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irr^T TTUff IT_N?TMRER 1259. CHARLESTON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1870. SIX DOLLARS A YEAR. WASHINGTON. THE STATUS OE GEORGIA. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE SEWS.] WASHINGTON, January 5. Tlic President has issued additional orders to-day giving General Terry supreme control in Georgia as military commander, and relieving Alabama and Florida from his department. The Treasury to-day commenced the examina? tion of thc fitness and political standing of thc employees of the New Orleans customhouse, ac? cording to recommendations on tile. [FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.] WASHINGTON, Jauuary 5. * By General Orders No. l,just issued from the Adjutant-General's Oftlcc, thc President di? rects that so much of General Orders Ko. 103, dated Headquarters, Thi-d Military District, At? lanta, Georgia, July 22, lSOS. and so much of j General Orders Ko. 55, dated Headquarters of the Aj!?ny, July 25,166S, as refers to the State of Geor? gia, is hereby countermanded. General Terry is ordered to exercise, until further orders, with? in that State, th? powers of a commander ?fa military district, as provided by thc act of March 2,1809, under his assignment by Geaeral Orders No. SO. _ _ Thc Financial Question-Resumption of Specie Payments-The Tariff-Vir? ginia and Ben Butler-Gossip. [FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WASHINGTON, January 4. Senators and members are returning in numbers sufficient to give each House more than a quorum on Monday next. Some of the Weste a members are even thus early demanding a short session, and it ls understood that a resolution will be introduced in the House proposing night sessions for Buncombe speech-making, so that the day meetings can be devoted to business. If this be carried out, an adjournment can be effect? ed by the 1st of May. It is not an easy matter, of course, to anticipate what thc general business programme will be. The suggestion made in some quarters that there should be no financial legislation ls steadily gaining ground, and Mr. Boutweli's proposition "that there is no use talking about resuming specie payments till the country ls ready for it," Ands not a few advo? cates. The steady decline in gold and the fall in prices, it is mentioned, is paving thc way for a healthier financial condition than patched-up legislation caa reach. Some of thc Treasury offi? cials urge, at all events, that there should be no legislative or financial matters till the fall In the premium of gold and the decline in prices have ?oven the spring trade an opportunity to accom? modate itself te the new order of things. A forced resumption, or the Axing upon any day by Con? gressional enactment Tor resuming specie pay? ments, will be met, at least by the Western mem? bers, with such uniform opposition, that it will be far better to let the present well-enough alone. It is so very plain that he who runs may read, that the new political issue of the immediate future, (or, perhaps, lt ls better to call it the re? vival of an old Issue,) will be thc tariff question. Thc most blatant Radicals, the members from the State of Missouri for instance, are ready to Join hands with the Democrats in demanding a reduc? tion of the present tariff to nearly a revenue standard. Every Republican member from Ohio, with the exception of General Schenck, the chair? man of the Ways and Means Committee, is In favor of the same coalition. Indeed, with per? haps here and there an exception, the Western members are united on this Issue, and thc East? ern and Pennsylvania high tariff interests might as well realize lt at once and prepare to meet it. It will carry thc House at this session lu several material points, such as the removal of the duty on tea, coffee and sugar, and will receive strong support in the Senate. The latter body ls more remote from the people, and is not so easily In? fluenced by public clamor for a change. The elec? tions next fall for the lower house, however, will present the tariff question In the very front of the campaign, and Pennsylvania might as well stand from under the blow lt will receive In the Forty-second House. Some of the Virginia Conservatives have them? selves to blame for the mischief with which Ben Batter Is threatening them. Jost before Congress met, quite a delegation or the Conservatives, ?(embers of the Legislature, called on Butler, and til te a confab took place, In which they sought to satisfy him that there could bc no objection to the admission of Virginia. Butler, after asking a few questions and receiving favorable answers, ac? quiesced In the situation, and said that he would favor the admission of thc State. Thc delegation returned to Richmond somewhat elated; bnton the way down one or two members got a little too convivial on the Aqula boat, and boasted rather londly "of the way old Ben. Butler had been humbugged." Now, it happened that one of Butler's spies was aboard the boat, and he sat quietly on a sofa and took down In short hand all the details of the way they had imposed upon Butler, as related too loudly In the crowd. This conversation was all written out by one of Butler's private secretaries-for the Ustencr proved to be one of them-and duly sub mitted. His only reply was, that thc Virginia delegation would probably discover "Acne they humbugged old Ben Butler." From that Urce to this, he has been the persistent opponent or thc admission of the State, and is ready BOW to exact conditions precedent to her admission which this very delegation so warmly opposed. It is of course but fair to state that everything that the delegation laid before Butler was open and without concealment, and that the conversation which his spy. detailed to him was only theeffer vescence of one or two men for whose sayings as* Individuals the delegation were in no wise respon? sible, and who could not now probably even re? call the trivial circumstance Butler has made so much out or. Bat this Ls only one Instance of the way Butler has been eavesdropping. The Republican Congressmen have learned a Kood deal about Bullock since thc passage of thc Georgia bill, and find that he has deceived them in many ways. His departure from this city even was a deception, ne informed leading Rad? icals that he should go at once to Georgia, but in? stead of that, he Issued his proclamation here, convening the Legislature, and then started.for the Interior of New Yortc to spend thc interim be? fore the Legislature met. The holiday season here has been unusually dull in a national as well as a local way. The New Year open3 quietly, but with a better feeling of conUdence than has been experienced for two months past. Grant takes things easy. He relnses to do any business during this festival season, and prome? nades Pennsylvania avenue with thc usual crowd, smoking or course a cigar. Z. COLUMBIA, t^^, No Quorum-A Negro Frozen. [SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE NEWS.] COLUMBIA, January 6. There was no quorum to-day in either house. Congressmen Spencer, Bowen, and others arc here. Charles Green, negro, was round frozen to death eight miles below here this morning. -M'lle. Murska has left St. Petersburg In a huff because the Czar left tLe theatre ouc evening in 4oe middle of her performance. , ?COTTON COMPARATIVE VALUE OP HIPED AND PURCHASED LAHOR IN PR O D UCINO C OTTON. Thc difference between lured anti purchased labor, in producing cotton, is worthy ol'serious consideration. Wc have reached an impor? tant crisis in thc cotton trade. Thc advent of a new year finds the cottou markets ol* thc world with a serious deficiency. Thc equi? librium between supply and consumption lias been more greatly disturbed than at any oilier period of that trade. Thc history of the cotton trade is susceptible of a fourfold division, by which greater meth? od and clearness in the discussion of the sub? ject will be attained. I. Tun INVENTION OF TUE COTTON GIN, which led to a general extension of thc cotton cul? ture of the United States. In the interval be? tween 1800 and 1810, there was no interruption to the sr.owtn, notwithstanding tho war of 1812. which so diminished thc European de? mand, leading to such a depression and decline in the United States, that middling upland cot? ton sold in the Southern ports tor six cents per pound. II. THE ACQUISITION OF COTTON TERRITORY to a prodigious extent, by i lie purchase of j Louisiana and thc cession by Georgia and Ter. ncsscc out of which was formed Hie Slates ol Alabama and Mississippi, which led toan ex? tensive emigration ol' planters from Southern Atlantic regions to those more productive lands ol'the West and Southwest, to which they car? ried their skill and capital, adding prodigious? ly to thc agricultural resources of that sec? tion, and the augmentation of Hie colton crop. III. TUE GOL? DISCOVERIES OK 1848. This remarkable event. Ill connection with the ex? tension of free trade, gave an extraordinary impulse both to tho supply and consumption of cotton. Thc production of Hie United States in 1859-60 was 5,000,000 bales. Drices did not regularly follow these transactions, 'lhere were considerable fluctuations at short peri? ods, but thc general improvement received no material interruption between 1850 and 18C0. These discoveries lcd to an epoch that de? serves to be considered historical. Thc aug? mentation of the cotton crop up to this period had been regularly progressive in the United States. Coeval apparently with those discov? eries, the growth assumed thc large figure in 1860 of 6,200,000 bales, with an average in? crease in five years of 400,000 bales. The lour years of our civil conflict-1861 to 1865 ?were a blank in the history of the American cotton trade. IV. TUE CIVIL WAK. Thc last of these changes culminated in a sectional contest which has been accompanied with a derangement of | labor without parallel in Hie history of the trade, and a, disturbance of the relations be? tween supply nnd consumption of a magnitude that threatens Rs subversion. This brief historical survey leads to Hie fol? lowing conclusion5 : 1. In periods of about ten years there was a progressivcincrea.se ot the Unilcd States cot? ton crop, of about three per cent, per annum, (the ral io of increase of the slave population) except at those periods we have denominated epochs In thc colton trade, such as the inven? tion ol'thc cotton gin, the acquisition of large bodies ol'land by purchase, and Hie gold dis? coveries, which gave an extraoirdinary siimu lus to tho cotton cultiva:lon. Between 1840 and 1850 ihc annual crop ol cotton ranged between two and three millions of bales. From 18.10 lo I860 from three to four millions, and such was tho progressive in? crease, that if thc civil war had not intervened, the product would in 1870 have readied six millions of bales. So closely had the price followed the increase ol' quantity that, makin; allowance for the fluctuations "of ju ice from temporary causes, the average price has advanced-showing Hie extraordinary pros? perity of thc cotton trade. 2. In shorter periods where there were great fluctuations of price, they were attribu? table either to war, which greatly lessened thc demand, or to general stagnation ol' trade, while the failure of crops was invariably pro? duced by panlcal causes, such as drought, ex? cessive rains, too early or too late frosts, In? sects, &c., leading most generally to specula? tions, followed by reaction of prices, panic and insolvency. There is a striking coincidence between these alternations in thc cotton trade and those periods called commercial crises. The most remarkable of these occurred in 1825, and widen was followed, in a somewhat regular or? der, by panics in 18J7, 1847 and 1S57. Thc period which has since elapsed, it is thought, has been pregnant with Hie materials of an? other financial explosion, indicating a similar crisis and catastrophe, were it not, perhaps, that the system of private credit is not so ex? tended as in those previous recoils. Before entering into those more general considerations connected wilh this subject, we offer a "Comparative view of the expense of | producing and the market value of cotton un? der the two systems of purchased and hired labor." rurtcuASED LABOR. Let us suppose a middling planler, thc pos? sessor of 500 acres of land, average fertility, and 60 bands, 25 of which are workers, for which he hos paid $500 round.$30,000 00 Interest at 7 per cent, per an- - mun. 2,100 00 Maintenance of 25 workers at $75. 1.875 00 Maintenance of 35 minora at $25. 875 00 Medical attendance. 300 00 Taxes, CO hands $125 each. 75 Ol? Total.$5,225 00 In a gan<r of CO hands, it is presumed that 25 are work? ers, which produce three bales to the hatid, making 75 bales at $50 per bale.$.1.7:0 00 Loss to the planter.$1,475 00 UIRED LABOR. We will again suppose tho case of a middling planter since the war, who hires eight handy", aud puts two of his sons into the lleld, and Says $10 per mouth.... .$1,200 [alntenauce, at $50 each. COO Total cost of production. $1,800 Ten hands producing three bales to the - hand, thirty bales, at the present mar? ket price, $100 per bale. 3.000 Expenses of production. 1,800 Gain by hire of freedmen.$1,200 Thc land uncultivated, may be assumed to be worlh $2000-400 acres at $5-Hie interest of which, at 7 per cent., com? pounded, will double Hie capital iu ten years. WAGES OF SUI'EKINTENDENCE. The above ls the gross profit on hired labor, from which must bc deducted the various items of expenditure constituting the annual outlay, such as seed and oilier forms of circu? lating capital, with such portions ol' Axed capital, consisting of stock, buildings, gin and gin-house, &c, besides thc interest on Hie land under cultivation. Wo have assumed one hundred acres atm ten hands, adults, the usual proportion. The question of j wages is entirely practical. It bears relation to lite market price of Hie pro? duct raised. Having assumed Hie quantity ol'| land cultivated and "inc number of laborers employed in raising thirty bales upland cotton, three bales to Hie hand, on an average, worth in thc market twenty cents per pound atibo place of production, $100 per bale, The gross product would be. $3000 Wages at $10 per month.$1200 food for laborers ut $50 per an? num. . 500 Expenses, comprising annul out? lay and interest on capital on a supposed investment of $3000 at 10 per cent. 300-2000 Profit.$1000 But it is not to be classed with profits, but iu :he language of political economy, with wages -the wages of supei'intcndence. The conditions ol'the problem, then, are the rate of wages and the market price of the pro luct raised. The former is assumed to be, for :hc sake of illustration, ten dollars per month, ind the market price of upland cotton .wenty cents per pound at thc place of pro? duction. With the increase or decline of thc market vulue of cotton, or thc advance or de dine of wages, this change in Hie coudltions )f thc problem will materially alter thc rent? are situation of the parties. If cotton contin nea to bc as deficient, arid labor ?is scarce a present, it would bc Impossible for tho pla to submit to so limited a remuneration as thousand dollars per annum for services ea tia! to tlic production of a colton crop, product of one hundred acres of land, uni accept of a social position implied in sue slate of r?mun?ration. In this estimate of miscellaneous cxpci tiley have been put as low us would bc < sistcnt with thc utmost economy. On thc suppositions wc have made, if wa should risc above S10 per mont li, or cotton below 'JO cents per pound, tho r?mun?rai of thc cultivator would be in thc greater] transferred to tho laborer, showing thc i maie connection between thc wages ot la and the market price ot' ibo product. It mains to be seen whether it bc possibk make a fair division of thc produce of land under such an arrangement of wa and the prices ol cotton. This discussion has been conducted in an tire ignorance of, or inattention to, th principles by which the relation of capita labor is adjusted or settled by com petit] Tlie proceedings of what is called tho Lal Convention at Columbia, are subversive ol sound doctrine on thc subject. If its purpo were realized, they would reduce the Stab South Carolina to barbarism. Tho scheme fore thc Legislature of reassessment ol lan wo do not class wi til those Radical proco ings. ~fjuc now assessment of land, cultiva and uncultivated, in conformity with its act value, is a measure that will prove salutary carried out willi justice and impartiality. SUPPOSED INCREASED VALUE OF SLAVES. An increased value of slaves has been si posed, and has been frequently alleged, us t of the benefits of purchased labor. T imaginary increase, If it exists, must ar from two sources: 1, enhanced money vail 2, natural increase. One born in slavery v of little or no value until beor she reach his or her thirteenth or fourteenth year, a WHS then estimated to be wort li $300, if I malo parent was valued at $500. Xu-.vj maintenance of such an adidt slave was co puted at S7? annually, equal to about ?2.? fo minor, so that Hie increase of money val would bo about equal to thc maintenance ol slave until he or she hail reached their tli teenth or fourteenth year. Thc other source enhanced value from oatural increase has bc always estimated at three percent, perannu but as the loss from purchased slaves exec* ed the gain by about eight per cent., no prc from natural increase could have followed. TFIE INEFFICIENCY OF HIRED LABOR. It will not admit of tleniai that hired or v untary larbor is inel?clent as compared wi involuntary or coerced labor. It would pi haps be impossible to define exactly thc exte ol this difference. We would not, perhaps, far out of thc way were we to ailinn that I employer who relics on voluntary exertion the ?ie rfu nuance of the tasks of thc field, si fers a loss of about one-fourth, as coinpar witli him who commands involuntary WK Now the whole body of workers in inc ti cotton States, as estimated lu thc census 1SG0, was 3,953,7C0, of whom not moro tin one-fourth were cultivators of cotton. As ll as the loss cf African life by the war w computed by General Howard, the .?upc intendent of Ute Burean ol' Freedmen ai Abandoned Lands, at 25 per cent., it would I reasonable to estimate the loss of efficiency thc same rate; but as it is impossible to inca ure moral rotations by numbers, with any n proacli to accuracy, an approximation to co redness might perhaps bc ul lui ned by cut puting :he loss of efficiency by ;t difference the rato ol' wages, in supposing thc employ? to pay one-fourth moro lor thc price of labt t hat is hired than he paid before the war. 1 snell case if he pays SS per mont li lie might l considered as virtually paying $10 ncr monti This result is perhaps unavoidable, arlsin from moral causes. Thc disposition to Indi lenee and slackness of exertion lias not bec overcome on the.part of the freedman by til hope of bettering his condition, ?iud thu usu; incentive to increased exertion luis failed ? effect, while thc standard of comfort and edi cation being raised in his mind, has added di: Buaslvcs to any such increase of effort. It would then bc safe to est?male the efftcict working force in producing cotton ar not mon at present, than 000,000 adults, to which, if w add 200,000 whites, engaged in thc sumo agr cultural pursuits. Hie aggregate power of prc dilution (three huies to thc hand) would b somewhere in tho neighborhood of 2,000,00 bales. It still must bc conceded that thc compariso between hired and purchased labor is force on us by a fad accompli, and that it is thc pat of wisdom to draw the lessons of patient phi losophy from thc adverse influences by whicl we arc surrounded. COSTS OK PRODUCTION IN* CONNECTION WITI TIIK PRICE OF COTTON. There is an adjustment between thc cost c producing cotton ami Its market price whicl is bey ond all artificial regulation. When cot ton was at 10 to 12 cents per pound (5d. lo Gd in Liverpool,) thc bale, 400 pounds, was wortl from $40 to $?0. At that period (anterior ti thc civil war,) thc maintenance of slaves costs according to the estimate of practical men, S7i per head annually lor adults. The rate o wages will soon be $10 per month, if not high er, which is about twice the price of labor ant the cost of maintaining a slave before suddci ?mancipai ion had so deranged thc ordin?r} relations ol' tim demand as compared willi Hu supply of labor at the South. Tho legal rate of interest in Sonlh Carolina before thc war, was 7 per cent, per annum but mosey could have been borrowed itt larg) sums, on good security, at 0 per cent. Tm current rate ol interest' is 12 per cent, per an num. Herc, then, are tuc two elements o production ut twice the cost they were before the war. Cotton having risen in thc ratio o tho increased scarcity of these clements, Hu market pi ice lins followed this law of adjust ment II follows necessarily that they mus? preserve the saint' relation to' ouch ol her in al future conditions ol'supply and demand, 'flu colton mule is still in Hail stale oflransillor by which this adjustment is being brough' about. The consequence results that cotton will not fall lo its lonuer price until thc supply of laboi and capital shall reduce wages and Hie Interes! of money lo their funner level. If 20 cent! for middling upland affords no higher remune? ration to the grower than ?0 cents did when thc maintenance of Hie slave and thc price o? money were half cf what they arc, this conse? quence must coutiuuc until money and labor have become as cheap as they were before thc derangement took place ty which wc have al? luded. FLUCTUATION OF PRICES. The change in the relation of demand to supply is, ol'course, the source of considerable fluctuation of prices, as when new markets arc opened, when lhere prevails a grout scarcity or abundance of money, when trade is stagnant, or a spirit of speculation ls induced by short croiis and deficient supply ot ti great staple of trade. Bul lhere is a source of llnclimlion much more harassing and annoying, having no In? fluence on prices but what is nominal. The merchant is perplexed by these inflations and those reactions Hutt defeat his calculations and bcsl laid plans when tho currency is of varying value, ll is these fluctuations that constitute the worst evils of al circulating me? dium of paper when issued in excess, anti of which the emissions ol' government aro among its worst forms. It is by snell inflations that, so great an Ine? quality is" produced between gold and paper lhut speculation is engendered of a dangerous character, while tho fatal facility ol' replen? ishing tho public treasure exists; by such moons inicos arc raised to too consumer, producing the idem teni effect of increased taxation, ol' w liich it ls ono of the forms in disguise. In close conncclioiL with these remarks, it should bo slated that lhere ls a constant ten? dency towards an advance of wages in thc United Slates as tho peculiarity of countries with a sparse population aud un abundance of cheap land, the disproportion between which is so groat in t Iiis country lhat laborers will not work for wages lhat ure not equivalent to what they can carn by becoming proprietors of laud which can bo purchased ul $1 25 per acre. But ii such is the tendency in the country ai large, how intensified must bo thc action ol' such a cause in Hie present condition ol' ibo Southern Slates, where the scarcity of labor and Hie cheapness of laud, beyond all prece? dent, combine to aggravate these causes of disturbance 1 The merchant deals in currency, and when it is increased or diminished above or below the standard, his operations aro rendered un? certain, ulllioiigb, as regards international commerce, there ls no Euther loss or disad? vantage than an adverse nominal exchange. The evils of a depreciated currency uro too evident to require comment ; but Hie diflicidnos of resumption arc among tho most insoluble ol the problems ol' this branch of the science of political economy. Thc worst perils and vicissi? tudes are invoked in too sudden a return to cash payments. The premature resumption by thc Bank ol' England in 1822 led to a rall of ?10 to 50 per cent, in" thc value of agricultural produce, while by a premature resumption of the banks of the United Slates in 18TJ7 a second suspension was forced on them in 1839. It would appear from thc recent debates In Con? gress that thc members are not agreed on some fundamental principles, and that some exploded doctrines with regard to currency have been revived, which we had conceived had beeti buried in thc grave of oblivion, and. what is of more consequence, have received a dangerous vitality. SOURCES OF BURLY. There are three principal sources of cotton supply. 1. Tile United States. 2. The East Indies. 3. Egypt. Wc will consider them in the reverse order in whieh they have been named. EtJYPT. Egypt is a country that hos unbounded natu? ral facilities (or thc production of cotton. The growth is, however, attended with too much ex? pense for 'irigation, notwithstanding tho exu? berant fertility of land on the banks of the Nile, to apprehend serious competition from this source at a L'ss price than from 12d. to 15d. Tlie land on Hie shores of the Nile is worth from ?20 lo ?40 per acre. The partial aban? donment of the cultivation of cereals in 1805 cost Egypt in that year 350,000 of her popula? tion, who perished by famine. There is no dependence to be placed in the Egyptian crops. Thc yield that year, 1804, 1805", was 404,411 bales, and since that period this has never been attained. Only 193,000 bales were imported into Great Britain in 18G8, averaging 500 pounds each. EAST INDIES. British India, from thc forced stimulus given te thc cotton culture In 18G5, over 1,350 000 souls perished in 1800, from inadequacy of food, when thc large crop of that year was made, which did not reach quite 1,840,648 bales, decreasing in 18G7 to 1,608,963, and in 1808 to 1.420,570 bales, averaging 347 pounds. It appears to be the settled opinion of those conversant with the subject that cotton cannot Gc cultivated in any of those Eastern coun? tries at a less price than Gd. per pound. BRAZIL, PERU, ?C. South America is said to be Increasing In cotton culture, particularly Brazil. As regards the first named of these countries thc vicki in 18G8 was 180,000 bales more than in 1867, but as the bales only average 155 pounds in weight the actual increase, with that ot thc West Indies and Peru, only 180 pounds, is small, and does not amount to more than 651,000 bales, reduced to 400 pounds, for the year 1808. WESTERN AFRICA. The shores of Western Africa arc said to pro? duce cotton in large quantities, but thc staple Is too short and coarse for the manufacture of the liner fabrics. Thc distinguished traveller, Dr. Livingstone, bas recently furnished much information as to the capacity of this region fur the growth of cotton. Ile returned to Africa in the spring ofl858, prepared to prose? cute Hie culture ol'the crop. The total amount sent to England in 1858 waa nearly 100,000 pounds. In quality llic African cotton is decid? edly superior lo that from the East Indies, and in fineness und length ol' staple ranks next lo' American colton. [These fads are copied ! (rom a work recently issued by Joseph IL Ly? man, hue of Louisiana, which unites lo much minute information, in relation to the culture ol'cotton, very judicious general views.] UNITED STATES. , Thc area o? tho ten col (on-growing States is 600,190 square miles, or 426,365,410 acres. The region lu which cotton is the peculiar product extends from 30 to 40 degrees north lalitude. Not more than one half of this territory, and thal the lower half, can be said to be adapted to thc culture of cotton. Within these limits Hie question for the cotton-grower is said lo bc one ol'soil, not climate. In all this region called thc cotton belt, the peculiar climate of which is produced by Hie chain jpf mountains which intersect thc country, the lower spurs of the Allcgiiany range passing off westward In the hills ol'Northern Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. On these the moisture brought lu In land by the sea breezes from thc gulf and gulf stream is condensed and falls in many show? ers, but not often in long storms, and produc? ing au equality of temperature most favorable for thu growth of thc plant. Among thc most productive portions of this region is thc Yazoo basin, In the State of Mis? sissippi, lying immediately south of Tennessee, bounded on the west by thc Mississippi River, uiul on thc south and cast by Yazoo, Talla? hatchie and Cold Water Rivers, covering an area ol' nearly 4,000,000 acres. In the year I860 the State of Mississippi produced 1,202, 507 bales ol cotton, and this amount, lt is es? timated, is produced in tho della of thc Mis? sissippi, with an average territory of about two hundred miles in length and an average width of twenty-live miles, comprising over three millions ?f acres which is literally ex hausUess. Thc State or Alabama is nearly similar in situation. Near the centre of the State is a tract ol land extending about forty miles In each direction, giviug something like 1000 square miles or more than a million of acres of thc most fruit Hil colton land. The produc? tive capacity of this part ol'Alabama alone cannot be in'uch less than three-fourths of the whole number ol acres. The most of this favored section lies between the 32d and 33d degrees ol latitude, the very centre of tim cotton belt. Tho producing capacity of the United Slates may he roughly estimai ed from (he growth of 18511-60, which, according Mo thc census of 1860, amounted lo 5,101,944 bales, and it ls beyond dispute that with a sufficient supply (ir'liibnr the average supply could be brought up to 5,000,000 bales, Instead ol' 2,500,000 bales, its present average amount. The production of this country is the ele? ment that influences the cotton trade in the hu gest degree, both as to quantity and quality. It was computed before thc war that of every ten bales of cotton consumed In Europe nine were produced in the United Sftttes. It is by the fact that no other part ol the world yielded thc description of cotton grown in this coun? try ol' thc desired quantify that the partial monopoly we enjoyed was so long sustained. The Inferior descriptions that supplied its place from the East Indies, under the name ol'Surat, was adapted only to what, in technical lan? guage, is oalled the woof, while (he warp was exclusively supplied by thc medium cot? tons ol' American growth, and lt was the deficiency of what is termed middling uplands that led the British manufacturers so to modi? fy their machinery as to blefld the inferior qualities of East India coll?n with (he better descriptions ol American, lt ls the deficiency of this grade or description of cotton Hutt Is thc groat want of this trade-the desideratum that is needed. How it can be supplied by any other means than the restoration of the former relations of demand to supply it is Hie design of this statement lo illustrate. Wc were iu expectation ol' furnishing a statement of the European consumption, slocks, import, Ac, btu thc lutcruption ol the cable dispatches has prevented ifs appear? ances iu this issue of THE NEWS. If tue clisH patches are received between this and Monday, it will appear on the 101 ll instant in a letter sheet form. In lieu ol' a statement of uur own which wt; are thus precluded from fur? nishing, us relates lo the general supply and consumption, wc copy from the report, of the National Association of Manufacturers and Planters, (June :t0, 1809.) thc latest statement we have met with on the subject: The colton interests of Europe and America alone rei j ni rc ?in annual supply of over c.uOu.uuo of l?ales of cotton to keep their machinery moving -whereas, thc actual available production or thc world will not auiuuut, thc present year, to 5.000, ooo bides, Granting that East India and the United States may make tull average crops of cotton, the most favorable production canuot supply the dcU ciency. Say for thc crop or thc cot ton year 1809: East India, more than last year.1,S09,000 Egypt, more than last year. 23U.000 Turkey, Levant, Ac, more than last year, 12,500 brazil, Peru and West Indies, same as last year. 707,500 United States, more than last year.2,500,ouu All other sources. 60 ooo Making a liberal estimate or.5,ouo,ooo Tor the production or the world, wliile thc cou? su m pl ion Is over 0,000,000, leaving the apparent, deficit in supply in Hie "raw material" over l.ouo, ooo bales of cotton, at the end or thc present year. The cotton crop or the world does not now amount to four millions of bales, averaging Mio putin is, and, exclusive or the United Slates, the available production or tue glube docs not much exceed eighteen hundred thousand bales, uf thc Batne average. HOW to supply this deficit is tho questio how to supply it with the needed chirac cotton. From thc census or 1800 it ls ascertain! the cotton crop of the United States mr ti l.SS9-'0O amounted to live millions one hi and ninety-six thousand nine hundred and lour bales, or 400 pounds each. Thc sann ir reduced to hales or 500 pounds each, st yield ror thutcotton year or forty-one hu and fifty-seven thousand live hundred an bales-a larger quantity of eotton than ls no (luted on thc globe. Since 18G1 thc largest was that or the past year, amounting to ti rour hundred and thirty thousand eight hu and ninciy-thrce bales or cotton. There can exist no rational doubt from estimates that a deficiency impends wi parallel in the history of thc cotton t How it is to bc supplied is thc great problem of the day. There is no probo of any additional disturbance in the ex relations of demand and supply. 1. Tin every prospect of a permanent general r 2. Money' is* abundant in Europe. 3. grain harvest and potato crop prc a sufficiency of food-Hie only other mont that can interrupt the tranqr of traie. The restoration of the librium between supply and consumption not be effected, to be permanent, by the i process of diminished consumption. Th rangement of all branches of employmcn pendent on thc cotton trade is an evil t great magnitude to loo* for thc corre in another source than the increase Af ply. If the effect of a separation ls a new trlbutlon of numbers, bringing the por tion of a portion ol Europe to lill tho vac produced in Hie labor market of thc Ut States, it should be the office of patriotisi co-operative effort to present fresh ind menu to the people of Germany, Switzer and the North of Europe to look on the sli of the Southern Atlantic. PLAN OF RELIEF. 1. We propose, on thc supposition that average quantity ol land possessed by plat Is 500 acres, and that 100 acres are under ri vat ?on, that thc surplus or excess be sol leased, by which means that portion of t land which remains as dead capital wll ceive an active form. 2. That they make a donation to such ir grants as will settle and cultivate thc satni 3. That from thc proceeds of the sale of they loan a sum sufficient to cultivate the 1 which is donated, at thc current rate of lr cst, taking a mortgage of the land as seen 4. If Hu? owners prefer to lease, bi averse to part with the fee simple, that 1 lease lor five 3'cars, giving a quit rent for period, until the.lessee brings the land in state of preparation, and that thc lease bc tended to ten years to give thc lessees the portunlty of becoming purchasers. 5. That a board of trustees bc appointe! the agricultural societies In each district, i shall have thc administration and man; ment of the fund raised by thc sale of lands. G. That lt be thc duty of the trustees to dress circulars to thc different classes of Et penn cmigrantSj urging the advantages of scheme ot emigration, and giving such peci ary aid to the destitute ns would enable tl to renell our shores. TUE REMEDY. We have now reached that part of our st; mont in which lt is our design to treat of only remedy or corrective of the evil of flciencjr of supply,which threatens them serious cons?quences. There are two mo of restoring the equilibrium which has been essentially disturbed between supply and c sumption. 1. The reduction of the consul Hon to restore thc balance is an idea that can be entertained as involving great injury to industrial pursuits both of Great Brimin r the United Slates. The resources of thc lal for thc production of colton are incnlciilal The test of its ability lo supply the mark with this Important staple is not its capacity (/row, but to anther, the plant after It ls grow Thousands of bales have been lost from t inability, not. only from the death of the slav but their inefficiency as a working force, n the withdrawal of their women and childi from those tasks to which they have been customed in Hie picking of cotton. The succodaneum is to supply this dcllclcr by IM M If! RATION*. Two modes have been suggested-that Europeau and that of Chinese labor. WI is desirable in our own circumstances, whe there has been great destruction of capital, the Introduction" ot that class of Europea who combine some portion of rural skill wi a share of that store ol wealth which their I (lustrions habits have accumulated. This descript ion of emigrants will bc foin in thc classes who possess these habits in t greatest degree; such as the Geranum, t Swiss, thc Nowegions and thc allied nations Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon descent. The r Hons of Asiatic origin do not assimilate wi those who have peopled and settled the shores. They are migratory, and have ti design In their emigration to return to thc native home with such part of their canna as they cnn accumulate. This plan ol' emigration will combine eve] advantage that can bc expected from a scheu of permanent improvement. 1. The emigra if he possess some capital will receive wh would bc equivalent to a possessory title, or he prefers to louse will enjoy a quit rent II til he can bring his leasehold into cultlvatio 2. If he prefers the other form of possessio: that of gift, he will enjoy the benefit of a loa on easy terms. The benefit to thc proprietor will not 1 less obvious. He will bring Into active ct .ploymcnt so much dormant capital which consuming his substance. The application i thc surplus for which he sells his lund, suj nosed lo be 400out of 500 acres, will improt lt by draining and manuring, which will ad both to Its fertility and salubrity, while it WI give additional value to those tracts which ai now of very little value. The apprehension thal too much land won! be thrown on the market, and that thei would bc more sellers than buyers, would li removed by placing the authority to sell I the hands ?f the trustees, who will bc appoim ed by the agricultural societies throughout th [ South, which, by judicious co-operation, woul give tinily to the scheme, and who would ovei come the repugnance of those who prefer t remain thc possessors of barren acres, lin prov lng these tracts, and thus adding to thei health and fertility, with this further collau ral advantage, that thc European emigran will be incited to emigration under a combina Hon of motives which have never yet been ad dressed to his self-interest. An incidental advantage, not less Itnpor tant, would result from this scheme on tin uart ol'the laboring population, which wonk be forced by Increased competition to effort! ol'greater diligence and activity. This ls not all. The political aspect of tlx subject ls n t less Important and Interesting If the waste lands of the State are peopled ant settled by those who have a permanent inter est in thc soil-by emigrants ol' Industrious habits-a large region will be occupied bi those who will place Its legislative power on ii basi6 of respectability, and confer dignity on a trust, Instead of degrading lt. The proposal to sell this uncultivated land, that lt may bc a source of profit instead ol loss, is the dictate of ordinary sagacity. The best mode of effecting the object is through Diu instrumentality of the agricultural socie Ucs-lhroughout thc State and the South, who comprise a body of men capable o' influencing and guiding public opinion. The middle re? gion of the old Palmetto State ls sufficiently healthy and productive to luv te enterprise. Let not her citizens breathe the aa '.ts of despair at the present, untoward state of af? fairs, or listen to thc counsels which are ten? dered them in favor of emigration from a land that is thrice hallowed by heroic enterprise in three wars, one not less so by being disas? trous. J. N. CARDOZO. NEW YEAE'SDAYIN 01tA.NO EH VE O. \ [FROM OL'Il OWN CORRESPONDENT.] --. ^ ORAN?EBURCI, January 3. In order to make a few who "run with the hare, yet would hold with thc hound"' show their hand, it was resolved by an Imported Rad. to have a public turnout of the faithful, whereupon, at the roll ol a borrowed druin, a squalid array of thc leaguers-about seventy-fire-headed by a native turncoat hitched to a for? eign oifice-holder, paraded our streets to Hie amusement of many, who for reasons bc3t known to themselves, kept away from the farce. About six willies were in the crowd, some vf whom tried to treat out.but could'ntget excused. Again, on "'?'mancipation Day" the drum rallied the forlorn few, ?md only eighty-two rank and file responded; the black line adjourned lo the negro church, wberc they were addressed by E. li. Seabrook, or Charleston. The weather ls cold and bracing, arter a deluge of rain, a furious gale aud slight fall or snow. EUROPE. Thc Span Uh Crisis. MAD IUD, January fi. It is rumored that Regent Serrano will be Invested with supreme power, hut thc Cortes hesitates to adopt such extreme measures. LONDON*, January 6. The Times In an article on the Spanish crisis, deplores the downfall of Prim, and attributes dis? aster to an unreasonable prolongation of the Pro? visional regime. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES, ii _ Thc San Francisco Annual Bulletin in its an? nual statement makes the Imports $15,500,000; exports $58,000,000; real estate sales $00,000,000; ! coinage at mint $14,000,000; receipts from cus? toms and internal revenue $11,500.000. Thc population of San Francisco ls 170,000, and the State is filling with a permanent population. Agricultural wealth has greatly increased, and thc prospects for 1870 are truly encouraging. Thc Washington telegraphic operators have re? solved to abstain from Intoxicating beverages while on* duty. Thc Treasury disbursements during December, exclusive of the public debt, is $11,000,000. Commodore Greene will command thc east squadron of thc North Atlantic fleet. Governor Gcary'&mcssage favors the recogni? tion of Cuba, and the expansion of currency by thc establishment of new national banks. The revenue receipts to-day were 384.000Af Low departs for China on Saturday. THE REAL ESTATE MARKET. Sales In Richland County. I Tlic Columbia Phonix of Tuesdays says: Salesday In January ls considered the heavi? est day in the year, and yesterday was no ex- j ceptlon to the rule. A vast amount of property was disposed of at good prices. The following were the principal sales: A 280 acre tract of | land in the Fork, at $4 50 per acre, cash. A sandhill tract of 133.+ acres, at 35c. per acre. A house and lot on Fickcns street, 208 by 62 feet, $1800-part cash. A lot on Richardson, near Gervais street, 105 by 28 feet, $875 cash. The lot on the northwest corner of Sumter and Lady streets, 104 by 72 feet, $1000-part cash. The "George Coon" tract of land, containing j 70 acres, $1000 per acre. Thc "Reedy Point" | tract, containing 406 acres, $2 25 per acre. The "James Campbell" tract, containing three hundred and nineteen acres, $2 per acre. A I three-quarter acre lot, corner Barnwell and; Taylor streets, $1975. A four acre lot, corner' Henderson and Lower streets, $075. Two lots on Wheat street, $375 and $320. A 384 acre tract, in the Fork, $3 75 per acre. A one acre lot, corner Taylor and Winn streets, $1505, part cash. House and lot on Lumber street, near Marion-lot containing 126 by 77 icet- I $750 cash. Six tracts in the lower part of Richland, at prices ranging from $1 to $3 per acre-one-fourth cash. Lot of Z\ acres, on Gervais and Lady streets, willi buildings, ma? terial, Ac, $8000-part cash. A highly Im? proved tract. In the Fork, containing 1280 acres, $5 50 per acre-part cash. 250 acres tract, in the Fork, $.1 50 per acre. 250 acres, in Orangeburg, $4 per acre-part cash. 1855 acres on* Tenable and Spear Creeks, 50 cents per acre. Two one acre lots on Blossom street, $121 and $115. Tile "Cook Tract," in Richland and Kershaw, 50 acres, at 50 cents per acre. 125 acre tract, at Kingvillc, $11 per acre. A number of horses and mules were also dispos? ed of at good prices. SXX?XXKO. RULL-REEVES.-On the evening of the 30th December, at thc residence of the bride, by Rev. J. T. Wightman, W. It. BULL to Miss MAUTHA D., youngest daughter of thc late S. Legare Reeves. No cards. . FILIBETTI-BOWMAN.-Sunday evening, Janu? ary 2d, at thc residence of the bride's mother, by thc Rev. Dr. Moore, MARION FILIIIKTTI, of Pa? lermo, Italy, toMlssJAXE BOWMAN, of this city. No cards. * GOTJEN-BREMER.-On the evening of Janu? ary 2,1870, by thc Rev. L. Muller, AUGUST GOWEN to META BK?HEB, all of this city. .funeral Notices. ^jBsT* 'mB*B??L^rTV:K>Jx?T FRIENDS of Mr. RICHARD EDMONDS, and of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Duncan, are respectfully invited to at? tend the funeral hervlces of the former, at the residence of the latter, corner or Middle and Mi? nority streets, THIS AFTEBNOON, at 3 o'clock, without further Invitation. JanO * Special Notices.. /?-BANK OP CHARLESTON CHARLESTON, JANUARY 4, 1870.-In accord? ance with a resolution of the Board or Directors the issue or Hair Shares or Stock will be consoli? dated Into WHOLE SHARES. Holders of Half Shares arc therefore requested to present their Certificates at the Oillcc, No. 10 Broad street, for thc purpose or exchange. WILLIAM THAYER, jans wthstu4 Cashier. pSr CITIZEN'S SAVINGS BANK OF SOUTH CAROLINA, CHARLESTON OFFICE, No. 66 EAST BAY.-All money deposited In this Bank on or before the 5th day of each month will bear interest at 0 per cent, for that mouth, the same as if deposited on 1st instant. D. RAVENEL, JR., jan4 3 Assistant Cashier. ps- UNION BANK OF SOUTH CARO LINA.-The Board of Directors having declared a SEMI-ANNUAL DIVIDEND of FIVE PER CENT, on the present Capital of this Bauk, the same will bc paid to Hie Stockholders on and after MONDAY, 3d proximo. H. D. ALEXANDER, dec3l 2tutlis3_Cashier. par NOTICE.-ALL PERSONS IN? DEBTED to the Estate of the late MORRIS SE LIGMAN, Merchant, will please make payment; and those having claims against thc same will present them, properly attested, to the under? signed, at No. 2 South Atlantic Wharf. P. T. DOWNEY, dec23 ths6 Administrator. p?~ m CURE, NO PAY. -FORREST'S JUNIPER TAR Tor Coughs, Croup, Whooping Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Sore Throat, Spitting or Blood and Lung Diseases. Immediate relief and positive cure, or price relunded. 35 cents. N. B.-The genuine article has yellow labels, with white, unprinted wrapper. Sold by G. W. AlMAR, Agent, Corner King and Vandcrhorst streets. nov25 thstnamo_ ^BP-TO REMOVE MOTH PATCHES, FRECKLES and TAN from the race, use PERRY'S Moth and Freckle Lotion. Prepared only by Dr. B. C. PERRY, No. 40 Boud-street, Sew York. Sold by all Druggists._dec6 3mos ps- CITIZENS' SAVINGS BANK OF SOUTH CAROLINA, CHARLESTON, S. C.-Oillcc No. oe East Bay. Opens Dally from 9 A. M., to 2 P. M; also, Saturday Evenings, from 6 to 8 P. M. The Books of the Bank will be closed for the pay? ment or Deposits from the 1st to the 12th of Janu? ary, in order to make the regular seml-anjiual calculation of interest, but will continue to receive deposits as usual. Interest allowed on deposits Six per ccut. compounded semi-annually. D. RAVENEL, Jr., dec29 8 _Assistant Cashier. fl ISSTTHE GREAT SOUTHERN REMEDY. JACOB'S CHOLERA, DYSENTERY AND DIAR? RHOEA CORDIAL.-This article, so well known and highly prized throughout the Southern States as a Sovereign Remedy for the above diseases, ls now offered to the whole country. It ls Invaluable to every lady, both married and single. No family can afford to be without it, and none will to whom Its virtues are known. For sale by all Druggists and general dealers. DOWIE, MOISE A DAVIS, octll 3mosD*c General Agents. Special Notices. ps- NOTICE .-THREE MONTHS after date application will be made to the Bank of Charleston, S. C., for Renewal of Certificate No. 4094 for SEVEN NEW SHARES In said Bank, in name of Mrs. MARIA ALEXANDER, the origi? nal Certificate haring been lost. jan4 lamo3 ps- NOTICE.-ALL PERSONS ARE hereby cautioned against crediting any of the Crew of the British Bark YUMDRL as no debts of their contracting will be paid by the Captain or Agent. t> R-T- WALKER, dcc31_ ps- OFFICE CHARLESTON GAS? LIGHT COMPANY, DECEMBER 28, I860.-The Board of Directors haviug declared a Dividend or FIFTY CENTS per Share on the Capital Stock of of this Company, the same will be paw to Stock? holders on and after Monday, 10th prox. The Books of Transfer will bc closed from this date until thc 10th prox. W. J. HERIOT, dec29 ll_Secretary and Treasurer. ps- NOTICE.-OFFICE SAVANNAH AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD COMPANY, CHARLESTON, S. C.-The COUPONS for Interest on the Bonds of the Savannah and Charleston Railroad Company FIRST MORTGAGE, which mature January 1st, 1870, wUl bc paid on presen? tation at the banking house of H. H. KIMPTON, Financial Agent State of South Carolina, No. fl Nassau street, New York. S. W. FISHER, dec2713_Treasurer. pa- IF YOU WANT LAW BOOKS, LAW BLANKS and Legal Printing, go to EDWARD PERRY, No. 165 Meeting street, opposite Charles? ton Hotel, Charleston, S. C._decM em os ^-PERRY'S COMEDONE AND PIM PLE REMEDY positively cures Coihedoues, (Bald Heads or Grubs;) also Red, White and Malterated Pimples on the face. Depot No. 49 Bond street, - New York. Sold by Druggists everywhere. decs 3mos_ pa- NOTICE.-OFFICE COUNTY COM? MISSIONERS, PIREPROOF BUILDING, CHAKLES TON, S. C., December 20, 1889.-AU persons Re? tailing LIQUORS m the County are hereby called upon to take out Licenses for one year, from 1st January, 1870. Every violation of the law relative to these Li? censes will be prosecuted and the penalty strictly enforced. F. LANCE, dec23_Clerk Board C. C. pa- TO PRINTERS.-IF YOU WANT NEWS, BOOK, CAP, DEMI and MEDIUM PAPERS, Bill Heads, Statements, Cards, Card Board, Print- 4 tog Material, Binding, Ruling and Cutting, go te .EDWARD PERRY, No. 155 Meeting street, oppo? site Charleston Hotel, Charleston, S. C. deci4 cmos_ \ pa- MANHOOD.-A MEDICAL ESSAY on thc Cause and Cure of Decline In Premature Man, the treatment of Nervous and Physical De? bility, Ac. "There ls no member of society by whom this book will not be found useful, whether such per? son holds the relation of Parent Preceptor or Clergyman."-Medical Times and Gazette. Sent by mall on receipt of fifty cents. Address the Author, Dr. E. DEF. CURTIS, Washington, D. C._septl lyr pa- GO TO GEORGE LITTLE & CO. for WATER-PROOF TWEED OVER SACKS, for $5. . decl8 stuth pa- IF YOU WANT STRAW, MANIL LA and all kinds of WRAPPING PAPERS, go t? EDWARD PERRY, No. 105 Meeting street^ oppo? site Charleston Hotel, Charleston, S. 0. deci4 cmos pa- JUST OUT.-CHERRY PE CTO RAL TROCHES, superior to all others for Colds, Couglts, Sore Throats, Bronchitis, and Hoarse? ness. None so pleasant. None cure so quick. Manufactured by RUSHTON A CO., Astor House, New York. No more of those horrible tasted, nauseating Brown Cubeb things. For sale at wholesale by GOODRICH, WINE MAN A CO., Wholesale Druggists, No. 23 Kayne street._dec30 3mosPAO pa-m MORE MEDICINE. -SEVENTY thousand enres without medicine by DuBarry's delicious REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD, which eradicates dyspepsia, indigestion, acidity, nausea1 vomiting, wasting, diabetes, sleeplessness, cough, asthma, consumption, debility, constipation, diar? rhea, palpitation, nervous, bilious, liver and stomach complaints. It nourishes better than meat, and saves, moreover, fifty times Its cost in other remedies. Cure No. 68,413-"ROME, July 21,. 1808.-The health of the Holy Father is excellent,, especially since he has confined himself entirely to Du Harry's Food, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent .food too highly." Sold In tins of one pound, $1 25; 24 pounds $18; carriage free. Also, the REVALENTA CHOCOLATE, In one pound packets, $1 50. Copies of cures sent gratis. Ad? dress C. N. DoBARRY A CO., No. 163 William street, New York, and at all Druggists and Gro? cers. Jam 3mos PS- LET COMMON SENSE DECIDE. What ls the rational mode of procedure in cases of general debility and nervous prostration? Does not reason tell us that judicious stimulation ls re? quired ? To resort to violent purgation m Buch a case ls as absurd as it would be to bleed a starv? ing man. Yet lt ls done every day, Yes, thia, stupid and unphllosophlcal practice ls continued! In the teetli of the GREAT FACT that physical weak? ness, with all the nervous disturbances that ac? company lt, Is more ccrtaluly and rapidly relieved by UOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS than by any other medicine at present known. It Is true that general debility ls often attended with tor? pidity or irregularity or the bowels, and that this symptom must not bc overlooked. But while the discharge of the waste matter of the system la expedited or regulated, its VIGOR MUST BE RE? CRUITED. The Bitters do both. They combine aperient and antl-billous properties, with extraor? dinary tonic power. Even while removing ob? structions from the bowels, they tone and Invigo? rate those organs. Through the stomach, upon which thc great vegetable specific acts directly, it gives a healthy and permanent Impetus to every enfeebled function. Digestion ls facilitated, the faltering circulation regulated", the blood rein? forced with a new accession or the alimentary principle, Hie nerves braced, and all the dormant powers or the system ronsed Into healthy action; not spasmodically, as would be the case IT a mere stimulant were administered, but for a contin? uance. It ls In this way that such extraordinary changes are wrought In thc condition of the fee? ble, emaciated and nervous invalids by the use of this wonderful Corrective, alterative and tonic. Let common sense decide between such a prepa? ration and a prostrating cathartic supplemented by a poisonous astringent like strychnine or qulnia._Jam 6DAC ps-TO CONSTJMPTrVES.-THE ADr VERTISER, having been restored to health in a rew weeks, by a very simple remedy, after having suffered several years with a severe lung affec? tion, and that dreadful disease, consumption, l?< anxious to make known to his fellow-sufferers the means of cure. a To all who desire It, he will send a copy or the prescription used (free or charge,) with the direc? tions for preparing and using thc same, which they will find a SURE CCRE FOR CONSUMPTION, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, AC. The object ol the ad? vertiser in sending the Prescription ls to benefit the afflicted, and spread information which he conceives to be invaluable; and he hopes every sufferer will try his remedy, as It wUl cost them, nothing, and may prove ablessing. Parties wishing the prescription, will please ad? dress REV. EDWARD A. WILSON, William si rr? . Kla^s County, New York. nov9 ta?, i