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SUN-STROKES.
£f,' „ The Courier-Journal is a “what is
1 Xowell, Massachusetts, is low, uu-
ffC jl with about twenty cases of the small
cox.
- jgg°>Tho Charleston people have gotten
over their scare, and have concluded that
they have not the yellow fever so bad af
ter oil-
When the Courier-Journal said it
;,"d sent hills out to none but Rodman,
it didn’t suppose Brown would show his
$85 bill. But be did.
The papers are divided between
Caff, Boff, Puff and Poffenbarger. But
the lady in the case has been “honorably
acquitted.”
IST The Courier-Journal belongs to
the Syndicate, which proposes to force
the country into Radicalism. It tries to
be a disguised partner, but it can’t.
The Philadelphia Press says
“Grant will be a Cresar or nothing.” He
has always been a seizer of anything he
covld get his hands on.
{©“Since Helmbold’s attempt to as
sassinate himself, ho has retired from
Cong Branch, and gone back to his
quackery.
gg, It is unkind in the Cincinnati
Times and Chronicle to say that Butler,
in his candidacy for the Gubernatorial
nomination is hound to “ have a spoon or
spoil a horn.”
The “New Departure” papers are busy
jnst now in endeavoring to explain the
difference between advocating a measure
and adopting after it is passed. The
points they make are as fine as cambric
needles—indeed they are too fine to be
discernible.
The Atlanta Sun says “the babblings
of the Courier)'-Journal are only those of
to ter.” If the Atlanta Sun would bab
ble moro of water and less of whisky, it
would be a far better paper than it is.—
Courier-Journal.
True; but that fine old Kentucky
“bourbon” is so excellent that one can
not refuse to take it, now and then, and
straight at that.
Bfgt. The doctors say Helmbold is in
sane, albeit his recent attempt to shoot
himself is the best of proof to the contra
ry. It is almost certain that the attempt
lo shoot was prompted by a very earnest
desire to benefit liis race, and in the exi
gency of the moment he could think of
nothing that could more readily accom
plish that end than his own removal.
Ugh. The Richmond Whig originates a
new “mule-and-forty-acres” proposition.
It suggests to Grant the propriety of en
tering upon the next campaign with a
proposition to reimburse the South for
negroes freed by the war—one-half the
money, 3,000,000 of dollars, to be dis
tributed among the negroes. Such
proposition could have originated only
with a Richmond editor.
“ Mr. Rodman and the Yeoman ” says
the Courier-Journal, “have done for us
what we could not half so thoroughly
have done for ourselves.” And, now,
that Mr. Brown comes up with his §85
bill, to the assistance of the other two,
the work will be all the better done and
the proof is complete that the Courier-
Journal is Democratic only for the sake
of the few dollars that it can grind out
of the candidates. Say no more about
it, C.-J., the public is fully satisfied now
Speaking of Butler’s Springfield
harangue, the New York Times says
“ The scene created by Butler at the
meeting in Springfiold must disgust every
intelligent man in Massachusetts with
their rowdy candidate for the Governor’
clmir.” Butler never did anythin
hts life that was not calculated to disgust
‘'every intelligent man.” In fact he is
the most disgusting man in the country
anyhow. ■ " - - ■ -
Charles Scribner, whoso death
was announced by telegraph yesterday,
was the head of one of the leadin
American publishing house and one of
the most enterprising and successful in
his line of business. At the time of his
death he was in England in the interest
of liis house. He was still comparatively
a young man and one from whom a great
deal was yet to have been expected to
ward building up American literature.
The Crops.
We have made inquiry recently of our
planting friends in regard to the crops
and while none of the reports are very
favorable, yet a general summing up of
the condition of the crops in the “black
belt” does not go to show that below an
average production of cotton will
uiade. The severe drought in July and
August injured the cotton, it was thought,
but some of the best farmers say the weed
is large enough and is about as well
fruited as usual, and will make a fair
crop. The com crop is better than us
ual—as good, perhaps, as it has been
since the wav, with a larger area of laud
planted.
The wheat and oat, was a failure, and
more com will he required to keep up
the farms, but still there will not be as
much bought os there was last year.
The farmers are hopeful—are freer from
debt than usual—and are better able to
ive at home.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT HAliF.AS
PUS CASK.
THE AT LANTA WEEKLY SUN.
An Interesting Question In Uir Raised.
7.
Our readers will recollect that a very
tedious examination before Justice
Johnson took place, in thb case of James
Alexander charged with the killing of a
negro man, Hamp. Whitehead by name,
which excited a large amount cf public
interest—the result of which was that
the Justice held him to appear at the
next session of the Superior Court—order
ing him to be kept in prison without
bail.
A writ of habeas corpus was sued out
and heard before Judge Hopkins of the
Superior Court, who remanded the
prisoner to jail, refusing bail.
Yesterday a writ of habeas corpus was
sued out before Judge Pittman, the Ordi
nary, who, after a patient hearing, grant
ed the application and admitted the pris
oner to hail in the sum of §20,000, which
was promptly given, and Alexander set
set at liberty.
The case was immediately carried be
fore Judge Hopkins by certiorari, pray-
a supersedeas of J udge Pittman’s de
cision in the case, so thaf the prisoner
might be remanded to jail and not allow
ed to give bond and be set at liberty.'
This the Judge refused to grant upon the
ground that no supersedeas from him
would be lawful or in order at this time ;
and the cet'tiorari stands to be heard on
its merits at the next term of the Supe
rior Court, and the prisoner remains un
der bond in the sum of §20,000.
GEORGIA^ NEWS.
That Dlspntch about Mr. Kimball.
The SavannahAdvertiser of the 29th
jast. contains a telegram from its Wash-
mgton correspondent, which contains the
following:- -*»
The paragraph in these dispatches of
August 21sh relative to H. I. Kimball,
^as furnished by two of the most respect-
able citizens of Atlanta, who went North
to find Kimball.
. SAVANNAH.
An over ilose of laudanum laid James F. Murphy
in the valley on Sunday. He liquored too indul
gently.
The Advertiser of Tuesday has the following:
We have information, received in the city yester
day by interested parties, that the heavy rains aud
wind storm of the past few days have inflicted fur
ther damage to the crop. The late rice planted iu
May, just shooting in belly, has all been blasted on
many of tha plantations.
The heavy storm in Florida and lower Georgia, no
ted in our last issue, seems to have been felt more
severely along the line of the Atlantic and Gnlf road
than was at first anticipated. In addition to the wash
previously mentioned, there are three very serious
breaks betwe en stations eight and nine, and commu
nication through may be interrupted for a few days.
Superintendent Haines, with a large force, however,
iB endeavoring to complete the repairs with all pos
sible dispatch, and it is thought that passengers and
mails may pass over to-day by transfers.
MOKBOE COUNTY.
The Advertiser announces the death, by drowning,
of a son of Hr. Robert E. Roddy and says:
I Mr. Roddey was a conductor on the night train of
the Atlantic and Gnlf railroad, and being ofl duty on
Wednesday, was engaged, with other oifleers, in
superintending repairs to the bridge over the
Ogeechee river, lately damaged by the flood. While
on the bridge one of the workmen beneath, passed
up his pocket-book, requesting Mr. R. to take charge
of it. This he did, but in a short time the pocket-
book accidently fell into the river. Hivesting him
self of his clothing he jumped in after it, and being
an expert swimmer he soon recovered it. In at
tempting to swim hack to the bridge he encountered
a strong current, and was seen to place the hook
between his teeth, in order to allow a more effective
use of his hand in swimming. He was advised to
endeavor to effecta landing some distance belowthe
bridge, but he continued his efforts to reach the
bridge some time, and was once beard to call for a
rope. In a moment ^afterward ho sank suddenly,
and was seen no more.
The following items are from the Advertiser of the
29th.
Hon. B. H. Hill and family and Hon. Hinton Ste
phens were among the arrivals at Indian Springs on
Friday last.
Within the last three dayB we have heard some
little complaint of worms having made their appear
ance in a few fields in the country.
The citizens of GuUctsvillo and vicinity had
good old-faehioncd barbecue on Friday last, which,
we learn, was participated in by a large and joyous
crowd.
The following paragraphs were Recordersd on the
29th
An immense number of worms, about an inch in
length, are now visible in the city. Their ravages
app(ar to be confined principally to tho various
grasses, which they are rapidly consuming. It is
not of the Army Worm or Cotton Caterpillar variety.
The Weather Bureau notified us that we might ex
pect a cyclone to reach us from Florida on Saturday.
Their prediction was fully veriked in the occurrence
of a storm of unusual severity. The wind blew a
gale during the entire day, accompanied with heavy
rains. No damage oi importance was effected to the
buildings in the city.
'S MACON,
The following bits arc Tdcgraplt-ed on the 29th:
The Combination Boat Club will perform the novel
ceremony of christening their new boats to morrow,
Wednesday afternoon, at 5 o’clock.
Since daylight on Saturday morning last a diligent
search h is been going on for the body of little Willie
Harris, reported as drowned on Friday evening by
two or three of his playmates
The hands at the brick yard of Sparks & Knight
quit work yesterday and went a fishing in Walnut
creek. About 4 o’clock in the afternoon they return
ed with a sturgeon weighing 145 pounds, which they
had speared and then captured,
Five car loads of iron for the street railroad arrived
yesterday on tho Macon and Brunswick Road, aud
the cross-ties will begin to come forward to-day.—
The iron which came yesterday will lav about one
mile and two-fifths of tho road. The contractor for
building our street railway is in the city, and wid
commence work immediately. The laying of the
track from tho Brown House to the Fair Grounds is
the first thing in order, as we are informed.
COLUMBUS.
The appended items are from the Sun of the 29th:
In tho neighborhood of Salem the cyclone of last
week done considerable damage by blowing down
the corn and cotton in many places. We noticed
also that it prostrated many trees.
At a railroad meeting in Lumpkin, on Saturday be
fore last, about $12,000 were added to the subscrip
tions in that county. Col. C. M. Lowe presented to
the meeting a resolution stating that it was the sense
of the meeting that the town Council of Lumpkin
should make a subscription of $10,000 to the B. C. A:
C. Road, and that the Mayor convene the Council at
an early day to take the sense of that body on the
suggestion.
AUGUSTA.
The Chronicle and Sentinel of tho 29th furnishes
the following items:
The recent rains seem to have been general
throughout the State, and the warier courses arc re
ported much swollen. The Savannah river has risen
with great rapidity. On yesterday evening, at half
past two o’clock, the siream measured seventeen
feet and six inches at the toll bridge, and was still
rising. Apprehensions are felt that the crops grow
ing in the river bottoms will he seriously injured.
On Sunday evening last Mr. Jefferson Bridwell—
who lives on the Milledgeville Road, about thirteen
miles from this city—was shot and killed under the
following circumstances: We learn that the deceased
and a Mr. Jesse Hendricks, his neighbor, had a
quarrel, and on Sunday evening about dark Hen
dricks went to Bridwell’a gate and the latter came
out to see him. Thero were no witnesses to what
passed between the two men, we believe, but it end
ed in Hendricks shooting Bridwell. The wound was
a mortal one, and Mr. Bridwell lived only a few mo
ments after receiving it. Hendricks left after shoot
ing, and at latest accounts had not been arrested.
The Coroner probably held an inquest yesterday eve
ning.
PUTNAM COUNTY.
Three dollars per bushel is all that Eatonton Mer
chants have the heart to ask for potatoes*
The Express k Messenger, of tho 29th has the
following :
This section was visited last week with very heavy
rains and high winds, though we have heard of
no damage to property from either cause. The
streams Lave been considerably swollen, but not
sufficient to interfere much with trade.
Capt Whiting informs us that one day last week his
train was rocked by two young fifteenth amendments
about four miles from town. The train was stopped,
have Had front their city on account of the yellow
fever epidemic, and that additional crowds ar. leav
ing daily. Every train comes full to Augusta, aud
more are expected. Se> eral Charleston mer-
c ants expect to do business here during tbe fall,
and our city will be benefitted by the misfortunes of
sister. On yesterday one Charleston
merchant telegraphed a friend here to secure him a
store, and ©them are reported con ing.
WOMAN.
,Xbc Banner contributes the following:
, A "hlte man was confined in jail to answer an In
dictment by a grand jury. He could not procure
bail, so a young girl, who was partially instrnmen-
tal in his incarceration, sympathized with, and pro
posed to marry him, provided his custodians would
release him. Thearraogement was satisfactory; and
the parties repairing to a bar-room, a justice of the
peace speedily united them in wedlock. At its con
clusion, the fair bride turned to her groom, aud
with a significant nod, saluted him thusly: *’Jim,
you are now free, and you may thank me for releas
ing you from jail, hut I’U be denied if I’m coin" to
live with you! ’’
COLUMBUS. V is d
This is from the Sun of the 30th :
Judge Torry died at half past 6 o’clock yesterday
afternoon.
These from the Enquirer of the same date:
The Chattahoochee has risen some ten feet from
the late rains.
We understand that the Board of Control held a
meeting Monday night, at which they determined
to order a new steamer at once. A Jeffrey’s cim.ne
third class, double cylinder, with all the latest im
provements, was agreed upon.
SAVANNAH.
The Xewt of the 30th has the following item:
The steamship Gen. Barnes brought out on her
bust trip a large bell. It is a present to Bishop Fur-
sum (for this diocese, and will be placed on the new
Cathedral when built,) from a French priest in Bel
gium. There are nine sets of raised figures, Bible
scenes, around the bell, and the finish of the entire
bell is said to be superior to that of any in this coun
try. It weighs two thousand five hundred and three
pounds. On one side is the foljowiDg inscription
SZENT HAPvOMSAG,
TOY TQTfc-X
IRGALMAZZ NEKUNK.
On the reverse is the following:
EZEN HARANGOT ONTOTE,
HILZER IGNAZ,
BECSUJHELYBE E3 UJ MOBOE,
SZEIUNT FELSZRESTE;
POZBECH JOZSEF PRESTEN.
1863.
HOME.
The following is all the Commercial intelligence
that comes under dato of the 20th:
The Coora river is going into a decline. It keeps
its bed, and i8 very low.
The monster who escaped from the Kingston jail,
in which he had been imprisoned for killing Ids
child, came very near being captured in Kingston
last Friday. One of his pursuers knocked him down
with a rock, but only suceeded in capturing his hat.
The wretch eays he will surrender as soon as he kills
his wife; that he will be willing to die as soon as he
accomplisves this. A more totally depraved case
than this man ’twould be hard to find.
title. ” There is evidently an understand
ing behven them. Davis proclaimed his
position, and Stephens takes it up as the
“new departure” of the “lost cause.”—
Upon this theory there is mischief in this
thing.. It demolishes the Democratic
party in the South. It revives the issues
of the war in a new shape. It explains
the Ku-Klnx Klans and the Ku-Klux
bill. It gives color to what General
Grant lately said to our correspondent at
Long Branch on the Treaty of Washing
ton. He feared another war with the
South, and hence his great desire for
peace with England. But may not this
pamphlet be a Republican counterfeit ?
We hope so; but we fear that it is not.
It has all the ear-marks of a Southern
manifesto, and doubtless it speaks the
sentiments and the purposes of a large
body of Southern men. If there is any
man within this call who knows that this
is not a Southern manifesto let him
speak: for we learn that this pamphlet is
even now in course of distribution to all
the known friends of the “lost cause”—
North, South, East and West.—Weic
York Herald, 27th August, 1871.
TELEGRAMS.
quently released. He is now here. The
case will be submitted to the British
Minister at Washington.
Prominent physicians sign a statement
that there is no Cholera in Savannah, nor
any disease approximating to it. They
further state that the season up to this
time has been the healthiest within their
experience.
Washington, August 31.—The Wis
consin Republican Convention nominat
ed Gen. Waslibume for Governor and
M! H. Petit for Lieutenant Governor.
The balance of the State officers were re
nominated. The
Grant.
Porter Fleming.
This gentleman is well known as one of
Augusta’s most popular and responsible
Cotton Factors. See his card in our
paper to-day.
DELAWARE.
The Storm King- Rages in Helm ware.
Poet Jarvis, August 31.—The storms
of the past few days are now beiDg felt in
damages by flood. The river is many
resolutions endorse I ft bove high-water mark and js still
f At this place there is a
of the Ku- j *30,000 suspension bridge being con-
srview with 1 structed across the Delaware. A long
Senator Soott, Chairman
Klux Committee, had an interview witli | stmctetl across the Delaware. A long
the President to-day, and submitted a an< ^ expensive coffer-dam has just been
communication, which was fully dis
coursed in the interview, setting forth
briefly the number of acts of unlawful
completed and an improve 1 steam pump
and boiler, placed in it to proceed with
the work of laying the middle pier. The-
Jtourbouism in Ohio.
Columbus, August 30.—Pendleton and
Thurman spoke. Pendleton, after a eu-
logium on Yallandigham, repeated his
Loveland speech.
Thurman said the Democrats interpose
no objection to the 13th amendment,
but were as strongly opposed to the 14th
and 15th amendments as ever. He de
nounced the reconstruction measures of
Congress, claiming that all tho recon
struction necessary when the rebellion
surrendered, was for the Southern States
to elect Senators and Representatives to
Congress. He reviewed the reconstruc
ted State governments in detail, and said
the debts of these States had been in
creased by the negro and carpet-bag
governments §190,000,000. He denoun
ced the Ku-Klux bill, and tho treaty of
Washington.
From the New Fork Herald.
!C Tlie Lost Cause”--An Astound
ing Programme, Though Per
fectly Absurd.
We publish to-day, with the “strictly
confidential” circular introducing the
document, a very remarkable pamphlet,
entitled, “Concession, or How the Lost
Cause May be Regained, and the Inde
pendence of the South Secured—Being
an Address to my Fellow Countrymen,
by a Concessionist, &c. Published by
the Southern Association.” The “strictly
confidential” circular letter is dated
“Rooms of the Southern Association,
New York, August, 1871,’.’ though it ap
pears to be issued for the “Southern As
sociation, Washington.” And this is all
tlab we know about it, though looking at
the indignant repudiation of the “new
departure” by Jeff. Davis, Alexander H.
Stephens and numerous other leading
Southern fire-eaters, we may say to this
extraordinary political paper, as Hamlet
said to his Governor’s ghost—
Thou com’st in such a questionable shape,
I'Jl speak to tliee.
The document before us is divided into
three parts. Part First is a compact,
double-distilled Southern argument, in
tended to show that “we, the people of the
South, are a nation, different ana distinct
from the people of the North,’ and that ‘no
effort to bind us together by force can
succeed,” and that at best “such a union
can only be temporary.” Part Second
enters upon the main question, “how the
Lost Cause may be regained,” and says
that to this end “the first step is to turn
back forever upon the venal, hypocritical,
false-hearted Yankee, ‘new departure’
democracy of the North,” because, intent
only upon the spoils of office, “they have
ever deluded and deceived us.” Next,
“concentrate all your attention and ener
gies upon your own domestic political
affairs,” and then, men of the South,
having cleared the track, you have only
to do-three things to secure your inde
pendence, viz:—
First—Secure the completo control, through .the
ballot box, of the local government of every South
ern State .
Second—When, this is done call a convention of
the States and elect a President for your Southern
Confederacy.
Third—.Appoint a Commission to Washington to
demand your independence, and treat for a peacea
ble separation.
It is contended that this plan of opera
tions, being “according to law,” cannot
be interfered with, and that the demand
suggested, if firmly made this Jtime, will
succeed.- We are next told that “North
Carolina has commenced the good work’
in the impeachment of the : Radical Gov
ernor, &c. Port Third of this “con
cessionist ” document is “addressed to
the People of the North” in favor of the
separation of the two sections, whereby
“the independence of the South and the
peace, prosperity and liberty of the
North are inseparably linked together.
Hi other words, the two sections cannot
be united till they are divided, and they
must be separated in order to live har
moniously together.
Whence com eth this extraordinary rev
olutionary document ? You may call it
madness; “but there is method in it.” It
is concessionist, and yet itis secessionist.
It preaches concession in order to gain
secession, and, sticking a pin here, we
think there is something in it We are
informetl, in the circular letter aforesaid,
that this Southern programme of indepen
dence “was prepared by one of the most
distinguished of Georgia’s statesmen, ”—
This means, we suspect, that Mr. A. H.
Stephens is the man, and upon this as
sumption we can account for the estab
lishment of the new Southern rights pa
per at Atlanta, of which he is the politi
cal editor, and in which his whole heart
is devoted to a Southern repudiation of
the Northern Democracy on their “new
departure.” And to strengthen this
opinion that Mr. Stephens is the author
of this pamphlet we are told in it (Part
Second) that “that glorious banner,
wbicli was so sadly furled at Appomattox,
will once more fly freely from the Capi
tol at Richmond, and he who of right
ought to sit there (Jeff. Davis, of course)
to preside over our destiny, will be re
called from his retirement amid the re
joicings of a redeemed people.”
Now, all this may be very absurd; but
it cannot be denied that the Southern
programme here presented furnishes a
new and striking interpretation of the
late speeches of Jeff Davis in Alabama
and Georgia on the “acceptance of the
situation. ” He accepts nothing, he ad-
.1 J\'lce Slate of AttTairs in the Crescent City.
Unblushing Radical Corruptions.
New Orleans, August 30.—Governor
Warmouth has suspended the Secretary
of State, George C. Boree, and appointed
J. N. Herron in his stead. Boree is
eharged with the promulgation, as law,
that which he knew was not law. He
refused to obey the suspension and was
removed by the police.
While Boree was being onsted from
bis office in Mechanics’ Institute, a still
more disgraceful scene was occurring at
the City Hall. At the last meeting of
Council, an ordinance was passed, au
thorizing the extention of the city wa
terworks upon the Holley plan, and au
thorizes the issuance of §2,500,000 of
Bonds for that purpose. An ordinance
was also introduced leasing the water
works to the city Water-works Compa
ny, for 25 years, and authorizing the
parties to mortgage the wprks for $2,-
000,000. While discussing the proposi
tion to lease the works, Administrator
DeLassie produced a certificate for one
thousand shares of one hundred dollars
each of stock, issued to John Lockwood.
Mr. DeLassie stated they had been giv
en to him to secure his vote for the
measure.
Maj. Flanders stated that every mem
ber of the Council had been approached.
He had seen §100,000 worth of stock of
fered to one of them. Administrator
Walton stated that he had been offered a
sum which would make him independent
for life to support the measure.
The impression prevails that the
scheme will eventually pass the Council,
and the city will not only be fleeced of
its water works, but out of §2,000,000 be
sides.
Boston, August 30.—Major George F.
Browning, thirty-four years of age, died
of excitement over the disaster in which
his brother was badly burnt.
No additional deaths from the disaster
have been reported.
St. Louis, August 30.—The new steam
brake was tested to-day on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad. A train of cars, going
forty-five miles an hour, on a down grade
of forty feet to the mile, was stopped
within a thousand feet in thirty-two sec
onds.
Charleston, August 30.—Three new
cases of yellow fever were reported to
day, Returns for the week ending Sat
urday show a total of six yellow fever
deaths.
London, August 30.—Six lives were
lost by the wreck of the Dondicar, from
Oronstadt for an English port.
There was a railroad collision at Bol
ton—six persons were injured.
The cholera has appeared atHambrug.
Thero were sixteen deaths at Altoha
during the past week.
The ravages of the disease continues
at Koenigsburg. On the 29th there were
one hundred new cases and twenty nine
deaths and on the 28th eighty new cases
and fifty deaths.
Vienna, August 30.—The Free Press
says a league for the preservation of the
peace of Europe has been formed at
Gastein, and that Austria, Germany and
Italy, and perhaps Russia, are its ad
herents.
New York, August 31.—The Java
which arrived here to-day, ran down the
Anneta, from Portsmouth. One of the
crew was saved and eleven lost. The
Java escaped with the loss of her top
mast and fifty feet of saiL
The Cunard Steamer, Java, from Liv
erpool last night, reports that on the
night of the 25th, the saloon being full
of passengers, the cry of “hard-a-port”
was heard, the Java’s engine stopped and
then come a crash that shook the vessel
from end to end. Those who worked on
deck saw one half of a Urge vessel on
one side and half the other ride, across
the quarter.
violence that have been perpetrated dur- l ^ ara \ s completely submerged and the-
ing the past few months, in the various machinery nearly so. If the
counties in South Carolina, and notably
in Spartansburg aud York, for which no
one had been punished by the civil au
thorities, as disclosed by the investiga
tions of the sub-committee in their re
cent visit to their localities; also the fact
that Senator Scott had then notified
prominent citizens that if these acts of
violence continued, and especially if the
witnesses examined by the committee
were subsequently outraged, he would
call the President’s attention to the facts,
and recommend that he exercise the
power conferred by the Ku-Klux Act.
He submitted to the President various
communications, affidavits, &c., showing
that since the return of the Committee
and in spite of the efforts of leading citi
zens who, upon his suggestion, had made
strong efforts to check his lawlessness,
the outrages had continued to go on nn-
diminished, while the perpetrators are
unpunished.
Halifax, August 31.—Six boats started
for the four-oared contest. It was a
splendid race. The Taylor Winship
crew won by* three lenghths. The Paris
crew was the second, and the Coulter
Biglin crew third.
St. Thomas, August 22, via Halifax,
August 31.—A terrific hurricane, which
veered from every point of the compass,
occurred yesterday, and last night an
earthquake added to the horror. Daring
the night hundreds of dwellings were
swept away. Six thousand people are
houseless and 150 were killed. Thirty
corpses were hauled from under ruins.
Vessels were tom from their anchors.—
The Island of St. Kits is said to be in
ruins.
‘Versailles, August 31.—After a
feverish debate an amendment to the
preamble, assuming constitutent powers,
which eulogizes Thiers, was adopted by
a vote of 523 to 34. One hundred mem
bers abstained from voting.
Berlin.—A town in East Prussia,
sixty miles from Konigsburg, containing
479 inhabitants, has had 79 case3 of
cholera, 46 of which were fatal.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Smnsli-Up on tlie Macon anil 'Western
Eailroad.
The up night passenger train from Ma
con, due in Atlanta at 10 o’clock "Wed
nesday night,.left Macon on time, and
made time to Griffin, leaving that place
at the hour and making the usual run
till about a mile this side of Fayette sta
tion, at the plantation of Mr. Barefield,
when the engine struck a large ox, throw
ing the entire train off. There was no
possible chance to avoid running over
the ox, as he appeared on the track,
when the train at full speed was in a few
feet of him. The entire train was
knocked off, hut being in a cut the cars
did not turn over. Two or three of the
passengers in the ladies’ car were slightly
bruised, but none of th em seriously hurt.
A negro passenger in jumping off the train
after the cars were off the track, had his
leg broken. It was providential that
there wns not a greater amount of injury
done to the passengers. The ox which
the engine struck, causing the accident,
had a board tied over his face, it is said,
to prevent it from jumping into the
fields; but it seems that it also prevented
it from getting off the track—and it is a
question now whether a man had best
blindfold his cattle to save his crops, or
blind-fold them and endanger the lives
of passengers and the property of the
railroads. The damage done was con
siderable. The engine was seriously in
jured, and the cars badly damaged. One
of the fine passenger coaches recently
built by the Company suffered consid
erable injury.
The accident happened in a cut, audit
was necessary to build a track around the
wreck.
Captain White left Macon at 1 o’clock
yesterday morning, and reached the
scene of the accident about 5 o’clock,
with a force sufficient to cut -down the
embankment and lay a track beside the
wreck, and had the regular trains passing
at 10 o’clock, preventing detention of
passengers and freight.
The passengers were brought to this
city on a freight train at 3 o’clock yester
day morning.
This is the first accident of any mo
ment that has occurred on this road since
the war, and we congratulate the officers
Boats were gotten out at i on the escape from a worse disaster.
_ _ river con
tinues rising a few hours longer the whole:
structure will be swept away.
_ At Millford, Pa„ the hotel of S.. Oi
Yauiltin is in imminent danger.
On Vanderwork Creek, the bridge at.
Sherman’s Steam Tannery has been swept
away; also the engine house of the Tan
nery. The bank is caving in and it is
not safe to work about the Tannery..
Travel on tho*Erie Railroad is serious
ly impeded by the storm of last evening.
On the Monticello and Port Jarvis
Railroad all travel has been suspended
by a heavy land slide at Harwood.
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MISSISSIPPI.
Politics in Mississippi—Party of Soldiers
JFire Upon C'itix&u*
Jackson August, 31.—The convention
passed a resolution endorsing Governor
Alcorn.
Dr. Dowd is chairman of tlio conven
tion.
Lieutenant Governor Powers was ap
pointed chairman of the State Executive
Committee.
A party of soldi el's fired upon a party
of citizens in Meridian. A soldier who
was with the citizens was killed. Two
citizens were knocked down. The citi
zens did not return the fire.
—
MR. STEPHENS’ PAMPHLET ON THE
STUDY OF THE LAW.
A member of the New York bar sends
us the following letter:
New Yobe City, Aug. 22,1871.
J. Hen'ly Smith. Manager, Ac., Atlanta, Ga. :
Inclosed please find $5 for fifty copies of the great
letter of Mr. Stephens to his Law Students. 1 want
it to give away here as benevolent men purehaso re
ligious tracts to distribute gratuitously among the
heathens. This is missionary ground, aud needs the
light this luminous letter sheds upon the lofty mis
sion of the Law—the proud position its practitiouer
should sustain, and the high and often holy duties
resting upon one of the members of our noble pro
fession.
I have never read anything that so mnch filled me
with profound views and conceptions of my profes
sion, as has this glorious gilt ofthis great Georgian,
to young men who hope to win honors and earn for
tunes in our profession.
I feel a double interest in this, as it is tho produc
tion of one whom I personally know, whose purity
and personal virtues, give to ail his sentiments, opin
ions and arguments the weight of authority which no
other man’s opinions or arguments can command.UJ
Whatever Mr. Stephens writes is read with un
bounded avidity by all men, and his readers are
often smitten with wonder »t the marvelous vigor
which pervades, not only the thoughts but tho ex
pressions of this pain-riven invalid, toward whom
the hearts, affections and gratitude of true men as
naturally turn, as the sun sends its rays flowing to
the God it worships.
Long may he be, spared to wield the glittering
blade of his logic in defense of the Constitution
which our Fathers gave us, against tha assissin as
saults of madcap adventurers, who are sapping for
ever Liberty’s last foundation upon earth ; and
whose temple, if it is now thrown dewn, will never
be erected again. Yours, truly, .
NORTH GEORGIA
FEMALE COLLEGE,
IVY STREET.
B ETWEEN Wheat and Line streets, Atlanta. Fall
session opens September 4,1871. For circul ars
containing full particulars, apply at the Book and
Music Stores, or the College.
jy23-d&w2m A. J. k ANNIE D. HAILE,
Principals
W. H. HOWABD.
C. H. HOWABD
once and, after searching carefully about,
they returned, having saved one man,
from whom they learned that the vessel
run down was the Norwegian bark An
neta, from Portsmouth to Quebec, with
twelve hands on board, eleven of whom
went down with the bark. It was for
some hours a matter of doubt whether
or not the Java was injured.
Ch arleston, August 31.—No new cases
of the fever were reported to-day, and
only two of the old cases have proven fa
tal.
St. Louis, August 31.—Ground was
broken to-day for the St. Louis and Cairo,
three foot guage, Railroad. It is to be
completed in two years.
chase made" and the boys caught and whipped. One | mito nothing, and he will do nothing to- I SAVANNAH, August 31.—The negl’O
?l th . < L ro . ck i ! f“ a8hed a ' viudo " ' ei T Ilt ' ar a P • ward the “acceptance of the situation.” [ crew of a British bark mutinied. The
Mr. Stephens, in liis new paper, holds ' Captain shot one slightly. Arriving at
the same position. “’Fore God,” as ; Darien, the Captain was inprisoned by
Dogberry puts it, “they are both in a | the negroes at that place, but was subse-
AVhitin g’s head.
AUGUSTA.
The Chronicle t£ Sentinel of tho 30th says :
Wc learn that a large number oT Charlestonians
Tlie Books and Papers
Of the State Road have been taken pos
session of by the Committee of citizens
selected for that purpose, and this morn-
iug their labors will commence.
The clerical force selected is. unexcep
tionable—consisting of men of first class
ability and unblemished reputation. Pro
fessor Moore is the Principal of More’s
Commercial College, who once had the
position of Principal Bookkeeper of the
State Road. Mr. Romare is the Book
keeper of the Atlanta National Bank,
and Mr. Doane is a gentleman of fine
clerical ability and business judgment.
The people may rest assured that the
work will be speedily and correctly done.
W. H. HOWARD & SON,
COTTON FACTORS
AND -*■
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
No. 2 WARREN BLOCK, - - - AUGUSTA, GA.
W E again tender our services in the Warehouse
business, in all its branches, to our old pat
rons and planters generally,
Commission for Selling Cotton,
One and a Quarter PerCent.
All family supplies ordered will be carefully se
lected by one of the firm, at tho lowest market
•prices.
Orders for Bagging and Ties will be promptly
filled, and at the lowest cash price.
Liberal cash advances made on cotton in ware
house. We extend all the facilities offered by Ware
house Merchants. Consignments solicited—satis
faction guarantee. aug21w3m
Oglethorpe University.
Atlanta, Georgia.
COLLEGE DEPARTMENT:
Rev. DAVID WILLS, D. D., President and Profes
sor of Belles Lettres and Sacred Literature.
GUSTAVUS J-. ORR, Professor of Mathematics and
Astronomy.
Rev. DONALD FRASER, A. M., Professor of Latin
and Greek Languages and Literature.
w. Leconte Stephens, a. b., Professor of
Physical Sciences.
Rev. T. A. HOYT, Professor of Metaphysics and
Logic.
(To be supplied) Professor of Modem Lan
guages.
J. A. RICHARDSON, Professor of Natural Philoso
phy and Principal of High School.
Atlanta is one of the healthiest cities in the United
States. Good board can be had at from $16 to $18
per month. There will be two terms in the College,
the first commencing FIRST MONDAY IN OCTO
BER, and ending THE 25th OF FEBRUARY; the
second beginning the FIRST MONDAY IN MARCH
and ending JULY 6.
Terms of Tuition—$75 per annum; half in ad vane
aug28 d&w2t.
MARTIN INSTITUTE,
Jefferson, Jackson Co., Georgia.
T HE FALL TERM of the year 1871 will open on
MONDAY, the 21st of AUGUST, instead of
Wednesday, the ICth, as it was announced.
We think that very few if any institutions of the
same grade can offer to patrons inducements equal
to ours. Board ie only $12 to $14 per mouth.
The very low rates of tuition are reduced about
one-third by the endowment, and the quiet, moral
and studious habits of the pupils cannot be excelled.
Onr applications from abroad are already nume
rous and those wishing to secure board will do well
to apply immediately. For full information address
Prof. J. W. GLENN. Prof. 8. P. ORR, or
JAS. E. RANDOLPH,
aug7 wlm. Sec. Board of Trustees.
GEORGIA FEMALE COLLEGE
Legislative Charter Granted in 1849.
Rev. Geo. V. Brown, President.
rpHE next Academic year begins on
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18.
An Eclectic has been formed for tho benefit
of who may desire still further to
improve themselves, or to pr q>are for teachrog.
fleg, New Patent Arion Square Grand Pianos are
Expenses are as moderate as in other similar
institutions.
For further particulars address the President.
Madison, July 29, 1871. jy31-d2taw&w2nj.
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