Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-07-05

The Suppressed Nevyspapers-
Arrest Of General Dix and 9TH
eT Military OmCeTS by the Sher-
III.
In accordance with the recent letter Of Gov
ernor Seymour, directing the matter of the
suppressed newspapers 70 he Brought before
magistrate, District Attorney A Oakey Hall
commenced taking the evidence and submit
ting the testimony before City Judge A. Rus.
sell ON, Tuesday After examining the wit.
nesses, Judge Russell issued "a warrant for the
arrest of Major General Dix, Major Barstow,
Major Powers, Captain Fundy and other
officers on guard at the Office Of the recently
suppressed newspapers, which was placed in
the hands of Sheriff James Lynch The arrest
was promptly, made, and the IN iltary genle
men courteously submitted, and with their
counsel T. DeRlield Smith, United States
District Attorney appeared before Judge
Russell yesterday morning Mr. Smith request.
ed time to examine into the papers and con
suit with their associate, Judge Edwards Pier
repont ss the future course 10 be pursued by
them, which Judge Russell at once granted,
and the case was adjourned till Wednesday
next, the defeu lanisin the mean time being re
leased on their own verbal recognizances.
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T,E TALK OF AUTHORS -Buiwer, in one of
his late publications (Caxtoniana) has the
following
Every man of sound brain whom you meet
knows something worth knowing better than
yourself A man, on the whole, ia a better
preceptor than book. But what scholar
tdoes no not allow that the dullest book can
suggest to him q new and q sound idea
Take dull man aud dull book if you have
any brains Of your own, the dull man is more
instructive than the dull hook IttE
Take great book, and its great author, how
immeasurably above his book is the author il
you can coax him to confde his mind 10 you,
aud let himself out. .al..
What would you not give to have an hours
frank talk with Shakespeare if Shakespeare
were now living You cannot think of your.
self go poorly as not 10 feel sure that, at the
end of the hour, you would have got something
out of him which fifty years study would not
suffice to let you get Of bis plays Gold
smith was said by Garrck to write like nm
ange and talk like poor POLL But what
does that prove Nothing more than this
that the player could not fathom the poet A
manaibat writes like an angel cannot always
talk ike poor Poll That Goldsmith, in his
peat h-colored coat, awed by a Johnson, bullied
by Boswell, talked very foolishly, can well
nnd ersIand but let any gentle reader Of hu.
man brains and human hearts have got Gold.
smith all to himself over bottle Of Madeira,
in Goldsmith s own lodging-talked to Gold
smith lovingly and reverentially about The
Traveller aud THE Vicar of Wakefield" and
sure am that he would have gone away with
the conviction that there was something in
the well-spring OF so much genius more mary
elous than its diamond-like spray-somethng
in poor Oliver Goldsmith immeasurahly great
or than those faint and lragmentary express.
IONS OF the man which yet survive in the ex.
quisite poem, iu the incompatible novel.
remember being told by a parsonage who
was both very popular writer and brilliant
conversely hatthelpoet ellreminded him
OF fGoldsmith-his conversation was SO inferi.
or 10 his fame | could not deny it, for had
often met Campbell in general society, and his
talk had disappointed me. Three days after
ward Campbell asked me to come and sup
with him tete atete | did 30. | veut at ten
o'clock. stad till dawn and ali my recol-
lections of the sparkling talk Ihave ever heard
in drawing rooms, afford nothing to equal the
risLous nitluence of wit, humor, of fancy, of
genlus, thatthe great lyrist poured forth in his
woodrous monologne Monologue it was, for
he had it all to himself
The New York Tribune, in commenting up
on the refusal Of the Senate to tax whisky on
hand, says
THE vote to strike out this tax probably
cost the Treasury Eve millions of dolIars-a
sum far more convenient TO have than to do
without in these days. Bot is no use for the
House to resist. The Senate is fixed The
whisky holders have it, and will keep it,"
The Tribune means that the Senators are
"bungedu up" we suppose-New York Post.
IMPORTANT TO ToBACco DEALERS The fol-
lowing important order was received yester-
day morning by the Assessor Of the First Ohio
District
WAsHIS0ToS, July /, 1864
"Chas. r Fosdlck, United States Assessor
Internal Revenue, Cincinnati:
Notify all manufacturers Of tobacco, snuf
or cigars to make out an inventory of the
quantity Of the different kinds of tobacco,
snuff, -four, snuf, cigars, tnloil, liquorice
held or owned by them this day, as required
by the new excise law which Joea into Enroa