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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.