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7HE HOMES OF GRANT AND COLFAX.

The home of General Grant is an agreeable one
to the visitor, and plainly shows the nature and
taste of the occupant. Tall walnut book-cases sur-
round three sides of the library. Everything relat-
ing to the business of war is there, and histories in
abundance. The usual display of fiction, essays,
biography, philosophy, and works of general infor-
mation and reference, line the shelves. On the
mantel is a cigar stand, a bronze statuette of a
drummer, and another of a bugler. Engravings of
Washington, Lincoln, Sherman, and Sheridan, and
several photographs of Rogers's statuettes are the
only pictures in the room. Easy chairs and lounges
are placed carelessly about the room, and the library
is without doubt the most cheerful and inviting
apartment in the house. A miniature saddle and
trappings in bronze and silver is fastened to cross
sabres of the same metal. A bronze drum resta be-
side a stack of six-inch muskets; a cigar case from the
home of Burns; a half dozen curiously formed and
elaborately decorated pipes and cigar-holders; pow-
der-horns, mounted in gold and silver, each having
its separate history, and a hundred rare little articles
of vertu adorn the tables and mantelpieces. On a
side table in tin boxes are the five military com-
missions of colonel, brigadier-general, major-gene-
ral, lieutenant- general, and general, with the
parchments of brevet ranks which Grant has re-
ceived. Some very costly albums, prayer books,
and bibles are also upon the table. An oil painting
of Sheridan and one of M'Pherson's are prominently
hung in the parlours, and a marble bust and an en-
graving of President Lincoln are also conspicuous.
The home of Schuyler Colfax is a plain but neat
story and a half house, with a pleasant yard and
garden around it. The owner is a widower, his wife,
a native of Argyle, Washington county, having been
dead for several years. The old house in which
Mr. Colfax resided when his wife was living is
on the bank of the river, and is a modest little
cottage, whose ambition was satisfied with a
single span in height and a gable end to the
street. Two or three cherry trees and a vigorous
apple tree, no doubt planted by the owner's hand,
furnish the shade and ornament the wee spot. The
neighbours of Mr. Colfax say he is economical in
Washington, but liberal at home. Every cause and
public enterprise here gets a lift from him. When
he returns home festivals and parties begin, ani a
round of entertainments, until he has shared the
hospitalities of each roof.

The following are the exact words of the oath
administered to the four Chinese witnesses in a recent
case, wherein the celestial tried was charged with having
in true " Afelican" man's fashion shot another celestial
with a pistol. "All the four witnesses coining the court,
tell truth, hole truth, not thing but on the truth, show help
the God ; suppose don't tell the truth, die like the chicken,
and tell all truth go home to China and the short time."
The foregoing oath is written out in full and a copy
given to each witness. The chickens are produced in
court, and each witness, in taking the oath, seizes the,
hatchet and strikes off a chicken's head, sprinkling their
ritten oath with the trickling blood, and then burning it
up. The best of it—or rather the worst of it—was that
every one of them lied after going through this solemn
ceremony.

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MURPHYITE DISTURBANCES AGAIN.

Yet another riot arising out of " Murphyistn" is
reported. On Sunday afternoon, Flynn, the Murphyite
lecturer, took up a position in a large piece of vacant

ground near the Market Hall, in West Hartlepool, and
from thence commenced a harangue in his own pecu.:
liar style. There was a great crowd of persons. For
:lie first hour or more nothing of any note occurred,
public feeling finding vent in hisses and cheers from the
oppositely-inclined portions of the audience ; but at
length the Irish commenced throwing stones and using
other means of violence, whereupon the English turned
upon them, and routed them from their positions. They,
however, soon returned, reinforced by some further
arrivals, including a few from neighbouring towns, and
the attack was renewed, when a general melee ensued,
and the fighting on both sides became general. Showers
of stones and bricks were hurled about in all directions,
with more or less disastrous results, and on the Irish side
there was a plentiful supply of pokers, cudgels, and other
similar implements of warfare. The position of affairs
was now moo- serious, and defied all the efforts of a
large detachment of police, under Superintendent
Davidson, to restore quietness, and in the attempt to effect
this they were subjected to some rough handling. One of
the county force, named Thomas Hudsmith, was attacked
by an Irish labourer, named Patrick Cairns, who felled the
officer by a furious blow with a pair of iron tongs, which
completely cut through his helmet, and inflicted a serious
wound on his head. He was quickly removed to safer
quarters by his brother officers, and a medical gentleman
was sent for to attend to his wounds. Soon after this
Monkhouse and another officer of the force were also
attacked by Peter Macglynn. Their injuries, however,
were not of so serious a nature. Cairns and the other men
:were taken into custody the same evening. A large
number of persons were more or less hurt in the row, but
these were chiefly Irish, and no serious case has come to
notice. Cairns and Macglynn have been taken before
the magistrates at West Hartlepool Petty Sessions, and
each sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard
labour, for their share in the fray. Much excitement still
prevails.

( From the Anglo-Amoican Times)
The full text of General Rosecrans' letter and the
reply of the Southern Generals is now given in the
American papers. Both are dated White Sulphur
Springs, August 26. Of course Rosecrans' letter is
pulled to pieces and sneered at by the Republican
papers. He commenced by saying, " I come with
my heart in my hand to learn the condition, wishes,
and intentions of the people of the Southern States."
His letter being addressed to General Lee indivi-
dually, he adds, " especially to ascertain the senti-
ments of that body of brave, energetic, and self-
sacrificing men who, after sustaining the Confede-
racy for four years, laid down their arms and swore
allegiance to the Government of the United States,
whose trusted and beloved leader you have been."
The displacement of his heart, which he announces
to be in his hand, is of course laughed at, and is
said to account for the weakness and the sen-
timentality of the document. It was,' however,
clearly dictated by the earnest desire to do good
by a distinguished Union officer, and to avert,
if possible, the impending riots and disorder
in the South. " I believe," said Rosecrans—
" every one I know who reflects believes—that
if the people of the Southern States could be
at peace, and their energy and good-will heartily
applied to repair the wastes of war, reorganize their
business, set the freedmen peaceably, prosperously,
and contentedly at work, invite capital, enterprise,
and labour from elsewhere to come freely amongst
them, they would soon rebuild their ruined for-
tunes, multiply many fold the value of their lands,
establish pub 40 confidence in-our political stability,
On Tuesday afternoon
bring our Government bodds to-premium, our cur- the Lord Warden of the Cinque
iency to goldstandard, and assure for themselveS and 'Torts (Earl Granville, K.G.) distributed in St.. George's
the whole nation a mcist happy and prosperous f uture." Hall, Ramsgate, the certificates and prizes gained in the
Those who have lately controlled the Government Oxford Local Examinations held last June for the Rams-
reply to the. question why it cannot be done, that gate centre. The attendance was large and fashionable,
as the Southerners will not do it until :the poor the large room being crowded.
uneducated landless freedmen do,the six or eight mil- Earl GRANVILLE having distributed the prizes and cert.
lions of intelligent, energetic white people, must , ficates, offering his congratulations and good wishes to
give iu or move out of the country. Believing in ' each student, said there could be no one, at least conver.
a shorter way, he asks .whether they who organized sant with this subject, not aware of the good which had
and sustained the Southern Confederacy for four already 'been produced by the local examinations of
years against gigantic efforts could not give peace, Oxford and Cambridge, and also by the matriculation
law, order, and protection to the people of the examinations of the London University. The universities
South, and adds, " are:they willing to do it ?" He were all different in character. Some, like Oxford, were
desires to learn their opinion, and requests a written of great antiquity, great wealth, and great reputation;
expression of views thgt can be followed by a con- while others were, like the London University, young,
lie
1611 carry that pledge high
poor, and unshackled by position ; and all combined were,
above the level of party politics to the Union
army, ani people of North and West, con- by their-different modes of discipline, calculated to pro-
fident of a response so warm as to bring duce an immense effect upon the education of our country.
back the rainbow of peace to the now troubled They had proofs every day that these universities were
political sky. He desired to, have the signatures of striving to open still wider the gates of their utility,
all the Representative Southern men then at Sul- • and he hoped this generous rivalry would continue
phut Springs. General Lee's reply is cold, when and bear all its fruits. He believed these examinations
contrasted with the gushing enthusiasm of the ; were eminently useful to parents, to schoolmasters, and
Union officer. He conferred with the Southern also to scholars. With regard to parents, he believed
gentlemen, who joined iu the answer to which they that one of the most encouraging signs of public opinion
appended their names. African slavery and the at the present time was the anxiety that almost all
State right to secede were settled by the war, and , parents felt to give their children not only as good, but
they desire iu good faith to abide by that decision, rather a better education than that which they themselves
After laying down their arms, through their State had received. Now, it was extremely difficult, parti-
Conventions they abolished slavery, and annulled cularly for men occupied in the practical business of life,
their ordinances of secession ; and they returned some of whom, perhaps, were not very well educated
to their peaceful pursuits with a sincere pur- themselves, while others, as they all felt themselves—
pose to fulfil all their duties under the Consti-
partially forgot what they had learnt—it was, he said,
tutiou of the United States which they had sworn
to support. If their action in these particulars extremely difficult for men intensely occupied with every-
had been met in a spirit of frankness and cor- day duties, to know what was the best education for their
diality, they believe that ere this old irritations children, and where it was best to place them. Now, he
would have paSsed away and the wounds inflicted could not help thinking that his auditory would agree
by the war ayould have been in a great measure with him, that results, tested by these examinations, were
healed. As far as they are advised, the people of of the greatest possible use as sign-posts to such
the South entertain no unfriendly feeling towards parents. He could conceive nothing more useful for
the Government: :of the United States, but they education and for schoolmasters than that a real test
that their rights under the onstitution should be applied in this particular, and that those who
are withheld from them in the administration were succeeding in the instruction of those who were tried
thereof. The Southern people are not hostile to by the unerring test alopted by the universities should g!t
and would not oppress the negroes who have grown the credit and the reputation they deserved for their
up in their milst and. form the important part of strenuous and well-directed efforts. Those whom he was
the labouring population. Even the self-in- addressing probably knew that a memorial was recently
terest would prompt care and protection, as the sent to Oxford on the part of the leading members
races are necessary to each other; this fact is be.
of the scholastic profession to go still further in
coming known to both, and their relations would
this matter. They were not satisfied with the
soon adjust thernselves•on a basis of mutual kind-
pupils being tested, but had memorialised the
ness and advantage but for evil influences at work.
U
"It is true that the people of the South, together University of Oxford to institute examinations for,
with the people of the North and IVest, are, for . and give certificates to, the teachers themselves. He was
obvious reasons, opposed to any system of laws glad to say he had the advantage of being in conpunica:
which would place the political power orttrecountry----ttott-Nyittr scrini,-raen who took a leading part in the cause
in the hands of the negro race. But thisopposition 'of education, and from what they had stated he felt quite
springs from uo feeling of enmity, but from a deep- sure that Oxford was disposed to look upon the memorial
seated conviction that at present the negroes have he had referred to with the greatest favour. The noble
neither the intelligence nor other qualifications
which are necessary to snake them safe deposi-
tories of political power. They would inevitably
become the victims of demagogues, who for
selfish purposes would mislead them to the
serious injury of the public." Peace is what
they earnestly desire ; they ask for their Constitu-
tional rights, relief from oppressive misrule, and,
above all, the birthright of Americans, that of self-
government. That granted, they can safely promise
the faithful obedience of the people to the Consti-
tutional laws of the United States and kind humane
ti eatment to the negro. The following are the
signatures to this letter :—R. E. Lee, Virginia ;
G. T. Beauregard, La. ; A. 11. Stephens, Ga. ;
A. H. H. Stuart, Va. ; C. M. Conrad, La. ; Linton
Stephens, Ga. ; A. T. Caperton, W. Va. ; John
Echols, Va. ; F. S. Stockdale, Texas ; F. W.
Pickens, S.C. ; Wtn. J. Robinson, Va. ; Joseph
R. Anderson, Va. ; W. F. Turner, W. Va. ; C. H.
Subee, S.C. ; E. Fountains, Va. ; John Letcher,
Va. ; B. C. Adams, Miss. ; W. J. Green, N.C. ;
Lewis E. Harvis, Va. ; P. V. Daniels, jun., Va. ;
W. T. Sutherlin, Va. ; A. B. James, La. ; Toutant
Beauregard, 're's. ; M. O. H. Norton, La. ; T. B.
Brance, Ga. ; H. T. Russell, Ga. ; S. J. Douglass,
Fla. • Jeremiah Morton, Va. •,J. B. Baldwin, Va. ;
G. W. Bolling, Va. ; Theo. Flournoy, Va. ; James
Lyons, Va.

EARL GRANVILLE ON EDUCATION.

earl having referred to the local candidates, proceeded to
speak with regard to the acquirement of modern languages,
which he considered of vast importance, not only as re-
garded the culture of the mind, but also on account of
the practical value thereof by reason of our intercourse
with foreign nations. • While he felt sorry to see that not
a single candidate had presented himself for examination
in German, he must heartily congratulate them that so
many had passed successfully through their examination
in the language of that country from which they in that
part of England were separated by so few miles of sea,
and with whom they were being closely associated by
ties of national amity every day, rather than being sepa-
rated by feelings of jealousy and hatred. He felt it would
not be of the slightest use to make observations at meet-
ings like the present if he could not criticise as well as
praise, and he felt sorry to say there were two columns
in the returns Mr. Hill had sent him that were blank.
He was fully aware that the same columns were blank in
every district except one or two. Still, he must say he
should have been pleased to see a few names in each
of the columns he referred to. The first column was
" Mechanics," and the second " Chemistry." There
might be some difficulties in the way, but they must
remember the Government had afforded increased facilities
for the acquisition of those branches of knowledge by
means of the Department of Science and Art, and he was
happy to say public opinion was growing in favour of
these acquirements, the study of which formed a valuable
discipline for the mind, and upon their extension depended
in a great measure the success of this country in the arts
of both peace and war. He hoped the committee would
allow him to offer a prize to be given to the best candi-
date in future years in mechanics and chemistry. He
should leave the matter in the hands of the committee,
but might communicate himself with the Oxford authori-
ties to settle the conditions of the prize. (Hear, hear.) He
now came to the effect these examinations had upon the
boys, and could any one doubt that they had a beneficial
result ? Could any one doubt the value these examina-
tions gave to the instruction the boys received? Could
any one doubt these examinations added to the esprit of
the schools which had been successful? He believed
they gave an entirely different spirit to the
school. They gave boys a notion how useful instruction
was, and caused more attachment to those masters
who had imparted the instruction that had led to such
satisfactory results. These examinations also encouraged
the tutors themselves, and produced a generous rivalry
among them. He knew there were some boys who, from ill-
health or other causes, could not distinguish themselves as
some of their fellow-students did ; but if there were any
who had not succeeded becanse of idleness he would
impress upon them the absolute necessity of strenuous
exertion if they would be successful in anything they
undertook.

Mr. GEo. Brunt, of Sheffield, who bad just been
committed for trial for the attempted murder of hispartner
one Mr. Slater, has committed suicide. On Sunday, while
coming from the prison chapel, returning to his cell, ho
pitched himself over the bannisters, causing almost imme-
diate death.

How TO KEEP THE PRICES DOWN.—At a time
when in England complaints are frequent against the high
prices charged by butchers and bakers, it may interest
some of our readers to know how the Belgian housewife
4)ntrives to keep the prices down. Early on Saturday
morning 2f. per pound were asked for butter brought into
the Brussels market by the country people, who had en-
tered into a compact not to sell it, for less. The buyers,
however, were determined not to be imposed upon, and
many went away without making any purchase, which
quickly brought the price down to half its original standard.

SEVERE HAILSTORM IN NORFOLK.—North Nor-
folk has been visited this week with a severe hailstorm.
One gentleman, writing from Clay-next-the-Sea, says :
"I have scarcely a whole pane of glass in the front of my
house, and my conservatory is demolished in tote, the
grapes being cut from their stalks, and the stalks from the
tree. Great damage is done to fruit trees, and tile vege-
tables and flowers are destroyed, outdoor marrows being
::ut from their stalks as cleanly as if the gardener's knife
had been at work. The large window of our church was
lemolished in a moment. The Wesleyan chapel adjoining
my house is rendered unfit for public worship ; sacks are
obliged to be nailed across the sashes to keep the wind and
weather out." Somewhat similar reports have come froni
Barney, Bale, Gunthorpe, Thursford, Brisley, and other
tillages in the same part of Norfolk.