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EN.Assistnnt Secretary Dana and Brick
Pomcroy--Thcir Controversy About Old
Abcss S0ui.

Ex.A-si-tnnt Secretary Dana and Brick
Pomcroy--Thcir Controversy About Old
Abc's Soni.
The controversy between ex-Assistant Sec
rotary Dana and Brick Poneroy about Old
Abes soul has thus far failed to elicit any
reliable evidence in this strange and peculiar
case. The public are favored neither by the
cx-Assistant Secretary on the one hand, nor
by Brick on the other, with anything but a re-
petition of their respective positive assump-
tions One contestant stoutly asserts his be-
lief that the soul of the late lamented Presi-
dent went straight to heaven, the other that it
went straight to hell. But the public cares
nothing about what either of the contestants
believes unless good reasons are afforded for
the belief What do they know about it?
That Is the question But we shall await pa
tiently little longer for the evidence on either
SIDE Perhaps both Brick and the ex-Assistant
Secretary are consulting Planchette or some
other spiritual medium on the subject. Pro-
badly they cannot hope otherwise to get at the
evidence. T. Tilton cannot help them, for in
his funeral discourse in the independent on
another "Fallen Oak" as he calls Old Thad,
he does not venture TO be at all explicit in
stating which way the oak fell ''As the tree
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"BuIl RUM Russell for Parliament,

Mr.. William H. Russell, Familiarity known in
both hemispheres as "Bull Run" Russell, has
presented himself as a candidate for the repre-
sentation of Chelsea, England, in the new
British Parliament. In his address to the
electors he announces himself as o political
adherent of the Disrael conservative party, o
firm supporter Of the existing order of affairs
in Church and State and ready to do constitu-
tional battle against Popish aggression" and
the assaults of the fierce democracy.
It is highly probable that Mr.. Russell will be
elected, and that before next Christmas day
his proper address will be civilian H. Rus
sell, Esq, LII. D. and NJ. p" with "B. r."
added by his correspondents and friends in
America. We are glad of Mr.. Russell's pros
poets of success. He has always been great
favorite Of ours, particularly as he has served
the American people considerably already, and
may do so again. Mr.. Russell will make q
very useful member of the House of Commons,
and If, as his fellow countrymen in Ireland
express it, he is only as ''good with
the tongue rs he is ready with the
pen," few men within the walls Of
st. Stephens will force him 20 take
his seat by mere power of oratory. Then he
has been out in the East, in the West, and "aH
round" everywhere, possesses very practical
experience, is cosmopolitan in his ideas, and
will be, consequently, in happy accord with
Mr.. Disraeli on subjects Israelitish and Gentle.
II is to be hoped that the electors Of Chelsea
will cast heavy vote for Doctor Russell. To
the veteran ''salts" in the great hospital I'D
there, you know, y he can spin ''yarns" of any
length or bearing, and should they ever expe-
rience fatigue ut his recital of the deeds OF
Nelson, Duncan, Howe. Jervis and the others
on the ocean wave," the learned legislator
can diversity the entertainment by reciting
passages from his own experiences at Bull
Run, how rapidly he tackled" about, and,
allegorically, of course, how he rushed with
''all sail set" into port at Washington from tho
bloody field In conclusion. he may occasion
ally read the interesting letter which he re-
ceived from the late President Lincoln in ac-
acknowledgement Of his great account Of tho
Bull Run ight--an attestation of his ability,
accuracy and feetness of limb which will no
doubt prove quite interesting to the British
heroes.
Mr.. Russell has an excellent chance in his
run for Parliament, and II he can only do az
well in the electoral race as he did in his flight
from Bull Run he will distance his opponents
easily; for his time from the famous American
battle ground eclpsed anything on record, with
the exception, perhaps, of that which has been
made ~ Bouner's Dexter on one or two occa-
siops
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Russian Grand Duke About TO Visit
America.

America.
The cable telegram has announced that the
Grand Duke Alexis Alexandroyitch. the third
son of the Car Alexander the Second sailed
from Algeria on Saturday last for the United
States. The Grand Duke Alexis is about
eighteen years Of age. He is colonel of regi-
ment of Russian infantry, and also holds a
commission in the imperial naval division Of
Finland His delicate health has supplied a
motive for undertaking extensive travels. Tie
has recently visited the countries bordering on
the Mediterranean, aud he now crosses the
Atlantic in pursuance Of a project to which the
HERALD alluded many months since. The visit
Of the youthful Grand Duke will be a fresh
sensation for fashionable society after all their
watering place excitements of the summer. In
view of the cordial alliance between Russia and
the United States, based upon the sympathy
extended to our government by the government
of the Gar during our late civil war, and re-
newed by the recent purchase Of Alaska. and
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in view of our community of interests in future
relations with China and Japan, as well as
the hospitalities which are always proffered to
American citizens who visit Russia, the Grand
Duke Alexis Alexandrovtch will doubtless be
heartily welcomed by the American people.
His visit will tend to strengthen the bonds that
already unite the Russian empire and the great
republic.
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falleth so it lies" is familiar misquotation
which Tilton may have had in nina;
but he discreetly leaves in doub such
questions as the one which Dana and Brick
Pomeroy boldly undertake to solve. They
have not, however, solved it yet. They must
ask the spirits to solve it for them.
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BROOKLYN ATHENHUM, corner Of Atlantic and Gin
ton sts.-A DOUBLE CouRTsIIP-RISGING TIE CHANGES.
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AaJsEMENTs THIS EVENING.
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MRS r. r. CONwAY'S PARK THEATRE Brooklyn
KELLY 4 LroN's ETHIOPIAN MINsTRELsY, &c.
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All business or news letter and telegraphic
dispatches must be addressed NEW YORK
HERALD.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-14
Congressional.

WASHINGTON, July .-Honse.-Under
the regular Mondays call, bills were intro
duced allowing citizens to bring suits
against railroad companies in the Federal
courts, and constructing railroad from
Washington to Cincinnati.
A bill legalizing the acts of the Arkansas
tax commissioners was passed.
The Freedmen's Bureau bill passed by
the Senate making General Towards com
missionership independent of the Presi-
dent was passed with an amendment
making the discontinuance of the Bureau
absolute in the represented States on the
lst Of January, except as regards educa-
ton. The bill goes to the Senate for con-
currence,
Messrs. Dockery and Boyden, members
from North Carolina, from whom the politi-
cal disabilities have been removed, were
seated.
The House went into committee Of the
whole on the tariff bill by vote of 81 to
81. This is regarded as test vote, indica-
ting the intention of the majority to modify
the tariff. Two hours debate ensued, and
the House adjourned till tonight.
Senate.-Fifteen different petitions from
army officers asking increased pay were
presented.
The funding bill was resumed, and dis
cussed OF great length, and Messrs. Morton,
of Indiana, and Sherman, Of Ohio, favored
the payment of bonds in legal tender, un-
less otherwise stipulated on their face.
The question was discussed with much
bitterness till adjournment.
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LOCAL. MATTERS.

PROBABLE HOMICIDE IN HANovER.-On
Sunday last, at about noon, On ARRAY &C.
Cured at Kelly's grocery, near Cold Har-
Dor, in Hanover, which resulted in the NOR
tai wounding Of Well-known citizen Of that
county.
The accounts received Of the affair are
confused, but it seems that Mr.. John G.
McGhee and another gentleman were en-
gagged in conversation about farming mat
tiers when freedman named jackson,
slightly intoxicated, came up and made
some Objectionable remark. High words
followed between him and Mr.. McGhee, and
presently the former picked up on axe, with
which he gave the latter severe blow upon
the head. The iron pierced the skull, and
the brain ooZed from the wound. Mr.. Nc
Ghee's son, Peter c., game to his fathers
assistance, and was himself bruised about
the head and badly bitten by the negro.
A warrant was obtained for the arrest of
Jackson and of another negro named
Greene, who, it is alleged, aided and abetted
Jackson and handed him pistol to shoot
McGhee.
Mr.. McGhee is well-known citizen, ad-
vanced in years, and highly respected. His
medical attendant thinks his recovery al
most impossible.
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GENERAL CoURT-M ARTIAL.-The follow
ing cases have been disposed of by the
court-martial Of which Breyet Major W..
H. Rossell is president:
Corporal John Mclaughlin, company K,
Twenty first infantry, charged with absence
without leave, disobedience of orders, and
other improper conduct, found guilty, and
sentenced to be reduced to the ranks, to
forfeit ten dollars per month of his monthly
pay, and to be confined one month in soil
tary confinement.
Joseph Stay, company A, Twenty first
infantry, found guilty Of drunkenness on
duty, and sentenced to two months OF hard
labor. and to forfeit ten dollars Of biz nav
per month for FIVE months.
William Preston, CO.." ,1.npany E, Twenty
hrst infantry, plead guilty of desertion
aeeHtenced to forfeit all pay and allowances,
to be confined OF hard labor for the balance
of his term, then to be branded and
drummed out of service.
Corporal John Gephardt, battery A, Fifth
artillery, charged with conduct prejudicial
to good order and military discipline, was
found guilty, and sentenced to forfeit ten
dollars per month Of his pay for one month
and to be reduced to the ranks.
General Stoneman commuted the SEN
tence of Stay, and romitted that of Corporal
Gephardt.
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A letter written fromHRio Janeiro says
The Brazilians are vastly polite-it would
appear to US excessively So. They not only
lift the hat to every lady in the street and
at the window, but to every well-dressed
man, even though stranger. The most
distinguished gentlemen in the city fire.
quently acknowledge my humble presence
at the distance Of square off. In making
my visits among the sick it is customary
to shake hands with all the household, both
on entering and departing from the house !;
and if it is q SobradO, or two-story man
sion, where the family always reside in the
upper story, the lady Of the house, or the
daughter, always stands at the head of the
stairs till descend, and once more salute
her, with hat in hand.
The Brazilians seldom knock at the door,
as We do. They clap the palms of the
hands together two or three times, which
answers the same purpose. They never
enter an open room without giving notice
or asking leave" com Hcen=a 2"--among
the most intimate friends. In the streets
they never call after each other, but attract
the attention of the persons they wish to
detain by shut" which may be heard
some distance. When a lady stops you In
the street, which is unusual, it is customary
to stand with the hat off till she tells you
to put it on, "Olce on tlme," icqua-
cious sonora encountered, in the not sun.
shine, on tho street, o gentleman OF her in
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A schoolmas.er in England lately re-
ceived deputation of his pupils who came
to complain, in the name Of the school, Of
the beer furnished them at the table. He
replied to them: My dear boys, all men
and all things are imperfect. You, too,
have your faults, and you ought to occupy
yourselves with correcting them, instead Of
undertaking to reform my cellar. When
you have corrected the acidity Of your own
tempers it will be high time for you to
complain of the aourness Of my beer"
An unexpected difficulty has caused the
bull-hghts announced as about to take place
at Havre to be postponed. The bulls, Sc
lected for their ferocity on the plains Of the
Guadalquivir, have been treated so kindly
by the railway servants during their jour-
ney across Spain and France that they are
now perfectly tame, and will not fight and
so the sight-seers OF Havre are to have
regatta instead of a bull-fght.
"Carlton " writes to the Boston Journal
that the strait between the Red Sea and
the Indian Ocean is Bab-el-man-de6, and
not Bab-el-man-del, as the biographies have
it.--Erchange.
IMaury spells it correctly.l
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W. D. Howells describes in the Atlantic
Monthly as follows an old Venetian palace ::
a." Let him figure to himself the ancient and
half-ruined palace in which the notary
dwelt, with gallery running along one
side of its inner court, the slender pillars
supporting upon the corroded sculpture of
their capitals o clinging vine that dappled
the floor with palpitant light and shadow
in the afternoon sun. The gate, whose e1
quisite Saracenic arch grew into carven
flame, was surmounted by the armorial
bearings Of q family that died of its sins
against the Serenest Republic long ago !
the marble cistern which stood in
the middle of the court had still
o ducal rose upon either of it's four
sides, and little lions of stone perched
upon the posts at the head Of the marble
stairway climbing to the gallery-their
fierce aspects worn smooth and amiable by
the contact of hands that for many ages had
mouldered in tombs. Toward the canal
the palace windows had been immemorially
bricked up, for some reason or caprice, and
no morning sunlight, save such as shone
from the bright. eyes of the Paronsina, eVor
looked into the dim halls. 1t was fit
abode for such @ man az the notary, exiled
in the heart Of his native city, and 1t was
not unfriendly in its influences to o quiet
vegetation like the Signora's, but to the Pa
ronsina it was sad as Venice itself, where,
in some moods, have wondered that any
sort Of youth could have the courage to ex-
ist
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PETERSBURG. July Is, 1868.

This morning between 2 and o'clock the
building on Sycamore street occupied by
the propr;etors of the Inder newspaper was
discovered to be on fire; and though the
fremen were on the ground with their usual
alacrity, the flames had made too much pro-
gress to be subdued till nearly all the ma
terial of the Office, including the press, was
DESTROYED. All the books and papers OF
value, however, were saved. The Offices of
the establishment were on the second and
third floors. The lower story was in the
occupancy of Messrs. Evarts 4 Merriheld,
wine and liquor merchants; and it was IN
their part of the building, in the cellar,
that the fire originated, which was evidently
the work Of an incendiary. Their loss does
not exceed thousand dollars, which is
more than covered by insurance, most Of
their stock of liquors being rolled out into
the street while the fire was progressing.
On inquiry, learn that the, assurances
on the I,,dep establishment amount to
$1,000, divided among several offices-as
follows Virginia State Insurance Company,
Richmond, 81 700; Petersburg Savings and
Insurance Company, $500; Albemarle In
surance Company, Charlottesville, 81 900:
and Home Insurance Company, New Haven,
Conn, 500. A policy for $4,000 had just
expired, and had not been renewed. The
losses, it is supposed, will fall but little
short Of ten thousand dollars. The senior
editor, Mr.. Cameron, lost his private
library very excellent one-containing
a number of rare and valuable works.
The publication ct the paper will be re-
sumsd In Q fsW days, as soon as the neces,
sary material can be procured: 1t will
probably be struck off temporarily at the
Express Office, the editors Of which have
been prompt in extending oil the courtesies
usual on sucn occasions. But at this par
ticular juneture the suspension, even for
brief interval, of 50 able and influential a
journal as the index is to be regarded as
public misfortune, its bold and deter
mined course, and its devotion to the cause
of the State against the enemies who are
seeking to despoii and degrade her, has
been conspicuous throughout this political
campaign,
There was o great deal of disappoint-
ment and not little feeling at the failure
of Governor Vance to comply with his ap-
pointment on Saturday evening. After O
correspondence between him and the COM
mittee for several weeks, he finally desig-
mated the day himself; and when it was
found he would not be present, it was too
late to countermand the notice, The ratiti-
cation msstlag 10 Consequently postponed
until the committee car: Secure the presence
of other speakers.
The weather continues oppressively warm.
Farmers are beginning to complain OF the
drought, which, however, is not yet exces-
sive but under the burning sun which now
smites the earth it eannat be many days
before vegetation is severely piached.
One or two negro societies from Rich
nond have been regaliRg themselves by
marching through the streets during the
hottest part of the day, attended by hun
dreds Of women. Their visit is said to be
in compliance with an invitation to partioi-
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-14

WASHINGTON, July l3.--Judge Fisher,
from Mississippi, reports to the Republican
committee here that the Democratic ma
jority in that State is 1000, but he claims
that he can prove that $4,000 votes were
obtained by fraud.
A Radical committee from Virginia is
here urging changes in the recently passed
election bill that will open O. registration.
A bill according with their views will pro-
badly be introduced in the Senate.
Commodore James F. Miller, for forty
two years in the naval service, is dead.
A delegation from Atlanta, Ga, has ar
rived to urge upon Congress the propriety
of removing the political disabilities from
certain Radical members of the Georgia
Legislature.
There was considerable talk and some
positive assertion of the formation of q
third party for the Presidential fight. Gene
raj Fremont, General Cary, and John Quin-
cey Adams are prominently named. Chief
Justice Chase declines to cooperate with
the movement.
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QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE METRO
DIST SUSDAY-SCHooL SoCIETY.-The regu-
lar meeting of the Methodist Sunday
School Society was held at Trinity Metho-
dist church on Sunday afternoon-Mr. A.
Snyder, president, in the chair. The su-
perintendents reports for the month and
quarter were read, from which it appeared
that the Clay-street Sunday school was en-
titled to the banner for the largest average
attendance and the Sidney Mission school
was entitled to the first premium, Rockets
to the second, Valley Mission to the third,
and Oregon to the fourth.
The Rev. r. N. Sledd, on behalf of the
Society, presented the banner to the sue
cessful school, which was received by Rev.
E. M. Peterson in o neat little address,
President Snyder next addressed the
meeting, and urged upon the schools the
Importance of renewed efforts, both in the
endeavor to increase the number of
scholars, and also for their spiritual i'm
provement.
The audience were then entertained by
the usual interesting exercises of the chill
dren connected with the several schools. A
speech was made by Willie Henping on
"Idleness in Youth " ga Tribute of Praise
to Jesus" was next receited by ten boys and
the same number of girls, under the leader
ship of Superintendent Pemberton. 1t con-
sisted of alternating questions and re.
sponses, hymns and choruses, and was we'll
received by the audience, and declared by
oil to have been complete success. The
dialogue by four boys, and catechizing by
Mr.. I. L. D. Walford, was interesting.
Rev. DR.. Rosser made an appropriate ad-
dress; and the meeting closed with the Dox-
ology and benediction. The audience was
very large, the church being filed to its
utmost capacity and the most unfagging
interest was manifested throughout the en-
tire proceedings. The following is the
quarterly report Of the several schools:
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Corn and Flour Exchange.
'Nf y ~
OFFERINGS,

OFFERINGS,
Whedt.-White, 2 sos bushels. Red, /, 612 bushels.
C0rn.--White, !, OLE bushels. Yellow, 100 bushels
Mixed, none.
Odts.-240 bushels.
Rye.-5s bushels.
SALES.
Whedt.-White, 1874 bushels fair on private
terms !; IS bushels fair at 81. CO. os bushels fair
at 200; ls2 bushels prime on private terms 424
bushels prime ut ~. 65 /; so bushels good on pri-
vate terms 90 bushels good at 81. 60; 200 bushels
very good at $2.e5 ~ bushels ordinary ut 81 90
lao bushels smutty ut S2.4o-total, ., sos bushels.
Red 2e4 bushels prime on private terms; ~! bush
els good on private terms 80 bushels fair at g. sos
u bushels fair 1T So 200 bushels fair on private
terms !; 1874 bushels very good on private terms !;
IS bushels ordinary at $40; 90 bushels ordinary
at 800; 20 bushels common ut S2.2S; 20 bushels
inferior at S. 10 100 bushels smutty at 81. 40 "a
bushels good at 81. 52a II bushels prime at 81 Sly
total, ], 6l2 bushels.
Corn.-White, 547 bushels at 81 .?6. Yellow, 30
bushels at $l.225. Mixed, none.
Oats.-ll4 bushels ut FAC. l22 bushels damaged
at 73c.
Rye.-4 bushels prime at sl.d2s.
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Partial Close Of Military Rulei In
South Carolina.

CHARLESTON, S. c., July I3.-GeneraI
Candy issued an order to-day directing the
military officers in the State to cease exer-
cising any civil authority in the State when
the President shall have proclaimed the
ratification of the fourteenth article; OF
which time prisoners under their charge
will be turned over to the civil authorities.
All prisoners serving out sentence pro-
nounced by military commissions will be
held, Writs of habeas corpus from United
States courts are to be obeyed, but to wrlts
from State courts reply is,to be made that
the prisoner is held under authority OF the
laws of the United States, and jurisdiction
is exclusively in the United States courts.