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WASHINGTON.
whiting Ills Message.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.--The President,
being engaged on his message, will receive
few visitors before the meeting Of Congress.
Meade's Successor.
Secretary Bslknap will return here Mon
day, when the President, Gen. Sheridan
and the Secretary will have conference in
relation to the successor of Gen. Meade.
The Philadelphia Postmaster.
Hon. w. d. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, had
a long interview with the President to-day,
during which the Philadelphia Postmaster
ship was talked over freely. As
LATER.-The President to-day appoint
ed @. w. Fairman Postmaster at Philadel-
phia, vice 81. 81. Bingham, resigned.
Carpesbag Ofiice-HOIders I'm Virginia.
Efforts are being made, by certain Radi-
cal politicians in Virginia, 10 induce the
President to remove several prominent
carpetbag Federal officials in that State.
Senator Lewis and Congressman-elec
Smith, of Richmond, called on him few
days ago and iDtimated this desire. They
claimed that native Virginians are alone en-
titled to the credit of carrying the State for
Grant, and declared that their majority
would have been greater if the carpet-bag-
gers had not interfered. The President
said something non-committal about civil
service, and the consultation ended. Mon
day Rush Burgess, Esq, who has resided
in Virginia twenty-five years, and who is
at Present Collector of Internal Revenue
at Richmond, called on the President for
the purpose of counteracEing the influence
of the anti-carpet-baggerss and received
moae positive assurances of thorough en-
f0rcement Of both the civil tenure act and
the civil service system.
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eek AND rREMAIN.
How the CAT LARGE Opponents Feel
After Election

New YORK, November 9, l872.-MY
DEAR SIR: l received an Albany Journal
with your jubilee speech. You were SO
kind and courteous as TO speak OF me in
a way that touched my heart. am sure
it does honor to your character aud i'm
pulses.
During the campaign aside from little
playfulness now and then-I let no word
escape me about you that you would not
consider fair play or fair fight; and this is
my qualification, that, amid the grossness
of the campaign incidental to all our cleo
ti0ns, YOU and come out of it without the
biemishes which so often blur victory and
humiiate defeat.
| am almost sorry that l can not be your
colleague in the next Congress, but shall
cheerfully retire to the ''still air Of delight
full studies" in my library, and to matters
which | think are more congenial than pol
tics, and rnuch mistake you il you do
not attend the sitting of the Supreme Court
at Washington more than the sessions of
Congress.
With kind regard. etc, S. S. Cox.
Hon. LYMAN TREMAIN.
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TENNESSEE NEWS.

Trenton wants public well.
Capt. D. o. Askew of Stewart county is
dead
Horse thieves visited GAINESVILLE last
week.
Weddings are increasing in Stewart
county.
A negro woman aged 1O7 died near Tren-
ton, last week.
ChicsmSuga, Hamilton county, has .
new iron bridge.
ClsrksvilIe is to have q race track for
training purposes.
Mr.. John Z. Robertson, an esteemed cit
lien Of Gibson county, is dead.
About one hundred thousand persons
visited the Memphis Exposition.
Capt Z. @. Sexton, of Stewart county,
has grown turnip weighing seven and
three quarter pounds.
In Stewart county last week, L. Hern-
don's barn with 5000 pounds of tobacco
was burned; loss $500.
Saturday night, the 10Th inst, at Big
Creek, near Memphis, Mike English shot
and killed instantly Frank Rice.
Sunday night Nov, II, a negro man
" 1T to sleep on the Charleston road near
Memphis and was killed by train.
Benjamin Phillips, Of Dyer Station,
whose leg being crushed by the bursting
Of mil, was smputated, has since died.
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BOSTON.
The Relief Fund.

BOSTON, Nov. 20.-Contributions to the
Citizens Relief Fund amount to ST., 700,
including $1,000 in gold from Lord Duff
fern, Governor General of Canada. The
contributions for Harvard College aggre-
gate $4,000.
Leavitt Alley has been fully committed
for trial on charge of the murder of AbijAh
Ellis, whose remains were found il two
barrels, in Charles river, ten days ago.
Another Big Fire.
Shortly before seven O'Clock this evening
flames burst forth from the upper windows
and roof Of Rand and AVery's extensive
printing house, near the foot Of Washing
ton street. The flames shot up furiously
to great height, and a strong northerly
wind carried showers of burning cinders
over the buildings on the eastern side of
Washington street, and across State street.
In response TO a general fire alarm
sounded, the fireman were promptly on the
spot, and the steamers at once opened play
from State and Washington streets, Corn
bill, and other points adjacent to the fire,
and in thirty minutes the flames, which
threatened another great Confagration,
were subdued, and confined to kthe limits
in which they first broke out. The
general fire alarm and the grand illamina-
ton caused by the shooting flames caused
great commotlon, and immense crowds of
excited peopla gathered from all parts of
the city to the scene of conflagration. The
military guard which has been kept up since
the great fire were of important service,
forming Gordon across State street, keep
ing back the crowd and giving the 1remen
ample room for most efficient service
Rand & Avery were almost entirely burn
ed out. They had one of the largest and
best appointed book snb job printing estab-
lishments in New England, employing some
800 hands, so of whom were girls. They
estimate their loss.at $3.50, 900, besides $780,
900 on building, bindery, etc.
The Old South.
The pew-holders ofthe Old South Church
at meeting to day voted to lease the church
to the Government for postoffice.
Accident to a Railroad President.
Nathaniel Morton, President of 4. the
Stoughton Branch Railroad, had both feet
cut off at Canton last night by falling upon
the track while hastily jumping from
train in motion. He is nearly seventy years
of age and is not expected to recover.
Otis Norcross declines the candidacy for
Mayor of Boston.
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HFH0N AND AMERICAS
rERns OF suRsoRrPrIoN.
.nr1.sL,vERY raroR ro rsOo.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
We published yesterday an essay read
before the Cincinnati Literary Club, by
VIM. f. Poole, the Librarian of our Schoe!
Library. 1t was upon the subject of anti
slavery opinion prior to 1900. Mr.. Poole
apparently supposes thst he has discovered
from the Washington Library, which has
passed into the hands of the Boston Athen-
cum, a new fact, viz: That the South,
where negro slavery principally existed,
at that time and for many wears alter, was
In favor of its abolision.s He contrasts lis
conduct then with what IL was forty years
after, when the advocates Of abolition in
the North and West were murdered and
nialtYeated Tor their opinions. de seems
ut a loss to account for all this, or, rather,
he saws the South forced the abolition ques-
ton upon the North. No, not a bit Of it.
Mr.. Poole overiooks one question, and that
is, that negro slavery, which existed in all
the Northern States save one, and was abol-
ished By them prior to 1880, would have
been abolished by the Southern States but
for the fact that it had become, in a pecuni-
airy sense, profitable to maintain it. Il is
fact that will not be disputed that mans
moral perceptions are much quicker when
not blinded by pecuniary considerations.
Before 1900, and when the South was seri-
ously thinking of a5olshing negro slavery
because it did not pay, Yankee from
Connecticut, who was temporarily IN
Georgia-ar. Whitney by name--who
had observed the trouble they
labored under in the gro WITH of cotton in
vented what is known as the cotton gin.
That m2de an entire revolution in the COM
merce and manufactures Of the world. The
United States had previously imported cot
ton. Il soon bscame, thanks TO this ip-
vention, its great and almost entire export.
The raising of cotton in the South ecame
immensely prof able through the system of
negro slavery. Hence there was great
change in public opinion upon the subject
of its abolition. Sill maay--yea, hun
dreds of thousands-were in favor of
its eX'iTpation, until the anti-slav- |
cry or abolition societies were formed |
At the North. That killed off the move
ment at the South. They were willing,
through State Intervention, when they saw
fit, to abolish the institution, but they did
not like to DO it under the threat of the in
reference Of the Northern States, which
had nothing in the world to justify them in
their course. We c2n judge Of th ir feel
ings by imagining what we would do in the
West and North if the South should organ
lie society designed, in its main features,
TO operate against what We conceive to be
our best interests, although circumstances
prior TO its ciganiz alton might have in
huenced Bs to favor the movement in our
Own se5tlon,
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EPIZOOTIO.
a Foul Islander.

NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-Sergeant Thomp-
son and three aids, of the Health Depart
ment, report, after inspecting all the mar
kets in the city, and numerous wholesale
poultry Establishments, that they found no
disease, and furthermore, the fowls were
never in better condition than now.
wiscOnsin-HOrse and Fowl.
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 20.-The epizootie
shows quitefavorable signs of abatement, al
though there are large num0er of severe
and in some instances fatal cases. The
horses first attacked are reported recover
ing slowly. Quite a number of horses ap-
peared on the streets to-day.
Further reports have also been recei w.
ed to-day, confirming previous reports Of
the disease among poultry.
EpizOOttc Condition OF Louisville.
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 20.-There is no
change in the epizootic condition. Many
oxen are at work on the streets, single and
under Jokes.
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Later-Warmoth Plays Checkmate.

A Radical Engine Returns to Plague
its Envent0rs-AkI Serene.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 20.-The election law
passed by the last Legislature during the
Last days session was to-day signed by Gov.
Warmoth, and will be officially promulga-
ted in tomorrow mornings Times. 1t
abolishes the returning board as at present
constituted and will in effect end all the
returning board contests. The election re-
turns viii be sent to the Secretary of State,
and the Governor will promulgate the re-
suit, not as the member of any returning
board, but as Governor of the State. This
move will probably checkmate the Cover
nors political opponents.
South Carolina.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Nov. 20.-The vote in
South Carolina is 95, 217; Grants majority
1886.
Kentucky O. *.
LOUISVILLE, November 20.--A special
dispatch to the COTier-J Journal, from
Frankfort, gives the official msjority for
John d. Young in the Tenth Congression-
al District as 1873, giving an unbroken
Democratic delegation from Kentucky.
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van KlDu Regard eic
Hon. LYMAN FIREMAN..

ALBANY, Nov. IL, 1S72-Dear sir: Ac-
cept my thanks for the friendly sentiments
expressed in your valued favor Of the 9th
inst, which, l assure you, are heartily re-
ciprocated on my part. When l went to
hart's studio in Florence to view your ex-
cellent bust, with our mutual friend and
your warm admirer, Capt. Boyd, little did
| dream that we should ever be opposing
candidates for the Office of Member of Con-
gress. Bat as Mr.. Lincoln truly observed,
we are controlled by events and circum-
stances.
The recent canvass, earnest and exciting
as it has been, has left no ranking wound
in my breast, nor any other than the Kind
est personal feelings towards gentleman
SO universally esteemed for bis genial quail
ties, as my distinguished opponent.
Rejoicing in the conviction that our po-
Iitical antagonism has in no manner dis
turbed our personal relations, | have the
honor to be, Yours very truly,
HON. s. S. Cox. LYMAN TREMAIN.
That may be SO In New York, but We
doubt whether candidates sat large" "a
Tennessee, feel that way.
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CHICAGO.
Tremendous Sensation in Grain
Circles.
False Bottomsl

False BOttOmsi
CHICAGO, Nov. 20.--A sensation has
been created among grain men by publica-
ton Of the fact that when in August las t
in order to test an alleged discrepancy in
the quantity of grain actually in store in
the elevators in this city and the elevator
receipts in circulation, the measurement of
grain in store was ordered, the proprietors
of one of the elevators had false bottoms
put in a number Of their bins only a few
feet from the top, covered them with grain,
and they were then measured as full, max
ing difference of many boussnd bushels.
Pardon Extraordinary.
Gov. Palmer on yesterday issued COM
mutation of the death sentence of Gregori
Peri, who was to have bsea hanged here
on the Oh of December, for the murder OF
Daniel O'Brien on the 9th of October, 1871,
TO imprisonment in the penitentiary for
life. The murder was committed in the
saloon of Peri, and was the result ola quar-
rel between the latter and John Ready, a
companion of O'Brien, over broken glass.
Peri stabbed and killed both men, He was
first tried for the murder of Ready and SEN
fenced by thej ary to Imprisonment for life.
His trial for the murder Of OBrien result
ed in a sentence of death. The case was
taken to the Supreme Court on writ of
supersedeas and a majority of the court af-
tirmed the judgment. The action of the
Governor causes great surprise here as the
crime was peculiarly atrOciOus.
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FOREIGN.
RumOred Resignation Of NJ. Theirs.
Mcmahon Declines the Presidency.
A Wall Street DIspateh.

A WALL Street Dispstch.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-A Paris dispatch
says President Ipiers has resigned and
Gen. Mcmahon Has been appointed Presi-
DENT pending the action of the National
Assembly. There is great excitement in
consequence.
LATER.-London dispatches to five this
afternoon make no mention of the reported
change in the French government, and con-
sequently there is reason to doubt the truth
OF the resignation of President Theirs.
Progress OF Reaction.
PARIS, Nov. 20.-The committee Of the
National Assembly appointed to draw up
reply to the opening message Of President
Theirs, have by vote of 8 to elected
Due de Pasquier d'Audriffat President.
This choice is regarded as unfavorable to
the Government.
The National Assembly has given its ap-
proVal to the discussion at an early day OF
the bill for the restitution to the Orleans
Princes OF their contiscated property.
THEIRS Style Of Living.
PARIS, Nov. 20-Evening.-The COM
mittee to draw up the address in reply to
the message of Theirs has been instructed
by the Assembly to inquire into the modus
vivendi of President Theirs, who will prob
ably attend the meeting of the committee
tomorrow.
All the different parties in the assembly
are holding private consultatio Is. Theirs
will have another conference tomorrow
with delegation from the factions of the
Left.
The Hero OF Magenta.
IL
Nov. 2l-6 A. M.-Marshal Mcmahon re-
fuses the Presidency, in case NJ. Theirs
The Latest.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-To Editors No
dispatches announcing the positive resig-
nation of President Theirs have been re-
ceived by the Associated Press. We will
hold open until 8 A. NJ, for further advices
from Paris.
Not Carltsts.
MADRID, Nov. 20.-Armed bands, sup
posed to be republicans, have appeared be-
tween Penaguiia and Renigloba in the
province of Valencia. There are also re-
evolutionary symptoms at Alcoy.
A Republican Ruse.
ROME, Nov. 20.-The Project of Police
of this City has issued an order forbidding
The assembling of meeting advertised to
be held held here on the oath inst, in
furtherance of the principles of universal
suffrage, because he has reason to believe
that the meeting is really called in the
interest of the opposition to the present
form of government in Rome.
Another Metropolitan for England
1t is reported that second Ecclesiastical
Province of the Roman Catholic Church is
to be established in England with Liver
pool at the Metropolitan see.
LOndOn's Police Row.
LONDON, Nov. 21.-6 A. M.-The trou-
Bile with the Metropolitan Police continues;
seventy Bow Street Constables and thirty
nine Kensington officers have been dis
missed from the service. The postmen
joined the police in demanding increa sed
salaries.
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POLITICAL.
Latest of the Alabama Agony.
Gov. Lindssy's RFessage-He Ignores
the Radical Hump.

Gov. Lindsay's Message-He Ignores
the Radical hump.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Nov. 20.-Gov.
Lindsay to-day informed the Legislative
body (ConservatiVe) sitting at the Capitol,
that he will send in message tomorrow.
In reply to a committee of the Republi-
can branch sitting in the United States
Court room, be detailed in writing the legal
organization Of the Legislature at the Capt.
toll, the lawful and usual place Of meeting
which supreme, insurmountable necessity
can only change. He was ignorant of the
existence Of such q necessity, and therefore
declined to recognize the body assembled
in the court room, with whom he viii have
no official communication. aae -er
The Louisiana LOblOlIy.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 20.-The Eighth
District Court decides that Heron is de-
fscto Secretary of State. BY this decision
the Returning Board of the State consists
of 81. G. Warmoth, F. j. Heron, James
Longstreet, Jacob Hawkins end John
Lynch. The case viii probably go to the
Supreme Court.
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LOuisYiEIe,n TammanY.

LOUISVILLE, Nov. 20.--In the trial OF
Capt. Geo. W. Levi, Chief of the Fire De-
partmeDt before the Board of Aldermen to-
night, witness testified that Levi wanted
him to swear he had worked in the De-
p8rtmeDt the month Of September, and
offered pay for that month which the Wit
ness refused. The trial was adjourned TO
Friday night,
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Total EXPENSES. .s227, aaa. "a


The meeting then proceeded to the cleo
ton OF directors, Messrs. z. P. Brown and
w. r. Pryor being appointed c.erFs and
Messrs. B. F. Garter, Albert Baf0rd and
John BanfrOu judges. Messrs. John T..
Tanner, George Mason and John Friersor,
were constituted the committee on proxies
The county of Davidson was represented
by Justices Childress and Dortch, the rail
road commissioners and Judge j. c. Fer
riss, who cast the vote for said county.
The Directors elected are the following {:
]. W. Gloss, who received 3,7l8 votes; w.
NJ. Duncan, S,7lS; Henry Cooper, Sis !;
DR.. D. B. Cliff, 3,7l8; Jno. S. Claybrooke,
3,I90; Jno. McGovock, $3.50; JnO.
Frirson, 3,718; Jno. Balanfount, 3,Il8;
J. @. Brown, 3,7lS; B. f. Carter, 1920;
T. n. Jones, 3,457: j. T. Tanner, $3.50;
G.. S. Houston, 3,7lS; w. E. Murphy,
3,718; A. Buford, 3,790.
The following gentlemen resolved votes
as follows: Z. NJ. Perkins, T.. Samuel
Houston, r; J. e. Nc Cowsn, Y; n. L.
Moore, u; j. T. Moore, Y; S. w. Fitz
Patrick, Y; W. NJ. Ballentine, u; 81
EdseT, Y; j. P. .Ezell, Y; j. B. Chiffon,
761.
The Board adj 1urned to meet at 2
O'Clock, al the Maxwell House, for the pur
pose of electing officers.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
The new Board, in the afternoon, orga-
nized and reelected j. W. Gloss President,
and G. w. Seay Secretary and Treasurer,
and then adjourned.
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ST. Louis Commercial Convention.

CINCINATTI, November 20.-The st.
Louis Committee Of Arrangement for the
National Commercial Union have just
notified Hon. r. M. Bishop, President OF
the Convention which was held in Balta-
more last year, that they have changed the
time of holding the next Convention from
the third Monday of November, as appoint
ed by the last Convention, and called the
Convention to meet in ST. Louis on We'd
nesday, December IL. Ia pursuance OF
this notice Mr.. Bishop has issued his cali
on all bodies entitled to representation to
appoint their delegates.
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FniIR6 EfanCfS.

AUGUSTA, Me, Nov. 20.-A fendish
attempt was made to throw the evening
train from Portland brach track, near
Farmingdale this evening. A plank and a
heavy sleeper were placed across the track.
The engine cut the plank in two at both
ends and the sleeper was thrown aside by
the cow-catcher. Had the attempt sue
ceeded the train must have been thrown
down an embankment OF some twenty
feet.
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Messaea nr the RadieaI e1nvernnr
MISSOURI.

Gratx Brown Regulating the ReERIa-
tors.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 20.-Gov. Brown has
sent Adjutant General Segel to Lafayette
county, TO investigate the alleged disturbed
condition of affairs there.
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Posen is to be denied the benefits of the
pending local reform bill of Prussia, be-
cGuse Ii "has not been dutiful In its CEN
duct towards the government,
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rha niamond Fever.

DENVER, COL, November 20, 1S72.-
Stanton. the man with the $250,O0O ruby,
arrived here from Arizona la night and
f eely exhibited the gem, which is very
besutif though jewelers. DOUBT IS to IFS
being ar thing more than garnet. DE
also sh, rs what he calls a S 10000 dja-
mr. The diamond excitement is
g. although much mystery sur
rC 3 whole subject. ..e--,
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Cuban Shareholders urge that no eman.
cipation or other reform be introduced so
org as single rebel remains in arms.
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NORTH CAROLINA.
Conservative Organization OF the Le-
gisIaEure.


EisIature-
RALEIGH, Nov. 19.-The General As
sembly Of North Carolina completed its
organization too day. Col. j. T. Morehead
was elected Speaker of the Senate, and
Capt. Jas. Robinson Speaker of the House,
All the officers of both Houses are Conser-
vative. The Governors message was sent
to the House to-day, but was not read as
both Houses were in joint session, compar-
ing the vote for Governor aud State officers,
The Governors message will be read to-
morrow. A joint Democratic caucus is in
session Tonight. But little interest is taken
in the contest for the United States Senat-
orsbip. The coming man is as yet I'M
known.
Message Of the Radical Governor.
RALEIGH, Nov. 20.-The Governors
message was read to-day in the House of
Representatives. The message is devoted
principally to our Federal relations, and
expresses a belief that the State govern
ment should be in full accord with the Fed
eral administration. He advises q careful
consideration of the questions of State debt,
opposes reputation, and favors the issue of
a new class of bonds. He declares the pre-
sent legislative sppOrtionment of the State
unfair, urgently advocates measures invit-
ing immigration into the State, and con-
graduates the people of the State upon the
greatly improved condition of the State
since his last message.
The Legislature will 90 actively to work.
and the session will be short. The election
for United States Senator occurs next Tues
day.