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PUBLISHED BY HANCOCK, GRAHAM & REILLY. "Volume 17. AMEBICUS, OEQBG-IA, ffiRipAY, JULY 22. 1870. division Number 22. i of Advertising. tried f<*r ■will l* < uot specifying tb*J leugtL of enta to occupy flx<-d places will be r cent, above regular rates. of Administration, .. 3 00 ... 3 00 .. 5 00 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.