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TELEGRAPHIC.
WASHINGTON.
PRESSURE FOR CURRENCY.
ID tn
Grants Return Deferred.
Shelby County Officials Arrested
Barbour Lewis to Answer.
Mixed Accounts from Cuba.
WASHINGTON,
PRESSURE FOR CURRENCY.
Grants Return Deferred.
Shelby County officials Arrested
Barbour Lewis to Answer.
Mixed Accounts from Cuba.
WASHINGTON.

Heavy Demand for New Currency
Grant Expected Next week-A sport
sing Idea From France.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-The demands
on the treasury for fractional currency are
50 great and the amounts required so large
that TO supply them would necessitate the
Issue of currency at the rate of two thous.
and dollars day for year TO come.
The Treasury Department reports that
The bank-note companies are still unable
TO furnish the requisite supply of legal
lender and fractional currency notes. Thew
are now forwarding to the Treasury about
forty Thousand dollars per day, but at least
two hundred thousand dollars is required
to meet the pressing demands for all paris
of the country. About seventy-fYe thou
sand dollars per day is required for issue
IN place of the mutilated currency re-
deemed, TO say nothing Of the innumerabIe
applications from assistant treasurers, ma
honal banks and others. From present
appearances it will be utterly i'm,
possible TO meet the demand until the
work is brought back to this city, where
1t can be executed promptly and with dis
patch and not be retarded by strikes. The
department will on no account issue more
currency from the old plates, and upon the
return of Secretary Boutwell, it is highly
probable he will direct that the work be
brought back to the department.
The designs for the new FIVE, ten, twen-
ty and fifty dollars legal tender notes have
not yet been determined upon; hencs il
will be sometime before they will be
ready for circulation.
The internal revenue receipts for August
average half million dollars day:
Rear Admiral Poore left to-day for New
York 10 relieve Admiral Hoff of the COM
mand Of the North Atls1t Squadron.
The President is not expected to return
till next week.
A letter was received at the White
House 10 day, from Paris, written by a
Frenchman, asking leave to establish a
gambling house in New York city, to be |
regularly licensed and placed under the |
surveillance of the police, to contribute a
portion of its profits to the government,
and be managed in all respects like the /
gambling houses Of Baden Baden.
A number Of temporary lady employees
of the Revenue Department have had |
their term OF service extended till the first |
of January next, and several have re- /
ceived permanent appointments,
The Secretary of the Interior has ordered |
that hereafter all Iudian claims must lie |
settled through the Indian Bureau, These
claims include bounty and pension claims |
of Indian soldiers, claims for Indian de- |
predations, etc. This decision is brought |
about because of agents who overchsrge |
their clients, a mode of defrauding that is |
carried on 10 n very great extent.
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MP

Arrest "T County Commissioners
tor stealing New CouoD-SuGsden
Deaths.
MEMPHIS. Aug 25-Dc W. II. White
and r. w. Loui7, County Commissioners,
have been indicted by the Grand Jury for
over i-suiug city warrants to make their
salaries equivalent TO grsenbsCks. The
law provides that their salaries shall he
laid ia warrants al their face value. Bar
bonr Lewis, Vim. Hack and Edward Shaw,
cnlorod, the remaining commissioners, now
ah-snt, will be called upon 10 answer as
suun AZ they return.
Sewn bales of new cotton, five from
Tuuica county, Miss and two from Rouds,
the first Of the season, came in 10 day.
They we've second-clsss middling, and sold
for Asa iGc.
Seven sudden deaths from the combined
Effects Of iDcautiousness and heat since
yesterday.
Weather warm
PHHApurHIA. Aug. 25.-Water is be-
ing pumPed into FairmOnt Waterworks by
steam engines at the rate Of 10000 gal.
Ions every "A hours.
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MASSACHUSETTS. :

Mr.. Adams Accepts the Nomination.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-John Quincy
Adams, in a speech accepting the Demo
cratic nomination for Governor Of Massa-
chusettr, declared it the duty of the De.
mocracy TO abandon dead isSues by &C.
cepting the established fact of universal
and unqualified suffrage.
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ST. LOUIS.


AFFesIeU IOF BuEhF FFH0us-3saHe Of
Great Racer.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 25.-H. N. Soria, who
was arrested on the 22d, charged with be-
ing implicated in the recent sugar frauds
at New, OrleaBs, was taken 10 that city to-
day for trial by The Deputy U: S. Mar
shall.
The horse Henry, winner of three races
recently at Buffalo, was sold to-day by
his owner, d w Bell, of this city, for $780,
600 cash, to Mr. Wallace, Of New York.
This horse is considered the best young
horsa IN The countrv
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ELEPHANT PLOws-AmOng the usual
agricultural implements now manufac.
tured in Great Britain, are large numbers
of elephant plows, which are forwarded
by way of the Mediterranean, the Isth-
mus Of Suez and the Red Sea and In
dian Ocean to places of their destina>
ton. Every morning, at sunrise. the el-
ephant takes his mahout by the vast
belt, places him on his back, and starts
into the field. Two assistants guide the
two pillow handles, and as long as the sun
is above the horizon the elephant
marches along, throwing up huge ridge
behind him, the furrow having breadth
of four and half feet, and depth of
three.
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The Columbus, Ohio, Statesman says
of Archbishop Purcell: "This venerable
church pOtentate, who was present at
the dedication ceremonies of st. Mary's
church, in Chillicothe, on last Sabbath, is
the oldest bishop on the American con-
tinent, having been made q Bishop in
1882. He is now in his 10th year, and
his mind is remarkably vigorous for one
of his age. He has consecreated in his
time over forty bishops, and it would
be interesting to know, if such a fact
could be ascertained, how many persons
have been confirmed and churches dedi.
Gated by him during his term of bish-
Opric."
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Charles Brown and Jacob Merriman
were lynched at Front Royal, Va, on
Thursday, for outragiDg young lady
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A cattle disease has appeared at
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, in which
the bronchial tubes Of the animals are
filled with thread-like worms.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-08-26

A New Bedford householder found an
Internal machine in his coal the other
day. Internal machines are cheap at $l4
a ton.
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NEW SERIES. NO 80

Initiating our State government nnda,
the new order ofthings he was not in n.
gor OF inserting q paragraph in the plat.
iorm that will be the reputation of prom
ises accepted in good faith. The issue
Of the canvass was not the enfranchises
ment of the negro. That was a fixed
fact. The great object vas the re.en~
reimbursement of the white man-rsstor-
ing to him the liberty and rights so long
lost. The negro had been an instrument
in doing this, and it did not become US
1t was not honest to reward him by abro-
eating his rights. This is what the
mean, low Radicals told the negro we
would do if We got in power. Let US
prove that they lied, and teach the ne~
gro that we are his true friend. Honesty
is the best policy. ii 1ai e. l9 =
He alluded to the feWness of the NUNS
bers of tho negro voters compared to the
whites, and asked what there was to be
afraid Of in leaving the ballot in the ne
sro's hands. Turning to them, he said:
You will never again govern this State,
and you need not attempt it; nor will
my man or party be able to do so who
Attempts to do it through you."5
Continuing his talk to the negro in a
friendly and humorous style, he told
hem who brought them to the country,
md showed them how it had been the
means Of outstanding them. The mis-
Iionary labors in Africa, he said, though
Millions Of money had been spent and
thousands Of lives lost in trying to carry.
he gospel among them had resulted in
III these years of toll and money, in
imply teaching the African canibal how
o pepper, salt, and roast missionary
n little better style than they formerly
lid. Laughter. While this was so |
a Africa, the Africans here amongus had |
heir Bible and were being taught how
0 read it. He compared their bondage |
that Of the jews, and said they had
be advantage Of the Jews, inasmuch
8 the latter had wandered in bondage
'ur hundred years before the day Of
while the negroe had been
ED but two hundred years. In conclu-
ion he gave the negroes this piece of
dvice: Don't you, said he, never all
smpt to govern this country, for
Thether you want to or not, you can't
o it. Applause. /
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Mr.. Cavanaugh, delegate from Mon,
tana, is in Washington to secure ala
against the Indians in bis territory.
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WE PRESENT THIS SEASON. MOST
PROFESSIONALLY. the LARGEST and FINEST
stock of Linen Clothing in Tsnnessss. Oar
goods are o the most perfect character In poi
of FABRIC. CUT. FIT. GENERAL MAX
UP and ELEGANT PROPORTION. These
goods are known to have undsrEOus thorough
process of shrinking before making up,
beautifully Iaundried after they are made.
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with which the detachment was got to-
gether, armed and started on the route to
the locality of the riot, reflects great credit
upon Superintendent Pearne.
THE RAILWAY AUTHORITIES
also expedited matters materially by hav"
ing train ready at the earliest possible
moment
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Public Square,

Opposite Upper End of the MArksshcu.
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1TOH1 1IIO AIPuIS HPP01I' mug. 4fs
A telegraphic message was received yes
terdsy afternoon by w. J. Ross, Supsrin-
tendent Of the Memphis and Charleston
railroad, from the operator at Lafayette
depot. giving the intelligence that riot
between the whites and negroes was in
progress at Macon, village in Fayette
county, about thirty-fve miles from Men,
phis, and some seven miles northeast of
the station from which the dispatch was
aent
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Heavy Demand for New Currency
Grant Expected Next Week-A Sport
sing Idea From France.
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MEASURES TO STOP IT.

A request 70 notify the authorities here
was promptly complied with, and by 4
o'clock special train was rolling out of
the depot, conveying thirty men of the
Metropolitan Police force, under command
of Capt. Smith, of the fret district, to the
scene of the disturbance. @
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-02-17
FOR THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
A Time of Refreshing.

As news of the Lord s doings is an item OF gen.
eral interest I send you short account of what
has recently taken place in Lutheran church.
The location is on the head waters of the Little
Calf Pasture river, in Augusta county, Va, near
the Rockbridge line. Rev. Mr.. Shreckhize is the
minister in charge. He has been preaching at
this point every four weeks for few months.
Thinking series of meetings might do good, he
began preaching here on the first Saturday of the
year. Some twelve or more days Of divine services
were held both day and night, while the night ser.
vices we're continued about a week longer. The
weather during portion of the time was quite
unfavorabe, yet the attendance was very good
throughout the meeting. The Rev. Mr.. Shrek
hize was left alone much of the time in conducting
the services, though other ministers Of the Bap-
fist, Lutheran, and Presbyterian denominations
gave assistance. The interest awakened in the
community was very general, all seemed to feel its
influence Many of Gods people found it prof
table in kindling anew their spiritual life. AS the
outward fruits, some forty-seven made profession
of faith in Christ. About thirty of these have
Joined the Lutheran Church. while others
will doubtless do likewise; or connect with
other neighboring churches. How wonderfully
are Gods people taught at such seasons that the
mighty power of Gods Holy Spirit only can turn
souls unto the Lord; and that all the glory is due
unto Jehovah alone. One is taken, another is
left. Those apparently nearest the kingdom OF
God are passed by. and the farthest off brought
nigh. Does it not show us how the eye OF faith
shall see the little cloud turned into refreshing
shower? Looking into the history of individual
cases during this meeting, it has been ascertaned
that the date of the Spirits work iRLmany of them
goes back of the time when these Services began.
Is not here encouragement to Gods servants to
SOW beside all waters, knowing not where the har-
vest will be reaped? May it not be said truly,
"Ths is the Lords doing it is marvellous in our
eyes?" PARTICIPANT.
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Very Encouraging.

The Southern Presbyterian presents, under these
words, some interesting facts and remarks. What
blessing to know that such facts are multiplying
they are the life and the hope of the Church:
1--WE are glad to learn tina. the women of the
Church. in many places at least, are responding
heartily to the appeal recently made to them to
aid in the great work Of sustaining our various
schemes of benevoence. 1t is only necessary for
this cooperation to become general, in order not
only to secure all the funds needed, but to place
our beloved Church upon a solid foundation of
prosperity for all time to come. We have just re-
ceved eighty five dollars from the ladies of Mount
Zion church, Sumter, S. c.. as their offering to the
understand was the proceeds of patches Of cotton
that we're cultivated for this express purpose, but
the greater proportion of it was earned by the use
of the needle We are glad to know also that
this effort on the part of the ladies, has not inter.
fered either with the ordinary Sabbath collections
taken up in the church, nor with the regular an.
nual collection for Sustentation This last men.
toned collection has just been made in the same
church, and although it is not fully as large, per-
haps as it ought to have been, it was nevertheless
a good deal in advance of the collection taken up
last year for the same object These same ladies',
we learn, have gone to work again to raise little
fund for the cause of Foreign Missions by the time
the annual collection for that object comes around
This is just as it should be- There is life in the
church which brings forth such fruits and we
humbly trust that the time is not far distant when
all our Christian women will mote only feel tito be their
duty, but their highest privilege to labor with their
own hand for the advancement of the Redeemer' s
kingdom. Will not ministers Of the gospel bestir
themselves, and induce the women of their church
es to engage in this great work.
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Giles Court House Church.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

A friend in Westmoreand county, Va, S. 90
Rev. Mr.. Darnell adds the following
NJ A. T. v, Morristown, n j., 90
Rev. T. W. Gilmer, Fredericksburg church, 20 90
Rev. j. n Craig, Lancaster c. H., s. c., 90
Rev. j. K Hitner Washington, Tenn, | 90
M. w. Travick, l 90
cHILDREN's GIFTS FOR CHINA MISSION SCHOOLS.
Miss G. IS S. school class, GAINESVILLE, Va, 50 90
Maggie Venabe, rs
Miss Robard S. school class, Oxford, N. c., l 90
W. and 0. Alexander, Little Sewell, W. Va, 20
NJ and D. Haynes, Blue Sulphur, w. Va, 20
We have heard of many gifts of the dear chill
dren recently-most of them for our China Mis-
sion school, as advocated by DIR. Wilson; but no
incident has been more interesting than related
to us by Rev. Mr.. Darnell, when he was visiting
this city in behalf of the Giles G.. H. Church He
was at Male Orphan Asylum and had been tel
ling the Matron, in the presence of the boys Of
the loss of his church. and his pressing need to
build another tabernacle. The Matron had made
donation, when boy slipped quietly to his room,
and returned with 10 cents, which he modestly
handed to the Misunderstanding over his shoulder
in his timidity-and saying: hope you won't
be insulted SIR" Thinn1nu nprphan boy,
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Expensive Work.

Yes, it is an expensive work to convert the hea-
then but should they be left without the gospel,
and to perish, because it costs something to save
them? A.missionary in China writes as follows:
"Fault-fnders and enemies of Christ have calcu-
lated how much it costs to convert Chinaman to
Christianity and cold hearted Christians are easily
discouraged because the work goes on so slow Yes,
it costs much to convert heather; but his CONVEX
sion is no more expensive than the conversion of
those who dwell in Christian lands Think of the
valuable time of the mother spent in intoxicating
the first principles of Christian morals. Think of
the exertions of the faithful Sabbath School teach
er, and the time spent in the study of the Scrip
lures Think of the cost of educating and main.
tanning the ministry, of the costlness of church
edifces, and of every seventh day for religious de-
yOtiOn; and in short, the endless items that swell
the cost of religion, and thus the conversion of
souls And, last and costest of all, the priceless
value paid by Him who purchased us with His
own precious blood. God was not niggardly in
giving His Son. Let be perfect, like our Father
in Heaven, and let us remember that the law of
God makes cost and compensation equal"
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Last Thursday of February. last Gen

Last Thursday of February. last Gen
eral Assembly adopted the following resolution:
'Resolved, That on the day of prayer for
schools and colleges our ministers be requested to
point out to the people, in an appropriate Sermon
the Importance of dedcating their sons to the Cos
pei ministry, and urge them to renewed efforts to
provide the means for sustaining pious young men
during their literary and theological studies. y
The day referred to has, by the action of the
proceeding Assembly and by an observance of long
standing, been the 4th Thursday of February which
this year comes on the 25th inst The concert of
PRAYER among various evangelical churches in our
land has been owned of God as means of great
good and has so repeatedly been followed by an i'm
mediate outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that Chris
tians should be encouraged to believe that such
united fervent supplicatiOns are well pleasing in
his sight 1t is TACT peculiarly gratifying that
there never has been time when in our schools
so much good order prevailed, and so much good
study as during the last few years. This is the
uniform testimony from all the colleges in the
South. Who can estimate the value of such an
influence from on high as should turn the hearts
of the young people over the land, so that their
lives shall be consecrated to the service of Him
who bought them with his own blood? And while
the people of our Presbyterian Church in the
South should be exceedingly thankful that so
many are desiring to preach the everlasting goS-
pei, vet let us remember how vast the work is, and
how great the need of many more. Our earnest
prayers ought to ascend to the Lord of the harvest
not only for more labOrers, but also that He who
says, 1.-THE gold and the silver are mine, may at
the same time incline the people to give of their
substance literally to bear the expense of training
up and sending forth faithful heralds OF the Cross
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gationa Convention of Chicago, and even after
the first secession movement in South Carolina,
had congratulated DIR. VanDyke on his sermon on
the Character &C., of Abotionism' and expressed
his concurrence in his views.
Having thus, so clearly put DIR. Lord in the
wrong and shown the inconsistency OF his present,
with his former we'll ascertaned position, MIR.
Nee. proceeds to assign reasons for DIR. Lord S
open hostility to the former management OF the
Seminary. Shortly after DIR. Rices resignation in
81, DR.. Scott being appointed to the chair OF
Theology, DR.. L. took offence and threatened to
resign. Then the Trustees of the Seminary re
fused to assign more than the proceeds OF S25,0OO
to each Professors chair, and finally he failed to
secure the pastoral Office Of the North Church.
which, in previous part of his letter, Mr. McC.
clearly showed he had not been unwilling to &C
cept, Notwithstanding the disclaimers entered in
his recent letter.
On the whole the position of the professor
of Theology" in the Northwestern Seminary
does not appear very enviabe; and Mr.. McC. Il
deservedly severe in commenting on the proscrlp'
tive and cruel spirit manifested by one set to train
the future ministers of the Church.
Consistently with facts sustained by DIR. Rice
testimony, Mr.. Nee. fully exonerates himself
from having ever undertaken to control appoint
ments in the Seminary. and while still avowing
desire to see the Institution placed on its former
basis, more Indignantly repels all the ad captain
dun, charges by which DR.. L. undertook to throw
odium on his course, especially in respect to hi
liberal contributions to Southern institutions.
You will doubtless see the letter, and can, perhaps
publish enough of it to give clearer insight into
the whole matter than has been presented here. L
is part of very striking and suggestive chapte
in the history of Radicalism.
Yours truly, N. Y.
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New SUBSCRIBERs.-TO those who have
kindly interested themselves in obtaining
new subscribers to the Central Presbyterian,
and who have thus made of late valuable
addition to its list, our sincere thanks are
hereby returned. Could each one receiving
the paper be persuaded sufficiently of the
good effects of little personal effort, its
circulation might be in a short time very
greatly increased Are there not some
known to our readers who might be benefit
ted in many respects by the presence in their
households every week of religious news
paper? Would it not inform their minds as
to what is doing or needs to be done for the
kingdom of Christ; stimulate their zeal in
all good works; minister comfort to them in
affection and trial, and help to prepare them
for the duties of life, and for an eternal
world?
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Death of Rev. Henry A. Wise,-This excel
lent man, minister of the Gospel in the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church, departed this life at the
residence of his father the Hon. Henry A. Wise,
in the city of Richmond on Wednesday, the 10th
of February, in the 35th year of his age.
Mr. Wise was unquestionably minister of great
PROMISE not excelled by any of his age in the dio.
cese of Virginia. His ardent piety enthusiasm
and eoquence inspired those with whom he was
brought into contact, with the warmest admiration.
His ministry, for brief periods, in Richmond,
Philadelphia, Halifax county, HarriSonburg, and
Baltimore, drew around him large number of
devoted friends
After fatal Consumption had marked him for
her own, he came to die among his kindred, and
during his long and painful sickness awaited in full
Christian hope the final summons He leaves to
those who are so deeply bereaved precious mem
DRY, by which they are taught to sorrow not,
even as others who have no hope"