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fTTA - - X- The Greoreia 'W'eekl'y Telee^aph and Journal &c Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, BEPT. 16, 1870. Young liRdles* Boarding and Day MmL We invite attention to the advertisement of Mrs. Edward B. White’s boarding and day school for yonng Indies, at 59 West 42d street, New York oity, elsewhere found. We are as sured that no better school of the kind is to be found in that city, and the list of references embrace the names of some of the most prom inent gentlemen in both sections of the Union. From the South, we notice the names of Gen eral Wade Hampton, N. R. Middleton, L. L. D., President Charleston College, and Bev. W. T. Brantley, D. D., of Atlanta. Mrs. White is a Southern woman, and will make a liberal de duction in terms to pupils from the South. The Vermont Elections. It was reported that the Radicals carried this election by even larger majorities than hereto fore, but a special to the Boston Post, of Satur day, tell a different story: “For the first time since 1853 the Democrats have elected two members of the State Senate, and instead of only nine Representatives, have elected nine more then last year, an increase of one-third.— In several counties Democratic nominees for county offices have also been elected, an almost unheard-of thing for fifteen years.” So it seems the Democratic tide is rising even up in that Gibraltar of Radicalism. Governor Hoffman. The printers made us say that there is no man of fewer abilities than Governor Hoffman. The word used was “ finer.” But Hoffman is not only one of the ablest men in America—a remarkably clear thinker and a man of great executive force—but he ha3 the rare merit among politicians of sincerity, candor, and conscientiousness. He thinks clearly, and he has the nerve to act up to his convictions. It was so great a blessing to the knavery-ridden State of New York when they seated Hoffman in the Executive chair, that nobody seriously doubts his re-election by a largely increased majority. Nominating Ineligible#. We think there is little or no division of opinion on this subject among Georgia Demo crats, and, therefore, it is hardly worth while to pursue the argument further in answer to an old Democrat. If we desire representation in Con gross let us comply with the terms. If we do not desire it, let us make no nominations and cease concerning ourselves about the matter.— That is the whole of the argument so far as we can see. “King by the Grace of God.” The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks that the per sonal opinions of tho King of Prussia on the subject of government are of interest at this time, as they may exercise an important in fluence upon his dealings with the present au thorities of France. King William was crowned on the IGth of October, I8G1. In an address delivered on tho 15th, he said: ‘The rulers of Prussia receive their crown from God. To-morrow, therefore, I shall, take the crown from the Lord’s table, and place it on my head. This is the meaning of the ex pression ‘King by the grace of God,’ and there in lies the sancity of the crown, which is in violable.” And he fulfilled his promise. At the appoint ed time he placed the “golden round of sov ereignty” upon his own head, with the remark, “I wear this crown by the favor of God, and of nobody else.” A Prince professing and aoting upon this idea, is not likely to regard republi canism with much favor, in France or elsewhere. Curious.—We fail to understand the whys and wherefores of the actions of the Louisiana Democrats in their convention with reference to colored delegates. As we understand the matter the negroes had been invited to send delegates to the convention, audit therefore seems to us that when these delegates arrived, they should have been admitted without delay or debate. Upon the policy of extending such an invitation we offer no opinion, as that is a matter alwaya to be judged and determined for thomselves solely by the parties interested; but after the invitation had been given and the del egates had presented themselves in good faith' and with tho regularity of their selection duly attested, we see no reashd at all why there should have been any hesitancy in giving them seats in the convention. It has rather a look of weakness and timidity that does not auger well for a bold, vigorous campaign, and an assured vitory. A “Fbaxmlkax," Gbbeixko.—Hon. A. EL Ste phens having been invited to deliver the open ing address at an Agricultural Fair soon to be held at Norristown, Pennsylvania, the Philadel phia Evening Bulletin, one of the very shrillest ahriekers for “loyalty,” and the divine right of the Radical party to an unlimited stealage, calls for a “loyal” mob, in the event of his accep tance, to drive him from the stand. “If Mr. Stephens aooepts the invitation, and mwVsvfaA.^ to speak at Norristown,” says that paper, “we hope loyal people will either have nothing to do with the enterprise, or will attend and hoot the speaker from the stand." This, we suppose, is what that crowd calls “making treason odious.” We notice that the dose is too strong even for Forney’s seasoned, stomach, and he mildly rebukes the Bulletin for its “blunder;” Current News. Thx Ocxan Oabub.—The French cable has been successfully repaired and all three are now working withont let or hindrance. Da. Lobd, late President of Dartmouth Col lege and well known as & courageous opponent of abolitionism, died in Hsnover, N. H., 9th insfc. He was bora in Berwick, Maine, 1792. More Puotests.—Twenty-six German pro fessors of law and medicine, in Munich, have added their signatures to the protest of the theo logical faculty, against the results of the Ecu menical Council. TTrr Themselves.—The Union printers in Cal- iforni have stiu'.kthemselre? entirely ontof work All the news papers refuse to re-employ them, and aretow doing business on their own account. The Iron Glad Captain was a huge ship of 4,272 tons, carrying a battery of six three hun dred pound guns, and moved by two engines of 900 horse power. Her armor ranged from eight to three inches in thickness, and it is said the Invincible, Iron Duke, Swiftsure, Triumph, Vanguard, Hercules, Sultan, Hotspur and Glut ton, now in the English dock yards, are more heavily plated. The fate of the Captain is a bad precedent for tho rest of them. Can’t Tbkat with the Republic.—A 'World speoial from London says it is alleged that King William has notified Bismarck perempto rily that he will permit nothing to be said to him abont treating with the French Repnblio, and the King insists only on ample indemnity for the expenses of the war and the restoration of the Imperial Government. Very doubtful. Cotton Bdtebs Don’t Wait pot Those Ex- tbemely Low Pbices.—Smith, Dunning Woodward’s circular of tho 10th says j “The past year having been so disappointing to hold ers that the tendency is to run to the other ex treme and expect such very low prices as will probably keep many from operating at the proper moment, wo would therefore caution our friends against waiting for such extremely low prices as some speak of. We may have them, butatlG to 1G£ cents, and its equivalent in Europe, the power of the world to consume cotton can scarcely be estimated, and any prop we are likely to have this year will be oonsumed at an average of these prices.” Accommodation s eob 100,000 Guests.—B. W. Wrenn, General Passenger and Ticket Agent of the Western & Atlantic Railroad, in a circu lar, says that in the various hotels, boarding houses, and 500 tents to bo erected in the Park, accommodations will be provided in Atlanta for 100,000 visitors to the State Fair. Peace.—A telegram to the World says that Pranee will aooept any terms of peace from Prussia, short of dismemberment of her terri tory, and will be backed by Bu&ia in refusing this demand. She will consent to a large in demnity—to dismantle her frontier fortresses and reduce her army to any extent; but ean’t give up her soil. Gbamdiloquxnce.—Victor Hugo and Madame Goorge Sand are engaged in a lively contest to see who will strut on the tallest stilts in bar- ranguing the French. Hugo has tried his hnad at scaring the Prussians with his apostrophes. But he is wasting his tim’e and eloquenoe. The Germans don’t understand his startlers. Let him try them with good lager and schwit2er and they would know what that meant. But Ms exhortations will pass for nothing. Pboehecies.—A crop of old prophecies and mystio calculations always springs up on the heels of startling events. Our old friend Nos- tradamus has been dug up again with averits- ble prophecy of the downfall of Napoleon in 1879. But more amusing perhaps to the reader will be the following pieee of oabalistio figuring, whioh shows sn odd ooinoidence any-bow. A small printed sheet, entitled “A remarka ble Prophecy,” and having reference to Napo leon's fall, is now in circulation- in Germany, and gives for the modest sum of one kreutzer a copy of a most remarkable calculation, wMoh unites in a singular degree of ingenuity and pro phecy. From an examination of this singular bit of political ciphering we obtain the follow ing facts, as thus: Louis Phillippe was born 1773 His queen, Amelia 1.1782 They were married 1809 They ascended the French throne 1830 Adding these necromantic numbers together, as follows: 1830 1830 1830 111 7 7 8 7 8 0 3 2 9 1848 1848 1848 we got the number 1848, a year so fatal to Louis Phillippe that he lost his throne within its 8G5 calendar days. - - Now, applying this method of calculation to the fortunes of the French Emperor, we find that the ominous dates of the most important events in his life point as adversely to the year 1870. Napolon ILL was born.......... 1808 The Empress Eugenie was bora 1826 They were married 1853 And asoended the throne .1853 Adding these figures, as in the case of Louis Phillippe, we find that the result points to startingly similar conclusion, whioh, indeed, the events of the last few days have painfully verified. 1853 1853 1868 111 i-88 8 0 . 2 ' S 8 « 9 1870 1870 1870 Adjournment.—The Atlanta Bun says the members of the Agency whose consciences are not made of cast iron mention ihfc subject once in a while, but the idea is repulsed as promptly as a cose of small pox. There seems to be no disposition to consider an adjournment as a part of the legitimate business. There is enough business on the calendar now to employ both houses until Thanksgiving. Yet now business Is crowding in in every shape and form, and very soon there will be enough to stretch the session out until Christmas. An awful murder and suicide occurred in New York city on Friday night. Wm. Marsh, messenger of the United States corps at Willet’s Point, visitedahousoof prostitution, 1G1 Greene street, where he proposed marriage to the pro prietress of the saloon, Minnie Hartedk She declined, when Marsh drew a revolver and shot her in the stomach, and then placing the weapon to his forohead, fired, inflicting a fatal wound. Both will die. Paban Stevens is about to build in New York, on Fifth Avenue, a first-class apartment hotel, after tho European style, in which families can rent each a complete suite of rooms, including kitchen, dining-room, bath-room, parlor, bed rooms and closets. The cost of the building will bo $700,000, and suits will be rented at from $1,500 to $2,000 a year, aooording to loca tion. A Richmond firm shipped fifty hands one day last week, to work on Mississippi business pronfises to be very brisk this fall. iRst fall there were 15,000. hands shipped OT er k® 1 ® Danville, Sonthside and Virginia and Ten- Bremeo roads alone.” These hands are trans ported safely «rd expeditiously in oars attached to mail trains. Rome made rsmall investment yesterday in the way of a Repnblio-at least she went so far as to have posters painted and stack up. Let her see that Victor Emanuel or the Pope don’t tear them dews. A Fire la me Rear. . r From tho New- York Sun, of Saturday, we ex tract the following scorching indictment of the Radical party of Louisiana. It is a paragraph from an address to the Radicals of that State, recently issued by the ‘Christian Republican Association” of Louisiana, which organization was initiated by the colored preaohers of New Orleans and has srpead all over the State. Its a capital democratic campaign document. “It is the doty of all Christians to strive to advance and build np the cause of piety and re ligion in the land. This they cannot do by countenancing, or silently assenting to the eleotion of men to the Legislature who un- blushingly accept of bribes. The Legislature at its last regular session voted away$I,204,670; at the special ten day session it voted away $1,230,707, making $2,435,373, besides the millions which they gave to the Chattanooga and other railroads, and the expenses of the State Government. Men who went into office about two years ago poor, can now boast of princely fortunes. These extravagant appro priations have all lo be paid by the poor peo ple. If this species of extravagant legislation should continue a few sessions more, all the property in the State of Louisiana would not be sufficient to pay the indebtedness. It would be almost impossible for a laboror to earn enough to pay his taxes and support his family. We appeal to ministers of the Gospel in the State, as well as to all Christians snd honest men to join with us in electing men to offioe posses, sed of religions sentiments, or at least moral honesty sufficient to enable them to withstand the seductive influence of bribery and corrup tion, and who will not vote away money for speculative purposes, or barter away the prin ciples of equal rights and justice to promote' their sel$sh purposes. “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” [Paor. xxix: 2. Thb Senate.—The members of the upper branch of the General Assembly are obviously getting sick and tired of their work. There was such a scanty attendance yesterday that permis- slon wm refused to the Joint Committee on the r”5 alio Asylum to be absent from their pewts to-day, for fear the Senate ahonld be left with out a quorum.—Bra, 18<A If they are half so sick of their work as the people are we pity them, it’s rich, though— the idee of the majority of that crowd getting “rick and tired” of nine dollars a day I The Georgia Press. The Stewart county Agricultural Society has elected S. B. Walton, President; Dr. J. E. Car ter, Vice President; W. H. Harrison, Secretary; J. K. Barnum, Corresponding Secretary; and J. F. Irvin, Statistical Secretary. The new mail ronte from Americas to Lump kin is now in operation, and very soon a back for the transportation of passengers will be put on tho line. The Savannah river rice planters are build ing floating threshers wMch travel from planta tion to plantation, thus saving transportation, loss of time, and loss of grain. The Savannah News of Monday lost says: —One of our steamers left on Saturday for New York with a moderate complement of cotton and A. L. Harris, of Atlanta, as a deck load. We should think, in bad weather, an overload would bo dangerous. Should there be heavy weather, like old Dutch skippers used to pour oil to calm the sea, Harris might be lowered for a while. The Atlanta Georgian of yesterday says: The weather reminds one of winter. A few overcoats were visible yesterday. It is reported that Mr. H. L Kimball has pur chased the Trout Houso property, and will erect thereon an opera houso. W. 0. Morris, of Atlanta, offers for tho next State Fair a special premium of fifty dollars, for the finest specimen of ornamental sign painting on plate glass, the specimen to be finely mounted. Minimum size 3Gxl8 inches. Cotton is coming in very briskly at Griffin and Forsyth. Taylor Barlow, brother of Blythe Barlow, and his accomplice in the murder of Mr. John Me- Clusky, of Butts county, several months ago, was earned to that county last Friday, having been recently arrested in the Southwestern por tion of the State. The Monroe Advertiser says: A Remabkadle Escape.—Last Wednesday, while two negroes were preparing a mine in a well at Thurmond’s Mill, for the purpose of blasting a rock in the bottom thereof, the fuse caught unexpectedly, and the mino exploded before .either of tho negroes had time to get out. Singularly enough, neither of the darkies was seriously hurt, although a sledge-hammer whioh one of them was using, was blown ont of the well. The well is a narrow one, and the wonder is that both the negroes were not literally blown to pieces. One of the negroes had Ms right hand very badly shattered, rendering amputa tion of one of the fingers necessary, which was done by Dr. Turner. Beyond this, and a few burns and bruises, the negroes are notmaterially injured. The residence of Gen. E. P. Daniel, in Grif fin, was burned Monday morning. Loss $4,000 on tho house and several hundred on furniture. No insurance. The Atlanta Constitution, of yesterday, has tho following On Saturday night the down freight train ran over and killed a man namek George L West, about a fourth of a mile this side of Stone Motmtain. Mr. West being under the influence of liquor, had Btarted for home, unfortunately taking the railroad track instead of the dirt road. When he had passed Dr. Hamilton’s res idence fifteen or twenty feet, he laid down on the track. The freight train was coming down grade with some twenty-two box cars attached; and, although seeing the unfortunate man, could not check up in time to save him. The cow catcher struck him, and knocked him in ad vance of the train for some distance, when Ms right hand was cut off above the wrist, and right and left leg below theknoe. The right arm was next torn from its socket with a por tion of the ribs attached, and the right leg sev ered at the tMgh. The remains presented a sickening spectacle, mangled as the body was. Mr. West was about fifty years of age, a well- digger by profession, and leaves a wife, seven daughters and one son In indigent circum stances. Mr. B. J. Wynn, of Putnam county, re covered $7,000 in Morgan Superior Court, last week, from the Georgia Railroad Company, as damages for the killing of Ms wife by a train on that road, near Madison, last year. He sued for $20,000. A negro named Lynch attempted to kill two men named Johnson, at the Rome Rolling Mill Monday. He knocked one of them down with apiece of iron six feet long, and cut a deep gash in the head of the other with another pieoe of iron, winding up with attempting to shoot one of them with a pistol. For all this playfulness the Roman Mayor fined him $5. White men’s lives are very cheap, it seems, in Rome. Gen. John W. A. Sanford, whose illness we notioed a day or two since, died in Mills dgeville, on Monday evening, in the seventy-third year of his age. The Federal Union announces the arrival there, on Friday, of thirteen negroes recently convioted of insurrection against the laws of the State, in Jefferson oounty. Major H. K. Daniels of Milledgeville, during the war quartermaster of Dole’s brigade, died suddenly at his plantation in Sumter county on Friday. The Southern Recorder says : Simon Greer, colored, was killed by Berry Williams, oolored, 8th Inst., In this county, on ujiiimiwi WtVAOWj OMIUUW,) 1U OOUIltYj Oil the plantation Of Hr. Jos. 0. Whitaker, whilst in the field picking ootton. After a thorough investigation of the facts before Justioe Peter Fair, acting Coroner, the Jury made a verdict of justifiable homicide. The sco used was pres ent and set at liberty. A gentleman who spent Saturday and Sun day in Stewart county, tells the Columbus En quirer that it is the impression of planters gen erally in that oounty, that orops will be cut short one-third, if not one-half from rust. This report is oertainbydisoouraging, and agrees with numerous other similar reports from counties In Southwestern Georgia. : The Merchants and Planters’ National Bank of August* was opened for business, Tuesday. Governor Jenkins is President, It starts oper ations with a capital of $100,090, privileged to increase it tp $500,000. We clip the following from the Eatonton Press and Messenger: Cotton picking is progresssing rapidly in this seotion, and if the dry and pleasant weather oontinues, the first of Ootober will find the larger portion of the crop housed. The large quantity of fertilizers used and the scorchinghot weather of August forced the crop to maturity faster than was ever known. Found.—We learn that a new-bom XV Amendment waa found in the woods near this plaoe a few days ago, where it had been left by Its mother. Though but a few hours old, ap parently, when found, it was taken and is being cared for by a colored woman, who thinks it has a good prospeot of becoming * voter one of these days. Cotton.—Tho new crop is coming in rapidly. Almost every day we see large loads going to the depot for shipment, wMoh begins to make our people feel like better times were coming Some few bales were sold in tMs market last week for 15£ cents. Most planters are order ing their cotton sold as fast as it arrives in Sa vannah, preferring to take present prices to running the risk of getting more by holding In this they display their wisdom. To the MostBeautot-l,—’The young men of the Eatonton Brass Band offer a Golden Apple, worth fifty dollars, to the most beautiful young lady on the grounds, at the coming Putnam county Fair, which commences on the 12th of October, the question to bo determined by a plurality vote of all persons present at the Fair. Twenty-five oente will be charged for each vote, any person casting a* many votes as he may desire. Conrt Terms—Macon Circa It. The bill changing the terms of tho Superior Courts of this Circuit, which has passed both Houses and been approved by the Governor, appoints them as fdUows. We are indebted to Judge Cole for the tabla : Dooly oounty, 1st Monday in Ootober and April. Crawford “ 2nd “ “ “ “ “ Twiggs “ 3d 1 « Bibb “ 4th “ <• “ » « Maoon “ 1st “in Deo. and 3d in May. Houston “ 9d “ “ “ 4th “ Cotton Crop of 1869—’70. We copy the following figures from the Com mercial and Financial Chronicle circular, which came to hand yesterday. It will be seen that last year’s crop is set down at 3,154,946 bales— an excess of 715,807 bales over the product of the preceding year. * * The total receipts at the Atlantic, and Gulf SMpping ports this year has been 2,911 121 bales, against 2,100,428 bales last year. If now we add the sMpments from Tennessee and elsewhere direct to manufacturers, we have the following os the crop statement for tho two years: Year ending Sept 18G9-’70 18G8-’G9 Receipts at the sMpping ports bales, Aadshipments from Ten nessee, eta, direct to manufacturers Total Manufactured South, not included in above.. 2,911,121 2,100,428 153,825 258,611 3.0G4.949 90,000 2,359,039 80,000 Total cotton crop for the year, bales 3,154,946 2,439,039 The following is a tabular statement of the recoipts at American ports for the year—those figures at New Yorkand below not including the overland receipts: Sept. 1, Sept. 1, . - 1870. 1869. New Orleans 1,142,097 794,205 Alabama 30G.0GI, 230,621 South Carolina 246,500 199,072 Georgia 488,204 3*7,253 Texas 24C.284 147,817 Florida 22,874 13,592 North Carolina 69,612 35,908 Virginia 202,898 140,981 New York* 135,876 104,514 Boston* 21,316 35,033 Philadelphia* 12,509 20,114 Baltimore**. 26,274 19,467 Portland* 616 1,991 Total tMs year. 2,911,121 Total last year 2,100,428 The crops since the war have ran as follows Years. Bales 1866-67 2,019,774 18G5-G6 2,193,987 Years. Bales 1869-70 3,154,946 18G8-G9 2,439,039 1867-68 2,593,993 CONSUMPTION. The takings of the Northern mills from this crop have been less during the past year than during the previous year. This is due to the belief which prevails among our spinners that the next crop is likely to be marketed at a lower range of prices; this belief having induced them to run down a considerable portion of the large stock they carried over last September. Hence, notwithstanding they have taken less from the crop, their actual consumption has increased, as is more fully explained below. Our usual summary, showing tho result for the year, North and South, is as follows: Total crop of the United States as above stated... bales 3,154,94G Stock on hand commencement of year (Sept. 1,18G9): At Northern ports... 9,536 At Southern ports 2,807— 12,313 Total supply during year ending Sept. 1, 1870... 3,167,289 Of this supply there has beeu Exported to foreign ports during the year. 2,178,917 Sent to Canada by railroad direct from the West.... 27,663 Burnt North and South.... 4,172 Now on hand (September 1, 1870: At Northern ports 19,554 At Southern ports 40,193—2,270,429 Total consumption in U. S. year ending September 1, 1870. Consumption in Southern States included in above total bales 896,860 90,000 Leaving taken from .the crop by Northern mills bales 806,860 The foregoing statement indicates that the Northern mills have taken from this crop 806,- 860 bales. Since these figures were prepared we have received a preliminary report (more fully given in our weekly cotton report of to day) of the actual consumption of the mills dur ing the year. The report referred to is made up from returns received from 76 per cent, of the Northern mills, and the result reached is that the North has used 807,662 bales during the twelve months, but has only taken from tins crop 777,662 bales, the balance, 30,000 bides, being the amount of old stock oonsumed. What They Say of It. We continue below our record of the response to Mr. Stephens’ letter by the Democratic press of Georgia: We tMnk the spirit of the letter is in bad taste, and indicates that its writer is a man of little discretion, and the wroDg man for the po sition of Chairman of tho Executive Demo cratic Committee. The idea of a man, one man, advising a course opposite to the one recomend- ed by the true and tried members of Congress, advising a disregard of the advice of the Na tional Democratic Committee, and repudiating the Bentimest advanced by the Executive Com mittee of the State, is simply ridiculous, and savors of imbecility.—Griffin Middle Georgian. Wo have no room for any lengthy comment on the aboard and miscMevous letter of Judge Linton Stephens, accepting the position of Chairman of the Executive Committee of. the Dsmocratio party of the State. As he says, they are “his own views,” and the Dsmocratio party of Georgia should not be held responsible for them. They are not the views of the Democratic party of this State,' and as conventions will soon be held in all the Con gressional Districts to nominate Democratic candidates for CoDgrees, the several conven tions ought to disavow “the views” expressed by Judge Stephens in his^letter. This will let the letter stand os the expression of his individ ual opinion, and place the party right before the country.—Monroe Advertiser. Unanimous!—The sentiments of the Demo cratic and conservative people of the State, and most of the reliable papers, are urging that Link Stephens shall immediately withdraw from the Chairmanship of the Democratic State Ex ecutive Committee, as he does not represent the views of the party, and was not elected by a quorum of the Committee!—Griffin Star. We are not less grieved than surprised at the recommendation of Hon. Linton Stephens, Ohairman of the State Democratio Exeontive Committee, in his letter to the Secretary of said Committee, that the nomination of candidates should be made without reference to their eliei- bility. We hope that Mr. Stepens will find reason to reconsider and reverse Ms opinion, or, that he trill resign a position in which he misrepresents the views of the Democratic party.—Albany Mem. Wo publish in another colamnthe letter of Judge Linton Stephens accepting tho position of Chairman of the State Democratio Exeontive Committee, to wMch he was reoently eleeted by a portion of that Committee and we feel no or dinary regret that such a letter should have been written, just at this time. Judge Stephens’ views are erroneous and impolitic, and if this is an indication of the caurse he contemplates pursuing, hia election was an unfortunate, not i:o say an improper clectiogu—Americas Repub lican. _Tho Democracy of Dougheriy county, at their meeting on Saturday lost, made answer as fol lows to Mr. Stephens’ letter. Resolved; That this meeting disapprove of Ihe recommendation of Hon. Lintdn Stephens, Chairman of the State Democratio Committee, in recommending that candidates should be nominated without reference to their eligibility. Suoh a course is in conflict with the unanimous advice of other friends, and would, in out opin ion, result in disaster to the good oausa whioh we seek to promote. A Mr. O’Neal, of Louisiana, held four aces and the king in a recent social game of poker, and when Mr. Tally called him on five aces he very properly shot him dead. It will be remem bered that Ah Sin, the “Hathen Chinee” eeme to grief under similar circumstance*. Am Eastern editor accuses another of having stolen his report of a meeting, which was reo- ogoized by certain ear-marks. The retort oour- teous is that the first editor “should tie his ears over the top of hia head while writing, to keen iham qut of the ink bntlin ’ DEMOCRATIC KOMINAflOHS for CONGRESS ELIGIBILITY OF CANDIDATES. Probably all the Congressional Districts in tMs State will hold Conventions during the pres ent month to nominate candidates for the un expired term of the 41st, and for the full term of the 42d, Congress. It is a matter of no little importance that the Conventions of the Democratio party should look carefully to the eligibility and qualifica tions of the candidates whom they may nomi nate. It will be utterly useless .to nominate any one who, if elected, will be refused a seat in Congress on account of ineligibility. What are the grounds of such exclusion ? To be admitted to a seat a member elect must not only be free from the disqualifications imposed by the 14th amendment of tho Constitution of the United States, but, as a farther qualifica tion, he will be required to take what is known as the test or iron-clad oath, unless relieved from the same. It is presumed that no Democratic Conven tion in the State will nominate a candidate for Congress who can take that oath, unless it should be done in the First District, in wMch there is a gentleman of ability, known to be a reliable Democrat, who, if nominated and elect ed, could take the oath and not be considered offensive to hi3 party. But, as a general rule, the Democratio party will not nominate candi dates for CoDgress who can conscientiously take the test oath. Such candidates would not receive the support of the party,.if nominated. The conventions, then, in nominating candi dates, should be careful to nominate no one of whom tho test oath will, be required if elected. That oath will not be required of members elect, whose disabilities have been removed by net of Congress. Tne only safe nominations which can be made will be of men whose disabilities have been re moved. They are not only not obnoxious to the disqualifications imposed by the 14th amend ment, but they are relieved from taking the test oath.. . It was in this way that Messrs, Tift and Young, Democratic members from Georgia were admitted into the Fortieth Congress without taking the Congressional test oath. Their dis abilities were removed before they were admit ted, and hence they were relieved from the oath. But it will not be safe to nominate Democrat ic candidates with the expectation that, if elect ed, their disabilities will be removed. That re moval will not be made, if the Republicans re tain a majority in the House of Representa tives. The body wMch turns ont members who are certainly elected because they are Demo crats, and admits the contestants who were not elected simply to swell the Republican majority in Congress, will not be very apt and ready to remove the diaabilites of Democratic members to enable'them to take their seats. It is a fit of liberality and magnamimity which is not likely to. come upon them. Nor will it be po litic or safe to depend upon the contingency of the Democrats having a majority in the House of Representatives in the 42d Congress. That contingency may happen, or it may not—and the latter k the most probable. With the patronage of the Federal govern ment at their command, and holding it to be a matter of immense importance to the Republi can party to retain control of the Houso of Re presentatives, the Democratio party has fearfol odds to contend against to get a majority in that body, and it cannot be looked for with any rea sonable degree of certainty. The safe plan, and the only safe plan, will be for the conventions to confine their nominations of candidates to Democrats whose disabilties have beeu removed. If such should be nomi nated and elected, there can be no pretext for excluding them from seals. Any others would be excluded, either by tho operation of the 14th amendment, or if not obnoxious to that, the test oath would he required of them and would exolude them. Bat there seems to bo a prejudice entertained by some against those whose disabilities have been removed, and it arises from a presumption that they asked a Republican Congress to re lieve them. In answer to this objection it may be said thatitis not known whetherthey sought relief voluntarily, or whether it was granted at the instance of some friend in Congress without their knowledge. But be that as it may. Even if the relief from disabilities was voluntarily sought, it should not be made the ground of ob jection to any one who is known to be a reliable Democrat. On the contrary, we should be glad to have it in our power to nominate and elect Democrats to Congress who are not in danger of being excluded for want of eligibility; and it would be fortunate for the interests of the State if we had more of such men, not only eli gible to seats in Congress, bnt in the Legislature, where we most need need their services. . . It takes ns a long time to learn to “accept the situation.” By the 14th amendment a diaabill ty to hold office has been imposed on certain classes of men, which may be removed by a vote of two-tMrds in eaoh house of Congress,— It is there—in the Constitution—whether we like it or not, and, being a part of the Consti tution, we cannot esoape its operation. Now, it is the part of wisdom to have this disability re moved from as many of our citizens as possible, in order that we may have their servioes in whatever station they may be called by their fellow-citizens. The State now feels the want of the services of men of experience who, on ac count of their disability, are excluded from hold ing office; and we have pursued a mistaken policy in not getting more of them relieved from their disabilities. If it had been done when Congress was in the humor of granting relief, there would not now be suoh a dearth of wisdom and experi ence in our Legislature, and when we come to nominate candidates for Congress and the Leg islature, we would not be oonfined to so narrow a circle fromwMoh to make selections. But we have suffered the day to pass. There is not much probability that any inoro will bo relieved from their disabilities who are known to be Democrats, until there is a change in the strength in Congress. Then let us hear no more of this prejudice against men who have had their disabilities re moved. If wei cannot use them for candidates, pray whom oan we use? We take it for granted that the Democratic party of Georgia will not nominate candidates for Congress, who can take the test oath ; and if the prejudice against those whose disabilities have been removed shall prevail, we ask where can candidates be found for the Democratio ticket, who are eligi ble, and who oan take their seats if eleeted ? Not those who are ineligible, for it would be worse than folly to run them. The interests of the great Democratic party of the country re quire the nomination of Democrats who will not be excluded, if elected, by reason of disquali fication! under the 14th Amendment, and by be ing required to lake th* test oath. ! i, !. 0 Boston Post-lngH. Prussia is in Champagne and Paris is sober. A fort without guns—Rochefort. St. Louis wears mourning. A ten-cent drink ing saloon has collapsed. Horace is writing a new book, to be colled “What I Know About Not Being Nominated.” Mrs. Shellenberger, of Michigan, is no more. She would light her fire with kerosene. Only mosquitoes remain at Cape May. . Other bills have been liquidated. Good news for the irreligious—Hell Gate is blockaded; no running through. Greeley is mollifying. In place of 'damning he has fallen to denying. Patrick Flood, ofBrooklyn, flooded his inter nal economy with whisky, and death’s dark flood engulphed him. A gentle hackman in Now York quarrelled with a car conductor and mildly lodged three balls in his frame. The oonduotor passed in his checks. A New York German hoed an Irishman to death, the other night, to prove the correetnesa of the Prussian intentions on Franoe. An Indiana lawyer sought to cane an editor, but retired in disorder and with three bullets snugly stowed in his body. Utica is sffl eted with cholera-morbus and seventeen base ball clubs. Relegates to the Southern Commer cial Convention. Bullock has appointed tho following State delegates to tho Southern Commercial Conven tion, to be held in Cincinnati Ootober 4th : For the First Congressional Disinot-George W. Willey, of Savannah. For the Second Oongresriooal District—B. F Bruton, of Bainbridge. For the Third Congressional District— R. L. Mott, of Columbus. For the Fourth Congressional District—Thoa Hardeman, Jr., of Macos. For the Fifth Congressional District—H. Tweedy, of Augusta. Fer the Sixth Congressional District—S. A. Atkinson, at Athena. For tha Seventh Congressional District V. A. Gasktil, of Atlanta. Admiral Farragut left real estate in New York city valued at $200,000, al of whieh he willed to his wifa v*4 an. - aJwHIW . Afiklrs la Paris. We reprint the following from dispatches in tho Western papers: The aspect of Paris is that of a military camp. Mobiles and Garde Rationale dwell in the streets. On all sides are men in uni form-regiments of cavalry and artillery pas sing through the streets. Mobiles from the provinces are billeted upon the inhabitants. At the railway depots are many harrowing scenes—women and chil dren endeavoring to leave in thousands upon thousands. Baggage is piled as high as the houses, and moat of' the railways now refuse to take baggage. As trains leave, upon each departure hundreds are left behind. -tic or A Women fret and weep, and children are frightened at the sight. There are no j>olice but the patrol of citizens, who investigate everyb.dy. No places of amusement are open, as most of the artists belong to the National Guard, whioh at night have posses sion of the boulevards. The town is quiet as a provincial place, which is a most impressive change. The determination to defend Use city is uni versal and unyielding:. It has been rumored since two o’clock that the diplomatique corps arc conferring, and proposes, in case of agreement, to all go to night to the King of Prussia. All the Embassadors, the Papal Nuncio in-r eluded, have called upon the Minister of For eign Affairs, arid it is understood that they will all go with the Government The dele gates will reside in Tours during the siege. The Postoffice Department, and those of the Telegraph and Finances, are already installed largely at Tours. Should that department be invaded, the service will be removed much ;~v There is no truth in the rumor of a new loan. -jaa Many journals, though the stamp duty is re moved, are unchanged in 'price, owing, it ‘ alleged, to the high price of paper. The death of McMahon is still contradic- tcd. .oVHR London, September 8.—A Tribune correspon dent, writing from Paris Wednesday night; says: “The oity is perfectly tranquil, but ugly ele ments are at work. Tho Government, is not rigid enough. AU the Imperial Embassadors have been recalled and new ones appointed. Preparations for the defense continue; and the efforts made are extraordinary. Prizes have been offered for novel means of destroying as sailing forces. The Scientific Commission meets to-day to discuss some chemioal means cf as sisting the defense. Fugitives from Sedan are continually arriving, weary, half-starved, ragged and neglected by everybody. They declare they were massacred; that McMahon’s movement from Chalons was by the Emperor’s orders, who never relinquished the real oommand. The stories of bad ammunition are confirmed, and the returned soldiers openly display cartridges which are partly made of sand. Similar con tractors’ frauds are coming to light. London, September 0.—A speoial correspon- ’dent of the Tribune writes from Paris Thursday: “Count D’Aumale will prove a far more formi dable candidate than Count D’Paris. The re fusal of the Government to allow any of the Or- leanists to remain is generally approved. What harms them here is the belief that their preten sions will be favored by the English Govern ment, and that the wife of one of the English Cabinet Ministers is intriguing for them. Troops are encamped from the Arc De Triomph through the Nevilly gate up to Gour- bervi. Going out, I bad to wait fully an hour while the troops passed out to oocupy the ground between the forts of Monalsin and those of Sk Dennis. All the houses within the mili tary zone outside the fortifications are now pull ed down. An offleer with whom I conversed said he was afraid there would be a panic among the soldiers. They are so utterly de moralized that their officers can do nothing with them. Stragglers of all kinds are about the streets. According to some correspondents, the life of the Emperor will not be worth a moment’s purchase in France, so intense is their indigna tion on acoount of the surrender of Sedan when the army was confident of victory. The reported aotion of the diplomatic corps at Paris ia favor of peaoe is authoritatively de nied. Proclamation of the Constitutional As* sembly. Pams, Sept. 9.—The Journal Official publishes the following address from the government of national defense to the French people: . u ... “Frenchmen: In proclaiming four days ago a government for the national defense, we de fined our mission. The power had fallen to the ground. He who commenced with crime ended with desertion. We have done nothing bat take again the government fallen from powerless hands. But Europe wants to be enlightened. It is neceasary that she should learn by unex ceptional evidence that the entire country is with us. The invader must meet Ms death. Not only is the immense city resolved to perish rather thansurrender, but a people on their feet and organized and a representative assembly,- besides that wMoh can cany everywhere and despite all disasters—the living soul of the. country. The government accordingly decrees: Ark 1. The Electoral Colleges are convoked for Sunday the IGth day of Ootober, for the purpose *f choosing a National Constitutional Assembly. Ark 2. The eleotion shall be held at the reg ular polling places in conformity with the law of the 14th of March, 1849. Ark 3. The number of members of the Con stitutional Assembly ia fixed at 750. Ark 4. Tha Ministar of the Interior is charged with the execution of the present decree. Done at the Hotel de ViUe, Paris, the 8th day of September, 1870. The Terms Kin* William will Offer Frrnee. Cable Soteial to the World.J London, September 9.—It is reported that King William has given orders that Napoleon shall be treated in all reepeets as * the ruling sovereign of France. He will permit nothing to be said to Mm about treating with Republi can Franoe, and has made up mind to only on ample seoority for the payment of the expenses of the war and the restoration of the Imperial Government No English Intervention. Fabk, September 9.—It is reported in diplo matic circles that England will. not push inter vention in favor of peaoe, owing to the printing unpleasant relations just now between the Cab inets of Berlin and London. The Germans are incensed because England continues to sell arms to private individuals, who deliver them to Franoe. Lien. Von Ureeley Uoing Bock on the [ -ira od: i: Cermnnn. The illustrious warrior having failed to secure the Radical nomination for Governor of New York, seems to have lost muoh of his interest in the German vote which he was wooing so ten derly while that nomination waa pending. Nay, he actually gives tho Germans notice that he is going back on them. In the Tribune, of Sat urday, ho writes as follows: When Napoleon, on a flimsy pretext, declared war against the North German Confederation tiie sympathies of nearly all free people were instantly enlisted on the aide of Prussia, because the declaration was so evidentlyunjust, and be cause the real objects of the Emperor clearly wore to consolidate his own family interests, to establish Cmsarism, and to prevent the unity of ~®. j*® 1 *? 811 nation. But the considerations which influenced the sympathies of the United States at first are fast giving place to others, ihe conditions are changed. Csasarism is over thrown. The Bonapartes have fallen for a sec ond time, and their fall we trust is forever. German unity ia secured. German liberty we hope is not far off. The viotora oan afford to be magnanimous, and if they press too severely upon the vanquished they may lose tho good Will wMch is now enlisted on their side, and transfer it to the gallant but unfortunate Repub lic which is striving to build itself up amidst the ruins of the bastard Empire. If this war ahonld become a contest between the French Republic fighting for independence and territorial integ rity, and the house of HohenzoUera flph«T> g f or ihe possession of French provinces, our sympa thies must turn aa decidedly towards tbs side of Franoe aa they are now tuned towards the of Germany. The Mansard KooY—The reoeni$3,000.- °00 conflagration in Chicago, with its attend- ant loss of human life, demonstrates the dsn- ger of tho Mansard roof. It was in one of these roofs that the fire began. As the seeth ing ftames leaped and hissed along the top of the doomed building, an assistant fire mar- stml, stopping fer * moment to gaze noun* fully upon the fearful scene, exclaimed: “Great God 1 will Chicago never leant better , than bajjmMheee lumber piles on the top of from the Sufaula Seie*.J BAISE YOUB OWN FOOD Supplies at Home. After the battle of Salamis, the Gr<v>; mander, Themistodee, sailed with hiallf“ co ®- to the beautiful island of Andros and* , ' Ud ** a the fruit* of victory, demanded mooevS^ plies from its inhabitants, sayini? <*r you accompanied*with two powerful si!S 9 Persuasion and Force.” ThfaSr him, waa, “We, also, have SSXffi® 8 tattMU side, no less powerful than yonr^* 8 which do not permit ns to give the m!? M, *** demand, Poverty and DSpairi” qvfi? ?° a wMch spoke thousands of years the same inspiration now, for the bankruptcy we eloquent debaters in ftel^ logic, as well as of agriculture. An d °* stomach demands food, a naked bodV~. eapf J wlnlst higher aspirations wilUeeffire^’ and luxuries of life, and the moral !^? afotta leotual acquisitions, wMch denote alfiX. 10 - 1 * 1 ' lization. *“i>ner cin. The pepple of the'Southern State* much in the condition of the Smtaa!*£L£? after the storm cloud of Persian inva^i™' 3 ? 3 ’ rolled away, overran by conquerors ^ H of their property, struggling L fit auditors to the responses of the flir-i “Poverty and Want.” “vimhes, We cannot well mistake their teaching They are felt iu our inmost hearts, and ^ phasizied with that sentiment, which e i?' bears the ills of the present, but beaS^ brighter future. We must and we riuT. To will, accompanied with intelligence I® It- complish. The spirit of God movedover i!® 0 ' and said, “let tlfere be light, todS^ light,” ana the same merciful and omni^f tent Father, has breathed into man limited sphere, the power to conoeive L 7i 1111 to will, and to accomplish. ’ Uate > I We must invoke inspiration from hieh emv- ity. The heathen consulted the priest vho upon the sacred tripod of Delphi, bnt we mu!: look to and obey a better authority, which s dares that, “in the sweat of thy face ring .iT®’ eat bread.” This ia the law of labor, & from'the high chancery of Heaven. wa Labor- intelligent, well directed agticultnr»l labor, is the substratum of individual and na tional wealth. No people were ever great now* erfal, prosperous and independent, who a’idnot command an abundant supply of alltheneces. sarie* of life, without buying them from for signers and paying for them. Wealth consist otl capital and an abundance of the exchanges- ble and consumable commodities, which elo'he and feed the world, and oommand those lam ries wMoh administer to the wants of a refined society. AU these desirable acquisitions mav be ultimately resolved into labor. i In the, investigation of proof for the estab lishment of our proposition, it is a matter of curious speculation to analyze, the grandenr of Rome and Greece, to trace the sources of the wealth of those non-prodneiog powers, and to find that they form no exception to the genenl rule, that no nation has ever permanently pros pered whose home labor, did not feed, clothe and support them in all their neoessary and artifi. cial wants. It is true, that Rome did not exert agricultural labor at home, and although she gathered within her granaries, vast supplies from surrounding peoples, she did not, for she coold not, pay for them. Hex system of acquisition and the sources of her wealth was national rol- bery. The Latin race founded the imperial city, and extended its ’ dominions iu all direc tions, conquering and to conquer, like the ex. pending cirale on water, until it reached every shore. Genius and knowledge were power, and the Eagles were the “emblems of deeds dons in their clime”—of conquest and contributions extorted by force. From the Atlantic to tha Ganges and the Indies, their pro-ConsuIs, Gen erals and Revenue officers, levied those vast sums of money and provisions from every plan- dered province, wMoh fed snd clothed her armies and people, and made Rome the mis. tress of the world. The same may be said of “living Greece," onoe great, glorious and powerful—the iundof the arts and sciences, of poetry,(philosophy and oratory. TMs system of robbery was the re- oognized politico-morality of the age; it mi hallowed by Time, and consecrated by the suc tion of great names. When Telemachns and his retinae presented themselves at the Court of Neatos, King of Pylos, the old “sage” asked them, “are yon Pirates or Merchants?” Thee* classes wera equally respectable, and the pro- Consuls aud Generals were but Land-Pirates; “all honorable men.” Traces of this system sre preserved in modem war, both on land and .water, but more especially in naval warfare, whose operations constitute unsparing and un mitigated Piracy. The feudal system iff the middle ages, a fabric built upon necessity, was a modified system of robbery, pioneering tha way to the rights of labor; and the present governments of Europe, from the agitation of past revolutions, have orystalized into oonnrete structures, whose grandeur rests upon the mud-sills of society, “the toiling millions,'**• all 1 artistically regulated bylaw. eaxttop But the American revolution having thrown off these tyrannies, having discarded the feudal and established the allodial right to property, Labor is enthroned with ns as the source of in dividual and national wealth. As the authority to rob and plunder by custom and by law, ia now denied, it may safely be said, that no peo ple who do not raise their own food supplies at home, ean be prosperous and wealthy. * It is true, that oommero* is one of the great est of civilizing and christianizing forces, and should be enoouraged, to the extent of trade and intercourse with all nationalities. Besides, the manufacturer and the merchant are proda- oers of wealth, in this, that they add new and additional values to tha productions of the earth or to the materials put into their hands. Bnt this trade should be wisely oonfined, as far u possible, to the eurpiut whieh each haatoipue, one with another, whilst the pabulum of lift, food supplies, should be raised at home, if J# wish permanently to preserve the vitality of i people. Look to the instructive lessons of Eag- and and the continent of Europe. They an the manufacturing workshops of the world, tnd yet they endeavor to feed their people from tb* productions of the soil. Mark with what in tense anxiety tha rains and frosts of autumn u* watched. Let unfavorable fall seasons abort* the orops of England and toe Baltic, and the pulse of humanity beats around the world with the rapidity of toe eleotrio current which eofi- veya the news. Breadstuff* go up and ootha goes down. They understand and appreeiei* the truth, that their prosperity depends upon raising their food supplies at home, and thntth* partial failure of thmr wheat orops, the food of their laborers, operates directly upon the wages of tho poor, as well as upon the profits of e*pi- taL ' as ' ' ~y ^ Labor, to be efficient, must be well fed and clothed, whilst scarcity, or not raising food sup plies at home, draining gold or its equivalent) (previous accumulated labor,') to buy ana pel for the deficiency, strikes at the root of nil pro* parity, both of the laborer, by reducing m* wages, and the capitalists by diminishing his profits. It makes all classes poorer. The P r ®' positions are so plain and self-evident »na w irresistibly forced npon ns by the logic of DC*; that it would seem useless to argue them, an yet our practice is against their teachings) We see the right and approve it too, „ Condemn the wrong, end yet the wrong pursue. The Gulf States since the war; have piled up the evidence, mountain high—“Pelion upon Ossa”—of the folly of raising one staple forma* ket, with which to buy and pay for an other commodities. It has impoverished, ana in im poverishing us, and unless arrested, wifi P*®| dace a ruin and destruction to our hopesau prosperity, not less dreaded than that of 1 amine and pestilence. ” . And this suicidal system of raising cotton w tthe neglect of com and small grain, con "\f within itself the seeds of its own destruction) for it is one of the wise orders of Froviden that all folly, like crime, is ever attended wiuj the punishment of decay and death. We Mve past the premonitory symptoms of the cottou mania, and the economical climaoterie is_up®“ us with portentous omens, and, without aehaoge in a better direction, we are hopelessly doonifo- Over production in ootton, furnishing a ply greater than the demand, will reduce “ price until it will not pay to raise it, and *h the divinities, “starvation and want,’ wifi heard and heeded, but, I fear, not before. By diversifying our field labors so as to rw* our full supply of com and provision* at hom, we ean proudly travel the highway of n*uoi>>) and, visiting the different nations of the mows barter our turplue ootton in exchange for to** various fabrics, and amass a real wealth®®" substantial and permanent than was ever woe . Roman oonqueste and robbery. Busncre A Warning.—Stod* hair pins h*^e oon^ into use in “Hangup” tho barge T** 33 ®-!, artificial adornment for tha heed, ssuevuSStf# 1
