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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN. 3 SUN-STROKES. The Irulianaplia Journal says: “President Grant, since tho inauguration, lins gained twenty-eight pounds in weight” Any other calf, pampered as he lias been, would have gained as much, or more. The Washington Chroiiide says: “Whisky, it is said out West, is the only thing the Democrats have not departed from ” Tliev know, that if they were to rom it a moment, the Radicals ADVENTURES WITH A FUN NY PAPER. Singular K *rcU of Courier-Journal Wit. depart from would steal it all. If there is one thing for which the Louisville Courier-Journal is more noted than for another, it is wit. It is notoriously the funny paper of the coun try. It is always on the grin. Its very types appear to partake of the inspiration of its editorials. Its o’s appear to be jpgp. Five divorces were all that a j specially rounded for a hearty guffaw, its Nashville conrt found itself able to grant, 8 ’ s B eem to be wriggling with ill-conceal- ia five hours, one day last week. Chica go will have to hasten out of her ashes, or the glory of her house will have de parted forever. The Washington Chronicle, in mentioning a catalogue of good deeds, which Grant lias in contemplating in cludes ‘ abolishing Polygamy” in the list. Ygs. He “abolished” it with a ven geance in the case of the convict Bowen —didn’t he ? J8Qy The Louisville Commercial (Radi cal) manifests some concern abont the meaning of the word “regenerate,” and well it may, for according td orthodox I ed merriment, while there is a twinkle in its i’s so full of fun that the. reader has to laugh in spite of himself. /Talk about “mother-wit,” the Courier-Journal has not only it, but the wit of the father, brothers and sisters, brothers- in-law, uncles, aunts, cousins, in fact of the whole family. Punch in its palmiest days, never did anything com parable with it. Jerrold never ^dreamed that such jokes could be perpetrated as find their way into its columns every interpretation of the term there is not I doy* Hood, had the Courier-Journal “saving grace” enough in the creed of been published in his day and land, would the most liberal denomination to “regen- ]j ave « never 8m iled again,” nor would enie" a (horonghly Radical organ, liko]^ tav0 ottempted lo kioiUe g upon the faces of others. Had Joe Mill- the Commercial. B©- General Sherman will soon be on his way to Europe to examine the milita ry systems of England and the Continent, in order to adapt some one of them to the necessities of this Government— Probably he will pay special attention to the system by which England holds Ire land in subjection, and then inquire of the members of the lato Commune, how the petroleum system answers for. the purposes of incendiarism. JO®- "Alexander II. Stephens Bays he never yet has seen a single article of his republished in a sin gle Radical paper.”—Exd.ange. We have thought for some time of is suing a daily supplement to the Commer cial in order to publish one of Mr. Steph ens’ “paragraphs.”—Louisville Commer cial. Do, and you will have more good sense and political history in that single “sup plement” than has been published in the whole three volumes and ninety- seven numbers which comprise the files of the Commercial fiS?*The Long Island (New York) City Press eaya: “A Republican paper, dis gusted with Grant, says that ‘he is a Democrat, that he always was, that he never changed his politics, that he never became a Republican, never was in sym pathy with the Republicans, and never will be.’ No you don’t.” The Press is right in saying “No you don’t!” Grant can’t be crowded over now; but had he never made that Portland speech, the matter might have been open for con sideration. As it is, the door is closed and barred; and to till efforts to push him over, the Democrats will say, “no you don’t.” The Washington Chronicle, of the 23d, says: “ Hon. J. W. Clift, of the State of Georgia, and others, had a con- saltation with Secretary Boutwell, on Saturday, concerning tho filling of certain vacant offices in that State. Among these are three collectorsbips and one as- sessorship. No final action will be taken in these cases until a weok or two hence.” Georgia has become so accustomed to receiving slanders and insults at the hands of a venal Radical press, that it is seldom considered worth while to rebuke or resent them, but when “the most un- kiudest cut of all” is given in attributing such stock as Llift to Georgia, “patience ceases to be a virtue,” and, the people arise in their majesty and with one voice cry out—‘‘you’re unother J” Chicago has passed out of the teeth of the “firebrand,” and into the hands of the poets. Bret Harte does her destruction, in the following lines, which appear in Every Saturday. Blackened and blooding, hopeless, panting, prone, On tbc charred fragments of her shattered throne Lies she who stood bnt yesterday alone. Queen of the West! by some enchanter taught To lift the glory of Aladdin’s court, Then lose the spell that aU that wonder wrought. Like her own prairies, by some chance seed sown, Like her own prairies in one brief day grown, Like her own prairies in one fierce night mown. She lifts her voice, and in her pleading call We hear the erv ot Macadon to Paul— The cry of help that makes her kin to all. Bnt haply with wau fingers may she feel The silver cup hid In the proffered meal— The gifts her kinship and our love reveal. The Courier-Journal persists in wanting to celebrate the cow that kicked over the lamp. It latest effort is in the following lines: There was a bovine of Chicago, She made up her mind to let law go; This wicked old tramp Kicked over a lamp, And away to the winds went Chicago. "While it is all right and proper that “Leary’s cow” should have her due, it is not right that the “non-explosive” should be robbed of its portion of celebrity. Away with that cow of Chicago, Nor let her into a "saw" go! The fire ne’er had been Had not kerosene Pilled cp that lamp in Chicago. We return thanks to the Monroe Ad vertise)' for the following kindly notice of our paper: The Atlanta Sun.—This journal, which finds its way to our table with the greatest punctuality, is one of our favo rites among our exchanges. The recent enlargement gives ample room for the political disquisitions" of the editor-in, chief, full reports of local affairs about the city, and in addition, great scope for general news. This latter department of any newspaper, when properly conduct ed, forms its chief attraction to the gen eral reader, and fortunately a master hand, Mr. A. R. Watson, presides over the news columns of The Sun. Long may he flourish, and The Sun continue to shine, as the result of industry and abil ity iu his department. Dre dful news comes from Chica go. It is in effect that the womaa who owned the cow says “her cow never kicked over a kerosene lamp; that she had no lamp, and that she was not in the stable —being asleep in bed at the time. ” The report is evidently nntrue. The woman is only trying to cover her own careless- er been a reader of that paper, he would never had dared to perpetrate one of those miserable jokes of his. There is no doubt that a stray copy of the Courier- Journal caused the untimely death of A. Ward, and if Josh Billings were to read it for a week, he would trouble the world with no more “Aforisms” nor “Allmi- One who reads the Courier-Journal is obliged to laugh. There is no help for it. It is laugh or burst. A sort of a half “snigger,” half snarl won’t do. It must be a full round detonating cachi- nation, such as tortures one’s diaphram and churns the gastric juice until it be gins to gnaw the stomach for very hunger. Wo tried to read the Conriei'-Journal, and did read it until oar landlady raised the price of board on us. We laughed so much that we were always hungry, and when we sat at table we literally de vastated our landlady’s larder, and she raised the price of board. Being unwilling to sunder old tics, we were for a long time unab.e to decide between the Courier- Journal and our hoarding-house. We concluded, however, to cling to the latter and take the former second hand. In other words, we determined to hire a laughing editor, whose business it should be to read the Courier-Journal The first man we hired, agreed to take it a day on trial. He said he loved to laugh, but if he laughed too much it always made his face red and gave him the hiccups, and then his friends twitted him with having taken a toddy or two too much. But having seen Bishop last winter, and survived, he would risk one issue of the Courier-Journal. We handed him the paper, and he touched it ginger ly, as if he were afraid some hidden fun would spring ont of it to tickle him una wares. He managed to open it, however, and his eyes fell upon the following par agraph: A. H. S. has been re-inforced in The Atlanta Sun by two distinguished para- graphists who sign themselves A. M. S. and J. N. S. He read it through, and then quietly laid the paper upon the table. His face grew red and broad, his breath grew short and quick; his legs twitched as if there were a colic in each one of them; his arms quivered like the leaves of an aspen; his eyes sunk back into his head Out of sight Thus the unfortunate man sat for a moment, then he tumbled over on a pile of exchanges os if he had been shot, and then followed an explosion. Well, the Westfield explosion was noth ing to it. The explosion of a powder magazine to that explosion, was as the re port of’a pop-gun would be to the dread ful bang of a seven hundred pounder. The man had to be carried home on shutter, and his wife threatened to sue us for damages, and would have done so had we not promised to send her a copy of the Courier- Journal, just to keep the old man in a good humor. We determined to moke another effort to obtain a laughing editor. After a fatiguing search, we found an individual who had not been known to laugb, or even smile in ten years. He was deaf, blind in one eye! bad- the osilima, one foot was swollen with the gout, and one leg was drawn double with a rheumatism of five years standing; besides he was fret ting with the tooth-ache and had a boil on a tender portion of his body. He was willing to take the job and was ready to sign a contract for a year. We told him we wanted him first on trial for one day, and, if he could endure that, he might consider himself a permanent fixture of the office. He entered upon his duties at once.— Four stout negroes brought him tenderly up the three flights of stairs leading to the editorial room. They handled him lovingly as a mother would handle a fresh infant. They put his easy chair down as daintily as a rational man would handle I a hundred pound can of nytro-glycerine. Yet he cursed and swore at them for try ing to kill him by their rough usage, Before he had time to recover from his pain and ill-temper, we thrust the latest Courier-Journal under his nose. alone. Lot her low her way down to bis- He stormed at us for handing it to him tory, coupled with the praises of the non- * so roughly, aud with hugest of passions explosive. /racing in him, he opened the paper and his eye fell upon the following paragraph. He read: The Boston Post tells ns that “there were eighty-two italic words in Mr. Stephens’last paragraph.” We are sur prised the number was so small We didn’t count them, bnt it looked to us at the time that there must have been at least a thousand* Than what a physiological study was there before us. That man’s face be came as placid as a May morning. His eyes looked like blue violets, just ready to bloom. The wrinkles on his brow and cheeks disappeared like marks upon a slate before a school boy’s devastating sponge. He leaned back in his chair, and became, at once, a perfect model of ease. He was a glorious stndy for a pain ter. When first he was brought into the office, his face would have made a per fect model lor a Parrhasins; and had it been available in the day of that emi nent artist, it would have avoided the necessity of tormenting a slave to death in order to obtain a “ fine agony ” for the brow of his Prometheus; but, when he had read that paragraph once, the same face would have answered for a model for a St. John—it wore such a look of beatification. Enjoying this,his first luxury in ten awful years, for at least a half an hour, without saying a word, he again resumed his pa per, and read the following paragraph: An exchange says “Mr. Stephens gives very strange and wicked advice to the people of Georgia.” Good heavens! can it he possible that he has advised the people of Georgia not to subscribe for the Courier-Journal? That capped the climax. There was one tremor through his body, then a sbud der, next a contortion, then a convulsion, then an explosion, that shook the office to its foundation, pied two galleys of type, ;♦ upset the lye-pot, and sent the roller of the prooLpress out up on the roof of a neighboring build ing; while the man, forgetting his rheu matism and gout, and other conglome ration of ills which had made him a sec ond edition of Job, danced hornpipes at a rate that would have made a Virginia negro blush in spite of his blackness; and he ended the whole demonstration by going down stairs at two hounds and rushing home to his wife, a well man, leaving us again without a laughing edi tor and in despair. We are unhappy oyer this matter. We despair of getting a man who can stand the test. We can’t stjind any more laughing. Oar sides have been raw for six months and onr landlady isinexo rable. We are at a loss what to do, un less it be to appeal to the Courier-Journal not to be-so funny. A little fun will do admirably. But this triple-extracted, double-distilled, high-pressure fun just ruins a reader, and will, if persisted in, make perfect wrecks of all the readers of the champion funny paper of America. We appeal to the editor not to be as fan ny as he can : What Bard Says About It. A telegraphic dispatch from Washing ton to the Savannah News, makes this statement: Samuel Bard says he is trying to buy the Savannah Republican. The Era, the administration organ of Grant, says the Republican party has had enough of Bard. The Doctor tried hard to get the New Departurists of New York to buy the Intelligence)', of this city. He mado cer tain propositions and promises of future purchase to Jndge Whitaker, whereupon river, and when the steamer Rosa made the landing they stepped aboard and were brought to this city lost evening.” The News, of Tuesday, has the following additional particulars of the affair: From Major Arthur, commanding a detachment of United States troops, which were dispatched on yesterday to »! | the scene of the recent troubles on* the DeMontmollin plantation to investigate the matter, we learn that the difficulty was not of such a serious nature as was at first supposed. It appears from the statement of the T , , Major, that the negroes who did the tne Judge allowed him to take possession shooting went to the plantation armed of the office and run it for a time, or till with legal docuinentsissued from a negro the sale could be consummated; but when J us ti ce id Bluffton, for the purpose of Bard had published the paper long disp °- sse ^ Mr DeMontmollin, and . . .* . . , . ,, , . ° meeting with resistance, fired upon the enougLi .o damage it with its old friends, whites, as stated yesterday, wounding be simply surrendered it back to Judge them all. Mr. DeMontmollin and Kent Whitaker—remarking ;o those who talk- are but slightly wounded. Mr. Slyer, ed with him, that he kept it till he found bowev 1 er ; is supposed to be mortally wounded. “ But learn to wear a sober phiz: Be stupid if you can; It’s such a very serious thing To bo a funny man! ** « Tlie Georgia State Fair. [Special Corespondence of The Atlakfa Sum.] Macon, Geobgia, Tuesday Morning, Oct. 24. | Yesterday the State Fair Grounds at this place were thrown open to the pub lie. It was an event long and anxiously anticipated by the citizens, as well as by the friends of Macon, as there has been an uncalled for rivalry connected with* the State Fairs, entirely unbecoming our people; and which, it is hoped, will cease entirely with this fair, The grounds were in thorough order yesterday. Everything, that the city of Macon had promised was fulfilled. The number of entries was larger than at any fair we have had; and the show of goods of every description is equal to the “great expectations” of the people. THE FINE ARTS BUILDING is, within itself, an exposition that has rarely ever been equaled in the South, To enter it, and gaze around, one conld easily fancy that lie had been transported to some scene of Eastern splendor, where everything is lovely to the eye, as if wrought of finest fabrics, and brilliant with the rarest combinations of color. I am willing to stake the reputation of the Georgia State Fair upon this one room, and if there were nothing else upon the ground the Fair would be called success. THE MACHINES! DEPARTMENT is crowded to overflowing—a large num ber of the best labor-saving machinery being on exhibition. There are no less than a half dozen different engines that have been put up outside the building, for lack of room, notwithstanding the immense size of the building set apart for them. So far as the amount of goods on ex hibition goes, the Fair is unequalled by any we have seen. There is a very large number of horses on the grounds, and in thia line there is no doubt there will be a plenty of fun and excitement. weston’s walk, yesterday against time, was witnessed by thousands, and notwithstanding it was performed during a heavy rain, he made live miles and a half—half mile back wards, in 59 minutes. A tremendous storm of rain and tliun der and lightning came up about o’clock, and continued till night. Never was a storm more acceptable. The dust and heat was oppressive, and the shower was welcomed by alL There are quite a number of promi nent men here, and many more are ex pected. General Toombs will address the visitors to-morrow morning. Colonel Sparks and his bride, were on tho grounds yesterday. He married few days ago in New Orleans, and making his bridal tour. The lightning Kukluxed a negro and pair of fine mules .near Macon Tuesday evening. A house in Macon was struck the same evening, and six colored in mates shocked. out that it -was worth but little. No doubt, Judge Whitaker was materially injured in the sale of the paper by Bard’s using it a short time, aud his failure to purchase, as was confidently expected. His True Georgian has failed to secure any circulation or influence here, and no party seems willing to acknowledge it as an organ, or to help it to live. The wealthy Departurists, the big bond-hold ers of New York—those who originated that plan of forever killing the Demo cratic party—refused to come to his aid. They could not “see” anything in it. If they could have believed the Intelligencer or his so-called True Georgian, under his management-, would have exerted any in-, ffiuence for their cause, they would have ‘shelled out” to any amount, for they have the means; but they properly appre ciated Dr. Bard’s strength and influence in Georgia. It also seems that not even the Radicals will bid for the support of him and his so-called True Georgian, and we imagine they will not give much for the support of the Republican, under his manage ment. War in South Carolina. An Outrage Iiy Negro Officials. Tbe Savannah News of Monday had the following account of an outrage committed by some South Carolina ne groes: From parties who reached the city last night by the steamer Rose, the following version of tbe bloody affair was obtained: It appears that Mr. Louis H. DeMont mollin is the owner of a rice plantation in South Carolina, near the Savannah and Charleston Railroad bridge, about four teen miles above this city, and that he last year rented it to Mr. Lumpkin Zetler, formerly of Effingham county, Georgia. This year, it is said, Mr. DeMontmollin notified Mr. Zetler that he wished him to vacate the premises, which Mr. Zetler refused to do. another version is that Mr. DeMontmollin stated to Mr. Zetler that he must not sub-let the place or a part of it to negroes. However, Mr. Zetler is said to have taken no par ticular notice of either one or the other, or both of Mr. DeMontmollin’s requests. The difficulty grew out of an attempt on the part of Mr. DeMontmollin to enforce his demand. About one week ago, Mr. Demont- mollin went to the plantation and The white gentlemen were conveyed to Bluffton, and are now under arrest,* in pursuance of papers from the negro magistrate, and until their release is ef fected, a correct history of the matter is hardly possible. Two of the citizens who went from this city yesterday, proceeded beyond the plantation in tlie direction of Bluffton, and the others returned on the 5J train yesterday afternoon. Notwithstanding the information im parted by Major Arthur, on his return last night, many rumors are stall in cir culation, nearly all of them differing ma terially in point of information. The following is a courier dispatch re ceived by our reporter at a late hour last night, and which, of course, is the latent news from the front: Everything on plantation all right with the exception that numbers of ne groes are about the place, arme'd. Mrs. DeMontmollin was taken from the next place, (some two miles off,) and carried with L. H. DeMontmollin. They have taken them with Slyer and Kent to Bluffton. He, (L. H. DeM.) is not wounded as bad as supposed. Kent is only wounded slightly, but Slyer is mor tally wounded. I will not return until I can give you full particulars. Appointments of tlie Georgia Confer ence—JI. E. Church. (North.) FORCIBLY EJECTED Mr. Zetler and a number of the negroes working on the place. There is no Mag istrate’s Court in that neighborhood, and as a number of negroes decided to remain and work for DeMontmollin on the same terms as they had been working for Mr. Zetler, and as quiet’seemed to have been restored, Mr. DeMontmollin returned to Savannah. Two or three days ago, however, the negroes who had abandoned the plantation with Mr. Zetler, DECIDED TO RETORN and drive off those at work for DeMont mollin. The latter named gentleman immediately left the city, and, accom panied by Mr. W. A. Kent and a Mr. Henry Slyer, encamped on the plantation within the ruins of an old Confederate rifle-pit, there being no house on the estate. This rifle-pit they in part re paired, in order to RESIST AN ATTACK, should one be made by the negroes. A colored man named Stonewall Jackson, one of Mr. DeMontmollin’s servants, who encamped with them, yesterday morning about daylight went down the river to catch some fish for breakfast. Whilst there he heard A ROAR OF MUSKETRY in the direction of the camp where he had left the three white gentleman deep ing. From the noise made by the dis charge of the guns, Jackson is under the impression that there were at least one hundred shots fired. Jackson immedi ately hastened to the shore, intending to reach tbe camp, bnt by the time he had walked a few yards, he heard the negroes shouting and cursing “that white man’s nigger,” and knowing that the band of outlaws referred to him, he returned to the river bank and concealed himself in the bushes. Presently tho shouts, cheers and curses, commingled, became still more distinct, and soon after about two hundred blacks passed, bearing Mr. Slyer on a litter, and guarding Mr. DeMontmollin and Mr. Kent, who were profusely bleeding from their wounds, down to the river. After placing them in the beat, the ne groes divided, some of them going in the direction of the rifle-pit, the others leap mg into a number of small boats, rowed down the river. Some distance from the landing where the [negroes took to the boats, the river makes a bend to the northeast. From this point to where the negro (Jackson) was concealed could be heard 4 the cheers of the assassins and the words * “GO TO BLUFFTON,” from which it is inferred that the white men were carried to that place, for what purpose is not known, perhaps to give the victims a burial in some out of the way place. Jackson in time left the bushes where he was concealed, and went up the river some distance until he found a boat and pulled himself to Purysburg, He was accompanied by a white boy and a negro from the Carolina side of the The Georgia Conference of this Church has been in session in this city for. sev eral days, presided over by Bishop Scott. It’s session closed on Tuesday—the Bish op going to Alabama to preside over the Conference in that.State. The following is a list of the appointments for the en suing year in this State: AtlantaDistbict.—J. W. Yarbrough, E.—Atlanta, Loyd street, J. H. Knowles; Clark Chapel, W. Hunter; Ful ton circuit—D. Hines; Oxford—D. M’Clendon; Covington—E. B. Davis; Marietta—T. Groover; Clayton—J. ELj- by; Jonesboro—L. D. Ellington; Fay ette—S. D. Brown. E. Q. Fuller, Editor of the Methodist Advocate, aud member of the Loyd street quarterly conference. W. Prettyman, Agent of the Freed men’s Aid Society, and member of the Marietta circuit quarterly conference. Macon District—R. T. Kent, P. E.— Griffin—H. Stricklin; Barnesville—W, Fincher; Forsyth—G. Ansley; Liberty Hill—A. Talmadge; Jackson—W. Hark- ness; McDonough—J. Walker; White water—H. Elder; Lenoir—To be sup plied. La Grange District.—R. H. Waters, P. E Lagrange—G. Standing; Troup— To be supplied; Hogansville and Grant- ville—S. Sewall; Palmetto—A. Wood; Newnan—J. Sams; St. Cloud—To be supplied; Campbell Pipkard; Car- roll and Heard—J. J. Bailew; Green ville—R. T. Lumsden; Hodo Whitesville—B. Hall; Haraldson—J. Murphy; Pike and Upson—T. P. Jay. Dalton District—J. W. Lee, P. E. Dalton—To be supplied; Dalton Circuit—- H. Triplett, A. H. Basemore; Whitfield— J. Crocket Johnson; Chattooga Cedartown—W. C. Walker; Rome—R, Miller; Flood ; Cave Spring Walker—T. A. Pharr; Murray—W. Sul livan; Gordon—B. F. Ivie; Cartersville and Adairsville—J. McHenry; Cherokee and Pickens—N. Trimble; Ellijay—B. W. Hipp, H. Shuffield; Fannin—G. A. Hill and one to be supplied. Gainesville District—B. Crist, P. E.; Union and Towns—J. P. Bazemore and one to be supplied; Lumpkin and White—W. E. Tarpley; Dawsonville—J. Thomas Johnson; Camming—To be sup plied; Simpson—A. Dorman; Oconee— N. Martin and one to be supplied; Gwin nett—A. Pool; Rock Springs and Wal ton—J. T. Thurman. Augusta District.—J. Spilman, P. E, Augusta—Green Street and City Mis sion—G. W. Rogers; Augusta Circuit— To be supplied; Richmond—C. Roberts Waynesboro; Waynesboro Circuit—P. Bell; Old Church—T. Baker, one to he supplied; Louisville; Mount Zion—F, Ellington; Scriven—L. J. Preston Charleston—A. Johnson; Scarboro; Sa- tilla Mills—T. B. B. Gurney; Satilla cir cuit—J. L. Fowler. Savannah District.—C. O. Fisher, P, E.; Savannah; Savannah circuit; Bruns wick and Darien—G. A. A. Amos; St, Marys; Camden—J. Ward; Traders Hill; Blackshire and Sessup—E. Tracy Tatnall; Southeastern—A. Palmer. Those Bonds ! Those Bonds! The Legislature authorized the Gov ernor, oh ike part of the State, to in dorse the Bonds of the Brunswick snd Albany Railroad to the extent of $15,000 per mile—taking a first mortgage upon the whole road as security. These bonus were to he indorsed by the Governor, registered, and the Great Seal attached; then to he delivered to the road as fast as each consecutive ten miles Bhall be fully completed and in running order, and no faster. The bonds of the State, which were to be given to the road at the rate of $8,000 per mile, in exchange for the bonds of the road, (in addition to the foregoing indorsement), were to be delivered to the road as fast as each consecutive ten miles is completed, and no faster. Such is the law. Governor Bullock has had all the bonds fully executed and delivered to him. The first mortgage of $15,000 have nil been fully registered, indorsed, sealed and de livered by his own order— the last of them in April of this year—the aggregate amounting to $3,300,000; and by his own order the whole of the State bonds given iu exchange for tho second mortgage bonds of the road, which it would have been entitled to had the road been fully completed—amounting to $1,8S0,000, have likewise been fully executed, regis tered, sealed, and delivered to the Gov ernor, by his order—the last of them sometime in May. These bonds should not have been ex ecuted and delivered any faster ttyan the road was completed. Why has the Gov ernor ordered them all to be fully execu ted and delivered to him in advance of the completion of the road ? We know not what reason he will give; but an unlawful use of them is the only one that suggests itself. ' It is highly impro per to have such bonds executed any fast er than they are needed for delivery ac cording to law. We state the fact and leave the people to form their own con clusions. ’ ... Vincent Reese. McDuffie county.— Crib containing 800 bushels of corn. In cendiary unknown. The Augusta Constitutionalist will issue an evening edition in that city during Fair week. The parade and inspection of the Au gusta Fair Department, will take place to-morrow. The Athens Watchman speaks of “Jonas Cochran, a free negro.” Aren’t they all free down that way. Speaking of the Synod of Georgia, the Athens Walchman says: “This eccle siasticalbody convened at the Presbyte rian church in this place on Wednesday last. The introductory sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Wilson, of Atlan ta. Rev. A. W. Clisby was elected Mod erator, and Rev. Messrs. Stacy and Ketclram Clerks. The attendance was not full. The body adjourned on Mon day. A Talbotton bailiff met with opposition in serving some executions, and, accord ing to the American, he says: “If he goe3 out there to make a lawful level, and they infuses to incept, if he don’t make a sacra ment of them fie’ll be darned. Savannah mortality last week—7 white, 13 colored. Six young ladies have entered for the cooking match at the Columbus Fair. Cotton States Life Insurance Co. CHARTERED BY THE STATE OF GEORGIA* CAPITAL $500,000. OTYJiED AT HOME AM) MAKA0ED BY Sobie of our Best Financiers. Over 2,500 Policies Issued Since June lsf, 1869. The only Company doing business In the SouUi. that has ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS Deposited with the authorities of the State of Georgia for the protection of Policy Holders. Policies Upon all the VARIOUS PLANS OF INSURANCE ISSUED. A loan of 33 per. cent, of the Premium Given When Desired. ALL POLICIES NON-FORFEITABLE. NO RESTRICTIONS AS TO RESI- dence or Travel, Strictly a Home Comp’y With its Capital and Investments at Home. It appeals to those who desire to avail themselves of the benefits of Life Insurance to give it their patronage. The time has arrived when every thoughtful man is disposed to mate this wise provision for those de pendent upon his life. This Company proposes to give all the advantages which are offered by foreign institutions of like character, with the opportunity of keeping the vast sums in onr own midst, which are annually sent abroad. PEOPLE OF THE COTTON STATES Foster Home Enterprise* JLctive and Energetic gents Wanted in every County and Town in the South. ADDRESS OR CALL ON WM. J. MAGILL, SUPERINTENDENT AGENCIES. Office, 28 Whitehall street. Office: ATLANTA, GA. EDWIN S. RAY, Medical Examiner. OFFICERS: WM. B. JOHNSTON, President. WM. S. HOLT, Vice-President. GEO. S. OBEAR, Secretary. JOHN W. BURKE, General Agent. J. MERCER GREEN, Medical Examiner. septS-lawd&wSm. -AAlaxita. Water Cure. T his place is open at all’ seasons. Chronic Deseases of all kinds, treated with largo success. Outside, my institution will cure all scoot© deseases. I refer to tho following persons, who haver been, and are being treated at my establishment, Lavendon House, Hunter street. Mr. J. W. Ituoker, of Chapman, Rucker & Co., Ma). W. B. Cox of Cox & Hill; Capt. J. M. Hill, J. T, Hightower A Co., I. FleischeJ, Bermau and Kuhrt, Bov. Win. Smith. Macon, J. Hill, Newnan, Ga. .> T 4-w 1-mo. DR. F. KALOW-