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The Daily Herald
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A fraak declaration. The humors of the Daily Graphic balloon '
scheme are both numerous and enjoyable.
The Boston Advertiser, in an article on the Th# Graphic people have iavited aU the
- - — I 6nb i ect of tbe receIlt G P eecb 01 Da ™ be -' celebrities in the country (except Sam. Bard)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 24 f 18/3. fore the Southern Historical Society, soys . I tQ tabe passage with Professor Wise on his
■ ! It is not difficult to read the spirit prompt- j g rst trial trip across the Atlantic. The an-
ing these words. Jefferson Davis rejoices in | 1 .
every evidence that the fire* of the rebellion j s^ers to these invitations would fill a library,
still smoulder in the hearts oi Southern men j Ben Butler was advised to go because it was
and Southern women, and boldly proclaims thought by being raised a thousand miles or
his expectation that the children of the pres- . ,, ^ A
ent generation,taught by theirunreconstructed I 8(> ttbove tbe earth be wonId see the
mothers, will redeom all that has been lost, j boundaries of Massachusetts were not
And yet if the Northern people venture to | the boundries of the universe. A. OakeyHall
consider that such * !M
Alabama News.
A Tell Tale Skeleton. The Chinese Marriage Market
tigLbo:
The ANcauir
THE IIKRALD PL’BLISHINti COMPANY.
ALKY. ST. CLAIK-ABKAMb.
(1KNKV W. (iltAUY,
R. ALSTON,
KtUtora ami Managerk.
THE TERMS of the HERALD are u follows :
DAILY, A Mouths... 2 60 1 WEEKLY. 3 Mouths
DAILY, 1 Month 1 Ou |
Advertisements inserted st moderate rate-a. Sub
scriptions and advertisements ‘^variably in advance.
Address HERALD PUBLISHING CO..
Drawer 23 Atlanta, Georgia.
Office on Alabama Street, near broad.
the South, the same men who listen
to Davis, and encourage him by their adula
tions, whimcgly protest that they are misun
derstood and misrepresented. Perhaps they
I think Northern Republicans can be cajoled by
the spectacle of their hurrahing for Greeley
and the Cincinnati platform one year and sit-
___ | ting at the feet of Jefferson Davis while he
— i preaches another crusade against the Union
Mr. T. J. Burney is the only authorized i the next They deceivo themselves. The
j declined going, although he was invited as
the representative of a political party that
had been making several trips in a balloon
lately; he said he had enough of it. One
genius writes in reply to the invitation the
following poem:
Editor Graphic Balloon—Sir.
j The following advertisement appears in the
last number of the Gestimunde (North Ger-
Tbere is said to be much aickness in the
hood of Seale.
A planter in Jackson county, Alabama, claims that
four mocking birds have prevented the caterpillar
from destroying twelve acres of cotton.
The Dental Assc elation of Alabama convened in ! many) Gazette
Montgomery on the 20th inataut. “The following heirs of Catharine Spelling
it is rumored that Mr. T. K. Ferguson, the late and her daughter Dorothy, both of whom
banker of Selma, is en route from Europe for the died a violent death in 1852, at Amsterdam,
purpose of “pacifying'’ hia creditors in Alabama. j aie requested to send their addresses immedi-
Mr. Daniel Meadows, au old and reapected citizen j ately to this Royal Probate Court at Amster-
of Montgomery county, died on Monday nigbt last of j dam : Sopliio Behrensbrung, Otto Relenear,
what is known as the "yellow disease.” He had lived Anna Derning, Maria Deriliug, Joseph Der-
in that county for more than thirty years. He was a j a *| whom emigrated to the United
man who “feared God and kept his commandments.” 1 Suites Since 1804. .
Owing to too much rain the corn crop in Randolph ' . .. “Eb**E.st Belger, Solicitor,
Travelling Agent of the Herald.
Our State Exchanges.
Bishop Gross is expected in Columbus to-day.
As
i item of interest to our military friends.
| North does not forget so quickly. So long as
i Jefferson Davis proclaiming his distempered
notions is an honored man amongst them,
I doubt is wiser than credulity.
It really cannot injure the South one iota
more than she has already been injured, if
may mention th»t the Ninth Beghneot, of the Northern people believe that we design
ill be represented by one company at the
another crusade” against the Union. “Tbe
North does not forget so quickly,” says the
Advertiser. Neither does the South. Hence
it is that we shall not “whiningly protest” that
we are “misunderstood and misrepresented.”
Mr.Davis said nothing that we do not heartily
Baltimore, ’
Macon Fair.
Mr. J. C. Harris, assistant editor of tbe Morning
News, left Savannah on Thursday afternoon on the
steamship Magnolia for New York, and thence to
Canada. We trust his recreation from professional
duties will prove pleasant and beneficial, and that he
may return to his post with renewed vim and energy.
Savannah News: The sales of Central Railroad stock
yesterday, mentioned elsewhere, shows a marked im
provement over those ol the past few months. The
stock now has an upward tendency, and it Is safe to
predict that tbe apprehensions and speculations in- . .
dnlged in by some will come to naught, and those who ! submission we did not feel. It Las been tbe
showed their wisdom by purchasing will reap the ad
vantage. Although scarcely three weeks since some
shares were sold as low as G9, we heard yesterday of I When Mr. Davis said that
an oCer of TO 1 , for ten shares being refused. *It is '
evident that the confidence in the Central, which was
momentarily shaken ss it were, is not only renewed
Lnt strengthened, and some assert that before the j the children who succeeded them would grow
“If I could read my title clear
To mansions io the skits,
I'd bid farewell to every fear
And with good gas arise.”
Probably no man since the Hood has ha
such a hard time as our beloved correspon
dent Zeno, (not F’t’z'p’tYc’k), wKo writes
from Eitoutou. He has probably appreciated
by this time that writing for newspapers is
not as peaceable and quiet a business as run
ning a Sunday school. We call attention to
the cards of the two gentlemen who sculp
him in this morning’s Herald. Poor Bildad !
The imagination of the gentleman that
, Much amusement has been caused tu tlie
1 settlement by an incident which VM^edyes
terday. Some people sitting g
the usual way in a tea shop nea
it was incidentally mentioned th
close to the Louza Police Statioi
was going forward. By-and-b-
broke up, and as some of those v
ed it lived in the Louza dii
thought as they passed the hou
noise of crackers and the boui,
and other accompaniments of 1
evidence of a marriage, that the?
and have a look at the fun.
with the freedom which Chinese tom: n 0 r
mit, they pushed into tbe little court jutd in
front of the reception room, where most
of the marriage guests weie Assembled
with the happy bridegroom and the bride,
- w * K - i •» , making merry over the marriage feast*. But
falling off aa thick as hail. No caterpillars have ap- U p War d of twenty years after it had been com- no sooner did one of tbe tea-shop gossips set
i reared there yet, but there is some complaint of rust. m itted. i eyes on the bride than he gave an unearthly
j The Greenville Alabamian saya there is a man in T - t.,u. ioto *i c > —*—j— i .—n .-j ~*i J
' Butler, Mr. John M. Lanedon, who is now ninety-six
years of age. He is a native of Virginia, and served
. . ... .. .. . ... ... I This advertisement was issued in conse-
county Alxb. m .,Hl. thoesM will be oely ordinary. l ceof ^ dl80 p j the murdtrer of
Cotton, however, promise. » better crop th.n l... been | ^ wldow 8pelIing an< f ber daughter, aod of
made for ye«r«, notwilbetending tbe young bol « ere | t j le y ecover y p f the spoils of llis fearful crime,
K'Ppif’g
the Maioa,
in a .;o
k marriage
(he arty
V:tv tave
ulu go in
.ordingly,
tom?
endorse, or that the great mass of our people i oversees the dispatches lor “the coiuiDg on
do not believe. j paper” is something above the average. This
In July, 1852, the police of Amsterdam saw j yell and other tokens of sudden and intense
on the door of the house on Harlem street, j excitement. When the tumult of his feelings
where Catherine Spelling lived with her daugh- | had so far found an equilibrium as to make
i the British wur of 1812. He gains his livelihood by ( ter Dorothy, a notice to the effect that the two utterance possible, he declared that tbe bride
farming, and cau do as much as the common run of , women had gone to the country. This notice j was no other than his wife, whom he had
men in tbe meridian of life. His wife is eighty-six. i aroused no suspicions, but when the old lady j supposed to be quietly attending to her <lo-
They have six sons and five daughters. The oldest and her daughter did not return after the | mestic duties at home, as he had left her not
son is dow seventy, and has great grandchildren. ! lapse of six weeks the police entered it. A many hours previous. Of course the most
Cornwall Iron Work, are in blast again. The work, tearful sight met their eyes. The widow and “ * ....
have been muted generally, and tbe capacity i. now her daughter, with their throats cat from ear
fifteen tons per day.
There has not been a day since the close of ! *ke way he heads a notice of a steamship:
the war that we have not regarded with utter
scorn and contempt tbe policy of assuming a !
A steamer aud twelve peop J e horribly sky-
I rocketted into eternity.” That editor has
horribly sky-rocketted headforemost into
fatal blunder of the South, aud has done ! sublimity.
more to degrade her than anything else.
while the men of ;
“Wo must get entirely
Phil Sheridan s.-.ys
I rid of these Modocs
the day are mightier than the principles for i ^
bid. they had strangled, he vet hoped that i thtir preMDce lor a abort time. If he could
send them to Heaven, now, they would never
I to ear, were lying on the iioor in an
• advanced state of decomposition, while
A difficulty occurred at Round Mountain Iron Works j the bureaus were rifled of their
last week between Mike Burns, Irishman. A. J. YVel- j contents. It was ascertained that the mur-
don and James E. Skinner, in which Skinner wan ae- \ derer had carried off diamonds, money and
ridnaly stabbed. Whisky. Bound over to Circuit bonds, amounting to nearly one hundred and
Court. \ fifty thousand dollars. Time passed by and
The Montgomery Advertiser say* a million ^ollsrs j the doable murder was almost forgotten, until
have been expended in improving that city ♦ 1 ***" 1 Tn1 ” , ** of
comae of the last fourteen months.
The Selma Timei
fLe ravages of the c
there cuu be uu dm.bt tbar in the country continuous . " “* ■“» i . — „„ auvvo .
* . a . ; bottom of this space lay a large leathern I in a foreign hong, being in want ot a wife,
to Selma immense damage las een < one *y .iem. p OC j- e ^ containing the diamonds, the money | was told by tbe father that he had a marriage-
Some plsntatioua have be*;u literally swept. j —j-sj— m. .... *
The TaUapooes Head-L-ght of Thursday makes fhit
hotter report: “We have made inquiries the laat week j er ^wo women, who after assassinating , father, and arrangcments J
nouncement, and th. husbfind rushed off to
Louza for assistance. A native constable
went with b:r.i, and on <iuestioning the bride,
she ndmi -. d. without hesitation, that she
was the wile of the “claimant,” had been so
for four years, and had by him a daughter
two years old. On this, a stop was put to
the marriage ceremonies, and in due course
the parties were brought before the magistrate
of the Mixed Court. It then appeared that
the disposal of bis daughter iu marriage for a
i the I on the third of July last the house in which
the ciime had been committed was torn down.
of WVdneRday -Report* of i BeUecu it aud the adjoiimig house was a i consideration was a favorite method of “ rais-
r'continue to com. in. and \ B P“<r° ttbout °" e fo , ot in , wid , tb ; “ ud 1 “ “‘'' ed ia ? ri the , w ‘ nd " witb tbe °> d lather.
, {in there was found a male skeleton. Ac the I he bridegroom in the above scene, a coolie
1 j bottom of this space lay a large leathern , in a foreign hong, being in want of a wife,
I pocket containing the diamonds, the money j was told by tbe father that he had a marriage-
■ and the bonds ol tbe murdered widow. This able daughter, and though he had never seen
j skeleton was undoubtedly that of the murder- j her, the coolie paid forty dollars to the
clow cf the year the atock will be at par if noipre- j Q p to maintain and perpetuate them and re- won . v bim n „ a j n .
A Lunatic on a Locomotive
AN EXCITING RACE.
deem all that had been lost,” he merely said
what was in the mind of every one of his
' auditors.
| To pretend anything else, is to deceive.
: To tell the Northern people that we propose i .. .. , , . .. , -;
! r - j 1 Much excitement wsis caused at the yard ot
wiping away with oar tears the record ot tno < tbe South Carolina Railroad yesterday rnorn-
iudignities heaped upou us ; to delude them iug by the eccentric freaks of a demented boy. ! ^ ' r .,;nn V * Jui *ii»
tbc final action of ibe Malone ca«o j tbe , dea that there are nn sco re s to seUlc i l£ | seems that the engine Gourdin which I ^"«»“ lbe ‘» r «"
usually carries the Summerville train, was
minm. At all event*, it appear* that it ia more in de
man<f, and find* ready sale.
The Savannah people will entertain a proposition
relative to tbe establishment of a line ot steamers
between that port aud Europe. Colonel Nelson Tiff,
of Albany, has been there ami addressed the Cit«’
Council on the subject.
Col. J F. Pou, of Columbus, is in Atlanta, enlarged
in preparing f<
next week.
Tbe Misses Won ell, of Talbottou,
most agreeable young ladies who a
Hummer at Catoosa Springs. (
The Macon Telegraph of the 20tli, under the bead of i
“Persona),” bas this to say of a gentleman in tbe ini- J
provement of whose health the citizeD* of Columbus ;
feel a deep interest: Rev. Lovick Pierce, D. D., is now
in the city, the guest of the Brown House. His health
is a* good as it has been in a long time.
The Columbus Snn says it has become a matter for
serious thought that so many negroes, old and young,
are dying about here, especially young children.
There must certainly be a want of proper care and at
tention on the part of parents, otherwise there could
cot be so many burials of little children.
For the especial benefit of Lieutenant Bacon, of the
Horse Fiy Marines, we pnblish this from the Sun:
It is astonishing what recklessuese sharacterizes the
conduct of a truly live sensational paper like the At
lanta Herald. In its issue of yesterdc y it grasps the
mighty subject of temperance, and localizing it here
in Columbus, boldly declares, without a shadow of
I hey should be seat | of a great many if tbe cotton worm had made its ap- J them and bagging liis plunder, had tried to made for the marriage, which had Keen to
here little country, aud we have not j escape over the roof of the house, but, slip- i seasonably— or unseasonably — interrupted;
.o ha* seen or hoard oi any. - ' But it ping his foot, had fallen into the spaco be- j the coolie all the while not having the dim-
about Tallasseo. tween the two buildiugs. There he met with , meet suspicion that his fiancee was alread3 T
There were tbree Democratic Representatives trom 1 the just retribution ol his terrible crime. He i the wife of another. The daughter consider-
AluLuau—Handley, Wmm and Dox—iu the last Con- j died there the excruciating, paintul death of ; ed Bhe ought to do what her father
grs—■ This statement of the Tribune makes i f proper 1 blow starvation
for Messrs. Handley ntid S:o#s to “rise to explain.”
That course would only rid Phil of | pea:
found oi
beard of
her.
A Dreadful Picture.
It turned out, indeed, that he had, .:
1 marriage, been once already in treaty with an
other man for her, but that swain heard the
. real state of things at an earlier stage of the
I proceedings than did No. 3. The old matri-
• monial speculator did not attempt to deny
j that the above allegations were true, and he
. . ,. a1 . . ., .. . _ was removed iu custody till formal proceed-
i iogs coaid betaken against him. — >■'\ainjhai
Hon. J. J. Roach, of Camden, bas been appointed
Deputy Grand Muster of the order of Patrons of Hus
bandry for Middle and South Alabama.
The Locamolive s iys that Opelika will receive 23,000 j
biles of cottou next season. We are fearful that the
atious of till our
cities. who traveled throogh the famine scenes of 1 ** June 21
The Evergreen Star says that Rev. Mr. Lnndie, a : Persia last year, has published a book on his 1 J -
Baptist minister, well known in Alabama, died of yel-: harrowing experience iu the Shah’s dominion. '
low fever at Pensacola last Monday. Mr. Lundy is well ; “At Ivazeroon, he says, “a crowd of ematiated !
known to many of our citizens here aud at Hayneville, ^ natives poured iuto the yard of tile station.
Wetumpka, Benton, Prattville, Selma and Greenville, i Solnc mt on,be > r bee j®> s ” me cropped them- ' „ u.wu-1 uuu eeu-iur-
. . . - A good man tiai fallen ; on, ,l.„ w‘,1 be mi^d b 7 hi. , tb <> °‘ ber " ! Relfnlnessin seasons of sorest sorrow. Tne
and the redemption must coins iu or out of ttg0f has never been ’of sound mind, came up j church and a multitude or friend*, peace to bis ashes! j ! nl1 ‘ on tDe f^roiina. numbered j double railway disaster of first a frightful col-
the Union- we care little which. It is best j and jumped aboard. O’Brien, who is a son | He leaves two daughters, a ton and grand children in rp ^ fe Hn rnbo^ lision and then an explosion of locomotives,
that this should be distinctly understood at i 9 f °. ue of * he em l ,lo 3' es of the r . oad ' had been Lowndea county, to mourn th.lrnn.imely lost,
the North, so that when the hour we are
among the ! wi *k l kem —no wrongs to avenge—in short, to
pending the | mislead them into the opinion that we are
engaged in shifting some cars in the lower,
j-ard. About halt-past eleven o'clock the en-
whipped curs, licking the bauds that struck j gineer and firemen left the engine near the
us, would be base hvpoerisv. We do look to corner of Mary street, and during their ab-
.... . . , . . I sence a white boy named Luke O’Bnen, who,
our children to redeem all that we have lost. I ^ an attack £ typhoid fever some yeara |
A Lady in the Case
An old, old story, but a sweet and touching
j one is that of woman’s devotion and self-for-
in the oabit Of hanging round the railroad . The Montgomery Advertiser says tbe farn
yards long enough to pick up a tolerably ac- i certain not to gather
much cotton
awaitiDg comes they may not charge us with : curate idea of the mechanism of a locomo- week, .go tbev ha I everv ri«lit tu -\pect. Tills brine J could scarcely hear it Thev were oi nl j 1 seI, t some from
treachery - ^ ! “:. e ;T. i .II : hut their suffering seemed ,o have told ^7^
near save another boy who was with him, he
military education AT the UNi- i concluded to take a ride, and at once opened
, , . , r . . — iision ana men an explosion oi locomotives.
hundred. ey were al in rags or more than . occurred at midnight on the Chicago
• : r ? D Vu C e 7 U T 1U ? t l 1ie “ Wft ^- ^ and Alton road, was enough to paralyze the
• *? f ® tl ? that, although standing on the top ot Wrongest nerves, but the awful crash! which
“ ie .^ ,10n '. a ^ u !. twel r. e ° r j2" ,e ! u yftrd ? 0i !i I sent some from the sleep of life to that of
death, was to many ot the women, so rudely
aroused from repose, an opportunity for a
most on the children.
VEHHTY UP GEORGIA.
The Trustees of the State University, at
their last meeting, determined to place all tbe
students of the University under a military
organization. We understand that the causes
that influenced this important change in the
meins of making both etuis m-et. There is no bette:
way ol doing this tbau to save every blade of grass
for bsy thst can be cut. It is usual, too, to be extrav- .
, tb V^ “ rate or { ptante „ lu the , prln(I „ d Economy now in j On looking round I noticed a woman lying on j ££$£ .hem^we^^nL^up thrir SS?.
the trot tie valve to its greatest extent. His
companion jumped off as the engine started, I
and m a few moments the Gourdin went !
h fb Kw rt work of humanity. The conductor of a sleep-
I Tbc «' rl p Ioo K ked l ke , ha * s ' th « bo - vs hke i iug coach tells a straightforward storv, which
aged dwarts. Near Ispahan, on ndrng mto n ^ d8 u0 embe aishmeut of oolished phrases to
I n. caravaiiKorAi oiif* numt. n taint dikI nt wind . .. ... - r
forty miles an hour.
At each crossing O’Brien blew the whistle, , ud ^
and people in amazemeni and wander gazed | er p ” a * J
upon the flying locomotive. In the upper yard ' 0 ** * u
a shifting engine was taking in a supply of
w’&ter, and the engineer seeing the Gourdin
. oAts and hay, will save many a hard* - her face. She was dead aud perfectly naked.
. . .. f f . . . . . - Iecu y “aKea. j c | 0 thing to bind up the sufferers. Why, ei«,
:t .umnifer. Mouev will then be , tbe lew fragment* which she WHS accustomed | in half b a mionte , l hev had tcarc( .;
tbe food i. now h.cdleMiy w.gfvd, | to wear having been taken by some other , left on them . Xber ' e WiUj round , one , man .“
it will h.ve to b. purchased at a crusl aacrillce. poor creature starving iu the cmlly night. I hand a lace baH dkerchief that must have cost
truth after elating that the subject of temperance i. ] government of tbe University were economy a smiling engine was raxing in a supply oi ; '———-7 . Two f,,misheil.ln<ikino _ n-.en am! u.imkn i.r. .
again being agitated hare, with a promu. of occotu- : p{ dreag opd i ncreaged efficiency of discipline, water, and the engineer seeing the Gourdin , The Montgomery Advertuer reports th«t !*•« Snn- 8 , , a small fortuuet One lady thrust something
pliohin-much good—that-DeVoUe, of the Sun. has I ^ approaching at a break-neck speed, and sus- i ^ morning we .utsd the '.ct ih.t the existence of • , „. 0 is s i, „v/k \ hnrnhln suaniolnn .pivod m, ° “J^ hand to tic round a man ’» arm, which
signified hia willingness to join tbc I.O.G.T.. if he can i to B etber wlth ‘ b e fact that the United states p 77 tmK that lbere waii wrong, threw J-lh'* (eT «r io Pmaocola bad been reported. a« al.o T would not Tore,fdfol : looked Uke—weH, underclothing. I could
>1 ■> -e - ---- - . I .K -W.O. .... —. based. Sine. | *? e *. . wouia not oeileve, ana jet 1 could not „ot stand that any longer. I did not care
ihe subject, : d0, > bt 11 80 buut:r . v “ nd rifvenoiis were their | what the compauy ’kid, £0 I just gave orders
. 0 u S * - .» , . . ; to oj»cn the lockers aud U>ar up anvthing that
Pjssiug them, and stepping over two more baudv . And thev dl X f here were
dwid bodies. I came to the slab‘e on the right | two or thw ; ladies teann J ? sh(fets lnto tengthg
Now it I law, under which the»SUte College of Agricul- ( open the valve of tbe engine, taking the pre- j uround* on which the report w
ture and Mechanic Arte ia formed, requires j caution at the same to open the cold water | then we have he»rd nothing further
To provide for instruction in this depart
get Bob Bacon to go with him for company,
is well known to our reedera that the former gentle
man leu the city b.fore the prewnt increment .tart- j tbat m ,litary tactics shall be taught,
ed, end Lieutenant Bacon, notwithstanding hie ex
treme youth and boyish sppeermnee, baa been Grsnd
Worthy Patriarch of the Temperance Order for the
peat ten years, to which fact we now call tpe attention
of the Herald, hoping it will immediately seek to re
pair the injury which it has so rashly done to the
cause of temperance in this section.
Fitch is making temperance speech***. It is a quea-
tfon, however, which horn of the dilemma he Ukps.
The man who owes for a lodge in some vast wilder
ness has never yet paid up. He lives in Columbus,
but formerly in Tallapoosa county. Alabama.
The Herald aaya there is a man in Newnan so fond
of backgammon that after hia day’s duties are per
formed, and no opponent is near, he plays deter-
supply-pump, and then jumped from her. i but the Mayor of Mobile haa received official informs-
; The shifter immediately started in the same - turn that tho disease exists in the termer city.
direction up the road, followed cioaely by tbe : proclamation itearing his stgnst aju|
ment, they elected Capt. Jas. Bonham Profess- | Gourdin, both engines going at lightning ! Mobile Register of the 20th, wh;ch sets torth this fact ]
or of Military Tactics. Capt. Bonham is the 1 speed. A hand-car on the same track, loaded i byway of preamble ahd concludes as follow
u v _ with railroad iron, was demolished by the!
son of Gov. Bonham, of South Carolina, and has ourd . n ^ the collUon ha d the effect ot
recently graduated at the •> lrgima Military | bending tbe cattle-guard of the locomotive
Institute, of which Institute he was a Cadet j under one o( its front wheels and causing it
for four years. We learn that General Smith, j ftC * a of brake. As soon as possi-
i ble another locomotive was procured, and
I some of the ofificers of the road started m
appears in the ! H £ < j e 0 f tli e yard. I en.ered it.aud after waiting I
to oind up wonnds, while a half a dozen
the well known Superintendent of the V. M.
L, recommended Captain Bonham in the ■ pursuit of the runaway engines. They were
strongest terms for the position to which he i overtaken near the four-mile curve, both en
gines having cooled off and being at a stand
still.
Upon approaching the Gourdin, O’Brien
\ was elected.
| Capt Charbonier, tbe Professor of Engi-
mined ly with himself. He will succeed, or ought to, : neering in the State University, who is a grad- j was “seen oiling th^ machinery with a view,
in acquiring a thorough knowledge of the game
The Norcrosa Advance wants to procure tbe asalat
aooe of a practical printer who can and will take an , , -
interest in and conduct the lnnde of the Advance b* Te » action of the Trustees, g«meral , escaping. He was pursued, overtaken and
interest in command of the military organization oi the brought buck to the city. The prompt ac-
uate of a military school in France, and was ! probably, ot making another start; but upon
- . _ «,;ii 1 observing the approach of the pursuers, made
! ,orm(r ‘- v “ Q olBcer “ the Freneb Wl11 ! tor tbe wood* with tbe evident intention of
office correctly. And would either aell
the concern or furnish all the capital ourselves aa he I students,
may prefer. A clever printer boy conld also find em
ployment here.
The Atlanta Constitution of Tnesday has a picture
of Judge John Collier, from which we infer that the
Judge has a bad case of cancer on his upper lip.—La-
Grange. Reporter.
The people of LaGrtuge nre going te meet together
and move in tbe matter of a High Scbool.
Governor Smith has promised to Bend arms to the
LaGraogc Light Guards in a abort time. Uolortunata-
ij it Will be too late to allow tbe company to enter for
the premium at tba State Fair in Macon
tiou of the engineer of the shifting engii
; opening the valve of his engine aud tui
turning
The department of military instruction at i opening
.. ~ ... .. , , on the water puup.was the means of prevent-
thebtate LDiver*.tj will tbu* be provided | jD? a co „ 1Ki ^, ,‘bi ch □/igbt have damaged
with competent professors ; and military edu- ■ both locomotives seriously. As it was, the
cation will do doubt receive all the attention ? damage was very slight, and both engines
that its most earnest advocates could hope
for.
The authorities of the University
expect to receive the cadet breech-loadiug
musket, such as are made expressly by the
United Btates Government for use by the
were brought back to the city at about 1
o’clock. The engineer and fireman of the
Gourdin nave been suspended until the mat
ter can be fully investigated.— Charleston
j Xeirs, Aug. 14.
, thsrafore. I, C. F. Moulton, Mayor of the city , Q f ft maIlt aud on the other side, close to the
of Mobile, by virtue ot the authority vested in me a« wall, a woman aud chi'd. The w oman was
sneb. do issue this, my prooUmaiiou, informing and dead, the child just breathed. I hastened
warning all persona now residing m the city of Pea- I with it into the air, hoping that life might
sacola, or In the vicinity thereof, or persona leaving j still ba preserved in it. It was too late.”
said city, that under no circumstances will they be i What a terrible companion picture to the
permitted to c^ae within the limits of thi« city; that j royal (easting of the tawny little tryant in the
this order will be rigidly enlorced, aod continue until j million dollar overcoat,
publicly revoked.
A negro boy, nam-d Ed. Brown, outraged and then
split the head of hie victim open with an axe. iu Mont
gomery county. He is now in jail.
A reliable gentleman who rea
Wednesday morning reported two
ver in Mobile ou Tuesday.
Tbe B
between this city aid Oak Grove, on the Montgomery
toy eyvs became accustomed to the dark- othera „* re binding them around tho
uoaa, discovered on the one side the dead body I bIoody arms aad bodies of tbe wounded
Mr. Jefferson Davis.—No one who reads
the speeches which ex-Presideut Davis deliv
ers whenever he finds the opportunity, wilj
L bed Montgomery ^ ,e ftt ft f° Account for his shortcomings
cm of yellow fe. | daring tbe war. The lack ot foresight and
I the chrouic indiscretion which prompt such
0 ^ ^ ... u utterances as those of Mr. Davis before the
8prings Herald saya th© fields ot cotton .. .. f \
3 ^ __ a, « . Southern Histoiuul Convention caused the
men. There was oDe little lady who
mthr an angel; she worked—how she
worked ! There’s her card. God bless her,”
and he handed the reporter a card marked
“Mrs. Robert McCart, No. 212 South Center
street Bloomington.” “I said I would get
her name into the papers, and she begged me
not to. Bnt there it is.” A glorious girl,
Miss Tracy, the daughter of the tditor of &
paper iu Houston, Texas, distinguished her
self for her devotion and careful attention to
the sufferers, who were racked with every
tortne. Earth has no medal or tribute cf
honor that can heighten the beauty of this
loving kindness, which sparkles up in the full
tide of womanly devotion and sympathy in
the arid waste of human selfishness like H
. _ , , . . .. , grievous administrative blunders which has* i fountain in » bnrnirt? dp*u»rt 4Vniri*~~7aumn1
and Enlaula road, present the moat uuproimaing ap- lened t|)e un of Uie Uoutederacv. Mr. Davis , -- - U - lV *J£. < U ‘ * ' aUrnaL
pearaoce possible. Almost all the cotton plants have j has learued notJiaD8 . and forgotten nothing, i Gen. R. E. Ler-A writer in the Rich-
been swept of their leaves and tender limbs, and there j ij eeu our habit to think and speak i moud Enquirer, Gen. Dabney H. Haury, cor-
A...* — *• * -irage fifteen pounds to the : 0 f him with kindness, and even afi'ectioo, as I rects aeveral errors that have appeared re-
k’.ong this portiou of the
plantations present the most melancholy sight we j w hose faults were ot the head and not of the
have seen In our agricultural district. The protp
for a crop are truly meiancho y.
Montgomery beer jerkers a*k from :eu to fi!
cents a glar* for beer.
horoughly sincere, well-meaning man. | cently in the review's of English magazines
^ " fOopke’s LifedT Lee,” and a review in the
. Vm. M. JeffciaoiL the founder ot the Press cadets at West Point and the students of the
and Messenger, will iaaae, next week, a new weekly to | various State colleges ot science.
be called the Eat on too Finn beam
Mr. Jamts Richard, lately a lreigiit oomluctor of
of the Maccu and An^uata Road, died Thursday in
Augusta, of billions fever.
Mr. 8hadrock Ware, an old and wealthy citizen of
MarsLalville, was extremely til on Thursday, and not
expected to live.
Mr*. Tabitha WiUon died in Madison, on the JCth
aged
Madison wants a good livery stable.
Mrs. Martha Bonner died la Morgan county cn tbe
18th, aged 80 yeara.
Morgan county returns 1,444 sheep; 1.S90 dog* and
4,328 huge
The Griffin b*ar has pat on s new bead.
The Chronicle and Sentinel »eys : The first bale of
cottou of the now crop which ben left Augnete, so far,
wee received yeeterdey morning by Messrs. Beall.
Spears k Cm, from H- H ^cott, of Edgeield county.
S. C. It weighed h91 pounds, and was ciaeaed mkh
diing- Jt was eedd to E. D. Kelly at 17* cents per
pound, and wiQ be shipped to E. R. Robinson A Co ,
of New York.
Ae we mentioned Wednesday. Messrs. Rqasell k
Porter received Jest Tuesday e pocket of new cotton,
the first of the srawjti, from Mr. Walton, of Burke
county. *
Mrs. Barrtjwv, wtfeof ioka MuJrdws, end daughter
of Mr. K. G. Ftrlghutn, died Retarday afternoon, in
HewkinavUle. Bbowf* nacotrering from e severe 111-
neae, when she wee taken with a eonjestive chill
which terminated fatally its e f«w hours.
Mr. Morris ftollock. of Pulaski county, died this
pest week of typhojd fever.
The Quitman Benner eaye; On Monday morning
lest Screven street uaa ailve with cotton baskets and
negroes, men, women end children, mounting the
wagons of the farmers, who had sent for them to go
into the ootton fields. This is evidence of the fact
that the snowey staple will soon be cowing in, and
business enlivened.
Should any person bear of, or lie able to gTve lufA-
matlon concerning tbe whereabouts of the relatives or
legal heirs of Charles W ise, who left Georgia for Texas
many years ego, and who died two years since—such
person or persona wilt confer a favor by addressing J
0. Lumpkin, khmff, Rohm, Georgia.
Messrs. Berber and Barnard got into a street fight
In Columbus the other ay, end Bernard snapped a
pistol in bis antagonists face, and afterwards fired
three shot at him as ha walked off up the street.
Worth eoanty, G<org2# / cAlms to be tbe “beet deer
ground in the Btatf.''
\<e learn that tbe uniform will be tbe reg
ular cadet gray, /rock coat for dress suit.
A Correction.
NO FIGHT OCCURRED.
bad a call yesterday from Judge Bart
lett, in which Le informs us that tbe report of i
Bead of Wounds
. YOUNG MAN WHO WAS STARRED A
DIES OF HIS WOUNDS.
I heart; but we musi say plainly that Mr. Davis i Standard of an article in the Edinburgh
is oue of the most troublesome elements that j We extract the following, which we regard as
j the South bas to deal witb in its effort to ; authentic, in regard to the forces employed
; bridge the chasm ot war and secure reunion 1 by Lee and Grant in the great battles from
aud peace. For whatever Mr. Davis says, the j Spotsylvania to Richmond;
held responsible. His i “It is well established by tho Federal re-
laid at our doors. It is useless i cords that the losses of Grant between his
xplain. The answer is, “Ob, , first collision with Lee’s army and the defeat
politic; but Mr. Davis which he sustained at Cold Harbor, amounted
This was tbe case | to 125,000 men. Swinton and other careful
I Southern people
rash words
, to deny or
year ago i yes ! You sav what
ss vs wbal von think. ’
witb something simple, inexpensive and ser- a tight between his son and the Sheriff of Jas-
, per county, published in the Herald, in a
i letter sent us by our “Zeno,” is incorrect.
riceable for the fatigue suit.
With the State University aa now orgao- j Th^no7u"ch fight occ‘urrS.“'’That there ws'r
ized, no Georgian need aend his son out of j not a blow struck. That there was some quarrel
the State to receive either a classical, scientific i ing bnt no fighting, owing to tbe interven.
or military education.
SHOULD HAVE BEEN CREDITED.
The article appearing in the Herald yes
terday, saying that tbe friends of Governor
Smith in the city were “very much chagrined
at his not replying through the papers to ex-
Governor Johnson,” should have beeu credit
ed to our Macon Department, os it was tele
graphed from that point to the Herald. As
was stated in an editorial in tbe Herald some
days ago, we thoroughly agree with Governor
Smith in the propriety of transferring this
discuMtion from the public prints until the
correspondence is closed, and the issue set
tled. The farther statement that Governor
Johnson has made certain assertions to
“prominent men of this city,” applies to Ma
con and not to Atlauta This correction is
due to our sense of consistency. The general
feeling in Atlauta is that Governor Smith will
tion of friends. We are sorry “Zeno” was
led into the mistake, although writing from
Eatonton, it is not at all surprisable that things
became a little “twisted” in a journey thence
from Montieello,
William Page, the veteran president of the
academy, is Still busily occupied with his
Mhakspearian studies. The mask on which
he has beeu working for more than three
J ears, is now almost ready for casting, and
[r. Page has certainly succeeded in recon
ciling iu a wonderful manner the different
portraits of Shakspeare. with photographs of
the mask found in Germany some years
►iuce. Tbe artist Is more enthusiastic in his
views, and urges them with an eloquence that
cannot fail to convince many of his visitors.
He feels satisfied that there ought not to be
any doubt as to the authenticity of the Ger
man mask, and that now he has restored the
missing portions, his mask is the “counter
feit presentment” of the great dramatis’ts
face.
t!tp«>-ial Corresvoudtinue of tbe Herald.
Social Circle, Aug. l'Jtb, 1873.
To the Editors of the Herald:
There was a fraens here about a yesr ago | he can render this people,
between two young men, schoolmates, by the
names of John Ship and Roof Sawyer, which I
had a sad termination to-day. In the diffi
culty just mentioned, young Sawyer stabbed
young Ship iu the breast He has ueverbeen
able to move out of the house. At times he
has been in cheerfnl spirits, but this morning
he got up, and after the wotind whs dressed,
he remarked that if he lived until next Fri
day it would be just one year since he was
stabbed, but that he would prefer to die it it
was his Maker’s will that it should be that
way. He did not seem any worse off, bnt on
tbe contrary, he seemed to be more cheerful
than u»mal. In a short time tiler making
this remark he tainted, and they hastened to
him, but be died before they could do any
thing for him. Sawyer was arrested just after
this occnrrence bnt made his escape, and has
not been heard of since. Tankf.r.
nth the Atlanta speech, and it will be the historians so state it The Edinburgh
same with the speech just delivered.
Tbe South* ru people have honored Mr.
• Davis, and trusted him. He owes it to the
I Sontli to hold his tongue, as the best service
A critic writes from the Vienna Exposition :
. ’Even vet the catalogue is not ready. Many
be able to resist successfully any attack that j pictures have no numbers, the German rooms
Governor Johnson or any
on him.
else may make |
BEE-KEEPERS' CONVENTION.
not even mentioned in tbe official cata
logue, aud the French pictures must surely
have had their numbers all changed by some
malicious being, human or aerial, for the ma-
. “— # i jority of them are wrong, and many of them
When we mentioned the other day iu the j comically wrong. For instauce, two inen eu-
Herald that the next need of Georgia of the I Gaged in a fen rial death struggle on the edge
State Poiuologicul Convention, has a Bee- J ^ a R t r ? ‘Ihe Slumber: a repulsive jpic-
keepers’ Convention. We had forgotten that
onr Rome friends hud already organized an
Association, and would hold a Convention on
the 9th day of September next at Rome. We
publish elsewhere the report of tbe call, and
heartily wish the movement a deep success.
We shall have a reporter at the Convention,
and faithfully chronicle fhfi proceedings of
what we deem one of the most Important
conventions ever held in the Rtate.
ture, in which one man ties another, wnth
ing in agony, to the trunk ot a tree, is u
‘Portrait of List’—while a brown slave girl,
clothed only in her flowing black hair, turns
out to be a 'Portrait of the Abbe Rogerson !’ ”
Cora L. V. Hatch-etc., has run off to Europe
with some other woman’s husband, paying all
expenses herself.
Jesse Hoyt pays one-tenth of the taxes of
KnstHaginaw, Michigan; $21,009 was his share
this seuson.
The Trial of Bazaine.—The Bazaine trial
is to be one of onr great vacation affairs. A
solemnly constituted Duke is at its bead. If
Imperial Marshal Bazaine bo condemned or
acquitted by a court of which a general cau-
i The President’s Maine Invasion.
INCID? NTS OF THE TRIP.
The correspondent of the New York Herald
writes as follows:
At Lynn one incident occurred tbat it is be
lieved pleased, though perhaps unnoyed, the
distinguished.
▲ MASSACHUSETTS THIRD TERM MAN.
An enthusiastic old gentlcunu, seeing him
ou the platform, elbowed hia way through
the dense assemblage, and claNpiug him by
the hand, pressed it earnestly as he exclaim
ed: “I wanted to see yon and pay my re
spects. I am a third-term man, too. Good
day.” Iu a moment he was off like a flash,
before the modesty ot the President could
enable him to frame a reply to the saluta
tion.
illumination and reception.
viewer places the tolal losses of the Potomac
at a much lower figure. While he states the
numbers of the army of Northern Virginia
at 70,000 effectives, ww know that Gen. Leo
did not have 50,000 men on any one battle
field durine tbe campaign.
Agaiu. the army of Grant at the Appomat
tox la stated iu the Review at 150,000—that ol
Lee at 40,000. Whereas General Lee him
self assured the writer of this that cn the 2d
of April. 1805, bis whole force of all arms
amounted to only 33.000 men, while Grant
stated to General Lee that on the same dn'e
his effective force of arms nnmbertd no Ioes
than 220,000 men.
“Gen. Lee farther stated to me that when
he surrendered at Appomattox on the 9th of
April, after seven day* of hard marching,
fighting and Starvation, he had onlr about
8.000 effective* left to bear the batlle-Aags for
the lost time of tbe grandest army which ever
yet has upheld a righteous cause, and illus
trated the manhood of a noble race.”
didatc-in-waiting tor political chieftainship is ; * , About five i
the presiding judge, how can Bouapar ists, j H*ied the groundK* but there
Legitimists, nay, illogicnl Orleauiats them- 1 °* popular euthusia
selves, let alone nodewiBt Bepublicaus and , b> ewitt * “g«nt tor Senator
the uupartisan common st-use of the people,
quarrel with the verdict? The Duke d’Au-
male, by purely princely accident and lapse
of time, becomes the first French military
general; nnd he Hits in final judgment on a
man like Bazaine (not a prettv man certainly,
not for nnytniDg that appears a gentlemau,
honest, honorable, or passable, but a fighting j u
man on tho military side, incomparably su-1 . rc
Matt Carprmtrr and Sumnrr.—K. —His
introduction to Washington was under bril
liant aupices, was it not ?
G.—It may be considered so. bamuer pat-
At 9 o’clock this evening the residence of | ionized him. as he doe*, or rather did, every
Speaker Blaine was illuminated in honor ot bright new comer. Suainer referred to Matt,
the President, who informally received a i be took his seat in the Senate, as “the
Lumber of the citizens, and waa honored by J brilliant yonng statesman from th* \NesL”
a local band. About five hundred persons i The next day tbe old man was surprised to
have paKsed to him the qnerry. evidently
Matt’s handwriting. “Why doesn’t the devil
as no demon-
euthnsittKin outil A. J. . „ ^ -
Nnmgue’H mill. * l<?»m to skate?” wiih the solution apended in
nf 1 cam* out of the house, entered his carnage • the sAlue handwriting, “V here in h—l! wonia
1 " • , e -'- • :»,.<! Willi hot upliitod, ".aid: "Come, „o£, j hejf«t the ice V
let us give three cheers, on the count— oue, 1 *
two, three, hurrah !” Bnt a single voice
blended with Dewitt’s when he exclaimed:
“Well, yon must be a damned set of crit- ,
teiv, anyhow. Three cheers tor tho President negro woman living about one mile irorn here,
>f the United States, uuw.” He swung bis whose husband died u year ago, gave birth
Sumner was rather ouiet after that
Darwinian Theory Reversed.—Ark a del
i hia. Ark., August 13. Mollie Holman, a
man ou tbe military side, incomparably su . . .
perior to »ll of hi* prWnt sb«m peer* iu this b,s se,lt - "‘V 1 m P ,d| y Jrov ® t,fl - whe ‘‘
jury of general*, who „re not. and can't be. Ulc crowd bamoroucly cned, “tbe cheers
hi* pear* ) Whether the Mar.hal be acquit- colu,n * ,he n,>lt tr " m -
ted or condemned, the political trial is that of
the Orleanists. The Duke d’Anmale plays
bis whole pile ou this Bazaine trial.—Stic
York Tribune Paris Jitter.
was no response. He dropped iu I on . Monday night to life deformities, each
his seat, and rapidly drove off, wheu one of weighing about three pounds. The face of
these wonderful creatures most resemble a
Isabella, ot Spain, who is at Vit&na, is se
verely l*t alore «»y the royal,family of Austria
, monkey, witb the body and limbs of a dog.
;.paraelv ocvered with hair. Thev were all
The air iu the court-room during the Tich- fondl/nureed by
borne trial in London h»» been *o bed that! ^.^tneke mother. medical »orps
tbe authorities have set two little fountains ol
ohlorozone to play in it
Tbe short neck'ace with a pendant still con
tinues to be tbe most fashionable adornment
will vixit the curious offsprings this evening.
One of the Davenport Brothers carries three
watches, twelve feet of chain, and wrars six
rings and two me dak.