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Tine Greox*gia Weekly Telegra^nln and. Journal <fe Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MAO ON, AUGUSTA 3 .870
Tlie Foreign Slews.
England is in a fl«mo about that alleged se
cret projected treaty between France and Prus
sia, and insists that it is a true bill. If so, it is
past all our power of explanation or conjecture
and we must wait further advices. A grand
French naval expedition has started out against
Kiel, and its passage up the English Channel
was witnessed from along the coast with intense
interest by the people. No fighting reported to
sundown and none looked for immediately.
Death of It. H. Nisbet.
Yfe are pained to announce that Dr. Bichaud
H. Nisbet, formerly a resident of Macon, and
son of Hon. E. A. Nisbet, aged 38 years, died
in Eaton ton, on Monday night 25th inst. He
had been suffering from a general nervous pros
tration for tome months past, which had caused
great debility. On Sunday last was seized with
an attack which left him with paralysis of one
side, from which, however, he recovered. His
mind seemed clear, and on Monday his tongue
gave the only evidence of any paralysis though
threatened with a tendency to congestion of the
brain, and we suppose a sudden second attack
of this character terminated his life He was a
physician—learned in his profession,an indefat
igable student, and promised to bo one of the
most useful and skilled medical men of Georgia
—in fact a great light among his brethren. To
his professional learning he added a great taste
for reading and general literature, thoroughly
domestic habits—strong family affections and a
high development of Christian character. He
leaves a widow and three children, who with
his nnmeroos relatives have our sincere sympa
thy in this hour of bereavement.
Cotton Sales for Fnlnre Delivery.
The Financial Chronicle, of Friday, says in
the sales for future delivery there has been
much activity and excitement. The situation
of affairs in Europe, together with the favorable
reports of the growing crop, caused large con
trasts to bo put out for future delivery, and the
confidence of sellers in this line continued until
the close of Wednesday, when the fear of be
ing “cornered” for Jnly, gave contracts for this
month a sharp upward turn—closing to-day at
19J against 18J, on Wednesday afternoon. For
the next crop, the specnlation has been for
lower prices, closing, however, with an irregu
lar reaction. Tho Agricultural Bureau, at
Washington, puts the next crop at 3,500,000
bales as a minimum, and 4,000,000 bales as a
maximum. The following is a summary of the
closing prices on each day of tho week, for low
middling for future delivery during the next
five months:
Jnly.
16
18
19
20
21
•18$
18*
18f
184
.18
171
17*
.17?
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174
174
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An Interesting Case.
We leam that a case of novel impression in
this State, and of considerable interest to the
parties, has arisen in the Macon Circuit and just
been decided by Hon. James M. Clarke, Judge
of the Southwestern Circuit.
Messrs. J. H. Zeilin & Co., of this city, filed
a bill in equity against Theodore W. Ellis and
confederates, alleging an infringement by tho
latter on tho trademark used by Messrs. Zeilin
& Co., in the manufacture and sale of their Dr.
Simmon’s Liver Begulntor or medicine; and
asking for an injnnction to restrain such in
fringement.
After argnment by Messrs. Lanier & Ander-
Bon, solicitors for Zeilin & Co., and Messrs.
Whittle & Gustin, and John P. Fort, Solicitors
for Mr. EUis, his Honor Judge Clarke ordered
and decided a3 follows:
At Chambers, July 21, 1870.
After argnment by counsel for complainants
and defendants, it was ordered by the Court,
upon complainants giving an injnnction bond
in the sum of $5,000, with good security, to be
approved by the Clerk of Bibb Superior Court,
that the State’s writ of injunction and subpoena
issue each in the penal snm of $5,000, and that
defendant and all confederates who are served
with a copy of tins bill and order bo enjoined
and restrained, in the penalty aforesaid, from
manufacturing and selling the medicine in said
bill mentioned, in the form and stylo as set
forth and described in said bill, or under any
other form or style which tends to produce the
impression on the public that it isthesamo
medicine as that put up and sold by complain
ants. And let snch other and farther proceed
ings be had as are usual in equity.
Witness my hand and official signature,
(Signed) J. M. Clarke,
J. S. C. S. W. C.
Sevebal American papers have published a
report that Alba Cotcheron Lake, a native of
Memphis, Term., has been sentenced to four
years’ imprisonment for an assault upon Mr.
Cramer, the American Consul at Leipzig, Ger
many. On the authority of the Cologne Ga
zette we are able to state that Lake has been
sentenced to one year, not four years’ imprison-
onment. The facts aro as follows: Lake, who
is studying mathematics and German in Leip
zig, called npon Cramer to hand him a letter
from Bailer, a friend of Lake’s, authorizing the
Consol to deliver all letters addressed to the
writer of the epistle to Lake.' Cramer replying
that no letters for Bntler had arrived, Lake left,
bnt returned very soon again and claimed Bat
ter's letter. When the Consul told him that it
was'addressed- to himself. Lake, after-some
discussion, snatcht d the letter from the Consul’s
Writing table and harried off. Cramer being
'excited over this conduct cried after tLake,
‘‘Such a thief and robber J will not allow,again
to cross my threshold!” Two days later Lake'
met Cramer on a public walk and dealt him
reach a tremendous blow.on the head that he was
for some time under medical treatment.
V™' •'' A . -—i_- im*oi j
Qurmxo the Ship.—We can’t eimbfly see it
.-dn that paint of-view, but, nevertheless, the
; Courier-Journal says its information is “that in
all the Southern States the negroes are quitting
the sinking ship of Uadicalism. They have dis
covered that Uadicalism is a mere trick to catch
rvotes, and that .it doesn't pay. It is merely a
. game of ‘you’ll walk and I’ll ride, and then I’ll
ride an.’, you'll walk.’ The negroes prefer hon-
• esty without promises to mere promises without
pay. Old master is, after all, a surer hope than
-"the swarm of’pushing striving, unscrupulous,
greedy, selfish and cold-blooded office seekers,
who want to get as many votes as possible Thr
the smallest quantity of whisky and the greatest
amount of talk. Old master tells nC lies and
asks for no votes. He minds his own business
and bids Sambo do the same.
The Horrors of Holden’s Web. The Wil-
2 mington Journal says the military crasada which
Holden is making against the people of Ala
mos ce and Caswell, and whioh doubtless he
Will extend to other counties, is costing im
mense sums of money. The shrieks of flying
women and children, the^groens of strongmen,
and the desertions- of home and business and
crops, are the present evils of Holden’s military
operations. Bnt men oannot be fed and clothed
and paid and transported without fearful cost.
The people of North Carolina are expected to
foot the bill. The victims of these outrages, it
a intended, shall pay the expenses.
How will the War Affect Cotton ?
Of the probable effect of the war npon the
American cotton-growing interest, the New York
World of Saturday has this to 6oy:
The prevailing impression seems to bo that
the war will benefit tbe agriculture of the West
and depress that of tho South; in other words,
that it will enlarge the foreign demand for
breadstuffs and provisions, and curtail the de
mand for cotton- The part of this opinion
which relates to cotton is commonly stated in
too absolute a way, and requires important mod
ifications. Wo raise three million bales, about
one-third of which is used for domestio con
sumption. The market for this part of the crop
will not be affected. Of the remaining two-
thirds the greater portion is exported to Eng
land, and the market for English fabrics will
not bo mnch narrowed by the war, unless the
war extends beyond France and Prussia. Eng
land will retain tho market furnished by her
own domestic consumption, by her vast colonies,
by tbe West Indies and tho South American
States, and by Africa and the East. The inhab
itants of none of these aro likely to purchase
fewer cotton goods. If France and Germany
manufacture and export less, England and the
United States will manufacture and export more.
The falling off in the consumption of cotton will
be confined to tbe two belligerent nations. This
will of course make a difference, and a difference
sufficient to affect the price of the raw material;
bnt tbe lower prices will bring an intportant
compensation whioh will inure to the ultimate
profit of the Southern, cotton growers. The
Sonth has unrivalled advantages of 6oil and cli
mate for the production of this great staple, and
nothing bnt the long blockade of the Sontaern
ports could have helped India and Egypt to get
snch a start as enables them to maintain any
sort of competition against tho better quality
and more prolific yield of American cotton.
The temporary diminution of consumption
and consequent fall of .prices will enable the
Sonth to recover its old supremacy in this great
branch of industry. Tbe cotton culture of
other parts of the world has been nursed into
strength by the high prices caused by the block
ade, and tho unsettled condition of the Sonth
since the war. The South is once more fairly
on its legs with its old advantages for the race;
and the lowering of prices which will result from
the present European war will blight the pro
duction of cotton in nil those regions where it
has had only an artificial and sickly growth.—
When a chain breaks, it breaks in its weakest
part. When markets are destroyed or narrow
ed, it is the weakest class of producers that are
driven to the wall. The effect of two years of
low prices would be to arrest the cultivation of
cotton in all rival countries which do not pos
sess our natural advantages. The market will
remain wide enough to take all we can prodace,
and when our new rivals are broken down and
driven from the field, tho Sonth will regain tho
strong position from which nothing could have
dislodged her bnt years of blockade followed by
years of political and industrial disturbance.—
We trust the Sonth will not abandon cotton for
grain. Its trne interest requires it to keep
right on in the revival of its old industry. It
has now a -golden opportunity to fill all the
markets with its staple and completely supplant
its rivals. When this is accomplished, it has
nothing to fear from future competition.
The Sonth has no idea of abandoning cotton
for grain. Cotton is onr natural and proper
crop. Bnt in the merest self-defence let us at
least produce bread and meat enough to sup
port onr labor in growing cotton.
Saratoga In Fall Blast.
The Saratoga correspondent of the Commer
cial Advertiser, has a charming account of the
situation in Saratoga, from which wo take so
mnch:
Sensational statements made of tho large
amount of stakes played for aro untrue. Tho
games ara generally played more for diversion
than profit; although there is a great deal of
“earnest business" done, in winning and los
ing. Betting, “swapping,” and dealing in horse
flesh, however, is a leading occupation for
wealthy time-killers. The wealth represented
here is immense. Connting in Commodore
Vanderbilt and a long list of lesser yet great na
bobs at Congress Hall, there is in that one edi
fice nearly $150,000,000 represented. At the
Grand Union, including A. 1. Stewart, August
Belmont, and others, there aro nearly $300,000,-
000 represented. This amonnt is divided np
amoDg people of both sexes, all ages and pro
fessions in life. The expenses of those wealthy
parties ore enormous. The cost of the Sum
mer board for tho Cwo brief months of one sea
son is various. One pays $12,000; another
$10,000, several from $5 to $7,000; that of
coarse includes tho rent of cottages or suites of
rooms, board for family, servants, and horses.
This looks dreadfnlly extravagant to tho vision
of ordinary folks, bnt it is a mere flea-bite to
those who return incomes of scores of thousands.
The display of dress and jewels is not a pecu
liarity of the wealthiest. The Vanderbilts, Stew
arts, Belmonts, and others aro distinguished
for their great taste in fine colors, choice of fino
fabrics, stateliness in fashion, bnt plainness and
richness of garments, the hideous spread, and
distracting chaos of colors and general nausea
of stylo, that is peculiar to tho shoddy,
mushroom growth, element of society here, is
exceedingly trying to tbe better bred and more
sensible people; while the tongue of gossip tells
wonderful tales of transformations in the hotels,
roads, and other items of town improvement.
But the truth that has been hinted at in regard to
other things is bnt a half-told tale. The natural
tendency of the Snmmer population here is to
ward fast life. Bnt the fast element is becoming
larger and more rapid than ever. There former-
ally were no questionable honsespermitted with
in the town limits. But now the detectives de
clare that even themselves are astonished at the
great increase of the demi-monde element.—
There are over one hundred disreputable houses
kept openly, and more conducted slyly. Twelve
hundred “soiled doves”—soiled in every degree
—pursue their calling. Pickpockets and thieves
of all kinds ply their trade, and beggarly impos
ters haunt the pnblic walks. Panel houses car
ry on a successful business, several cases of
robbery having occurred within the last week.
The excellent police system at the hotels effect
ually excludes all these characters.
The leading sensation here just now is the
“Ladies’Club House,” supposed to exist in a
certain cottage, not far from the railway. That
such an association exists is a fact, but the lo
cality of that house, is as yet undiscovered.—
The social status of tbe Iaay players is high,
and their doings entirely decorous. There are
things in existence here, nnder the surface, that
are just as much unknown (exqep^ -tp a few),
and are far more sensational than the story of
the female gamboliers ; but they are not to be
spoken of—right out—in print.
Gas Tar In the Ocmulgee.
Pulaski Co., Ga., Jnly 28.
*;■ Editors 2 degraph, and Messenger.—Distance
and mad give. me only the privilege of reading
your weekly issue, and being such an admirer
of your hebdomidul sheet, every item"is care
fully conned, and every suggestion duly consid
ered. Tt was then - vWth «umiligated pleasure
that I saw a communication lrom “Citizen”
(dated 18th July) on the waste of coal tar from
the city gas works as a question of economics.
May I not, by way of addenda, ask by what
right has jin incorporate and privilegea ! ieom-
panybr a private individual to destroy a pnblio
pleasure and my private claims by pouring
forth their filth and elements of destruction to
the fisheries of our river.
If I have moved several hundred miles to a
rivCrplantation, and the prospective fishing' is
one of the .emotional pleasures derived from
the locality, must I quietly see a privileged com-
-pony insulting insidious poison to deprive me
of my pleasure without a word of protest. It is
trne the citizens of Mneon are benefltted by
having the' city lighted by gas,' but the. compa
ny undertakes it for tho profits and their debris
should not be allowed to work an injury. Do
not yonr people love fish ? Can yon not go
back with me, MAesrS. Editors, to younger days
when we took certain fair ladies on the banks
of the nearest streams and there fished—for
love. Shall the waters of our river be contami
nated by the effluvia of coal tar, and we an
nounce to our children, that no snch fishing
awaits them on the Ocmulgee ? Can yon give
np the hope of a recreative fishing excursion, on
the river ? Havn’t they already got so scarce as
to be beyond the parse of yonr local, and he is
now paying his daily rounds to every restaurant
for a cheap diah for a syoophantio local, (I am
talking about fUh, not the local). Will the
piscatory wanderers travel through (he fames
of Plato to bed in the mountain streams and
give us a chance capture ? If the Mayor and
Aldermen of tbe oity of Maoon ever expect to
have their reunions at the expense of the scaly
tribe, then, let ns preserve their track pure and
unadulterated that we may feed the multitude
with a number of fish, and not require a mira
cle on a few scattering wanderers.
Counts nr am.
The weather was intensely warm yesterday—-
92 to 94 in the shade.
Railroad War In Georgia.
The Atlanta New Era of the 23d sounds a
charge npon the Central Bailroad as one of those
odious monopolies—the big dog in the Tan
Yard—which will allow no little dogs to 6leep
around the vats. It has done its best to kill off
the Macon and Brunswick and. the Macon and
Augnsta, and failing in that, is now doing what
it can to destroy the Brunswick and Albany, by
means nnder banded and over banded. The Era
evidently means to rouse a thunderstorm against
the Central Bailroad in the Agency. The spe
cific charge made, with editorial “improve
ments,” as a preacher would say, aro set forth
in that part of the article hereunder quoted:
This fight has been conducted in every con
ceivable manner, by injunctions, by insinuations
against the credit of the Brunswick and Albany
Company,- and by every other conceivable
means.
Tho latest indication of an attack on the credit
of this Company is found in a covert stab at the
credit of the State itself which is found in the
following communications forwarded to the
agents in Hanover, Germany, who have the sale
of tho Brunswick and Albany Company’s bonds,
which bear the State’s endorsement.
“1st. We do not think very favorably of tho
Bonds of tbe Brunswick and Albany Bailroad
abont 60 miles is finished, but we cannot form
any opinion as to when the balance will be
done. ' -
The State of Georgia does not pay Tier own
bonds now past due since Sept. Gth last, and we
therefore think little of her endorsements. Pos
sibly the road maybe able to earn enough to
pay its interests, bnt we would not like to guar
antee this. In short, tee have too many rail
roads in Southwestern Georgia; and therefore
do not consider these Bonds as first class secu
rity.
The State endorsement nnder present govern
ment we think little of.
.. 2d. We do not consider tho bonds a perfectly
safe security. .
The impression prevails with prudent and
well informed men that tho endorsement of tho
State was obtained under false representation
and that as soon as the people are properly rep
resented in our Legislature, it will be repudi
ated.
The road passes through a comparatively un
productive country, and ample facilities are af
forded by roods already constructed for the
transportation of all produce arriving at Albany
from tho interior.
It is, therefore, doubtful whether the business
of tho road will bo snch as to guarantee a regular
and punctual payment of the interest, and in
dne time the principal, independent of the guar
antee of the State.
The road has been built for 65 miles from
Brunswick npon the old bed, and the work from
this point will progress more slowly and at
greater cost.
Concerning its management an unfavorable
opinion is generally expressed here.”
The query naturally suggests itself as to who
is represented by tho “we” that “havetoo manv
railroads in Southwestern Georgia ?” Is it the
same party who control tho “ample facilities af
forded by roads already constructed for tbe
transportation of all prodace arriving at Albany
from the interior ?”
The people of Southwestern Georgia do not
believe that they have “too many railroads;”
on the contrary, the Legislature voted by
large majority that more were necessary, and
that more should be constructed.
We would also inqnire as to who the “pru
dent and well informed men” ore that threaten
repudiation 1”
Let them bnt come out boldly over their own
signatures, recommending such a dishonorable
proceeding, and the people will very promptly
repudiate them and their associates.
With the exception of a fow old fogy stock
holders in the monopoly roads, the people are
alive to the advantage and necessity of opening
avenues to reach onr rich natural resources
and more mites of railroad have been built in
Georgia during the last two, than daring tbe
previous fifteen years, and the immediate ad
vantage is shown in the increase by many mil
lions in the taxable volne of lands in the sections
through which the roads ran.
If the State should pay tho interest npon all
the bonds she has endorsed for these roads, she
would be more than repaid by the increased
valuation of property. We hope the people
will speak out through their local newspapers,
and denounce this dog-ln-the-mnnger policy
which seeks to drive out capital and crush new
enterprises.
Doings of tbe Agency.
The telegrams in yesterday’s edition reported
the Legislative proceedings unimportant. What
was actually done may be stated in a few words.
In the Senate Mr. Welch dilated npon a per
sonal grievance inflicted npon him by the Albany
News. An ineffectual attempt was made to re
consider the vote on the Bradley resolutions. A
message was received from the Governor, touch
ing the refusal of the Treasurer to pay oat the
$200 apiece to tho members, on the ground that
the Treasury was bare of funds other than the
School Fond. The Governor ascertains that
that fond has been loaned out for speculative
purposes, and recommends that it be looked
after. The matter was referred to tho Financo
Committee. The claim of one Wm. Henry to a
seat as Senator from the 44th District, was re
ferred to the Committee on Privileges and Elec
tions. The following bills were introduced:
Mr. Holcombe, to incorporate Atlanta and
Boswell Bailroad Company.
Mr. Brock, for further relief of the people,
Mr. Smith, (36th) to relieve the Western and
Atlantic Bailroad and other railroads in this
State from liability for damages for killing
stock, while rnnning on regular shednle time.
Mr. Donning, to repeal all laws making it
penal to erect mill dams on the Conesanga Hir
er in Whitfield and Murray counties.
Also, to give corporate powers to the Sonth
Carolina Bailroad, in this State.
Mr. Candler, to amend the homestead and ex-
emption laws of this State.
Mr. Stringer, to amend act incorporating
Gainesville and to give it the name of the city
of Gainesville.
Mr. Harris, to incorporate the Atlanta Bank.
Also, to prevent non-residents from selling
liquors iu this State Without license. ju> 1
Mr. Hinton, to authorize Superior Courts to
grant near trials in certain cases.
Mr. Merrill, to incorporate the Atlanta and
Lookout Bailroad Company" • • ii-.u
Mr. Speer, to incorporate Planters’ Exchange
Bank of Maoon. .
Afro, to incorporate the Potterville Factory
Company. " ' " J "
"Also, to incorporate the Macon Canal and Man
ufacturing Company.
Mr. Conley, to allow' the Ordinary of Ogle
thorpe to issue bonds to the amount of $10,000
for ihe purpose of building a poor house.
Mr. Wooten, to amend act incorporating the
Oconitgee Biver Bailroad Company and change
its name to that of Ocmulgee and North Geor
gia Bailroad. * won. .1 «T_ rvg i-r-r ' ' ,
Also, to incorporate City Bank of Albany.
Mr. Welch, to establish a common school sys-
and provide a fund for the same.
Mr. Hicks, to incoporate the Flint Biver Bail-
road Company,, . ’"
Mr. Bruton to incorporate the Bainbridge
Loan and Trust Company.
-Mr.lColman, to incorporate the Brunswick
Bank and Trust Company.-roTiq.i:;! ,
Mr. Campbell, to extend the charter of the
Charleston and SavanDah Bailroad.
Also, to create the office of General Superin
tendent of Education in this State.
A message was received from tho House, an
nouncing the passage of a resolution to pro-.nint
a joint committee to take into considc’ V>
capital and the proposition of tho c?
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
FROIT MACON TO WASHINOTOX—»MTTT,TrrvTirvTT.TJB—
MORE OF BURROCK S RITTRE GAMES—CROPS—
UNCRE SAM*S BOYS, ETC.
'Jantftjoi 44 'in5 f, _ w ^
On motion, the Senate concurred.
The President appointed the following as the
Senate committee: Harris, MoWhorter, Camp
bell and McArthur. -Med 008 unlu
The Senate then adjourned.
In the House, O'Neals bill for the better so-
curing of the School Fund, that is to say, for
paying it over into the hands of the Agency,
was passed. There is no doubt the Agency
will secure that Fund—not a bit of doubt. The
House then went Into eulogies over deceased
members.
Two biliard halls, supplied with Phelan’s ta
bles, are among the minor adjuncts of that pat
tern hostelrie, the American House, Boston
Messrs. Bioe keep paoe with all.the demands of
guests. ,.
A Missouri editor “will never quit editing
while God gives him strength to swing a pen
cil or stick or moral cockle burr under the crop-
par of loyalty and sham piety. ”
From the Atlanta Fete Era, 2Gth.
MURDER OF A MEMBER OF THE
LEGISLATURE.
Representative Claiborne, of Bronlts. Shot
by JUcutley, Messenger of the mouse.
The Legislative halls were the scene of a j- Washington, Ga., July 25th
about to commence the labors of tho day, three from Macon ta this delightfully pleasant town,
pistol shots were fired in rapid succession and a and only about one hundred and fifteen by rail,
cap was heard to snap, denoting that a fourth but tho traveler passing from one point to tho
attempt bad been made to fire. On rushing ., , . ... ,
into the lobby a colored man was seen abonthalf “‘heruuee n P about . 113 U he had
way down tho stairs leading up from Marietta Nashville as tho objective point of his journey,
street. This was M. Claiborne, ono of tbe Reaching Milledgevillo in four hours after leav-
Bepresentatives from Brooks county. It was in g Macon, he finds himself brought to a dead
obvious that he was dying. Ho never spoke ... , ,, . .
after be fell. Ho was shot through tho heart. halt - The Central and Maoon and Augusta
His assassin was Bentley, tho colored messen- . roads don’t entente coTdtdle much, I suppose,
ger of the House. . j and hence the traveler is forced to atop and go
the cause. ; to bed in the ancient and rightfal capital of the
Bentley as a messenger of the House, had un- I j, .
der his charge and control the pages, and re- j j5tate * _
cently discharged one of them, a colored boy : A night spent there is not without profit,
named AIodzo, who was a ward of Senator Wal- j however, though that result is reached amid
lace. This discharge created a good deal of ex- Inany reflections, the reverse of cheerfuL No-
citement and indignation . among the colored ; , . , ...
members generally, who asserted that the boy w here, in the btate.
THE HOHENZOLLERKS.
I Petersburg in 1808 to share in the inlJT'
1 ception there, and December 23d T8fri v te -
*“ r *“*"**!?* SUSS* or Historical Gos- Entered Ba^wttb 8118 **•
sip about the Royal Aamily of Prussia. «— l <x>K —
bad been discharged without cause, and Sena
tor Wallace expostulated and finally quareled
with Bentley, the result of which was the arrest
of the Senator for using opprobious language,
does a true Georgian feel
more sensibly the sting of the evil days npon
which his people have fallen. There stands the
Capitol, whose walls he can fancy still echoing to
This was answered 5 voices of the best, and bravest, and wisest
privilege, and this question was decided yester- ' of Georgia’s sons. Here they labored for
day morning by Judge Pittman, who discharged : Georgia and her best interests. Here, too,
Mr. Wallace. We heard it asserted that Bent- j th digge a deep and firmly laid the fonn
ley wore his pistol in caso of a collision with _ J r * , ..
Wallace. Claiborne going into the House this dations of that splendid fame and fair pros-
morning went to one of the pages and asked.for ! perity -whose strength and richness even
his letters. Bentloy stepped up and made some the wickedest usurpation and most rapacious
remark when Claiborne said “I don’t want jon
to speak to me, you s— of a b—, I don’t want
anything to do with you.” Bentley replied ho
wonld see him outside about that.
THE KILLING.
Claiborne stepped into the lobby and walked
towards the Senate Chamber with a friend,
Bentley following him. It is said that Bentley
called to him to take that back, and tbat when
he refased the shooting commenced. The first
shot missed Claiborne, passed through the door
of the President's lobby, struck the wall abont
two feet from the door leading from tho lobby
to tbo Senate, glanced to the wall at the end of
the lobby, and finally rebounded some six feet.
The second shot found its way into poor Clai
borne’s heart. Tho third missed and went
throngh the door of tbe office of Public Works.
A fourth time the trigger was pulled but it
missed fire. The wounded man went steadily
down the steps for a short distance, bat fell on
his back about half way down; he never spoke
again. He was carried across the street to Dr.
Westmoreland’s rooms. The doctor was out,
bnt Dr. H. V. M. Miller and Dr. Oime were
quickly on tbe spot. All they could do was to
pronounce the man dead.
THE EXCITEMENT
which followed was most intense and had not
ceased when the Legislature adjourned. At the
time the shooting took place, the members in
the House rose and scattered in every direction,
and in tho Senate the excitement was scarcely
less, and it was not nntil nearly half an honr
after the regalartime that the Senate was called
to order.
THE MURDERER,
after committing the deed, walked calmly into
the House and went to his desk, holding his
pistol in his hand. Mr. Fitzpatrick requested
him to give up the weapon and he did so, and
waited until Lieut. QneeD, of the city police,
came and took him into custody.
THE PEEUMINAr.r TBIAL
Will be conducted by Judge Spencer, in the
City Hall, at a. M-, this morning. It is be
lieved that Mr. Senator Nunnally will assist Mr.
Solicitor General Howell in the prosecution.
The prisoner will be defended by Messrs. Hus-
ley and Tignor, assisted by Mr. S. P. Spencer.
Our report will, we believe, be found to be
correct, though we have heard different tales;
but after carefully sifting, the information we
believe the above will be found to be trne.
The greatest regret has been expressed.by
members of all shade of politics that such a
circumstance should have taken place.
Hoihcide in Lauhens County.—A friend
sends U3 a report of a very melancholy case of
homicide in Lanrens county, as follows: Last
Thursday night, Dr. J. O. Carroll, of Laurens
county, was killed by Mr. Curtis Batts, nnder
the following circumstances: Dr. Carroll was
on his way homo from Dublin and called at the
hous6 of Batts after nightfall. Batts hearing a
noise in his yard, and the dogs barking furious
ly, says he hailed the comer twice, and getting
no answer fired upon him two shots from a
double-barrel gun, through the window, and
then hearing nothing more went to bed. The
next morning when he opened his door, he found
Dr. Carroll on tho floor, dead.
Agency Ditto.—“The less frequently Con
gress sits,” says the Philadelphia Inquirer,
(Badical), “tho better, and tho shorter its sit
tings can be made the better.” Yes, (says tho
Courier-Journal,) if we could reduce tho thing
to a session of ten minutes once in every forty
years, tho nation would be happy, and tho
Agency might be embraced in this remark with
the happiest results. Indeed, if after tho ex
piration of the forty years the Agency should
get together for a constitutional session of ten
minutes, the danger would be great that they
would provide for a thousand called sessions ad
interim, and then wind np by holding over.—
We should dislike to trust the Agenoy for even
ten minutes.
Muedeb in the Agency.—The farce of a pack
of negro “legislators,” so-called, took a de
cisively tragic hae on Monday last, when Moses
Bentley, a negro messenger of the House, shot
one^CIaibome, a negro from Brooks county, act
ing os therepresentativo of that county, throngh
the heart, killing him instantly. We have
called a particular account of the affair from
the Atlanta New Era, to which we refer the
reader. Tho negroes are sadly out of place as
the catspiiws of a miserable faction in a real or
pretended Legislature of the State ; bat wo do
not want to. sco them killing each other off in
that way.
Well-Behaved Negroes—An Efficient Po
lice and "Gallant Citizens.—'The Louisville
Conrier-Jonrnal, bf Sunday, illustrates all three
in the following paragraph:
Yesterday'afternoon, as two ladies were pass,
ing the corner of Tenth and Chestnut streets-
a negro boy threw a rock and hit one of them
in the head, making an ugly gash, from which,
the blood flowed freely. Tho other Isdy seized;
hold of the boy, when he' attempted to strike'
her also. She called for the ossistanaeJOf iwo
white men , who were standing in tho door of
tho grocery on the corner, but they did nof; in-;
ferfere., t The negro struggled with,the lady for
some time, and these two' shameless 'WlatAfneB
stood by and looked on. Meanwhile the injured
lady came near fainting from the: Iosb of; blood:
Tho . jboy got away and ran before any on# ari
rived that had principle. or gallantry enough
about him to assist the ladies thus maltreated.
They ato both of high standing in society, and
their families are well known. The, wound iq a
very serious one, and it is feared the skull is
fractured. The action of the boy who did the
otablcrmon who added insult to it was worse.
siUriob Hi
greed have only been able to cripple, not de
stroy. Hero linger memories of days that aro
no more,but’fnil of fragrance still, andstill plead
ing for a return to the principles and purposes
of tho post. If walls could speak and dumb
brick and mortar cry aloud, from nothing could
come a more eloquent appeal for unity and har
monious purposes among the people to right
their wrongs, and return to the old paths of
faith, honor, and manhood. I do not intend to
discuss tho removal question, I only mean.to
say that with the removal there seemed to crop
out among many who onoe did their duty as
men-and Georgians legions of the devils that
corrupt and demoralize—that sap private vir
tue, and corrode and bring into contempt pnb
lio morality. Whether going back to Miliedge-
vijlb would cure the diseases that now rage and
riot and rot at Atlanta, I do not know. Bat I
and all men do know, as a fact, that these diS'
eases, never showed themselves nntil removal
was accomplished.
I heard the night I spent in Milledgevillo that
Bullock had just removed the old Capital guard
of white men, many of whom had grown gray
in the service, retaining their places under suc
cessive administrations, and pnt in their stead
a lot of negroes. Of course, there was no rea
son for this change except that the men were
white, and Bnllock is base and hates that color.
Possibly he may imagine the people do not loath
him sufficiently, and desires to reach the maxi-
mum of their detestation. He certainly has not
far to go if that assurance be any comfort to
him.
In the dewy freshness of early morning you
leave Milledgeville behind, an j are soon flying
at good speed and over a smooth, solid road.
The country is considerably broken, and high
embankments and deep cats show that railroad
ing along this line was earnest business. The
crops along the road look well, in the main, but
everywhere, and especially in Hancock county,
there is a ruinous and most irritating dispropor
tion between cotton and corn. It is Falstaff’s
“half-penny’s worth of bread and an intolerable
deal of sack,” repeated. It is almost hoping
against hope to look for a reversal of these pro
portions, but that’s abont all that can be done.
As it takes the knife and cantnry to get rid ol
some kinds of physical ailments, so, perhaps,
this cotton disease is beyond tho reach of any
remedy less heroic than starvation—an actual
gnawing of the hunger worm.
At Warrenton the U. S. flag and loyal blue
appear to remind all whom it may concern that
the war is not yet over—that peace hath not her
victories in these parts, at least, and that the
prayer of the illustrious dummy now at Long
Branch still remains unanswered. Nobody
seems to know exactly what these soldiers are
there for, unless to keep old Adkins’ ghost laid.
They can’t find out who killed him, and what
else can they be staying for, unless to keep the
martyr in his grave ? At Barnett, on the Geor
gia railroad, there are still more soldiers, whoso
white tents and slow pacing camp sentinels look
still more like war times. Tfiey are ostensibly
on the watoh for the K. K.’s, bnt as those chaps
are summering it in their chateaux d’ Espagnes,
their vigil don’t seem to amount to much. Bar
nett, however, soems a pretty good place to con
sume rations and slay “graybacks,” so that the
soldiers might as well be there as elsewhere.
Washington is a luxury after Macon—in July
atleast, existence in a coat is really possible, and
I havo actually seen men at work in their offices
with coats, cravats, and collars on. Tho nights
ara, and have been all this summer, quite com
fortable, though the thermometer is lively
enough during the day. Throughout this coun
ty the crops, in the main, are good, though
some neighborhoods have been very dry. Two
thirds or thereabouts of cotton is tho story here,
too, and planter’s drafts are as common as city
currency is with you. There is bound to be,
under the most favorable circumstances, much
embarrasment, if not .actual distress and ruin
financially, before the next crop is pitched.
One misses upon the street "here.now, the fa*
miliar face and stately presence "of. that great
Georgian, Bobert Toombs., With Mrs. Tjffio
is, at present, on s Northern and Northwestern
tour. Those who think that Badical ostracism
has put him nnder the ban amoDg his old friends
and followers in this section,, and tljat evealf
not outlawed he could never rise again, have
only to travel through this section to find out
how badly they are deceived.
I will go to Athens the latter part of the week
to attend tho commencement exercises of tho
University, boginning on Sunday the 31st, a
faU difPriptipu pf^-hiohij will ; send, you, TTn-
til then, aif-rccoir.-n
.Moq-rt I«i
&
.-i --The Southern Farm and Homo.; 7 j
The August number is out - with .'accustomed
prinetbality/ and it is a capital number;. -Be
sides iWm Work for the Month, we- hafetm
article on the Cultivation qf,-Crppg by Dr. J.
Diokson Smith,- in answer to Mr. GusfcgtTj-bryig-
ing the controversy onDaep or Shallow Oulturp,
to quite an interesting stage ; artiplqs on Tur
nip Culture, (Principles and Faqta in .Agripoltp-
iDjnrywls an outrage,Vnt "tharof the ffishon 0 ral Chemistry, Cotswold Sheep, Stable Econ*
— -■>- - ^ ■ omyj 1 HorticnUnre, CropvProspects, Mr. Ba£e>-
mau’B Cotton, Bees, 'Mixed Crops, Fonltry,
Household, Editorial; Answers to ’Correspond
ents, and the usual review of current literature
in the department known as the Editor’s Book
Table. There are besides a great variety -.af
miscellaneous articles. - This number is . ren
dered yet mote attractive .by the publication of
the first'instalment of Mr. Frank A. Nisbet’s
Prize Story, and the Prise Poem—King Cotton—
both productions of great: merit. We again
heartily commend the Farm and Home to our
readers. It is published by J. W. Burke & Go.,
at $2 per year. .
France lost 80,000 men during the Crimean
struggle; the Italian campaigns carried off 60,-
000 more of Napoleon’s braves; while 65,000
Frenchmen were sacrificed in the Chinese and
Mexican wars. The opening war is assuming
snob mammoth proportions that Napoleon’s
losses now promise to exoeed all these figures
aggregated. 120 , ^ j
The feeling in Paris just now is that this is a
What fs the World to do Now ? [ >
The conclave of Seven Wise Men* , at Bald-,
more yesterday, adjourned for one year, to meet
in Cincinnati. \ ^ l
It is an unlucky piece of business that the
Seven Wise Men shonld havo ihockcd pit fora
year just as the world is getting into apaiticular
muss. But maybo they concluded there was no
chance for their wisdom when Kings and.
Clubs were trumps. Were they not right ? War
is supreme violence and nnireason-^-is it not?
The Commercial Advertiser contradicts-the
report that Greeley’s articles np0n“what T
know abont fanning” are to be dramatised by
Olive Logan for the Lydia Thompson Troupe.
What has the world missed!
Pbubsia vs. Fbanol—'The Mobile Begister
chronicles a fight on the streets between a Prus
sian and a Frenchman on considerations purely
national and patriotic. Prussia whinned and ... leel ?“8 “ *' arls now is that this is a
paroaa rrmu mipped, and f or action, not for Thiers. The time for
the imperial flag was displayed in .the rear; Thiers is ooming, however.
By Dr. Osgood in the Evening Post.)
The Thiergarten at Berlin is'one of the larg
est and finest parks in Europe, being two miles
long and a half mile broad, abounding in grand
old treeB, and only needing rocks and hills to
give it all tho essentials of thernralpictnresqne.
Near the Begenten street, where onr American
minister lives, tons the southern boundary of
the park, and you do not go inside far before
yon meet a pretty sheet of water, with a little
island in the middle, with a handsome monu
ment, and a few steps beyond the island yon
find a striking statue within a • lovely grove.—
The statue is of Frederick William III., and is
by Drake, the famous pupil of the peerless
Bauch, and the island.bears the name of Louisa,
the noble Queen and wife of Frederick William
HI. I do not propose now to criticise the
statue or celebrate its great merits. I will only
say that it is at once a History and a poem, tell
ing by its portrait figure the story of Prussia’s
most heroic life since her great Frederick, and
exhibiting on the carvings of the base the tri
umphs of Prussian art and science over all the
kingdom of nature by that heroic King’s laTge
policy. The point that I wish to dwell npon is
one that seemed to me to be a defect in the
artist’s work. ' .
I asked the accomplished lady who was my
gracious guide how it was that such an obvious
Haw in the marble was allowed to exist upon
the foot—the right foot I think it was—and she
replied that it was not a flaw in the marble, but
on intentional work of the chisel, and was
meant to represent a patoh in the King’s boot.
I saw at once the intention, and that this King,
who had carried Prussia to such triumph through
tho terrible wars with Napoleon, was here por-
trayed in majesty, yet with sagacious recognition
of his humiliation and sacrifices. He who wore
the crown and bore the sword was-willing to
share the frnits of his misfortunes and have his
boots patched, that the nation might have , an
example of frugality and determination, and
spare money from self-indulgence for the great
war of liberation. The whole story was told at
once by the light of that charming midsummer
day that fell upon the statue of- the King and
npon the island that bore the name .of his fond
wife Louisa, and the monument there by Scha-
dow, that oommemorates her return from Kon-
lgsberg in 1808. There is a great deal of poetry
abont the whole affair, and. it speaks well for
the “gratefol inhabitants of Berlin,’’ who erect
ed tho Btatue in 1849.
' , THE PBOSSIAN MONAItCHS.
As this scene expresses an important crisis
in- modem history, and brings the king and
queen together under the watch of art and na
ture as they were together in their memorable
lives, a few words of explanation may not be
amiss. Frederick William, usually styled
the Great elector, and the fonnder of the Prus
sian monarchy, was bom in 1620, and his acces
sion to the electoral power in 1840 is usnally re
garded as the founding of the nation. He
brought Sweden to terms, freed Prussia from
her former subordination to Poland, kept Louis
KIY at bay, and even cat into his conquests,
welcomed protestant exiles to a free asylum,
founded universities, identified himself with
the liberties of Germany, and died in 1088, the
year of the great revolution that gave constitu
tional liberty its triumph in England. His son.
lerick I, bom in 1657, carried out bis fath-
ipolicy, furnished troops to the English
liberators, and January 18, 1701, attained the
darling object of his ambition, and with his
wife, the sister of George I, of England, was
crowned at Konisberg. He died in 1713, tbe
first king of Prussia. His son, Frederick Wil
liam 1, was born in 1688, and died in 1740,
after a reign of twenty-seven years that so folly
show his shrewdness and folly, his honesty and
cruelty, his parental carelessness and brutality.
He left to his son, Frederick II, called the
Great, over six million of surplus money, and
an army of seventy-two thousand soldiers.
Frederick the Great was bom in Berlin in
1712, and died in Pottsdam in 1786. It is well
to remember that he had English blood in his
veins, and that his mother was danghter of
George I, of England. His life is too famous
to need notice here, and I pass on to his
nephew, Frederick William II, who was grand
son of Frederick William L He was born in
1743, and died in 1797. He was austerely edu
cated under his ancle's eye, but voluptuous and
visionary, extravagant and arbitrary, yet his
reign of eleven years was not without good in
fluence npon the pnblic spirit, and the laws and
industry of Prussia. . His. son, Frederick Wil
liam HI, with whom we have now to do, was
bom in 1770, and died in 1840.
Before speaking of his career, I will complete
the reoord of the royal family and say that the
son, Frederick William IY, who succeeded him
in 1840, was bom in 1795, mid in 1858 he was
compelled, by insanity, to yield the manage
ment of affairs to his brother William, who suc
ceeded him in 1861, and who was bom in 1797,
and his son Prince Frederick William, bom in
1831, is now the crown prince of Prussia. I
state all these particulars because they are very
mnch confused in the minds of many people,
and I give to readers the simple points that I
find it so important to hunt np for myself.
FREDERICK WILLIAM HI.
his worthy efforts for the good of his^ 111 ,* 11
and her name deserves to he connected
foundation of that great Berlia uni
which in some respects has no snnn T ^ I8 ’ ty >
earth. In June, 1810, she died in her w* ??
arms, and her body was laid in peace
park at Charloitenburg, where Bauch ta! j
statue worthy of her memory, and wWo *
her husband rests by her side in a tomb tuv*
statue from the same master hand H Wlt ha
never left him and the nation. ShewA
Blncher and the Prussians when they
upon the French at Waterloo, antfseSSat?
fortunes of. tho day; and even now the ^ tks
Louisa which the king created Angnst 3*^5,?
after entering Paris in triumph, is ih s i’ 18 . 14 >
tion and reward of the young chivalry 0 f
sia, and led so many heroes in the sa!^
queens name to the victory of Sadowain isS?
THE MORTUARY MONUMENT
I have never seen a monument' that k „
beautiful and expressive as that in the chapel ct
their altitude is natural and &nd
these royal heads were in gcntledeen i **-**
tinted blush light falls upon them fro'mt5 U J
windows, and the central crucifix, the t,
delabra, with the throe Fates on onesf '
the three horns on the other, with the -- •*
on the altar and the scripture texts in f 1
npon the walls, gave mo an impression
shall never forget. The situation itself i. • 1
nificant It is three miles from the
Brandenburg gate across the Thierearten
does much to show that the serious spirit of a
old order of Brandenburg who won
from' paganism stiff remains, and thekS
family still unite heroism with reiicion V ■
the day when the Teutonic kniobts xn r ,,?
black dress with tho white mantle, noon*!,;!
WAS A wllitA nrofta wifh A cilrrow
.- - J especially fond of hw-
I? 8 * t 0 -™ 1 ° a ,° woald like to forelt
that this king ever made love to another S
man, and that even fourteen years after LoaiS
death he could-form a morganatic marries w -,v
the Countess, Augusta of Harrach, whom 1«
made duchess of Leignitz. Bnt history tala
little note of this vagary, and art, her datUfe,
knows no wife bnt that first heroic, gentle son)’
and refuses to divide in death the two who wr!
so trne and loving in life.
THE DESCENDANTS OF LOUISA.
It is interesting to remember that the eldest
daughter of Louisa, tlm Princess Charlotte n
married Jnly 13,1816, to Nicholas, of hi*
and that she was the mother of Alexander IL
the present Emperor, a fact that strangely re!
buffs the lampoon of Napoloon as to the oath cf
Alexander -and Frederick William at the tomh
of Frederick the Great, in the Queen’s pres,
ence, and shows that Louisa’s race still Hvet
and triumphs,-while Napoleon’s seed has per.
ished, in spite of his repudiation of his lord
Josephine and his shift to win posterity anl
fame by an alliance with the House of Austria,
The Emperor of Busaia is her grandson, tie
King of Prussia is her son, and the Prince Hot.
al of Prussia is her grandson, with good pais,
pect of perpetuating his race by his marriage
with Victoria’s daughter Victoria, who his a!-
ready kept up the good name of her English
mother by presenting her husband with fire
children in twelve years—three boys and two
girls. As I said once before, I saw the Prince
at Venice and was struck by his manly anl
somewhat severe simplicity as Count deLingen.
He went off to the German church at noon ini
stately little fleet of four gondolas from oar ho-
tel, and he impressed us as a man very mnch
after the Frederick William III, type, and who
wonld wear a patch on hi3 boot in case of a
pinch in his country’s fortunes. His race, the
Hohenzollem family, have done woneers by
their economy as well as heroism, and they need
both virtues in the recent extension of their do
minion and the new and embarrassing demands
upon their treasury.
It seems to me that Frederick William HI,
deserves to bo named with his grand undo,
Frederick tho Great, as doing the work in the
nineteenth century which Frederick did in tho
eighteenth. He withstood Napoleon and French
centralization with all its Latin affinities, as
Frederick withstood very mnch the samo spirit
in tbe despots of Bussia, Austria and France,
and fought out the battles of modern times in
his day. lie was carefully educated by a good
mother, saw enough of his father’s extravagan
ces and his grand uncle’s economy to form
habits and ideas of order, discipline and fru
gality. Probably the best thing for him was
ris early marriage at the age of twenty-three,
to the beautiful and accomplished Princess,
Louisa, of Mecklenburg Streluz, whom he met
at Frankfort, in 1793. It seems to have been
an honest, old-fashioned love match, wise as it
tamed outlhr the end to be, and the Prince of
Prussia was so struck by her beauty, nobleness,
grace and sense that he at once asked her hand.
The betrothal took place, and the marriage fol
lowed on the 24th of September following. On
the death of King Frederick William, ' she. as
cended the throne with her husband, November
16, 1798, and won all hearts by her goodness.
She helped the unfortunate,’ interested herself
in art and literature, enoonraged agriculture
and education, and had an eye. for merit of all
kinds. The favorite Of the Prussian people,
bhe had, of course, a certain influence in public
fiffuirs, and is supposed in 1805 to have influen
ced the king in favor of the war with France,
whioh proved to be so disastrous for Prassia,
although it was very popular.with the people at
the ume.- aotl 6 , d edl Wirt. I
I need not recapitulate the disasters off^he w&rs
with Napoleon,'or 1 the great triumphs th'atr're--
deemed them. Austerhtz,'Jena and Fxiedland
brought the humiliating peace qf . Til|jjt,; July,
.1807; whioh sacrificed half the territory of Prus
sia and left the other atthe mercy of'the con-
ueror. Louisa was with Frederick'' Wiffiam
unrig the treaty, and there met Napoleon twice
at dinner, and almost persuaded him in spite of
himself to grant her request. Tbe first time he
presented her with arose, and as she aocepted
it she added, “dote MagdeAourg au mains’'—
“With Magdebourg at least.” Hire did not get:
the fortress from Napoleon; bot-he confessed
that she was fully np to him in spirit, arid led
the conversation in. spite pf his efforts and his
address, constantly^pressing her point npon him
with great propriety;-end' to a way tbat could
not possibly provoke him/ The queen seems to
have been a sharp thorn,, however, to the French
autocrat, and there is reason to behove that he
countenanoed lampoo&s against her; and even
accused imr. of too much regard for Alexander
of Bussia. One of . bis bulletins satirized the
part she took at the tomb .of Frederick the
Great, at Potedam, in the oath of her hnsband
and Alexander against the French, November 5,
1805, and the consequence, which was the bat
tle of Ansterlits and the evacuation pi Busaia
by the German army with marching rations.
Yet in the calm reflection of 8t. Helena, he
seems to have thought well of the bravA woman.
who had done Bo mnch to set Germany against
him, and wboae spirit sirowe>«g*inat him long
after her exhausted body was. laid to rest in
1810. O’Meara attributes these sentiments to
Napoleon: “I have had,”said the Emperor, “a
high consideration for her ; and if the king bad
brought her first to Tilsit he wonld have ob
tained better oondiomS. She was elegant,
spiritnelle, prodigiously insinuating. She bit
terly deplored the war. The queen could not
be oonsoled for the treaty of Tilsit and for the
treaty of Magdebourg. ‘Peace is ooacluded,’
she wrote a little time after, ‘bnt at what price?’ r
Onr frontiers do not reach beyond tbe Elbe. | Eat6nton uext Wednesday. That *
^ We have no donbt <fid Putnam 1 ^®**** I
Napoleon had good cause to mnemberher aa
she was before and after her early death at thir
ty-four. Sue was with the king in his hamilia-
tion after his defeats, went with him to 8t.
The New Httfodeohe.—We rode out to the
Laboratory on Monday evening and were retllj
astonished at the large and beantifnl structure,
in the way of a hippodrome, that is being fruit
for the accommodation of visitors daring th
Fair, that opens on the third day of October
next, and other pnblic affairs which are to cone
off from time, to time at the Laboratory, for
many years to come. The new Hippodromes
to be 740 feet in circnmference, and a half tf
which is to bo furnished with seats andall nice
ly covered in with a shingle roof. .The struc
ture will rest on brick pillars, capped with iron,
and will be finished np in durable and work
manlike manner. It is in the hands of a mas
ter Carpenter, Mr. Jno. Brown, and he has all
the lumber on the ground to complete the job,
except the shingles. He will turn it over to tie
stockholders abont tho first of September at e
coat of nearly $8,000. Other arrangements are
being made by the general Superintendent of
the grounds, Mr. Samuel Salter, for the special
comfort and convenience of ladic3, and we can
didly believe that on the first of October next,
the Laboratory will be the finest and most cor-
vonient place for tho holding of an agricnlUml
and Mechanical Fair, or for testing the speel
and bottom of horses, in the world. There an
no such buildings anywhere, and the additions
and improvements now being made will, when
completed, eclipse at least anything of thescci
on the American Continent. It is tho detenu-
nation of the present management to make the
Laboratory and Gronnds a pleasant and fash
ionable place of resort, and they are determined
to leave nothing undone that will contribrie
to the comfort and convenience of visitors, b
day or two the rules regulating the Fair *
October, together with the list of premiums and
other information will be given, to the public
Everything has been so arranged as topr?
vent any confusion, misunderstanding, or any
thing of the sort. Everything will be ready in
time;' there will be a place for everything to ^
exhibited, and it will take its place Lnmediafrif
on its arrival, and there will be none of thrf
rushing or crowding or confusion that charac
terized the last State Fair- Men of tbs n's’-i
sort and who know what they are doing h 3 ^
matters in hand this-year.
^ ^ : • ~ , '_***V ; ; . '! t . u
jj.. A Dangerous . Accident.—'Third street, w.
tween Poplar and Cherry, and all that regi®
round about, were startled jesterdiy
by a tremendous crash proceeding f r0ffl
grocery and provision store of Messrs.
A Co., on the oorne? of Poplar end Third *
Vin? rushing to the bnildiejg it was found th*“
section of the seonnd floor, • in the eCnter of'
building, had given way nnder a lot of eora
had been stored away npon it, and that it
fallen to the floor beneath on the lower ® 6 „
the building, crushing pretty much jjj
under it, and iuflistiag a damage <
immediately: under it of abont $300.
i the g^
Thefla* 1
that fell was badly, if not eriminall.Vt P ut
the Workmen, as its supporting strength***
gather inadequate for the floor alone, much
when anything} was stored npon it u
Mr. Homes saya thero was not 5,0W p°
weight on the whole floor when its oeatre - ^
Two negro men arid a little white boy weJ * ,
■ -rat the time of the accident, hut .
the two negroes, -name down with the .
that fell, but, fortunately neither were
much. H was a very dangerous affair, bW
so happened that at the moment H fell no P*‘
•on was under it, <* tttoj would haw
crushed to flturfb, instantly.
Mxbceb UravKBKrrY.—The City Council) W
nnaniTttcma rote, on Tuesday afternoon ’ ^
dered the Mercer University $125,000^
ground on whioh to pnt up.thk-bnilding^
at $35,000^ making in all a donation of f ^
000. This is a most liberal not to &S
proposition, and w» do not think the
of the University will reject it
1 — _ Vje* 1 *’
A Grand Exhibition or Fauns j,
buss is to take plaoe on tbe Fair G
“ - - ' ■ Wednesday. Thai *
no doubt old 1
a glorious show.
Rochefort's to*m of iaoptisMH®*®*
will shortly esp&e.
