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DEATHS.

Died, In Manchester, Friday, July so, at LIZ
O'Clock. ALMA MuRTLE, Infant daughter OF VII.
liam and Helena A. Evans; aged twelve months and
Her fuuerai will take place at the residence OF her
father corner Hull aud Clopton streets, at O'Clock
p
baltimore San please copy. =
Died. at W s, Point, July 29th. at 1920 P: NJ,
ELiZ >BETH, only child Of Max and Pauline Hey
Friends Of the family ars respectfully invt,ei to
attend the funeral from York River Railroad depot
tbs DAYst 10 A. NJ whence the rem n :ins Will
| nied, on Friday, July SOth, THOMAS F. GID.
| DINGS. SON OF John and Henni +. Glddings aged
ten months and eixhteen dsys
Calm on the bosom OF thy God,
| Fair spirit, rest thee now;
! Du1t to its narrow house beneath,
Relatives and frieads are respectfully invited to
attend the funeral 81 my residence on SATuR.
DAY, July 3lst, at 10 O'Clock.
Died. ut the residence az Mrs Elizabeth Spraa-
gins. Thirty-hrst street between q and X. Gel HS-
TINE e. infant dau .hter Of Pr. ~. w. and Emma
F. Gordon, at 4 z. NJ. July 30th.
Evening from the residence OF Mr.. Spraegias.
The friends and acquaintaaces OF the family are
iuSlteo TO attend.
Died. on the eth Of July, tn residence OF bis pa
ROBERT sMTTa. only ch,id OF John T. aud saiie
r. Cushmsn, and granrs1 Of the late Robert s.
Cushman. OF Albany. n. Y; jagged seven months and
As the sweet flower INST scents the morn
But wither In the rising day..
Thus was on, dsrltog ro6erss lawn,
Albany aud Brooklyn IN. ~, and Halifax Iva
papers please copy.
S0fh. at ten minutes to Q 0'cfsck, hOBEhT
L'ahlEL4 youngest sc n Of Junias A. and Matte 4.
CO sbs: aged ten moaths aud twenty days.
dence.> No. SIC Brook avenue. THIS tSatu--
dayj a,OREING at ESQ O'Clock. FRIENDS and
acqaain,a aees are invited % attend without further
notice,
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Y IN Their Own CAT"

H. g W 10 Their Own Fat"
tinenfto SCMNER's phrase applied to
Oh srnbeople, that they "fry in their
oWe {st, "Ntk may be said that this frying
bustss hes b%ome quite extensive. Nortk
and South. boR are smartly frying at this
, time. What's { ad, Zoo, is that there is not
so much fseSs &here used to be. and the pan
is but impsfkctIy lubricaad; so there is a
chance Of bsSHing.
1t isseassha the consequences Of great
social revelation cannot be kept within
bounds. The "bigher Law" dffuses them.
Parodying phase of SEwARD's, we may say
that the country cannot be half frying and
hak not frying. 1t must fry all over. We
shalla all be graduates in this political philoso.
pby before we get tsrougb.
Meantime may We not extract little con.
ISOLATION from the equity and equality Of
the proyhential LAWN Other words, the
Chigher kw?" a common suffering, o
common eaiamity, will make the sections
companions in misfortruea and we would
be Drutes Indeed if such companionsbip did
not soften the hatreds and raueors of variance
and strife. There was strutting, and boast,
ing, and killing, and the martial equipage
was shining every where, while the work Of
malice and destruction was carried out. May
we not now flourish the frylug.pan as the
emblem Of that mutual suffering through
which We are marching to real peace and
sontentment, when the same emblem will
become the happy sign OF frugal yet plen.
'ifui economy and domestic peace and con-
,entment?
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1850 $4,000

Such tariff would produce all The reve-
nue. needed and would constantly increase,
and would release several thousand articles
now taxed from duties. 1t would relieve
the country from at least two hundred mil
lions OF taxation now paid by the people for
protection" and none of which goes into
the Treasury. It would in great measure
relieve the country of the oppressive though
"unseen" tax for " protection" 1t would
contine taxation TO few articles. The relief
from the tax on all the others would largely
Increase consumption Of the articles taxed.
The man who Is noW so taxed on all he con-
sumes-bis cotton and Woollen clothing, his
boots aud shoes, crockery,. his furniture, and
his tools, as to be unable TO purchase but
sparingly of tea and coffee which relieved OF
these oppressive taxes will be able 10 pur'
chase an increased quantity not only OF tea
and coffee, but Of all other things.
All tax being removed from raw materials,
American manufactures would rapidly in
crease. The cost of production being largely
redul ed, the consumption OF manufactures
would Increase, and the number of persons
employ &at manufacturing would rapidly
enlarge, and the employment would be
continuous, because no longer dependent
on a fluctuating system. American manu-
facturers, then able to produce cbeaply
would be no longer restricted to the single
home market, and would lind sale the world
over for their surplus products, and the sub.
stantial and real prosperity which attends
the production OF surplus would attend
our manufactures. Then the country weuld
have for sale not only iood but manufactures
and the general wealth would increase pro
portionately. a1.. u y
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Aao.aer Cinoinnah convention.

Another CinclnnaN h
On the 4th Of May injecting OF port'o'
If the members OF the Chanaber OF Com
meree Of this city was held IN order TO aesss
,,ine 40 the call for the meeting said, ""n"
may be judiciously done" In respse,
onest;ons ON the currency ana inc 'o'o''
and spirit tares." ,e-.-,rs,, <. ION. !
,,r,r 20 consider the exchequer scheme o.
Nv D.mrr, Fl. LospoS, of New YORK. lot
mer,y Of this city, Thst scheme was ue'el-
cned by Mr.. LONDON 10 an elaborate Speech
"a resolutions were adopted, With one dis.
sen,iue voice, approving Of that scheme ano
urriug upon Congress the gradas, reduction
aud final abolition d, the t.ssrnal reoee"e
ssres. The resolutions especially condemned
the taxation on tobacco aad liquor as IN
equal, unjust, &c. 400
Furtherssore, a eonvestion Of delegates to
consider the currency and the tobacco ana
| soirit ssues was approved or advised, and
a committee of ten was appointed to attend
that convention, at Cincinnati. ~"
]. We observe that q meeting has been neio
in New York to send delegates to the san'
convention. which is there called ga hard
n,e,,ey conyentioa.r And 1t is declared "
he In preference to call from Virginia.
I'VE ca mot see how the small meeting ne''
here can be put down as hard'moneS 'ee,
iug when it considered only Mr.. LONDON
excheouer aud the tobacco aud liquor u"
The long resolutions adopted by the mee''nE
do not relate to hard money except 3,
. far "a the excheauer-s proposed oauh VI
paper circulation with a goio oas'S.
~. considered hard money. Such oank
, heretofore have been liable to specie suSPeh
8 sious. If Mr.. LONDON has. discovered noN
f eaectually to make his bank PROOF agains
, sr.nension he has been fortunate Indeed.
But In no other sense cou'd Tue sun
3 meeting here be pronounced by us ac'S .
, hard.money meeting"
, Resumption was not discussed oy II a. a''
The Tribune need not be thrown lnte
doubt as to the views of this city by tha
meeting. The people of Richmond are
nractical enough to know that the resump
ton of specie. payments cannot be forced
upon the country and even If it could DC Sc
forced, 1t cannot be forced at SO early day
as January, '79.
We trust that should the Cincinnati con
1yention meet, the matter OF the abolition o.
the internal revenue tax will not be for
gotten by it. That, indeed, is the most im'
portant matter submitted to its considera
ton by the meeting in Richmond, which ha'
the credit of originating the call.
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A friend has laid upon our table the Con-
naught Telegraph, printed at CastIebar
County Mayo, ireland. An interesting fac,
which shows how peaceful aud free from
outrages is the County Mayo, With popu-
lation OF $4,000: there was not case OF
sufficient dignity in the Crowa Court of
Castlebsr on the 9Th of July to call for par
ticular directions about them from Mr.. JUS
lice FITZGERALD. He took the occasion to
express bis satisfaction at the remarkable
period of peace and order that had prevail
ed 10 that large county. The offences brought
up were Of the lightest character. It would
be hard to find such perfect order in pop.,-
iation OF equal magnitude anywhere In this
country.
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brittle aid of magnetic eiecHle.sy.
bnring tbeEprevaience the magnetic neeuie
q ss,,sihIy affecteds and upon one OCCASION
Mr.. Saward,g Iebrsted speech on the IL
EApflct was transmitted over
the wires without the aid of local batteries
tbS electricity Tor the purpose being i1lrs
n;ehed nv NATURES battery. In cnse ol
tbnider .storn,s. atmosp heric electricity passes
from earth to. cloud, or cloud TO EARN,
iii the eonif;5Tiuns Is restored. In account
mo for moth these phenomena, then 10 may
no assumed that surplus OF electricity IS
,belnrime cause of the disturbances, tnough
f3iFsrent in its nat ure and origin - -
~ Re! means of q galyanie battery ana tne
esrhan points, and By interposing NJ she
noint Of combustion watery vapor, All Tue
pi,enomena of the aurora boreat's may Ds
proarced !: and By means OF o. enaseeo
T.av1,en i,r those of q thunderstorm. In !ns
former case the yatefy vapor gives to tne
,r;c Iight its roseate tiut; and in the ia.-
tar not only is each discharge OF the jar
comnanied by fash and sharp report ou.
sIso hv a shock in proportion to the amount
nf e,ec,ricity employed. This much, tnen, :"
ohou,the difference do the pbeuomena PIc
Jnced nv these different kinds Of electricity.
49, ona.half ofthe world--at least, the Wesl.
ern Contineut--has all the characteT'sues VI
on anormous galvanic battery wires, cusm-
au carhon noi1ts. and all.sGhemical ACTON
. 49,, mineral and metallic substances, tne
ahPb;no and flowing Of the tee actioe
sSnosed metallic surfaces, ana even
10 changes of temperature in Inherent
a,,Js are causes sufficient to pfo0uce
~ the aggregate an enormous quantity OF
nooone,ic electricity. But hoWare we to &C.
nonnt for these magnificent exhibitions OF It's
Eject in the polar regions? Why should
thew be exhibited only 10 the polar regions ?
The answer Is: the mountain ranges re-
snectiyely of the Pacific and Atlantic coasts
form cables, or are the positiue and negative
wires which conduct it to these regions, and
the moist and humid atmosphere ncts the
mart Of Tho sasaes Boius As;sssdgs9s to these
electric lights their roseate tints.l
/ To show the continuity Of oue OF these
cables at least the breaks in thelmountain
chain on the Atlantic side not AMOUNTING 10
any drawback, owing to the sea- ana land
| both being good conductors), lef any one
consult the map for himself, and be will ind
an unbroken chain of mountains, filled with
metallic ores, extending from Behring's
Straits, In the north, to Cape Horn, ID tue
south. On the Atlantic -side-tAe- Bfaztlan
mountains, in South America, then break,
then the Blue Ridge, beginning in Georgia,
and sarther north connecting with other
ranges, which would make this cable COM
plete enough to have an unbroken circuit.
Very naturally, then, all surplus magnetic
Electricity would find its way to these re.
gions and give rise to these phenomena ana
as vast Mount of heat must also be evolved,
this might account also for the open polar
seas which are said to exist in them.
OF course much more might be written IN
elaboration of this subject. but enough has
been said to give the outlines Of the
| THEORY.
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The Two-Thirds COMPROMISE.

i I
The Petersburg Eeps pretty plainly init
mates that it would unite with us on the
platform of paying two thirds of the State
debt as settlement in full if the taxpaying-
coupon clause were repealed or surrendered
by the bondholders.
This is rather unreasonable in the Ners.
If the two.thirds compromise is acceptable,
that should be sufficient. Thus far the tax
receivability coupons have subjected the
State to no Inconvenience, and the bond
holders are not pressing the State in man.
ner to annoy her. Therefore we see no rea-
son for troubling ourselves about it.
Then, the repeal, so far as it concerns the
bonds carrying the receivabilty coupons, is
impossible under the decision Of the Su.
preme Court; and as for getting the parties
who hold those bonds to unite in surren-
der of their right to pay the coupons into
the State Treasury in the form of taxes, that
is a thing so nearly impossible that it would
be idle to attempt it.
Therefore continued demand for the
waiver of the tax.receivability clause would
show that the mere dislike of that clause,
and not any good ground to fear injury
from 1t, induced gentlemen to make at an OBJ
stacle in the way of uniting in the compso-
mise.
Claiming no share in the funding bill
never having supported tive may say that
it has placed the public debt in train Of
settlements settlement in practical and
practicable, if not easy, manner. Successive
| legislatures, after the war and previous to
the passage of the funding act, had shout
dered the whole of the public debt, and
pledged the public honor to its payment.
The Legislature of '10-'71 passed the fund
ing act, which reduced the debt Of Virginia
one third, and by it's terms freed the State
from further responsibility. Comparing the
act of that Legislature with the acts of pre-.
vious sessions we should unhesita6ngly say
that that Legislature did a thing. that threw
from the shoulders Of the people Of Virgil.
MIA great load, and did great deal bet
ter for them than the previous legislatures
To this conclusion the bitterest cnemy OF
the funding act mast arrive. The fuading
act indeed put into operation the process of
paying the public debt ina manner within
the scope of the ability of the State, and gave
us new hope and frightened prospect.
Let US oil settle down upon the two.thiiis
platform, and have no more fuss about 1T.
TRk&ill end disagreeable discussion ana
saveVhesStste great deal Of money by put
ting WHpd to the schemes of, to say the
least, &6Ne very unwise men aud the
lengthy bates they occasion.
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poiled by aty Democratic nominee for years . 5
Add fuliythree.foafths OF the above 2o'oOo
10 the Republicans ticket this year, couDt
supon an increase Of 15, 900 mole over Tue he.
vote for Moves and you nave ave aoous
the total vote Hayes will receive tnis year.
This fs 10000 more than Allen nad Two Years
ago, 5000 more than that cast Tor inc Dem.
ocratic ticket 10 1874, and about theisanse as
Tint on which Hayes beat Pendleton In 1869.
AE safe estjmIte Hayes WIlf have 10000
over Allen In 1875. u These are melancholy
facts. but they are facts that, you cant shut
your eyes to. I go from here to Cleveland
for last peep into the political kaleidoscope.
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prominent part in the campaigns which
wrested from the Confederates the command
of the Mississippi and determined the result
of the eatire contest. There can be little
| doubt that even after the fall of Fort
Donelson toe triumph of the Invaders was
due to an accident. Had GeSeral A. S. John.
son not beea wounded at Shiloh, or, being
wounded, had he had his wound at orce at
tesded to-, and so saved his life and his co.,
troll over the army, Grant would have been
anDihilated, and all that had been won up to
that tine would have been lost 10 week.
The rout Of the Federal forces was complete,
and, had the Confederate chief pressed on,
they must have surrendered or dispersed.
The transfer of command was fatal and next
day new Federal army appeared on the
field and defeated the WORKOUT CoDfede-
rates. On this, as on other occasions, Gene.
raj Sherman aoxiously endeavors to overrate
the forces opposed 10 him. The fac. is that
when they gave or invited battle the Con-
fedefates were rarely more than one 10 two !;
when they were forced to battle they were
often one to three or four, and In Shernan's
later campaigns, af:er leaving Atlanta. be
had seldom or never one-fourlh of bis own
numbers 10 front. And, as We shall see, it
was to numbers alone that he owed his sue
cess.
The next period, while Sherman occu.
pied subordinate but independent CON-
maids, afforded him opportunity Of show
ing the spirit in which he was determined
to carry on the struggle, and illustrated
northern ideas Of the taTs OF civilized war.
Not only did be, like other Federal chiefs,
seize everything that could be useful to his
arny, and destroy everything that could be
serviceable to the enemy, but he made d
poiut of confiscating and destroying private
property simply on the Plea that!it belonged
to men who, in the war be ~aswaging, were
loyal to the Government under which they
were born and had always liyed-tbe Gov
eminent OF their Stste. That he was ARE
of the ilegality of his conduct is evideEt
from the many paltry apd transparent en-
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..interm edtase st.ate, in Which men areneithert
"a altogether i.shones nor altogether honest.
au mixed errrepcy viii exist; aud theirat'o
/. Of paper 10 coin will vary with !hedeg!ee
oof trust individuals place In each other"
This Is the truth. So when the hafu'
money people come forward demanding re-
sur, ot,on th!re are dishonest people abou',
and the question arises, IS not "the FOX the
fnderp" Now, we want money foe honest ne !!
people -not for the dishonest. islss,.aI
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We regret TO see that after the positive
statement that travellers holding DUNCAN.
SHERMAN d Co.'s letters of credit were fully
protected some Of them have been stopped
with protest. Rather hard. But if they
are not protected, what's the use of saving
at tn's stage OF the game that they are
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R1cnHnSp. July 30th,


Editors Dispatch | have read with IN
terest the enclosed article as eyinclng Won
derfully discriminating kuowled &c on the
Dart of our English cousins OF our late
family quarrel in this country when las we
thiuEl they could only derive their lntorma'
ton from the other side. and despite the unre'
hitting efforts of the Yankees to manutac'
ture history for the European public. IL
has afforded me satisfaction to see In tnis
"critfaue" that their endeayors nave not
invariably been successful and believing
that other readers of the Dispatch may mo
interest in it for The same reason, and not 10
the spirit of our worthy old fire-eater Gene
raj Preston, enclose it TO you.
Yours, truly, d., jR.
The London Standard on Sherman.
The London Standard prints three-col-
umn review OF General Sherman's Me-
moirs,u which have been published in Eng.
land. in the course of which it says: -.
The writer's who in this country have
espoused the Federal cause have labored TO
keep out of sight the northern violations
systematic and deliberate-of all the laws OF
war; the wholesale piliage Of private prop
erty without shadow Of pretcnce OF null.
tary need; the Wanton rayage OF vast ana
fertile regions; the destruction of public
archives. of libraries, of colleges, and of thou
sands. of defenceless dwellings; return, IN
fact. TO the methods Of war ill usage OF
women excep.ed) practiced by TIlley. We
know of none who would venture to defend
these as acts Of legitimate warfare, and
among the chiefs of the Federal armies few
we're more guilty in this respect than General
". II. Sherman. We cannot say that our
re,usal of the work has raised our esti.
mate of the writer. There is display OF per.
sonal vanity, of anxiety to claim the utmost
| possible credit, and 10 throw the blame OF
all failure on others, petulent spirit Of ami.
mostly against rivals and opponents, and a
| controversial tone in regard to passages cred
| table neither to the General nor to his SUI.
periors, and childish impatience of popu.
lar clamor which appear to us little conso.
pant with the sim pie sef-reSpect OF the SOL
der. No one could imagine the Duke OF
| Wellington or General Lee writing as Sher-
man writes; no one has seen anything OF the
kind from the pen of officers who have real
grounds of compliant from Mcclellan, who
| first created an army out of O mob Of United
States volunteers; or Halleck, who maintain
ed, recruited, and enlarged that army till 1t
became the irresistible weapon which won
for Grant and Sherman triumpbs as easy as
those of Achilles in bis impeneHable armor,
or of the heroes of fairy legend with charm.
ed swords and shoes Of swiftuess.
General Sherman had the misfortune at
Bull Run TO share in the signal rout of the
Union army. He does his best for the repu-
tation of bis country men by maintaining that
il thoy had not run away the southerners
wouId-a hypothesis which Is as little sup
ported by the history OF that battle as by tue
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fne seifstyled "bard.money men" in
new YORK, in one Of their resolutions, de-
clare that they will "ipflsxibly set their
iaces against irredeemahIe paper money.v
That ought to settle the matter. When
~. ,usss ME theirs-harder than their metals.
1 = is - they be-are set against matter,
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ICE.
NOTICE.

IN oiiesH. -
+ am now receiving dir. ct from the KeDnsbeck
river a cargo of WY 81 PEkIOk ICE, OF TN.
usual size. thickne s. an,. trans parency.
Z have determined to scgGSo TIE price 20 HALE
In suai quantities thereby piac.ag his necessary
article IL. health IN The aeh Of the poos. -, !,
have aiss. lot Of sMALLPiEGES, whites, seii
regard 'ess of ccst. Il, y Sd Z t3tky'S 7. \. 5
speciln aitenslo,. paid 10 fitting orders for Pre-
MICS at reduced nslIes such rs cannot til TO give
sa'ish ctl'n. JANE KING,
" 31.st Qfiee sll Cary street,
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Hon est Money.

The great philosopher sPENcER, from whom
we quoted Yesterday. says: I" Amongst per-
"fectIy honest people paper [money1 VIII
"lorm the circulating medium, and metallic
"money will be needless.n "puring anv
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County Courts,

The Charlottesville Chronicle, :punlisoes
the following from Acknowledgement DANIEL
to MicAJAH WOODS, Esq: ~ 60. Ky.
= - CoaxoswEALrH or VRmsI1, =
ArroRxEY.GRSERAL's OFFICE.
a.a RICHMOND, July 10, 1870.
Mcajah Woods. ESQ.,: >, - AZ
Dear sir,-very pressing eneageme,nt1s
have prevented an earlier reply to your iet
ter. think the act Of March 20, 1910, pro
vidng that feionies shaft be tried 10 tne
Cnnniv Court, is prospective, and does not
anply 10 prosecutions which were pend.ns
in TIE Circuit Court when it went in 10 opp
10 thn circuit Court as If the new law had
never been passed. The law must be con-
strned as prospective unless there DE some
thing in it to indicate q different intent
s whjeb I do not perceive. The act does not,
as YOU remark, prescribe how case penang Ila
In the Circuit Court when 1t vent mo OPP.
ration Shall be sent to the County Conr.
and this. I think, is decisive of the question:
Yours truly, H. l. DAsihA'