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MACON, OCTOBER 18, 670.
Tlie Election Sews.
Bearing in mind that these Northern ana
Western elections are the first nnder the negro
suffrage programme, and that th3 darkies all
voted the Radical tioket, which they will cease
to do when they get a little information, the
result is highly gratifying. The negro vote has
profited the Radicals nothing. They have, in
fact, apparently lost ground in Pennsylvania
and.Ohio, and lost the State of Indiana, on the
State ticket, by 2,000 majority. Radicalism is
going down ; Democracy is coming up gradu
ally, but strongly, and will soon be in control
of tho country onco inoro—giving ns a just,
liberal and manly goverment, and laying this
government of hatred, malice and fraud on the
shelf forever. Let every good man pray for
the happy consummation, and do his best to
hasten it.
Public Meeting.
Wo are requested to announce that a meeting
of the citizens of Macon will bo held in the City
Hall at 11 o’clock on Saturday, the 15th instant,
for the purpose of adopting proper measures to
testify tboir grief at the death of Gen. Robert
E. Lee, and in order that it may taka such
shape ns will result, in some enduring testimo
nial to his momory, ittoas been suggested that
a monument, erected at some point to be here
after determined, will be a very appropriate
method of manifesting such appreciation, the
subscription towhioh shall be limited to one
dollar for eaoh subscriber. We hope, nay, we
are sure, there will be a very full attendance on
the day, and at the place designated.
One Dollar Apiece.
The peoplo of the South should limit the
contribution to a memorial for General Lee to
one dollar apiece-and this will raise millions
for a monument, because every man, woman
and child will insist on contributing.
If we had our way, that money should be in
vested in one grand and stupendous MEMORI
AL HALL, at Washington College, whichshonld
not only bo nsefnl to the living, but a splendid
monument to the doad, and be a grand deposi
tory of the relics and memorials of onr illus
trious chieftain.
Robert B. Loe.
The South, with streaming ayes and asorely
stricken heart, kneels to-day around a new-made
grave. That grave awaits a tenant whoee life,
character and services in her cause have won for
him as bright a chapter as glows on the glorious
pages of her history, and whose hold upon the
. J The Election*.
Washington, October 18.—Ohio.—The Re
publicans concede * Schenck’s defeat. The
Fourth District is probably Demooralio. The
Republican majority in Hamilton county is
love and veneration of her sons end daughters -2,613. Tho Republicans apprehend Bingham’s
Graveyard Loyalty.
That little piece of diplomacy between Col
lector Robb, of Savannah, and Secretary Bont-
well, about half-masting tho flag in respect to
General Loo’s memory is worthy those func
tionaries, and seems specially designed to pro
voke a hiss from all Christendom. Well, there
are some souls in this world, which, if not little
and mean, are nothing at alL It is the only
distinction they are capable of winning.
Justice Triumphant.—The Journal of Com'
merce, of the lOtb, felicitates the New York
ers on tho fact that, at last, the administration
of justice in that city, has been cleared of re
proach, and the Courts are a terror to evil
doers. They no longer confront justice with
brazen faoes, and rely confidently on chicanery
and corruption for an escape from the penalties
of crime; bnt they plead gnilty and beg for
mercy. Eleven of them entered that plea in a
single day in the Courts of Oyer and Terminer
and General Sessions, and were pnt nnder sen
tence for various terms in the penitentiary.
ThnPabtt ofPboohxss.—To the claim of
the Radical organs that their party is the party of
progress, the World pithily replies: “It has
made great progress. Starting with the decla
ration that the people of every locality should
control their own affairs, and especially oppos
ing Federal interference in local elections, it
now openly favors Federal interference in State
and local elections, even to the extent of ap
pointing Federal agents to say who shall not
Tote in some localities, and sends soldiers to
other States to sooroe the people into voting for
the Radical ticket. Sorely this is progress;
bnt a hind of progress which, if allowed to oon
tinne, will destroy onr free institutions.”
It is strange how sensitive some men are.
They will get drank, rave about the streets,
yelling like savages, go home and beat their
wives, torn their children out of doors, being so
proud of their achievements as to make the
neighbors conscious of the fact; pay a fine be
fore a magistrate, and having made themselves
as notorious as possible, will slide around to the
editor and beg him, with tears in their eyes,
not to bring disgrace to their families by men
tioning that tittle affair in the paper.—Ex-
Thx Condition of Metz.—Correspondents of
the New York papers represent the defences of
Metz stronger than they were before the siege.
The entire force of the defenders has been busy
night and day adding to the strength of the
works all round the city for a circle of four or
flTe miles, and its redaction by famine is the
only possibility. The movements of the be
siegers are constantly observed from an im
mense balloon at a height of three thousand
feet, which is moved by a heavy rope, and in
the car of which sit a half dozen French officers
from daylight to dark and all night when tight
enough to see.
POBTBAXTS 07 THE WaB DoOS.—J. W. Burke
Sc Co. hare just received a complete picture
gallery of the men of blood. There is Napoleon,
King William, the Crown Prinoe, Frederick
Charles, Bismarck, Ton Moltke, Trochu and all
"the other dogs of war and carnage, whose quar
rels butcher up the poor people by the hundred
thousand. Tho whole of them, in ouj judg
ment, are not worth one honest peasant, who,
if let alone, wonld till the earth and tend his
flocks for the suatenanoe of his wife and chil
dren. '
was, and will ever be, her glory and bis due.
The death of Lee is a stroke whose severity
cannot bo measured by any ordinary standard.
He was onr pride—onr idol. In his gTand form
and still grander soul, were gathered all the
constituent elements of physical, mental and
moral beanty. He was a model both for the
sculptor’s chisel and the historian’s pen. His
religion was duty. He had no other wish, no
other aspiration than to serve his country, and
advance her glory and honor. He was a Patriot
as pore and noble as ever Rome deified or
Greece embalmed in immmortal verse. He
was a Soldier worthy to stand in History’s gal
lery with the gre atest warriors that ever oonqner-
ed worlds or created nations. Ho was a Gentle
man by birth, breeding and instincts; and in
every thought and action of his daily life.
He realized and united in his person and char
acter, all our conceptions and all the attributes
of a Bayard or a Sydney. He was a Christian,
hnmble, sincere, and faithful—loving and serv
ing his Master with unwavering devotion and
steadfastness. In every relation .of life he
waBtraeastrathitself. All these things tins man
was, and now we have lost him. The grave has
swallowed him up, and only a great, black, ach
ing void remains. We oaa soaxoely realise that
he has indeed passed from our sight. We shud
der under the terrible shock, even while hope
almost tempts ns to mb onr eyes and ask if it
is not all a woeful dream. God help the mil
lions of loving hearts who most awake to the.
terrible reality! . »
We shall not speak of T.tu in connection with
the events of the last decade. His name and
his honor have already been vindicated and il
luminated by the judgment and applause of the -
civilized world, and History will emphasize the
verdict He threw his sword into the scale
where he judged his duty and the life of his
section demanded it should go. That he was
BY TELEGRAPH.
was a communicant was draped in mourning a
few hoars after his death. General Leo' hod
been almost entirely unconscious since Monday
night last, and expired very peacefully at half
past 9 o’clock Wednesday morning. He was
first taken sick on Wednesday evening Septem
ber 28th, while just about to sit down to tea,
when he suddenly sank in his chair -insensible.
He soon reacted and in the conrso of tho next
ten days, steadily improved until it was hoped
that he was out of danger. But on Monday
of
greater in this act than in all the grand acts
his life, we, in behalf of true men and women
everywhere, dare affirm with all the fervor of
matured conviction. Sectional hate may hiss,
and partisan rancor malign, bnt they can nei
ther soil his fame nor discredit his motives.
While the Sonthhas a name, or her people a tra
dition, they will hold him in the citadel of their
hearts secore against every attack.
Bnt enough. More eloquent pens than ours
will hasten to embalm, “in thoughts that breathe
and words that born,” the virtues of the dead
Hero. We only desire to lay these few halting
words upon his grave as our humble tribute to
his memory. God rest the soul of Robekt E.
Lee.
Beecher’s sermon last Sunday is thus report
ed : “Taking Matthew xxii and 30th verse as
his text, ho proceeded to puli the plug ont of
the bottom, and talk of fire and brimstone.—
The Bible, he said, was foil of fiction. As ex
amples, he mentioned the future life and the
new Jerusalem. Everyman, he declared, was
his own heaven maker. His remarks were
humorous in the extreme, and the congregation
were kept upon a broad grin until they drear the
oorners of their mouths for the benediction.
Suspended Business.—We received the fol
lowing dispatch, yesterday afternoon:
Dawson, Ga., October 13.
Editors1 eleqraph and Messenger .'—All busi
ness houses here were closed to-day in honor of
the illustrious dead—B. E. Lee.
Odd Soldier.
The Rkuet Bnx.—We notice that the House
P* 836 ^ * f®w days sinoe, a relief bill previously
passed by the Senate, bnt none of onr Atlanta
exchanges publish it Wtil they not accommo
date ns end hundred, in this section who ere
anxious to know its provisions, by publishing
them f
New Counts.—The Senate, we observe, has
sat off a new county from Monroe and Pike,
and given it the name of “Belief." We hope
the movers in the project feel much better,
now that there is a good prospect of their dom-
ioll in snob pleasant quartan.
Stanton, the great railroad buyer of Radical
Legislatures, was in Atlanta a day or two since.
It is understood he comes with the intention of
deteg some trading in sad around the Open
The Pound or Flesh.
Bismarck says he “don’t .want to reduce
France to the position of a second rate power
bnt the miseries of her situation in any possible
event of this war, it is hard to over-state. The
country over which-the Germans have marched
or raided is one vast waste, destitute of every
thing which can sustain life, and a scene of un
sparing and brutal spoliation. The people are
utterly rained and cannot recuperate in a gen
eration. France owed before the war a debt of
two thousand six hundred millions of dollars,
and the Germans long ago claimed that the war
had coat them mom than a thousand millions,
which will be one of the items of indemnity.
Probably peace will leave France with a debt
of four thousand millions, exclusive of all lia
bilities which she has incurred on her own ac
count daring the war, which may be another
thousand millions. Then she must lose, in
Alsace and Lorraine, a tenth of her population,
upon the back of the enormous property dam
ages which have resulted and will accrue from
the war. In a word she has got a debt, which,
as the darkies say ‘‘the can’t tote." The inter
est annually accruing will be beyond her reve
nue capacity, and probably the attempt to cany
it will destroy any and every government in
succession which shoulders the harden.—
France will wipe it ont finally as she did the
assignats, and Germany failing to collect de
monish by war and plunder, must compromise
the debt with more land.
Bismarck, with his gnns levelled to batter
down Paris, calls heaven to witness that Ger
many rnnot responsible for the hundreds of
thousands of men, women and children who
most perish in that great capital from starva
tion and violence! And the Jew, in the Mer
chant of Venice, was not responsible for the
blood which might follow the knife in securing
his pound of flesh. Indeed, the Jew had the
advantage; for the precise amount of Ms claim
had been adjusted and nominated in the bond.
Bnt Bismarck fixed the debt doe himself, and
he has tho seme right to ask more as less, and
then invoke the vengeanoe of heaven on the
obstinacy of the French because they will starve
to death and get shot with Prussian cannon
rather than give up their all.
Nobody is stnpid enough to respect such
ratiocination. If Prussia had left the point of
of what was fairly dne her to the arbitrament
of friendly, disinterested powers, and then
France had refused the concession, with some
reason might Prussia say, “her blood be on her
own head—it does not stain my hands." But
Prussia, from the first, warns Christendom to
stand off and not to interfere. This is her quar
rel and she will brook no intervention. She re
fuses all attempts to oomponnd this scandalous
and outrageous war exoept upon her own judg
ment of what is doe herself, and then persist
ently follows up the work of murder and deso
lation—for it is nothing else. It is simply man
gling an antagonist after he is down, and in no
condition to continue the straggle.
She will probably make Paris a scene of woe
and horror at which humanity will shudder to
the last day of time. Bnt there is a slow yot
potent vengeanoe of publio opinion, and it is
now gathering in force. The Blaver of the poor
minions and toadies of triumphant violenoe has
ceased to flow, and the manhood, chivalry and
generosity of Christendom is now making itself
heard. No nation can afford to incur the rep
robation of mankind; and that Germany Is
likely to do if she'persists in carrying on this
work of devastation and murder on prostrate
France.
Consumption—Startling Facts.—Dr. A. Y.
H. Garnett of Washington City, recently de
livered a lecture in that city of which a corres
pondent says:
A startling fact was that announced by the
lecturer, with reference to tubercular consump
tion, that fearful scourge of the human family.
Statistics whioh have been published in various
parts of the United States in a tabulated form
shows that from fourteen to twenty per oent.
of all deaths occurring in ourlgreet cities, or
from cne fith to ono-aixth of the deaths from
siyHsesses mentioned in the mortuary reports,
are from tubercular consumption. This enor
mous disproportion, as oomparod with tbs num
ber of deaths from all other known oanses, main
tains a striking uniformity during any given
period of years through the cities at Boston,
Providonoe. New York. PhlkilAntiU atw) nlnn.
Tovidenoe, New York, Philadephia and else
where.
Godkt, for November, has been sent ns with
the compliments of J. W. Burke Sc Go., who
have it for sale. As is always is the ease, It is a
capital number, and will be Tmnrtflj weloomsd
by our lady frisads.
defeat, though there are no Agates from his
district. Dispatches from Republican sources
late last night claunhis election by a small ma
jority. His district is the most difficult to hearH evening last he became suddenly ntul. rapidly
from. Next to Schenck, the Republicans here I worse, and continnod to eiuk until Wednesday
seem to take most interest in Bingham. Pri- morning.
▼ate advioes received here from Monnt Vernon, I Daring the early port of his sickness ho
OMo, states Morgan’s majority is twenty-fonr slept much and spoke but little, bnt was rational
hundred, a gain of eight hundred sinoe the last I when awake and always recognized those who
election. approached Mm. At times Ms mind seemed
Indiana, October 13.—In ^counties, partly for a littlo wMle to wander and on Eovcral occa
official, the Democrats have 991 majority. The I sions reverted to the army. Ho once ordered
counties unheard from gave the Republicans Ms tent to bo struck, and atanothortimo dcsir-
1,481 majority in 18C8. Both parties claim the ed that Hill should be sent for. Ho suffered
State by a small majority. The Deihoorats gain but comparatively littlo pain during his whole
one Congressman and probably two. Demo- sickness and died without a struggle.. He will
cratic majority in the seventh district four hun-I bo buried on Saturday, October 15th at 12
dred—fourth district still donbtfoL Republi- o’clock. Tho place selected for his interment
can majority in the fifth district about 500— is a vault beneath the College ground.-. This
ninth district re-elects Shanks, (Rep.) A dis- was the first building ho had erected after his
patch from Senator Morton to Secretary Rout- removal to Lexington, having declared that it
well, announces that the Democrats have elected was proper that the first thing the College did
thelndianaState ticketby about 2000majority— should be to dedicate a homo to the services of
Legislature doubtful. religion.
Pennsylvania.—The Republicans claim the Here lio will appropriately rest surrounded tty
Sixteenth District by 16. votes; Seventeenth, the monuments of Ms later years. His remains
doubtful. In the Twentieth’Distriet the Dem- sentineled by tho mountains of that Virginia
ooratio majority is 700. Twenty-First, Demo- upon which he has conferred such imperisha-
cratio majority, COO. Twenty-Fourth, Demo-1 ble fame. Tho corpse w»h removed to-day from
erotic majority 900. his residence, to the chapel where it will Re in
Hie Collector of Savannah, finding the flag on I state until midday on Saturday next. To-day
die Custom Honse at half mast, in respect to I the Faculty of the Washington College, Faculty
Gen. Lee, ordered it plaoed at full mast, and I of the Virginia Military Institute, and students
telegraphed BoutweUthe feet. Boutwell replied of the Washington College, held a meeting and
approving Ms action. passed appropriate resolutions of condolence
°*New Yobx, October 13.—Arrived Alaska and respect to the memory of tho illustrious
Wisconsin, ship.J. S. Dewolf. I deceased, who asserted, at tho surrender of Ap-
Tbe War in Europe. I pomatox Court-House, that human virtue should
London, October 13.—A dispatch from a j be equal to human calamity.
French source just read gives the following: Richmond, October 13.—Kiohmond presents
An engagement occurred Monday the 10th I to-day a scene of monrning hard to witness in
near pnrgeoss between a body of Frano Tireurs this generation. Stores and publio buildings ate
and Prussians. After a short conflict tho latter I all closed. The bells in all parts of the city are
retired with the loss of SO killed and wounded, tolling. On many doors are picturcs.and pho-
The French have fallen back along the left I tographs of Gen. Lee draped in orapa with
bank of tho river. The Prussians are leaving I evergreen. Citizens are standing in groups on
Gonrneay and inarching to Qtutors turning I the principal thoroughfares and talk in subdnid
from St. Quentin and threatening Amiens. An tone3 of the sad event. The feeling that; he
engagement occurred at Mattigras yesterday I ought to be buried here at the State’s expense
between Uhlans and Hussars. No result given, is universal, and the Legislature in making this
Aforoe.of eight hundred Prussians and five request of bis family reiterated public opinion,
hundred Saxons have already oecnpfed Qisors. The City Council met this evening at the call
The Germans have also appeared at Monididier I of the Mayor.
where a small detachment was defeated by Governor Walker sent the following message
Frano Tireurs. A telegram from Arldon, Bel- to the General Assembly:
giun, dated last evening, says heavy cannon- “It is with unaffected grief that I announce
ading has been heard to-day in the direction of to yon the painfal intelligence of the death of
TMonville. It is said the garrison of Montme- General Robert E. Lee, at Lexington, on yes-
dy has retired to Stenay. terday morning. He died as he had lived, a
-,Tbe particulars of the battle before Metz Fri- noble exemplar of the sublime principles and
day last has just been received. The French teachings of the Christian religion. He goes
made a sortie in foroe and after a hard battle I down to the tomb amid the lamentations of an
were driven back with tremendous kisses. The
Prussians took a great number of prisoners.
The Cattle in and around Metz are dying by hun
dreds from rinderpest. Their bodies cannot be
I affectionate and sorrowing people. Of exalted
pubtio and private virtue in his life and cares,
be filled the fall measure of onr conception of a
man. A stricken family, a bereaved State, an
buried quick enough to prevent epidemic. Not-1 afflicted people, bow with reverenoe and hu-
withstanding hard frosts the disease is spread- miUty before this visitation of Divine Prpvi
ing rapidly. The French fire from the fortifl-1 dence. It is fitting that you, the Representa-
ot Metz continue* incessantly. The I lives of the people, should take such appropri-
franc-tirenm.Eot being.uniformed the Prussians I ate action aB the melancholy occasion suggests,
do not regard them as regular soldiers of Franoe, I and I believe you would but give expression
shoot them on right.' : The defeat of the I the universal desire of the people, should yon
French at Aitmj opens the way to Orleans.— I solicit the interment of the remains upon the
The Prussian occupation of that city is hourly I grounds of the State in Hollywood Cemetery,
expected. On Monday a Prussian cavalry di- I where they may raise a monumental shaft 00m-
vision drove four thousand Mobiles across the I momorative alike of their sincere and lasting
Loire near Chevtay. The latter lost heavily. I affection for the man, and 'their profound ap-
Nothing important received from before Pari* preciation of his greatness and goodness,
by way of Berlin. The French fleet is still off I After reading Governor’s message a joint reeo-
Hellgoland.' It is known that Garibaldi has I lotion was nanimously passed expressive of deep
left Tours in company with CoL Trapoln for | sorrow of both Houses at the sad event and re
the seat of war. His exact destination is not I questing that the body be tnrned over to the
divulged, bat it is intimation he will oommand I State for interment at Hollywood Cemetery
aiOanland. I near the city. A Joint Committee consisting of
It is expected that Prussia, in view of the I A™ members of the Honse and three of the
delicate relations with England in oonsequenoe I Senate and their presiding officers were ap-
of the latter’s alleged violation of neutmRty, will pointed to go to Lexington and escort the re
give Von Bernstaff, the North German ambas- mains here, if the request be granted. The
sador, indefinite leave of absence—leaving only I Legislature then adjourned,
a charge d’affairs at London. It is now said I The Tobacco Association held s meeting and
that the revolution in Algiera is yt'oheoVAd, suspended its session for the day as a mark of
In the province of Constantine the insurgents I respect to the memory of Gen. Lee.
have gained some advantages, and bid the an- The City Council, also, met and adopted
thbrities defiance. A correspondent of the series of appropriate resolutions, and appoint-
Standard charges the Prussians with ed a committee to act in concert with the Leg-
exaggerations. He writes that the number of I islative committee, to ask, in deference to wish-
men and amonni of material captured at Stras-1 os of our people, that the remains be brought
bourg should be reduced, at least, one-half from I to Richmond for interment. The committees
Prussian Agues. I will leave for Lexington to-morrow morning.—
Prussia is now negotiating with the smaller Asgs of the sMpping and all publio build-
States of Germany for a national unity under “S 8 were at half mast, except the custom-
Frederick in plaoe of the Federation. The ses- ( hotuje « 811 da L ^ P laces ot amusement are
sions of the North German Parliament will clofled to-night, and general quiet and gloom
probably be resumed before the meeting of the 1 Prevails the city.
Gen. James H. Cox, nominated for Congress
by Conservatives of the Third District, has de
clined to accept the nomination.
Wilmington, October 13.—Steamer Mary
Prussian Diet. The Parliament will be required
to provide means fox the war, and adjust ques
tions springing therefrom. Elections for this
body will probably oocur on the 19th inat., and
for deputies in the Prussian Diet eight days I Sanford arrived from Philadelphia. Volunteer
later. Weather heavy, with fearful gales. The cleared for New York. The intelligence of
sMpping has generally refuged. Many disasters I General Lee’s death created a ’profound sensa-
reportod. The storm was very severe on the I tion in this community, and calls vividly to
Mersey. Mach damage to sMpping at Liver-1 memory many associations connected with Ms
pool. j visit here in April last To-day the flags on
Toubs, October 12—Midnight—No news has I sMpping generally are at half mast, also on the
yet been reoeived from Orleans, at Ohartradnn, the British and Danish vice consulates. The
whether reinforcements were sent last evening. I annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
Much anxiety is manifested as it was known to-day adjourned out of respect to the memory
the Germans were in heavy foroe In that neigh- of the dead hero. That body appointed a com-
borhood. Gen. Cambria reports having gained I mittee to make arrangements for suspension of
a considerable advantage with Ms oommand business and tolling of. bells on the day of his
over a force of|15,000 Prussians near Bruges. I funeral and for a publio meeting of the citizens
Brussels, October 13.—The French prisoners to take suitable action. The universal feeling
have been removed from Beverloo because of a among all classes and parties here, is that a
conspiracy to murder the guards and escape. great and good man has fallen.
The Echo, of this city, doubts the story of Meridian, Ootober 13.—The first frost of the
Napoleon’s oompHdty in any conspiracy. He season was formed here this morning,
is too eager for Ms personal safety to return to Galveston, Oct. 13.-A fire occurred here to-
France. day on Strand street. The following is a list of
Therinderpest isspreadingrapidly throughout the sufferers: Jas. Day A Co.; Arnold Menard &
Belgium. Much alarm exists here and in Hoi- Co.; G. P. Kindrid; Thos. Compton; W. B.
land and Prussia. Sorley Sc Go., bankers; P. Fernandez; F. Gon-
Berne, Ootober 13.—The obstacles to the zales; H. W. Weeks; S. B. Davis; Stookton &
conveyance and planting of Prussian siege guns Hngher.
!“r b r n . 8 ° ovcrcom8 thnt * cannonade I N rw Oblxans, Ootober 18.—The death of
betore Pans may be momentarily expected. I General Lee oasts a gloom over the community.
Yesterday a French corps was encamped on The morning papers are dressed in monrning.
the left bank of the river. Flags throughout the city on sMpping, both for-
Fixjrencb, October 13. Engineers my it will I eign and home are at half mast—many draped
reqitire two yean to prepare Rome to serve as i n mourning. The Board of Brokers adjourned
the Italian capital. The seat of government j last evening in respect to General Lee, and
will therefore remain at Florence indefinitely. I Judge Dibble this morning adjourned the 8th
IavxarooL, October 13. The sMp Philadel- District Court as a tribute of respect to the de-
phla was abandoned at sea. The crew was oeasecL In the course of his remarks Judge
saved by means of life boats and ropes by the I Dibble said his purpose was to honor a heroic
Wisconsin. I and noble citizen, who, by Ms bearing, had
Lexington, October 18.—This community I won the admiration and affection of every heart
was plunged into profound sorrow upon the an-1 in the land. The motion to adjourn was mads
uounoement of tits death of General Lee. The by Jno. H. Low who delivered a touching tri
various church beOs rang out their mournful I bote to Ms memory. The following card has
dirgea. A general suspension of the duties of j bean signed by many of the most prominent
WaaMngton College, Virginia Military Insti-1 merchants and bustqess firms In the city: We,
tate and the minor schools followed, and they I the undersigned un^ilianto, suggest to our fel-
wM not resume again until after the final inter-1 low-citizens that all business be suspended to
mcat of the groat Chieftain. Every business [ morrow, (Friday) out of reapeot to the
bouae in the community was dosed and crape ry of General B. E. Lee.
affixed to the doors. Even the oolored barbers I Deaths from yellow fever yesterday, eleven,
shut upthdrshop^and a general expression Atlanta, October 13,-Both Houros of the
of deep grief was visible in every faoe. I Legislature adopted a resolution to adjourn to
morrow until Monday to attend the obsequies,
on Saturday, of General Las. The sitisens
Washington College, the college and chapel
of the Virginia Military Inatitutnte, and the
oral John B. Gordon i& expected to deliver on
oulogy on General Loe. The Honse passed a
resolution inviting General Grant to the State
Fair. Jim Ms00 and Tom Allen are expected
hero next woeb. The Constitution, newspaper,
commences the publication of tho State Fair
Bulletin on tho Fair Grounds on Wednesday.
, Seli*a, potofceii 13. —The., city h os been in
Snqnrnjng %U djjyjm ponprjojf.' ^aiL> Lee. Mi
business honses are closed. The church bells
tolled, and a public address was delivered, at
the Opera House, .to a tremendous crowd by
Gen. John T. Morgan. The grief of the peo
pie is deep and universal. Tho death of Gen.
Lso is regarded as a national calamity.
Memphis, October 13.—The heavy frost last
night, it is feared, will greatly damage the late
cotton. The announcement of General Lee’s
death caused profound sorrow. Bells were
tolled, and- a publio expression of sorrow by
Citizens will be made.
Washington, Ootober 13.—A special order of
tho War Department orders a court martial to
meet on .the 20th Inst-;, nt Weat Point, at wMch
General O. O. Howard is to bo present, to try
cadets James W. Smith, colored, John W. Wil
son, W. S. Davis and George O. Hoyle. Smith
is a • colored cadet who some time ago preferred
charges.9/ ill treatment. The’ President, ac-
cowpeuiod by Secretaries Fish and Robeson,
nud cther distinguished personages of tho Ma
rine BoArd, visited the State Fair nt Frederick,
Md., to-day, and will return on Saturday.
Philadelphia, Ootober 13.—Election Returnc.
—The result in the Fifth Congressional Dis
trict can only be determined by offioial returns.
Bucks county gives s Democratic majority of
from 3000 to 4000. In the Seventeenth Dis
trict reports announce the defeat of Morrell,
(Republican,) for Congress. Offioial returns from
the First District gives Randall, (Democratic,)
majority pf 4148. In'the Second Disirict, Cree-
ly (independent Republican,) 925 majority.
TMrd District, Myers,'(Republican,) 1316 ma
jority. Fourth District, Kelley, (Republican)
L’703 majority. Fifth Distiiot, Ilomer, (Re-
pnlioan,) 44S majority.
Huntington, Pa., Ootober 13.—R. M. Sheer,
(Democrat,) is undoubtably elected in the
Seventeenth District over Morrell, by 125 ma
jority.
Babbisbubg, Pa., October 13. —Latest reports
from Sixteenth District, make Myers apparent
majority twelve. Only an official count will
determine' certainly who is elected.
Jackson, October 13.—J. N. Werlo3, State
Librarian, and W. H. Famish, a county clerk,
were to-day arrested on the affidavit of Gov
ernor Alcorn, charged with stealing 150 vol
nines of State reports from the office of the
Secretary of State. The testimony indicates
that Famish famished the books to Weries
twenty-five volumes were to be sent to J. M.
Langston, of the Howard University, the bal
ance to be divided betwen Wirlea and Furnish.
The prisoners are held in a thousand dollar
bond each. They are from the State of OMo.
London, October 13.—The Russian Journals
infer from the faot that the Germans are pur
chasing sheep skins, that the winter campaign
is certain.
The French intendant of ambulances has
been disbanded and others organized by mem
bers of the French press.
New French coat of arms has made its ap
pearance. It consists of a figure of liberty with
the legend, “In the name of tho French peo
ple.’’ On the reverse side is a garland of mix
ed oak and olive, with wheat in the ear. In the
center also is the inscription, “BepuiUque
Franeaise Demoeratique une et indivisible.”
Around the periphery are the words: “Liberte,
equalise, fratemite.”
Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, has settled near
Geneva. She has s fine residence near the
Lake. Prince De Joinville is in Geneva.
Preliminaries of the marriage between Prin
cess Louisa, the fourth daughter of Queen Vic
toria, and Marquis Lome eldest son of the
Duke of Argyle, has been arranged with the
consent of the Queen. It is considered that
the possibility of the Frincess succeeding to
the crown is too remote to render the alliance
dangerous.
' It seems that Empress Eugenie sent for Gen
eral Bouxbaki, and that her object was to pro
pose, through Mm, conditions of peace on the
basis that Prussia should retain Alsace and Lo-
raine, and leave the Prince Imperial, under
regency, to govern Franoe. When told by
Bourbvki that nobody in France would tolerate
even the presence of the Prinoe, the Empress
burst into tears. A letter from Eugenie to the
Emperor, of wMch Countess Gowper was
bearer, doubtless referred to this project.
The town of Ablis has been burned acoording
to the threat of the Prussians.
Burnside has frequent interviews with Bis
marck.
The Prussians occupy BrebuiL The Germans
are certainly advancing on Amiens.
The rumored disorders in Bheems aro denied.
The correspondent of the London Post re
ports that one hundred and fifty volunteers
from the United States rcoentiy arrived
Tours, and met an enthusiastic reoeption.
Gen. Floury has been permitted to rejoin
Napoleon. Much curiosity is manifested to
kcow what has become of Marshal LeBouf.—
The people in Tours and in the vioinity are re
ported raising to arms. The expected large
masses of Frenoh troops, called out by Gam-
belts, will take the field in ten days. It is re
ported that Bourbaki has accepted command of
Tours.
An engagement took plaoe between the Prus
sians and French at Messongere. The latter
were defeated and compelled to abandon the
place.
A corps of Frano Tireurs left Lyons yester
day for the seat of operations on the Loire.
It is reported that the garrison of Montine
made s sortie wMoh resulted in the ooeupation
of Stenay.
Ltllt-, October .13.—A balloon from Paris
decendedat Touraay today. The navigator,
Vargot, had muoh difficulty in alighting. The
news from Paris is most cheering. The popu
lar ardor is undaunted. Soldiers are anxiously
awaiting the Prussian attack, and have no doubt
of their ability to withstand it. Perfect order
is maintained everywhere, and confidence in
Troohu is limitless. Everybody is quiet, firm
and courageous.
Vebsailles, Ootober 13, via Berlin and Lon-
blown into the floating dock and drowned; an
other’s skull was crushed by a falling oMmaey;
houses wen unroofed and vessels driven ashore!
The storm was very severe around the South
ern coasfs. It is impossible to get details for
serernl dajg. It is supposed many ship wrecks
have occurred. - , ,
- !Iil Atlanta.
Special to the Tdcjraph-and Messenger.']
Atlanta, Octohor 13—Senate.—Bills passed:
To organize a new circuit' to be called the Al
bany Circuit, out Southwestern, Ga; to regulate
common cirners and require Tailroad and other
companies to furnish equal accommodations
without respect to race, color or condition; to
authorize Houston bounty to endorse the bonds
of the Fort Valley and HawkiusvUle Railroad;
to incorporate the following banks: Americas,
Macon Banking Company, and Georgia State
Bank; to incorporate the Skidaway, Tine Island
and Seaboard Railroad and Darien Telegraph
Company; and the Americas and HawkinviUe
Railroad Company; to donate certain lands in
Oak City to Hook and. Ladder Company of
Bainbridge; to prevent the carrying of fire
arms or deadly weapons on the person.
Bradley opposed the bill vigorously. The line
has been changed between the following coun
ties: Jackson, Banks, Clinch, Coffee, Chero
kee, Pickens; to change the time of holding,
Bryan, McIntosh and Effingham Suporior
Courts. ' :r ~ -
The bill creating a Life Insurance Commis
sioner was tabled by twelve votes. A resolu
tion to adjourn the General Assembly from to
morrow until Monday, on aooount of the death
of General Lee, was adopted unanimously by a
rising vote.
The Governor vetoed the Savannah and
Charleston railroad bilL The veto was sustained.
A motion to reconsider the passage of Soott’a
bill to lease the State Road was lost by a large
majority. The State Road men favored recon
sideration.
The resolutions relative to the death of Gen
eral Lee was adopted—Fitzpatrick voting nay
and offering a protest. The use of the Hall on
Saturday was tendered a citizen meeting, ex
pressive of the feeling in regard to General
Leo.
Fitzpatrick offered a resolution censuring the
speaking as disregarding the rights of mem
bers. He got one vote. The Senate resolu
tion inviting President Grant to the State Fair
was concurred in: The general appropriation
bill is nnder consideration.
The salary of the Attorney-General is fixed
at two thousnnd dollars, and it is made Ms duty
to attend to State Road cases. ; - »ia I
of the wreck of what It now la. WK —
te youtii, the eonstitutiw
-the stomach is weak, irriUblf ^ ^
fuses to digest its contents. Th« °r a
pathizing by flattering, and p.^’‘ ,W ’'!*
bram, by long, aleepleas night, and^ c *'
ory-your machinery is wearing 0 Jt
have it repaired or it will
At this juncture theproper remedy
-a restorative medicine that
inner-man; a potent repairer that
make amends for the injury you h»~ -
the whole human organism; rebuild,
prematurely decayed and toattseed **
ing Solomon’. Bitten. -
' MaSWAiu
Bosadald. —S. Fronti., PrindptioFp^T^
Academy, near Concord, N. 0., J !* 1 -
Rosadali. for incipient eonramption
I am a living monument of the mLJuL J
of your ‘‘Bosadali*.’' * , au< m«tfe^
By the time I had taken the aUthbottlA *
and ftiw . lu D0 «le tar
From Washington County.
Sandebsville, Ootober 12, 1870.
Editors Tdegraph and Messenger: Wash
ington Superior Court convened on Monday
last, Judge. Robinson presiding. Up to this
writing the time of the court has been consumed
with old cases that have been on the docket for
years. A jury was out nearly two days and
nights on one of these old oases, and then failed
to make a verdict.
I have never seen the planters of tills county
more low spirited than at this time. The ma
jority bought largely of fertilizers, for whioh
they are indebted. The crop has been out off
fearfully by rust and dry weather, and now the
price is down so low that the planter cannot see
his wsy through. Very few have any money,
and very Rttie prospect of having any, unless
there is a great reaction in the cotton market.
I have consulted with leading planters from
various parts of the county, and the estimate is
that the crop will not average more than one
bate to three acres. The com crop Hearn is
pretty good.
Unless there is a great change for the better,
commercial manures will be Velowpar in Wash
ington next season; many planters say they will
buy none at ail, others very sparingly, (a very
few) will use extensively. I have met with
very few farmers who are pleased with the re
sult from guanoes this year.
I think, however, that amidst all this disap
pointment, I see signs ef improvement. A
large planter told me yesterday that he had
bought his last cask of bacon, and that he
would have com to sell. I find the same feel
ing prevailing throughout the county.
Perhaps no county in Georgia is getting along
more quietly and pleasantly than tMa. No dis
turbance of any kind, but good feeling prevail
ing generally bitween white *nd blacks. - v j
Anon.
and other concomitant symptom, hidil^
me—m short, I regird myself a. rS( Z.,^
grave by yoar wonderful medicine feTr
bevel would not hive lived throm-h ?
summer, hid only the ordinary rom^T^
ployed: It may be well eleo to state thTi j* 60 e °‘
hood I have had an eruption on lp '° ab5 ?'
nothing would ever remoVe. It h M - b# ’ ^
disappeared. I can bear witneu to the
SrALDiKs’a CxuanAizn Grra.’w^
stems to “ran down.” or ratter uZz!
by over-work, accompanied by » nodw j?
proper means of invigoration. TheroTu^!
is called “general debility;" In other wX
ure and partial collapoe of the pbyd^^L. *
compared, usually, by great depr.^
The best remedy in Bach cues i* Hotattia
Stomach Bitters. Whether the .Ute of
has been brought on by exoeeeir. phr.ieTw
dissipation, anxiety of mind, exposure
other cause, the remedial effect of thi.gr^^
achic will be found equally prompt and certto. 1
a restorative, after savere sickneis ha.pm.taw
the bodily and mental energies, iti. pronoa J
by competent medical authority, “the beittZt
use.” If men were not foolishly circle,,
their health, and over confident in theo^.
they would always, when'engsged m any w a k
required great exertion, nee correspondirg ^
of sustaining their strength. For this purpo«H*
tetter’s Bitters are invaluable. All toiler, ^
use them as aninvigoraat.
For thee constantly employed in indoor**
pations. especially ia crowded wortahopi, fa w
be reckoned as the very best safeguard of tMia
Where there is a predisposition toeomtfaj*.
a tendency to bfliousness, they msy bs tfa *y
to be a specific for which there is no
octl3-lw.
The excesses of our youth sre batdnflsata
old age, payable with compound interest ifer tot
Why then delay ia preventing the rang* of to
excesses by using the celebrated SoatbsB tea
' Old Caroline Bitters’? oetU-wdAvtv
»on.—Yesterday the French army of Loire were
driven out of Orleans after a nine hours’ fight,
Orleans was subsequently stormed. His Prus
sians took upwards of ton thousand
Their own loss small. Ttie Bavarians partici
pated ia the engagement.
Florence, Ootober 13.—Parties who have
been arrested from time to time lately, for at
tempting to evade military servioe, have been
amnestied
Toubs, October 13.—An offioial decree ap
pointing General Aurelia De Paladiues to the
oommand of the army of the Loire, in place of
La Mattor&nge, ia published to-day. A lets
message from Paris has tbs following nompies
sive statement: materials for workmen, ooal
and metal*, food and good will an
here.
A Paris letter, printed in the Oomtitatiael,
■ays tbs word peso* is tabooed ia Faria.
Everbody is easting cannon, making mitrail-
leun and constructing pontoons. Enough of
the latter are being constructed to bridge the
Atlantic ocean.
Queenstown,October 18.—Details of a dread
ful storm around our coasts last night are com
ing in rapidly. At Limarick, Ireland, tha atom
r* 0—8 >*• win lit*
mti I*,, 'vteiw—V' -
Cruelties at Basel!les csnlrmedi
A Herald correspondent writes:
I trust many Americans will visit this spot,
and wiU write full accounts of what they see;
and I am quite sure that if they do—if they
could only go over the scene, hear the tales of
tho unfortunate people who will have to pass
the coming winter, God only knows where and
how—they will say with me that the blaokened
ruins of BazeiUes call for the vengeance of Hea
ven upon the cowardly hounds who perpetrated
this diabolical barbarity. Ample a> are the
columns of the Herald, I could fill every one of
them with thoroughly well authenticated tales
of the misery endured by the people of this
place, and of the hellish cruelty of toe savages
who tons wreaked their vengeanoe upon them.
And mark, I beg you, that this was not done in
the heat of aotion by an infuriated soldiery, but
deRberately and by order of the superior offi
cers, after the Frenoh army had capitulated.—
From house to house fatigue parties, under
officers, went in regular order, and after each
house was thoroughly pillaged it was then set
fire to. If the fire went out the work was re
sumed again. And wMle tMa devilish labor
was going on—while the few inhabitants who
had remained in the plaoe were shot in cold
blood—the Bavarian bands of miUt&ry music
played in mockery the French national air, toe
“Marseillaise.” After this let those who think
they wiU be listened to preaoh that Alsace and
Lorraine ought to be given up to the invaders
of Franco; or let those who nave read of these
horrors wonder if the French people have re
solved rather to perish than to allow Paris to
be taken by the Prussians.
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Another Radical Ue Nailed.
The Jacobin press, North and South, have
been squawking and capering over an alleged
triumph of their party in Delaware by reason
of toe addition of the negroes of that State to
its voting population. They had it telegraphed
aU over toe oountry that Delaware had gone
Radical by 300 majority. The Baltimore Ga
zette, of Monday, nails the Re after this con
clusive fashion.
On Tne9day an election was held iu Delaware
for Hundred officers, and for inspectors of the
State election to be held early in November.
The result was, that “Newcastle oounty—the
stronghold of Radicalism and toe negro vote
was only carried by that party by forty-four
majority, whilst Kent oounty gave about six
thousand, and Sussex county one thousand one
hundred and sixty-nine. Ibis Democratic tri
umph was brought about in the simplest and yet
them osi natural way. A large number of the
white citizens of Delaware, who, up to toe
time of the passage of the Fifteenth Amend
ment, had supported the Radical party, went
over in a body, at the election last week, and
voted the Democratic ticket.
This celebrated medicine bss won s fas** I
h gh reputation as an alleviator of pain nt >|S |
server of health. It has beoome s booMhait*|
edy, from the fact that it gives immediate utf*l
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made from the best and purest melerUKaitij
keep and to use in every family. Iti* recoafaj
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O., the other day, a remarkahle marriage oeremo-
ny was performed. Hie bridegroom’s name was
Walter Pierce, and in a paper he had drawn up
he agreed to aeoard to the woman “equal rights,
socially, religiously and politically, with him
self. In return, the lady said: “I take Walter
Pierce, whom I now hold by the band, and
whom I intelligently, spiritually and religiously
love, to be my oompinlon through Ufa : and I
agree not to usurp over or transcend him in say
particular.” Then toey both said: “By this
voluntary and premeditated aot, In your pres
ence, we declare ourselves religiously, phuoso-
ihiesUy and ■rf*ntifi«*nj married.” And then
fa* Mayer declared them married.
Tn yellow fever In New York is reported
dead. Jack Frost killed him last Monday.
Tin Legislator* of Virginia have under con
sideration a proposition to relieve (torn tax**
tion for cno year tbs people of Ml thorn coun
ties who suffered so severely from the late
flood.
Fits Owe Additional will boy shoes with sil
ver or copper tips, which will save to* buyer the
pries of a new pair of shoe*. Compared with rag.
raged toes and dirty stocking, they are bssqtfU-
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