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'HANCOCK, GRAHAM A REILLY
AMERICUS. GEORGIAN
Frida? Homing, September 16,1670
fob CONGRESS—to Dnrrsicr,
HON. NELSON TIFT,
OP DOUGHERTY.
Platform of (he Georgia Democ
racy.
Resolved, That the Democratic party
of Georgia stand upon the principles of
the Democratic party of the Union,
bringing into special prominence, as
applicable to the present extraordinary
condition of the countiy, the unchangea
ble doctrines that this is a Union of the
States and that the indestructibility of
the States and of their rights and of their
equality with each other is an indispen
sable part of our political system.
Resolved, That in the approaching
State election, the Democratic party in-
• vites everybody to co-operate with them
in a zealous determination to change, as
far as the several elections to be held can
do so, the present usurping and corrupt
administration of the State government
by placing in power men who are true
to the principles of constitutional gov
ernment, and to a faithful and economi
cal administration of public affairs.
Resolved, That in addition to the re
turns of the elections to be made, as pre
scribed by law, the managers bo request
ed to give credentials of election to the
Ilcpieaentatives and Senators who may
lx* elected, to be used as evidence of their
election.
Resolved, That whatever policy others
may pursue, we pledge ourselves to do all
iii our power to secure free and fair elec
tions by all who are qualified to vote un
der existing laws.
Second District Democratic Congresrion-
al Convention.
At a meeting of the delegates from the
Second Congressional District in attend
ance on the Democratic State Conven
tion, held in Atlanta on the 17th instant,
it was made my duty by resolution, and
in accordance therewith I hereby call a
convention of the Democratic party of
said district, to lie held at Albany, on
Wednesday, the 21st day of September,
1870,at 10 o’clock a. m., to nominate candi
dates for Congress.’
Eaeh county will send delegates equal
to double the number of Representatives
to the* House of Representatives.
Arthur Hood, Chairman.
In their case the iron-dad or tes^oaih
required. Let not our people persuade
themselves tlmt the party now dominant
in CongresfS will dispense with that oath
in individual cases or by general repeal,
except for a consideration—a pnee paid
or to be paid. * *. * *
There are, and can be no disqualifications
or disabilities for members of Congress,
but such as are prescribed by the Consti
tution itself; and by the Constitution, I
mean that sacred instrument in its purity,
as contra-distinguished from the so-called
14th and 15lh amendments. * * *
I think, therefore, that we should elect
members of Congress without the slight
est regard to so-called disabilities, except
that we should not fail to send, at least,
who are subject to them, and who
have ability to show their invalidity and
enormity. They must have a hearing on
the question of their right to seats, and
that question well argued on the theatre
of Congress would shake this country
from centre to circumference. ”
Bat lest the length*of oar article should
become wearisome we forbear comment
upon these extracts until our next issue,
when the subject will be continued and
the fact demonstrated that Judge Ste
phen^ views ore erroneous and impolitic,
and that, if this is an indication of the
course he contemplates pursuing, his
election was an unfortunate, not to say
an improjier selection.
In our last article we presented two ex
tracts from tlio letter of Judge Stephens,
and in this wo desire to notice these ex
tracts and otherwise briefly comment up
on this extraordinary, ill-timed and im
politic letter, which should never have
been written.
Judge Stephens says we should select
for member of the Legislature ‘‘only
those who are free from all the so-called
disabilities ” and gives as a reason that
they 44 will be subject to the manipula
tion of the dominant party at Washing
ton. ” On this recommendation we have
no cause of complaint. We think it
right and dictated by high, sonnd policy.
But, with these views as to Legislators,
pray why docs Judge Stephens “ fly off
the helve ” when he comes to candidates
for Congress ? Is there any sense or rea-
Judge Stephen’s Letter.
We publish, in another column, the
letter of Judge Linton Stephens accept
ing the |K>sition of Chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee, to
which ho was recently elected by a por
tion of that Committee and we feel no or
dinary regret that such a letter should
have been written, just at this time. We
had hoped that a different policy would
prevail in the conduct of this campaign,
but, wo fear, we are to drift into the same
old impolitic and unwise channel. Is it
not a little strange that men, and men of
intelligence, should desire to keep up and
prolong the policy that has prevailed for
the past few yearn—the policy of electing
men to office whom we know to be dis
qualified, and whom we know, from tho
very nature of things, will not be per
mitted to take their seats. If there is any
good sense in this we confess to not see
ing it.
At this time the country is upheaving
from a great political revolution, and eve
ry moment is big with results important
to lovers of free constitutional govern
ment and unless every line of conduct is
directed by sonnd policy and conserva
tive wisdom, we fear, we shall have no
cause of congratulation. The crisis is
now at hand, and, desiring to be free, wo
should not throw obstacles in the way of
our friends, for, it should be remembered,
that everything depends upon the coarse
of tho Southern Democracy. The prej
udices and passions of a vast number of
tho people of tho North against us of the
South, aro not dead, but only sleeps, and
while thus dormant that class, seeing the
extremities to which the Radicals are go
ing, are disposed to unite with the Dem
ocratic party. When this
it pradent in ns to drive those people
back into tho Radical party, by doing
Judge Stephens advocates—sending men
to Congress to contend for their right to
neats by reviving the issues that should
now rest.* We cannot see the wisdom of
such a course, nor can we perceive the
good in it We fear Jndge Stephens
looking at matters from an emti IHbtm
stand point.
Bnt let us look at this letter a moment
and concisely note a few of the objection
able features.
Iu the first place J udge Stephens makes
decided overtures for a war with the Com
mittee, l»y criticising their course of
duct at the recent meeting, and emphati
cally dissenting from a portion of their
action, and intimating, in no very doubt
ful manner, that they wera too hasty and
acting upon uncertain authority,
this matter we should have no hesitancy
i u taking sides with the Committee. That
imrtion of their action to which he ob
jects we thought and still think was emi
nently proper. Wo believe, and sliyll
advocate, that it is right for the people
to elect men to both State and National
offices who can take their neats and are
qualified under the laws os they now ex
ist. To go into the legality or illegality
of these laws, fundamental or statutory,
ut this time would be suicidal—would be
the very best way of fixing them upon us
jiermanenUy and immovably. The time,
no doubt, will como when it will be right
and proper to open and go into
questions,- but that time has not yet ar
rived, end we most wait ita coming with
liecoming patience. The people of the
North ere not yet prepared to admit that
the several Conditional Amendments,
and the various laws relating to the South
were improperly enacted and were and
are jilll unnecessary. To undertake to
disregard those.laws and propose to en
ter into an argument to convince them of
thMr' impropriety and illegality, at this
♦fop,. would ba .Eke the attack of the
Kniglrt of-
“ Members of Congress stand on a dif
ferent footing : ” as to them the same pol
icy should not govern. Why ? Because
they have no disqualifications or disabili
ties, yet still Legislators have, according
to this letter. Now can any one tel
why, if Congress can, under the XIYth
amendment, disqualify a Legislator it
cannot disqualify, under the same law, a
member of Congress ? Can such non
as this be demonstrated ? Accord
ing to Judge Stephens tho 44 dominant
party at Washington ” will 44 certainly ex
clude from it (the Legislature) all per
sons who may be subject to any of the
disabilities, ” and ire say they will just
certainly exclude members to Congress
who are disqualified. We see no reason
for any such discrimination, under exist
ing laws, and, with a case thus clear, tho
Radicals will have no hesitancy, whatev-
, in refusing admission to such.
Bnt Jndge Stephens says we should not
only 44 select members of Congress with
out the slightest regard to so-called disa
bilities, ” but we should be certain to send
some “who are subject to them, ” and
who have ability to show their invalidi
ty and enormity. ” Just the idea ?
simply ridiculous to even hope to find
nan, or set of meu, in Georgia,
elsewere, with ability enough to go be
fore Congress, ns an applicant for admis-
os a Democratic member from Geor
gia, and show that anything they have
done for tho past few years was invalid
and enormous. As for our part we shonld
prefer undertaking to remove Stone
Mountain ; we honestly believe the job
could be completed quicker and with less
labor. Wo certainly thought Judge Ste
phens knew better than this, thongh may
this not all be construed into a bid, on
bis part, for the office ?
But, quitting tho discussion of the lct-
r, we do think that a more damaging
and ill-timed letter could not have been
written. It is in direct opposition to the
feelings and wishes of tho people and
party, and we hopo to see the gratuitous
advice of this gentleman repudiated in
toto. Let it not bo regarded for a mo
ment, and, to overcome ita bad effects,
let the people, in their primary eonnty
meetings, declare emphatically against it
By this means, although written by the
Chairman of the Democratic Executive
Committee, its bad effect will be over
come and destroyed.
We felt apprehensive when we first
learned that he had been cbosen Chair
man, for we had understood he was hard
to be curbed at tho late Convention, and
much persuasion was required to prevent
him from making an ill-timed and ill-
tempered speech before that body. Bnt
we drop tho subject with the remark that
if Judge Stephens proposes to adhere to
bis present views and effort to ran the
campaign on that policy wc think he had
best resign. Tho people have already
too long followed the lead of just such
inflamed men. It is tirao to stop, and
we shall continuously raise our voice in
warning to this effect. 44 There is a time
for all things. ”
M»ncha upon the wind
P But; Jnds? Stephens, with •omo ttppv
rtotiD^nrisUhV. Altai* MWY
so-callctl disa-
PfUS!L-HzJfflCn, of the dominant per-
SS -ft-mdirngten, and that party will
ggSswaem*:
Then and Now;
The Radicals have had a wonderful way
at keeping in p^ver,particularly in the
so called rebellious States, and could they
have continued this process they would
realty have had a good thing of it. The
carpet-baggers and soalawaggers could
have lorded it over us for an indefinite i*e-
riod. But their process fizzled out Af
ter the excitement and prejudice created
by [the war had somewhat subsided it
wouldn’t work worth a cent As a prac
tical illustration we give the full returns
of the late judicial election in Tennessee,
as reported by the Nashville pspers. The
total Conservative (Democratic?) vote
was as follows:
Nelson, 109,654 ; Deaderick, 104.230;
Turney, 107,683; Nicholson, 104,541;
Sneed, 107,163 ; Freeman, 102,48L
The Radical candidates, opposing the
abore, received an average of 13,500
votes.
That is an illustration of nc
when the people have the right to vote,
and vote as they please. Bnt when that
dreadful disease prevailed, as an epidem
ic, over the South, and which wa3 com
monly known as Disability, such tilings
could not be. So long as Radicalism
treated the disease it continued and threat
ened to become chronic, but so soon
Democrats began prescribing, it vanished
as dew before a morning sun, and left the
Radicals disconsolate and discomfitted.
But, in order to present the other side
and demonstrate the truth of what
present a few figures showing the
result of an election, in the same State,
while the Disability was prevailing
George Andrews 45,132.
Thomas A. R. Nelson 14,494.
Andrew McClain .* 25,870.
J. O. Shackleford 11,137.
Alvin Hawkins 29,434.
Thus, the difference between then and
>w is easily distinguished, when tyran
ny and oppression run riot over the land
the Radicals were triumphant and the
people were denied their right of snffrage.
The Rads, in this State should learn a
lesson from the above figures. In 1869,
when the election, the result of which is
last given above, was held, Nelson, then
Radical, received 14,494 votes ; in 1870,
when the times have changed, and dis
franchising laws done away with, the
in, having abandoned his Radi
calism and aligned himself on the side of
liberty and free-govemment, receives
109,654 votes! Mark the difference.
if such vast changes have taken
place in Tennessee, within the past year,
it seems natural that they should take
place in Georgia. As for our party we
feel as fully convinced that, the Radicals
will be as overwhelmingly defeated in the
approaching election as wc would were
the future unrolled and the result made
known. With their burdens they cannot
successfully run the lace. Corruption
and fraud has been too open and tyranny
too hard for the people again to allow the
scallys to return to their offices. Let
them know that the offices that now know
them will know them no more after the
election. Then, farewell scallys.
44 A word that makes ns linger
Yet—farewell.”
Oar Meeting on Saturday Next.
We beg that the people will not forget
it meeting here on next Saturday, the
call for which will be found in another
column. It is important that we have a
large meeting. We desire to have every■
body hero that 44 none may go away dis
satisfied.” It is not a time fordisaf-
fections and differences, for rivalries and
jealousies, but it is a time for unity and
honest effort The contest no donbt will
be a hard one, and we most have stan
dard bearers well beliked by the people,
and tree.
Again we hope the meeting will be per
fectly harmonious, and that none will bo
over zealous to have their friends nomi
nated, if it is decided there shall be any
nomination for Legislators. Let all be
earnest and desire the best and most
popular men to be run—the mw*- who
qualified and can make the best race.
We also desire to see the people lay
down a wise platform that all, having the
good of the country and the cause of
liberty at heart, can stand upon. Let not
the wild and impolitic views of Judge
Stephens prevail On - the contrary
hope the meeting will adopt a resolution
denouncing the views as dangerous to
oar cause, imprudent and ill-timed. The
effect of his letter must be overcome and
we can see no better way than this.—
While all of his ideas and suggestions
right in principle they are wrong in poli
cy, and well calculated to retard the tri
umphant march of the Democratic party.
The time has not yet come for principle
alone without any policy. Both must be
used.
To Your Posts.
The Atlanta Sun warns Democratic
Legislators against absenting themselves
too freely and frequently from their seats,
and informs ns that there is a bill, being
prepared by Akerman, to amend the elec
tion laws of the State, in which-ia con
tained a section postponing the election
until sometime in December. This ques
tion of prolongation is one of vast inter
est to the people, and, in their name, we
demand that their representatives remain
at their posts in the discharge of their du
ties. It is no time to be leaving the
place of duty when the rights of the peo
ple are in jeopardy, and, besides, when
they accepted the office there ws
promise on their part to remain faithful
to the. trust. As for our part 'we do hot
like to see Democrats absenting them*
selves at such times as the present, and
we shall tty, hereafter, to keep people ad
vised as to who of them are absent, from
this section, when Totes of ‘importance
are taken. And we hero’call upon the
Atlanta Democratic press, to give the
names of all thus away. Let no Demo
cratic member be held guiltless who thns
sacrifices the righto of his people.
Bullock Speaks on the Election.
The Governor, having tried to defeat
an election in November and failed, now
comes, and writes a letter to the New
York Times, as follows:
To the Editor of the N. Y. Times :
My attention lia9 been called to an ed
itorial article in your paper of the 24th
instant, in which you refer to an allega
tion by the Atlanta True Georgian.
The newspaper to which you refer is
so entirely without influence in this com
munity that I have not found it necessary
to deny this or any other of its malicious
allegations against myself.
_ At the timo tho late act for tlie admis
sion of Georgia was passed by Congress, it
was understood hen* that the question of
the time for holding an election for mem
bers of the General Assembly bad not
been decided by Congress, but had been
left for adjudication to the Legislature or
the courts of this htate. This position
has also, I believe, been maintained in
the columns of your valuable paper. But,
since this question has been decided by
the National administration, through At
torney-General Akerman’s letter, it has
been, and is the determination, so far as
I know, of the party in this State to ex
ercise1 heir best endeavors to carry out
the wishes oj the President in regard to
election.
Rufus B. Bullock.
Epecutiye Department )
State op Georgia, L
Atlanta, Ga.,Ang. 29,TO.)
Before the publication of this letter
Bard charged the Governor with having
pledged an election this fall, at a private
negro caucus, held in Atlanta, the truth
of which he does not deny in tho above
letter. However, since that negro can-
met, Akerman has visited Georgia
and the Governor, and has, in some way,
arranged matters. How we do not know,
wo do know this letter means devil-
tty of some sort It may be the “wishes
of the President” corresponds with the
idea of so changing the State election
laws as to postpone the election from No
vember until December. Something is
out, and we want to see Democratic mem
bora of the Legislature hunying back to
their posts, so as to be ready for any
emergenev.
4 The letter,” says the Atlanta Cousti-
ion, “is a cliaracteristio one. The
idea of a State Executive seeking to
form to the wishes of the President in
stead of following tho law* he is sworn to
obey and execute is a typical specimen of
Radical policy.” To which we say
Amen !
Prolongation.
44 Let uot our people” says tho Atlanta
Constitution, suppose that prolongation
dead. We know that the plan of carrying
it out is still entertained. And the means
to be resorted to is the absence of its op
ponents from the Legislature when the
question is sprung.
“We call ujton the Democratic members
to stay at tJteir jtosts. 44 They are
people’s servants, paid to attend the ses
sions of tho Legislature, and give their
undivided time to their duties. They
have no right to be absent from their
places attending to other business. Im
portant interests ur* at stake. Great
questions are to be watched vigilantly
and uninterruptedly. Au unscrupulous
faction seeks to carry out measures de
structive to the rights, the liberties, and
the prosperity of iko peoplo of the State.
the duty of Democratic members to
be at baud to fight these bad measures.
This is no matter of play. It in
volves the welfare of the commonwealth.
Public servants who thns trifle with these
grave questions will be visited with the
heaviest penalties of censure.
We have it from a big a Radical
source that froloxoatiox is expected to
CARRIED THROUOII BY DEFAULT IN U
DO DOERS AND ABSENT DEMOCRATS. TlliS
i be relied upon.
*We call on our Democratic members
who are absent to return to tbeir posts,
and that no more leave. Any Democrat
who is absent when this measure is sprung
will incur the suspicion of being bought
to stay away. We hopo our State ex
changes will press this matter home.
Georgians cannot forgive men who from
any motive fail in their duty now. Pub
lic interests are inconcicvably mote im
portant than auy private matters.
“Nothing bnt dangerous sickness can
justify absence. Democrats, to yonr
places. .We do not over-estimate the
danger. We are no alarmist. We toll
you the doom of indifference to the
public danger and disregard of public
duty will bo a scathing one.”
The Senatorial Convention.
We pnnfc elsewhere a notice for a Con*
vention to be held in thi3 place on Sat
urday next, 17th inst., for tho purpose of
nominating a candidate for the Senate
from this District, and wo hope
friends in Schley and Macon will take
steps to be fully represented. It is im
portant that we pot oat a good man—this
is necessary for obvious reasons—and we
desire to aee the three counties folly rep
resented so that notes may be compared
and the bast man pot in the Add. We
must reoognize no geographical linen in
this matter,' at least anflicieht to caase
differences. IfSchley or Macon haa the
beetmsn lot him‘be pat out and all earn
estly uuito in his support There is bat
one man to nominate and bnt one man
can get tho nomination, and we do trust
that this will bo remembered. And let
it further be remembered, whoever, is
put out should be earnestly supported by
alL If your personal friend is not nom
inated, put him aside and work for the
jiiAi.L the Radical Party Die?”—
This is a question, says tho Huntsville
Democrat, anxiously asked by Rad
ical papers, North and South,. “Com
ing events cast thoir shadows before”—
and we doubt not that tho seeds of disso
lutions are planted in the lxisom of the
Radical Party, and that they feel the
pains and pangs premonitory of Death’s
remorseless approach, This Party, after
leading a life of self-imlalgenco in every
thing comprehended in the catalogue of
crimes against public and private right,
plethoric with ill-gotten gains, is jnst
clung the fag end of ou ill-spent life.—
The Democratic Party is looking with
intense interest at its symptoms of decay
and inevitable death, and stands ready,
without a sigh of sorrow or|tear of regret,
to witness its expiring breath, drive the
last nail in its coffin, and bury it Iteyond
the hope of Resurrection.
Shall tho Radical party die ?” Yes :
let it die the death that knows no waking.
It has pitied no one’s sorrows. It has
shown mercy to none. It has regarded
ne’s rights. It lias paid no respect
to widows’ tears or orphans’ erica. It has
ground strong men—the honest, the
patriotic, tho brave, the good and the
great—with the iron heel of oppression.
loaded down with the guilt of per
jury and prostitution, rape and robbery,
arson and assossinatiou. Let it die an
eternal death, and.
‘Doubly dying, let it go down
To the vile dust, from which it sprang,
Unwept, unhonored and unsung.”
Falibility or Inialibility.
The dogma of infolibility is bearing
fruit in all Roman Catholic countries.
Not onty ho3 the Bavarian Govern
ment, with the full sympathy of the
leaders of t:;© Romish Church, pro
hibited the promulgation of that dogma,
but even in Spain a great reactionary
movement has begun. In Madrid a
ported some days ago, sixty of Uie Cath
olic clergy have renounced the Pope,
and formed on independent Church or
ganization. A priest of Jewish extraction
has joined the Protestants, and formed a
new church at Avila, where there is a
Catholic. Theological Seminary.
Estremodara another priest has “c _
oat,” and brought fourteen parishes with
him. These are a few of the many signs
o! the times..
It is proposed to have Horace Greeley
lecture on Temperance at Atlanta.
Ominous Rumors Prom the East,—
Londox, September. 9.—Extreme -agi
tation reigns-in Constantinople, where
it is illegal to have been ascertained that
Russia and Austria are negotiating with
a view to the partition of Eastern Europe
and of the Turkish empire. The Rus
sian fleet in the Black .Sea exceeds the
limits set by tho treaty of Paris, and
there is the greatest activity in tho Aus
trian dock-voids at Pola and Trieste.—
Special to the World.
- - For the Republican.
: Off to the Penitentiary.
Un. Editob : loot Friday wound np
the great nigger ball in tills county (Jef
ferson) by sending eleven of the darkies
to the Penitentiary and twoto the chain
8*“g.
Tho sentence of the former ranged
from one year to twenty
I hod the pleasure of seeing them
rigged oat for their journey and take
their departure from onr midst. I hope
never to return.
Yon are doubtless aware that some
three weeks ago a large number—said to
be 75—of negroes went to Louisville, well
armed, and demanded the j&il keys, and
failing to get them repaired to the jail,
broke it open and turned out some dar
kies confined there, making big threats
of what they would do.
The number kept increasing till they
numbered several thousand, manifesting
strong indications of carrying their
threats into execution, which were to lay
Louisville in ashes and have revenge for
an old negro that had been killed a short
time before, or kill every white
tho country.
The citizens were alarmed aud x
der. But enough was soon collected to
dispose the beligcrents, and make them
skedaddle in all directions.
A Company of regular soldiers was sent
on to aid in qaelliug the riot that
dered efficient services. More than 50
were arrested, but about one half were
discharged for want of proof to commit
^ A special Court sat last week to try
them, and the result was as before stated.
Two or three were indicted for going
to a white man’s house, calling him up
in tho dead of night, aud when he ap
peared at his window three shots were
fired at him scattering the shot all aronnd
him—one hitting him.
They plead guilty, and Judge Gibson
was so overflowing with the milk of
human kindness that he sentenced them
to the Penitentiary for all of tico years
Merciful Judge that say yon.
J. B. R.
What the Prussians Will Encounter
in Taking Paris
A New York Times letter says: The
failure to carry the fortifications of
Paris at once must, it seems to me, prov
highly disastrous. Tho French capital
is a fortified city of the first order.'
Every means known to the science e
gineering, all the aids which experience
could give and the skill of clever gener
als could suggest, have been applied to
the works around Paris—works which
have been shown with pride for some
years past. Yet, iu modern warfare,
it is still au open and disputed question
how far, if at all, the best devised forti
fications tho finest system of bastions,
salients and curtains are superior to the
earth-works which may be thrown up '
few weeks’ time. Even the strongest
fortresses have fallen again aud
again. “Here sire,” Baid Vauban, hand
ing the keys of Vedun to the King, “is a
fortress which all my art would not suffice
to take;” yet Vauban lived to see that
very fortres-s taken three times. It was
the same Vauban who first conceived the
idea of surrounding Paris with a double-
fortified cnciente, and to make it play on
important part in the defense of the
conntry. Thus we see that during and
tlie reign of Louis XV. the state
of things which exists to day was not
conceived but freely discussed. Louis
XV. refused to grant the money necessa
ry for tho commencement of tho plans
proposed by Vauban, and it was only in
1833 that a system of permanent fortifi
cation was begun. In that year Marshal
Soult demanded of the Chamber of Depu
ties a credit of thirty-five millions, for
the purpose of patting Paris iu i state
of defense. After much trouble the
money was granted, and seventeen pen
tagonal forts were established, eleven
upon the right bank of the Seine and six
upon the left. These were the ordinary
detached casemato forts, of no manner
at the present day, and cast aside
as early as the year 1840 for tho present
perfect system. This consists of two
lines of fortifications surrounding the
city, the first a series of detiched works,
capable of being provisioned and of
being used for the purpose of retarding
the euemy; the second, the most com
plete line of work around the entire city
which ever resulted from engineering
skill. Tho fortifications of the second
line are all bastioned, and comprise, first,
the zone of fire of about three hundred
yards cleared of all things which could
shelter an enemy, and within which no
means are left for the construction of
earthworks by night; second, the military
ground, or zone of fortifications proper,
embracing counterscarp, fosse, escarp,
the glacier and banquette, with almost
every other term employed ia engineer
ing. This line is a zigzag, with sharp
salient angels; it connects the strong
bastions with each other, and forms an
nnbroken line around the greater part
of the city. Anything moro formidable
than these works would be difficult to
imagine. Necessarily the line is broken
at tho points where the public roads di
verge, but here the iine is doubly strength
ened by a series of outworks, mounted
with heavy cannon, the approach to
which are covered by both casemate and
barbette guns. The bastions are really
folly armed and equipped forts, with
casemates and loopholes for musketry;
aud upon the whole line of guns are
mounted eu barbette, and there are broad
glacis where batteries of howitzers, field
guns or of the deadly mitrailleuse could
be used with terrible effect. The ditch
is nearly twenty feet in width; the walls
of the scarp, on an average along the
curtain, ten feet in height and four feet
in thickness—tho bastions, or course be
ing higher, thicker, stronger, and more
heavily armed than the rest. Thus
see that the zigzag allows of a doable fire
upon auy given point in the zone, while
the samo point is swept by two or more
of the bastions. With some experience
in the matter of fortification, I am free to
confess that this lino of works seems to be
utterly beyond escalade, and when once
beneath the walls (if he ever does get
there), I do not think the Crown Prinoe
would be rash enough to order an assault.
Upon tliis formidab.o line of works guns
of all calibre are mounted, tho heavy
cannon swoeping the approaches to the
town. To attempt a siege within the
radius covered by these guns would be
simply murderous. To establish a com
plete blockade beyond their range would
require a million men. There would be
»lino of eighteen miles to maintain,
placing the beseiging army beyond the
sphere of action from these forts, and to
attempt such a feat is simply absurd.—
The most that could be done would be to
concentrate the forces upon the principal
avenues leading from the city. And here,
again, the besiegers would bo at great
disadvantage. Running entirely around
tim city, and sufficiently protected, is a
circular railway, by which the Freooh
could throw huge bodies upon any given
point in a very abort spaoe of time, and
with its aid the effect of audden sallies,
nearly always successful for the time, is
greatly increased.
Chan gamier at Metz—The Battle of
August 1&
A New York Times correspondent
writes: “Bazaine, on theTfith, had done
his utmost to oontinue his retreat.' At
Metz he bad prepared to leave twenty
thousand men under the command of the
brave old Changarnier. This almost oc
togenarian of the French army had, in
the imminent peril of France, forgotten
hfs political feelings and offered his
sword to the Emperor. He was undoubt
edly, aside from his age, well chosen to
defend a point where so much of the for
tune of France might hong on a desper
ate struggle for existence, as well against
any besieging force as against the im
becility at a Government that had left
this important fortress so badly provis
ioned. The time, however, for Changar
nier to assume command had not arriv
ed—he still waits with, I believe, Bazaine
above him at Metz Bazaine hod not yet
S t his army well in hand on the 16th.
s really required one more day.. His
Mexican experience, perhaps, indicated
to him tlmt the Germans would not movo
until ‘Manana.’ They moved however,
and struck him on the right, with such
force as to cause him to form a line of
battle and clear the (road, or be driven
back to Metz. Steinmetz, with hia cav
alry, first foroed the French to holt. He
caused them such unwearied movements
that he gained six hours* time, until the
infantry could come to his support.
The decimated corps of Froward met die
shock with that heroism which has char
acterized it since the war opened. Soon
the troops of I’Pemirault, Bourbaki,
Dccaen and Carrobert became engaged.
The battle surged around the lovely
little villages that nestled in these valleys
and the long lines of poplar trees that
crossed the battle-fields appeared only to
grow tho gloomier as the dark smoko of
battle enrted lazily among their branches.
The French, feeling that the glory of
France and her safety depended upon
them, fought like demons. As they were
driven back, inch by inch, they took
cover, and the long lines and heaps of
German horse, foot, and artillery told
that France only yielded an inch of teri-
tory when it was saturated with German
blood. Nothing but the most desperate
resolve on the part of the German troops
drove the French from their lines. At
one moment it was very doubtful if the
overwhelming columns of the German
Army Corps were not being dashed to
pieces like waves against a rock. Tlie
fighting was magnificent. France yield
ed her glories under the same terrific
pressure by which she won them. But
that force was badly directed, and night
closed on tho fearful scene with the suc
cess of the German arms. Tho battle
was a drawn game, buttheobject of Ger
many had been partly attained, for the
Army of tho Rhine was crippled, halted
and forced to stand fight again to see if
the fortifications of Chalons or of Metz
were to be its resting place.”
The Turcos at Woerth.
On tlio battle-field of Woerth corpses
were fonml mangled iu a disgustiug
manner. The eyes of some hail been
put out, and the tongues of others cut
out. Fourteen Bavarian soldiers, who
were surrounded, desired to surrender,
but tho Turcos cut their throats with
their daggers. Tho Bavarians are en
raged, and have resolved to give the
Turcos no quarter iu future. The other
French soldiers refuso to acknowledge
these savages as their comrades.
An officer, who now lies in a hospital
at Frankfort, fays that, having been
wounded daring the storm of the heights
near Woerth, by a shot in the ankle, and
thus rendered incapablo of taking any
farther part in the engagement, he was
laid by some soldiers in a secluded hol
low, and there left. Suddenly a Tnrco,
who had laid motionless covered with
blood, and therefore nnnoticcd, at a
distance of twenty paces, rose, loaded his
Chasscpot and aimed at the officer.—
The latter had no means of defense; the
Tnrco replied to his threats by a grin,
and tho officer thought himself lost.—
Suddenly a bullet whistled past, and the
Turco fell with his head pierced. A
fusilier of tho Ninety-fifth regiment had
noticed the incident, and interfered by a
well aimed shot; ho now hastened np to
an end to tlie barbarous Cabyle with
bayonet. After the battle tho officer
i brought to Gunstett with other woun
ded soldiers. The inhabitants offered
the sufferers milk, bnt tho doctor who
accompanied them forbade them to
drink any till lie examined it. He dis
covered that it had all been poisoned with
phosphorus. Eighteen peasants were in
consequence brought before a court-mar
tial and shot. When the officer was
being carried to his quarters, at the vil
lage clergyman’s, he met his host under
a military escort It was proved that lie
had, from the pulpit, adivised his parish
ioners to poison the wells when the Ger-
s arrived.
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ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.
O N tlio first Tuesday iu November, will be
sold before the Court House door in the
city of Ainericu9, between tlio usual hours of
sale, the following property, to-wit: All the
lands belonging to estate of Jas. H. Havens,
deceased.—Half lot of 81, 83, and 83, and lots
101 aud 102, in Webster, Town District. Ala*
125 acres in Sumter County adjoining lands of
Sam. H. Hawkins, and Joe. Thomas.
Sold by order of Court of Ordinary of Sumter
county, for benefit of the heirs and creditors of
said deceased, Terms cadi,
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The Great Medical Discovery!
Dr. ’WALKER’S CALIFORNIA
VINEGAR BITTERS,
ill Hundreds-of nomads jlj
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NOTICE.
DEIi an agrciuent between the Trustees of
Furlow Masonic Female CoUcgo aud Pres-
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free of charge. Those of Masonic families will
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” 1 J. A. ANSLEY, W. XL,
Chairman Board Trastces. 1
H~n. Nelaon Tift.
e copy the following from the Early
County News, of the9th inst.,
Ou Wednesday, 21st inst., a Democrat
ic Convention for tho 2d Congressional
District will bo held in Albany to nomi
nate a candidate for Congress. There
many yortliy names suggested for
tho position ; and without disparaging
their claim**, we would most respectfully
suggest that Hon. Nelson Tift bo nom
inated for re-election. Although wo
have seen fit to differ with him at times,
yet we must admit that he has doce his
whole duty 6ince he was first elected—
probably done more to defeat Radicalism
and for Georgia than any five or ten men
put together. He is, as every one knows
thoroughly Democratic, well versed in
and familliar with all previous legislation
and firm and determined in what he be
lieves to be right; and he could never
be induced to compromise principle for
polity—and would always be vigilant
and ot his post Let ns remember we
are warned, and it is especially enjoined
in the address of tlie Democratic mem
bers of Congress not to place in nomina
tion any man whose disabilities have not
been removed. 4 Tis a well known fact
that Col. T’s disabilities have been re
moved by Congress, for he’s been “»V*
there onco reoently. Weigh the mat
ter well, and let the Convention show its
good sense by unanimously placing hia
LAND FOR SALE.
A BARGAIN OFFERED
I WILL offer for sale till November next, my
Plantation on Lannaliahse Crock, in WeLster
_ -*-*-* t fourteen hundred
k of mules, cattle
^ . , on tho farm. Tho
plantation is in good repair, about half cleared,
with houses sufficient to comfortably accommo
date laborers, and all other improvement acces
sary.
A bargain can bo had bv carlv application to
Wm. J. Felts on thefarm, J. W. Wheatley & Co.,
: myselfi at Amcricus, Georgia
sept. 3-2m. JAMES P. WALKER.
Thh editor of the Winchester (Tennes
see) Ilotne Journal claims to have receiv
ed a letter-from Hon. Samuel J. Randall,
chairman of the National Democratic
Executive Committee,- Washington,
which informs him positively that those
Congressmen elect who have had their
disabilities removed will not be required
to take the iron-clad oath. There has
never been any other understanding in re
gard to the matter. Men whose disabili
ties have been removed will not be re-
qttired to take the teat-oath, and this fact
odds to tbe great folly of Mr. Linton
Stephens in writing that letter, whieh
has been such a blow to the Democratic
party.—At. Sun.
A grave-digger in Kansas City, who
burned a man named Button, sent his
bill to his Widow os follows; *To making
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The opening chapter of. a Western
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