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Tlie Greoreia, Weekly Telesra'pli and. Journal <fe JVTesserigei*.
Telegraph & Messenger.
MACON, DECEMBER 7, 18C!).
Gn dit that Qaeen Yic. hns saved up $10.-
000,000.
Giulia Gbisi, the famous prima donna, died
at Berlin lost Monday—born 22d May, 1812.
Some New York surgeons have recently
famished n chin to a yonng man who had none.
They took it ont of his chest.
Parson Bhowxlow furnishes the melancholy
information to some one in Washington city,
that his health is better than it has been for
four years.
The Boston Post says Jim Fisk own3 up to
having made six millions in tho great gold pool.
One thing is certain, though: He didn’t make
any of it ont of tho bruiser, Morrissey.
Edward Stanley, somewhat famous in ear
lier days as a Whig politician in North Carolina,
and who fought a dnel with Henry A. Wise, was
in Montgomery tho other day. He is now
a citizen of Calfomia.
The latest dig at the Alabama State treasury
by the new settlers, is in the shape of a bill in
troduced in the Legislature providing for a
“Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs,”
with a salary of $4,000, and a clerk at $1,500!
The Boston £ost credits two Philadelphia
medical students—not females, though—with
tho honor of having contributed five and
one-lialf ounces of their blood which was syr
inge into tho veins of a dying patient, and
saved his life.
Mississippi Election.—Wo were rather pre
mature, yesterday, in our comments upon this
election, so-called. The game was in Ames’
hands, and ho hns secared it, in the election of
Alcorn, extreme Radical, for Governor. Now
what says Texas ? We have hopes of a set-off
there. '•
Lono Metre.—The Griffin Star comes to ns
in new type and enlarged particularly as to
length. In length it is tedious—it is long metro
and tho doxology superadded. What induced
Speights & Fitch to make it so long? Brevity
is the sonl of wit. Life itself is short and Art
only is long; whereas Fitch is known to bo art-
leu.
The Board of visitors to West Point have rec
ommended in their report, that the cadets be
divided into two classes. One class was to re
turn to civil life after having graduated; and
the other class, embracing the most promising
yonths, were to study tho higher branches of
military science, and supply officers for the
army.
Acteiipt to Murder.—The Wilmington Jour
nal say that Capt. Prentiss Ingraham, an officer
4fl jparines in tho Cuban find who was on
the Critaa at the time of her seizure in that port
by the government, was shot at in the dark on
Monday night is that city, bat withoat injury.
A man ac tio Cuba whom Capt. L had punished
•Jor a lxeachof discipline, is suspected.
Ah Example foe Georgia.—Vermont has
taken an important step to induce capitalists to
engage in manufacturing in that State. The
Legislature has exempted from taxation for five
years all manufacturing establishments hereaf-
,-ter erected in the State, and all the capital and
maohiaery pnt into buildings already erected,
bat now used for manufacturing purposes,
whenever the «apital used amounts to ono thou
sand dollars or more.
“Chloral.”—We find mention of a new hyp
notic by this name in the Constitutionalist,
which has caused much commotion in the med
ical world. It is Crystaline, soluble in water,
pungent, but not disagreeable to tho
deed, itis said to sim :Qlate flavor of me i.
008* e XfiQd'^ pronounce it the
mos x&\pii * perfect of hypnotics. It is said
^ ^aco slumber whore opium, morphia and
randy have failed, in case of delirium tremens.
Northern Exhibitors at the Fair.—“Oc-
mulgee" writes from Macon to the New York
Times that he is gratified to know the Northern
exhibitors “were well satisfied with their recep
tion and treatment, and with the decisions of
the judges, and several of them with whom I
spoke, go home with very pleasant reminis
cences of their stay in Macon and of their inter
course with the Southern people. If the Fair
has done no other good than this, it is a suffi
cient reward for the labor of those who ar
ranged it.”
The same correspondent adds that he was in
formed that Mr. Capron, of the Agricultural
Bureau, and Mr. Delano, of the Internal Reve
nue Department, were kind enough to promise
their influence to induce Congress to donate to
the State Agricultural Society tho bnildings and
grounds now used for the Fair. *
Georgia State Faie.—Tho refusal of tho Ma-
con Committee to raise the American flag at
their late annual exposition, is justified by tho
fact that it never was not the custom to do so in
ante-bellum time3.— Washington Special to Phil
adelphia Press.
This is correct. Before the war it was nover
the custom to hoist any flag upon such occa
sions, except that of the Agricultural Society.
We are glad CoL Forney has pnt our people
right upon tho record thus far, anyhow. Let
him not weary in well doing. We will need all
his good offices before the winter is over, if
there is any truth in the “they says” of news-
pnperdom.
Specie Payments.—Upon this much talked of
subject, the Washington special to Fomey’s
Press, of Monday, says that the opposition to a
foroed resumption of specie payments will be as
strong from tho South as from the West. These
sections are both suffering for want of currency
and paying enormous premiums for loans, and
they do not exactly see how their condition is
to be improved by a policy which its advocates
admit oannot be even began without rain to
hundreds of thousands. As an eminent Phila.
del phi a banker said here a few days ago, “Let
us not undertake the experiment of resumption
till we know w can stay resumed."
Just as Bad.—Tho Greensboro Herald is ram
pant with boasting that not one of the Sopho
more Glass of Meroer University chews tobacco.
Good boys! A dirty habit it is to chew tobacco.
Bat then, don’t they chew sweot gam and India
rubber? If not, don’t they chew the end of
sweet and bitter fancy ? Ain’t they thinking of
the girls ? That’s tho question. And if not,
don't they chew camomile flowers, or its root,
pastiles, or something of the sort? We pnt
these searching questions to rebuke self-right
eousness. The seniors, we are told, have ab
jured the pipo, but are very destructive upon
•cigarettes, which is notmnoh better.
New York Politics.—There was a meeting
of the most prominent Demoorats of New York
State at Albany, Tuesday night, in response to
a call of Gov. Hoffman, at which the policy to
be pursued next year was freely discussed.
Thorlow Weed, Gen. Nelson, Oakey Hall, Til-
den, and others were present. The Son’s dis
patch says that all recommended the Governor,
in his message, to urge the Legislature to re
voke the action of the last Legislature, and re
peal tho ratification of the fifteenth Amendment.
Attorney Field, of New York, has done $132,-
000 worth of lowing for Fisk's railroad the past
year.
The French Emperor’s Speech
To the national Legislature, which we publish
to-day, appears to have been received with great
cordiality and enthusiasm; but in a Paris dis
patch of next day it is said to have fallen flat
and to create more dissatisfaction the more it is
read. Wc must receive this statement as from
the revolutionists—the extremists—the irrecon-
cilables, of whom Rochefort was the hissed rep
resentative. They represent a class, and not a
small one, to whom public order and govern
mental stability, on any possible foundation
would be evils. The opponents of the existing
dynasty embody such incoherent and antagonis
tic elements of opposition, that its downfall ne
cessarily remits the.French nation to intestine
strife and anarchy. Neither party is strong
enough to hold the reins and control and con
solidate the people.
The Emperor now comes forward, in a speech
of marked candor and boldness, with a propo
sition to popularize tlie goverrihient to the great
est extent, consistent with order and security,
lie appeals to the Legislature to co-operate with
him in the accomplishment of this grand pur
pose. He recommends a system of municipal
self-government on the basis of universal suf-
rage—improvements in public education—the
cheapening of the administration of justice—
the reduction of taxes—the modification of the
labor of minors—and numerous other reforms,
embracing an extension of popular powers, pre
rogatives and legal protection.
Thero is that in tho personal condition of the
Emperor and tho situation of tho government
to create a universal conviction of the good
faith of the monarch. He is anxious, for the
security of his dynasty and the welfare of the
succession, to harmonise it with popular liberty,
contentment and tranquility, and bo sees, what
we think tho outside world also discovers, that
this is tho only chance for a permanent and
peacefnl accommodation-of the interests of or.
der and popular liberty in France. If, as is
said, the Napoleonic dynasty has coased virtu
ally to command the support of a majority of the
French people, it may be said with at least equal
truth that it still remains a great deal stronger
than any other political party, and though all
may agree in opposition, no two would unite in
the construction of another government. In
this view of the matter, the Emperor takes good
care to express his confidence of maintaining the
government, even if the Assembly refuses to
accept theso poplar concessions. He declares
he will answer for tho maintenance of order.—
We hope France will keep revolution in check
and adopt tho safo course of gradually popu
larizing her existing government, instead of
aiming to make a new one by violence. Her
efforts at republicanism have been attended
with poor success.
The work of the Freedmen’s Bureau is now
almost wound np. It has but one hospital un
der its control, and that is in the District of
Columbia. Its officers are now devoting their
attention to education and the collection of
bounty money due such colored soldiers as serv
ed in the army during the war. Over six mil
lion dollars have been collected for the soldiers,
and there are many claims still unsettled. The
total cost of the bureau has been a little over
thirteen and a half million dollars. The great
want of the colored people is homesteads, but
about four thousand of them have taken up por
tions of the public lands for homesteads.
[ Washington Republican,
The people of the whole country will doubt
less say amen to the good news of the moribund
condition of this pest. It has been a very
heavy tax, not only upon the pockets bat the
temper and bnsine&s interests of everybody
who was so nnlncky as to live within reach of
its poison. Its original scope and intent may
Jiave been good, but if there over was a whole
sale and thorough p^wersion of powers and
meaning it was found here. watched
its workings in this State pretty closely, and
have no good to say of it—not a word. It
started ont with filling the negroes’ heads with a
lot of pestilent stuff that made them useless as
laborers and dangerous as members of society.
It interfered in almost every matter between
them and the whites, and in a great majority of
cases against the whites without reference to
right or facts. It fostered habits of idleness in
the negro which he has paid, and is paying for
in tho bitter coin of an empty stomach and a
naked back. Of all the appliances that parti
san hate and mistaken philanthropy have in
voked since the war to reconstruct the South,
it certainly stands foremost in unredeemed and
inexcusable mischief. With the bayonets of a
vengeful or indifferent soldiery to enforce its
decrees, there was nothing it did not dare. As
a contrivance to disorganize labor and bedevil
planters it would have taken the premium any
where, and in any age. -
Its cost to the tax-payers of the country will
not soon be forgotten, and the party responsi
ble for its oxistence will have to settle for it yet
at tho bar of popular condemnation. We are
sure that some day tho debt will he exacted to
tho uttermost farthing. We live in the hope of
its speedy coming. To doubt that, would bo a
libel upon tho temper as well as the memory of
the Amorican people. Great crimes like this
against right, against reason, against the pros
perity, the peace, and the material interests of
a whole people, must sooner or later be con
doned, or else History's a lie, and truth and jus
tice myths.
Oglelliorpe University.
Thtf Board of Trustees of Oglethorpe College
convened in this city on the 1st inst., and af
firmed the action of the Synod of Georgia in
reference to the removal of the College to At
lanta, on condition that tho Gato City raise for
ty thousand dollars in money, and furnish a ti
tle deed to ten or twelve acres of suitable ground
on which to erect the bnildings for the said in
stitution. If these terms are not complied with
by the first of March, then the Trustees are at
fall liberty to accept a proposition from any
town or city in the State, in relation to the lo
cation and endowment of the College.
The citizens of Atlanta express the utmost
confidence that the necessary sum can be se
cared by the time above indicated. Messrs,
Nisbet, Gresham and Anderson, of Macon, are
a committee appointed to select the site for the
institution and to arrange all the preliminaries.
The friends of Oglethorpe intend to employ ev
ery agency in their power to revive and re-en-
dow it.
Anledllnvian Remains.
Tho Chicago papers state that Horace Janes,
a farmer near Milton, Portage county, in dig
ging a shallow well, in a piece of wet and bog
gy ground, came upon the bones of an enor-
moos animal, judged to have been at least four
teen to sixteen feet high and twenty feet long.
Among them were the bones of the fore-leg,
which, when joined together at the evident
jnnetions, measured ten feet In length. Tho
shoulder bone or blade, a solid piece of bone,
measured ten inches by twelve in its superficial
dimensions. Four ribs were found, all of which
were more or less decayed at the ends. One
measured four feet and another font feet three
inches in length. A number of huge bones, be
hoved to be sections of the spine near its con
nection with the head, contained cavities large
enough to admit a man’s hand and arm. Small
er bones in greater variety were picked up—
some of them supposed to be bones of the feet.
These detached joints were the size of a man’s
fist. '
Fobney claims a strong high tariff majority
in the approaching Congress, with Butler as
leader in the House.
The Georgia and Florida Synod.
From the Tallahasses Floridian we gain the
following information relative to the meeting of
the above named body, which convened in the
Presbyterian church at Tallahassee Wednesday
evening, the 25th nit. The session was opened
with a fine sermon by the Moderator, Rev. D.
H. Porter, of Savannah.
The Rev. N. L. ■ Bnttolph, of Marietta, was
chosen Moderator.
Thirty-five ministers and fourteen ruling el
ders were in attendance. The Floridian says:
“The chief subject of importance before the
Synod was the removal of Oglethorpe Universi
ty from Midway, near Milledgeville, Ga., to a
more eligible site at Atlanta. Maoon and La-
Grange were severally spoken of, and the strong
claims of the latter (improvements, eto., being
estimated at $30,000) duly weighed. The most
exciting question was that of removal from Mil
ledgeville, which, after a protracted debate of
several days, involving a display of great tal
ent on both sides, was finally decided in favor
of Atlanta. It was pleasing to see, after a stor
my debate, the Christian cordiality manifested
in a hearty, unanimous vote after the question
was carried. Atlanta offers ten acres of land
within the city limits and the erection of suit
able buildings for tho College. Rev. H. B.
CunniDgham, D. D., was elected President and
several distinguished Professors chosen from
Georgia and Alabama, which States, with South
Carolina and Florida, aro especial guardians of
the University through their several Synods.
The missionary cause was represented as now
receiving unusually hearty support from the
churches, and many destitute neighborhoods
receiving the ministrations of the Divine "Word.
A number of new churches have been organ?
ized, and thero is a large increase in the num
ber of young men preparing for the ministry.
Tho Synod adjourned on Saturday night last
The session was n very interesting one, and at
tracted largo numbers of visitors every day.
Fine sermons were preached every night to
large and appreciative audiences, and doubtless
much good has been accomplished.
South Georgia Conference.
SECOND day’s PROCEEDINGS.
Special Correspondence of Telegraph and Messenger.]
Cuthbebt, Ga., December 2d, 1869.
The Conference met at 9 o’clock, a. sl, and
was opened with religious services by Rev.
James Dunwody.
C. D. Rodgers, Wm. J. Groono and W. S.
Wallace, were placed on tho Board of Managers
of the S. S. Society to fill vacancies.
Tho examination of the character of Elders
was resumed, and the following passed:
James Jones,- John W. Burko, J. Blakely
Smith, R. W. Flournoy, Wesley Lane, C. W.
Smith, W. F. Robison, E. A. H. McGehee, Wal
ter Knox, W. W. Stewart, James Harris, W. C.
Bass, James Dunwody, John M. Bonnell, E. H.
Meyers, R. B. Lester, J. E. Evans, A. M.
Wynn, Jesse R. Littlejohn, R. F. Williamson,
W. W. Tidwell, Thomas T. Christian, R. J.
Corley, W. A. Parks, D. R. McWilliams, Dennis
O. Driscoll, Young F. Tignor, S. R. Weaver,
John B. McGehee, Robert W. Dixon, M. A.
McKeibben, J. M. Marshall, James O. A. Cook,
George S. Johnson, B. F. Breedlove, C. A.
Crowell, John W. Mills, Ed. J. Rentz, Henry
D. Moore, George C. Clarke, A. J. Dean, W.
M- D. Pond, J. T. Ainsworth, James M. Austin,
W. S. Baker, P. C. Harris, B. J. Baldwin, John
W. Talley, J. W. Simmons, C. A. Full wood, J.
L. Williams, W. T. McMichael, W. M. Kennedy,
Andrew R. Byrd, James D. Mauldin, J. M.
Hendry (located), O. L. Smith, J. J. Giles,
Matthew H. Fielding, F. R. C. Ellis, W. H.
Thomas (made supernumerary).
A stranger present yesterday, remarked to mo
that he had hardly ever seen a more intelligent
body of ministers than this Conference. Bishop
Kavanaugh presides with dignity, and gives
general satisfaction. He is exceedingly pleas
ant, a little jovial, and jokes only enough to
make him exceedingly popular.
We had a splendid sermon last night from
Rev. James O. Branch, who comes to ns from
the Florida Conference.
In the examination of character, a motion
was made to locate a preacher upyn the ground
of his being inefficient, or rather lazy. The
Bishop told a story of a man who was accused
of being tho laziest man in the country. He
denied the charge, but said: “he wasn’t lazy at
all, but he teas born tired, and had never been
rested."
The Conference will probably continue until
Monday next. N.
THIRD DAY’S PROCEEDINGS.
Cuthbebt, Ga., December 3, 1869.
Conference met and was opened with religious
services by Rev. Charles R. Jewett.
A number of lay delegates were reported as
present who had not heretofore been present.
A very gratifying report of tho Wesleyan
Female College, at Macon, was read and re
ferred to tho Committee on Education. This
is the oldest Female College in tho State—it has
a fine corps of teachers, and is doing well
An exhibit of the financial condition of tho
Southern Christian Advocate was made by the
publishers, Messrs. J. W. Burke & Co. This
exhibit shows that this popular old paper was
nover in a more prosperous condition. Tho
paper was referred to tho Committeo on Books
and Periodicals.
Tho examination of the character of Elders
was resumed, and the following passed:
Lewis B. Payne, John E. Sent ell, N. D. More
house, John J. Morgan, J. G. Worley, David
Crenshaw,' J. O. A. Clark, J. S. Hopkins, F. F.
Reynolds, Lovick Pierce, R. H. Luckey, S.
Anthony. • . -
This last named gentleman arose in his pines
when his name was called, and gave a-graphio
account of his narrow escape from death by a
gunshot wound, from a drunken man, last sum
mer. Your readers will recollect the circum
stances. He was abont performing a marriage
ceremony, when the step-father of the bride
came in and forbid the banks, and, having a
gun in his hand, it went off, and the load was
sent into Brother Anthony. He expected to die,
bnt was calm, feeling that he was ready. But
God spared his life, and he is here, a monu
ment of God’s mercy.
On motion, a prayer of thanksgiving was
offered by tho venerable Dr. Lovick Pierce.
R. S. McGarity, a minister of the Methodist
Protestant Chnrch, was introduced to the Con
ference as a fraternal messenger from that
Church. He made some remarks and handed
in resolutions from his Church, which were re
ferred to a committee. James. E. Evans, E. H.
Myer, and Samuel Anthony, committee.
After some other business of an unimportant
character, the Conference adjoornedtill9 o’clock
to-morrow morning. M.
EnfUula Items.
From the Bluff City Times, of Friday, we get
these items s
Sale of Real Property in the City and Yd
CTNrrr.<-On Saturday last the house and lot in
the city of Eufaula belonging to the estate of
the late Capt. H. Wingate, sold at pnblio out
cry for seven thousand and fifty dollars. The
house is comfortable and conveniently located,
and tho lot contains ten acres more or less. At
the same time, the Snipes and Bullock plaoes,
cqntaining about two thousand acres, within
eight miles of town, were sold in different lots
at an average price of five dollars and thirty
cents per acre cash. On Monday the house and
lot of the Comer Estate was run up to eight
thousand eight hundred dollars and withdrawn.
Tbe house is two storied and in good repair,—
The lot contains abont five acreB and has on it
a small tenement house.
Fob Texas.—We have been informed that at
. least one hundred persons have left this connty
for Texas within tho past month.
1IAP0LE0N|3 SPEECH.
Opening of the French Corps Lcgislu-
tif Yesterday.
Address from the Throne—'“Order I Answer
for. Help Me to Secnre liberty.”—Synop-
sis of Promised Reforms—The Principles
of the Constitution to be Maintained In
violate—Enthusiasm in Paris-The Empe
ror’s Speech Frequently Applauded—
Rochefort's Name Hissed, Etc., Etc., Etc.
Parts, November 29.—The session of tho
Senate and Corps Legialatif was re-opened to
day with great ceremony by the Emperor, who
delivered the' opening speech from the throne.
It was hoped that the Empress might possibly
return in time to take part in the ceremonies,
but she has not yet reached Paris. The Empe
ror said:
“It is not easy to establish regular and peace
ful liberty in France. For months past society
seemed to be menaced by subversive passions,
and freedom compromised by the excesses of
the press and of public assemblages. Bat com
mon sense has already properly judged these
culpable exaggerations, which, after all, have
served bnt to prove the solidity of the edifice
founded by popular suffrage. But- this uncer
tainty and trouble must last no longer. The
will of the people must be made known.—
France wants liberty with order. Order 1
answer for ; help me, messieurs, to secure liber
ty. Between those who would change all and
those who would grant nothing a glorious course
may be chosen.” Tho Emperor then referred
to tho Senatus-Consulium of September last,
which, he said, he had proposed with the
purpose of inaugurating a new era of con
ciliation and progress. It was tho task of the
Chambers to aid him in carrying out the plan.
He proceeded to enumerate the municipal
reforms which were to be made, of which re
forms, thus promised by the Emperor, the fol
lowing is a synopsis: Mayors are to be chosen
from the municipalities; the municipalities are
to be elected by universal suffrage; communal
councils are to be established; fresh preroga
tives are to be granted the Conseils.Generaux;
tho colonies to partiepato in the movement;
universal suffrage is to be extended; thero is
to be a moro rapid development of primary ed
ucation ; a diminntion of the costs of justice,
and a reduction of the war tax on successions;
the savings-bank system is to be extended; more
humane regulations are to be made for the la
bor of children, and there is to be an increase of
small salaries in public offices; useful measures
connected with agriculture are promised, as is
an inquiry into tho excise, also a project of law
regarding custom duties.
He pronounced tho situation of the country
satisfactory, and declared that the more he was
ready, however, to grant reform, the moro de
cided he was to maintain tho principles of the
constitution. The relations of France with for
eign powers were friendly. Sovereigns and
peoples desired peace. The Emperor continued
as follows i» (i We have reason to be prond of
onr epoch. The New World suppresses slavery;
Russia frees the serfs; England renders justice
to Ireland; the Bishops are meeting at Rome
for wise and conciliatory purposes; the pro
gress of science draws nations closer to each
other. Whilo America unites the Atlantic and
the Pacific, everywhere capital and intelligence
combine to connect by the electric wire all na
tions. France and Italy will soon be joined by
a tunnel through the Alps, and the Suez Canal
hasalreadyunitedtheMcditerraneanandthe Red
Sea. TheEmpressisnotpresentto;daybecauseI
desired her to testify the sympathy of France
with the wonderful genius and perseverance
of a Frenchman.” The speech says that the
situation of the empire is satisfactory, that its
foreign relations aro the subject of congratula
tion, that its finnnees are prosperons, and that
the Chambers most prove that France is capa
ble of supporting free institutions, which are
the honor of civilized countries. The Emperor
concluded in the following words: “Messieurs:
Yon resume your labors after an unusual inter
ruption of the session. I hope tho bodies of the
state will apply loyally the modifications lately
made in the constitution. There is to be # a moro
direct participation of the nation in its own af
fairs. This will be a new force for the empire.
May the Chambers prove that, without falling
into regretablo excesses, France can support freo
institutions, which honor civilized nations.”
Pabis, November 29—3:30 r. si.—Tho city is
perfectly quiet.
ENTHUSIASM IN PARIS—THE EMPEROB APPLAUDED—
henri Rochefort’s name hissed.
Paris, November 29, 8. P. M.—Large crowds
were collected around tho Hall of the Corps
Legialatif to-day, but no disturbance occurred.
Within tho Chamber tho scene was one of
great interest. Tho Emperor’s address was lis
tened to with the deepest attention, and was
frequently applauded. At the point where the
Emperor declared that he would answer for the
preservation of order, the applause was enthu
siastic.
Henri Rochefort, tho newly elected Deputy
from the First District of Paris, was not pres
ent His name, when called, was received with
hisses. ’ * '
Tho official journals this evening praise the
speech.
The opposition press complain that tho Em
peror does not promise the reforms which
France needs.
the “london” on the situation in France.
London, November 29.—Tho Times, in an
article on French politics, says: “Whatever
divergence of opinion may weaken the members
of the opposition in the Corps Legialatif, they
should work together to overthrow the men who
havo bronght the government into discredit.—
There ought to bo no compromise with tho pas
sive instruments of personal rule. Possibly tho
present ministers may still bo at the head : but
the Emperor is accustomed to look upon his
power as built on tho odds of a hundred to one.
For many years the opposition in tho Cham
bers was composed only of Favro and four
others. In the face of 116 opposition votes the
Emperor’s position is already untenable.”
■Washington Gossip.
From the correspondence of the Charleston
Nows, of the 2d, w*e clip the following:
The President’s Message.—Tho President
has substantially finished his message. It will not
mako more than two columns and a half of solid
type in The News, and will bo telegraphed, and
not sent in advance to the press by mail. All
tho gossip and speculation about tho contents of
this document are quite useless, for no ono has
yet seen it but the President and his private
secretary—all the other statements to the con
trary notwithstanding. Mr. Grant wrote his
own inaugural, as everybody admits who read
it. He has also written his first annual message
to Congress, ns everybody will doubtless admit
when they read it. Grant is vain—his friends
aro beginning to admit that—and ho is particu
larly so on ‘‘State papers.” This was illus
trated when he sent his first special message to
Congress, asking for tho repeal of a timo-hon-
ored statute, so that ho could appoint A. T.
Stewart Secretary of the Treasury. That was
the only important step he ever took withoat
consulting his close friend and adjutant, John
A. Rawlins. Tho letter going the ronnds from
a Baltimore paper, that Attorney General Hoar
has written the greater part of the message, is
about as untrue as tho statement in another
part of tho samo letter, that the Secretary of
fjtate has completed his report and submitted it
to the President The fact is that department
never makes an annual report
The Redaction or Taxes.
Tho President’s recent declaration that he
should not recommend any reduction in the
rates of internal taxation, has been met by
vigorous protests from tho West, where trade
languishes and where it is found almost impos
sible to get currency enough to move grain to
tho Eastern markets at prices even below the
old coin standard. It is in this depression that
the administration proposes to continue to ex
act a portion of the productive capital of that
section, and to keep up a constant drain on the
volume of curroncy by collecting its taxes and
removing the revenue to Washington. In fact,
so great have been these representations that it
is semi-officially given out that the annual mes
sage will, after all, suggest a modification of
taxeB, while Western members unreservedly de
clare that they shall vote for a large reduction
of taxes, and for legislation that shall give the
West a more equal volume of currenoy. They
have the facts to sustain them. The internal
revenue receipts for the present fiscal year will
exceed twenty millions of dollars in excess of
the very liberal estimate made by tho Treasury
Department, and of conrse that amount is
wrongfully taken from the capital of the coun
try. Eat whether Mr. Boutwell or Mr. Delano
oppoae any reduction in taxation, it is very evi
dent that tho House, at least, will have a ma
jority against them. I find among the newly
arrived members a general disposition to reduce
the income tax from tho present oppressive
rate; and they are not at all pleased with Mr.
Delano’s idea that it is the most equitable of all
of the internal taxes.
The Boston Post says Mr. Greeley’s next let
ter will be addressed to the Cardiff giant
B-3T TELEGRAPH.
THE NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE.
Richmond, December 3.—Tho Board Of Trade
met, Morris, of Dubuque, had the floor. The close
of the unfinished business of yesterday being tho
resolntion'for a double track railway from the cen-;
tre of tbe chief source of grain and produce in the
West to the Atlantic seaboard, Mr. Morris showed
that a double track road, twelve hundred miles
long; with trains starting every five minutes, having
tlireo thousand trains on the track, with fifty-four
thousand cars in constant motion three hundred
and sixty-five days in the year, would have a capac
ity of only fifteen and three-quarter million tons,
each way, whilo the Virginia water lino, with boats
of two hundred and eighty tons and double locks,
and used only three hundred days in tho year,
would have a capacity of over sixteen million’tons
each way. Tho whole subject was then laid on the
table; 30 to 16.
Nineteenth proposition.—A resolution was offered
by Mr. Bagby, of Detroit, urging upon Congress tbo
necessity for tho construction of a ship canal around
Niagara Falls, connecting Lakes Eric and Ontario,
and appointing a committeo to memorialize Con
gress on tho subject. Ho explained that Congress
was not asked to give any money to the work. The
resolution was adhered to by Bagby, of Detroit,
Moore, of Chicago, Holton, of Missouri, Opdyke, of
Now York, and others. Thoy urged it as not only a
sectional, but a national necessity. Tbo whole ship
ping of tho Wost, which might be needed as a navy
by the Government some day, is locked up, where
it can nover reach tho ocean. The cost, variously
estimated as ranging from six to twelve millions, is
nothing compared with tbe vital necessity for it.
Here is a chain of water lines twelve thousand miles
long, obstructed by the Niagara Falla; an obstruc
tion wbi.-h may be overcome for a few millions of
dollars. Sooner or later Canada would, of her own
choice, bo a part of the United Slates and the com
merce of this canal flowing through the St. Law
rence, would then bo going through one of our own
rivers. The Welland canal, the only existing outlet
for produce except the Erie canal, can only receive
vessels with twenty thousand bushels of grain,
while the larger poition of shipping on the lakes
carry forty thousand bushels. Mr. Duprev, of Bos
ton, said it must be evident to all that the relations
of Canada are soon to bo changed; tho movements
in that dominion clearly indicate it. In view of the
important change be thoughtdelay in action on this
subject, advisable.
Mr. Taylor, of St. Paul, gave a history of Canada
with tho United States andthocausosof the Winne
bago war, and other movements in British Colum
bia, looking to tho same end. All this, ho thought,
rather only strengthened tho argument for imme
diate action on this subject. The resolution was
defeated for want of a two-tliirds vote, and being
reconsidered was adopted—ayes 44; nays 22.
Tho seventeenth proposition, for tho regulation
of railway freight charges, was then taken up.—
Richards, of Chicago, offered a resolution aeking
Congress to fix a rato to bo charged for transporta
tion of freight and passengers on each railroad in
the United States—tho rate to.bo based on a reason
able income for the money invested in each. He
said many railroads had fictitous capitals of several
million dollars, and upon this the public was made
to pay interest. Railroads were public institutions
and fit subjects for tho interference of the lawmak;
ing power. After brief opposition from Haste, of
Sonth Carolina, tho resolution was tabled.
Tbe twentieth and twenty-first propositions, re
ferring to tho James River and Kanawah Canal and
Northern Pacific Railroad, were postponed till to-
nerrow.
A resolution for establishing a system of meteors
and meteorological observations, to give warning of
coming storms on the lakes and ocean, for the
benefit of commorco. was referred to the Executive
Council.
Tho twenty-second proposition was taken up.. It
comes up from tho Baltimore Board, in the shape
of a resolution affirming confidence in tho general
principles of the national banking law, but believing
the currency was too limited, and asking tho repeal
of that section of tho law limiting the currency of
national bank notes to 300,000,000.
On motion of Roper, of Boston, tho twenty-third
proposition, recommending to Congress the adop
tion of measures to hasten tho restoration of the
specie standard of value, coming up -from the Bos
ton Board, was also taken up, and both discussed
together. Mr. Kirkland, of Baltimore, explained
that, though the 2'2d proposition came from the
Baltimore Board, it was not endorsed by it. He
went in to advocate the resumption of Bpccie pay
ment. His incidental denunciation of tho Republi
cans was loudly applauded. He offered a resolu
tion referring theso two propositions and tho 21th,
which recommends tho repeal or the tax on State
bank notes, to a committee to report at this session
of tbo Board. Mr. Roper, of Boston, said money,
like weights and measures, was useful only in con
nection with other commerce, and can only be em
ployed to measuro and exchange values. Paper
money is only a certificate of transferor real money.
No government has a right to leave its obligations
overdue. No return to spedo payment is possible
until tbo equilibrium of values is restored. Prices
are inflated, and have been made so by the increase
of irredemable credit, and we must now revise the
process. The Government must allow the green
backs to bo funded; banks must be made to in
crease their capital and diminish their liabilities.
This will not disturb industry, but only check ille
gitimate speculation. If it is not done, then the
only alternatives are bankruptcy and repudiation.
Ho advocates tho issue of five per cent, thirty year
bonds, payable iu gold, principal and interest,
which could be sold for greenbacks, and greenbacks
thus drawn in.
Mr. Dore, of Chicago, urged that Congress should
authorize tho Secretary of tho Treasury to receive
a certain portion of duties on imports, say one-tbird
or one-half in greenbacks, and also to advertise if
gold to-day is 22, that he will sell gold on the first
of next month at one or two cents less, and the
first of each succeeding month, ono or two cents
less than tho month previous. This, he thought,
would do away with tho difference between gold
and currency.
Mr. Opdyke, of New York, thought the safest re
turn to specie payment was to bo found in carefully,
maintaining tho value of tho curroncy—neither ex
panding nor contracting its volume; but giving up
to it by tbo iucroaso of industry and commerce,
which every year briogs us nearer -a resumption.
Mr. Roper’s plan of return, by tho issue of four per
cent, thirty years’ bonds, with which to draw in
greenbacks, would bo a failuro. If we should
thrible our currency, to-day, before tho year passed
money would be just as scarco and prices as high.
He favored making an equitable distribution of cur
rency throughout tho country. He believed wo had
to-day about as good a currency as we over had in
tills country. (Applause.]
Tho National Banking system is, in all points, an
improvement on tho old eyetem. As for greenbacks,
he thought from tho favor in which they wore held
by tho people, that if the Supreme Court to-mor
row was to declare them not to bo legal tender, in
a month thoy would have regained their place in
popular confidence. The existing currency laws are
about tbo best that wo can havo, and under them
tho public debt has been curtailed seventy millions,
and tho business of tlie country has not been af
fected.
Mr. Chittenden, of Now York, said tho only course
that over promised a safe resumption of specie pay
ment, was Secretary McCulloch’s plan, and that it
was abandoned with what ho foarod would be a dis
astrous result. Speculation in gold should bo
stopped by an act of Congress, and that is the only
possible solution of the financial question. There
had not been a time in twenty-five years in the busi
ness of Now York, when thero was so little feeling
of prosperity. Notwithstanding tho Bhow of legal
resorvo in tho banks there, he believed that a sad
den demand for ton millions of greenbacks would
smash them. He believod that the government
ought to inarch straight forward to the establish
ment of an honest currency, and every careful man
should bo getting ready to wait this action by cur
tailing his indebtedness. Ho believed that from
Washington next Monday word would be heard in
dicating this purpose on tho part of tho govern
ment.
■Mr. Taylor, of St. Paul, advocated a special fifty
years’ gold law, by tho Government; tho first use
of the proceeds of which should bo the redemption
of its notes. He did not think fifty million dollars
of this loan would be used before the Government
promises to pay would bo good as gold. The banks
should then be required to redeem their notes in
specie or United States notes. Mr. Thomas of tie was fought at San. Jose * r~~
Philadelphia, did not think specie payment could be he&w. "Panish
resumed until the Government had two thousand
million dollars in specie to redeem its debt.
The Board adjourned until to-morrow.
Judge H. Bramhall and Gen. Wickham, appointed
ontheRepublican State Central Committee, by those
who remained in the Convention, have declined the
appointment.
Richmond, December 4 The question of re
sumption of specio payment was resumed. Hastie,
of Charleston, S. C., did not think this was a time
for specie payment. The South was not prepared
for it, and it was to her cotton crop he thought that
a resumption would at last be due. It was better
to wait for this crop and the "general commerce of
tho country to bring currency to 'a gold value. He
offered a resolution to that effect.
Tresevant, of Memphis, followed in the same line
of remark. He thought confidence in the Govern
ment would restore specievalue. Ropes, of Boston,
stated that while Government bonds, in the last
four years, bad all advanced above par, yet gold to
day was barely lower than it was four years ago;
showing that, while tho confidence in tho Govern
ment raised the value of bonds, it does not perma
nently affect tho price of gold. Tresevant urged
tho postponement of tho matter until the next
meeting of the board, or at least until Congress and
tho President’s message had been heard.
Campbell, of Newark, N. J., gave a history of
England's attempts to resume and her failures until
1823, and the panic which followed, when eventually
she did resumo by contraction. No government can
logislato confidence into its promises to pay. Its
ability to pay is judged of by tho creditors, and if
thoy aro good business men they will riot force their
tardy creditor into bankruptcy. All this Govern
ment wants is time to pay its debts. Tho marked gia, and Judge Wood, of Alabama!' tT’ j Uecr ‘
deercaso of the public debt in tho last six months favor Erskine. 3 c “ snc; -'
shows this. Let tho circulation go on for two or
four years without contraction or expansion, and
the Government will bo in a condition to resume,
and may then safely resumo by making a gold lean
which would make resumption easy as well as cer
tain. By that time it would have established such
a credit in Europo, by reduction of its debt, that a
gold loan could bo obtained as low as four per cent.
Mr. Holton, of Wisconsin, thought tho only way
to get to a constitutional money was to get green
backs out of tho way. They create an inflation
which is commercial immorality; which can only be
cured by a return to a legitimato currency of tho
swollen ones, but it was better that this should hap
pen than the Government should hold the attitude
it now does towards tho world. We had to suffer
somo shrinkage, and wo had as well suffer it now
and got back to a healthy size.
Herbert, of Baltimore, did not believe wo could
resume specie payment for tho next five years, with
out a destruction of the commercial interests of tho
country. Ho believed in Opdyke’s opinion, that the
country must grow up to tho circulation and not
contract or expand it.
Chittenden, of New York, moved as a substitute
for all tbo propositions, that Congress be asked to
devise such modifications of the banking system
and measures for the suppression of speculations in
gold, as are calculated to restore the credit and
honor of tho Government and promote as speedy
return to specie payment as is consistent with safety.
He hold that almost all that any body of private
citizens conld do was to impress on Congress the
importance of tbo paramount interest of the coun
try in preference to partisan political measures of
their own.
Cullen, of St. Louis, did not think this matter
ought to be referred to Congress, a body less con
versant with tho subject than this board, unless it
is referred with a recommendation as to tho lino of
policy to bo pursued.
Chittenden modified his resolution, by striking
out tho allusion to the suppression of gold specula
tion, and said he had been informed that a distin
guished member of Congress would introduce, early
in the session, a bill to tax these speculations. The
wholo subject was then referred to a committee of
seven, to report at this session, on all plans sub
mitted. The committee consists of Kirkland, of
Baltimore: Chittenden, of New York; Ropes, of
Boston; Richards, of Chicago; Holton, of Wisconsin;
Harper, of Cincinnati, and Hastie, of Charleston.
Tho following propositions were referred to this
committee: By Farr, of Baltimore, opposing an ex
pansion of currency, and favoring a legislation look
ing to a contraction and early redemption; by
Grubbs, of Philadelphia, affirming that the estab
lishment by the government of a cbartere^scal head
and regulator, combining private capital and en
dowed with privileges sufficient, presents the surest
remedy for present currency evils; by Herbert, of
Biltimoro,- to abrogate -tbo three-fifths credit bal
ance, reserves to prohibit payment of interest by
National Banka of creditor balances;. to enforce re
demption of National Bank notes, so they may be
sent back to their localities for re-issue, and to re
quire reserves to be held in respective bank vaults,
in money and not in credit balances, in other Na
tional Banks at a distance, and finally a repeal of
ten per cent tax on the circulating issue of National
Banks.
Tho twenty-ninth proposition, asking jOongress
to require all American vessels to render a register
to carry one or more apprentices, so as to secure a
supply of efficient officers and seamen for our ma
rine, was taken up, and the proposition adopted.
The committee on the propositions relative to tho
Ohio and Mississippi rivers, reported, recommend
ing that Congress make appropriations for render
ing the navigation o? tho Ohio and Mississippi riv
ers free of obstruction, especially at tbo Desmoines
and Rock Island Rapids; that a bridge over these
rivers should have ono span over tho channel four
hundred feet long and sufficiently high so as not to
obstruct navigation; that in bridges built over the
Mississippi above the mouth of tho Missouri, there
shall bo ono span three hundred feet long, and that
construction of piers of such bridges be superin
tended by Government engineers. The report was
received, to be called up in its turn.
Tho twentieth proposition, regarding tho James
River and Kanawha Canal; was taken up with a re
port of the special committee on tho same, which
sets forth that a continuous lino of water communi
cation between tho Mississippi River and tho At
lantic seaboard is imperatively needed; that tbo
James River and Kanawha Canal, if extended to the
Ohio, has special prominence, and that in thia ftork
all private and corporate proprietorship should bo
first removed; thou tho Government should grant
aid; then, after tho canal has paid back tho money
spent on it, by the General Government and tho
State of Virginia, it shall bo a freo canal, collecting
only tolls sufficient for its repair. Monroe, of Du
buque, advocated tho report.
GENERAL NEWS.
New York, December 3.—Five hundred Midfen
gathered from the adjacent forts, asaiated tit
revenue officers in taking possession of forty-ion
illicit distilleries. This- accounts- for the storia
about movements of troops.
Lafayette, Indiana, December 3.—In tho In
diana Democratic Convention, Yoorhees doubts;
the truthfulness of the Federal Treasury state
monte, and said if the bondholders were too exact
ing they might get nothing..
New York, December 4.—St. Matthews Episccpi
Church, the oldest in Jersey City, has been bum:
by a defective flue.
Florence Scamel, recently woundod hr a political
bow, is dead.
More mercantile suspensions aro reported, ia-
eluding a dry-goods house here, another in St. Loni
and a large clothing house in Cincinnati
The bank statement ia unfavorable, showing i
loss of a million and a quarter of legal reserve.
Nashville. December 4. — The bill reducing thi
taxes from four to two millions with United State
exemptions, passed
The bill removing the disfranchisements of tbi
fourteenth amendment, passed to a third readog.
Topeka, Kansas, December 4,—A firo has do
stroyed the record of the land office and journals a
the House of Representatives.
THE MISSISSIPPI ELECTION.
New Orleans, December 3.—Returns from twee-
ty-Bix counties In Mississippi give Alcorn 32,662 mr
jority, a gain of 27,000, over last year's vote,for tbe
Radicals.
FOREIGN NEWS.
London, December 3.—The Times, discussing th
Irish question, says: “We-must declare reform ii
tbe land laws during the next session of Parliament
but in tho meantime tho authority of the lawnns
bo maintained and infractions thereof punished.
Madrid, December 3t—Several Carliats conifer
tors have been discovered in various parts of th
country. Many arrests have been made.
Paris, December 3.—Tho reported questions »
garding the landing of ths French Cable on Am*
can soil havo boon favorably adjusted.
Paris, December 4, — Rochefort created inten*
excitement in the Corps Legialatif by a demand tit
the national guard bo ordered to guard the H»!*-k
the protection of tho Deputies.
London, December 4—The Lancashire
resumed full time.
Madrid, December 4.—Tbe constitutional K iu: '
antees, recently suspended, have been resipred-
” OBITUARY.
Died, on the evening of the 26ih ult. at tb»*J
dence of his father, in Longstreet, Ga.. ? c ®,
Aldert, son of CoL Geo. W. Jortfsa, in tlie m-
Ho showed that of ! teenth year of his age. . Mhy(
twonty-fivo millions tons of WesTem produce, there 1
is only transportation to tho East for nineteen mil- > i ovin{ . an a beloved, in the family, ncighborhoodi*
lions. A water lino will bring this away at six dol- j school room. In the latter, he never once
lars and sixty-fivo cents per ton less than the rail-! the discharge of his duties. . . t yti
—«•«— >»*- by ™ r ,°' ^ Us&fisraispaasfsg*'
open and freo of ice eleven months out of tho f rom onr embrace, and hid from oaM*** 1
twelve in tho year. Tho cost of completing the cold earth. thawim*?
present woik to tho Ohio will bo forty millions, ’ 1 Wo stand on the theatre of tiuoof 1 -
which can bo done in four years, and will pay inter- onr vein8 . heaUh be||t8 ^ 6Teiy poise and
eat on tbo cost and four millions over, which may vados our wholo soul By our side sUn**»
bo used as a sinking fund. j beloved by all the picture of health aad n»^
- —— 1 ** 1 j the very counterpart of those we kve. ” .
FROM WASHINGTON. for a moment to behold tbe splendor of j
Washington, December 3.—Chief Justice Dillon,; J^Sdmk^wbfKtt
or Iowa, has been selected aa Circuit Judge for tbe Bpealc to t, at he answers not; we 1 ^. f0 Ss
Eighth District, which indudes Arkansas. : he’s gone 1 gathered into the anna of am . ^
Thomas J. Hunt wiU bo appointed Circuit Judge ; raother! f The flower «8 wither**,
of Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia
and Florida. .
Revenue to-day over $1,000,000.
Cressweli recommends the abolition of the frank
ing privilege.
A full Cabinet to-day.
Letter postage to England, after January 1st,
will be six oents.
This Evening's Star says the Ways and Means
Committee, yesterday, received a statement from
the Treasury Department of the amount of loss to
the Government from custom receipts that will en
sue from an adoption of Judge Kelly’s amendments
to the free list of the tariff bill, from which it ap
pears that it wffi not interfere with tho capacity of
the Government to redeem the bonds debt in ex
cess of tho amount provided for by tbe sinking
fond. The Committee finally agreed to the amend
ments, and are now considering the pending amend
ment to the list of debatable articles.
A Havana letter to the New York Tribune gives
news from Cuba to tbe 27th, and Panama tbe 27th
ult. It contains accounts of the revolt of negroes
and Chinese, and an attempt to join the rebels. A
strong column was sent against them. Gen. Trillo
caused fifty to be shot and three hundred lashes ad
ministered to each of the others offending. A bat-
heavy.
General Lesca, at Cinco Villas wi*h i S
men is unable to mrteanyheadwTy
ofttienew troops. He wan,
General Pueblo requests Derod&s , v
evacuate Puerto Principe.
Tbe cholera, small-pox and fever ln>
Jago de Cuba. * rera eingj s5i
Ex-Senator Wade, Senators Cameron
■ling have written letters in favor of Jv, ^
Washington, December4‘ Tbo »•*'
of the Federal army is 34,00(5,
force is 52,000 men. u °“ t * le pq^
Sherman submits a plan for enlisting a non
of whom two-thirds shall b 0 in active ,ZrV
low which, Sherman thinks, reduction
Belknap’s report says, tbe railway rvim
which the military railroad material of », P ?® ies ' < I
master Department was sold on credit at
the war, incurred a debt originally of
The interest baa increased this amo’unt
lions, about one one-half of which ha 1
but some railroads being in default Z*?
disposition to meet their engagement, Cs> '
been lately ordered to be bought agaW
Breckinridge and Sherman had a sort,i- ’
yesterday. al mt etviiy
Senator Lewis, of Virginia, visited thel>-.
to-day. “ e ««idei
The reported disaster to the ironclad Diet.,
untrue. She left Tybee for Key West on Th i
after ten days’ detention in Savannah river '
Bevenuo to-day $759,000.
Durant positively declines tho Circuit Jni-
The contest isnowbotween JudgeErakine rfr
a, and Judge Wood, of .»>•*-— — -0IGe e-
favor Erskine.
The usual theft and premature publication* im
ports are occurring.- r ’
The President’s message will be read fan, m
script. maE: -
The friends of Amos T. Ackerman assert t
A delegation of Virginia Grant Republican,
resenting the bolters from tho recent liemlfe
State Convention, thirty etrong, are here. Tfc,
have met with great encouragement from leadto
Republican membersof Congress, and feelsm^
of Virginia’s early admission.. •
Gentlemen interested in tho full restoration t
the Southern States report the feeling of Comra
quite favorable. They Bay the South aeed feu-
further proscriptive legislation..
FROM CUBA.
Havana, December 41—The Spanish bask n
issue six millions of currency as an additional kc
to-the Government.
Authentic information received here via Key Wes
from Santiago do Cabal of- November 23, report
the landing of & filibustering expedition fromth
Caban privateer Caesar, in the Nipo Bay, and thati
quantity of military stores reached the interior k
safety.
On tho 20 th, the Spaniards attacked tbe iaen;.
gents, who were intrenched at Mageta. The itfid
commenced by shelling and ended with a b»roa«
charge, in which the Spaniards were repulsed' mi
great loss, many of the wounded* being taken b
ths victors.
NEW ORLEANS-R&CES.
N*w Orleans, December 4. — At theNetirii
raoes- to-day, for the first heat—mile daah: winner
Morgan Scout; second heat—three miles: Helm
bold walked over the course; thirddieat—mile dish:
winner Jeff Jennings; fourth heat—three-naarte:
dash: Nannie McNairie winner.
L A passing zephyr has ruffled me nm,
the noblm little brow and extinguisk™^., ^
that madenim “ more than duet. ho. ^
guished 1 It was divine 1 The zephyr
tered the ashea and fanned into an sin* 1 **'
that spark which gave those ashes life • - t t
“That spirit-flame has sought its kindred sp 1
the skies, ' jffl&
As like seeks like, together drawn by
ties.” * „
Died, at his residence in Quitman ^
the 4th day of November, inst., of caff,
the lungs, Mr. Anthony Cbumblxy,
having been bom in 1791, in Wasbing‘0
Ga. Thus has fallen, full of_ wj be* 1
man, the noblest work of God- “ . i$ ad*
consistent member of the Baptist Cuiu’. ,. eS i t
than fifty years, and it is expressing on .
truth to say that ho always 'life.
peaceful and good, in every ro' atl o“ tt*
died without an enemy, but
friends as well as relatives to mou £.
Long will his memory be cheiwheu- ^
Died, near Jacksonville, Telfair ^ *
15th of November, Mas. Mary A
104th year of her age, one of the 1“ bM wj
the Revolutionary war—her hueban ( ^
dead a great many years) J® » etb ^
She lived a long time amemberol.ro'’
Church, and of tbe stnetest mtegnrt^ „
rives and friends mourn ^^vff^hereet* ft
of nature, feeling satisfied that s J. A- ”
Eternal.
