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Tiie Greoi'p-ia Weekilv Tele^rapli and. «Tournal <te Messenger. Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, NOVEMBER 8, 1870. Cotton Picking in the Southwest. The New Orleans Times, of the 28ih nit., •ays: There is a universal complaint from the country of the difficulties of getting hands topick ootton. All the planters are behind. There never was a more favorable season; never more cot ton ready to be picked, and never so much dif ficulty in induoing the negroes to turn out and gather the fleecy wealth. One of our large cot- t jn factors, recently from Arkansas, reports that the fields in every direction have the ap pearance of the northern prairies after a heavy fall of snow. The reluctance of the hands to turn out and pick is ascribed to the low price of ootton. They have generally got in debt to the extent of their shares in the crop or more, and imagine that any further labor on their part will be for the benefit of their creditors. This thoy call “working for a dead horse,” and pre fer to move off so some place where they can begin anew and get advances npon their pros pective wages. The effects of this will be a great redaction in the yield of the se&Bon, which promised to be an jnusually large one. If two-thirds of the open bolls could be picked, the crop would be a very large one. But there is no hope whatever of such a result. Soon, unusually soon, the picking will be over, and a vast amount of the valuable staple will be left to perish in the fields. The unusually late au- umnal rains will destroy many millions of dol lars of this great element of wealth and neces sity of civilized mankind. Gin House Burning. The Greensboro (Ala.) Beacon says that on Sunday night, three gin houses with a large amount of cotton, were burned in that county; and from the Eufaula News, of.Tuesday, we gat the following: We regret to learn that the gin house of Capt. £. B. Flewellen, in the upper part of this county, was totally destroyed by fire at about two o'clock on Friday morning last. Some twenty- five bales of ootton, belonging to himself and son, J. B. Flewellen, together with a large quantity of bagging, rope, ties, and gearing was burned. It was evidently the work of an incen diary. Hardly a day passes that wo do not hear of similar destruction caused either by gross care lessness or incendiarism. The proper preventive against the loss of cotton, at least, is very plain, it seems to us. Let the cotton nsfast as it is ginned and packed be sent to market where it can be stored in a fire proof warehouse. There it will not only be safe from risk, but ready to take ad vantage of every turn in the market If this policy were pursued, the losses from fire would be greatly decreased. As regards the gin houses it seems equally plain to us that they ought, in every case, to be fully insured. In these days of cheap and safe insurance there is no excuse for neglecting so imperative a precaution. And yet the number of gin booses insured is not more than one in a hundred—as we are informed by those who have Investigated the subject This is the very ex treme of unwisdom, and should be corrected. We hope another cotton season will not find our planters so neglectful of a matter that has cost, and is costing them, every day, thousands of dollars. KOI So. We findthe following paragraph in the “State News” column of the Atlanta Eys, (Radical), of Wednesday: On Monday, W. A. Huff, of Macon, was nom inated by the Republicans as Mayor amid great enthusiasm. The meeting was immense. Bands were playing in the city in honor of the nomi nation. In his anxiety to do something—we do not know exactly what—the editor has misrepre sented a plain fact. Mr. Huff was not nomi nated by the “Republicans ” as such, nor by Democrats as such. He was nominated by & mass convention of voters of both colors and parties, and is here regarded as the candidate of the people of Macon, without distinction of race, color, or party. The Western Hoo Crop.—The Cincinnat Price Current, of Wednesday, says: There has been an active demand for hogs, and prices advanced to $8, gross. As regards the future of the market for hogs, there con tinues to be considerable speculation. The f eneral impression is that prices must rule low, ut the difficult point is what may be regarded as low prices. That there is to be a large in crease in the hog crop none can pretend to deny, but what prices will be safe are matters causing groat perplexity in the minds of packers. Sales of bogs have been made at C 50, gross, deliver ed here any time before the middle of next January, and there are not many buyers at this rate, nor are there many sellers.' Prices of pork have been so high for the past seven or eight years that it is difficult to educate public sentiment to what are really low or rather safe prices. There can be no doubt that the season, now close at hand, is regarded by the trade gen erally os exceedingly hazardous, and the packer who does not observe extreme caution wfll suf fer severely. Let Georgia Tax Payer* Bead TJselr Doom. We find the following paragraph in the New York Sun, (Radical) of Saturday: South Carolina is groaning under the burden of taxation imposed on it by its present rulers. According to the Camden Journal, there are in Kershaw county 3,G05 tax executions awaiting collection, involving the property of more than one-third the entire population of the county. In Darlington county, 80,000 acres of land are advertised for sale for taxes. The Democrat says that one-sixth of the entire area of the county is to be advertised. In Lancaster county, 9,992 acres are advertised. In Fairfield oounty, 45,000 acres of land are advertised. In Wil- liamsburg county, 86,542 acres are advertised, or more than one-sixth the area of the oounty. It is estimated that altogether about 1,000,000 acres will have to come under the hammer to satisfy the demands of the tax collectors. The taxpayers of Georgia may read their own doom in this paragraph if they do not de stroy Radicalism in December. Let Ballock and his predacious followers carry that elec tion, and South Carolina's ruin will be theirs. We have had warnings without number of their designs, and still some doubt and dally. We declare that such blindness is a crime of the highest magnitude, and some day will be fear fully expiated. The tax payers of Georgia who, with such a premonition, refuse to save them selves from the cruel fate of their unhappy brethren in South Carolina, deserve and will receive no pity. We have tried to put before them in as strong language as was at our com mand the dread alternative that awaits them, and we shall continue the work unto the end. We shall not cease to plead, and implore, and argue and warn, while we can hold a pen. We fully realize the imminence of the crisis, and personal interest, no less than dnty, impels us to speak out. We are not writing to fill up this column, or make play with words. We feel as serious as a man ought to feel and does feel, when he sees his dearest earthly interests menaced with destruction. We have given the matter the most serious consideration as a man and a Georgian, patting prejudice and passion aside, and we can reach but one conclusion; defeat is death. If the Radicals carry Georgia in December, the latter word sums up all the consequences of their triumph. It covers and inoludes the total of the price the tax-payers of this State will have to pay for allowing that triumph. Many of them, intent now upon paltry personal schemes of money getting and office getting, console themselves with the reflection that they will escape the general ruin. They may plant and sow, and trade and barter, and get rich no matter who rules. They imagine that the storm will not reach them, anchored, as they fondly believe, in the land locked harbor of ae- onmnlated dollars and cents. Come what will they can. live and thrive, while cotton grows, and men buy and sell, and pitiful office are to be had by scrambling in the dirt. We show them South Carolina’s degradation—her beg gared people and greedy plunderers. They may plant, and sow and reap, but suppose Ballock triumphs sad the spoliators have afresh lease—how long will they have lands for plough ing, and sowing and reaping ? They may buy, and sell, and barter and speculate, but suppose the Radical banditti have another two years permit to ply their trade—what will be left to buy, or sell, or barter with ? Perhaps some of our friend have not thought of this contingency. If the Radicals should triumph in December! they will realize it in a way never to be for gotten. Radical role at the South means plunder and practical confiscation of lands, houses, goods— everything. That is at once its mission and its revenge. It comes South to degrade first, and then beggar the whites. It has marched stead ily toward that goal since the first day it raised its accursed head upon our soiL How far off that end is for poor South Carolina, is told above. How far off it is for Georgia, is just as readily predicted. Given another such gang as the majority of the late Atlanta Agency, and what will taxation mean ? Give them another grab at the spoils, and how many million acres will be forced npon the market to pay the taxes they will levy to fill their filthy pockets and minister to their profligate needs ? Continue them in power, and where will their foul de bauch stop, short of the absolute, irretrievable ruin of their victims? We put these questions to every tax-payer, black and white. We ap peal not to their reason, nor prejudice, nor pas sions, bnt to their interests. If they care nothing for the political issues involved, they surely cannot be indifferent to the question of prosper ity or beggaTy that hangs npon their decision in December. They may despair of saving the country and the State from the political ruin thatRadicalism threatens, bnt can they, will they despair of saving themselves from pecuniary rnin ? W« do not believe it. Let them see to it that they do save themselves. Prospects or the “Dead” Democracy.—The Courier-Journal’s Washington special of Tues day, sends the following cheering information: The advices received by the National Demo cratic Committee, during the last few dajs, re garding the prospects of the November elec tions, exceed even the reasonable estimates made early in the campaign. West Virginia, which was placed among the doubtful ones shows a complete Democratic Congressional delegation and a Democratic Senator. The minimum esti mate of tho gain of Congressmen, on Tuesday next, is placed at twenty-five. From Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Virginia and New York the Democratic local committees write that there will be large gains in Congressmen. Gevesax Lee's Religious Views.—The Win chester Sentinel relates the following incident illustraing the religious views of our late belov ed leader and hero: But n short time since, when in the presence of a few friends who were warmly discussing the doctrine of “apostolio succession,” his opinion Was «Mkcd for. Willi great modesty and gentle ness he answered: “O, I trouble myself but lit tle ahoal such things; my only concern is, am Ireally and truly a Christian.” Happy Virginia, to have given birth to such & man, and to con tain tho mausoleum wherein will repose his remains. BY WAR IN EUROPE. ARMISTICE. Versailles, November S.—In consequence A WESTERN DESPERADO. A Kan Who Has Started a Private Ceme tery. Hurrah Tor West Virginia! This stronghold of Radicalism has been most gloriously redeemed. Both branches of the Legislature are Democratic, insuring a Demo cratic Senator after March 4th. The Demoerala have also eleotod a Congressman in tho First District by 1,800 majority, and another in the Third District by 1,500 majority. The Second Di-trict is doubtful with chances favoring the Dcmocratio candidate. The three present mem bers are nil “trooly loil.” How the Radicals Regard Poor Men..—The consideration that Rodioals have for poor men, is illustrated by a law they have placed upon the statute books in Indiana, The law requires a man to be the owner of real estate in order to be believed under oath I This Is making pover ty a crime. It is plaeing the poor man upon a level with a convicted felon. It subjecta the man who is not the fortunate owner of land to the br.seBt degradation. It is the vilest of ail the vile inanlts these creatures have ever offered to poor men. And yet they claim to be the poor man s special friend and champion. Pah! Mb. Hughes, of Salt Lake City, went to 866 what was the matter with * blast, and found out when he went calling through a ties-top, without any ry< s to rpeuk ot- The Leavenworth Commercial gives the fol lowing brief sketch of Jim Curry, a noted des perado who recently killed two yonng girls at Wichitaw: He was formerly an engineer on the Kansas Pacifio Railroad, and was discharged for gen eral bad conduct, when he hung around Sheri dan and other embryo towns, drinking, gamb ling, and living from the wages of girls who doted on his manly form and ready pistol. He got along first rate, and ultimately became a scout under Custar cud Gen. Sheridan when they took down the Seventh Cavalry and the Nineteenth Kansas to look after Indians. BeiDg in a wild conntry, nobody cared much what be did, but he presently came back to Kansas, where he followed his old game of gambling and shooting. One of the men he killed was Boh Gilman, who was seated at a card table with him; and because he said a word or two to him about the general fairness of the game he drew a pistol and threatened to shoot him through the head. Sailing the action to the word he immediately shot him through the teeth, so that the ball came out of the back of his head. About this time he kept a saloon and gamb ling den in Hays City, and happening to fall ucruets a young man named Estes, who is well known to many citizens of this place, he, in company with some others, shot taim in a row. After this he shot two women at Ellsworth, un der circumstances which are probably fresh in the minds of every one. Having engaged in a quarrel with some men at a house of Ol-fame, he succeeded, in company with others, in shoot ing one man and two women, just as they had risen hurriedly from their beds. Sinoe then he has not been heard of as killing any one in pub lic until this last account, which reaches us from Topeka, when he appears to have shot two helpless women at Wichitaw. We are not in a position to give any evidence as to any of the murders which Jim Curry is said to have committed, and for any thing we ki ow he may have killed all his victims, women included, in self-defence. We only know that he has, in our opinion, killed an excess of an tagonists within a very limited period, and we think that it is possible he has extinguished some of them under circumstances which should be the matter of judicial inquiry. The origin of the Tilton-Fulton quarrel at last sees the light. It appears that Woodford once gave a dinner in New York, and, not know- ing Fulton very well, invited him. Tilton and Fultob were neighbors at table. The editor sipped wine, and the preacher rebuked him on the spot. Tilton explained that he took it for his brains. Fulton, speaking as the Vicegerent of the Almighty, remarked that he (T.) could get along better without his brains than bis character, or words to that effect. Now this was all well enough—from a certain point of view—but Fulton waa foolish enough to go about New England retailing the story through the Sunday-schools. of the terms proposed yesterday by Thiers and accepted to-day by Bismarck, the latter offers France an armistice of twenty-five days to allow general elections throughout Franoe—the armis- tio6 to be based npon the military status in co existing on the day of signature. London, October 3.—It is asserted that food for Bazaine's army, for four months, was found in Metz. The Prussians were stubbornly resist ed at Dijon. It is alleged that Russia is appre hensive of the revival of Polish nationality under Prussian protection. The wreck of the steamer Cambria lies in the course of vessels following the Irish coast through the North channel, and is pronounced a dangerous obstacle to navigation. The evening journals print a supplementary agreement in the capitulation of Metz. The city officials are to remove or remain at their op tion, undisturbed in person or property. None of the inhabitants, either in a civil or military capacity, are to be interferred with, or held re sponsible for any previous acts or for political opinions. The sick and wounded are to have every care. Families of offioers and soldiers sewing in the armies of France are not to be molested in any of their rights. Public prop erty, with archives, monies and papers, are to have protection. The mode of disposing of wounded prisoners is also prescribed. The Empress Eugenie has gone to Havana. The Duchess of Hamilton and Princess of Mo- nacco have left Wilhelmshoe for Frankfort. No particulars of the interview between Napoleon and Generals Canrobert and LeBoef are re ported. Four officers of high rank escaped from Metz. The Independence Beige learns that'theprotocolo, relative to the magazines and mines was dictated by fears of some act of des peration, such as followed the surrender of Laon. The soldiers insisted on. fighting either for escape or for a continuation of the siege, and Generals Deligny and Clinch desired to make a sortie, even after the surrender was known, bat could not muster a sufficient or ganized force. Brussels, November 3.—The Independence Beige says: We daily receive visits from es caped offioers of Bazaine's army. Their testi mony is conclusive as to tho treachery of their commander. The municipal officers of Metz have issued an address to the inhabitants ex horting them to patience under the misfoitune3 for which they are not responsible. The conn, try and history will exhonerate the people of Metz from any share in the ignominy of her surrender. Tours, November 3.—The Government has nothing from Thiers. Nothing official from tho army of the Loire. The news from Marseilles is very unfavorable. Reports received in regard to the conduct of the people, state that some exoesscs has been committed, and it is said the newly appointed Administrator was shot at, on the occasion of his resistance of the Municipal Council. The authorities of Lyons have published a resolution that it wonld be better to submit to any hardship than surrender the town. Lyons shall be defended to death. None shall leave the place in anticipation of the struggle, save the women, children and old men. All others who escape, or seek to escape, shall be considered infamous and dealt with as traitors. The journals of Tours declare that more facts in regard to the surrender of Metz have become known, making it evident that Bazaine’s qourse was treasonable. Mach stress is laid on the manner in which the officers and men were de ceived in regard to the condition of France. The fact that forty millions of Francs and enor mous quantities of amunition were delivered to the enemy, is also dwelt on as evidence of trea son. Berlin, November 3.—The bombardment of New Brisaoh is carried on by three batteries near Bresheim and Wofgaugen. Fort Mortier is assailed by three batteries near Altbrisch. London, November 3.—It is reported that Thiers proposes that Prussia has or will acoept an armistice on the English basis. WaBhbnme is preparing to leave Paris. The last batch of Americans leave this afternoon. Madrid, November 3.—One hundred and eighty of the three hundred and forty Deputies in the Cortes favor Aosta for the throne. Toubs, November 3.—A dispatch from Laf- leche, dated yesterday, says: A balloon, pass ing over the town, dropped a copy of the Paris Journal Official*, of the 31st vlt., containing the following intelligence: The Government had issued a decree declaring that the children of all citizens killed in the war will be adopted by the nation. Thiers had arrived in Paris. The Government, on the 30tb, announced that Metzhad capitulated. An immense meeting was held in the evening at the Hotel Deville. The Mayors of the departments of the Seine, Seine• Etoise, Seine et Marne and Oise were presented. Jules Favre made a patriotic address. He said the Government was determined to carry on the war to the last; the army would soon attack the besiegers, break through their lines aud join hands with troops from the Provinces. Ferry also spoke in the same strain. London, November 3.—Gen. Garibaldi, in or der of the day, reproaches the Republics for their failue to act for mutual defence. Switz erland, he says, is kept down by the cash box es of the great bonkers. With her lifted finger she might have kept the Prinoe from Madrid, but she allowed him to slaughter the Spanish nation. In referring to the United States Gar ibaldi says, one of Washington’s great family barely permits the Republic to fling a word of sympathy to the brave descendants of LaFay- ette, who first proclaimed emancipation of the races in a classical land of liberty and home of the exile. Wilt thou abandonhim in this strag gle with the giants of their sister nation, who marched and will again march at the van of human progress. He continues: Franoe is in ruins because her army of braves was led by the stupidity of tyrants, bnt the nation is there. It has risen as one man and will make old the autocrat of Prussia repent his inhuman butchery. The or der closes with an appeal to the soldiers, declar ing that their courage is unquestionable, bntthey want calmness and discipline, so indispensable in war. Representatives from foreign powers to the Holy See will enjoy complete liberty and messengers to and from the Pope shall have free egress and ingress. Italy will consider the Pope is a foreign sovereign, and he will be treated and honored as such throughout Italy. The appanage of the Pope aud his court will be furnished by Italy,and Italy also assumes the debts heretofore contracted by the Pontifical States. For the full tranquility of the Catho- lio world Italy will guarantee the liberties of the church and the Independence to the Pope by an international treaty. It is believed the Pope will accept the situation. Tho World’s special says sharp skirmishes on the north and eaBtem fronts of Paris, resulted in favor of the French. The Boulevard Prince Eugene has been named the Boulevard Voltaire. The statne of the Prince gives place to the statue of Voltaire. There have been no disturbances in Metz since the capitulation. A plot by the citizens and dissatisfied soldiers to resist the entrance .of the Prussians was suppressed by the Imperial Guard. The Prussians claim that the Parisians have only provisions for a fortnight. Thiers and the King bad a three hoars inter Thx Louisville Courier-Journal wonders Grant doesn't offer the English minion to Mul lins, at Tennessee,.now Merton declines. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Washington, Novomber 3.—Barocho, former ly Minister of Justice, is dead. A ministerial crisis exists in Holland. Toeck and Von Bosse are forming a new ministry. The Italians continue the order excluding Protestant worship from Rome, and the Pro testant chapel remains outside the walls. Refugees from Paris say the Parisians are really discouraged by the anarchy whioh per vades Franco. While the Pope’s political authority is abol ished now and hereafter, his ecclesiastical rights will be maintained. These constitute his sov ereign prerogatives, and he will have a special pastol service, and territorial immunity will be accorded the Holy See, so that, independent at home and abroad, it may take care of its inter ests and exercise the authority of the church. All Prelates, Cardinals, Bishops, spiritual bod ies and ecclesiastical societies will enjoy immu nity at the plaoe of the residence of the su preme head of the v church, whether’summoned for council or any other purpose. view. A military council was held Wednesday at Versailles. Bismarck was present. Afterwards Thiers and Bismarck were closeted for a long time. The second Prussian army corps remains at Metz and Thionville. The greater portion of the Prince Charles’ army will operate in cen tral Franco. Bismarck replies to Granville that while plac ing no obstacle to the French elections, consent is wanting. Bismarck fears the Paris Govern ment, misinterpreting England’s motive, is en couraged to prolong resistance. He declares that Prusiia is willing to receive and honestly consider, any proposition from France which carries with it, a genuine desire for peace. The Prussians are moving northward from Soissons. At a large meeting at Buffalo, New York, resolutions were passed which strongly op pose Chinese immigration. The strife be. tween tho Erie and Central railroads for the Canada trade via Suspension Bridge is growing furious. The contesting parties have attempted to burn the bridges. The Young Democracy r.l New York endorse Gov. Hoff man. This action indioates a purpose to heal the Democratic split. New York, November 3.—A cable dispatch from a private source in London, says advices from Tours represent the Red Republicans again rampant at Marsailles, and that a procla mation has just been issued by the leaders, which announces a new Republio, comprising sixteen departments, to the southward. Indianapolis, November 3.—A man and wo man, driving a fractious horse, were killed while crossing tho Jeffersonviiio Railroad, near Columbus, Indiana. Washington, November 3.—All Government employees have leave of absence to vote. The President had an hour’s interview with Forney and Senators Morton and Thayer. Secretary Robeson has returned. The row at Norfolk occurred after Robeson had left the meeting. Gen. G. V. Rutherford, of Illinois, is mentioned in connection with the commissionership of Internal Revenue. Richmond, Novembers.—Col. Jno. W. Jenk ins, United States Commissioner was nominated to-night for Mayor by the Republicans. He made a brief speech in return, advocating the removal of disabilities from all citizens of the State. B. W. Gilles, editor of the State Journ al, was nominated for Clerk of tho Hustings Court- Twenty thousand people attended the fair to-day. It closes to-morrow. St. Louis, November 3.—Allen and Gallagher will fight in Kansas. The stakes will remain as they are. New York, November 3.—Terrence Quinn has beeD sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for fraudulent registration, by the United States Circuit Court—Judges Woodruff andBlatchford presiding. The Scotia brings two millions of coupons for collection. They are sixty-sixes. From nonston County—Perry Agri cultural Club. Ferry, Ga., Nov. 2, 1870. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : In pur suance of a resolution of the Perry Agricultu ral Club, I furnish you a brief report of its proceedings, with a request for publication. ‘This olub was organized temporarily on the 22d October. Dr. J. Dickson Smith, Jas. A. Hill, James Turrentino, Henry Norwood and Jno. G. Davis, were selected to prepare a Con stitution and rules for the government of the club. On the 29th of October a Constitution was adopted and the follow' ng officers elected: Dr. J. Dickson Smith, President; Bryant W. Brown and Maj. E. H. Ezell, Vico Presidents, Jas. A. Will. Seoretary and Treasury, and B. M. Davis Assistant Secretary. The Executive Committee consists of the President and Secretary and three other mem bers, Judge O. N. Rountree, CoL S. D. Killen and L. W. Stewart. The monthly meetings will bo on the first Saturday in each month. Weekly meetings ac cording to appointment. Election of officers will take place in January and July. At last meeting, the members were enter tained by W. D. AIIgd, with an instructive con versational statement of his system of farming and his several kinds of labor contracts. Several members made remarks respecting the riinously low price of cotton and corres pondingly high price of corn, bacon, gnano and of money, and the necessity for a change from the policy pursued by planters since the war. At the next meeting which will be 1st Satur day of this month (10 a. m.), E. W. Stewart and Jno. C. Staley, successful and experienced farmers, will furnish their views on farming, in accordance with a resolution adopted at last meeting. The club invites the attendance and co operation of farmers, from all sections of the county and desires that the other Agricultural Clubs will unite with this one in the organiza of a County Society. Jas. A. Hill, Secretary. It is stated that Gnstave b'chnremau, an In dianapolis millionaire, recently deceased, and whose will was contested before his remains were buried, had kept the dead body of his mistress in spirits of wine, in a private vault, and that it was his habit to visit tho vanlt every two weeks—the spirits of wiuo being renewed every three months. GEORGIA PRESS. Pickpockets are numerous at the Columbus Fair. Six were arrested Tuesday. The monthly Court-house sales at Augusta and Savannah, Tuesday, showed little spirit, and much of the property advertised was withdrawn^ At Augusta, Richmond county land sold from $2 75 to $50 an acre—in the latter case the pro perty being near the city. Georgia railroad stock brought $97 a share. At Savannah little real estate was sold, but horses and mules brought fair prices. Central railroad stock brought $116 to $U7a share, Southwestern $92 a share, and Atlantio and Gulf $34 a share. We find the following items in the Columbus Sun of Wednesday: Mr. Jbhn Cave, formerly of Middle Georgia was recently shot and killed in Madison county, Florida, by Mr. William CollinB. The provoca tion is stated to be that Mr. Cave was passing with his wagon along by the side of the cotton field of Collins to get to his own field, a shorter way than going round. In a Fix.—A negro girl was discovered mak ing a smothering fuss in the chimney of Mr. Me- haffey’s house. A rope was reached her, but she couldn't be pulled up. The bricks had to be removed with a crowbar. She had evidently descended to steal, and nearly come to her death. Mr. Asbury Randall died in Americas, Tues day night. The Constitution of yesterday says: A telegram was received at the Executive Department yesterday, announcing that ^on Tuesday night, between 12 and 1 o’clock. Al fred Richardson, colored, member of the House from Clarke cou&tv was shot by disguised par ties, at Watkinsville. No particulars given. Is ho the one selected to be killed from Clark county for electioneering purposes ? Pol. W. L. Goldsmith has nominated for the House of Representatives, by the Democrats of Dt-Kalb county. The last Barnesville Gazetti has the follow ing items: Who Can Beat It?—Mr. J. Artus Perdue, son of G. H. Perdue, Esq., made this year with one pony horse, seventeen bales cotton, 500 bushels corn, 1070 bundles of fodder, 101 bushels of wheat, with his own labor alone, excepting bis little brother John, aged 11 years, and 54 dollars paid out for a little help to hoe it, and 120 dollars worth of fertilizers. Here he gets 1500 dollars worth of produce at a very small calculation. Take out expenses and he will realize at least 1200 dollars. We understand that Miss Cooper of this county was thrown from her horse on last Sat urday and severely injured. Jas. Radcliff, a young naan aged about 17 years, was soverely .ashed between the bump ers of a train on the Thomaston & Barnesville Railroad one day last week. Athens rejoices in the “novel sight of.horso cars in the streetB.” We clip tho following items from the New- nan Defender: Cambell county will vote on next Saturday for the location of her Court-house. Palmetto and Fairborn are rivals for the honor. Pal- motto has subscribed $11,000 toward the erec tion of a Court-house. The following lands were sold in Newnan yesterday: 1G0 acres belonging to the estate of Johnny Baily, at $1,400. l,500aoresat $2,- 975. 1,100 acres belonging to tho estate of John Bedwine, at $16,825. Corn sold at 84 cents per bushel, and fodder at $1.01 per hun dred pounds. Judge John S. Bigby was badly injured by having been thrown from his buggy a few days since, near Fayetteville. We le&m that his case is not considered dangerous. Places Sold to Northern Men During the Last Year in Richmond County—Twenty-five hundred acres, twelve miles from Angusta, to William N. Little, of Brooklyn, New York.— Price, fifty thousand dollars. Ono hundred and forty acres, four miles from Augusta, to John Uhl, of Brooklyn, New York Price, fonr thousand dollars. Thirteen hundred acres, ten miles from Au gusta, to George Robinaon, of Brookly, New York. Price, twenty-one thousand dollars. Thirty acres, two miles from Augusta, to Dr. William P. Phillips, of Brooklyn, New York.— Price, fifteen thousand dollars. Eight and a half acres, one and a half miles from Augusta, to Messrs. Kmg Brothers, Drug gets, Jamaica, Long Island, New York. Price, three thousand five hundred dollars. Oce hundred and twenty.five acres, five miles from Augusta, to John Wilson of Springfield. Long Island, New York. Price, four thousand dollars One hundred and eight acres, three miles from Augusta, to Jerome Uhl, of Chicago, H- linois, for fonr thousand dollars. Colonel George S. Fisher, of Buffalo; Mr. Rodgers, of Brooklyn; and J. M. Stiles, of New Jersey, have also settled near Augusta. [Middle Georgia Farmer. Property Sold in Greene County to North ern Men During the Last Year.—Twenty- two hundred aores to Judge Warner, of Ro chester, New York, price twenty thousand dol lars ; six hundred and fifty-seven acres to Her man Geisler, of Frank-fort-on-the-MaiD, Prus sia, for five thousand dollars; five hundred and seventy-five acres to Wm. H. Brown, of Rhine- beck, New York, for four thousand dollars; forty acres !i John W. Teal, of Red Hook, New York, ir ono thousand dollars; twenty acres to Wm. H. Brown, of Rhinebeck, New York, for three hundred dollars; one hundred and eighty acres to L. Manning, of Catskill, New York, for twenty-two hundred dollars; city lot to H. S. Moore, for one thousand dol lars ; hotel property to E. W. Mider, of Penn sylvania, for fonr thousand dollars; three hun dred acres to Frank Laraby, of Ashtabula, Ohio,, for two thousand dollars; forty aorcs to M. Avant, of New York City, for nine hundred dollars.—Ibid. HOW METZ FELL. STORY OF THE SURRENDER. The Cincinnati Commercial says: “ One of onr lady M. D.’s is attending clinical lectures at the Cincinnati Hospital, and is received on the same footing as the gentlemen. The first morn ing she attended there was perfect silence and niter surprise on the part of the male students. Next morning they hissed her, and she paid no attention. On her entrance the next morning they hissed still more vehemently; presently thG professors came in and treated her with such marked respect it struck the yonng men that she had a right to be there, or that the pro fessors thought so at any rate. Next morning there was a slight attempt at hissing, hut cries of “Stop that,” “Quit that,” “None of that,” from various quarters soon silenced the few whose manhood was not sufficient for the trial of giving a woman an equal chance with them selves, and since then the Indy has boeri so re spectfully treated that it reflects credit on the Cincinnati students, as compared with those of Philadelphia and New York.” Rev. Addison Hall, of Lancaster, Virginia opened his wife’s private portfolio with false keys, and found an interesting bnndle of love letters from a young lawyer. Mrs. Hall went back to Massachusetts by the next boat. Lillie Dauton wants to lecture on the “Dia- holism of Divorce.” She ought to know, being from Indiana. * DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. A Party of Japanese Noblemen at Chicago. A party of 1C distinguished military officers and citizens of Japan are stopping at the Briggs House, in this this city. They arrived yesterday afternoon from San Francisco, via the Union Pacifio railroad. Their stay in that city, how ever, was limited to two days. They leave Chicago to-day for New York, where they will be joined by eleven other of their country men who are now in California. The party in this city are in charge of Naka- harna Mnngero, a benevolent looking man, aged about thirty-eight years. Last evening a re porter for the Timqp, who speaks Japanese much better than he writes English, was sent to interview the party. This much waB learned of their doings: With the exoeption of five yonng men. they are all officers of high rank in tho royal army of Japan. Nakahama, who is in charge, holds a position in rank equal to that of Gen. Hancock or Gen. Meade, in our ownarmy. Meynsama. He is a nephew of the emperor. Tbe five young men are the eldest sons of cer tain of the nobility. All are sent out by the Japanese Government to visit Europe and study matters in tbe country during the progress of tho war between the French and Prussians. After having visited the different army head quarters, they will, withtwo or three exceptions, return to London and receive a thorough Eng lish education. Gen. Nakahama Mnngero was educated in Massachusetts, and is tolerably conversant with the politics of this oonntry. Ho talks good Eng lish, bnt as he preferred to talk in his own na tive language, he was, of course, accommodated. He likes Chicago, and thinks the Briggs house superior to anything of the kind in his own oonntry. Tbe food he says lays over the army rations furnished them by the imperial commis sary of subsistence. Like other mortals, Naka- bama is troubled With ailments of a serious na ture. Rheumatism has fixed itself upon him, and last evening he was busily engaged in affix ing lean looking leeohes to his fat calves. The bloodthirsty little soamps took hold as though they had always been used to that kind of nour ishment. The party were all well dressed In the latest American fashion. They were assigned rooms on the third floor, and enjoyed themselves, af ter a hearty sapper, in smoking opium and play ing skatsbabyon, a game similar in some res pects to draw poker. They went to bed early, and, it is to be hoped, slept soundly.— Chicago Times, October 25. WiLLDto to Bet on It.—The Savannah Re publican, of Monday, says: William A. Huff, tbe “Great Grain King,” as they cult him, in Maoon, and not without cause, has been nominated for Mayor of that city. Two things we will lay a small wager on : first, that he will be elected: second, that he will make a first rate Mayor. Mr. Richard Cauldwell, a landing merchant of Charles too, died Sunday night. ArrangrlnR the Terms—Surrender of tbe Army Susinr’s Intrigue* — Cause of High Prices—'The Dea< h List-Opposition t'> tho Cepitnlallou—Basnine Mobbed by Women. London, October 30, 1870. The special correspondent of the Tribune, before Metz, telegraphs this day: On the even ing of the 25th inst., the German Chief of Staff had left Frascati (about five miles south west of Metz) very muoh discouraged, scarcely hoping for any agreement, as the French ap peared to be intractable and obstinate. Never theless I knew from private sources that Metz oould not hold out, and I expected the capitula tion. the preliminary conferences. At noon Bazaine sent the Prince an autograph letter asking another conference; and accord ingly the Germans sent Gen. Stiehle, Chief of Staff of the Second Army, and Count War- tensleben, Chief of Staff of the First Army, to Frascati once more. The interview lasted three hours of the afternoon. At first it was stormy on the part of the French Commissioners; but it resulted in their conversion to the main points of the German terms. The first difficulty was concerning officers keeping their side-arms, on which Bazaine insisted. The point was finally referred to the King, and conceded by him in a dispatch received at 3 o’clock on the morning of the 27th. TERMS Or SURRENDER. By agreement the conference was resumed early the’same morning, and lasted till 8 v. m , when the capitulation was signed for the ab solute rendition of Metz and all its fortifica tions, armaments, stores and munitions; and for the surrender on the conditions of the capi tulation of Sedan, of all the garrison and all Bazaine’s army, comprising three Marshals of France, 66 Generals, 6,000 officers and 173,000 troops. The Germans are astounded at this result—an army and fortress capitulating to an investing army only a fraction larger than itself. The French commissioners were Bazaine's Chief of Staff, Gen. Jamas, CoL Fay and Maj. Samuele, on the part of the commander of the fortress. On the 28tb, Maj. Lankhuhl, Chief of Engineers of the Second Corps, was to enter by stipulation at 10 o’clock to withdraw the mines from under the forts, prepalory to the. safe entry of the Seventh Corps, who will remain to guard the eitv and prisoners, while the rest of the First Army departs immediately for Paris end for the South, where the headquarters of Prince Frederick Charles will be at Lyons. At one o’clock the French army were to lay down their arms. All this has been postponed 24 hours, in consequence of a want of readi ness on tne part of the French authorities, owing to internal disorders. THE ARMY LAYS DOWN ITS ARMS. On the 29th the forts were taken possession of by the artillery of tbe Seventh Corps. At 1 o’clock the Third Division (which will depart toward the southwest) and the Fourth Division were reviewed in splendent pageant by the Prinoe on the Nancy-Metz road, near Tour-Ie- Brede. Thereupon the (French) Imperial Guards marohed out of Metz, bearing their arms, which they subsequently laid down at Frascati, and passed in review before the Prince. This honor was accorded to them alone. All the rest laid down their arms in the Metz arsenals, and then marched to their cantonment outside the town, to await transportation. The Imperial Guards were received by the Prussian troops with re spect ; not a jeering syllable was heard, nor an improperly exultant look seen. Previously, at the Prince’s review of the German troops, the cheer ing was loud and long continued. At 4 p. m., the French companies that were still mounting guard at the various gates of the city and at depotsand arsenals were relieved by Prussians, two regiments of infantry and one of cavalry having entered the town. The ap pointed military Governor-General, Yon Zas- trow, the commander of the Seventh Corps, took possession and control of the city and fortress, where, he tells me, he expeots to find the portrait of one of his ancestors who was at some early period also a military Governor of Metz. bazaine’s intrigues. The tragedy was completed, bnt there is an other side to the story which still remains to be reviewed. According to the statement of Gen. Von Zastrow, who he’d the woods of Yaux on the morning of August I9ih (after the battle of Gravelotte), Bazaine conldnot have avoided be ing inclosed in Metz. After he was thus inclosed, he could have, according to Metzian statement, made a sortie and joined McMahon more easily by far than McMahon could reach him. After most of Bazaine’s cavalry and artillery horses had been eaten, this proceeding was of course more difficult; still his movements are said to have lacked determination, and, in the last two sorties, to have been even frivolous. This is charged to a plot in behalf of the Regency by which this army was to try to remain in statu quo until the conclusion of the war in Western France, and then was to become available, with Prussian consent, for Bonapartist purposes. Bazaine himself expected in that case to be the Governor of the Prince Imperial and the virtual Regent. Nearly all the Metziana seem to believe this; and their most influential people have avowed such belief to me. Since the time of the invest ment, Bazaine has never been seen in the camps except on extraordinary occasions; never at all in tbeambnlance8 which aTe in part constructed in numerous railway box-wagons on the Place Royale. Equally seldom has he been seen in the city. The civil authorites had to find him at the Barrier St. Martin; he did not appenrat the City Hall once. He rarely, if ever, said a word to encourage his troops. Canrobert sometimes cheered their hardships a little, and then they would cry “Fire Canrobert! A bos Bazaine!” bazaine feared his own men. Toward the last he dared not show himself to his own men for fear of assassination, and the terribly relaxed discipline is assuredly the cause of the hasty capitulation, when a week’s rations for all were on hand. On the morniDg of the 2‘Jth five soldiers lay dead of starvation atMontigny, while the staff still indulged in luxurious meals. Four days’ rations were given to the entire army that morning (29th), but for two days previous they had received none. No beef or pork had been obtained at any price for a week; bnt ou that morning, before any thing had arrived in town, the shops had plenty thereof, which goes to prove the oharges current in the town that speculators had seized a quan tity of food, and that a rational system of ap pointment, such as existed daring he last ten days, if introduced at first, and combined with requisitions would have prevented much waste, and enabled the fortress to hold out a month longer. HIGH PRICES OF PROVISIONS. . The staff used, at first, to feed their horses on bread. Recently, prioes had reached the fol lowing maximmn : Sugar, $6 a pound; salt, $3 a pound; one ham, $60; one potato, 9 cents; one onion, 12 cents. A little pig, caught near Gravelotte, sold for $150. Daring five weeks, amputations have been performed without chlo roform or ether, and wounds dressed without carbolic aoid. as to what the Prussians would do^Tl ' woffid do it, and how they must be as if they had never seen or known 7pi **• They demanded to know whether th„i* i 881 * 0 - destitute larders must still supply and whether they would be personalRl ed if unable to furnish They were relieved by hearing that a o, qQuti wagons were ready at Courcellea to biJH?*® 4 visions hither, and also that theremmSLP?- London ready to be applied to their response to the appeal of the Mayors of n’ and other communes, published in American journals, saving, “fl-tn i a ac <l quiokly.” • *** 18 hesded GERMAN SOLDIERS GIVE THEIR RATIONS TO _ FRENCH. 0 up their bread ratioiw ye^day^tof£d jss^sss SbS* ’At noon a Prussian rarlway trip by rail from Ars to Union Station th S a mile south of Metz, and to-dav nerf^^’® 4 moniestion by rail exists between SW,' 0 ?’ Meiz and Nancy. The road was littlTb,; ^ But few German prisoners were f A „ a I e . 4 Metz; the French had not kept those 10 taken when they were in a conditiontoh ^ turned. On leaving Metz last nitht t , b te ‘ on the faces of all the n i 1 of quiet satisfaciion—nothing'mwe?'®' 8 8 ^ DISEASE and death. There are more than 19,000 sick and wound ed. During the siege 35,000 persons have dieu in the town alone, the gresterpart from laek of proper care. The prevailing diseases are vari oloid, spotted typhus and dysentery. Scurvy has not prevailed, though even the siok have, for over three weeks, received their horse steaks and horse broth without salt. The reported discovery of a saline Bpring at St. Julien was a hoax, contrived by potting salt into the spring to encourage the army. GENERAL OPPOSITION TO THE SURRENDER. 'When the capitulation became known, the people were furious. The National Guards re fused to lay down their arms. On the after noon of the 28th inst., a captain of Dragoons appered at the head of a body of troops who swore that they would sooner die than yield. Albert Collignon, the editor of an nltra-Demo- eratio daily newspaper, the Journal de Metz, Tode about on a white horse firing a pistol and exhorting them to sally forth and seek victory or deatb, to escape impending shame. He was followed by a lady singing the Marseillaise. This produced terrible excitement The doors of the Cathedral were burst open and the tocsin was sounded, and tbe bell rung nearly all night. When Gen. Coffinieres appeared to pacify them, three pistol-shots were fired at him. Finally, by the aid of two regiments of the line, he quietly dispersed the mob; but all night tho sounds of grief, indignation and ter ror continued. Respectable women ran about the streets tearing their hair and flinging their bonnets and laces under their feet, seeking their friends, and asking wildly, “What will become of our children ?” Soldiers, drunk and sober, tumbled hither and thither in irregular groups, with their caps off and their sabers broken, sobbiDg and weeping like children, and crying 11 Oh pauvre MetzT Oh ma paver* Mete! Tout tst perdu /” Yesterday I waa closeted with the Mayor and the City Counoil during two boors, while they detained me .as the first stranger that haa en tered the town, to oak all manner o< gneoMona —some ohikSab jptlnkw —Tteiniyaaai of the French officers and soldi^s who ^ 0t ° M all about, even when intoxicated S®* 1 surprisingly unfreqnent-wore any nth,* 84 pression than a look of sadness or defiant .l 1 ’ latter not being common and occumner't’ ^ 9 among the younger officers. Dg ciuf Sj DEMORALIZATION l am informed that the French loss in li; . , in the various affairs since Aucust is t.j , e4 the deaths from sickness in thf town ’^° ed to 000. Bazaine himself decline* thV R? 4 V generous proposal to let all the troons lav h 68 their arms outside of the works in view of ia"? 1 conquerors, instead of laying them a in the arsenal, saying that he cof'd not «£* tee their behavior. The Imperial 'Guarf^T had preserved discipline sufficiently ed to pass in armed review. The inhabit^ had never ceased to hope for the appearance n , Bourbaki s army from Lille, or of the Army 2 theLoue,°r of some other relieving fiL! but the troops themselves during the lastTi weeks could no longer be deceived, as thev better information through the German out. Their demoralization, due largely to hnr ger, was bitterly and openly complained of b» their officers. At 4 o’clock yesterday aftemooJ Bazaine passed through Ars, on his wav f« Wilhelmshohe, in a closed carriage, marked with his name, escorted by several officers his staff on horseback. BAZAINE ASSAILED BY WOMEN The women of the village had heard of hi. coming, and awaited him with cries of “Tni tor!” “Thief!” “Coward!” Loafer!” “Brie and!” “Where are our husbands whom yon havfe betrayed!” “Give us back ourchildw whom you have sold 1" They attacked the car. riage, and broke the windows, and would have lynched the Marshal bnt for the intervention of the Prussian gendarms. Three days ago, when _ sent the first news of the capitulation, I to! everybody on my way of the astounding realiti faint rumors of which they had heard dnrirgs many weeks past. The German officers at di tached outposts hugged me bodily, mnt against my will, as I was in haste; whi!e tl Freneh people uttered maledictions on “tho- brigands.” Many still refuse to believe in ti surrender, being convinced that Metz had lei fifteen, or twenty years’ provisions jet. . civilians’ rations in Metz—which were too a pie, as many proved by what they had left were 13onnces of bread daily. The troopsh half as much bread, and, at first, 24 oaneeei horse flesh. The French declare that now France hast hope but Paris, and their faith in Paris is Ie than it was in Metz. But there are earned pe pie who say that the war will only begin *i the fall of Paris.—New York Tribune, 31if int A Card to Sensible People.—Rational reader?, if tbe aspect of the weather was uncertain, yea wonld not be foolish enough to venture oat vitat an overcoat or an umbrella. Have the forecast, then, to protect yourself at this dangerous acteon with something more important than either of these articles. 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