The Portland daily press., 1879-04-17
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL IL.
GIeauiugs from the Mails.

Converted minstrels are not a success Peter
Dwyer of New York who has rejoiced in the
: title of "converted minstrel man. has eloped
with Mrs Melville who is the wife of anoth-
or man. Before leaving he gave his wife and
children 90 cents and then skipped, leaving the
rent bull of $100 as his only legacy. Dwyer
was converted while in prison after exhortaton
by "Awful Gardner" Previously he had been
performer in concert saloon.
In the Talmage trial Tuesday, Rev. Charles
Wood for the defence testified to meeting Rev.
DR.. Crosby, the prosecuting counsel, on the
Hudson River Railroad cars last summer, and
DIR. Crosby told him that DR.. Talmage was
liar and scoundra; and furthermore, that he
would not believe the elders of the FIRST Pres
byteran church (Talmages) under oath
Att convention Of colored men called under
the Window resolution, held at Little Rock,
ArB., Saturday, resolutions were adopted af-
hrming that as the colored citizens of Arkansas
In many localities are not allowed the free en-
joyment of constitutional rights they are desr.
GUS of emigratDg to some other sta te or Terri
tory where the elective franchise can be epjoy-
ed unmolested; Recommending the appoint
ment of two colored commissioners under the
National Emigration Aid Society to select
suitable state or territory; endorsing Senator
WINDOWS resolution and commencing ma
tional donation or loan to aid settlers In the
territory selected. The convention resolved it.
self into an Auxiliary Stste Emigration Aid
Society and appointed an executive commit
tee.
John Dunn, the right hand man of King
Cetywayo, is an Englishmap. According to
the Cape Argus, he has lived SO long among
the Zalus that he is more Kaffir than English.
He is the heaviest trader in the Zulu country.
and has large number of personal adherents,
subject to no authority but his own. His law
full wife is not Kaffir: he has taken fifteen or
sixteen native wives, and his family has grown
to patriarchal dimensions. he is described as
q man of medium height, in the prime Of life,
thickset and bronzed, with pair of flashing
gray eyes and heavy beard. He dresses we'll,
and would pass muster as prosperous farmer
Dr. b. f. Taylor. who was appointed to be
chief coner of the New Orleans mint By the
Confederate authorities, has recently described
the oesign for half dollar which was accepted.
BE says that among several sent, the one ap-
proved bore on the reverse q representation of
the Goddess of Liberty, surrounded by thirteen
stateS, denoting the thirteen states from whence
the Confederacy sprang, aud on the lower rim
the figures 1861. On the diverse there vas
shield with seven stars, representing the seced-
ing states; above the shield liberty cap and
entwined aroand the stocks Of sugar cane and
cotton. The inscription was, Confederate
states of merica." But the rebels had 10 bull
lion and only four copies were struck. And on
the Both of April, 1861, the mint was closed
Samuel j. Tilden and his brother, Henry A.
Tilden, proprietors of an extract aid drug
mandatory at New Lebanon, N. Y, are in
trouble, charged with defraudiug the govern
ment out of large amount of internal revenue
by neglectiog to afix the proper stamps. Sena-
tor Barnum has been trying to compromise the
matter but Commissioner Raum refuses. It is
supposed the government has been cheated out
of large SUNG.