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. ":.$r . - *' • •:■<orS• "•ri*<'^>‘ >,'• ^-Vr;.^; T v.'^::vjf--^>*r O' <• ^ ?>w^J*'r.' : \' - qUSBY, REID & REESE, Proprietors. ■AISTD GEORGIA JOXJRJSTAIIj & MESSEjNGtER Ihe Family Journal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. Leave it to God? pj it» doubt ? all doubtsho solves: nlMtions which thought in vain revolves, **“ Re settles with a nod. Bl it a fear? He lias the balm, Which every human fear will calm; " Leave it to God! Leave it to God!. - •• -■ o the weight of daily care? r^c Him the burden; He wiU bear p b Uone the tiresome load, tv, it tiie restless, anxious thought Sr fntnro years ? By faith be taught— 1 Leave it to God! Leave it to God! tv, n the battle of this life ? Be fought it once, and won the strife, " Who lartli’a rough ways has trod. Be it the foe, who triumph vaunts ? - - Imns had foes, and bore their taunts ; Leave it to God! Leave it to God! Be it the I0.-9 of worldly wealth Or vet the eorer lo89 °* llQalt * 1 • All losses he makes good. In every lose there ie some gain, Some feed of S"«?«? 6 «> r Y I )aiQ ? Leave it to God 1 Leave it to God 1 Be it the heavy weight of gnilt ? The blood of Christ was freely spilt ? And ein atoned by blood. Be it the littleness of faith ? A>k and bo full, the promise saith; Leave it to God 1 Leave it to God 1 . Pe it a dread to yield this breath, That life long bondage, fear of death, Tho pang, the worm, tho sod? He conquered death who victory gives, He Iivetu, and who in Him lives, Leavos it to God 1 The Batik or England Feeling (he War Pressnre. We learn by telegram from London that the ofieers of the bank of England have announced i farther advance in the rate of discount of one percent. The minimum rate is now six per cent The barometer does not indicate mpre only the sudden changes of weather or the coming storm than does the bank of England the financiil disturbance and apprehension of approaching disasters in Great Britain. The nr between Franco and Prussia, and the com- plicstions growing out of it, have alarmed the tot authorities. Looking, too, at the extra ordinary preparations of England to place her- *!f on a war footing, with the tone of public lostiment and the language of the leaders of i3parties in Parliament, it is not nnlikely that ihe bank has received a hint from the Govern ment to lie ready for a crisis. At such a time as this there is a tendency to draw away the iperie of the bank. The demand for it abroad, and the hurried rush of timid people to get told of it for the purpose of hoarding against an evil day, would soon bring the specie re-erro down to a very low ebb if tho Bank were not to take precautionary meas ures to prevent that. Raising the rate of dis count is always the first step—putting on the (crews, as it is called—to prevent a drain of specie. Six per eent as the minimum is a high rite of discount in England, and it rarelly goes up to that except in times of war or a great commercial erists. It is evident, therefore, that there is serious apprehension in England that she cannot be kept out of the war. It is proba- hable that the rate of disconnt willberaisedstill higher. Wo should not be surprised to hear within a week that it has gone up to seven per test, unless something remarkable and nnex- peeled .'hon'd occur to indicate determined neu trality on the part of Great Britian or the pros pect of the war not spreading. We do not ap prehend that the action of the Bank of England will have anv serious or lasting effect upon the Saaom! affairs of this country. It might cause •temporary depression in our bonds and stocks abrotd. bat this would not continuelong. While te remain at pease and go on in our wonderful career of prosperity there need be no fear that lie credit of the country will remain depressed riutever events may happen in Europe. [Herald 5ih. The Government Cotton Coses* The Washington Republican, of Friday, says: The Business on all Government cotton rises has been brought to a stand still, by tho changes deemed necessary to comply with the tsv law organizing the Department of Justice. There are 7:57 of the cases, and work upon the portion in hand, nearly half the number, has been going actively forward for two years.— Ibo'it forty were disposed of at the laBt term of the Court of Claims, and a ntimbor were ready hr trial. The reorganization has, however, ■hum oat every one heretofore engagod upon Ih’Ha u.itiers, even down to clerk3 who wero kwilUr with the records, and all the briofs, in vhatever state of preparation, have been putin flin hands of new men. These will know noth- ~g of the evidence or special history of the in- wiir.-l cases, except what can be learned from •torniuiuation of a room full of papers turned Mw by the retiring connseL These suits in- hku about $15,000,000. C'itNn.-i; Labor is the South.—Tho introduc es i f Chinese labor into "Louisiana is working jery satisfactorily. The managers of the Mil ana estate, near New Orleans, says an expe- tiei,ca of several weeks has proved highly sat isfactory oif that plantation. The Chinese plow K *el! as the colored laborer. They are rather with the hoe, but constantly improving, at'l work with a steady perseverance throngb- «the allotted hours for labor. One charac* eristic is that they pay but little attention to Elections, except when received through their ■cad man, whom they implicitly obey, and who, M far as can be ascertained, is a man of snpe- CA&to, and much respected by all the Chi- itse on tbe'plnutation. They are unwilling to agage on farms or plantations oxoopt in large timbers, which may easily he accounted f6r. heir presence as jot has not produced any feel- Bg of jealousy among tho neighboring colored ;ople, and there is every prospect that the ex- .eriment will prove successful. This is onlya orroboratioa cf tho experience of other Chi- use employers. The Celestials always made good domestic servants and laborers. Patience, Wastry, and temperance aro national charac teristic.! with them.—New York Commercial Alter titer. So Extra Session or Congress.—A special h> tho Richmond Dispatch, of Saturday, says *t the Cabinet meeting the day before, the Preside tit said with reference to the European *»: As for a foreign complication I do not fear We. I do not see how I can be compelled to wavene Congress on this soore, although some ■“■foreseen accident may happen nicking, it a Weesgity. I am.now satisfied that Secretary *»beson can get along and carry out his pro- Priaive ideas in regard to the navy, and also btauge his back accounts, and the Indian mat- hri »ro also in proper progress; the goods and ***ney are being handed over to them, and t**ce with them is assured. I regret that Sec- Belknap cannot continue tho work on the fortifications and cemeteries, and that so many claims must bo temporarily refased pay- ®*»t, hut it will be only for a few months, and ■not of sufficient importance for mb to convene t °ogreas. f • " ' -I .«-• MACON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16. 1870. .. . . •' a eat Li npjffu . VOL. LXIV —N06 * <>cn. Johnston on the War. Tho Richmond Dispatch has interviewed General Joseph E. Johnston at the Springs, on the war topic, and got the following out of him: : " • One of us said, ‘‘General, they seem to be very slow about getting to business, over .the water.” _ “Oh no,” he replied; “two pow erful nations such as France ana Prussia, re quire time to prepare lor a war. Each side must concentrate its forces before attempting to cross into the other’s counriy. It would be a fatal mistake to cross without efficient force and material to sustain the invasion. I suppose the leader who first finds himself with the larger force will be the one to cross.” When asked abbut the relative merits of the troops he said that the French had gener ally been successful iu their combats with the Prussians, but this was as much due to their excellent generalship and the confidence of the men in their generals as to any other cause. THE FRENCH UPRISING. Exciting: Scenes In Fnrls—The French Eo thusiasm Compared lo that of the North After the Fall of Sumter. Correspond nice of the X. I". Tribune, j Paris, July 22.—For a day or two back there has been an apparent lull in the gathering storm of war,, but it is merely superficial and shows intense absorption in the great ;evont of the day, not that the public ’mind is cooling in its fervor. I have been a spectator during one great war, whioh was popular if ever a war were popular, and comparing what I am seeing now with what I saw at home, I cannot for a mo ment doubt that in throwing down the glove to Prussia the Government had, and knew it had, the vast body of the people at its back, and that it could not have kept the peacoif it had wished it ever so much. I believe those who say that the Emperor was averse to the war are mistaken. It i3 true that his health is in a wretched state, and that the excitement of carrying on a war at this time is a thing he may dread; and it is . It was a mistake to suppose that the Prus- 41116 that in retd, sober, earnest he did try, some . : ■'•r-.v deacon went home one evening JM complained lo his wife that he had been ■■'hamefnlly down at the store. .Oho of ^neighbors, he said, called him a Bar. Her ffasked. with indignation. “Why didn't •£**11 him to prove it?" she excHBmedf . ' '.the very thing—that’s the tremble I” ft** to* husband; “that’s.just what 1 did do; him to prove it, and ho .did i did prove ifc!?.(b Tee. report that Signor Brignoli and Isabella were married in Portland on the J. o tUt. is disposed of by a paper in that city, ;ys that the parties did not reach that the following day, and that no license °*en taken out. - ‘ ■ :o»i rtan 40? itxl&c -r, . sians were not soldiers. Military knowledge was more widely diffused among the people of Prussia than of France, because the Prus sian conscript was enlisted for three years only, while the French were enlisted for seven years. Thus, the Prussians were more con stantly changing, and military knowledge was diffused among a greater number of men. As to the generalship of tho two armies, the General expressed tne opinion that France had the advantage in point of experience. The French generals had been tried in the Algerian, and Crimean, and "Italian wars, and their merits proven. The merits of the Prus sian generals could not be discussed, as they had never had opportunity as yet to display them. The short campaign of 18CG was de void of military actions and movements suffi cient to prove the military ability of their generals. “Yes, but General, there is von Moltke; is not he a great general ?” “He has that reputation, but not deserved ly, I think.. He had the luck to defeat an old and inefficient general at Sadowa; whereas if he had had a general of any tact or ability opposed to him he would have received a ter rible whipping. From the only historical ver sion of the battle in English that I have seen it appears that he started two columns from two different points to advance upon Benc- dek.. These two columns were not in commu nication with each other. Benedck calmly awaited the attack, and while engaged with one column the other took him in the rear of his right. But what good leader would have waited for these two columns to have come upon him? Napoleon First, or our own Jack- son, would have advanced rapidly upon one of the columns with his entire army, defeated it, and then have returned to take the other one in his turn.” “His reputation, then, General, was as de served as that of Grant, and he deserved about the same credit for his strategy.” “Oh no,” rejoined the General, evidently mistaking the drift of the remark, “Grant would never have staid there like Benedek.— He would have advanced upon one of the ad vance columns and engaged them separately.” Touching the subject of American sympathy with the opposing nations, he expressed the idea, with a slight indication of disgust, that politicians would doubtless play upon the sympathies for Prussia in the approaching elections, in order to influence the German vote. He could not understand it, why the press of the South was so unanimous in its sympathy with Prussia. In Savannah, where he lived, there was hardly a day upon which the papers did not make an attack upon Na poleon. The impression seemed to bo that Napoleon was a despot and King Frederick was not. He considered this a great mistake. Napoleon was a wise and sagacious ruler, and France was one of the freest countries in the world, and nowhere could a man find better protection for his life and property. The Prussian government was one of the most des potic of Europe. The Germans wero great Red Republicans, and in this country had al most as a mass fought and voted against the South. As to the interests of Europo in the struggle, he thought that they should be with France, for if France were defeated Napoleon would be dethroned. Such an event as this would convulse France, and there cotlld be no peace in Europe for a long rime. A bystander playfully remarked: “Gene ral, you and Geu. Lee ought to be over there to settle thi3.” / , Laughing, he said: “The General and myself would not make much headway with our soldiers with our limited knowledge of the German language: No leader should com- pointing so many A Egyptian army. It is very, nice for the officers who arc well paid, butit will not prove so well for the Egyptians.” Here the. conversation changed, and auer enjoying it for some moments longer, during which we could not help being struck.with.the General’s unassuming and courteous bearing, we parted. ; , • A new Hose conpliag Various contrivances have been presented for popular favor in the form of couplings for hose. The most primitive and simple is that of the screw form, with projecting lugs, whereon is fit ted a wrench by means of which tho two parts are firmly connected. The vital difficulty with this coupling is that in making • the connection the hoso is twisted. Muon time is emploj oU ;» thus fitting the parts, and with the haste attend ing the connection, a perfect joint is wifely made. ’• A new coupling has been designed and perfeoted whioh obviates these objections. Tho particular merit is that both parts are alike, the union is effected with certainty, whether in the dark or ia the light, and leakage is impossi ble, the joint being absolutely tight and immov able without the assistance of a wrench. There are no lugs or projections to interrupt the pas sage of the hose up or down a ladder, or when carried oyer the roof portions of a building. Hose connected with it may be carried through furnished apartments without the slightest dam age by water leaking from the joints.. -Tho Fire Department of Westchester, N. Y., have adopt ed it, and the Brooklyn Fire Department have its ndoptioa under consideration. iY. Y. Tribune. Georgia. Washington, August 2. Information re ceived here states that the Bullock party in Georgia have decided to construe the act admit ting that State adversely to a State eleotion this falL Accordingly, the Legislature, which is now in session, has decided to oontinue its tenu of office indefinitely, thereby preventing an ad journment sins and declaring at thesamelime that no vacancies exist in the Legislature to bo filled by any election. This is a sudden change from the views entertained a few weeks since, and, it is said, will certainly lead to trouble in the State, os the Conservatives are detemiinad to hold an eleotion. Attorney General Aker- man has been applied to in an informal way for an opinion on the law, but declines to respond except on applic&ntion through official sonroes. The President is represented as favoring a new State election, and the prompt admission of Senators and members of Congress next De cember. —Courier-Journal. two or three years ago, to bring about a dis armament, but it ■ is also true that the Emperor knows, or believes he knows, that Bismarck bad fully made up his mind, in case the ple biscite went against the Government, to make a move fatal to the interest of France which, yet, she would be powerless to resist. Sinoe he was convinced of this the Emperor has been de termined to fight, and there are those who say that tho Prussian candidature is entirely a scheme of the Emperor and Prim's invention, and thRt it is Prussia that has been duped into giving France the excuse she wanted for fight ing. There may be no truth in this, but it was said, yesterday, by a person, whose name I can not mention, and who ought to know something of what is going on, as he is inside the door.— What is certain is, that communications be tween the Emperor and Prim aro constant; that there is a powerful faction here urging a movement in Spain in favor of the Prince of tho Asturias, and that ammunition of a very effective kind is being prepared in great quan tities in view of that event. It is also evident from tho revelations of the last few days that the reasons given for declaring war were pure and simple fabrications. Tho alleged interview between tho King of Prussia and Benedetti at Ems, the refusal of the King to hear what the French Embassador had to say, the King’s send ing an aid-de-camp to dismiss the Embassador, anil lastly, the dispatching of telegrams to the different Prussian Embassies to tell them be forehand of the insult the King intended to offer France—all these stories are inventions that, having served their tarn, will soon be acknowl edged for the falsehoods and gross exaggerations that they are. They wero merely tho matches which the hand of Napoleon applied to tho fiery heart of Franco. Any stick or straw is food enough at a pinch to carry fire. But, if Napoleon wished for an explosion ever so ardently, he must have been astonished be yond measure at tho result of his maneuvers to bring it on. I have only seen one thing like it, and that was the excitement in New York at the news of the firing upon Sumter. Yet, even that, was less than this. For, there, there were men, whoso hearts did not beat with ours, there were feet that held back. But, here the men who do not hate Prussia, the men who do not leap at the chance of fighting her, aro few and far botween. Almost the old hatreds are forgotten, aud the hatchet is buried with unanimity to be dug up at a more convenient day. There is a prodigious surface enthusiasm for tho war, but, below this boiling there is a deep, strong, re sistless current sweeping, all before it, bearing on the nation to tho supreme hour that will for a long timo decide its destiny. Only one thing now can stop France in her bloodhound course, and that is the Emperor's death. If the gout in his thigh, which, for tho last two days, has kept him at St. Cloud, should mount a little higher, the scene would undergo a mighty transforma tion ; but that is a mere chance. To-day he is at the Tuileries again, and we are assured that he will go to Nancy to-morrow. All that can be said is that this is one of the times when events hang upon a hair. "Whoever was in Paris last Sunday night, and on tho Boulevard, saw a sight never to be for gotten. A regiment of Zouaves left for the frontier, and all Paris was on the war path with them. I happened to be just entering the Place de Ia Concorde as they came across the bridge, and getting a good place by the side of a drummer, with the trumpet of the man in his rear planted comfortably in my left ear, I found myself, before I knew it, borno along like a chip in a freshet. There was no going back even if I had wanted to> and I can’t say I did want to. The square was well enough, but when the crowd tried to squeeze itself into the rue Royalo, I thought wo wore going to have the massacre of 1770 over again. Any one who had tried to stop to tio his shoe, let us say, would never have wanted to tie his shoes any more! From wall to wall was a solid pave ment of human heads, and ont of every head came a shout, the shout, not tho hymn of the Marseillaise! . When wo reached the wider Boulevard, things wero a little better, but not much, for we were merely a black river empty ing into a black sea, and our wove soon mingled indistingniubably with the vaster flood. The sidewalks were crowded, the street was crowd ed, and every window was filled with people cheering, sffontiDg, singing, and waviug of handkerchiefs. No omnibus nor, cab had a ghost of a chance. Many escaped down side streets, but the greater part drow up- in line along one side of tho Boulevard, and waited, the crowd meanwhile taking advantage of tho occasion, and swarming over omnibnsses, cabs, aud hotses like ants over apple (cores. The con fusion was indiscribable, for different sets of people were singing different airs, and the “Marseillaise,” “Mourir pour la Patrie,"the “Ghaut dn Depart,” and “Lss Lampions,” got so mixed up that it was all a roar through which you could only now.and then hear a trum pet blast, or a rattling.drum, wr.alxecxy of “Fuw la guerre/” “4,bae la Prussel” and rarely, very rarely, “ vive V Empercur /” The regi ment was in luck last night, Jor- the crowd was ready to give ’em anything. Money was shoved at them by handsful, and some old fellows adroitly managed to get on the outside and thus grabbed moro than their share. It was a sight to remember all one’s life, and I was even glad, after living a year in the stifling air of Paris, to draw a free dranght of real popular enthusi asm for something i like a. half-starved man, I didn’t just then much care what it was, was of fered tne—"tvvas something. A different sight had been the going off of a regiment of chasseurs that same morning, ear ly. I heard tho music as I sat in. my eyrie chamber, and, stepping out on the halcony,8aw’ tho men filing downthe harrow rue Bellechasse. The soldiers tilled the street;- the sidewalks wore filled with young men, arms locked, singing the Marseillaise, and music of fife and trumpet, mixed with the chant of voices, came striking up between tho high-walled houses. In the midst went the stout vivartdiere, dressed in her best; no holiday now for her, but work in earn est, and mixed with tho soldiers their mothers, wives, and lovers, keeping step and time. By one soldier went his wife, leading the little boy in heir left hand, and in. the other bearing the wee white -capped baby that Sucked its thumb nqiT leaped: to hear, the music. My God, .it brought back such a rush of memories, ami so many bitter sights at homo that I am not ashetned to say my eyes were wet. How bale ful seemed the ambition then that could, with The Pope Accept* ttoe Situation. London, August 3.—It is reported from Rome that the Pope accepts the situation, and has commenoed negotiations with the Italian Gov ernment The Papal committees in France, Deland, Holland, and Belgium are making greatofforta to raise recruits for the Pontifical service^7.1 .’nicrrSs oi .Jagi dtZi just no w no difficulty whatever in getting all the men that are wanted. I was at the Depot d£s Recrutement-yesterday, and-the sight was & strange onfejr 5ai he building was literally, be sieged by new comers, while those who had been accepted were getting drunker and drunk er in the wiae-shops, as seated wjth their wives and women, parents and children at tables set in the middle cf the street, while the sidewalks were almost impassable for the excited people gathered there. N I was after help for a drowned soldier, if help could be got in time. They had fished him up just as I crossed tho Pont d’Alme in a cab, and I told the coacher to lattle away to the nearest 'eecoure.” We had to get as we best could through the crowd of recruits, and make our way to a police" station, which I left with a ser geant de ville on the box, and another by my; side in an open cab, so that I had all the honors of arrest without its dangers. Beaching the quay, we found ourselves too late, and, indeed, the man wa3 dead when they polled him out feet first. I was struck with the quiet belief expressed that he had committed suicide. “He didn’t want to fight the Austrians," said my cocher. But the troth is, I think that he was tangled in the water-weed, which was so thick there that it showed above the water. One of his soldier comrades pushed in and tried to save him, and on the bank was his woman, who guarded his.clothes, and who took on most dis tractedly. But affiiotion has various forms, and while ! stood, by pitying, she fumbled, over his clothes and felt in all the pockets—finally found his vest with his silver watch and chain, took it out with most heart-breaking sobs and cries, put it carefully in her pocket, boxed the ears of two heartless little wretches who were making a search for stray valuables on their own account, and then rushed over to tho boat where the poor fellow lay and demanded to see his body. I left her straggling with the policemen, who were doing their best to keep her away from her pautre garcon, but without success. Sev eral of the soldiers have been prostrated with the heat, and several have died, bat they are a tongh looking, rough looking lot, and can stand a deni. _ Night before last we had a great demonstra tion at the opera. It was ramored abont daring the day that Marie Sass was to sing the Marseil laise, and the rash for seats was furious. Thanks to a friend, I secured a ticket by going in with him to the managerial sanctum, and he pleaded heroically for his American confere. The ex cellent old ticket seller shook her finger at me as she handed mo my prize, declaring that it was a privilegie, which looked likely, as I heard her assuring tho bands that kept poking gold through the ticket hole that there were no places left. Tho Salle was crowded long before the curtain rose on the Muetle di Portici, and there was not even standing room at the begin ning of the third act—the Manager having come out and promisod us the Marseillaise at the end of it. Those who kaow, say that it is rare to see such a meeting of the high social world of Paris. In a stage box was M. de Gramont, with M. de la Guerroniere, and in a box next the Emperor’s empty one tho Duo and Dachesse de Moucby, tho once lovely and even now handsome Anna Murat In the foyer I saw Emile de Gir- adin and Panl do Cafsaiguac, having a seat in the same row with me. I had the pleasure at the begiuning and end of every Act to be squeezed by that noble personage in his efforts to get bis chair. I watched him closely while the hymn was intoning, and there was some thing worth noting in his perfeot immobility iu the midst of the delirium of the crowd. For Paul do Cassaignac is at this moment the hero of the war in the Imperial circle, and means blood. He is deeply in earnest, and enjoys the hoar like a tiger. A few months ago he was hissed and insulted at the theater; a few days ago he was cheered ns wildly in the streets by the same crowd, and, to do him justice, he seemed to care a3 much for one as the other. Marie Sass could not sing, for she was too much excited, and if she had she couldn’t have been heard, for everybody was doing his best to out- sing her; but she made the gestures, and that wa3 something. She was dressed most absurd ly—she is fat as Alboni, and homely as her name—in a white sort of make-believe Greek dress, with an immense blu9 velvet mantle cov ered over with Napoleonic bees! The force of snobbery and.lick-spiltle couldn’t furthei go, for what, in Heaven’s name, has the Marseillaise to do with tho Napoleons? However, this may prove itself some day, and it maybe found that that the Marseillaise is easier to let loose than it is to chain up. ‘ 0.0. Tbe Georgia Press. Dogghebtx Gountt.—At.a meeting in: Al bany, last Tuesday, Cols. B. G. Lockett, K. N. Ely, and Nelson Tift were appointed delegates to the Atlanta Agricultural Convention, with Messrs. D. A. Vason, John A. Davis, and James Clark alternates. The following delegates and alternates were appointed to the Democratic Convention of the 17th: Nelson Tift, Carey W. Styles, Bu G. Lockett," B. N. Ely. Alternates—^A. Hemphill, Aaron Jones, M. W. Tompkins, S. J. Pitman. A people’s meeting, without, diotinullon of party, iras colled for last Saturday. Chatham Count?.—The Savannah Bepubli- can says it appears from the Tax Digest, whioh has just been completed, that the following is the value of taxable property in Chatham county: Land (140,958 acres) v ..... City and to wn property Merchandise Money and solvent debts : Shipping and tonnage Stocks and bonds.:.......:.. Cotton manufactures,.........;......:. Iron works and machine shops..... Household and kitchen furniture:’. Capital invested in mining All other property $ 1,658,650 ..... 12,482,350 1,948,900 3,568,022 189,000 : 1,962,760 2.500 next two weeks. Cotton,, whioh had begun -to ib^nUyU P to e lTstotto n bepr^Uio^ eld ^ *”» 88 ™ yesterday, prints Spaixuno County.—Griffin has got a new steam fire engine, and the Star, of Friday, chronicles her performances thus: 26,500 213,250 2,500 308,700 Total Total in 1869,:.v. .$22,363,122 .. 20,920,646 Increase in’ 1870.. $1,442,476 White polls in 1870 3,248 Colored polls in 1870 1,337—4,585 White polls in 1869 2,29G Colored polls in 1869 416—2,712 Take Down tho Shovel and tho Pick. It is reported from Europe that the Prussians have determined to adopt the system of field intrenchmont which was so entensively used by both parties during the American war of the rebellion. It is also s:ated that the French will in consequence be obliged to advance much more slowly; so that in fact the compaign will be little else than a series of gigantic siege oper ations. Of course there is some exaggarntion in this statement; but yet, in tho end, it will prove to be substantially true. Strategical manamvres will still be employed, and the armies will contend for advantage of position as earnestly as iu any preceding wdt; but there cannot bo any question that tho intro duction of arms of precision, which kill at six hundred yards, has entirely changed the condi tions df warfare. As long as two armies could be brought within two hundred yards of eaoh other with no daDger to life except from artil lery—and that is about equal to no danger at all — it was possible to fight battles without cover in the' open field. But with the greater range and accuracy of piodern rifles, and the greater rapidity of loading at.the breoch, it is impossi ble to bring troaj>3-ihto action on the old sys tem. This Is the real reason why after tho first-few months of the war onr great battles were in almost all coses fongbt behind extem porized intrenchments. It was in the necessity of the case, and the art "of constructing field fortifications was soon learned by our soldiers. This great change which our. war established IOx military roiouoo u HOW to.be . applied iU-Etl; rope; i pod it is an interesting tael that the Prussians, who might" easily have been beaten at Sadowa hnd the Austrians understood, this art, should now be the first to bring" lt’into ex tensive service in that hemisphere. No one who remembers the experience of Gettysburg, or tho wilderness, or Cold Harbor, will imagine that the introduction of field in- trenebments can render battles any the less deadly. These extemporaneous field works aro indeed of great benefit in protecting the soldiers engaged against the fatal accuracy of the new weapons; but battles contested with these wea pons must be exceedingly destructive of life, notwithstanding all the breastworks that on army can erect. A most important consequence, however, must bo the protraction of tho war.— Battles that decide a campaign will become less freqnont than formerly; and where the two contestants are so nearly eqnal as France and Prussia, it is certain that tbe use of the new arms and of field fortifications renderssuch con flicts as those of Jena, Austerlitz, Leipsic, and Waterloo almost impossible. —X. Y. York Sun. "• *"• fp v. iLU Agency on Friday. In the House Mr. Anderson offered.au amend ment to the House bill, incorporating the North Georgia and Tennessee Bailroad bill, that no State aid shall be ghmted until an equal amount shall have been paid in and ■ expended—which was accepted. That is a good provision, which should have universal application. The bill a light heart, such as Ollivier boasts of, send wa , then laid on the table—ayes 71-nays -47. itiJrpnrfl fn thft KhamhlfiS *• . • - - rTafTT . , these men ia troops to the shambles. Tho signs of war are everywhere. In the street in every direction and at eyery minute you meet squads of men who are going to the recruiting ^office,.! drunk, sometimes reeling, never sober, shouting the Marseillaise or Mourir pour la patrie. Then you meet a cab full of fellows in like condition, always in charge of r the officer or civilian" who has pioked them up, and there they! are, lolling and tumbling about, i The Committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvements reported several bills. The Com mittee on Printing recommended $5,000 to be paid the State Pripter^,.?,^-, JetriWin In the Senate, the report of the Committee of recommending the purchase of the Opera Pi House was adopted—yeas 20, nays 9. j*ct- shouting, yelhng ail day and far into the night j Ibox top. the Macon and Augusta Railroai', on their way to the Depot des Kecrutemeut, ; Tfae Leila M. Long arrived at Brunswick w f'l.m 1 on Thursday with 600 tons of rails to finish the Tho addition to the airny during the last few 011 Thursday with i Increase in 1870......' 1,873 The Republican says the Gen: Barnes sailed on Thursday with the large number of one hun dred and three oabin and four deck passengers, whose names will be found in our Marine col- um, and embrace many well kuown citizens.— The General Barnes also carried four hundred and seven bales of upland cotton and a large miscellaneous freight. The American also sailed for Baltimore with twenty oabin passengers and a good freight, including 2CG bales of npland cotton, 1,248 oases of canned pine-apples, and a variety of miscellaneous merchandise. The steamer Wave, tbe first of four new steamers for the river to Augusta^ built at Nor folk of iron has arrived at Savannah. Richmond County. —The Angustions are amusing themselves with horse races. The Constitutionalists learns that the probable loss occasionedby the fire at the shop of Wa H. Goodrich, Esq , is about fire thousand dollars, quite a large quantity of fine walnut and ma hogany lumber being stored in the kiln. Muscogee County.—The Golumbna Snn due on Friday night failed. The citizens of Colum bus held an indignation meeting over “pro longation” last Thursday night. They adopted resolutions, not contained in the Enquirer's re port, and were addressed by Mark Blandford, Benning, Peabody and Banmsey. TheEoquirer says: The preliminary trial of Tarver, charged with thoshooting of young Cook in the recent affray, came of befoie Justice Smith last Friday. Only two witnosses were examined for the prosecu tion—none for the defence.' The evidence taken by tho prosecution was eo strongly in Tarver’s favor that the defence thought other testimony unnecessary. It was proved that Tarver did the shooting in self-defence, and he was acquit ted. His wounds were not as ' dangerous as at first supposed, and wa understand he has left town. The Enquirer has the following: Mad Dog.—We heard reports of one of these monsters on Bridge Row yesterday. One was killed on the snpposition that he was mad. We did not ascertain whether he had bitten or at tempted to bite any one. Expected by the 15th.—A negro at No. 5, M. and G. R. R., has already picked out 300 pounds seed cotton, and expects to have a bale ready by the 15th instant, or soon thereafter. Brooks County.—The Quitman Banner, of Friday, says that last Monday morning, whilst the jailor was in the act of attending to the wonts of the prisoners in tho Quitman jail, fonr negro fellows, who had been imprisoned for larceny and other misdemeanors, made a rush past the jailor, and escaped. Coweta Cotnty.—Wo clip the following from the Newnan Herald, of Friday morning: Serious Affair.—On Saturday last Mr. R. W. Hardy, a citizen of this county, was severely stabbed by a nogro named Waae Collins under the following circumstances: Mr. Hardy hired Wade to labor on his farm, bnt discharged him She threw two solid streams at once 213 feet through a J inch nozzle ; one solid stream 194 feet through a 1J inch nozzle. She threw "plan : ty of w^der over the Methodist Church steeple. Her power is from 70 to 110 pounds to the inch, and she throws from 400 to 450 gallons of water per minute. She tum oastty Handled by 14. men, but is rigged for propelling by man or horse power. The same paper says there was a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Grif fin and North Alabama Railroad in Griffin yes- terdayi They are pushing forward the enter prise with great vigor: The Middle Georgian of the same date says : One of the coolest, wisest and most sagacious men of our county made the sensible remark that “it'would'bewellfor the people of Georgia to buy up the present Legislature at a price of five millions of" dollars provided they would go home and cease dallying with law making. His idea was that the State wonid be pecuniarily benefitted by sneh'^k course. Make them all rich. We are inclined to think he is right.” 1 Begin with a bid of fifty thousand. We see by .the Georgian that Spalding appointed Col. Jno. D. Stewart, Colonel Jas. S. Boynton, and Messrs. F. S. Fitch and J. H. Mitchell'as dele gates to the 17th of August Convention. or Wade left voluntarily, we don’t know which, about the 1st of March, when the negro sought and obtained employment under Capt. Potts on the Savannah, Griffin & North Alabama Railroad. Hardy and tho negro afterwards frequently met and came very nearly having difficulties. Last Saturday Mr. Hardy was riding by the negro engaged in driving pegs in the ground when the difficulty wu3 renewed.. Mr. Hardy was just dismounting when the negro ran up behind him and struck at his head with a hatchet and made a glancing lick. The combatants clinched, when the negro drew a bowie-knife from his boot and inflicted a. severe wound in Mr. Har dy’s "right breast.; - About this time, some one came up and the negro left and has not since been arrested. At last account Mr. Hardy was ifnpraving." t - n " Arrived erom Cigna.—After an absence of eleven years from Georgia, Mrs. Mollie Allen, wifo of the devoted missionary, Rev. Young J. Mercer University* A private telegram received by the editors from Atlanta, at 3i.it., yesterday, announced that the Board of Trustees of Mercer Universi ty had decided to locate their institution at Ma con. The Board is composed of the following gentlemen: President—Hon. David E. Butler. Hon. David E. Butler, of Morgan. r Hon. Thomas Stocks, of Greene. ”> Rev. Charles M. Irvin, of Dougherty. Thomas J. Burney, Esq., of Morgan. Rev. Henry Bonn, of Twiggs. Rev. Sylvanus Landrum, D. D., of Chatham. Rev. E. W. Warren, of Bibb. Rev, Benjamin F. Tharpe, of Houston. r Rev. James H. DeVotie, D. D., of Muscogee, i Hon Marshall J. Wellborn, of Muscogee. Rev. William T. Brantly, D. D. of Fulton. Captain John T. Wingfield, of Wilkes. Rev. H. Allen Tupper, of Wilkes. Hou. Thomas G. Lawson, of Putnam. Col. E. Steadman, of Newton. Hon. Philip R. Robinson, of Greene. }a Rev. W. L. Kilpatrick, of Richmond. ;jy r Daniel Walker, Esq., of Coweta. Wm. J. Northern, Esq., of Hancock. Hon. John T. Clarke, of Randolph. General John B. Gordon, of Fulton. And in addition to the Trustees, the follow ing gentlemen oomposed a committee to act with the Board on the question: Colonel J. D. Stewart, Hon. G. S. Obear, Rev. J. H. Kilpatrick, Dr. J. S. Lawton, Rev. W. L Harley, Rev. G. R. Moore, Rev. G. R. McCall, Rev. W. H. Davis, Rev. R. Fleming, Rev. J. McBride, Rev. J. G. Ryals, Rev. F. H. Ivey, Rev. W. D. Adkinson, Rev. G. A. Nun- nally, Rev. L. Joiner, Rev. A. W. Buford, Rev. W. L. Mansfield, Rev. C. C. Willis, Colonel U. B. Wilkinson, W. H. Starke, Colonel Alfred Shorter, Hon. M. A. Cooper, Colonel J. J. How ard, Hon. R. J. Bacon. We think the Committee and the Board have acted wisely. Macon, looking at its centrality —its extensive communications, and the popu- tion, which is tributary to it, is undoubedly the best locality in the State. And looking at the Jaot that a large majority of the Baptists of the State are to be found in the latitude of Ma con aud south of it, there was additional pro priety ia placing the college here. We hope, with the new location of Mercer University, the denomination and the people generally will open their hoarts, and devise lib eral things for the institution. It will be the only collegiate, institution in a vast scope of country. Southward its range extends to the Golf of Mexico. Let the Baptists and the men of enterprise, philanthropy and public spirit unite iu adapting it to the wants of the age. We need in Georgia a thorough school of applied scienoe—a polytechnic school, which shall offer our youth an education in civil engi neering, surveying, mining, agriculture and mechanics,- and all the exaot sciences. Let Mercer be provided with its scientific depart ment, like the Universities of the North and the Old World, and to this end let the Bap tists lead off liberally and invorke the liberality of the friends of_education generally in all this, vast region. WesayJt .is in the power of the friends of this University to make it one of tho most eminent institutions of learning iu the South. . - tr . The Prussian Headquarters. Kreuzenach is a town of 10,000 inhabitants, and is situated eight miles south of Bingsn, (dear Bingen on tho Rhine) ou the railroad be tween Metz and Mayence. The railroad runs west by south from Mayence to Bingen, near the banks of the Rhine, wfion it takes an abrupt turn and continues almost due south to Kren- zenach, when it follows a west by south, south west, and west-southwest course to Motz, mak- ingit a decidedly brooked road. It forms con nection. with the Metz and Monheim railroad at Rexbach, on the Bavarian frontier, where a sin* gle road continues to Metz. ■— v* r - Kreuzenach lies on both sides of the Nahe, a stone bridge connecting the two parts. The west side, which is the most populous,- is poor | and dilapidated^ but the east side is covered by | splendid hotels and fine houses. Ou account Alien, arrived at this place last Saturday, on a of its cold saline spring it is a favorite resort visit to her sister,. Mrs. Sam. Arnold, of this : for invalids, several thousands.of whom yisit.it county. Mrs. Allen has with-her three chil- yearly. As a military position, the place poe- dren, ’and expects to spend one year in this, her ! sesses no Special importance. It is, however, native county, leave her daughter at- some Col-' Tory old, and wad at one time a fortified poet, lege to be educated, aud then return to China: \ TM distance from Kreuzenach to the most Mrs. Allen’s out and return trips demonstrate j prominent points occupied by "the belligerent the great improvement in.-onr means of com- , armies are as follows: To Metz, about *H6 inunication with China. Mrs. Allen was seven ! niiles by railroad; to Coblenz, about forty- months in reaching China from New-York, (three, via Bingen: to Mayerice, .via Bingen, while she arrived at Newnan, via PaSific. Bail- ." about twenty-three; to Mayence, by post road, road, in one month and twenty-four days after fortymileg, and to. Treves about srxty.mileg. leaving Shanghai. . Its special advantages as army headquarters is n •* ril - undoubtedly its position between Coblenz and PaoiiONGation. Christopher Robinson, Mayence, and the complete manner in which it Mayor ol Newnan, has issued a long and formal covers the entire railroad connecting these two proclamation prolonging his term of office “until places. ^ tho 1st day of January, 1672.” He is after the Tlae “ Mitraillenr.” Agency. According to the French telegrams those peo- Whitfield County.—The Dalton Citizen of pie think the new military engine called the Thursday says • mitrailleur will decide the war. The following We have hod copious rains almost every day is best * nd briefest desori P tion of U whioh during the past week. The corn and sweet po- we bave B6<m " aynAjrrou ^ ita barrel ma , be fired simultane- Whitheld and adjoining counties, should the .T;" season continue salt pretont, will be the most gf or . consecutively. The thirty-seven car- m „ - ■ l a v, - rr , ;<■ tndges intended for one charge are oontamed y in a small box. A steel plate Sith correspond- - " . tog holes is placed on the open box, which is Gbeexe County.— Tne Democrats hold a then reversed, and the cartridges fall point first meeting on Saturday. The Herald complains into their respective holes. They are prevented of warm weather, and proposes a spacious hotel from falling through by tbe rims at their bases. to make that healthy place a summer and win- ^d whence b Wt'iTolo^d.by a ter resort for valetudinarians. . lever a number of steel pins, pressed by spiral dass must have been enormous; there seems Macon and Augusta Railroad. * ;.ij imOCKK Ct£. 3SII1fSSf BIIO Cu toffee e <ij atfnt'ufi k virfioh sili si St- - .iiodqeda iqnis ena Stewart, and J. M. Pace as delegates to the At- by a h^dle, tbT cartridges lanta Convention, The Enterprise of the 5th : one by one. If the plate be withdrawn instant says: rapidly they follow each other so quickly that After the intensely hot and dry weather which their discharge is almost simultaneous. The prevailed throughout most of the county during invention seems very well adapted for use in July, onr gebple are "grateful for refreshing forts or other permanent placet of, defense or ..I., which have set in with this month. Much offense, but its carriage and management ir the of foe dornwill yet yield from half to two-thirds field would present many and insuperable ob- of a ; full crop with favorable seasons for the stacks to Its general A' *; r j ' u'3 -ffi* ,v«iqtooO LzctiUZ *mUJ- J •**' ‘* Light from Boiler. - a letter dated at Lowell, 29th July, to Gov. Bullock, from the Hon. General Benjamin F. Butler, in which, true to his instincts the Gener- al cmnes to the aid of the sharp practice con- templated by Bullock and Blodgett, with hi£ a^Cf understanding and memories and impressions - . of what the bill admitting Georgia was designed to effect. The General certainly neAd not in- romt the people mat Hiving found it utterly impossible to force through-the Houses bill " "- extending the terms of offioe in Georgia, and finding some bill must be passed, he did hi* riff • *“ beht . to get a doubtful, misty, equivocal bill stbrh * ‘ passed, under cover of which the outrage might be consummated by the Georgia Legislature. Au<U But although we concede that Bntler succeeded '.'.-St in raising a dost whioh in the hurry of the ©on- >•«» eluding hours of the session blinded himself Gl and his following a little and m%do them think they had accomplished tlieir obj ect, y et when too <*tfi0O4C bill came to be printed and compared with the eicuC provisions of tho Constitution, its effect was too "■ ^ plain for honest misbonoeption. J . r - Bntler winds np the letter with the following emarkableadvice: v- Luis' ■:'+& - , ‘ ‘Timed not say, therefore, that I am clearly of opinion that the construction of the act will * . " not require any election to be held in Georgia until th'6 Legid tture chooses to have one : that *** _ the present Legislature is thoroughly legalized.-,. rf.Ji f as far as an act of Congress can Mo so, by ?ly» ,.^,a . declaration that a. .“legal Legislature” adopted the 15th Amendment, and that, being a legal Legislature, under your Constitution, you have the power to fix the election, of your, successors.5 Of course any attempt to prolong the term ar- , bitrarily, unjustly, indefinitely, or, in the slang of the disoussion, to “perpetuate your power, would be just cause of animadversion, and, if extended too far, .cause of revolution. But all. true and good men in tho conntry, os in toe State of Georgia, in my judgment, will sustain., ' ■ you and the Legislature in takiDg to themselves, for the purposo of organizing the State, the full term of two years after they aro fully seat- nifafOli i as you uow are. r - - £ aftfi Jarir • VTA' Use the power you have, as I know you will, -with'Wisdom, Justice and Moderation, and the pillars of the State of Georgia will be more firmly settled than ever to uphold the Union, the Constitution, and the laws of onr ooun- try.” .t» jKkD .Now did any human being ever read the like . it* is*. ,-svr. ■".-I from 1 a public man claiming sanity—much leas the reputation of a statesman! The ; Constitu tion of Georgia fixes all the terms of office, and the time for holding elections; but wisely, to meet emergencies—(such, for example, as a ■.« state of war, insurrection,- invasion, pestilence, or any other grand disturbing event) empowers tho legislature on the occasion to make a tem porary change of time as may subserve the pub lic interest and convenience. On the strength of this concession, Butler founds a right of the legislature to hold on as long as they please and fix the terms of their successors—a right r«v~,£v 3 - 8tricted only by the danger of “ revolution.” "Where, then, the sense in fixing any conatitu-^.. ..q tional term of office, and swearing incumbents f-. to observe it? The right to hold offioe is estab- ... lisbed not by the assent of tho people under . constitutional forms and limitations, but by possession. Once in, the incumbent can hold until he thinks the peoplo are becoming tired of him to the extent of driving him out at the point of the bayonet, and then he must “fix the election of his successor.” Bat where does Butler, find even that constitutional limitation ? It is not in the Constitution—it is in private judgment and the necessity’of self-preservation, "ff, The idea and advice of this grand constitution- al expositor, therefore, amounts only to this: ' You have the government—hold on to it—con stitution or no constitution, certainly for two years, aud as much longer as you dare. ^ v.>- —2 sU. The Lewiston (Me.) Journal treats the ladies : patunf to this pleasant paragraph: ^1; %‘Jj> “We published a few days since an item re-- ferring to tho presence of insects in the bark switches so generally worn. Some doubted the . . facts Btated. Wo can assure all doubting Thomases that the fact was even so. A well— ' h*® known physician of this city has shown us two of these loathsome creatures, which were found him, aud transferred to a glass vial, where they can be seen with tho naked eye. Under the - ” microscope their appearance is hideous. They . : have a brown, pointed head, and, number of. ; . legs, a fuzz on the back and.crawralong with a wriggle something like a caterpillar, Tney ap- jear to resemble tne centipede family. The. . ady who discovered theso had had trouble with her head for some weeks, but did not at first think of her switch containing the cause. The . back of her head was punctured and sore. The .. ^ insect appears to burrow in the head like a wood-tick. The switch from which these were taken had previously been -subjected to a half hour’s steaming, but the creatures were as live- - ; " . ?. ■ ly as crickets. Another smaller kind has been fouud, which skip about like fleas. Ladies 7 well say, ‘Verily our .back hair is fearfully and' * ■’ wonderfully mada. l, ' K ’ ;u P°- ( ‘•‘- i - Shooting German Deierferw A correspondent at Cobientz writes : “A painful impression has been created here --*■ by the following incident: Three soldiers of- N the line were undergoing a long period of. im- - : prisonment in the Fortress of Ehrenbreistein for desertion. They had orginially deserted it Saarlouis and crossed the frontier into France, bnt, on ihe persuasion of their families, had surrendered themselves to their regiment—* * Thier term of punishment was f oven years, of bAvtdk which only six months had expired. Finding jcjiirf' their life, as is asserted, unsupportable, they determined to drown themselves on the first fac* _ q*. vorable opportunity as a preferable fate. A few days ago they were employed on the Cara— tT. J. thuse, the fine plateau which separates too: -.- Rhine from the Moselle, and it seemed a fitting moment to attempt tbe rash enterprise. One sentry alone was in charge of them, and he -wit nessed their flight. He immediately fired, and brought one victim down dead, the bullet hav ing passed through his head. With extraordi nary sang froid and determination he loaded a" second time, and again fired with fatal preci sion; the deserter fell dead, pierced through the heart! Once more loading, he fired at the third fogitive, and the bnllet passed completely -through his body, inflicting frightful injury to his intestines. The unfortunate man was brought to the military lazaretto in Cobientz, where he lies in a hopeless condition. In mili tary circles this melancholy catastrophe is re-* gaded as a fitting retribution for a grave breach of discipline, a view of the case not altogether shared in by the civil portion of the communi ty.’ One thing is certain, the needle gun, in the hands of a good marksmen, is a- sure md terrible weapon.” .--wvj* Whai/th or the Cabpxt-baqoebs.—'The Char leston News says: Wheat Governor Scott left Ohio , to come to this State he paid taxes upon a bdind mare valued at $11 75, and a dilapidated chaise at $3. "For two years he has been Governor of South Caroline,' at h salary of $8,500* year,- And now; *- according to his own admission, he it worth $180,000. Where is toe meu that believes that ara this huge nnur was oomO by honestly ? Let him Step forward: >sa. Almost seven thousands ir New York during tost week . _ Germans has not fallen off.yet, ei wart been declared at the time when the last eteanter which arrived in New York from Bremen kaiL' started from that port.. . „ K. «*# mT -a .-veqqj.-i.