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The G eorgia "W'eekl'y Telegraph, and. Journal &c Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, OCTOBER 21, 1870.
Portable Steam Engines.—'Wo invio atten
tion to the Portable Steam Engines an -ther
machinery advertised by the Metro,*iiitt.n
Works, Richmond, Va. These engines have
twioe taken the first premium at the M >u
Fairs, and frequently at nnmerons other Bx-
poaitionB, and they have given universal
faction wherever introduced. Thoy combine
every facility of the best stationary engine with
arrangements which make them as portable ns
a wagon, and thus enable the lumber manu
facturer to move his mill with ease as ho ex
hausts the timber in its immediate proximity.
Every part of these engines is as perfect and
durable as long experience, careful study and
faithfnl workmanship can make them. A vast
establishment is employed in the mmufacture
of this single specialty, and although great
numbers have been sold in Georgia and through
out the South, thoy have never failed in giving
perfect satisfaction in every case. For fnthor
information apply to H. B. Brown, Agent, No.
35, Third street, Macon.
So jib op the Ectects.—In corroboration of
our opinion as set forth elsewhere, as to the ef
fect of negro voting at the North, we quote the
following from the Philadelphia Age, of Fri
day:
Some of the effects of negro voting can be
seenin Chester and Delaware counties. The
official majority for J. Henry Askin, Esq., the
Democratio candidate for Congress in Radnor,
was 75 in a total poll of 320, including oloven
negroes, who all voted the Radical ticket. Last
year the Radical majority was 35. This makes
a gain to the Democracy of 110 in one year.
The Radical majority in Chester county, in
1868, waB 2,045. This year, over 1,200 negroes
voted the Radical ticket, and the majority runs
down to 1,750. .This shows a loss of over 1,500.
In Delaware, the same average 'Radical loss is
exhibited by the returns. This shows that the
Radicals lose more than they gain by connec
tion with the negro.
Wb did not sec a single white Radical at the
meeting held in Ralston’s Hall yesterday morn
ing to do honor to the memory of Lee. They
evidently do not agree with many of their party
friends elsowhere who have, since his death,
borne most emphatic testimony to his virtues
and matchless qualities as man and soldier.
The people of Macon are not likely to forget
them for it.
Among the recent emigrants from Indiana to
the distant West, was a man who, although but
Cl years of ago, had with him a posterity of
ninety-four souls—children, grandchildren and
great grandchildren. He took tho precaution
to givenotico to the wondering inhabitants that
his brother was to follow him with a company
of descendants which reached the number of
117.
The Galaxy foe November.—We have to-day
the November number of the Galaxy. Among
tho prominent papers are Reminiscences and
Speculations apropos of the turning point in the
King of Prussia’s life, by Carl Benson, and
facts in relation to the expedition for the relief
of Fort Sumter, by Gideon Welles. Mark
Twain continues his memoranda and furnishes
a oharacteriatio map of Paris.
Harper tor November.—Havens & Brown
have this magazine for November. It is not as
interesting as usual though still well worth the
money. It seems to grow with a steady strength
that well attests its solid popularity. Whenever
Harper eschews politics and sensational negro
Stories it is good, emphatically. When it does
not, it is utterly worthless for Southern reading
or circulation.
A Delaware poach-raiser who was troubled
with boys interviewing his orchird, got rid of
them by making a wooden foot as large as a
fiddle box, and making tracks with it in the
sand, about eight feet apart. The boys saw it,
thought there was a live Cardiff giant lying
aronnd that orchard, and got along without their
regular peaches.
At the French fair recently held in San Fran
cisco for the benefit of tho wounded French sol.
diers, a bottle of cordial, which was dealt out in
a tiny gold cup, roalized $1,380; one thousand
bottles of brandy sold at $10 per bottle, and a
matron who attended the fair with n box of
snuff in a half hoar’s time sold the snuff by the
pinoh for $200.
Under Radical manipulation the pupils of the
Alabama University have been reduced to ten,
five of whpm are sons of the Profe8sors,so-calIed
—men who are neither competent nor respec
table. The concern costs tho State $15,000, so
that each student costs just $1,500. This it
progress.
The “Angel Gabriel” is a colored enthusiast
of Now Orleans, who has had a “revelation" to
this effect: “ Gabriel, shoot de first nigger dat
votes for a carpet-bagger what eats out de sub
stance of do colored man, meanin’ de truck
patch.”
Ralston's Hall has seldom enclosed a larger
and gravor assemblage than crowded it yester
day morning. Many ladies were present, and
the deepest interest was manifested in the pro
ceedings. For an acoount of what was said and
dona, sea official report elsewhere.
Axkbhax bas gotten over his billions attack,
and has returned to Washington. We wera
afraid at one time that we were about to lose
him. We say with pride that he is the only
Akerman we have got.—Courier-Journal.
The Georgia Senate passed a resolution the
other day to invite General Grant to attend the
State fair at Atlanta. If there is to be a pro-
* miam offered for the most thoroughly devel
oped Presidential failure of the age, he certainly
ought to go.—Courier-Journal.
The Gatling gun is winning high praises in
England. At a distance of considerably over a
miles, throwing a three-ounce ball, it made IC5
hits out of 848 shots, in two minutes, beating
field-pieoes at their own range.
Prussians Before Paris.—The Prussians at
Versailles deny that the Frenoh have accom
plished any suceeases before Paris, or that the
situation has changed at all since they took po
sition around the city on the 19th of Septem
ber.
Sentenced.—We learn that Fornpey Haines,
the slayer of Hon. B. W. .Flournoy, was tried
in Washington Superior Court on Friday last,
found gnilty of volantary manslaughter, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years.
Gun-cotton can be dissolved In camphor, and
an imitation of ivory can be produced from it,
which tho billiard players pronounce to be au-
perior.
“Brick Pomeroy" has sold the Daily Demo-
cat to James H. Lambert, bis late managing
editor. So it seems “red hot” flummery don’t
pay in Now York city.
Governor. General of Canada fears he
&
strike for more pay. He only gets
• XW?gold now; washing thrown
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The Weight or the Negro Vote
Does not seem to have been seriously felt in
any of the three great States of Ohio, Indiana
or Pennsylvania, or if felt at all, was by Radi
cal shoulders. In Pennsylvania they lose four
or fivo Congressmen, in Ohio their 40,000 ma
jority for Grant tails off to a beggarly 10 or 12,-
000 and in Indiana they lose two members of
Congress, their State ticket and the Legislature.
Henceforth Indiana, despite tho negroes and
Radicals, will keep step with her other Demo
cratio sisters of the Union. It is only in the
two cities of Cincinnati and Philadelphia that-
the negro vote seems to have helped the Jaco
bins at all, and in the latter place the U. S. Mar
shal and his deputies and the U. S. Marines
were subsidized to make the mattor sure.
We wore not altogether unprepared for this
result. The average Northern voters feel a much
deeper disgust for the black man, especially as
a companion and competitor at the ballot box,
than do tho people of the South, generally. It
is a matter of baDit and education with them.
They did not especially object to seeing tho
thing down here where “rebels’” were to bo
punished and “ loyalty ” uplifted, but they
scarcely dreamed that the 15th Amendment
was some day to commend tho same nnuseous
draught to their dainty lips. No doubt many
Radicals, hitherto in good and regular standing,
either did not vote at the late election or gave
the Democrats a hearty lift. • We can imagine
the “red wrath ” or foaming disgust of these
“brethren” at being impaled on the tri-pronged
forks of the odious dilemma, viz: To stay, at
home and lose their votes, to vote alongside
and with “a nigger,” or vote for the Demo
crats. It is seldom, indeed, that good men
bewail their entrapment in such inexorable
meshes. ; ; . i - ■ < •.
We see ia the result of these elections cause
for well-grounded and glowing faith in, and
hope for, the future. What tho Demoorats
hold, now, they hold by a tenure that no device
of Radical deviltry short of aotual disfranchise
ment by Congressional tyranny cau wrench
from their sturdy grasp. AU the elements of
opposition to them have been marshalled, and
they know their strength and what thay must
fight. Voorhees, in Indiana, who sits in Con
gress only by two or tbreo hundred majority,
and who, declaring at tne opening of the lato
canvass he did not want any negro votes, is re
turned by an increased majority, feels his feet
on firmer ground, now that he has tested the
question. Thero can be no mistake, now.
And so of others among tho successful candi
dates. We believe the North will yet be re
deemed on this dead issuo, as the Radicals call
it. If so, welcome the victory. Wo of the
South may not find it expedient or practicable
to use the same weapons, but we shall none the
less hurrah over any strategy that gives the ene
mies of Radicalism, anywhere, the sweets of
triumph. \
Now for New York and Now Jersey! We
have a firm faith that this two-edged blade de
vised by the Radicals for Democratio throat
cutting will gash 6ven deeper and ghastlier,
there. Hoffman will sweep the former, and tho
Jersey “true blues” the latter. They will re
spond with stunning magoritiea to the substan
tial gams and glories of their brethren who
voted on the 12th of October. En atant is
their watchword and their action. We bail, in
advance, the sunburst of viotory gilding their
triumphant banner.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
A negro named John Cherry, who was arrest
ed Friday night, at Augusta, for beating his
wife and threatening to cut her throat with a
razor, was shot and killed by a policeman while
attempting to escape from the guardhouse.
There were four thousand persons at the
Rome Fair on Thursday. x .
Mr. L. F. McCoy, Democratio candidate for
State Treasurer in Alabama, tells tho editor of
the Columbus Sun that the Democrats will car
ry the State by 20,000 majority.
We clip the following items from the Savan
nah Republican, of Sunday:
The Arrival of the New Bishop.—Tho Cath
olic Bishop of this diocese arrived in this city
yesterday morning at 5£ o'clock, and was re
ceived by a committee of his laity at the depot.
This morning at half-past ten o’clock he will
be installed as Bishop of this See. In the after
noon, immediately after Vespers, an address of
weloome will be delivered by Hon. D. A.
O’Byrne in behalf of the Catholics of this city.
Good for the San Jacinto.—TheSan Jacin
to carried to New York yesterday one of the
largest freights of the staple that ever left this
port in one of the regular steamships—the
number of bales being 1,875 of upland, the
average weight per bale being 493 pounds. ,She
also took 14 bags of sea island, 118cask8of rice,
90 dry hide3 and 367 packages of merchandise.
Her stevedore was Captain H. J. Dickerson.
Breaking out Again.—From the following,
from the Athens Banner, we are sorry to seo
that the emigration fever is breaking out again
in this State.
Franklin Court.—Tho editor spent two dayB
at Carnesville this week, in attendance on the
Superior Conrt. No veiy important cases were
tried up to the time we left. Crops in Franklin
are generally good, though cotton was much in
jured by the August drouth. We regretted to
learn that a very large number of persons,
among whom are many excellent citizens, are
preparing to move West. At ooo church over
thirty letters of dismission and recommendation
to Western churches, have been granted doring
the last few weeks. Maoy of these going West
have sold out to citizens of South Carolina, who
are moving away from the threatened anarchy
attending Scott’s misrule.
Dr. B. O. Black announces himself an inde
pendent candidate for the. Senate from the coun
ties of Sumter, Schley and Marion.
The loss by the fire in Amerions on Friday
night, which consume d the house of Colonel
W. A. Maxwell, will amount to $15,000, on
whioh there is an insuranoe of $12,000. The
Republican relates the follwing thrilling inci
dent of the fire:
Miss Sallie Maxwell, in her efforts to save
everything of value in the house, that she oonld,
was delayed in the second stoiy of the building
until the fire had destroyed the lower story, so
much, that there was danger of the walls falling
in every minute. Boeing her danger, she gath
ered a few articles for the purpose of taking a
final leave of the house. On entering the hall
from tbe room ehe was in, to her horror and
dismay she saw that the stair-way was in a solid
sheet of flame. There was only one way of es
cape now, and that was through the front win
dows of tho second story, where the fiery ele
ment had not communicated itself. Going out
on the top of the colonade her awfnl situation
was immediately realized by the crowd below,
and the anxiety depicted on every countenance
showed the deep feeling (hat stirred the soul of
every one. A ladder was brought, but it was
too short to reach the roof, and was of no avail.
With the crackling flames behind and around,
and making the most rapid headway imagina
ble, every moment was precious beyond com
putation. The only chance for Jifo now, was to
jump from the high place on which sbe was
standing. A mattress was brought, and l>eing
firmly held by strong men, with a spirit un
daunted and intrepid—she made the leap from
tbe point sbe occupied, embracing in curve
at least thirty feet, reacting the ground with
comparative safety, and, with the exception of
the shock and conouasion of so high a jump,
entirely unhurt.
Fioht in a Church.—Some of the Atlanta ana
have queer notions as to the proper plaoe for
the settlement of personal quarrels. The At
lanta Sun, of Monday, says: ?
A serious difficulty occurred Saturday eve-
'ng between Dr. Sella and Mr. J. B. Smith, in
k’Bkl'
St.
ephens' Chapel, in which tho latter was
■(■■■Hit
seriously cut in the throat, on the right side,
tbe knife nearly revering the carotid artery.
Dr. Sells was injured on the head, notaerioosly,
we learn. The matter grew out of "a private
controversy, tbe nature of which we did not
le-ira. At last acooanU Mr. South was doing
- ..."
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BTT TELEGBAPH.
WAR IN EUROPE.
Tours, Ootober 16.—No additional official
news has been reoeived from Orleans. It is un
derstood that large forces are face to faoe near
Fort Staubin. A general battle is imminent.
The military authorities here are hurrying re
inforcements forward. Garibaldi has been ap
pointed to the command of irregular forces in
tbe Vosges, with a brigade of Garde Mobiles
attached. Gambetta announces Garibaldi’s ap
pointment to Gen. Oambriets, commanding the
eastern department, and hopes Oambriets will
support Garibaldi. A decree has been issued
subjecting Generals who allow themselves to be
surprised to courtmartial.
London, October 16.—The Standard has a
Tours telegram concerning Bazaine’s great vic
tory. Bazaina appears free to move upon
Thionville. This report is considered doubt
ful.
It is credited here that negotiations are quiet
ly, but actively proceeding with a view to affect-
jpg a peace. The main obstacle now is the beh*v for Versailles to negotiate for the surrender of
ligerent temper of the Parisians. A Rouen dis
patch Friday night announces the approach of
the Prussians. The National Guards are pre
paring to resist them,
Versailles, via London, October 16.—The
reports of the French success before Paris are
untrue, and were invented for the purpose of
rekindling tho conrage of the people. The
Prussians hold exactly the same position they
occupied on tho 19th of September. Two smalt"
skirmishes between outposts on Thursday are
the only encounters daring the week.
Soissons, after an obstinate defense of four
days, capitulated to the German forces.
Florence, October 15.—Thiers and the King
have had an hoar’s interview.
Naples, October 16.—The famous brigand,
Pilone is killed.
Paris Dates to tbe 16th—French Reviving
—Terrible Hurricane in Cabs.
Tours, October 17.—It is the purpose of the
Paris government to adopt an offensive policy.
A large army, with immense artillery, will sup
port it. Keratry bas arrived. He oomes as a
commissioner from the Paris government, and
had a conference with Gambetta. Trochu in
spected the forts south of Paris on the lltb,
and found all in fine condition.
Paris dates to the 14th have been received.
Tbe Prussians wero driven from Bay Neuf and
Ghatillon on the 13th. The destruction of
Chateau St. Cloud is oonfirmed. All the depart
ments within a hundred killometres of the ene
my are declared in a state of siege. Nothing
official from the confronting armies at Ferte.
A sortie from New Brissach, favored by a fog,
surprised and killed many Prussians.
Havana, October 17.—De Rodas has issued a
decree liberating 2,000 negroes captured from
slavers in 1855- 6and’7. The French mail
steamer, Darien, is lost—her crew was saved.
A hurricane occurred on Friday night, but did
little damage to the oity or harbor. It was
very disastrous at Matunz&s. An extraordina
ry rise of water inundated the space between
tho two rivers where the Railroad depot is loca
ted. Tho depot and trans-passenger houses
have all disappeared. The loss of life is esti
mated at 2,000. The los3 of property is enorm
ous.
Cardenas also suffered by tho storm. The
lower part of the city was laid in waste. The
interior of the Island back of Cardenas and
Matanzas was desolated. The cane being back
ward this season sustains less damage than other
crops. It was tho severest hurricane within a
century. Tho list of wrecks at Matanzas are
ship Baxter, bark Hunt, brig Charles, schooner
Edwin. Many vessels were damaged and great
loss in cooperage and stock in warehouse on
low ground at Matanzas.
Prices of sugar stiff but unchanged; transac
tion large.
London, October 17.—The Frenoh fleet is
again assembling off Dunkirk. The Germans
have again removed the lights and otherwise
obstructed the navigation of the Elbe. The
Germans apprehend mischief.
Late China advices show continued war prep
arations.
Manebouro, October 16.—A balloon whioh
left Paris at 7 o’clock this morning with four
passengers has arrived. Paris is still courage
ous. A battle occurred on Saturday outside the
walls wherein 3,000 Prussians were killed.
Tours, October 17.—Keratry recently ar
rived from Paris by balloon, and goes to Madrid
on a private mission. Launes goes to London
on an important mission. Gambetta started
for Lyons and Bazione. The Prefoot of Lyons
received 50,000 National Guards yesterday.
There is still great enthusiasm.
Private arms by Villa de Paris will be sold on
account of owners at prices fixed by the Gov
ernment.
Bourbaki declines the command of the
French armies, except at Paris and Metz, bat
accepts the command of the Army of tHe North.
He has departed for the Hills to organize his
forces. He assures the government that the
General commanding the Army of the Loire is
entirely capablo.
Contradictory reports from Orleans. Both
sides are reinforcing. The munioipal author!
ties and allies whom.the Prussians threatened
with execution have been liberated.
The Monitenr notioes with disgust the utter
absence of any effort to cut the Prussian com'
mnnioations, and claims that only a slight di
version is required any where between Paris and
the Rhine to compel the withdrawal of the be
siegers.
Tbe Prussians have sent for siege trains to
assist in the redaction of New Brissach.
Nothing official from Leferto.
London, October 17.—The capture of Sois-
sons includes four thousand prisoners.
The sheep are also affected with the rinder
pest before Metz and Pans. Russia rejects
Thiers’ proposition for a congress of the great
powers. Washhume in still in Paris
The Frenoh gunboat Hamlin captured two
German vessels off the South American coast.
The Prussians evacuated Beauginey, but blew
up the viaduct before leaving. Three opening
shots of the Paris bombardment were fired from
Bellevue Friday.
The Fraao Tirenrs near Eupcnal on tho 13th
checked the advance of the Prnssians in that
direction in an engagement which lasted three
hours. A detachment of thirty Uhlans was re
pulsed in Laurent de Anx on the left bink.
Loire has reason to believe that the army whioh
captured the Soissons was 220,000 strong and
will attack other strong places in Northern
France. A balloon from Paris with a quarter
ton of letters has fallen at Namur, another
alighted at Valenciennes with 200 pounds of
correspondence. A decree issued by the Paris
Government of the 11 th, extends time for pay.
ment of commercial billsjo the 14th November.
More than a million muskets have been given ont
to (be Nationals and Mobiles and distribution
continues. Laurier leaves Tours ok a mission
to London.- There are rumors of fighting near
Rouen. No French war ships have yet been
seen off the river Elbe.
The marriage of Princess Louisa and Marquis
Lome takes plaoe in February at Stottgart.
The. Diet of Wnrtemburg, meets on the 21st
insfc
The steamer Niagara was chased by several
French vessels. In escaping, the Niagara col
lided with her oolier, which was sunk. No lives
lost. Tbe Tablet, a Catholic organ, prints the
protests of the Pope and Cardinal Antonellj
against Italian enoroaohments on Roman ter
ritory.
Rouen, October 17.—A brother of Marshal
Bazaine publishes a card that Bozaine is Mar
shal of France, not of the Empire.
The indications are that the enemy .dare not
advanoe in this direction.
Sr. Auburn, October 17.—Prussian head
quarters are established at Leferte, St. Auburn.
Berlin, October 17.—Soissons capitulated on
Sunday at 3 r. it. The Grand Duke of Meck
lenburg entered the town at the head of his
army. The German losses were trifling. Four
thousand prisoners and 132 guns wero taken.
Bazaine has made offers of capitulation. Heavy
reinforcements reach the army before Paris
daily.
Cologne, October 17.—-The Gazette reports
rinderpest raging in 40 or fifty places tho in
Rhine Valley. It has also broken out in Brain-
burg.
Brussels, Ootober 17.—An appeal for the
Pope has been issned by Catholics of various
nations assembled here, and published.
The report that General Beyer has left Metz
the fortress is considered authentic here. Ru
mor that negotiations are pending for peace on
the basis of the cession of Alsace and Luxem
burg to Prussia is also believed tobe well found
ed. It is also stated that another interview be
tween Bismarck and Favre to that end is soon
to be held.
Havana, Ootober 17.—Three of the' schoon
er’s crew captured at Cayo Cruz have been shot
and nine sentenced to imprisonment for life.
Florence, October 17.—Cialdinia is said to
be in favor of tho nomination of the Duke of
Costa for King of Spain. Mazzini is liberated.
Alexandria, Egytt, October 17.—A maga
zine exploded hero to-day, by which fifty were
killed and wounded, including three Europeans.
New York, October 17.—The Telegram has
the following special from Tours: The Prus
sians have crossed the Loire from Orleans and
are marching towards Tours. The excitement
in government circles is indescribable. Gov
ernment property is hurried to places of secu
rity. Troops are hurried forward towarde Or
leans. The depots are crowded with persons
escaping from Tours.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE;
Washington, October 15.—Murray & Stone
were arrested at the instance of Jno. Brown, a
negro, who was thrust from the circus for in
sisting on occupying a place reserved for ladies
with gentlemen. The case, after a brief hear
ing, waB dismissed.
Lexington, October 15.—General Lee was
buried to-day. The weather clear and pleasant
Every house was draped in mourning. The
State dignitaries and many distinguished per
sons were present Officers and soldiers of the
Confederate Army acted as a Guard of Honor.
Tho Episcopal funeral service was used. The
sermon was omitted in accordance with General
Lee’s request A committee of the Virginia
General Assembly received no assurance that
their request to bury General Lee’s remains at
Richmond would be'granted. The removal of
the remains is, however, probable.
New York, Ootober 16.—A World special
from Tours yesterday says that Bazaine has es-
oaped from Metz, marching with his entire
force to the relief of Verdun.
A Herald special from Tours says the rumor
that Orleans has been evacuated oauses im
mense excitemont. A second dispatch, 5:25
p. m. says the rumor is confirmed.
It is officially announced that Trochu led a
brilliant sortie from Paris in person. The ene
my were repulsed at all points with immense
enthusiasm.
One hundred and forty thousand Springfield
rifles brought by the Lafayette have arrived.
New York, October 16.—The yellow fever is
dying out. No new cases since the 10th.
The St. Laurient, which sails Monday, has
already aboard sixteen thousand rifles and as
many revolvers, sabres and bayonets and five
million cartriges.
New York, October 16.—Cotton—The week’s
movements are heavy, bnt still behind last year.
The receipts at all the ports wero 76,704—total
since September 272,583, against 282,971 last
year. Exports from all ports 28,462, against
85,240 last year. Total exports 73,215, against
83,614. Stock at all ports 181,155, against
113,064 last year. Stock at interior towns 26,-
329, against 26,527. The stock in Liverpool is
565,000 against 425,000. Amorican cotton afloat
310,000, against 20,000 Indian. Cotton here
daring the week continued to decline and was
devoid of animation. The weather in the South
has been favorable and picking is progressing
vigorously. A table of exports of leading arti
cles for the year aggregates $499,000,000, in
which cotton figures at $227,000,000, or nearly
half. The details of cotton are—uplands $224,.
000,000; sea island $3,000,000; manufactured
cotton $4,750,000. The previous year’s table
shows exports—uplands $160,250,000; sea is
land nearly $2,500,000; manufactured, over
$5,750,000.
Washington, Ootober 17.—Josiah Daley has
been appointed Collector of the Third Missis
sippi District.
Gon. Terry departs for Atlanta to-morrow.
New Yoax, October 17.—Arrived: Mistonri.
City; Brooklyn; Tillie Cromwell; Crescent
Oity. Arrived out: Villa de Paris, Baltimore.
Auburn, October 17.—The Fenians, Starr,
Thompson and Mannix, are released—bad luck
to ’em. Responding to a serenade tho Fenians
said they thanked no party nor administration,
but the people for their release. . •
Philadelphia, October 17.—Official: Mer-
curc (Bep.) is elected in the Thirteenth District
by 113 majority.
Jackson, Miss., October 17.—Bus in ess is sus
pended. There is a mass meeting here in honor
of the memory of General Lee.
The resolutions request the press of the coun
try to forward to the faculty of Washington
College copies of papers containing resolutions
in reference to his death with a view to com
piling a memorial volume.
The Mississippi State Fair opens on Monday
and promises to be a great success.
Freni Atlavta.
Special to tie Telegaph ahd Mcttcnger.]
Senate—The Joint Committee reported in
favor of reqpesting .the Governor to adjourn
the House tut the twenty-fifth of October, leav
ing the Senate in session to take a recess till
November twenty-first, to confirm' election'
managers.
Bradley opposed it as prolongation in a new
shape—adopted—yeas 19; nays 13. The re
port of the committee reoommending a com
promise with the Mitchell baits was taken up.
Candler'offered a resolution to put up the
Railroad square at auction, at public outcry, and
to appoint B. Conley, John Harris, M. G." Dob
bin, George Adair, and .J. R. Wallaoe, commis
sioners; and presented a petition of many
citizens, pledging to bid one hundred thousand
dollars on the first bid—lost; yeas 16, nays 17,
and the report was adopted—yeas 22, nays 11.
General Grant’s letter of regret at not being
able to attend the State Fair was read.
The bill to lease the State Road was made the
special order for to-morrow.
Sections 42 and 45 of the code werei amended
by striking out “ work in a chain-gang on pub
lic works.”
Bradley said Senators on the floor, former
slave owners, were endeavoring to force laws to
inflict this punishment on former slaves, when
denied the use of the lash. His words were re
quired to be taken down, bnt a resolution to ex
po! him was not entertained.
The election managers of Bartow and Fulton
were confirmed in exeentive session.
House.—The motion to reconsider the bill to
donate the Capitol buildings at Milledgovillo for
the education of colored people, was lost by
two majority.
The resolution reqnesting the Governor to
adjourn the House on the 25th of October,
leaving the Senate to take recess till 21st of
November, was adopted. Other proceedings of
the Honse unimportant.
Lee Obsequies in Eufaula.
Special to the Telegraph and Jfessenger.J
Eufaula, Ala., October 17.—Funeral cere
monies were observed here to-day. Every bus
iness house and many private residences are
draped in mourning. The different Orders,
the Fire Department, Mayor and Council and
citizens in the procession. Eulogies were de
livered by the Eagle Orator, General Baker,
and Father Ryan. All business was suspended.
Georgia Press Association.
The time for the annual meeting of the Press
Association is near at hand. We would suggest
that the President call it together at Augusta,
daring the Fair to be held there the present
month, and hope he will do so. The press ought
to meet to perfect their organization, and make
it useful to the oraft. It is a matter of regret
that the Constitution and proceedings of the
two previous meetings have not yet been pub
lished; why, tho Secretary alone can give the
reason. Tiie committee appointed to present a
bill to the Legislature to regulate legal adver
tising, has never been called to act by the chair,
man. This subject ought not longer be deferred.
The press is suffering in purse for the want of
the law proposed, and it ought to be attended
to. It is too late for the present session of the
Legislature, but we bh-.mld be ready to present
it early in the next. We call the attention of
our worthy President to this matter, for fear it
may escape his notice.
We copy the foregoing from the LaGrange
Reporter of the 14th. The President months
ago called the attention of the Secretary to the
importance of printing the constitution and
proceedings, and circulating them according to
the instructions adopted by the meeting in Sa.
vannah, and for the expense of whioh an ample
sum was raised by assessment among members.
But we have failed to get any responso from the
Secretary, and believe that he has done nothing
at'all in the premises. This failure and inaction
leaves us .in ignorance, from forgetfulness of the
povisionsof the constitution. If our memory is
not at fault one of theregnlarsemi-annualmeet-
in^s of the Association is fixed in November,
but we are not prepared to say whether the
President is invested with power to call a meet
ing. If he is, we hope the brotherhood who
may attend the Augusta Fair will consider a
meeting called, and at least meet and enquire
what has become of the Secretary and why the
constitution and minntes hure not been printed.
As very possibly we may not be in tho State at
the time, we hope one of the Vice Presidents
or Mr. Willingham will attend to the matter.
Natchez, October 17.—The steamer ( Natohez
beat the Lee’s time twenty minutes, and was
received with bands of musio, fireworks and
cannon.
San Francisco, October 17.—Frenoh ladies
remitted to France Saturday over $50,000 for
sanitary purposes. A number of Japanese of
high rank arrived here Saturday—among them
Prinoe Imperial, heir apparent to the throne,
being the first of the royal family that ever left
Japan.
New Orleans, October 17. —Yoaterday’s
deaths six.
Key West, Fla;, October 17.—The steamers
Cuba and Gulf Stream were four days getting
to tho wharf. Tho Cuba reports that she felt a
hurrioane seventy miles out. The naval squad
ron and monitors are all safe.
Richmond, Ootober 17—Hon. Robert Ridg-
way, 1L O., and formerly editor of the Whig,
isdead. ■
Nobfolk, Ootober 17.—-The ship Chovey
Chase will float with an average tide to-night.
Boston, Ootober 17.—Arrived, KonBington,
from San Francisco; Groat Republio, from Honrj
Kong.
The Japanese Government has issued a neu
trality proclamation betweon Franco and Prus-
Ilow Ten Thousand Men Escaped.
A Bouillon letter to the Herald says:
A French officer who is staying here on ao-
count of the very severe wounds he received at
the battle of Sedan, has just sent for me to go
over and see him where he is lodging. He has
shown me a letter from his brother, an artillery
officer whose regiment formed one of. the un
fortunate army under MoMahon, that surren
dered on the 2d of thiB month. The letter is
dated from Pans, on Wednesday last, the 14th,
and the writer informs his brother that ten
thousand men, with thirty pieces of cannon,
from the debris of McMahon’s oorps have reach
ed the capital in safety. They took eleven days
to get over about a hundred and fifty American
miles. They marohed in the greatest confusion,
and swarmed over tbe oountry in small parties
of two and three hundred each. But they held
steadily in view the only object of their march,
which was to reach Paris—by any means and
by every means, but to get there aomehow.
How they were fed on the rood seems to have
been a miracle. Thoy were not a command, for
each man worked for himself. They were
composed of all regiments and all arms; and
were all mixed together in the moBt extraor
dinary manner. At Soissons—so the letter
says, but I think it must be a mistake, for that
plaoe was in tho hands of the Prussians on tbe
5th of this month—thay fuuud thirty thousand
rations of Bread and meat. Each man took:
three days’ rations, and off th6y started again.-.
They had several detours to make in order to
avoid the enemy; but they managed, except
the weak and sickly exceptions, to reach their
destination and.to reach it all about the same
time. Herb and there on the 7oad they were
joined by men who had left different army
corps after various battleB, so that their num
bers increased rather than diminished on the
line of march. One artillery, four infantry and
two cavalry Generals, whose names, I am serry
to say, are not mentioned, marched with them
and reached Paris safely. Tho whole force got
to their destination within twenty-four hours of
each other. The writer—whose letter seema to
have been ono of the last sent out of the capital
before its gates were closed—regards with no
small triumph this feat of so many individuals,
whiob, as he said truly enough, could not have
been accomplished by any other soldiers in the
world,
TBE DEATH OF GE«^
Prospects of Peace.
The prospects of peace in' Europe, we are
glad to say, are beginning to dawn. A London
dispatch of Sunday states that negotiations are
going on quietly but actively, but the greatest
obstaole is the belligerent feeling in Paris. This
means that Paris oancot be persuaded into Ter
ritorial concessions. .But we are by no means __
certain that Bismarck will not have to make Robert
peaoe without such concessions. The following baen nndemf/wi _ ty boon a “
Terrific Earthquake in Thibet.—Particu
lars have been reoeived of an earthquake in
Thibet some time »go. The account, which is
supplied by the Vicar-Apostolie of the oountry,
states that the first shock was felt at five in the
morning. At sunset the town of Bathang was
shaken from end to end, and nearly all the
houses, large and small,-fell to the ground, bury
ing half the population or more in the ruins.
Arsenals, magazines, “the large and splendid
Lamaserai, tenanted by 3,000 Lamas,” all de
scended at once into a vast grave. Then a fu
riouB wind sprung up, and a fire broke ont,
which continued for twelve days, burning up
the living and the dead and everything else that
the eaithqnake had spared. Four hundred and'
thirteen. Lama priests, 19 Chinese soldiers, 38
Thibetan soldiers, all the Thibetan officials, and
2,812 other peoplo were destroyed. The writer-
surmises that the earthquake was felt over an
extent of 180 miles from east to southwest, and
90 miles from north to south.
Tho Now Orleans Picayune, of Sunday, says:-
“Tho ship Charloa Auguste, with the cargo of
coolies on board, was towed up from English
Turn y osto; day toWuggamau's plantation, about
fifteen miles above the city, where preparations
«e bring niada for their disembarkation. They
passage oa the (. pelousas railroad
will ti
A collision occurred betweon the French 1 caw on Monday to bo transported to tho vieik-
andPrussian seamen inYokohoma. No details, j ty Of the plantations for which they have been
The war has stopped the silkworm trade. A 1 imported* i'tns is the second lot of ooelies
terrible storm and floods havo occurred in tho ' hy £ itcot fr °m
China; but the probability 1<? that they are only
the atant couriers of many more to coino.” •
northeast part of Yeddo and man; lives lost-
Herald specials from London the 13th are wor
thy of close attention:
BISMARCK WILLING ZO ACCEPT INTERVENTION.
A correspondent at Versailles sends woid that
Count von Bismarck has caused an intimation
to be conveyed to London, St. Petersburg and
Vienna that an intervention to secure peaoe
would be acceptable now to Prussia. Tbe con
clusion reached by a oouncil of war at the Prus
sian headquarters yesterday that Paris cannot
be successfully attacked, but must be reduced
by a siege of many months’ duration ; the in
creasing discontent of the troops, tbe approach
ing session of the German Parliament, in which
tbe course of the government will surety be
discussed with much bitterness and hostility,
and, above all, the spread of virulent pestilence
through all the camps of the German armies,
with the danger, hourly increasing, of the in
terruption of their lines of communication, have
combined to bring abont this grave resolution
on the part of the German authorities. The
steady advanoe of the army of Lyons in the
east of France, an advance cheoked for a few
days by the battle of iiaou Euipe, but now re
sumed threatens tbe German army before Metz
with disaster, and the raising of the siege of
that city has already been announced by rumor
in the camps at Versailles. The passes of the
Vogea are literally s warming wi th Francs-tireurs,
and the general aspeot of affairs in the east of
France causes the profoundeet anxiety, not to
say alarm, both at Berlin and Versailles. The
appeal of Count Bismarck has been met by Rus
sia with a proposition through Prince Orloff
for mediation by a congress of the great Pow
ers, to be held at Brussels.
GERMANY ANXIOUS FOB PEACE.
Count Bismarck has reoeived urgent represen
tations from many quarters of Germany that
every victory costs Germany as much as France,
and that the people are intensely anxious for
peace throughout the German States. He has
authorized the Prussian Minister at Brussels to
give the Powers to understand that Germany is
willing to propose a settlement on the basis
of a disarmament of the frontier provinces, the
rectification of the frontier line of Rhenish Prus
sia and a small indemnity in money.
STORMY SESSION OF THE ENGLISH CABINET.
A stormy meeting of the British Cabinet was
held to-day. The Marquis of Hartington de
nounced the government as weak and danger
ous, and demanded a vigorous intervention ia
behalf of the integrity of the territory of France,
the only faithful ally of Great Britain. There
was much feeling exhibitedby the various min
isters, and the meeting is thought to foreshadow
a serious ministerial crisis.
FRANCE WILL NOT TREAT FOB PEACE.
General Burnside returnedfrom Paris to Ver
sailles on the night of the 10th with a message
from Mr. Jules Favre to Count Von Bismarck,
on the proposition of Count Von Bismarck to
permit the elections to be held freely, as the
Departments of the Seine, Seine and Ouse and
Seine and Marne. A council of the Ministers
present in Paris, was held and a reply agreed
on to the effect that France wonld devote her
self now to the duty of driving the enemy from
her soil. That done she would attend to her
own domestic politics.
THE LONDON TIMES FRIGHTENED AT TH* EITUA-
The ParUenlan or his
Remote and Immediate
From the Richmond Ditpatch,
Lexington, Va.. Vi* r»
This is » day of gloom and sadness h
Telegraph has announced the ,W , 6
The Timet has another leader this morning
deprecating tbe protraotion of the war by Prus
sia as unreasonable and unwise. It says the
prospect of the Prussians with the winter be
fore them is*not cheerful. Even if harassing
attacks of nbw levies may be despised, the dif
ficulty of the emergency, it adds, cannot cer
tainly be solved even by the capture of Paris.
Why did the “Thunderer” talk in this strain
when he might be of use to stop this dreadful
war ? Simply because the upper class are be
coming thoroughly frightened at the prospect
of an European convulsion. The opinion is
fast going round that the French, beaten like
the North in tho commencement of the war for
secession, will'end by whipping ont the inva
ders and repaying the indifference of England
to her misfortunes.
We have no great doubt that these dispatches
give a true idea of the situation. Prussia made
s grand mistake in protracting the war after the
downfall of the. Empire. The vista now open
ing to her is one of endless complications and
interminable slaughter. Sedan closed the chap
ter of possible glory, and the war sinco that
time has been a tedious and stupid massacre,
devastation, waste and plunder. Everybody is
tired of it. Nothing is to be gained by it. Every
moment the outside pressure and clamor for
peace are increasing, and let ns hope to wake
up some fine morning not far off, and find that
the Franoo-Prnssian war is over.
Rapping? From Prentice.
The Titusville Courier declares that Grant is
a moro automaton in the hands of Chandler,
Cameron, Drake and McOlnrg. This must be
a mistake as to Chandler, whose hands are quite
too full of bottles and tumblers to hold even so
small an automaton as Grant.
A literary adventurer in Pennsylvania is go-
ing to deliver a lecture next winter on the sub
ject of “Bile.” At any rate, he says ho in
tends to deliver it, and his choice of a subject
is sufficient evidence that he is fool enough to
tty-
The Radioals claim thatftheirs’ is the party of
progress. And so it is. The progress it has
made in plundering the oountry is the grandest
phenomenon of the age.
A crazy Frenchman proposes a bran-new
plan of whipping the Prussians. His proposi
tion is as follows:
“As soon as the approaoh of the enemy is
signaled,^the administration should transport
the tigers and Kofis to abandoned, farms,, and
then the Prussians, when they came to those
fkriM 16 plunder and steal cattle, would there
find .those , famished beasts ready to receive
them. Attendants disguised as Uhlans might
previously incite the beasts to fury by beating
them.” - - o
Murder dc Twiggs County.-r-On Sunday af
ternoon last, near Tarversvilie, Twiggs county,
an atrocious murder was perpetrated by a ne
gro named Hunter McCrea, upon the person of
another negro named Wash. Brown. McCrea
■tabbed Brown in tbe heart, kilting him instant
ly, and after doing ao, fled in the direction of
this city. Captain Simpson, with a warrant for
MoCrea’s arrest, and two or three policemen
were after him all of yesterday afternoon
An All Dat Mabxbt,— Our energetto friend,
Tom Freeman, is determined that nobody in
Macon shall suffer for something to eat, as
long as ho is able to be np and about, and has
opened on Second street, between this office
and the First Baptist Church, what he terms an
all day market house, where his friends get,
at any time duriog the day, fresh meats, fish,
oysters, vegetables, or anything else in the fam
ily or green grooery line, and have it earned
home without charge.
The weather continues really beautiful over
head, but the streets are again becoming quite
dusty from the unusual amount of driving upon
them that is always necessary at this season of
the year in moving cotton and hauling freight
to and from th6 depots. The planters never
had prettier weather to pick out their eotton,
and tho only regret is that they are getting so
little for it t ot vlislim 1W? Jioeht fit |
,
Oysters. —There ia no variety of this popular
bivalve equal in size and richness of flafor to
those taken from the bay of Apalachicola! To
test this sweeping declaration, drop in at Val
entino’s at any honr of the : day or night and try
a dozen on the half sheH or. ia stew. They're
elegant.
A correspondent write* to the New . York
Standard: “I met Un. General Williams out
riding yesterday. 8he ia a lovely and aafresh
as a rose. The General' ehA’heraetf made a
handsome couple, and a meet remarkably hap-
py one, I should judge, though it cannot be very,
pleasing to him to be known and
the time as ‘Mrs. Douglas’ ‘
been understood that the more LSS * S
toms which he exhibited early iJ^ * 8 ^
had given place to more alarmW on ®
had yet shown. Earlv this J* °®*®
whispered through the i
fast sinking, and with beating Wr t f ‘ hs »»
awaited the issue. 8 064118 °or
With the first peals of the tolK. v
news ran through the town, ana all *i 8 ^ *
together as tho word bassed frmn
“General Leo is dead.” In to
without any conoert of action, eve£°« '
or other place of business was
freedmen left their work, and ft’ ^
the common grief. " u
The exercises at the Colleen ,
were suspended, and every Tounp !,. Icsti ‘«i
to feel that.he had sustained anim^ 40 **^
sonal bereavement Allot the SS?** 8 ?*
were closed, and the children
ized that one of their best f*£fc
from them. en “ 8 W
Your correspondent has taken •
to obtain from his physicians fDivn ^
Madison) a full and accurate statem
Lee’s illness and
cause was the long continuant -TV*
influences incident to the crushing :pM8ti »l
ties which wero upon him dnrm 0 g .i
of the war, the disastrous temlllS
struggle for the cause he so desrl. i
the afflictions of his native South
render. ^ we an-
As he saw his little armv croflnii. .
before the countless hosts oppSl 0 “ v e { ln l
compelled to yield at last toovs
bers and resources; as he witnessed,
ings of his “poor boys,” as he
to call them, and thought of the
their families and of the South* asV 100 *
have been every day since flooded^')? 001 '
piteous letters from maimed soWerTZf*
the widows and orphans ot the noble nX
followed him, he has borne a calm eiteHn“ 2
struggled for the good of his
South with a heroism surpassing eny
ever displayed on the field of Wtl/ W
very fibres of his great heart hav. been ”1?
ally wearing away until they have at
ken and tne vital spark has fled. Baft JE
eminent physicians concur in the opinion tS
General Lee has died rather from mon .W
physical causes; that his physical devei, ^
was well nigh perfect, and that there™,
merely physical reason why he might aoiu
lived for years to come. The immedht, eZ
of his death was, in the opinion of histwi
cians, “ mental and physical fatigue, iJSj
venous congestion of the brain, which, hoi»?
never proceeded as far as apopleijo-
bnt gradually caused cerebral exhacbVJ
death.” 1
On Wednesday, September 28th, he vua
than usually busy. After atteniicg d
service, as he always did, ho spent the i
morning attending to various matters eomt-
whth the interests of the college. U{iL
F. m. he went to a meeting of tho ve^i.-vf h
church, over which ho presided, hliuno
great importance to the interests of tie da
were under consideration, and the meetiij*
protracted for three hours. Eetnnutgk
just in time for tea he was sitting at tie a
•with his family when he was suddenij ati
and became apparently speechless andiL
ble of motion. The next morning he iil
and as there were no decisive indicihoat
paralysis or of apoplexy it was hoped tkaL
attack would prove nothing more serious thn|
temporary nervons prostration. All of tbs a
dications seemed favorable to his recover; e
last Monday. He spoke'bnt little, snd tbtoi
in answer to questions concerning his
condition. But this showed that he bid n '
ered the power of speech. His intellect s
entirely clear, and he gave most ucmhti
evidences that while he lay, for the mostp
in a stupor to which the medicines gireok
no doubt, largely contributed, he was,»!
aroused, entirely conscious. He seemed i
much better on Saturday that Dr. 1M
playfully said to him: “ General, jw t
make haste and get up from this bei i.r
eller’ is getting lazy, and you most mftsb
and give him the exercise he needs.” The G
eral fixed his eyes steadily upon him aaisha
his head very emphatically, as if to uU
that he did not expect to ride “Twills]
aga^n.
On Monday he became suddenly worse, i
despite the best efforts of as fine medial s’
as the country affords, and the fervett prv
of anxious hearts, he gradually sank unity
terday morning at 94 o’clock, when he bn 1
his last.
The nature of his illness was snehthit.
was no opportunity for protracted ccdto*
with him, and he uttered no word which en j
seized on for sensational reports of
hours. He wa3 stricken at the post of ir
He fell with the harness on, and his cala,I
death ia a fit termination of his noble life
need no “last words” of Robert E. W
deeds belong to history, while his hi; M
voted,'unostentatious piety, and his -2*1
Bring trust in Jesus as his personal Bi-* 1
give unmistakable evidence that he ■* *
a orown of fadeless glory, and has isW]
tered upon that “Rest that remiiiM **1
people of God.” .
General Robert Edmund Lse was toy
the 19th of January, 1807, and wail
63 years 8 months and 23 days oli .
He married on the 30th of Jane, In-
years Mrs. Lee has been unable to ™!
has borne her affliction with a Oottoan
tude and patience which wondahJ *
her under her present sore beieaviBw-
Only General Custis I*e Mi-s H’-*,
Miss Mildred have been at hom« .
ather's illness. The other j
family were telegraphed for oa .
are expected to-day or tho next w 3
been, on conference with tbef»mjl r i <! '
ed to deposit the remains in a vault to
ed in tbe oollege library. It 66toi * ..
appropriate that his body should res*
office which was the scen6 of hii bWi J
the chapel whioh he built, and w-om
he always attended so ponotually-
Fate of aLoil WoRTHy.—The
the unhappy fate of Colonel Kirk, J
of Holden’s army as follows: . (
It vraa to have been hoped thi^'^b
of the Grant-Holden army in North
commander of the ragamuffini State ^
tingent. Colonel Kirk, would***'. ^
the publio eye. The fellow h®*r"|vi*
has gone into merited obscurity, ^
and ill-repute are brought onoe ®°.
inence by the arrest, a few dtp u.
chaplain of hia cutthroat
Fifteen years since this creature®" ,5
in North Carolina, left her will
and fled with another woman
triot’s home, East Tennessee, wj>. a
loil can be, he emerged at the time J
Holden war on North CarohM ^ i
the battalions engaged in that
disbanding of "those foroea^lei
scene where he left one wife say jA
other, and the law, which has.
is iuat laid him
at times,has just laid
bigamy. The proof iareportea^'
the State penitentiary gap* 8 101
Silly Oonklino.—That brillian ^ ^
sneking-dove of Radicalism, bain®*
Conkling of New York, say® : . , y,.
The people cannot be j]
that the platform of the B«P nb ‘ ,
taken the place of that decayed
bequest of the fathers of 1
Constitution of the United Sf8WS-
Wo think theEmpiro State M 80
reminded that she once had stai .
national eouneila, and if she does®
eyebrows that she has now a ^
will be a fact still more discredit*®
represented in the Senate of the
by a silly Conkling.
of*]
Paris, Inside.—A ballooc
instant, from Paris to the N.^.
says of general matters u» > f<
There are not more than
sons remaining at the gait*-^
ions are getting bad
milk, vegetables and oth«
costly, and of a Sind
It is almost an
my own knowledge here
watarem, who were ell
wmni» B*oaw».—
te the Werid In
pcctwtUnetdetobetcn