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~i\he Georgia, Weekly Telegraph and. Jorarnal 6c Messenger, Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, SEPT. 13. 7870. H*n. Linton SieplieMs’ Wa,,, f , .*’ 1 °* «u, is one of the most arrogant and »ll-con- ^aared documents we haveread for a long time, one which will be extremely nnsatibfactory She Democracy of the State. The Press of Ceorgia, with only one or possibly two exoep- Sna, so far as we have observed, has unam- -waly endorsed the earnest recommendation •C the Democratic members of Congress, ttaa. jfUUt candidates only should be run. Tbat ,**tion of the Central Executive Committee of fietfgia who elected Sir. Stephens Chairman, maaaimously concurred in the suggestion, and cranaelled the people to insist upon eligibility i«Un Congressional candidates as a sine qua turn. Sis true, Mr. Stephens impugns their right to M&e this declaration without a quorum; but aifcey had the right to elect Mr. Stephens they t h e game right to make this declaration. SC the one falls to the ground—so must the ; but with what grace can Mr. S. stand mm bis election and yet assault the legality of another action of the committee? But we say the recommendation of the com* asfitee is so plainly wise that the contrary course St m mere piece of absurdity—a felo de se. The xsA* which requires every man to redress his I— 11 ■ iiiiij^p. so far as he can, is too plain to rmad vindication. Mr. Stephens says it is bet- frortft remain unrepresented in Congress till we S* a democratic majority who will repeal the t-elad test oath 1 The Democrats in Con- say, “for your own sake elect eligible wfesocrats for Congress wbo can aid in giving xm this majority.” No, says Mr. Stephens. l&aE must first get the majority, and then we waSsend men who can be seated because you Rosa that majority. We will help ourselves tmSj when there is no need of our own efforts! Jfnd why do this ? Oh, it is to show proper atment. We must “shake this country (centre to circumference," with foe speccli- wref ineligible members from Georgia on the ousemnity of the test oath! But where, all this tne, have been the Northern Democratic mom- fieoa that they have failed to shake the country aatfAe same subject? There is Thurman, and Tfcodward, and Hendricks and Yoorhees and 3fcrtr and a host of other very able men—but have failed to shake the country! can we dfeSetter, with any ineligible men we can send Sana Georgia ? Manifestly, will it not be far mane judicious to send trusty men wbo are clig 33kand able to asist the Noithem De mocrat3 in awving all these odious disqualifications ?, Mr. Stephens chooses to assume that eligibl e amjmsentative men cannot be found. We Witt not speak for his district, bnt know in osfiters true representive can be found — who wKbe useful and influential members of Con gress. But they may not get their seats after sX, says Mr. Stephens. Precisely so. Wo will jmt underwrite that any Southern Democrat vi&'get his seat; bat still it i3 better to elect am who may not, than one who cannot get his BMC under the existing laws of the United ■Kates Finally, Mr. Stephens, in his pronunciamen- bhApnts the party on the platform of the Frank TSkir letter—commits it to an undying war on Mbs-Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, omfcGsconrses loftily on an aggressive warfare emXadicalism, which shall make it shake in its 5*ets. To all this we have simply to say—it is arttbefore the House, just now. Let us elect nHgfole candidates to Congress. Then, when M»time comes, let ns abide by such plan and Sm> of the campaign as may be agreed upon % the Democratic party of America, and afehieve victory by united andharmonions coun- ra> and action. If that advice is “cowardice” ttethe Bobadils we can’t help it. Warehouse Acceptances. formers protect the acceptances of your ware- btasemen! Recollect that your honor, as men, S^ledged to this policy—that if it be income- taanf to yon, that is no sonnd reason for not com- H^pogwith your solemn obligation. That not oajy your own credit, but that of the comma- nay, and your ability to get future accommoda- Saas depends upon your fidelity. Character is uerth ovea. more than money to every business man; and the way confusion, loss of confidence, lapse, tight times and all kinds of monetary d>fe begin*, is in.the small resorts of evasion, m&ct and delay.' Stand np, like a man to all your engagements, tSfcther written or verbal, and you will never Zhopeople were ever panicked, where everybody paid* up promptly to their ntmost gamble ability. Then money passes rapidly SSsea hand to hand, and a small sum sinks a fp»»t volume of indebtedness. 'Then, every aaanfeels firm and confident, when be sees that Mr debtor has done and is doing his ntmost, and lie is inspired to do the same. But when the Uinren of fraud, neglect and evasion gets into < *Riia , (&s,_society becomes thoroughly corrupt ed^ and 'every man- despises and distrusts his rSBow. The public mind becomes demoralized, ' demoralization is a great deal worse than •ft. Set evory man, therefore—planter, waro- Akssemen, merchant and all—rosolve to stand to his obligations to the utmost, and that will all pull together in mutual confidence md’good will. Disappoint nobody’s reasonable oogeetations if yon can possibly avoid it. TSwrein lies yonr own comfort and welfare, as wsfl as the moral and financial wealth of society. Factors* Acceptances. jTailors Telegraph & Messenger: In looking mseryour valuable journal we see a commnni- from “PJanter," calling npon farmers to ml promptly and faithfully in the discharge of r obligations to warehousemen of this place, rtheir valuable aid in giving them the neces- cy accommodations for the making of this »J>, (and without which they conld never have •dad.) "Vo heartily endorse his appeal, and wonld serially urge them to faithfally falfil all their eidgations, and to have cotton in their factors’ Mads in ample lime to meet maturing paper, smd which must be met by tho warehousemen at natality, or their credit is hopelessly rained, asdthoy will be in no condition to render fatare ■worn m odations. As a class, we think our farmers enjoy a good mareantile credit, and this note of warning or ad- aMBiUon maybe nnnecessary; bnt knowing the enormous amount of acceptance onr warehouse men are under, we deem it bat prudent to nrge mewed promptness. "While on this subject, I wonld say that where war factors have accepted they expect (and justly taw) that the whole of that crop shall pass Sfcough their respective warehouses, as their •kjpet for accepting is with the view of securing taeir entire patronage, as well as what may be oacessary to meet their special accommodation. Planters Friend. TUe Xew Arbiter of Europe. The Herald, in an article npon the attitude Of Prussia in European politics, sajs : “We cannot doubt, fr im the astounding de velopments and results of this war, that the un- ion'of tbe German StatcB is virtually establish ed under the central government of Prussia; nor do we think that v e are overstating the mil tary power thus brought into the foreground in ! >rononncing it from Sedan the master of the I European Continent npon all questions of boun daries, balances, successions and peace or war Among the surrounding States. The only con tinental Power left capable of coping with Prus sia is Russia, and even Bnssia is limited in her capabilities to the defensive advantages of her immense expanse of territory and her resistless frosts and p.nows. The only Power, however, which Prussia, «in defensive war, may now shrink from grappling, is the naval power of England; but England can do nothing to pre vent it if Prnssia resolves to determine for her self the fatare eastern boundary of France.— The naval power of England will command a hearing in tbe settlementof the Spanish succes sion and tho affairs of the Roman States and tho Pope, and England, Russia, Austria and Ita ly combined may save the territory of France from any very serious confiscation." This looks something like a comprehension of tho political and military sitnatioD, but it is an inadequate one. Prussia is not only the great military power of the world, bnt she has become so as the result of very long training, mental and physical, which no other nation can well imitate; and which h&8 gradually moulded the character of the people and imbued them with military tastes, aspirations and capacities far beyond those of any other people. The Frenoh were supposed to be their equals before the outbreak of this war; but experience has proved it to "be an error. Probably tho world has never seen their equals, os soldiees, not even in the best days of Roman or Grecian, or Spanish prestige ; nor will the world see it again, until some other nation can pnt into the field armies of a million men, each one of whom is a scholar—combining tho highest de gree of physical vigor, with the spirit, energy and power infused by intellectual culture. We know no people in the world likely to do this for many years to come. Now, it is useh ss to talk of great military capacity without corresponding achievements. The one inevitably suggests and begets the other. Prusso-Germany, fired with bnt one central idea, the glory and aggrandizement of the Germanic Race, not only holds the fate of Europe in her hands, bnt will control it, and control it to her own best advantage subject on ly to the suggestions of a bold and courageous discretion. She is herself alone the “balance of European power," and the politics of Europe date an entirely new departure from the destruc tion of the Napoleonic Dynasty and Empire. We hold that, since 1848, the passion for in dividual freedom in Germany has been effectu ally subordinated to the aspiration of national and race renown and glory. The shout for ‘•Germany unity” has substituted the cry for German freedom, and “German unity” is noth ing except as the grand instrumentality for the achievement of German power and glory. The pepple, in a word, for a generation have been moulding themselves for the mastery of Europe in their own interests, and are going to have it. The gigantic strides of the last four years are only a beginning. A Response to Mr. Stephens Tho Democrats of Spalding county at their late meeting to send delegates to the Congres sional Convention at Forsyth, adopted unani mously the following resolution: Resolvod, That the delegates from this coun ty to the Convention to be assembled at For syth, Ga., on the 21st day of September, for the purpose of nominating a candidate to rep resent this District in the United States Con gress, be instructed to support no one for that position who is, in any manner, ineligible or disqualified to hold the office of Representative in the Congress of the United States. This is tbe way the people respond to Mr. Stephen’s injudicious and suicidal counsel.— Let this response be re-echoed from one end of Georgia to tbe other. Let it be thundered into the ears of thoso who advise the people to cut their own throats that the day for such mon strous folly is over and that henceforth all men who are guilty of giving such counsel must stand ont of the way or be swept into ob scurity by the ground swell of popular condem nation. /> We trust that a similar resolution will be adopted in every meeting held in this and every other district in Geergia for a similar purpose. Judge D. B. Harrell. At the close of the August Term, of the Lumpkin county Superior Court, the members of the Bar passed the following resolntions pre sented by Hon. H. P. Bell: Whereas, The Hon. D. B. Harrell, Jndge of the Patauia Circuit, ha3 held this Term of tho Superior Court of Lumpkin county, Resolved unanimously, 1st, That the mem bers of the Birin attendance npon this Term of the Court, bear cheerful testimony to tho ability, dignity and dispatch, with which he has discharged the duties of hid high office. 2d. That onr business and social relations have been of the most pleasant character, and in severing them, we tender to him our acknowl edgments for his kindness in holding the Court, and our appreciation of the ability and integrity with which he administers the law. 3rd. That a copy of theso resolutions be fur nished to tho Mountain Signal for publication; and that Hon. Geo. D. Rice present, on our be half, a copy thereof to his Honor, Judge Har rell. Geo. D. Rice, Chairman. J. A. Wimpy, Secretary. The Georgia Press. The City Council of Savannah have detailed a portion of the police force to take the census of that city. ‘ - - j The British ship Exchange arrived at Savon- . Sm-YoittleUer . . . ... _ informing me that I was chosen Chairman or nab, Wednesday, Wales, with 2,lGo bars of the DomSsratio Executive Committee of thus railroad iron, and 4,370 Fish-bar plates for the State, at a meeting held at Atlanta on the 1st Central railroad. 1 inst., in pursuance of a call from the President Moonlight racingin the streets is the latest' SteT^d £££ ££ Augusta sensation. The last race—between two organization b V electing a Chairman outside of men on horseback and three in a buggy—came 1 their own number. . 1 - off on Monday night, and resulted in a “spill” . While seeding to the committee through you which neceaaittted .doctor’, bill for SSt buggy fellows. J j take this occasion to express my own views The residence and furniture of Mr. Arthur 1 on a subject which the committee has brought .Letter front Hon. Linton Stephen*. Sparta, Ga., Sept. C, 1870. Col. R A. AUton, Secretary of the Democratic Executive Committee of Georgia :■ Bleakly, four miles from Augusta, were burned Tuesday night. Loss 5,000 to $G,000, partially covered by insurance. The Thomas villa Enterprise says Mr. W. L. ' before the public, by taking action on it before their selected Chairman had accepted his ap- pointment, and before, therefore, they had a complete organization or even the number re quired by the resolution of the Convention pro- Bibb, of that county, has had a very successful. viding for the formation of an Executive Corn- experience in fattening hogs with boiled cotton mi ^®" snb : eot to wMoh 1 allude is tho selection seed. - - - - — —■ • 1—.1— —»*• The Savannah News of Thursday says; of candidates in tbe approaching election, with reference to their eligibility under existing so- Abbiyaii of Vessels—Heavy Weatheb off called laws, and the certainty of their being al ms Coast.—A large fleet of vessels arrived in port yesterday. We learn from their officers that daring the past three days a heavy easterly sea has been running, in fact the heaviest ex perienced along this coast within the memory of any captain running to this port—in seven fathoms water the sea running to fifteen and lowed to take their seats if elected. The rec ommendation which some members of the Committee, in its unorganized and incomplete state, have given to the people on this subject is already receiving different interpretations. For my own part I am at a total loss to imag ine how sny elected to Congress from this Oa.i. — 1 ii — nf 1 ii.ilt ff nl_ twenty feet high. The wind has blown steadily j State conld have any “certainty” of being ai- from the east for the past two days, and we may j lowed to take his seat without avowing his un expect to hear of disasters along the Southern ! conditional adhesion to the creed of the Radi- coast cal party. If the recommendation means this nr.pto-.itt-fnmtb. Au..t. iSrt yesterday: do the members of the Committee who pnt Back.—Father Byan has returned to Augusta, forth the recommendation, the injustice to be- He did not go to Europe. He only went to lieve for a siDgle moment tbat they intended it Mobile, Ala. . • ' to reach to thi3 extent Nor can I believe, as No prospect of the Legislature adjourning for ! some suppose, that they intcuded to advise the sometime. Now business is being introduced people to put up only such candidatea^as cen daily. The Senate virtually killed the District Court bill yesterday. There seems to be a hole in the Constitution of the State and it ran through it. The Democrats of Polk county have nomina ted M. H. Bonn, for the Legislature, and the Democrats of Bartow county have put forward Messrs. John W. Wofford and John W. Gray, for a similar position from that county. They also nominated the veritable Bill Arp for Coro ner. The Rome Courier reports grasshoppers and boll worms raiding on the crops in Floyd oounty. The editor of the Rome Commercial, who has just returned from a visit to Chattooga county, says: The corn crop of Chattooga is the best crop tbat we ever saw anywhere. Enough com will be made there this year to support the county for four years. We heard one man offer to sell five hundred bushels of com at thirty-three cents per bushel in the heap. The cotton crop is not so good. The rains have hurt it consid erably. It does not boll oat free and full. The population of Chattooga county by the last cen sus is 7,0G0—G.000 whites and 1,000 colored. There are about 1,200 voters—200 oolored and 1,000 whites. Hence this county will roll up a rousing Democratic majority. The wealth of the county, real and personal estate, is about $1,200,000. Cotton picking is going on very briskly in Greene county. A larger area planted in corn this year than last, and in most sections as good as the land will prodnoe, Mr. Holcombe Harper, for fifty-five years a resident of Greensboro, died there Wednes- day, aged 81 years. In all that time he never was too sick to take his meals regularly at the table with his family. The Albany News says The weather continues fine and pleasant.— Cotton is opening rapidly, and planters are bu sy improving the very favorable opportunity for eathering it We are told that rust and drought combined, by checking fruitage and killing tho young squares, have put ootton about here in such a condition that with favorable weather for picking, the crop will soon be housed. Tbe Louisville Negro Insurrection ists. ' We stated some time since that Cudjo Fye, the leader of the Jefferson county insurrection- its, declared he was backed by Bullock in bis unlawful and incendiary conduct. In corrobor ation of tbat statement, we find the following in a Louisville letter to the Chronicle and Sen tinel, dated September 7th. Richard Roberson, (one of the rioters) in his remarks or confession, declared that Cndjo Fye, who was tbe head of all their clnbs, openly stated to his meeting that he had sees Govern or Bollock, and that he wo3 acting altogether by his orders, and of course he would protect them in what they were doing. Roberson far ther said had he not believed that he was acting under the Governor’s orders that he never wonld have joined or aided in the insurrection. Another Batch or John*. The Montgomery Advertiser says 200 China men have arrived at Selma, to work on the Sel ma and Gnlf Railroad for three years. The in terpreter is to recive $75 a month, and tbe fonr foremen $40 per month each. The laborers are to receive $1G per month in gold, free board, lodgings and fael. It is stipulated in tbe con tract that the working houra shall be ten bonrs per day, six days in the week; that there shall be five cooks; that a sufficient guantity of rice, pork, fish, beef and vegetables, shall be famish ed; that in case of sickness a laborer shall re ceive his board, bat no wages. Free retnm to San Francisco npon the expiration of the term of service is especially guaranteed. ACambid Cosvessios.—The Charleston organ of&e Scott Radical freebooters says, in a late Sane, ih it some of the teachers appointed in Stitoby the Radical School Commissioners r.nd who are to be p-iid ont of the white pto- yle’s pockets—“arc themselves unable to write their own names.’!-‘Well, vot of it?" They am entitled to their share of the stealage, and bright j\nt ai well have it this way as any other, hid it’* v. ry cerUia they are no more ignorant flimim nmc-tonths of their party in South Caro- Or Conroe. We see that the Atlanta Intelligencer, whose position with reference to the present politics of Georgia is too well known to need explana tion, now, publishes and heartily approves tho mischievous letter of Mr. Linton Stephens. This is as we expected. It is bnt natural that a paper whose treacherous stabs at tbe Demo cratic party have commended it t9 the favor and patronage of Bnllook and his allies, should endorse and applaud a line of policy so well calculated to farther Bollock’s aims, and pe- feat the objects and purposes of the Democratic party in the coming canvass. Tee Rioiebs.—Thirteen of the Jefferson county “Benevolent” rioters arrived last night at Milledgeville, in charge of a squad of United States soldiers, where they will do the State some service in tbe penitentiary for the next few years, provided they do not fall into the hands of Grant, Alexander & Co. In that event they will contribute a mite to the building of some railroad. The fate of these bad and mis guided negroes should be a lesson to others of their race. It will not do for whites or blaoks to take the laws in their own hands, in an effort to mete ont what they conceive to be justice. Punishment followed these men swiftly and sure ly, and it will take long years of labor as con victs to atone for their great crime at Louisville. Rampant.—Ethiopia was rampant in Atldiita on Thursday. Twenty colored legislators were on the floor of the House at onoe, screeching to the top of their lungs, and finally bolted from tbe House in disgust that they could not out- scream each other. The True Georgian has the following: Hon. A. Colby, (colored,) member of the House of Representatives, was yesterday placed under bonds for one thousand dollars, by Jadge Spencer, to keep the peace against Hon. A. Al- peoria Bradley, (colored,) Senator from the First District, npon a peace warrant sued out by the latter. All this comes from running away from “de ole plantation. Weekly Telegraph & Messenoeb.—That sterling Journal, the Talbotton Standard, ad dresses the following exhortation to its rea ders : Don’t Do Without it Another Week —The Weakly Telegraph and Messenger is tbe largest and most magnifioent newspaper published in America. It is a perfect map of the globe—n geography of both hemispheres, containing mis cellaneous intelligence from all parts of the country— an ever faithful chronicler of passing events, the very paper for the farmer, mechanic and artisan. The Radicals have carried Vermont and the Datch oocupy Holland. Napoleon’s Outlook fob a Rainy Day.—The Chicago Tribune says: Onr London corespondent assures us, as an ascertained faot, that the Emperor Napoleon has enough money invested in tho English How’s This ?—And now here comes the Sa vannah Republican with the declaration that “the so-called Republic of France is, at pres ent impossible.” England and the United Slates, however, don’t seem to agree with the Republican, which, we admit, is very bad for England and the United States. The Republican'll declaration reminds us of a story of Lola Montez and a railroad conductor. Lola was smoking in the car, and when told by the conductor that she must not smoke, replied: “Bat yon see, Monsieur, that I * am smoking. ’ Tho “s j-e’-illed R (public” is not only possible, * i{ is an accomplished faet. Waat answer?*! take the iron-clad or teat oath. The difficulty of making a recommendation which should pre sent any uniform role applicable alike to elec tions for Congress and elections for tbe State Legislature was forseen by the recent Demo cratic Convention, and induced the Business Committee of that body and that body itself, to forego the attempt. I must also remark that the gentlemen who have pnt forth the recom mendation in question, have fallen into a mis take as to there having been any recommenda tion on this subject from the Democratic Exec utive Committee of th9 United States. On the contrary, the whole subject of eligibility of can didates as affected by so-called disabilities, has been left by the National Democratic organiza tion and by the Democratic State Convention, without any recommendation at all—leaving the members of the party everywhere perfectly free to shape ' their action according to their own convictions of principle and policy in the different localities. But since the subject has been brought before the public in a juasi official form by membe'rs of tbe Committee with which I am officially connected, I deem it due to my self to make known my own distinot and strong convictions as to the course required by sound policy and sanctioned by sonnd principles. As to members of the Legislature, I think the people should select only those who are free from all the so-called disabilities; and this sim ply as a matter of policy. The Legislature will be subject to the manipulation of the dominant party at Washington; and that party will cer tainly exclude from it all persons who may be subject to any of the disabilities which they have prescribed for, and attempted to fix upon, that class of officers. For the Legislature we have abundant sound material whioh is free from all disabilities prescribed for that class; and by electing a Legislature from this material, we shall either get a sonnd administration of State affairs, or else drive the enemies of constitu tional liberty into the perpetration of some new outrage, and thus pile up and accelerate the retribution which awaits them at tho hands of an indignant people. It must be borne in mind that the iron clad, or test oatb, has not yet been required for members of the Legislature. Members of Congress stand on a different footing, and with regard to them I believe a different polioy is demanded. In their case the iron-clad or test oath is required. Let not onr people persuade themselves that the party now dominant in Congress will dispense with that oath in individual cases or by general re peal, except for a consideration—a price paid, or to be paid. That price will be nothing less than the acceptance of all their usurpations as “fixed facts," without even a pledge against un limited usurpation in the future. I firmly be lieve it wonld be far better that onr people should remain forever unrepresented than that they ehonld be misreprensented by men who can either take that oatb, or get a dispensation from it. It is idle and foolish to expect the Radical party, in the present condition of af fairs, to admit into Congress any real represen tatives of our people. They will accept only those who would destroy our moral power by misrepresenting and debasing ns. Let us, there fore, dismiss all idea of getting real representa tives into Congress where there is a Radical majority; and let ns not forget that a true Dem ocratic Congress will admit any members who may have the qualifications required by the true Constitution. Snipped of the destructive usnr* pations which are attempted to be foisted upon it by no higher authority than Cougressioual enactment and Presidential proclamations, there are, and can be, no disqualifications or disabilities for member of Congress bnt such as are prescribed by tho Constitution itself, and by tbe Constitution I mean that saored instru ment in its purity as contra distinguished from the so-called 14th and 15th amendments. This doctrine was solemnly and repeatedly adjudi cated by Congress it&elf in its better days. It has never been violated bnt by Radical rev olutionary violence. And never let it be forgot ten that this violation now perpetrated in the name, and under color of the 14th and 15th Amendments, was equally perpetrated by the- same revolutionary party before the past-age of either one of those‘so-e tiled amendments. I remark just.. hero in passing that tbu 13th Amendment abolishing slavery stands npon an entirely different footing; and, in my judgment, constitutes a valid pan of the Constitution. This doctrine—that the only possiblo disqualifi cations or disabilities for members of Congress are thos9 to bo found in the Constitution itself —nlways observed in the better days of the government, and violated only by revolutionary Radicalism, will certainly be respected and en forced by evory true Democratic Congress in the future. I think, therefore, that we should select mem bers of Congress without tbe slightest regard to so-called disabilities, except that we should not fail to send at Teaet some who are subject to them, and who have ability to show their in validity and enormity- They most have a hear ing on the question of their right to seats, and that question, well argued on the theatre of Congress, would shake this country from centre to circumference. Ourstrength lies in attaok; in attacking the usurpation, and enormities of the party who are seeking to overthrow our whole system of government by first crashing oat the States which stand us the obstacle in the way of their scheme of centralization and consequent unobstructed public plunder. Our strength is in the truth, and. their weakness is in their guilt: Oar polioy is not to shrink from the contest, bat to wage an unremitting war on the field of trtit&itnd reason; and we most bring forward such issues as will reveal tbe malignity of their designs and the enormity of their guilt. It is a time when cowardice is folly and weak ness, and courage is wisdom and strength. We are invincible on the issues if they are rightly made; and let ns remember that nobody ever gained a victory by running away from the bat tle-field. These outline ideas may be enlarged if the committee shall hereafter submit an address to the people of Georgia. Yours, very respectfully, Linton Stephens. An Interview with Bismarck. London, September 6.—The New York Tri bune’s correspondent had an interview with Bismarck at the King’s headquarters, near Se- Democratio Meeting In Walker. At a large and enthusiastic meeting of the Democratio party of Walker, held in the Court-hoose in Lafayette, on Tuesday, An- Very Faint.—The Tribune has heard of the H _ H establishment of the Republic in France, and funds to yield him’an annual income of £100,- don’t seem to know exactly how much steam to 000. This sum, capitalized at the English rate ' put on over it. It says: aqaaaassBBaas i is& t BjaSi&S5aB ■ ssssss'safss tho.fataw. , He has been ^eparmg matters ma y be; but the country has yet to pass that, m cose f tr° u b , nno through humiliations and perhaps to suffer poverty. fresh military disasters, and the party under can mans 8®toH ve quiteoomfortaWe, even it who se rule these misfortunes come must bear the French do dnve him from the throne. the brnnt of ^ popQlar buternesa . The amount of money whioh can be saved in v Ge , rman if \ what both l ers General every family by bnymg silver or copper tipped ’ OE Ureeley, and be is keeping a sharp eye to shoes for children, will eurpriss any one who windward on that account. We guess tho God. has not tried it. Ail parents may lessen their era l will have to show his hand a good deal and protruding toes, always ss<n when shoes reason why at the Novemoer election. The are not protected by mei«l tips.—N. York Post. General can’t straddle on this question. dan, on £he 2d. In response to his inquiry, ! gust 30th, 1870, ’daring the recess of court for What were likely to be the conditions of peace ; dinner, Hon. James M. Bond was called to demanded by the .King of Prussia’s Govern- ( ^{jq chair and D. C. Sutton, Esq., was request- ment ? the Count replied: There axe three ways tQ act M S ecre tary. of stopping an attack on the Rhenish Province: | c L John y. Wood then introduced the ing from the former country to Switzerland, and so separating France and Prnssia by groups of neutral States, bnt I must confess it appears to me that the neutrality of existing small States is already so difficult to protect, and is at every moment capable of so many and so dangerous complications, that I do not think itworth while From Atlanta. Special to the Telegraph and Meteenam. Atlanta, September 9.-Smu£\ turn to appoint a Joint Commits .k from the Senate and five from the H ° f certain the amount of business in w!! io and report a day for final adjourn!. H ° 6 adopted—yeas 31; nays 8. no new matter be received after w next was adopted. l ti:j advocated in a few well-timed remarks: Whereas, The people of Georgia have an other chanoe at the polls to elect legislators, one of the most important considerations ' which they can propose to themselves, will he to limit the per diem. Vote for no man who compiioauons, iuai. j. uu uui uuu. wuj.iu. >uuo, will not solemnly pledge himself to limit the present bill to organize District r to make more neutral States, with the^new da- J per diem tosix^dollars or under. Anything be- postponed till Friday Daring It 'kl The great German g one of cards called Na poleon is now christened ‘ * Bismarck. ” ties and dangers. Secondly, we might annex Alsace and Lorraine, and hold them as con quered territory, but I am sure that this would not be looked on favorably by a majority of my German fellow countrymen. We are all most anxious to complete our unity, but we do not want any people among us who are unwilling members of the German nation; that the Alsa- cians would be most disloyal subjects of tho King of Prussia, in spite of the great majority of them speaking the German language, and beiDg the German language, and being of Teu tonic origin, there can be no donbt. Thirdly, there remains to ns, then, as a third course, to take Metz and Strasbourg, aud to keep them. This is what we shall do. Strasbourg, particu larly, is absolutely needful for the protection of Sou‘h G n rmany. which is nt tho nnroy of the Frenoh army. So long as France possesses Strasbourg, there is nothing to stop a French invading army. Now, it wonld be very unfair if we wero to leave our South German brethren unprotected after they have fought so bravely and well by onr side in this campaign. Then, again, by holding Strasbourg we could always prevent any movement on the Rhine. We should be able not on’y to march an nrmy by the valley of the Marne on Paris, bnt to take a French army, marching on Mayence or Coblenz, in flank and rear. So when we have besieged Stras bourg vigorously, and when we have got the old German town back again we shall make a Gi braltar of it. “But allow me to suggest,” I said, “that the cession of Strasbourg is net a thing to which Franco will be easily reconciled, all tbe more because it is as you say, the key of France on the east.” “My dear sir,” was the reply, “you have been with us continually since onr entry into France. I have heard you constantly talking French. Now have yon not clearly seen that it wonld be difficult for the French to be more angry with ns for onr victories over them than they already aro. No, not if we encamped in the Bois de Boulogne itself. And just because they are and will be for many a year to come sore against us, we must take care not to leave in their hands the means of doing ns a mischief. When yon meet a drunken man in the streets what do you do if he is mischievous? Call a policeman, don’t you? Well, Strasbourg and Metz will have to be our policemen, good, stout one3, too.” “It is curious,” I remarked, “how much the French do hate the Prussians, and what stories they tell and believe about you. I have lived a great deal iu Paris, and I know there are told there as facts some fables which are all but in credible.” “Yes,” answered Bismarck, “we have taken the place of the English thirty years ago; but, aq,they have come to forget their hatred of per fidious Albion, so they will have to find some day or other that there is some good in us also. It seems as if the French nation stand in con stant need of a bugbear to vent their wratb np on. For the moment, we are the bugbear.” I ventured then to soy: “I see tbat tbe peo ple are in a great fright in England lest your Excellency should cast a covetous eye npon Hol land.” “Yes, I am aware that is an English idea,” replied the Count, “but, like otber English ideas, it is not accepted ont of the country of its birth. We want ticking in Germany tkati3 not German, and Holland certainly is not Ger man. Already Posen is looked npon with no friendly eye by many of my countrymen as a non-Teutonic province. There is no fear of our taking Holland—as little as there is of the French’taking Belgium.” Scene in the French Senate. The Senate met at fifteen urinates past twelve, Ronher presiding. Most of the Senators wero in their places. The Archbishop of Paris was in his chair. Count Vienorke read the process verbal. A Senator asked permission to speak, and said: “If the Emperor had been victorious I wonld have applauded him and so would every one else to day. He has succumbed nobly, ana I continue to cry “Vive l’Emperenr.” Rouh o r repeated tbe cry and it was taken np by a num ber of Senators. Count Palikao said: “I have the painfnl mission to inform yon what my words before must have foreshadowed. The news which was only semi-official has become official. After he roic efforts the army has been rolled back into Sedan, and been encompassed there by such superior forces that it has been obliged to capit ulate. The Emperor has been made prisoner. In view* of this news, it will be impossible to en ter npon the serious discussion of tbe conse quences these events may involve; npon which I have been forced to leave my bed to attend this sitting, and my colleagues have had no oppor tunity tor deliberate.” President Schneider proposed an adjourn ment until to-day at noon. He said the situa tion imposed on him great duties, and ho wonld fill them, bnt the Ministry, not having yet been able to deliberate, and each one needing time to think over carefully the grave resolution which the occasion needs, he thought it would be wise to adjourn. Host She Had Him. The Newark Courier says: A man named; Hotchkiss, over in New Mar ket, the other night, thought he wonld have some fun scaring his wife ey dropping a loose brick down tbe chimney into the fire-place in her room. So he- crept softly ont of bed, and with nothing on bnt hi3 nightshirt, sneaked upstairs and got out on the roof. Mr. Hotch kiss dropped nineteen bricks down the cbim- ney, each one with a vigorous slam, but his wife never screamed a solitary time. So then Mr. Hotobkiss gave it up, and thought he would go down stairs; but he found that Mrs. Hotch kiss had had her head out of the trap door watching him all the- time, and when he had finished, she had shut the trap and fastened it on the inside. It may be as well to state that Mr. Hotchkiss spent the xeet of the night sitting c«i the sharp peak of the roof, with his trailing garments of the night flattering in the evening breeze, singing “I’m Lonely To-Night.” Mrs. Hotchkiss intimated to-her confidential friends that Bhe thought she had him. Jules Favre said if the- Chamber is of the opinion that, in the grievous and grave situation described by the- Minister of War itshonld ad journ until neon, I will not oppose it, but we believe it nur doty to seize the occasion to lay before the honse a proposition which tbe ex citing situation demands. We will not add one word to the text whioh we now lay before you. We move that the Chamber adopt the following: Resolved, Tbat Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and his dynasty be declared to have forfeited the powers which the nation conferred on them. That there shall be chosen an Executive Com mittee composed of members, the number of whom shall be fixed by the Chamber, whioh shall be invested with full powers necessary to repel invasion and drive the enemy from the soil. That General Trochu, Governor of Paris, he charged exclusively with the defense of the capital. The reading of these resolutions was listened to with profound silence. A single voice was heard. It was that of M. Pinard. “We have the power,” said he, “to pronounce the Deoheanee. President Schneider returned to his proposal to adjourn the sitting until noon, on account of the gravity of what had happened. The Corps Legislatif agreed, and the sitting was adjourned. A West Hickory, Pa., farmer lately heard a scratching nnder his bed. Putting on his trous ers, he reached for the intruder, and in a min ute hadn't enough clothes on to make a bib for a china doll. He found himself in the comer partly scalped, with his lower limbs looking as though he had been through a wool-carding machine; while, with a spit and a growl, ,a cata mount disappeared through the open window. Fibst Gun fbom Delawabk.—The oity of Wil- miDgton, Delaware, had her municipal election on Tuesday,-arid the whole Democratio tioket was elected by an average majority of 200. Here tofore this city has been strongly Republican, yond a bare subsistence is a premium offered for public waste and mismanagement—pro tracted sessions—excessive legislation—inter minable moutbings and all tbe. thousand and one flagrant abuses which grow out cf sessions to consume time. We say then to tbe people of Georgia, let us fix upon the lowest mini mum which shall give a decent white man his bread and meat iu Atlanta while necessarily engaged in public business, and so make it the. interest of all, so far as we can, to go about their private business as soon as consistent^ with public dudes, therefore Resolvedj That wo, the Democratio party of Walker county, do pledge ourselves to vote for no man to represent us iu the next Leg islature wbo will not solemnly pledge himself to vote for no more than six dollars per diem. A nd if the Legislature shall fix the same at a higher figure than six dollars, that then he will accept the same and pay the overplus into the county treasury of said county. Besolred, That we earnestly recommend to the Democratic party of the other counties in the State to adopt similar resolutions. > The resolutions were then unanimously adopted. It was then decided by the meeting that a convention he held on the first Tuesday in Oc tober next, at Lafayette, for ttm purpose of selecting candidates for tho Legislature and for county officers, at which convention each district was to be entitled to five delegates and to three votes, any one of the delegates being entitled to cast the three votes of his district in the absence of the others. The Chairman was then requested by the meeting to appoint three delegates to the Corn Congressional Nominating Convention for the 7 th District, which meets at Cartersville on the 13th September, proximo, with power to appoint their own alternates. The Chair ap pointed Wm. B. Gray, D. C. Sutton, and Thomas E. Patton. On motion of Caph Wood, the Secretary was requested to furnish the proceedings of this meeting to the Atlanta Constitution and Macon Telegraph for publication, and that newspapers friendly to the cause be requested to copy. The meeting then adjourned. James M. Bonds, Chairman. D. C. Sptton, Secretary. Democratic Meeting In Taylor. Butler, Ga. ? September 6, 1870. A meeting of a portion of the Democracy of Taylor county was this day held at the Court House in Butler, when Itiohard Mont- fort was called to the Chair, and W. S. Wal- lance was requeeted to act as Secretary. The object of the meeting having been ex plained, Col. H. H. Buford introduced the following resolution. ■■■■■ Resolved, That our delegates to the Con vention to be held at Newnan be, aud they are hereby instructed, to vote in the nomina tion only for men who are eligible to Congress; and that an unwavering Democrat be selected, who can neither be bought nor sold, nor in duced to soil his hands with any manner of jobs for squandering or plundering the national treasury, and that he be free from all suspi cion of Radical proclivities. If we cannot get sue a man - as our standard bearer, we want none. Such we believe ex Judge E. H. Wor rill, of Talbot County, to be, and we hereby express our preference for him. Which was unanimously passed It was further resolved, that W. S. Riley and Wm. D. Groce be appointed delegates to the Newnan Convention. On motion the meeting adjourned. Richard Moktfort, Chairman. W. S. Wallace, Secretary. Nectar Pickwick CInb. Perry, Ga., September 3,1870. Whereas, we are ever and anon summoned to take the last farewell of some beloved brother, whom tho fiery dart of Cupid has surreptitiously taken from our midst, And whereas, Brother Jas. D. Martin, M. N. P. C., departed this life of batcheloric misery on the 31st day of August, 1870, in testate, leaviog vacant that seat, from which wit was want to sparkle, and eloquence to flow, Be it resolved, and it i3 hereby enacted by by the Nectar Pickwick Club, in chamber as sembled, That we do deeply deplore the loss of our beloved brother, and shed a tear of regret at his eternal ostracism from onr august body; yet we trust, and circumstances have lead us to believe, that we have consigned his keeping to good and tender hands, and that our loss is his eternal gain, That we have earcfully considered that in junction, “Go thou and do likewise,” that has been given us by several very respectable and consistent persons} and after mature reflection we have arrived at the conclusion, that were it not for past heartrending discouragements we wonld willingly, yea heartily, do it. That we will never, down the aisle of fu ture ages, cease, whe» neetar flows amid fes tival joy, to propose bis health, And that as we take the last farewell of onr highly esteemed brother and friend, we must say that, as a Pickwickian, he has ever been an ornament and a faithful adherent to the ancient and time-honored principles <5T our fraternity, and we congratulate him on his transportation to regions of connubial felicity, on the snowy pinions of matrimonial bliss, And be it further resolved by the aforesaid Club, that the name of our deceased brother be struck from die regular roll of our society, and after the payment of all dues that have been, from time to time, assessed against him, be enrolled among the honorary members of the same, And that these- resolntions be published in the Teleqbaph and Messenger, provided it can be done free of charge. Snotoross, P. S. M. N. P. C. A Philadelphia woman earns her honest live lihood by fainting; in front of large stores and and hotels, into whioh she is carried, a parse is madeup for her, and she is sent home in a hack. The bathing belies at the watering place are called dive-in-ities. In Prussia, while the men are at war, the women perform field and farm labor, and are gathering the crops, guarding the flocks and do ing field work. The Earl of Shaftesbury says that “if Him Holiness, the Pope, had a wife she would not allow him for an hour to remain in the belief that he was infallible. We have passed from summer into fall. What a summer it was l The reoord shows that there was more heat than during any corresponding period for the past eighty years. It is said Na ture always asserts the law of equilibrium. If this proves true, a cold winter will be the result. Mb. Ooox, of Tennessee, tried to scare his friend Eli Ashton, in a Ku-Klux rig. Eli didn’t scare worth a cent, and cooked Cook’s goose with his shot-gun. An Indiana lady threw a panful of hot water out of a window without notioing her little child playing beneath. The funeral services were very touching. A lawyer at Terre Hanto lately went to an editor’s office to oane him. The doctors have dug three bullets out of bis frame and say there is another one that they can’t find, which will probably kill him. Gen. Lee a Railroad President.—General Robert E. Lee was unanimously elected Presi dent of the Valley Railroad, at a meeting of tho stockholders held in Staunton, Va., on Tnured&y last The salary is $5,000. Wooten, as Chairman of the Specki n tee on the eligibility of Braaly, renQ rt !i l l ley ineligible. e Wallace made a minority report to f u I resent bill to organize District Wb 8 ‘kl Speer and Smith got into a bitter quarrel, ana threw the Senate into sr . !* rs H sion. Order was finally restored. “ * COr, ' J The bill for incorporating the Fort V a Hawkinsville Railroad passed. ^ 4j The bill repealing the section of fk „ authorizing the Solioitor General to prosequi passed. v -ii The bill to prevent the running 0 f »*■ railroads, on Sunday, was discussed J?" action. House.—Bryant made a motion to foe action of foe House on the SavanS Various points of order were mtfe. T ^ made a point of order that the Senot- taken up by a two-ttird vote. The ruled foe point not well taken. B ZT**! pealed from foe ruling. ^ ant 8 f- The Chair was sustained—yeas CO Bryant moved to take up the Savai^' Lost—yeas 40; nays 52. Dl “ i The Honse concurred in the Senate i tion to appoint a joint committee t 0 foe calendar and report a day f or final menk J0Um - A resolution was offered, sent by from Telfair and Irwin counties. Mtl The Speaker ruled that the resolution c not be entertained. Partial census returns of Atlanta show atm. ulation of 23,000. Outside the city, and hX county, 11,GG0. ‘ Atlanta, September 10.—Senate.—After animated discussion on a bill to preTent tub from running on railroads on the Sabktt, substitute that trains shall not run between J o’clock in the morning and sixo’cloch iafe evening, unless unavoidably delayed, and u, rnn through to their destination, was passk yeas 20; nays 9. Tbe bill prohibits foe employees of railmd and other common carriers of freight and from pursuing their avocations on the Ss day. A bill was passed to change the time of W ing the Supreme Court to the third MoadJ in January and June. Also, a bill to amend foe charter of tksJ vannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Baiiroicl, J passed, A bill to incorporate foe Polk Slate QhJ Railroad, and to grant State aid to the is* passed. A bill to loan the State credit to the Maneth.! Canton and Elijah Railroad, passed. A bill to amend an act to incorporate thl Cherokee Wesleyan Male and Female Instnts passed. The Hotise read bills foe second time—ae| business of importance, The Constitution, this evening, publish! a telegram from Washington, dated the lent and signed, Sam. J. Randall, Chairman-Natior! el Democratio Committee, saying no members' Congress, who cannot take the ir.n did osiS, will be admitted. Stephen’s advice is fatal if followed. Here spectfnlly urges the nominations only cf slid as can take that oath. The Trustees of Oglethorpe College resoheJ to.open here on October 4th. Profas-.r On, of Covington, acoepts a professorship. Fitzpatrick denounced Bryant, in the Ita, as a “mane” man, and said hereafter lu tmH not call him a gentleman. Fitzpatrick foftni Bryant to foe National Hotel. Bryant vs armed, bnt nobody hurt. The Health or Chief Justice Chase—Ada.i patch to the Boston Journal, dated Pro vita* I R. L, September 5, says the recent reports c/I the precarious oondition of the health of Qu*f| Justice Chase were untrue. He is : covering from foe illness brought on by hia ta| to Lake Superior, and yesterday was able ttl take his daily walk without any assist** I There has been no relapse or recurrence of *| first attack; which was two weeks or mosvl The Boston Traveler adds: “The iilowdl Chief Jastioe Chase was caused by eip3«ta| foe heat, and the doctor who attended hiaN , | reports him out of danger.” Hot Weather and Crops in Flobtoa.-B'I Charleston Courier publishes the followirr s | tract of a letter from one of the largest »| most responsible planters in Florida, dated Madison, September a, ■ _ We have had distressingly hot dry we> “ y f 'I three weeks past, and I have neTei sees fail more rapidly in the same time; it* ^1 will be cut short at least one-third, from it bid fair to make one month ago. The drouth throughout England »d 1^*1 during the past season has been very dis«sk*[ The loss in hay and butter to EogW »* |, | mated at $4,000,000; and France, in heri**j ing needs, arising from the war, b b**I straightened by the scanty hay crop The Dayton Journal come to thereM^I lost and rained with the explanation cheanee” means “forfeiture.” It ‘ fore been supposed that the word oi with Beecher and meant foe French did* t a d—d bit of chance. tW*l Who Armed Houck’s RioARWrio Raleigh Sentinel charges that the New Hampshire loaned Holden the arm his vagabonds against the : Carolina. The World calls upon the • of New Hampshire to know if he did th»t Pike, Forever.’—The Bamesvih* soya: We have been informed by a g®®*!***®! ^1 Mr. F. M. Jordan, tiring near town. Barnesvitie road, raised this season on acre of ‘dirt,’ thirty-three and one of oom, and seven hundred ana nnj fodder. TRIBUTE OF BBSP ecI ‘ h at.t. Macon Silver ( *1 03 A Ole Bull was married, at Madison, Wia- v ^ tb consin, on foe 6fo inst., to Miss Sarah Thorpe. f 1 ’ bofimr Ifo A \ wurftai.iM i-ioiisi- oildrqe&MjArtedT ojfth.Medt btt ^VW« »4* ‘In. I «ufcst J lift 111 Jin' Gen. J. W. A. Sanford.—A private dispatch from Milledgeville, Saturday evening, states but it seems that negro suffrage has proved too that Gen. John W. A. Sanford is at foe point of strong a dose for the loyal atomaohs. death. Macon Silver Comet Band h»»* charter members, Nathaniel ^ suddenly of paralyeis of the brain, SuncV* ber 4, 1870. How inscrutable arejthe ways of a few days ago and onr friend wm wit® ber honored and honorary—a moment o he has joined that grand chorus singing anthems of the immortal city, One of _ charter members, a genuine 1 beyond valne, we ehonld be untrue toOO*^J we fail to record this our last tribute Be it therefore Resolved, That in Nathaniel Pinkham, the Macon has lost a valued member, whose meffl°*7 be cherished as a saored legacy by it* Resolved, That we extend onr 8iDC *, thiee to hie bereaved relatives and frl6 ? 0 jN > Resolved, That a page of ourmin 016 f icated to hia memory, and that onr ® the usual badge of mourning for tbWf' Reeolved, That the Secretary forw*^ lM i/| these resolutions to his relations, Telegraph <k Messenger for publics^ 1 Chas. O. Guilfobp, Caret W. Cox, Secretary- tfW-i 4i.
