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THE ATLANTA W EEKLY SUN. THE Satci&a'v 1»AILY wanviKa 81 X. . ..Accost 19. uo geographical limits, iu which is hi-1 Radical speakers were remarkably shrewd, volved liot ouly the fate of tLe Demo-1 artful ami plausible. Yet see liow signal- *■ the Political Situation.” Unde r the above title there appeared, some days ago, in the Angusta (Ga.) (yironide aruiSentinel, the following com munication, with the remarks of that journal thereto appended, which we here reproduce entire : Neweers. Setvtoh Cocstt, Ga., ) Angiixt 8th, 1871. J Editobk CnuoKicLE and Sentinel: I notice in the Chrunic’r. anil SaUin'l of the 2d instant* letter orer Uic signature of M. C. Kcit, purporting to betaken from ’be MWdpUt Sir. and commended by you as a "very able letter < n the political situation."— This lelter appears to contain. In detail, the political views of the Democratic party at Iho North, and your commcntlaUon of these views argues tbit they are the political sentiments of the South, consequently we have in this letter, and your commendation to- gether, a joint and harmonious concession of the po litical views of tho Democracy of the United States. This is an important matter, as it reduces the v riel sentiments of the whole joirty to a unit, and brings their views in bold relief to the gaze and com ment of all who desire to see or respond to them.— After commenting on the “vicious policy" of those in power, and giving a catalogue of tho real or imagi nary wrongs of which they have been guilty, tho wri ter sums up the doctrines of the party in the follow ing terse way. They accept in good faith the Thir teenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, in proof of which they sustain 1. The perpetaa' abolition of slavery. 5. The counting of all ex-slaves instead of three- flilhs only, in making a basis for the apportionment of representation in Congress. 3. The equality of civil rights toe tizens of all races and colors. 4. The inviolable character of the Federal public debt. 5. The perpetual Invalidity Of all the Confederate debts. 6. The sacredness of pension and bounties. 7. Tho-disqualification til certain persons to hold office unless relieved therefrom by -Congress. 8. Tho equality of aU citizens in political rights find privileges, including suffrage. 0. And certain inhibitions on the States, and negative guarantees, chiefly declaratory la more spec ific terms of the pre-existing law of the land. From what wo understand of the matter, this is almost verbatim, the doctrines of the Republican par ty s and if those arc the Democratic doctrines North and South, and of the Radicals wherever found, why not unite and put an end at once to the villain ous partisan strife, so long continned, so potent in mi-M'liU f, ami w <llagmoanil4o « «nlight”iied ag<- and a professionally civilized people.? We ask for information, and would T>e glad Tor a response through yrcrar paper. You know, and all sensible people know, that whilst good and wise men may honestly differ in opinion on almost any subject, yet party ism is pure ly the work of demagogues, gotten up for their own special benefit, -and for nothing else, and that the common people are the tools with which they work to carry on -their plans. Most respec-fully,.yours, M. S. Remarks.—Oar correspondent errs in stating that the Chronicle aud Sentinel approved tho views of Mr. Kerr, express ed in a letter to Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, and published in these columns some weeks since. Mr. Kerr accepts all the amendments bayoneted to the Constitution by tho Radical Con grosses, among which are the infamous Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The people of the South do not and will not acceptthese-amendments as finalities. They will, however, continue to obey rthem until repealed. The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified by the Legisla ture of Georgia, and we accept it as a finality—ns setting at rest forever,[so fur as the State of Georgia is concerned, the question of Slavery. Our people do not want the institution reestablished. They would .not if they conld, because they ore satisfied that in the end it will be more conducive to the development of their re sources, and the growth and increase of tho State, both in wealth and population Neither the represenatives of the people, nor the people themselves, have or will approve the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, because they believe the measures iu violation of the letter and spirit of the Constitution, and destruc tive of the liberties of the people and that freedom of action in the enactment of Jaws and exercise of authority so vitally toihe well being of theStates in their sove reign character. Whenever the people of iho SoolU aiul Notlb rctrxrir tu Hie JeUTel’- sonian principles upou which the Govern ment was administered in the better days of the republic, these illegal enactments, which we obey for the time being, but do not iwscept or approve, will be repealed aud erased from the statute books of the country. The Chronicle and Sentinel is of the opinion that the best interests of our State will be promoted by attending to home affairs. The laborer, farmer, manufacturer, mechanic and merchant and professional man, who attend to their private interests, will be better off at the cad of the year than those who spend their time in idle and useless discussions of national politics. Let Us take care of our home government ami see what we can do to advance our material prosperi ty. Tbfre is abundant time ahead to devote to* carapaigu which will be fought on Northern soil and between parties re cently united in the conquest of the South, but now arrayed against one an other in battle for political supremacy. We do not propose to trammel the action of that party at the North whom we be lievn and know to be friendly to the South; aud while we do not approve of the “new departure,” we do not intend to enter the lists and wage a fierce warfare against our friends and the only party in tho North that we can ever hope to do justice to the South and the Southern people. We have no heart for such a fight; but if any of our cotemporaries South have, we purpose to leave the mat ter in their hands. They will, we fear, prove powerful allies iu the Radical party. We have enough to do in Georgia to take care of and purify our own State Gov ernment. To this end our efforts will be directed when the proper time comes— about the ides of November. Upon these “remarks” of our Augusta Co temporary, the Savannah News of the 17th inst. comments as follows Our Democratic cotemporaries who, while they at heart repudiate the bogus Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, and “ do not approve of the New De parture,” yet are unwilling to [strengthen the hands of the honest masses of the Northern Democracy who oppose its in corporation into the National Demecratic platform by scheming political fusionists, find their position a very awkward and embarrassing one. . To our mind there is a vast difference between “waging a fierce warfare against eur friends and the only party at the North that we can ever hope to justiue to the South and the Southern people.” and a frank and candid protest against a sur render of the Constitution aud the rights of the States—in short—agninst a solemn approval and ratification of the most ab horrent usurpations of the Radical party. To protest against these usurpations, to denounce the unjust aud illegal means by which they they were accomplished, and to refuse to ratify and adopt them, is not to make war on our Northern friends, the large majority of whom are firmly and conscientiously opposed to these innova tions upon the Constitution. It is a mistake to regard this ns a sec tional issue. It is an issue confined t cratic party, but of the Republic. To ignore it, is treason to both. Like our friend of the Chronicle, we have no heart for a fight with our North ern Democratic friends. We make no such fight with the true Democracy of any section when we simply assert our unalterable devotion to Democratic prin ciples, and our uncompromising opposi tion to Radical usurpation. We wish to ly they faued to darken counsel, with their clicap fluency. The Democratic majority cannot fail short of 35,000 and may exceed 40,000. Largely more than one-half the Radical vote is made up of negroes. Kentucky lias done her whole duty. Especially proud are we of Bourbon’s noble walk. And now we would know where the join hands with the true friends of con- Radical gain is, which the organs of that stitutional government of all sections of v ftre boasting of ^ loudly . the Union in restorinsi the Constitution, 1 J - _ the Union iu restorin_ and iu wresting the Government from the hands of a vile faction of corruptionists, usurpers and revolutionists. We desire that the men of the North shall know that the Democracy of the South are true to the principles of tbo Constitution, and that they demand nothing more. We are unwilling either to stultify ourselves or deceive them. We have given the whole of the fore going, that our readers may judge of the merits or force of the reasoning on both sides. We do not agree with our cotemporary of Augusta, that the discussion of such questions, and especially at this time, either “idle or useless.” The price of Liberty is eternal vigi lanceand just at this time, when such insidious approaches by its deadliest foes are being made, to the very citadel itself, we think that every freeman ir. the land, as well as every sentinel upon the watch- tower, should be thoroughly aroused to a sense of the danger, and active to the ut most extent of his ability, in defeating the wily arts of the enemy. We take this occasion to add, in re sponse to several of our cotemporaries both North and South, who are so much inclined to indulge in sleep, just now, and who make such earnest appeals for “unity,” “unity,” and “harmony” in the Democratic Party that no one can be more in favor of “unity” and “har mony” in the Democratic party through out the United States, than we are. But who are the disturbers of “unity’ and “harmony” in it? Does this charge justly lie against those who stand by the flag and principles of the party from tho time of its organization, and upon which alone free institutions can be preserved; or upon those bolters and renegades who are advising not only the lowering of the glorious old flag, but the going over of the entire party en masse, horse, foot and dragoons, to tbo grounds of the enemy—carrying with them noth ing e.ccept their name? And this wonder ful movement undei the pretense of saving the country from Radicalism ! Tho country, to be saved from Radi calism by the sanction and approval of the most infamous measures ever carried by Radical usurpations? Was ever a propo sition more preposterous ? One of our cotemporaries, who is so earnest for peace and nnity in the Dear oeratic Ranks just now, says, we should fire upon the enemy, and not upon friends. That is exactly our position but which of the * two was the most dangerous enemy to Troy the bold Achilles or the crafty, base, in- -aidiincr smon 7 The citadel of Troy was never taken by open assault. It was on ly by deceit, guile and treachery that its interior walls were finally entered after a ten years’ conflict; and so it will be with the citadel of American free institutions, if the like deceit, guile and treachery, now resorted to, shall prove to be equally suc cessful with the too confiding, over-trust ing, honest masses of the people of the ELECTION IN ST. LOUIS. Important Democratic Gains. The Germans Come Over to the Democratic Party. The election which took place in St. Louis on Tuesday of last week has de monstrated the significant fact that the Germans of that city who last fall united with the Democrats in eltcting Gratz Brown Governor over the administration candidate, have taken a final departure from the Radical party. The Democrat ic candidate for Presiding Judge of the County Court was elected over the Re publican nominee by 1,800 majority.— Every effort was made by the Radicals to recover the support of the liberal Ger mans of the city, but without avail. The correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette thinks the German vote of Missouri irre vocably lost to the Republican party, and considers this a certainty in the event of the re-nomination of Grant. Georgia Press on The New parture. De- States. A. H. S. THE KENTUCKY ELECTION. The Lion Roaretli. The Lexington (Ky.) Daily Press, of the 16th, instant, says: The Radicals who, following the cue of the Courier-Journal, were so exultant over the gains General Harlan had made in the late election, must feel some what crestfallen as the returns disclose the true si ate of the case. * * * * * * The truth is, that subtract the negro vote and repeating from Harlan’s strength and Leslie’s majority would be larger than that given either Seymour or Ste venson ; showing that the gallant Gener al has gained simply the vote of the new ly enfranchised negro, and lost heavily amongst the whites, who formerly acted with the Republican party. The tables of returns from the election found in the same paper, are nearly com plete. They show the following aggre gates thus far in the vote for Governor: Leslie (Dem.) 115,261 Harlan (Rad.) 79,685 The “Depaeturists” Embraced.— The Marietta Journal of the 18th, says: We copy from the Atlanta. jEW* an article asserting the unity of principle of the “Departure Democrats” and the Repub licans. It looks as if there is no insupe rable obstacle in the way of combination. Nothing but a name and political associ ations. Again: Texas‘Democracy.—The party in Tex as adhere iu their platform to the Con stitution as formed by our Fathers and assert, as living any vital issues, every thing, the New Departure pronounces ‘dead.” The Greensboro Herald of the 17th instant says: THE RURAL PRESS OP GEORGIA, almost as a unit is boldly and sternly ad hering to the time-honored creed of De mocracy iu all its purity. The Radical mongrel heresies promulgated by a few time-serviug hypocritical demagogues at the North, and sustained by a beautifully less number of the same ilk at the South, couched under the name of “new depar ture,” finds but little or no sympathy with the rural press of the Empire State of the South. Democrats in Vermont. The Burlington Democrat of the 10th inst., says: We do not want a high tariff in Ver mont. Our State is an agricultural State. Our butter and cheese.has a free outlet,let ng, therefore, have a frceinlefc to compen sate for what we send out. We have no question of equal rights to dispute about, for every one in Vermont has equal rights, let us therefore make the most of these rights, and help ourselves instead of supporting a union of paupers, who ask us to feed them while they do noth ing for us. The fanner of Vermont asks no protection on his butter and cheese; if he cannot compete with others he will try something else, Why, then, should he pay a duty on iron, steel, tea, coffee, sugar and other productions. And further: Each State should stand on its own bottom and proclaim the old Jackson principle of “free trade and sailors’ rights V” So it would seem to us. Leslie’s majority 35,576 In the same counties last year, in the election for Congress, the vote stood as follows: Democratic 89,360 Radical ... : 57,146 Democratic majority last year in the same counties 32,214 The full Democratic majority last year was .30,691 The majority this year, as far as returns have been received, is. .35,576 And the Democratic gain, so far is 4,885 —notwithstanding the negro vote for the Radical ticket this year, which was not an element in the canvass last lear. The Paris Kentuckian says it is a most satisfying exhibit, and adds: The State was thoroughly and earnestly canvassed and with more than average ability on the part of the Radicals. Lo cal questions were into the canvass by RadicaTorators hope of diverting* the attention of the, people from the vital issues which differ-1 live, ence the two parties. From the New York Globe, 15th inst. LIVE AND LET LIVE. VVliat it Costs to Eat, Di iuk aud Sleep “Respectably” iu New York. Incredible as it seems, there must be more than 10,000 families in this city who keep up an establishment in fashionable style, and spend at least $10,000 a year. Ten thousand fami lies—a hundred millions a year! The figures will seem impossible, but here is luculent proof. The number on Fifth Avenue exceeds 750; those on Madison Avenue exceed 570.— There are between Fourteenth and Fifty-ninth streets alone forty-five side streets that will fairly average 150 houses between Sixth avenue and Fourth avenue, the boundaries of fashion. These alone would give 7,000, and with Fifth and Madison avenues over eight thousand. And now we have to include Lexington avenue, Park avenue, the streets be yond Fifty-ninth street, and the other fashionable localities scattered over the city—and the number of four- story brown stone front houses will easily reach 1,300, which would leave our calculation far too low. Some of the men who keep ns these establish ments are poor. There is many A POOR FELLOW ON A SALARY of perhaps $5,000 a year—for a man of $5,000 a year is poor in New York —who lives in a nice brown stone front house on a fashionable side street. He has to keep, at the very least, four servants: a cook, a scullery maid, who helps her and may do at the same time the laundry work, an upstairs girl, and—if he has children (poor people mostly do have children) [ me xvatucais. JUO- 1 IT* fW* ^ 00 ° ^nt for persistently lugged andj ^ ter he has paid his [adical’orators iu the has nothing left to live on. - -<• 'Nevertheless, it costs him$10,000 to How can he do it ? People live recklessly in New York, and in the Vain struggle of emulation they "0 far beyond their means.— Thev starve themselves, as some Ital ian nobles do, to keep up grand state before the world. Your readers will scarce believe it, that here in many a family the food is scanty because of the carriage being elegant; that many a lady on Fifth avenue has notliiug to wear at home because she gives par ties iu which she likes to be gorgeous ly dressed. There is nothing of the morbid extravagance of New York in your staid city. People in St. Louis do not, as a class, make fools of them selves because they see others fool away a great deal of money. Here they do, as a class. fashionable hotels. There are ten hotels here, kept on the European plan, in each of which some 100 persous board. These fam ilies pay for a suite of rooms, consis ting of parlor and bedroom, from $15 to $30 a day. This price is paid, no matter whether the guests stay a week or two years, In the Grand. Hotel there are a few suifes which are high er—§300 a week. Bnt the average is not so high. Yon can get two good sized rooms in most of the European hotels for $200 a week, or $10,000 a year. In regard to yonr meals, you pay for what you eat. You pay for peas 50c.; for a cup of coffee, 50c. An examination of the restaurant bills in one of the hotels gave the following result: Average for breakfast (one person), $3; for dinner, 810 or $11; for supper, about $5 or $6. A whole fam ily can live somewhat cheaper, for of some of the dishes—as for instance beef—an order for one will bring enough for two. But on the whole, the result is pretty much the same.— A family of three persons will, living economically, spend easily between $30 and $40 a day on their meals, which would amount in the year to more than $10,000. . $10,000 FOR TWO MEALS AND $10,000 FOB TWO BOOMS, makes $20,000. ' Most of the fami lies boarding in these hotels keep car riages; they give little dinner parties —evening entertainments they are excused from in consideration of these good dinners; they spend the summer in Europe or at watering- places; their girls have the most fashionable dressmakers and best masters. It costs them $40,000 or $50,000 to eke out their existence.— They might have a grand brown stone front house for $10,000 a year, but then they would be afflicted by a dozen servants. You ask one of the boarders of the hotel, “Why don’t you keep house?” and you will fiud that in most cases a woman is at the hot tom of this extravagance. Either she is in “delicate health,” or she cannot get along with the “help.” And so they leave their home, and its privacy and indepedence, to getintotwo apart ments, and to pay for them a price with which they could rent a palace. But the society of the hotel recom pensates them. There are HANDSOME YOUNG LORDS and dashing young bucks of the Union League club coming there all the time, who are sure to admire them when they come c(own to dinner in grand state, and who will keep them company if they should get lonely in the absence of tker hyisbands. It is a delightful life to one that likes to do 'nothing. A woman in “delicate health” will find here rest and deliv erance from all household trouble.— There are plenty of good rocking chairs in which they can recuperate by the delightful motion. The only burden of theirs is dress. They sub mit to the trouble for the sake of evading others, aud gladly dress three times a day for the company of ad miring young gentlemen and curious young ladies waiting for their appear ance in the restaurant. LUXURIOUS LESSONS EARLY LEARNED Two of the most extravagant of these hotels have been hut recently built, and their number is still on the increase. It is now ten. They depend more on permanent boarders than on transient custom, which is absorbed by the great many hotels on the American plan. Only those peo ple who would not like the best of American hotels for being too cheap and too democratic, or Europeans who prefer to live in their accus tomed style, go to the European ho tels. There they can SPEND EASILY FIFTY DOLLARS A DAY. We have been apt in learning the art of luxurious living from. Euro peans, and in these European hotels no one sits down to a dinner without his wine. Great many have a friend to dinner, and then it is the easiest thing in the world to spend $25 at a dinner. Grand Dukes and Princes, stopping at the Buckingham Palace Hotel, may pay as much; but it is for a week or two. Here people pay the extravagant price for years; they make it an every-day matter. In deed, New York is the only place where such a thing is known.— Neither London nor Paris has such boarding hotels, although the first named Democratic city vies with the splendor of our hotel aristocracy in its very “swelly” clubs. In the sum mer the boarders all go away. They go to Europe, to Newport,"or Sara toga, or their country seats. Of late it has become more and more the fashion to go to Europe in preference to a watering place. In New York it has become a regular item of the household, $5,000 for a three months’ trip to Europe. There are many families here who have not missed a AMERICAN COUNTRY. SEATS IN EU ROPE. Traveling abroad becomes cheaper the more American families learn the ways of Europe, and some of our wealthy men earnestly think of buy ing a pretty place on the Rhine or on the lakes of North Italy, whither they could go every summer. The plan is feasible, and will be tried soon by several gentlemen who have found it convenient to provide new places of residence for their families while in Europe. It would have obvious ad vantages with regard to the noble sport of Count hunting, which our ladies of Fifth avenue delight in. A lady whose husband died recently just left her home on Fifth avenue to go ABROAD IN SEARCH OF A DUKE. She will go to Italy where the com modity is to be had in great plenty, and thinks of buying a pretty villa, and living there until she achieves her object. How her friends here will envy her, how they will chafe at Mad ame la Duchesse. ’ It has been no ticeable how large a number of New York ladies go to spend considerable time in Europe without the protec tion of males. Married ladies take their grown-up daughters, aud leave their husbands behind to earn the money they are going to spend, just as they go to Saratoga without their husbands. Americans trust their wives everywhere; and let them wil lingly stay at a hotel, go to Saratoga, or dash off to Europe, as they please. They all contribute to the glittering show of Vanity Fair, in which New York has now only two rivals—Paris and London. We owe it to them that it now costs TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS TO LIVE “RESPECTABLY,” that is to say on Fifth avenue. In this sum we do not include the rent of the house, which would certainly swell the amount to $30,000. How this enormous sum—on the interest of which many a family of refined tastes conld subsist—is expended, is easily demonstrated. A first-class establishment on Fifth avenue has eleven or twelve servants; a man cook, with three female assistants, scullery-maid, etc.; a man waits on the table; a laundress; a coachman and a footman—the latter may help waiting on the table, as liis duties on the box are not very arduous—a sta ble man; two or three girls for the upstair work, and, if there are ehil dren in the family, a nurse. The OUTLAY IN CARRIAGES AND HORSES alone amounts to $10,000 a year. The three or four carriages which these families keep, one for morning one for evening, one for the after noon, one for the drive, tho park, etc. want renewing very often in New York, where the different styles sue ceed each other as rapidly as fashions do, and where carriages are not kept so long in the family as in Europe. There~my lady’s coach that was bought ten years ago is good enough still now; here Mr. Snooks wants one at least every year. Then comes the change in horses. Every one wants to have a faster span of horses, and fancy prices are paid for horses, which are enormous expense. If anything, $5,000 will be below the average spent on the change in horses, and the same amount for stable expenses; renewing of carriages, buying new ones, etc., is quite reasonable. With regard to the other expenses, they depend on indi vidual tastes and habits; but they all have the best masters for their chil dren; at least half a dozen big par ties in winter; the most fashionable dressmakers for the young ladies; their country seat or their three months’ trip to Europe; they have to feed twelve servants, and where will the $15,000 be when they come to the end of the year ? THE UPPER FIVE OF THE UPPER TEN of such families—families that spend between $25,000 to $30,000 a year— there are about a thousand in New York. It would be impossible to as certain the exact figures, but the above figures is a result of considera ble research, and to be relied on as very near approximating the fact.— Easier is it to give a close figure as to the families spending between $50,000 and $60,000 a year. There are about sixty or seventy such families. Our figures Avould stand thus: 10,000 or 13,000 families that spend $10,000 a year; 1,000 that spend between $20,- 000 and $30,000 a year, and 60 or 70 whom it costs $50,000 a year to live. These are the figures that explain those gorgeous dresses you see at par ties; those princely apartments with aU the luxuries of the East and West; the endless tide of magnificent car nages and horses that flow in the park; that gay and splendid life which has made New York the Paris of America—a city of luxury and friv olity. GEORGIA NEWS. gives GORDON COUXTY. The Calhoun News ol’ the 17th the following items: An interesting protracted meeting i 8 beiug carried on here under the auspice of the Baptist denomination. Rev. JJr Hawkins, Pastor, is conducting it. ' The Times says a young Doctor in that town has made a most important discov ery, viz : the location of the “ bone of contention.” He found it in the region ol the jaw. Hon. John P. King, of Augusta, has donated a lot in the town of Calhoun and a considerable amount of money’ we have been informed, for the purpose of building an Episcopal Church. r a zzrr i , it-.. , He does single summer for eight or ten years, In short, leading do it, no matter if he can or no.— if we except last year. All colo-ed recruits are ordered to New Orleans to reinforce the Ninth Cavalry. The Captain of an English vessel, at Darien, Georgia, recently had occasion to punish four insubordinate sailers by confining them in the “hold.” The im prisoned men, through their Attorney, obtained a writ of habeas corpus from a negro magistrate, who released them.— The matter has been made a subject of diplomatic negotiation between the Brit ish Minister and the Department of State, the Captaiu having complained to his Government of a breach of international law. \\ ilmixgton, August 18.—The steamer R. E. Lee exploded her boiler yesterday Three colored boat bauds were killed and three wounded. Capt. Mm. Skimmer was seriously wounded. Noah McGinnis, in Sugar Valley, was run over by a log cart last week and was seriously, probably fatally, injured. Some recent rains have done good but the corn crop will be a short one. The Times believes that it is a general ly admitted fact, that for number of bus iness houses in Calhoun a larger per cen tum of goods are sold than in almost any town along the line of the Western & At lantic Railroad. In other words, trade is better here, all things considered, than elsewhere along the Road. The Times strongly advocates the build ing of the North Georgia aud North Carolina Railroad, and says it is in a fair way of absolute certainty. It designates a Gordon county man, who is not going to subscribe to the Capital Stock as a lat ter day curiosity. HENRY COUNTY—NO RAINS. We learn from J. M. Hambrick, Esq., of Henry county, that no rain has fallen in the neighborhood of Stockbridge since the 17th of July—now a month ago. Mr. Hambrick is on his way to the mountains for recreation and to improve his health. NEWTON COUNTY. The Covington Examiner, of the 17th, has the following items: The Fall Term of the S. M. F. College opened on Tuesday last, with favorable prospect for a fall school. Quite a num ber of young ladies from a distance, are already here. Rain is very much needed iu this vi cinity, to enable our citizens to sow tur nips, which is an important crop and should be attended to. We now have a mail from this city to Atlanta, carried by the day passenger trains. This is quite a convenience. We learn that on Friday night last, at the colored Baptist Church, a difficulty occurred between two negroes, iu which Frank Evans was dangerously cut with a knife. Also, on Sunday night last, at the Church, another difficulty took place, in which Dick Livings tpn was seriously cut with a knife. Blood letting seems to have become a favorite passtime among the darkies of this vicinity. We learn that considerable sickness is prevailing in this county, at the presen time—mostly Billious aud Intermittent Fevers. The Newton County Agricultural So ciety, held its monthly exhibition on the 12th inst., which the Examiner says was a decided success, enlisting a lively in terest and was well attended by visitors. This is but a beginning, which we hope to see followed up with more general ex hibitions and increasing interest in the various departments of Agriculture in every county in Georgia—Peaches, Pears, Grapes, Beets, Squashes.] From the Covington Enterprise of yes terday we obtain the following items : Cotton on yesterday brought 16 cents , in Covington. The Fall Term of Emory College, at Oxford, opened on Wednesday last with favorable prospects for a full attendance. The Yellow River Primitive Baptist Association will meet with Haynes’ Creek Church, Gwinnett county, 18 miles north of Covington, on the old Lawrenccville road, commencing on Saturday, Septem ber 23d. On the 16th instant, in the absence of the family, the residence of Elder Wil liam Almand, near Conyers, was entered and robbed of nearly $1,000 in money, and other valuables. No clue to the per petrators of this daring robbery has yet been found. BARTOW COUNTY. The Cartersville Standard of the 17th says the tax levied for this year upon the people of that county is heavy : “ The State tax is four-tenths of one per cent., $4 per $1,000. The county, tax is two hundred and five per cent, upon that— making $S.20 per thousand. Total State and county, $12.20 per thousand. “ The county tax is as follows: Forty per cent, for the legal indebtedness of the county, due and to become due; ten per cent, for Pauper Farm, fifteen per cent, for jailor’s fees; five per cent, to pay coroner’s fees, bailiffs at court, fuel, non-resident witnesses in criminal cases; one hundred and twenty-five per cent, for building new jail; ten per cent to pay jurors.” Ami Why was This S The City Council on Friday night ap pointed the Mayor, Alderman McLen don, aud City Attorney Newman, as del egates to a Commercial Convention, to be held in Baltimore. Is this a mere frolic, where those who are appointed as delegates can go at the city’s expense, and enjoy themselves hugely, doing neither the city nor the State any good ? If so, the action was highly proper. But if it is intended to look after the mercantile interests and trade of Atlanta and the South, why were not some of our best merchants, bankers, manufac turers or railroad men appointed on that committee ? The gentlemen who were appointed are very clever and worthy, but are not the men to represent Atlanta where her interests in connection with the trade of the country are to be ably represented.