with that body solely to grant (he appropr.ation for the last quarter of 1865, Signor Sella is obliged to make up a deficit 0° at least two hundred und fifty milious It would not be advisa- Die to increase the rate of taxation or the estimates already made of the value of property, for in many 0: the provinces these are even now by the taxpayers to be exorbitant; and any augmentation of the duties im upon personal property would be equally ob- Jectionable in the face of the deep protests and throaten- ing murmurs of the maasos in many locaiities. Money must be obtalnyd, however, and it cannot be had from an increase in ‘the demand for matters taxed, such as registration, stamps, &c., and by the imposition of new taxes alter the strictest economy of expenditure shall have been tried. Ths saving which the Minister of Finance calculates to effect during the year amounts to about sixty millions, more or less, to be segured by various reductions in tho expenses of the departments of war, public education, agriculture and commerce. Signor Sella perceives that in the War Department budget alone 1 considerable re- duction can be made in the cost of administration with- out in the least affecting the strength or elliciency of our army. ‘This teducvon in connection with stringent © onomy in the departments of education and commerce may effect a saving of perhaps fifty millions; yet this will till leave a deticioncy of two hundred millions to be supplied. ‘Tho revenue from customs can be rendered more productive by increased vigilance with regard to contraband operators, and a greater income from fecs from registration and government stamps is to be rea- tonably expected; still the yield from both of these sourees will not exceed fifteen millions. In order to cover the amount lacking the Finance Minister has proposed various new taxes. Among these isaduty on the mannfacture of wine, The cultivation of vineyards is not nearly as profitable and extensive in Italy as it should be, and this new tax may tend to fur. ther depress this branch of industry, Another tax pro- jected is one upon the grinding of grain, which would alone, it isestimated, yield tha exchequer one hundred and Ofty millions per anam. Nothing definite has yet bet} Kes 4 bub the Minister of Finance will no aonbl Fecommend the taxes described in the speech from the throne at the approaching opening of Parliament, The new Minister ot Justice, Signor Cartese, is striving to effect an amalgamation of the general judiciary and the provincial magistrates, mere rumor of thts measure has induced the Tuscan magistracy to petition the Minister that Tuscan magistrates may be allowed to hold ofiiee during life. 1am informed that by the last steamer from Mexico, which arrived at St. Nazaire tew days since, the Empe- ror Maximilian gent the grand cordon of the Order of La Guadeloupe to the celebrated Italian poct and author, Alessandra, Manzoni; the insignia of Grand Officer to Omerbeek, the painter, and Commander's Crosses to Many oer illustrious Italians. A formidable iron-clad gunboat has recontly been comt- Les fox the Ttalian goycrament in the vast shipbuild- steed on the Seine, near Paria, The plans of the Palestro—the name of the vessel--were dosiknod by Hig. de Lueva, one of the leading shipbuilder of Italy. She ts about two hundred and thirty feet in length, throe andrea horse power, and carries five guns of heavy libre, four of them being in the central iron-clad tur- ret. Her prow is furnighed with a long ram. Acommirsion, composed of eminent engineers, has been appointed by the government and directed to ex- amine various passes of the Appenines between Tuscany and Romagna, for the put re of selecting the most suitable route for'a railroad ‘Totween Florence and the Adriatic. The office of commandant-in-chief of the navy of Avstria Raving become vacant by the accession of Maxi- milian to the throne of Mexico, the Archduke Leopold has been eppointed to succeed him. He bas already as- gamed command at Trieste, and will leave in a few days oe overage of inspection albng the coasts of Istria and Dalmati The celebrated comporer of operatic music, Villanis, is dead, The sudden intelligence of an accident to his only son caused such a shock to his excessively delicate nervous organization as to throw him into a delirium, which ended in death after two hours of great suffering. The notorious brigand Albanese, togethor with two of his band, was captured not long since by a detachment of French soldiers, om the borders of the Papal domin- jons, in @ monastery at Scifelli, where % considerable quantity of arms and ammunition also fell into the hands of the captors.. Ob! EX-LISUTENANT GOVERNOR ALBERT C. HORTON, OF TRXAS. Albert C. Horton, of Matagorda, Toxas, was the first Lieutenant Governor and President of the first Senate of Toxas as a State of the Union. Ho was elected imme- diately after the organization of the State in 1645 with I. P. Henderson as Governor. and in 1847. He never afterwards held Ate term expired office under the ton and others in the establishment of the republic State of Texas. PENDLETON MURRAH, OF TEXAS. ‘The rebel Governor of Texas, Pendleton Murrah, lately died in oxile self-imposed. He wasa young man, a na tive of Alabama, and graduated at Brown Universit; New York, in 1848, He was supported in his youth font to college by the charity of a number of indice at- tached to the Baptist church of bis native town, Ho was = Governor of Texas in 1863. Hoe died at Monterey, exica, eee 5 ‘ Literary Intelligence: Alife of Samuel Adams is announced by Little, Browm » "a Boston. The compiler is Mr. Witham V. Wells, THE TUNISIANS. ea ',, ‘no one more competent to do jus- Meligion and Religious Obscrvancés im |) ° | eee fetter from Mr. Bancroft to the Tunis, &e. fice tothe, ~s:-"The twelve years, from 1764 to Of the two millions of souls comprising the population: publ oe nara im the life of the town of of Tunis the great majofity, probably nineteen-twen- a » Samuel Adams was un 1776, were the wreiigegg » tieths, belong to the religion ‘There are Boston; anc | of the town. It is about fifty thousand Jews, principally Arabian, GMb eee? owe a Mase poare sofore the questionably we foremost oltigon .. quite time shat Bis lite should bo © Public in a fitting” MUN A Eq for the fame of tne town of Boston as i WM; and T icno,,” 89 ome $0 well seaccoly more than six or seven thousand Christians al. together. Edgar Allen Poo wrote a story styled “Three Sundays In One Week,” which, to persons who admire hia stylo, is no doubt amusing, In Tunis this title would 5 “Ut admirably, Re there are three days observed by air. | “2 0 do this publi #°*¥!0¢, from xem, erty fore. “.*Cliglons as Sabbatis, ‘The Mohammedans keep | OPPOFtunities of investiga'°%, 98 Mr. Wo, © Vion him and you entire success im #4 enterprise, i,, Success will be richly deserved. “> ~. ~ The September number of MacmiWan'’s Magazine cor, tains an account of the attempt to lay the Atlantic telo- graph cable, from the pen of Mr. John C. Deane, who, aa Mr. Russell's alter ego, accompanied the expedition, and kept a copious diary of all that occurred. George Augustus Sala 1s to deliver lecture in Gtas- gow, Scotland, on “Three Phases of Civilization—the United States, Mexico and Algiers,” Victor Hugo is about to quit Brussels to visit Ger- many. Friday “Fed, while the Jows observe Saturday and the Christians Sunday, The mosques in Tunis are of the same descriy, 18 45 those throughout Turkey. The Jews in Tunis aro’ Very strict in the observance of their ancient rites, ¢fraining from handling money or fire on their Sabbath. They aro principally nomadic, or wandering, and these wlio reside in ono place generally follow thoir ancient occupation of shepnerds, which made thom formerly an “abomination to the Egyptians, ’’ The Christians in Tunia almost all beJong to the Roman Catholic persuasion, there being scarvely two hundred Protestants in the whole country. All religions are tol- erated and rospected by the main body of’ the people. perce Ki eR ome Bring As many of our readers are perhaps uncware of the | César.” The manuscript is being put in pe at santo origin and tenets of Mohammedaniam we will devote a | perial printing office, and nearly ten sheets are now rr That amount scarcely makes up one-half of the small space to these subjecta. 4 ny - yolume, which will not come out, before MOMAMMEDANISM—ITS TENBTS. ng beginning of next year. as lebih. > Mohammedanism, as the term indicates, was founded by ae"8in Mahomet, He was born at Mecea, in 570, and enday.°4 considerable privations in his early days, his family bon.’ Poor. His parents died when he was yet a child, apd he was taken charge of by an onele. Having Attained his twenty-fifth year he made the acquattance of a young man who had a maiden aunt Of probubly forty summers, at least so she said herself, She had money, he had none; #0 they were married, dnd the newly made hus band retired from public life; he had been a shepherd, and prepared himself to live happily on. his wife’s in- come. Not having mmything cise to do, he thought he might, after the manavr of the modern spiritnalists, receive communications from the spirit world, and it was so, He was taken with convulsions, in the course of which the Ancel Gabrie! appeared. to him and recited the celebrated Koran, Vhis book is te the Molam- medans what the Bible is to the Christiam At first he could only et his wile to believe him, but after some —_—_—————_———— Scientific Intelligence. Mr. Frederick Yates, of Birmingham, has patented # new method of purifying iron and steel. The process is of Prussian origin, and is aaid to be simply tho introduc- tion ofa quantity of motallic lead, or the oxides or car- bonates of that metal. The lead is introduced while the iron 16 in a molten state. Seaweed is being utilized in England as an insulator for submarine cables, and answers admirably, While the ocean destroys nearly everything submerged in it, seaweed, being its natural offspring, is preserved by res toration to its native element, Letter from Cyrus H. McCormick. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Avoy Srrinas, N. Y., Oct. 6; 1865, Im your notice of the decease of “ Wiliam Le McCormick, of Chieago,”” you have made at least three timo several % ig reat 5a comets ide | mistakes, which you will please correct. He died while considerabie persecution. Several times he hati'to flee | With his anily, occupying apartments of Dr. MoFarlane, the more the doetrines were opposed so | Physiciaw to the Lu Asylum, of dysentery, He had ro were they believed in, In 622, a plot | been for some time ed with’ nervous dyspepsimy, but g been made to assaselnate him, he. fled, and trom | Was muck improved wnder the treatment of Dr. Me- Farlane when attacked by the disease 1 prevailing $a the asyiue— composed (and F may add, re: never claimed to have been “the laventor of the tnmuae reaping machine,” but. was. the inventor's worthy rother, and had, with another brother, the chief man- agement of the manufacture and sale ‘of that machine, tioned, them is mind then ax sound and ) as itever was. He tthe hegire dates. Dur- the nuimber of converts large. Ho built several ny followers that he pro- In almost all his bat- t he began to be feared, gira he conquered Mecca’ moxques, and finally had so claimed war against his en tlos he was successful, #0 t and in the ninth year of the b This established the pew religion in Arabia, whence it | in which ho had also an important interest, for the Last spread far and wide, In the following year be-died, fifteen years. Sor was he ever, or any of his name, so The followers of the Mohammedan creed donot call | far as I know, a ‘radical’ republican.” Respectfully, themselves by that title. They call their creed Jvam, | YOUTS, C. A. MoCORMICK. which means “full submissiod to God,” and choos saris Railroad €eilision. ONE PERSON KILLED AND ONK SERIOUSLY INJURED, je City (Pa.) Record, Oct. 5. ing, the balf-past three o'clock traim ry ran into the Western train due at at five in the afternoon. The Westerm ‘opped. A young man who had recently bs © name we did not learn, was at Wellsville, Tiogn county—was ars collided. Both’ his legs were . is of the cars, and serious ected. He died in two hours for themselves the name Moslem, or “the people of the islam,” This term has since been perverted into Mussul- mans. The roligion is a strange admixture of Chris. tianity and hexthenism. By heathenism it mast not be inferred we mean idolatry, God is worshipped by the Moslems, but ina diflerent way from that in which we as Christians acknow ¢ Him. The Mohammedans do not lay claim to any regular confession of faith, except the one, “There is no God but God, and Mohammed is His prophet.’’ He is one spiritual eternal—the attri- butes of wisdom, omnipotence and mercy. The Koran is His word. The account in the Koran of the but whose reside stepping off as th crushed beneath the internal injuries also inf creation greatly resombles that in tho Old Testament, | after the accident. Another gentleman im tho Eastern Of tho prophets Adam, they say, was the first | Wain had-his log broken and (oot smashed, besides sus- and Mohammed the last, ‘The dead are subjected by the | taining several other slight bruises. Several of the cars rs . angels Nunkie and Nakie to an examination, which is | Were badly smashed up. It is stated that the Western followed by au examination by God himself. “They hold | couductor had received orders to stop at Irwin until the there is and n hell, and that a bridge as thin as | Eastern train had passed. The n train was ex- a lair over the latter has to be crossed before entering | Press, and does not stop at this point. The Western the former. The doyil they style Kblis. He, they say, | ‘ain had just stopped when the Easterm train came was condemned to death, but his sentence deferred for | thundering alovg, the collision occurritig before the exeoution till the final resurrection, MANNER OF WORSHIP. Every Moslem is bound to effer up prayer, or rather repeat passages from the Koran five times a day—at day- break, at noon, in the afternoon, at sunset, and one and a quarter hour after it, In every town the faithful, as they are termed, are imyited to prayers the public crier, ’ or muezzin, whose calls con- tain short passayes of the Koran, &c. In the morning he adds to his general cry the wholesome exhor- tation, “Prayer is better than siecp.”” Friday, as has Ween stated, is the Mohammedan path, ‘The eating ot pork is forbidden, as with the Jews; the same is the case with the drinking of wine. Tho Mussulman may porform his prayers ina honse every day but Friday, when he must go to the mosque. ‘These are a lew of the principal laws relating to the vt mn of the Moslem, Each country, of course, bas its of the Feligion f ities, aud in Tunis the pract Js not quite go strict ag elsewhere. THE TUNISIANS YESTERDAY. In deference to American customs, which they are always ready to bow to, the Tunisians did not leave their themselves by watching the passers by, seeming to be tired of the scene. During the day there was an alarm o! fire, and a number of engines, with New York accompaniments, passed the Astor House. This amused them considerably, Fires are almost unknown in Tunis, and (a volunteer, oF even a paul fire depart- ment is’ a thing unheard of. No red-shirted b’hoys Tush through the streets there, tothe inflaite peril of life and limb of pedestrians. In fact, Tunis is behind the times, ‘Tho embassy to-day visits the Brooklyn Navy Yard, through the kind juvitation of Admiral Beil. Jersey City New: LECTURE BY REV. DR. BRANN ON CHURCH INFALLI- BILITY AND RELIGIOUS ECLECTICISM IN AMER- ICA, Roy. Dr, Brann delivered last evening at St, Mary's Roman Catholic church the second of the series of dis- courses upon.tho effects of indifferentism and eclecti- cism in religion, a8 manifested in America, Many citi- zens Outside of the Catholic commanity, having seen our notice of the preliminary lecture, were present Inst even- ing for the purpose of hearing some interesting features of Catholicism expounded by a speaker of recognized elocutional and logical powers. There was a very large attendance. Dr. Brann divided Christian belicf and worship into three grand systems—the Catholic and the two non-Catkolio systems, one of which embraced those who believed in church organization, bot insisted on fallibility, and the other those who were each a churoh unto itaelf, The latter, he raid, was peculiarly American, and savored of the national propensity for m- vention, but’ was tilogreal as placing tho natural reason, ag judge over the supernatural Divine trath, He ins sted on infalibility rightly understood, but disclaimed the idea of individ ‘A priest, bithop or even the pontitt Tho Pope was infallible only when speaking faith as the mouthpiece of ta Church, which always speaks on faith throngh an ecumenical or goueral council of the Canimals and Rpis- copacy. The lecturer stated thatthe Charch waa the teachér and expoundgr delegated by dur Lord, who up to the coming of Christ performed auch fanctions directly through prophets and revelations, and it existed from the beginhing, the first Catholic being the Oret man. As the church was an organized society it had its laws and aright to exact obedience, and omperor or king or presi- dent had positively no right to interfere. The church could exist under any govercment without infringing on its laws, and most decidedly could never brook interrup- tion in its legitimate mission by any temporal power or legal enactment whatever. The discourse was an im- jivo and earnest one. The inquiry into American religious characteristics grows Interesting to all citizeng as it proceeds, Mobile Cotton Market. Monte, Oct. 7, 1866. Cotton—Sales to-day, 1,600 balos, at 420. a 430, Sales of the week, 126,000; receipts, 12,040. Exports of the week, 9,105. Stock, 53,000. The total amount of cot- ton destroyed by the late fire was 3,390 bales. Perso: ene. ‘The rebel General Wm. J. Hardee is living for the Present on the plantation of his wife in Alabama. ‘The property of Joseph EF. Davis, brother of Jeff Davis, and of General Wm. T. Martin, both late of the rebel army, has been restored to them, Judge J. W. M. Harris, of Vicksburg, who held a high civil office under the rebel government, has been pardoned by the President, Gonoral Dana, who recently left the army, and is now agent of the Boston and Reading Mining Company, has | cures arrived at Austin, Nevada, where one of the mince ignow in successful operation under his direction. Mile, Offenbach, daughter of the popular composer, is now Madame Charles Comte, the marriage having taken place at La Villa Orphée—rather « bad omen—a marine residence belonging to her father, near Etrelat, EKighty- eight persons were at the wedding breakfast, the majority bearing names distinguished in literature and art, Americans egistered at the American banking houses in Paris for the week ending September 22:—Hon. J. Poase, Jr., Ambrose J. Clark, Charles Danforth Cobb, Stanton Blake, Edward Gould’ Bustum, Mrs. J. W. Post, Miss Post, R. Cary, wife and ghtor, J. J Mrs. Edward Clark, red € ley Lang and daughter, John H. K, H. Robingon, Dr, and Mra, W. H. and family, Mrs N.C. Wi low, Rev. Jobn M. K D. D., and daughter; Ebene P. Rogers. D. D., Mist Emily Stiller, Mies Mary Hagl 5. Edward Haner, Mr. and Mra. Wim. T. Blodgett, J. Phil Benkard, Alfred Lockwood, Mra. Thomas Egleston, W. Egleston, H. P. Eyleston, Haliburton Fale and fami- ly, Wm, Haye, C. B, Stockwell and wife, from New York city; Chas, W. Lord, Mr. and Mrs. De aed Robert W. Lord, 8. Re Spaulding, 6. W. Wi if, andl John H. Reed, 6. B. Blake, Jobin ton; Miss ia Love, Miss Libt Patchin, Arthur Burtis and x L, Anderson, Cincinnati; bus and Pittsburg, Ualain Mens Me ahd ens Oral EW. ‘a Nev . WS W_Y.; lore 8. Brown, Piatniteld, N.d-;Rawara Borkine, Mine Mary Parsons, Hartford,’ Conn.; W. G. Moorhead, W. KB. Moorhead. Philadelobia, Van Buren, Henry © Pa.; T. W. Horton, or, Springs, Benes} by | in before ten o'clock overy Wednesday evening. ip Ro: speed of the later ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. d perceptibly diministed, Advertisoments for the Wexety Herat must be handed Its cir culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmors, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- serted in the Wxrx.y Heratn will thus be seen by a largo portion of the active and energetic people of the United States. 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