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REVENUE DECISION.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4-The Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue has address,
ed the following letter to an extensive
Southern tobacco dealer:
''SIR-ln reply to your letter OF Seps
TENDER II, in relation to old unstamped
tobacco, snuff or cigars, have to say;
"First-A dealer having on hand old
unstamped tobacco, snuff and cigars, is
required to afix and cancel the proper
stamps before selling or offering the to,
baccO, etc, for sale, but he is not required
to brand or affix labels or notices
Second-A dealer may himself repack
his tobacco, etc, in lawful packages, and
stamp them, without permission from
the Collector of his district.
Third-There is no provision Of the
law allowing snuff to be retailed from
pound packages
FOurth-A box of plug or twist to
baccO, stamped according to the new
regulations, (Sories 5, No. 8, may be
sawed in halves, half Of the stamp being
left upon each half Of the box, and sold
without liability to seizure. A half box
Of tobacco, with theproper amount Of
stamps affixed, and cancelled, may be
sold without liability to seizure.
Fifth-Plug or twist tobacco in bond
prior to July 20, 1868, and subsequently,
withdrawn from bonded warehouse and
properly stamped, is not liable to seizure
though the manufacturer notice re-
quired by section s, No. s, of the act Of
July 20, 1868, is not upon it.
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INCIDENT AND ACCIDENT.

New YORK, Oct 6.-In Judge Nc
Comab' court yesterday, man named
Labtef appeared and said that nearly
two weeks ago he came 10 this city from
Minnesota, with his wife and three child.
ren, AID on his arrival he sent them 20
boarding house while lac remained at Tie
depot TO attend TO his baggage, and on re-
ceiviUg the baggage he proceeded 10 the
boarding house, tut heard that his family
were not there, aud after sesrching the
city eight days for them he found that
they had been convicted of petty larceny,
and sent 10 the penitentiary for three
months. Judge McC0mss Immediately or
dertd the production Of the parties in
court.
DETROIT, Oct Stewart, the burglar,
who murdered John Willets in his house
N this city, on the night of September Is,
was Brought before the Recorders Court
this morning for trial The court
room was packed with spectators,
and the prisoner strongly guarded TO pre-
vent any attempt 10 seizs him. After
reading the complaint to the prisoner, to
the establishment Of everybody, he pleaded
guilty 10 the charge Of murder
in the first degree and Immediately after.
wards WAS sentenced TO solitary confine.
ment in the State prison for life. The re,
suit surprises all, Up to the time of trial
the prisoner stoutly denied his guilt.
SPRIEGFIELD, MAS :, Oct. 6.-Trayel is
still interrupted East, North and Wet
from this city. Passengers who left Al.
bany Monday morning Lave been flood.
bound near Washington, Berkshire county.
and are expected heIe this morning
More than twenty passengers in Franklin
county, have been carried of, including
the Vermont and Massachusetts railroad
bridge over she DeerGeld river. Three
persons were swept away,
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MINNEAPOLIS.
CurIOns and Threatening Water
Accident.

A CurIOns and Threatening Water
| Accident.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI Oct 6.-Monday
moIning the Eastern Tunnel, half mile
long was being excavated for the purpose
OF making water power on Nicallet Is.
land, pierced sunk Wster cavern in the
island below the level of the river. The
gates at the head of the tunnel were closed,
but the rush of water could not be arrested,
Early Tuesday morning, large whirl-
pool nesr the shore Of the island was dis
covered disclosing the mouth of the cav
ern' All efforts yesterday 10 close up this
hole by RATS, cribs and bales of hay, ETC..
proved fruitlesS, and the river is making
tremendous effort TO cut a new canal for
ITSELF
The mills on Hennepen Island are in
danger, as the ground is csving 10 from the
passage of the water beneath, A shousand
men are at work night and day, construct
ing Golfer dam around the mouth of the
whirlpool. If necessary, a section Of the
dam will be blown out, TO lower the water,
which rs very high, and the danger of a
new channel is imminent.
The volume of wafer rushing into the
cavity Of the whirlpool and thence into
The tunnel has been somewhat checked
by masses of trees and sand bags. No
damage to mills are reported as yet |
Huge bOnfres light the men at work,
The piers of the new Golfer dam are
Learly completed.
The people are excluded from the |
8 and, and the work goes bravely on. The
hole is sixty feet deep and thirty broad.
Il is full of trees. logs. sand. etc.
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FURTHER FROM CUBA,
The Traitors In the Army OF
Oespedes.
Americans Made to Bear the
Brunt Of Battle. 4
The SpaniardS Defeated I'm Sew
eral Small Fights.

Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette.
| WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, IS69.-Letterl
from prominent gentlemen now in Cuba
in the army and sojeurning there, tC
friends in this city, received yesterday,
| give additional news Of an interesting and
important character.
General Cespedes is untifisg in his en-
deayors to unite his army by oonciliating
the various elements of which it is CONS
posed. His efforts have not been sue,
cessful. The removal of General Jor.
dan from command of the most impor>
tant division of the army, and placing
him on the staff of the General com.
handing, as Adjutant General, instead
of having the effect intended, has deyeI-
oped the formidable power of the or.
ganlzed conspiracy and treachery in the
army. Officers as high as Major Gem
erals are identified with it, and demand
the entire exclusion of foreigners from
positions Of command. ~
There are now over twenty two him.
dref Americans in the Cuban army in
the different divisions. These men have
been, and are, the strength of the army.
and were they massed, as was promised
when they left this country, would be-
more than equal to any Spanish force on
the island, but this promise was not kent
and they are now so Dortioned out in the
different commands that they are power
less for good to the cause which they
with so much earnestness espoused, and
unable to protect themselves against the
treachery of the people whom they VOL
unteered to serve. Gen. JOrdan's safety,
eveR in his present position, is only Sc
cured by guard of company of his own
men.
1t is stated that the Americans are
carefully watched to prevent their es-
cape, and that in every fight they are so
placed as to be compelled to bear the
brunt of the contest, where they have
to fight for their lives, as no quarter is
ever given them. Even those who are
wounded are ruthlessly murdered on |
The field. Those who have escaped and |
reached this country, represent the con-
1ition of their former comrades as most |
desperate, and their suffering such as
should awaken the sympathy of every
American. They report that no promise
made them in New York, previous to
heir leaving for Cuba, has been fulfilled,
md that every representation made to
hem they found to be false when they
.rriVed on the island. All the letters re.
eived here from Cuba confirm these
tatementS, and urge that immediate acS
ion should be taken by the government
o rescue them from their present situa~
ion.
Several fights have taken place, in all
f which it is reported the Spaniards
we're defeated; they were, however, of
10 importance as affecting the result Of
he contest.
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VIRGINIA.
The Iron CIAd Oath Ina The IpsisIa.
furs-RRdicaI Respect for Attorney
General HOar's Opinion.

The Iron CIAd Oath Ina The I.asisIa
ture-RndicaI Respect for Attorney
General HOar's Opinion.
RICHMOND, Oct. 6-The Senate was
organized by the election Of Walker men,
the Wells men protested agsiust their
taking the iron Cial oath. The house
has not yet organized.
In the house to-day two resolutions
were introduced that the iron clad oath be
now administered to the members and
temporary officers of the house, which
were referred 70 the proper committee
when it shall be appointed.
A protest adopted by the Republican
caucus last night WAS presented 1t is
framed with the view of answering Attor-
ney General Hoa! argument, and 10 pros
test against any sets of this st ssion, the
members not having taken the iron,clad
oath, and the body berg therefore illegal.
Ii was referred.
The folloxing nominations we're made
for Speaker: Z,bediah Turner, of Rap
pahannock, S. I. Maddox, of Chesterfield.
and J. B CrenshaW, of Richmond. Tur-
ner, nominated 10y the Conservatives, re-
ceived 81 votes; Maddox, nominated by
Wells, Republican, obtained fl, and Cren.
shaw 5 votes. Turner was declared
elected.
In the discussion the pc int was pressed
that Turner now has an APP Plication before
Congress for the removal of his political
disabilities, and it was explained that
though no! able 10 take the test oath, he
was not disqualified by the fifteenth amend
ment
J. c. Bigger, the old incumbent, was
elected clerk in the Senate. The same pro-
test of the Republican caucus was pre-
scented, and Il resolution adopted laying it
on the table, on the groand that il was man.
ifestly an effort TO obslrucl reconstruction
acls, aud ia direct violation of the inter-
probation Of said acts by the administIa-
ton.
A resolution was adopted informing the
commanding General of the organize alton
OF The Senate.
Adjourned.
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TIE RICE CROP OF LOUISIANA.

The New Orleans Price Current Of
September %, makes the following state,
ment in reference 10 rice culture in that
region:
In Louisiana the crop Of last season
amounted to $4,000 barrels of 200 pounds
each, or equal in weight to $1,000 tierces
Carolina rice, showing that without any
extraordinary eXertions the product of
our State has risen in the past few years
from comparatively Insignificant
amount, to something like three seventies
Of the last crop Of the Atlantic States.
When it is remembered that the whole
area in cultivation in the State embraces
only few narrow strips in a few
parishes, chiefly in two of them, and cons
sidering the many thousands of acres OF
land within her borders admirably
adapted to the cultivation of this cereal.
it is diffic lit to form any estimate of the
extent to which future crops may reach,
for it is not to be supposed that
these lands will always be permitted
to lie uncultivated. With the ms
PRODUCTION Of improved mills for the
cleaning Of rice, and with more care than
formerly, in cultivating and handling, the
quality Of Louisiana rice has been so
much improved Of late tkst it now takes
high rank when compared with the pro-
ducts of other sections. 1t is said that
the further north rice can be grown so
that it will mature properly, the better
the quality of the grain; at least the grain
is harder and less liable to breakage and
waste, in the process of pounding and
cleaning. As examples of the profits to
be realized from the culture of rice, we
may mention that planter in the Parish
of st. James last season netted the hand
some sum of $4,000 from the product of
ITO acres which he had planted; and in
the same parish. the present season,
planter with $50 acres Of rice employing
twenty hands including cattle drivers,
ETC., will have crop averaging 9 barrels
of 200 pounds each to the acre or III
barrels to the hand, which at the general
average of 6 cents per pound, will give
$l,34 as the earnings of each hand.
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Mr.. james Fisk, jf!s, carriage in front Of
Mr.. Abel E. Corbin's residence. waiting
ior said Fisk, who was within said resis
Iencs, saw representative of the New
LORE Sun paper enter and leave said resi-.
dsnce, and then Mr.. Flax, jr., came out.
ster the departure Of said representative.
OF the Sun, and that l accompanied Mr.
Fla ( to his Office in the Erie building
corner of TWenty.third street and
6i IN avenue. AGEo. CROUCH,
Sworn to, the 4.h dsy of October
1oo9, before me, MoRTIMER SMITH.
Notary Public"
Charles w. Pollard, the siguer of one
OF the atidavits, is wsll-known broker
Of New York. Crouch, another signer. il
an editor of the New York Herald
Ban6eld is Mr.. Fisk's coachman. and
Mcintosh Is the superintendent Of the
Erie ferries, and prominent citizen.
The Developments have just begun.
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HABIT is everything. We have all
heard the story of the mau Who slept
above bakers oven for twenty years,
then changed his lodgings, but had to go
back to the oven before he could sleep,
A case illustrating the same principle
recently occurred in Ohio. A city man,
accustomed to lodge on one OF the noisi-
est streets, visited a country friend.
Too much quiet destroyed his rest at
night. His friend felt for his distress,
and said he would try and relieve it.
Accordingly he went to neighbours and
procured brass drum, which he beat
under the fellows bedroom window,
and had his boy run squeaking wheels
barrow up and down on the porch,
while his wife played on the piano, and
the servant girl pounded on the door
with the tOngs. In this manner the
sufferer was enabled to get two or three
hours Of quiet refreshing sleep, though it
was heavy on the family.
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REMARKABLE SCENE IN COURT.

An extraordinary scene occurred in
the Hastings Court Of Virginia Sept. a.
George Washington, colored man cons
victed Of demonstrating, and sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary, upon being
asked what he had to say, turned to the
large negro audience in the court room
and warned them against Yankees and
carpetNbaggers, who were the ruin of
the State. He hoped when he came out
in ten years to find the star spangled
banner waving over Virginia; the State
governed by her own people; and all the
CARPET baggers at the bottom OF the
ocean. The speech created considerable
excitement.
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Sion Of Financial VsTacIty-
ts BrOtber-In-LaW Denies the
1mpeaehment-FIsk Says He
NoRK, Oct. 6-The Herald has
living note, dated Oct. 5:
tr exchanged a word on financial
reither verbally or in writing, with
! Fisk, Jr., from the commences
due gold speculation until it broke
d. noon; nor within that period did
hihorize any human being, verb
q writing, TO buy or sell gold for
4 sny one else. A r. CoRBM.
forlds reporter yesterday received
tNing statement from Jas. Fisk:
have TO say is THE, we have Just
ced a suit against Mr. COrbin for
thousand dollars, or therea bouts,
tencs on gold bought and sold for
Hates. Every thing up 10 the
ume has been substantiatad BY af-
4nd everything in the future will
hstantisted, and | shan't make q
Ihout five or six sffidavits being
Z it. Ihaye nothing 10 give you
re than these afiidavits. What
after will be published. Mr.
O. not been the only man in the
pe are others whose NAMES need
rpn. All these things will come
line.
bposiLion Of VIM. Health & Co.,
heir contracts connected with the
citation of Friday Sept. 24-On
lbs the differences TO be paid SO
= cash, and so per cent in ten
q the resumption of payment by
Z hiss been accepted by dealers
yntrsct7 with the firm cover
8
re outstanding contracts Of G. e
fat days business are $4,000, 900.
1hore directors are still in ses-
easy at G@7 per cent on call.
fved $3.50, 900 in currency from
{ Commercial bills are rather
Hold lirmer; opened at $50 and
c3l.
rates 7@9 per cent to fat.
l to be due rather to email offer
10 any unusual demand. The
Och arrived this afternoon
h4,0O0 sterling; Governments
sd Tennessees 81; new 81.
lRK, Oct. G.-The World says
ted and fifty Cuban flibust ers
bort Monday morning in the
aaron Wilbur, intending 10 join
tyr from Philadelphia with a
- aboard.
3 hundred feel Of high en-
hn the Harlem road, at sixty
tfeil last night, stopping travel
4.
on River railroad Is again in
her 10 Albany.
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HARTFORD.
IeCcher stowe Speaks

leCcher Stowe Speaks for
Herself.
b, Oct. 6.-Mrs. Stowe IN
burant that she has kept silent
con subject, for two reasons
HE regarded the public mind
scited a size 10 consider the
nas4ionately, and 2. Because
ected the development of ad-
0fs ia England, some Of which
Importance.
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sHINGroN, Oct. 6-All the Judges
off Supreme Court of the United
ST are present, except Judge Field,
aue business Of the Court has com.
md with arguments of cases pending
atllste adjournment.
he Supreme Court to-day was ar
gdhe case of the Mayor and Alder
mbf the city of Memphis Va. The
Mhis and GayosO Gsslight Company.
Piffs vs. Thomas Dean.
the matter Of Bel tmin
@ Eli Wood, John Hal
liHranville Roor, William Andrews,
sfhillip Steinnielz, w. Boyce, for
mmember of Congress from South
Cha, Asked leave TO file a motion for
al of habeas corpus in their case.
Totion was directed 20 be argued
oIday next.
prisoners are charged with MUIR
dTexas, in June last, and il is al
lAey are now tried by military com.
M
sport has been prevalent here
C that Secretary Fish yester-
deceiVed a dispatch from the
Il and Eoglish governments
te effect that they had nolis
fair fleets to overhaul the Cuban
per, Hornet, and sink her when
fcThey were further instructed 10
the officers and crew az pirates, and
htem.
nuiry at the proper quarter it has
bcertained that there is no truth
Ner ia this report; and, further. that
iset known in diplomatic circles that
tuhel had been captured. till twenty.
f0hrs after she WIS ia government
C, when the feet was unoflicislly
Ined to several Of the foreign repre-
ses, tie British minister included.
1Fernment received a telegram Suns
d., and it was in consequence Of
fsfein stated that an order WAS i'm
ny sent to delain the vessel fer
;prOceedings.
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INDIANAPOLIS.

The COrOner's Verdict I'm the Boiler
Explosion Case.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 6-The coronef's
jury, late last night, found the following
verdict:
That P. w. Davis, and twenty others,
came 10 their death by the explosion of
boiler attached 10 Sinker's Portable En-
CINE, caused by incapAbility and careless
ness of the engineers in charge.
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The great moral idea organs are hOr-
rified because the Madrid government
intends to compel the bishops to swear
support to the new constitution but they
are in ecstacies over the compulsion
which Grams half dozen oaths down
the threats Of Southern men who aspire
to any Oflice-even that of town con
stable.
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seminary. The invitation was, on motion,
accepted, and o'clock on Thursday, the
9TH inst, named as the time for such visit.
A motion was made and carried that the
report of the Committee on Business be
referred to the Executive Committee for
the purpose of carrying out the sugges-
tons proposed. - ~ - ~
A motion was then adopted instructing
the Executive Committee to prepare an
address to the press, asking them 10 be-
come members of the association. Ai
The association then adjourned to the
next annual meeting.
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A great trot took place at the LsxiBg~
ton, KY, fair last Saturday. Capt.
Henry Buford's horse BlackwOOd, trOtted
a mile in 2:3l, the fastest time ever made
by a three-year old by six seconds.
Fifty thousand dollars has been refused
or him.
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lII.MINGTON,

IteieRse Of the FriVRIeer
HOracI.
ton, Oct. G.-Tbe Cuban yes
sill undoubtedly be released,
ament shows no disposition 10
} case. The government was
d the llth lost. To produce
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COTToN.-Cotton picking has begun in
earnest in our parish, but the fields are
still white and will remain so for a month
or six weeks longer. Scarcely any
planter can boast of having hands enough
to pick all his cotton, though many boast
of the beauty of their crops. Nothing
more is heard of catterpillars, and we
doubt if planter could be found in the
parish who would admit that the cater.
pillars had caused the least damage to
his CROP not, at any rate, as much as the
late rains, which, to say the truth, have
rather prevented cotton picking than
any real loss. The planters say they
will gather an ordinary yield but we
all know that they are always more or
less inclined to overrate their ILL luck
and depreciate their good fortune, and we
therefore believe that if enough cotton
pickers can be had, good, full crop will
be gathered - OpeIouSas Courier,
Sept %
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MEMPHIS.

Sale of Railroad stOek-COnfesfCsI lee.
lion Case Decided.
MEMPHIS, Oct 6.-The stock Of the
Mississippi and Tennessee railroad be-
longing 10 the city, amounting TO three
hundred thousand dollars, cold this after
noon TO A F Lacey, agent for the Missis-
sippi River railroad, for forty thousand
dollars.
Chancellor S5merJ ia the contested
election case of Wallace VS.. Hudson, for
the Judgeship OF the Criminal Count.
rendered a decision in favor of the latter.
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The Georgia State railroad paid $25, :
600 into the treasury Of that State, from
the earnings of the road fer the month
Of August.
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LOUISVILLE AND NASH
VILE RAILROAD.
Reelection Of the Old Onicers-DoubIe
Track,

LOUISVILLE, Oct 6.-The Louisville
and Nashville Railroad stockholders have
reelected the old board OF directors, and
authorized them to construct another track
10 Lebanon Junction from Louisville.
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Mr.. PEABODY sailed in the Scotia, for
Europe, on the 10Th September.
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The Rome Georgia Commercial Of the
10Th inst. speaking of the gold diggings
in Barlow county, Ga, and of the Gill
mines, owned by Boston company,
says that discoveries will be exhibited
that will astonish all the searchers after
mineral wealth, and nothing the like
whereof has ever been heard on the
American continent. "Some of our most
truthful citizens have seen specimens Of
the ore and bear witness to the great
value of it. 1t is represented that one
ton Of the ore, recently taken from the
shafts, has been tested and examined,
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DUISVII.E.E.

! Racing over Inc Wood
lawn Course.
2, Oct 6 Weather clear
Attendance at the races very
( in good condition.
hrs, $500; two mile heats Tor
Roodford Belle, I've
.-.......................... . .
lssoh's b c Charley
Dr. yesrs Old. l /
! Robert Lee, six
.......................... 3 diet.
fne-3.I24, 3:4l4.
ID a quarter miles; purse Of
G4ncer, four years Old. 5
kilgOuI's bf Bette Bay,
.d-.........., .................... =
he bf Sue MOrrissey, four
.....s.ss.,........s. !
Time-2l34.
lker was faYOrite in the fret
lMnrrisseY in the second.
HIA, Oct. 6.-About half a
worth Of property Wss de.
flood in and about the city
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. Tird days Racing at
WoodlaWn.
WASHINGTON.

Ming OF the Supreme COnrt-PrOb-
Cabinet changes - Alleged
fsky Frauds : Negroes Sue for
balIty = Case OF the PrIVateer
rnet-The Virginia Legislature,
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Dr.. S. Ii. WILLIAMS, Of Alexandra,
Va, has invented a stove for burning
bituminous coal, and claims that one ton
will supply it through the winter months