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Tlae Georgia "Weekly Telegraph, and Journal & Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. Subscribers to the Weekly. We -would particularly remind subscribers to the Weekly, especially those living at a dis tance, to make timely remittances, so-as to avoid the disappointment of loss of numbers from discontinuance. We can. rarely supply jnisaing numbers to our paper, and have been compelled to disappoint several during the week. Every one of our subscribers can, if they will, do us a great service, by showing their paper to their neighbors. Numbers of our friends have sent U3 as many as twenty sub scribers apiece by simply exhibiting and recom mending the paper to their friends. Headers who wdl get as many as ten subscribers in that way shall have their order for the Weekly for a year filled at twenty-five dollars. On and after June 1st, all subscriptions to every edition of the Telegraph will be prompt ly discontinued at the expiration of tho time paid for. The Cash System. We are gratified by the liberality with which our readera respond to our call for arrearages and advance payments, in view of the cash sys tem on the 1st of Jano next. The change will be accomplished with no material loss; and we doubt not it will prove mutually satisfactory. Now and then one of our oldest subscribers takes umbrage, as if we were calling his integ rity or credit in question; but surely, when cash in advance is the invariable requisition of ev cry Northern daily ho subscribes for, and every well ordered newspaper office in the country re quires it, he should not think hard of ns for en deavoring to conform our business to established methods. •Under the cash system the editors will have no personal cognisance of discontinuances at tho time they are made. It will be the duty of the head clerk in the mailing department to notify parties by the caballistic cross or some other sign, when their subscriptions are ex piring, and if not renewed, to drop the names; but as the said clerk has not tho smallest ac quaintance with the parties, his action cannot possibly bo founded on any personal consider ation. Tlie Louisiana Sugar ami Bice Crop. Mr. h. Boucheran sends the New Orleans Picayune a copy of his annual statement of the sugar and rice crops of that State for the season 1869-70, from which many interesting facts are gathered. It gives the names of every sugar or rice planter in the State, the localities of their plantations, description of sugar houses, the kind of power and the processes for making sugar, the amount of the crops for the past two seasons in sugar and molasses, by hogsheads and also in ponnds and gallons. It then recapitulates, by parishes, the crops or last season, which shows of brown sugar 73,-471 hogsheads, weighing 83,633,097 pounds: refined and clarified sugars 13,619 hogsheads, weighing 15,819,849 pounds, giving a total crop of 87,090 hogsheads, or 99,452,946 pounds. The molasses from this crop was 5,724,356 gal lons. The rice crop was 100,748 barrels, esti mated at 200 pounds each. The parish of As sumption produced most sugar, the crop being 10,356 hogsheads. The parish of St Bernard gives the highest return for rice, 31,337 barrels. The largest sugar planter in the State is Mr. John Burnside, whose plantation yielded 3,333 hogsheads of sugar and 80,000 gallons of mo lasses. In 1868 the sugar crop was 84,256 hogsheads, 37,647 tho year before, 41,000 in 1866, 15,000 in 1865, and 10,387 in 18G4. The rice crop shows an increase of 33,833 barrels over 1868. From the year 1828 to, and including 1868, the total sugar product of Louisiana was 6,159,113 hogsheads, ranging from $35 a hogshead iu 1853, when the product was 449.324 hogsheads, to $203 a hogshead in 1864, when the product was only 10,387 hogsheads. A Hairs In Mississippi. Gov. Alcorn, of Mississippi, and his party, are not doing so badly as we expected. It is stated that of the three Supreme Court Judges, Simrall, Peyton and Tarbell, recently appointed and confirmed, Simrall is an old resident, was a member of the Legislature in 1865, and voteu against the Fourteenth Amendment; Peyton is on old resident, but a Badical from the start; and Tarbell is a Federal General, but unpopular with the extreme Radicals. Many efforts have been mado to insert clauses in tho various billa chartering schools, hotels and railroads, to guarantee equal accommoda tions, without regard to color, but all snch amendments have been defeated. There is a well marked and daily widening breach in the Radical party all over the State. The native Radicals are setting themselves against the carpetbaggers, and tho fight prom ises to be lively. The Georgia Case.—Tho special "Washington correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch, under date of Friday, 7th inst, writes as follows: Tho Georgia question, which has been in abeyance for some days, will be revived during the coming week in tho Committee of Recon struction. A bill based upon the Honse bill and the Senate amendments will be reported, bntno one expects final determination of the contro versy until tho latter part of tho session. The question comes up to-day in the Honse, but we are fully prepared to see this corres pondent’s speculation, as to its final settlement, realized to tho letter. We doubt if tho end is reached, even then. c The Bridge Acboss the Mississippi —Tho St. Louis Republican dovotos four columns to the great bridgo across the Mississippi at that point. It will bo 2230 feet in length, and will -cost $4,496,953—three millions of which will be famished by St. Loui3 and tho remainder of the capital come from New York. The river part of the bridgo will rest on four immense jpiera constructed of granite, the top of which will bo fifty feet above high watermark, and the piers will be 145 to 174 in height from their foundations up. The span of tho principal arch twill be 515 feet, and tho arches will bo con structed of cast steel. The bridge will be a ' highway for eight railroads. It will be com pleted by the last of next year. The rich men of New York ore said to rank as follows in the matter of greenbacks: Wil liam B. Astor, $50,000,000; A. T. Stewart, $40,000,000; Cornelias Vanderbilt, $30,000,000; Daniel Drew, $6,000,000; George Law, $6,000,- .000; August Belmont, $5,000,000: Samuel N. Pike, $7,000,000; James Fisk, Jr., $6,000,000; James Lennox, $5,000,000;'and two or three hundred others aro variously estimated from * two to five millions. It is stated that there aro • two thousand persons in New York who are worth, at the lowest calculation, $500,000 apiece." • ... .. The editor of the St. Louis Democrat, the loading Radical organ of that section, is evi dently well posted He says: “It is amazing that the daily and hourly mur ders in Georgia have suddenly ceased—now that they can no longer serve to keep Bullock & Co. in countenance t Since the Senate acted on the Georgia bill, wo have not heard of a sin gle murder, a single outrage. It is high time for the country founders tand that there is some thing besides loyalty at yie boltonj of the Geor gia business." * ^ The French Election. To get in Macon, before breakfast, the oonnt of a vote of France completed late the night before in Paris is an event, but we live in a fast age. According to the figures the Emperor has b>en sustained by the French people by a vote •f 7,126,288 out of a total of 8,722,132 ballots The dissentients numbered 1,685,844, or less than one in five. Let us see how Napoleon maintains the confi dence of tho French people, by a comparison of this with previous votes. In 1848 he was elected President of the Republic by 6,048,872 sgainst somewhere about a million three hun dred thousand for Cavagnac. In 1851, on the question of the extension of his term, the vote stood 7,481,241 against G40.737. In 1852 the present Constitution was ratified by 7,473,431 votes against 641,551. In December of the same year a plebiscite ratified the senatns con- sultnm establishing tho Empire by 7,828,189 votes against 253,145. These figures display a remarkable uniformity in popular strength, and tho result jnst declared will give immense moral force to the Imperial government and tho pro gress of liberalization under it. It is the fash ion to question the fairness of the French ple biscites, and say it gives tho opposition no chance; bnt here, it seems to us, the opposition had every chance. It is true they were remit ted to a simple negative on the proposition for gradual reforms under the empire. They could assert no specific alternative, such, for example as “Tho Republic.” But who doubts that if they could have done so, the opposition would have been rendered still more insignificant and powerless by their own divisions. They could all agree in saying “so” to tho Empire and re forms under the Imperial system, bnt they could not have agreed upon a substitute. Thus, we may say that the Emperor stood at disadvantage, and this made the boldness of the appeal—a policy which the Cabinet refused to sanction, and which was carried out by the Emperor on his own responsibility and in oppo sition to their judgment. Bat it was not an ar bitrary proceeding of tho Emperor, but one adopted in pursuance of law. The constitution of 1852 declares: “All modifications in the fundamental basis of the constitution, snch as they were laid down in the proclamation of the 2d of December, 1851, and adopted by the French people, shall be submitted to universal suffrage.” This election, therefore, was in essential pur suance of the constitution, and the result is of great value to the Emperor. It arms his gov ernment and the reforms it proposes with new moral power, and exposes tho weakness of tho opposition, who are powerful only in fuss, noise, discord and sedition. It will tranquilize France and pave the way for a peaceable succession, if that be at all possible. We think if the American constitution pro vided for a plebiscitnm on naked political ques tions and measures divested of their bearing up on person elections, the effect would be good. For example: suppose the question of Protec tion was submitted to the people on a vote of yea or nay; or the Fifteenth Amendment, or the Income Tax, or Reconstruction, or any of those important propositions or measures upon which the people are divided and Congress bog gles ? A plebiscitnm would settle them by the highest authority and remove them from the political field. We find in the Baltimore Gazette, Saturday, the following synopsis of the new French Con stitution, which will show precisely upon what the yeas and nays of tho French people were taken in thi3 plebiscitnm: The proposed Constitution is very concise. It is divided into six chapters. Chapter first recognizes the grand principles of 1789. Chapter second confirms all tho powers here tofore granted Louis Napoleon by tho people, regulates the succession, by allowing the Em peror to choose his own successor among his descendants, exclnding always fomales and their heirs. It regulates royal marriages and provides for a regency. Chapter third gives the governing power to the Emperor, with the aid of the Ministers, Sen ate, Corps Legislatif and Council of State. It provides, however, that the Constitution can be modified by the people at tho suggestion of the Emperor. In other words, if he does not like the experiment, he can set aside the whole ma chinery of Government, and, through the army, control votes enough k> get such powers es he may dictate. Chapter fourth makes tho Emperor responsi ble to tho people, to whom he has.a right of ap peal. He is responsible to no one else, and is given by this chapter pretty much autocratic powers. Chapters fifth and sixth relate to the Senate and Corps Legislatif. The Senate, composed of life members, is called and prorogued at tho will of the Emperor. So with the Corps Legis latif. Its members aro elected for at least six years. The sittings of these bodies are publio, bnt at the request of any five members In either honse, the proceedings become secret. The other two chapters are general in their character. " The changes made are very slight The Sen ate really becomes part of the National Assem bly, ministers become responsible, and laws originate in either Honse. “Social Questions.” The Now York Observer, the Independent, the Commercial Advertiser and numerous re ligious and secular papers are pitching into each other over the Bo-called “Social questions” which have been brought up anew incidentally by the McFarland triaL The Independent hav ing developed some new ethics on marriage and divorce, tho Observer declares his doctrines are unchristian, and would make New York worse than Utah, and as bad as Sodom and Gomorrah. The fact that so many preachers and religious and secnlar newspapers are complicated with the nasty developments of tho Richardson mar riage and murder, and that all these papers and preachers are arguing the points involved on mere general principles, tempts ns toaek again whether we are mistaken in tho supposition that all these so-called questions are finally settled by Supreme anthortityin the Scriptnres? If they are, where’s the nse of looking! beyond ? Tho Biblo is clear on divorce, marriage, the rights and functions of women, and the duties and responsibilities of parents and children. Its deliverances are explicit on all these points, and the question then arises, whether they-are the teachings of God Almighty and to be revered and obeyed as such, or are superannuated driv- ellings,'behind the times and tmworthy the en lightenment of tho 19th century. •* j j But If inspiration fails upon, these practical points of every day life, it is unworthy of re spect and faith os a guide on any subject, and the papers and preachers who argne upon these relations and duties and spheres and functions, on general principles, and sedulously ignore tho teachings of Holy Writ, (which must be final and conclusive, or there is no divine revelation) aro pouring contempt upon tho whole system of revealed religion. It is time the modem mor alists cams back to first principles and settled first the important point where the law upon theso subjects can be fonnd. If they recognize the Book 83 overruling authority, tho “ques tions” oease to exist. If they repudiate thus, let them discard revealed religion altogether. Disabilities Removed. From a three column list published, by Bul lock—and paid for out of the people’s money— of the Georgians who have had their disabilities removed since the adoption of the 14th Amend ment as provided for In the 3d section of that amendment, we extract the names of those credited to Bibb county. They are as follows: B. IT. Atkinson, David E. Blount, O. B. Cole, J. G. Coleman, M. DoGreffeuricd, W. K. Be- Graffonried, E. C. Granules; W. S. Kelley, W. J. Lawton, James Marlin, C. A. Nulling, and John B. Ross; A Ballwai Smash-up—W<ondeiTai Es cape* The writer, on his way. home Saturday night, to spend a twenty-four hours’ furlough with his family in Savannah, was witness of, and partici pant in an accident on the Central Railroad, which, all things considered, was somewhat re markable, in so far as freedom from damage to life and limb was concerned. The train left Macon at 6:25 p. u. that eve ning, the regular schedule time, and had sped on its way to within about five miles of Gordon, running at the rate, say, of twenty-five miles an hour, when the engine, from somo cause not fully ascertained, bnt apparently entirely beyond the power of the most carefnl supervision to prevent, ran off, turning almost upside down, and carrying with it four other cars. Tho ex press car, next the engine, was torn almost to pieces, and three others thrown from the track; the baggage car falling at almost right angles to the track, and two others, both of them pretty well filled with passengers, turned almost en tirely on their side. The sleeping car and the car for Augusta, in the extreme rear, were barely shaken, only the front trucks of the for mer being thrown off. The engineer and one fireman were almost buried in the wreck of the engine, being fastened to the ground by somo of the debris, bnt were soon released with no other injury than some rather severe bruises. The engineer (Wright) was one of the coolest and most cheerful of the whole party aboard the train, and gave directions how he could best be extricated, with as much composure as if stand ing on his engfto and nothing the matter. He certaioly has a cool head and steady nerves. One passenger car, which turned over on its sido until tho windows on that side were -within two feet of the gronnd, was pretty well filled with people, among them several women and children, but not one was oven scratched, al though there was a general and lively mixing up for a minute or two. Not a woman screamod or child cried until the danger was over, when a few of tho women were heard from. Tho Savannah and Augusta passengers spent the night on the spot, and tho track having been repaired and the wreck cleared away, next morn ing went to Gordon for breakfast, and taking there tho Sunday morning Macon train on its downward way, proceeded to their destinations. This acoident seems of that class almost be yond the power of prevention by the most vigi lant attention and skillfnl management. It can not, and does not, in our jndgment, reflect in tho slightest, either upon any of the officials di rectly-interested, or upon tho general manage ment of tho road. From late and frequent ob servation, wo are warranted in saying that no road within onr knowledge is better handled in every respect than tho Central. Wo had almost forgotten to mention that tho express mossengor had, only a moment or two before tho accident occurred, gone into the car next in rear of his for a dnnk of water. Had he been in his car at tho time, it is hardly pos sible he could have escaped instant death, as that car was almost literally torn into splinters. Off To Washington. ‘They say” at Atlanta, that Bollock, in re sponse to piteous and pressing messages, per telegraph, from his dear friend, Forney, has hastened to Washington City again. It is sup posed Fomey has been caught in some lie of more than usual magnitude, and shamelessness about how much money, and what for, Bollock has paid him, anil he wants B to swear him ont, if possible. We are very much disposed to believe this story, though how Bullock’s testimony will help Forney's case we can’t exactly see. That he (B.) has paid ont of the State Treasury large sums of money to this man Forney and other venal hirelings who jump to sell their pens to any scheme, no matter how wicked, is, wo should suppose, a fact that every honest man at Washington, and especially in Georgia fully believes. -The only question, it strikes us, up on which more light is needed, is how much was thus expended to secure the degradation of Georgia and tho punishment of her people. They know their own money is being daily lavished to insult and ruin them, but tho amount is conjectural. To ascertain tho exact figures might stimulate their memory, and keep it fresh and strong against the day of reckoning. Wo hope the firm of Forney & Bollock will be forced into bankruptcy by the investigating com- mittee, and be mado to tell, not only what as sets they have on hand, but what they have spent, and how they have spent it. Wo have studied Forney for a good many years and know pretty well from the way he writes how he has been paid. From the intense, and sometimes overstrained venom of his articles against Geor gia in Bullock’s interest, we feel sure he had a fat feo from that worthy. Wo have no idea that $10,000 would cover the amount he has drawn from the Treasury of Georgia to push along Bullock's dirty work. Meanwhile let the truth bo squeezed out of theso men if possible. They cover their tracks well, wo know, but there never yet was a fox that was not finally run to earth. In reference to this matter, a Washington special of Friday to tho Tribune says: The Senate Judiciary Committee had a special meeting last night, to complete the investigation concerning the use of improper means to de feat the Bingham amendment to tho Georgia bilL It having been stated that somo $1,800 was paid to the proprietor of tho Washington Chronicle for printing, advertising, eto., the publisher, Mr. D. C. Forney, was examined for -onr hours last evening and two hours to-day. It is intimated that the Committee are not ex actly satisfied with his answers to their ques tions. It is said there is a good deal of scandal connected with this mntter. The Committee aro waiting for Gov. Bullock, and, as soon as he is examined, it is understood they will be ready to close the investigation. From Houston Countf. Perry, Ga., May 7, 1870. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : 7. On yesterday a shower of wind, rain and hail swept over oar town. The black heavy clond seemingly mingled with the sand and dost, which wore lifted by the wind, assuming the murky, lurid hue of smoke and and heat from a huge furnace, was frightful in appearance, completely enveloping us—no object could be seen at a distance of thirty yards. It lasted but a few minutes. The rain was much needed, and tho wind and hail did very little damage. Com and cotton crops are doing well. Onr gar dens are very good considering the very back ward spring. • : j. ■ Wo aro grieved to her of tho death of that good man and useful citizen, Wm. E. Sloan, at his residenco, in Fort Valley on yesterday. ; J. S. J. Gen. Goioouhia, who was garoted by the Spaniards in Havana last Sunday morning, had been commissioned by Cespedes as Minister to Mexico, and attempted reoently to leave the Cuban coast, but, being pursued by a gunboat, took refuge on Gnajaba Island. There he has been hunted down by the Spanish sailors. After his capture he was sent under a strong guard to Havana, and arriving there on Saturday, was tried by a drnm-hoad court-martial before sun down, sentenced and executed next "morning before an immense crowd and tranquilly yielded up his life. A display like that to the Spaniards has all the relish of a bull-fight The smiling Colfax must be very short of demnition cash. A Herald correspondent says that a hat was passed round in the Senate the other day for the Colfax baby, and that every Senator contributed a V. The Georgia Press. The Southern Witness chronicles the killing of five, and wounding two crows by- Mr. Jese Darnel, of Walton county, before breakfast as the most successful raid upon that sharp bird ever noted in the same space of time. The editor of the Air Line Eagle reports the wheat crop of White county as promising finely. The fruit crop promises to be heavier than for several years past The people aro becoming greatly interested in the Macon and Knoxville Railroad, and will do all in their power to aid its construction. CoL L. B. Hayes, one of the best citizens of Walton county, died last week. At a meeting of the citizens of Walton county held May 3d the following resolutions with ref erence to the bnilding of the Macon and Knox ville railroad were adopted; herself (some hundred yards) and in doing so, fell "in the pond. The party did not know she was drowned until they saw her little hat floating on the water. She was burled on last Saturday in Athens. The Albany News has the following railroad items: S. G. and Fla. Railboad.—A passenger train came up to within a mile of this city last Sun day, bringing a number of persons from Thom- asville to attend the services of the Episcopal Church in this city. The conductor informed us that regular trains would not run farther than Camilla until warehouses could be built at Hardaway station, and this end of the road- probably some weeks yet. We state this in re ply to the numerous writen and verbal inquiries relative to the running of the trains on ihia road The B. & A. R. R.—The Engineer Corps of the Albany Division, under Captain W. D. Bartcbroll, have passed the Isabella bills, com ing westward, and are expected to complete the Resolved, That our Representative Hon. J. location to this point in about a week. The B. Sorrels, be instructed to use all lawful efforts ridge dividing the waters of Flint river and the in tho Legislature to secure a charter to this ■ streams more eastward, on which Isabella is sit- route, and if necessary consent to “State aid” 1 J being granted to the bnilding of the road. 2d. That a committee of three be appointed from this county, to act in consent with any gentleman they may select in Atlanta in urging the claims of the route. „ 3d. That John P. Edwards, Esq., be request ed to open preliminary books for subscription to test the ability and anxiety of our citizens in behalf of this newenterprise. The Chronicle and Sentinel reports a good breadth of corn planted in Burke, Jefferson and Scriven counties. It is advised that quite noted, has been crossed with a maximum grade of thirty feet to the mile, and with much lighter work than was at first anticipated. Tho Americas Republican has heard from va rious portions of that country, that farmers are putting more com in the gronnd this season than they have at any time since the war, and in many places it is growing finely. Some of our best farmers have determined hereafter to put at least half of their cultivated lands-in com. The first snap beaus of the season made their lu ** *» appearance in the Savannah market, Saturday A number of planters have their cotton . ... “chopped oat.” This region also has purchased and applied fertilizers freely. We hear of many farmers who have applied “guanos" to their lands to tho amount of fifteen dollars per acre. Cotton, howover, seems to be, as a general rule, the chief reliance for bread and meat, and if cotton fails or “fetches a low price,” rations will be short. Similar accounts reach ns from Middle Georgia, and thus far the season, al though late, opens well. From the river coun ties north of theso comes to ns no grumbling nbout tho seasons or about bad seed, but there is great complaint about shortness of bands. Bnt in every instance which wo have been able to mako a test, wo find tho complaint is not grounded upon any deficiency as compared with last year. The general admission is that there is a largo increase upon tho number employed last year, and tho deficiency only exists as to tho number that planters desired and had the ability to employ. Almost universally wo have good accounts of tho interest and efficiency of the black people. As a rule they are working well, and are little distracted by political and other diversions and influences. Tho Savannah News reports the arrival there, by steamship Leo, of a largo number of boxes of arms from tho Springfield Armory, consign ed to Augusta. Thoi$ ultimate destination, or use, we know not; probably, Cuba or the Geor- gia-Bullock militia. There is a revival in tho Baptist Ohurch, at Savannah. Thirty persons were baptized last Saturday evening—mong them two of the pas tor’s (Rov. S. Landrum’s) children. A gentleman of Savannah, named not given by the News, was knocked down and robbed on the corner of New Houston and Barnard streets, Friday night. His injuries were severe. Tho Savannah mortuary reports for the month of April, shows a grand total of 89 deaths —whites 32, blacks 57. Mrs. Martin, of Madison, recovered $2,500 damages from the Georgia railroad on account of the death of her hnsband, a fireman on the road, by tho explosion of an engine boiler on that road in October, 18GC, at the late term of Morgan Superior Court. At a recent meeting of the citizens of Monroe county, the following resolutions were unani mously adopted: Resolved, That the building of the Hilliard Male Institute, near Forsyth, with tho land thereto attached, and as much more as may be necessary, bo tendered, with the concurrence of tho Trustees of said Institute, to the Trustees of Morcer University, as a suitable location for the University upon its removal from Fenfield. Resolved, That a Committee of twenty-one be appointed to solicit subscriptions from the citizens of the county, to bo paid to the Trus tees of the University, upon condition that the University is removed to Forsyth. Resolved, That a Committee of seven be ap pointed to correspond with tha Trustees of Mer cer University—make tho tender aforesaid, and invito them to view and examine tho grounds tendered before making a final selection of a lo cation for the removal of the University. Tho Monroo Advortiser says George/flower, the negro member of tho Agency from that county, drew $1,000 from tho State Treasury as back pay and mileage, and brought homo with him a fino mule and buggy, for which he paid $120. The 15th Amendment phalanx drew, al together, about $3,500 for tho time they did not serve. Tho breaking of an axle on the tender of a freight engine of tho Macon and Western Rail road, last Saturday afternoon, caused such a smash that tho engineer and fireman had to jump off to save themselves. The Monroe Advertiser has this paragraph: Things appear to be getting slightly mixed in the vicinity of Indian Spring. On the night of the 1st instant, an old negro man and an aban doned white woman were publloly joined in wedlock at that place, by the colored Methodist minister, in the presence of his congregation. As far as tho negro is concerned, a prosecu tion for bigamy is imminent, and as for tho woman, a Ku-KIux visitation wa3 threatened at tho time by tho female niggers of that neigh borhood, who considered that their exclusive territory had boon invaded, and their dearest rights trampled upon. The Griffin Star says Sunday night was al most cold enough for frost. The young cotton cnrled up like possum ears. Tho Griffin and North Alabama Railroad has paid the city of Griffin seven por cent interest on tho first six months of its subscription to that road. John Thompson, of Madison, a brakeman on the Georgia railroad, was crushed to death be tween two cars, at Decatur, Sunday morning. Mr. Isaac T. Bartlett, long a citizon of Atlan ta, in getting off the train on his return from a pio nio at Marietta, on Saturday everning, fell and had his right arm out off by the car running over it. The dwelling house, kitchen, and other out- houseB belonging to Allen Jones, at Jonesboro, were burned Monday morning.-• . --i Wo get the following from the Constitution of yesterday: The Annual Fibe Pabade.—Yesterday was the annual parade of tho Atlanta Fire Depart ment. After marching through the streets as laid down in their programme, they halted in front of Kimball's Opera Honse. Hook and Ladder had 42 men; No. I 52; No. 2 50; No. 8 90. >\o- Hook and Ladder ran 303^ yards, threw a thirty-six foot ladder against a brick wall, a man ascended and doconded, the ladder was re placed, and the company returned in two min utes and 40$ seconds—a distance of GOGjj yards. They lost some little time in consequence of dray3 being in the way. Mechanic, No. 2, ran with their hose reel (weight about 2000 lbs.) 400 feet, attaohed hose to engine, paid off 200 feet .more of hose, and threw water—in all COO feet—in 55$ seconds. Tallulah No. Z, with their hose reel (weight about 1350 lbs.) ran 400 feet, attached nose to engine, paid off 200 feet more of hose, attached nozzlo, but did' not play—in all 600 feet—in 44 J seconds. Tallulah did not play because her suotion could not reach the water in the cis tern. Atlanta threw a solid stream 207 feet 9$ inches. Mechanio threw a solid stream 192 feet C inches. Tallulah threw a solid stream 185 feet 4 inches. Death op Mb. Hemphill's Child.—We learn tho following facts concerning the sad death of Mr. Hemphill’s little daughter Lizzie: A party went out fishing to a mill pound near Athens, (none of Mr. H.’s immediate family but some of lier mother’s relatives boing with her,) and little Lizzie accompained them, Tho party at the pond divided, and Lizzie at tempted to go from one to the other crowd by last, at fifty cents a quart. Tho News has the following items Tho case of Jim Habersham, the negro who was arrested for disorderly condnct in a street car, and for resisting an officer in the discharge of his duty, came np, when His Honor gave his decision, setting forth wherein the prisoner had mado himself amenable to the law; bnt in con sideration of it being the first offence of the kind in this community, he concluded to dismiss the case, whioh he did, after timely admonition to all parties to respect the rights of others. Equal accommodations aro provided for the colored people on the street cars, and it is as well that they ehonld know at once that while they will be protected in all their rights, that insolence and aggression on their part in conflict with the rights of tho white community will not be tolerated. A Man Shot.—Last evening, while the steam er Nick King, with the excursionists on board, was aground off Fort Palaski, one of the har pers, John B. Ottajano, who had been furnish ing music throughout tho day, was shot with a pistol by one of the excursionist. Fish.—Our market yesterday morning was more than bountifully supplied with fish. Of red snappere there was on sale about two hun dred. Whiting, black fish and other pan fish were in abundance. HalUbnt was auito plenti ful Prices remain very reasonable! Bones Found.—The workmen engaged in dig ging out the dry dock, on the opposite side of the river, exhumed, a few days ago, a human skeleton, on top of which was a large stone. It was found fifteen feet below the surface of the island. How it came there is a mystery. During 4he month of April there were thirty deaths in Augusta—whites 14, blacks 16. Aaron Alpeoria Sing Sing Bradley made a notation in Augusta, Monday afternoon. The Chronicle and Sentinel says it was based on a petition and a series of resolutions which the speaker said he intended to present to the Uni ted States Congress. These stated, in substance, that a new system of slavery had sprung up in Georgia, nearly as bad as the old one—viz: the chain-gang system, or tho hiring out of convicts to railway contractors, who starve, whip, work and shoot them to death; that General Terry had refused to break np this iniquity, and that Bullock was believed to have an interest in the operation; asking that both Bullock and Terry bo removed, and General Sheridan be appointed to the command of Georgia. In support of this petition the wauhoo spoke, denouncing Terry, Bullock and what he truth fully termed, the mongrel Legislature. He charged that the men now running the State Government were not Republicans, as they claimed to be, but the betrayers of the party.— Ho was particularly severe on the State Road of which Bullock is President, and its manage ment, stating that colored men who wished to ride upon it, and had paid full fare, were not allowed to enter the decent cars, but were made to enter cattle boxes. He ridiculed Bullock’s stories about tho Ku-Klnx, saying that they were gotten up for effect. The speech throughout was exceedingly bitter and severe upon the tho Bullock ring, characterizing the Governor as a weak dishonest and vain man, who is engaged in plundering the State, and who has became completely spoiled since his elevation to power —the heighth of his ambition being to wear his breeches in his boots, ride a fine horse, and who carried his head so far back, because ho had not brains enongh to hold it forward. The speech was well received by his audience, and at its conclusion a large number of signa tures were added to tho petition. The Constitutionalist says the Georgia rail road brought to that city Monday afternoon, twelve car loads of stockholders and their fam ilies, to attend the convention of their road. Tho number of visitors in Augusta at present, is from one thousand to fifteen hundred. An agent of the Passaic Falls (New Jersey) Factory, has asked for and obtained the refusal of a canal lot in Augusta, for one month. There is some prospect of its removal to that city. CoL Holstead, of Coiambus, was thrown down and choked by a negro, Monday. Ho re taliated by shooting at the negro several times and the negro returned the fire with bricks— no body hurt. Judge W. T. Gould has been commissioned Judge of the Atigusta City Court for four years from the 5th of November last. The Columbus Sun says that Mr. Hamill, one of the editors of the Locomotive, of Opelika, was, after a trial of three, days, for the killing of Dr. Sumerford, triumphantly acquitted. The Columbus Enquirer learns that two En glishmen were in that city Monday “with a view to making arrangements with one of our factories for a supply of suitable yarn to carry on an extensive hosiery establishment near Opelika. It is said that a number of employes have already arrived out to commence opera tions, and that the necessary machinery has been ordered and is on the way.” The Enquirer of Tuesday, says the cold snap whioh commenced Friday, still continued at that date. Fires and overcoats were in fair de mand. Up to the present time about $13,000 have been subscribed to the Columbn3 Industrial Association. Tho Fair will open first Tuesday in Novem ber. We get the following from the Eatonton Press and Messenger: Cotton.—The stand of cotton this season is remarkably good, bnt tho plant, in some plaoes, though looking green and healthy, is not grow ing as rapidly as it should, on account of the want of rain and need of. doping out, which the farmers are afraid to give it, while tha ground remains as dry as at present. Accident.—Out at the Fair Grounds Friday morning, Dr. W. N. Bacon, whild looking at the juvenile base ball players, had his lip bruised and cut pretty severely by a bat Blipping out of the hands of the striker, and hitting Him in the face. It mode an ugly looking wound, but we hope will not disfigure him when well. Cobn.—Most of our planters got an excellent stand of com this season. Much of it is receiv ing the first working, and is looking strong and healthy, but needs rain. The Constitution, of yesterday, says Chap. Norris, Terry’s sheriff of Warren county, who was arrested by the military for bribery, and brought to Atlanta and confined in the Barracks, has been released on $1,000 bail, to appear be fore tho next term of Warren Superior Court. The Romo Courier says Messrs. Tildon, of New York, and W. H. Irwin, of Cleveland, Ohio, are in that plaoe for the purpose of nego tiating for the .purchase of the Round Moun tain property, and engaging in the iron buai- There are now only seven miles of track to lay between Rome and Dalton, on the Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad, and it is progress ing at the rate'of half a mile a day. The road will be finished by the first of June. The Constitution has the following: “To Defeat Incidental Expenses—Execu tive Department, 1869.”—That valuable pam phlet, Comptroller Bell’s Annual Report for 1869, containa-the above phrase very numerous ly. In the disbursement of the Contingent Fund it figures with prominent conspicuosity; (why not this as well as Sumner’s ridiculosity ?) We have collated the items of this remark able charge. March 20 8 1,000 CO mWbh 500 00 May 22. " 27....— Juno I——■ 4 *' 7 •• 10.....™ " 12 “ 19 “ 22— — *' Ml—— July 7..— ” 20.....".'......™ " 32." 600 00 600 00 S0J 00 » oo 159 00 500 00 350 00 1,030 00 500 00 500 00 500 00 800 CO 200 00 200 00 postulation, entreating the Council to .a. an earnest invitation to tho people of T recognize, at last in Jeaua Christ the M 11 *» ttiey are still looking for In vain. Th„ have been permitted to present the I to the Pope, who has promised to lay the assembled Fathers. ' Spain.—We are assured by the “Epoc.n,, . the Spanish Government contemplated ^ the crown to Prince Fredrick of Pm„ -S paper adds, at the same time, NapoW t!*^ I dared to Olozaga, the Spanish Pans, that this solution would lead toTt? 0 ' * tween France and Prussia. It is hardlJ^^ I while to dwell on the absurdity of thia 7 .* 01 ^ I which has probably been manufactured SSs^jSsSBsrsSg 00 «»egrowinginfinencT^ 1,000 00 Northern Kingdom, it to no^Ady thaU? * sian Prince ^belonging to such a pre-emi^ September 2..— Total 8,0.450 00 These incidental expenses of the Executive Department might be fine reading if itemized. Can the Governor bo persuaded, through his organ, to give the items to a curious and taxed people. A definition of the word “incidental” would thus be furnished for the next edition of Webster. Protestant House, will be tempted to this dangerous gift. pwd to a <^ | Serrano, the Regent, is said to favor a tablishment of a republic, in case Prim v K i acquiesce in it. Pr,rn I A petition bearing 42,000 signatures K, rived from Havana, petitioning the C n w fc to pass the contemplated conatifm,v„ I Weekly Resume of Foreign Affairs. PREPARED FOB THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER. Great Britain.—The Committee of the House of Commons passed a resolution legalizing mar riage with a dead wife’s sister. Mr. Charles Buxton, member of Parliament, was fired at by bis Secretary.. The would-be murderer was arrested in Paris. Tho Mordaunt divorcocaso has been resumed before the courts. The attorney of the defen dant citing many American cases of a similar character, demanded that the proceedings shonld be stopped on account of the insanity of Lady Mordaunt. The court has reserved its de cision. The arch of the Metropolitan railway nnder the Northern terminus of Blackfriars Bridge in London gave way, burying twelve laborers un der its ruins. Seven of them were mortally wounded, the remainder escaped with slight contusions. Cardinal Cullen has issued another pastoral letter, denouncing again the Fenian and Ma sonic Societies, and blaming Newgate’s pro posal for an investigation of the nunneries. The Times, after having reviewed the condi tion of Ireland and chronicled six offences against the public peaco, winds np as follows: “The general state of the country is satisfac tory. The outrages above stated are the only ones which have been reported daring the week. In the west of Ireland there is a remarkable im provement. The lately disturbed districts ap pear already to have settled down to tranquili ty and order, and favored by unusually fino weather, the people in every quarter of the country appear to be actively engaged in the work of the farm. The emigration drain, how ever, still continues, and tho frequent depar tures of steamers from Queenstown is witnessed with deep regret. The demand for accommo dation has increased so much that an extra steamer has been put on, and on Wednesday two left for Boston and New York, each with three hundred passengers on board.” France.—The plebiscitnm on tho 8th of May, end the meeting of the Chamber on the 12tu, are tho leading topics for newspapers and poli ticians. The public mind continues much ex cited. Though tho political 'assemblies, dis cussing the plebiscitnm, are very stormy, the authorities keep aloof from any interference with their proceedings. The Government, how ever, is amply prepared to suppress any open insurrection. The soldiers will vote for the first time since the first plebiscitnm which in vested Napoleon with the purple; many of them are to be seen at the political meetings. The hermit of Caprera, longing to proclaim Rome as the capital of his beloved Italy, has issued a manifesto to the French army to raise the flag of rebellion against Napoleon, whom he con siders as the only obstacle to the final unifica tion of Italy. - The Pope, in consideration of France remaining neutral towards the Ecumen ical Council, has advised the French priesthood to favor the plebiscitnm. Cernandi, the Italian banker, who had contributed 100,000 francs to the anii-plebiscitum fund, has been expelled from France. He proceeded to Geneva, where, at the request of the French Government, the Swiss authorities ordered him to leave the Fed eral territory. Cernandi consequently left Ge neva, after having forwarded a further sum of 200,000 franc3 to the anti-plebiscitum commit tee in Paris The action of the Government is severely criticized by the partisans of the left. The papers are filled with reports of the con spiracy against the life of Napoleon, which the authorities srate to have’discovered. Numerous arrests have been made. Bombs and infernal machines, which aro minutely described by the papers, have been seized in tho honse of several persons accused of being accomplices iu the plot. The government is again making capital of this timely conspiracy, by impressing upon tho better classes the probability that the over throw of the Empire would inaugurate another era of lawlessness and anarchy. We learn from the “London Times” that the Republican papers of Paris coni uno to urge nncomprising war against the Eu'niro and all things Imperial. The Rappel, whit, -one of tho most ably conducted j ournals of tha .ersuasion, publishes the first of a sories of leltu... upon the principles of 1789. The first point discussed by the writer, Felix Pyat, is the principle of hereditary succession. After. denouncing in most unrestrained terms that principle, as con flicting with the principles of 1789, “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity,” Mr. Pyat insists “that it invades the national right of seleotion. Since 1789 it has become impossible in France to set tle irrevocably upon a man or a family a consti tutional right of governing. The Emperor is Emperor of the French. The Imperial dignity is in no way a property or a conquest, patriarch al, nor a fruit of war. It is a simple function, a civil magistracy, elected, desired, appointed and not born, chosen and not imposed in prin ciple at least. If tho Imperial dignity be an office, as it must be according to the publio law of Frenchmen, and to its bases the three gTeat triumphs of 1789, whioh the Empire proclaims in its law. How thencanhereditarysuccessionin the male line and in order of primogeniture be justified—the radical annihilation of choice, in one word, of the national sovereignty? The article concludes by reminding Frenchmen of the possibility, that, if the Prince Imperial should fall once more under the care of Dr. Ne kton—after Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, France might have a chance of having Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte. After the Emperor Ohassepofc the Emperor Pistol; after the constitution of Judas the constitution of the Revolver.” So far “Le Rappel?” North German Confederation.—Bismarck has recovered from his late attaok of illness. The commercial treaty between the North German Confederation and Mexico has been ratified by the Reichstag. This treaty is the first Jnarez has concluded with any European power since the downfall of the Mexican Em pire. The complaints from the Baltic Provinces of Russia have attracted much attention among the members of the Reichstag, and the question has been raised, whether it might not be advis able to interpel the Government on the subject, in order to assure the Germans of those dis tricts of the sympathies of their brethren in tha Fatherland, in their struggle against Russifica tion. The idea has, however, been abandoned, in consequence of a hint by Bismarck, implying that an offioial treatment of- tho matter would probably make anything but a good impression upon the Russian Government. The German “Petersburg Gazette,” .review ing the relations of the Baltio Provinces to the rest of the Russian Empire, proposes to grant those districts a provincial autonomy, sufficient to satisfy their reasonable demands without weakening the unity of the Empire. Italt.—Tho Council has been officially noti fied that the discussion of the dogma of infalli bility will take place without delay. The Bish ops of the opposition who had gone home have been summoned by telegraph to proceed imme diately to Rome to take part in the approaching deliberations. The Austrian and Hungarian Bishops have therefore hastened back to Rome to vote against the dogma. We learn from Gratx, Austria, that a seces sion en masse ot the Roman Catholics in that town from Rome is apprehended, in case the dootrine of Papal infallibility should be passed by the Council. Two converted French Jews, the brothers Leman, now staying in Rome, have succeeded in obtaining the signatures of 506 Bishops to a constitution for I We may here chronicle tho eraiif-:- . I that Protestantism is making raffia * I Spain under the aegis of thonewli&M stitution. rE1 Ms-1 Who, a few years ago, would have tWi, • possible that Protestants could publict? 1 * ble to attend Divine Service, or bury t&JtS without stirring the religious fanaticism^ priest-ridden masses ? And yet, where®,^ are already Protestant communities I they aro met with a spirit of kindness if. people, especially by the hnmble ranks I The four Protestant newspapers unbliSJu Madrid Seville Cordova andBarceb^ openly the fundamental basis of the I Church. The most eminent Minister is r.. I co, of Madrid. When, a little wMo Jt Carthagena, his sermons made snch a dc** 6 pression Upon the people, that tho Catholi?^ gy found it necessary to order a twentr-^ day s mission to neutralize the effect by the Madrid minister. * I Turret.—The difficulties between th»p,l dishah and his vasal, the Vice-roy of E-n-w a I not seem to be entirely settled yet. The T -1 ish Government has addressed a note tot I Great Powers, protesting against a foreitmlvl lately contracted by Ismail Pasha. Turiet ~ I tinues in the path of reforms. In hia i E » I speech, delivered before the Imperial liti the Sultan, after having alluded to the pro^al made last year, promised further reforms! J branches of the public administration. I JaEsq. j The Houston Kidnapping case. To the Sheriff of Houston Countg, Perrj, pJ Headquarters MmrABr District Gzoegu t i Atlanta, Georgia, May 5th, 1870. ’f ' Special Orders, No. 8. It is ordered that in tho case of Eillah ini GsJ giana Jackson, the indentures of apprentice!’--'.I cancelled, and that they be restored to their hCl and further, that the Ordinary of Houston cr^l Georgia, refrain from any steps or measures '7.1 ing to the taking of them from him in the |&| By order of Brevet Major Goneral Tim J. H. Taylor, ’ Assistant Adjutant Gera I Official: It. D. Hughes, A. A. A. G. I Editors Telegraph and MessengerThefel going is a copy of a printed order received!*! Saturday by the Sheriff of thi3 county, sndi puts an end to a caso which has cost all pirfcl concerned a good deal of time, trouble n| money, and has been the occasion of muchcJ representation in a certain newspaper aid til where. A messenger was sent from Atlanta J investigate the condnct of the Ordinary in'i| prisoning a colored man and his wife be cm I they refused to give up their children toawinl man,” and statements equally false, have beel made about extravagant lawyer's fees. Iiet| thor and object of these representation cl known. The case in its length and breadth was this I An industrious old negro woman named Em riet Thweat had two of her deceased daurktail children bound out to her By the ordiaKtfl this county upon her giving bond for ttdipl per education and training as required l;-il It appeared that the children had been rsl up to their grandmother, Harriet, accorcq f the dying request of their mother, sicca d time Harriet had supported them, and that u| father, Carter Jackson, had moved to! county, leaving the children in Houston i their grandmother, and without contrib anything, or but very little of anything tot! support. Upon these faots being shown !o ti ordinary, he bound them out to the grand er who had been at all the trouble and eio with them since their mother’s death. Carter, the father, afterwards took habeas corpus to have them returned to 1 and he claimed that at the time of tha sppra ticeship, he lived in Houston and not county. If he had left the county of Hou the law required the ordinary to apprenticed children; if not, he had no right to do it, i upon the trial of the habeas corpus tins v only real issue in the case. Several wit: were sworn on both sides. All agreed M< had gone to Dooly about eight months I the apprenticeship, and that he had back to Houston about tho time the < were apprenticed. Some of tho w thought ho returned before they were ticed, and others that he returned afte: If he came before, neither Harriet nor i! dinary know it. But the testimony i make it certain whether it was before 9* wards, and it appearing that Harriet had s-l children to school and treated them kindlj f the father having declared to the he did not himself want to take the from their grandmother, but that his wife’ ed the elder one, he decided to let tbec remain where they were, and gave jndga cordingly. On the way home Carter kidnapped tie - ren and refused to let Harriot have them. Ordinary, on hearing this, passed an or ^ : 1 the Sheriff to execute tho judgment! habeas corpus court by restoring tbe p« of the children to their grandmothe authorized him to arrest any one for who might oppose his doing this. Nobtfj imprisoned, and no white person tereBt in the controversy. In regarf* yera’ fees, Harriet’s original counsel without fee or reward, because she be a worthy -woman, and they thongii» justice on heir side. The Ordinary i a kwyer for Carter Jackson, which, k ‘1 case, he was not bound to do, but wbi' 1 i in order that full justice might be i®* j ter afterwards promised to pay his J but has not done it. It is not beh*^ a dollar has been paid or is likely to f any lawyer engaged in tho oase. e . cost of apprenticeship has been P j Ordinary gave the case a patient investigation and made his decision •’“’I discussion of the merits of the css®. The truth of these facts can be ^ everyone who is acquainted with^ 3 stances. This Is the “tempest to* whioh has raged so furiously ia Atk! I Yalley and Perry. Houston £o., Qa , Mag 9,16W* Tmt Senate, in Committee of voted to strike ont the appropria‘- lc!! _ lishing the laws of the United S ta!e3 .^ . j papers. Senator Anthony, (Rad.) $100,000 a year, and waa a waste » ^ money. Senator Anthony had b* st a how he talks. The Radical sts press who are only kept alive at the this pap will be placarding him ^ “rebel” etc., the next thing ho the man is actually “flopping bread and meat, whisky, tobacoo ! The Prince of Orange is j to PrinoeesLonisa, of Englan . tut fast and gay as the Prinoe of said i°