The New York Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1867, Page 5

ANOTHER PARADISE LOST. THE GREAT BADICAL EPIC, A Full Account of the Celestial Situation, Show- tm How a Fallen Angel Gained Bis Way Inte Paradise and What He Did There. Done Into English Blank Verse by the Brain of oseoe Conkling and the Spirit of John. Milton. Of Southern disobedience and the frutt— Forbidden fruit—whose mortal taste first gave Our pariy power, brought abeut-the war, ‘The contracts apd corruption, and all that, Oy which we throve and thrive, and whieh, ab, me! It now appears that we are like to lose— RENE sees. of that fallea angel in the White House cit, as in an Eden, ‘Lately from hell or Tennessee broke loose— Sometimes A. Johnson called; mofe rightly, Satam | ‘Bagh ia the theme, 0 muse, that] essay and hope that you will belp me with; and if You do, no.donbt, 7. W..and lesa is: help you to aa office throagh scCullough, ‘Who takes in giri—though you are rather oid. Say firet—for earth hides nothing (rqm your view, ‘Nor the deep tract of hell beyond Virginia— ‘Say what first gave our party all its strength. ‘Majonties alone could give it power; « And these are sure 10 be upon the side» That has the disimbation of the spoils, “* Buccess and opportunity are one— ‘Thats; the opportunity to steal, To bribe, corraptand pander toman’s greed, Before a party gains, yea, or deserves ‘The lasting confidence of ‘itssupporters, It must do more than triumph in elections; It must display capacity to govern, Genius for administration; so that theft; ‘The party plunder, taken from the people, Shall gave it, not destroy. Itthus must be Equal uuto the ocasion it accepts; Anthy thts Fite it is that mea wilt judge Our party both its bistory and its hopes, ‘Six years of history! ‘Ite great career Began what time the silent sixty-one Foliowad eighteen in al) the'priated dates, Then.it acceded to what once had been (Perhaps stitl was) our gove nment; ‘the’ party Assumed to rule thet late Unired States.” ‘The great republic. was almost extinct ! The treasury was'empty,‘and the army Burrendered to the toe; our ships of war ‘Scattered in dietant s;as, fhe very form Of Union was departed, Traitors rat ‘Tn Cabinet and Congress, while a traitor Presided in the Senate, and a dupe Of twaitors held the Presidential chair. « Dissatisfaction every where prevailed, Andpbaif « continent was in revolt, Buchs predicament was never known’ (At least none duch is mentioned in the primer; Hoy}e does not contemplate the case at all), ‘Wasrestoration possible? The kings a And cabinets of Christendom said “No.” ‘The domocrats said no (with emphasis). The foes Of liberty and its ¢inid triends said no. Bat vor creat party (with a few exceptions, partie Ba Phillipa, and ‘nine thousand others,”’ oar grads leaders and the friends of progress) auarertiaa saying this, moved calmly forward— ‘Weakened, annoyed, obstinate in the rear, By words and deeds which qill forever render ‘The Fecord ‘as dark—if nota little darker— ‘For one great party as it isfor the other. Ampossibitities were trampled down, © ‘The greatest war of modora times was brought ‘To a great consummation (as 1« seon In the condition of the Soutuern States, ‘Where conatitutional liberty prevails, At least as our party understands 11); ‘Yes; constitational liberty prevails ‘Where once four million sons and fathers clanked ‘Their metaphoric chains; and nowhere, nowhere ‘Through ail this broad republic does the sun, ‘Rising or setting, see a slave or master (Unless upon avery cloudless day). ‘Thos is an Outline Of the past; ’twas thes ur party gained its strength, and through these causes & Asainst our bearw the spells; and day and night, Under the rising stare and setting moon, ajoyed the spoils aad cared not for the future, Alas! and was it not enough to thus Anchor thy governmen:—unite the nation-= Inspire coming generations? Yes, 18 would indeed have been enough *gainst all ‘The mach‘nations man could see or fear! ‘Had ibere been sothing but the Southern treason, ‘The haired of politica! opponents, And the hostility of foreign Powers, ‘The Union would bave rearranged itself (For we, indeed, could give it litile betp) ‘Upon a lasting basis, and tho nation ‘Would have soared grandly to a point of progress, Ma rial and ided!, which the eye Of praphecy has bardiy seen, Had not Hovsebold betraya! befallen us our party Would bave fulfilled its mistion ere this time, Questiona would then have had attention which ‘We know should occupy the public mind— Questions of comuiérce, industry, finance, Whether oxisting parties would have been. Adapted to the country’s needs need not Be now debated; both of them, perhaps, Might have been well dispensed with, and their places Given to newer parties, Stopping there, The record of the radicals would then Have been the history of the nation’s greatest And most heroic, golden, glorious age. Alas! bat Linduige in dreams Alt this ‘Was vet to be; tor in the very midst Of our-fairgarden, Satan, with devilish guile, ‘With rare deceit, had found himself a place; ‘Squat uke a toad, closo to the ear of Eve— Our Eve, the spoils—he sat instilling venom Up from the burning marl! in Tennessee, ‘Mids: foods and whiri winds of tempestuous fire, ‘Bo Grst bad risen into power and place, And then « ballet raised b m higher still. Having ail obstacies overcome, and having Pat every opposition under foot, And every visible danver banished far, Bil wad Our party sot allowed to taste ‘The fuil delight of p wer and the spoiis, A bolle: ebanged the situa ion—made Ratan almost suprem», In vain before Millioos Of ballets bad essayed the same; Bat murder ts @ science more exact “8 ‘Than war (ne we had managed It}, more precies, ‘Thao Shylock's knife—that ts to say, in fact, ‘That murder is than marder more exact. Had murder done either less or more, even murder Had failed in its perpore; but by striking till ‘Mt came to Andrew Johnson, and then sparing, ‘Tt won, and Satan sat supreme in Eden, Hlow just, ab, me | 1s fate’s remorseless logic— How instramente of evi! dwarfish are And base in the ratio of the harm they do, ‘Teo change the subject. The Atlantic cable Rested unbarmed, aod its magnetic spark (Although, in feet, there ts no spark about it, ‘Uequenched by ali great ocean's billowa, yet Ove hittie, litte bit of eordid steel ‘Cowld paralyze the electricity that else ‘Hed thrilled around the world—in fact, the steel ‘Coatd lame the ligetaing —or we will suppose so, ‘ed (bus the march of human progress, whch Mon fleere por armies coaid nov stay, is stayed, ‘And stumbies at the apostacy of a wretch. Ta th # the day of unexpected trial Aad deep bumiiiation (spotie im danger ') ‘Toe pation needs agaio—an, needs once more ‘The eneray and spirit that o’ercame ‘Tie pertlt Of the Gerce last past six yeam, Ty ecoce he Deroes of the war. by | | mean it Beeds the private soldiers—those Who | quietly "ote the party weket and He quietly Wome, Tt dows not need at all ‘The ¢ nerals and Colonels, for thore chaps Aro ept (0 be cantidates, and so divide Vinees of trast Key ted men Like me—who stayed at home, Cave up the eh on for glory and glans eyes, Abd sayed at Dome 0 mawage party plans, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1867 Soldiers to vote are what the uatios groans for ; ‘Tis only by euch oid Wai we can ever Regain Lust beaveny garden from the eb ich The eben me fend bes caused os to be drives, We made the war at Gret to gain that place, To bold that pared 60 of power ta peace We conquered, and the lag of patlons gave — The law of sations and of nature gave— ‘The right to whe secarity for peace ‘We had a rigbt to make ourselves quite sure That the red eye 0 batue was bunged up, Gouged ot aud ober sce sealed and emithereened, Neer wo reopen on (raternal strite, Congress upheld this right, but ‘tie denied us By ¢hie cursed recreaat failen ange’, Johusoa. To ail the norte and nises of the people; It was submitted to tbat jury from ‘Whose verdict-—it m writtes—there shall be No possible appeal eo earth. Ab. thea, ‘What liberties were takea with our Eve— Nambortess aplendid places, aii the fas Of the best offices was given away our opponents; Wat, in spite of alt, ‘olumes of indignation ewept the !:ad— ta to say, we carried the election, And in the Fortioth Congress there were fopad ‘Hardly enough of Joaneca’s men to be heard, Though they should blow their poses all at ence, Instructed thus the Coagrese passed some acto Embodying the frest recorded will Of the whole people. Andrew J. had mid A Congress choven im the midst of war ‘Must be unequal te he 208d2 of peace bpd bas agro pega {ar these last elections, none the less ‘Than after those ‘Bis vetoes came Pelf mel, one oo p Ul withia. A year be gave us twelve—just one a month. Asif he thought them drafis to pay the rent that delicious: be was holding. this ino 1 Why, in Engiané— ohe’s a ‘monarchy, she ia, aad knows jaw to-make th) suit her kings, and therefore Bas bad no vetoer for a hundred years And sixty—Britons; as of course you know, |, Having heard it eighty million times or more, ‘Will stand 10 monsense.’ Vetoes were.not liked By those in Charies' time, who used an axe For argument, and let {t slip, alas? Slap through bis vert@br—an accident ‘That bappens very often ia stich cases, James was dethroned for amimesty to traitors— You’l! read-the rest of this in Peter Parley. But here tn free America we bear Vetoes and worse—indeed, wé should be glad If vetoes were the sum of our afflictions, Ah! wehave deeper wroncs than those we see. Bills vetoed,'avé then when they are made laws See them evaded and defied, upon Pretence that they are wanting in the things For which the veto was at first put forth, ‘We see the nation sneered at in # message Intended as & Crosscut at our credit; ‘A message vilely intimating that For thra-bing rebeis we must pay their debts, In plain perversion of the laws; nay, worse, Openty 1m defiance of the law, We-ace the Minister of War removed, Upfiinoting Stanton, who'to us has been Cloudy, by turna and fiery—our guide - Through the long watch and agony of the war, - And more—the most brilliant soldier of the time, Onur, young Ithuriel, with the spear of light, Wo see deprived of bis command and treated Ag though he were a cutprit, because he Ably and with success fulfilled the law. Equally blameless others wo have seen Driven from posts of profit; and we see The reconstruction hindéred and prevented, ‘Union and restoration baffled, order Destroyed, and disturbed by every ruse And subterfuge of @nister invention. ‘Worse, and more of.it—proclamations give Oblivion to treason ta all forms, Without law and againet law, override ‘The disabilities imposed by acts Of Congress and the country ; and all this Done in defiance of our power by bim— ‘That sneering Satan—in our garden safe, ‘What does this mean? It means that guileful Satan Supposes he’s the country—just as once A stupid Frenchman thought that he was France, ‘As means, indeed, that Satan now doth clutch At dangerous forms of power. Yea, it means. ‘That this now acting President willassume - Forbidden prerogatives, and strive to wield Prerogatives aforceaid ins way To imperil our possession of the spoils, Add also threaten national existence, You ask me for a remedy. It lies, ‘ In the first instance, with the people at The polls, and afterward, it need be, with The people in Congress. Here I do not mean, As some have insisted, that oar Congress ehoulg Remain in extraordinary session, Keep in its place perpetually and strain The constitution or transcend its sense By taking on itself the powers given Only to the Executive, Nor do Tmean that Congress should in any way Attempt to circumvent or supersede The President, As well might any court, Becauge a sberiff was unfaithful, try ‘To execute its process of itself. ‘The constitution says the Presiaent, ‘Not Congress, shall take care that ail the law. Are duly executed, If it be ‘That be canuot be trusted in his place, ‘Why, then, his place is forfeit, and the law Prescribes a remedy. And this is not ‘That Congress shall usurp his powers or Cartail them, nor that the two hofises shal! ‘Crouch like two watch dogs baying to prevent Executive action, Ab! no such contrivance Finds place in that great charter of our freedom, And no extremity can justity Sach means, The very case that would demand Such a resort, indeed, demands stil! moro. Tt is not for me to express or form Opinion of the reasons that exist ‘To justify impeachment, ‘I may be Called on elsewhere another day to take Some share jn that, and so keep silent Lore, (A piece of gremt Giscretion, as you see, Since f have only said the man is guilty.) Besides, from first to last jt still bas been My notion that this thing need not be done; ‘Yot I may say that when the time has come, That an Acting President is only kept Tn limits by being shorn of all the powers The constitation gives his office; then The dignity and welfare of the land Demand we should adopt a sternor way, If such a junctare shall arise, then let The national grand.inquest find « bill, ‘Try the accused for crimes and misdemeanors, And lot him bave @ trial—fair of course— And be driven out of Eden in. due ferm. Yea, if found guilty let him be consigned By sentence of the judges, as he will By genoral judgment of the human race, To infamy immortal as the cause He has betrayed. Ay, let the wretch be hurled Shoer o'er the battlements of heaven, although He fail in hell, which some called Tennessee, Im this I only sketch what should be done As @ last means when thore’s none other teft, {t-apything can purb this fend before It is too Inte It will be our success In the progressing canvass, Public sheets That speak the thoughts of our opponent fee) ‘The odium of apeoly espousing Fo vealed lla pre aad ‘They boisterously and nervously disclaims Affiliation with hiin; but the ruse Ta too tratieparent, and it cones too late, Te Maine and California ou vote Te much dimini hed. This ¥ solely due: To & new digense.called ‘oct! causes;”” but Our enemies set it down to dtan’s credit, And since the such cussed fools, ‘Why they believe all that; asd thus it is ‘That those elections have wondrous harm, Should other States be fosane, And should our column faites every’ vote Cast against Ip Satan's favor, and embold® tum To new aggressions; and his tew attempts May yet from a8 6von tte hope of Eden, Ab! dreadful possibility of tte future, Before which all stand trombing and appalled ‘The country wants repose md wants an end Of reconstruction, for the saki of what Lies behind ali—prosperity and peace— Prosperity and peace—tbe spoils and Eden. Our statesmanship is needed at this tine Vor other questions—isdustry, finance, And 80 ca—all the more, as some of these Are now the subjects of wild theorists’ dreams ; And some one elae than we may do the stealing THE COURTS. courT CALENDAR—THIS ay. Svurrexs Cover—CHaMBens, cua. —Now, 105, 176, 185, 186, 187, 188. Cull commences at No. 1 = — 335, 349, 470, ‘Taxes press on the people; prices are wee yy vee, |, 401, 452, 455, Marine Cot 71, 472, » 432 Oppressive, and relief is only just 1a 5. Sab das: ao MAD Amd can be found both in our administration And in new laws, if we can but get rid Of all these needless condlicts and collisions Which jar the minds and energies of all— If we can but drive Satan from the gardeu. We need retrenchment and reform; we need , Administration honest and exact; ‘The application of our boundless wealth To life, that thus all may the easier live; And wo'll have all when Satan’s driven out. But frst in order must our triumph come— Our triumph in the next elections, This Of course precedes with us all other thought; For this decides who holds the spoils and Edee, ‘Ta Wie, a2 in al! cise, we must de frat ‘Here in the Empire State—the first in all— Im nothing more supremely so than this, ‘Lat our great State but keep on the right side, ‘Hor citer States will follow, and the clouds ‘Will vanish, aad the Union every where CouRT OF AVPRALS AT ALBANY, —Nos. 189, 193, 195, 196, 197, 198, 190, 200, 202, 206, 207, 208, 209, 241, 212. UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT—IN BANKRUPTCY. A Railrond Corporation Compelied to ‘tio Through” Bankruptcy=Firet Case Under the Lay. Before sudge Blatchford. ‘The hearing in the petition filed to compel the Mem- phis, E! Paso and Pacific’ Railroad Company to go into eevee ee nee Tuesday next at the in- Horn company. nee aaah chatted a ae _ te progress will be watched rupt law to @ corporatio! with some interest by the profession. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS, Imbrogiio—Opeaing of Testl- mony tor the Respendent. Before Judge Clerke, ‘In re the petition of Frances E. Sherman.—The exami: The Sher ae ya ae enone ation in the proceedings on the petition for the custody Thee wil be dons What tan enn do to of Walter Sherman, an infant eon of Mrs. F, E. Sherman, ‘With tmmortatity a SER ‘Was resumed yesterday, and the testimony opened for the defence. Benjamin Sherman being sworn, deposed:—{ am the respondent in these proceedings; the child Walter is ‘Than any that the world has cledwhere seen. ‘Then Satan sball be driven trom his bower, Aad we, regaining Paradise, shall rule, heslie my possession at rasraneron Thave him now two Serenely rule, the roost and hold the spoils, iol hod pi . E. Shei came to my stand in May last; that was the last time OBITUARY. she came to my stand; she camo there between one and two o'clock P. way people are constantly passing all day ; his father were present at the time she was office is six feet four by four fect si bes ‘was in the open stand part of the time and in the office part of the time; there are two windows opening into the stand; I thiak all (he windows were open; the door was open; Mr. Hobbs was writing at the desk when Mra, Sherman came in; be then got up and came out and sat on a barrel; iY suppose. Mr. Hobbs could have beard a low conversation; T don’t think he could have heard a wbis- per; I didnot whisper; I think Mrs. Sherman stopped there an hour; { have beard her testify as place there; T'aid not Propose to keep h pata “rn @itempt to put band on ner legs; I did not attempt to squeezo ber, or put my bands around her; I did not attempt to kiss her; I ‘eal nothing to her about her le did not do or say avy of the things alleged in her examination; I sat on the bigh stool m: self; she sat on the camp chair by the door; when came in she asked how Water was; I told ‘her he was well and rougb and ready; she then asked where Sidney was; she wanted to know if be was going to be with mo in the stand ; Ltold her he was, for he must be where I could watcn "mm; she af me if he was no better of bis spasms; when she got through she got up end shook hands with me; sho raid, ‘Father, if Sidney is going to be here 1 shall come’ to this siand no moro,” she said nothing about being in- Sulted; I recollect calling to see my son and Mra, Sher- man when bey boarded at.Mra, Bruuell’s; [staid there two nights: the first mght I slept witn my son, he was sick from having broken bis nose; I was sick also Went out and got me some powde! she slept in a bed- oom across the hail; asked a what hour I was market in the morning; I said about three o’elock; she said, ‘ Father 9 ‘me when you go;” Doth bedroom doors were open when I got up in morning; ® person could boar from one bed to anoth am ordinary conversation; I don’t think you could see from one bed to another; my son was awake when I got be I talked with bim about half an hour tefore ‘E'got up; after T'was dressed 1 sto up to her bed; 1 took my, (Daa and, payed bet ‘om the shoulder; she woke up and asked me how I felt; told ber { folt smart, the pain bad left me; she “Father, come up again as soon ag you can;’’ I sai cannot be running here, as I have to work hard;” I then went to the market; I made no attempt to get "into the bed, I never thought of it; 1 didn’t iT. to pull down the covering, never touched her, only as I have stated she said notolng about telling Sidney; the ether time i slept in that house I slept by myself ‘and she slept with her husband; I got up that morning between three and four o'clock; I called my son up and ho went to the market with me; she and I were not leit alone together that morning; 1 think these nights were three weeks apart; I stopped with them tay ‘they lived in Thirty-second street, after the child was born; it was about four months old; that night my son and his wife slept in a middie room ; ‘slept in a room in the south. eastcorner, the child siept in the front room alone; this was in February, 1864, and it was very cold in the room where the child slept; I wid the parents they ought to bave a fire in the room; the child got crying ip the night and kicked the clothes off; I got up and took the child, and walked the floor with it until it got to sleep I then took {t to bed with me and kept it all night; the next morning the perenta said I had no busi: ness taking up the child; I told them they were untit to bring up auch @ child; I told 4 the stand is open in front; on the gang . Hobbs and there; the General Sterling Price. No information bad been received of the death of this ez-rebel chief until a telegram from St, Louis, published fm the Htxsup of yesterday morning, announced that bis fuera! bad taken place in that city on Monday last. ‘The St, Louis papers bad, however, mentioned his ser!- @us iliness from @ disease contracted in Mexico; so it 4@ more than probable that was the immediate cause of bis death. Sterling Price was born in Prince Edward county, Virginia, in the month, of September, 1809. His parents being in humbie circumstances he received but 8 plain English education, and when quite a young man left the parental home and settied In Missouri, where be pursued the avocation of a farmer. Much study, ‘united to natural abilities, soon gave him a prominent position in his community, and upon his appearance in politics he became a popular and successful candidate for various offices in the gift of the people. After serv- ing in the State Legislature for numerous terms he was, im 1844, elected to Congress, and served with credit and Gistinction, On the breaking out of the Mexican war he resigned his. seat in Congress, and returning home Taised a regiment of cavairy, as colonel of which be’ was mustered into the United States service at Fort Leavenworth. His career in Mexico was brilliant amd distinguished. At the head of three hundred men he besieged Taos and compelled the surrender of its garrison, numbering thirteen bun- dred men. For this feat he was commissioned a briga- ier general and appointed Military Governor of Chihua- hua After peace was declared he retired from the ser- vice, and returning home was elected Governor of Mis- @ouri, on the democratic ticket, by nearly fourteen thousand majority. - His admunistration gave general satistaction, and although he declined a re-election at the close of his term, he accepted the position of Bank Commussioner for the State, The secession excitement having attained its heigbt in 1861, a convention was @alied, ostensibly to revise the constitution, but really to ‘the relations of Missouri with the Union, acd eral Price was elected a de-egate from ~~ Cuariton cans, and upon the varices meetin chosen by a large Bs a Unionist, pad ty seretear m= hoheaion's bry an tia abilities, and ae infla- xercised over the minds of the people did much Sona Preveating Missoart from plunging into the vor- tex of Teoetiion wth the other Southern States. ot Unjoo sentiments did not, however, tast long. sooner bad Mir. Lincoln's coercive policy been Pus vovepea than he dectared — himself-. in sid of resistance, and being appointed Major ral of the State forces by Governor Claiborne Seok son, set vigorously to work organizing the Missouri State Guard. Tbe prompt action of Generai Lyon in compel- img the surreader of the state Guard at st, Louis alone saved the State from being hopelessly in the power of ees they wero only two young fiirts anyhow. the revela. The movement of the tederals on “fhe Femaiader of this witness’ \estimony was mainly City compelied him to retire to whence his | with a view of rebutting the ooo ot A. Van forces were driven, to be defeated at Cart! afew WE, whe peenxnniness ot De cegybud wae days after by General Nothing he re- effect that the child Be ah <1 rel ‘ated jor at Mr. tired to the vicinity of the Arkansas line, where the Shermaa's ome at Gonmackie dressed ‘Mussouri flocked to his beaner, and ina few'weeks | and bad pieuy of clotning; * thas t Fen tha pan of be was at head of ten id men. | people at Coxsackie to. allow their children to run the Geoeral Ben Hough, of army, | streets, as it was and the doctors re- paving junction with bim at the head of five | commended it; tha: tne child was gran wo ato ls ja, ‘And, and euo-quagvnd anchonbramy of aekae vey Fe gen ps germina 9 “rg anerrcn te po octerry eto hirg noah An Tee nos Fora hee esar are of ft thaw’ {te parents could do. e few hours it seemed as if the rebels would totally | examination was then adjoarned until to-day. For routed ; but General Price rallied his mon og im- | petitioner, Thomas Dunphy ; for respondent, W. Shaw. trepidity, and after a tremendous struggle, in which a“ Genera: was killed, the federal army was defeated »SURROGATE’S COURT. her tls bale MeCutiough whinarew his force. fren i Sees ie irew his forces from Before Gideon J, Tucker, Surrogate. the Missourians on of differences between bim a ‘and General Price, 8 quarrel was all tbat saved Mis- Decrees of probate were made of the following wills :— sourt to the Union. Price continued the advance alone, | Wills of Mary Noble, Peter Russel, Mary A, Gilbert. mee of four days compelled the surrender af the | _ Common form depostions were ordered wakea fo the matueiolanel tabneee, ‘numbering nearly four | Proof of the following wills, the contest of which was Scmod teen, This last of his series of suc ved or the contestants not appearing:—Wills of wai Thomas Flaanigan, ‘thomas F. Gieayon, Benjamin Isaacs, David W. Curishe, Jobn Getins, The petition for probate of the will of Samuel Ward ‘was diem! no =" aa appearmyg ‘Rad the alloged will not being produced. trial of the contested will of Roswell Sprague was proceeded with, witnesses examined and adjourned to the 9b inst, ‘The trial of the contested will of David McGuire was then taken up, several witnesses examiued ana ad- journed till 2d inst, BROOKLYN COURTS. SURROGATE'S COURT. eresting Case—Two Widows Claiming the Property of One Man. Before Surrogate Veedor. Yesterday morning a tase of considerable interest came up in the Surrogate's Court, before Surrogate Veeder, The partios to the case sro two women, both of whom claim to be the widow of one husband, and claim the property lett by him at his death, From the papers in the cage It appears that om the 22d of August last one Richard E. Kerr, who was an attaché of the Taternal Kevenue Department, died in Brooklyn, leaving Property to the value of about $20,000, Some time sub- sequently one Jane Kerr, who was living with the doe. ceased a8 his wife, proc lettors ot seine tion on his property from the Surrogate of Kings county, It seems that @ short time subseqaent to this another woman, who claimed to be named Jano Kerr, put ia an appearance before Su irrognte Veeuer and a pe- tition, of which tue following is a copy:-— The petition of Jane Kerr respectfully shows to thie Court, first, tbat she is the widow of said that she was married (0 sald Kerr ov t tog of sep tember, | cay of Brookten Vivat taid eves “ae died in the ty on rooklyn on the $94 of August, @ubsequently in command Arkansas, and in the latter eat of Miesourt, but after gaining temporary ‘driven from the state. On nthe class of the he went to Mexico, and for a time acted on the board of ration for she nm a government. months ago he return shattered and ' Captain General of Spain, General Joaquin del Manzano y Manzano was born at tary second in command at Havana from 1854 to the summer of 1859. He was decorated with the following honors :— Grand Cross of Isabella tho Catholic, St. Hermenyiid, St Fernando third ciass—all for gallautry on the field. peers to the Peninsula he was sposiated Sp yeneral of the Vascongada and afterward of A ee In 1863 he was made lieutenant general, end in in 1865 governor and captain general of Porto Rico, INTERNAL REVENUE MATTERS. A rumor was circulated around the internal revenue | wiibout leaving any ap pi that ‘wala 7 deveased died ol office yesterday afternoon to the effect that Cofonet | {Stig Le ney: are sae ma arhich Messmore, the Deputy Commissioner, had recetved no- | does not exceed ae your itioner ts informed ad . tice of his removal from office, The rumor was, how- | huusmnn his. widow, F ‘he ‘eily ‘of New’ York; tina, beotirs and alee, Auta Kerr, relate ta ever, altogether unfounded, Colonel Messimore had re- ceived no such notification. It is alleged that the object like this is to force the ion Deputy Kerr and resid: frei moraines twee also the four ¢ Moy ay Wevend tn ciroulating boas bate into + rouher, nained ae r—Fanoy Kerr, Lille Kare and Catherine Kort, minors, leaving no tenera ing bis resignation, In this * om howover, his fa will’be mistaken, os he avows | (he firey’ ne next of ame th # cine said “Ueuied wee ok OS bis determ| to remain in ees If charges be he ath” an fobebitant of the county of Sa inst him he avows his wii! © meet Kine Lek of Brooklyn; that said deceased left descendents or ft wil! be for political causes only, The Mi Board held @ lon, yesterday actin mber of cases of calsure, the we ity hich were turned over to the courts for a1- dications. The following additional seizures were re- ‘rectifying oxtabl'shment of Waiter Scott, at Ne 0 John strect, “Cause--1t 16 alleged thet the Books of establishment show Oe of 0.076 gallons Pp remies 1, leaving we eccoun! for to the me gan, Thirty-one barrets of «pirite were seized on the corner of First avenue and 7 ¢ i (y's distiliery. Cy fhe pd no bran ibe cata Yaremate hy Joa} the ligu oe re pn Mee rs re ai Uf.ttepte, he | haskare ot ibe o the a the dia the bf fei ge etry es ° (the a) maza | ant mitt North River. Charge—! ving brands al- gree “TaNe RR. be fraudulent, Whotdnion 108 Wi thet they ail hace, of wnich the foilow.og \* # copy — THE PLATTSBURG AND WHITEHALL BAILROAD. sepia Some foes Paes Sees arama ithe answer of Seno Kerr, Ray ald id Richard resnes wore ‘of Troy ; ire Gomes hd F. Woo = Frnayic tnd NM. Laihoos,, menaney thon abe oor sue the ‘Wawrul ‘wife of -_—— ore of his deat and that she MeRCANTILE Best (N HAMILTON, CANADA, vn the E, ebruary, 1M. at the ely o¢ Huwnton, Canada, Oct, 1, 1867 ere died z > inv wo ses cf Ave Ma it ‘The large mercantile house of Buchanan, Hope & .0., stopped payment y. The firm of adam & Charles Hope, bardwi Teaac Buchanao & Co,, of Moptreal, are not affected by the failure. the Surrogate had heretne eh pondent Te riher states th Hth6 not the widow of the aad Richard F. ke refer irue Bame, a6 Your respondent is jaformed sud believes, ie TRIPLE SHEET. Jane, F Woods, and yous pelitoner prays uat ber petiion morning at eleven o'clock, lor the petitioner and Mr. only witness examined was Heary R. Piercey, who testified that he resided at No. 5 Willoughby street, Brooklyn, and knew Richard E. Kerr about seven years Fig ny oy emg Jape Fitzpatrick or Jaue Wood he Knew hor about twanty-Ave or thirty years; he knew Rev. Newton Heston, now married up | to bars i pothed th a years ago; witness TT aout &WO OF years en on e creabaveuieal wiloess testified that at that time Mrs. Wood lived in Division street, near Market, xeee her x the name of Fits. pairks her husband's re was Henry Wood; witness last saw Henry Wood sat ten or oa years Since; witness could uot say whether the lady present folai see Aa holirs, Wood) was living with Mr, Wood; we about three months ago, The case for the petitioner was here closed, Mr. Shea held that the death of Mr. Wood had not beea proven by the petitioner, and therefore her mar- with Mr, Kerr was not a legal one, r. Fields submitted to the Court a copy ofa decree of divorce between Mra, Wood and ber first husband; but Mr, Shea objected to the decree being received im evi- dence, uniess the entire were submitted also. mL Sur submitted that the rol! should be put in ‘ter which the case was postponed until the Tob inet instant, loa M “ COURT OF SESSIONS. Before Judge Dikeman and Justices Hoyt and Voorhees. The October term commenced yesterday. A Grand Jury was empanelied, atter which the court adjourned until to-day, binge CaP a ge Bamed gentlemen compose the Grand Jury Sanson, Boper, foreman; Everett Suy- dam, ater rn *priog. Dank Daniel Birdsall, Philander F. Steb- ding, A. D. Vail, Thomas Plunkett CC: Dike Georue Perry, erry Ht K. Hapdou, J, M. Hopper, Ransuel Bail rues pam ‘38 Willtamson, “G. Van Wyck, T. Skelly, POLICE INTELLIGEN CE. A Broapway pesans geal ny an Exptoye.—For some time past the firm of Balloa Brothers, No. 403 Broadway, hay been missing various articles of propery, and although every means waa adopted to discover where the goods were going to, all efforts proved inef- fectual, At length detective Irwin was made acquainted with the circumstance, aud the case was placed in his hands to work up, After a short investigation the do- tective came to the conclusion that some person con- Rected With the establishment was tbe piiferer. Suapi- cion fell upon Adrien T. Roberts, a young man about teen years 0. ate ‘and acierk io the establishment, was arrested, and bemg accu-ed of the larceny made in confession of bis ssortoomiags. He has been in mploy of the firm since last February, aud during that time aboat $1,800 wortn of goods of various kinds bave been solon, Tha property, it is said, bas been sold ior about $400 Von the information which the deiectives received from the prisouer they arrested Louis Samuels, on the charge of being the receiver of stolen propery. A quantity Of the articies stolen was also found in the possession of Simon Wolfe, Simon says that be obtained the articles from one Rosenberg, who bas not yet been arrested. The goods were identified as being the property of Messrs, Bullou, The pris ners, who were arrested last night by detectives Irwin and Tieman, were brourht be- fore Just'ce Dodge, and were temporarily committed in the absence of compiainants to prefer charges against them. A portivn of tue property has been recovered and the detectives still have the case in hand, ALLEGep Laxceny ov CioTuina.—A young man named William MoGave was arrested by an officer of the Eighteenth precinct, charged with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, valued at $24, 'y of Ada Cook, No. 278 avenue B, It is @ goods were found oo the accused aud that admitted the theft. He was comnitted by Justice Dodge for trial, AN Unvarruruy Curax ayo His Aoetrors in Orie Areestsp.—Henry Kobifvafer was some months since employed by Francis Spittour, of William street. in the capacity of clerk, and almost from the moment of his engagement, it is alleges, he commenced a system of petty the(t of smail goods, which om the Ist of July last, ag the parties suberquentiy confomed to officer McElroy, of the fenth prec.nes, who worked up the case, amounted to the tota vauec of $87. The goods, ax last as they were surreptitivuty takea from ~piitoir's store, were banded to two browhers, named Jacob and Joseph Kuntz, who disposed of them to other parties for their motoal benefit. This the Kantzes acknowledged whoa brought before Justice svandiey ong 2 after le All the parties enuaced robbing Mr, ~pittoir's siure were committed ip defauit of bai to stand their tral for grand larceny at the General Sessions, A Surrery Bustxess vor Many.—Mary Smith was anxious that her feet should be dressed in the latest style of slipper, a0 slipping into the store of P. 0. Day, in the Third avenue, slipped a pair of slippers into her pocket, and, it is alleged, tried to slip away with them. an a her movement Mr. Day slipped up to her tor ber slippery practices, over to an we Pew oy in turn alipped her tuto the presence of Judge Connolly, who, in defauit of $300 bail, slipped her into x rhace he mail para ory to her Ld sliooery joe, slipping them peter of ane aliens, “here is many 8 slip ‘twist the cup and the lip. ih Tacgimage’® an Ovancie S-themsials of the Metropolitan Police force have a bard road to travel in the upper part of the city. When on their beats they are ofteser beaten than they beat, For example, on last Monday night James Auld, patrotman in the Nineteenth precinct, was, while on duty, it is alleged, desperately assauited ats oes bn Edward Mahon, who, with 3 pitched Auld over @ precipice some ten feet in foremost among the rocks, and there the crowd of gathored around bim, and whie ‘one (Mahon), it is struck bim with f.atangenos the otners gave him batlytioo with their fiste and clubs, The attack took place in y-fifth street, near Second avenue, and it 1 regarded as a fortunaie aflair for Auld that be escaped so well from the cletches of his enemies, Mabon was committed for exaniination before Justice Connolly on next Friday afternoon, A Mouiaa Busivess.—Patrick Martin was arrested yea- terday afternoon by officer Mahoney, and arraigned be- fore Justice Connoliy, of the Fourth District Police Court, chargéd w th uonecessarily and brutaliy pupishing a mule in bis charge on the Third avenue, Mart young representative of Ould Ireland, upon being asked a a Jo his defence, very naively inquired of the Judge if ho evor drove a mule. ae T had I don't think I'd be guiity of punishing a poor dumb brute in the manner the officer alleges you did the animal Buder your charge.” Je * replied Martin, looking very innocently toto his Ma tage, "Joodge, I've drev haseee an I've d@rav asses, an’ I could get alang wid dem; but, ie, “that mule, whin it gits the notion intil its ‘bead, will 74 & bioody biagzes first afoore he'd move a foe Tiel, if that is the caso, what nocessity was there in your ‘cruelly sbusing the animal?’ “Ta tt the mule, yer Honor? Och, bad seran till him. I towld him to go on, an’ whin 1 sed dat he sthopped, an’ be up’ wid his fut an’ he gov me a pothogve im the chist here, dat Kem near knockin’ the wind out av me body, Well, Your 200, sift, dat med me mad an’ I kicked back wid do voi thin be up at mo agin, whu bit bim a ‘on his head fat med him see stars! an’ shure, yer hager, the baste desarved it, now!’” don't think so, Vatrick,” remarked the Jodge. ‘our conduct Was reprehensible in the extreme, and 1 shat! hoid you in $100 bait to appear and Special Sessions.” Fatrick produc then retired from the presence ‘objargatlng u minded” mule. A Prece or Barck Work.—An ancient. specimen of femininity, who calls herself Ellen Collins, appeared he- fore Justice Connolly last evening and offered for his in- epection a head that was as “beautifully” battorod a bruised as ever was ono of her countrymon's after a bard fought battle at Donnybrook, “How did that happout’’ asked the magistrate ina commirerating tone of voice, * how did that on gor “It's Catharine Cunningham, yer boner, fat di Shure, she kem at mo wid abrickbat an’ as she int ti at mo ses she ‘May the divil id yer blasted sowl as I pow dail wid yer bod: afore I could dodge her, she le a brick bat at zs ft kilt. me intirely; an’ ie wasn't ntl Mary Dootan threw a bucket av wather in me face fat I knew I was ahve, Faix it was a beaatifal blow she gev me, now!" Wd what do you want me to do?” asked his « T want Misthrees Canningham atristed, an’ thried, an’ bung for murtherin’ ay me intirely, an’ axin' the to bonberttd ‘aa she did to me body, avic.”” shail be done, Ellen,” said his Honor; ‘now, retire."’ And with this assurance, and the usual parting vollay of words, her iadyship retired, and the court ad. journed. Han (Hee) Looma—Our venerable uncle, William Shakspearo, hath written, “You go against the hair of your profession;’’ and that is decidedly the case this day with an anciént, blear-eyed, toothless, freckled, corrugated female, wamed Bridget Rock, who, on the aa ta September, atthe mutual residence of herself contestant, woleng into Mre Hanwah own tay ony a believe the Sn aeaihien steel ieee je the fur atime wasa caution to all who indate eet eal jocks ‘See there, Ny ont of her poe hair, a1 i ne same timo a bare spot on the yout a -% size of thes ob- eolete coin, the com. bat which en ion nh birsute crop ye he “extracted,” *¢ jonor. Tt was yok fos dict that, now Mra, Brown looked e ole armory of daggers at the Rack wh ‘ie wrath, rocked hereeit backward Protect nae bie “Orb, howe! ooh, ” Fomed the ot Of as ae ‘drow from tho Bone ot tee pT, @ hand til of grav, slightly intermixed with fed and black par, ani held it before the magis- and forward trate in hor withered and fogers. "An fot dua yer bo thinkin’ nat, Joodge? She Aid that rome Och, An’ her busbeod ow bese arning ‘atteon dol- — lars a week, avio! is, bligsins be on your beoutiful head, sifr,or may yese niver be widout them locks yese be bleased wid, an’ it war thie same Hann: Brown fat did dat! Ocb, ‘bouey, but she bese tbe tear: wan whin she gots at it! an’ I'be a poor crather'fas b no ould man te ara fifteen dollars @ week to keep get Rock,” remarked the magistrate as hi commitment, “I'll send you to jail until y can find bail im ome Bundred dollars to keep th peace, “Shure an’ T can git that now, right away, yer baner,’4 Said the old scratcher, iooking imquiringly around the room. “Well, get it, then,’’ gid the Ji seemed inclined (o come forward and do the devoir fo the featberiess one, sho was escol with the us formalities, by a lictor of the court to the lock up, pmerd she now reposes, nursing her wrath until some one bh: sufficient bardihood im bis composition to Fisk one hup4 dred dollars mst the very dubious chance of th beldame’s prese: ‘mg the peace for the next six month BOARD OF EXCISE. Cases Tried Yeaterd Y~A Species of th “stone Pinen’” System—How the Polic Work the Law. The Board of Excise held their regular semi-weekiy trial meeting yesterday afternoon, President Schultz int the chair. The court room was crowded to its utm capacity by the witnesses for and against the thirty. ‘eight liquor dealers summoned to stand trial, besides 4 motley gathering of spectators who manifested thd ‘utmost interest in the proceedings of the Commission. {| The first case called was that of Joho Runk, of 74 Ludiow street, who was charged with baving oi posed of lager beer on Sunday, the 7th of July. The complainants, police officers, stated they made their way to the third floor of premises, where they found a large nom2er men engaged in drinking lager, which was taken from keg or tap in a litte room between the one in which th men were seated and a Ii unoccupied room. { but as no one The defendant testified that the room in which th men were discovered had been leased to a Maennercbo! association, and that the lager drunk on the day 1 question had been given to the members of the Maes Berchon’s dager tiep previous, 6a anrgidicenei Gah bad a meeting that day, afier which they had pruben of the lager, The counsel for the defendant, J. R, Dos Passos, Col tended that, as the lager used wis not in the room le! censed by Mr, Runk, and that, as bo did nos bave any4 thing to do with the dtsposal of it, it would not be all reasonable for the Board to revoke bh The license was not revoked, Judge Bosworth voun, nay” and pinissioners Aciou, Scbu! z, Stome an Maorerre % John H. Shilling, 70 Greene street, was charged witht having sold liquor to three or four men on Sunday, 16th september... The defendant contended that he wad Getinr a ton tients from e'beflie bo tet ter private use, The complainants testified tyat the ‘friends’? ailuded to were siablemen from a livery stable ia Walker street, { The license was revoked, Jovn Dobue, of Eighth avenue, was charged with dis4 posing of hquors on Sunday, the 15th of Septembers The complainant testified that there were six men stand4 ing at the bar, glasses ov the counter and a bottle of gim under tle counter; and that the place was an oystert salon id had po bar, President Schultz—I understand you (the officer) to say that the bar was not closed Counsel for defendant—You don't moan to say thad every counter must be closed whethor the proprietor 1 a liquor dealer or not ? Mr Acton—But there was a bottle of gin under wa counter, Counsel for defendant—And your polico nosed it out. i The I'cense was not revoked, Commissioner Manierre voting ‘pay.’ Henry Gimple, of Broome street, was charged with selling ‘and giving away beer on Sunday, Sentember 8. The officers found five men in the barroom, beer on taps and glasses on the counter, The defendant stated the men had called there on business, The license was not revoked, Judge Bosworth voting Day. Herman Baer was chai ed with disposing of liquor om Sunday, September 8 The complainants saw several men in the barroom, The defendant swore that he bag not sold or given away any lager or liquor on the day itt question, The license was not revoked, Judge Bosworth and me Swinburne voting nay. Henry Braus, No, 1643¢ Orchard siroet, Tepsharsed with having his barroom Ineffectually cio-od ofSunday, the 8th day of September. Coinpta nants saw severak men in the room, one of whom was drunk, The de« fondant testified that the men who were found in the barroom were his bearders woo had assembled thereisd to pay their board bills, ‘ve license was unanimously revoked. William sayn, 14 East Honston surect, was chat with selling lager on Sunday, 8h of September. Officer? Carr, the complainant, testiflea that be went to a livery stable and-bired two Carriages, which he ordered to be sent to acertain placo in Delancey street; acter having engaged the coachss he asked the livery stable keeper, Shields, who did not know he was ao ollicer, whetber or not hecould get a drink in that neizhborhood ; Shields replied in the negative, but afterwards said he thoughé they could get a drink; the two then went into Sayn's officer called for beer, while Shields chose wine; the officer, when tasting the a quantity upon the floor, exciaiming that it was “very, warm ;” not until thea did Shields learn that bis com- ene ‘was an officer. The counsel contended that the evidence elicited was ot of a character that should prevail against his client; It had been laid down by such eminent men as Jud, Hail and Borts that the pern'cious practice called ‘stool Bi pond Delfrowaed down down under all eircom. stances, and bad repeatediy charged grand juries to that. eiiect, ' He said |i was wrong to send out men to ind: others to’ violate the law by every device and subti ‘Ingenuity they could imagine, and that, in his opini 1 was @ dangerous and a crimipal proceeding, ing to the law and the oificers, to instruct the ice force to play the part ef sucaking spies and ins Pairck McClernan, of ater, was charged with baving his place open on Sunday, September 1, The complainant saw a little girl, ten years of age, come out of the bar = pitcher full of beer. The defendant t was a hard thing to keep a woman im and that his wife, true tothe maxim, yy into the barroom and played the rélé Of barkeeper “unbeknownat to hi.’’ The license Was not revoked, Commissioners Manierre and burne voung bay, The of Joba fees bon of Seventh avenue, be- tween Fiity-second Fifty-chird streets, was a very peculiar caso, It appears he was sianding, about eight o'clock on Sunday evening, September 8, in the hallway Of bis house. when officer Remsan came alone, as he alleges, io citizen's clothen, and asked him to get him @ drink, He refused, when the officer said, “i's strong gee won't give mes. drink now when you gav | In bis testimony Mr. Reyiids swore that bi ae had the keys of his barroom, and that if he wanted to get liquor for his own use from it he could Bot, and that the officer must have made a mistak The officer failed to recogn’ze Mr, Reynolds aa the m: to whom be bad spoken at the doorway, as the night was dark, but was positive that be had obiained liquoe im Reynolds’ place during the day. ‘The case was adjourned for ove week to await the pearance of a witness who is expected to testiiy that he drank with tbe oflicer on the day im questioa in a liquor store near Fifty-second street, which was not Reynolds’, THE PUBLIC WEALTH. The following 1 Dr, Harris’ weekly report on the mortality io thisecity for the week ending ae 28th ult:— Merrorouitas Boano or Pras, Boneav oF Verat, Statistics. Oct. 1, 198i, 14 In the week that ended on Sa urdsy i 497 death in New York and 203. in deaths im the farmer city were in the being Inmates of Island asylums and those In Brooklyn were In. public inst in asylomeand strees beyoud the ely limits, This mors tality, emtien ste the census’ of 108, in equivalent tom cr at death-r 26 1n 1,00) tn New York, and 814 ty 1 in Brooklyn uding the mortaity io orn county: asylums, In the co res ling Week last your there were 437 in New York fn Brooklyn, And in ibe tirveen rs preeeding my In New York, the average aber of deatus in the corresponding week onset tember) was 464, of 27 more than last weet od last in Brooklyn, troyed only 751 vex lin nthe for ett perished fine tree Year of childboot, 24%, Per cent ef the dead were 56.95 while in Brookivn. the tnfenuio. under five years Of age r cont and 54.18 per dap ress mortality amounted to 28. etivel ed Ad of these ages, The zymoue called, Parsons, or 28.6) per cent of a Wat te at tad ‘in News @, oF 84 par cont of the total In ‘Thel Exmotic diseases show that the he ith, and if it were practicable tn thi map Gut the localities and classes in whieh the preventable causes of death and @xcess ve mortality oveur, {t would plainly be seen that In the cleanly and wel half of the city the death rate ts Bow bess thew 20 Lx hile in tre remaining half—tenant population —it te Tirst week in Septembe ihe it Week in September, i <9 per t,o Innabliante, Na Mex dosti rate « gh to 0 pee Le py cholera), in pe Liverpool, $ iu M nebewiars 10 the last week in Au can cities north of the xellaw fever somemaf be ule ‘Btates—are unusielly bealth, Ae | is from epidemics, They deathean New Or! amber 52) the second weet in September, and will en Ane ee nat con week, io ‘that abot thet Sige the to:al popu een in bel teved 4 ‘thy i icks ‘cmc bem cers, a eeen yellow Sans aa ooo ik UaRGE — Boston, Oct, 1, 1867, , A fire this morning on Sargent's wharf destroyed the building occupied by the Boston Linseed (il (ompany, ‘whose loss with the building will reach $100,000; also the building occupied by the Bay Siate Sugar Refinery. ‘The iatter e-tablishment was owned by Messer & Tillote fon, and contained a large quantity of rf and vain. able machi the low on which ie estimated ag 8 The total los will probably teach $250,000, which Only. covers covered by insurance. Tine Ws iF if. Lovrs, Get. 1, 1867, Tho flour and corn milt ot Deister ‘Luding, oa (he corner of Seventh and Carroll streeta, was burned last night, Al) the conrents were de troved, The loss ia about $26,000, on woieh there is $10,000 insurance in St Louis