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"Volume 17.
AMEBICUS, OEQBG-IA, ffiRipAY, JULY 22. 1870.
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Number 22.
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Professional Cards.
J. L. McDonald,
iDoaxtiot,
MERICI’S, - - - - GEORGIA.
Offi-'c—Over Weetbeimer’a stove, Lamar street.
, -Moderate, but strictly c
aprltf
HAWKINS & BURKE.
A ttornoy.i o*
Ajnericns, Georgia.
12 tr __
Jno. D. CARTER,
•wrfAKHSY :\V »W,
Americas, Georgia-
niT.cc in Americas Hotel building, comer ol
I^iusr and College street*. may 18 tf.
FORT &HCLLIS,"’
m’MHSTS AT HW,
A*nl Solicitors of Potent*.
Americas, Georgia.
d •„ i.» th» ro >ra over II. T. Byrd's store.
april ~iOtf
SAM. LUMPKIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Americas, Goorgia.
Will practice in all tbo courts of 8. W. Ga.
3un80.1870. -ly
JACK BROWN,
A. ttornoy Xj«.w ,
americus, «a.
>> Ofiicu m Court House with Judge Sun-
feb 1C tf
N. A. SMITH,
A.ttom oy at Xj a w.
W 1I.I. practice in the Courts of Sumter and
adjoining Counties, and in Circuit Court ol
United States.
tr Office on College street, nest to Republi
can office. fob 2.i tf.
From tbo WaTerly Magazine.
How to Flirt
“ Wtiat hignini a the life of man
All* 'twere na for the busies, ob 1”
Oh, of all the miseries of life, that of
being an old man and no longer able to
make love is the most intolerable! You
may roast a man over a slow fire or
plunge him in a river on a cold Decem
ber night, and leave him there to freeze—
bat they’re nothing absolutely nothing,
to being forced passively to look on
younger blades going off with some sweet
fairy to a sleighing party, a picnic, a
moonlight sail upon the water, or one of
the score of expenses one lias for ma
king love, while you ore bellowing like a
bull of Bashan. with the gont, and drink
ing barley water as a penance for your
sins. But, thank our stars! we've not got
quite to that
Flirting, sir, is the amusement for a
man of taste not quite heartless, reck
less, everlasting flirting, but that pre
paratory play before marriagc;itreminds
you tilth n a^voiy smell of y# ' '
dinner, or the wheeling of an
he darts on his prey. I love to stand in
a ball room and see such flirting going
on, especially when both ore adepts; and
the keenest observer and most consu-
raato actor is sure to win. Do yon doubt
it you heathen ? then let me tell you a
itoiy that will convert you long before
we get ready to raise from nectar such as
this.
My friend Harry Vavasour, was a man
of a million. Besides being decidedly a
good looking fellow, he was a lawyer of
high talent, and versatile at that. His
accomplishments were almost ns numer
ous as the thousand and one nights of the
Arabian tales. He sang, played, painted,
moulded bnst«. and baa an enthusiasm
that burnt like the undying naphtha. He
could write poetry, and grand stuff it was:
had, as Scott’s humble friend said, " an
awful knowledge of history;” dabbled in
belles kilters until his criticisms were
sought for as of value; and could talk
German, French, Italian, and, for all I
know, Hebrew, Syriac and Chaldee. At
a dinner party his jokes were always the
best, and iu a ball-room few could rival
him if he chose to exert himself. There’
no greater mistake in the world, let m
tell you, than to think a man of sense
cannot be a courtier.
But with all these advantages, Harry
bail one draw back—and that worse than
the seven plagues of Egypt—ha
poor ! Now to be poor in this country
is like l>eing a gall slave, in France. It
is less nu{jesii/e—the highest crime known
to the laws. In Boston a man’s talents
can do much, and in Philadelphia his
birth can do more, but in New York, and
throughout the country generally money
is the Allndin’s lamp for us all.
Harry Vavasour was twenty-five before
he fell in love; for young lawyers who, in
J. A. ANSLEY,
A ttr»r*n PV-at'T \kt ' more than one, know‘less practi-
Attorney callytban theoretically of their profes-
Amoricticj, G-a~
pr ctini* in the Courts of Southw«
i?ia ami in the United States Courts a
a givhu to collect*
.!*, the sale and pvrcli
A-. K. BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT I.AAV,
SITU-r. Sivr. ,.l attention 1» »:i Ww>
W iuitruiit«itolu.c^. nov26tt
George W. Wooten,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Amorioua, - » ■ Ga.
• tffice—Over Felder ,t Son’s store. janl3tf
E.
B. AMOS,
Attorney- at-Xiav
W"
L give prompt attention to professional
>monen« in thedifllreui eourtsof Sumter,
W«l«ier, Lee and adjoiningcountlc*.
GEORGE W. KIMBROUGH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
A • ,I) fy-ncral Aj^nt for the sale and purchase
a in Southwest Georgia. Inn-stigat-
• i>« titles strictly adhered to. Will faithfully st-
"-•1 to all business entruatod to his care,
starkriile. L*e county, Ga. novlltf
avoid; but flattering her with occasional
triumphs, he won her on to determine
on a lasting one. And having done this
he was sure of his game. Bnt it was long
before be learned his success. Slowly
her weakness revealed itself. Once, but
only once, iu a ball room, when he was
flirting with another, caught her anxious
ly observing him, though her eye when
he turned, was averted with a quickness
that would have , deceived most people.
Once she blushed at meeting him unex
pectedly in tho street, though in an in
stant her countenance. resumed its usual
composure, On one occasion he was led
to suspect that she came to a party be
cause he was to be there; and once he
knew her to wear a certain contuse be
cause he had said she looked outre in it;
and this last discovery made his heart
thrill, for, with a proud character like
Kate’s it was an evidence that she was
sensitive to hia opinion. Thus, little by
little, he penetrated her secret. Ana
nothing but his profession, whose first
maxim is to learn how to conceal your
thoughts and feelings, could haver pre
vented him, from betraying the.
jJtUMnrts his ownFearthte.
biew the fitting hour had not yet come.
Kate thought every man had an eye to
her fortune, and it would not do to alarm
her too soon.
One evening he called and found her
alone. She had been pensive before he
arrived, but at sight of him put
gayest mood and tho conversation rat
tled away. One of their mutual acqi
tancea had just been married, and this
afforded her a scope for her wit. Oh,
could you have heard her ridicule love,
you would have little thought her, at
that very moment, its victim. Harry
joined in her sportive tirade, but when
she thanked her stars she had no heart,
he said fixing his eyes searching on
her,—
“ No heart ?”
“ None, believe me,” she retorted gai-
ly.
" Then you could never love ?”
/love I”
Do you plead guiltless to friend
ships?’’
Friends? I liave none.”
You do not think so,” he said, mean
ingly, and her eye wandered before his
searching look.
“ Indeed—anil do yon question my
word?”
“ Waiving the word, I think—I know
you are not what you affect to be.”
“ Why, really, Impudence!”
“You are gay because you have sen
timent to conceal, and laugh at love be
cause you feel few can love as deeply as
yourself.”
The color rose to her cheeks.
“A pretty notion you have of yourself
to think yon see this. Oh, the*conceit
of these men!”
“And yet you know I speak the
truth.”
“lam a sad flirt, on the contrary.”
“You are very sensitive,” said he
meaningly.
“ You are very impudent ” she retort
ed poutingly.
"And when you love it will be with
T. L. CLARKE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
PRESTON, GE0B.0IA.
dr; willdotatgreesi;
AMEBICUS, GEORGIA.
/CONTINUES to servo Lis friends of Americas
v »ud (mi-rounding country iu all tbo depart-
' u ais of Lis profession. aprlG-ly
Dr. J. R HINKLE
YITOl LD »K*in tender bis services (in all the
. “ranches of the Profession) to tho Rood
jtN.jdfc of Americas and Sumter conn tv, and 00-
, * continuance of the liberal patronage
Leretofore bestoaed upon him. .
*T Social attention given to Surgery.
‘“^-lUMttrs at the Drug Store of Dr. £. J.
w 1 *?. '*ewdoDO® fronting that of Rev. J.
u. Jordan. jane 8tf
other
the whole soul.
“ What nonsense !” she said, affecting
to laagli, though her cheek was crimson.
“The next thing, you’ll tell me I am as
tender looking os the LadyEdith-
ture we were all laughing at the
Have you not seen it?
here.”
She advanced to the table and opened
1 annual lying there, but there was a
nervousness in her manner that did not
escape her lover’s notice. The tissue pa
per stuck to the plate, nor could she re
move it; Harry offered to help her. By
sion, usually have enough to do to keep
J off duns and bluedevils, without thinking
of matrimony. But he had not been
idle,and practiced love-making once more
than our saucy vixen, both to pnnish her
for fickleness to others and to keep his
1 hand in. All this time, however, he
waiting for the right one to come
along; for there’s a destiny in this mat
ter; and I believe with the old Planton-
ist that the souls are separated in the
far recesses of eteri :ty, and that each
meet* its companion and is reunited to
" *r on earth.
At length Harry met the fated one; and
1 angel she was, too, with eyes brighter
than dew drops on the grass, and a voice
like the ringing of rain in wood. She
seemed to float when she walked, as Cicre
in one of Flaxaman’s glorious illustra
tions— by-the-by, FJaxaman was a far
greater man than Cauova. But enough
of this for I’ve no taste for love-sick pic
tures, those things to old maids, school
boys, and bread-and-butter misses. I
must not. however, forget one quality
she had, and that was a fortune. She
was in every respect suited for Harry;
for as it takes oxygen and hydrogen to
make water, so it one of a couple is poor
the other, egad ought to be rich. Harry,
however had determined to win her be
fore he knew this, and trust to luck for a
maintenance. “Kate, dear, he whispered we have
There was only one thing in his I acted very foolishly, for we have long
way—Mias Balfaur was » flirt, and a des- loved each other. We have hearts in uni-
perata one. Bnt then she couldn’t help) son—let us hereafter bo one. Will yon,
JYom the N. Y. TTorkL
France and Prussia,
NAPOLEON AND HIS CHAS3EP0TS—POPULA
TION OF THE vmung—HER FINANCES—
AX ABUT OP 1,350,000 MEN—THE COM-
MASHERS—THE FLEET.
The population of France, according to
tlxe census of 1866, was (exclusiveof 125,-
000 soldiers, stationed outside of the em
pire; 38,067,064^. of .which 11,595.348 liv
ed in towns, and 20,471,716 in tho rural
districts. As regards nationality 635,-
495 were resident foreigners, the remain
der native Frenchmen. Tho difference
of language among the natives of France
has been the subject of aa official census.
It is estimated that about l,200,000£Ltiie
population (Alsac and Lorrame).'8T>eak
German as their native tongue, 200,000
Flemish, 1,800,000 Wallon, 1,100,000
Breton. Iu their religious faiths the peo
ple are divided as follows : Catholics, 37,-
107,211; Protestant, 846,619; Jews, 89,-
040; other sects. 23, ISO; and in Algeria.*
" * lea, -21l;i95; Protestants, 5,002;
Jews, 35,737 ; Mohammedans, 2,688,746;
other sects, 17,232. The population of
the ftench colonies (hot included in the
above enumeration) is 2,649,678, and the
population of countries in Asia, Africa
and Oceanica, under the protection of
France, is 3,694,575—making a grand to
tal of people living under the sway of the
French Emperor of 44,535,317.
FINANCES.
The public debt in I860 amounted to
12,925,718,093 francs, or. upwards of $2,-
585,000,000. The revenue for 1869 ap
pears to have been 1,855,643,203 francs,
and the expenditures 1,741,241,931 francs.
ARMY.
The army according to the new law of
February 1, 1858, consists of the active
army and the reserve, each numbering
400,000 men. A Guarde Rationale Mo
bile, which was to number about 550,000,
to co-operate for the defense of fort
resses, coasts, and frontiers. The Na
tional Guard has a military organization,
and is placed under the Minister of War.
It comprises 250 battalions, having eight
companies of 2,000 men, and 125 batter
ies of 200 men : together, the active ar
my, the reserve and the National Gutud,
number 1,350,000 men.
The active army is as yet low. Oi
course it will be groitly increased when
placed on a war footing.
Staff, 1,773
Infautry, 252,652
Cavalry; 6J,70S
Artillery, 39,88-2
Engineers
Gendarmes, 2L533
Troops of the Administration, 15,066
Total 401,192
At the head of the French army are
eight Marshals of France, namely: Cornu
Vaillant, Count Baraguey d’Hilliers,
Count Randon, and de Bceuf, F. C. Can-
robert, M. E. P. P. M. Mac Mahon (Duke
of Magenta), C. F. Forey, F. A. Bazine.
The army is divided into seven army
corps. The headquarters of the army
corps are as follows :
ders.
•ns, with the following comwan-
Comuunders.
Headquarters,
1. Ivsaigsburg. General de MameuSeL
2. SfetHn Prince Frederick William.
S. Berlin prince Frederick Charles.
4. MAgdAourg General dAlvenaieben.
5. Posen. .General de Steiumsta.
.General de Tumpling.
.. ..General de Zaatrow.
—General de RiUcnMd.
7. Munster....
8. tfctleitts.fu,
9 Held*#wig General tie Manstein.
10. Hanover:... General de Voigts-Rhetz.
11 CsseeU............ .General de l’.oueki.
The commander of the Corps, of the
Guard is the Prince Augustus of Wur-
tcanburg. There are twenty-nine fortress
es in the kingdom, of which five are of
the first rank.
raw. •
Count Yon Bismork has Men able to
assert that the Prussian navy is now sec
ond to none in the Baltic Sea. Since
1860 veysel after vessel has been rapidly
launched, until Prussia, which a few
years ago was really contemptible on the
sea, has now become a formidable naval
power.' ^Weordurg’fo the hrtes* refcorne
the fleet Of Prussia i« composed ns fol
lows :
(inn boat*.
Yacht
Paddle corvotted..
Hailing vewelw
81,500 Reward for a Lost Child
Some time ago a little girl was stolen
almost from the threshhold in New Or
leans by two negro women. A great
number of ladies of New Orleans present
ed a petition to the Governor of Louisi
ana entreating him to use all possible
means for the recovery of the child. We
copy the following interesting advertise
ment which all ]vipers are requested to
copy.
$1,000 (M'ereil by the Governor of Louisi
ana ! §500 Offered by the Father of the
Child. '•
On Thursday evening, the 9th of JMB»
about? o'clock, the only daughter of
Thomas Digby, residing on Howard at,
near Poydras. was stolen by two colored
women. . *
DESCRIPTION OF THE CHILD,
The little girl was scventaon^mpddte
old on the 14th. day of - “*
rather* tifu-fnee and ”
small mouth, fair complexion, round blue
eyes, which she had a trick of rolling.—
She had very light hair, which did not
curl, and a bald spot on one side of the
back of her head, produced by a boil
which will remain so for many'months
before the hair will grow on it. She an
swers to tho name of Moll or Mollv,
and calls herself “ Dada, ” trying to
Headquarter*. Commanders.
1. Pans, .Marshal Canrobert,
2. Lille General De i/Admirault.
3. Nancy, Manha.1 Bazine.
4. Lyons, G» ... Count de Palikao.
5. Tours, Marshal d'Hiilicn*.
6. Toulouse, General de Goyon.
7. Algiers, Marshal McMahon.
France had 119 fortresses, of which
eight are of the fir;.t rank; Paris, Lyons,
Strausbourg, Metz, Lille, Toulon, Brest
and Cherbourg. The fortifications of
Paris are said to liav.- cost $40,000,000,
and up to 1868 there had been expended
on CherlKJurg $34,000,000. -
Tho steam fleet is being increased as
rapidly as human efforts will admit off.—
The largest vessels in the navy are the
King William, of 5,938 tons, and the Re
nown, of 7,500 tons. The former, which
is considered the most fonnidable vessel
afloat, was built in England for the Sul
tan of Turkey but as he could not pay for
it was snapped up bythe Prussians. The
armament consists of twenty-three guns
of the heaviest calibre known, manufac
tured of the famous Krapp steel, at the
works in Westphalia. The steam power
is 1,150 horse, the crew 600 men. The
Renown is less heavily armored, and has
only 1,200 horse power, with an arma
ment pf four 11-inch guns, six 96-poun
ders, twelve 72-ponndera, and twelve 24-
pounders on the upper deck. The crew
amounts to 1,000 men, exclusive of offi
cers. The vessel was bnilt in Kiel. On
the stocks at the navy-yard in Wilhelm-
shafen is the heavy ironclad frigate the
Grosser Kurfurt, and the Frederick the
Great, of tho same class, is building at
KieL The Hama, another iron-olad, is
nearly completed, at Dantzic, where the
steam frigate Ariadne lias been com
menced, and tho steam sloops Albatross
aud Nautilus. To be built by 1877
eleven iron-clads of tho hugest 1
eleven double-banked frigates, seven
heavy sloops, and three transports. The
vessels in commission are manned by
5.012 sailors, 737 engineers, 370 carpen
ters and mechanics, 192 warrant officers,
and 255 officers. Besides this, there is a
reserve of 4,156 men, which can be called
upon at any time, and a second reserve,
called see tcehr. which acts only in time
of war, and may be translated sea mili
tia.
She can say a few words, like
‘Papa, ” “Rosy, ” “Nelly, ”
daughter.
“Mama, ., rfl
bnt cannot yet pat her words together ii
a sentence. She walks well, and
dauoes.
DESCRIPTION
THOSE WHO ABDUCTED
She was taken by a light mulatto
man, about twenty-five years oi age, ’
tall and thin, with a pretty lace
straight features, almost like a white
man’s. She had on a sea-side hat, trim
med with brown ribbon. She was ac
companied by a short, thick-set black
woman, apparently the eldest of the two,
who had a scar over one eye. Though it
was so reported, it is not certain that she
was called Martha. Steamboat men, rail
road mou, policemen, and citizens are re
quested to try and remember if they have
seen such persons. Tho fire-bells were
ringing at the time they took the child.
If those who took her ore afraid to
bring her back to her father’s house, lot
them leave her in any church, or at the
door of any respectable family, with the
name oi the father pinned on her The
money will be sent to any placo named
and no effort will be made to proseente
the offenders.
Fathers! mothers ! friends ! every hu
man being with a heart in his bosom !
help np to find our darling child onr only
little daughter.
New Orleans, La., July 7,1870.
accident their hands met; strange to say,
hers lingered, as if she had no power to
draw it back. He felt the touch thrill
both her and himself, and his fingers
closed instinctively on that fair hand.—
It trembled perceptibly. A moment thus
passed, duringwmeh neither spoke. She
was trembling as if she could scarcely
stand. Passing his arm around her he
gently supported her to the sofa, and
drew her toward his breast, still without
a word. Her head fell on his shoulder
and she burst into tears. She felt that
he read lier heart—that her weakness was ers, iron-chvL with 68 guns, and 23
known to him. She sobbed as if her j iron-clod, with 144 guns, building,
heart would break. The following is a list of the chief ves
sels in the French iron-clad Navy, with
their strength in gnns and nominal horse
power :
The fleet on the 1st of January of last
year, was composed as follows: *
Description. Number. Guns
Screw steamers, iron-clad, 55 1,042
Screw steamers, non-iron clad... .2*4 2.618
Besides these, there were 8 screw steam-
It
Kate.
Dr. S. B. HAWKINS.
fif OFFICE at Dr. Eldridge's Drug Store.
l lc-ridi near the Methodist Church,
f“g* £**£« I"1*“*
Dr. w; D. COOPER,
QFFEBS lus professional eerricca to tho citi-
R country.
ltertdence at Mr. Thog. Harrold s, College Hill.
D R
M. D. MoLEOD, Amcri-
™*. of tho 11,0 .nd Eu
t h-cated. Chronie diseases of Women
ui«l Children made a specialty. Prolapsus,
1 version and lletrcrernon cured by mcehai
■‘leans cure guaranteed in four mouths. Pi
1, Spinal and Nervous Diseases cured
’•v LlrtctrolyeV
N otice
Dr. S. K. TURNER
I! 1 !iT U £ r ' r “ 0 , T . cdfrom d 1 ® counties of Semtsr
- m ix*-, wicl inform his friends sad old patrons
located in Clio ten Tide, Alabama,
.... ” W' 1 Prop®*** 1 to treat all diseases - that
n «£ * v liUa » uiore especially those of
' hv7 v* q CKn ®°*»ult him by leucr, and
■•we medicine sent to suit the case, or Toucan
mlum. Hi- Wl treat youA. be * - “
• • seabom 1,0 has beusAttad. E
YY uvrunT uiun.
HAWKINS & GUEBRY,
Attorneys-at-Law,
—. -AMHPgPS, OX., »
v.v'.'mM r tu.pahiio.
^inct Courts at asrannsh. Particular atten-
arJi P 1 '® 11 to collections. Office—corner College
laBHBL
all because her name was dear Kate bo
I never knew a qirl of that name J She lnodo no resistance to the embrace
who wasn’t a coquette; and I would re
commend it to the serious attention of
tho clergy, whether they onght to bap
tize children with such a fatal cognomen.
I dont object to a flirt of a certain kind—
every man to his taste, you know and
Kate was a splendid creature. Yet it was
not every one who could tell the secret
of her charms, but knowing ones—like
you and me, Oliver, see these things as
readily m La Place saw the rebuke in the
heavens. She had heard of Harry often
before, and had resolved to conquer this
unconquerable one; and, to tell the truth,
Harry had come to the same conclusion
in regard to her. Now, to my mind, as a
cycloid, though not the shortest line be
tween any two given points, is the one
in which objects move the fastest, so a
flirtation of this description is the most
rapid road to love. And thus it hap
pened now. _
It was a party they first met, and as
she was the belle of the evening, and
Harry the most desirable of the beaux,
wliat wonder that she should wish to win
him to her side! He appeared at first
to yield to her charms, for, sitting down
beside her, she seemed deeply interested
in a conversation which was maintained
by both with equal brilliancy, but which
he brought to a sudden close on finding
how largo their audience had grown.—
Then he arose to offer a seat to an elder-
ly lady, and with a gay remark to one,
and a bright sally to {another, he had
glided away beiore Kate well knew how
it was done, and was chatting with a rival
belle in another department. No won
der Kota was piqued. She determined,
yon may well suppose, to liave revenge.
But Harry was not to be caught off his
guard. He knew—the rascal!—the mercy
he had to expect, and so was cautions.
When a crowd pressed her to sing, he
was accidently conversing with another
lady in a different parlor; when * v ‘
danced ho flies at the side of a rival
whom it was therefore natural for him to
lead oat, -and when Kate, in the ooquette
quadrille, would have flirted him, be
foresaw it in the wicked glance of her
eye and was beforehand with her. A«d
thus he kept it up throughout the evening,
though a while before they parted he
joined boras if by accident, 'grid made
enough,'egad to ke^herin goodhnmor;
without altogether removing her pique.
He knew then that she would go homo
with which he pressed her to his ride,
but nestled there like a dove long a stran-
from and but just returned to his
e. At length he bent his face, and
pnshing back her curls, softly kissed her.
Nor was the caress unreturned, though
timidly and scarcely preceptibly.
“ Ah! Kate,” he said, at length, “we’ve
been two arrant flirts.”
“ But we’ll be. so no longer,” she re
plied, half archly, as she lifted her dark
eyes, still glistening through tears, with
a look of ineffable love to his face.
Every one of you asleep, egad! except
ing Oliver! Well, I don’t wonder. There’s
not one man in a hundred cares to hear
a love story, and for myself I should
have been asleep, too, if I hadn’t been
the narrator, But then, listening to one’s
own voice is a temptation.
and think of him.
et again, and again, and each
grew more interested In Harry;
for lie dashed his cavalier manners occa
sionally with sentiment, and by now
piquing and now soothing her, got her
until the &>Sf*e pofnmpp but good
old Season phrase—over head and ears
in lore. XotthathowhoHyescupedhim'
Mlt tlut ke aatilMr could nor iridied to
52 1,000 j Magnanitime 36
40 900 \ Tanreav (ou-
.36 900) pola) l
36 1*00 | Toousatr, 16
36 900 j Duudorljt-rg, 16 1,000
!>00 1 Foodroyante, 16 225
000 CouRteve, 16 925
900 j Saig«n,
Gayanue, 36 900 j TeU»o, 14 380
Gauloiao. 36 900 1 Paixhane, 14
The French naval forco consists of 72,-
446. There are two admirals, C. Bigauld
do GeDonily and F. T. Trehonrt; 6 ac
tive vice-admiral*, and 30 active counter
admirals.
bismarck’s backing—population of frus-
Barrett’s keeps the hair most.
Barrett’s restores with rapidity.
Barrett’s invigorates and beautifies.
Barrett’s recommend* itself.
Barrott’s miraculous ha-ir rest.
Americus and Newxan Railroad.—
Prospects are being brightened every
day for the Americus and Newnan Bail-
road. Our people are alive to the im
portance of constructing this groat Line
which will connect the Northwest with
the seabord. The rich valleys of Talbot
and her fertile hills, her fine* orchards of
fruit, fields of corn and wheat will then
find a market in Brunswick, Savannah
and New York. The route from the west
will be shortened nearly one hundred
miles, freights reduced, passage rates
come within reach of the humblest tiller
of onr soil. The poor can travel then as
well as the rich, all enjoying the advan
tages equal)v of competition. Competi
tion is what we want to develop the »uat*-
rial interest and resources of onr coun
try. Monopolies wo must deplore, , for
they grind and crush the people under
the discrimnating tariffs of local and
through freights, levied upon articles of
consumption., Build this railroad from
Nownon to Americas, and tre will show
you- Talbottou with doable her present
population, a telegraph office, cotton
market, warehouse*, banking institution,
and buyers from New York and Liver
pool, ready to take yourootion, corn and
wheat at yuitr doors.
TELEGRAPHIC.
THE WAR IN EUROPE.
Vienna, July 16.—The governments of
Austria, England, Italy, and Russia ayd
known to have presented at Paris urgent
remonstrances against the war. ,
Betun, July 16.—Tho Bftndezsra&h of
the North German Confederation met
here to-day. The Pru&an Diet is al
ready in session. The chiefs of all par
ties assure the King of Praasta of their
unqualified approval of bis dignified and
energetie action. ! -
London, July 16.—Count
has issued a <{
cranked in all
SnYeasel* to hftaten to,
Him notification, of course, applies to all
ocean steamers belonging to all the Ger
man ports.
Liverpool, July 16.-—There is much
excitement in the market. Breadstuffs
rapidly advancing.
London, July, 16.—The Times inti
mates that tho recovery of Alsacoand
Lorraine, containing the modem prov
inces of Mozelle, Meurthe, Meuse, Vos
ges, Upper Rhine and Lower Rhine, are
the real objects of tbo war on the part of
Prussia, and that she has tho sympathy
of mankind. The times hints that
English intervention is probable. In
case of Prussia losing strength the neu
trality of England will be difficult, and
perhaps impossible and dishonorable,
should Holland and Belgium become in
volved iu the war.
The Prussian fleet of Prince Adelbert
which has lately been in theso waters
sailed for Kiel to-day.
Berlin, July 16.—The King has ar
rived. His progress Ems was a contin
ued ovation. Over a hundred thousand
people awaited him at tho station. The
King in addressing them,* hoped that
they would be as brave as elsewhere.
. Paris, July 16.—Tho Government is
sustained in war supplies by the Corps
Legislatif in a vote of 246 to 10.
The Senate approved the action of the
Government without a division.
Military pupils of the second year are
ordered to join the army with the rauk of
sub-lieutenants. Tho Algerian army is
coming home. Immense demonstrations
on the streets and Boulevards last night.
New York, July 1G.—Steamships City
of Brussels takes out one and a quarter
millions of specie. Tho Herman fifty-six
thousand.
PEACE PREPARE FOB WAR.
The total population of the kingdom of
Prussia, according to the census of De
cember 3,1867, was 24,043,296. This in
cludes the jtopnlatiou of the territories
lately “absorbed” by Prussia. The total
population of towns and cities was 7,456,
356.
FINANCE. ‘ 1
The national debt of Prussia is 442,
639,372 thalers, or over $200,000,000.—
The total revenue* are about 170,000,000
thalers, and the total expenditures 160,-
000,000 thalers.
ARMY.
The German military organization is
complete, and, according to a statement
the Prussian Military Gazette, *a million
soldiers can at any moment be placed
under arms by a single telegram from
Berlin.” The Prussian troops, the same
authority adds, consists of 325 battallions
of infantry, 268 squadrons of cavalry, 11
regiments of ariilfwy, with 1,146 guns,
and 12 battallions of engineers, making
in all 410,000 poldiers. To these should
be added the Federal eontingonta of Sax
ony,’: Brunswick, Meeklen burg-8 trelitz,
ana Hesse Darmstadt—in all 53,000 men.
Bat 4Ms f0ite o£ 468,000 only represents
the standing army of North Germany.—
In case of emergencies Prussia can also
command the services of the troops of
Baden, Wurtemburg and Bavaria, and
immediately: order a reserve, consisting
of an army of 143*000 men. An addi
tional force of 200,000 men is at her dis
posal for the .occupation of towns and
garrisons. Every Prussian subject is en-
Tbr United State*, Census.—The
Philadelphia Ledf/er, olthe 11th instant
says:
Tho census instructions issued forth©
guidance of the United States Marshals
contains very entertaining reading for
persons not familiar with the difficulties
in obtaining correct returns bv the aid of
persons unaccustomed to collect statis
tics. Thus the enumerators are instruct
ed as to the kind of blotting paper with
which they must dry their entries, and
are informed that mistakes must bo cor
rected “on the spot” Houses only tem
porarily uninhabited are to bo returned
and numbered in erder; “idiocy” is to be
determined by the common consent of
the neighborhood. Again the inquiry as
to occupations need not be asked respect
ing “infants;” and in the statistics of live
stock, “sucking pigs” are to be omitted.
There is also a pecial direction to report
the number of “horse whims.” The
census instructions will convey as much
curious and useful information aa the
tariff bill, both of which teach there are
many subjects totally unknown even to
intelligent persons.
BEAmrcL Answers.—A pupil of the
Abbe Sioord gave the following extraor
dinary answers
What is gratitude ?,’
Gratitude is the memory of the
heart.”
“Whatis hope?”
“jHopo is the blossom of happiness.”
“ What is the difference lietween hope
and desire ?”
“ Desire is a tree in leaf, hope is a tree
in flower, and enjoyment is a tree in
fruit.”
“ What is eternity
“A day withont yesterday or to-mor
row; a line that has no end.”
“ What is time?”
“ A line that has two ends—a path that
begins in the cradle and ends in the
tomb.”
“ What is God?"
“ Tho necessary being, the sum eterni
ty, the machinist of nature, the eye of
jastice, the watch-maker of the universe,
the soul of this world.”
“ Man reasons because he doubts, he
delberates,ho decides. God is omniscient.
He never flouts—He there fore never rea-
The Senate on the Georgia BilL
Senate.—Mr. Howard from the Con
ference Committee on tho Georgia bill
reported tho Committeo unable to agree
upon a report and moved that the Senate
concur in the House amendments. Ho
thought the bill ought to bo passed at
this ses'-don. This could bo accomplished,
and the whole question settled by con
currence with the House bill.
Mr. Trumbull opposed the proposi
tion, as involving the abandonment of
tho position of the Senate in maintain
ing the right of the people of Georgia to
hold an election during the coming falL
Upon his suggestion, Mr. Howard with
drew his motion with a view to securing
ns early as possible a settlement in the
Conference Committee.
Wilson, from the military Committee
reported adversely on the bill directing
the Secretary of the Interior to deliver
the Mount Vernon relics to Mrs. Mary
CustisLee. He said he was personally
in favor of the bill, bnt had been over
ruled by a majority of the Committee.
Latest.—Tho Georgia Conference
Committee agree to the House bill with
the following additions:
That nothing herein or in other acts
of Congress shall effect the tenure of any
officers appointed or elected under the
Georgia constitution or effect this bill,
should it pass.”
This leaves Georgia in statue quo until
the next session of Congress.
The report was signed by Howard,
Sherman, Butler and Paine.
When Howard reported the Georgia
Conference in the Senate, Drake in
quired whether it was not the effect of
the bill, as amended, to compel an elec
tion this falL Howard replied that he
Qid not understand the bill affected that
question at all, but left it where it was
before, to be decided according to the
provisions of the State constitution, as
14 every other State.
Sherman, member of the committee
said the amendment would secure an
election this fall, unless usurpation was
resorted to.
Further discussion ensued as to the
true meaning of the amendment, Howard
and Stewart opposing it as the Bingham
amendment in disguise.
The report was fin,-Urad«»| *ted «il J>out
objection.
A bill was passed diviflu.K in
to two judicial districts.
The Senate adhered to its amendment
to Indian appropriation bills.
from the
: Bhiz^Oboiit 27 miles
’ 1 this afternoon,
1 France
lwTaVtetiietl eon*; fW> litOte imwr-
tanco is sttachjsi .to If-'Jwrt. Tint
French forces-&MT-lb, frontier nronow
eMimtca M one. hnttefk Kid thirty
thousand raeu.
It is believed that the Prussians will
attack tho fortified city of Hetz, the
» said that tho Trenckftfrces
are engaged in throwing a bridge over
the Rhine, near-KahL Tbe Liberie of
Chamber yerieriSny, btfcafiie It oonlkined,
betides matter ftOa Cdont You Bis-
marcks, projects looking to .a.ee^M* fl*
„ , a™— t
.. 1
turned-to-St. Cloud; after the Cofincil
the Ministry to-dfcy.
The artists of various pleasure gardens
tho city received permission to sing the
Marseilles last evening. Tkenudience, in
all coses, joined ii),
There was immense excitement and
enthusiasm last night. Many citizens
called upon and congratulated the Em
peror.
^Several dab houses were illuminated
ist evening.
AH bridges on the frontier between
Belgium and France have been destroyed,
so that the territory of the former shall
be respected. ‘ 1
The Senate will vote to-day bn the
measure adopted yesterday by tne Corps
Legislatin', after which the declaration
of war will lie officially transmitted to all
governments in diplomatic relations with
France.
Berlin, July 16.—Tho government is
hourly in receipt of dispatches from all
porta of Germany, offering men, mone\
arms, horses, eje,, in support of the na
tional cause, and asserting that no sacri
fice that can be made will be deemed toe
great for the cause of Germany. The
Government recommends Bremen aa tbo
port of refuge for German shipping.
—Warlike preparations continue iu
France, notwithstanding the withdrawal
of Prince Leopold.
—Another destructive firo occurred iu
Constantinople on the night of the 121b.
Fifteen hnndred houses were burned.
—The horrible Chinese massacre turns
out to be a hoax. Efforts ore being mado
to detect and pnnish the author.
—The Georgia committo cannot agree.
Farnsworth, Hanlon aud Thurman are
insisting upon making an election this
fall mandatory. Upon which Butler,
1 Howard take stubborn issue.
A Remarkable Accident.—A friend
informs us of a most remarkably and
.painful accident which occnrred on a
freight train of tho Macon & Bmnswick
Railroad, on Monday l«*t, the particulars
of which were:
One of the train hands borrowed from
a passenger a pistol and seated himself,
pistol copked, -ready to take a crack at
the first alligator he might see as the train
was running, when' suddenly a sharp re
pot of the pistol was beard and a small
child fell dead on the side of the road.—
It appeara that a party of children had
assembled on the side of the road in the
vicinity of No. 7, in' Appling county,
with their hands filled with fruit, which
they commenced throwing to the passen
gers and hands, an apple striking the
finger upon the trigger which threw the
fatal biul. We did not learn the name
of the child or its bereaved parents.
Another but sad lesson against the
careless handling of firtvorms.—Bruns
wick Appeal.
__ Now, children said a Sunday
school superintendent, who bad been
talking to his scholars about good peo
ple, “when' Fm walking in the atm* I
speak to soma persons I meet, and-I „ _ - 0
op*to others; and what’s the rea* Ltndwelir he is finally enrolled in the
roUed aa a soldier as soon aa hAhaslHH
pleted his 20tli yenr. He serves, unless
| exempted, three years in tha regular ar-
nre; loar 3 nthereeerTe,a3d at tho end I
JrfWrfh*; Xndmabt or
| militia for nine years. Leaving |
Land welt r he is finally enrolled ini
[Lagstamn ppffl ha isCO years of ageTVV
of the Army I
chief of the
is General de Moltke. The regu-
Tire Georgia State Dental Society.
—Dr, J. P. H. Brown, the Correspond
ing Secretary, gives notice that the Ex
ecutive Committee has obtained board at
thd Notional Hotel for -all visiting l
bera at half-prioe, (82 per day) and all
the railroads terminating at Atlanta will
pass delegates for full faro going, and re
turning free on presenting certificate
signed by the proper officers of tho Soci
ety. Tho Convention meets on the 28th.
From Washington.
Washington. July 16.—Revenue re
ceipts to-day $567,000.
The President has appointed Wm. W.
Beal, Collector of Internal Revenue of
the Third District of Mississippi, and j “
Henry W. Bowen, Assessor of the Second ; e
District of Virginia. J —Dispatches from Washington say the
******** using its influence in
"" lavor of the immeuiato admission of Ga. ;
it also favors nu election this fall in the
State.
—The House of Representatives have
adopted resolutions to investigate the
treatment of the colored cadets at West
Point
—Philadelphia Fireman had a row in
that city on the morning of the 13th.
—Two hundred persons were injured,
on the 13th, at the Orange vs. Catholic
riot at Elm Park, N. Y.
—Tho Paris papers of tho 13th report
the Ministers all resigning. So the cable
dispatches inform us.
—The Albany News says it is rumored
that the Southwestern railroad is to be
extended to Binkley.
—Macon has a 82,500 race track.
—It is said that should the dogma of
Georia, having complied with tho Re
construction Acts, Fourteenth and Fif
teenth Articles of Amendments to'Che
Constitution of tho United States having
been ratified in good faith by a legtu
Legislature of said State, it is hereby de
clared that the State of Georgia is enti
tled to representation in the Congress of
tho United States. But nothing in this
act contained shall be construed to de
prive the people of Georgia of their
rights to an election for members of the
General Assembly ol Said State, as pro
vided for in the . Constitution thereof:
and nothing in this or any other act of
Congress shall be construed to affect the
term to which any officer has been ap
pointed, or any member of the General
Assembly elected, as provided by the
Constitution of the State of Georgia.
Further War News.
London, July 10.—The absolute with
drawal of Prince Leopold - is generally
credited.
Rumors are in circulation to-day to the | the infallibility of the Popo bo declared
effect that Russia md Prussia we inatrict | hytho Ecumenical Council, there will l,o
-The j “ 7‘T of
Emperor to the Rhine frontier. ■ -Chprch of England. Several well known
Stone Mountain.—Professor J.
Willett and sixteen members of the ae-
classofthe Mercer University (aa
we learn from the Index.) recently vis
ited Stone Mountain. While there he
made a trigonometrical estimate of the
height of tho mountain. He says that
it is 555 feet above the rails of the Geor
gia Railroad at the depot. In White*!
Historical Collections, “It is said to be
3000 feet.” In White’s Statistics of
Georgia. “It is said to lie 2,226 feet
above the creek, and seven miles in
circnmferenee.” Old residents at the
munntain claim a height of 1,000 to
1,100 feet. With a base of five miles in
circumference, and in altitude of 555
feet, tbo mountain contains about cno
tenth of a cubic mile of granite. He
estimates the height of the mountain
above tho level of the- ocean at 1,610
feet—Atiahta Const. ^
ISy.The Xqw York'Tribune, which
sometimes ooenptee »trong and jusk poni-
tlons, says: - -
“The men. who advocate proscrq
in order to tighten (heir grasp on poblio
office, and lawless adventurers whose
names were never found oolbe junster-
roll of Gen. Lee’s army, but wIkv riltes
the was, have composed the Ka-Klax-
Klans, have alike muled and misrepre
sented the people-of the South long
enough.”
Just so, Mr. Greeley, That very thing
has been, and still is* the corse of tho
South—tho great obstacle to all. honest
government and to all material progress.
It is a. curse, though, which your party
fastened on ua; and we hope all will,like
yon, soon come to appreciate its hideous
deformity and injustice—Wilmington (JY.
C.) Star.
Tne camp at Chalans will be broken up
immediately.
Gen. Lebouf exchanges the war port
folio for a field command.
Holland declines the offer made , by
Prussia of an army to defend the front-
Edmund About will go to the front as
war correspondent ot the. Monetieur de
Soir. •
It is said France will oppose to the
Prussian rifled cannon, a revolving can
non, shooting forty times per minute.
Perhaps Layman’s American gum
Paris. July 16.—Prince Napoleon ar
rived in Norway yesterday.- Ho received
a dispatch from Pane and .will return im
mediately. . .;
The Journal, this morning, publishes
the following statement:
“Eight days ago Bismarck sent, by a
special messenger,'to Worther, the Am
bassador of the German Confederation,
an order to make no concession to the
French government Do not be tbo
much impressed, Bismarck continues; wo
are ready; prolong the situation, if possi
ble, to the 20th of July-’* The Journal
argues from that- tha^- That Prussia
meant war from the beginfing and sought
only togain time.
The Emperor will lesva Paris to-day,
for the seat of war. ThoPrmcelmpcrial
will aooompany him to the fiold. > IT;
Tho Emperor desires this, and the
Empress does not object Tho military
attendants of the Prince are in readiness.
Prince Napoloon, aa soon as he arrives
from Norway, will be ‘changed with an
* hportant mission to Italy.
Tha journals assort / that the French
Government, as soon as the resnlt of tha
vote on tho infallibility dogma was known
here, signed an order for ti*e recall of
troops from Rome, ji
Bourne to-day opened declining: rentes
65 francs and 60centimes. : . '
Conn* Befledelti arrived in . this city
last night, oomiog from -Ema instead of
from Berlin. He did not. receive his
passports. He camo.to give . . the Empc-.
nor verbal explanations.
Lord Lyons, the F.ogli«^ minister, is
atill o-nlleavoriag to get his colleagues
quondam Angilicans are corresponding
with one another on. tho subject.
—James W. Lingard, a noted Now
York actor, has committed suicide.
—The Georgia State Dental Association
will hold their annnsl moriing j n tbo city |{j
of Atlanta, on Vhu 28th iust.
—There is a. woman Out in Indiana '
who don’t do things by halves, but by
fourths. On the “Fourth” she. was mar
ried to her fourth hosba,nd.at 4 o’clock in
tho Fourth street church,liad four brides
maids, left, four' hours later, nnd will do
a four week bridal trip. She is going it
on all-fours.
Josh Billings says : The live man iz
like a little pig: he is weaneayoung.and
begins to root early. U* K .the pepper
sasa ov creation, tho allspice of tho world.
One live man in a village iz like a case ov
itch at a. dbtrikt school—he sets every
body scratching at onst.”
—The Board of Managers of the Cotton
States Fair Association, of Augusta, have
determined to hold an Agricultural Con
gress in that Wty daring the October
IMr- - ' •• ©A? .* ' •'
—Cockroaches con bo destroyed by ua-4
ing smooth-glazedchina'bowls, partially
filled wi|K molasses and-water. Set the
bowls against something, by whiphthe in
sects can get ip Vthey notbo aide to
get out. t*
—The Sultan* of Turkey so exposed
himself at tho great fire that,his clothes
became igT)ftiefi.^ p
—In Paris the water of the Seine is so
low that.thegras8.ie projnjtsr. «t the foot
uf ifio quay, walla - . . ' '. *
-The champion jumper of Amorica is
Looniio,' of'JacksonYilfo.Tll.; J?his is his
soorerSteglc jnmp,. 09, fect Sinohes ;
throejqmps, iO feetten'inmpe feet.
—A..London hushanfl, pounding his
Wife, rvns attoekod«o fiercely l.y the fam-
Hy cat that the women had: to take her
question between Franco and
Prussia, t r.
Nothing positive has been ascertained,
jet; concerning the alliance between
J B^^cwSSn toKlay tliat Austria before mounting
will rornm MutaL * the box nnd taking, reins and whip in
\7erfher, the North German minister, hand, kltraysfirst fonnaUy prayB tliathls
and all the members of his embassy, ltd? ■■■■at-sH*.’!—'itizaj&VsJSS'
Paris yesterday afternoon for Berlin.
. Tho French squadron in the Mediterra
nean has been, doubled.. Yicc. Admiral
Dela Groviere is in command. , J: ,
; Thero is great activity 'in; tho war De
portment to-day. A large number of
sealed orders have been sent iu various
directions. •
driving may"bo tojhdxglorf oFhis God.
. —ThOtLoudoii police now wear h el*
mots built on tho pattern of that worn by
tho lute Alexander the Great.
—An Indiana dog-fancier applied cor-. '
rosive sublimate to the fleas on his y
and now he has’nt any dog to love.