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Sunday-SchOOI Teachers 8SsOCia-
rinn.

The regular meeting of the Davidson
County Sunday-school Teachers Associa-
ton will be held at the Tulip Street Meth
odist Church, Edgefeld, Tuesday night, at
which time an address will be delivered by
Prof Minis. Subject, model Sunday
school Teachers Subject for discussion,
docs the History of Sunday-schools
Prove that God has Blessed Them a"
The Executive Committee, on behalf of
the Association, earnestly request the at
tendance of the Sunday-school teachers of
the county, as matters of great interest to
all viii be presented.
WILLIAM H. Morrow,
Chairman Executive Committee.
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SPAIN.
HTaIicinus Accusation.

PARIS, Dec. 11.-Senor Merafores, the
Intendent of ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain,
has published an emphatic denial Of the
story that the Queen had taken the crown
diamonds on her retirement from Madrid
Haven't Got a Constitution Yet.
MADRD, Dec. 1.-THE Cortes voted
unanimously for restoration of the con-
stitution guarantee.
Cant Indemnity.
The Cortes to-day rejected the bill of the
Regency for indemnifying exiles the under
archv
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ROME.


COuhCA1 A0yO0Ene0-AAc <AAAAeEACzhH
Bishops.
RoME, Dec. 1.-THE Ecumenieal Coun-
ell adjourned until after Epiphany. Much
opposition is expected on the re-assembling
Of the body, but the Pope is said to be sure
of the cooperation of the American
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Cant indemnify
PORTUGAL.


LISBON, Dec. 11.-Fears are entertained
of the breaking out of rebellion in vari-
GUS parts of Portugal. The authorities are
active.
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PLAYING Marbles.

Boston, Dec. IA match game Of bill
lizards, 1900 points, between the present
champion of the State and L. S. Brook,
last evening, resulted in favor Of Wilworth
II 300 TO ql5
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MEMPHIS
The FEonk ofNnmhern

MEMPHIS, Dec. 1.-The eleventh ward
registration for the municipal election
stands, whites, 1924 blacks, $50. which
reverses the last registration.
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QUEBEC
Urtlinu ON Flcr,ion,

QUEBEC, Dec 1.-THE Court Of Appeals
has decided against a plaintiff who claims
$4,000 deposited as a stake on bet re-
specting an election in Montreal in 1867
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RUSSIA.
Unexplained

LONDON, Dec. 1l.-Several bankers of
st. Petersburg recently failed, but their
names, for some unexplained reasons, have
been withheld from the public.
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But One.

We believe there is but one town clock
in West Tennessee, and that is in the
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TENNESSEE AND PACIFIC RAIL
ROAD

smith County Votes for the SubscriP-
ton.
On last Friday the question as to wheth-
err Smith county would subscribe $500, OOO
stock in the Tennessee and Pacific Rail
load, was submitted to vote of the people,
and the majority in favor of the PROPOSE
ton is about two hundred A Carthage
correspondent write us that everybody Is
rejoicing at the result
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LIVERPOOL, Dec. 1.-The American ship
Crescent City, from Savannah for this port,
with cotton, sprung leak at sea and was
abandoned
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Balls.

A number of balls both among the elite
and the masses, are on the tapis for the
coming and the next few ensuing weeks.
All will be delighted where mirth and
music flow.
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ENGLAND.
Parliamentary.
Sprung a Leak.

LONDON, Dec. 11.-Report says that
Feb is fixed upon as the day for the as
semblinQ of Parliament
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HALIFAX.

Reciprocity. Annexation, OF Indc-
PcndencC.
HALIFAX, Dec. 1.-THE Chronicle COM
menting on the Presidents message says
it has broken down all hope of reciprocity,
and renders annexation more desirable
IT admits annexation is impossible, unless
the whole Dominion asks for it, and be-
lieves Independence will become the popu-
lar CRY
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provided that the convention does not hold
longer than the 10th of March Adopted
The bill was rejected Afterward it was
reconsidered and withdrawn for amend
ment.
To incorporate the Covington CONNER
cial Bank. Passed.
SENATE BILLS on SECOND READING.
The following bills on second reading
were rejected:
Authorizing clerks to issue writs Of In
junction in certain cases; to Incorporate
the Airline Cotton Express and Fast
Freight Company; to discourage vexatious
appeals in civil cases; to amend the crim-
inal laws of the State, exempting persons
serving in the late war from Indictment for
acts committed during said war; to further
extend the exemption laws of the State.
The Senate then adjourned until Monday
morning at IL o'clock.
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GEORGIA


AUGUSTA. Dec. 1.-The reported Cuban
expedition from here is a hoax.
Another.
There has been no disturbance between
white and blacks in Edgeville, S. c.
The Worst of All.
The press Of the State is almost an unit
in denOuncing the measures looking to the
reorganization Of the State.
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TEXAS
20 ont of 81.

GALVESTON, Dec. 1.-The returns from
sixty-one counties gives Davis 9,O77 ma
joriiy. Twenty ont of sixty-one counties
voted the Hamilton ticket
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Academy of FII-sic.

The rare and varied attractions nightly
presented at the Academy of Music continue
to draw appreciative crowds thither The
proprietors declare it to be their intention
to keep up No. 1 place of amusement
there.
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AssauItand Battery.

Tom Donahough was arraigned before
Squire Matthews yesterday on the charge
of assault and battery and malicious ms
chief The prosecutor is Isaac Powers.
The case was continued until Monday.
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SkiFf and GayIord's Ministries

This troupe, which deservedly stand At
the head of the perambulating niinstrelsy
of the country, will appear at Masonic Hall
during the ensuing week, for three Of their
side-splitting burlesques and entertain
Inants lTharn IL fnr, nhnnd
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at what occurred before the Reconstruc-
ton Committee yesterday.
We have arrived, it seems to me, at a
stage in the work of reconstruction where
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STATE AGENT Elected.

The case of Bill Cato, charged with the
above offense, was continued until Monday
by Squire Matthews.
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CUBA.
Right sharp ScrImmage.

HAVANA, Dec. IA sharp skirmish oc-
Cured yesterday in the neighbOrhood OF
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Judge Kingman, Of Kentucky, was
yesterday elected State Agent for the Nash
vile and Northwestern Railroad.
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Oceanic Detectives.

James Irvington, one Of the detectives
attached to the Central Police, sailed on the
Inman steamer City of Paris for Liverpool
for the purpose Of detecting a series of
Wholesale frauds and robberies, which have
occurred for some time past on steamers of
this line. Detectives, it is understood,
have been sent from the other side, having
n similar object in view.
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ITALY.
Anli-EcumcnIcaI-5OOl do ao.

AntI-ECumcnICal- 90 20.
LONDON, Dec. 1O.-By French Gable. 49,
kilograms from the continent report that
at the opening of the session of the Anti
Papal Congress in Naples, yesterday, there
were present 500 italian delegates and
twenty members from other parts of the
world. The Inauguration address was de-
hvered by President Ricciardi.
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WOTreII Sister,

These vivaeious girls who recently re-
called our citizens at Masonic Hall, are
playing to large houses in the city Of Mem
phis.
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IiItOnIan TabIeau.

This grand and classic panorama Of Mil
tons Paradise Lost will unveil Heaven and
He'll and the angels and the fends, at Ma
sonic Hall on Monday the 2Oth, for a
limited number of nights. OF course,
everybody will go TO see the grand con-
ceptions of blind John Milton, wildly
spread as they are, upon this panoramic
canvas
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New Theater.

Oscar Willis will reopen this place of
public amusement on next Thursday night,
and will inaugurate new season with first
class comedy. We are gratified to be able
to state that the talented actor E. R. Dali
ton will still be retained among US for this
theater. Other good actors have been Sc
cured, and we may again expect genuine
entertainments on Summer street.
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s1nrn Rrenkers RronUhtin.

Nelson Joslyn, Jesse Alternately, John
Allison, and Dick Mayo were brought in
after midnight last night and put in jail for
breaking open the store Of N. W. Morton,
at Belleview, and stealing between 800
and 81 900 worth of goods and stock on
Thursday night. This is prompt justice.
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NEW YORK.
Attcmrlcd AUGMENTATION.

New York, Dec. ll.-An unknown assas-
sin attempted the life of Chas. L. Wood
ward last evening, by firing through his
basement window at him, on No. saith
street. The bullet grazed his head.
Clue 10 the Ulster County Murderer.
1t is stated that jeremiah Smith, the
Ulster county murderer, is confined in a
penitentiRry in one of the Western States
The person giving this information was
arrested by officer Surrine, Of Kingston, TO
Smith. when the latter stated that he in
tended to commit a crime, in order to get
incarcerated in an out of the way jail, so
that he could escape the vigilance Of his
PUrsuers, who wished TO arrest him for the
y,,7,r1.r
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CONGRESSIONAL.
EHOETSE.

Thursday the Senate adjourned till Mon
day.
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goodbye,
BOSTON.

Pere Hyacinthe sailed for Europe to-day.
He expects 10 return and make an extended
tour Of the country.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-22

Miss SUSAN b. ANTHONY has administered an
effectual quietus to those croalers who assert
that women will unsex themselv by assum-
ing all the rights and responsibilities that the
most advanced ideas of the age can bestow
upon them. Mr.. Beecher who is not as ad-
vanced in his ideas as he was a few weeks
ago, made speech at the Brooklyn Academy
OF Music on Monday evening, in which he
expressed his belief in the unlimited good
that would result from tfe woman's rights
agitation, but added that he would certainly
withhold his appreciation if he thought that
the emancipation of woman would unsex her.
He disliked masculine woman as much as he
| did feminine man, and he believed in each
sex maintaining its proper relations Mr..
Beechers remarks brought Miss Anthony to
her feet, and that irrepressible female asked
her audience if they had ever heard of fish
that would cease to live in the water, or had
they ever heard of any arrangement by which
bird would cease to be a bird in the air,
and from these queries she deduced the con-
clusion that men showed an unfaithfulness to
the laws of the universe by believing that
political freedom could ever convert women
into men. There was nothing, said Miss
Anthony, in all the universe that could so
change Gods laws that woman should cease
to be woman in all her womanliness. 1t is
satisfactory to have this principle definitely
settled, and once let it be clearly understood
that women do not expect that the wearing of
the breeches will enable them to alter the
foundations of society, and we can bid them
to go in for any number Of reforms with a
clear conscience.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-22

A GOOD indication of the vigorous efforts
which are being made to collect the internal
revenue tax on spirits is afforded by the large
number of whisky cases which are tried in the
United States Courts; and as the prosecutions
are almost invariably sustained, it is evident
that illicit distilling has become dangerous
and difficult business. The result of the trial
of the assailants of Detective Brooks in our
local courts, and the intelligence furnished
from time to time Of the employment of
United States troops to assist the revenue
officials in ruffianly DISTRICTS afford additional
proof that the power of the Whisky Ring is
rapidly waning, and in the end it must, like
all other defiant enemies of the American
people, be thoroughly conquered and
subdued.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-22

IT APrEARs that Napoleon is beginning to
fear that he may lose more than he can pos
sibly gain by refusal to negotiate equitable
postal treaties with this country. If American
orders for French fashions become less nu-
merous than heretofore, and American tour
lists spend less than the usual amount of
money in France, on account of the obstruc-
tions to postal and telegraphic communica-
ton which he has arbitrarily imposed, he will
discover that he has made bad addition
to the list of his blunders. Even the luxury
of examining dispatches and keeping Ameri-
can newspapers and letters out of the empire
may be bought at too dear price if it in
wolves the loss of a large number of the best
customers of Partisan hotels and French ma
nufacturers. The next postal agent we send
to his court will therefore probably meet with
better su ccess than his predecessors.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-22

SPECIAL COMMISSIONER WELLS contends that
it is fallacy that IAN increase of money will
of itself create trade" There might possibly
be grain of truth in his doctrine if it were
applied to country deficient in varied ma
tural elements of wealth and capacities of
production, but it is certainly not true of a
nation like this, which abounds in dormant
resources that can only be converted into
materials for trade by the aid of money. Its
comparative abundance, at various periods,
has called into existence thousand forms of
industry, which, though now in successful
operation, would speedily be destroyed if
money could not be furnished to facilitate the
exchange of the manifold productions of
mankind. A whole people, like individuals,
will increase the volume of their transactions
when they have an abundant circulating
medium, and restrict them when currency
becomes scarce; and in this sense money does
create trade, in spite of Mr.. Wells.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-22
THE MORAL EFFECT OF THE
DRAMA

IT is fact, proved beyond the possibility Of
a doubt, that during the last five years there
has been sensible and even rapid decay in
our public morals. 1t does not need that the
student should point it out; its evidences are
all around us, patent to the eye of the most
careless observer. No one can read our local
items and telegraphic news without becoming
convinced that murders and robberies, en-
HANGED by every circumstance of atrocity and
daring, are fearfully on the increase. Yet it
is not alone or so much in crimes like these
that we can see the progress of our disease;
it is in those subtle influences which permeate
the veins of society and effectually give it
vigorous life or destroy it, it is in the
thoughts and opinions of the world about us.
Never before in the history of our country
have these influences been so tainted and cor
rupted; and what can be done to check the
evil which is springing up with such rank
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-22

PROPOSITION has been started by the
Trustees of the Old Soldiers Home near
Washington, to erect on the grounds of that
institution bronze statue of heroic size of
General Scott. There is proprietyin such
a monument that cannot be disputed. Scott
is grand figure in our military history, and
the nation should own a monumental statue
of him, and no better place for such a memo
rial could be found than the one alluded to.
The Old Soldiers Home owes its foundation
to General Scott, who recommended that the
100000 in silver that he levied upon the
disregarding the obligations of a flag of truce
be devoted to building a retreat for old SOL
diers of the regular army. The recommenda-
tion was carried out, and the building and its
beautiful grounds are substantial evidences of
the Generals thoughtful consideration for his
old comrades. The fund for the maintenance
of the institution has been largely increased
by the small tax of twenty-five cents month
on each soldiers pay, and there is now a sur
plus in the hands of the trustees much in
excess of the needs of the Home. A portion
of this it is proposed to devote to the pur.
chase of the statue of General Scott, and it is
to be hoped that the order will be given to an
artist who is able to do justice to the subject
There is already too much job statuary al
Washington, and it is high time that men OF
real talent should have chance in preference
to such prete nders as Clark Mills.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-22

growth from the Bosom Of the people, is the
anxious question of all thoughtful and good
men.
We take it that one of the first steps in the
right direction would be the renovation of
our stage. There is large and powerful
clRss of men among us who have hitherto ig-
nored the influences of the drama on the
morals of our day. Educated in peculiar
and stratened school of theology, they remain,
in spite of their intellectual culture. obsti-
nately blind to the potency of that great in
strument of civilization or barbarism which
has done so much to form national character
in the past and in the present. They forget
that the renaissance of letters in the period
Immediately succeeding the Dark Ages was
most sensibly and successfully felt in the rude
Mystery and Morality" plays of the
Church. They do not choose to consider
what a gigantic share the works of Shake
speare, Jonson, their contemporaries and sue
cessors, have had in the education of the
English mind and the structure of the
English character. What our literature and
theology would be with the influence of the
drama left out of account, they have never
owned to themselves, or even perhaps fairly
considered. The time has come, we think,
when this absurd prejudice must be put
aside. If intelligent and good men stay
away from the theatre, ignorant and bad men
will control it. 80"
The great question before every cultivated
and pious man in this country to-day is, Shall
this great instrument of the drama be mighty
for good or for evil 1t can be made effec-
tive for either end. Would it not be advisable
to remove that ridiculous ban of excommuni-
cation which prev ents many of the noblest
and wisest among us from controlling its DO
tent influence? Would it not be in strict
keeping with comm on sense and sound theo-
logy that the ideas of the good and cultivated
should permeate every source of public in
struction which benefcent Providence has
given us? Assuredly. The days of inter-
diets should have passed away with the decay
ing power of the Popes and all those other
shadows of barbarism from which the human
mind has been emancipated but they have
not. There is tyranny hardly less real than
that of the ancient Church-a tyranny of hard,
unreasoning prejudice, whose oppression is
full as odious, insupportable, and ignorant as
the other. If it stands in the way of our
moral progress, shall we not consent to shake
it off? and will not that large and respectable
class who have hitherto ignored the stage
come forward and make it potent influence
for good?
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-22

The Galveston (Texas) NeIoS is indignant
because the President used the term rebellion
in his message, and asks if ''civil war, or "The
late hostilities, would not have done as well.
Instgators of 'the little unpleasantness' are
unwilling things should be called by their right
names. $500.
An old Californian, who went some years
businessIthere, has semitic . friend in San Fran
cisco some samples of his wine for the purpose
of comparison with the wines of California. He
thinks that California and Australia will soon
take front rank among the wine-producing
countries of the world, and that spirit of gene
rous emulation would be advantageous 10 the
wine4growers of both countries, 81 g-,.f,r ~
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-22

When a woman earns five thousand a year by
her pen, no one is bold enough to deny tina t
she has a right to WELD it, and the same effect
will follow similar cause in any avocation
or profession in which she proves her right
and ability to succeed by success.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-29
CHEAP ADVERTISING.

TIE CHARLESTON News, the circulation OF
which is about twice as large as that OF any
other paper published in South Carolina, is the
pest advertising medium for all business men.
For persons who want stu ltions or servants;
Who want houses or apartments, or have them
TO rent: who want or who offer board and lodg-
ing; who have lost or found articles OF value,
Tm News has no equa; and in order that all
classes may have their wants supplied, we have
-adopted the following scale Of CHEAP ADvKR-
r1sEMxNrs, pdymeat ior which must invariably
be made ,o1era the orte er is giuen:
Advertisements Of Ituations wanted by or
offered to clerks, governesses, tutors, work.
men, mechanics, house-servants, poters, shop
BOYS. cooks aucs washers; board and lodging
wanted or offered; apartments wanted u to
Siet; articles lost or found houses shops, offices
and warehouses wanted or to let, and miscela-
.neous wants Of all kinds.
For each insertion Of advertisements OF the
classes specified:
Not exceeding THREE LnSHs or 30 words. ..9S cents
Foua LINES or so words. 40 "
FIVE LINES or 40 words......60 "
All advertisements to be inserted at these
rates must be prepaid and delivered at TIN
News Office BY 9 P. NJ.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-29

CRUMBS. Senator Sawyer is in Washington.
There were no fines imposed by the Mayor
yesterday.
The cripple, who stole money from negro,
whom he asked to tie bundle for him, was
sentenced to thirty days imprisonment in the
House of Correction.
The bootbIacks, it is reported, will shortly
petition Council to require all parties engaged
in their line Of bushes to take out q license.
The City Treasurer gives notice that only
two days remain in which to pay the third in
stalment of the tax on real estate for the year
1869.
What was left ofthe locomotive ". @. Dukes,
which was shattered in the Congaree Swamp
on last Saturday week, was brought to the city
yesterday.
Tempeton telegraphed here yesterday that
he would give theatrical performance at the
Hibernian Hall tomorrow night.
The City Railway Company has declared a
dividend OF one dollar and twenty-five cents
per share, which will be paid on and after the
first of October.