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Th.© Greoraiia. Weekly Telegraph, and, Jour-nal &; Messeno-er.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MAOON, NOVEMBER 1, 1870.
The Late Agency.
We proposed, hard as the task seemed, some
fry to try and write an appropriate notice of
the death of this concern. The Savannah Re
publican, however, spares ns the trouble, and
M this is one of onr lazy days, we gladly adopt
its eulogy as our own. It is a precious consola
tion to know that the editor has tried, at least
to do the subject justice. Says the Republican:
The Legislature of Georgia, partly elected in
1808, and partly appointed by a military com
mission, after doing all the harm it could and
plundering the treasury of every dollar within
its reach, has finally adjourned. It is safe to
say that so reckless, mercenary and corrupt a
body was never before assembled in our State
outside ofjthe penitentiary, It would have been
» disgrace to Hayti or the Fejee Islands, and
we thank God the responsibility of its existence
rests not on the people of Georgia. They have
contemned and despised thevile concern from the
beginning, and, if they could have had their way
■with it, after taking out a few honest men, who
remained in the vile concern with the vain hope
of protecting the people against outrage and
wrong, they would have long since sunk it to
tho bottom of the Chattahoochee. Nothing but
Radicalism could have spawned forth a progeny
of such unadulterated rascality and wickedness.
Slay we never see their like again. In fact we
rifiail not, in this generation at least Such
moral aloes can only bloom and exhale their dis
gusting odors once in a century.
Their work ended, these misrepresentatives
sow return to their homes—such of them at
least who have homes—and let the people whom
they have injured, plundered and disgraced,
treat them according to their deserts. The men
who engaged in plots against the liberty and
the welfare of the people and the credit of the
State shonliRreceivo no countenance from those
against whom they have raised their hands under
the protection of Federal bayonets. They should
l»e regarded as social outcasts, to fester and rot
in their own infamy.
Served Their l'arpose.
The Columbia (S. C.) Phoenix says:
Disarming the Mtt.ttta.—The Governor was
waited upon by several of our citizens, yester
day, and the condition of affairs seriously dis
cussed. He expressed his earnest desire to
preserve the peace, and promised to do all in
his power to accomplish that end. The colored
guard in charge of the State arms has been re
moved, and the care of them turned over to the
United States soldiers. Drilling and parading
of colored companies, at a late hour of thenight,
lias also been prohibited.
We are informed that the captains of the dif*
ferent militia companies in the district were
served with an order from the Governor, yes
terday, requiring them to return the arms is
sued to them. This is a move in the right di
rection, and will tend materially to allay the ex
citement. It is presnmed the order has been
extended throughout the State.
Soott has oonnted himself in by the aid of his
ragamuffin militia, and now has no further use
for them. The swindle having been successful
the Kn-klux disappear.
The New York correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune writesas follows: “Never in the history
of New York bos anything been known like the
present extravagance in dress, equipage and
entertainments. The popular daughter of an
ex-collector, married last week, was the fortu
nate recipient of gifts valued, at the lowest esti
mation, at $80,000. A country-seat on the
Hudson, thoroughly famished; carriages and
horses; a check for $10,000; a riviere of soli
taire diamonds; and a coffee-pot of solid gold,
for which the donors paid $2,000, were among
the most expensive presents; while jewels,
laces, and articles of vertn are said to have
poured in until there was no room for more.
A point-lace vail and fionnee, ranging from $500
to $1,500, have come to be regarded as quite
indispensable accompaniments to the marriage
ceremony and wedding ring.”
A amm of San Francisco, who has been
and is identified with the forwarding of Chi
nese laborers to the Southern States, says that
he total number of Chinamen sent across the
continent is now about 2,000. They are en
gaged in railroad work and on cotton and rioe
plantations, the wages being $2G to $30 per
month, gold, boarding themselves, or $16 to
$18 receiving rations. The movement, how
ever, is only in its infancy, and daring the com
ing winter and spring it is expected that large
numbers will be forwarded. ‘
Peace
Seems to recede, judging from the telegrams
this morning. We see as little hope now as ever
for a cessation of hostilities. The Prussians have
evidently got the Czar to promise “hands off,”
and asaretnmthey will be blind when he stretch-
esonthishand to seize Turkey. Englandhas only
demonstrated her weakness when Continental
matters are in question. She evidently counts
for nothing Outside her home circle. It seems
that the dance of death must go on to the bloody
end.
Some thoughtless editor, allnding to tho re
cent earthquake, says: “The earth has mined
her opportunity. If aho had opened and swal
lowed Bntler, Fisk, Tilton, Snmner, Horace
Greeloy, Cooke, Ben Wade, Robb, and Grant’s
band of brothers-in-law, humanity would have
blessed her for all time.”
What does the editor suppose would become
of the earth with snch a mixture as that inside
of her ? Some people have a very loose way of
talking.
Some of Grant’s over enrions admirers led
him up to a phrenologist in New York the other
day, for the purpose of having his distinguished
characteristics set forth. The phrenologist—
who was blindfolded—flew into a passion and
said that wasn’t any way to treat a man, and
would have nothing to do withit. An explana
tion showed that the man of science thought
the boys were trying to fool him with a billiard
ball wrapped up in tow.
The question of right to reserved seats at
concerts, which has caused a good deal of an
noyance everywhere, was recently decided by
one the Washington County (N. Y.) Court
Judges, who held that all seats previously se
cured by ticket were the property of the person
for whom they had been secured, and might be
occupied or allowed to remain idle for that par
ticular entertainment at his or her pleasure.
The Colorado (Texas) Citizen reports the
death of David Cole, aged 54 years, at his resi
dence, seven miles north of Alleytown, on Sun-
day, the 2d. He was bora in St. Landry parish,
Louisiana, and came to Texas in 1829. He
participated in all the campaigns daring the war
of 1835 and 1836, and was one of the three who
captured Santa Anna in the latter year.
The three companies of. artillery raised in
New Orleans for the State milttia were reviewed
by General Longstreet on Friday, accompanied
by Mayor Flanders and Hon. L. T. Delassize,
one of the oolored city officials. The Times
aaya that most of the men reviewed were mem
bers of the old Washington artillery, command
ed, now, as then, by that able disciplinarian,
Col. Squires.
The Boston Journal gives the following in its
report of the earthquake *
“When the earthquake took place,” saida
husband to his wire, “I felt my heartbeat so
that I was frightened.” “Yes,” replied the dear
creature, “it takes an earthquake to make your
heart beat." And this couple have celebrated
their silver wedding!
The editor of the New York Mail spent last
Sunday in the oountry with Nilsson. He says
ahe is a jolly girl
The Approaching .Election—Defeat f*
Death. A
Wo do not hesitate to declare it as onr solemn
conviction that, if .the people of Georgia do not
carry the election in December, they are rained
beyond the slightest hope of redemption here
after. This is a strong declaration, bat we be
lieve it as honestly as we ever believed any
thing in onr life. We have thought over all
the consequences of defeat, and if there is any
ill or disaster that defeat will not bring, we do
not know what it is. Let such another Legisla
ture as the one just adjourned meet again at
Atlanta, and farewell to everything that makes
a residence in Georgia, now, even tolerable.
The people have been robbed and swindled to
an alarming extent as it is, bnt if that curse
comes upon them they will be stripped bare.
The robbers will never stop until they have,
stolen the last item of property owned in Geor
gia. When the people oan no longer pay taxes,
having nothing upon which a tax can be levied—
then, and not till then, will the thieves call a
halt. All this is just as sure to follow a Radi
cal success in December, in our judgment, as
that there will be an election at that time.
We fear many of the people do not realize
the appalling danger that confronts them. We
fear that selfish, personal motives and reasons
are blinding them to the imminenoe of the
crisis. If they saw, as we see it, the awfnl
rain that will follow defeat, they wonld fling
self to the winds and know no watchword but
11 the State is in danger—save the State!” They
would count sacrifices of pride, and judgment,
and individual aspirations as trifles beneath
contempt. If they realized, as defeat will
make them realize, how deep is the depth to
which a Radical trinmph will consign them,
they would blush and shndder to think they
had ever lost sight of it. We tell them, now,
that defeat means death—death to all enter
prise, all peace, all prosperity, and all hope of
living in Georgia as men should live. From
what we know of the designs of the Radicals in
this State, we do not hesitate to charge upon
them the fully matured purpose of making
Georgia uninhabitable for all who will not eith
er join them, or cease to war upon their policy.
This is a grave charge, but we honestly
believe it. If you ask npon what grounds we
base this belief, we point to the Agency
and its works since January last. What better
evidence does any man three degrees removed
from idiocy, wish than that? We point to
Bollock’s character and acts, and to Blodgett’s
crimestained career as evidence. They hate
the whites of Georgia as men were never hated
before. They are bold, desperate and thorough
ly unscrupulous—greedy for money, bnt still
greedier for revenge. They will never halt
until they have not only beggared, bnt thorough
ly degraded the white people of Georgia. They
have a long account to settle with the virtue
and respectability of the State for the manner
in which their advances have been repelled, and
their crimes denounced. While they live in
Georgia they must wage an unrelenting war
fare npon every decent man in it.
Now what are the people doing, and what do
they propose to do ? Will they give up Georgia
to these creatures, or have they determined these
creatures shall give up Georgia to them ? That
question sums up the whole argument. If they
are resolved upon the latter course, they must
prove it by their acts. They have no easy task
before them. Conning, and villany, and open
fraud, and their own money are matched
against them. They most lay aside every other
bnsinesa bnt that of crushing Radicalism. They
must resolve that defeat is death, and that they
will not die. They must swear that victory
shall be theirs, anyhow. They most make their
preparations so thorough that nothing can off
set or upset them. They must take every risk,
and face every responsibility. They most, in
one word, resolve to win, and march to that
point over and through every obstacle. This,
bnt nothing else, wiU win the fight. We ask
every man who reads these lines to take strong
hold on the same conviotion, and gird up his
loins for the work before him.
Men of Georgia, the hoar has come when
yon can neither postpone nor avoid the
issne. You are entering npon a contest that
will decide, for this century at least, whether
yon or the brigands who have plundered you
for nearly three years shall leave the State—
whether you or the stranger shall own and,
enjoy the fair heritage your fathers won with
their swords for you and your children.
GEORGIA PRESS.
Sumter Superior Court has been adjourned to
the first Monday in November.
The Americns Repnblican says:
An old gentleman of this connty, over 80
years of age, married a lady who was not more
than half a dozen years bis junior, abont ten
months since, and a few weeks ago the wife pre
sented her husband with a stout and healthy
baby. We do not know that this is a child of
promise, bnt we can vonch for there being “life
in the old man yet.”
Sylvester Roberts, a freedman employed by
Mr. Anderson Riddle, of Washington connty,
picked 479 pounds of clean cotton between sun
rise and sunset, one day last week.
Mr. M. H. Cullens, of Savannah, who was so
seriously injured Monday, was Improving a little
Tuesday.
Of the trials and tribulations of the loil abont
Savannah the Repnblican says:
A Hard Case.—The Radicals of the ciiy have
been in incubation for several nights, and se
verely exercised over their nominations for the
Legislature. It is understood that the utmost
harmony does not prevail among the foul birds,
there being several factions, ail polling in dif
ferent directions. Ttere is first, the official
faction, comprising the Federal office-holders,
Robb, Clift and Seeley, being the leaders.—
Then comes the “outs” faction, with two doc
tors, Waring and Walsh, with scalpels in hand,
insisting on carving out the whole work of the
party. The negroes are also divided, but as a
general thing oppose the carpet-bag office-hold
ers. Some go with the doctors, but the great
body favbr a third faction headed by Parson
Sims, who insists npon distinctions of race and
color, and wishes the blacks to make a straight
ont-and-ont fight against the whites. He does
not believe in white men, and thinks the ne
groes ought to rale the country if they can.
Such, according to onr understanding, is the
sitnalion among these immaculate patriots, and
one may readily suppose that np to this time
they have failed to agree on their nominees.
We have reason to believe, that Sims will whip
the fight and secure the nomination of a pure
African ticket for the Legislature, in which he
will figure as a candidate for Senator.
The Constitutionalist says Judge Andrews
will hold Warren Superior Court this week. As
this is the first Court which the Jndge has held
in that connty within eighteen months, it 1b sur
mised that his eyes aro well, and that the Ku-
Klux are in attendance on onr Fair.
The Colnmbns Son understands “that a diffi
culty occurred at Georgetown, Ga., on Monday
last, between R. J. Moses, jr., a young lawyer
of this oity, and Major J. T. Flewellen, a plan
ter of Quitman county, in which the former was
shot and slightly wounded.”
We clip the following items from the Carters-
ville Express: - - - *
Weather pleasant, and no frost so far to in
jure vegetation. Cotton is doing well. A good
crop will be gathered in this county.
Our friend A. W. Mitchell of Atlanta, has
sold his beantiful farm, near Adairsville, to a
gentleman who has lived in Texas for the last
fifteen years, bnt now returns to Georgia, buys
land and expects to spend the balance of bis
days in his native State.
The Agency has really adjourned—no donbt
about it now. The Atlanta Georgian says:
The city is fast assuming its old appearance
again. The bears, monkeys and pickpockets
are getting out for other places.
The Georgian has the following items :
Over twenty thousand dollars exohanged
hands at the races on Tuesday.
Charles O. Johnson, Radical member of the
Agency from Spalding connty, fired a pistol at
a man on -Pryor street, at 2 o’clock yesterday
evening. No harm done. Johnson was drank,
and a policeman took him in oharge.
The Atlanta Fair was not without results.—
The Son says:
A female infant, very likely, and wh ll .was
left at the door of Mrs. Clarke at a late hour
Tuesday night Mrs. Clarke disooveredthelit-
tle foundling, and calling up the nearest neigh
bor, Captain O. Powell, it was taken in out of
the cold. The little 3tragler was placed in the
hands of Judge Pittman yesterday, and he will
endeavor to find some one who will adopt it,
rather than let it go to tho alms-house.
The Athens Watchman thinks that offering
premiums for fine stock, open to the world—no
matter howsoever liberal it may appear—is bad
policy on the part of the managers of our State
Fair. The practical effect of it is to bring onr
own stock, reared nnder many disadvantages,
in competition with the products of those sec
tions that make stock-raising a specialty, and
which results in giving the premiums to citizens
of other States, instead of our own people—
thus encouraging stock-raising elsewhere and
discouraging it at home.
And it matters not whether the stock be
owned by Georgians or outsiders—the practical
effect is all the some. It is bad policy to import
into the State fine stock, instead of raising it.
We would make an exception, however, in favor
of breeding animals of fine quality, as their im
portation ought to be enoouragecL We hope to
see the premium list revised rnd altered in this
respect Let all stock premiums be confined to
citizens of the State, and to stock raised within
the State, except such as may be intxoducedfor
the purpose of improving domestic breeds.”
Donn Platt on the Radical Congress,
and its Raster, tbe Lobby.
Down Piatt, who is the regular Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
the ablest Radical paper in the West, and a
trooly loil brother himself, recently delivered a
lectors on “Our National Capital”at Cincinnati.
We give below his testimony as to the ignor
ance, degradation and dishonesty of the Radi
cal Congress, and how the lobby is its master.
Wo regret exceedingly not having seen and
published it sooner, so that the corruptionists
of the Atlanta lobby might have provided them
selves with some of the very powerful applian
ces—with Radical Legislators—referred to. If
it should please Heaven to enrse poor old Geor
gia with another such gang as tbe majority of
the body lately in session at Atlanta, we have
no donbt tho New Orleans importation will be
on hand.
The whole heart of the country turns toward
Washington. I wish I could stop there and say
that was abont all there was in it, bnt we have
the singular spectacle of the most .unmitigated
scoundrels congregated that God ever permitted
to walk the earth. Sitting in the gallery of
either Honse, and looking down npon the mass
of men who make the laws and steal your mon
ey, one is struck with the uniform stupidity that
prevails. There they are. You listen hour after
hour to the most silly twaddle that men ever
uttered. A Congressman never makes a speech
without he launches the ship of State. He never
says anything happens—it always transpires.
He never debates. The entire barrenness of
his mind wonld become so apparent that he
wonld break down. He employs men to write
his speeches whenever there is a great question
np for discussion. That has been my business
at Washington. I have written speeches for the
average Congressman,- and very good ones, too,
considering I didn’t know anything abont the
subject, and he knew less. Not long ago an aver
age Congressman came forward and delivered a
most terrible ranting speech. It appeared in
the Globe. Some time after another average
Congressman wanted a speech, and the same
identical speech was famished and delivered,
and appeared in the Globe, although the gentle
men were opposed in their views of the ques
tion. [Laughter.]
The speaker reviewed at considerable length
what he termed an average Congressman, and
then spoke of the members of the third honse
of Congress, as he termed them—the lobbyists.
He considered them a sweet-scented set of gen
tlemen. Nearly all the measures originated in
that branch of Congress, and could be pat
through for money. It is composed of men of
an average ran of mind better than that of Con
gressmen. The question is often asked wheth
er these men really bny np the Congressmen.
The speaker did not know. Their bills go
through, and those who go to Congress poor
and come away rich could not get rich on their
salary. He knew of an instance where a lobby
ist was asked if he expected to get a certain
measure through. The reply was, “Certainly;
we have eleven millions stock, fifty thousand
dollars, and the prettiest little quadroon from
New Orleans you ever saw.” The measure
passed one branch of Congress, and it came
within fifteen minutes of being reached by the
other when it adjourned.
Ramie.
From If. O. Times. |
Recently an English honse forwarded to the
Agricultural Department several samples of
cloths manufactured by them from the fibre of
this new product, which continues to absorb
the attention of many Southern agriculturists.
When properly cultivated, it has been found to
grow in this State quite as thrifty as in its
original soil—Java and India. The goods ex
hibited were all of great excellence. Some
were made entirely of ramie, while other speci
mens were mixed goods of various kinds, with
silk, cotton and wool.
Tbe most noticeable of these fabrics were
several substantial coatings, and likewise serges,
made of pure ramie. The display also includ
ed mozambiques, Italian cloths, etc., in which
the warp was cotton and the weft ramie. The
latteijwere very elegant, and quite equal in rich
ness to silk.
The thread made from ramie is much finer
-than the best linen, while its lustre is well adap
ted to the manufacture of superior tissues,
such os lace, ribbons, dress goods, etc.
At the great fair of the American Institute,
held in New York in 1869, a case was on exhi
bition in the silk department, containing sev
eral bundles of the fibre. Besides, there were
sixteen specimens of ramie cloth, of different
oolors and of exquisite fineness. Sinoe that
time considerable progress bas been made in
the knowledge of its cultivation and value for
manufacturing purposes. The crude fibre is
worth, in Great Britain, abont ten cents per
pound, and the manufactured silk from sixty
to sixty-five cents.
Previous to this time the only impediment to
the snccessfnl cultivation of ramie was that it
was necessary to gather and clean the fibre of
the plant by hand. Bnt recently one of onr
most ingenions citizens has perfected a ma
chine for cleaning and extracting the fibre from
the plant, which is soon destined to take the
place of silk and cotton and linen. There is
now a stock company in this city for the pur
pose of promoting the growth and introduction
of this new Louisiana product into market. A
company is also -formed at Plaquemines, and
several thousand acres will be planted this fall.
No territory in the South is better adapted to
the production of this new tissne plant than
this State, which will soon add one more item
to its many products.
The Census of the Northwest.
It appears by the census that the population
of Iowa is 1,187,398; Michigan has 1,191,461.
This is an extraordinary even thing between
States with so large a number of people. Wis
consin also has about 1,100,000. The North
west in almost every State goes up into the mil
lions. Ohio approximates to 3,000,000; Illinois,
2,050,000; Indiana, say, 1,700,000; and Mis
souri 1,550,000. In these seven States there is
certainly over 12,000,000 inhabitants, which
Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska will bring np
to 13,000,000. In 1830, forty years ago, the
whole United States did not have as large
a population. In 1840 there were bnt four
North* western States—Ohio, Indiana, Il
linois and Michigan — and their popula
tion was not one-fifth of what it is in
the North-west now. There was then
no Wisconsin or Iowa at all These great States
have been entirely built in less than half a life
time of a man. The annals of the world afford
no such similar instance of growth. The popu
lation of the United States this year, it is
thought, will exceed 39,000,000. We therefore
in these ten Western States have one-third of
all the people of the country. It is safe to say
that they will have more than half of the total
population of this oountry when tire next census
is taken in 1880. Truly, .^‘Westward the star of
Empire takes its way.” We shall then be is a
position with onr ten States to oat-vote the
thirty-five other States that will then probably
be in the Union.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
BY TELBGE^lPH,
WAR IN EUROl'E.
London, Ootober 27.—Prince Napoleon pub
lishes a letter contradicting the charges of the
Daily News of his disloyalty to the Emperor and
Empross. He denies having seen Bonrbaki or
Boyer, who came from Bazaino to the Empress.
The Frinoe repeated personally to the Empress
his expressions of dovotion and fidelity.
The Mayor of Verdnn indignantly refuses to
surrender, and challenges the Prussians to come
and take the town.
The military situation on the Loire is un
changed. Tho garrison at Metz shows increased
aotivity. Tho .Prussians have been compelled
to destroy the bridge at Arsur on tho Moselle as
a precautionary measure, as the garrison makes
damaging sorties at every opening. They also
opened an artillery fire from the right bank of
the Moselle, destroying the little villages which
sheltered the Prussians. There is no doubt bnt
that the French government will soon be com
pelled to leave Toors. Arrangements are pro
gressing to transfer the government headquar
ters to Clermont. The Prussians are persever
ing in the starvation policy at Paris and Metz.
Fugitives from those cities are turned back.
The English Ministry were without a reply
from Prussia at noon to*day. The Ministry ac
cepts the delay as showing an indisposition on
the part of Prussia to an armistice.
Tomas, October 27.—It is announced that the
Prussians have at last granted Thiers a safe
conduct to Versailles but no farther. Thiers
declines acceptance as he must consult with the
Paris authorities. No important military
movements are announced. The weather con
tinues stormy and is otherwise unfavorable to
military movements. A large portion of the
army of the Duke of Mecklenburg and
Schwerin is moving rapidly towards Paris
abandoning St. Quintin, also the movement on
Amiens. The siege of Laferte is also raised.
Totjbs, October 27.—It is said the Prussians
withhold a safe conduct from Thiers, from fear
of having the Parisians learn the true feeling
throughout France. From all parts of the coun
try come hopes that the government will accept
no humiliating peace. The journals of this city
are unanimous that the only hope for fair terms
lies in an indefinite prosecution of the war.—
The Prussian movement eastward, has stopped,
and themarcbuponLyonscheckedby Garibaldi’s
victories. Garibaldi has been active, and has
taken many prisoners and cannon. He has ac
complished the object for which he went forth.
Parties who famished the enemy willingly, or
for the hope of profit, will be courtmartialed as
traitors.
The Mayor’s must defend every town; those
failing will be dismissed and the town be offi-
daily denounced. Tha inhabitants of the De
partments Jura and Vosges petition against
peace involving a cession of territory.
The Monitieur announces that letters for
Paris may be sent to the Prefecture of Tours,
as it has been determined to break the block
ade. The Prussian movement in the Vosges
and Normandy are checked by rain, wind and
cold. It is noticeable that Prussian inhumani
ty increases with their difficulty. They destroy
farming utensils, looms, factories, tear down
dwellings, kill horses and cattle, and destroy
food they cannot eat. The France Tienrers are
taking advantage of the bad weather and are
inflicting heavy damage on the Prussians.
Keratry has ordered the Mobiles in Britanny to
concentrate at Amiens. Keratry will organize
them himself for an offensive war. Many regu
lar troops will be incorporated in this army.
Keratry’s proclamation promises the Mobiles
the best of weapons with proportional cannon
and metrnilleuses. Wagons are going tbrongh
the streets collecting provisions for the Chateau
Dun sufferers.
A young officer has just arrived from Metz
with dispatohes for the government. He elu
ded the Prussians by effective disguise. He
confirms the accounts lately published, of sne-
cessful sorties by Bazaine, and says this oity
and garrison are well provisioned and able to
hold out indefinitely. Information has been re
ceived from Orleans, that all the shops are
closed and the streets deserted. The women
almost universally appear in mourning. The
Prussian officers ineffectually attempt to dispel
the gloom. At Marseilles aflairs are more or
derly. The journals formerly suppressed, are
allowed to re-appear by order of Gambetta.
The journals announce that a long interview
occured yesterday between Lord Lyons and
Thiers.
It is reported that Mazzini, the noted Italian
Republican leader, has left Italy and is now on
his way to Tours.
The English at Paris are nnder tho protection
of Washbnrne, as British charge d'affaires, ha9
not recognized the Republican Government and
has no authority to act.
St. Petkbsbubg, Ootober 27.—The following
summary of the negotiation on the part nentral
powers in Europe for an armistice comes from
an anthentio source. After reciting the deter
mination of the neutrals to seize the first op
portunity for mediation, the document pro
ceeds—Russia, in Jules Favre’s visit to the Prus
sian headquarters, behoved that the long looked
for opportunity had arrived ; at this mo
ment the reception of the Prussian note on the
subject of a probable early starvation of Paris
caused a change in the order of the neutrals.
When, however, he brought np the subject of
mediation again, Russia held back on the
ground that mediation unsupported by force
wonld be worthless; that the condition of peace
must be left exclusively to tho belligerents,
g London, October 28.—Tho Manchester Guard
ian to-day gives the following terms of peace
which were proposed by England, Russia and
Austria:
1st. No cession of territory.
2nd. The fortifications of Metz and Stras
bourg to be rosed.
3rd. France to pay 200,000,000 francs in
demnity, neutrals to guarantee peace.
London, October 29.—The stem of the Cam
bria drifted ashore at Islay, Scotland. McGat-
lan, as far as known, is the only survivor.
It is reported that Prnssia, England and Italy
concur in Attra’s candidature for the French
throne, as reported recently.
Blois, October 27.—A strong column of the
enemy’s cavalry and infantry attacked a Frenoh
reconnoitering party on the left near Loire yes
terday and were handsomely repulsed after a
short engagement. The enemy on leaving
Grisons attacked Longchamps with 900
men and four mortars, and were beaten off by
Frano Tierurs and other troops. Vendame
said there are still 2000 Prussians in Chateau
Dun. Trayea Nogent was evacuated by the
Prussians last night. Before leaving they fired
the town in several places. Garibaldi is still
at Dale. He has oollected strong forces and
several sharp engagements have ocoorred with
considerable loss on both sides.
Beblin, October 27. —King William telegraphs
to tbe Queen to-day.
This morning Bazaine and Metz capitulated,
with one hundred and forty' thousand prisoners,
inclndingtwentythoosandsickandwound. Tho
army and garrison laid down their arms this af
ternoon. This is one of the most important
events of the war. Providence be thanked.
Pesth, October 27.—The Budget just pre
sented, shows a surplus of nine and a half mil
lions for 1869. The deficit for 1870 is propor
tionately reduced; that for 1871 is estimated at
one hundred and thirteen million.
Madmd, Ootober 27.—Members in majority
in the OortoH passed a resolution for assembling
that body on the 29th inst.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE;
Washington, Ootober 27.—The latest Euro^
pean gossip is verbose, bnt seems generally un
favorable to an armistice or an early peooe.
A circular from the Revenue Department di
rects asssssors to demand from liqnor dealers a
statement of the stock of brandy, gin, rum,
whisky, highwines, alcohols and frnit brandies
on hand outside of -bonded warehouse. Im
ported and domestio liquors most be separated.
This statement is required by the 15th of No
vember.
Washington, October 29.—The Secretary of
War order stroops from Georgia and North Car
olina to the South Carolina districts reported
turbulent by Gov. Stott.
Customs for the week ending 22d, over three
million.
New Yobk, October 27.—The World’s special
from London says the English Ministry is an
noyed by the guarded, but absolute refusal of
Russia to co-oporate for peace. The chancel
lor of the Russian cabinet has been at Brussels
and Tours, and is expected at London. It is
inferred that Russia contemplates isolating Eng
land from both France and Germany on the
Eastern question. The steps taken by the Eng
lish Government are felt to have resulted only
in mortification for the Gladstone ministry, show
ing the weakness of English influence in conti
nental affairs, and without contributing to a
settlement. . *
New Yobs, October 27.—Arrived, Northern
Light, Arigona Columbia, Minnesota, arrived
out Panama.
Richmond. October 27.—-Ex-Mayor Chahoon
(trooly loil—Eds. T, & M.) has been convicted
of forgerv, and sentenced to four years In the
Penitentiary. Chahoons counsel will ask for a
new trial. .
■ Sait Lake Out, October 27.—Large amounts
of ore are being shipped East and West. A
number of strangers are visiting and examin
ing the mines.
Charleston, October 28.—Great preparation^
are making for the Fair, The South Carolina
Institute opens next Tuesday in the immense
building which been erected. It is expected
there will be the largest attendance ever wit
nessed. The official count of the votes in the
State election began on Tuesday, and proceeds
slowly. The results so far confirm unofficial
estimates. w
Lynohbttbg, October28.—W. 0. Pendleton a
Mare Nora won the first race to-day at the
Fair. Rev. Father McQuirk’s horse Sam won
the secon race; it was ridden by the owner.
Memphis, Ootober 27. —Winner of the first
race was Littleton. In this race St. Ledger
bolted against a fenoe and killed himself. Sec
ond race was won by Morlachki.
(COMMUNICATED.)
FIERCER TO LEE.
. The following preamble and resolutions were
adopted by the Faculty of Mebob Uniyebseey
on hearing of the death of General Lee.
Whereas, When it pleases the Almighty God
to remove from the world, some man of exalted
character and distinguished usefulness, it is
the duty of those upon whom the loss has fallen,
gratefully to acknowledge the Divine goodness
in having favored th9m with so rare an exam
ple of human excellence, and humbly and
devoutly to acquiesce in its withdrawal; there
fore,
Resolved, That in bestowingupon the world
such a man as General Robert E. Lee, in whom
were united the grandest qualities of human
character, God has conferred a signal blessing
on mankind; and that we thankfuljy adore tho
Providence which gave him to the Sonth as its
leader and bulwark in the hour of peril, as an
example of fortitude and dignified submission
in time of failure and adversity, and as a pat
era of gentler virtues and Christian grace in
the walks of private life.
Resolved, That the death of General Robert
E. Lee, has affected ns with the sorrow which
a sense of personal bereavement excites, and
that we mourn for him as children for a father.
Resolved, That we hereby tender to the
Faculty of Washington College onr warmest
sympathy, in the irreparable loss they have sus
tained, by tho death of their illustrious presid
ing officer.
Resolved, That on Tuesday next the 18th
inst., the regular exercises of Mercer Universi
ty be suspended, and that the day be consecra
ted to the memory of General Robert E. Lee;
that at half past 10 o’clock on that day, funeral
obsequies be observed in the College Chapel,
and that the bell be tolled, as an expression of
public grief, from twelve o’clock noon, until
sunset.
Resolved, That as a further token of respect
to the memory of the glorious and lamented
dead, we will wear the usual badge of mourn
ing, and that the Chapel pulpit shall continue
clothed in mourning for the remainder of the
present teim. •
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Faculty
be instructed to forward a copy of these Reso
lutions to the Faculty of Washington College.
In accordance with tho fourth of -the above
Resolutions, commemorative services were held
in the Chapel of Mercer University on Tuesday
the 18th inst. Devotional exercises were con
ducted by Rev. J. J. Brantly, D. D., Professor
of Belles Lettres, and an oration was delivered
by Rev. H. H Tucker, D. D., President of the
University. The services were stately, solemn
and impressive, and as soon as they were closed
the bell began to toll and continued at intervals
of one minute during the remainder of the
day.
A Story of Lost Bonds—How some
Wall street Houses do Business.
In May, 1868, Dr. Binesse and daughter, of
New York city, want to Europe. Previous to
their departure Miss Binesse placed some
boxes of silver at Ball .A Black’s and some
furs at Gunther’s, for which she received re
ceipts. These receipts, together with five
$1,000 United States bonds, registered in her
then name, Emilio Aglae Binesse, she en
closed in a tin box, and deposited with Brown
Brothers in Wall street for safe keeping. Dr.
Binesse is positive that his daughter person
ally handed the tin box to Mr. Jas. M. Brown,
who received it from her and pnt it aside. No
receipt was given, nor did Dr. Binesse or
daughter think of asking one, having long
known Mr. Brown. The Doctor, returning
home about a year ago, went to Brown Brothers
to obtain his daughter’s tin box; but it could
not he fonnd, and no one know anything of it.
Mr. James M. Brown himself was in Europe at
the time. Dr. Binesse wrote thither to inquire
about the box, but Mr. Brown, wrote back dis
claiming nil recollection of it.
Last spring a strange man applied to Dr.
Binesse’s brother, at his place of business in
Duane street, and asked whether he knew Lou
ise Emile Aglae Binesse. Mr. Binesse, who
was much occupied, paid )i tie attention to the
man, but replied that he know her. The
strange individual then asked, was she rich ?
and Mr. Binesse told him the chief riches which
which she possessed in her own right were the
bonds.
The man then said that he was a broken-
down merchant, pnd intimated that for a con
sideration he might be able to pnt her in the
way of recovering the bonds. Bnt Mr. Binesse
gave no heed to the proposal, and the stranger
disappeared, and ha3 never sinoe been seen. It
occurred to the Doctor npon hearing the story
the man was pot principal, bnt merely an agent
authorized to treat abont restoring tho bonds.
The Doctor now offers $125 and “no questions
asked,” to the person who will restore the
bonds.
~ MAERIaGE GU'.DE.
EVERY ONE HIS OWN DOCTOR.
A private instructor for married persons or those
about to be married, both male and female, in every
thing concerning tho physiology and relations of
our sexual system, and the.prodnctkm and preven
tion of offspring, including all the new discoreries
never before given in the English language, by
Wm. Young, M D. This is really a valuable and
interesting work. It is written in plain language
for the general reader, and is illustrated with nu
merous engravings. All young married people, or
those contemplating marriage, and having the leaat
impediment to married life, ahould read this book.
It discloses secret* that every one should be ac
quainted with; still it ia a book that must be looked
np and not lie about the houee. It will be sent te
any address on receipt of 50 eta. Address Dr. Wm.
Young. No. 416 Bprooe Street above Fourth, Phila-
oci22-w6m.
An Autumn Suggestion.—Now. as heaTy fogs
arise and searching winds commence to blow; now,
as tho human body, exhausted like ■ inanimate na
ture by tbe "heats of enmmer, begins to wilt and
droop; now, ere the inclement winter makes its fay
ing onset; now is the time for a preparatory course
of the best acclimating medicine in existence, Hos-
tettcr’s Stomach Bitters.
Fever and Ague is rampant in all parts of the
country. Quinine, the physicians admit, will
not quell the phase of the disease which, at the
present, pervades the entire West. It is well that
it is so, for the remedy (so-called) is deadlier than
the malady. Bat if quinine is inefficient in inter
mittent fevers, Hostetter’s Bitters is irresist&ble.
It wonld be safe to make a contract, under heavy
penalties, that any given “ Fever-and Ague Dis
trict” should be exempted from the disorder for
any particular time, provided every inhabitant
would take the Bitters according to directions, dur
ing the term of the contract. There bas never
been an instance in which this sterling invigorant
and anti-febrile medicine baa failed to ward off the
complaint, when taken duly as a protection against
malaria. Hundreds of physicians have abandoned
all the officinal species, and now prescribe this
harmless vegetable tonic, and nothing else, as a
preventive and core for all the forms of chills and
fever. Vigor is the thing most needful in these
cases, as well as in dyspepsia and nervous affec
tions, and Hostetter’s Bitters are the safest, surest,
and most wholesome strengthening preparation
that human skill has yet concocted. oct27-lw.
“Babbeto’s” harmless as.water.
MAI PC
VEGETABLE SiClUAN
HAIR
jRjENEWm.
nmm who are gray
Can have their hair reetored to its natural color,
and if it has fallen ont, reate a new growth, by its
use.
It is the best Hair Dre Being in the world, making
lifeless, etiff brushy hair, healthy, soft and glossy.
Price tl. For sale by all drnggists.
R. P. HALL & CO., Nashua, N. H., Proprietors,
oct -eod&wlm.
“Babbitt's” adorns and beautifies.
Bosadalis will cure the woist cases of dyspepsia.
Gilbert Hale, Washington, N. O., writes:
For three or four years I have had dyspepsia in
its worst form; at times not being able to retain
on my stomach even a piece of hard bread and cold
water. Hy feet and ankles were much swollen for
months, and I became so much reduced in flesh as
to be scarcely able to get np without assistance.
With little hope of ever getting better, or of living
long, I began to take Bosadalis. I used four bot
tles; and for three months past, I have been doing
regular work on my farm; feeling well and strong,
and am now able to eat with impunity the coarsest
kind of diet, Buch as pork, potatoes, etc. lean
recommend Bosadalis as a valuable remedy.
oet27-dlw.
Be metamorphosed by “Barrett’s”*
Five Cemts Additional will buy shoes with ail
ver or copper tips, which will save the buyer the-
price of a new pair of shoes. Compared with rag-
raged toes and dirty stocking, they are beautiful
to say the least. Parents, fay it;
Sept. 14 w3m.
This celebrated medicine has won a deservedly
h gh reputation as an alleviator of pain and a pre
server of health. It.has become a household rem
edy, from the fac^that it gives immediate and per
manent relief. It is a purely vegetable proportion,
made from the best and purest materials, safe to
keep and to nse in evciy family. It is recommend
ed by physicians and persona of all classes, and
to-day, after a publio trial of thirty years—the av
erage life of man—it stands unrivalled and unex
celled, spreading its usefulness over the wide world.
Its large and increasing sale affords positive evi
dence of itsendnring fame. We do not deem it
necessary to say much in its favor, as one small
bottle will do more to convince yon of its efficacy
than all the advertisements in the world. Give it
one fair trial and you would not be without it for
ten times its cost.
Directions accompany each bottle.
Sold by all Druggists.
Trice 25 cts, 59 eta, and $1 per bottle,
oct 6-eodftwlm
“Babeett’s” Hair Restorative.
Don’t hawk, hawk, spit, spit, blow, blow, and. Au
gust everybody with your catarrh and its offensive
odor, when Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Bemedy will speedi
ly destroy all odor and arrest the discharge. The
proprietor offe a $500 for & case he cannot cure.
Sold by druggists, or by mail, sixty cents. Pamph
let free. Address Dr. B. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
oct27-eod&wlw.
" The Wobd “Sozcdont,” which is fast becoming
a household word, is derived from the Greek, and
composed of two words, Sozo and Odontes. “So-
zo,” translated, means to preserve, and “odontes,”
the teeth. Sozodont, a preeerver of the teeth
And it is true to its name. oot27-eodlw.
'S SALE!
'■Babkett’* produoM an agreeable change.
ON NOVEMBER 1,1870,
And to Continue from Day to Day Until
Close or Sale.
A T his residence, two miles east of Montezuma,
a large portion of the perishable Property of
the late I. G. Cheves, deceased, including as fine a
Jotvjf MULES as there is in the country. A large
number of
Milch Cows and Dry Cattle.
A splendid selection of Fanning Implements.
Several Wagons, Drays, Wheels, eta, eta ,
A Log Oart with new wheels, recently put up to
order—splendid.
Several ton* of old Iron—heavy kind.
Farmers can get complete outfits.
Saw Mill men can got wbat they want i ■,.
Foundry men can get Iron.
All can get something.
A J. CHEVES,
oct21 dsw&wtds Executor of Estate.
Notice to Sell Land.
r< BORGIA, MACON COUNTY.-Two months after
JJT the date of this advertisement application will
be made to the Ordinary of Macon county for an or
der to sell one lot of wild land in Miller oounty, be
longing to jhe- estate of 1. 9. Cheves, deceased, for the
boneat of the heirs and creditors of the estate. Ooto
ber 5th. 1870. T A. J. CHEVES.
Executor estate J, G. Cheves, deceased.
oci6-dlev2wtd
MITCHELL COUNTY LANDS.
Positive Sale at Thomasville,
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1870.
V) /* LOTS of 250 acres each in the 10th District of
A\) Mitchell county—341, 342, 343, 344. 334, 835,
337, 333, 339, 840. 301, 803, 804, 805, 806, 807, 293
294 295, 29b, 298, 264. 265, 261.267 253.
Tho Albany and Thomasville- Railroad passes
tbrongh six lots—293, 294, 295, 296, 265, 264.
In the tract is a good Plantation, with s rood
House and eight Cablna, Barns, Stables, large Mats
Sbsd and Fodder Honse, Blacksmith Shop, Mill
Site, etc., eta, about one mile from Railroad Sta
tion No. 2. The land is well timbered, and the beet
point between Thomasville and Albany for a Saw
Mill. Titles perfect. Twin, made known on day
of eale. A. P. Wright, Esq., of Thomasville, or
Ml E. McDonald, of Camilla, will furnish any far
ther information desired.
J. O. MATHEWSON,
(Surviving parter of G. H. McLaughlin A Co
oct!8dtaw w8t Augusta, Ga.
To the Tax-Payers of Bibb County
T HE Tax Books are now opsn for tbs collection
of the State and County Taxes for the year
1870. Mv office is at the same place, George R.
Barker’s Store, Cotton avenue.
& M. HEATH
■ octlOen to th wedtf T. C. for Bibb Co, 4a.
Fever, Mervou-ness, Chill, rn,j„ '• r ,»Bd
sss. - -
affection in this country, and
patient is not within the rraehVe “v* 05 KSS
quires that, one remedy st on'dS?
would not m the lent impair ih» - I>r0T >'led 1 t?'
yet be active and safe. Th tV-* « C0 .W‘ati™ tk «
maSWBSgs
SYMPTOMS or A DI8EA5J.
1 l i v b r | jawaajjgte
with lax; tha head is troubled
nied with a dull he *vy Vamio^tt' 11 -22&!
ally a considerable loss of memory L.A hsre » »«,»
a painful senta'ion of having
that ought to have been don- a 2JH*a so* ”9*
sometimes an attendant The £?•' gil >
weariness and debility; he beJ3jfS£ coa =P'a&
are cold or hunt ng. and he Mmnh to «
sensation of the Bk.n; hia sririti
though satisfied that exeriise wIm? ‘PL aci?
him. yet he can s arcelv VhentlS*
uioBwio symptom* alteril iv
ciscs have occurred when few of SaiJ***# 1 * Si
examination of the hody JhvUS
Ztcer to h -ve bten extensively cW- S shot ji!
It should be need by all t) W|“QOn p ^
rureiy vegei&Die COmprund j, Z,. . -.H
,.? ei sons livin g in unt ealthylocal^ tbfl
bilious attacks by taking adosOM";l^“ir aT ti4in
■ h^jiveHr^iefllthy action. oc " asic na’di to
ef Children, aa flT srs.
eat sometime* t-o much supper, o? T.V 1 ’’ssdolj
whioh does not digest well, producing. !CBei tot
heart-bnm er r stlessaess; a good df£. ,oa - r . s:,! aieS
lief. This applies to Persons Sail £5 Wll > 5*3:
Pregnant ladies will find .
sour
Prepared only by
J. H. ZEILIN & CO
. DRUGGISTS, Mscri'n,
Price, tl: by mail, $1.25. ,U *'
To Music Teachers'
WF 4?TED—a lady to take charge of tb.tr *
VV Department of the Bapti t College
She man be a good performer «n tho*Pia, C n 01i! tot
fiSE ■&3KS&2 SKUf-“gjS
PENDLETON’S
GUANO COMPOUND,
E. ST. PESiDIETOH,.
..Cheiriit,
SPARTA,, GA
To the Planters or the Sonih:
T HE nnrrececented sacce-s attendiar tlem.t
my C mpound the past season, hascasriZS
make more extensive arrangements Lrilsmnv
ture. and to secure uniformity anf reliability
continuance,all materia s for its prepamot,i2
each lot manufactured will be analjiedMdr-im
teed by me. 1 have received the mos
counts from parties who used it upon their Cotta
Crop, and ave already received orders frsaaufr
ber of Planters for the ensumifEeason.aBdMthesBs.
ply for the coming crop will be nece&anly lirriti
those who ciesire to nse my preparation are reqnWS
to forward their orders at once, which will be tUcdtt
any time specified by them.
l am also preparing a Special Manure forced
and Corn, which J am eatisfied by actual eiperimot
made by me. will be found to be particularly adapted
to the soil and climate of the Son 1 hern States, acd
wonld advise my friendsdesiroasof testing it* oeri#.
to send in immediate order*.
Circulars eontainir g Certificates, snd generaldiwe-
tions for its application, can be obtained Ly address
ing me at Sparta. Ga., or R. W. L. Basin k
eral Agents, Baltimore who will receive and eml
orders.
octl—eodlw4t E. M. PENDLETON, M.D.
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral,
For Diseases of-the Throat and Lungs,
such, as Coughs, Colds, Whooping
Cough, Bronchitis, Asthma,
and Consumption.
Probably
medicine,!
upon the < ,
remedy for pulmonary complaints’. Through ileig
scries of years, and among most of the races oc
men it has risen higher ana higher in their estinv
tion, as it has become better known. Its nniftra
character and power to cure the various affections
of the lungs and throat, have made it known as s re
liable protector against them. 4711116 adapted to
milder forms of disease and to young children, it a
at the same time the most effectual remedy that esa
he given for incipient consumption, and the to
gerous affections of the throat and lungs. As ap»
vision against sudden attacks of Croup, it etadd
be kept on hand in every family, and indeed as as
are sometimes subject to colds and counts, u
Should be provided with this antidote for them..
Although settled Consumption is tbooato
curable, still great numbers ol cases where the c>
ease seemed settled, have been compietelycwj
anil the patient restored to sound health hy t«
Cherry Pectoral. So complete is its mi^ay
over the disorders of the Lungs and Throat, tat
the most obstinate of them yield to it. IVhennp
ing els# could reach them, under the Cherry r»
toral they subside and disappear.
Singers and Public Speakers find great p
tection from it. „ _
Asthma is always relieved and often wa-j
cured by it. . . „
Bronchitis is generally cured by takas®
Cherry Pectoral m small and frequent cms
So generally are its virtues known that wet™
not publish the certificates of them here, or da cm
than assure the public that its qualities are EJ
maintained.
Ayer’s Ague Cure,
For Fevar and Ague, Intermittent IWj
Chill Fever, Remittent Fever,
Ague, Periodical or Bilious Foyer, Wj
and indeed all the affections which trw
from malarious, mmi,, or miss™*
poisons.
• As its name implies, it does Cure, iiijjf
fail. Containing neither Arsenic, Quinine,Bs=™
Zinc, nor any other mineral or poisonous.soM>™
whatever, it in nowise injnres any pat»t
number and importance of its cures in the
tricts, are literally beyond account, andwc
without a parallel in the history of Ague me®*
Our pride is gratified by the actnowjcdgm®”’
receive of the radical cures effected m
cases, and where other remedies had whouf:^
Unacclimated persons, cither resident i--
travelling through miasmatic localities, wul.« F
teetedby taking the AQUJE CTTRE dwj- ■*.
For Liver Complaints, arising
of the Liver, it is an excellent remedy,
tbe Liver into healthy activity. „ ,ai
For Bilious Disorders and Liver Compum«
An excellent remedy, producing many
markable cures, where other medicines
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Aver A Co.,
and Analytical Chemists, Lowell, Mass.,
all round the world.
PRICE, $1.00 PER
Sold by L. W. UUNt & CO- J. Hi
and all the Druggists in Macon. Alto, u
and Dealers in Medicine everywhere.
iaeodawasw —
TO TIE FLAMERS OF Of®
LAWTON & LAWTOft
Cotton Factors
Fourth Street, t s
XMOBi
and
H AVING Wit a large warehouse4
pie arrangements for the
all our customer*, and having
both in the aales we have made for tn» y*
seasons and in the general
given onr customers in handling Colton, ^
estlv appeal to our frienda who haven
done so, to give us a trial in the sale °
: at least to share their business with
We have no complaints to urge ag “ y.cta^I
orable and high-minded oompeers m aj
busiuoss—so from it, that we do not
boast of better warehouse meivor » jm#
market, all things '
But we do ask that our FRIENDS ah
small commission incident to theerie ^4
We will advance liberally on Cotton^
u And will hold Cotton, when demreo. ^
We will furnish our oustomers ww*
suppl es, • ;
BAGGING. TIBS, ^
i.
and give aa prompt atteofiontoW® one
one bag as to him who entrusts nsvci OM
*£g The agents of the Pat*^ ( &‘,
pony we will supply the best I
and in every manner try to sustain ^ ptffrej,
■ of citizens whose avocation y&w
, at the teg red rign of
gred sign of
LAWTOH A