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/ / 1 ^ f / THE DAILY SUN. Offlec Corner of Broad, and Alabama St’s Published by the Atlanta Son Publishing Company. Alexander H. Stephens, Archibald M< Speights, J. Henly Smith, | Proprietors. Alexander H. Stephens, Political Editor. A. R. Watson, • » • - Kerrs Editor. J. Henly Smith, • - Manager. Traveling Agents t 3. M. W. HILL. J. W. HEARD, HOW TO REMIT MONET. We will be responsible for the safe arrival of all monoy sent us by Registered Letter, by Express, or by Draft, but not otherwise. If money sent In an unregistered letter is lost, it must be the loss of the person sending it. No paper will be sent from the office till it is paid for, end names will always be erased when tho lime paid for expires. To Oar City Subscribers. We respectfully sslt our city subscribers to notify us In case of failure to receivo The Sun. We have recently made some changes in the city delivery, and in consequence of this, some will probably be missed for a few days—until the routes are perfectly learned by those in charge. For a short time, we beg our'eity readers to be pa- tient-as they can, in case failures occur. We promise them that the evil will soon be satisfactorily reme died.' We are resolved to see that The Sun is faith fully and promptly delivered to every subscriber. XNDistinct Pwnt . ~ ~ 1 ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1871. THE DAILY SUN. Thursday Morning July 6 Dreadful Railroad Hol ocaust ! Men, Women and Children llniTied to a Common Slaughter! A Bridge Gives Way and Precip itates a Train into a River ! NASHVLLLE IN MOURNING ! Sad Unding to a Happy Merry- Making ! Full Make up Clubs. We sludl make The Sun lively, fresh and inter esting—containing all the latest news. 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SQUARES. 1 -week 2 WEEKS 3 WEEKS 4 1 MONTH. 1 square $ 3 60 $ 6 00 $ 7 50 $ 8 50 2 •• 6 00 9 00 12 50 15 00 1 3 « 7 50 12 00 1G 00 18 00 4 *• 9 00 16 oO 20 00 24 00 6 «* 11 00 18 00 22 00 27 00 C «« 12 00 20 00 26 00 30 00 7 •• 14 00 22 00 28 oO 33 00 8 - 16 00 24 00 31 00 36 Or 9 18 00 27 00 33 00 38 00 10 «• 20 00 30 00 36 00 40 00 11 •• 22 00 32 00 38 00 42 00 12 « 24 00 35 00 40 00 44 00 X Colmn 27 00 38 00 43 00 47 00 1 Colmn 40 00 55 00 65 00 75 00 [Special Dispatcji. to The Sh$.] JSashyille, July 4, The people of this city were horrified this rooming by being awakened at an early hoar by. 4he cry of newsboys—‘ ‘fif teen killed, twenty wounded! terrible railroad smash-tip on Northwestern Bail- road!” ' 7 n.-HSWf The bodies of the killed have just ar rived. The mere announcement in the papers caused our people to hurry to an undertaker’s establishment,, where the bodies of the killed had been taken and laid out. Here in a room fronting on the street we could see through the glass door the bloody, mangled and broken bodies as they lay in their coffins. The train which met with this horrible accident left here at half-past eight o’clock last evening on the Northwestern Bail- road. It was composed of engine, bag gage car, two passenger cars and one sleeping coach. There were fourteen passengers in the front passenger ear and about thirty in the ladies car and three in the sleeping oar. Most of those in the ladies car were on their way to Kingston Springs to enjoy the fourth of ,Tnly. The train as usual reduced its speed on ap proaching the britigo over the Harpeth .River, sixteen miles from this city. The engine and baggage car passed over the pier in the middle of the river in perfect safety. The front passenger car had reached the pier when the bridge gave way under it, was. precipitated, twenty feet into the river, falling on its side into eight feet of water. The ladies car' fell end np on to this, all the pasSefigers fall ing to the front; and the seats breaking from their fastenings falling on the pas sengers, one corner of this car being un der the water. In the front car was Mr. John Camp bell, of. Nashville, whose leg and head were butt, but who, with another gentle man, were the only persons that were left free to move. They swam through the car and extricated eight or ten others and brought them out, with but slight bruises. In the ladies cor thirteen ont of the lirty were killed- instantly, and their ead bodies with the broken seats were iled np with and on the other passen- ers. In this condition they were left, and dying in the darkness Advertisements in the Local Column marked with an asterisk, (*) will be charged 25 cents per line each insertion. Advertisements under the Special Notice head (leaded) for less time than oue week, will be charged 16 cents per line. A3~ Advertisements, except for established bust' ness bouses, in this city, must be paid for in ad vance No reduciion will be made on the above rates for quarterly, semi-annual or yearly advertisements. Arrivals andg Departures of Trains to and from Atlanta, THE WESTERN A ATLANTIC (OB STATE) BAIL-ROAD, Night Passenger Train arrives 1:42 a. m Night Passenger Train leaves 10:30 p. m Day Passenger Train arrives 2:70 p. m Day Passenger Train leaves 8:15 a. m Cartersville Accommodation arrives 9:10 a. m Cartersville Accommodation leaves 3:00 p. m THE GEORGIA (AUGUSTA) RAILROAD. Day Train on Sunday.) Night Passenger Train arrives 6:40 a. m Night Passenger Train leaves 5:15 p. m Day Passenger Train arrives 6:20 p. m Day Passenger Train loaves 7:10 a. m Stone Mountain Accommodation arrives . .8:05 a. m Stone Mountain Accommodation leaves....6:45 a. m MACON AND WESTERN BAILTOAD. Night Passenger Train arrives 10:00 p. m Night Passenger Train leaves 3:28 p. m Day Passenger Train arrives 2:10 p. m Day Passenger train leaves 5:00 a. m ATLANTA AND WEST POINL RAILROAD. Night Passenger Train arrives 10:07 a. m Night Passenger Train leaves ^2:45 p. m Day Passenger Train arrives 5:00 p. ni Day Passenger Train'leaves 7:10 a. m ATLANTA AND RICHMOND AIR-LINE RAILROAD. Regular Passenger Tra'n arrives 4:30 p. m Regular Passenger Train leaves 7:30 a. m St. Louis, .Memphis, Nashville and . Chsttanoooga Great Central Through Line. Chattanooga train leaves....9:50 a.m. and 6:45 p.m. arrives... 2:05 p.m. and 3:45 a.m. Memphis train leaves........4:00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m. arrives 8:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. SLLoqis train leaves........4:00 a-m. “ arrive 9:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Shelby ville train leaves S :30 p.m. . “ arrive 9:40 a.m. : ta. The 1:50 a.m., 12 m.,and 3:30 p.m. trains do not ran on Sundays. The 4:00 a.m. and- 6:45 p.m. trains run daily. Western Railroad of Alaliama LSaVE MONTGOMERY 7:00 A. M ARRIVE AT WEST POINT 11:53 “ ARRIVE AT COLUMBUS ’. 12:30P. M. LEAVE WEST POINT 12:20 ARRIVE AT MONTGOMERY 5.45' LEAVE SELMA 4:10 A.M. ABBIVEAT MONTGOMERY....’..."..... 6:40 *• LEAVE COLUMBUS 11:40 A M ARRIVE AX ,COLUMBUS. 4:15 *• J. J. EN0TT. M. D. O FFICE over JOHN KEELY, corner Whitehal and Hunter Streets. nmilllldHgiieiill Street, between Cain and Ellis. May 23-tf. L.ist of the Killed Wounded! - and The sleeping.car run half way over the l'eak and lodged against the upper end f. the ladiese&rl * The three persons in ; were bruised but soon extricated them selves and climbed down and commenced taking out the broken seats piled up s on the dead and dying, and after about an hour succeeded in relieving many. John Marshall, Nashville; Judge Horn- burger, Clarksville; Henry Howard; Mrs. Emma Zeatman, Memphis; Charles Campbell, wife and child; Mrs. Tom Dunn, Kingston Springs; Mr. Pender- grast, White Bluff; Alex. Wright, Bail- road agent White Bluff, J. M. Thompson, Amherst Court House, Virginia, two gentlemen named Crockett, from Marshall county, one man unknown, near Chappell Hill. Mr. Wright, of White Bluff, was taken ont alive, and said, after being laid on the bank of the river, that he felt as well as could be expected, and only wanted a drink of water, which, immediately after taking, was thrown up from his stomach, together with large quantities of blood, and in a few minutes afterwards he was dead. ♦mO .G- It is feared that others in the forward car were drowned or killed. Col. Thomas, as soon as he reached the city with dead and wounded, returned to the wreck to ascertain. He will re urn with particulars by one or two o’clock. J&1 < -®W» The following is a list of the wounded so far as ascertained: W. W. Ghee, breaksman—leg broken. V. Haile, Point Isabella, Indiana, braised. - . Miss Heard, Trenton, gash in hand. J. W. Scott, Nashville, bruised. Wilhoite, Nashville, leg broken. Miss Clem Leake, Nashville, fractured arm and wrist. W. Walker, Union City, jaw broken. W. E. Yeatman, Memphis, cut in the head. Thos. B. Yeatman, Kingston Springs, .hurt in the back. Conductor Landis, leg broken. Brown, of Johnsonville. Two Pegrams. John Campbell, Nashville, head and leg hurt. S. S. Brown, Nashville, jaw broken and body injured. Kobert Daniel, Bedford county, arm broken. Tom Dunn, Kingston Springs, bruised and cut. Thomas Waine, of Edgefield, cut abont the head. The scene at the depot on the arrival of the train with the dead and wounded was heart-rending in the extreme.— Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and friends of the victims were there to learn the fate of some dear one, and many were horrified to see, without being fore warned, the mangled dead body of that dear one. Mr. Charles Campbell, of Edgefield, was an invalid with consump tion; had spent last winter in Florida and was on his way with his wife and child to spend the summer at the Springs. This reporter called to see him and family last evening, and conversing witli Mrs. Campbell, while their beautiful little, child was playing on the grass in the yard, heard her speak hopefully of the future. They had not then fully deter mined to go on the evening train. But soon after, Mr. Campbell thought he was strong enough, after the labors of the day, to go. In two hours afterwards they were dead. Mr. Campbell’s sisters and brother were going to visit them at the Springs to-day and enjoy a sort of picnic. They went to the depot to take the train at 4 o’clock, but were horrified at meet ing there the dead bodies of the dear brother and sister they were going to sur- prisa The undertaker, Groones, was at the depot with a wagon load of coffins, in which the bodies were placed and taken to his establishment, to be dressed, which has just now, eleven o’clock, been com pleted. The wounded were tenderly conveyed to and cared for at their homes and the hotels. * The Northwestern Bailroad has, it is well known, for years, been, unsafe for travel; but since its lease by the Nash ville and Chattanooga Bailroad Compa ny, it has been undergoing repairs, and they awoke operator and telegraphed to Col. Thomas, Superintendent of the Boad. The news reached Col. Thomas at half past twelve. He at once started their success to a division among their opponents, but for order and peace. The Bepublicans, however, are jubilant over their success. LaScicle says, the Bonapartists have been condemed by the results of the election. The difference between the cities and country have disappeared and the true France appears. The latest information is that the members of the Assembly chosen on Sunday are as follows: 86 for Thiers; 13 Badicals, 2 Legitimists, 3 Orleanists and 1 Bonapartist. STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING OF THE GEORGIA WES TERN RAILROAD. Campbell Wallace Elected Pres ident. The engine and baggage car hurried PL it has bee _ 1 to Kingston Springs Station, where has been > for some time, considered as with the wrecking train and a number distinguished physicians to the scene of" death, arriving at near two o’clock. They went to removing dead and dying. All this time the wounded were fastened un der the dead bodies and debris, unable to move hand or foot. Some praying for mercy, others bemoaning loss of dear ones, and others rejoicing that it was no worse with them than itwdtt yjiyMf It was extremely difficult for theparties to reach the wounded without standing on or holding- themselves up by some of the wounded or dead. One of the wounded—Mr. "Williams, a stout man, of Nashville, proved himself a hero, by telling one of thfe Doctors to stand on his hip, the leg of which' was mangled and crushed, telling him never to mind him, but to relieve the others who were in a worse condition than himself! J. M. Thompson, of Amherst Court House, Virginia, was cut about head and hip, - and having bis bowels mashed, (since dead) was trader the impression that he had been in a great battle and a cannon ball had struck him below the knee. When they brought a stretcher to take him out, he said, “Oh, I know what that is; I have been wounded in battle before,, and taken off the field on a stretcher.” He was very cheerful, but died soon after reaching this city. iUri vr Mr. John Scott, an employee of the road at Nashville Depot, was in the. cen tre of the car conversing witli Miss Heard, of Trenton, Tennessee. John Marshall, of Nashville, and Judge Hom- barger, of Clarksville, both distinguish ed lawyers, were seated opposite, and Henry Howard, fronting them, were con versing. W. E. Zeatman and wife, of Memphis, were seated next seat to rear; and Charles Campbell and wife, (former ly Miss Celia Case, of Zanesville, Ohio,) and little year old daughter, were seated next to the Zeatman’s. These were all killed except Mr, Zeatman, who escaped with a fearful wound on the head, and dt it is feared some internal injury. Mr. Scott was under all these, and escaped with only bruise on the head and a crush ed foot. * atou The following is a list of the killed as far as known: safe as any road in the country. This bridge had been carefully exam ined and pronounced safe and was thought by all to be perfectly safe. There can be no blame attached to the Bailroad Company or employees. They deserve credit, however, for the energetic and tender manner in which they have ad ministered to the wants of the wounded. Nothing has yet been determined upon as to when the funeral will take place, Papers publishing this please send me copies. ' W. D. Gentry, Nashville, Tefin. Nashville, Jnly 5. The Mayor’s proclamation issued yes terday had the effect of closing every bus iness house in the city. It was the gloomiest day ever experienced here. The people spent the whole day convers ing about the terrible calamity. About noon Superintendent Thomas arrived with additional bodies taken from the wreck. The names of other dead not imparted previously are: Miss Ettie Jones, of Ohio; Mrs. Burns and child, Smith’s station; Mrs. Lynch, Newsom’s station. The train, when it met with the acci dent, was stopping to put off Mrs. Bums and child at the other end of the bridge. The brakeman was applying breaks and was thrown into the river. A newsboy standing on the platform, was also thrown into the river. His body has not yet been found. The killed were buried to-day. The funerals were attended by large numbers, An eloquent discourse was delivered by Dr. Beard at the funeral of the Campbell family. Only one out of this family—a beautiful little girl three years old—sur- vices, who is unconscious of her loss. The JFreneh JBlection*. Versailles, July 5. The result of the elections show a de cided victory for the moderate Bepubli cans. Tne monarchists who expected to elect all the new deputies are quite taken by surprise'and much dismayed at the unexpected Bepublican success. Paris, Jnly 5. Yesterday at 10 o’clock the meeting of the stockholders of the Georgia Western Boad took place at the City Hall. Presi dent Peters was in the chair, with Mr. Secretary Orme on his left. The object of the meeting, as per ad vertisement, was the election of Presi dent and Directors for the ensuing year. Messrs. Adair, Harden and Ormond were appointed a committee to examine proxies and report as to their legality.— The committee from the City Council of Atlanta retired with the committee on proxies, who soon returned and reported their authority to east the city vote as correct-. The number of shares repre sented by individuals was 1C>4. The num ber to’ the city, 3,000. A motion was made to go into the elec tion of officers, which was carried, and the Chair appointed O. H. Jones, B. J. Lowry and J. A. Hayden tellers of the election. The vote -for President was to be separate from that for'Directors. While preparations were being made for the balloting several gentlemen pres ent male suggestions. Heretofore the old Board obi.sist.ed of-President and but six Directors. An act of the Legislature empowered the stockholders to increase the number of Directors to ten. It was argued that the meeting elect ten Directors, und the committee adjourned to an ante-room for the purpose of soun ding the stock represented as to their choice. Judge Hammond stated that he was authorized to withdraw Mr. Saw son’s name for President. The Chair stated that the charter only permitted those to be Directors who owned stock in the road for the space of ninety days previous to the election, Mr. Cassin moved to adjourn until two o’clock. Lost. An intermission of fifteen minutes was given to allow the committee time to in vestigate. At the expiration of the time the committee was announced as ready to begin the ballotings. The following was the result: For President—Campbell Wallace. For Directors—John P. King, John Collier, E. Y.. Clarke, A. W. Mitchell, A. M. Speights, J. H. James, F. P. Bioe, C. P. Cassin, Thomas Alexander, C. W. Wells. There was a scattering vote of ten shares for directors given, but the gentle man who cast it, at the solicitation of the convention, withdrew it, and cast it for the above ticket, thus making it a unanimous thing. The polls were then declared closed, and the above named gentlemen duly elected for the ensuing year. As Mr. Peters was announcing this fact, CoL Glenn corrected him by saying that the newly elected President and Board were only in office till the 24th of Jnly, ensuing, and citing the rales and by-laws to sustain his point. The by laws say that the annual meeting shall take place on the 24th of Jnly, each year, at which time a President and Board of Directors shall be elected for the ensuing year. Col. Glenn contended that this meeting, in the point of law, was only for the purpose of electing officers to serve until the next regular annual meet ing, which is on the 24th inst. The ohair coincided with CoL Glenn, when Mr. Cassin, who had been elected one of the Directors, opened, upon Mr. Peters one of the most sudden and bitter casti gations we ever heard in a quiet meeting. His suspicions were mountain high, and he gave vent to his pent up passions in language plain and severe. He accused Mr. Peters of making a most egregious mistake in calling the meeting. He in timated in plain language that that gen tleman knew what he was doing when he advertised the meeting for the 5th of July. That a trick was to be hatched out of this day’s proceeding, which he, as a representative of the city, would not stand. If Mr. Peters had made this er ror unwittingly, he called upon him to correct it instanter. If he made it wil fully, he still called upon him to correct it. His insinuations as to motives of the Chair were anything but complimentary, Mr. Peters, in great surprise and aston ishment at this sudden outburst from Mr. Cassin, arose and made a statement to the effect that he had consulted legal gentlemen on this point, and was guided Le Journal des Dcbals says, the election details are favorable to the Bordeaux programme. It is a victo ry not only for the Bepublicans who owe * in his actions as President, by their opin ions. He was no less astonished by Mr. Cassin’s remarks than the entire audience present. There is no doubt that all the stock holders, while voting, supposed the elec tion to be for the ensuing year, and seve ral so stated. Mr. Peters no doubt thought so; for, as we stated above, he expressed surprise, and was in the act of congratu lating the new officers upon their elec tion, and the company upon its selec tions, when Colonel Glenn made the point he did as to their term of office, quoting the by-laws of the Company to sustain him. Judge Ezzard was called upon, and sustained Colonel Glenn’s views. Neith er were dissatisfied with the officers elect; nor did any one else appear to be. The case was in a muddle because of Mr. Cassin’s alleging that Mr. Peters had some ulterior designs upon their (the new Board’s) term of office. Col. Adair was of the opinion that the officers chosen were for the ensuing year. He wanted the thing settled, and called upon the legal talent present to assist them out of the difficulty. They were in one, without a doubt, find he wanted to get ont. He had nothing in view but the building of the railroad—had no axe to grind, but as a plain, practical man, he desired such steps taken as would settle the question which had been so un expectedly sprung. Judge Ezzard and Col. Glenn gave their opinion on the point simply in a legal sense. Unless the by-laws were changed so as to give the Stockholders the privi lege of electing annual officers at any other time than that already prescribed, the election would be null and void; and the by-laws could ODly be changed by the Directors—not by the Stockholders, Consequently, as no election was held at the last regular day for that purpose, the present election was for officers to fill the unexpired year, the President having the power to call such election. It is true, as Mr. Cassin said, that nei ther Mr. Peters nor the old Board had ever resigned, and of course there was no vacancy to fill, and that the company then had two sets of offiers. A disposition was manifested by all parties to settle the matter. No one was objecting to the officers elect, but the idea that the thing had not been done according to law was the stumbling block. Occasionally a little man in a high place would attempt to stir np the flame, -but failed miserably. A motion to adjourn was carried, amidst some confusion. The question now is, who are the offi cers and for what length of time do they serve? The old Board do not claim nor want the position. They have given way to the new, and the new claim that they are in office for twelve months and nine teen days, while it is the opinion of some legal minds that they will serwe only nineteen days, unless re-elected on the 24th, the regular annual, election day for officers. # A very good way however to settle the question is, for the Stockholders not to hold any meeting on the 24th and let the new Board hold over unto Jnly_1872. This they can do if they chose, as was done last year. great trust is confided to so able a man, in whose integrity of purpose and unfaltering determination to build the road, everybody has the fullest confidence. * In the prospect of building the road, we rejoice and congratulate the people of Atlanta and the country at large. #-•-« DROWNED in a well. Two Negroes Attend a Bnll—BotU Call in a Well and the Woman is Drowned. The Organization Complete— The Road to he Built. The official call by Campbell Wal lace, the President, for a meeting of the new Board of Directors • of the Georgia Western Bailroad, to be held at the hanking house of John H James this morning, will he found elsewhere in The Sun. We learn that Maj. Wallace leaves for Alabama this evening. We are also rejoiced to learn—-just what we expected—that Maj. Wallace will at once go to work to build the road He will in a short time return, bring ing his family with him and reside in Atlanta, and the great work will be commenced very soon. Maj. Wallace says he will put forth all his energy and press the work with all the ability he has or can command till the road is built. Maj. Wallace’s reputation as a rail road man is equalled by very few in America. His name is a tower of strength, and he will receive the cor dial support of our people. The contest for the Presidency was a sharp one, but it is specially pleas ant to note the patriotic action of the aspirants and their friends, when the hour for action came. Mr. Kawson, becoming satisfied that the best in terests of the city would be subserved by Maj. Wallace’s election, magnani mously and with the spirit of a true man, declined, and urged his friends to vote for Maj. Wallace. Since it is all over, all parties are satisfied. All- classes delighted. Those who are disappointed—whose favorite was not chosen—are rejoiced that the On Tuesday night a ball was given by the colored people, in honor of the visit of their Chattanooga friends. The buil ding was an old frame house on White hall street, near the calaboose. In the rear of this building is an old shed, with ground floor, which was formerly used by the government as a blacksmith shop. In the father side of the shed from the ball room was an old well, abont six feet square at the top, containing twelve feet of water. There was no curbing around the well at all—not even a plank in the way. The water is within a few feet of the top. About 12 o’clock Tuesday night, a negro named George Manning and a girl named Harriet Johnson, were passing along under this shed, when both stepped into the well. As they went down, George gave several yells, which attracted the notice of those in the ball-room, who ran to the well, and by great exertions, got him out, not however, until he was nearly dead. In abont three hours, he became conscious, and able to speak, when he told them that Harriet Johnson was in tho well. The startled crowd hastened back, and under the direction of Policeman Garri son, commenced grappling for her body. By taking a long pole and feeling for her the man twisted a hold upon her dress, and raised her to the surface of the wa- ’ ter, when a rope was tied around her body and brought her to the top. Of course she was dead, having been in tho water over three hours. This occurrence broke up the ball, and the lamentations^ of the poor heart-broken mother were painful to hear. Who the property be longs to, and who is responsible is a mooted question. Some negroes were fishing” all day yesterday upon the sup position that other bodies might be in there. Griffin, Montlccllo and Madison Rail road. A meeting of the corporators of the Griffin, Monticello and Madison Bail road was held in this city yesterday. Among those in attendance were Sena tor Nunnally, Judge Jas. S. Boynton, F. S. Fitch and J. H. Johnson, of Griffin, H. I. and J. 0. Kimball, of this city, and Capt. B. H. True, of Morgan coun ty. It was decided that a meeting be held tor permanent organization at In dian Spring, on the 14th inst. Challenge Accepted. Faikvlew, July 5, 1871. Having seen in your paper of yesterday a proposition from Mr. Lee Smith, to trot a horse against my mare, “Dolly of Fairview, “I desire to state that I did not expect my former proposition to con tinue indefinitely, and that I should like to have at least some idea of the horse I am expected to beat. ButT will trot my mare on the 15 th of July, against Mr. Smith’s horse for $100 aside, on the Fair- view Park track—mile heats—best three in five—to road wagons—good for five days. Edwd. Dugdale. GEORGIA NEWS. From the Columbus Enquirer. Four.white men were put upon trial in Sumter Superior Court, last week, on tiie charge of Ku-kluxing and killing a negro named Isham Jenkins. The proof against them consisted of the dying de claration of Jenkins. The parties ac cused severed, and the first one tried was acquitted, when the State moved to con tinue the other cases. The evidence clearly established alibis for some of the accused, and showed Jenkins to be a bad and unreliable character, while the ac cused had always borne the character of peaceable and law-abiding men. A negro boy named George Bose was shot and killed near Savannah Sunday afternoon. The News says: It appears from the statement of several parties that a number of white boys had been somewhere along the road, and by some means or other got into a controversy with a party of negroes, a brick-bat fight ensued, the” white boys retreating toward the city, closely folio wed by the negroes, whose numbers rapidly increased by ac cessions from the negro foot-pads who are always traveling, along the road; the crowd being composed of men, women and children. The white boys- being closely pressed turned upon their pur suers, one of them firing into the crowd, killing the deceased as already stated.— Previous to the shooting the boys ap pealed to several gentlemen who were driving to Thunderbolt, for protection, who remonstrated with tho negro mob, telling them to leave the boys alone.— This appeal had no effect, and the result is this unfortunate occurrence. Nine white.boys are under arrest upon charge of having done the shooting. From the Sparta Times and Planter, 1st. A serious accident happened to a little son of Mr. Nisbet, agent of the Macon & Augusta Bailroad at Milledgeville, on Wednesday last. In playing around tho depot, he accidently fell from the plat form to the track, sustaining a very seri ous if not fatal injury. Our only sensation, during the past week has been caused by the appearance on our streets of one ltcv. t arns, a pro fessional drunkard, whcie would-be wit seems to amuse many.