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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. • — 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. iMl'Ad ONU.StON'X