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Newspaper Page TextTlie Greorsia, Weekly Tele2:rax>li and. Jouraal &c Messenger. Telegraph & Messenger. MA0ON, DECEMBER 7, 1869. A Rzucarkabe Miseb Dead.—On 'Wednesday last, Lyman AByn, one of the most remarkable misers of the age, was found dead in Taylor’i hotel, Jersey Oity. His brother and sister, who in herit all bis property, took charge of the body. They examined the two old and worn trunks that stood in the corner of their brother’s bed room, and in one of them was found stocks and bonds, deeds and securities, of various descrip tion^ representing over $600,000. Allyn’s life the past five years has been most reniarkable. He was a man of OTer seventy, and so infirm that it took him half an hour or more to come from his room to tho dining-room. Yet he lived upon th highest floor to save money, and was never known to use a horse-oar, saying that they made people lazy, and therefore he would not patron ize them. He came from bis room to bis meals bnt once a day, eating the very smallest quanti ty of tho cheapest food. He sought no society and would permit no person to enter his room bnt the chambermaid, and that essential of the hotel bnt once a week. While she arranged his room he invariably watched her closely. To an observer the room contained very little that was worth watching. Two old trunks, a scanty war drobe made up of cheap ready-made coats, two hats, one white, tho other black, and both thir ty years old; patched shoes and boots, a copy of Webster's dictionary, a Bible, and a medical book, wero all that the room contained. Its sit uation and interior desolateness made it a drea ry abode. The old man had lived here alone for nearly^ six yoars^declining.all the while to. bca any visitors, for, ho said, they camo only be cause they thought he had money. Handsome Testimonial.—We saw, yesterday, atL. H. Wing’s jewelry store, a very handsome testimonial recently ordered by the young men of Macon for presentation to Asher Ayre’s, Esq., of this city. It consists of a chaste and beantifnl solid silver cream jug and sngar bowl, with the inscription: “ Asher Ayres, from the young men of Macon.” Mr. Ayres has shown a generous'and genuine spirit of kind ness to tho young men of the city in allowing them free nso of bis hall on Mulberry street for festive purposes, besides on ono or moro occa sions throwing open his elegant house for their pleasure. They therefore take this method of marking their sense of his generosity. Nothing conld be in better taste, nor moro deserved. New Novels.—Wo have received, from Shel don & Co., the publishers, New York, through Messrs. J. W. Burke & Co., “Susan FieldiDg, by Mrs. Edwards, and part first of “Pnt Your self In His Place,” by Charles Keade—two novels of thrilling interest that have been de lighting the readers of tho “-Galaxy” for months past Mrs. Edwards, as the authoress of “Archie Lovell"and “Steven Lawrence,”has already established a reputation among lovers of fiction that any writer might prize. Charles Itoade’8 spurs have been won so well and worth ily that praise now of any effort of his would be iiko painting the lily. Both books can be bad at Burke’s. The Giul or the Period.—Tho World is of opinion, from “observation of the : general re sults of the ‘finishing’ system, that a little more attention to orthography, syntax, and plain sew- ing, and a partial repression of pianos, French literature and beaux, wonld bo rathor an im provement than otherwise” in fashionable boarding schools. Our sentiments exactly. We know of no other hope for those who are to be tho fature wives and mothers of tho country. And we are glad to know that the World's stric tures apply much more forcibly to Northern than to Southern schools. Macon vs. Boston.—We have had Forney’s testimony as to tho marvelous sobriety and morality of Georgians assembled at Macon. Here is Wendell Phillips' tremendous bill of in dictment against Boston and Massachusetts: “ Boston is a city in which every tenth person is a criminal and every seventh a pauper. Three-quarters of onr farms aro mortgaged for drink, two-third3 of the pulpits are filled with drunkards, and the beech of justice is nearly vacant bccanse one-half of the judges have died drunkards.” Another Foreign Alliance.—And now comes Mr. Paul Geraud Frenchman, so-called, and brother-in-law of the Portuguese Minister at Washington, who announces his intention of entering into the holy bonds of wedlock, on the 2d inst., with Miss Mary Wormley, colored, of that city. As Wormley, pere, is reputed quite wealthy—being in the restaurant line—and as Miss W. is said by the papers to be a good deal nearer white than Geraud, we suppose the latter is to be congratulated. There « no sort*of doubt about his having the best of the bargain. Tremendous Yield.—The editor of the Mo bile Register has received a basket of potatoes, a sample of a lot of twelve bushels, raised on a patch of ground 20 by 110 feet, being the second crop from the same piece within a year. The former crop was planted on the 28th of Decem ber, the present on the 20th of August. At this last rate there is almost room for three crops a year. A little figuring shows a yield of 2,376 bushels to the acre for a single crop, or 4,752 bushels for the two. The Federal Dead.—Adjutant General Thomas, the national undertaker, in his recent report, states that the total interments of Union officers and soldiers in South Carolina are 11,- 877; in Georgia, 23,702; Mississippi, 25,717; Louisiana, 18,120. The total number of white officers and soldiers, known and unknown, buried as detailed above, is nearly 500,000. The number of colored soldiers, nearly 50,000, two- tliirds of whom are not known by name; Mr. JohnMeeryman’s Stocs.—The cattle ex hibited by John Merryman, of Maryland, have been disposed of to the following citizens of Georgia: Hereford cow, Jolia, four yoars old, to Capt Y. G. Rust, Albany; Hereford heifer, Sallie, two years old, to Major E. A. Wilcox, Macon; Alderney bull, Governor, and Hereford heifer, Emma, ono yoar old each, to Col B. G. Lockett, Albany ; Hereford bull calf, Feast, eight weeks old, to Gen. B. M. Thomas, Monte zuma. Glad to Hear It.—The numerous friends and former pupils of those accomplished schol ars and genial gentlemen,-the brothers John and Joseph Le Compte, formerly of the University of Georgia, hut more recently of Columbia, will be glad to hear that they are doing so well in California. The former has .been elected Presi dent of the University, with a salary of $6000 in gold, and the latter is a Professpr, with a handsome salary. Northern Visitors at the Montgomery Fair.—Tho Advertiser says: “We hear that Col. Alston was robbed by pick-pockets in front of Goottar’a store yesterday of $1,200, and tho money has not yet been recovered. There are no loss than twenty of such gentry In the city.” And tho Mail chronicles tho robbing of a gon- llcmnn of n larger amount. Tit* city tax returns of Charleston for tho year ending September 1, I860, foot np $G5I,- 881 62. Tho non-relurned real estate is $G81 - CM), over 3$ per cent of all. What wonder, *bo tho money is to bo manipulated by such a act as dominate there ? ■'• Groan Over the Folly of Proscription We pnblish elsewhere an editorial appeal.to Butler from Greeley, in behalf of anti-proscrip tion—the admission of Virginia, 'Mississippi, Texas and a greater degree of liberality to the “ex-rebels,” in general. Mr. Greeley grounds his appeal wholly on party policy and forbears to add a single word implying that he or Butler have ever entertained a thought upon the ques tion in its more exalted aspects of Justice, con ciliation end common national interests. Had be done so, donbtless‘Butler would have read such suggestions with a sardonic grin, and Gree ley written with conscionsins incerity. No thought of anything aside'from mere par ty success—tho control of tho government with all its moral, physical and pecuniary power, seems ever to have entered tho head of the rad ical party from the beginning; and they have steadily administered the American Government upon the single naked consideration of party snccess. If any man of them ever made a speech in either house of Congress, suggesting that other considerations shonld control nation al legislation—or basing or defending tho exer- ciso of his individual freedom as a legislator upon patriotic views of duty to a common coun try, ho was met with a howl of indignation and read out of his party. Consequently, Mr. Greeley manifests a true recognition of the political status, when he puts an appeal to Bntler, as tho leader of the radical party, for the release of the Southern people from tho persecution of tho government and their restoration to the defences of law, solely on considerations of radical party policy. Neith er writer nor reader wero conscious of, or sensi ble to, any better considerations or influences Sxz ilro gu tox lTiucub of «* yi oonntij. And upon this platform has the whole power of the government in the hands of a radical Congress been steadily wielded. Every law and every usurpation in the shape of "law has this foundation and no other. There’s not an intel ligent man among them who would dare affirm that negro suffrage and white disfranchisement —the suspension of cAstitutional law and tho habeas corpus—their whole policy of reconstruc tion and repeated breaches of publicfaith there under, had a single basis of common sense or reason outside of the bare purpose to perpetu ate tho ascendancy of tho radical party, above and beyond the power of a legal and constitu tional people to assail it through lawful chan nels. That is the whole idea of the Government to day. And the question arises is it an adequate and satisfactory platform to tho people ? Can it long bind the people of America, or -is there sense enough, and patriotism enough inihe peo ple to discern this base and irredeemable self ishness and burst the bonds as Sampson burst tho witiis of tho Philestlnes ? Wo fhink-it is a platform too narrow and too mean, long to hold a triumphant majority of tho American peo ple. Now there is a perfect identity of aim and purpose in Greeley and Bntler—both aro in spired by the merest party selfishness, 'but Greeley thinks the end can be worked out belter by a more liberaf policy, while Bntler sticks to whip and chains. We shonld despair of Ameri can common-sense and American liberty, if we believe either plan conld work a permanent 600- cess. A party undertaking to hold power by force of a people manufactured for tho purpose will not only mn out of material in time, but inspire a party disgust among its original re tainers. The negroes of tho South may bo en franchised by the reconstruction acts—those of the North by the fifteenth amendment—those of Hayti and Cuba may bo annexed, and Mexico and Canada may bo drawn in, at last, to furnish stock for radical suffrage manufacturers to sus tain the party. But there is an end to vote making at last, and meanwhile who shall secure the original stock ? Removal of Political Disabilities. Although there is a bill pending in the Sen ate, introduced last session in the Senate by Senator Ferry, of Connecticut, providing sub stantially for universal amnesty to all partici pants in the rebellion, a Radical Senator has prepared and will introduce, the first week of the session, a bill to remove the political disabili ties of every person who is disqualified from voting and holding office by the fourteenth amendment; and he says he has such informa tion as to lead him to believe that it will pass the Senate without material opposition. Some of the Southern members of the House express their willingness to vote for such a bill the mo ment the fifteenth Amendment is ratified. So reads a press dispatch from Washington to the'New York World. We are glad to hear that “a Radical Senator” will introduce a bill so manifestly dictated by every consideration of justice and patriotism, and we hope it will pass. We want to see all the bitterness and heart-burning these unjust and mean proscriptions have generated, remov ed as speedily as possible. We have never be lieved that they had any other foundation than revenge, say what their authors may as to their motives. They aro a bar to peace—real peace, and should be removed at onco and forover. Bat we beg to tell those “Southern members' who express a willingness to vote for this bill, provided the fifteenth amendment is ratified, that tho proscribed will make no such bargain to obtain relief. They will stand with their shackles on till doomsday, rathor than unlock them with such a key. They, as good citizens, with an active interest and stake in the country, desire to resume their rights of citiionship, at an early a day as they can, bnt they will not stain their souls, nor make any unmanly com promise to attain that object.. Others may do -iL>o tiling—those who have been moro fortunate in escaping tho penalty of “rebellion,” and are in place, but not they. And they yet wield tremendous influence too—let these “Southern members” leam that. Probably they do not know it, as many of them have not lived long enough among ns to get well acquainted with these men and their influence. Tho fifteenth amendment may be ratified by every Legislature of every Southern. State, bnt the disfranchised, to got within reach of power onco more, will not help it along one jot. clear understanding of this fact, which is as well settled and understood as anything can be. will donbtless be serviceable to those “Southern The Agricultural Capacity of Georgia Nothing astonished onr Northern visitors, during the late fair, so much as the superior agricultural capacity of Georgia derived from the length of our crop seasons. They saw and were amazed at second crop Irish potatoes weighing half a pound apiece or more. They saw fall tnraips eight inches in diameter. We, as a people, think little of the turnip crop, bnt it is perhaps the foundation crop of European agriculture. It is the great stock crop which fertilizes all the others. They saw second growth of beets, carrots, lettuce, radishes, and other vegetables in great variety, and backward at that—for the season was singnlarly empropi- tions. They were told of tho practicability of three successive roasting ear crops, and of al most universal double-croppings upon the same ground. Their conclusions were that such a country shonld be literally overrun with food, bnt they were more astonished than ever to see the very vegetables, of which the country can readily produce two crops, imported in such quantities from the North and West. It was a puzzler, and so shonld it be to every sound economist and observer. The truth is, they were hardly more ignorant of the real capacity of our soil and climate than we ourselves are. We may, perhaps, know a little more than they what ean bo done in Geor gia ; bnt we aro just beginning to learn about the possible product of even our commonest crops. We may take cotton alone, and it is not long that we have begun to understand that it is possible to raise much more than half a bale to the acre. When we state the possibilities of production, wo do ii at the risk of beffig held as idle and visionary theorists. For example: Com missioner Capron took stalks of cotton grown in Bibb county, with four to five hundred bolls of matured and open cotton upon them. These bolls, by actual test, produced a pound of seed cotton to every seventy bolls, and if we take the common average ofa third (although this cot ton was in excess of that) then such a stalk, con taining say 420 bolls, had exactly two pounds of cotton lint to tho stalk. Now take an acre of such cotton planted at distances say six foet by three, and it contains 2,450 stalks, which, at an average of two pounds to the stalk, wonld pro duce 4,000 pounds of lint cotton, or nine bales of 500 pounds eacb, and ono of 400. It is only by looking at what may bo pro nounced tho utmost possible productive capaci ty of an acre, that wo can approximate onr ideas as what ought to be a fair crop. If, in a per fectly favorable and unexceptionable condition, such a yield might possibly bo realized, then half of it shonld be a liberal allowance for casu- alities and accidents, so that even five bales to the acre shonld be no grand exploit to a man bent on high cropping. Now, all cropping in Europe or tho North which returns heavy profits, is high cropping. It is jnst such cropping as most of our planters wonld pronounce ruinously expensive. We all now comprehond that one good, strong, able- bodied mule is worth more for labor than a half dozen decrepit creatures jnst ablo to crawl. We can understand that even the poor feed of poor stock is worth moro than their labor; bnt wo cannot comprehend that a fat acre is worth a dozen poor ones, although it is jnst astruo as that a good male is worth n dozen poor ones. In both cases, tho ono will bring yon profit and tho others will not pay for their keeping. Wo have got to study into this simple truth, and when we begin to comprehend it, and make fat acres, then we will begin to see the poorer of Georgia as an agricultural region, and not be fore. It is announced in Nashville, that Andrew Johnson will not be a candidate for the Consti tutional Convention, members” who do not seem to fully appreciate it Attempt at Suicide In Jlontieello. Col. Bartlett, of Monticello, sends us the fol lowing particulars of a very sad affair happen ing in that place on Saturday last: Monticello, November 29,1869. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: On Saturday evening last, the 27th inst., a young man ar rived at Kelly’s hotel, in this village, traveling on horseback, registering as J. \V. Boyles, Ma con, Noxube county, Mississippi. His conduct on his arrival was so strange as to attract the attention of the proprietor of the hotel and others, as he seemed excited and wild, although not under the influence of drink. Shortly after his arrival he purchased at one of the stores a revolver, at another a box of pistol-cartridges, Supplying himself with writing material, he re tired to his room, where he addressed a letter to his mother, another to liis cousin at Macon, Noxube county, Mississippi, also A note to Mr. Kelley, proprietor of the hotel, in which he asked a decent interment, the mailing of his letters, and that his horse should be taken care of until his brother came for him. This occu pied him until about 1J o’clock in the morning. About that hour the inmates of the hotel were aroused by the report of a pistol in the direction of.bis room, followed - shortly afterwards by four .reports. On repairing to his room, Mr. Boyles was found lying on the bed, wounded on the left side, immediately over the region of the heart. The last four shots were fired by him to attract assistance. His reason for this rash act, as ascertained fromJiis letters and statements, waa a disap pointment in love—a young lady living in South Carolina having lately rejected his addresses. He mow lies dangerously wounded at the hotel of Mr. Kelly, receiving every attention from the physicians and young men of the town. .The sad occurrence lias been telegraphed to his mother. He seems to be a young man of intelligence; not more than 21 or 22 years old; of good address, and says he was a Confederate soldier, and formed the attachment for the young lady "who has so darkened his hopes,” while in service in South Carolina. Dr. Garfield on the Currency mid Specie Payments. The chairman of the House Committee in Congress on Banking and Currency has been “interviewed" by onr Washington correspon dent relative to his views on the subject of re turning to 8peoio payments and tho currency. The honorable gentleman appears brimful of this subject and is preparing to take an active part in the consideration of it in the approach ing session of Congress. He does not think this matter properly belongs to the Committee of Ways and Means, which has heretofore “sot itself up not only to provide ways and moans for raising revenue, bnt to shape tho financial policy of tho oountrv,” and it is his intention to make his committee tho financial one of tho House in this respect. Mr. Garfield evidently is in earnest, and the country will bo gratified to know that ho entertains some broad and lib eral views, which the Committee of Ways and Means has not shown, on tho currency and na tional bank questions. Mr. Garfield is becoming emancipated from the en-to-spccie-payment and currency theories of some of his party organs and men in Congress. Wliile he avows himself in favor of resuming specie payments and would set his face toward resumption, he does not believe “the way to re- sums is to resume,” and would not do anything that might “suddenly unsettle values and create gn*t financial distress.” So far, then, he is on the right track. But lie lias not got far enough in his financial education, for he still clings to the old idea that a contraction of the currency h necessary to bring about specie payments. He has, consequently, a scheme for gradual con traction with a view to accomplish that abject. But why contraction ? There is not more cur rency in the country than it needs, and any contraction must prove disastrous. If the vol ume of currency be left as it is, the extraordinary growth of tho country and tho increase of popu lation and business will Operate tho same as contraction; for the increased demand for mo ney as a circulating medium wonld make it more and more scarce relatively. This is what we call growing up to specie payments health fully and gradually, and what we have advoca ted all along. Bat Mr. Garfield makes a mistake in supposing specie payments depend altogether upon the volume of currency. Specie payments can only be resumed when the exohanges are not so mnch against ns—when tho balance of exchange with foreign countries is more equal ized, and when the precious metals cannot be drained from ns to meet the demands of for eigners. Here lies the difficulty, and we re commend Mr. Garfield to turn his attention to that rather than to the mere abstract and im practicable theory of contraction. As regards the national bank circulation and withdrawing that with a view of substituting legal tenders in its place, Mr. Garfield is right. Thero is no reason why the government and people shonld not derive the profits from a na tional currency, which amount, on that portion which the national banks circulate, to about twenty-four millions of dollars a year, and there is every reason why this vast sum shonld not be given away to private corporations, particularly when tho people would have a uniform currency by sabssitution legal tenders for national bank notes. Let Mr. Garfield matnre some measure for effecting this change and press it upon Con gress with all his ability, and ho may feel as sured of tho approbation of tho public. Ho will havo uphill work; for this national bank mono poly is a mighty power. Still it is a work worthy of a statesman, and he will find his reward in promoting the interests of the country and in the gratitude of the people.—Herald Wonld Not bo Surprised. The New York Herald would not be surprised if the Haytien negroes were annexed in the course of the next six months. And what then, says the Herald; Cuba and the whole chain of the West India Islands. Then Mexico and Cen tral America—then Canada and the Sandwich Islands. All this mighty programme may be easily fulfilled in the ‘ first term of General Grant’s administration 1 Indeed. The Georgia Press. The Atlanta Constitution and Intelligencer of Sunday and Monday contain the subjoined cor respondence : correspondence. Constitution Office, ) 1 Atlanta, Ga., November 27, 1869.) Judge Jared I. Whitaker, Atlanta, Ga.: Sir.: In this morning’s Daily Intelligencer, of which paper you are the proprietor, the fol lowing editorial language appears, to-wit: “We do not know a more infamous, lying and contemptible sheet than the Constitution in Georgia. It has ho fixed purppso more than to misrepresent and to deceive air honest and up right community.” As the same issue announces that the propri etor of tho Intelligencer is responsible for its conduct, and as I am responsible for tho edito rial conduct of tho Constitution, I how respect fully request of yon a retraction of the language above quoted. • My friend Cantain Henry Jackson will hand yon this communication, and receive yonr reply. Your obedient servant, I. W. Avery. Atlanta, Ga., November 27, 1869. Col. I. W. Avery, Atlanta, Ga. : Dear Sir : Yonr favor of this date has been handed to me by yonr friend Capt. Henry Jack- son, and in response I have to say that the words quoted in tho note referred to, which appeared in tho Intelligencer of to-day, wero not used in reference to or in connection with you, either editorially or personally, and that at the time said words were penned yon wore not in my mind. I wonld further say that the language was used in reference to the proprietors of the Constitution. Yours truly, Jared Irwin Whitaker. B"S' TELEGBAPH. Constitution Office, 1 , Atlanta, Ga.,November 27,18G9.) Judge Jared I. Whitaker, Atlanta, Ga.: . < Dear Sir—Yonr note of this evening, in which you stato that the word* quoted in my communication of this morning wero not nsed in reference to, or in connection with myself, either “ editorially or personally,” is satisfac tory. Respectfully, I. W. Avert. Captain Jackson will deliver this. The Intelligencer learns that “Colonel Gaskill, Chairman of the Georgia delegation at the Louisville Commercial Convention, has ap pointed Governor Bullock and Senator Nnnnal- ly, of this State, as delegates from Georgia to wait upon Congress at the next session and urge the adoption of the plan proposed by tho Con vention for a Southern Pacific Railroad.” The big arbitration case of Colo vs. Hnlbert, involving $30,000, has been continued until the first Tuesday in January, in order to give the connsel for tho State time for preparation. The Intelligencer announces the merging of “Scott’s Monthly” into a periodical with the grandiloquent but characteristic name of the “Cosmopolitan Monthly.” The Constitution tells tho following sad story: Not long since, and about tho same time, two young ladies arrived in this city from distant counties, one from Wilkes and the other from Walker county. Both had been reared in fam ilies moving in the highest circles. Both had unfortunately loved “not wisely but too well.” The tempter came, and with honied phrases and winning smiles—and tho same old story is re enacted—they listened to the Siren voices of their betrayers, and fell! Shame and sorrow caused them to flee frcJm the parental roofs, and come to this city. Here, destitute and broken hearted, they made known their condition to some of onr humane citizens.. They were sent to the Alms House and kindly cared for during their lying-in. A few days they left; ono to re turn to her parents, and the other to visit rela tives in the lower part of tho State. Tho se ducer of one was the physician of the family, it isiieported. The Gainesville Eagle, of Tuesday, says the first anow fell there on Friday last—unusually early for the season. It commenced falling about 9 A. JL, and continued till 12 m., when a rain set iu and turned it to ignoble siush. The Madison Farm Journal says there is not a vacant dwelling house in that town, and fam ilies are moving away for lack of accommoda tion next year. The Savannah’News, of Monday says: To morrow, Tuesday, November 30tb, is tho natal day of St. Andrew of Gaul, the Patron Saint of Scotland. The St. Andrew’aSocief y of Savannah will, on the occasion, celebrate their 105th anniversary in a social gathering at their room, corner of Bull end Broughton streets. This society is the oldest benevolent society in Georgia, and was established in 1764, with General Lachlan M’lntosh as President and Sir George Houston Vice President. In the Georgia Gazette, of November 29, 1795, wo find a call for a regular anniversary meeting to be held at Brown’s coffee house, which, wo have been informed, occupied the site of the present Exchange building.— During tho war of 1812, between the Umted States and England, no meetings wero held; bnt in 1819 the Society reorganized under a char ter from the Legislature, and sinco that time has been in successful operation. In 1850 they purchased the site and erected the present St. Andrew’s Hall, but during the recent war wero obliged to sell tho same, for which they re ceived Confederate money, which finally proved valueless. Tho present officers aro: President—-John Cunningham. First Vice-President—William Rogers. Second Vice-President—Wm. M. Davidson, Secretary and Treasurer—D. S. Ryan. Stewnrd—Alexondor Irving. The Griffin Star of yesterday says that Mr. Jas. W. Gordon, an old citizen of that county, was very badly beaten by a man named Nor ton, on Friday last. One of his arms were bro ken, and his head badly braised. Fnoii the Monroe Advertiser of yesterday we quote as follows : The gin-honse of Mr. S. F. Wilder, near this place, was burned on tho 22d inst Mr. Wilder ost ono bale of cotton, and Capt. W. L. Hanpt about five bales. The fire is supposed to have resnlted from friction caused by tho rubbing of tho saws against somo foreign substance. We sincerely regret that snch a misfortune shonld havo fallen upon onr friends. Mr. Henry J. McCoy, of [this county, made 113 J bushels of corn on ono acre of land, the past season. A very good showing. We leam that stock to the amount of $80,000 has been taken in the projected factory at High Falls in this county. Twenty thousand dollars more will ensure the building and success of the enterprise, and we hope far-sighted capital ists will contribute the amount at once. Mr. E. Brittingham, ono of the oldest citizens of this county, has lost his mind. He will be sent to the asylum. The Atlanta Era says that marrying is the ordor of tho day in that city. If it ragoS much longer there will not bo enough young people left for pic-nicing purposes “when the Spring time comes, gentle Annie." The United States District Court convenes in Atlanta on Monday the 20th inst. On the authority of a Macon & Western Rail road conductor the Era reports tho killing, on Monday, near Jonesboro of a negro by a Mr. John Waldrope. The negro tried to cut Mr. W. with a knifo whon Mr. W. shot him. A National Negro Labor Convention. According to the New York Herald a National Negro Labor Convention is to be held in Wash ington, on Monday, tho 6th day of Decomber. Delegates have been elected from tho States of Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Flori da, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Ten nessee, Ohio, Kentucky and tho District of Col umbia. Among the delegates is Gen. Clark, of Texas; and a number of other white delegates, and female delegates, have been elected from the States of New York and Rhode Island. Hon. B. F. Bntler will address the convention on the first, and Hon. Henry Wilson on tho second day of tho session. A New York paper says—at so mnch aline, perhaps—that the demand" has been -so great for Miss Evans’ new novel, “Vashti,” and Ma rion Harland’s new novel, “Phemie’s Tempta tion,” that Carlton is unable, to catchup back orders; even with thirteen Adams presses work ing night and day. , . THE NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE. Richmond, December I.—-The National Board of Trade met at noon in the Capitol, Frederick Fraley, of Philadelphia, President. Prayor was offered by Bev. Charles Minnegerode, of the Episcopal Church. Thomas W. McConco, of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, submitted an address of welcome. The address is a3 follows: Before you proceed to the regular business which has convoned this Board, I beg leavo to perform most agreeable duty in behalf of the members of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, and I may add of this community. Wo desire, in a few sincere and earnest words, to express tho gratification with which we havo met you here in the Capitol of the Old Dominion. Wo receive yon with a warm greet ing, and tender you a most cordial welcome, shall bo our endeavor to make you feel entirely home in our midst. We greet you, not only per sonally, but- as tho representatives of so many com munities of our countrymen, scattered over every part of this beloved and now happily peaceful land. It is a doublo pleasure to have this opportunity to cultivate with thorn that spirit of fraternity which shonld animate this whole people. Tho descendants of a common ancestry; tho possessors of a com mon heritage, once more moving together toward common destiny—and wo bid youthrico welcome for tho cause and tho work in which you aro engaged. Tho United States, though of such rapid growth andanivedat such high prominence among tho nations of the earth, are yet in the freshness of youth. As they mature Questions of commercial and financial policy are constantly arising,vitally im portant in their bearing upon tho general welfare, and requiring combined wisdom and patience to de- cido them so as to subserve the highest interest of the people. No labor or connsel can be of moro value at this day than snch as is devoted to the wise direction of public sentiment in connection with these measures. As commerce and intercourse are the pioneers of peace and plenty, so as they advance prosperity follow in their path, and discord and strife disappear before their aid. Upon them we must mainly rely for that spirit of enterprise and amity which shall break down the natural and artifi cial barriers now dividing these States into sections for the strength and endurance of those ties which should unite the whole people in the bonds of peace and brotherhood, and for the future wealth and power of thenation. The address was received with applause. The report of the Executive Council for tho past year was read. It shows that the National Board consists of thirty-seven constituent bodies and six teen thousand business men. Among the most.prominent questions to come np, it states, aro weights and measures, conveyance of real estate, regulation of joint stock companies, le gal rate for use of money, and relations between debtor and creditor. In tho report was a-tribute to the memory of James R. Branch, of Richmond, ono of tho Vice Presidents of tho National Board, who was accidentally killed last summer, at this point. The members of the Board of Trade heard the tribute in silence. Tho board then went into election of officers for the ensuing year. Frederick Fraley, of Philadel phia, was elected President. On taking his seat he said he had almost known tho commerce of this country from its infancy and had watched its growth to its present proportions. He said it was so great that no man in public life could afford to overlook its claims, or to ignore the action of such a repre sentative body as this. He thanked tho board for the great honor done him. Tho board then proceeded to the election of Vico Presidents. After the election for Vice-Presidents and hearing tho address of Gen. Walbridge, the Board adjourned for recess. Walbridge’s address opens with a state ment of the national indebtedness and the annual tax to pay the interest on the national and State debt. It showed that the late slave States havo a heavier per capita tax than the free States, and, in view of this fact, and the late revolution in that part of the country, he argued the necessity of na tional aid to the South that she might recuperate The speaker scouted at the idea of repudiation, and believed that the national debt conld be paid in this century; that taxation would pay it, and the taxes could he easily paid if the government would aid in developing the resources in the country, whereby money might be made to pay them. Already the debt, by a wiso administration, has btyjn reduced seventy millions, and could tho administration be supported in its wise course, the country would soon be relieved from the pressure of debt repudiation, tho war cry of the demagogues. He closed with an eulogy of Grant’s administration. A resolution was adopted limiting speeches to ten minutes. Daily sessions, from 10 to 4 o’clock, was fixed' upon. Applications for membership were re ceived from the Richmond Com and Flour Ex change ; Augusta Board of Trade, and Petersburg Merchants’ Exchange. Permission was given to the Boards of Trade of Toledo, Ohio; Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and Merchants’ Exchange of Peoria, Illinois, to withdraw from their connection with tho National Board. The business programme was then commenced. The consideration of the first five propositions were postponed. Proposition fifth, be ing on uniform measurment of grain, was taken np and resolutions adopted that the number of pounds to constitute a bushel, should ba uniform in all tho States so long as a bushel is used in trade; that tho cental system shonld bo adopted in transferring all commodities usually sold by the bushel, and that measurment by the bulk should be abolished. Sixth proposition—Tares and short weights. On this proposition resolutions wero adopted recom mending local boards to adopt a rule that tares shall bo the actual weight of a package at the time of sale; and to insist on full weight or measure on articles purporting to bo of a certain fixed standard, bnt which aro sold by packages. Seventh proposition—Uniformity in executing con veyances of land.—On this proposition a commit tee was appointed to prepare and recommend to all Stato Legislatures tho statute to be adopted for the form and general requisites of tho conveyances of land. Eighth proposition—Uniform practice in tho U. S. District Courts.—A committee was appointed to pre pare a statute to be urged for the use of all tho U. S District Courts in tho collection of debts where tho parties reside in different States. Ninth proposition—Local trade licenses. A reso lution was adopted that the Executive Council shall recommend to tho State Legislatures the repeal of all licenso laws discriminating against non-resident traders. Tho diecussion of this resolution was ani mated, its opponents taking ground that it wa3 an effort of tho largo cities of the East to do all the business for tho smaller cities of tho West and South, without paying any tax thereon. Its friends urged it was in koeping with the spirit of tlie ago, to which these local licenso lawB wero opposed, and that it was tho result of on onlightenod commercial sentiment. Domestic free trade is to come and might as well be accepted now. Tho resolution was favored by Messrs. Opdyko and Chittenden of New York; Rapes of Boston and others, and opposed by Messrs. Gove of Cincinnati, Dovo of Chicago and Haste of South Carolina. It was adopted—31 to 12. Tho board adjourned till to-morrow. Tho Board got through nearly half of tho busi ness on its programme to-day. The citizens give a ball in their honor Friday night, in which 'many prominent men, not merchants, are interested. Tho excursion to City Point and return by way of Petersburg battlefield, takes place at tho end of the week. There aro fifty-four members of tho Board present, representing the boards of trade of Phila delphia ; Wilmingtpn, Del.; Portland; St. Louis; Charleston; Dubuque; Detroit, N. Y.; Boston; Baltimore; Buffalo; Chicago; the chambers of commerce of Milwaukie, N. Y.; Richmond; St.- Paul; San Francisco, and Cincinnati; the New York Produce Exchange; Norfolk Merchants’ Exchange; Philadelphia Commercial Exchange; Baltimore Commercial and Flovfr.Exchange; Boston Commer cial Exchange. MISSISSIPPI ELECTION. Memphis, December 1 Tho Mississippi election rotorns are meagre. A Columbus dispatch says the election passed off quietly. Tho negroes voted heavily for Alcorn. About 2000 votq3 wore polled at Macon. Tho ne groes voted for Dent; also at Tupelo/ At Gnntown and Verona, out of 000 votes.'Dent got 500. At Water Valley both whites and blacks voted. Dent got 430 votes and Alcorn ono. To-morrow will pro bably increase Dent’s majority-to 700. FROM WASHINGTON. Washington, November 30.—A Jewish delega tion visited the President to secure the influence of the government for tho modification or revocation of a Bnssian ukase, expatriating two thousand Jew ish families. General Grant replied that it was too late in the history of enlightenment, to prosecute any race on account of color or religion, and that he wonld take great pleasure in using the influence of the government- to procuro the revocation of tho ukase. Earle has resigned. James W. Marshall, of New Jersey, succeeds him as Firet Assistant Postmaster General. Tho Supremo Court takes a month’s recess, com mencing 30th December. . Thero was a full Cabinot to-day. B. H. T. Leopold has been detailed from Bout- well’s office as special agent to inquire into the banking interests at the South. Tho President haB appointed John Parsons, of Ohio. Consul to St. Jago de Cuba. Revenue for November is over thirteen million dollars; for the corresponding month last year over nino and a half millions. Tho Supreme Court heard to-day, a case from Mississippi, involving the legality of the cotton tax. The corporation attorney decides that a negro girl m entitled to retain her seat in a white school. Hon. George Opdyke, of Npw York, is here, en route to the National Convention of tho Board of Trade at Richmond. S. B. Chittenden, S. J. Stranohan and General Walbridgo have departed for the Convention. Washington, December 1.—Gen. Breckinridge here. Thomas H. Talbot, of Maine, has been appointed Assistant Attorney Genoral, vico Dickey resigned. It was ascertained to-day, on inquiry at tlie Treas ury Department, that tho withdrawal of tho sale of gold at New York, yesterday, does not involve chango of policy, hut was on account of tho low price offered. Mullett, supervising architect of the Treasury, urges tho eale of the custom houses at Charleston S. C., and Plymouth, N. C. The former, Mullett characterizes as a ruin and a nuisance. Mullett adds: “It is obvious that the cost per patient must bo materially greater for small than for largo hos pitals, and that the most favorable working of tho hospital system can bo obtained only in build ings of sufficient size to warrant the employment of suitable staff and officers. It is worthy of note that whilo marine hospitals have been erected in places like Burlington, Vermont, Burlington, Iowa, Ealina, Illinois, Ocracoke Inlet, N. C., etc., no provision has been made for buildings at tho great ports of New York. Philadelphia and Baltimore. Indeed so remarkablo'has been the selection of locations, that it is difficult to imagine any other motive for the erec tion of thebuildingB in many cases than a desire to expend money in the locality in which the buildings wero located. I would strongly recommend the sale of the hospitals at Vicksburg and Natchez, Missis sippi. Ocracoke and Wilmington, N. C., and New Orleans, La. Tho latter is an immense, but unfin ished pile of caet iron, that has cost already 527,934; is badly located and constructed, and it would cost more to repair and complete it, than to erect a new and suitable building. It is, at prcecut, like tho custom house in the same city, but a monument of tho incapacity of its designers and constructors, would also recommend that the hospital constructed in that city daring the war, and known as the Sedg wick hospital, or such portions of it as may be needed, he transferred from the War Department to the marine hospital establishment; tho bniiding is the property of tho Government and admirably lo cated, and I am advised that tk&Jand on which it is situated can be purchased on terms that would make it a desirable investment. The President has transmitted the Jewish appeal to the Czar, asking for a favorable consideration, Revenue to-dav $613,000. The Court of Claims meets on Monday. Over three hundred cases ai'e on docket. The Naval Staff and Line Board has adjourned without agreeing regarding tho status of staff of ficers. v Admiral Rowan, commanding the AaiaticSquad- ron, reports the Idaho dismasted by a typhoon, and will lay up at Yokohoma as a storesbip. The decrease of the public debt is $7,500,009 coin in tho Treasury, 6106,000,000; currency, $12,- 000,000. law of nations, nor by *-t 0 f proclamation of the.-President. TH,:- sniff* the “an. s liiates the lease of property from which was driven during the war. 1 New York, December 1. _ Mrs. McFarland last night. This ui orE -° a son is sinking, and his recovery is hon l ? St. Petersburg, December 1 —p,;!* ef8 ’ off promises to support the scheme f Qtriti ‘l ton m Russian Asia, to compete with ft Augusta, December l._Tho munidoi passed off quietly. J. y. N> ^ ^ elected without opposition. Tlie weather is warm and cloudy. Columbia, S. C., December 1 w dav adopted resolutions e: pressing •Jr'*’ Cuba requesting recognition by the” »SX?! U * b and pledging the- last dollar ZaVt&h &S Government m case of war. msn m FROM ALABAMA. Montgomery, November 30 The legislative bnsiness is generally of a local character. In the Honso a bill was referred to make grand jurymen swear they had never belonged to tho ku-klux. Tlie .bill to allow tho Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of tho House and Attorney General, to appoint the Mobile municipal officers, has been recommitted. Montgomery, December 1. —r In the House a ne gro was elected engrossing clerk. Tho Democrats voted for him agaidet somo Radical whites. A large number of bills, are reported frv.ni tbe committees. One bill was passed to make it perjury to falsely take the oath of office. The bill concerning tlie action of Mobile towards tho Grand Trunk railroad was laid over. In the Senate, a bill was referred to a committee to incorporate tho Southern States Telegraph Com pany, and it ordered to a third readmgthe kill to al- allow tho Treasurer to sell the specie in the Treas ury. Tho city election comes off on Monday, ’ho first allowed sinco 1865. The registration is to finish to morrow. The blacks and whites are nearly equal Selma, December 1.—Tho first annual fair of the Central Agricultural and Mechanical Association of Alabama has thus far been eminently successful Thousands are present from this and other States of the Union. Articles representing tho va rious branches of industry are on exhibition in great numbers, whilo the mineral department contains the finest specimens of iron, coal, marble, etc., from different parts of Alabama. The art depart ment is very attractive. An address was delivered to-day by Hon. C. C. Langdon, of Mobile. To morrow an address will bo delivered by Hon. Joseph W. Taylor, of Eutaw, after which the stock exhibi tion and racing will tako place. FROM LOUISIANA. ; New’ Obleans, December 1—Sheiriff G. M. Stnbinger was shot dead on Saturday night last, at New Iberia, by a negro. Tho murderer was soon afterwards captured and hung by citizens. A meeting of the board of assistant aldermen last night terminated with a row. The board of al dermen passed a resolution to employ three attor neys to keep the old members out and tho Govern or’s appointees in. Tho second of tho containedPlassau Avilo’s sugar fraud cases was disposed of to-day, before tho U. S. Court, with a verdicet for tho Government. Tho sngar condemned, two hundred and nine hogsheads, valued at $45,000, was the cargo of the schooner 0. H. Halleys, which arrived during Perry Fuller’s ad ministration. Underweight 260,000 pounds, Dep uty Collector Hemey states that this was regarded as the weakest case, on the part of the Government, of the fifteen. Another will be tried Monday for thirteen hundred boxes. At the Metairie Races, in a dash of three miles, between Matt. Griffin, Ckalmctto, Coquette and Mor gan Scont, tho latter was the winner. Time 5:45. In tho second race for sweepstakes, mile heats, between Demimonde, Deringer, John Eilgone, Ste vens, Golding and Heimbold, Kilgone was first and Helmbold second on third heats. Average time, 51. foreign news. Paris, December 1.—Tho introdnetim lations regarding the prorogation of , wta fc otbor actions of the government. and P i for the impeachment of tho Ministers L?! excitement. The proceedings c London, December 1.—The Times qmrement ot San Domingo by the UidES®*!* Lisbon, December 1 Rio Janeiro ^ that the allies are eating their horee9 is prevented by want of provisions. ’ ™ sdT «c« London, November SO.-The Cabinet and r, ment here arc in a stato of excitement7*1 ° t ’ rassment. not to say alarm. Tho secret ea W ployed by the Executive in Ireland hive rSS? “a- the officers of the Crown their belief oral rising, or revolutionary movement 0 f,. Terj Ra- of that country.is imminent. At a Cabinet*-! ^ question of continuing the suspension of ft ^ habeas corpus in Ireland has been debates J* cision has been arrived at, but it is conn'd i', 04 *’ tain that extreme measurea of repression aS. 1 * 1 ' tho sustainment of the Queen’s authn*! !: !“ , & Island, will be adopted shortlv. "‘I»tit Paris letters say the Empiroi-’e sp< The more it is read tho less it is liked. FROM VIRGINIA. Richmond. November 80—A large number,, gates to tho National Board of Timlo _ r York. Philadelphia, Boston, CtoLTS waukie, St. Lours, Louisville, Portland Kilim and other cities. Committees of mercWTh 1 been appointed by tho Board of Trade hereto 6 tend private hospitalities to tho visitors. »ad n of them have been taken as guests to private ba- There seems to bo a general feeling amon-tbe^; pto to welcome them as the first nationalbodv vHi has met in this city for many vears. Tim'R.ii . the Stato Capitol has been tendered them for sessions, which commence thero to-momm n™? Among tho delegates arrived is Gen. Kn.iu bridge, of New York. mWs: - GREELEY TO BUTLErT An Appeal Against tlie 1‘roserIni Ex-KeheU—The Fifteenth AraSdSSft From the Few York Tribune at the 27th intten! j To Major General Benjamin F. Butler if, c • My Dear Sir : Yonr name, I think you v21 have remarked, is very often pronounced free one end of onr country to the other. I trave’ ing somewhat, observing a little, and rca&- newspapers considerably—quite often bear ;■ mentioned, and (it may surprise vou to 'em; not always admiringly. And yet, ‘while I for many years heard and read all mannerof evil said of you—some of it absurdly gronnffiess and false—I cannot recollect that I ever heni or read a suggestion that you were a fool. y OT I come before the public to impeach—notvcsrl self personally, bnt a policy wherewith 'your name is popularly and prominently identified as lacking rational motive and at war with coal mon sense. I allude to that policy which pro- longs indefinitely the proscription and disfran- chisement of a large portion of the men of ths South for their part in the late rebellion. Understand that I speak from the stand-point not of sentiment, but of business. I do not here impeach that policy as harsh or hateful, but as deficient in tact—in gumption. I impeach it es nursing and intensifying enmities certain to subvert, at no distant day, tho party which is identified with it. I, will not dwell upon the well-known faetthat th’dsJate Governor Andrew in his farewell mes- GENERAL NEWS. New Orleans, November 30.—The elections on tho Constitution and State officers in Mississippi and Texas commenced to-day, and continues until Fri day ensuing. There will be no count until the elec tion closes, consequently nothing definite will be known regarding the results until Friday. Dis patches from both States report tho elections pro gressing quietly. New York, November 30.—Richardson’s symp toms aro unfavorable to-day. The Port Jarvais Bank has been robbed of sixty thousand dollars. Havana, November 30 The Spanish mail steam er brought a thousand soldiers. The Spanish iron-clad, Saragossa, has arrived. -The insurgents attacked San Jose on the Mantas railroad. They captured a b allying party of eigh teen, lmt ware finally driven off. The Cabans lost tliirtj’-four. Boston, December 1.—The Supreme Court de cides that tho loaso of a plantation on the Missis sippi, and tho delivery of com thereon wore not acts of commercial intercourse, nor prohibited by the sage or address, pnt forth four yearn ago, strong, ly urged a policy antagonistic to this—a policy that contemplated the early and complete con*, ciliation of the Sontb, through the enfranchise, ment and magnanimous treatment of her natu ral leaders. Nor need I invite your attention to the fact that Gen. Sickles fa shrewd, thorough, ly practical politician) officially remonstrated, more than three years ago, against the proscrip tion of prominent ex-rebels, as deprivinghimof the services of the very men he urgently needjd and could make most useful in governing South Carolina. Nor do I care to press home the fact, of which you cannot be ignorant, that the South ern men of education and property are by fsr more reasonable and less" bitter than their poorer, more ignorant neighbors—are less im placable, more rational, and more ready to unite heartily in rebuilding the waste places cf tho land. Nor will I dwell upon the noblo ad dition made, on motion of Gen. Carl Schuiz, to the latest National Platform of the Repnblic&n party—that party which declares proscriptions temporary expedient, rendered necessary by» grave public peril, and to be abandoned when that peril shall have vanished. I rest on the naked fact that the Republican party imminent ly needs the good will which this policy re pet, and must go nnder if that good will be not se cured. I assume that yon realize the absolute neces sity of the triumph of the fifteenth amendment to the success of General Grant’s administra tion, and that you must be aware that the fate of that amendment is yet donbtful. Ten ad verse States suffice to defeat it; and seven- New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, California and Oregon—are already beyond hope. The loss of Tennessee was at once a calamity, and a blonder—one of thosa intense stupidities which a great party is seldom allowed to repeat How Rhode Island, Indiana, Georgia and Nebraska stand, I need not inform you. Suffice it that it will require the wisest counsels and the best efforts to avert the threat ened failure of that great and wise measure of safety, benignity and peace. The men now coming to Congress to demand that Tennessee be upset and Virginia remand ed, and Mississippi and Texas held as satrapies for an indefinite aeriod, unless they vote as they are bidden, utterly fail to comprehend the situa tion. They evidently suppose that we have nothing at stake—that we may keep three or four States unreconstructed and unrepresented in Congress during pleasure. I hope yon kno’f better—at all events, I do. We do not merely need the 15th amendment ratified before 1872— we urgently need it note. If it be delayed one year longer, we shall have more than one State Legislature beside that of New York assuming to withdraw the ratification already accorded; and, whilo yon and I may rightly deny the !eg“ validity of such withdrawal, neither of ns dispute its moral weight Connecticut is to h°‘“ election next April, when the votes of her cm; ored citizens wiU be found exceedingly useful it not absolutely needed; New’-Jersey and Perm - sylvania have U. S. Senators depending on the result of their next State election respectively, and the like votes are absolutely needed in the former, and probably so in the latter. ® €T ^ a ; seats in the next Congress from Ohio and otner States will be won or lost as the right to vote for members shall be exercised by their whole people or only by tbe whites. Kentucky, Marr land and Delaware, will each bo stoutly hopefully contested next year if the amen*dm» be meantime ratified, while wo shall not elec one member from all three of these States il be nob To my apprehension, the control of next House of Representative will probao v hinge on that event . i I ask you, then, to consider, as a P 1 ^' man, whether we can afford to pick and chm** from among those disposed to favor that Amonj- ment—whether it will not be suicidal folly repel any proffered or possible support. I you whether any attempt to pry into the n tives of those who may favor it—to as« r1 whether they were not Tebel?, and, if so, whet they have repented of having been such— 1? _ i , a childish exhibition of that spirit which £?:' before a fall.” In short, I ask you totN&z tills whole matter in the light of naked, 06*3” homely, common sense, *na act upon it a 3 exigency shall seem to require. n, 9 The urgenoy of the case must excuse, freedom of this appeaL Rightly or the country regards you as the leader in ^ gress of those who havo been most exact* fc , their requirements of tho defeated Rebe», least inclined to treat them with c0 , ? eB . fo. generosity. The repreachcs which i n^v enrred in this quarter will never Vs. and your adhesion to the policy which tn sion demands will "never be attrioateu - , orf) ness or sentimentality. I ask y on > ‘ t tt« to place youself promptly and heartily ^ head of a movement looking to the in®■ complete removal of all political dis , orS whatever from any and every one wn • a or shall favor the fifteenth amendment, ^ their prompt restoration to all the pn °e citizenship. “ Let ns havepoaoe^ Qsea£t , New York, November 26th, 1869.