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T1 ■ —■ " f d i 2 - ' The Georgia Weekly Telegra/ph and Journal &c [Mlesseiiger. Telegraph and Messenger. MACON. AUGUST 22, IS' 1 - Public Blessings- 1 ' "•» Cook & Co. who pronounced a national debt a public bless ing, and it Las certainly been a very great bless ing to them. They have made millions out of tho national debt by merely turning the pile over and stacking it up in different shapes so as to suit all tastes. Discoursing on the “Nemesis of Debt,” the Now Orleans Picajune estimates the national debt at two thousand millions; State debts one thousand millions; City corpo ration debts at least one thousand millions; Railroad debts twelve hundred millions; other debts enough to aggregate in all six thousand millions, paying $300,000,000 interest yearly, which falls on 7,600,000 tax-payers nnd averages forty-seven dollars apiece, a year, all round. A Bow ra South Carolina.—A Blaekville cor respondent of the Charleston Courier describes a serious condition of affairs in that neighbor hood, Ten days ago a negro man was brutally murdered, as was supposed, by thToe white dss- peradoes unwed Porter, and the negroes were ont en masse after them—stopping travel, press ing provisions and threatening if they did not make the arrest to kill everybody from the cradle up. Tho correspondent calls upon the Governor to send down a force to straighten matters. _ A Bicumond letter tell3 this of Governor Wise: “On one occasion since the war ho seized a colored newsboy on the street, gently laid Lim down on tho pavement, pat his right foot Upon tho neck of the prostrate boy, and then shouted, *Sic semper tyrannis, by G—d!’ But this dreadful expression of sentiment was imme diately qualified by his presenting a fractional greenback to tho “tyrant”—making that col ored youth importune him to ‘do it agin’ at tho same price.” A State Bankruit.—'The Baleigh Sentinel, commenting upon the condition of North Caro lina, says she cannot pay ont The interest on the debt is $1,200,000 annually—current ex penses of State Government $s00,000, and the taxes to support county, municipal and Federal Governments will swell these amounts to $5,- 000,000. On the other hand, the whole annual income of tho people amounts to only $0,000,- 000, and they cannot subsist on one-sixth of their earnings. The State is bankrupt. New Cotton.—Threo bales new crop cotton were sold at auction in Montgomery on Friday last. Tho first bale was raised by W. B. Bryant, of Lowndes county, Alabama, and was bid off by Messrs. Moore, Waldman & Co., at 4CJ oents. It weighed 015 ponnds. That bole came to $201 22. Tho second bale was bid off at the same price by A. & H. Strassbnrger, and weighed 485 pounds. Tho third was sold at 30 cents and weighed 120 pounds. --»-««>» - Hoed Fast, Agricultural Bueeau.—The Agricultural Department succumbs to the ridi- culo of tho cotton bears, and puts ont a premon itory warning to-day, that their September re port is going on high figures. Hold on, Com missioner. Stand by your estimate of three and a half millions. Don't hang too heavily on that letter from Arkansas. If three and a half millions does not turn ont to be high enough, wo will acknowledge ourselves mistaken again. Seventeen Battles and a Button.—Mr. J. H. Hamilton sends us tho rattles from a snake which he killed a few days ago in Taylor county. There are seventeen rattles and a button—the rattles over three quarters of an inch wide. Mr. H. says the snake weighed about thirty pounds, but he does not give the dimensions. That was a snako we should expressly and particularly de cline to be bitten by. Early Picking.—The Agricultural Bureau reports earlier cotton picking than last year. Last year, wo had a wet August and cotton was green and growing vigorously. This year a drouth has porvaded most of the cotton region nnd tho bolls have parched np in the hot sun and opened prematurely. Do they look upon that as promising a heavy yield of cotton ? A Poon Kcle.—While the young women are besieging Northern medical schools and colleges very successfully for leave to come in with the young men, the other day a young gentleman rindent wa3 peremptorily refused admission into South Hadley Female Seminary, of Mas sachusetts. What are we to think of a rulo which works only one way ? The Courier gives several illustrations of tho rise of property in Charleston since the elec tion. Illnstrating the ferocity of politics among the negroes, that paper tells of a colored hus band kept ont of his house by a termagant wife because he had voted for Wagener. Finally, the man made good his preroeatives with a hick ory stick. Harter fob Settembee. —Messrs. Brown & Co. have this magazine for September, with a moat varied and interesting table of contents— among other things stories by Annie Thomas and Justin McCarthy, and a most readable illus trated paper entitled the “Bard of Abbotsford.” This number is particularly rich in illustrations. Wild Lands—Suspension of Executions.— From a correspondence between Gov. Bollock and Comptroller Bell, published in the Atlanta Era, of Sunday, we learn that the former has issued an order suspending the issuing of exe cutions against nnretumed wild lands, until the meeting of the next Legislature. Gas and Wateb.—It is said seveBty-fivo per cent, of the damage resulting in ordinary fires comes from the smoke and water. The New Yorkers are considering the use of carbonic acid gas instead of water, as a fire extinguisher. The gas is more fatal to fire and hurts nothing. The Galaxy, for September, came yesterday, and may bo fonnd at the bookstores. Lady Ju dith, tho Nether Side of New York and Ought we to Visit Her, are tho serenl articles. Among tho others is a paper upon Agricultural Labor at tho South, by a Southerner. Tub Blue Bidge Bailroad is to bo relaid and completed on a gunge of three feet. The engi neer estimates that this will make a saving in oonstrnction and equipment of $140,000, and in running of 52$ instead of 70 per cent, of gro33 receipts. Br tho auditor’s report of tho State of Lou isiana tho public printing in that State for 1870 amounted to $519,981.81, and of thi3 sum $300,000 were pnld to tho New Orleans Repub lican. New Use of Lime.—Two negroes in Knox ville slaking lime and quarreling in unequal parts, one seized the other and held him in the hissing lime nntil he was brought to reason. A Level Head.—Our Atlanta correspondent’s head is extremely level on (he matter of this platform discussion in the Georgia papers. We eo with him fully. Mbs. Vallandigham died in Cumberland, Maryland, lost Saturday morning, no doubt from grief at the loss of her husband. A mile and n half of car loads of peaches reach New York every day over the New Jersey Bailroad alone. Straws In Politics. Replying to the Times who charges the New York Union Bepnblican General Committee with intense hostility to Gen. Grant and a pur pose to defeat his re—nomination, etc., failing in that, to defeat his re-election, Mr. Greeley says that, so far as be knows, the reverse of this assertion is true. He himself, does not favor Grant’s r-nomination and at ifce proper time, will give his reasons. Bat he insists on the right of every Republican to avow his personal preference, end if proscription, bullying and browbeating are to bo put in force, tho renom- ination will be a transparent farce. The, Tribune of the 10th would be sorry to believe that the proceedings with regard to the Looisana Radical Convention were sanctioned by an irfluential officials at Washington. The Tribune of tho 11th has an official from New Orleans, saying that Marshal Packard staled that he had authority from President Grant to use the Cuatom-honso as a place of meeting for the Convention, and to bring the United States troops for its protection. Whereupon that paper says, editorially: We note with great mortification the fact that United States Marshal Packard, with superser- viceable zeal, told the dissenting members of the Republican Convention at New Orleans that he was authorized by President Grant to use the Custom Honse for tho Convention, and bring United States troops there for its protec tion. Wo don’t mean to believe him, unless we must. It seems probable that the United States Marshal is restive under a load of odium which he desires to shoulder off upon others. The Sun calls the performance a strange and alarming spectacle, and says but for Grant’s in terference with his Swiss Guards he would haTe been beaten ont of sight in the Convention. Tire Frnuco-Knsslau Alliance. The Herald, of Friday, sounds an alarm as follows: Was Thbeatening.—The prospect of another war stares Enrope in tho face. Our special dis patch from Salzburg brings the startling news that Russia has formed an alliance with France against Austria and Germany. On the other hand, the Emperor William and Francis Joseph are about to meet at Gastein. The theme of their conference, at which the Austrian Chan cellor, Count Benst, is also to be present, will probably be the threatening Franco-Rnssian al liance. It now behooves the two Kaisers to unite in opposing the hostile combination. Rus sia is arming on a gigantic scale. Thiers has refused to reduce the large military establish ment of France. Surely, this means mischief. It is a well known fact that Russia has not looked with a favorable eye upon the overshad owing preponderance of Germany. Austria is her natural enemy, who has always barred the execution of her ambitions designs in theDann- bian Principalities. In view of these facts it is by no means improbable that the Czar has taken np those negotiations with Thiers which had been commenced with the Empress Eugenie and so inopportunely broken off by the revolution of the 4th of September. One is tempted to ask wbat has beeome of all that gushing and overflowing entente cordials which existed six or eight months ago between Russia and Austria, under pressure of which the electric wire was busy conveying messages of compliment and congratulation. We thought it settled then that, Germany and Russia wero to divide Europe between them. Taste and Flash. Contrasting theso in their practical exhibitions at Saratoga, hte correspondent of the Commer cial Advertiser has tho following: There is another type of womanhood in Con gress Hall—a patrician type which comes from cultivation ana generations of good blood. She wears no bright colors. Her eyes delight in subtle symphonies—symphonies in music and colors, too. Sho does not wear yellow, and blue, and scarlet—but she mingles them altogether as the painter mingles his paints on his palette, and produces a warm symphony in brown or drab—perhaps, the lovely pongee. If sho wears blue, she puts white in it, making it look like the sky, or darkens it to the blue of tho ocean. If she wears scarlet, she tones it down with blue till it becomes maroon. If she wears chrome yellow, she tones it down with white till it becomes straw color—always a symphony. Her shoulders are proudly erect, like the Ve nus de Medici, and her arms rest in nature’s at titude, like the arms of Thorwaldsen’s graces— palms to the front. Her hair is gracefully dressed, high np on the head, like the Yenu3 of Canova, to show the beautiful curves of the neck; and are not stuffed or swelled into a clnmsy globe, to hang like a dead weight down npon tho back. In the end sho “stuns” people in a civilized way—with grace, style and purity; while the plebian stuns with picturesque colors, deformed shoulders and flapping hands. There is a young lady at Congress Hall so graceful, so very stylish, and yet so plain in her attire, that when sho walks across the room sho is £ho cen tre of attraction. I venture to say that she knows more of art, of sculpture, and of the true beauty of form and style and color than all the plebian girls in the house. AMONG GENTLEMEN we see tho same idea illustrated. Yesterday when the carriages came np I saw a gilded four- in-hand with white reins and coachman in yel- lowliveries. Everybody looked as they would look at a row of peacocks on dress-parade, for the turnout was a “stunner!” By-and-by np came an English drag, jet black, with one sev enteen-hand horse. There was a harness for utility, with steel buckles, and the coachman was garbed in modest black. It was a swell turnout, but the owner has taste, and be stuns with a rig of plain and simple elegance. The Kentucky Election.—A Louisville dis patch to the World dated the 10th say3 that official returns received from thirty-nine coun ties show that Leslie is receiving not only the largest Democratic vote ever polled in Ken tucky, bnt absolutely the largest vote ever poll ed for any man of any party in that State. His vote in three counties exceeds by 904 the vote cast for Seymour in the same counties in 1878, and exceeds the vote cast for Stevenson that year in the same counties by 1164. The vote cast for the Democratic Congressional ticket in those counties last November, when the negro vote was first polled at a general election, was only 37,705. For Leslie at the late election these counties gave 55,3S4 votes, a gain of 17,- 079. The aggregate Democratic majority in 1870 was 32,314. Leslie’s majorities in thirty, nine counties exceed those of 1860 by 4461; his majority will reach near 50,000. Unofficial reports from about half the counties of the State show that while Harlan has polled a heavy negro vote, there has been a heavy defection of white men from the Radical party, and if tho whole Democratic vote had been polled it would have reached at least 130,000. Looking Up.—The News qnotes the following incident as an ovidence of what the recent po litical triumph will do for Charleston: A Broad street broker sold yesterday a lot in Savage street, measuring 50 by 120 feet, for $500 cash. This same properly, prior to the election, was a drag on his hand at $400, on time. He also was offered $7,000 for a honse and lot, which he tried to sell in. vain before the triumph of the Conservative ticket for $6,000. These are bnt straws, it is true, but they show which way the wind is blowing. Another sign of returning prosperity is the fact that capital ists from the adjoining cities and elsewhere are in the market for sites in the burnt district. We met with a gentleman from Augusta last evening, who has came over on the strength of onr success to invest in lands. Advice to Cotton Planters.—“Willoughby,” the New York correspondent of the Augusta Constitutionalist, writes as follows, under date of August 8 th: We are having some weakness in cotton. This is entirely due to the pressure of existing stocks on the market, and has no special refer ence to the future. I can only say to yonr read- era that I would not sell a bale of ootton till Liverpool advances to 10& for middling upland. An old lady, writing to her son out West warns him to beware of bilious saloons and bowel alleys. THE GEORGIA PRESS. Mr. Henry Batts, one of the oldest citizens of Miller county, died last Sunday morning. Bev. John B. McGehee has been elected Pres ident, and S. F. Scaif Professor, in Andrew Fe male College, at Cuthbert. Mr. Perry H. Oliver, for seventeen years a prominent citizen of Americas, died very sad denly on Sunday, the Othinst. Mr. Oliver was born in Macon, nnd was about forty-five years old. He was at one time the owner and exhib itor of “Blind Tom," whom he carried on a tour through Europe. Wo learn from the Snmter Republican, that Wiley Chambliss attemped to assasisnate Henry Hardy in that place, last Tuesday. Mr. H. was passing along the street when Chambliss sprung ont from a store door and struck him a blow with a knife or dirk on the right side, passing under and through the fleshy part of the arm, severing the main artery and rendering the limb almost entirely useless. Chambliss was committed to jail in default of $2,000 bail. The Dahlonega Signal reports a rain of frogs in that county last Tuesday. Thoy “literally covered the ground.” The Signal says: Beautiful Gold.—Captain Thies exhibited to us, on Wednesday last, a lot of five hundred and oddpwts. gold taken from the Battle Branch property—the prettiest lot we ever saw. The larger portion of it is as large as coffee grains, and some pieces weighing three pwts. and up ward. Under the head, “Work for Oar Next Legis lature,” tho Washington Gazette says, among other things: The educational interests of the State should be looked into, and something done in regard to the school fund. We believe all on hand was pocketed by the last Legislature. Our State University should be most liberally endowed, and the endowment secured in some way, if possible, so that no future military despot can interfere with it, as did the gallant “Headquar ters Popo” with annual allowance granted by a former Legislature. Of crops in Wilkes, the Gazette reports as fol lows : During the past three or four weeks the drouth has done immense damage throughout this county. About one-thud of the county has had no rain for about nine weeks. We passed through this section some ten days ago, and for tho first time saw com actually dead in the fields; in many fields the corn could have been burnt by placing a lighted match to it. The cotton was little, if any, better. We saw many fields which we do not believe would make a bale to ten acres. Fortunately, tho other por tion of our county has suffered very little, the drouth having set in after early com was pretty well made, and we have had good rains, daring the past week, in time to save tho late crop. The local of tho Bainbridgo Argus has evi dontly lost his arithmetic. He figures up six cows at $40 each to cost just $1C0. We don’t want to sell cows, for a living, to that chap. The com, sweet potaoto, and fodder crops of Decatnr county are all good, this season. A negro man, woman and child were capsized from a boat in the Flint River, near Bainbridge, one day last week, and the two latter drowned, the former making no effort to save either. Trains now run through from Atlanta to West Point in three hours, which gives a speed of 29 miles an hour. Mr. A. N. Saelson, of Washington, commit ted suicide, last Wednesday, by taking strych nine. He was crazy. Rival sowing machine agents at Savannah— decide the merits of their respective machines by revolvers and “cuss” words. This method saves much breath on their parts, and more bor ing on that of their victims. The Savannah Advertiser, of Sunday, says that Rev. Dr. Landrum, of that city, has re ceived a call from the Second Baptist Chnrch of Memphis, and that he will probably accept it. Late in the afternoon of the 8th instant, in Waynesboro, Henry S. Hill was assaulted by John D. MnnnerlyD, Clerk of the Superior Court, and fired upon three times, the first shot only taking effect. The difficulty, as the Expositor is informed, originated in suits brought by Hill against Munnerlyn for de manding and taking greater fees, in his official capacity, than are allowed by law. The Savannah Republican, of Sunday, says The Darien Difficulty.—There is no nows from the expedition to Darien, which left here Friday, at 6 o’clock f. m. A dispatch from that port, yesterday noon, made inquiry as to when the Marshal left Savannah, stating that nothing had been heard of the steamer. It is probable that she stopped at Doboy, where the bark Grace is loaded and ready for sea. Later.—It will be seen by a private dispatch, published elsewhere, that the arrest of Tunis G. Campbell and several of his confederates was effected yesterday evening, without difficul ty. They will be brought to Savannah for trial. Says the Era, of Sunday : Oua Mid-Webtebn Border.—We had the pleasnre of meeting onr esteemed friend, Major Bryant, last evening. He is fresh from or mid- western border, and bis report is that rain has been plentiful * Cotton on red lands is fine; on low lands it is rather poor. Com is average on good land. These remarks will apply to Meri wether, Troup, Coweta, Carroll, Heard, Fay ette, Clayton, Henry, Douglas, Paulding, and Campbell. A Romo correspondent of the Constitution alist writes as follows concerning the fate of the proposition made in the State Agricultural Con vention, to establish an organ for tho society: At the afternoon session of Thursday, the Secretary of the State Society endeavored to impress on the minds of the delegates, the ne cessity of the society having an organ—not a hand organ, bnt a newspaper one; and demon strated, on paper, the advantages to accrue therefrom. This proposition evidently struck the ideas of the convention as partaking strongly of a job, and the Rev. O. W. Howard replied to the Secretary in. a telling speech, demolishing the proposed enterprise in an incredibly short space of time. The Secretary is said to express the belief that there is only one man in Georgia who is capable of editing a newspaper. It is presumable that he has got that man by the col lar, and anticipated starting a paper that would swallow np all the smaller fry; bnt the conven tion did not see it, and the matter was referred to the Executive Committee, who will, of course, consign the proposition to its proper place. Capt Fillebrowne, the United States officer in charge of the snrvey of the Coo3a river, was drowned at Columbiana, Ala., last Saturday, as we learn from the Rome Commercial Mr. Love joy’s store, at Floyd Springs, was burned last Friday night Loss $5,000, insured for $1,200. Four thousand pounds of dried peaches were sold at Thomaston last Thursday. The Herald says the essence of peach will very plentiful this fall We clip the following from the Coiambus En quirer, of Sunday: Good News.—Weleam from Captain Bacon that eight oar loads of first class fish bar rail ar rived yesterday, to be used in relaying the branch road between this point and Opelika. This is the firatinstalment of 300 tons- He will commence distributing to-day, and the work of relaying will commence at an early day. This will be gratifying news to the people of this section. It isreported here, on good authority, that Mr. Hazlehurat, President of the Macon and Bruns wick Railroad, has arranged with the citizens of Lumpkin, and with, other parties along the route, to build the proposed railroad from Hawkiiuville, via Lumpkin, to Florence. BY TELE GRAPH. The cotton fioubes by telegram compare as follows: - ; 1870 Stock at all the ports 94,702 Stock at interior ports 20,120 Stock in Liverpool 568,000 American cotton afloat... 80,000 Indian cotton afloat.. 112,255 830,077 1,510,235 If there be no mistake in the figures, as we suppose, the excess is 080,148 bales. •1871 137,095 14,734 043,000 52,000 003,40G Cotton Movements of the Week. New Yobk, August 1.—The cotton movement shows a slight falling off in receipts and ex ports. Receipts at all the ports are 9,464 bales, against 10,472 bales last week, 10,900 the pre vious week and 10,661 three weeks ago. The total receipts since September 1st r -> 3,938,224 bales, again3t 2,889,079 for the C jsponding period of the previous year, showing an increase of 1,009,145 bales the present Besson. Exports from all ports for the weekare4,727 bales, against 9,109 the same week last year. The total ex ports for the expired portion of the cotton year are 3,114,106 bales, against 2,160,733 for same time last year. The stock at all the ports is 137,- 095 bales, against 94,702 at the same date last year. The stocks at interior towns are 14,734 bales, against 20,120 last year. Tho stock in Liverpool is 643,000 bales, against 508,000 last year. American cotton afloat for Great Britain 52,000 bales, against 35,000 last year. Indian cotton afloat for Europe 603,400 bales, against 112,255 last year. The weather south has been very much the same as last we6k. In some sections the ei# treme heat has been relieved by showers. In others there are complaints of too much dry weather. The receipts indicate an earlier piok- ing than was generally expected. The domestio produce markets have each in creased actively, which has been mainly caused by a decline in leading staples at the produce exchange. Flour has declined; wheat has Im proved slightly; com has been firm; oats have declined, and other grains show no material change. Cotton has steadily declined daring the week, and the New York and Liverpool markets are now nearer together in price than they have been for a long time past. The sales for the week ex ceed 08,500 bales, of which 55,000 bales were for future delivery and 13,500 bales on the spot and to arrive, of the spot cotton, exporters took about 0,900 bales, spinners 4,800 bale, and speculators 270 bales. Washington, August 13.—The Agricultural Department will not make another crop report till the September returns are received. Since the report for July indications aie more favora- ble to the crops of cotton and corn. A letter from Arkansas says, although the acreage is less than last year, the yield of the present year will be equally as large, and so of some other States. New Yobk, August 12.—The police of the 1st precinct yesterday presented the Collins and Quigley battory boatmen, each a solid silver shield for tho rescuing of the passengers of the Westfield at tho time of tho recent explosion. The American Life-saving and Benevolent So ciety will soon present them with gold badges for their services on the same occasion. The Widow of Col. John McLeod Murphey will bo appointed to a Custom-house inspector ship lately held by her husband. Connterfeit bills on the 9th National Bank are circulating freely in this city. The steamers Oceanic and Wyoming, from Liverpool, have arrived. Thurlow Weed is a passenger by the latter. Cumberland, McL, August 13.—Mrs. G. L. Valandigham died this morning. Keokuk, Iowa, August 13.—Wm. Briggs, in tending to re- opon a coal mine, sent his son and daughter to dip out water. His son put a ladder in the shaft and descended- Tho sister not hearing him descended. Briggs, his broth er and a hired man followed each other down the shaft; alt five were suffocated. At last ac counts two bodies had been recovered. Buffalo, August 13.—In tho match race for $2,000 Tommy Jefferson stood, 12 2 11; Wilkes, 2 112 2. Time, 2:29, 2:274, 2:28, 2:274, 2:272. Hudson, August 13.—The Catholic rebellion in this city is ended, and the siege of the chnrch has been raised. For the first time in seven weeks services wore held by the secretary of the Bishop. Conroe, the obnoxious priest, has been virtually suspended. Protestants and Catho lics alike feel relief at this peaceful termination of the recent embroglio. Chableston, August 13.—Arrived, schooner Id3 Richardson, from New York. The first bale of new cotton received here, ar rived to day from Middle Georgia, consigned to George A. Trenholm. Rome, August 13.—An enoyolical letter has been issued by the Pope urging the faithful to offer prayers for the freedom of the Holy See, and the triumph and tranquility of the church. Paris, August 13.—The press, generally, con tend that the vote in the Assembly yesterday is a success for the advocates of the prolongation of Thiers’ power, as the Right was desirous of postponing the question indefinitely. The conrt-martial at Rouen has passed sen tence of death on two soldiers who deserted to tho ranks of the Commune. London, August 13.—There was a meeting in Hyde Park to-day to protest against the sup pression of tho Phcenix Bank. The meeting in Dublin on Sunday last was an immense affair. Twenty thousand attended, and speeches were made from six different stands. The Communist and American flags and ban ners, with Irish harps and suitable mottoes, were displayed. Bmong the speakers were Brad- laugh, Adger and other well known Radicals. The crowd was of a better class than usual. It was very quiet and orderly and made few dem onstrations of sympathy with the speakers. Miners havo arrived from Staffordshire to take tho places of the strikers in the coal mines of Wales. Trouble is apprehended, and by way of precautionary measures, volunteers, many of whom are miners, have been ordered to deposit their arms with the authorities. New Yobk, August 13.—Arrived: Livingston. London, August 13.—The mission of the United States Treasury agents to Frankfort is fulfilled. The whole amount remaining of the new Iobd, one hundred and thirty millions, has been placed on terms fixed by the Government. Bismarck returns to Berlin from Versailles to day. He goes to Geostein to bo present at tho meeting between the two Emperors. Goldsboeo’, August 14.—About half past 12 o’clock last night, a fire broke out at the Ex change Hotel in this place, destroying tho two hotels, ten stores and tho outbuildings, and the railroad car shed. The loss is about $80,000— insurance, probably, $30,000. The fire was the work of an incendiary, and is generally sup posed to have its origin ont of the late negro riot Cincinnati, August 14.—Tho gauge of the Louisville and Cincinnati Short Line Road was changed from five to four feet and eight Inches BY TELEGEAPH. New Yobk, August 14.—The World has t speoial to the effect that Victor Emanuel pro poses to restore the Quirinal Palace to the Pope, and to enter into a league with France and Spain to secure the Pope’s perfeot indepen dence. Louisville, August 14.—The Pennsylvania Railroad now claims a controlling interest in the Louisville and Cincinnatti bridges over the Ohio River. Haetfobd, August 14.—Mrs. Catharine Toucey, wife of the former Secretary of the Navy, was taken sick in church and was dead before reaching home. New York, August 14.—John Clark, tho florist of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, another West- field victim, is dead. A woman was burned to death and another badly burned by a fire in Jersey City to-day. San Francisco, August 14.—The China has arrived from Hong Kong with 40 cabin and 283 steerage passengers and 45,500 packages of merchandise. Japan is quiet. An immense improvement in widening the canals and build ing wharves is progressing. The Corcan expedition accomplished no change of relations. Minister Low and Admi ral Rogers will await instructions from Washing ton before pushing hostilities. Details fully confirm the telegraphio report of tho second battle. .11" Londonderry, Ireland, August 14.—The ap prentice boys, headed by a member of Parlia ment, (Johnson McRea, of Belfast,) attempted a procession in violation of the proclamation. The police scattered them amid cheers for the Catholics. Stones were thrown, when the not act was read. The cavalry and police then charged upon the crowd and thirty arrests were made and several wounded. Havana, August 14.—The missing mail steam ship Espana has arrived with a broken shaft. London, August 14.—It is reported that the Italian government has instructed its Minister at Versailles, to express thanks to Thiers for his pacific and conciliatory words; but surprise that M. Thiers permits speakers touse language injurious to Italy. The liberal Rome journals express the readiness of Italy to enter into an alliance with France, if France abandons her negotiations relative to the Pope. Washington, August 14.—The steamer Nip- sic has been ordered to San Domingo waters. Creswell is here. . „ Eighty-six and three-quarters millions coin, and three-quarters of a million in currency are in the Treasury. J. C. Bancroft Davis ha3 been appointed agent for the United States at the Geneva arbitration under the Washington treaty. Washington, August 14.—Gentlemen: I have deemed it advisable, upon further considera tion, to withdraw the loan for the present from the market, with the exception of the five per cent bonds, as offered to the National Banks by the circular letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, dated the 10th inst This communi cation relates to the four per cent and four and a half per cent, bonds in combination with the five per cent Very reepeotfnlly, [Signed] Geo. S. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury. To Agents designated to negotiate the new loan. Offioial statement of the fiscal year ending 30th June, shows the receipts of customs to be $206,250,000; internal revenue over $143,000,- 000; public lands, $2,250,000; miscellaneous, $31,500,000; expenditures, civil and miscella neous, $09,500,000; war, $35,750,000; navy, $19,500,000; Indians, $7,750,000; pensions, $34,000,000; interest on public debt, $291,000, 000. The Eu-klux evidence now in the hands of the printer make3 2,000 printed pages. Pectston, August 14.—In an explosion of the fire damp in the eagle shaft, operated by Alvo Tompkins, twenty men, working in rear of the gangway at the time of the explosion, which tore away the timbers supporting the roof caus ing it to fall, left the men imprisoned behind the rook, with no means of escape until the de bris is cleared away. Benj. Davis, working out side of the rear gangway, was instantly killed by the explosion. The men imprisoned are most likely to be dead, or will be before they can be reached. It will take a day or two to get the bodies ont. Nashville, August 14.—Judge Baxter decides that the tax on lawyers is unconstitutional. An appeal will be taken. New York, August 14.—Three lives were lost by the Jersey City fire, viz: the niece, wife and son of Henry Smith. McGee, of the firm of Dnrancy & McGee, has been arrested on a charge of araon. Smith’s nephew is missing. It is supposed that he was burned. Philadelfhu, August 14.—JohnT. Faith, of Dohan & Faith, is dead. Kenosha, August 14.—The lumber scow, Scotish Chief, has been wrecked. It is sup posed the crew is lost Cincinnati, August 14 —In a row at the junction of the Lake Superior and Northern Paciflo railroads, over the suppression of the liquor traffio, the sheriff was dangerously shot, one rioter killed, and one wounded. Charleston, August 14.—Arrived, steamer Sea Gull, Baltimore; schooner Ann and Sosan, Boston. The first bale of ootton received here was- bought to-day by B. Mure & Co. for 254 cents per pound. It classed as middling. London, August 14.—The French govern ment, it is reported, requested the extradition Communists, who have taken refuge on British soil, to reply to the English Cabinet. It is said the request will meet with a decided refasal A vine disease prevails. The Portugal wine crop, it is expected, will be short. A dispatch from Rome reports that King Victor Emanuel had a narrow escape from death while hunting wild boars. The barometer has risen slightly since Sun day afternoon at the Pacific and Rocky Moun tain stations, and remains stationary north and west of Missouri. It has fallen in ’Wisconsin and Michigan, and threatening weather is re ported from Southern Wisconsin and Iowa. Tel egraphic communication with stations in upper Michigan is prevented by extensive fires, and smoko and haze is reported from Michigan to New York, and to Kentucky. Rain and cloud have continued in Florida and South Carolina, and are now reported from Louisiana eastward! The maximum temperature has extended from Missouri and Arkansas to West Virginia and Eastern Tennessee. Southeasterly winds, with partially cloudy and clear weather, has pre vailed on the middle and cast Atlantic coast. Probabilities: The barometer will probablyrise in the northwest without material change in the weather. Tho conditions aro favorably for local storms to-night in Wisconsin and Illinois, which will probably be repeated Tuesday after noon over the samo regions. Lighter rains, if any, will probably be experienced to-morrow on the Gnlf coast, and increased cloudiness with generally pleasant weather throughout the Atlamio States. San Francisco, August 14.—English in China denounce the return of the American fleet, as having all the moral effect of defeat. Two En glishmen and one German who were engaged in saving material from a wrecked German schooner, wero captured by the Coreaus and bound hand and foot, and strung on bamboo poles and carried to the interior. A British fleet sailed from Japanto inquire into the mat ter. The Sacramento has arrived from Panama. Washington, August 14.—Dennis Darden and John McCarthy exchanged four shots. Mc Carthy was killed. They were sporting men, Copenhagen, August 14.—The most string ent precautionary measures will bo enforced by the Danish Government for prevention of tho introduction of cholera into the country. Versailles, August 14.—Tho defence of M. Gustave Courbet, which was submitted to the court-martial to-day, is to the effect that he joined the Commune for the purpose of endeav oring to effect a pacification between its mem bers and the Versailles authorities, nnd that to his personal exertions was due the saving of many articles of art from destruction during the siege of Paris. London, August 14.—Balaria papers received by overland mail via India, contain details of a dreadful calamity which visited the small island of Tagalanda, about fifty miles northeast of Celebes, by an outbnrst of a volcano. Rnwang was accommpanied by concussion of the- sea, and a wave, forty yards high, swept all human beings, cattle and horses from the island. A number of persons perished—stated at four hundred and sixteen. The Evils of Democratic Wrangling 1 . Atlanta, August 13,1801. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : That hea then philosopher who commended the wisdom of silence would, in this day, be pronounced a fogy, if he even received a notice at all. Napo leon I. once said if a man should leave all his letters unanswered for three weeks, he would bo astonished at the end of that time how few of them required an answer at all. If the leading journals of the Sonth who aro engaged in the heroulean task of providing ways and means for tho National Democratic party of 1872, will pre serve their files and open them just twelve months from this time, they will have some con ception as to how much type and ink they have spent that only served to feed popular appetite for tho fleeting hour, and tended to build up antagonizing faotion3, to the hnrt of ail in the end. The trnth of the sitnation is now, what ever we may have been in the past, we are not now a platform dictating or administration making people; and while our struggles to re gain those for tho present, lost prerogatives, will most probably prove unavailing to ns, they may, and probably do, tend to cripple and im pede those who, under the circumstances, are entitled to and really have onr smypathies and good will, in their attempt to restore good gov ernment mother parts of the Union, and whose success now is all important as a condition pre cedent to tho grand triumph which we hope may await them and us in 1872. And if we could ail afford to “possess our souls in patience” for a while, there oan be but little reason to doubt we shall have fewer errors to regret, when the two great national parties are brought face to face at the ballot box, upon the issues that are to fix the national administration either in the hands of the friends or enemies of the Constitution for four years; and it may be settle for good or evil, the fate of Constitutional government upon this continent for the balance of our days. Discussion now has two decidedly evil effects. It develops and makes conspicuous before our enemies that we are in danger of essential dif ferences of opinion that will lead to material division in action; and it tends to widen a breach that time and change of circumstances may and would probably heal. No greater disaster could now befall us than such antagonism between the loading minds of the true representative men of the Sonth, as would the ultimatedivisionof onr people; and that man or journalist is the Wisest patriot whose counsels and influence tend to preserve the cordial union of sentiment and purpose, which has for six years characterized us a people. It is a gratifying circumstance that a number of leading journals of this State have not only risen to a comprehension of the truth of the cose and duty of tire hour, but have had the nerve to act in accordance with the demands of right reason in the premises. And while it is not my prerogative to deliver lectures to those who control the press, and whose op portunities for acquiring knowledge of men and things are better, still the right to express ap proval cannot be properly refused to even a ; private citizen. In my next I will give you my impressions of the Supreme Court Richard. Decisions of the Supreme Conrt of Georgia. DELIVERED AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 187 From the Atlanta Constitution.] R. J. Wilson, T B., vs. the Augusta Factory. Injunction, from Richmond. Wabneb, J.—This was a bill filed by the Augusta Factory Company against the Tax Re ceiver and Tax Collector of Richmond county, praying for an injunction to restrain the assess ment and collection of a tax which the complain ant alleges to be in violation of the existing tax laws of the State. The Receiver assessed the capital stock of the company at $102 00 per share on its six thousand shares of capital stock, as the ad volarem or market value of the stock on the l3t day of April last, whereas the com plainant alleges that said Augusta Factory, being an incorporated company, was bonnd only to return and pay a tax on Bix hundred thousand dollars, or $100 per share on its six thousand shares. On hearing the application for an in- junction, the same was granted by the presiding Judge, whereupon the defendants excepted. Bjr the 15th paragraph of the 79Gth section of the Code, it is declared that “All owners of stocks, in any incorporated company liable to taxation on its capital for such stock, shall not be taxed as individuals.” The 813th section of the Code declares that the “several railroads and other incorporated or unincorporated com parties of every kind, exoept banks, which are not exempt by their charter, or otherwise, or for which there is not a different method of taxation specially prescribed, pay the same rate per cent, upon the whole amount of their capitalstockpaidin, as is levied on other capi tal” The question made by the record in this case is: Whether the Augusta Factory, being an incorporated company, is bound, under the existing laws of the State, to pay a tax upon the whole amount of the capital stock of the com pany paid in, or whether the company is bound to pay a market value on that stock. To main tain tho proposition contended for by the plain tiffs in error, we Bhould have to interpolate into this section of the Code, the words: “Or the market value thereof,” so as tomake the section read, that the incorporated companies in this State pay the same rate per cent, npon the whole amount of their capital stock paid iD, or the market value thereof, as is levied on other capital The State was adopting a method of taxation, as a revenue measure—clearly it was not the intention of the General Assembly, in taxing the whole amount of the capital stock paid in by incorporated companies, to adopt sliding scale, that if the incorporated companies were successful in the management of their capi tal,and thereby enhance the value of their capital stock in the market they should pay an additional tax upon that capital in consequence of the suc cessful management thereof by tho respective companies; nor wasittheintention of tho Gen eral Assembly that the tax on the whole amount of the capital stock paid in should be abated, If by bad management or accidents by flood, or fire, or other casualties, the value of the capi tal stock of tho respective companies should be reduced below its par value in the market. The intention of the General Assembly was to levy a tax on the whole amount of the capital stock paid in by incorporated companies, and to do rive a certain revenue therefrom, andnot a rev enue dependent on the fluctuations of the value of that capital stock in the stock market. The State never contemplated such a speculative method of raising revenue as that, and has not done so. The wisdom of the General Assembly in imposing the tax upon the whole amount of the capital stock paid in by incorporated compa nies instead of tho market value thereof as revenue measure, is practically illustrated by the fact that the capital stock of a large major ity of the incorporated companies in the State will not sell for the par value thereof in the stock market, and if the construction of the law as contended for by the plaintiffs in error should be adopted, the State would be the loser by it so far as her revenue is concerned. The law does not impose a tax on the income or profits of the capital stock of incorporated companies, but on the capital stock thereof paid in the property of tho corporation. The true construction of the law, as a revenna measure, therefore is, that incorporated companies in this State pay the Bame rate per cent, npon the whole amount of their capital stock paid in, S3 is levied on other capital, whether the compa nies are successful, or nnsnccessfni, in their respective enterprises, or whether their capital stock is above or below its par value in the stock market. It is true that the constitution of 1808 declared, “that taxation on property shall be ad valorem and nnifoim on all species of prop erty taxed.” The capital stock of the Augusta Factory is one species of property, and the com pany is required to pay tho same' rate per cent, on the whole amount of their capital stock paid in, as is levied nnd paid on other capital The capital stock of tho company, and other capital is the same species of property, and the rate of taxation on both is tho same, and is, therefore, a uniform tax on that species of property, 03 contemplated by the constitution. Held, That tho Augusta Factory, an incor porated company, is only liable nnder tho ex isting laws of tho State to pay a tax on the whole amount of the capital stock of tha com pany paid in, and not on the market value thereof. Held also, That tho Augusta Factory Compa ny is liable for tho payment of all legal tax on the property owned by it as a corporation, which is not inclnded as a part of their capita 1 stock, and constitutes no part thereof. Judgment affirmed. Lochrane, O. J., concurred, but furnished no written decision. I HcOat, J., dissenting.—By section 813 of the Revised Code of this State the several incorpo rate or nnincorporate companies for which there is no other special mode of taxation provided, are taxable at the same rata as other property is taxed, bnt the assessment is to bo made up oil the whole amount of capitrl stock paid in, no matter what may bo tho market value of tho shares in the hands of the stockholder. But as the Constitution of 18CS, adopted since this clause of tho Code became the law, provides that taxation upon property shall be advalorem only and uniform upon all species of property taxed, and as the mode of taxation prescribed in section 813 is not ad valorem, since it fixes an arbitrary value upon the property, nor uni form, since it taxes the property of companies differently from the taxation prescribed for other property, said section is, in my judg ment, repealed as inconsistent with the Consti tution of 1808. 2. Companies corporate or incorporate, ex cept where tho State is by contract before July, 18G8, bonnd to a different rule, are now to pay tax upon the whole amount of taxable property in their possession, like individuals, the value of the property to be ascertained in any mode best calculated to attain the end. The market value of the stock is ordinarily a fair mode, bnt if tho company has property in possession and safe debts, so that the market value of the stock is not a true standard of the property, then other means must be resort ed to. McLaws & Ganahl, for plaintiff in error. W. Hope Hull, Frank Miller, for defendant. T. B. Myers, Sheriff, vs. D. H. 'Wilcox. Rule vs. the Sheriff, from Schley. MoOay, J.—Where a judgment was obtained in Schley county on the 25th of October, 1870, on a debt contracted before the 1st of Jnne, 1865, upon which an execution issued, and the sheriff failed to raise the money on the same, or receiving from the defendant an affidavit that the taxes due thereon had not been paid, together with a claim of an offset arrangement inlfavor of the defendant, according to the act of October 13, 1870, which affidavit set forth that said debt had not been zedeemed according to the equities between the parties under the relief act of 1863. Held, That it was error in the conrt to. hold tho sheriff liable on a rale for tho amount of the judgment, the proper construction of the act of October 13,1870, being at the time un settled and doubtful and the sheriff having act ed in good faith. Lochrane, O. J., concurred bnt furnished no written opinion. Ice cream should not be taken immediately after a fall meal, unless in the most leisurely maimer possible—a plateful in the course of fif teen minutes, daring lively conversation. If eaten rapidly it cools the stomach, prevents di gestion, and causes acidity, unseemly belching, If not aotual chill, which, in feeble persons, en dangers life. Ballie Ward, once a brilliant beauty of Louis ville, Ky., who could count distinguished con quests by the score, has fallen so far in the mar ket eligibility, lately, since becoming a widow, as to bring a suit for breach of promise against Mr. Newoom.be for $300,000 damages. Three heavy golden vases were lately found in Pompeii in the middle ot a street only a few feet under the ground. It is believed they were carried by priests in a procession to propitiate tiie gods, and that the bearers were killed while moving through the streets. A man climbing a liberty pole at Fort Leav enworth got hitched near the top, and it was six hours before they got him down. Carl Schurz’s Great Speech at o cago. ’ We gave an extract, yesterday, f roti speech of this distinguished German-Aa«. at Chicago a few night3 since, and fo-fo have the pleasure of calling attention to,, others. Schurz is tho leader of the G ;f i element in tho RadicaTparty, and as sue)' play a most important partin determmiBgt position with reference to the rival cand- for President next year. He certainly floe favor the ro-nomination of Mr. Grant, in that event seems, and, is in the opinion o! who have Gtudied the question, inevitabl* do not see why Schurz and the German £ cals may not be induced to assist in bet Mr. Grant. Of coarse they cannot be bier to unite with the Democracy upon any platform ns that which dug the grave of <1 party, in advance, in 1808. But if li T0 make tho platform, aided therein by wi< and moderation, and pntting far from ther_ passion, all prejudice and egotism as blinj it is baleful, wo see nothing standing in J way of securing their powerful aid. Bat to the extracts. If Mr. Grant’s ep- mis be not that of a rhinoceros he must su squirm under the comparison between him3 and Washington, made by one of the J 5a j and representatives of tho party at wh— - ■ ho is begging ro-election: CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERMENT. In speaking of the power wielded by the gj ernment to avert the evil3 arising threrrom 6 things were essential, the speaker said: That, conscientiously adhere to the principles of stitutional government, and that we elevate standard of morality in political life. The opposition to the Ku-klux bill in gress was because the bill invested the Go\ ment with powers not warranted by the Cou tntion—powers more dangerous in effect tb the abuses thoy were to correct It was U appointing a lion to protect sheep against wolu The lions would easily keep the wolves aw; but what was to protect the sheep from the lio Our general government has the power to n tect the rights and liberties of its citizens, bat doing so, it is not to go beyond certain lines its authority prescribed in the Constitntio: Senators voted against this act not as if tb had been unwiling to protect the lives and rig. and liberties of those who needed it ini'; South, bnt because of the manner in which ti protection is proposed, involving great to the rights and liberties of all; and wet; fused to grant such powers to tho Execute not because the President now in office didn individually possess our confidence, but becau we would not entrust any man, were he evad great and good with such powers to rule ove; the American people. TEE WAE OVER. In periods of extreme public peril, a tempo rary grant of such extraordinary powers m»y h a necessity, as the Romans appointed a dictate when the enemy was at their gates. In soi periods the habit of using exceptional poweni- easily acquired, but it is time at last we shoo!; understand that tho war is over; that tho halls of war must bo dropped, and that constitution; government must once more reign supreme.' There is no safety for our free iEsntutions br in this. THE MARKET WHEMt CONSCIENCES ARB BOUGHT, j Much would be won for the civil service Is lam by the limitation of the Presidential teir to one term. Yon make a President ineligible for a second term and the market where car- sciences are bought and sold will at least be limited to that extent. Washington recognized the high responsibility of his duty and gave to his subordinates that measure of hi3 curjj notions of honor by his own example. However much he deserved reward for that which he had done for the country, ari nobody ever did or deserved as much 'before him or after him, he showed that he looked upon his office as an obliging opportunity to render still greater services and not as a mere MILCH COW TO FEED HIM AND HIS KIN, and he could ask of every government ofScer ! under him the SAmo notion of honor and doty, 11 I am for the elevation of the moral tone is our political life from my whole soul, and he who is earnest must not recant from pursuing evil in all its ramifications, whatever it may ba It is my conviction that tho American people, if they desiro to restore purity to our public life, mu9t direct their attention to the head os well as the members of the body politic. The State Fair.—Within the last day or two we have conversed with several gentlemen cf the city who attended the Agricultural Conven tion at Rome last week, and they are all of the opinion that the Fair will bo largely attended by the people of North Georgia, a3 well as by those from other portions of tho State. It will be re membered that the State Apricultural Society adjonraed at Rome, to meet again in this city on the evening of the 23d of October, the first day of the Fair, that its officers might clearly understand all matters pertaining to the exhibi tion, location on the grounds of their varione offices, the schedule, in fact of the Fair, so tbs! there would be no confosion, misunderstand' ings, delays, etc. So for as the preparation of of the gronnds and bnildings are concerned, we hove only to say that they will be ready in time for the Fair. Mayor Hoff is giving them his personal attention and superintendence, and knowing the spirit and energy of the man, we know that he will make things come to time. It has been suggested, and wisely, too, we think, that a resident Committee of gentlemen be appointed to assist the officers of the Society in the discharge of their du ties, by giving them all desired information in regard to the varionsbnildings on the grounds and other local matters, and more particularly to assist exhibitors in arranging tbeir articles for exhibition, and aiding them in securing board and lodging for themselves and forage for their stock. It is desirable above all things, to give no jnst cause for dissatisfaction to any body, in regard to the management of the Fair. Let every exhibitor have a fair showing, and every visitor a fair Bight, and all will pass off pleasantly and successfully. In the awarding and distribution of premiums there will he no delay. As we authoritatively stated a few days ago, the premiums will be paid in greenbacks on the Fair Grounds, immediately after they are awarded by the judges, and no successful exhibitor will experience-the least delay or trouble on this soore, as was the case at the Fair of 1SGS). Made ms Mark.—A young friend just re turned from the Chalybeate Springs reporta that nearly three hundred guests are now there and still they continue to arrive daily. After speaking in almost frantio enthusiasm of the beauty and fascinations of a certain Miss O., of North Georgia, who, he says, is oertainly the “prettiest girl in the State,” we got him to talk “business” a little. He says John Black, of the Enfaola News, made his mark while at the Springs, and that the cabin he oeonpied is now known to guests and labeled as the “Milk Punch Cabin.” If the local editor-of the Mont gomery Advertiser is to be believed, Black made his mark at the Springs in another and more forcible manner. Screws says there was a heavy haul made on the stook of crockery at the Springs during Black'd visit, and in corrobora tion of this statement, it appears that soon after his return home he advertised a lot of mixed crockery ware for sale. We thought when ^ passed through this city that he bad an unusual^, large and heavy lot of baggage for a local ed itor, ont on a trip of health and pleas ore, and we heard him tell a porter at tho Brown House to handle his baggage carefully, as it all eon- tain ed more or less glass in the shape of phials of medicine. We don’t know that be carried off anything from the Brown House, for all the crockery of that establishment is labeled, and it would get him into another clou place it he offered it for sale; bat we do know that he car ried away dead loads of good things to eat He got enough to hibernate upon.
