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The Greorgiet Weekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
1fiACON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1809.
. , A Dansreroas Counterfeit
Wm stopped at the First National Bank of Ma-
ooa yesterday—purporting to be a twenty dollar
Ml of the National Bank of Commerce, New
York—letter B. Mr. Plant says this is the moet
ieoeptive counterfeit he ever saw, and cannot
oaatly be detected except by a critical examine
tion with glasses. The signatures first arrested
Us attention as they were poor imitationsof the
genuine, with which be happened to be fa
miliar.
As there may be more about, the people who
fen whether these ahinplasters are counterfeit
Or not should be on their guard. But to those
of ns who use only a little small change now
And then it is hardly worth whilo to bother our
heads about counterfeits. For example, we
fepfiosu about one-half the “fractional enrren-
circulating aronnd. Maoon Is bogus; bnt it
passes round just as welL Nobody cares to be
over-curions on that point, and even with the
beet efforts of the counterfeiters and the gov
ernment small change is frequently scarce.
The situation reminds uS of the olden time in
Florida, when the whole country was flooded
with bogus Mexican dollars, which kept np a
cheerful circulation for years; everybody know
ing them to be bogns. But unfortunately, at
last, the greedy rascals who set out with an
honest standard of sixty cents silver in the dol
lar, got to debasing the coin so much that it
turned black and coppery—was disagreeable to
fee smell, and then we were obliged to refuse it
On principle.
Jast so with these outside shinplaster mills
which have been established by private enter
prise. They commenced printing their fifty
cent notes so well that yon could not tell one
from another without looking more closely than
ifty cents wonld pay. Bat now they are get
ting careless—using bad paper and ink and poor
bronze, so that it won’t be long before we shall
he compelled, in good conscience, to discon
tinue the use of counterfeit money.
Mncon to Lumber City.
The Macon and Brunswick Road advertise a
freight and accommodation train to Lumber
Oity, 100 miles; to commence running on Mon-
day next That is something, and we hope to
be able to announce, in a very short time, a
through train right down to the salts. That will
bn better. We have not seen Old Ocean for two
years, and suppose there be many of our readers
who never saw him at all, or have not seen him
for a long time. This is sot good for man or
woman. Even the Indians used to go down to
fee seashore to “ salt themselves” once every
NORTH CAROLINA POLITICS.
General Break!a* ITp of Parties—New Par
ty to be onpmtarf.
A gentleman, formerly United States Marshal
of North Carolina, who arrived here from that
State to-day, says there is about to be a general
breaking up of political parties there. The
Holden party, which has ruled with great bitter
ness in the interest of the ultra Radicals since
the State was reconstructed,, has lost caste and
its members are quarrelling among themselves.
They brought the State to the verge of bank
ruptcy, and now that the State bonds are selling
for about thirty-eight cents on the dollar, some
of them are secretly conniving at a repudiation
of the State debt. The people, or at least the
respectable portion of them, and specially the
property owners, are ready to join any party
organization that promises relief from the oner
ous taxes and baa management of Holden and
his friends. Holden is about deserting the ex
treme Radicals, because he perceives that their
power is at an end, and will probably seek for
admission in the new party. He has been so
proscriptive, my informant says, against all who
did not agree with him, that he will get no fa
vor at the hands of the leaders of the new gov
ernment. The gentlemen propose to organize
a party after the fashion of the Walker party
in Virginia and the Senter party in Tennessee,
with universal amnesty and impartial suffrage
as the leading features.—Lynchburg Virginian.
The conditions to the manufacture of that
“new party" in North Carolina do not exist
North Carolina is already a State of the Union,
and unless Congress puts her ont again, we do
not see how such a bargain as has been driven
with Virginia, Mississippi and Texas can be
effected.. In those States the people have
agreed, in consideration of being released from
military domination and remitted to modified
self-government, to make no issue with the re
construction acts, and so far as that, to co-ope
rate, for (he nonce, with radicalism. It was a
case of bargain and sale or a choice of evils,
and a great many doubted whether they did not
pay too dearly for the whistle. On the whole
we think not.
Bnt no man, we imagine, can suppose that
the terms of the contract extend beyond the pe
riod of the final consummation, or that in vir
tue of it, the Radicals can rationally expect to
hold men to the permanent support and main
tenance of doctrines and principles fatally at
war with all sound republicanism and civil lib
erty. How can a Virginia Democrat co-operate
heartily and permanently with a party running
on a schedule “outside the Constitution" claim
ing the doctrine of Congressional supremacy—
asserting the unlimited power of the Federal
Government as represented by Congress—and
the right of that body to compel the States to
amend the Constitution so as to enlarge its own
powers. Such a Democrat as that wonld be a
political monstrosity—a creature of unnatural
shape.
We understand the bargain between Radical
ism and these States to be in tbe nature of that
kind of pact which a man should make with a
fear. . ,
This Road will give us up-country folks so I party °f free-booters, who, having possessed
fine an opportunity to snuff the sea-breezes—to j themselves of a portion of his property, ho con-
bear the roar of tbe surf—to catch and eat fish, j sen ted to a waiver of his title in order to pur-
tod crab, and oysters, that we think it will add back possession of the remainder. The
a handsome per centum to the enjoyments of bargain was concluded when he left the camp,
life and give our invalids so ready and conve- Xt dia not confer an y n 'ght to goods which he
nient a change of air, soenery and food as to be I might subsequently acquire.
Of incalculable benefit to .them. Track-laying I The Democrats of North Carolina have no
has been delayed a little by low water on tbe <*ance or occasion left for such a bargain now,
river, and othe’r causes, bnt the end is in sight, flnd ‘bey are very far from giving in anything
andthonghwedon’texpeettogodownanddrive Was a voluntary adhesion to doctrines so mon-
the last spike of gold with a silver hammer | »trons as those upheld even bythe most mod-
through an ebony cross-tie, yet we shall be just
to happy to have that last spike driven as if we
did; it ourselves under all these imposing dr
ama stances.
Reconstruction.
The most reliable information jnst received
here verbally, says the Richmond Dispatch of
the Sd, from Washington is entirely corrobora
tory of what we have several times had from the
Federal city. Virginia is to be recommended,
and her admission asked for; and, furthermore,
if will be requested that this admission be
“ prompt.” This is the sentiment and purpose
of the Administration. General Grant is pleased
with Virginia, and so are the heads of Depart-
• tnents. We mention especially Messrs. Hoar
andBoutwell,'as they are considered to repre
sent the nltramontanism of the Cabinet in poli
ties. Mr. Hoar is said to be indignant at the
absnrd movement of the little knot of destruct
ives, in this city in protesting agaiost the ad-
erate Radicals. We ere not disposed to ex
treme opinions on aDy topic. We believe de
voutly in the adage, almost as old as civilization,
that snfefy generally lies in the middle conrse.
But it is at least questionable, whether one of
your so-called “ conservative" Republicans, who
yet doctrinally endorses the monstrous heresies
of a Congress irresponsible to law and supreme,
as well as all the others which are embodied in
the so-called reconstruction acts, is not a more
dangerous man than the violent Jacobin who
claims that all law is but popular breath, and
the will of the majority for the time being is
the only Constitntion entitled to the smallest
respect. The one lends a gravity and moral
power to heresies which he knows must be fatal
to all sound government, which the other could
never impart. Nor is there any important prac
tical distinction in the positions occnpied by
both.
Unless the people of the United States can be
brought back to the position that the Constitu-
missioc of Virginia, save under the abominable .
- iron-clad" oath. Their conduct is considered twn 13 OT P reme m lt8 c ° Qtrolof all , th ? de P“*
ments of government, there is no better pout
impudent and incendiary, and dictated by the
most selfi-h and sordid motives. The most pro
nounced Republicans in tbe capital are disgusted
rith their unscrupulous and shameless conduct.
The Virginia Fatr-
ical future :tban there would be to a game of
high-dice or crack-loo.
Tbe Decline in Gold.
The New York World dilates on the “singn
both iD the greenback quotations. The World
says :
This downward tendency of the greenback
prices is viewed by the heavy and shrewd hold
ers of bonds as an evidence of an improvement
We cannot, savs thd Richmond Dispatch, but lf > r condition of the gold and Government
believe tluvt the Fair now being held is fraught j bond uurkoto. and the Aown^ard ‘^nj of
with the the agriculture ofthe
State. There will be a great many things exhi
bited that will throw light upon farming inter-
rats, and the interchange of opinion after the
lapse of so man v years must bo highly benefi-J inonr Government credit, which is likely to
cial. Just as there is going on a revolution in bring our paper currency to a specie standard
. . . v. _ . I before a great lapse of time. While these are
the system of domestic economy tt is mostoppor- thf) views 6 of a ce ^ ain portion of fhe commn .
fane that such a meeting should be had; and its I n jty, there are others of similar high-standing
benefits will be lasting. j and influence who favor the immediate abolition
The prospect Of the early admission of the ‘be legal-tender act and the resumption of
. * t TT . . j c I specie payments on the California plan of
ritate into tite Union relieves the minds of the j m^jjg g 0 jj the standard for all prices and
farmers, imparts cheerfulness amongst them, and I quoting greenbacks at a discount. This would
enables them to devote themselves with zeal tol annihilate the gold-room and speculations in
, , . . , m gold, and wonld relieve the nation from the evils
the work of improvement. Therefore we anti- K f R ’ finctnaHng Rtandim , for price8 aeprec iated
cipate a happy meeting for them, and the best j t>elow the gold value. The question of resnm-
results from their intercourse and their investi- j ing specie payments on some plan by which it
j can be done at an early date is much discussed
® auo -1 ..... . — I among bankers and merchants. The test-snit
Paris, Kentneky, Stock Market. before the Supreme Court at Washington—the
Tbe Paris ('Ey.) Citizen of Tuesday last says decision in which was postponed last year—is
i „ , 3 * ... . . . ___ likely to be decided nt January. The opinion
unusually large quantity of stock was thrown with those well ^formed that tbe Court
upon that market on the day before—especially w j]j declare the legal-tender act nnconstitution-
Mules, and thinks there were about one thon- I al. This may or may not be the case: but
nevertheless it is incumbent on every prudent
banker and merchant to prepare for tbe eventu
ality by getting out of debt."
send mnles offered. Good stock ran as high as
•165; ye.srlings 5*100. Cattle brought about G
rents. We quote a few interesting, paragraphs
from the Citizen:
Phil Kidd sold a good many cattle, mostly of
Bridal GifUt—Onr Social Black Mail
As things go now-a-days an invitation to a
inferior grades. Best’two-yew olds brought 5* I wedding is no laughing matter. Those paste-
rents. The demand was limited—farmers gen-1 board squares, with iheir entanglement of mono-
erally being supplied. Mules brought good grams, summon us to take part in a great many
prices. Two year olds from $150 to $160; year- I absurdities of custom; but, of ml these, the
uings, first-class $105 per head. most absurd and burdensome is that of giving
Jeorge W. Hamilton reports about 500 cattle presents. The fact is that, marrying people
„ the market. Sold 30 head two-year olds at practise upon all their mends at the present day
AGO 80; 30 head, ordinary, $50. Mules, 40 head a system of barefaced extortion without giving
yearlings $05 50; 45 ‘two-yew olds, withdrawn I them the right to resent or expose it. There is
at $140- 30 oolts, $31. Horses, common, brought I no pretence of spontaneity or sentiment in these
from $50 to $110. No fine horses offered. gifts; they are purchased because they must be,
A. W. Lydick sold good two-year old cattle I and this the receiver well understands. Theex-
from 54 to 6* cents; yearlings, from $30 to $50 action upon people of moderate means, rating
per be«d Moles—yearlings, from $80 to $135; their affections before the town by tbe number
two-year olds, $100 to $155. Horses, plugs, 1 of dollars they are able or willing to invest on
Atom $50 to $100. I the occasion, and mortifying them if the gift be
At 0. C. Skill man’s stable three lots of mules I small, by parading it, with name attached, in
were sold as follows: & head at $160; 21 head contrast with the outlay of wealthier friends, f|
M $180; 9 head, $140. Several horses brought so essentially vulgar and indelicate that it is
from $70 to $160. I wonder how it lever came to be tolerated in any
There was also some sharp trading done pri-1 society claiming to be refined. The custom it
' ’ f on the streets. We saw one man buy 18 I absnrd also, as well as vulgar and burdensome,
of mules and sell them again in a few min- ] when one comes to reflect npon. The matrimo-
■a— at * profit of $12 60 on the bead. nial party really gain nothing; for they have
1 to repay the same in value when the donors in-
l>w Benedict's Lack. I vita them to a similar occasion, so that their
The reader may remember the story of Mr. *»• aM,oa “ 8 - I ^ow many timesthe
Lew Benedict, of Dupre* A Benedict’s Minstrels, bride must have said, “Thank yon very much;
who, five years ago; being then a poor yonng how tovely it-is over this amount of plate
lawyer, oonrted the daughter of a New York J*ben she knows thatthe equivalent which must
aoUuooaire, and obtained lie father’s consent to be giventor it rathe future, wonW purchases om-
the marriage with her on oondition that he form service after her own heart. As it is, each
would first amass $50,000. He entered the find themselves possessed of i Mm»
burnt cork profeaeion, became part proprietor neons mass of silverwwe, not only unlike in do-
of the troupe named above, and toiied and I but with excesses and deficiency which
ienped together for five long and weary years j »°body could foresee, hew York World.
lor the price of hi* happiness. At last be ha* j ’ v f.’J
toencoded. After counting tbe receipts of the 1 The Muu Trade.—The certainty of a good
box office of the Arch Street Theater, in Phil*- crop in tbe South is beginning to show itself in
gnlphia. on Tuesday evening, be found that the I the lively movements of ibe-araie traders. Our
|fet $100 waa in hi* possession- He Innaediste- exchanges throughout fee static region report
ly telegraphed to Ms intended fatbar-in-lkw tbe that thousands of hones and mule* Sre now
' joyful wtelUgano*, and claimed the fulfillment j being shipped to the Couth, and are command-
jgfjril puP carped contract. Mr. Benedict to- {ing high price* A number of droves passed
Atofe testing to his profession Until Jm has 1 through this city during the put week; fed
Z£iZS8£-' hia brid. hil a hand- J re^^^WU^thtonmrein^-Pori,
The Fourteeath mi Fifteenth
- £ * ——*«"■ t/STff y
We believe that onr people are not as accu
rately informed as to the meaning and effect of
.these two amendments as the great importance
of the subject would seem to require. They all
know, of course, that the fourteenth amend
ment has already been proclaimed (tub modo) to
be a part of the Constitution. It is also known
to all that the fifteenth amendment ia now be
fore the States for ratification, and that while
its fate is still doubtful, tbe chances lean in
favor of its adoption.
That neither of these amendments should ever
have been incorporated into the Constitution is
a proposition which admits of no doubt what
ever in the light of sound reason and statesman
ship. That they should have been forced into
the Constitution, under the circumstances which
mark their ignominious history, is simply *
proof that the partizan and factious violence of
the Radical party is capable of any enormity.
The fourteenth amendment is in the following
language—at least so much as we consider perti-
tiuent on tbe present occasion :
Section 1.—All persons born or naturalized
.in the United States and subject to the jurisdic
tion thereof are citizens of the United States and
of the States wherein they reside. No State
shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens
of tbe United States, nor shall any State deprive
any person of life, liberty or. property, without
dne process of law, nor deny to any person within
its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Seo. 5. The Congress shall have power to en
force, by oppropriate legislation, the provisions
of this Article.
It will be observed that this amendment has
no direct reference to individual suffrage. In
the second section, it is provided, in effect, that
if any State shall deny the suffrage to the ne
groes, the basis of representation shall be re
duced in the proportion of the male citizens
thus excluded, to the whole number of male
citizens twenty-one years of age, in such State.
When we say that the amendment has no direct
reference to personal suffrage, we mean that it
does not invest any person with the privilege of
voting. It simply creates citizen* of the United
States : and, inasmuch as all naturalized white
men (and oidy white men could be naturalized)
were citizens before the amendment was pro
posed by Congress, and since all native born-
white men were also citizens, the object of the
amendment was to confer the privileges and
immunities of citizenship npon tbe negroes in
the Sonthero States. The words “subject to
the jurisdiction thereof,” referring to the United
States, excluded from the operation of the
amendment the non-voting negroes in the
Northern and Western States. It was main
tained bythe Radical party (hat the results of
the war subjected the Southern States or Terri
tories, or “conquered Provinces,” as they are
now some times designated, to the foil and ab
solute jurisdiction of the United States. Hence,
the peculiar phraseology qf the amendment.—
This amendment further provides that “no
State shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immnnities of citizens
of the United States,” to-wit, the Sonthenn ne
groes in particular.
Thus, the fourteenth amendment makes all
negroes in the Southern States “subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States, and of the
States wherein they reside; and declares further
that no State shall enforce any law to deprive
them of the privileges and immunities of citizens
of the United States. The amendment is, of
course, both present and prospective in its ap
plication and in its operation, and the word
“ citizens” includes naturally and logically each
individnal citizen.
The langaage of the fifteenth amendment is
as follows: '
Section 1. The right of citizens of the Uni
ted States to vote shall not be denied or abridg
ed by the United States or by any State, on ac
count of race, color, or previous oondition of
servitude; and Congress shall have power to
enforce the provisions of this article by appro
priate legislation.
It will be seen that this amendment, unlike
the founteenth, has direct reference to suffrage,
and confers the right of suffrage, with a polit
ical privilege or immunity, upon all citizens of
the United States, to-wit: npon the negroes,
both in the South and in the North, as partic.
nlarly designed. It follows then that if both of
these amendments shonld become parts of the
Constitution, two conditions would be clearly
revealed.
First. That under the fifteenth amendment,
all negroes who are citizens of the United States
may enjoy the ballot in tbe Southern States, ns
they Lave been doing for several years past un
der the reconstruction acts of Congress—that
those negroes in the Northern States who Lave
been voting tinder State laws, shall continue to
enjoy the suffrage—and that non-voting negroes
in all the Northern States, hy virtne of this
amendment- shall also become entitled as voters.
Second. That under tbe fourteenth amend
ment no State can make or enforce any law
which shall abridge the privileges or immnni
ties of citizens of the United States, being citi
zens at the time of the ratification. of the fif
teenth amendment.
The negro voter is doubly protected in the
privilege or immunity of voting:
First. Because no State can make or enforce
any law to deprive him of that right.
Second. Because neither the United States,
nor any State, can deprive him of the suffrage,
by reason of color or race, or previous condition
of servitude. In other woids, he is protected
both in the general and in the particular—his
color, race or condition shall not operate to his
exclusion in the one case, and in the other hiB
suffrage and his citizenship are incorporated,
the one into the other. Construing both amend
ments together, it is as though the fourteenth
had declared “thatthe right, of citizens of the
United States to vote, shall not be denied or
abriged by the United States or by any State,
on account of race, color, or previous condition
of servitude; and no State shall make or en
force any law which shall abridge the privileges
or immnnities of citizens of the United States.”
The first portion of the article, as we have here
described it, refers both to the United States,
and the second part to the States alone.
In the event, therefore, of the ratification of
tbe fifteenth amendment, no negro, either South
or North, who may be then a voter, can ever bo
excluded from the ballot, unless the Supreme
Court may hereafter purge the Constitution of
these anomalous and really spurious articles.
The StateB may afterwards exclude any class
not already voters, or they may Bet up an elec
toral qualification to act prospectively npon tbe
class affected by it. But they will not be able
to exercise the least control over present suf
fragans, whether white or black.
This is onr opinion after full examination and
reflection on the snbject. It will be in the
power of the States, (perhaps,) to exclude ne
groes from holding office, but not from voting.
[Montgomery Adeertiser.
Consolidation or tta« Hudson River
and Near York Central Railways.
Yesterday the stockholders of tbe* two great
lines of railway in this State—the Hudson Riv
er and the New York Central—voted their con
solidation. Virtually the union had taken place
long ago, when Commodore Vanderbilt and his
friends came into possession of a majority of
their stocks. Both roads were operated in har
mony and were practio&Uy.one. Now, however,
they are financially so. The terms of the con
solidation, which were'kept a profound secret
up, to the moment tbe vote was taken, .wore a
great disappointment ‘to Wall ’street, where a
combined capital of one hundred millions was
confidently looked for. As it is the original
stocks are simply merged into one total of for
ty-five millions, appended to which, however,
is* scrip of forty-five millions more,■ bearing
equal dividends with the consolidated capital.
The prices of New York Central and Hudson
River both underwent a large decline on the an
nouncement of the terms, bnt at the decline,
paused and wavered, the street being ‘ sorely
puzzled as to their real value, owing to the con
ditions of fee scrip. Doubtless fee next Le“"
latnre will again bn fee field for special legislal
affecting both stock and sorip. As it is, the two
roads have lost their identity, bnt preserve tbeir
history in the title of the new corporation—viz.,
fee New York Central and Hudson River Rail*
way Compa ny.—N. Y. Hi raid.
The Rome Fair is a great success. Over five
thousand persons in attendance. We print be
low a dispatch from Mr. Fitch, who, being in
clined to roam a little, has gone to Rome .-
Roue. Ga., November 4.—The Fair is a big
thing. Over five hundred entries of stock—
some very fine. Ladies’ department good. Mc-
bride k Co. make a splendid display of silver
ware. The t-ro steam fire-engines made a splen
did display to-day. Balloon ascension this eve
ning. Templeton’s, troupe, Wyman and other
shows here. Town full of sports and newspaper
drummers. Over five thousand visitors. F,
[ Griffin Star.
NAPOLEON'S HEALTH.
■ tat« Isiaese* ef tie tnpress.
The Paris correspondent of the London News^
writing on the 12th ult., says; -rv. j
Your readers may perhaps remember that'I
was the first person who, even at the end of last
winter, distinctly affirmed that Louis Napoleon
would never venture to resist the onward move
ment that Was then beginning. Almost all the
press of the Continent took the opposite view of
the situation, and affected to believe (or did be
lieve) that the Emperor would consent to no
modifications of the constitution in a lilieral
sense. My estimate of the excessive timidity
and uncertainty of the Emperor’s character lea
me to the opinion that I expressed, and you see
that_I have not been_ wrong. He began by giv
ing in to popular opinion,l>ecause be was afraid
The Postmaster General's Report.
i The annual report of tbe Postmaster General
for tbe fiscal year ending June 80, 1869, will
show the following interesting facts prepared by
General Terrell, Third Assistant Postmaster
General: N
.The number of stamps issued daring the year
was 421,047,460, the value of which was $12.-
722,565; the number of stamped envelopes is
sued was 78,079,850, amounting to $2,288,588 ;
newspaper wrappers issued, 3,595.250, amount
ing to $71,906. Total number of stamps, en
velopes and wrappers, 502,728,560, total value
of which was $15,078,061.
The receipts and expenditures for the year
ending Jnne 30, 1869 as compared wife previ
ous years were as follows: Receipts 1869, $18,
BT TELKfiRAPH.
i V, »n^i . r • • it 344 * 5, ° 72 i J868, $16,292,600 80; increase
"fit/ naturalizing all 12 ^ ^ oe ’ nt $ ^ 0 5t,909 92. Expenditures
his first theoretical concessions from the same » w , > r
motive—fear; the fear of yielding too much.—
But I do not think that even at this moment, af
ter so much has occurred to prove the' inipossi-
1869, $23.G98,13l 60;' 1868; $22,730,592 65;
increase 4^ per cent, $967,538 85.
The money order system was established No-
- , , - * . T , * vember 1,1864, at 141 post-offices. During the
bilitv of the duration of the empire-I do not period of eight monferthe issues , of these of-
thrak that even now you are aware of what the fw s o mnr , n S,j
strength ofthe anti-dynastic sentiment here has
grown,to. .At no period of modern French his
tory has the public feeling of the country been
so unanimous or so powerful. It was nothing
,360,122 52, and the pay
ments to $!,313,577|P8. The gross receipts
from fees, etc., were $11,536 40, and tbe ex
penses $18,584 37; showing a deficit of $7,047
„ 97. For the fi-cul year, 1866, the issues at 473
approaching to its present state in 1830. Men • offices were $3,477,259 28, and the payments
who were actors 10 the July revolution tell you I were $3,903,890 22. The receipts to the De-
that it could not have had a chance' ox success > partment were «J>3,580,30G, and the expenses
had the government had beforehand the slight- §2,866.427’; yielding to the Department a rev-
est suspicion of the impression likely to be pro- j enue of $7,138 79. For the fiscal year, 1867, in
duced the fatal ordonnances.
of 1830 was a very circumscribed one compared
to that which agitates the country now, and if
you read one after the other the famous articles
of the Journal des Debats, ending “Malheureuse
France! Malheureux Roi l” and any leader of
the Rappel or other advanced newspaper of the
present day, you will seeliow immeasurably pre
ferable was the position of the already doomed
Charles X to that of the exhausted Cresar, who
still fancies he can dispose of the army, and
whose name is now openly doubled with epithets
such as Victor Hugo alone dared to utter a few
years ago.
• • * The incontestible debility of health
of fee Chief of fee State has virtually subjected
him to the energy and dictatorial spirit of his
wife, who rnles now, with the notion of being
celebrated as a second Maria Theresa. The
Empress is a very inferior person, with, as I
have more than ouco told you, a will of singular
tenacity. This obstinacy is held by her to be
synonymous with power—with reil strength.
The principal object of her recent efforts has
been the de facto banishment of all her spouse’s
old friends and associates. She has always dis
liked them intensely, and for more than one
reason, and she has never forgivon any one of
them fee attempts they one and all made to
prevent her marriage with Louis Napoleon. But
she has most perfectly disguised her sentiments,
and until the hour when circumstances gave her
preponderance in the government tbe Empress
was friendly with everybody—with M. de Per-
signy as with Connt Walewski; with M. de
Moray, with M. Drouyn de Lhuys, with M. Fould
and with M. Rouher. Her first act of real au
thority has been the getting rid of Gen. Fieury,
and a great sensation it creates. It is quite true
that one argument used by the Empress is a
very strong one—the notorious absence of moral
worth or personal respectability on the part of
Louis Napoleon’s private friends and out-and-
out adherents. She puts this forward now on
all occasions: and there is now no defending
the persons she condemns. Bnt whom docs
she propose in their stead? Men politically
worse, because they are utterly wanting in any
faith in that which they are required to uphold.
Men like General Fieury, who remember the
early days of the February Revolution, and
what the temper of the country then was, know
what the present movement means, and what
it may come to; besides which, having
been raised from nothing to rank and
wealth, they are disposed to do whatever
may be necessary to preserve their position,
and their sight is proportionately sharpened.
There wonld "bo no reason why tho man who
mainly helped to commit tho crimes of the coup
d'etat (without whom Louis Napoleon nover
wonld have ventured to commit it) might not be
come the inangnrator of all freedom in France;
all be is aiming at is not losing the advantages
he possesses, and once prove to him that tho
oountry will have its old liberties, or throw off
those who refuse them, and General Fieury
would indubitably, were he Minister, do every
thing that his own interests demanded. Rut the
Empress’ ideas of Government tend in thor
oughly different directions. In the first place,
it is, in her mind, a humiliation for a sovereign
to be dictated to by the people, and she looks
upon what is called “firmness” rs a cardinal
virtue (on the eve of ’48 M. Guizsot, too, said
that “resistance was the only form of pro
gress”;) and, added to this, the first duty that
the Empress holds to bo incumbent on France
is that of forcing the yoke of the Papacy more
and more npon the population. Now, in all
these attempts she meets with the resistance of
the so-called entourage, who are by no means
Papistical. She has been for the last two years
trying to get rid of General FJenry ; bnt, after
the many deaths that have deprived the Em
peror of bis old companions, Persigny ■ and
Fieury are about the only remaining ones, and
the Grand Ecuyer endured.
Before leaving for her Eastern journey, how
ever, the Empress achieved tho virtual exile of
her adversary. The General petitioned for
Florence; but the Empress insisted on M. de
Malaret’s remaining there. To his perfect an
noyance, then, Fieury is dispatched to Russia
and fee Empress has succeeded.
Chinese Immigration to the United
States—N'hat is Thought of it. in
Chinn.
Prom the Shanghai Ueto* Letter, September 18.)
We are glad to see by the last Pacific Mail
papers that in every part of tho United States
the question of Chinese immigration is being
earnestly discussed, and that onr fellow-coun
trymen are already clearing their minds from
their hazy notions of this empire. They have
pricked tho gigantic bubble which Mr. Burlin
game blew, in the rainbow tints of which there
was no more a picture of China than there is
on the face of a “willow pattern” plate. They
decline to see on tho eastern shore of the Pa
cific a nation of educated philosophers, under
the sway of a paternal emperor—but, what is
more to the pnrpose, they see millions of indus
trious men, iu whose hands is the key to the
great problem of cheap labor in America. With
practical men decision soon follows discussion,
and we may be sure that the Southern planters
and the capitalists of the newly-opened West
will not be long in supplying their wants by or
ganized immigration from China.
It is rumored that the Pacific Mail Steamship
Hod. Hiram Warses was in Macon yesterday,
and di'played his judgment in one particular by
sutaKtibing for fee Teiaobaph.
Madame Asa* Bishop will settle in New York
*sd lead • ohsreh eboir there.
Company will aid and encourage.this new pas
senger traffic by an early increase in their steam
line. Supposing them merely to employ their
spare vessels, it would be possible to have an exJ
tra steamer every month, which would besuffi
cient for a short time. But the labor demand
in the United States is so multifarious that it
must soon cause an “advance along the whole
line” of China. The province of Twangtung
will continue to send men suited to our mines
and railroads, and for such other employments
as demand a certain amount of adventure and
hardihood. But for the Southern plantations
and for ,the grain fields of the Northwest, , it
seenis probable that the best laborers will be
found among the quiet and docile peasantry,
who inhabit, the lower valleys of the Yangtsze
and the Hoangho. The mountainous province
ofShangtung is also known to contain a super
fluous population, unable to subsist off the soil,
forbidden to delve under it for mineral wealth:
many from there might be induced to emigrate
to America, instead of to Manchuria, where the
experiment of settling has been tried with indif-
6 The Subject is not without grave difficulties.
Muoh will depend oh fee personal character of
fee subordinate agents employed to engage fee
coolies in China, much on the honesty with which
they comply wife our immigration laws. Any
system, based on contracts for long servioe
signed in China, is liable to a thousand abuses,
ami unless checked by a rigid enforcement of
law, degenerates into a virtual slave trade. A
starving coolie will resign his birthright as read
ily as Esau, and any attempt by emigration
agents to acit the part of Jacob must re
sult in disappointment to those who are ulti
mately to have the coolie’s services. Muoh, al
so, will depend on fee laws which fee different
States may make regarding the Chinese—wheth
er the latter are to be protected from fee oppo
sition of rival laborers, or whether they are to
be weighted by social or legal disabilities.
Delegates tbom Newtom County.—At
meeting of fee Newton County Agricultural
dub on the 2d Inst, fee following gentlemen
ware appointed delegates to represent fee Club
at the State Fair to be heid in Maoon on fee
16th inst., viz: Vim. 8. Montgomery, Gen. E.
L. Thomas, Dr. J. J. Dealing, Henry Graves,
A. C. Cook, John E. McConnsi, T. P. Burge,
N. G. Cut, Bev. Henry Quigg, F. M. White-
head, W. F. Wilson, Harry C$mp, Ia F. Living
ston andG. H. ** '' ’’ w
The movement i 832 offices the issues were $9,229,327 72 ; pay
ments, $9,071,249 73; receipts, $90,889 57; ex
penses $4;462,89G; - revenne to Department,
$20,260 61. Fiscal year 1868, at 1223 offices,
$10,107,858 47 ; payments, $16,118,537 03: re
ceipts, $124,503 19 ; expenses, $70,348 04 ; rev
enue to Department, $54,158 15. Fiscal year,
1869, in 1468 offices the issues were $24,848,058
93; payments, $24,654,123 46 ; receipts, $176,-
247 87, and the expenses $I10,G94 ; gross reve
nue, $6,555,387. The present number of money
ordei- offices is 1685.
The report from the Dead Letter Office Will
show the following interesting facts: Tbe num
ber of letters sent to the Dead Letter Office du
ring tbe year was as follows: Ordinary letters
2.837,472; drop letters 450,000; unmailahle
361.984; hotel letters 26;528; fictitious letters
17,417; registered letters33,672; returned from
foreign countries 62,603; foreign letters 193,-
186; total 3,952,862. Of the above nnmbe.*,
18,227 were found to contain money, amounting
to $94,710 95, in Bums of of $1 00 and upwa-d,
of whioh number 16,187 containing $82 270 90,
were deli vered to the writers or persons address
ed, and 2,040, containing $12,040 05, were filed
for reclamation by fee owners or were out stand,
ing. Dead letters are retained four years for
reclamation, and the money deposited in the
Treasury. The number enclosing sums less
than $! 00 was 14,323, containing $3,472 77, of
which amount $2 788 29 was delivered to the
writers, and $684 48 was filed for reclamation.
The amount taken from dead letters and depos
ited in the Treasury was $14,585 63.
Thenutnbcrof letters containing bank checks,
drafts, deeds, letters of exchange, etc., received
and recorded, was 16,925; nominal value of
same $3,011,354 71, of which 15.286; the nom
inal value of which was $2,793,114 51, were de
livered to owneis, and 16,039 were returned or
filed for reclamation. Of the nnmailable letters
286,307 were detained for postage, not being
prepaid as required by law. They were either
wholly unpaid, not prepaid one full rate,- or
were stamped with illegal or revenne stamps;
70,429 were misdirected—the post-office, State,
or some necessary part of the address,being
omitted; 2,678 had no address whatever, and
2,570 were addressed to places where there was
no mail service.
The amount realized by the sale of waste pa
per was $2,0G7 05. This was formerly a per
quisite of the Third Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral, but has been cut off by Congress.
Royalty in Prussia—Home-Life of tlie
King.
A correspondent of the London Telegraph
thus describes the home-life of King William:
From the library in the Berlin Palace it is but
step through a side door into the famous “cor
ner” room, where the King may be seen from
the st a -t bit ing at his writing table, any morn
ing when be is iu Berlin. This room, crowded
with puintiug-i, statuettes—one, among, others,
by the Crowu Princess, of her husband, grasping
torn flag and cheering on his men—busts,
etchings, miniatures, andeomitle.-sother objects
of art, is remarkable for one odd peculiarity: it
does not contain a single seat of any sort, except
the King’s arm-chair and a kind of'stool like a
saddle upon supports, without any hack, npon
which his Majesty mounts when he has to sign
certain documents of paramount importance,
such as death warrants, etc. Whosoever is re
ceived into this department bus to stand while
talking to the King, who rises from his chair at
the writing table, turns his hack to the window,
and hears in that position whatever his visitor
may have to say to him.
Leading out of the “corner” room is the
council chamber, in which his Majesty presides
over the council of bis minis'ers; a noble npart-
ment, richly decorated and hung with costly pic
tures by modern masters.. The last room ofthe
suit is a sort of reading room, filled with milita
ry sketches—some splendid water-color draw
ings ef c.iinp scenes in the French and Austrian
armies—huge nisps, sea-pieces, pamphlets and
souvenirs of tho tented field. These are the
standards of all the guard regiments, and the
drums of tho Garde dn Corps, always in the
King’s keeping, except on extraordinarily sol
emn occasions, when they are fetched by can-
pignies d’elilc, and delivered over with impress
ive formality.
I forgot to mention two curious objectsin the
library; one is n “progressive’’ nmp of the
Prussian kingdom, starting with the “Mark” of
Brandenburg, in dull brown, and showing every
successive acquisition in a different color; the
other is a sort of memento “diary.” arranged
for the King by one of his most trusted servants
every day of the year registered upon a sepa
rate sheet of cardboard, whereon are recorded
the several events in the King’s life of which
that day is an anniversary. This “diary” is a
monument of loving labor and thoughtful devo
tion on the part of its compiler ;• and his Majes
ty constantly refers to it. I noticed that the
‘Cabier” fo*r October was represented by a gap
in the chest containing tbe whole series; and
on inquiring what bad become of it, was told
that the “King had taken it with him to Baden.”
• Were I to reconnt all the anecdotes of the
venerable Sovereign’s goodness and amiability
that I heard while visiting his aparlments, this
letter wonld swell into a volume; suffice it to
say, he is the best served King in Europe, be
cause he is one^of the best mep that ever wore
the purple, or any other costume whatever.
Those who, like the writer, have been.fortunate
enongh to learn tbe true story of bis life, and
see him live, oan fully understand how and why
iti8 that he is so deeply loved by his people.
• YWITOftfl TO THE STATE TAn,
Special to the Telegraph.)
Washinotox, November 6.—Captain Tran, of tha
Executive Committee, ia here co-operating with Dr.
Culver for the transportation of the invited gueata
to the Georgia State Fair. The. party starts shout
the 12th. The editors of Several prominent egxfcml-
tural papers, and the Presidents of tovarel Northern
agricultural societies will go. General Oapron will
oeriainlj, and probably BoutweU and Cox, wiB go.
fair at bomb.■ i* v
Special to the Telegraph.) ’ Vi*
Bomb, Ga., Novembers—Tbe Fair to a grand
eucceee. Among thorn to whom premiums were
awarded to-day, are McBride, of Atlanta, fix host
display of silver-plated ware.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, November 6—The report of the
Comptroller of Currency will urge a radical change
in the banking laws, whereby thei system will be
open to all who can furnish necessary security.
The Postmaster General has ordered a new build
ing to be selected for the post-office in Nashville—
the present one being unfit for the demands of pub
lic service.
The contingent fund of the House being exhaust
ed, the Sub-Committee on Elections decline visiting
South Carolina. The elections of that-State will be
investigated spon after the meeting of Congress.
Revenue to day, over half a million.
Washington Rogers has been appointed Collector
of Customs at St. Marks, Florida.
Customs from the 25th to thel3tb, inclusive,over
three millions. . / . . ,
Washington, November 6,—Two policemen were
seriously hurt in attempting to restrain a party of
negroes who were disturbing a colored Baptist con
gregation.
Commodore Higgins and his officers have arrived.
Their statements clearly disprove allegations of
treachery on tbeir part. Their coal gave out.
Revenue to-day nearly half million.
John A. Freeman has been appointed Postmaater
at Lexington, Va.
Commissioner Capron expresses gratification with
bis reception at the Virginia State Fur.
Grant don’t meet the Array of Tennessee.
FROM NEW FORK.
New York, November 6 Hoffman, answering the
queetion, ‘ Wbat the Democrats intended to do with
their victor}?” said: “The Democrats proposed mak
ing the Legislature honest, and . to use it for pro
moting the interests of the masaof the people, which
the Radicals hare not done. We propose to abolish
such laws as-infringe npon tbe rights of locali
ties and secure them the right to govern themselves.
The new Legislature, however, wall not-be radical..
It is proposed to show to the State and oountry that
Democrats can be as moderate in victory ms patient
under defeat.” [Sensible talk. Gov. Hoffman.1
Tbe Alaska has arrived from Aspinwall with dates
to the 29th.
The Panama Legislature unanimously adopted a
resolution in favor of the Isthmus CanaL
PEABODY’S DEATH.
London, November 6.—Peabody’s death to uni-
versallyregretted. TheNewssays: Peabody was not
a man of impulsive, emotional benevolence; but of
rather a judicious, widely spread benefioence. His
liberality was not posthumous. He gave from his
own substance and did not squander wbat death
wreeted from him. His services, both to his native
land and adopted country, were fittingly and grad-
onsly recognized in royal letters and the thanks of
Congress. Merchants, in passing hiB statne duly,
do not need to learn from the consummate man of
business bow to gain money, his career may teach
them how it may be wisely spent.
BANK STATEMENT.
New Yobx, November 6.—The bank statement is
remarkable. Tbe legal tender reserve is lower than
for a long time. Loans—increase of $1,750,000.
Specie—increase of $750,000. Circulation—increase
of $52,000. Deposits—increase of over $2,000,000.
Legal tender—decrease of $2,250,000.
5 '..--4:
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Scofield’s Rolling Mill. —Yesterday, we
paid a visit to the large and extensive Rolling
Mill, situated on the Western and Atlantic Rail
road, and known as. Scofield's Rolling Mill.
Through the courtesy of Mr. W. D. Cook, Mr.
Scofield’s son-in-law, we were shown through
tbe establishment. Three hundred thousand
doilnrs are invested in the Mill and fixtures.
The company employ three hundred and fifty
operatives, to whom they pay $15,000 per month,
or $180,000 per annum, as wages. The freight
bill for coal, iron, etc., is $1200 per week, or
$62,400 per annum. Seven car-loads of coal is
used daily. The Mill turns ont forty tons of
iron rails, twenty tons of merchant iron, and
five tons of spikes per day, or 12,480 tons of
rails, 6,240 tons of merchant iron, and 1,560 tons
of spikes per annum. This Mill is adding much to
the material wealth and prosperity of th© city, cans
ing millions of dollars to flow into it. Mr. Sco
field, by his business tact and go-ahead spirit,
is making it more valuable than any gold mine.
It is a mammoth establishment, giving employ
ment to many, and oonferring great benefits,
either directly or indirectly, upon fee whole city.
To such an enterprise, we oan but wish increased
success. We hope soon to chronicle the fact, feat
the enterprising Soofield has added an Agrienl-
tnral Implement Manufactory to it, feus supply
ing a great publio need.—Constitution.
How to Bexttbh to Specie Payments.—A wri
ter-in the Louisville Courier on the publio debt
takes it for granted feat'repudiation of fee
bonded debt in all its forms is dead. His plan
to retain to specie payment is this: Let existing
debts be paid in greenbacks; let new contracts be
made in gold, including also fee future circula
ting promises to pay of fee banka. In fee mean
time fix fee value of greenback*, practically if
not in name, at aeventy-five cents in gold. Let
fee surplus of the government income over ex
penses (if there is snch) absorb fee present dr-
culation; finally, reduce all government ex
penses twenty-five per oent npon return to fee
gold basis.
A msND who has advertised a plantation fit
Southwestern Georgia, in the Trlkbah*, re
ceived yeeteiday a bid for it from Missouri
BhHbhBi
DEATH OF GEORGE PEABODY.
London, November 5.—Mr. Peabody is dead.
Tho death of the philanthropist. George Peabody,
creates a profound sensation. Nearly all fee mom
ing papers have obituary articles. The Times says:
“The news of Mr. Peabody’s death wiH be received
with no common sorrow on both sides of the Atlan
tic. The sentiment of regret will be a mere passing
tribute uf gratitude to a munificent benefactor. Mr.
Peabody, through a long life, accumulated many
titles to be lamented, He was an ardent patriot, and
was loved abroad as much as at home. He was a
New Englander, who, when tbe South web bowed
down to the dust, stepped forward and claimed a
right to succor her. He was no conrtier, yet he waa'
honored by sovereigns and princes. Hb was profuse
in bis charity, which pauperized nobody. He was &
philanthropist who was liked as well as'honored.
There was nothing hard or narrow abont bis philan-
tropy. He fcimply did whatever good came in bis
way.”
FROM VIRGINIA.
Richmond, November 5—The State Fair closed
this evening. Eight thousand dollars in premiums
were awarded.
Dr. L. R. Warring, a prominent physician, died
suddenly this morning.
1 FROM TEXAtoL.
Galveston, November 5.—'The Provisional Gov
ernor applying for' authority to enforce an ordi
nance adopted by tbe Reconstruction Convention,
Reynolds decides them not valid, and says that tbe
-ratification of the Constitution will.not in any man
ner or degree validate and make of force these or
dinances.
GENERAL SEWS.
New Yoek, Novemiter 5.—Later returns are more
unfavorable to tho Republicans. The Tribuno es
timates the Senate at two and the Assembly at six
teen Democratic majority. The Times rates- the
Assembly at 70 Demoorats and 53 Republicans-
The Treasury detectives have captured a> big to
bacco stamp counterfeiting establishment. The
prisoners’ statements indicate a wide rango-af ac
complices.
San Fuancisco, November 5 —The America has
departed for Hong Kong with 1000 Cbineee. and
over a million dollars in treasure.
The locomotive has- reached Gold Hill mines.—
The whistle of the locomotive was answered by fee
whistles of the Yellow Jacket and Crown Point
Mines.
IjoritmLLE, November 6.—Mr. Corcoran has dis
patches regarding Peabody’s death. He died of con
gestion of the lungs and without suffering.
St. Louis, November 6.—The Illinois Constitu
tional Convention stands: Republicans 42; Demo
crats 40; Conservatives 2; 2 independent.
FROM CUBA.
Havana, November 6.—An expedition by tea and
land against the rebels at Cinga de Zapata failed.
The rebels were fully posted regarding fee move
ment and withdrew. ^ Lot *('„» q
FOREIGN NEWS.'
Madrid, November 5.'—The Cortes has again ad
journed. The governments will endeavor to fill the
vacant easts with partisans of the Duke of Genoa.
Pabis, November 5.—Many electoral meetings
hare taken place in various parts of tbe city. No
occasion for police interference.
London, November 5—To-morrow will be holi
day. The Queen will visit the city to open the new
bridge and aoqueduct. £*{ft Mfo *
Mad bid, November 6.—Senor Orens to released
from prison.
r mrnernm PMMfefttr*.
FVow the Americas Ktjmblieetn.'l
This ecclesiastical body convened fa
rterraa church tn this place on TKmj'N
hg atTo’elook. Thetotrod^ore^^
preached by Ret J. N.Bradt^Vti^? 0 *N
aretor, from Paul’s JtofafeTtottLV
and 1st verse. ThsXonra
dreaaed to the ministers of thepJffi*
showing their duties and responsibibS^,
members of feetr various cbaVg^ ^
ires rery apprajHiato to fee oc^jon ^
After fee congregation was
Presbytery convened
1 wife 1
business tod’
opened wife prayer by fee Moderator Tv. *
business in order was fee election of a
tot for fee next wsaion. Rev Mr c^T**
unanimously elected. Elder J. B, McD^
elected Temporary Clerk. Uo **®ni
Her. Mr. J. H. Nall, moved the appoint
of aa Assistant Secretary, stating
uw too arduous to be filladbyotts nut®’’"a
Bev. Dr. Wills opposed
an Assistant, on fee ground, that the hnf *? 1 . 11
bait a small one, he thought tbs
be performed by fee & and
Clerks. After some discussion bv
and Rev. Mr. Nall, fee question* 0 ^
the motion lost. *** P ot
Th« roll of the various chnrche*
called, when fee following minuter* T 61 ®
to their names: ** ^vead
J. N. Bradshaw, D. Wills, T) re q „ „
lard, J. H. NaH, J. S. Oozby, Wm 6,iJ ’
J. R. McIntosh.
a Ji and
The roll of Elders was then ealled m t,
following answered to their names ’ aen ™*
_ T - tiacudera, New Hopewell-, j p u
Dowell, Ephesus; VL J. Pattewon A ’
D. G., Patterson, Mt. Tabor;
Cufebert; M. Creighton and John PeBhJ ^
bany. £].
When the church of Maoon was n»n«A t,
Dr. Wills made a report, sta&S’
bett had been firat selected as tile delegau ta
owing to the sitting of the District Court
was in session at Savannah, it was imiU--o
for him to attend. Mr. Hun,
pointed and expected to attend bntonThf *
of his leaving, he remained behind to wit^eTl
very lnteremrag marriage ceremony. He^u
not give fee same crease that the manfaS
scripture fed. who had married a wife and
not come, but he remained behind to see a *
marry a wife. He fed not think that exen^!
good one. v -
Ou motion of Bev. Mr. McKay theComoitu
on Domestic Missions was requested to nZ
their report Friday morning, at IDo’dock ^
Dr. Wills, Chairman of fee Committee deairej
until Saturday morning to make the Rem?
Friday morning was adopted Rf
The Presbytery then adjourned with pnw
by fee Moderator until Friday morning Oo'dod
Friday morning, 9. o'clock—Presbyter* va 1
opened wife prayer by the Moderator. Masts
of last evening read and oonffrmed.
Eev. Dr. Cooper and Rev. R. W Dinm^
invited to seats as corresponding members. I
Several members who were not present >ttj» I
opening of the Presbytery, appeared this no* I
ing and took their seats. Exrases for tufa. I
were received, and they were excused. I
Tbe Moderator announoed the followirw etm. I
mitteea: I
Bills and Overtures—Rev. J. N. Brsfau [
8. A. Walknp and J. B-ht. ' f
Judicial Committee—Rev. 8. 8. Gnillari Bev
J. N. Bradshaw, and D. G. Patterson. I
Missionary Supplies—Dr.. Will*, D. D.; HI
Creighton. 1
Marratiec.—Rev. Wm. McKay.
Devotional Exercises. —Bev. 8; 8. GtBlni|
W. J Patterson. I
Financial Committee.—8. A. Walknp, T, J, I
Saunders. ]
On Minutes of General Assembly —D Wsh I
D. D M Rev. J. N. Bradshaw, and W. J. Pattoim I
The narratives of fee state of religion in to I
several churches were’ordered to be tsien q I
in the afternoon. , I
Revs. L. H. Wilson, and A. H Mathew ul I
Ruling Elder W. W. Dickey of Pacbidacbardel
appeared, and their names were enrolled. I
A caH from the Presbyterian Church of C»I
lmuhuft was laid before the Presbyter; tol
placed in the hands of fee Rev, J. IL Yuli fortol
acceptance. j
'Die hour of 10 o’clock having arrived, b I
report of the Committee on Domestic MwmJ
was called for. which was read hy the0fa«irm|
D. Witts, D. D. The report elicited qmfeiil
animated discussion. The committee vail
the opinion that a vital change in the openltol
should'be made, that the churches throats I
the Preabytery should be districted off and al
Evangelist system be discontinued aha ul
31st, of December next. |
After discussing the subject until 1 o'cktfl
without arriving an ai>y definite concltosl
Presbytery adjourned until 3 o’clock, r. x
3 o’clock p.
Presbytery met aeoording to adjourn
The narratives Of the Btate of religion ii
several churches being the first thing in oti|
were read and referred to the 6ommitte«
No natives
The unfinished business on the Report of
Committee on Domestic Missious w»s then
sumed. when the 3rd resolution was sdop’M
the effect that after the 81st of December. El
gelfatic work as at present conducted within
bounds of this Presbytery be discontinue!
The report as a whole was then adopted.
Presbytery then took a recess until abet’
lie-worship to-night.
ii'S'H
, shorn*!
Columbus Items.
The Sun and Times of Friday has the foS
» g: , -
Cotton at Macon.—For the week
Wednesday. Macon received 4,811 tore
receipts 30 685; stock November 3d. 10
Daring October she has received 13,WO
against 10,885 for October, 1868.
October Rxceitth.—Tho past C
bus received 10,746 bides of cotton.
October, 1868. she received 7.169.
excess the present year aver tbo tint ®
hales. Last year, the river* which has he**
ail this season, was navigable. *
The New York Tribune tells of,«» ,0
named Call, who went into Konth county
fifteen years ago, taking with them le« tti* 1
dollars each, and going to work. They
earned and made $250 090.
Two Dikes vs. Twkntx Cents.— Nogs**
coufonnd money in a ludicrous way. A
aged negress stepped into a grocery
inquired concerning fee price of a
erel. “Twenty oents,” was the reply
masser, I’se jest been ’sented to w* 1
dimes,” pleaded ebony. Of course tb<
expressed- his willingness also to take t* J .
and she departed delighted with her bAH 1 *
Coal.—This article i* greatly in
all cities. In this section before m* 0 !,
is expected abundant supplies can to
from the coal fields above SehnA, 1
cheaper rate than at present rules.
Driven to Mobile—Fresh fish
which at fee beginning of tit*
brought exclusively from Satmb**- ■
procured from Mobile. Dealers P 1 ""-
vannah, but fee high tariff on ti> 6
dared it impossible foe any “
by purchasing there! 8-ivanBin ww
goodly enstoui. Authority stated Ot' °®
Fleeing ebok Sodom.—A correspondent men
tions an interesting instance, showing fee dan
ger of fee Pacific Railroad to Monnoniam. He
relates that be met last week an interesting
Glasgow family which was abont to return to its
native city, and in their charge found a young
woman from the same city who was about to ao-
oompany them borne. Her story is that the
promise of a Western paradise induced her to
visit Salt Lake City, where one of the saints
paid her his addresses. The fellow had already
three wives, a fact whioh he carefully oonoeaied
until fee new convert should be sealed to him.
The girl attended divine servioe and heexd Brig
ham Young preaoh the gospel of fee latter d«y
saints. Among other truths, ha declared that
no man could enter the kingdom'of bsavan
in tho Board of Trade rooms
that
dirertUj
freight oould be brought from
lasts and West Point cheaper tb»n ®
the Southwestern road. The iutorca*”^
hardly be belie red had not the state** 1
We call fee attention of the 8°®^
road to the above statement, hat ** :
ship of getting oysters fro® Mobile, ** ^
bile oyster is worth a half dosen ft®*
vannah river, there's no greet huibf
Sals or Lands ni Newton.—
Examiner of Thursday says:
. Xu* Wwoaoay ufltg *» day,
valuable farms advertised to be eo»
Urge crowd of onr dtttena from
tions of the county, who evraoea
interest in fee sale dad prt« of ^
Wright property, eoratetiogof
ST
•old, we were not present an^ b*
formed as to the price they broofi*
this portion ofthe State, hsvejP**|
in price, and eonanand svon
the war. ". . ■ .
WASBnrcnoN Cm U.iajWfr JfSSe!?
usual winter popotSticm, vis:
bogus and genuine 1
trad every spMfis* ef .
Bum are-anna a WEBS nunroar