The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-30 00:00:00

AMERICAN PRESS•

" Riverside," writing from Washington, Nov.
4th to the Citizen, says :—" There is some doubt
whether the story started by some revivalists, that
all operatic music proceeds from his Satanic ma-
jesty, is true or not. On the evening of the 27th
ult. a daughter of Bishop Simpson, of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, was married at a fashion-
able Methodist Episcopal Church in that city. Pre-
sident Grant and family, John ' Govode,' Bone,
Cattell, and many distinguished Radicals, were
present; for it is known that the Bishop is a poli-
tical parson. Immediately preceding the entrance
of the wedding procession the organist performed
the air of Miserere,' from the opera of
Trova-
tore.' My attention was attracted in the Stltlinler
of 1861 to the announcement that two additional
verses had been written by John Howard Payne t°
his original exquisite song of Home, Sweet home'„
the matter then, owing to the surging elements
of civil strife surrounding us, escaped my notice.
Of late it has been revived. About thirty-five
years ago (I believe it was in the winter of 1833-1)
Payne was on a visit to London. He was a wel-
come guest at the table of an American banker, re-
siding in that city. To the estimable wife of the
latter he then presented a copy of his Home, Sweet
Horne,' set to music, with the following two addl."
tional verses addressed to her :

"'To us, in despite of the absence of years
How sweet the remembrance of home still appears,
From allurements abroad, which but flatter the eye,
The unsatisfied heart turns, and says with a sigh,
Horne, home, sweet home ;
There's no lace like home,
There's no place like home.
"'Your exile is blest with all fate can bestow,
While mine has been checkered with many a woo ; the
Yet though different our fortunes, our thoughts are
same,
And both, as we think of Columbia, exclaim,
Homo, home, sweet, sweet home;
There's no lace like hcme,
There's no place like home.'
Although I have examined several books of Ameri-
can poetry issued since that period which contain
the original song, the additional verses are cnn
They certainly have the ring of the old metal. ']heir
authenticity is unquestionable. I have been credi-
bly informed that a well-known citizen of Nel
York, then on a visit to London, copied them 3,
the time from the original in the hand-writing
Payne, and that he once gave them to the public'
but somehow they have passed unnoticed. It is 3
subject worthy of
,revival." In 1855 there wet."
among others, two applicants for County Engr
neer of St. Louis County, Missouri, viz., Captain
itted.
U. S. Grant and C. E. Solomon, Esq. The Count/
Commissioners rejected the pretensions of the W.
mer, and appreciated the latter. The emolument°
of the office were not over a thousand dollars Per
annum. This was fifteen years ago. The rejected
applicant is now President of the United State,°'
and the successful Solomon has retained his PCIS''
Pa
tion ever sine, but has been lately arraign-a
before the Court for malfeasance in office' 311,
the St. Louis papers positively assert will he ;-
posed. Ofttimes " truth is stranger than 1.1,
7;
tion." It is known the late President Lineell'of
Congressional term expired with the outgoing. g
President Polk's Administration, and the ineenlv
of General Taylor's. It is a fact not very geuer3d..
known, however, that he was an unsuccessful aPP e•
cant for Commissioner of the General Land Othcia
Of President Taylor and his Cabinet who
four sat are
judgment upon his claims and pretensions, a
deceased and four survive. Of the latter, one
Conservative Republican, two Democratic Coe
ese,ii
vatives, faithful to the Union during our i
':o
struggle, whilst the fourth was a General in so
Confederate army. So it is reasonable to suPP°n„
that if the late President had been appointed C°--tai
missioner of the General Land Office ill 1869,
President Grant County Engineer of St• 1-4°-
County, Missouri, in 1855, that neither of 0
tl e
would have been President of the United States.
The Washington correspondent of the Cincilvia... ,
Gazette gives the follo wing interesting informatiePed
—" A comparative statement has been preParto
at the Bureau of Internal Revenue, showing st
amount of grain on collections in many of the nlcist,
important districts of the country for July, Angulo
and September of the present year, over the ss
months last year. Of these the Ist Illinois (Chic.„Vth
District shows a gain of 23 per cent. •, the
Indiana (Aurora), 87 per cent. ; the Vth ICentn-ki
(Louisville), 7 per cent. ; the Vlth 'Cent°
(Covington), 174 per cent. ; the Ist Lonisi,st,
(Now Orleans), 40 per cent. ; the Ist Missouri kb.i.
Louis), 37 per cent. ; lid Ohio (Cincinnati), it. ;
per cent. ; the Xth Ohio (Toledo), 16 per ;
the XXIId Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), 81 per e-tifor
the Vth Tennessee (Nashville), 8 per cent., for
the following districts the comparison is innueniv •
the months of July and August of each year only.;
IVth Illinois (Quincy), 72 per cent. ; Vth 11" i ),
(Peoria), 15 per cent.; IVth Kentucky (Legge 1O
619 per cent. ; Vllth Kentucky (Lexin g_t
013), t. ;
per cent. ; Vllth Ohio (Columbus), 60 per „,,cerinper
XXIIId Pennsylvania (Allegheny City)
cent. ; Ist West Virginia (Wheeling), 25 P„,er:: net
Ist Wisconsin (Milwaukee), 7 per cent. -"" carter
receipts from revenue stamps for the first q,,,esr
of the present year over the same period lest Jt.
have increased $292,206, or 8 and 6.10 per cetiteet
" Shirley Dare" writes to the Tribune to cocas,
the account in the Galaxy of the bnperialist o°l'ol
paper and the T.C.1.0. The Citizen and 11' and
Table associated it with General Logan's nan;..„,e1031
the Grand Army of the Republic, while the tpo
of
wrote of the founders of that paper as gentlenlibree
position and culture, but the writers " are yeti`
young men, tolerably well known in Nov, foe-
newspaper offices. Two were Americans and terry
to va,
gade Republicans. One had gone so far as
torches in Union League processions, and tared
triotism fiercely at the kerbstone, and atteniPt.e/Of
enlist in the war, but the protestations of his Tea ia
especially his lady friends, held his loyal arced biS
check. During the last campaign he occull'e,v,- for
fertile pen with writing editorials alternate,'Jto
id
Grant and Seymour, with a possible consuls bis
view, which he fondly hoped to secure i.sviti•
disinterested labours, whichever side Inigh"a
The list of consulates was filled, but hiso-,alr
ITas not on it, and the death of hope from labs
Bean Government left him an ardent 11111l,se': bet
The second is an Englishman, who has
claim to sincerity of belief of any one of the Tote
virate. His position at the time was a suhei.r''oalf
one in the freight business. Ile, however, is t'heo dis;
one of the three who deserves in the least tees
of
tinction of culture. The others are gradna"rse
o e
fresh-water colleges, with a post graduate roe
ditli'
bad French novels, and provincial Italian. 30651
third is the working editor of a small
paper, a very young man—so young that it is ore
cult to characterize him further. All thre,e,,,,reeS
Bohemians of „Bohemia, in the eminent degrees
of debt and discontent. The proinisWgtorionS
that a paper could force its way to ne" nrie-
itsri
success, by the " undraped" odiousness of
ciples was suggested to the first of theseocrat.
after an apprenticeship on Pomeroy's Denied 13°t
'
The writer thinks that the youngest des
and bi
toriety, that the others were hard UP, of
on a good advertising device : Such
u it the
press of England and America as savv,ptiblef,
defiance of a party strong enough to inal`e thus,
its aims and plans,' will be pleased to 10° adver
it was the neat little advertising scheme ef
tutors, irresponsible, unprincipled Bohenli3rt tacit
borrowed a hundred dollars or so to sta,ooad
quack political idea, and who would have 'ot if the
unpleasant to have had to refund that It 11
American public had been less credulous. the
and
wrecked as an advertising dodge by the the tort
conceit of its projectors, one of whom told
0001
to a party of journalists at Delmoniast out, srio
himself by stating that it was sure to come
damage him unless he told it in his own NI °al ,°;"
left the paper to secure a post at half tile ,s a gr'd
another, but the expense of a newspaper h;orlcinoo
irony of its own in taking the fun ont,°f,
trial
such an organ as a joke. The " cba9
kept up, but who is to pay the weekly bills •
re de°
BIRTHS.
BRoDRICK —On the 28th inst., at 20, BOallfort-g
'6(l.
the Hon. Mrs. Brodrick, '
of a daughter.
P POW ELL—On the 29th inst the wife of David -
of 20, Grosvenor-square, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
BAILEY—CoLEs—On
Alfred Bailey, Esq , barrister-at-law, to rtlYf,ltufle
ret, eldest daughter of George Coles, Escl', °
1, Al-
Streatham.
GREEN —HAYDN —On the 27th inst., at Christ C11,1.113'e, 00,
the 27th inst., at Stroathatr, S3lll,r,rql
bany-street, Frank Green, of Little Trinity-Ij
to li ate, daughter of the late Joseph Haydn.

j E. 4 TIJ S. rn,for4'
BtrilcitA3l---Ou the 27th inst., at Sunnyside, Chr,.slsis'
Essex, Thos. B. Burcham, sq , late stip:lloa) 1 ,
trate at Southwark Police Court,. aged 62. f OP-
MuRRAY—On. the 27th inst., Thos. Murray, B5("11° ;4
r moon-street, Piccadilly, aged 66. frstDc'
WHITE -- on the 28th inst., at 26, Woburnsqn*
e' -
"White, Esq., of the Stock Exchange, aged 8u
0‘1:'
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Tuefitby, Nuember:zo, 1668