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* ’~3^ r -- 7^j*> - F Ti/iiiifHam. L * Tiie Greox-^ia Weeklv Telegraph and. Journal & Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MAOON, SEPTEMBER 13, 1870. >fl, e Prussian War for Land. Hie advance of the Prussian armies for the subjngotion of Paris was at Soissona yesterday, and moving rapidly, in hope to anticipate some of the preparations of the French people for their welcome. Soissons is sixty-five miles from Paris, and the Prussians ought to get to the city by Friday or Saturday of this week. An to the Parisians, it is declared that but one sentiment animates them—a determination to defend the city to the last. The new govern ment is everywhere hailed with acclamation of joy, and so, in the face of the imminent and ex treme national peril, there will not be a whisper of opposition- We doubt not they will make a defence which, in gallantry and even desperate valor, will live through the annals of time. A Berlin dispatch says Russia is proposing a Congress of Nations, but Prussia will certainly decline to participate in or be influenced by it. The Germans say that a moral pressuo compels their government to demand Alsace and Lor raine; and certainly, as great a moral pressure compels the Republican government of France to make an inexorable stand against the dis memberment of France. They will never con- onnt it- no matter what happens. Here is the most insurmountable deadlock, over known in politics. Gen. Trochu insists that Paris will be_ tri umphantly defended, and the world will stand in suspense to see the result. Paris may well be considered a doomed city and civilization weep over its ruin. So awful a struggle as is impending will involve scarcely less thantbe ruin of its unrivalled magnificence and beauty. We will try to keep our readers well posted in the progress of those stupendous events. Cotton dropped considerably yesterday, and HO doubt the world is coming to the conclusion that the day of peace is not near. Indeed we may be on the "eve of struggles for popular rights the most fierce and protracted. The kingly powers of Europe may, however, all unite to put down a French Republic and secure a temporary peace by imposing some new dy nasty on the people of Franoe. But if the French people are left to fight against the Pros' Sian invasion single handed, we shall look for a long struggle no matter what apparent successes the invaders may achieve. FIRST ANNUAL FAIR Of tlie Central Georgia Agricultural ana Manufacturing Company. This takes place on Monday, to Saturday, 3d to 8th October next. Monday will bo devoted to the exhibition of horses, cattle and stock generally. luesday, Household Departments— thoroughbred horses and the sports of the Tournament. Wednesday, manufactures of every class, minerals, and the contest for the best riding. Thursday, agricultural, imple ments, Georgia raised horses, trotting and racing. Friday, competition in agricultural products, fruits, vegetables, plants, trotting and running. Saturday, fine arts, fancy riding and the great shooting match, and the Base Ball contest for the championship of Georgia. Besides diplomas and other awards, the pre mium list embraces about six thousand dollars in cash. The preparations are of the most extensive character, and in extent and completeness will be far ahead of anything ever seen in Georgia. The Racing Track is a model—an exact mile in circuit—and has been completed without regard to expense. The great amphitheatre will seat ten thousand persons and is a permanent and imposing structure, built at an expense of be tween eight and ten thousand dollars. The grounds are in beautiful order, and all the man agement asked for is fair weather to give the people of Middle Georgia such a week of sport and instructive observation as has never been offered them heretofore. The Cheat Southern Piano Factory.—We refer with special pleasure to the advertisement of the Great Southern Piano Manufactory of Messrs. Wm. Knabe & Co., of Baltimore. This factory is now one of the largest in the world, employing three hundred and fifty hands, and turning out over forty instruments per week. The Knabe Piano has by its superiority not only well nigh driven those of Northern manu facture from the home market, but also enjoys a large sale in New York, Philadelphia and throughout the entire North and West, besides their largely increased Southern trade. They have received no less than G5 first premiums, among which we note those at the fairs at New Orleans, Jackson, Memphis, Wilmington, Rich mond, Macon, etc., received this season. For durability we would specially recommend them as being made in a Southern City, with special view to the trying ohanges of Sonthem climate. Portable Saw Mills, Machinery, etc., Hr. George Page was the original inventor of the first Circular Saw Mill ever successfully used for sawing lumber from logs. Thirty years of expe rience has enable the firm of George Page & Co., of Baltimore, to perfect the original design and to prosent to the world the most complete Portable Saw Mill ever known. The recent im provements, ‘Patent Friction Feed’ and Inde pendent and Simultaneous Patent Ratchett Headblocks,’ place the Page Mills beyond com petition. The large number of these machines in use fill over the country sufficiently attest their f»lue. Messrs. Page & Co. are also extensively en gaged in the manufacture of Portable and Sta tionary Steam Engines, Boilers, Grist Mills, Wood-working Machinery, and general machine work of every description. Wo refer with pleas ure to their advertisement in another column. - The French Revolution. The following is a brief and connected narra tive of events attending the French Revolution, onr own dispatches leaving an-hiatus: On Sat urday, at noon, rumors of the surrender of Na poleon and McMahon’s army began to be circu lated through Paris, and immediately immense crowds began to gather around the Palace of the Corps Legislatif, shouting for the Republic and the “decheance” of the Empire. The dep uties met at I o’clock, and the surrender wsb formally announced by Count Palikao, who said that the ministry had formed no plan for thd future and asked that disonssion be postponed till Monday. Jnles Favre introduced a resolu tion declaring the Emperor deprived of all con stitutional functions, and proposed that a legis lative commission bo formed to expel the ene my from French soil, General Trochu remain ing Governor General of Paris. The proposi tion met with favor, but, without action, the Corps Legislatif adjourned until Sunday noon. At the meeting on Sunday the Republicans had digested their whole programme and put it into operation without material opposition.— The Empire was declared at an end unanimous ly. The Provisional Government was appoint ed and took immediate possession of all the de partments. Gen. Trochu was appointed “Gov ernor of the Government of National Defense, with the Portfolio of War, and the new admin- iotr&tion wiict into permanent session at the Hotel de Ville. Proclamations were immedi ately issued, making the necessary announce ments. Meanwhile the Corps Legislatif was sorronnded by an immense throng of the pop ulace, estimated at two hundred thousand, but no turbulence was displayed In any other way than in defacing the insignia of the Empire. By nightfall, on Sunday, the Revolution was complete. Bismarck and Cuba. The Boston Post is responsible for the state ment that at the time Bismarck ‘ ‘brought Prince Leopold and the Spanish throne so fatally to gether, he deposited for Prussia a hundred mil lions of dollars in London, with which to induce the insurgent Cubans eventually to claim the assistance of Prussia through Leopold, and thus bring the island under Prussian domination. The object was, obviously, to provide a naval station and colony for ambitious Prussia in the West Indies, through whose waters so many of the future leading highways of commeroe are to pass.” Well, who’s to hinder him ? Not the United States, most assuredly; for his staunchest friends, outside his own people, are the men who govern the United States—the Radical party. Could they say their dear friend, Bismarck, nay, now, after the powerful support and servile obeisance—to satch the German vote—they have acoorded him since the war with France ? If they did, the Germans might go back on them, and if they didn’t the people would hurl them from power. Prussian blue is a very pretty color, but really it seems destined to trouble Bismarck’s Radical friends no little. Tire Demands of Prussia. The paper which we print elsewhere under the head of “what Prussia will demand of Franoe,” has been handed to us as bearing a semi-official character, and embodying the pre cise views of the Prussian administration. It is unquestionably the great achievement of Bis marck's diplomacy that he has placed Prussia before the world in the moral strength of a mere defensive attitnde, while prosecuting a steady and unifbrm career of conquest and ac quisition; and while consolidating a purely mil itary power of such mighty proportions and nvincible energy—an empire bristling with bayonets and all its subjects soldiers—he stands before the world, all the time, as the great champion of peaoe. His diplomacy with Re publican Franoe, who offers to disable herself for war in order to secure him the most perfect ly guarantees of peace, will no donbt outdo in ingenuity the argument of the wolf to the lamb in the fable. Germany will probably give Con tinental Europe in the next ten years a heavy lesson in Bismarck’s peace. The Battle of Sedan. We continue the Tribnne’a narrative of the last and fatal battle of the Empire. It will be remarked that the correspondent seems to be working out a bribe to puff Philip Sheridan. “Little Phil.,” in his plastic hands, takes pre eminence in the whole picture. He is the cen tral figure on the canvass, and old Baron Von Moltke, the King, Bismarok and the Crown Prinoe are mere sattelites, to set off the resplen dent magnitude and sagacity of PhiL FhiL’s piquant and sprightly invocations to the devil are almost aa exhilarating as the delight of the Prussian army when Sheridan told them they had won the day. In short, it is evident from this correspondent that a serious mistake was made in sending Sheridan to Germany to learn the art of war. If the government had only kept him at home, Moltke and the rest of them could have come over here and taken lessons from Phil. Sheridan. Awful Suicide of a Woman’s Rights Orator. Leavixo the Sinking Ship.—From all parts of Alabama comes the nows of Radical deser tion to the Democratic party. Many officials are found among the number. They doubtless see that the tide is running strong against the raiders and freebooters who pnt them in position, and like old rats are jumping to save themselves from drowning. We see among the number tbe name of Milton J. Saffold, Judge of the Circuit Court, who will support the Dem- ooratio State ticket. He was one of the earliest Alabamians to espouse the cause of Radicalism, and for more than four years has been one of the strong spokes of that despicable organiza- . lion in the State. Wants His “Little Bill.” — And now it - cornea to pass that one Groux, a bearded profess or who farms out his brains and pen to Radical Congressmen, who are destitute of one and clumsy wilh the other, is praying the courts of . this great country at Washington, to make Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, pay him (Groux) for all those fine speeches whioh he, the sai-1 Sprague, did deliver last winter in the U. S. Senate, as his own productions. Groux wrote them, and Sprague spoke them, and was lifted np exceedingly thereby. F 0 r a million aire and a Senator, it appears to us that Spragne is leading a very strong suit of petty meanness. Ho’s a demnition humbug, at all events. Hemery Wilson writes to a friend in Atlanta, On Prolongation. “Why, in God's name do our friends in Georgia continue a policy whioh will crush them all ?” Henery does not tinder stand the situation in Georgia. UscutAKLY.—The Era says all the Radical flock except a few bounds have got together SfisHi Pallet’satin. Don't separate the flock. Mrs. A. W. McDonald, a well-known advo cate of Woman’s Rights, committed suicide at Mount Vernon, Westchester county, last Mon day. Her husband, who does business in New York city, on returning home that evening, found himself locked out. With the assistance of the neighbors, he forced the door open, and found his wife lying on her stomach in the bath tub, dead. She bad removed her upper gar ments, and, throwing a dressing sack over her shoulders, had disposed herself in a reclining posture in the bath tub. A small tin foot-bath was plaoed in a position to hold her head, and also to receive her left arm. Having made these arrangements, and provi ded herself with one of her husband’s razors, sbe proceeded to inflict three horrid gashes on her left arm—one at the wrist, another just above the elbow, and the third near the shoul der, in each case cutting to the bone. Then drawing the keen edge across her throat, she completed the bloody and desperate work, re taining strength only to oast the instrument of death from her. Another German Triumph.—Surely the Ger mans are in luck. They have whipped out the Puritans—who had sworn deadly enmity to oven the juice of their own apples, and now Lager Bier waves its flag triumphantly over the soil of Massachusetts. This is a more astonishing vio- tory than even that at Sedan. This is the day of the Germans—let them sing. Yea, let them raise their voices to the skies in exultation and triumph. The General or the Age.—The thrilling ac count of the capture of McMahon's army which we copy from the Tribune, aays that Baron Von Moltke was in chief command. Von Moltke, who directed the campaign against Austria is again proving himself the great military strat egist of the age. The relative strength of forces is set down aa two hundred and forty thousand German, and one handled and twenty thousand French—just two to one. Thx Radicals are hurrahing over the large decrease in the public debt during the month of August, but here comes the Courier-Journal and nips them in the bud, by suggesting that the reason is the stealage is a part of the govern ment that couldn’t be carried on with the nnn«i vigor at Long Branch and other loafing {daces i Iti fTTWniiml Ir. st {susifi Tbe Georgia Press. The Sandorsville Georgian reports abundant rains, and the earth thoroughly saturated. Judge Gibson, of the Middle Circuit, was to have opened court in Louisville, Wednesday, for the trial of the negro insurrectionists and incendiaries of Jefferson county. By the way, we notice that Jndge G., who is a very shining Radical light, is of the opinion that hia breth ren of the Agency, by their lavish expenditure of money on everysort of scheme, “will bank rupt the State and cause repudiation.” We quote from the Columbus Son, of Wednes day: Cheap Paper.—Oar former fellow-citizen, C. A. Rose, E q., has sent us a specimen of paper made at the Carroll county mills, from a com bination of cotton stalks and pine straw. Mr. Rose is the inventor and patentee of the process, and the paper made is said to be strong, dura ble and very cheap—even cheaper, says the patentee, than other paper material. Tournament and Races.—In another column may be foond the rules and regulations estab lished for tbe Tournament and Races, at the Macon Fair. Macon is a capital place to have a Fair, and while there will not be as much Kimballism, flag flying, Yankee notions, etc., as at Atlanta, yet in our judgment Macon will have a Fair more creditable and enjoyable than the one at Atlanta. Our knights, sportsmen, and base balliBts will take notice of the prizes of fered at Macon for their competition. At au auction of groceries in Columbus, on Tuesday, the following prices wore obtained: Coffee 19$@21$ cents per pound; syrup 37$ I @77$ cents per gallon; lard 18@20 per pound; bacon I8@20i; flour , $6 25@7 75 per banel; whisky §112j@l 60 per gallon, sugar 10@14$ cents per pound; wine $2 50@4 00 per case; soap 5@7$ cents per pound; cigars $2 00@7 00 per box. 'The sale will be resumed at 10 o’clock this morning. A negro man and negro woman charged with complicity in the recent murder of Miss Bums, in Sugar Valley, Gordon county, have been committed to jail at Carteraville. A negro, name not known, killed another negro at Cochran, on the M. & B. R. R., last Sunday, by stabbing him in the shoulder. Rust has damaged cotton to some extent in Pulaski county. It is estimated that half the crop will be picked out within the next eight weeks, if the present favorable weather con tinues. The Hawkinsville Dispatch has the following items: Bio Fish.—On the morning of the 3d, two fishermen, whose names we hsTe been unable to learn, caught in the river, near Hawkinsville, the largest sturgeon that has ever been brought to the town, within the memory of some of its oldest citizens. This huge fish was 7 feet 8 inches in length, and wa3 thought to weigh con siderably over 200 pounds. Homicides in Wiloox.—We learn that Mr. Wm. Bush, who was shot in an affray near Ab beville, some weeks ago, has died from the ef fects of the wound. We understand the homi cide was committed in self-defence. We farther learn, that the affray between Ml*. Bennett Pate and a Mr. Nipper, whioh oocur- ed in Wilcox county, some two weeks since, has terminated fatally in the death of the lat ter. The Calhonn Times says crops in that section are good. There will be plenty of com and meat, and a good cotton crop. We dip the following items from the Gar- tersville Standard: The Rioters.—Last week several laborers onthetraokof the Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad, near Stileaboro, were arrested, charg ed with riotous conduct in taking charge of the Commissary stores belonging to the Contract ors. It seems that a company, under a Mr. Welch, was discharged, without being paid, at which the men became very much exasperated, and repaired to the place where the commissary stores were kept, and through their foreman, Mr. Welch, demanded of a Superintendent of the Contractors, pay for their labor. The pre text for not paying was that the pay-rolls were not made np, and that the Contractors did not have the money then. Those men were brought before His Honor, Jndge Parrott, on last Friday. Tho prosecution failed to identify but three of the men who were in the crowd, and the bal ance were discharged. Welch and two others were bound over for their appearanoe at the next Superior Court for this county. Land Sale.—On last sale day the plantation on the Etowah river, about three miles from this place, the residence of the late Bennett H. Conyers, was sold at administrator's sale. It was sold in two lots. That portion above, or east of the Donthetts Ferry road, was bid off by Major Wm. Milner, for the sum of $18,050 00; that portion below or west of the road was bid off by John W.. Wofford, at the sum of $15,700. We understand the latter was bought for a Mr. Phinizy, of Augusta. There was about 1,000 acres in the entire plaoe. The average price is $33 75 per acre. The Constitution says: We are able to state that the large majority of Republicans in the State favor an election, and that Bullock is daily growing in unpopular ity. The Athena Watchman has the following items: Aid to Athens Fire Department.—A bill has passed the House of Representatives, we learn, making an appropriation of fifteen hundred dol lars a year for tbe benefit of the fire department of Athens, in view of the protection of State property here. Another New Church.—We loam that one of onr liberal fellow-citizens offers to donate a suitable lot in this town on which to erect a house of worship for the Primitive Baptists, and that a subscription paper for the purpose of raising the necessary funds, is in the bands of a citizen of this county. On the Bach Track. The New York Commercial Advertiser which, with the rest of its Radical cotemporaries has been patting the Prussians on the back for the sake of the German vote in this country, begins to feel tioklish over the overwhelming triumph of Prussian arms. The Radicals must now choose between the French Republio and the Prussian despotism. If they side with the lat ter they^onviot themselves of the most shame ful hypocrisy, vaunting themselves as they do the peculiar champions of popular freedom and equal rights, and if they take their stand with the French' Republicans what will become of the German vote ? We expect to see the Ad vertiser’s allies in giest tribulation over this dilemma, and it will be great furi, surely. To show how the Advertiser is trimming its sails, we quote an extract from a recent article on Frnssia’a demands and designs. It says: A Berlin dispatch says that Prussia will de mand the frontier territory as a primary basis for any settlement, and a Lordon dispatch says that a declaration is being signed in the Prus sian army asking King WiUittn to become Em peror of Germany. These Ittle signs show the current of events and foreshadow the claims that Prussia will prefer. Already events bring the war to an immediate culmination. The French army is broken, aid the Emperor him self is a prisoner. Now that the King holds the Emperor, and the war looks so near its end, we shall have an immediate outgiving of the designs of Prussia andTfie wishes of the other Powers of Europe. They will not be likely to submit to these claims, and Prussia, flushed with victory,-will be likely to press them. Her strength is already too great. Her exact and all-ombraciag military system makes her a menace and a dread, and Europe will fear to extend the territorial limits of a State Already so imposing. To the thirty millions of North Germany, Prussia has virtually added the nine millions of the South: now she asks for the two and a half millions of the Rhine frontier. For a farther cliamKing William proposes to depose the Na poleon dynasty, to restore the House of Orleans, and, having exchanged these royal baubles, to take unto himself the diadem of the Crcsars, and to be .proclaimed Emperor of Germany. AU this proves that Prussia is not the injured in nocent she would have us believe she is, and that under her pious proclamations she conceals designs that threaten the peace of European kingdoms,while they utterly ignore and contemn the claims of EuropeanDemocraoy. A gigantic military empire in the heart of Europe is sig nificant of the stay of Liberalism, and tbe pro gress of “Divine Right.” Yet we find German ; Liberals among the loudest in praise of the good King. Men whom he hunted out of Prussia in 1848 now sound his praise on the platform, in the press, and over the flowing lager. They do this while they know that there is no stron ger bulwark of reaction and conservatism than this throne of Prussia, and no more dangerous foe of Democracy than an immense standing army. State Aid to Railroads—Thirty KILL Hons Gone. The Constitution has an article showing how much money has been appropriated by the Agency to bnild railroads in Georgia. We ex tract as follows from it. The figures weU nigh take a man's breath away: Before thiB session of the Legislature, the State had granted aid to the amount of nearly ten millions of dollars, of which the actual en dorsement has been given for $4,016,000 as fol< lows: Macon and Brunswick $1,950,000 Alabama and Chattanooga. 192,000 Sonth Georgia and Florida. 584,000 Brunswick and Albany 1,050,000 Georgia Air Line 240,000 To secure this the State has a mortgage of $9,207,000 of property, with tho right to take the railroads if they fail to meet their engage ments. The roads entitled to State aid np to this ses sion were: Macon and Brunswick, $10,000 per mile for 195 miles. Alabama and Chattanooga, $8,000 per mile for 24 miles. Sonth Georgia and Florida, $8,000 per mile for 73 miles. Brunswick and Albany, $15,000 per mile for 235 miles. Georgia Air-Line, $12,000 per mile for 110 miles, Macon and Augusta, for G5 miles. Cartersville and Van Wert $12,500 for 23 miles. Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Columbus, -. Dalton and Morgantown, $12,000 for 65 miles. Up to this time additional State aid has been granted to the following roads: Iloads Miles Aid per mile Ain’t. N Ga and Tenn R B... 55 $12,000 $ 660,000 North and Sonth 121 RiDggold and H’per Gap 19 From Jones County. Clinton, September 7th, 1870. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : Among the various items from the different parts of tbe country, detailing the condition of crops, poli tics, Ac., as gathered from yours, the best paper in the South, I see nothing from the little coun ty of Jones. However, we are here, and prob ably more quiet and peaceable than any county in tbe State—no rows, no Kuklux, no disturb ance of the peace; and as an evidence to sus tain ourselves as law-abiding citizens, we have no criminals in jail, (of any class) nor have had for months past: the jailor will have to resign or go upon short rations, if a change does not take place soon. Notwithstanding all these unobjectionablefea- tures of our loyalty, wo are Democratic to the manner bora, and have no combinations- to make with compromising Republicans or weak- kneed Democrats, and intend that Jones shall fairly and squarely give a good account of her self in the approaching campaign. Crops are better than last year, oom especially, and a : larger area'planted. Cotton shedding from ef- feota of the recent drouth. However, we can reasonably expeot a fair crop of both will be made throughout the connty, together with peas, potatoes, eto. Our farmers read more than of old, and profit thereby. Many valuable articles havo been distributed through the medium of your paper, and read by many farmers who take no agricul tural journal; continue Messrs. Editors, your good work, for you are certainly diffusing a knowledge among the planters, the good results -of whioh you have not yet seen. Rustic- inggold and H’per Gap 1 Lookout Mountain.... 60 Memphis Branch 20 North Eastern 85 Atlantic & Bine Ridge.. ICO Augusta A Hartwell ..130 Gam’sville & Rabun G 60 Macon and Knoxville. .180 Indian Springs 65 Barn’ll Milieu & A’bany200 Newnan & Americas.. .114 Americas & Florence... 60 St. Mary’s & Western.. .120 F’t Talley & Ha’kin’ilo.. 34 Brunswick & Albany... .235 Dalton & Montgomery.. 65 12,000 12,000 10,000 12,000 12,000 15,000 12,000 12,000 15,000 12,000 12,000 12,000 12,000 12,000 12.000 8,000 3,000 1,452,000 228,000 600,000 240,000 1,020,000 1,500,000 1,660,000 720.000 2,700,000 780,000 2,400,000 1,368,000 720,000 1,400,000 408,000 1,880,000 195,000 $19,851,000 The French Republio Recognized.—Wo are glad to see the Grant Administration had the aerve to recognize the Frenoh Republic prompt- . ly. That was right. There never was a more legitimate and necessary resumption of power by the people; and now it remains to be seen whether the Republio of the United States will not lend, at least, every possible moral sanction ’ to the efforts of the great Republics of Conti nental Europe to maintain the liberties of its peo ple and the integrity of its territory against a scheme of notorious plunder* Meet Your Paper.—“Planter,” in a commu nication urges his brethren to promptitude with the warehousemen in meeting advances. Noth ing ean be more important to the welfare of the whole community, than the protection of these obligations. Promptitude in paying debts ia tbe only way to make .times -easy and money 18 Roads, 1,723 ■ ■ . . It will thus be seen if some little railroad has not escaped our attention, or two or three of them probably, that 18 roads have been aided, stretching out 1,723 miles, and the aggregate of State aid is nearly twenty millions. Add to this small sum the ten millions before granted, and we haye tho inconsiderable amount of Thirty Millions of dollars voted by a progressive leg islature to internal improvements in the great State of Georgia. Two roads have reoeived additional aid to what was granted before, the Brunswick and Albany and Dalton and Morgantown roads. Ills Excellency Comes Down. The New York Tunes publishes a letter from Governor Bullock, dated August 29, in which correcting a statement of that paper, the Gov ernor says: At tho time the late aot for the admission of Georgia was passed by Congress, it was under stood here that the question of the time for holding an election for menbers of the General Assembly had not been decided by Congress, bnt had been left for adjndioation to the Legis lature or the courts of this State. This posi tion has also, I believe, been maintained in the columns of your valuable paper. But sinoe this question has been decided by tho National Ad ministration, through Attorney-General Aker- man’s letter, it has been and is the determina tion, so far os I know, of the party, in this State, to exercise their best endeavors to carry out the wishes of the President in regaid to an election. The New Era, in printing this letter, adds: It does not follow necessarily that the elec tion should be held in November. It may, per haps, be better heldinthe latter part of Decem ber, when the crops are all gathered and the colored men have worked out their yearly con tracts, and are ready to form new arrangements for tho coming year. In faot, Col. Akerman suggests the last of December as being a proper time for holding an election. - It is the desire and purpose of the Democracy, however, to force an election if possible on the 8th of No vember, under the Code as it now stands, and then deolare £he State Demooratio, as was done in November, 1868. Tbe desire of the Democracy ia to hold an election aocording to the Constitution, which provides that, it shall be held in November. How They Manage it Out West.—The Ko komo (Indiana) Tribune says About three weeks ago, as Mr. R. and his wife were eating dinner, a boarder at one of the hotels made himself very agreeable to Mrs. R., and she was rather favorably impressed with him, and a ripe acquaintance and dose intimacy sprang np between the parties at once. Last week, after Mr. B. and his wife had come to town, Mrs. R. fold the boarder that she loved his little finger better than her husband’s whole person, and that she would like to marry him. She then informed her husband of those facts, and he fold her that she might marry the man if he would give him $10 and pay the cost in procuring a divorce. The terms were agreed upon, and Mrs. R. and her new lover took a trip to a neighboring town and returned yester day. Mr. R. seems seems to thinV that he has made a great bargain, and to glad to get his bands on >off Ma igdodt J? THE BATTLE OF SEDAN. Detailed Account. The following graphie account of the engage ment at Sedan, which resulted in the surrender of the Emperor NapoleoD, is furnished by the New York Tribune’s correspondent: The Prussian right, under Prinoe Albert, of Saxony, marched tapidly to close on the doomed French army on the right bank of .the Meuse, which they had crossed at Romilly, on Tuesday, the 30tb, in the direction of La Chapelle, a small village of 930 inhabitants, on the road from Sedan to Bouillon, in Belgium, and the last village before crossing the frontier. Any thing more splendid than these men’s marching would be impossible to imagine. I saw men lame in both tout hobbling along in the ranks, kind comrades, less footsore, carrying their needle-guns. Those who were actually incapa ble of putting one foot before tbe other had pressed peasant’s wagons and every available conveyance into the service, and were following in the rear so as to be ready for the great battle which all felt sure would come off ou the mor- IW. The Bavarians, who, it is believed, do not march so well as they fight, were in the center, between Chemory and Sedan, encamped aronnd the woods of LaMorfee, famous for a great bat tle in 1641, during the ware of the League. I rode off, about a quarter past 8 in the evening, for Vendresse, where the King’s headquarters were, and where I hoped to find house-room for man and boast, especially the latter, as being far tbe most important on the line of battle. When I got within half a mile of Vendresse, going at a steady trot, I brought my horse to a stand still, knowing that the Prussian sentries would not be trifled with. As I pulled up, twenty yards off, I heard the click of their locks as they brought their weapons in full cock and covered me. My reply being satisfactory, I jogged on into Vendresse, and my mare and myself had soon forgotten sentinels, forced marohes and coming battles—one of us on tho straw, the other on the floor. The following dispatch is from the special correspondent of the Tribune, at the head quarters of the King of Prussia, eight miles from Sedan, Thursday night: “After their de feats on the 30th and 31st, the French retreated en masse on Sedan, and enoamped aronnd it.— From what I learned from French prisoners, of whom, as you may imagine, there was no lack in our quarters, it seems they f ally believed the road to Mezieres would always be open to them, and, therefore, in case of another defeat be fore Sedan, their retreat would be easily ac complished. “On the evening of Wednesday, I was at the Crown Prince’s headquarters, at Chemory, a village some 13 miles from Sedan, to the sonth and southwest, on the main road. At 5:30 we saw there was a great movement among the troops all aronnd us; we thought at first the King was riding through the bivouacs, but soon tbe 37th regiment came pouring through the village, their band playing ‘die Wacht am Rhein,’ as they marched along with a swinging stride. “I saw at once by the men’s faces that some thing extraordinary was going on. It was soon plain that the troops were in the lightest possi ble marching order. All knapsacks were left behind, and they were carrying nothing but cloaks, slung aronnd their shoulders, except that one or two bon vivants had retained their camp kettles. Bat if camp-kettles were left behind, cartonch cases were there, hanging heavily in front of men’s belts, unbalanced, as they ought to be, by knapsacks. Soon I learned that a whole Prussian corps, those sent from Prince Frederick Charles’ army and the Crown Prince’s were making a forced maroh to the loft in the direction of Doeburg and Mezieres, in order to shut in McMahon's army on the west, and so drive them against the Belgian frontier. “At 7 o’clock Thursday morning my servant came to wake me, saying that the King’s horses were harnessing, and his Majesty would leave in half an hour for the battle field, and, aB con- nonading had already been heard near Sedan, I jumped up and seized crusts of bread, wine, cigars, etc., and crammed them into my holster, taking my breakfast on tbe way. Just as I got to my horses King William drove out in open carriage with four horses. About three and a half miles south of Sedan, much against my will, I was compelled to allow the King’s staff to take precedence on the road to the scene of action, where I arrived myself soon after nine o’clock. It was impossible to ride fast, all the roads being blocked with artillery, ammunition, wag ons, ambulances, eto. As I rode on the creBt of a hill which rises sharply abont seven hundred feet above the little hamlet of Chevage, nestled in a grove below, a moat glorious panorama burst on my view. As Gen. Forsyth, of the U. S. army, remarked to me later in the day, it would have been worth coming merely to see so splendid a scene without “battle’s magnifi cently stern array.” In the lovely valley below us from the knoll on which I stood with the King and staff, we could see not only the whole valley of the Meuse, but also beyond the roads Boise de Loup and Franohivall into Belgium, and for as the hilly forest Kama, on the other side of the frontier. Right at onr feet lay the little town of Sedan, famous for its fortifications, by Verdun, and as the birth-place of Torenne, the great Marshal; known also as the plaoe where Sedan chairs originated. As we were only abont two and a quarter miles from town, we could easily distinguish its prin ciple edifices without field glasses. On the left was a pretty church, its Gothic spires of sand stone offering a oonspicuous target for the Prus sian guns, had General Molke thought fit to bombard the town. To the right, on the south east of the church, was large barracks, with the fortications of the citadel. Behind and beyond this, to the southeast again, was the old chateau of Sedan, with picturesque, round-turreted tow ers of the sixteenth century, very useless even against four pound krapp pieces. The building, I believe, is now an arsenal. Beyond this was the citadel, in the heart of Se dan, on a rising hill above the Mense to the southeast, but completely commanding the hills on both sides of the rive'r, which runs in front of the citadel. The French had flooded the low meadows in the valley before ooming to the railway bridge at Bazeiile, in order to stop tbe Germans from advancing on the town in that direction. With their usual stupidity, for pne oan find no other word for it, the Frenoh had failed to mine the bridge at Bazeiile, and it was of immense service to the Prussians throughout the battle. The Prussians actually threw up earthworks on the iron bridge itself to protect it from the Frenoh, who more than once at tempted in the earl j part of the day to storm the bridge in hopes of breaking the Bavarian communication between the right and left banks of the Meuse. This they were unable to do, and although their cannon shot has almost de molished the parapet, the bridge was never ma terially damaged- On the projecting spurs of the hill, crowned by the woods of Lamarfee, of which I have already spoken, the Bavarians had already posted two batteries of six-pounder rifled breeoh-Ioading steel Krapp guns, whioh kept np a duel till tbe end of the day with the guns of Sedan. Across the Mense, still further to the right flink, or rather east, for our line was a circular one, orescent at first, with Sedan in the center, like a star on the Turkish stand ard, was an undulating plain abovo tho village of Bazeiile, terminating about a mile and a kali' from Sedan. At the woods near Ruebecourt, midway, that is to say, in line from Bazeiile, north, there is a ravine, watered by a tiny brook, whioh was the Boene of the moat desperate of the whole battle. This stream, whose name I have for gotten if it ever had one, was right behind the town of Sedan from the woods of Fleignnse. On tbe north, behind the town, rises a hill, dotted with oottages and fruit-laden orchards and orowned by the valley of which I have just spoken. Between this wood and the town were several French camps, their white shelter tents atnn.«n g out clear along the dark fruit trees. In these camps one could see throughout the day huge masses of troops whioh were never nsed even during the higtt of battle. They stood as idle aa Fitz John Porter’s troops at the seoond battle of Bull Run, We Imagined they mast have been undisciplined Gardes Mobile, who the French Generals dared not bring oat against the enemy. To ■ the Prussian left of these Frenoh camps, separated from them by a wood en ravine, was a long hill something like one of the hills on Long Island. This hill, on whioh was some of the hardest fighting of the day, formed the key of the posi tion of the Frenoh army. When once its crests were eovered with Prussian artillery, tbe whole town of Sedan was completely at the mercy of the German guns, as they were not only above the town, but almost within mnsket range of it Still further on, the village of Illy was set on fire early in the dajr by French shells. South of this the broken railroad biidge, blown up by the Frenoh to protect their right, was aoonspieuous object Right above' the railroad bridge, on the line to Meziems, was a wooded hill crowded by men, whioh almost hides the chatteau, as he calls it, of one Monsieur Paver. It was hero the Grown Prinoe and his staff ter a tremendous Wfttle, the Pnuari " completely surrounded Sedan nans having entered the fortificdti on ^ peror capitulated at 5:15 p. x Hi* 5, E <o- King of Prussia said: letter toth, “As I cannot die at the head of m, lay my aword at the feet of your Napoleon left Sedan for the Prn quarters, at Vendrast, at 7 o’clock in X? mg of September 2d. McMahon’s whni mor5 - comprising 100,000 prisoners, capituW^T, out conditions. The Prussians had men engaged or in reserve; the French^ A special correspondent of the Trii. _ graphs from Arland on Fridav aO The j Traction Every hotel here is filled with Frenh 3011 from across the frontier. The are crowded, and it is difficult t0 ’ to eat. One hundred and fifty Frenoh^S hundred German soldiers, while Belgian territory, were made ptison ( .« eSp !! ss ' a ! ducted to Nauner to-night, refugees on the train to-night. Th«° ^ Germans, bntLuxemburgers, who from Pans on account of poverty eei P^ri tensive bnt less central view, and,' therefore, less desirable than oars, wherq, stood King William, Count Bismarck, Von Rood, War Min ister, Gen. Moltke and Gens. Sheridan and Forsyth, to say nothing of your correspondent. Having thus endeavored to give some faint idea of the scene of what is in all probability the decisive battle of the war, I will give an ac count of the position of the different corps at. the commencement of the action, premising that all the movements were of the simplest possible nature. The object of tbe Prussian Generals was merely to close tbe crescent of troops with whioh they began into a circle by effecting a junction between the Saxon corps on their right and Prussian corps on their left. The junction took place about noon near the little village of Hly, on the Bazeiile ravine, behind Sedan, of which I have already spokem Onoe their terrible circle formed and well soldered together, it grew steadily smaller and smaller ontil at last the fortifications of Sedan itself were entered. On the extreme right were the Saxons, one corps d’armee, with King William’s guard; also a Corps d’armee in re serve behind them. The guards had suffered terribly at Gravelotte, where they met the Im perial guard and the King would not allow them to be again so cruelly decimated. Justice compels me to state that the arrange meet was very far indeed from being pleasing to the guards themselves, who are over anxious to be in the forefront of the battle. The guards and Saxons, then abont seventy-five thousand strong, were all day on tho right bank of the Mense, between Rnbecourt and La Chapelle, in whioh latter village Prince Albert of Saxony, who was in command of the second corps, which had been formed into a little extra army by themselves, passed the night of Thursday. The ground from Rnbecourt to the Meuse was occupied by the first Bavarian corps. The seoond Bavarian corps extended their front from tho Bazailles railroad bridge to a point on tbe high road from Donchery to Sedan, not far from the little village of Torcy, below the hill on which the Grown Prince placed his forces. The ground from Torcy to Ely, through the large village of Flering, was held by the first corps and the Third Prussian oorps, belonging to Prince Frederick Charles, and temporarily attached to the army of the Crown Prince. This was the position of the troops abont nine o’clock on Thursday, a. m., September!, and no great advance took place until later than that, for the artillery had at first all the work to do. Still farther to the left, near Donchery, over twenty thousand Wurtemburgers were ready to cut off the French from Mezieres, in case of their making a push for the fortress. The number of the Prussian troops engaged is estimated by Gen. Moltke at 240,000, and that of the French at 120,000. We learn that pany we will supply the best chir£ter tdEtSU MoMahon had with him on Tuesday 120,000 and in every maimer try to sustain , MAC03. sept4-d<fcw3m LAWTON & LAWTOX, “Gutxo: JONATHAN COLLINS w. A. 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JONATHAN COLLIN'S 4 SOX, anglft-dAwSm Cotton Ftcton. CHAR. X. CAMPBELL. DONALD B* IQIIB. men—that is four corps—those lately command ed by Gen. de Failly, under Gen. Brane; that of Felix Doury, brother or Gen. Abel Doury loll ed at Weissenbnrg, and the fourth corps, prin cipally composed of Garde Mobile, the name of whose commander has esoapedme. McMahon, although wounded, commander-in* ohief on the French side. It is almost needless to say that the real com mander-in-chief of' the Prussian army was Ba ron Von Moltke, with the Grown Prince and Prince Albert of Saxony immediately next in command. There were a few stray cannon shots fired, merely sighting shots, however, as soon as the range was obtained, but the real battle did not commence till 6 a. jl, sharp. The artillery had each got within easy range, and shells be gan to do serious mischief. At 11:55 o’clock the musketry fire in the valley in rear of Sedan, which had opened about 11:25 o’clock, became exceedingly lively, being one continuous rattle, only broken by the growling mitrailenses,which played with deadly effect on the advancing Sax on and Bavarian columns. Gen. Sheridan, by whose side I was standing, told me he did not remember ever to have heard such well sustained small-arm fire. It made itself heard above the roar of the battery at our feet. At 12 o’clock precisely a Prussian bat tery of six guns on the slope above the broken railway bridge over the Meuse, near La Villette, had silenced two batteries of Frenoh guns at the foot of the bare hills already mentioned, near the village of Flering. At ten minutes past 12 o’clock the infantry, no longer supported by their artillery, were compelled to retire to Flee ing, and soon afterwards the junction of the Saxons and Prussians behind Sedan was an nounced to ns by General Von Rood, who was eagerly peering through a large telescope, as being safely completed. - From this moment the result of the battle could no longer be doubted The French, were completely surrounded and brought to bay. At 12:25 we were all astonished to see clouds of re treating French infantry on the hill between Flering and Sedan, the Prussian battery making good practice with percussion amongst the re treating ranks. In less than half an hour after, at 12:50, Gen. Von Roon called attention to an other French column in full retreat, to tbe right of Sedan, on the road leading from Baselles to La Gavenne wood. They never halted until they got to a small red roofed house on the out skirts of Sedan itself. Almost at the same moment Gen. Sheridan, who was using my opera.glass, asked me to look at the third French column moving up a broad grass road through La Gavenna wood immedi ately above Sedan, doubtless to support the troops defending the important Baselles ravine, to the southeast of town. Abont one o’clock the French batteries on the edge of the woods towards Toney and above it opened a vigorous fire oh the advancing Prussian column of the Third Corps, whose evident intention it was to storm the hill northwest of La Gavenne, and to gain the key of the position on that aide. At 1:15 yet another French battery near tbe wood opened on the Prussian column, which was compelled to keep shifting its ground until ready for its final rest at the lulls, and in order to avoid offering so good a mark to the French shells. Shortly afterward we saw the first Prns- sian skirmishers on the crest of the La Gaven- v, Pills, ne hills, above Touey. They did not seem in AyerS UatHaTtlC great strength, and Gen. Sheridan, who was standing behind me exclaimed, “Ah, the beg gars are too weak; they can never hold that po sition against all those Frenoh.” The General’s prophesy soon proved oorrect, for the French, advancing at least six to one, the Prussians were forced to retreat down the Mil to seek re inforcements from the columns which wore hurrying to their support. In five minutes they came book again, this time in greater force, but still terribly inferior to those huge French mMfifiR. “ftfwwl YlAfiVADfl* fflA Pronnh AtiUon rtood taring the having a i masses. “Good heavens; the French cuiras siers are going to charge them,” oried General Sheridan, and sore enough a regiment of oni- rassieis, their helmets and breast-plates flash ing in the September sun, form in sections of squadrons, dashed down on the Prussian skirm ishers without deigning to form in line. Squares are never used by the Prussian infantry. They received the cuirassiers with a crushing, quick fire at about one hundred yards distance, load ing and firing with extreme rapidity and unfail ing precision into the lines of the French squadrons. The effect was startling. Over went horses and men in masses, and regiments of proud Frenoh cuirassiers went hurriedly back in diserder, went back faster than they came, went hack scarcely a regiment in strength, and not at all a regiment in form. Its comely array was suddenly changed into hopeless and shape less crowds of flying men. The moment the cniassers turned back the brave Prussians ac tually dashed forward in hot pursuit at double quick, the infantry plainly pushing the flying cavalry. Bach a thing has not often been re corded in the annals of war. I know not when an example to compare pre cisely with this has occurred. There was no more striking episode in the battle. When the French infantry saw the cavalry thus fleeing be fore foot soldiers they in their torn came for ward and attacked the Prussians. The Prus sians waited quietly, patiently enduring the rapid and telling fire of the ohassepots, till their enemies had drawn so sear as to be within a hundred yards of them. Then they retained with the needle guns the rapid fire from the chassepota, and the French infantry could no more endure the Prussian fire than the cavalry to whose rescue they had come. The infantry fled in its torn, and followed the cavalry to the place from whenoe they had come—that was be yond the ridge, some five hundred yards on the way to Sedan, where the Prussian matraQleurs, with their teasing fire, could no longer reach them. Prom Sand ay’s Edition (Cable Special to the Tribune.) London, September 8.—A special correspon dent of the Tribune telegraphed from the King’s headquarters at Vendrast, near Sedan, Friday: The battle of Sedan began at 6 o’olook in the morning, September 1. Two Prussian corps were in position on the west of Sedan, having ? ot there by a long foroed maroh to out off the 'reach retreat to Mezieres. South of Sedan waa the First Bavarian corps, and east, across the Memo, the Seoond Bavarian corps. The Saxons were on the northeast with the Guards. I was with the King throughout to day an the hfll ubove St- Mrniro, as—iwfliig TO THE PLANTERS OF LAWTOS St LAWTON Cotton Factors and Coimiiissioii Mercliaots fourth Street, : : Macon, o*. 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