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A Battle id the Air. —r A TIRSIPIC COMBAT BETWEEN TWO ROCKY MOUNTAli EAGLES. “A most terrible battle between two birds,' 1 says the Virginia (Nevada) Montanian of the 14th, -'occurred between two large brown eagles, in the vicinity of the lakes above Vir- einia, on last Wednesday evening. When first noticed, the birds were soaring, one above tbe other, at on allitudo of perhaps three-fourths of a mile, and seemed on a sail for pleasure. Presently the uppermost bird, closing its broad wings, shot downward like a meteor for two or three hut d ed feet, and with a wild, piercing scream, lit nxirly npou the buck oi the other bird. Taming with tbe rapidity of lightning the victim clutched its adversary with talons and be»k, and a fierce struggle ensued. The savage yells, the striking of hage wings, and showers ot fulling feathers, gave unmistakable evidence of tbe ferocity with which the contest was waged. “As they fought they fell earthwards, and when within five hundred feet of the ground they became disentangled and each swooped upwards again. Now followed an interesting trial as to which should first gain a sufficient altitude to make another plunge. The cir cling of the smaller was rapid and close, while that of bis antagonist wus made with greater limits, and his ascension was quickest accom plished. The largest eagle was soon fully one-half mile high, and some hundreds of feet above his victim. Hovering in mid-air for a moment as if making sure of his aim, he again darted down upon his enemy, striking him as before with a force that seemed sufficient to kill of itself. Again they grappled and fooght like winged demons—whirling, falling aad striking funonsly for the space ot three minutes. They were now near the largest ot the lakes, and gradually descending to the water. The struggles ot the smaller became less and less fierce; he was getting weak and was evidently nearly vanquished, while bis more powerlul aggressor seemed to wuge the battle with renewed vigor. “Another moment and tbe conquering monarch loosed his hold, and with an fcxnl- tant shout of victory soared upward. The battle was ended; his prisoner, limp and life less, fell into the waters of the lake with a splash and floated on the surface without struggle. We with oar companion, tried to get the dead eagle, but were unable to do so without swimming for it. Both birds were of very large size, ihe largest measuring, we think, fully twelve feet from tip to tip. The spectacle was exciting in «be extreme, and the victory tragically complete. The battle had likely commenced bt-fore we discovered them as it does not seem possible for one to kill the other in short a time, .although the fight ing was terrific." Important Business. A Mrs. Leach, of New Orleans, is in trouble in New York, and if she finds Mr. Leach, her husband, she promises to make some un pleasantness for him, and intends to stick to him until she reclaims him to the path of vir tue. Mr. Leach is a sea captain, and until about six years ago he made his home in New Orleans, between voyages. lie told his wife one day that he had very important business at the North, which would keep him away from her and his four children a considerable length of time. He left without giving Mrs. Leach a very clear idea of what the business was. He wrote regularly, however, and she eodnred the long separation uncomplainingly till about a year ago, when the correspondence on his part suddenly ceased. Mrs. Leach packed her trunk and went to New York. There she heard that William Leach was living in Trenton, New Jersey. To Trenlou she went, but could find no resident of that place who answered to the name of William Leach. She had heard her William had properly in Trenton, and went to the office of the county clerk, but could not find the name. She then bethought her self that if William Leach had any object in concealing his ideotitv, he would probably take the name of Drake, which was his moth er’s. On examination it was ascertained that William Drake had property near Trenton,and thither Mrs. Leach and the city marshal went. They found a house and a woman in it, who said she was William Drake’s wife. At first sue was very uncivil, bnt finally the marshal was dismissed, and Mrs. Leach and Mrs. Drake had a long inter view. They satisfied themselves that William Drake was no other than William Leach. He had gone to New York on a curious errand. He was having a law 4 suit with the Trenton woman for marrying him having a husband already, and laid his damages at S3,000. lie was then in New Yoxk hunting up witnesses. The two women found that they had a com mon interest ill following Leach, and they both started off to New York to hunt him. At last accounts they had not found him. When he takes a view of the peculiar situa tion, he will probably drop the suit against the Trenton woman,which will be satisfactory to her, and return to his first wife, which will suit her. If this should be the result, it will be an instance of two wrongs making a right. GRANDEST SCHEMEEVER KNOWN. McDaniel, j W. DANIEL, LITE DANIEL A HILL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE Fonrtl Graft Gift CeaertiG-Eo. -w. & bro., COTTON WAREHOUSE <fc COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Cor. Pryor k Hunter, . nep2-lm ATLANTA, w ARROW TUBS. PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY.! 12,000 CASH GIFTS, $1,500,000 Every Fifth Ticket Draws n Gift. A Cargo just arriving via Port Royal, South Carolina. We will supply the trade on reasonable terms. STEPHENS <fc FLYNN. aug31-lm DANIEL & ROWLAND, COTTON FACTORS, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, And Agents for the Celebrated Ethvnn, Wando, Itiigdnle and Cotton Food Guanos, Corner Jackson and Reynolds Streets AUGUSTA GA. 0^ CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. COMMISSION FOR SELLING COTTON, SI I'ER BALE, -©f .ugii.tf. 8230.000 for 830! ized by special act of tbe Legislature for the beu- efit of the Public Library of Kentucky, will take place iu Public Library Hall at Louisville, Kentucky. WEDNESDAY. DEC. 3. 1873. Only sixty thousand Tickets will be sold, and one- half of these are intended for the European market, thus leaving only 30.000 for sale in the United States, where 100,000 were disposed of for the Third Concert. Tbe tickets are divided into ten coupons or parts, and have on their back the Scheme, with a full explanation of the mode of drawing. At this Concert, which will be tbe grandest musical display ever witnesaed in this country, the unprece dented sum of 31,500,000, divided into 12,000 cssh gifts, will be distributed by lot among the ticket-holders—the numbers of tbe tickets to be drawn from one wheel by blind children, and the gifts from another. LIST OF CIFTS. One Grand Cash Gift $250 000 One Grand Cssh Gift 100 000 One Grand Cssh Gift 60 000 One Grand Cash Gift 25 000 One Gland Cash Gift 17 500 10 Cash Gifts, $10,000 each 100 000 SO Cssh Gifts. 50 Cash Gifts, SO Cash Gifts. 100 Cash Gilts, 150 Cash Gilts. 250 Cash Gifts, 325 Cash GifU, 11,000 Cash Gifts, 5 000 each 150 000 1.000 each 50 000 600 each 40 000 400 each 40 000 300 each 45 000 V00 each 60.000 100 each 32 000 50 each 550 500 AMB1ICAN COTTON TIE. 100 Tons Arrow Ties; 1,000 bushels Seed Rye, for sale by aug31-lm STEPHENS & FLYNN. WE are sole Agents in Atlanta for the -‘AMERICAN COTTON TIE” Company, and are prepared to supply dealers with the famed Arrow Tie. Send in your orders. STEPHENS & FLYNN. aug31-lm Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company of California, CASH CAPITAL $300,000 00 CASH ASSETS 010,221 00 Atlanta Furniture Manufactory WAREHOUSE AND SALES- ROOM, 96 Whitehall Street. MANUFACTORY: COR. BUTLER AND HARRIS STS FIRST - CLASS FURNITURE STORE, Which »re now OFFERED AT PRICES WHICH MUST PROVE SATISFACTORY TO PURCHASERS. IN FACT tVK CUALLEXGE ALL COMPETITORS IX THE TRADE, both in the quality of our good, and the pr.cea we are willing to Bell at. EVERYTHING GUARANTEED EXACTLY AS REPRESENTED OK MONEY RE- <ESTABLISHED IN 1854.) Total, 12.000 gift*. ail oash, amounting to $1,500,000 The distribution will bo positive, whether all the Tickots are sold or not, and tbe 12,000 gifts all paid in proportion to tbe Tickts sold—all unsold Tickets being PRICE OF TICKETS. Whole Ticket* $50 00; Halves $25 00; Tenth*, or each coupon, $5 00; eleveu Wholo Ticket* for $500 Oo; | 22!, Tiekets for $1,000; 113 Whole Ticket* for $5,000; I 227 Whole Tickets for $10,000. No discount on less i than $500 worth of Ticket* at a time. The unparalled success of the Third Gift Concert, a* \ well a* tbe satisfaction given by the First and Second makes it only necessary to announce the Fourth to iu- I sure the prompt sale of every Ticket. The Fourth | Gift Concert will be conducted iu all its detail* like I the Third, and lull particulars may be learned from 1 circulars, which will be sent free from this office to all who may apply for them. Ticket* now rea y for sale, aud all orders accompa nied by tbe mouev promptly filled. Liberal terms given to those who buy to sell again. THOS. E. BRAMLETTE, Agent Pub. Lib. Ky., aud Manager Gift Concert, Public Library Building, Louisville, Ky. augl9-dWed&$un&wtd ftUg27-tf JNO. C. WHITNER, Agent, 38 Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga. THE -VI^a-ITsrXJL FIRE AND MARINEINSURANCE CO. Liabilities S 11,314 75 Assets 353,413 79 Net Assets 342,099 04 Losses Paid Since Organization 1,500,000 00 Forty-one years in existence. Rates as low as in aDy other Good Company. A.11 Losses will bo Promptly Paid. Ten Thousand Dollars are deposited with Hon. W. L. Goldsmith, Comptroller General of the State of Geor- | WM. WILLIS, JR., Secretary. Wholesale Confectioner, STEAM J. GADSDEN KING, Agent, AND DEALER The Home and Home Shuttle MacMne Broad street. ATLANTA, GA. Alao, Agent for the London aud Lancashire Fire—Capital: $5,000,000. State Agent, Cotton State* Life Insurance Company, Macon, Ga.—Assets: $542,201 28. Deposited with Comptroller General, of Georgia, $100,000. &ug28-2m DOZIER «Szf WALTOIT, Fruits, Nuts and Preserves. i^holes ALSO ^ e Cro cer s , 241 BROAD STREET. AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. Toys, Willow Ware, Ac., Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia march22d2m WILLIAM M. BIRD & CO, ^ 837 Bbeckenkicge's Visit to the President. Gen. John C. Breckenridge called as a mat ter of personal courtesy on President Grant, whom he had not seen since the Mexican war, where they were lellow-officers and very intimate. Although Breckenridge has been frequently in Washington since the close of the war, he did not think it would be delicate for bim to visit the President in the Execu tive Mansion. He was accompanied to the President’s cottage by Mr. John Hori, and spent a portion of the evening in very agree able conversation. Senator Frelinghuysen was present, and others dropped in dnring the evening to pay their respects. No allu sion whatever was made to the late war on the part of either of the gentlemen. The President greeted Mr. Breckenridge Very kindly and referred to the last time they mf»t. which was when Grant was slightly woumled in one of the Mexican engagements. They called up old memories and old friends, and traced the latter into after life. There is but a year's difference in the ages of the two Gen tlemen, Geu. Grant being fifty-two and Gen. Breckenridge fifty-one. The latter received an invitation to call again. F YOU WANT THE BEST MACHINE EVER MADE j for the leant money, buy the HOME SHUTTLE. It doe* *11 kind* cf work equally as well a* any high- irranted fo s of work. r the HOMI almost noiseless, runs light, and is a perfect Ma- j chine in every respect. Ladies, aud Machinist* par- ! tcularly, invited to rail and examine it. Office corner ' Broad and Marietta street*, Atlanta. Ga. D. G. MAXWELL, General Agent for North and South Carolina, ! Georgia and Florida, Atlanta, Ga., aud Charlotte, N. C. | iuael5-*A8r-3m N. R. FOWLER. Auctioneer VALUABLE PLANTATION IN GOR DON COUNTY. T HE FORMER RESIDENCE AND PLANTATION of Major James Freeman, deceased, of Gordon county. This plantation contain* about 4.000Acres of Lfiixcl. lying near the Cosnewattie River, on the old Tennes see Road, and on the contemplated route of the Car- tersviile and Ducktown Railroad, with fine, large, commodious Dwelling containing eight room*. Also, barues, stable*, Ac., Ac. It ha* always been clsssed a* one of the best grass and stock farms in Cherokee, Georgia. It ha* been long known ** a place exceed ingly healthy, being surrounded by mountain* and with plenty of the best running water* near the homestead. The land* are well watered with good, clear, never-failing streams, and in good condition of improvement,and contain* over 600 acres first class hot tom land, and will produce clover and grasses of heavy growth, as well as cotton. This desirable farm is located eighteen mile* from Caihoun, aud eight ml es from Fairmount post office. The sale will take place at Calhoun, Ga.. on the FIRST TUESDAY in NOVEMBER next. Possession given immediately. Plenty of good mules, stuck, grain, implements, Ac., on the place. Terms—One-third cash; balance one. two and three years, with interest bearing n-tes. hold on account of Judge Lochrane aud B. W. Freeman. Apply to Judge Lochraue, B. W. Fret man, on the place, or to Wallace A Fowler, Real Estate Ageuts. Atlanta, Ga. july6-e8u-tf IRON WAREHOUSE OP THE Scofield Rolling Mill Co., UNTO. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 28 PEACHTREE ST. Daniel Moreau Barringer.—A despatch from Green Brier White Sulphur Springs. Virginia, announces the death in that place yesterday of the Hon. Daniel Moreau Barrin ger, of North Carolina. He was bora in Cebairas county, North Carolina, and gradu ated at the University of North Carolina in 1826. He subsequently read law, and was admitted to tbe bar in 1820. Iu that year he was elected a member of the Stato Legisla ture, and was returned for a number of con secutive sessions. In 1836 be was elected a member of a convention to revise the State Constitution. From 1813 to 1849 be repre- sentedhis State in Congress, being in the lat ter year appointed by President 'l'aylor minis ter to Spain. Under President Fillmore he was continued iu his mission and was, after four years’ service, retired, at his own re quest. After resigning bis position, he traveled extensively in Europe, and, on re turning home, was again elected to tbe Leg islature of his native State. In 1855, al though his election was certain, he declined to stands and retired to private life, devoting himself literary studies and pursuits. Iu 1S61 be* as elected to the Peace Congress, and dating the late war was a staunch sup- poitar of the Southern cause. For years he has been a recognized leader of tbe North Carolina Democracy, and hia loss will be se verely lelt by the party for which he has la bored so faithfully and so well. Residence for Sale. JpiOUR LARGE, ELEGANTLY FINISHED ROOMS, Bath room, Store room aud Pantry, 2-room Kitcben, lathed and plastered, large front yard, choice shrub bery snd shade tree*, all on a large, beautiful lot 100 by 225 eet, in a most excelleuf neighborhood, and just at the .Vrminns of one of the Street Car lines. Im provements all new and in perfect order. Apply t? WALLACE A FOWLER, jy27-sun3m Real Estate Agents, No. 0 Alabama st. BAR IRON of all kinds, Warranted equal to any made, wholesale and retail, at 4',c. rates. Call and examine the stock and get a Price List. ang31-d&wtf Bath Tubs for the million! Oils, White Lead, Colors, WINDOW GLASS, NATAL STORES, Etc.. No. 201E. Bay, CHARLESTON, S. C. WHO WOULD BE WITHOUT A BATH TUB? WHEN YOU CAN GET A GOOD, SUBSTANTIAL AND WELL-LINED BATH No. 8 Whitaker Street, SAVANNAH, GA. may25-deod3m National Life TDB, COMPLETE, WITH PLUG TO LET OUT THE WATER, FOR $10. 02TL7 $10. JOB* i. SEAY. WILLIS WALK HR. FRANKLIN & EICHBERGjThe United States of America, Nos. 14 and 10 Whitehall Street. _agj- Also, ltEFBIGERATORS, ICE CREAM FREEZERS, PUMPS, RAMS, GAS FIX TURES, CHANDELIERS, METAL ROOFING. jnnc-l-tf SEAY & WALKER, ROME, OA.. MANUFACTURER!! OF COPPER STILLS, PLUMBING GAS AND STEAM FITTING, AST) EXCLUSIVE AGENT* t Rome Hollowffare and stove Manufacturing Company. It i« a painful night to see an oil man, ,*v- tnty years of age, trying to sap the st.up from a second-had postal card—Dari u nf AW All Kinds or Brass and to Castings kADE TO OPsDER. Tie Great Seetlera Freipt Passeier ROUTE TO AND FROM NEW YORK. Via Savannah, Georgia. riVIK. FIRST-CLASH 8IDE-WHEH, STEAMSHIPS OF THIS LISE SAIL FROM SAVANNAH AND NEW JL YORK, in connection wllli fbe CENTRAL RAILROAD OF OEOllOIA, EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY and I SATURDAY. Make an quick time and have .Ulterior „crnmmod.tlou* to anv Htvaim-liil'" on too Southern rnm tl I *i- THROUGH FREIGHT carried at ae LOW KATES as any other route. AR claim* fur toaa, damage or ! overcharge settled promptly. PASSAGE FROM ATLANTA TO NEW YORK. $27 50, MEALS AND STATE ROOMS INCLUDED. t'i~ SUMPTUOUS SLEEPING CARS on all Nielli Tralna to Savannah. Paasangnr* hy till! route ahotlld | leave Atlanta on 1:3U r. at. train for Macon, the day before the Steamer* aail lrom Savannah. excursTon~Tickets To New York and Return. Good to 1st October. $45.00. MEALS AND STATE BOOMS INCLUDED. All other iu formation furnished by application to the undersigned. CEORCE A. M’CLESKEY, Traveling Agent, Steamship Co.’a juuel4-d3m Office, No. 4 Kimball House Wasliinston, D. C. Cash Capital FULL PAID. $1,000,000! $2,563,911.63. Cash Assets .... BRANCH OFFICE, Philadelphia, where the busint ts of the Company i* transacted. OFFICERS: E. A. ROLLINS, President JAY COOKE Chairman Finance ami Executive Committee. II. D. COOKE, (Washington) Vice-President EMMERSON W. FEET, Vice-President and Actuary JOHN M. BUTLER Secretary FRANCIS GURNEY SMITH, M. D., Medical Director WM. E. CHANDLER, (Washington,) Attorney. E. A. ROLLINS, JAY COOKE, CLARENCE II. CLARK, GEORGE F. TYLER. WM. Q. MOREITEAl). JOHN W. ELLIS. DIR C T O R S : HENRY D. COOKE, J- HINCKLEY CLARK, WM. E. CHANDLER, JOHN D. DUPREES, EDWARD DODGE, li. C. FAHNESTOCK. BENJAMIN D.LAY if Atlanta, General Agent for Georgia. Agents wanted in every Town aad County In the State. Address— COL. B. D. LAY, may ta-d-tf. fleurra! Ag«nt. at National UoM. Atlanta, Georgia.