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Greenbacks and Gold North.

--An exile, who recently came out from Huntsville, has a long and interesting letter in the Atlanta Appeal, from which we extract the following:

‘ Greenbacks are 2½ for one in gold in Huntsville, and though the money quotations in the Northern papers place them 159 to 160, the truth is, two months ago, in New York, Wall street, no "operation" could be performed at less rate than two for one. The Yankee troops in Huntsville, whose term of service has expired, are converting their greenbacks into Confederate currency to take home. I state this for an incontrovertible fact, not in one instance only, but I witnessed several of the same.

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