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In accepting it, do so with regret that
your health will not permit you to con-
tInue in the office, or some cabinet posi-
ton. Our personal relations have been
such from the breaking out of the rebel
non to the present day, and your support
Of me Individually, in the army and its
cause, such that no other idea presented
itself more strongly to my mind
On my election to the presidency than
that should continue to have your ad-
wee and assistance. In parting with
you, therefore, / do SO with the assn
rance OF continued confidence in your
ability, zeal and friendship, and with the
hope that you NAV soon be relieved from
the physical disability under which you
have labored for the last few years.
Very respectfully your ob't serv't,
q. s. GRANT.
At the interview to-day between the
diplomatic corps and the President,
Baron Gerolt said
"Mr. President-The representatives
oil foreign nations accredited to the gov
eminent of the United States have the
honor on this occasion to renew the ass
surance Of sincere wishes for the welfare
of your excellency and of the nation
which has entrusted to you the exclusive
power ofthe government Of the United
States. In the name-of my colleagues l
express the most sincere hope that the
friendly relations now existing between
you and other nations:will be maintained
under your administration. Such, Mr..
President, will be the aim of our most
earnest and constant endeavors.
The President in response said /:
Baron Gerolt and Gentlemen of the
Diplomatic Corps / heartily thank you
for the kind expression of your good |
wishes for my welfare and that of the |
nation which has chosen me as Chief |
Magistrate. You may be assured that it /
shall be my constant endeaVor to mains
tain those relations Of peace and friend
ship which now exist between the United
States and the countries which you re-
spectlVely represent a purpose which
am happy to learn from you will be fully
The diplomatic corps then withdrew.
The President will receive officers of
the army at the Executive mansion to-
No changes have been made in the
Navy Department by Secretary Borie.
lie was engaged the greater portion of
The day with Admiral Porter, in acquaint-
ng himself with the duties pertaining to
he department and necessary changes
% be made.
Among the applicants for Postmaster
# Washington, is Mrs. Josephine Griff-
ing, prominent advocate of female suf-
rage.
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GEORGIA.
The Fifteenth Amendment in the Leg
isIature.


ATLANTA, March l0.-The Governor s
message transmitting the fifteenth
amendment was taken up and read in
both Houses to day. The Governor
says 1t is source of great gratifca-
ton to lovers of liberty and of Republi-
can principles throughout the country,
that Congress has given them further
pledge that the declaration of our faith
ers that all men are created equal shall
be recognized as reality, and no longer
considered as mere empty sound. The
ratification of this amendment by your
body, and the recognition Of its require
ments, together with those of the four
teenth amendment which are as yet dis
regarded, will secure for us full and
complete recognition as State, dissipate
our political differences and set at rest
finally and forever that feeling Of un-
certainty and insecurity which now ex-
cite and disturb large portion of our
people.
The fifteenth amendment has been
made the special order for Friday in the
Senate, ard for to-day in the House
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FOREIGN.

LONDON, March Il.-In the House of
Commons this evening Mr.. Card
well, Secretary of War, made a state
ment in regard to army estimates, show ,
ing 4 reduction OF million pounds in the
total amount as compared with last year.
lie said the government proposes to par
TALLY accomplish this saving by reduc-
ton Of the force in the colonies except at
military stations.
DUBLIN, March 1.-THE committee
appointed some time since TO solicit
amnesty for imprisoned Fenians, are
about to raise funds by subscription for
the relief of those who have been dis,
charged from custody
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NEW JERSEY.
disastrous Fire AT Patterson.

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New YORK, March adams cotton
mills, Van Winckles & Smiths and
Sykes machine shops, and Lewis cotton
mills were burned al Patterson, N. j.,
yesterday. Loss on Adams mills SlG0, =
600, and two hundred hands thrown out
Of employment. Other losses about
SI50OO0.
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NEW ORLEANS.
Sale Of Cotton for GOId-The Proposed
Sugar Duty.

Sugar Duty.
NEW ORLEANS, March IA meeting
of parties interested is called at the
Chamber of Commerce Tomorrow night,
to take the necessary steps to commence
the sale Of cotton for gold. The cons
mittee of the Chamber of Com
merce, to which was referred a me-
mortal and petition from Philadelphia
sugar refners asking increased duties
on sugar has reported, and represent that
the condition Of the sugar refining inter
est does not seem to require congress
sional action. The sugar planting inter-
est appears prosperous enough under the
present tariff to render additional duty
unnecessary. That the general senti-
ment Of the people is unfayoIable to
higher duties. Therefore they can not
petition Congress for higher duties on
any grades of sugar,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-12
PHILADELPHIA

A Mother and her Children Killed by
Falling Building.
PHILADELPHIA, March IA house
in Whites Court, near Broad and Ship
pen streets, fell this morning from bad
construction. Mrs. Kidd and her chilN
dren, Thomas and Margaret, were all
killed. u. Kidd was taken out OF the
ruins alive, and removed to a hospital.
The walls fell on an adjoining stable
killing a horse
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-12
A HEAVY FINE

A trial has been pending some time past
in the United States Court, between Pat.
Kelley, the wcll-known street contractor,
and Louis Oldham, a man of color. Kel-
ley is charged with assaulting Oldham
last year, at some place in this city, on
Broadway we believe. Kelley says that
he merely acted in self defense when he
struck the negro The case was conelu-
ded yesterday before Judge Ballard. and
the jury after retiring for about half an
hour brought in verdict, filming the de-
PENDANT $500 and costs, which appears
to be exorbitant fine for so small an ofense
even if there was TO doubt as to his guilt
Louisville Demoeaat, March 9.
Republican meetings in different parts
Of Virginia are general instrueting dele
gates to nominate Welles for Governor
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TRADING IN WoMEE.-A late number
of the Efingham (!llinOis) Democrat
speaks Of a couple of fellows in that
county that have been swapping women ;
where a father trade1 daughter to 4
husband for a wife. 1t appears, says tn e
Democrat, that at or near Mason, a
preacher named Dietz traded his daugh-
ter to a neighbor named Burns for his
wife, agreeing to give as boot between
daughter and wife, five thousand dollars.
In accordance with this trade, the hus-
band left the wife and took the daughter
of. to st. Louis, and the wife placed her
self under the care Of the trading
preacher.
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A MASSACHUSETTS Radical paper, the
Springfield Republican, gives the rea.
son why our Dennison was not called into
the cabinet. Its dispatch from Wash
ington, speaking Of the cabinet, says :
''Since it has become known that Den
nison, Of Ohio, has been fortnight lob
bying for the Massachusetts war claims,
he has been dropped. These claims
have been given in advance to Maine
railroad, in which Dennison is interested
Are there no longer clean waters in
which to fish, Cincinnati Enquirer
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INTERESTING SUIT.-A suit was brought
by Whitehall On. " lumber dealer
Mr.. Cooke, against Mr.. e. j. Davis, Of
the same place, to recover $4,000. The
plaintiff alleged that defendant had
agreed, during the war, to furnish him
$4,000 in greenbacks, at specified
time, for fifteen cents on the dollar,
Plaintiff brought suit 10 compel the per-
formance of the alleged contract, but was
non>suited on the ground that it was in
the nature of wager, and hence i'm
moral, tended to degrade the national
currency, and was without an adequate
consid grafton
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We learn from the Augusta papers
that Prof. Bond, the wire-walker, fell
while giving one of his perilous exhibit
tons in Charleston, S. c. on the 9Th,
and broke his neck.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-12

FIFTY Russian officials plundered a
government warehouse at Navgorod of
$4,000 tons of saltpetre which had been
entrusted to their keeping. Their des-
potic government exiled them to Siberia.
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STATE LEGISLATURES.
Voting ON the Fifteenth Amenimen,

HARRISBURG, Pa, March 1.-THE
State Senate has ratified the fifteenth
constitutional amendment.
ATLANTA, Ga, March 1.-THE House
passed the fifteenth amendment to the
constitution to-day-74 to 69.
COLUMBIA, S c., March 1.-The Gen.
eral Assembly passed joint resolution
ratifying the fifteenth amendment to the
constitution.
AUGUSTA, Mar. 1.-THE Legislature
has ratified the 18th constitutional amend
ment.
HARRISBURG, Pa, March 1.-THE
Senate passed to its second reading last
night the new constitutional amendment.
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A LOVELY dancer in ST. Petersburg
was poisoned the other day by devoted
lover, who put too heavy dose of can
thsrides in her glass of champagne.
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BosToN, March ll.-JohD W. Cole
man, who was arrested by the civil au.
thorities charged with embezzling funds
from the Freedmen's Bureau, in Lou
isiana, has been turned over to the mil
ltary authorities for trial, and conveyed to
Fort Warren. He will be taken to Lou
isiana for trial.
ALBANY, March lin assembly to.
day, bill was introduced prohibiting the
Central, Erie, Hudson and Harlem Rail-
roads from charging for freight carried
100 miles, more than for through freight
and making other limitations.
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CUBA.

Sentences of Execution Stayed-Men
and Arms for the insurgents.
LONDON March 1.-The Spanish gov
eminent has telegraphed to Gen Dulce
to suspend the execution Of the insurS
cents condemned to death in Cuba.
New YORK, March l0.-The steam~
shin Henry Burden, which left Jackson-
vile, Florida, some time ago, has sue
ceeded in landing force of one hundred
Cubans, under Senior Cisnevas, and a
large assortment of war materials, neal
Mayor, where Cespedis was waiting to
receive them. The Cubans were al
armed with Peabody rifles and revolvers
and carried with them several pieces o.
| light field artillery.
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The Pope will not grant divorce to
ex-Queen Mary Of Naples, who will
have to continue her present domestic
arrangements in an informal manner.
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EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington,
March ll-Hon. f. B. Washburne, Sec
rotary of State: Dear Sir, Your resigna>
ton of the office Of Secretary of State,
with reasons for the same, is received,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-12

quiet. A serenade was arranged,
but a heavy rain prevented up to
10 o'clock. The General had de-
termined to simply return thanks
in ten or fifteen words.
, 1869-10-15

Assurances of every description on sin
gle lives are granted by the Society for
any sum from 1OODollarSt to 10, 900 Dollars.
Premiums are received Quarterly, Half
yearly, or Yearly, at the option of the
Assured.
Assurers wishing to discontinue the
payment of their Premiums, may either
dispose of their Policies to the Society
upon equitable terms, or obtain a free
Policy for a reduced amount.
Loans are granted to Members on the
Security of their Policies.
All claims occurring by death are
promptly met within 3 months after salts
factory proof of such death has been re-
ceived by the Society.
Strict Investigations into the position
of the Society are made quinquennialIy,
and the surpl1then existing is allotted to
the Members, after a sufficient sum has
been set aside for the purposes of the
Reserve Fund. The mex investigation
and Division Of Profits, will take place at
the 31st December, 1870.
The Society has Agencies in nearly all
of the British West India Islands.
Actuary-ALEXR. S. BURNETT,
Secretary-HENRY CRUMPTON.
MEDICAL EXAMINERS:
DR.. Won. BRETON. DR.. Holm.
Forms of Proposal, Prospectuses, and
every information may be obtained from
F. B. GRIFFITH, Agent.
, 1869-10-15
BARBADOS Mutual Life Assurance Society
ESTABLISHED IN 1910.

AAAN
ESTABLISHED IN 1910.
INCORPORATED BY SPECIAL ACT 1851.
CHIEF OFFICE:
No. 90, HIGH STREET, BRlDGETowN, BARBADOS
0IlHIS Society, which confines its bust
az ness exclusively to assuring the lives
of persons resident in the West Indies,
presents advantages such as nc other AS
surance Company, labouring in the same
field, can offer. lis scale of Premiums,
although considerably lower than that OF
any other Company, has nevertheless been
found quite adequate 10 provide for the
risk of life in the West Indies, and suffi-
cient TO create large SURPRISES, out Of
which ReverSioDary Bonuses, averaging
% per cent per annum upon the amount
assured have been distributed among Il e
Members of the Society.
Its career, during a period of 20 years,
has clearly demonstrated the fact that the
lives of persons residing in this part 10
the world, are, when carefully selected,
almost as valuable as those inhahiting
Europe, and that they do not demand
such excessive Premiums as are charged
by every other Company.
The following abridged Table shows
the Premiums required to assure 500,
for the whole term, upon a single Iife:-
, 1869-10-15

Terms of Sn~6scrptiom.-Six Dollars per an
mum, payable half-yearly in advance.
Single number to non-advertisers-1o cents.
C Parties DESTROYS of withdrawing their
subscription to the "Avis" are required to
give notice three months previously.
- All advertisements for insertion must be
delivered at this Office on MONDAYS and
THURSDAYS, not later than 4 O'Clock P. NJ.
accompanied with the CASH, as otherwise
insertion will be refused. The Postage on
letters to this Office from West End or
St. Thomas must be prepaid, or no notice
will be taken of them.
, 1869-10-15

hardly have been a matter Of taste, as
even "those who were fond of the flesh
could not have been partial to homes"
Buckle quotes comparatively recent in
stances of anthropophagy, connected
with religious feelings, in Germany during
the Thirty Years War, and in Scotland
at about the same period. Among the
most curious documents produced at the
meeting was a manuscript of St. Hierony-
mus, who asserts, on the authority of a
native of Great Britain, that children
were a staple article of food in that
country.-(Weekly Dispatch)
When in Aberdeen, Dr.. johnson dined
with a clergyman, thesoup being "ho'ch-
potch." The lady Of the house, after
having served him once, asked if he would
take some more. The gruff and stern
moralist and o~utspoken social bear re-
piled, "It is a dish fit for. hogs, madam"
"Take a little more, them" was the i'm
mediate and appropriate reply"
"Do you say your prayers regularly
every night and morning" asked a SYM
pathetic lady of a little shoebIack to
whom she had just given a tri1e. II alIus
se1'um at night, u but any smart boy
can take care of himself in the daytime,"
was the little rogue's reply.
Young ladies who play croquet are
known in America as ''maidens all for
lawn"
A chap who was told by a colporteur
to remember Lots wife, replied that he
had trouble enough with his own without
remembering other mems wives.
A lady living in Louisville has a hus-
band who shores. She keeps a clothes
pin under her pillow, and when his snor-
ing awakes her she puts it on his nose,
then sleeps in peace.
A s~trong-minded woman in New York
was heard to remark the other day that
she would marry a man who had plenty
of money, though he was SO ugly she had
to scream every time she looked at him.
A thief's career, like a practical joke,
usually ends in a cell.
Mr.. Pickering, of the Bulletin, may be
readily known by the falsehood which
the Herald says it branded on his fore
head, and which, it informs us, "blisters
there to this hour" (~seven o'clock last
Monday morning.. We presume it blisters
there still, unless the late rains have
washed it away. Pity the callous sinner
IS not sensible of his misery.-San Fran
cisco NeWS Letter.
The Cincinnati Commercial calls the
Inauguration speech of the President Of
It's City Council ga cowardly attack on
the English language"
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THE TEST OATH IN VIRGINIA.

For some weeks past, owing to certain ouglV-
ings of the military commander, Gen. CANDY,
(whilom ruler over this kingdom there has been
great interest manifested in the final disposition
of the question, as to whether the members of the
Legislature and State officers chosen at the recent
election in Virginia would be required to take the
"test oath" This perplexity has at last been
solved. Attorney General HoAR has decided the
question adversely 10 the wishes of the extreme
Radicals, and the test oath will not be e1acted
There was great rejoicing in Virginia upon the
reception of this information, and We have no
doubt there was corresponding chagrin manifested
by the extremists. whose last and only hope is now
vanished forever We publish the Attorney Cen
erals opinion in full. He says that the Legisla-
ture must, as prerequisite, submit the constitu-
ton and their action thereon to Congress for ap-
proval in this the test oath will not be required.
If the constitution and the action of the Legisla-
ture be approved, 1.-THE Legislature then becomes
the Legislature of the State Of Virginia. and the
provisions of the constitution, fixing the qual6ca-
tions of members of the Legislature, necessarily
prevail-the requirements of the reconstruction
acts being thus superseded far as Virginia is con-
cerned But before such approval by Congress
Virginia mot being in all respects State of the
Union-the Legislature, as a provisional body, can
not pass laws without its members taking the test
OATH The Reconstruction acts require the ratifi-
cation of the Fifteenth amendment to the Consttu-
ton of the United States before the State can be
admitted to representation in Congress.
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SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CONVENTION.

Fl Will be remembered that this badly, at its
meeting hast spring in Memphis, adjourned to as
semble in Louisville, KY, on the 18th of October
next The preparations being made in Louisville
indicate tha. the meeting is looked upon with ex-
ceeding favor by the business men of that flourish
ing city, and we have no doubt that the occasion
will be fraught with interest and importance. The
questions to be discussed are such affect the
prosperity of the South especially, but the inter-
ests of the whole country will not be overlooked
The citizens sf Louisville have held q meeting
and adopted series of resolutions, from which
we extract the following:
Resolved, That the commercial interests of The
whole Union so inseparahly inerlaced that the
prosperity of one section rebounds 10 the interest
of ali, and the depression Of any portion is sensi-
bly, felt in every department Of commerce.
Rcsoired, Therefore, that every effort should be
made by the mercantile community of every State
to resuscitate and develope the anguishing inter-
ests of any portion of the country which may
temporarily droop, and that, knowing no sectional
division. we hold out the hand of brotherhood to
every American, in the hope that wise efforts TO
benefit our common country may cement affections
aud blot out the differences OF the past
Resolred, That we will extend the hospitality of
Louisville to the strangers who may come amongst
us TO aid in the good work. and nothing shall be
left undone to impress them with heartfelt, cor
dial, Kentucky welcome.
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S6LEUAY.

The attendance Of our country friends ON Mon
day last was highly satisfactory in regard to num-
bers, andthe only complaint heard is the scarcity
of money, which is caused by the large amount
devoted to sustaining the mild administration OF
our benignant rulers. We were scarcely gratihed,
however, to note the presence and hilarity CT
JOHN. whose surname is BARLEYcoRS. His freaks
were not so beligerent as last saleday, but that
he was here most numerously is we'll attested'
The police was kept busy watching his pranks,
but they were NIL harmless, We believe.
The property sales in front of the Court House
were largely attended, and the bidding in several
instances was quite spirited W. W. HUMPHREYS,
ESQ.,, Judge of Probate, sold several tracts of land
as follows: 265 acres, S1965; 994 acres, S625;
40 acres, $3.50; IA acres in the village of Beton,
S43O: / acre lot in Pendleton, $500. Sheriff Nc
GuK1N sold one tract of land, containing 10 acres,
at S4S5 These prices indicate an increased value
of land, Notwithstanding the prospect of taxation
We talked with good many farmers concerning
their crops and from the best information we con
gather the conclusion is general that not more
thar half crop of corn and cotton will be made
in Anderson county. The cold weather early in
August, attended by partial rains, was succeeded
by intensely hot and dry weather; and the last
drought has done far more injury than its prede-
cessor. Altogether, the signs indicate scarcity Of
breadstuffs and money.
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DEATH OF GEN. RAWL1Ns.

The telegraph informs us of the death of Gen.
JoHS A. RAuL,Ns, Secretary of War, which oc
Cured in Washington city on Monday last. after
an illness of few weeks. He was the former
chief of staff Of Gen. GRANT and was understood to
be his intimate friend and adviser, being resi-
dent of the same town, Galena, Ill. Gen. RAwLISs
was young man of brilliant promise as states
nan, and has been an advocate of liberal policy
on the part of the administration towards the
South. A dispatch was forwarded to Gen. GRANT,
announcing the condition of his friend but he did
reach Washington until an hour after the death of
Gen. RAwLINs. 1t is announced that Gen. SHER-
MAN will become Secretary of War ad anterim.