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Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, AUGUST 15, 1871. Fort Valley Fair. We trust that the Industrial Exhibition to take place this day at the flourishing town of Fort Valley, will be largely attended by the ciifzens of Macon. A long list of premiums trill be awarded for almost every conceivable product of the soil, dairy, loom, kitchen, orchard, workshop and mechanic and fine arts. Even the “blessed ba bies” will have a showing. This deponent expects to be on hand and ex- amine everything. If he could only summon by express or tele- i prettiest securing at least one prize on this.opcas;on. The increasing number apd.'fteqhfincy of these agricultural fairs, and the widespread in terest they engender in all that relates to the material progress of our people, afford the most cheering indications that Goorgia will continue to maintain her prestige as the Empire (State of the South. Despite the profligaoy and extravagance of her rulers—the oppression of the Federal Con gress—tho reign of carpet-bagism—the full ex ercise of universal suffrage with all its baleful influences, and tho ravages of the late bloody war, she is rapidly rising in her majesty and pluming her wines for a loftier, nobler fiicht in tho future. God bles3 our gallant common- wealth! t Mayor Hall’s Address. Tho lateness of the hour will prevent any ex tended comment upon tins interesting paper. We can only say that it is straightforward and manly in its tone, and our chief magistrate docs not hesitate to look our financial difficulties squarely in tho face. Many of his suggestions are excellent, and should be carefully consid ered. Especially do we endorse the movement on foot to secure the revaluation of city prop erly, with a view to the correction of existing errors. If equality in taxation be a fundamental prin ciple, then a just and uniform scale of valuation is essential to tho maintenance of that equality. If this cannot bo obtained from interested own ers, tho only remedy is to take the matter out of their hands by the appointment of discreet assessors. Tho Mayor recommends a tax of li per cent, upon all property, so that tho most of the city currency may be retired at once, and the debt of tho city paid off within two or three years. This i3 a consummation devoutly to be wished for, if not too onerous upon the holders of property. Wo see no impropriety in making posterity bear a portion of the burdens created for the prospective benefit of the city. They will enjoy all the advantages, and shonld help to pay for the samo. The address will bo ex. tensively read by our people. Scandal in High Life. Wo have no patience for the columns of gos- sipping scandal which fill tho Now York papers, relating to alleged liasons of the ex-Emperor Napoleon. In the first place, the evidence is wanting to substantiate all such charges, and oven if they were true, tho press has certainly a higher mission to perform than to become the vehicle of such gross violations of chastity and the marital relation. Such publications serve but to demoralize the tone of society, and afford a quasi support to libertinism and licentious ness. For thin reason, as well as the utter and diabolical falsity of the report, we haverefrained from repeating tho railroad slandAr acrainst ex- President Davis. Cannot the life-long reputa tion, and grey hairs uf an ostracised and unfor tunate patriot shield him from tho shafts of calumny ? No anchorite, or hermit in his cave was over freer than he, from tho very suspicion of tho crime imputed to him. Let us not for get, however, that even the Savionr of mankind was slandered, spit npon, and reviled. The best and noblest of earth are at the mercy of the traducer, if unsupported assertions and villainous fabrications are to be received os gos pel. Let a tree be judged by it fruits,'and a man by tho character he has uniformly sus tained, even when assailed by the tongue of calumny, in tho absence of clear and indisputa ble proof to convict. Who is safe if we act otherwise? PtJTSiii County.— Our friends in Putnam, as wo judge from the report of a correspondent in to-day’s paper, came near having a serious time at the election last Monday. Some of the disorderly negroes had made elaborate prepara tions for a fight, and nothing prevented a good deal of trouble and mischief, but the firm de meanor of tho whites, and tho discovery by tho black fighting phalanx, at the pinch, that they had a good deal more discretion than they sup. posed. We aro very glad that tho storm blew over with so little damage, and tho lesson of this election, as well as of all others which have been hold in Georgia since the war, is briefly this: all such bullying and turbulence must be met on the instant with a cool, but indomitable resolution to maintain order and enforce law at nllhazzards. There is no moro certain way to get up a fight and bloodshed than to permit the idea that the polls can bo overrun with impuni ty. Putnam saved herself from disorder and Violence by showing her teeth to the bullies at right time. Tnz Bainbbidge Aegus.—This sterling sheet so true in its patriotism, politics, and morality, from the improvements announced in another column, will scon take rank with the best famiiy newspapers in the South. Tho literary department will be ably con ducted, and an ample staff of efficient cud ac complished editors, by their united efforts can not fail to ensure the success of tho enterprise, llev. Willis M. Bussell is a practical and ex perienced writer, and enjoys tho confidence and esteem of all who know him. Such a paper is gTeatly needed in Southwest Georgia, and we bespeak for it an abundant patronage. Lot it bo a visitor to every family and hearth' stone in that section of tho State. Don't Agues.—The London papers all say that tho Prince of Wales and tho Marquis of Lom are evidently not the best of friends; in fact, there i3 an undoubted split m the English royal family, in consequence of the contumeli ous treatment of the Marquis by his brother-in- law. The Marquis and his spirited spouse have stood aloof from the royal party at all tho re cent state ceremonies and fetes. Under Federal Guns. New Orleans presented on Wednesday, one of the most extraordinary spectacles ever wit nessed in tho United States since Federal Bay onets have been formally introduced into Amer ican politics. “Governor” Warmouth and “Lieut. Governor” Dunn, are both specimens of the very worst development of Southern and, though elected on the same ticket, are at daggers’ drawn in their various schemes for plundering the'unhappy tax-payers of Louisiana. Within the post month or two, it has been formally announced that the admin istration of Gen. Grant side's with Dunn in this quarrel. A State Convention had been called to meet in New Orleans last Wednesday, and, afterafierce contest between the factions, it was known that rival sets«Jf delegates would oontdst ^ for Beats in this l$>dy, and muoh excitement and p BY TELEGRAPH. it appears from the press telegrams of yesterday that at an early hoar two cwpaniep of United States Infantry took posse0ion.or the convention hall, and a large force of deputy United States Marshals guarded every entrance. Warmouth and his adherents, some eighty in number, were refused admission and organized an independent con vention in another hall, while Dunn and his crowd, supported by the military, the executive posse and the Federal office-holders, proceeded to organize their convention. The utter worthlessness of the parties con cerned precludes all personal interest in the fight; but this does not at all mitigate the des potic and lawless character of the proceedinat- It will be claimed in extenuation that the Con vention HaO was government property and the government could not permit its safety to be hazarded. That would have been a good reason for refusing tho use of tho hall to the Conven tion ; but it certainly was no justification of the course of the Federal Government in taking possession of the Convention and practically determining the composition and action of the body. According to' law and the decision of Grant’s administration itself, the maintenance of peace and public order devolved in this cseo upon tho Executive of Louisiana, (Warmouth,) and not until he had called for Federal interpo sition could the United States authorities have constitutionally interposed to put down riot or insurrection. There is, in fact, nothing to justify or palli ate this extraordinary proceeding upon the part of Grant’s administration. It is as naked and inexcusable an outrage upon popular rights—os audacious an attempt to control politics in the personal interest of the President, through the forces ef the government—as if the same thing had been done to a Radical or Democratic State Convention in New York, Pennsylvania or Ohio. The negro Pinchback (these fellows do have uncommon and characteristic names) exclaimed, “Is it possible we are to be put down by the government we have sustained ? If that bd the case, the sooner thi3 government is tom down and a monarchy i3 built upon its rains the bet ter.” Pinchback, like a good many others, conld feel an act of tyranny only when it hurt himself. Let no white man be as blind and fool ish as that. Tyranny i3 bound to make every body its victim in turn, unless he be of the slimy mass who breed like maggots in the fes tering depths of corruption. But even these sometimes fail to wriggle and squirm out of the crushing grasp of tyranny; while time at last i3 sure to make every man by turns the victim of tyranny. The simpleton who exults over its slaughter of his enemies to-day may in a year see the pictnre reversed and groan for the amusement of Ins enemies, just as Pinchback, Warmouth & Co. aro now doing in Louisiana. There is no security for anybody, bnt in the tnoinfflTionfo nf law nnri lTlsliCO. We wonder if the people of tho United States will not be startled at this performance of Grants government in Louisiana, and begin to talk about tho propriety of calling a halt in tho downward march to a military despotism ? Mr. Mill Explains His dress. Alnmnl Ad- Thi3 gentlemen sends a communication to the Atlanta Constitution, of Wednesday, demurring to the numerous adverse criticisms’ made.by ed itorial and other writers npon his late address before the society of the Alumni at Athens. As it will be published entire, as spoken, he thinks on ordinary sense of justice would suggest the propriety of waiting until then, before attack ing him, as no report, however honest, can be accepted as a proper standard for judging, muoh less criticising a written literary address. Ho takes occasion, however, to explain the ad dress in this letter, and winds up with asking a suspension of judgment until the address is read as published by the society. We give him the benefit of the following ex tract from his letter: Therefore, to quiet the nerves of some, and prevent the prejudices sought to be created in advance of its publication, allow mo space to say, that the address does not underrate South ern civilization in the production of an elegant select society, and of the most superior indi vidualism In the field and in the cabinet. II does not allude, either directly or indirectly, to politics, nor politioal parties, old or new. It does not allude to slavery as a moral question, or a question of property, nor Is there one word in it which can by possibility be construed as even doubting “our glorious right to carry slaves to Kansas.” . ' - ,, Well knowing tho great number of “noble minds” engaged in the great work of saving Cotion EsTismp.—Our compositors made Norton, Slaughter £ Co.’s estimate of the com ing crop read 4,250,000 to 3,500,000 bales, should have been three and a quarter to three and a half millions. City Finance Reports.—Some few errors having occurred in the numerous figures of this report, we reprint it to-day in a supplement at the order of the city authorities. • Bibb County Taxable).—Mr. Benson reports as the aggregate of Bibb county taxable values, §3,020,18G—about a million dollars in excess of last year. A Stolen Watch.—Tho police want to find the owner of a watch which they believe to have been stolen. See advertisement. and well direoted efforts in this field hither to, I thought 3 could be spared to enquire whether we could not strengthen Southern rights with a little Southern power in the way of developing our natural physical resources through the means of scientific schools and ed ucated industries. That which X sought to typify under the classical figures of Prometheus bound and unbound, and at whose release I was disposed to give thanks, was not the negro, but Southern genius! After reading which we are pretty sure all will agree with us that Mr. Hill has certainly not spared himself, for if any “noble mind” has more furiously engaged in the great work of “saving Southern rights”—vide “Notes on the Situation”—than his, we would like exceedingly to hear whose it is. If Mr. Hill would conde scend to take the advice of our humble self in regard to making any more speeches, or writ ing any moro explanatory letters, at least for tho present, we would sum it up in Punch’s celebrated counsel to a correspondent matrimo nally inclined: Don’t. To Medical Students.—Read the advertise ment of the University of Louisiana. Located in the great city of New Orleans with free ac cess to the Charity Hospital, and ample oppor tunity to study and treat every description of disease at the bedside of tlie sick, and thu3 ac quire practical experience whilst learning the theory of medicine, surely the ambitions student could desire no belter advantages in the profes sion of hi3 choice. The reputation of the faculty is second to none at the South. Included in their number is Prof. Joseph Jones, who is well known in the medical and literary circles of our Slate.^ t|| Thero is no longer a necesity for our young men to go North (o perfect their education; when such rare opportunities may bo enjoyed at home. .. .. i C at Trocble Among the Moemons.—A Salt Lake City dispatch says a Mormon first wife has pro cared tho indictment of her husband in the United States District Court, for adolleiy with Ms other alleged wife or wives. This is proba bly tho begicnirg of a regular judicial onslaught on Mormon polygamy, and will make no small amount of fuss and excitement. The two Lonlaana Radical Conventions. New Orleans, August 9.—The Custom-house Convention Committee on credentials reported for the 'Warmouth delegates in several parishes and five out of the fifteen city wards. The speeches delivered by Postmaster Lowell, Dunn, Carter, Ingraham, Hardy and others were all exceedingly bitter on Warmonth, and a majority have prononneed him recreant to every trust and an enemy to the Republican party. The committee reported resolutions guaranteeing a place in the free sohools to every child; approving the limitation of the State debt to twenty-five millions; calling upon tbo Governor to preserve peace; declaring that the Governor, Henry Warmouth, no longer en joyed the confidence of the Republican party; instructing delegates to vote for U. S. Grant for nomination at the next National Republican Convention; declaring the New Orleans Re- mblican no longer an organ of the Republican ty, and asking the administration to with- ,w the federal printing from that paper. Thanking President Grant for his promptness in protecting them. All the federal officials were reelected on the central committee. The convention then adjourned sine die. The troops on duty were procured from Gen. Reynolds, commanding in Texas, on a requisi tion from tho United States Marshal. The Wormouth Convention is now in session at Tamer’s HalL m ‘ NewYobk, August 10.— 1 Three more Westfield deaths swell the slaughter to 102. John A Horn, second officer of the steamer Sherman, from Havana, died of yellow fever at quarantine to-day. Dr. Morris,of the Sanitary Department, says no unusual steps are being taken to prevent the appearance of Asiatic cholera, and there are no indications of Us coming at present. Captain W. F. Lyons, of the Herald editorial Stan, IS dead. The Sun says authentio news from Cuba through Spanish sources, shows tho Cubans have achieved two important victories in the Eastern District - Helena, Mon., August 10.—Returns indicate the election of Olagget as delegate to Congress. Pabis, August 9.—At the sitting of tho court- martial to-day witnesses testified that they saw Ferre release convicts and give them arms. Abbe Denby said he had served twenty-five years as a missionary among savages, and never had he witnessed atrocities equal to those per petrated by the Communists. Ho said that among members of the court-martial held by the Insurgents in Roquette Prison there were boys of the age of 17. Assy Berreill admitted tho share he had taken in the executions of cap tives, and defended them on the ground that they were justified by law. Retaliation was re sorted to by all civilized nations in time of war. The extraordinary statements of the witnesses and the audacity of the accused caused frequent scenes of excitement in the court room, which was crowded to suffocation. The President of the court was obliged to call on officers several times to enforoe order during the session. Washington, August 10.—The regulations for applications for pensions for the war of 1812 are modified. The loyalty of claimants must be proved, but witnesses need not prove loyalty, aut must have theoeitifioate of a federal offioer, as to character and veracity. Total applications for such pensions to date amount to over $30,- 000. Between now and the first of September, Boutwell will call for the amount of subscrip tions to the new loan, and considerable sums ip addition, and commence the redemption of the bonds. The Secretary of the Treasury has addressed a letter to tho National Banks, informing them that arrangements have been made for the dis posal of the remainder of bond3 offered by the Secretary on the 28th of February last, being about one hundred and three millions of dol lars. The arrangement is subject to the con dition that the .National Banks shall havothe opportunity, within 'sixty days from this date, to subscribe for any sum or sums not exceeding fifty millions of dollars. The Secretary has ad; dressed the following to agents heretofore ap pointed: Negotiations having been perfected for the sale of the remainder of the two hun dred thousand dollars of 5 per cent, bonds, offered the public by the letter of the Seoreta- ry of the Treasury on the 23th February last, the authority of the agents heretofore desig nated, is limited to the sale of equal amounts of four and a half and five per cent, bonds or equal amounts of four and five per cent, bonds. New Obleaxs, August 10.—The up train on ♦Tin TTnnntnn nnd Great Northern Road, ing two fiats containing omaera and company, were thrown from the track by obstruction placed upon it by malicious persons, fifteen miles above Houston, Texas. Dr. O. G. Yonng, the president; Wm. M. Wilson, as sistant civil engineer, were killed. Tomer, a brakesman, was probably fatally wounded, and O. E. Noble, chief engineer and superintendent of the road, and several others, were severely hurt. At a convention of the Warmonth wing last evening, one hundred and seven delegates an swered to the rolL Gen. Herrons offered a resolution which was adopted, that Senator West be requested to introduce a resolution at the next session of Congress, calling upon the President and other officers of the Government, for all information in their possession regard ing the use of the Gustom-honse for holding a State Convention, and the authority even of a United States Marshal for the appointment of deputy assistants, and bringing troops'to sup press the convention. • Collector Casey, Post master Lowell, Deputy Collector Herwig, United States Marshal Packard, Assessor Joubert and Revenue Collector Stockdale. The convention adjourned until 12 o’clock to-day. NewYobk, August 10.—In the coroner’s in quest to-day, Superintendent Braisted thought thero was no one aboard the Westfield who un derstood testing the correctness of ihe gango. It is announced that the New York Central and Hudson River, Pennsylvania Central, and Erie railway companies, have made another im portant redaction in transportation rate3 for all classes of freights westward. The Sun say3 the United States inspector on Staten Island yesterday, discovered a boiler on the Staten Island ferry boat, Middletown, so defective that light raps with a hammer made ruptures. Fortunately, the thorough examina tion drives the Middletown off the line for some time. A new boiler seems absolutely necessa ry. The boiler in uso is rotten and patched ia several places. It was built in 1864. Montgomery, August 10.—The first halo of Alabama cotton wasreceivedby A. &H. Strass- burger to day. It was raised in this county by G. G. Jackson, and classes middlings. San Fbancisco, August 9.—The Lake Tepoo and Central Pacific Railroad tunnel will be five mlleslong, through granito sixteen feet in height and twenty-fonr feet wide. London, August 10.—A meeting is called for at Hyde Park on Sunday next, to protest against proMbiting the Dublin meeting. Yxesatlles, August 10.—The court-martial sentenced Roques, Mayor Puteux, and Penals to servitude for life. The official prosecution said the Mayor's moderate language entitled him to some.favor. The prisoners complain of the comments of the pres3 npon their case. New Oeleans, August 10.—The Warmonth wing of the Republican Convention met at Turner’s Hall at noon to-day. One hundred and eight delegates answered roll. A Congres sional Committee was announced and is same as last year. The committee reported a resolution endorsing administration of Warmonth and the faithful execution of constitutional provisions for pnblio education of children without dis tinction of color; in condemnation of appro priations to individual use; urging Ihe General Assembly to reduce its expenses; denouncing the aots of Ike Cu3‘om-house party in endeav oring to exolude, by force of arm3, the recog nized delegates to the Republican Convention, and other unlawful.acts; expressing hope that their aots was not by command of Presi dent Grant; endorsing his administration; requesting the removal of the Custom-house party, and.tho appointment of truo Republi cans. When it were ascertained the President endorsed tho acts of (ho Curtom-lionso Offi cials’ Convention only,they withdraw their sup- port from and repudiate and condemn Mm. In conclusion, the resolutions recommended tho President of the Convention jto appoint twen ty citizens to visit Washington and petition for the removal of those named persons. A reso lution requesting United States Senator West to inquire into the anthorily given the Custom house parly, was adopted. This closed the busi ness of the convention. Gov. Warmonth was (hen invited to deliver an address and complied. The city press denc-noce the action of tho Cus tom-house officials in suspending mercantile business yesterday, characterizing it as a gros3 outrage. To-day the rederal troops aro re moved, and badness is resumed at (ho usual hours. TV' Chicago, August 10.—Judge Blodgett, of the United States Circuit Court, in a case of a con solidation of thirteen national bunks, against tbe oity collector, hss decided that shares of na tional banks cannoj be assessed at a higher val uation Than the par value thereof, and that tax is in the nature of royalty upon the nominal value of each share, irrespective. The court also held the State law of 18C7, for taxation of bank shares, to be wholly void, because it is in contravention of the State constitution, in that it provides for taring shareholders in the district where the shareholder is resident. Habbisbttbg, Pa., August -JO.—The State Camp of the Patriotic Sons of America has in definitely postponed a resolution to establish a National Camp. A resolution declaring an ab- horenoa of Catholics holding offices of honor, trust and profit* provoked, an excited dis cussion. A motion to postpone was lost by a vote of 46 to 109. The chairman decided the motion out of order. On on appeal from the chair, the chair was sustained. London, August • 10.—In the House of Com mons to-day Gladstone announced the postpone ment of the Queen’s departure for Balmoral in deference to the condition of public business. The date of the prorogation of Parliament was, therefore, yet uncertain. Monsell, Postmaster-General, announced that a reduction of light toll3 to six pence for ten words throughout the United Kingdom will be made npon the completion of the new general office. Cardinal], in tho House of Commons, spoke in defenoe of tho English military system as compared with that of Prussia. He said the latter was not suited to a free country like •England. He also stated that the military ma- nouvres to take plaoc in Berkshire the coming fall promised excellent results. In Lords, Marquis of Bipon, made a lengthy argument in favor of ballot, in the course of wMch he referred of experience in the United States in most pleasant terms, and paid compli ments to American institutions. The Prince Imperial of Germany Frederick William and wife visited Salisbury Catheral and ruins of Btpnehengo. The authorities of Londonderry have taken the strongest precautions against disturbance on the 12th inst., anniversary of raising the siege of Londonderry. London, August 10.—In Lords, after a spir ited debate, the ballot bill was defeated by 49 majority against ministry. Vebsailles, August 10.—Motion for prolon gation for three years of office of Thiers as cMef of executive power will probably be in troduced in Assembly to-morrow. Provision made therein for resignation of TMers in event of dissolution of Assembly before expiration of Ms term of office. Advioesfrom Algeria reported continued im provement in situation of affairs, and say in surgents are rapidly submitting to the author ity of the Government. Havana, August 10.—It is reported that Fran cisco Agnilla, ex-Cuban minister of war, has arrived in Jamaica. Vos da Cuba, says the forces of the insurgent General Guelan are be tween Gibara and Holquin, committing many depredations. When the steamer left, the rebels were situated in the town of Arase, mid way on the road uniting Gibara and Holquin. The insurgent Generals Quesada and Fignreho, have been executed at Santiago de Cuba. Fears are entertained for the safety of the steamer Espana, from Cadiz, now a week overdue at this port. Many unfounded rumors are in cir culation regarding Porto Rico. What Prussia's Yictoby has Cost heb Peo ple.—Tlie following extraol from a German paper, the Volkszeitung, shows the reverse of the pictnre whose bright side was seen at Ber lin, on the oocasion of the triumphal entry of the German army in that city: “Tho war has not only interrupted work, but has destroyed thousands of places of work. The four million thalers wMoh are to bo spent for the assistance of those who have suffered loss are as a drop on a stone, wMch, hissing, drops on to ii and in an instant disappears in smoke. Thousands of men of the landwehr and reserve return to their homes crowned with victory and covered with wreaths, bnt they find their dwell ings destitute, their wives in want, their chil dren neglected, their workshops destroyed, their customers dispersed, their credit shaken and tho want of their manufacture lessoned. Their rent i3 still due, which has accumulated for a year. New tools have been bought, wMch their wives In times of distress have either pawned or sold. Materials have to be laid in in stock, to enable them, in case of an order being given, to begin work. Repairs and clotbes are necessary. The bakers, butchers and re tailers have got to be paid. If work is not be gun at once tho cry of distress will soon bo na distinctly hoard as the eoho of rejoicing. The Ganlois pubhsnes me roiiowihg amusing letter from M. Bertot, head of the College of Chatoaudun, to Baron von Unterricht, Orderly Officer of Gen. von der Tann: “Baron: Tho 28th of November last yon were at Chatcaudun, which was taken after a fight of nine_hours, not very glorious for the Prussian arms, since 18,000 men, with 24 pieces of artillery, wero pitted against 1,200 men. You took up your quarters at my friend’s, tho apothecary, where we met. After dinner, in the joy caused by your success, you boasted about the power of Prussia, her immense forces and admirablo military organi zation, wMch no other nation could resist. Greatly excited, you fixed the date of your tri umphal entry into Paris, and fixed the following itinerary: ‘In two days we shall be at Orleans, in eight days at Tours, and in three weeks in Paris.’ As I contested tMs assertion, you said, ‘Well, 1 bet my head against yours that wo shall enter Paris before tbo 1st of January.’ Tno bet was taken. Not having entered Paris before the 1st of January, you have lost, and your head belongs to me. ” As a man of honor and a gentleman you owe it to mo, and I count upon your word. But do not torment yourself, Baron; I am not a man of .blood, and prefer seeing heads where the Creator placed them. For this reason I propose a settlement. You shall keep your beach wMoh is no doubt pre cious to yon and would bo a great nuisance to mo; but, as compensation, you give me $2,000, wMch shall be laid out in relieving the victims of the war.” Tho Baron’s answer is anxiously expected. __ The CMcago Post contains the following im portant decision: Whereas, It having been stated that Aleck Stephens, the late Vice of the late Confederacy, had gained nine pounds since he had been an editor; and whereas, the Courier-Journal said he must have been weighed with one of his ed itorials in his pooket; and whereas, Aleck has retorted that, if the Courier-Journal man had been weighed with one of Ms editorials in Ms pocket, he, the aforesaid Courier-Journal man, would go up like a balloon; therefore Resolved, that in thi3 round the first blood shonld be, and hereby is, awarded to the said Aleck, the said late Vico of the said late Confederacy. The handkorchief upon which wa3 wiped the blood from tbe dislocated noso of tho Courier. Journal has been forwarded to Mr. Stephens by express.—Courier-Journal. Opening or Trade.—The Commercial Adver tiser, of Saturday, says in some departments of trade business is already starting up, and the season is openiug muoh earlier than usual. Tho remarkably fine appearance of ihe crops probably has a stimulating effect by promising a brisk business when harvest is fairly com menced. A gentleman just returned from a trip westward as far as Chicago, is quite enthu siastic when describing the appearance of tho crops of wheat and com through tho entire dis tanoe. Everywhere are indications of coming abundance. Agriculturists have had enough rain, without excess, so that all are rejoioiug in the promise of well-filled granaries. The de mand for discount accommodations from West ern bank3 to assist in moving the enormous crops, will probably give better employment be fore long for surplus funds Gn deposit with our bankers. ~ Henry Clay Dean denies that he goe3 with the “new departure.” The friends of the new departure do not ask Mr. Dean to go with them. All they have asked of him, or ever will ask of Mm, is that he will put on a clean shirt—Cou rier-Journal. The great Iowan would rather die a thousand deaths than renounce so time-honored a princi ple as a dirty shirt. The Courier-Journal ia evidently a traitor to its country, or it wouldn’t suggest anything so repugnant to the distin guished patriot’s ideas of propiety.—Memphis Avalanche. Thebe is now mere mechanical labor going on in Macsn than at any time within tho last twenty years. Almost every real estate owner in tho city is making improvements of some sort about his property, and, with what new buildings that are up, all of our moohenics arc kept busy, and there is work for many if they were hereto do it. Hqese Killed by Lightning.—Mr. Charles Freeman had a favorite horse killed by light ning, near tMs city on Tuesday last. THE GEORGIA PRESS. There is a report going the rounds of our State exchanges, that J. W. O’Neal, the scala wag Judge, so-called, of the Alapaha circuit, has recently deoeased from wounds received in a series of desperate enoounters with William Patterson. A man named Ben Constant made his appear ance at the City Hall, Augusta, last Wednesday with “one eye entirely closed, the other badly bloodied and his nostrils tom open,” the result of whatthe Chronicle calls “a lively skirmish.” What a regular battle means, down there, the Chroniole don’t tell us. Col. A. F. Budler, a well known citizen of Augnsta, died at Hot Springs, Arkansas, last Monday. He was the friend and companion-in- arms of Walker, the noted filibuster, and was captured and sentenced to be shot when Walker was executed. Friends in this country inter fered, however, and saved Ms life. Seventy shares of Central Railroad stock were sold at Savannah, on Wednesday, at $117 per share. j The Savannah river, at Augusta, is very low, and boats are compelled to unload freight and passengers in order to get over the bar and reach the oity. There were 18 deaths in Savannah, for the week ending August 7th. The local of the Savannah News has been staffing himself with new sweet potatoes, and is rather disposed to put on airs thereat. The Savannah Historical Society have jnst had pnblished 500 copies of Richard Henry Wild’s matoMess poem “My Life is Like the Summer Rose,’’ four hundred of wMoh will be sold at $1.50 and $1.00, each respectively. Cave Spring, Social Cirole, Washington, and West Point were made money ordei; offices on the 1st instant. Dr. Samnel H. Higgins, of Baltimore, has been called to the charge of the LaGrange Presbyterian churoh. The increase of taxable propexty in Musoogee county over last year is $26a,363, and the in' crease in capital invested in the manufacture of cotton is $70,000. The grocery store of Thomas L. Carter, cor ner of Price and Broughton streets, Savannah, was entered and robbed, on Wednesday night, of articles valued at over $100. The papers say these raids are getting bolder and more frequent everyday. The Savannah Republican, of Wednesday, has the following account of the doings of a negro mob at Darien. Isn’t it about time these trewlyloyl Ku-klux were summarily stamped up? Can’t Bollock find time to look into the matter ? Says the Republican: We are indebted to Capt. John Irvine, of tho British bark Grace, now lying in the port of Darien, for the following statement of facts: The bark left New York about the 5th of June last, in ballast, bound for Ty bee or Doboy, and from thence, after taking in a cargo of timber, to a port in the United Kingdom, and had a crew of eight articled colored seamen,* with a first and second mate, who were both white. She arrived at Doboy about the first ultimo. On the 4th nit five of said colored seamen refused to do duty, and also refused to proceed on the voyage; wherenpon the captain, in discharge of Ms duty, had the sailors placed in jail, when the Ordinary of McIntosh county, a colored man, upon petition of the sailors, issued a man damus requiring them to appear before Mm for a hearing, wMch took’place the same day at the court house. After listening to Capt. Irvine’s testimony, who presented, in connection with it, the articles of Ms bark in evidence, first making oath that the same were the articles, and that the certificate and signature and seal of the Consul General thereto affixed were genuine, he having seen said consul write his name and affix the seal, the court refused the articles in evidence, and discharged the five seamen. A short time afterward Tonis G. Campbell, a colored justice of the peace, Issued a subpoena fox tho thraa remain ing colored sailors, and brought them from Doboy to Darien, a distance of twenty miles. Immediately upon their arrival at the latter placo, they also refnsed to proceed on the voy age. Captain Irvine then had them placed in jail, the bark being at this time ready for sea, with a cargo of timber. They were at once dis charged from prison at the instanoa of said Campbell, who drew a petition for habeas cor pus, tbo case coming before the Ordinary al ready mentioned. Immediately after Campbell issued an attachment against Captain Irvine for seamen’s wages, in a sum far exceeding the jurisdiction of tMs court. In short, the pro ceedings in tM3 instance were illegal from tbe start, the illegality appearing on the face of tho papers—the said Campbell, for Instance, having an interest in the sum of $44 for court costs, and issued the attachment returnable to his court to render judgment thereon. Two otber executions, one at the instance of the Ordinary and the other at the instance of Campbell, were also levied on the bark. In all these cases the proper affidavits and bonds were tendered to re lease the Grace, but they wererefosed, the officers saying that the cash must be paid. Subsequently five armed negroes, styled custodians of the ves sel, were placed on board the bark. One of them demanded water of Captain Irvine from a cask wMch he had provided for Ms journey to Eu rope. Upon the Captain refusing to give the individual water from that cask, Captain Irvine was arrested by two of the custodians, without a warrant, and brought to Darien under arms, and dragged about by the collar. He was taken before said Campbell, and upon asking Camp bell why he (the captain) was arrested without a warrant, Campbell answered thabhe (the cap tain) was arrested by Ms (Campbell’s) order. Since wMoh time tho captain was arrested on two bail writs, one for seamen’s wages, in the respective sums of $140 and the other for $13,- 000, for false imprisonment of said seamen. Captain Irvine gave bonds in the sum of $280 and of $25,000. We may state here that the bail writ is forbidden by the Constitution of the State of Georgia. The captain was next arrested under a possessory warrant for seamen’s bag gage, and was required to paycosts, ^mounting to $17 SO. A bill of injunction to prevent further pro ceedings at law against the captain, and a bill of mandamus commanding the said Camp bell and officers to release the bark forthwith, and not to interfere further with her, was grant ed by the Hon. Wm. M. Sessions, Judge of the Superior Court of the Branswiok circuit, and the injunction and mandamus were served on said Campbell and others accordingly; also a warrant for the arrest of said eight seaman, all of wMch proceedings up to. Monday evening last were disobeyed, the sheriff, a colored man, having the warrant in his possession since it was issued, but failing toexeonte the same. Armed negroes were seen in groups on the streets of Darien on Monday night last, and were supposed to be a-posse to prevent the sheriff from making arrests of the seamen. Capt. Irvine left Darien on Monday night by the steamer San Antonio to seek relief at the hands of the proper authorities in Savannah. It is apprehended, however, that, considering all the aggravating circumstances in connection with his treatment and that of Ms bark, tbat bloodshed may be the finale to the outrageous conduct of the Darien negro officials. Dr. D. O. O’Keefe,of Atlanta, one of themost prominent citizens and physicians of thatplace, died at Gainesville, on Wednesday. The Constitution, of yesterday, has the fol lowing: Pardoned.—Dr. S. B. lanes, convicted of rape at the Ootober term of Fallon Superior Court, and sentenced to tbe penitentiary for 20 years, received yesterday from Gov. Builock a full pardon. The petition for his pardon was signed by many citizepa. The miscegenation cases lately tried at At lanta resulted in the conviction of all tho par ties, and tho following sentences: William Hobbs to pay the sum $1,000, or be imprisoned in the common jail of the county for the term of six months to be computed from data. Martha Johnson, Hobbs’ colored para mour, to pay a fine of $250, or three months on the public works. Willis Harris, colored, con victed of fornication with a white woman, to pay a fine of $250, or six months on the public works. Mary Hants, Willis’ white paramour, to. pay a fine of $1,000, or. six months on the public works. Owen George, colored preachor convicted of illegally marrying a while man to a colored woman, to pay a fine of $50, or ten days on the pnblio works. , " An attempt was made to murder R. H. Hack ney, Marshal of Newnan, last Saturday night. Four caps were snapped at Mm as he sat in the porch of his house. Mrs. Dr. 3. S. Lavender, of Barnesville, pre sented her husband with three “well springs [of pleasure” on the 6th. Two male and one fe male. The Barnesville Gazette says the farmers in that section have gathered an nnusual crop of fine fodder the past week. The Hawkinsville Dispatch man had better keep away from Perry hereafter. He say3 if bed bugs were selling at 25 cents a quart, that town would prosper amazingly. Time! Water man. • The Dispatch says: Some time recently an exciting revival was progressing in one of the negro churches in this plaoe when a female member of the con gregation raised her voice to the highest pitch, “Galline! Hold my shawl and bonnet till I beat my sides and shout Glory! Glory!” and tbe last beard of tbe infinitely happy creature she was shouting and sobbing in heart-broken tones. The Gwinnett Atlas thus reports of crops in that county: The wheat and oat crop has been almost en tirely a failure. Mr. H. R. Hannah was the only gentleman, with whom we conversed, who reported anything like a good orop of wheat. Nine-tenths of those we talked to, stated that they would not more than get’ their seed back; wMle some did not cut a single acre, being satis fied it would not pay for the cutting. This is tho most complete failure in wheat made for many years. We will have to. look to Atlanta and enterprising mills in our county, for most of the flour nsed. Ia the upper part of the county com and cotton are looking poorly. In fact, Rockbridge district is the only section that is not suffering for rain. Without extraordinary seasons we cannot estimate the corn crop at more than one-half of the usual yield. Cotton is looking tolerably well, though suffering for rain. - Decisions or the Supreme Court of Georgia. DELIVERED AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1871. From the Atlanta Constitution. J Thomas G. Bryan vs. The State. Misde meanor, from Lee. Lochbane, C. J.—An indictment is sufficiently technical under section 442S of the Code that charges the defendant, in the year 1870, did un lawfully employ the servant of one Phillip West, during the term for wMchhe was employed, and that then he was in the employment of West, and that his term of service was not expired. Where the court let in testimony of a previ ous employment by the defendant, though be fore the end of the year, and not in writing, it was error in the court to charge the jury that such previous contraot was no protection or jus tification inasmuch as that question was for the jury under the facts. . Where the evidence showed the person em ployed by the defendant had been previously employed by the prosecutor to bring other hands with Mm to Ms plantation and superin tend them: Held, That suoh employment did not consti tute suoh person a servant within the provisions of the law. Judgment reversed upon the ground that ihe court erred in charging the jury the parol con tract entered into between Bryan and the em ployee would not proteothim against conviction under the fact in this case. MoOay, J., concurring.—A contraot that one shonld furnish a lot of hands to work a crop, he and they to receive one-third of the com and one-foarth of the cotton, the-contractor to su perintend and to oversee the hands and to get $150 extra, is not a contract of service under section 4428 of tho revised Code. Warned, J., concurring.—The demurrer to the indictment was properly overruled; the of fense was stated in the terms and language of the Code, and so plainly, that the nature of the offense charged might have been easily under stood by the jury. The 442Sth section of the Code deoiares that “If any person by Mmself or agent, shall be guilty of employing the ser vant of another during the term for wMch he, she or they may be employed, knowing that such servant was so employed, and that Ms term of service was not expired, or if any person, or persons, Bhall entice, persuade, or decoy, or attempt to entice, persuade or decoy any servant to leave Ms employer, either by of fering UtgUer wages, or in any otner way-what ever, during tho term of service, knowing that said servant was so employed, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conrio- tion thereof, be punished” etc. TMs section of the Code contemplates two classes of offenses. First, the employing the servant of another dur ing the term for which he, she or they may be employed, knowing that such servant was so employed, and that hi3 term of service was not expired. Second, enticing, persuading, decoy ing, or attempting to entice, persuade or decoy any servant to leave Ms employer, knowing said servant was so employed. There are three classes of servants recognized by the common law; first, menial servants; second, apprentices; tMrd, laborers. The general definition of ser vants as mentioned in the Code, is sufficiently comprehensive to embrace all these classes of servants as defined by the common law. When one man has employed a servant to work for Mm for a definite period of time, and another man knowing of such employment employs that same servant for and daring any period of the time for wMch the first employed him, he is guilty of the offense of employing the servant of another, within the true intent and meaning of the law. The object and icteniion of tbe law was to make it a punishable of fense for' one man to interfere with the con tracts of another for the employment of ser vants haring knowledge of such employment. If A has employed a servant by contract to work for Mm for a specified period of time, and B with knowledge of such contract of employment by A afterwards employs that servant, for any period of the time embraoed within A’s contract of employment, the offense is complete under the law, whether the servant has actually entered into the service of Ms employer or not. Tho law was intended to prohibit any interference with contraots for the employment of servants, knowing that they were employed. If the ser vant has entered into tho service of his employ er, and another attempts then to employ Mm, or does employ him, such person i3 liable to be indioted for enticing, persuading, or decoying such servant from the service of Ms employer, knowing such servant to be employed. Inter fering with contraots for the employment of servants, knowing'them to be employed, is one thing; inducing servants to leave their employ ers after they have entered upon their term of serrioe, knowing them to be employed, is another thing, and either is anindiotable offense under the law. I concur in the judgment of reversal in this case, on the ground that the court below erred in its charge to the jury in relation to the con tract made with the defendant and Mitchell Daniel, prior to the 'contract made wi(h West. That contraot should have been left to the con sideration of the jury for the purpose of show ing a want of any criminal intent on the part of the defendants, to violate the law. The charge of the court excluded from the consideration of the jnry the criminal intent of the defendant, In view of that prior contract. They might or might not have considered it sufficient to rebut the presumption of any criminal intention on the part of the defendant to violate the pnblio law of the State, and should have been left free to consider the evidence in relation to that point in ihe case. Lyon, de Graffenreid & Irvin, W. A. Hawkins, for plaintiff In error. B. F. Hollis, Solicitor General for the State. G. M. Stokes vs. Duncan O. Johnson. As sumpsit and motion for new trial, from Lee. HcCay, J.—Where it appeared from the record that Stokes, a country merchant, had, under a contract with a neighboring planter, advanced supplies and money to make a crop, and he was to have control of tho same, and to be first paid frem the prooeeda; that during the summer Duncan O. Johnson, commission mer chant at Savannah, also advanced supplies and money to the planter, with notioe of Stokes’ claims, it being understood that ootton would be gent to them at Savannah for sale, out of wMch they would be paid; all the parties be lieving that a crop of 300 or 050 bales would be made; that on Ootober the 15th, after 39 bales had been sent to Duncan O. Johnson, Stokes wrote him a letter stating that the planter wanted some money, and desired his ootton to be sold as it airived, unless they would advance upon it, and hold it for a better market, and adding, that as the planter owed half of them, it was proposed as a mutual arrangement, that as any cotton was sold, Duncan O. Johnson should pay its expenses, and the balance should be divided between them, to-wit: Duncan O. Johnson, and SJokes, on their insurance debts; > that afterwards other ootton was sent to Duncan soia me wnole, c , bags, paying expenses and sending half proceeds to Stokes, and retaining half m ft? debt, wMch at the time, was thus disohaJ^ that Duncan O. Johnson, expecting shipments, from the expectation of the^5? and from third understanding of Stokes' 1 Huh made further advances to the planter. 114,1 That Stokes, finding the crop would be rw 175 bales instead of 300 or 350, by directing tbe planter, and to save Mmself, sent for®,2 the balanoe of the cotton to other SavamS merchants, and sold the same, ana toon? whole of the proceeds on his own debt ^ t J 1€ra was nothing in the letter* Stokes of Ootober 15tb, to bind him to set-i forward the whole of the crop to Duncann Johnson, and it was error in the court to chsu*. the yury that he was so bound. ^ That under all the facts as % forth in the record, the verdict was sustained!* nutria!? 00 ’ ^ ° 0Urt SIred in Hawkins & Burke, John H. West, by s R Clark, for plaintiff in error. y a Hines & Hobbs, for defendant. H. B. Raifora vs. Seth K. Taylor. Rni fl „ Sheriff, from Sumter. ^ * m0T5 - McOay, J.—Where a sheriff had levied personal property and turned it over to a th;* party on Ms making the usual “claim affidavit*’ andgivrog a forthcoming bond, but taking L bond for the costa and damages wMch thejim might find for the delay in case the claim w2 for delay only, and the claim was dismissed b the motion of the plaintiff in fi. fa • K . JBJS not error in the court tc hold the sheriff lable on a rule for the value £ the property levied on, and to direct aaisrae ascertain that value. ” Beldfurther, That the answer of tho sheril! there being in it nothing bearing on the qua ti°n of the value of the property, was immateiul on the trial of the said issue, ana there was n error in trying the Bane without the present of the answer, it having been mislaid. Judgment affirmed. . Hawkins & Burke, for plaintiff in error. J. A. Ansley, by S. H. Hawkins, for defei dank . R. J. Allen vs. Enoch Brown and Thomas J Brown. Equity from Randolph. McOay, J.—When A, being fairly indebted tt B, in discharge of the debt sold him the noth half of lot No.’ 86, and A being in debt to oth« it was arranged that B shonld take a deed to tb whole lot and make a title to A’s wife for tb< south half and the deeds were so made, and i afterwards sold the'whole lot to O, who hadm tice of the transaction between A B: Held, That the contract as to the two hake of the lot being serviceable, the fraud as to 3 south half did not vitiate the whole, the jn- haring set aside the whole deed, it was no errs in the court to grant a new trial as to the nos half. Judgment affirmed. L. G. Hoyle & EL Felder for plaintiff iner; C. A. Wooten for defendants. Help fob the Nervous Whore is it to be ions! cries the trembling rictim of nervous debility. in the tavern dram; that fires up the circulation I: a moment, and is succeeded by ooliapse. Not info gative pills, or a Lenten diet, but in an iwigoru and restorative in which the tonic elements c i united with general aperient and alterative props ties. When Hoatetter’a Stomach Bitters was inte duced nearly twenty years sgo, this important c ject was first attained. This peaceful and act vegetable Bpecifio is as j uatly celebrated for its era of nervous diseases, as for tho absolute certib with wMch it relieves dyspepsia and bilionsnes The hot weather toward the close of summer geo rally aggravates diseases of a nervous typo, cre&tis a degree of feebleness which is beyond meass distressing. Under such circumstances rally ii bodily energies with a course of Hostetter’a Stoma Bitters. Of all tonics, it is the moat satisfactory: its operations, and the least exciting. It bn: the neives np to their natural tension, hut nott yond it, so there ia no reaction. It his otrt properties, however, than those of a nervine, ts as a blood depnrent and moderate aperient.! superior to any other medicine of the day. Fraud, however, ia on the alert. Tho cclebn of ihe original medicine has given rise to scores: counterfeits and imitations. Examino tlie labt and the fac simile of the signature of the firm; s that the spelling is all correct, and thus make e of the genuineness of the article you buy. F. £ Hostetter’a Bitters are never eo!d in kegs or ba bnt in bottles only. Changes of Food in the Mouth —Man, if would preserve tho fabrio and maintain tho fi tions of his body, must consume food. This de’ be converted into blood, upon wMch the whole Fi tern draws for whatever it requires. To make blcci the food must be completely transformed. Fire!, is subjected to the mechanical action of the teem But no mechanical action can liquify solids. Thra fore during mastication the saliva is poured into i mouth. The saliva is alkaline, containing salt)! soda, potass and lime. It servos to lubricate IS, mouth and moisten the food, so that it may asetm the pasty condition. Its chemical constituents n needed to convert the starchy elements (useless starch) of bread, potatooe, etc., into sugar. Ik if a little pure starch be chewed, it will bee; sweet, being converted into sugar by the sail; The saliva also converts sugar into lactic which tho stomach demands as a condition ct action. If food is Bwallowed listlessly andwi appetite, it is certain that the first conditions of ;■ gestion have been violated. The food ia t unprepared into the stomach. The gastric ji cannot do tho office of the saliva. Tho resri: dyspepsia. Now by a thorough knowledge of natural laws governing digestion and nutrition, by a skillful manipulation of carefully sell stimulant and tonic herbs, Dr. Fisch, in his Eitt- has provided a remedy which, acting directly the nervous system, stimulates appetite, and, si resulting reflex of this, promotes theBecretion of the gastric juice and of the saliva, therebycj abling the alimentativeorgans to convert then*] rials of the food intonntntious blood, and to form the quiescent forces of the food into the forces of vitality. auglleodiffl* CHOLERA. nov/ to cm3 it. At the commencement of the diarrtcc, wkicb 1 1 ways precedes an attack cf iho'chokrA. teaspocnful of THE PAIN KIELEBi J In sttgar and water, (hot if convenient,) si'l bathe freely iho stomach and bowels with ther Killer clear. Should tho diarrtcc or cramps e tinue, repeat the dose every ten or fifteen until tho patient is relieved. In extrema cx-j two or more teaspoon This may be given at a * The Pain Killer, as an internal remedy, equal. In case3 of cholera, summer compi^j dyspepsia, dysentery, asthma, it cures in cneKfl by taking it internally, and bathing with it Its action is like magic, when externally old sores, bums, scalds, and sprains. F<* . headache and toothace, don’t fail to tiy short, it is a Pain Kill®. Directions accompany each bottle. The Fain Killer is sold by all dealers ia ^ cines. Price 25 cents, 50 cents and $1 per bottle. aug5-eodiwlm GRIFFIN FE3L4IE OOLU^J T HE Exercises cf the Pall TermwiH Tuesday, August 8th. and continue fonr : ; lastic months. The Institution is In a .hour- condition. It is supplied with everythffiS sary to enable young ladies to pursue a tiw* and competent coarse of study. Griffin is noted for its heallhfnl climate,. water and good society. The moderate c-avA tins Institution commend it to the favoraow • Bid oration of parents and guardians. . >n . 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