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The national Republican., 1868-12-05
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Resumption OF specie Payments.
Ma. EDrroR: The resumption Of specie pay
msnts must be gradual In It's operation In or
der to insure success. It's postponemsnt al.
together until sufficient amount Of specie 10
accumulated in the Treasury to redeem all the
outstanding grssnbaoks would practically
amount to indefinite postponsmsnt. We
should, therefore, begin a. soon % the proper
legislstion can be had.
Let Congress authorize . new issue Of cur.
rsncy which shall DO = legal tender for ell pur.
poses, including the payment Of custom duss,
and rsdssmsbls in coin At different periods.
For instance, make the nrst two hundred
millions redssmabls as follows: Ten millions
on and after the drst day Of August, 1869,
and ten millions on and after the frst day Of
November, 1869, and ten millions monthly
after the hrst day Of January, 1870. Each
note will, Of course, have the time and place
Of Its redemption printed In its face. These
notes are to be put upon the market from time
to time, and sold to the highest bidder for
greenbacks or gold A. circumstances may 70.
quire. As fast As they are received or re-
deemed by tho Government new ones are to
DO issued rodeemabls at periods beyond those
Of the notes still outstanding.
This process Is to be oostinued until all the
gresnbacks are redeemed and destroyed and
. currency rodesmable In coin at stated Pc.
| riods substituted therefor.
Think the following results must be obvious
to business men:
l. The Treasury would not be liable to q
run which 1t could not easily sustain.
.. A deprecated currency would BE- with.
drawn and currency approximating In value
to gold put In Its place without producing q
financial shock.
8. As the nsw bills would be received for
customs and dues there would bs no demand
for gold except for the payment Of interest on
Government bonds and for purposes Of foreign
commerce which exist at tho present time.
4. II the Secretary Of the Treasury should
DO permitted to buy and sell gold, a. he now
10, and has the sagaoity Of ordinary business
men, he will be able to purchase specie at an
average premium Of not over ten per cent.
whereas he pays from thirty to fifty per cent I;
premium under the present financial system.
s. 1t removes that Questionable feature in
the present law which requires the Governmsnt
to rspudists its own currency In the collsctisa
Of customs dues.
This system is simply giving notes on siue
without interest, which will be paid at rnstur-
ity, In place OF notes on demand, which cannot
be paid at all, bsc.u,. they all fsil due .. The
same day, and the Government has not ths
gold to redeem them.
In other words, It Is obtaining an extension
with such protection as will snhans. a.. .rsdit
OF the dovsrnmsnt and Insure the payment Of
its debts.
Very respectfully yours.
GENERAL OBSERVER
The national Republican., 1868-12-05

AT rns regular meeting Of tho Cabinet yes.
tsFday all the members were present except
Secretary sehOasld. 1t is understood that the
concluding portion of the Presidents message
was read and considered
The national Republican., 1868-12-05

CHIET JusrIcE CHASE Is expected to return
from Richmond to-day, as the Supreme Court
Of the United States meets on Monday. All Of
the associate judges are In town, and there
will be full bench at the meeting Of the
court
The national Republican., 1868-12-05
NORTH CAROLIsA.

Legislative Proceedlngs - bribery
Investign tions Ordered.
RALEIoH, N. O., December t.-The lower
House was again Engaged to-day on resoIu.
tions Investigating the bribery.
The Senate resolutions were huaily adopted
by small majority.
The Investigation will now proceed. There
Is much opposition to the resolutions. Grave
disclosures are promised.
Both Houses have adopted a resolution to
take q recess from December q to January 4.
The national Republican., 1868-12-05

Tue tonnage returns Of the last Gseal year
show 2s,ll vessels, with an aggregate Of
4,3ls, 500 tons OF this Maine returned 37S, .
bi7; New Hampshire. IS. SAT- Vermont, 4,s47j
Ma'sachusetts, All, 937i Rhode Island, ii, ISL;
Connecticut, 81, ,9s7, and New York, .AI 1914
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ALL DIsrosABLE TROOPS at Carlisle bar
racks arc to be forwarded to Fort Harker
Kansas, to report to General Sheridan without
delay.
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From RIehman,I-

RICnNoSD, Dec. +.-Snow fell here to-day.
The ship James NAPLES, laden with railroad
supplies for Havana, Is detained here by tn,
Cuban revolution.
The national Republican., 1868-12-05

THE revolutionary junta Of Cuba has Issued
. manifesto in which they declare they will
not lay down their arms until Spain shall have
recognized their Independence.
The national Republican., 1868-12-05

Tue New York Herald Of ys,tsrduy states,
sditorially, that the Presidents message and
the report Of sserstary MccuIloch have both
been VfeTed 10 Il for sale
The national Republican., 1868-12-05

THE public debt statement for November
will not be made public before Monday.
The national Republican., 1868-12-05

GoyERSNESr gold sold in New York ester.
day at 50 45 Per cent, premium.
The national Republican., 1868-12-05

INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS yest srday
auOqnted to S677, $50 65.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT
L OF COLUhBIA.
.,,,.n jaime. ws:%'.s Ss,.,', ', . No, rss Equity.
reported 10 The court he sale By him Al suction, on
he eh q November. lses. Of part Of ORIGINAL lot
w, IN iv sfSle ~ Sne hpndIed ana ninety pine.
the real estate In these proceedings 70
II The iS q;
with the terms Of sails.
i ~ ~ q S.y % Deosmbsr, A. 2; 1888. ordered
eembor. 1889, II objection thereto be made on OF
before that days provided q COPY Of this order be
week for three weeks before said day,
X. J. MEiSs, Clerk. de5ssw
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New Advertisements.
GEORGE BERGLlNG,
u MERCHANT TAILOR,

GEORGE BERGLING,
n MERCHANT TAILOR. u
No. s' street, between iS ThiSSt:sH.A ,s and Four
Has just received a very large stock Of
IMPORTED WINTER DRESS GOODS,
Prices than any other First Glass House in he
xs;S; s:;us an' a''Orsm'nt of oontlsnsn. Furnish
MApAMR DUBoIsE's HAIR ESTABLISH
~ hSsNI. ~ Psn,syiyani. sysssu.i sysssu.i between
ss psrea.i Hs1sssSn i 70 x: fact thss sss has
s':f'l "a \: lSss s, 'i%i !I:ss liz. is's 4 F:
tamsries, Dolls. PloEsr:, ,Wsddlng Fans, aud
III Ind: o. UndsrSs.f FOR l.ais.. and MAKES them %
.;s S::,Y V we haze
TINTED STATES PATENT oYTIcE.
the pe,ian y sSsis a Wi %nfsifss HI rs Of
y ,IP PGsySSs Ss III ne q
y Improvement in the method of operating Steam
;Ss a. hs. "a HsGs be heard at h.
som SON may "a ' opsc.s III. s1tsa.ioa objss,iSas. %
W aS". 1'S SsSs ;: slSs IN this
ElIsHA lQ0TR,
dee3-S3w Commissioner OF Patents
LIMITED STATES PATENT oyFIcB,
the Joss = S Pee sSsk
New ISs G5 shs ssg P q
dies:
Its ordered that said petition be heard at this
ONCE on the 18th day Of February next, Any per-
sitlons, and other papers, should be fied In This
once twenty days before the Day q hsSyIiag
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from last years crop better than was anu NJ :,
oinnted. Grass abundant, but farmers shy
Of grazing too extensively. Sheep. except
fine breed, are in poor demand. s,n gooa .,
muttons. driven forty miles to market iase
week, brought their owner ten dollars the
lot. -, g. .1o
Yesterday was the day appointed for the
dedication of the Soldiers Monument ID
the Middlsburg Cemetery, erected ut o COST
of about 81 500 by the untiring energy o. Oh
a few ladies. The shaft is of pure whl'e
marble, and covers the remains OF the
snameleas dead. A circle Of eighty mafole
headstones marks the resting place OF such
as could be identified.
Quite an interesting programme had neeh
arranced-wreaths and evergreens collect,
ed to decorate the graves-to be followed
bv an address from J. R. Tucker, Esq., ana
an oyster supper at night. But the best
laid plans even of women are som etlmes
Disconnected When morning dawned' ma
ture had draped the monument with her
snowy garlands, and covered the green
mounds with her soft, white MANTLE ana
the storm which ragged so furiously all day
and night doubtless disappointed the lovers
of eloquence, and of oysters. +.
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LEXINGTON, November 81, 1868.

The eedmen had on yesterday graud
tournament, Grant iollification, &c. Colonel
Jordan, of the Bureau, wrote General Lee
polite note telling him that he heard that
the students intended interfering with the
affair. The General very promptly issued
circular requesting the students not to at
| tend, and it turns out that none OF them
even knew that such an exhibition was to
come off. Of course none of them went,
for even if they had heen inclined to do so
(which they were not) the slightest intima-
ton of the wishes of their loved and no.
nored president is the supreme law to them.
Your correspondent was not honored with an
invitation, and did not, of course, obtrude,
but learns fl0m an "intelligent contra
band " who was present that after the tour
nament, and before the successful knight
had crowned Miss Sukey Snow "Queen OF
Loue and Beauty" it was discovered that
certain parties had eaten up all the supper,
and thereupon general row ensued, IN
which brickbats were freely used, and some
of the darkies were quite seriously injured.
There was no white person present except
" carpet-bagger by the name OF Johnson,
who went out to make the " coronation
and vet the New York Tribune will proba-
bly, manufacture "rehel outrage on the
freedmen" out of the affair. Some of this
party went 10 the house of acolored preacher
named Barrett, stoned his house, ana
threatened to beat him because he had re-
fused to speak for them, and was charged
with "rebel " proclivities. This Nassau
Greeley" will not publish. Tonight
Major Coleman Yellott delivered an address
before the Dialectic +" and "Cadet" Score
ties of the Virginia Military Institute: The
hall was crowded with cadets and students,
with q sprinkling of Lexington's falr
daurhters. Major Yellott was gracefully
introduced to the audience by Cadet Ander-
son. of Richmond, and delivered an address
which was greeted with frequent applause.
He begun with vivid description OF the
cam paign made by the corps Of cadets
AGAINST General David Hunter IN '6f, COM
pared Hunter with the Hun, Goth, and
Vandal, and then proceeded to brlel
statement of the origin and history OF the
var, and defence Of the course OF the
South since the surrender. lie gave
gcatbing review of Shankss " Distinguished
Generals" and held it up as fair specimen
Of northern history, so called. He concluded
with some admirable advice to the young
men, urging them to eschew politics, be
diligent in their studies, and going forth
with the rare preparation which the lnstl-
tute affords to devote their whole energies
TO the resuscitation and future prosperity OF
their native South.
We learn that the two Societies of the
Institute are in fouTishing condition.
They are rapidly reflling their library
shelves with books lost in the burning OF
the Institute; but they can still find room
for any volumes which their friends may
be inclined to send. LEXINGTON.
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WASHINGTON, November %. 1868

WASHINGTON, November %. 1868.
Tho Assistant Treasurer at New York has
advertised sale Of gold to reach three
m;l,;ons of dollars. That the Department
would have to resort to it has been MANI
fest for some time, owing to the small
amount of currency on hand, which mas
decreased considerably since the pubic
debt statement of the 1st instant. Al
though the reauisitions for the present
month have been small, the Treasury has
been very hard run to make payments
and the Secretary thinks Judlclous
sale of gold, of which there are now be
tween eighty and ninety millions on hama,
will give considerable relief.
The annual reports have not yet all been
COMPLETED. McCulloch is very careful to
preyent premature publication of the
financial report. Last year it was sent to
the assistant treasurers and Government
financial agents for delivery to the press.
It has not vet been decided what the plan
will be this year. Rollins is yet engaged
upon the internal revenue report and
neither the Secretary of War nor the Secre-
tary of the Navy have sent their documents
to the printer.
The dispatches received by the Navy De-
partment yesterday from Rear Admiral
Davis were very voluminous, and an alb
stract of only small portion of tue cor
respondence was published. The remainder
was sent to the Secretary of State, and will
probably form part of an early communlca-
ton to Congress on the subject Of our rela-
tons with Paraguay.
The Radicals, as we'll as others, expect
an early outburst from Butler, when Con-
gress meets, on the subject of the national
finances. Prominent officials of the Urea
sury Department condemn Buffers views
severely, and there are indications of
serious war in the family when he begins
his foray upon the present policy OF the
Treasury Department.
Grants return to Washington met with
| no demonstration whatever. The Boys
in Blue F." are not disposed to put themselves
in the way of any more cool receptions, and
are letting the President elect have peace
Senator Morrill,. of Vermont, is one o.
the aforementioned fnanciers to whom the
administration Of the Treasury Department
during the next four years is to be given
His friends say his appointment woult
harmonic the clashing interests of New
England and the West, and for that reason
think he should be appointed to the posi-
ton. T1MoN.
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by the name of William Smith-was sent
on for final trial ut the December term Of
the Hastings Court. The police had worked
up the case so skilfullv that the evidence
was very complete. Burwell Bland was
charged with being an accomplice, but his
case, after being partially investigated, was
postponed till tomorrow. Two elderly ne
gro women were implicated, as some OF the
goods were found in their houses; but as
it did not appea~ that they were aware OF
their being stolen, and proving also their
good character by respectable witnesses,
they were discharged.
| had the opportunity to-day OF exam
lining very ingenious contrivance called
"plant protector" 1t is the invention OF
Or. J. NJ. Hurt, of Nottoway, for which ne
has obtained a patent. 1t is tin box, rue
sides of which are about seven lnches oy
ten, with n depth Of four inches, oelne
covered with glass securely fastened. Inc
sides are perforated with small holes to ad-
NIT of n gentle circulation OF air, but not
large enough for the admission OF insects.
Under these glasses plants may De orougn'
forward in the open ground secure from w. ~,
changes Of the weather, so that they WIZ.
become firmly established by the time that
PLANTS not thus treated are struggling for
existence. l should think they would be
particularly valuable to melon growers IN
enabling them to come early into the mar
ket. when prices are always eXorbtant.
The cost. by the quantity,is inconslderaole.
Having seen good results from rude con-
trivances, the one in question merits con-
sideration.
The cotton market is very firm to-day OF
a slight advance on Saturdays prices
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"Ana Humphreys with his fail old son

"Ana Humphreys with his fail - Old Song.
The Collector Of Customs Of this city is
busily engaged in failing out the crop of
bitter seeds that he has been cult!vating
ever since General SToNEMAN relieved the
City Council and the public business of an
obstruction by his removal. Not content
with rigging up recently an indignation
meeting Of "Guinea pigs" and others, and
passing resolutions denouncing General
SToNEMAN, he contributes q full measure of
his crop of wrath to FoRSEY's Washington
pig-pen, reciting the story told in the in
dignation resolutions passed at the meeting.
The repetition of General ScHoFIELD's state
ment that there could not be found men
enough in the State who could take 1.-THE
OATH to carry on the government has
drawn down upon General SLOVENIAN the
combined attack of "Guinea pigs" and
carpet baggers. HUMPHREYS denies the
truth of the statement, the "Gunea pigs
squeak their concurrence, and the "carpet-
bsggers swear by their bags that the
assertion that they are not fit is slahuer
They find it a little difficult to separate
General SCHoFIELD from General STONE
.,r in this matter-the former having
first proclaimed the Objectionable assertion.
They are very sweet on General scHoFiELD'
however, and evidently hope that he mas
enough of carpet-baggian dishonesty to be
stimulated by their clamors to censure
General SToN EMAS for repeating his own
words.
HUMPHREYS, who has grown more ike
the restless and cross ant-eater than the
gentle Guinea pig, comes down upon Gene-
raj SLOVENIAN with increased ponderoslty
in the Washington Chronicle by appealing
to that JUPITER ToNANs of ultra Radicalism
in Virginia, Mr.. Boris, who, in his charac-
teristic style, pledged himself to take the
il" contract to fill all the Offices Of State
" with Union men," That ought to settle |
the question We wonder Mr.. Boris didn't |
pledge his "head for q football" if he |
failed. But it was not the desire of the
Virginia commanders to let out the offices of
the State to Mr.. Bolts, and so his wise and
kind proposition had to 60 for naught
Sooth to say
HUMPHREYS, after hurting General Stone
NAN from the terrapin roch of the Wash
ngton Chronicle, takes up the habeas corpus
case now in the United States District
Court in this city and gives US his opiu.
ons with sutficiency equal, to that
displayed by Colonel Ben SCOTT, COM
nander of the negro regiment in this city,
'nounced the idea that the Supreme
o.,,a 1T aside law of Congress
'diculus."
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Reported for the Dispatch.
VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE.
FOURTH ia 1-CONIlSlh o'
- .,- No-or,Io n,


CHARLOTTESVILLE, November q.
The case of w. W. Spain being under
consideration, Mr.. Spain made speech In
his own vindication. No definite charges
have been preferred against this gentleman,
but there being ronOrS preludlclal TO his
ministerial character the Conference ar
rested his character upon its passage to IN
ouire into said rumors. The question was
put, Shall the character OF W. W. opalh
pass when it passed unanimously. Mr..
Spain was ably defended in addresses by
Drs. Lee, Edwards, Joseph A. Proctor, ana
P. A. Peterson.
John r. Kilby, ESQ, representing the lay
members of the Conference, stated that az q
meeting of the lay members they had de-
termined to sustain cordially the appoint
ments of the Bishop. He presented the fol-
lowing paper: 49,
"At a meeting of the lay delegates of the
Virginia Annual Conference held in the
basement of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, at Charlottesville, November q,
1865"
On motion, john R. Kilby was called to
the chair and T. NJ. Bass appointed secre-
tary.
Thomas Whitehead, of Amherst, offered
the following preamble and resolutions;
which, after due consideration, were unanl-
mously adopted:
Whereas we, the lay delegates to me
Virginia Annual Conference, believing the
missionary spirit Of Methodism, as hereto
fore set forth and carried out in its itine-
rant system, distributing the talent and
usefulness of the ministry among all Of our
people, and carrying the Gospel to all men
in all places, to be, under God, the great
strength and power of our Church and be-
lieving that all independent pastoral charges
and supplies Of ministers outside and indie
pendent of the good old disciplinary plan
are contrary to the wise teachings and sue
cessful usages of our fathers, detrimental to
| our Church, and injurious to the spread of
the Gospel and believing that these evils
are slowly insinuating themselves unre-
buked among our people;
land whereas our presiding officer,
Bishop Wightman, deemed it proper to offer
a word of exhortation to his clerical breth-
rem, asking their sympathy, prayers, and
cooperation in the arduous and solemn
work of stationing the ministers, entreat-
ing the ministry in the spirit OF self-sacri-
fee and without murmuring to acquiesce in
the appointments made, trusting in the
providence Of God;
"And whereas we steadfastly believe and
heartily accept the Methodist doctrine tina,
after earnest prayer to God for his gui,
dance, and the influence of his Holy Spirit
in the council, and with an honest and i'm
partial determination to look only to thu
glory Of God and the good of his Church II
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THE HABEAs CORPUS CASE BEFORE JUDGE
USpERwooD.-Th Norfolk FTgm1dn at
taches undue importance to this case. 1t
saws that "if the motion of Messrs. BUNDI
" and CHANDLER should prevail, every act
"o of every court in the State performed
" since the constitutional amendment was
&C enacted would be reversed
On the contrary, UNDERWOOD has no
right to decide any other case than the one
before him-namely, whether CESAR GRIF-
FIN is properly in custody OF Mr.. WARD
WELL. He has no power to reverse the de-
cisions of our courts, nor to remove our
iudges. The discharge of the negro would
hardly induce Judge suEFFEr to resign.
And as to the rest, we suppose that General
SLOVENIAN has ss much right and power TO
refuse to obey writ of ha6edS corpus as
General REYNOLDS had in the celebrated
NrcCARpLE case, General MEADE IN other
cases and General TERRY in some cases IN
Virginia. There is no doubt that General
SToSEMAN has succeeded to all the powers
that General TERRY possessed.
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Died.,

In this city. on the morning OF the 23d instant,
Mrs. SUSAN NJ. HOGE wife Of Rev. Moses D.
Hoge II. D., in the forty-fonrth year Of her ge.
The funeral will take place THIS Tuesday
AFTERNOON from the Second Presbyterian
church at 81 O'Clock.
At his residence In King william count y on
Tuesday, November 10th at9 o'clock j: ", at.er
an illneas OF three hours Of aponexy, EIEhlhL
T.. WOODY, In the forty eighth year nf his age.
leaving widow five children, and IN only brother
to mourn their irrecoverahle loss. He was SIM
cerely loved by all who knew him.
On Sunday the 22d instant, after painful ana
lingering Illness. which she bore with Chrlstlan
forti'ude and resignation, Mrs. CATH &R1NE
DOWNES, a native OF rounty Limerick Ireland,
gcd about nifty years. May her soul rest In peace.
In New Orleans on Tuesday evening November
L. 1883 at O'Clock. WILLIAM efER, native ol
Richmond, Va, aged forty-three years
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MAR RHED.

IN Washington city. at st Peters church on the
1stfi Instant by the Rev. Father Bowie JOSFpH
II, HILTON Esq. of Washington, d. G.. to Miss
ALICE JANE MARDFS. daughter Of the late
Captain William Mardes, of Richmond va.
Tn this city, on the 18th instant at the residence
of the brides father, Miss ALICE G. LIPS
COME and Mr.. CHARLES E. W1NGF1ELD,
Of Hanover. No cards.
On Tuesday evening. November II. at half-past
7o'c'ock ut the Second Baptist church: by Key. }.
4. Chambl7s. Mr.. HENRY H. REFS OF Rich
mond to Miss ELENORA A. STEPHENS, for
merlv Of Petersburg, Va No cards.
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