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Dispatches from Brussels and 32ms both assert that France, dissatisfied with tie assurance that Prince Leopold, of Hohen- zollern, has withdrawn from the candidacy for the Spanish throne, demands from the King of Prussia a perpetual renunciation on the Prince’s behalf, and a guarantee of the royal disappro bation of any further approaches to the Prince upon that subject. To these demands the Prussian King has responded with a prompt negative, and has refused an interview to the French embassador charged with presenting them. When this Embassador waited upon the Prussian Court at the little watering-place of Ems, yesterday, he was met by an Aid-de-Camp of the King and informed that Prussia had no further communications to make. Meanwhile, it will be noticed by the synopsis furnished in the dispatches that the tone of the whole Paris press, yesterday morning—op position and imperial—wa3 very warlike, and the opposition press, in particular, was taunt ing the ministry with a substantial loss of prestige and position so far in the negotia tions. Under these circumstances, We fear that the peremptory refusal of the Prussian Court to en tertain the French demand, and the obvious re buff of the French Embassador, will be con sidered a deadly affront and that the next news, perhaps, may be a declaration of war by France and the march of Imperial armies towards the Prussian frontier. Against this apprehension, however, we have the apparently quiet aspect of the markets, so far as reported, both Ameri can and European; but this potential indica tion to the contrary notwithstanding, it seems to us, on the information presented by the dis patches, that the situation is about as perilous os it well can be before hostilities have actually commenced. The attitude of France seems to us to be very aggressive and over-bearing; and perhaps dic tated by a desire to pash matters to extremities, or to force Phissia into an act of positive hu miliation. First, Prussia say3 she had nothing to do with Prince Hohenzollem’s candidacy— that it was a matter purely between him and Spain. Next, in the interest of peace, she quietly procures his withdrawal, and so removes and apparently redresses the presumed affront and the alleged grievance of France. A reasonable man would suppose, in the ab sence of better information, that these were sufficient. But that don't suit either the French papers or the French crown. They want Prussia to swallow a little humble-pie over the matter, and so far to take the back-track, on any alleged or imputed complicity with these negotiations, as to give guaranties that Hohenzollem shall never sit upon the Spanish throne, and that ne gotiations between him and Spain shall never be resumed hereafter forever. That was the demand brought by the French Embassador, to whom King William sent a servant to meet him at the door with assurances that the King had nothing more to say about the matter. Now, we have so high an opinion of the French Emperor and French people as to believe that when a deadly issue is made upon such a state of facts, the alleged casus belli is only seized upon and pushed into an occasion for war. For reasons of his own, the French Emperor wants war with Prussia, and Prussia . is too powerful and too self-confident to decline the wager of battle at the expense of the slight est constructive loss of dignity. And the worst feature of the business is that the French press are sufficiently traitorous to the interests of the people to hound on this strife which will prob ably consigu one hundred and fifty thousand young men to bloody graves, cover the country with desolation and mourning, and burden honest labor with new debts and taxes for years tooome. “War,” says the poet, “is a game which if the people were wise, kings would not play at;” and the press is foully traitorous to all popular instincts when it aids the govern ment in fomenting war upon mere punctilios as forced and unreasonable as this seems to be. While, therefore, we have always felt a more lively interest in France than in the Prussian States, we are bound to admit that the course of Prussia in this business seems to us defensible, while that of France is not, as to the alleged cause of quarrel. The fight will be in the in terests of French ambition. It will be a terri ble one. The belligerents are evenly matched. It is hard to tell which are the better soldiers. The consequences of the war will probably be portAntqus on the politics of Europe. They will not be generally disastrous to America, but will bear unfortunately upon the South. The war will depress cotton and create an active market for grain and provisions. It will give one more reason for planting corn and raising food in Georgia. It will stimulate immigration to America, and increase the value of American securities. While we shall not be surprised if it shall eventually involve the whole European continent in arms, the best we can hope for is that it may end with a short, sharp and decisive test of physical superiority, like the struggle in 1866 between Prussia and Austria. Result of the Cultivation of Corn and Sugar by Steam l'ower. In the report of the Department of Agricul ture, for the months of May and June, is found a report to that department of the results of an experiment in the cultivation of sugar and oom by steam power in Louisiana, which is en couraging. The experiment was made by Mr. Lawrence, “the pioneer of steam plowing in the United States. ” The report says: “His crop of cane and corn, about one thou sand acres in one field, had been planted on land plowed and cultivated wholly with the steam plow. Not one drop of rain had fallen for more than six weeks, and the crops on the various plantations passed, though green, were quite small, from exoessive drought. I was surprised when I got to Magnolia, to find the cane and com looking dark and exceedingly thrifty, and I am free to say it is the most Splendid-looking crop of cane and com I saw in the State. The dry weather had not affected the growth of the crops, which were in a for ward and flourishing condition. The crop was nearly til laid by, and it had been worked by about half of the usual number of hands. I was shown a few acres of three-year old rattoon canes that had been deeply sub-soiled with the steam plow, apparently as good as any cane in the field. Mr. L. is very sanguine that the cane crop can be made, with steam cultivation, with one-third loss mules, one third less laborers and will givo one-third more yield per acre than under the old system.” No Backwardness on that Point.—TVe see that while, for several days, the Atlanta Agency has been backing and filling on the question whether they can do any general legislation, unless the Georgia bill passes Congress, they Tn»a« right sure of one thing, at least, on Thur*. day. They voted themselves two hundred dol lars apiece advance, and so transferred the risk of their ability to do official service to the shoulders of the State. The Agency is a re markable body. Its fame will descend to children's children, even unto the third and Sovrtb generation. The Georgia Pres*. The Very Reverend J. F. O’Neil, of Savan nah, died Wednesday afternoon, of dysentery. The Bepnblican says of him: He was bom in the county of Kerry, Ireland, 15th October, 1790, and hence, had nearly com pleted his eightieth year. He was educated for the Catholic Priesthood, and at the solicitation of Bishop England, emigrated to the United States and settled in Charleston in the year 1824. He was ordained a Priest in 1826, and officiated in that capacity with the church in Charleston until 1833, when he removed to Savannah, and continued his useful labors for a long period of years, and until disabled by age and failing health. For several years since the close or the war, he resided in Baltimore, but returned to Savannah in 1869, resolved there to spend the remainder of his days. The Republican says there was an accident on the Savannah and Charleston railroad, Mon day, which resulted in a passenger having his head severely cut, and a lady her arm broken. The Constitutionalist tells a hard story on a would-be bigamist in the employ of the Central Railroad, who was abont to marry a girl in that city, Sunday, when his wife appeared on the scene, having come from Florida for the pur pose. * The result was a resignation from the road, and a return to Florida with his wife. Augusta came very near having a disastrous fire Tuesday morning, in the drug store of W. H. Barrett on Broad street. The Constitution alist gives the following account of its origin: There were thirteen carboys of acid in the corner where the fire appears to have originated, and the inference is that the fire was caused by spontaneous combustion of one of the carboys, since no other satisfactory cause Of the conna* gration presents itself. A number of packages of medicines, etc., were charred by the fire and damaged by the flood of water necessary to check the conflagration. Several firemen and citizens had their f6et burned by coming in contact with the burning acids upon the floor of the bnilding, and came out of the fiery contest minns boots and pants. The loss will probably amount to §3,000, fully covered by insurance, except about §300 worth of the remedies of J. C. Ayer & Co., for whom Mr. Barrett is agent. The Chronicle and Sentinel says the large boarding bouse at Aiken, S. C., kept by Mrs. M. A. Mackey, was burned Sunday night, with a loss to the occnpants of everything they had; not even their clothiDg and money was saved. The Constitutionalist concludes an article ou the future of the State Road as follows: “We believe the road will certainly be sold, sooner or later, and, if we are correct, we hope that when sold it will fall into the hands of our own people; and without having other interest in the question than that of a citizen seeking the public good, we will express the further wish and hope that it may bo purchased by the Georgia Railroad Company. The reasons why, in our opinion, it would be the best interest of our State that the Georgia Railroad Company should own the road, whenever the State parts with the control of it, are many and obvious. Among them we will only name those of econ omy and of still reaping the fruits of the enter prise. The two roads connected would make a magnificent line from Chattanooga to Augusta, under the management of one set of officers in stead of two; and as the entire stock of the Georgia Railroad Company is owned within the State, the earnings of the combined line would remain within our borders to enrich and build up our own people, instead of flowing into the pockets of men at the North. The Savannah Republican gives the Atlantese the following dig: “J. G. "Westmoreland, in the course of an article published in the Atlanta papers, frankly confess what the press of that city have persistently denied, though painfully obvious to every visitor, viz: Pure water is demanded in the center of their city—where, according to analysis recently made, the water of wells is contaminated to a degree that sani tary considerations forbid its use for drinking purposes,” Vie clip the following items from the Colam- bas San: Bio Amount fob the County.—Mr. Enoch "Willett, Tax Collector, reports that since March, 1809, he has paid into the county treasury some §82,000. For the State and county taxes of 1869, he has collected nearly §68,000, of which the county has received §39,000. Since he has been in office—that is for the fiscal years of 1868 and 1869, he has collected from the people of Muscogee about §150,000. Cotton.—Reports come from all quarters that the crops generally, in this section, is thir ty days behind that of last year. The plant on the poor lands is the best, and hence erroneous impressions are derived from seeing the crops aloug the railroads. The stand is poor, lice are more frequent than ever were known, grass is abundant and the seasons have dwarfed the growth. Best lands have done poorest. Corn never looked better. The Enquirer says the thermometer marked 93 degrees in the office of that paper Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock, and that in other places in the city it was two or three degrees warmer- Capt. Roper, of Kingston, is offering to sell 100,000 pounds of hay of his own raising. The Cartersville Express sums np the local situation as follows: We are needing rain, bnt so far the crops have not suffered; warm weather and a good time to kill grass. A large amount of clover hay has been cut in Bartow county. Cotton looks small for the time of year, but corn is doing well.— Some indications of rain. A lad named Burnett living in Rome shot an “obstropnlons" 15th Amendment through the arm, Wednesday. The Rome Southerner has the following ad ditional particulars of the riot at Cross Plains, Alabama, which we noticed yesterday: It seems that on Sunday eveding last, a white boy and a negro had a quarrel and fought. Several other negroes and whites coming np, a general row ensued. The negroes were dis persed, bnt having armed themselves returned, and meeting the white boy, with whom the first difficulty occurred, in company with a number of ladies, fired into the party. This so exasperated the whites that a large number armed themselves, pursued, captured, and hung a Mr. Luke, a carpet-bag school teacher, who is said to have urged the negroes on, and four of the ring-leaders among the ne groes, and also shot and killed another negro. Luke was taken to a house before his execution and allowed to write a letter to his family. In his letter he denied having incited the negroes to revenge, but claimed to have persuaded them to desist. » Two solders were struck by lightning at the Federal barracks, in Atlanta, Tuesday, and one died next day. Two Atlanta cavaliers fought a pitched bat tle in the street, Tuesday, on the issue of whether a certain belle’s eyes were black or bine. The Mayor taxed them §5 each next morning, and the question is still unsettled. A portion of the citizens of Atlanta had a Mercer University meeting Wednesday even ing, which resulted in the passage of a resolu tion recommending a subscription of $50,000 by the City Council, in case the University is located in or near Atlanta. The Albany News says there will be a dificien- dy of 40 stores and as many residences in that place on the 1st of October. We learn from the Albany News that the Postmaster General has established a weekly mail route from Albany via Bloomfield, War wick and Gum Greek to Vienna, Dooly county. The distance is 40J miles, Jacob Freeman, of Albany, is the contractor, and $495 his compen sation. Mr. ^l. S. Hartridge, of Savannah, baa been elected a director of the Central Railroad, vioe Edward Padelford, deceased, and Georgo W. Wylly, President pro tern. Of crops in Terrell comity, the Dawson Journal says: “ Cotton is small, and on many plantations baa not oommenced to put on fruit. Where fertilizers have been used, the stalk is large enough, but backward in blooming. The com crop has improved under the late general rains, and it is now thought that the larger portion of S. W. Ga. will enough to sup* ply the home demand. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS. J DELIVERED* JULT 12. From the Atlanta Constitution. j George S. Rives, plaintiff in error, vs. Charity Lawrence, defendant in error. In equity from Hancock. Br.owN, C. J. Where A has knowledge that B, a female, ex pects to attend an administrator’s sale to pur chase a tract of land, and he and a relative of hers, at her request, promise to call for her at the hotel and accompany her to the sole, and he fails to do so, but tells her relative and friend before, and at the time the land is exposed for sale, that instead of going for her he will bid off the land for her, and her relative having re ceived tbis assurance, does not go for her; and A bids off the land, and tells several persons immediately afterwards that he bid it off for her: Held, That it is a fraud upon her rights for him to take the title in his own name, and re fuse, on her offer to comply with the terms of the sale, to convey it to her. In such case the law raises an implied trust in her favor, and a court of equity will, on her offer to comply fully with the terms of the sale and. save him harm less, compel him to aceept the indemnity and execute a deed to her for the land, or hold it in trust for her benefit. In such case the statute of frauds does not apply. Judgment affirmed. Toombs & DuBose, Geo. F. Pierce, Jr., C. W. DuBose, for plaintiff in error. Linton Stephens, Wm. Reese, for defendant. W. F. Hill, plaintiff in error, vs. T. B. Gools by, defendant in error. Complaint, etc., from Oglethorpe. Brown, C. J. 1. A tenant will not be permitted to dispnte the tide of his landlord. And after the relation of landlord and tenant is established, the ten ant’s sayings, while in possession of the premi ses rented, that he has purchased them from tho landlord, are not admissible to prove a con tract of purchase in defense of a suit brought by the landlord to recover rent for the use of the premises. 2. While this court is not well satisfied with the charge of the Court below on the ground that in summing np the evidence to the jury, he put the testimony of the plaintiff more prom inently before them than the defendant’s side of the case. We will not order a new trial, as we are satisfied the verdict was right, and that substantial justice has been done between the parties. Judgment affirmed. John C. Reed for plaintiff in error. J. D. Matthews for defendant. B. G. Pool, et al., plain tiffs in error, ts. Pick ens R. Lewis, et ak, defendants in error. Case, eto., from Bartow. Bbown, C. J. 1. The owner of a mill on a stream whose dam and machinery are suited to the size and capacity of the stream, has a right to the rea sonable use of the water to propel liis machin ery, but he must detain it no longer than is nec essary for its profitable enjoyment, and he ninst return it to its natural channel before it passes upon the land of the proprietor below. What is a reasonable detention is a question for the jury, in view of all the facts in the case, taking into account the nature and nse of the machinery, and the use of the water necessary to its profitable employment. If the owner detains the water no longer than is necessary for its profitable nse, he is not liable in dama ges to the proprietor below. Where the owner of an iron furnace upon a stream claims that the owner of a mill above his works had bound himself by verbal contract that he would never stop the usual and con stant flow of the water m the channel of the stream, and the owner of the furnace, after the death of the owner of the mill, stood by and saw the mill sold by the administrator of the deceased to an innocent purchaser, and gave no notice of the verbal agreement between him self and the deceased, he is estopped from set ting up the verbal agreement against the pur chaser who invested his money without notice of it. And the parties stand upon their respective rights under the general law governing rft parian proprietors in the nse of the water in the stream. Jadgment affirmed. Wm. T. Wofford, W. Akin, for plaintiff in error. A. Johnson, by W. H. Dabney, Jno. W. Wof ford, D. A, Walker, for defendant. Z. H. Clark, Trustee, vs. Thomas 0. Jennings, Administrator. Equity from Oglethorpe. Warned, J. When a bill was filed to marshal the assets of a decedent’s estate, and the Court decided that a note given for the purchase money of a share was not entitled to be paid out of the assets of the estate: Held, That in accordance with the rnling of a majority of this Court, in Shorter vs. Cobb, and White vs. Hart, that the Court below had no jurisdiction or authority to enforce any debt, the consideration of which was a slave or slaves. Judgment affirmed. Robert Toombs for plaintiff in error. Mathews & Reid for defendants. “Can we be happy in heaven, with • our rela tive* and friends in perdition ?” is now asked from a Cincinnati pvipit. S. H. Lane vs. Jno. R. Lattimer. Complaint from Hancock. Warned, J. It appears from the record in this case that on the 30th day of December, 1869, Lane and Lattimer executed an agreement in writing, reciting that they had that day agreed to settle the land difficulty between them on the con dition therein named, to wit: That said Lane agrees to pay to Lattimer $2,125, in payment for a trace of land which Mrs. Laurany Tye now resides on; the said Lattimer agrees to make the said Lane a good and sufficient title when the suit is deoided now pending between the said Lattimer and Mrs. Luvany Tye. It also appears that on the 14th day of January, 1868, that Lane paid Lattimer the §2,125 for the land, and took hi^ receipt therefor. After wards, in September, 1869, Lane sned Lattimer to recover back the §2,125 paid him for the land, alleging that he had refused to make him a title to the land, in accordance with his written agreement. To this action the defend ant, Lattimer, filed a special plea, setting forth various grounds of defense. On the trial, it appears from the evidence in the record that in May, 1863, Lane purchased the land from Lattimer for Mrs. Tye, for tho snm of §2,600, gave his note to Lattimer for that amount, payable in currency, bank able at par in the banks of Savannah or Angasts, which was secured by a mortgage on the land. Lattimer having conveyed the land, by deed, to Lane, in July, 18G3, Lane conveyed the land, by deed, to Mrs. Tye, as Executrix of the estate of Daniel Tye, and to her five children by name. In January, 1867, Lattimer shed Lane on the note given for the land. It appears from the evidence in the reoord, that Mrs. Tye paid Lane for the land in Confederate currency, and that Lane tendered tho same currency to Lattimer, in payment of his note, the same being bankable in Savannah and Augusta at that time, which currency Lattimer refused to receive. Afterwards, it appears, the parties agreed to re scind the land trade. Lattimer was to take the land back and give up Lane his note, given therefor, and xef erred the only question then in dispnte between them, as to the rent of the land and improvement made thereon, to two arbitrators who made their award on the 2d day of October, 1866, awarding and deciding that the value of the improvements made on the land was §450 and that in the settlement of the trade between the parties in the retaking of the Iand by Lattimer, nothing shall be allowed for rent, bnt the said sum named for improvements. The note of Lane and the mortgage thereof appears to have remained in the possession of Lattimer or bis counsel. On the 9th March, 18GS, Latti mer filed his bill on the equity side of the court against Lane and Mrs. Tye praying that ** ey might be decreed to execute to him a ti the land. It appears from the record t). sale of the land made by Lattimer to mano, after the reoiaion of the original contract, and after the award of the arbitrators as to tlio mprovements and the rent of the premises, was made on the 30th day of December, 1866, and that Lane paid to Lattimer the considera tion of tbis last sale of §2,125 on the 14th day of January, 18G8, which was prior to the time of the filling of the bill for specific per formance, It also appears from the evidence in the reoord, that at the time the parties agreed to rescind the original contract, and at the time of making the last contract, that Lattimer did not know that Lane had conveyed the title to the land to Mrs. Tye, as the executrix of her de ceased husband, and to her children; bnt it is admitted, that Lane told Lattimer that ho had conveyed the iand to Mrs. Tye; that upon the discovery of tbis fact he dismissed his bill for specifio performance, and on the trial of the case in the ooart below, claimed that in eonse- sequence of the misrepresentation of Lane as to the title conveyed to Mrs. Tye, that it was snoh a fraud ormiktake on the put of Lane as would authorize him to rescind the contract or excuse Jhtafocitaaoa-peifMacMe. Thfe court changed the jury, in snbstance, “that if Lane had in- formed Lattimer, whether intentionally or by mistake, that he had made a deed to Mrs. Tye, only to the land, when, in fact, he had made it to her os executrix of her children, by reason of which Lattimer was prevented from giving pos session to Lane; and if he had so informed him, that plaintiff could not recover; that this oase was controled by that principle of law, that when one of two innocent persona had to sqffer by an act, then, the one in fanlt must bear the loss, and that the legal effect of the contraot of the parties, as proven, was to discharge the ori ginal note of Lane to Lattimer, whether it was delivered up or not.” Held, That this charge of the court, in view of the facts contained in the record, was error; that inasmuch as Lattimer sought to repudiate the contract for the sale of the laud to Lane, on the ground of fraud or mistake, that he must repudiate it entirely, that he caanot treat the contract us a nullity so far only as to excuse himself for its non-performance and at the same time claim the legal right to retain the money paid him by Lane for the land under that con tract ; the contraot is binding on both parties, or it is not bindiog on eithtr of them. If Lane is not entitled to have the land under the con tract, then Lattimer is not entitled to have the money paid him by Lane for the land under the contract; that the legal effect of the recission of die contract between the parties is to place them in tho same position they originally occu pied before there was any recission of any con tract in respect to the land—that is to say, Lane is entitled to recover the money back which he paid Lattimer for the land on the 15th of Janu- atv, 1868, and that Lattimer, on tho discovery of the fraud or mistake in the conveyance of the title to the land by Lane to Mrs. Tye and her children, had the right to enforce the pay ment of his note and mortgage made and exe* cuted by Lane to him for trie land on the 23d day of Jane, 18C3, his right to eleot and repudi ate the subsequent contracts made on the ground of fraud or mistake accrued to him on the discovery of the fraud or mistake, and not before. * -J. Judgment reversed. Toombs & DuBose, C. W. DuBose, and J-. T. Jordan, for plaintiff in error. Linton Stephens, Wm. Reese, for defendant. General Lee’s Visits to Eixjcott Orrr,- General Robert E. Lee made rather an unexpect ed airival in our city on Sunday evening last, and became the guest of Major George W. Pe ter until the Tuesday following. Notwithstand ing the many reports to the oontrary, we teem ed that the General’s health is generally good, and that he suffers from nothing more serious than a slight bronchial affection. He waa soon recognized upon his arrival, at course, and shook hands with several Maryland soldiers who had served under him in the late war. It is mentioned as a rather singular coincidence just ten years ago, and immediately prior to the breaking out of the. war, he waa the guest of Major Peter, being at that time Colonel of the Second United States Cavalry, and making jnet such an unexpected arrival a* on this osofiten. IBHmtt Ciif ttntf , A Waterloo Defeat. It appears that Fenton, the Radical Senator from New York who so bitterly opposed the nomination of Thomas Morphy as Collector of Customs at New York city, met with an over whelming defeat when the Senate took final ac tion on the nomination. He spoke three hours, and presented a list of charges against Murphy as long as the moral law, bnt all to no purpose. The vote stood 48 for to 3 against confirmation. All the Democrats voted for the confirmation. Sumner, Howard, Harlan and Anthony, aU Radicals, did not vote. This action on the part of the Senate is of public interest, inas much as it is considered certain to still further intensify the feud now raging between the Rad ical factions in that State, and thus insure the continued asoendancy of the Democratic party there. Daring Benzhosxs Resist Uncle Sax.—-Ob Saturday Federal soldiers seized a lot of whisky in Lincoln county, took it to Tullahoma, md shipped it on the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad for Shelbyville. At two o’clock Satur. day night a squad of men went to Concord, on the Manchester and McMinnville railroad, took possession of a locomotive, and foroed the en gineer to run it to Wartrace, where the car con taining the whisky was overtaken. They cap tured it, took it back to the neighborhood of Tullahoma, unloaded it in the woods, and dis missed the engineer. AN ATROCIOUS CRIME, Hundreds of Armed Men Searching for a Slurderer. From tho Karsas City (Mo.) Times, 9th, On Sunday morning last one of the most cold-blooded, sickening and atrocious Crimea ever perpetrated apou the soil of Missouri, was enacted in our midst, and the red-handed fiend is still at large. The particulars are as follows: Three miles northwest of Columbus, in this county, resided Mr. Hunter, a farmer, and his family, consist ing of himself, his wife, one child two years old, and one two months old. On the day above stated, about 10 o’clock, Mr. Hunter took his eldest child out in' the meadow with him, a short distance from the house, leaving his wife washing in the yard. "When he returned in a short time he found the wife of his bosom a lifeless, bleeding corpse before him; while her brains were scattered over the grass and the crimson tide of life saturated the earth. Upon examination, which was made by those who had come to her relief, it Was found a rape had been attempted upon her person; the skull was fractured on the left side by a blow from a large stone, and through the wound her braius oozed out; the right eye was torn from its socket, the teeth and gums mashed in, and the left jaw broken; upon each side of the throa were the marks of a strongman’s thumbs,show ing that she had been choked first by one hand and then by the other; her wrists were all skinned and bloodshot, great tufts of her hair lay upon the ground, while everywhere were to be seen marks of a fearful struggle, with here and there the bluod and brains of the unfortu nate woman, and her clothes were nearly torn from her body. Near by lay a large, sharp pointed stone, covered with the blood and hair of the murdbred victim. The perpetrator of this fiendish deed is un known; but suspicion points to a negro man, of whom no minute description can be given, who inquired of a lady in the neighborhood where Mr. Hnnter lived, and upon being told, started off in that direction. The whole country is on the alert. Farmers have stopped the reaper in the field and the plow in the furrow to join in the search, and hundreds of armed men are searching the country in every direction. A Spanish Paper on Cuba. The Tribune reprints from El Universal, a Madrid paper of the 18th Jane, an article to which it attaches great significance. "We append so much of it: We profess as much love to cur country as any one, but a higher feeling than this is that of justicewbich has no age or country. Not even the sadness of faots, nor the gravity of circumstances, nor the painful nature of the thoughts which arise from either, nor the foolish clamor of some, nor the silence of others shall stifle in onr throats the voice of justice and of truth. Cuba will be lost! She will be lost whether the United States recognize her belligerency or not. She will be lost, dropping from onr bands in ruins and bleeding. She will be lost through our fault, through our fault alone, leaving at once a vacancy in our interests, and an indelible blot on onr name. Cuba will part from Spain retorting to our excuses and outrages with an eternal curse. And, what iB worse yet, she parts from ns amid the applause of a great people—the American people—who, in the present state of things, will see in the emancipation of the Castilian colony more than an act agreeable to particular views. They will behold in that event the fulfil ment of human justice and the redemption of a slave, atrociously ill-treatedby his master. We have achieved a far from enviable suc cess in stirring np against us every hatred, and making ourselves obnoxious to every free people by the Bystem we follow in Cabs. For the savage conduct of the volunteers, and the execution of Goicouria, an old man of sixty- five years, a prisoner, tried, condemned, and put to death in eight hours; aud the Bhooting of Oscar Cespedes, a boy of 19, and the death of the brothers Aguero, and the horrible mur ders of which Cubans, previously pardoned by, the Government, or acquitted ky the Courts, have been victims, and the banishment of whole families, and the destruction of homes, and the confiscation of property, and securities illegally exacted, and fines cruelly extorted; all this and mnch more has alienated the sympa thies of Cuba and the United States, and we have lost no opportunity, nor have we neglected any means to insure that the great Repnblio i shall look upon the insurgents with affection, and consider them as the victims of an odious tyranny. Sworn on Shakespeare.—A lady in Fairfield county, Tennessee, sends to the Independent the following story, with the assurance that it is the simple truth: * “At a meeting of Republicans, white and col ored, for the purpose of forming a union league, it was discovered that thsy had no Bible on which to swear the members. The chairman inquired where one could be procured. A col ored man said bo had one, and ottered to mount his mule and ride to his house, two miles away, for it. As they could not think of swearing in members without one, his offer was accepted, and proceedings were suspended till his return. There were thirty men to be sworn in, and, as the officers officiating were very particular to see that each one laid his hands on the open Bible, the ceremony was quite a lengthy one. After the league had been formed, business transacted, and the meeting broken np, the chairman discovered, to his horror, that the -opposed Bible was a copy of Shakespeare. It was too late to remedy the mistake. * Mum was the word.” So he carefully handed back the •Bible’ to its owner, not even venturing to in quire if he ever enoountered any* difficulty in finding his minister's text on his return from meeting.” Anew Branch of Thieving.' On Thursday evening, June 9th, the little daughter of Mr. Thomas Digby living on How ard street, New Orleans, was stolen by two ne gro women, and np to this time nothing has been heard of her or them. She was only sev enteen months old; A reward of §1500 is offer ed for her. She is thus described: She had rather a thin face and delicate feature, small mouth, fair complexion, round blue ey68, which she bad a trick of rolling; she had Tery light hair, which did not curl, and a bald spot ou one side of the back of her head, produced by a boil, which will remain so for many months before the hair will grow on it. She answers tc the name of Moll or Mollie, and called herself Dada, trying to imitate her father, who always called her daughter. She can say a few Words, like Mamma, Fapa, Rosy, Nelly, but cannot put words together in a sentence. She walks well and even dances. A short time ago, in Delaware county, Pa., a Quaker lady, a maiden who had reached the age of 60, accepted an offer of a man who be longed to the “world’s people” and the Presby terian church, and began to prepare for the wedding. As nsnal, a delegation of friends from her meeting, waited on her, and remon strated with her for marrying oat of meeting. The bride elect heard the visitors patiently, and then said: “Look here! I’ve been waiting just sixty years for the meeting to marry me; and if the meeting don’t like me to marry out of it, why don't the meeting bring along its boys t" That was conclusive, and the delega tion merely replied “Farewell” and vanished. A Strange Story about the Widow of BishSp Bsscom. A recent Uriel: to the Cincinnati Times says: A friend has just informed me that Mrs. Bas- com, widow of the late Bishop Bascom, is living in Kentucy, in a state of perfect isolation, as faras any white society is concerned. Mrs. Bascom is of one of the proudest families in New York, of the regular old Knickerbocker stock. She was never a favorite with the Church—perhaps she did not desire to be—in which he was such a shining light, and has been very unfortunate in her family. These circum stances have caused her to be tabooed since his death, the neighbors neither recognizing nor visiting her, the negroes doing her work being the only persons she sees. The Churoh, with the exception of Bishop Kavanaugh, who called upon her long since, has ignored her. In this matter doeB not the Church set itself above its Master ? "Whatever may have been her faults— and she is said now to be a very altered woman —something certainly is due to her as the wife of one of the dignitaries, and one of the most eloquent preachers of the time. J?RxkoNttORT GrOaNS.—The Herald’s Wash ington Correspondence shows s ; gns of the ap proaching Woe over the carpet-bag Congress men from the Sontb. He says: Every unprejudiced and fair-minded person who has given this session’s proceedings the least attention must have come to the conclu sion that a large portion of Southern Senators and Representatives do not in any sense repre sent the States that send them here. Now what mortal ever thought or said they did? He says: New Hampshire has in effect five United States Senators holding seats in the Senate and voting for New England interests. New York has bnt two, New Jersey one and Pennsylvania three—Messrs. Scott, Cattell and Cameron. The Herald is wrong. New York has four Senators, Nebraska three, Michigan three, and soon. The carpet-bag system will give the North the cholic before it is well over. Supreme Court Proceedings. ■Wednesday, July IS, 1870. Argument in the case of John H. Newton vs. Joshua R. Price, was resumed and concluded. Messrs. Montgomery and Hook for plaintiff in error, and Messrs. Wright and Evans for de fendant in error. No. 1, Middle Circuit—Harris vs. Perril— complaint from Columbia—was withdrawn. No. 2, Middle Circuit—Bartlett vs. Russell— distress warrant from Augusta—was argued for plaintiff in error by OoL W. W. Montgomery, representing Frank H. Miller, Esq., and for de fendant in error by Gen. Henry W. Hilliard, representing A. D. Picquet, Esq. No. 3, Middle Circuit—Hook and Glenn vs. Adams, Administrator, et. al.—dismissal of bill from Washington—was withdrawn. Pending argument in No. 4, Middle Circuit— Washington vs. Barnes—the Court adjourned till 10 o’clock a. x. to-morrow.—Atlanta Era, Uth. Thursday, July 14. Oscar Reese, Esq., of Carrolton, was admit ted to the Bar. Argument in No. 4, Middle Circuit—Wash ington vs. Barnes—was resumed and concluded. Geo. Henry W. Hilliard for plaintiff in error. No 5, Middle Circuit—Pettus vs the State— false imprisonment from the City Court of Au gusta—was continued for providential cause. No. 6, Middle Circuit—Spires vs. Walker— motion to set aside a judgment from the City Court of Augusta—was argued for plaintiff in error by Col. W. W. Montgomery, representing Frank H. Miller, Esq. No. 7, Middle Circuit—Bugg vs. Towner— ejectment from Richmond—was argued for plaintiff in error by Judge Hook, aud for de fendant in error by General Wright. Fending, a motion to dimiss No. 8, the last cause from the Middle Circuit—Bunniughsm et al vs. Schley et al—the court adjourned till 1 o’clock, a. m., to-morrow. SevenDem oc ratio Congressmen from Tennessee. Tennessee Cor*, -Cincinnati Commercial.) It is not absolutely certain that the Democrats will carry every district in the State, but, with the exception of Maynard’s district, where the chances are abont equal, it is highly probable that they will. The Republicans have no pos sible chance except in the three East Tennessee districts, and not much in them. These dis tricts are the First, Second and Third, now re represented by Butler, Maynard and Stokes.— Stokes will, in all probability, be the Republi can candidate in the Third District, and, to illns- trate his brilliant chances of success, it is only necessary to refer to the foot that at the Guber natorial oontest last year Senter beat him, in the thirteen counties composing this district, over eight thousand votes. The New Natc ralization Law.—A Washing ton speoial of Tuesday to the Courier-Jontnalof Tuesday says: The House ooncurred to-day in the Senate amendment to the naturalization bill, and it now only requires the signature of the President to become a law. Although it does not transfer the power of naturalization from the State to the Federal courts, it gives the.latter the power to appoint what is virtually a Federal police called Bpecial agents, who are to attend every election precinct to look after naturalization and other frauds in all elections for United States officers. The agents are to be appointed in all cities exceeding 20,000 inhabitants. It is very generally understood that the bill was pass ed with special reference to New York city. Deolxnz nr Buxldxno Material.—It may be an intereating item of information that build ing materials of all kinds have fallen in price considerably. The New York Commercial Bul letin says: Bricks have declined nearly fifty per cent, from the highest point; lime and cement thirty- three per cent, and building-stone of the vari ous descriptions nearly thirty per cent. The average decline in lumber during the past year may be estimated et from eight to ten per cent.; ana if we go back to the period of the greater inflation, at from twelve to twenty-five per cent. Builder’s hardware, gas fixtures and plumbing materials have experienced an average decline of some fifteen per cent, daring the past year, and fully twenty to twenty-five per cent, from the highest point The decline in paints may be estimated from that <sf the two staple arti cles, white lead and linseed oil. The former sold daring the war for twenty-three cents; two years ago at fourteen and a half cents per pound, and the wholesale price is now ten and a half cents per pound, showing a decline of some thirty per cent from the medium rate. The latter is now selling at eighty cents per gallon; a year since the price was one dollar, and two years ago it fluctuated between one dollar aud five cents and one dollar and twenty cents per gallon, showing an average decline for that pe riod of twenty-five per cent The Georgia Bill.—Things are getting very r critical with the Georgia bill in Congress, and we will venture no prognostications. The Con ference Committee, as supposed, locked horns ou the- matter of an election next fall. An attempt was made in the Senate yesterday to secure a concurrence in the House bill but failed. The session of Congress terminates to night, and if something was not done in the evening session yesterday, we presume a strong effort will be made to-day. -The telegrams in onr lest stated that the President and Mr. Akerman were both making a point on the passage of » bill providing for an election this fall. It is believed that Louis Napoleon has really no serious objection to onr excellent yonng friend Hohenzollem, bnt merely desires an op portunity to prove that the needle-gnu is not superior to the Ghasaepot rifle.—Courier-Jour. The Philadelphia Press ssys: “Grant aud Bismarck are two of the greatest men of our time.” This is true. "With the single excep tion of John Smith they are perhaps ^* great- est.—Ibid. There is very little difference between the brigands of Greece and the doctors of this country; for while the brigands live by plun der, the doctors live by pillage.—Ibid. An exchange says: “Gen. Ouster is tired of the "West, and threatens to resign.” "When the Indians are on the war-path the "West is cer tainly a very tiresome place.—Ibid. Florida Iteks,—The Floridian, Tuesday, has founa another case of tampering with laws after their passage. An enrolled fee bill in the pnblio archives as been dootored so as to raise fees three hnn dred per cent. The Florida Radicals are a people of surprising resonroes. We see no complaint of worm or caterpillar in Florida. Crops appear to be fine; the people getting lively in politics, and the negroes stupendous in the same line. In Leon county they have nominated two tickets—sable all- one of carpet-bag negroes and the other com posed of native slock. The Floridian mentions a case of hydropho bia in a Jackson county dog—the first we ever heard of in that State. If the dogs in Florida go mad, there will be much madness. The Floridian has the following: Rector or Sr. Joan’s Church.—The Rev. John Hammond, M. A., of Trinity College, Dublin, has been duly chosen Rector of St. John’s Church in this city, and has aooepted Living Beyond their Means.—Bolwersays that poverty is only an idea, nine times out of ten. Some men with ten thousand * year suffer more for the want of means than others with three hundred. The reason is, the richer man has artificial wants. His income is ten thou sand, and he Buffers enough from being dunned for unpaid debts to kill a sensitive man. A man who earns a dollar a day and does not run in debt is the happier of the two. Very few people who have never been rich will believe this; bnt it is true. There ere thousands and thousands with princely incomes who never know a moment’s peaoe, because they live above their means. There is really more happiness in the world among the working people than among those who are called rich. Cost of Was in Europe.—At the International Power Congress, held lately at Lausanne, the suggestive fact was elicited that $3,600,000,000 is the annual cost of the war system of Europe, and that $16 out of every $20 of the taxes are now employed to sustain that folly. What a stupendous cancer upon national resonroes— Yet it is easier to discover the evil than the remedy. Victor Hugo thinks that if republics were established, wars would cease to exist— A monstrous absurdity, oontradioted flatly by the whole history of ancient and modem times. The greed and jealousies of nationalities which lead to wars are as great under one form of gov ernment as another, as our own history proves. the call. A Liberal Offer.—We fear it is too late, but we will offer to settle this quarrel between France and Prussia ou terms perfectly honora ble to each, for two and a half per cent com mission on the least estimate of what both par ties will expend in the struggle; and save them every drop of blood. If that offer will not do, r ’ffi- Probability of a Collapse.—The New York Commercial Advertiser, a Republican paper, gives the fallowing diagnosis of the party con dition : The present condition of the Republican party may be likened to two men, each having a tube inserted lit a bladder, and each blowing from an direction with ell his might and main, ns if to see what tension it will bfar without have good lunge, it wil) be a to ’Two Indies la From the Detroit Free Pr ] About eight o’clock last evemn^^^l residing np-stairs in the block avenue, just beyond State strZt W %2! that a iaree . ree *i oh*7"*l uiuiuug birange conduct. H e f ’ "tin. them in the room for an hour or “ * ng and seeming to be very restW v*’ the attention of the ladieTS animal he was snapping his jatSf 10 ing, and his eyes had an excitS adies were not easily alarmed and n M lar attention was paid to the Av. S p * t %l time, he lying down in a corner af i° r rnand of one of the females. Saddmf M without warning, the brute f - % middle of the room, eyes ablaS?^ ' nt ° £ | like bristles, aed J pain that sent the blood from in an instant. Leading off K i , dles Q a closet or clothes’ prei, and for the women instantly sprane "S™ “I follow or attempt to molSVhfSW follow or attempt to molest they were closing the door, near gaining admittance, snanni„„ ‘ r ‘ e tam ing savagely. The male portion ofS Iy were away at market, and the ladii fa themselves prisoners, with a sennit* Si for a keeper. The animal SJJfewJb and ran about the room, biting at ext, of furniture, and his heavy breathing of intense pain would have aw nnowio nneil n — a "I nuiuu nave mad. er hearts quail than those shut u D i- .vT* closet. The ladies screamed, the v i and for nearly an hour there was 1? .1 >—-|H Briano ♦!,„ j. u WCltli. jiuur mere was an ■'*- time within a small space, the doe then scratching and tearing awav at door. At last, alarmed by the scream- C ^ men from the street made their wavl^^ and with clubs, after a sharp struegi e iT the frothing brute. The dead todv’ft 1 animal was thrown into the alley srl carted off by the scavengers. It f., upon by large numbers before being J. *3 away, and none who saw the eye- antT foamed-flecked jaws doubted that ^ had been seized with an attack of FraEMEN’s Riots in Philadelphia.—Accord ing to the Philadelphia Press, there were four riots among the firemen in Philadelphia last Sunday, and the telegrams in yesterday’s pa per showed that hostilities were renewed on Wednesday. The Press charges that the fires which called these companies to the battlefield were all acts of incendiarism perpetrated for that purpose. One of the fires on Sunday was very destructive. The casus belli, according to Mr. Forney’s paper, is the employment by one of the companies of “a colored band,” and, if this be true, the 15th amendment, civil rights bill, and so on, are evidently at a discount in Philadelphia. A Cincinnati Ghost Moves a Wholsale Fur niture House—A wholesale furniture house in Cincinnati has just conclnded arrangements to move on acconnt of the visitations of a ghost to the premises now occupied. Many responsible persons have had demonstrations of itopresence, and all attempts at discovery have proven una vailing. The visitant perambulates at midnight in the immediate presence and near the parties watching, apparently in heavy and creaking boots, but sndden illuminations and all else failed to detect the cause. Boll Worm in Barbour County.—The En- fanla News, of Tuesday, says: We learn from Col. Hiram Hawkins, that hia plantation on the Middle Cowikee Creek, abont twelve miles north of Eufanla, is infested with the regular boll worm, as well as those of his neighbors, and the plantations generally on that creek. Some plantations sonth. of the creek, still nearer to Eufauia, abound in them. CoL H. is of the opinion that a close examination would show evidence of the prevalence of this dreaded enemy of the cotton plant on many more plantations of the country. A Game or Cards Tor a WiTe. About eight or nine months since a ?>, living in the northern part of this city**? out into the eastern part of the State to his fortune in the new mines of that seed™ leaving his wife and one child here in town Some seven months ago a gallant disdrferf St. Crispin persuaded the .White Knewd* to take up her abode with him in a l which he furnished for her. The new raj. i lived together for about seven months. a few days since the genuine husband retW Of course there was trouble in the ca ffin [ v after some quarrelling the two men agreed«I play a game of seven-up for the woman. Ifc I game came off last Saturday night, and t!»| husband won his wife back by ina “t*l points.” The man claimed his wife, adth I man of leather could not say but that he had I fairly won her. The woman preferred tig I shoemaker, but the husband and winner m I determined to have his own. He packed el what furniture they possessed and lit Stain I evening, with all hia household goods all gods, left by a fast freight "Wagon for Caiifar-1 nia. When the wagon started from Sortie I street there was quite a scene. A crowd a* I nearly one hundred persons had collected! I seethe husband carry away his “stale” at I there was much merriment over the roaua j affair. The woman cried and wanted tos^ I with the shoemaker, and the shoemakecat I at parting with the treasure he had lost!; not holding enough “trumps." He M some of the crowd if they thought he wouH be arrested if he attempted to take the womt out of the wagon. They told him - .-"..idio* I her “on the square” and i.e mis; Leartllih I a man, so the wagon movedand toes the f fair one was “gone from his caze."-re- ginia (iVer.) Enterprise, June 29. Firemen’s Frolic* In riumdelpbji. Philadelphia, July 10.—The western put of the city was kept in an uprocu ■■ >t night bj I riotous, firemen. The hose e-image of tli j Goodwill Company was thrown uio Sdrajl-1 kill river by the Philadelphia Ecgine Cat- pany after a small fire. Subsequemiufortie purpose of drawing the Philadelp^“ Uompaiy I near the premises of ‘he Goodwill, the large j flouring mill of Rowland & Erwin, coma of I Broad and Race streets, was set on fire. It | was entirely destroyed, with some of them-1 rounding property. Loss heavy and no is I surance. The carriage of the Goodwin J fished out of the river and the memberst-1 tacked by the Philadelphia Company as tl? I were taking it home. Few arresta j The newspapers are loud, in their danull for a paid -fire department in consequent*«I the arson and riots of yesterday by tne vo® I teer department. The Goodwill and Phal delphia engine companies have been put on* j the service. The property destroyed bv *1 Broad street fire was valued at one hnnwl thousand dollars—insured for forty thoa»| dollars. Is a Hearse a Pleasure CabeugiI-I An undertaker at Dayton, Ohio, write! >| Commissioner Delano, as follows: “Will you be kind enough to inform m the ruling of Deputy Commissioner Docgtol that, hearses come under the head of po?| carriages—ruling March 26, 1870—is safl»l ed by you ? I “It is as impossible for an undertaker toil business without a hearse as to do witto'l saw or a jack-plane. Now, if Mr. Jw*| considers a hearse-ride a pleasure, he «g*J have one, and he would be right in hiintol providing his views of pleasure-rides in tf l rect. I nave been in tne business manual but never yet heard of a s'ng’e person. w| took a ride in one of my pieasore-csrn*!*l express any feeling of pleasure with **| taken. The parties were always mum os« , l subject. . ,. I “If a hearse is a pleasure-carriage, *jl high time undertakers knew this new i**| in their business; and wo to the poor *71 who take a ride after this for pleasure ■ would advise you as friend, never to w* I ride in one of my pleasure-carriagesAsW 1 you live.” I Lost his Speech from a Firi-0^^1 On Monday evening a little boy n*® 6 ® bert Knorr, abont ten years of age, r ing with some other boys in front of b 3 er’s house, on Liberty street, Allegheny, a fire-cracker, by some accident, was into his mouth, where it exploded- 1 & to the ground and was taken intotn® , when a physician was summoned. * T seemed uninjured in every respect, « xce P\, his voice was completely gone. R h* 5 '• returned, and it is feared that he wm manently speechless.—Pittsburg rlcfJl A Family Arrangement.—A planter, who has some four humimv ^jjij hands employed, constituting voters in his ooonty, has agreed rers to support one of them for r8 P r ”!L they, in turn, to Bupport him this voluntary contraot ment law. An inebriated individual fell dorm* —T-ny, stairs the other night, and a passer-n , him to be seriously injured, ran to P> But the man majestically staggered and in respouse to the proffered aia m “Now you jes lemme 1 one. Wan n round me. I alius come down stair 5 After a sermon fo.. . ,. favor of Ireland, a woman pas®®“ * assembly with an alms bag. tue ^ ^ been very eloquent, the ‘motions era* j were universal, and gifts rained m ^ A workman present oast in hi^’vSjt* aloud, “One need not know the |( " BW when a people is dying of hunger. "What will fashion do next ? in Boston whose ears were too long ™ • applied to a surgeon to have them 1 \ too long . ^ va them ve»*»j —— her head. toe Harvard College edifi®* erected in 1713^ M toribr at