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God grant that they may be right, and since the homd work of human brilcheiy must come, it may be as brief as it will be horrible! ‘But we can borrow no assurance of the fact from the Anstro-Frussian war. In that short and violent struggle there wore peculiar fea tures. Prussia as it turned ont, was the only one of the parties provided with the modem im provoments in warfare, which put all Austria’s ancient weapons and tactics at fault and left her defenceless. Prussia had specific ends to gain, These were territory and ports on the Baltic, and to drive Austria ont of Germany. The de fenceless condition of Austria, enabled Prussia to accomplish these ends in a short time. And, lastly, there was France—the arbiter of both, at hand—willing that Austria should be hum bled and her power weakened, bnt quite un willing that Prussia should sggrandize herself into the position of the leading continental power. These conditions of the straggle made it the short one it was; and hence was pre sented the extraordinary spectacle of a six weeks’ war of gigantic proportions. The brev ity of the war was not as supposed, one of the modem improvements. Bnt are there any snch conditions here ? We think not Both parties are prepared with all the latest improvements in arms and the mili itary art They are nearly eqnal in power. France is determined to re-acquire her ancient Rhenish boundary. Prussia is as inexorably bent on maintaining the integrity of her terri tory. There is no third party to stand guardian over either; bnt it may be said every conti nental power has a cherished object to accom, plisb in tbe general disorder. Italy wants Rome; Austria deeply resents her injuries and loss of territory and prestige at the hands of Prussia; Turkey has a long standing qnarrel to settle with the Egyptian Kbeedive, and to Rus sia, Mediterranean territory and ports are as the dreams of EIjseum. There’s nobody, except, it may be, England, with any particular interest to stop the row, and England will ran no risk of complication. France must come ont of this straggle with gain and glory or the Napoleonio dynasty is gone up. Prussia will fight as Frederick did in the seven years' war before she will consent to loss of territory. There’s no other assur ance of a short war, we can see, than its cost, destructiveness, and the health and age of Na poleon ; and though theso all combine to make a short war very desirable, they cannot and will not operate to conclude a peace to the discredit of either of the belligerents, unless an over whelming superiority of one of them should be demonstrated, which we do not look for. We are afraid it will have been found much easier to get into this war than to get ont of it A Special Providence Looked Ont for the Farmers this Year. Owing to timely rains and fraitfol seasons, two grains of com have grown where the aver age would have been only one, and the resnltis that thf- people of Georgia will be saved much “bowel complaint,” which they would have been bound to suffer with an ordinary corn sea sons. As for buying corn next year, let us dis miss the notion, and grab like moles to produce everything we eat at home. Buying corn and hay and meat is now played out, we hope, for ever. The West has got the European conti nent to feed while the people are butchering each other. The New York World of the 11th says it has private advices that the grain crop of France has proved almost a total failure, and prognosticates from that fact, in the face of existing favorable advices, that the French Government would be more than willing to seek relief from domestic troubles in a foreign war. The grain of the West must pour in prodigious volume across the Atlantia The Turin* Robbers to be Drought To Book. A Cincinnati dispatch, of July 12tb, says that the Hon. David A. Wells, ex-Special Commis sioner of Revenue, is to stump the West, during the coming campaign, with that city as his base of operations. He is to present the issue which the government has mode with him as to the , policy of high protective duties affording “inci dental” revenue, in contrast with the policy of a tariff for revenue affording incidental protec tion to homo industry. In short, the issne is to be made np on the conclusion he derived from his official investigations, that the system is. such as to make “the rich richer and the poor poorer.” It is also stated that arrangements are making with colored orators to itinerate the Southern States for the purpose of enlightening the negroes on this subject. Central Railroad and Rankins Co. The Central Railroad and Banking Company have rented the rooms in Ayers’ building, next to Mrs. Dessau’s, on Mulberry street, as an of fice for that Company, and also for the trans action of the general financial business of the Southwestern Railroad, from 1st October next. Gen. Wm. S. Holt is to be agent of the Com pany here, and Mr. John T. Boifenillct book keeper. The Central Railroad Company will keep here a large amount of their monied capi tal for the purpose of purchasing bills of ex change, etc., thns adding to tbe banking capital of bur city for the purpose of general business. . Fans in Lumpkin.—The Baptists in Lumpkin propose a Fair, at tho opening of the Fall sea son, to make np a fund for the repair of their church. The membership is small and poor, and a general renovation of the church build ing much needed. They solicit contributions of merchandise and money, and intend publish ing for gratuitous distribution throughout the State, five thousand'pamphlets containing the cards of those who aid them. Cards and arti cles should be sent to Rev. T. H, Stout, Lump kin, Ga.. per Southwestern Railroad, to George town. Baogino.—A circular from tho great bagging house of Wm. B. Cooper & Co., says that with the small stocks of bagging on band and the prospective demand from the South, they look for a largo advance in prices. Gnnny cloth is held at 20 a 21 cents for 42 a 4.'» inch Native, and20A a 21 cents for Borneo, gold, in bond. White domestic Jate bagging isheld at 32 cents and upwards. Gunny bags are quoted at 440’s at 14 cents gold, bond, to arrive, 22 j- a 23 cents currency, duty paid on the spot. A Sex-idle Old Countt. - A professional friend returning from Upson, says that county has two acres of oorn to one of cotton, and as to the corn, he never saw the like. Some of the upland* will produce thirty to forty bushels to the acre. The cotton is big, but has little fruit. Upson has cut her eye-teeth, and is ready for the European war. Upeon is wiser in her gener ation than other people. She haa got a dispen sation ef common sense in a remarkable de gree. Th« Georgia Bill Is in the hands of the President, who, doubt- Iosb, will approve it, although he may be as much puzzled about its “true intent and mean, ing” as the men who voted it into a law. The Atlanta New Era has this special from Wash ington on the bill: Washington, Jnly 14—10:30 p. M.—The con. ference committee on the Georgia bill have agreed to a report which is signed by Senators Howard and Thurman and Representatives Butler and Paine. They report the House hill with the following addition: “Nothing in this act, or any other act of Congress Bhall be construed to affect the term officers appointed, or members of the General assembly elected nnder the restrictions of the Constitution of said State.” It is conceded that this leaves the whole mat ter to the decision of the present Legislature. Gen. Terry will continue as commander of the military district of Georgia until Senators and Representatives are admitted to seats in Con gress next Desember. Who makes the ridiculous concession that bill which remits the State to elections provided for distinctly in the constitution, leaves the time of such elections to the decision of the Legislature? The statement of the proposition illustrates its folly. On the other hand, the dispatch of the 15th printed to-day, says, “the bearing of the bill is not understood, though Senator Trumbull, when voting for it, declared he did so because be understood that it made the election this fall mandatory.” And Howard and Stewaat opposed the amendmentof the Senate “because it wa3 the Bingham amendment in disguise; while Thurman said “it would secure an elec tion this fall, unless usurpation was resorted to. What, then, shall we say that the Senate of the United States have, in order to get rid of troublesome matter, “faltered in a donble sense” and passed a bill with a confessed doubt as to its meaning on so grave a subject? Are the Senate willing to lie nnder the brand of treach ery and moral cowardice which such an act would imply? Is the Government willing to send abroad a Janus-faced statute, and upon the strength of donbts as to its meaning, invite the Radicals in Georgia to duplicate their terms of office and deny the people elections as provided for by tbe Constitution? We do not believe tbe President will leave the people of Georgia in doubt, at least, as to his con struction of this act. Mr. Akerman, the Attorney General, made the Georgia Constitution, and is, at the same time, tbe official interpreter of the statute in question. If we fail to get the gov erament’s interpretation of this act otherwise, let the people invoke it by petition. Whatever the government holds to be law will practically be law, think as we may abont tbe matter. Let ns have the Attorney General’s exposition of tho statute. Getting Really to Vomit. The New York Commercial Advertiser, a Rad ical journal, is getting sick at the stomach. The negro dose is upsetting things powerfully, and we may soon expect to see a general vom iting along the whole line. The premonitory heave has commenced, as the following from the Advertiser shows; it is speaking of Smith, the negro cadet: No doubt that Smith has a right to go to West Point, and that once there he should be pro tected, but it was an act of folly to appoint him, and to send him into the midst of prejudice and passion which surround him. To make a col ored boy a cadet is to confer social equality upon him, and for that the people of this coun try are not ready. They have made the negro free; they have made him their political equal; they have given him office, but they withdraw from the further step that is proposed to them, and not all the ravings of radicalism can drive them into it. We are pre pared, of conrse, for the intimation made by General Howard, that if Smith is not protected at West Point, “then West Point will have a hard struggle against the returnmg tide of feel ing that will break in from the people,” bnt we doubt if thiH returning tide is as strong as tbe General thinks. The people who oppose West Point might make this case a pretext lor farther hostility to the Military Academy, ‘bnt they would never submit in their own houses to what they would force upon West Point. We are speaking of things as they are, and not as they ought to be, or may be in the Millenium. There stands the race prejudice, and it cannot be sud denly removed. Tne blacks have had from the whites already fully as much as they deserve. Among the Negroes.—We copy from the New York Herald some truly remarkable de velopments of fetishism among the negroes in New Orleans, which will deeply interest the curious reader. It may appear singular that this pagan superstition should make stronger manifestations in the heart of a great city than elsewhere; but the difference is more apparent than real. The superstition is universal, and developments of it are naturally more stiiking in the great centres of the colored population. Civilization and social progress are not the indiscriminate points of gravitation to all races of mankind. Barbarism is the normal con dition of some races, and others, left to them selves, tend as naturally to social progress and refinement. The African race, left to itself, is not one whit wiser or better to-day than it was in the da} a of the Pharaohs. It has done nothing for itself, or for learning and improve ment, while the Caucasian and Mongolian races have penetrated all the mysteries of nature and evolved from their hidden depths the laws cf science and tho elements of human progress. More isolated from the whites of tho South than in the days of slavery, the negro tends backward to the. normal condition of his race, and but for tho vestments which he can not entirely cast off, wonld soon become a barbarian again. Metropolitan Hotel.—An advertisement of this great hotel announces that the proprietors have reduced board from five to four dollars per day. The World says it is notable that the Lelands were the lost to raise tho price of board, and have been first to come down. Their pres ent action is undonbtedly the signal for the be ginning of a new era of cheap prices. It may be remarked, however, that, though $4 is good to begin with, the old figure of $2 50 would be more to tbe purpose for a fixed rate. While we are gettieg to it, it wonld bo well to remember that tho Lelands have been tho first to turn the tide, and they ought to have the advantage of it. _ The New York World has discovered the headquarters of a French magician, who has a school of street-car conductors. The mode of instruction is thus described: “Now we shall do ze leetle peezeeness, ha! ha! of droop ze money in ze straw,’ he shouted quite blithely. ‘So we shall hunt him np when zo car comes to ze depot. You count das moonish so. Zen troop my toe and speel ze moonish, eh, and beg ze pardon of zhentlemcn, and he say it ees no matter, eh, and I kick ze straw over him, so he find him not—so, ha! ha! and ze zhenlleman is charmed, and I pick ze leetle mooney up, eh, whenzs passengers are depart. Eh! ’tis ze leetle trick magnifique!” Wasn’t Glad that Much.—A Massachusetts man, who had his son at West Point, while on & visit' there recently, expressed his gratification that negroes were abont to receive the benefit of education at that school. The question of the negro Howard’s admission was then pend ing, and an officer replied to him that he was happy to bear his sentiment on this point, as, in the event of Howard’s admission, he might sleep and eat with his sen. Massachusetts put in a protest at onoe, and insisted on his being quartered with some proud young rebel. A young man in Illinois has eloped with the second wife of bis own uncle. The Georgia Press. Martha Simmons, a female amendment, shot and fatally wonnded Mary Taylor, ditto, in Yal- dosta, last Sunday. Tom Taylor, a very promising young man who only graduated a year ago at the University of Georgia, died, Wednesday, at Valdosta. The Thomastille Enterprise says; A gentleman who has recently traveled through a large portion of the State says the best crops he has seen aiB those of Thomas county. The Thomastille Enterprise says Jas. MQ- len, a citizen of that comity, was thrown from his horse last week, and had his right shoulder crushed, and his collar bone and right arm bro ken. Eds condition is considered critical. The Thomasville Enterprise says Dekle’s Variety Works in that city were burned Thurs day morning, causing a loss of §20,000; no in surance. Two yonng men sleeping in the building narrowly escaped with their lives, losing their clothes and watches. About 45 hogs were burned to death. (P. S.—We hope oar Thomasville cotempo rary’s soul is easy now on the score of “cred- its.”) We clip tho following items from tbe Talbot- ton Standard: Crop Reports.—Rains continne to fall in different sections of the county. They have not been so well distributed as wa3 first sup posed. The prospect of the crops, however, is encouraging, more especially as regards corn'; the cotton crops are luxuriant but with little fruitage. There has been airiest too mnch rain for cotton. Lice have appeared in different sections of this and adjoining counties. In tho eastern and northeastern portion of Talbot county more than half the lauds are planted in corn. Mr. Cioero Porter, in the Neck, has only 35 acres in cotton; balance of crop in corn, and made nearly 400 bushels of wheat. The area planted in wheat is considerably less than last year. The new crop ha3 been offered by some parties at §1 50 per bushel. Some sales have been made at that price. In the Pleasant Hill district of this county not a single mortgage has been given on the growing crops for corn or bacon. The people are out of debt and getting rich, net by cotton, but by producing corn, wheat and meat. Cot ton is their surplus crop. Threshing Wheat.—Mr. Thomas Kendrick, threshing east of Pleasant Hill, in this county, had measured np 4000 bushels up to the 10th. Thinks there are two more thousand ahead. The average work is one thousand bushels per week. Mr. Kendrick reports the wheat crop good, bnt the aoroage much less than last year. Rev. Sanders Dnrham died at the residence of Col. Wm. Mitchell, in Taylor connty, some days ago. He was one of the oldest and most esteemed citizens of that county. Judge Grace, from Taylor county, called at our office, yesterday, and reports the crop of corn in that county as splendid. He has a field of pine land which promises twenty bush els per acre. Cotton not so good. The Constitutionalist gives the following par ticulars of a shooting scrape in Augusta, Thurs day night: Last night, about 0 o’clock, a difficulty oc curred between two young men of this city, Joseph J Clayton and S. M. Myers, in which both parties used pistols. Some eight or nine shots were nred, one of which took effect nnder the right nipple of Myers, inflicting r wound which it is thought will prove mortal. The shootiog took place at the corner of Walker and Houston streets. Several shots had been ex changed, when Myers received tho ball of his antagonist, staggered to an adjacent pump and sat down, from which he was picked up by tho policemen and others attracted to the spot, and conveyed to the residence of his father, Henry Myers, Esq. The ball had not been extracted np to 11 o'clock lost night, and tbe wound was regarded as extremely dangerous. One of tho shots from Myers’ pistol perforated the coat sleeve of Cla}ton, without touching his person. The difficulty is said to have occurred in con nection with a disturbance between two womeD. Tbe Chronicle and Sentinel says that the cit izens of Berzelia and neighborhood broke np a miscegenating nuisance in that vicinity, recent ly, in a very summary manner, by treating the parties—a white woman and negro man—to 40 lashes on their bare backs. We get the following items from the Colum bus Sun, of Thursday; The Unkindest Cut op All.— Itis understood that tbe young ladies of Columbus have organ ized a “Boot Club,” in opposition to tho “Slip per Club,” composed of yonng men. The pur pose is to boot all geDts belonging to the latter organization. It is insisted, however, by a Slipper, that if any one of the “Bootees”has an advantageous offer, she will go back on the sis- tering and renounce her vows. We don’t be lieve it. Bales Yet to Come.—It is estimated that there remains in the country yet to come to Co lumbus, at least 700 bales of cotton. After this date last year 154 bales were received. The present crop promises to be short. Railroad.—We understand a vigorous at tempt will be made to obtain from the Legis lature State aid for a railroad between Newnan and Columbus. A road in any direction would accomplish good for this section. Rain.—Heavy showers fell after 12 m. yester day—regular summer showers, accompanied by lightning, thunder, and heavy winds—a violent tbrmder storm. In some sections of this county rain has been greatly needed. The Savannah Nows says a bale of cotton was stolen last Saturdaymoraing from the warehouse of Sorrell Brothers, in thst city, and was finally transferred to the store of a “merchant on Bay street, where it had been unpacked and stripped of its bagging, repacked with new bagging, and •made ready for shipment. The negro who stole the cotton, tho drayman who conveyed it, and the party who repacked it, were arrested. Tne case assumes more than ordinary interest, as the party on whose premises tbe co'ton was found are in every respeot responsible, and re cognized on ’Change os among onr most reliable cotton merchants.” The Savannah Advertiser says; The long talked of extension of tho Gulf Railroad track to a point on tho Savannah river beyond the eastern wharves is about to bo con summated. Proposals are now being received for tbe .erection of a suitable wharf, tbree hun dred feet in length by one hundred in depth, to be built on the east side of the canal below Willink’s ship.yard. The line of the track ex tending from tne depot to the river is to be en tirely graded, no trestle work being necessary. It is contemplated to have the work pushed for ward as rapidly as possible, the entire arrange ment to bo completed preparatory to the fall trade. With this new extension to the river, the Gulf Road will then have accomplished a most desirable result, the vast amount of lumber transported over that road being landed witbin reach of tho shipping, thereby curtail ing a vast expense now felt by the dealer for drayngo, besides affording additional room at the depot for tbe large amount of cotton and other produco arriving throughout the season. A meeting in favor of Oglethorpe College was held in Atlanta, Thursday night, whioh was addressed by Judge Nesbit and Dr. Wills. A resolution was adopted asking the City Coun cil tu give §50,000 in aid of the Coltege, and thus place it on an equal footing with Meroer University. The Atlanta Son says that Mercer University has an endowment fund of $100,000. Inde pendent of tuition, it has a clear income of §10,000. We quote the following items from the Atlan ta Constitution:. i . , Colonel Adair, yesterday, sold some lots on Broad street at a liberal figure. The lots front ed 25 feet on Broad, and run back 45 feet No. 2, next to Kelly's new building, at the corner of Alabama and Broad, was bought by Hon. O. A. Lochrane, §2,250, or §90 per front foot. Nos. ' and 5 were bought fox §1,500 each, by CoL E. Y. Olarke, or $60 per front foot. No. 6 went for §1,500 to M. E. Kenny. No. 8 was bought by A. P. Nunnally, for $1,250, or $50 per front foot. No. 9 became the property of H. M. Wil son for $1,225, or $49 per front foot. The sales footed up $9,225. Col. Adsir also sold a lot fronting 90 feet 8 inches on Line street, and 135 feet on Pryor street, with a wooden bouse on it, whioh rents for $30 dollars per month, to N. A. McLendon for $7,550. Peolonoationists, Attention.—Hon. John A. Logan, (we have it on good authority,) re cently said to a gentleman in Washington, tha every Republican in Georgia, who should, un der the Georgia bill as it passed the House of Representatives, advocate the policy of prevent ing an election of Assembly men this Fall, would richly deserve to be hung. Emma Sparks had an e-pistol-ary correspon dence wifh Harry Savage yesterday evening. The ball grazed Mr. Savage in the aide without inflioting<my serious injury. Emma took lodg ings in the hotel de Johnson last night. As the affair will undergo judicial investigation, we forbear stating the alleged cause of the diffi culty. Mrs. E. A. Sproull died in Rome, Wednes day, aged 80years. She was a first cousin of John G. Calhoun. ■ • France anil the Spanish Slouarcby The New York World, of Tuesday, takes this view of the attitude of France on*tho Spanish question: France has demanded of the Prussian gov ernment a distinct expression of its willingness to prevent the Prince Leopold of Hohenzollera from planting a branch of the reigning family of Prussia on the western as the main trank of that family is now plahted on the eastern fron tier of the French empire. We say that France, and not the Emperor Napoleon, has done this; because, whatever may be thought of the feel ings which inspire the demand, this at least is true of them, that they are a part of the nation al instinct of the French people. No govern ment could exist in France which would look quietly on upon the consummation of such a pro ject as Prim has succeeded in making Prussia responsible in the eyes of France for indorsing. The repnblio of 1S48 would have been as de cided even if it had not been so prompt as the empire of 1870 in resisting it The monarchy of 1830 — the monarchy of the two famous “Spanish marriages”—wonld have pushed its opposition to the scheme still further than cither the empire of 1870 or the republic of 1818. And we say that this demand of France has been made upon the Prussian government, and not upon Prussia, because the Prussian government, as Count Bismarck administers it, and King William is Prussia; and because it i3 as clear as the sun in the sky that the candidacy of Prince Leopold, of Hohenzollera, was concocted by the Prussian government, in collusion with Prim, as one step, and a great step, forward in the pursuit of the object at which the Prussian government has steadily aimed ever since the treaty of Prague was forced upon its unwilling acceptance by Napoleon IIL, in 18GG. That object is the destruction of the leadership loDg claimed and exercised by France in the affairs of Continental Europe. It is very well to Bay that France has no right to be angered at the pros* pect of losing such a leadership, and that she has no right indeed to assume such a leader ship. Franco herself can hardly bo expected to take this view of the case; and it is bnt a shallow and crude notion of the relations of the European states to each other which can lead any man to deny that the elevation of a Prussian prince to the throne of Spain would peremp torily deprive France of the position which she has held, now holds, and obviously means to hold as long as her arms can maintain it. As to the relative advantages to Europe and civili zation of a Prussian or a French leadership of Europe much might be said were this the time to say it. But it suffices for a just apprehen sion of the aotual state of affairs to perceive that this is the real point at issue, and that France at least does not mean to yield it. Beyond this only one thing more is clear. If Prussia now disavows formally and officially, as the Prussian journals have informally and un officially disavowed, Prince Leopold of Hohen zollera, France has won not an apparent only, but a substantial advantage. The demands of France have been advanced sword in band. To refuse them is war. To assent to them is de feat without war. If the Prussian government fights it may be beaten. The Prussian govern ment is beaten if it does not fight. All clonds of passion, excitement, and partisanship clear ed away, this is the plain meaning of the posi tion to-day. The New York San, of the 12th, says: Napoleon means war, and the French people seem to mean it too. He has succeeded in hurrying np events so ns to make the preserva tion of peace well nigh impossible. How far Prussia is to-day in the unprepared position which Austria occupied before Sadowa, can only be determined by tbe progress of hostilities; but tho truth on this point will doubtless soon be revealed. But when the war is once begun, nothing can hinder it from becoming a great war. At the outset, it will probably be con fined to Franco and Prussia, with Spain as the nominal ally of the one, and the probable vic tim of the other; bnt if the struggle is not at once decided, will it bo possible for. Austria, Italy, Russia and England to avoid taking part ? From the Herald, of the same date, we copy the following s / ., The late improvements in small arms and ar tillery will render henceforward the meeting of hostile armies more deadly than heretofore, while railways will operate to bring greater ar mies face to face. Thus, in both these elements of concentration and destructiveness, the Eu ropean war that is to come will overshadow the bloodiest campaigns of the First Napoleon. The war among the iron-clads on the water will probably be in the same proportion terifically destructive. Inland fortresses will, as defen sive positions, be of less value than heretofore, while our modern American system of strong defensive earth-works at every encampment will have to bo adopted by the army on the of fensive as well as the army on the defensive. Those lessons of modern war, resulting from the destructiveness of modem weapons, will soon be tnight to both sides in the event of a war bci -a France and Prussia; and so our Americun system of earth-works may spoil tho nicest calculations of Napoleon. They may prolong tho war, which he expects to make a short one, into a long one—so long as to change and enlarge beyond calculation all tho original conditions of the contest. NEGRO SUPERSTITION. Vondouism Rampant In Louisiana. Celebration of Fetlsb Rites—Human Sac rifices—A White Child Missing—An Ex- Chaplain of the Legislature Vou- doneii-Breaking of the Knell by a “Friestesa”—Extraordinary Scene in a Christian Chapel. From the JTeio York Herald, 12th in*tant.~\ New Orleans, July G, 1870. The past week or two has been a period of strange, wild excitement among the black peo ple of this city. St. John’s day inaugurated the annual ceremonies of the believers'in the African superstition of Voudonism, and the celebration of Fetish rites generally. How long these ceremonies are to be kept up I am unable to say. St John’s day, however, is the princi pal feast, and for that occasion this year a se cluded spot was selected ou the shore of Lake Ponchartrain, where numerous shanties were constructed, with a principal one in the centre, nndei cover of which the Voudou orgies were performed. These rite3, as celebrated this year, do not appear to have been so extravagant and crael as in former years. It appears they vary according to circumstances, and I have the word of a Voudou priestess that there are occa sions which require the sacrifice of a new bora' infant in order to accomplish the purposes of this savage superstition. Daring the period of slavery great efforts were mado to eradicate Vondouism, and it is certain the superstition was greatly toned down, bnt during Jato years the blacks have passed so much qpt of and be yond the influence of white civilizalion that Fet- icism seems to be on the increase. It is in voked on all occasions of personal quarrels or jealousies of any kind, and almost all cases of sickness are attributed to tbe fatal spell of some Fetish man or woman. If St. John’s fete, as the negroes call it, happens to occur daring a period of exci’ement, or when some important event has occurred or is abont to occur of special interest to any considerable number of the black people, it is then the ceremonies beoome most imposing, and, at the same time, most re volting. On this point I obtain my information from a professed Voudou priestess, and it con firms all that is said or believed by ^hite peo ple on the subject. It is horrible to think that even human sacri fice is not beyond the requirements of this hor rible infatuation. On such occasions great mya* tery is affected, and none are allowed to be pres ent except a chosen few. The victim, strange to say, mast be white, if attainable, and of such an age as to imply innocent blood. In this re quirement there is easily to be seen a horrible allusion to the crucifixion of the Saviour.. When all is ready the votaries assemble in their rude temple, in the centre of which is placed a large iron cauldron containing a snake. If circum stances are extraordinary, requiring actual hu man blood, the victim, as stated, must be a white infant, if it can possibly be bad, and of very tender age. The officiating priestess, in a state of almost absolute nudity, and her assist ants, in simple loose, white garments, lead a wild and fiendish dance around the cauldron, daring which the dancers, one at a time, drop ont of the circle and prostrate themselves beside the cauldron. By proper appliances the snake is then forced from his repose in the cauldron and allowed to crawl over each prostrate form. All having submitted to this loathsome touch, then follo ws the work of sacrifice and expiation, the innocent blood of the child being sprinkled upon the cauldron, upon the snake and upon all the worshippers. All this takes place amid dancing and wild, incoherent incantations. This completes the sacrificial ceremony, and afterwards the priestesses array themselves in the most gaudy and costly garments, the head ; iciestess being adorned aud honored as a queen. Word is then sent out of greatjfestivities at the Voudou temple, aud from for and near the dusky children of Hum flock to the place, and for days and nights give themselves up to feasting and the most extravagant amusements. Such is the description given by a Vaudou priestess of the celebration of St. John’s day on an occasion extraordinary. On an ordinary oc casion the rites are only varied by an omission of the sacrifice, the priestess sprinkling on the worshippers the blood of snakes qr lizzurds. It is impossible to say how rnaDy times human sacrifice has thus been practised, as the great est possible secrecy is generally observed in re gard to the place of coiebrating tbe fete, of St. John. The singular and mysterious disappear- Lott, member of the Legislature of this Statu. She was sent for, and, as the sequel proved, it was her hour of fortune. It was the tide in her affairs, and of which she was not slow to take advantage, that leads to fortune and fame. Mr, Turner’s church was appointed as the plaoe for a first interview with this renowned priestess, and there they met, he being attended by an other colored preacher bearing the same name, and by the praying men of his church. Mme. Lott was unattended; bnt she made her appearance in the most fantastic and costly attire; nevertheless, being dreadfully marked by smallpox, and of a color two or three shades deeper than Egyptian darkness, Bhe was ugly enough to scare the devil out of his own do minions if it were possible for her in the flesh to invade them. As she swept down tho aisle of the church, her head bandanna very ar tistically arranged to represent a half-unfolded fan, with sharp points on either side that looked like horns, it is said a strange sense of fear and trembling fell upon the attending witnesses, and the reverend CoDgo gentlemen gave vent to tbe most distressing sounds, resembling tbe cries of a cat. Tho result of- this interview was the appointment of a time when, with appro priate ceremonies, the reverend chaplain would be cured of his canine and feline propensities, Mme. Lott, having an eye to business, no doubt, directing that Mr.- Turner should coll in his congregation on that occasion. At the appoint ed time the chapel was thronged with anxious spectators, as mottled in appearance as Jacob’s cattle, black and “colored” predominating, with “a right smart sprinkle” of genuine white. The reverend ohaplain aid spiritual adviser of the Louisiana Legislature occupied a prominent place in the foreground, attended by his brother namesake, and appearing as woe-begone as if abqut to walk the fatal “Bridge of Sighs;" and altogether, except for the occasional long-drawn m-e-o-w-s of the poor vandoued man, the occa sion was as solemn and serious as a funeral. The appearance of Mme. Lott, however, pro duced a stir not unlike that at a court reoep- tion, when the king and queen enter. Bnt even this decorous conduot on the part of Mr. Tnr- ner’s spiritual flock was doomed to be disturbed by that gentleman’s snper-divine regard for the sanctity of the church of God. It cannot be General .Assembly by their adjour’nmeSti said that any one of the 400 persons present manifested a desire to be seen, but there was an irrepressible desire to see the wonderful things about to transpire; consequently many, more especially the white element, would stand upon the benches, to the great horror of the voudoued parson. He literally stormed at the irreverent offenders. Springing to his feet with a “me-ow" that sounded like the wail of some lost spirit riding upon a midnight storm, he called upon the offending spectators to “re spect the house of God,” and then with another “me-ow,” perhaps less violent, but not less in dicative of bis crazed condition, he subsided into his wonted melancholy. In the meantime Mme. Lott, an epitome of hideous ugliness, was advancing down the aisle of the church with a movement so slow as scarce ly to be perceptible, and was closely attended by the voudoued parson’s namesake—parson Turner number two. In one hand she held a smalt rod or wand, and in the other a quantity of common table salt. Swaying from side to side she made baste slowly, ber eyes meanwhile glaring with a fearful lustre, like those of an enraged wild beast. On passing the centre of the church she manifested symptoms of swoon ing ; her hands shook as if seized with palsy, until finally she sank to the floor grinding her teeth and foaming at the month. Instantly she was surrounded by the faithful, who fanned her and sprinkled her face with water. After that she revived, arose, and again advanced in the conquest of the powers of darkness. Stopping for a moment, she said aloud that these twelve persons engaged in voudouing the beloved pas tor were nine men and three women, and that three of the members had left the church since she entered. . It was manifest the remaining nine were determined not to give up their do minion without a struggle, for Mme. Lott was again seized with a fearful trembling. Her eyes rolled in their socketts, all the while gleaming like balls of fire. It was plainly a last, a death struggle, with the odds apparently against her. Again she sank to the floor, bnt almost immedi ately arose, with an air of triumph that showed she was master of the situation. Advancing with a Arm step to a point near a raised plat form, she commenced fishing with her wand in a little crack in the floor, and soon brought out a small object of most strange appearance. In ance of very youDg children every few years waa a bout R3 large as a tarantula, but . - " * ° . r . t nail Inn annonranpa nr a nmnoa xnrn lowcva C’rawforil County Delegates to State Agricultural Society Hleeticg. Knoxville, Ga., July 14, 1870. Editors Tdegraph and Messenger : Below please find list of delegates to tbe semi-annual mooting, to be held in Atlanta, lGth prox., of the “Georgia Agricultural Society.” Please insert in your paper, as reqnested by CoL Lewis Secretary of State Society. DELEGATES. ALTERNATES. G. P. Culverhouse, J. J. Clarke, W. S. Ogletree, B. Le Sueur, J. W. Avant. W. B. Scott. Yours, <to., G. P. Culverhouse, Secretary. Bad News for tlieBapers and Raiders The Richmond Dispatch has advices from its Washington correspondent to this effect: Letters from all sections of the country, to prominent Democrats here, give most encourag ing accounts of the prospect of the Democrats in tho coming fall elections. It is predicted by all that nn immense gain in members of Con gress will bethwresult, and all are unanimous in urging that the course pursued by the Demo crats shall be in accordance with the recent ad dress of the National Democratic Execntive Committee: A Chicago paper has a correspondent who has been told that Mr. W. F. Storey, of tho Chicago Times, has been trying to buy the New York World, but that Mr. Marble would not sell and that Mr. Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial, on his way to Europe, stopped-in New York and tried to purchase the New York Herald. These reports must be true, as they come from Chi^go. Georgia.—All the way from New York via the World’s correspondence, we leara that the “Georgians, are fullydetermined to hold an elec tion this fall for a Legislature and Congress men, unless absolutely prevented, and then, if Bollock refuses to famish the Congressmen with certificates, to apply to the Supreme Conrt of the State for a mandamus upon him to compel him to do so, hoping in this way to get a legal opinion upon the issue which will secure them representation." Comments of the Crowd.—When the bulletin was posted, announcing the French declaration of war, from every month came suoh expressions as these: A foolish business—a heedless, un called-for war—an inexcusable outrage upon humanity and civilization. That’s the popular verdict. A Western paper describes a letter of Horaoe Greeley’s as looking“ as if somebody had smash ed abode of ink on it and tried to wipe it Off With a currycomb.” , ' has led to a firm, conviction in the minds of many that they were sacrificed on Voudou al tars. At this very moment the people of New Orleans are greatly excited by an instance of this kind. On the 9 th of June, only a few days before St. John's day, a negro woman stole the infant child of a Mr. Dighy, residing at the corner of Howard and Poydras streets. Tcu case was immediately placed in tbe hand,of the police, and the most efficient detectives em ployed. Constant and unremitting search has been made from that day to this without the least particle of success, notwithstanding heavy rewards have been offered for tho child. No one appears to. feel authorized to say it was stolen for sacrificial purposes, yet thousands believe such was the purpose of its abduction, since neither Mr. Digby nor his friends have any knowledge of any specific reason why his child was taken. The entire absence of any feuds, animosities or jealousies, within tho knowledge of the child’s parents, such a-i usual ly exist where children ate stolen, leaves a wide margin for conjecture, of which Voudonism is not the least improbable. The negro is naturally an idolater. His mind seems peculiarly fitted for the reception of all kinds of superstitious ideas. Teach -him any. method of religion and he will maintain it just so long as he is controlled by instruction. With draw that, and the purest, simplest doctrines will soon degenerate in his mind: into the most absurd superstitions. Earth, air, and-sea be come peopled with good and bad spirits, whose existence and influence he perceives in the emotions of his own heart, in sounds, and in every day’s natural phenomena. From such a fruitful soil it wonld be unrea sonable not to expect an abundant bupply of Fetish men and women, who claim the power of patting spells upon their fellows that will even cause them to pine away and die. They call this “hoodooing.” Among a people so given to superstitions, victims are of course not wanting. Imagination would do the work, however much the Fetish men might bo lacking in power. A beef’s heart, stuffed with bitter herbs, aud laid upon the dourstep, miniature coffins, or wooden likenessess ef mice, spiders, snakes, or the feathers of a jay bird, interwoven with straws, dipped iu blood and hid in pillows, iu beds, or in crevices about one’s room—any of these things will “hoodoo" the stoutest-hearted negro. When any of these things happen to a negro it is understood that he must certainly die, or be subject to continual misfortune unless the spell can be broken. Some priestess is instantly sent for, and for a pecuniary consideration Bhe undertakes the relief of the sufferer. A re markable instance of this kind occurred only three months ago, and is of sufficient interest to justify a fall description, as given to me by an eye-witness: On Marais street, in this city, is not a very pretentious chapel, knowu as the “Soldiers’ Joy Chapel.” It is in what we call here the French part of the town, and where the negroes most do congregate. Of conrse Joy Chapel, being under the ministerial charge of the Rev. Mr. Turner, late ohaplain of the Legislature of Lou isiana, has a large communion, and numbers among its congregation the chief part of the ne gro aristocracy of the city, including his Ex cellency Lieutenant Governor Oscar J. Dunn, and many negroes who used to be slaveholders before the war. It so happened that His Rever ence, Mr.Turaercameuuderthe baleful influence of certainFetish men and women, who, by their “spells,” compelled him, in season and out of season, to mew like a cat or bark like a dog. This he would do on the most solemn occasions. At home, in the bosom of his family, or us he walked along the streets, the impulse to mew or bark was irresistible. Even when, in the pulpit preaching, or.on his knees praying, mews and barks wonld interpolate themselves into the very thread of his discourse, and in the most ludicrous manner. Alas, he was voudoued! The learned, the eloquent, the gifted divine the dignified, dusky-hued ohaplain of the Lou- isiana Legislature—the man who did the pray ing for the whole State, and more especially for as graceless a lot of scamps, radicals and democrat^ both included, as can be found even in the national Congress—was voudened. He was “an old man, a little man, and a preacher of the Gospel,” and could whip the man that had voudoued him if he could find him. Fetish men, however, whether in Afrioa or America, are not remarkable for personal courage, ana since they would not submit themselves to the Rev. Mr. Turner’s dreadful anger, be was com pelled to seek a redress of grievances through the regular channels presenbed by the siorc$ rules of vondouism. A priestess was sent for. It so happened that a voudou priestess had just arrived frqm St. Louis,, bearing the name .of Mme. Lott, and whose reputation was ing far and wide for ttw'f»*i«aa»o«t of I ful powers. Mme. Lott t* the sister of ] bad the appearance of a mouse, with large pro truding eyes. _ Still the work was incomplete. Passing to the’ yard in the rear of the church, ■were pretty much the same scenes enacted, Mme. Lott finally succeeded in capturing a min iature coffin from beneath a brick in the pave- mruC They all then returned into the church for the purpose of making a final disposition of the little objects that had given poor Turner so much trouble and annoyance. One of two things must be done with them—they must either be burned to ashes or cast into running water. Ac cordingly, a fire was made in the stove and the little varmints consigned to the flames, while the Voudou believers danced and sang aronnd. This completed the work. The spell was bro ken. Parson Turner was free, and certainly he felt free, for he jumped and danced around, shouting and singing, at the top of his voice. Such are some of tho interesting characteris tics of the nation’s wards in Louisiana, and I speak thus generally of them because there is not one of them, from Governor Dunn down, of whom it may not be said he is more or less uuder the influence of the Voudou suparatition. I’nABLES BOEIILDR, JltY IO.” Startling Realisation of mi Ominous Dream. From the Cincinnati Commercial The printers in the German newspaper offices are discussing with bated breath and startled faces, a peculiar ciroumstance well calculated to send a nervous thrill through a superstitious body. It is all about “ only a dream,” bnt there is a marvellous coincidence in the case.— Charles Boehler, the German printer, who, in a lit of delirium tremens, killed himself by jump ing from a third story window, was buried yesterday, July 10th, his funeral being largely attended. Some three years ago this unfortu nate man was working then daily at the case, side by side with his intimate friend, Christopher Stieler, at the Yolksblatt of fice. > One noon Stieler came into tho compos ing room, having on his face an unusually seri ous expression. Ashed as to the cause, he gathered a group around him frofii among the printers, and as they satin a neighboring saloon oyer their beer, he described to them how, in his sleep, from which he had bnt recently awakened, he had seen slowly drawn before him by black-plnmed white horses, a somber hearse, containing a full-length coffin, on which, in large letters, was incribed: “Charles Boehler, July 10.” The dream, no more singular than many that every reader of this has had, but fearfully ominous to a superstitious mind, did not have much effect at the time on many of those that heard it. It was not forgotten, however, for on the 10th of July, last year, Boehler was con gratulated by his friends who knew of the dream, on the fact of being alive and in good health. Boehler remarked: “Well, I’ve got another year to live yet.” He had only one year, however, for, according to the dream, he was buried on July 10th. It is thought by some that Boehler had brood ed over this dream, as the fatal day Burely and swiftly approached, and that he was supersti tious enough to be thrown into an excitement from which he sought refuge iu liquor. How ever that may be, liquor brought him to his grave on the dav of his dream. Sudden Deaths.—The Montgomery Advertis er, of Thursday, says: On Saturday night Mr. John Taylor, died at the residence of his brother, Mr. James Taylor, w 1 * 0q Momhiy. Ms brother, Mr itwhenadd^d to constiWtM £ 6n 810k t - and that the language used by night. Their deaths were caused by congestive oMUs, though both had been complaining sev eral days. New Method or Burning Bricks.—The Bal timore Sun tells of a new method of burning bricks by superheated steam, or vapor, by which seventy-five per cent of fuel is saved— the bricks are of a uniform color and hardness —none are spoiled—no waste of heat, and the prooess of burning goes on continuously, the bricks being removed from and put into the kiln daily. It is called the Adams kiln, but haa been perfected and three patents added for improve ments, by S. M. Hamilton. SUPREME COURT Delivered at AtionAa, ^Tu«d a j, i 7,X^. W REPORTED fob THE COHSTlTCTm. William Solomon vs. The . Cartersvilie. Certiorari from i\ Warner, J. wo *- I When the Commissioners of tb« Carters vilie assessed a tax on satv\ of land as the property ofS., for agricultural purposes only, and , exemption therefor, to which S affidavit of illegality, alleging. ammJ* HI things, that the land so tlxedwaTrT^I the corporate limits of the town vilie, which rffidavit of illegality 0 ® ruled by the Board of Commisl^ c claiming the right to tax the pro *L ! question, nnder an alleged Act of thep Assembly, passed in the year I860 1, the corporate limits of said town’ 71 was brought up to the Superior CW i of certiorari, and on the hearing thcWf tiorari wa3 dismissed, and the decisional commissioners sustained. On the heal; ® l | case in this court, the original aeten*?^! the Secretary of State’s office, unde-JlM the right to tax the property is clafoj produced, from which it appears that if passed both Houses of the General oh the 16th day of March, 1869. andwf^l proved by the Governor on the 29th nf \r^l 1869, in the following words and wit: sas '*»{ “Approved May 126, 1SG9. P lU f U3 d v lock, Governor. Subject to the actu al council at Cartersville. It appears fm? \ published journals of the General aJJ ft* that that body adjourned sine die on trfuT day of Match, 1868. The second S the fourth article of the Constitution deS: that the Governor shall have the J all bills passed by both houses before the ! shall become laws; and if any biiUW&u! be returned by the Governor within fived® ! (Sunday excepted) after it has been pr^ to him, the same shall ho a law, unle*,;] General Assembly by their adjournr * ■ 1 prevent its return: Held, That if this was an original quest™ independent of any j construction heretofm given by the Executive Department of 4 State government, we should be inclined, hold, that the Governor, under the Constiti tion, could not approve and sign any b'uljj, the adjournment of the General Assembly U upon looking into the past history of our W islation, we find that it has been the pnetj for many years for the Governor to take £« days after the adjournment of the Guta Assembly for the revision of bills, and to s { them within that time, but not aftemnk and that a large number of the most importu acts now upon the statute books of the State have been so approved and signed, which ns» and practice of the Executive deputmeati the State Government, should not now be j turbed or set aside. Held, also, That inasmuch as the bill udci the authority of whibh the commissioners \ the town of Cartersville claim the right to t the property of S. was not approved at signed by the Governor until more tbaati months had elapsed from the day of tbe* journmentof the General Assembly, that tl same never became a law of the State, ud ji not confer any authority as such on the 001 missioners of the town of Cartersville, to ns and collect the tax on the property of S, specified and set forth in the record. Judgment reversed. Warren Akin for plaintiffin error. A. Johnson and D- A. Walker for deleu ants. Jeremiah Maxey vs. A. A. Bell. Appeal fra Court of Ordinary of Oglethorpe. McCay, J. No man in this State is subject to any cir r politicalincapacity by reason of his opinio: upon any subject, and that oneis a Universali; or infidel, or holder of any faith, or view?,isn ground for his removal from the guirdianshi of minor children, to which he was appoints by the will of the deceased father of the chili ren. Judgment affirmed. Reed & Wooten, for plaintiffin error. J. 1>. Matthews, for defendant. Selma. Rome and Dalton Railroad Compui vs. Nathaniel P- Harbin. Motion to s asidp judgment from Whitfield. McCay, J. iVhere there was a suit pending Rome and Jacksonville Railroad Companj and pending the suit the said company, u two other railroad companies, agreed, und; an authority from the Legislature, to consol date their stock into a new company; the ne company to be liable for the contracts; an liabilities of the several companies thus cot solidated, and the consolidation was consent! to and and approved by the Legislature, and new name and charter granted, with the pr viso that each of the companies was to eoi tinue liable for its liabilities incurred befo the consolidation: Held, That it was illegal to permit tl plaintiff, in the suit pending to take judgme against the consolidated company, in its ns name, without proper styles to bring the ne company as such before the court, and a jui ment so taken ought to he set aside. Judgment reversed. Wm. H. Dabney, Printup & Fouche, f plaintiff in error. 0. D. McCutchun, for defendant. James Rushin vs. J. R. Gause. Il'ertii from Hancock. McCay, J. The homestead and exemption provision the Code is the exemption law of this S® referred to in the bank report Act of - United States, aad.asby the Code, said boro stead is not subject to levy und sale, even K the purchase money; a judgment againS discharged bankrupt, though obtained be ® his discharge, cannot levy upon ands» homestead for the bankrupt, set apart by tt bankrupt officials, even though said judging be for the purchase money of the same. Judgment affirmed. . .1 J. T. Jordan, by William Reese, for P* 311 tiff in error. Linton Stephens, for defendant. J. P. Dillard vs. Tho State. MisdemeW from Oglethorpe- McCay, J. * It' a man ask a female, in her r*®5“ without provocation, “to go to bed with intending thereby to propose illegal intercourse, he is guilty ol Using J vulgar language in the presence under section 4,300 of the Revised 00®= j Georgia. Warner, J., concurring. , The 4306th section oi the Cod- “ that “any person who shall, without pw tion, use to or of another, and in m 3 P j. opprobrious words or abusive lango^ ing to cause a breach of the pett.% shall, in like manner, use obscene ana vu^ language In the presence of a female, guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con shall be punished,” etc.: . . ..to Held, That the following words, spot ^ the defendant to and in the presence 01 male, without provocation, “Will *ju- bed with me,” was obscene and TUl ®". t jji guage within the meaning of the statute, the intention of the defendant who uoco j j language, and the purpose lor which 0 ^ j ThM Boehyeter (N> .?.) Manns out squarely in fav DougUarto lF r “ offense; and that the language fondant, with the intention and for tner B pose for which he used it, when a dresw ^ Mrs. Sanders, a married lady, was w- ^ scene and vulgar, and such, in my. -jjt is the fair interpretation to be jj language. The intention of the defend ^ using the language, as well as the whien he used it, necessarily makes obscene and vulgar on his part when ed to any decent female; and that ne a,, not be allowed to protect himself ^ mere fopn of wonM used by him tended to eonfey by tbe.oae of them * scene wad vulgar proposition* in the jndg®** Inorfert^fS^ Brown C. J M but not upon ‘ KeC** n9k po*- 4&L ■ihk H'r t'riM '. '.A l.tS.r . !X ‘