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anaMf* •Mmt iV*. Tlie Greorgia, "W^eekfLy Telegraph and. Joixriial Sc Messenger. Telegjrap| and Messenger. MA COIf SEPTEMBER 12 1871. NKews Items. f “Cotton ExerriD.’’—Cotton got excited in Liverpool yesterday—so says the telegram—and went np jnst the one-half of one farthing a pound. That excitement, after all, was not so heavyaa the Indiana hoosior’s who lavished two oents upon ahottle of root beer to treat his bride on her wedding day. Down here in Georgia wo are not excited. Too much cold water has been thrown on our prospects. We look with calm iadifferenoe on half farthing advances. We anap our fingers at the frantic efforts of tho bears. Wo don’t care adime for the loftiest or the leanest estimators. We know cotton is going to plead his own cause in court this fall term, and will be sure of a verdiot accordingly. The Railways from Macon.—We are in formed that on the Macon and Augusta Hoad, Commissioner’s creek bridge and nearly all tho culverts are gone. On the Central Road the east end of Walnut creek trestle, and the abut ment of the bridge, are washed out. A land slide occurred at Storey’s cut, and tho train which left Macon Wednesday evening ran off there. There is a wash between Griswoldville and Gordon, and between Gordon and tho Oconee about a milo of the track has been washed away. On the Brunswick Boad tho train which went out yesterday wa3 stopped at the river five miles out by high water. On the Southwestern road, there is a wash at the eight mile post, but the Eufaula passengers came through last night on time. A Discrepancy.—Secretary Bontwell reports tho National debt, July 1,1871, $2,353,332 22, but Treasurer Spinner reports it, at the same date, to $2,243,580 08—which makes a differ ence of $109,030,511 14. In some pockets that error would bo material. Census Mubdeb Statistics.—Vermont pro tests against the seventy-three murders set down to her account by tho census enumerators, and says they were committed in Virginia. But, if so, who shipped these ready-made murders to tho Green Mountain State ? Let Vermont off. Her star never sets—she never murders any body. Bat when in the lapse of time affairs take a turn, and somebody gets hold of the pub- lio purse and sword who feels it to ba his inter est to blacken Vermont, what security has she that a thousand murders a year will not be charged to her? The Charleston Daily Bepublican, of Tues day, says “Sarah Brown stole a muslin dress to be baptised in on Sunday last, and was trans ferred to the city jail for thirty days by Trial Justice Magrath yesterday.” Ethiopian to the last degree. The potato rot in Ireland threatens in some counties the loss of fully nine-tenths of that im portant esculent. This would involve severe suf fering to the Irish people, but for the favorable condition of the grain crop. The Heathen Chinee.—Bev. James Beecher, who is the Iocnm tenens of his brother Henry Ward, during the vacation, held forth to Ply mouth Church on Sunday, on the Christian dnty of permitting Chinese immigration. Beecher insisted they were temperate, industrious, perse vering, peaceable, tolerent and cleanly. He had had five years intercourse with them. The Direction or the Stobsi is a source of much controversy. Wo seo tho Telegraph local had it from the North, and one of the editors on the other page stated it blew from the South east. The trnth is, the wind veered a good deal. The blasts seemed to come from different points; but in the early part of the storm the general point from which they came seemed to the writer to bo E. S. E., while towards night they had plainly shifted to about N. E. Damage from the Stobm.—All day yesterday rumors and reports of disaster from the storm were rife, but, as usual, we hope they will be found to be considerably exaggerated. The railways, with the single exception of the Macon and Western, havo sustained serious injury; but to how great an extent is not known at this writing. Wo fear that the Telegbaph will be cut off from a good many readers for several days. It is reported that a week will be re quired to repair the breaks in the Macon and Augnsta Boad. The crops have, no doubt, sustained great injury. Cotton exposed to the heavy rain and furious blasts, is no donbt a good deal stained and beaten out. Com on the lowlands and bottoms has probably been submerged and a good deal of it rained. Ku-klux Arrests in North Carolina.—The Columbia Union of Saturday says: “A gentle man down from Washington yesterday, states that as he passed Greensboro’, N. C., he saw sixteen Ku-klux in cearge of United States troops, the commanding officer of whom told him that abont sixty more were abont to be ar rested. Those under arrest, one of whom was said to be a member of tne Georgia Legislature, were on their way to put in an appearance be fore the United States Commissioner at Wash ington.” Earle Marriage.—The ancient maidens of Poughkeepsie were mnch scandalized by a “mar riage in high life,” where each of the parties was seventeen years and a few days old. They in sisted that the organist should play “Bock Me to Sleep, Mother,” and “Pnt Me in My Little Bed;” bnt he would not humor the spiteful things. The young couple were married like grown folks, to the Grand Wedding March. One of the spiteful demanded where they were going —and when told to Saratoga and Niagara, of course. “What all alone?” asked that spiteful thing. The California Election.—It seems that the Democrats have been whipped in Califor nia by two or three thousand majority against them. In 16C9 the Democrats carried the State by seven or eight thousand. That i3 not pretty at all. Fastest Nao.—Goldsmith Maid made yester day In San Francisco the fastest time on the American trotting records. She made three miles in G:57j, and one of them in 2:17. Dexter’s champion time was 2:17^, bnt Dex ter’s glory is now eclipsed. The New York Lodger most try again. The New Balance.—-The two Emperors of Austria and Prussia met day-before-yesterday at Salzburg, to fix up tho new balance of Euro pean power. The scheme, so it is said, is to pit Austria, Prussia and Italy against Franch, Rus sia and Turkey. England is left out; but as she has a special interest in Russia’s eastern as pirations, she would be forced to tako a hand with the Germans. The Selma Times saw a catfish on Tuesday which weighed 117 pounds. Simon Suggs would call that an “ondashns cat.” “Lieut. Go7ebnob Dunn,” of Louisiana, ad dresses a letter of more than three columns to Horace Greeley in defenoe of Grant’s Gatlin Gun Convention. This letter appears in the New Orleans Times of the 5th. Dunn says there are 90,000Radicals in Louisiana, of whom 84,000 are colored. Probably abont 100 in the whole crowd pay taxes. Evxax Democratic oounty convention held in Pennsylvania has nominated Gen. W. S. Han cock for President in 1872. The Smallest Baby.—a lady near Ballville, Sandusky county, Ohio, recently gave birth to a ohild which weighed bnt one pound. It is now nearly four weeks old and weighs less than two pounds. At the time of his birth a lady’s finger ring was slipped over its band and arm to the shoulder. Hundreds of people have been to see it. Health ot Charleston. We copy elsewhere an article from the Charles ton Courier of the Eth instant, which fully sus tains the ideas we have heretofore expressed in regard to the existence of yellow fever in that city. No doubt some few cases of a malignant type of malarial, fever havo occurred there, growing ont of the filth and dilapidation of cer tain localities wherein these cases have origina ted. Charleston, since the war, has been ruled by a terrible set of vagabonds, black and white, solely in the interests of what they can steal and every sanitary regulation and precaution has been neglected. But notwithstanding this fact, and notwith standing tho alleged existence of yellow fever, the Courier’s mortuary returns show that the city is remarkably healthy—more healthy than she was last summer when no fever was com plained of—and probably quite as healthy as any city of her size on tho continent. For tho week ending August 20th, 1870, there were 34 deaths, and for the next week 47, while for the week ending 2Gth August, 1871, there were only 27 deaths and this out of a total population very little short of fifty thousand! Neither New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, or Chi cago, can show so light a proportional bill of mortality at any season of tho year. Under these circumstances,Charleston is the victim of a bad name merely, and there is little sense in the talk and panio about her sanitary condition. Which Knows Best? General Hawley, of the Hartford (Conn.) Couranf, a violent Radical paper, has issued a circular letter in reply to the Beast’s recent at tacks upon him at Springfield and Worcester, Mass., the concluding paragraph of which is as follows: I think General Butler the most reckless, un scrupulous, dangerous demagogue this country has seen since Aaron Barr, and it is to me a pa triotic duty and high pleasure to oppose him. There is satisfaction in the reflection that a man with such a hole in his head where tho moral faculties ought to be, cannot have good judg ment or real shrewdness. He may make a good deal of trouble, bnt ho will kill himself. He might succeed in Paris a3 Robespierre and Rochefort succeeded, but he is a monstrosity in New England. Per contra, as to whether or not the Beast is a “monstrosity in New England,” we read that at the meeting of the Massachusetts State Tem perance Alliance at Boston, last Wednesday week, the Rev. D. Marvin thought “they ought to have some sympathy for General Butler for -the manner in which he had smitten the news papers, against which the temperance men had to contend, and he believed that Gen. Butler, by striking against combinations and newspa pers, had opened np the way for the temperance cause. He wanted a man to vindicate the right in the State Hoose, and free it from combina tions and ring3. If General Butler went in as Governor Tie would be backed up bp all of the Christian men of the State." As to who is the most credible witness on this point, we leave every man to judge for himself. But our decided opinion is that Marvin is much the best authority. Ho knows, as the country does, that the Beast is the best living represen tative of the Massachusetts of the present day, and that with him as Governor of that once honored Commonwealth, the eternal fitness of things will have received the most signal illus tration of the century. In the Name or tlie Prophet—“Figs.” For the Telegraph and Messenger.] From the flashes of ancient wisdom in your columns, we perceive that you are classical scholars. We hope, therefore, that you appre ciate Figs! You must know the part they have played in history. Figs are classic fruit What moved the millions of Xerxes to Greece? Figs! Never should we have heard of Thermopylae or Marathon, or Salamis, bnt for figs! Indeed, for jast such luscious high-flavored suka as good friend Ayres has set before me here, an cient Greece was invaded, and (we wonder not) greedily overrun by the Persian hosts. It is history as true as history ever is. Xerxes was at breakfast. A plate of imported fig3 before him. Persians,like our Georgians, imported their eatables, it seems. The soul of the King went out after the Paradisaica suka, that with glossy coats of pnrple and gold, tempted the fruit-knife of the hungry monarch. He devoured the last one. He sighed for more Jigs to conquer! But alas! (an accident, we suppose, on the Grecian railroads!) there were no more imported figs to be had; and nnhke your favored correspondent, he had no considerate friend Ayres to replenish his “lordly dish.” The Eing arose in disap pointment and wrath, girded on his sword, sum moned his immortals, out-stormed the elements, bridged the Hellespont, marched over, tremen dously resolved “I will no longer buy the figs of Attica; I will take possession of the country and have jigs of my own. (The old question of meum and tuum, you perceive. We will come to it directly.) Pompons diplomatists thought he wanted ter ritory, empire. It was a mistake. It was a gastronomical difficulty entirely; he wanted figs! Equally determined were the fig-eating Greeks that he should not have their figs. They picked the whole crop in advance, and there fore, as from the Bock of Salamis, he surveyed the situation, history tells us “Xerxes wept,” and the Greeks desperately contested .the point. Historians, those gentle men with loose imagi nations and vast conceit, say that they fought for “liberty,” and many poetical individuals believe them still. Fudge! Figs were the question. This—whether each and every Greek among them hadn’t a right to “sit under his own vine and fig tree,” no Eu-klux Persian daring to make him afraid. This was liberty! three thousand years before the Magna Charts. Writers of romanco tell ns abont an old tree of Liberty, shaken by storms and watered with, blood! What was it, after all, bnt a grand old plantation fig tree, (friend Ayres has a whole forrest of them) porrigens bronchia, laden with luscious glossy fruit, and cool patulant leaves. No marvel that the gallant Greeks so loDg preserved their independence—(such independ ence was worth preserving)—held out against all comers. They eat figs; and verily, if this down-trodden, carpet-bagged, Tennessee-fed population in this degenerate section of Ameri can civilization, yclept Georgia, would go to work and plant fig trees, both their patriotism and their digestion would improve ! Like the ancient Greeks, their liberties would be safe. You tell ns that the body politic is sorely af flicted with boils, and various the prescriptions for the disease—numerous and increasing your political doctors—quacks every one of them. What are all your “new departures” upon an empty stomach? We tried that during the war. Let the political “liver” alone. It is too vigo rous now. The main difficulty is, our victuals are not handy enough, we have to fret and worry too much to get at them. Hence, these “trea sons, stratagems and crimes.” It is not the first time these political boils have broken out upon king or people. An old king, Hezekiah, you remember, once had them. A bad case, too. Like this old American Con stitution which these quacks are tinkering at, he was “sick unto death.” And what was the remedy? A plaster of these same figs. We have scripture for it. Let, then, every degen erate son of our forefathers goto work and plant his “own fig tree” that he may “sit under it” and eat to the restoring of his body and the healing of his soul. For what is liberty with out breakfast; and what is breakfast without figs ? And as for our benevolent friend, Asher Ayres, wo wonder not at tho serenity of his in dependence. He breakfasts on figs. Therefore, “Tho ’round hie midstthe rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on his head.” And there may it ever settle. Sukon. P. S.—Never trust a man who tells you “he don’t care a fig.” He will bear watching. Des perate case of mental crassitude. Once in a Hundred Yeabs.—The Montgom ery Advertiser says “that century plant which bloomed last year for the first time in one hun dred years, (aocordingto the oldest inhabitants) has bloomed again. The proprietor cut it down yesterday and calls the great wonder a mam moth hnmbng.” A sain fall of ten inches in one consecutive season is astonishing. We learn indirectly from Mr. Boardman that 49.80-100ths inches of rain have fallen in Macon so far this year, and nearly fonr months to coma. Disease Among the Fish.—The Tampa Pen insular says along the coast dead and dying fish of all kinds, are found floating on the water or stranded on the shore. No natural cause of the disease is known to exist. THE GEORGIA PRESS. Twenty shares of Georgia EaiLoad stock sold in Augusta, on Tuesday, for $99 a share. A train on the Charleston and Bavann ah Bail- road ran over the body of a negro man Monday night. The supposition is that the negro had been murdered, and his body afterwards placed on the track. The Savannah News informs ns that “Gov ernor Hoffman has appointed Hon. A.- O. Ba con, of Macon, Hon. George Hillyer, of Atlan ta, Joseph P. Carr, Esq., of Augusta, and CoL H. D. Capers, of this city, Commissioners of Deeds for the State of New York in Georgia.” Mayor Screven, of Savannah, has appointed Messrs. Edward C. Anderson, Henry Brigham, and Win. S. Bassenger delegates to represent that city in the Southern Commercial Conven tion, which meets at Baltimore on the 25th instant. The. News relates the following Mayor’s Coart incident: , There was a character in the Mayor’s Court room yesterday, who, notwithstanding the fact that he was charged with the rather serious of fense of violating the city ordinance, and was even then in presence of the august magistrate who is sworn to punish all offenders and viola tors of the law, was rather provokingly mirthfaL When told that he would have to pay ten dollars or to go to jail for fifteen days, he arose and in a voice of great solemnity said, “I thank your Honor, I do; faith, thin, an your Honor is a peifect gintleman; I got off light; I thought I would be thransported. The late rains have greatly damaged the cot ton crop of Burke and adjacent counties. The rust has attacked the plant, and it is also rapidly shedding its fruit. Railroad communication having been sus pended between Charleston and Savannah, the mails are now sect by way of Angusta. Augnsta ‘‘calculates that she cau carry through her canal enlargement project for $371,000, and leave a fair margin for the contractors besides. Messrs. Brown & Hackett have not leased the Screven House, Savannah, os we announced a few days since. The locals down there seem to be playingsthe game of now you see it and now you don’t see it. The monthly court-house sales at Augusta and Savannah, on Tuesday, were not any great shakes. At the former place, some real estate changed hands at moderate prices. Horses and mules brought very low figures. The Savannah News, of Wednesday, prints the following letter: Office of the Board of Health,) Beaufort, S. C., September 4, 1871. > Editor Morning Mews: For the information of the pnblio, and for the purpose of correcting false and exaggerated reports which have found place in the public press, respecting yellow f6ver in Beaufort, I would say, wo havo had only five cases of yellow fever, two of which proved fatal, the remaining three are convalescing rapidly. No new cases have been reported for the last ten days. With the present favorable chango of atmosphere, and with the advantages of strict sanitary and quarantine regulations which wo now enjoy, no fears are entertained by our citi zens of the fever becoming an epidemio. The general health of our city is remarkably good, and our sanitary condition was never bet ter. Jas. M. Ckofut, Chairman Board of Health. They have a “new (matrimonial) departure” in Atlanta. After spending a night in the cala boose the happy couple, to flank the chain gang, get married. ’Twas M. Goode and Letitia BelL No cards. S. F. Mann has been nominated for Glerk of the Superior Court by the Democrats of Pike county. An infant daughter of Mr. G. J. Allen, of Monroe county, was choked to death last Satur day, by a piece of pig’s liver, which the nurse gave it while its parents were at cbnrcb. The farmers in tho vicinity of Columbus are saving large quantities of hay. One of them has cut and secured 25,000 pounds. Wo clip the following from the Atlahta Con stitution, of yesterday: Heavy Suit Against the City.—Messrs. Stid ham & Co., and others, connected with the con tract with the last conncil to construct water works for Atlanta, has entered suit in the Uni ted States District Conrt against the Mayor and Conncil of Atlanta, for failure to comply with the contract, laying their damages at one hun dred thousand dollars. Atlanta Public Schools.—We are pleased to give to our readers the important intelligence that a system of pnblio schools for Atlanta may now be looked upon as almost an accomplished fact. The Board of Education have elected B. Mallon, of Savannah, Snperintendent. His du ties will commence on the 15th of NovOaber. The schools will be opened on the first of Janua ry next. By that time three school houses, of a capacity to accommodate four hundred pupils each, will be completed. We are pleased to learn that Mr. Mallon haB resigned his position in the pnblio schools in Savannah, and has ac cepted the position tendered him here. The United States District Conrt for the Northern District ot Georgia commences its fall term next Monday at Atlanta. There are 473 cases on the docket, of which 24G are crim- inal. The Era, of yesterday, says there has been a big fire at Stevenson, Ala., on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railway. The Tate Honse, depot buildings, platform, etc., were all de stroyed. • The Atlanta Snn says Foster Blodgett seems to be acting Governor in Bollock’s absence— that he spends all his time in the Execntive office, and appears to be the chief man of the concern. BY tele: graph. A Living Head on a Paralyzed Rody— How He Keeps oft the Flies. From the St. Louis Times, August 31.] Near Glenwood, Iowa, resides James T. An derson, aged twenty-six. Three years ago he died from his neck downward. His head, how ever, is alive, and more vigorous and active than before the body, which it once governed, ceas ed to be vital. At the age of two James’ father died, and his mother soon married again. At the age of three he was tossed several times by an angry cow. Shortly afterward, while he was eating bread and milk, a rattlesnake joined him, and when the two had finished his snake- ship made his bow and retired. At five years old a horse ran away with him, and made for a stable, aoross the entrance of which was a bar. The horse reaohed in under a bar, and his mother seized him just in time to save his life. He grew up active and strong, and was fond of sports. He became a good gymnast. James, at the time of the accident that left him with a dead body and a living head, was a fine, handsome young man. He weighed two hundred pounds, and there was not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his body. One afternoon, when on a visit to an nude at Glenwood, Iowa, he was exercising on a pole placed from one tree to another in a back yard. He had on a pair of gaiters tipped with patent leather. He swnng down from the pole by his feet; the leather slipped and he fell. Hestruok his neck jnst where it joins ihe shoulders. He was bewildered, but perfectly conscious. His body felt as though mashed to a jelly. He ex perienced a horrible tingling, and when the doc tor came he told him not to touch him as his body was broken to pieces. His neck was bro ken; inflammation set in, all thought his end was come. To the surprise of all, in a few days he began to mend. He was shortly after re moved to his stepfather’s honse, where he still resides. Time hung heavily on his hands, and he re solved to learn to write with his month. He accomplished this, and, as he says in a letter to Mr. J. K. Nutting, he soon wrote a tolerably good mouth. He is now trying to paint, and hopes by this means to earn something for his support. He has been, and atill is, tenderly cared for by his sister, herself a cripple, and speaks in the highest terms of his stepfather, who, though a poor man, has shown him every kindness. .VT. His wont enemies are the flies, which buzz about his face. He holds a leafy twig in his month, however, and manages to twirl it about in a wonderful way and drive off his tormenters. This case is without a parallel, except that of John Carter, of England, who was injured in a similar way, and who became a famous painter. Savannah, September 7.—Arrangements for the first fair of toe Industrial Association of Georgia are being made on toe most extensive scale. Twenty thousand dollars are offered in premiums. The indications.are that it will be the most successful exposition ever held in the South. The competition for premiums is open to Georgia and the world. The arrangements for the accommodation of visitors and exhibit ors will be complete in every particular, cordial invitation is extended to all sections. Milwaueie, September 7.—Goldsmith Maid, made the fastest mile and the fastest three miles on record. The recorded time was 2:20J 2:17; 2:20$. San Fbancisco, September 7.—Both parties claim toe city and State. The vote was close and not fall. The Democrats elect the Mayor, Surveyor and Treasurer. The tax payers eleot the balance of the municipal ticket. Twenty- five per cent, of the negroes voted the Demo cratic ticket. Later.—Booth, Bepnblican, has carried the State by 2,000 to 3,000 majority. His ma jority in the city is nearly 1,000. The tax pay ers’ ticket is elected with one or two exceptions. Syracuse, September 7.—The Anti-Dram Shop State Convention have nominated a full State ticket New Yobk, September 7.—The habeas corpus was refused to tho abortionist Kosenweig. Queenstown; September 7.—The steamer Leader, from Dantzig hither, was wrecked and all aboard were lost—abont 25 in number. Paris September 7.—It is intimated that re lations between toe Italian ministry and Napo leon render his position here untenable. The Assembly passed a bill imposing the bur den of the war on the whole nation, and pro viding for an immediate distribution of a hun dred million franos among the sufferers from the Commune. ... j.. Thiers and Bazaine had an hour’s interview. Negotiations*for the evaonation are not going on smoothly. New York, September 7.—Arrived Cleopatra, Hansa. Arrived out, Italy, Darien, St. Patrick. London, September 8.—Tho German bishops in their secret conference at Fulda omitted high mass. This is significant of an earnest busi ness. The cholera is beginning to abate in the Baltio provinces of Prussia. Only a few cases have occnred in Paris. The cases here noware said to be of a different type from the Asiatio. Anxiety throughout Germany is decreasing. The new United States steamer Jnniata, res cued twelve persons from a capsized boat in the Scheldt. Queen Victoria is rapidly improving. The Hon. Mr. Cowper has been arrested on the charges of smuggling. Salzburg, September 7.—The Emperor of Austria, with a brilliant suite, received Empe ror William and Bismarck. The two Emperors conversed a quarter of on hour, and partook of a grand banquet. Glasgow, September 7.—At a large meeting in support of the strike at New Castle, resolu tions were passed in favor of nine honrs as a day’s work. The meeting was orderly. Kingston, Jamaica, September 7.—A hurri cane and earthquake has damaged Turks Island an dmany vessels are ashore. New Yobk, September 7.—Largo numbers of citizens assembled this morning in the Supreme Conrt Chambers, Judge Barnard on the bench, as it was understood that an application would be made on behalf of Jno. Foley, as tax payer, for an injunction to restrain the Mayor, Comp troller, etc., from paying ont money for ex penses of the city and county government, ex cept ont of the balance left of the appropria tion of the last Legislature, after paying State taxes and public debt, principal and interest due the debt, and principal and interest dne in the current year. Ex-Judge Barrett made a lengthy argument in support of the application, claim ing that the state of affairs required this action. At the conclusion of his address, Judge Barn ard said, “you are entitled to your order, sir,” thus granting the relief asked for. The Executive Committee of citizens and tax payers held a secret meeting to-day. Forty members were present. After some discussion, a motion to make the sessions of the committee private was adopted, and the reporters were bowed ont. The chairman said the secretary of the committee would make all communica tions necessary to the pnblio press. Thebids for Government gold to-day amonnted to $10,000,000. $2,000,000 were awarded at 13, 28 and 38. Tho Fortieth Annual Exhibition of the Amer ican Institute formally opened to-day. In the matter of Judge Barnard’s decision to-day, on an application for an injunction against the city authorities, the iDjuncion was refused a3_to tax collections and payments of accraeing liabilities, bnt granted against the issuing of bonds. Practically, the injunction is negatory, because all the bonds authorized by the Legislature have been already issued and negotiated, except the Viaduct Bailwny bonds that are as yet not called for. Chableston, September 7.—Twenty-six of the most prominent citizens of Spartanburg county, including the United States Commis sioner, the United States Assessor, Probate Judge, Sheriff, Clerk of the Court and the County Representatives in both branches of the Legislature, publish over their own signatures, the following letter: Spabtanbubg, S. C. September 4.—Hon. Jno. Scott, Chairman Ku-klux Committee We, the undersigned citizens of the said State and county, having seen through the newspa pers that you had received statements and affi davits that outrages upon various citizens had been committed in this county since the com- mittee^of which’you are chairman, left the said county, and that you had, thereupon, recom mended a declaration'of martial law in this county, feel constrained to make the following statement: We have made diligent inquiry, and have been nnable to hear of a single ontrago having been committed in this county since your committee left it. On the contrary, the county is in a state of profound peace and quiet. The Spartan, a county newspaper, in pub lishing the above, says: This statement onght to be sufficient to prove to the mind of Senator Scott, that he has been imposed npon by tho communications and affidavits npon which he fonnds his statements made to the President, and his recommendation that martial law be declared in the county. Furthermore, we learn that leading Radicals here admit that no outrage has occurred in Spartanburg since the Ku-klux Committee was here. There have been three fever deaths in the last twenty-four hours. Philadelphia, September 7.—Michael Mul len, a telegraph repairer, was run over by the cars and killed to-day. San Fbancisco, September 7.—California has gone Bepublican by from 3,000 to 5,000 ma jority. The entireState ticket is eleoted. There- snlt in SanFrancisco is in donbt as to the Mayor, bnt the prospect now is strong that Alrord, the candidate of the tax-papers, is-elected. Havana, September 7.—The English Govern ment demands damages for the blockade of the British ship at Port-au-Prince, by the Spanish erniser, Valmaseda, at Santiago de Cuba, on Tuesday. The steamer Oeeau Queen touohed at Kingston to-day. Pabis, September 6.—The editors of tho Ve- rite and Avenir were sentenced to six months imprisonment and 500 francs each for a viola tion of the press laws. Berlin, September 7.—The house carpenters have struok and many have left the city. Brussels, September 7.—Tho strikes among the workmen here are in process of settlement. San Fbancisco, September 7.—The Republic ans are certain of electing a Senator to sncceed Cole. Coughlan (Republican) is elected to Con gress in the third and Sargent in the second district. The Republicans have an even chance of gaining the first district. The whole legisla tive and municipal Republicans and tax-payers’ tioket is elected in San Francisco, with the ex ception of recorder and one supervisor. The Republican majority in the State is abont 4000. Versailles, September 7.—The report that the negotiations for the evaouation of Franoe had met with difficulties is pronounced false. The time of the final withdrawal of German troops has not yet been settled. There are still persistent rumors of coolness, between the French and Italian Governments. Prefects have received orders to close country taverns, in case petitions are signed therein for a dissolution of the Assembly, and to annul all resolutions of municipalities aiming at toe same object. Pabis, September 7.—Prince Napoleon has published a pamphlet entitled “The Truth,” and addressed to “My Calumniators.” He de- olareajn it that he was a stranger to the deolar- ation of war against Germany. He went to .Italy by order of toe Emperor, who tried to ar ray Italy and Austria against Prussia. He stoles that he offered to share toe captivity of Napoleon at Wilhelmshoe, but was refused. London, September 7.—-Recorder Gurney, who is about to sail for the United States as commissioner under toe treaty of Washington, replied to-day at some length to the address presented to him by the people of Southamp ton. He remarked that he hailed toe treaty' with satisfaction and delight. He was not go ing to Washington as an advocate of British, or the opponent of American claims. He had been instructed by his Government to treat all claims alike. The question of amount was unimpor tant. It was better to pay any sum than to raise even a suspicion of unfairness. Gurney paid a compliment to his oolleagues npon the commission,.and said he was sanguine their labor would be brought to a satisfactory'eon- elusion. j a . V / W_JL Pw-J News was received to-day at Admiralty from the crew of the H. M. steam transport Megeara, recently wrecked on the Desert Island of St. Paulin, in the Indian Ooean. Eight of them were seriously ill, and others were prostrate from exposure and want of food. The most in tense desire for relief is expressed by the suf ferers. A national conference is to be held at Bir- mington, beginning 28th of November, to con sider the necessity of a reform in the composi tion and powers of the House of Lords. A dispatch from Limerick announces the ar rest for debt of Butt, toe home rale candidate for Parliament, from that city. VeksattiT.es, September 7.—M. Thiers, reply ing to toe congratulation of toe municipality of Versailles npon toe extension of his term of of fice, expressed the hope that the future of France would be fortunate, and that simultane ously with the moral and material recovery of the country, its present form of government wonld become a peaceful and glorious reality. The Patria announces that Chevalier Migra read to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, a dis patch from toe Cabinet of Rome, favorable to the preservation of friendship between the two nations. Salzbubg, September 7.—After dinner yes terday, Prince Bismarck and Count Von Beast held a protracted conversation. The story tfcat the portraits of Napoleon and Eugenie are to be removed from the Castle of Salzburg, is author itatively stated to be false. The Health of Charleston and the Return of Common Sense, From the Charleston Courier, 5th.] If it were not for the consequences, the char acter of the panio, which has prevailed in our neighboring cities in reference to the few eases of fever which have ocourred in Charleston, would be ludiorous in the extreme. This jour nal has endeavored, from the commencement, to present a truthful condition of affairs. For the sanitary condition of the city the present administration is olearly responsible. The hy giene of the city has been neglected to a crim inal extent. While the expenses have been enormous, there has not been the slightest re gard for the public ca;e and security. The whole action of tho authorities has been an in vitation for the presence of disease, where otherwise there would have been the most com plete health. The only surprise is that there has not been a greater extent of Bickness. The fever thus far, in our judgment, has been the offspring of local causes, and ephemeral in its character. We know that this is at wide va riance with exaggerated reports, which have swept like wild-fire throughout the country. But our object is to ascertain the trnth, and state the facts. Local causes will always pro duce local sickness. Open a foul drain any where, whether in New York, Boston or any other section of the country, and expose its contents to the summer’s sun, or use these as a cement for the covering of a street, and fever will be the result. This is the direct and necessary effect of an ascertained cause. The few cases of feverwhich have since the 27th of July, occurred in Charles ton, are all directly traceable to this cause. There never has been any sound reason for either panio or excitement. For the week end ing 2Gth of August, there were, in our large population, but seven deaths from fever of all kinds. This is the fact, a3 shewn by the weekly bills of mortality. And this may be implicitly relied upon. It may be said this is not consist ent with the reports prevalent in Wilmington, Savannah, Angusta, and elsewhere. Neverthe less, it is so. And this only tends to illustrate the utter falsity of the reports in reference to tho health of this city, and how madness has ruled where reason should have had the sway. This shows seven deaths less this year than the corresponding week of 1870. * In the light of this statement, as to which there can be no denial, how* ridiculous, and more than this, how nnjost, appears the false rumor, excitement and panio, npon which Wil mington, Augnsta and Savannah have wrought themselves into a condition of unnecessary frenzy. Our Savannah exchanges, who have been foremost in this unnecessary and uncalled for panio, seem restive under any comparison of the health of Charleston and Savannah. We need only refer them to the Savannah Republi can, of the 30th ultimo, which says: “We crave the indulgence of onr readers. From sickness and other causes we have been deprived of nearly half onr usual complement of compositors for several days past, and as a necessary consequence, we have been compelled to issue the Republican without its accustomed amount of news. We hope to be all right in the course of a day or two.” There are a few cases of fever here, which are attributable entirely to local causes. And when we assert this, we state the whole trnth. To this extent it has thus far gone and no more—if it were otherwise we would as freely give it utterance. Our citizens have inaugu- rased measures to take the health of their city in their own hand. These already have been productive of benefit, and with the removal of tho local causes, we have every confidence that all apprehensions will be allayed. Bnt even with the cases of fever which have thus far occurred, the health of tho city com pares favorably, as to toe mortality, with the previous years. As to this there is no room for donbt. It is a matter of statistics. 1870 was a healthy season in Charleston. The mor tuary report for the week ending August 20, 1870, as furnished by the city Registrar, Dr. Robert Lerby, Sr., shews: Deaths—Whites 13 Blacks and colored 21 Total 34 The mortuary report for the week ending August 27,1870, as also furnished by Dr. Robert Lebby, Sr., the City Registrar, ehows: Deaths—Whites 16 Blacks and colored 31 Total. 47 And yet for the week ending August 26th, 1871, when our neighbors will have it that the fever exists, as an epidemio, in the face of the facts shows: Deaths—Whites 7 Blacks and colored 20 Total 27 We can only say, that there is no sickness in Charleston, whioh requires the indulgence of our readers. Our compositors are all well, at tentive to their duties, and in the enjoyment of perfect health. We will reciprocate good for evil, and are ready to famish the Republican with assistance from Charleston, instead of 'nearly half of their compositors laid np by sickness and other causes,” and enable them to publish their paper,with “its accustomed amount of news.” It is high time that this fiasco as to toe health of Charleston, should cease, and the sera of com mon sense and reason retain. Mayob Halt, and Comptroller Connolly to Resign.—New York dispatches of the 5ih to the Western papers, oontain the following: The great coup against Tammany is about to be struck within Tammany. Peter B. Sweeny and Governor Hoffman have been in consulta tion, and the fiat has gone forth that Hall and Connolly will be compelled to reBign, and an ad interim Mayor is to be ehosen, and either A. T. Stewart or John A. Dix will be Hall’s snccessor. The plan proposed by Ottendorfer at the meeting this evening gives only in part the programme deoided npon by the honest members of Tammany. There will be no eleotion for a Constitutional Convention to make a new city charter, bnt the committee appointed at the meeting this even ing will select eminent citizens as members of a volunteer convention. The convention is to frame a new charter, to be presented to toe Legislature in January next, said Legislature having been previously pledged to vote for any oharter tons presented by toe City of New York* By tons conciliating toe masses toe Tammany leaders have no fears of the result in.toe State in November. There oan be no donbt that Mr. Sweeny will show himself to be the most acute of all the politicians in bringing Tammany ont of its present troubles. The rank and file are satisfied to lose Hall and Connolly, as their sacrifices most ba made to appease the pnblio clamor. ___ Mbs. Stowe told toe history of Many house holds when she said that a woman armed with a sick headache, debility, nervousness, present iments, and all sorts of imaginary real ailments is a walking armory of weapons of subjugation r om the Atlantic for September. 1 In the Lane. ! • BY CELIA THAXTKB. BY cottage walls the lilacs blow; Rich spikes cf perfume stand and sway At open casements where all day . The warm wind waves them to and fro. Ont of the shadow of the door, Into the golden morning air. Games one who makes the day more fair And summer sweeter than before. . The apple blossoms might have shed Upon her cheek the bloom so rare; “ The son has kissed her bright brown hair, Braided about her graceful head. Lightly betwixt the lilacs tall She paesea—through the garden gate, Across the road—and stays to wait A moment by tho orchaid wall; And then in gracious light and shade, Beneath the blossom-laden trees ' ’Mid song of birds and hum of bees She stays, unconscious, unafraid. Till swiftly o’er tho grassy space Comes one whose BtepB she fain wonld stay; Glad as the newly risen day He stoops to read her drooping face. Her face is like the morning skies, Bright, timid, tender, blushing sweet; She dares not trnBt her own to meet The steady splendor of his eyes. He holds her with resistless charm. With truth, with power, with beauty crowned, About her slender waist is wound The strong, safe girdle of his arm; And np and down, in shade and light, They wander through the flying hours, And all the way is strewn with flowers, And life looks like one long delight. Ah happy twain! no frost shall harm, No change shall reach yoor bliss so long As keeps its place the faithful, strong, Safe girdle of that folding arm. Could you this simple secret know, . No death in life would be to fear, Ere in another fleeting year By cottage walls the lilacs grow! Decisions of tlie Supreme Conrt of Georgia. DECISIONS BENDEBED AT THE JULY TEEM, From the Atlanta New Era. 1 Willis Wood et aL vs. A. B. Ross, administra tor. Motion for now trial. Locheane, G. J.—When in a trial in toe conrt below the rights of certain claimants to property was predicated npon their rights as grand chil dren of the deceased, and there were several witnesses examined a3 to their paternity, and the evidence supports the verdict of the jury, and no rale of law was violated in submitting the case to the jury, and the judge below refuses a new trial, this conrt will not interfere to set aside the judgment of the conrt. Where a motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence was overruled by the court below, and the evidence does not ac company the motion, and the character of the evidence suggested by the movement is cumu lative merely, it is not error in the court below to refuse a new trial. Judgment affirmed. Charles A. Nutting, et al., vs. J. M. Board- man, et al. Joinder of parties. Lochbane, O. J.—Where a bill was filed by tho heirs at law against the administrator, and the parties to whom he had sold railroad stock, property of the estate, to recover back said stock, which had been sold by suoh administra tor without an order of tho Court of Ordinary, and the parties who were the purchasers and defendants answered the bill, and in their an swer prayed that the seenrities of the adminis trator be made parties to the snit, and to which answer a demurrer was filed and sustained, and tho Court dismissed such cross bill: Held, that the administrator and his securi ties were bound to respond for any devastavit by the administrator, of the aBsetsof the estate, to the heirs at law or creditors of Baid estate. But in an action brought by the heirs at law, or bill filed by them, to recover back property, sold illegally by the administrator, from the pur chasers, the securities on the administration bond cannot be made parties thereto, at the in stance of such purchasers. Judgment affirmed. Swift, Hamburger & Co., vs. A. H. Powell. Speculation upon chances. Lochbane, O. J.—When A agreed with B to deliver a hundred bales of cotton at 21 cents a pound, at any time within Bixty day, and B knew that A expected to purchase himself to fulfill his contract, and tho contract was reduc ed to writing, and recited “for value received,” and the parties further agreed to put up a thou sand dollars each, which they did to cover losses from non-compliance with such contract: Held, That inasmuch as the original contract was reduced to writing and recited a considera tion, there was sufficient under the facts to take the contract ont of the illegallity of such con tracts under section 2596 of the Code, and that the thousand dollars pnt np by each party are to be regarded es the stipulated damages, and that the plaintiff could recover no more than this amount in his action. Where the court upon the trial below, from a misconception of the case, misdirected the jnry and admitted illegal evidence as to consequen tial damages, bnt upon motion granted a new trial: Held, It'was no error in the conrt below to have granted a new trial, especially as the amount was for an account not authorized by law. Judgment affirmed. Wm. D. Pierce, etaL, vs W. K. deGraffenried. Claim—homestead. McKay, J.—Where one who was not In foot the head of a family applied for a homestead as such under tho act of 1808, and the same was laid off to him, and being in possession thereof it was levied npon to satisfy a fi. fa. against him, and he dying, the homestead was claimed by his heirs at law. Held, It was not error in the conrt to reject the record of the Conrt of Ordinary setting apart the land as a homestead, the claimant not pretending that they claimed under the family of toe deceased. In a claim case where the defendant is in pos session the claimant cannot defeat the plaintiff in a fi. fa. by showing title in a third person not a party to the record. Judgment affirmed. Patrick Kerwin vs. James & Cummings. Pro ceedings against tevant. McKay, J.—Where K rented the premises from O by the month, commencing on the 7th of May, with the understanding that he was to occupy it until October, and the agent of C, who made the contract, testified that the renting was only until the 1st of Oetober, but there was also evidence, to-wit: toe regular receipt of the rent monthly, that the renting might have been until toe 7th: Held, That whether the renting was to the 1st or 7th was a question of faot for the jury, and they have found for the plaintiff, and the* oonrt having refased a new trial, this court will not, under the facts set forth in the record, disturb toe judgment of the court refusing a new trial. Judgment affirmed. E. & S. Collins vs. A. P. & O. O. Collins, Ex ecutors. Relief Aot of 1870. Negro consider ation. HoOay, J.—Where, in 1863, A sold B two ne gro slaves for $5,000 payable in pork at one dol lar a pound and ootion at fifty cents a pound, but no note was given, and soon after $2,000 was paid in pork; and afterward A having died, his executors, after toe first of Jane, 1865, ad justed toe debt with B, fixing the amount of the debt at $1,900, part of which was then paid, and B’s note, with O as security, was taken for the balance: Held, That this was not a mere renewal of the old debt, so as to bring it under toe acts of 1868 and 1870, but as there was in fact no new con sideration, the consideration of the note was still slaves, and it was error in the oonrt to oharge toe jury that this was suoh a renewal of the oontraot as purged it of its negro considera tion. Where there was evidence on one side that toe consideration of the note was the prioe of slaves, and on the other side that it was given for cotton, it was the dnty of the oonrt to oharge the jury as to toe law arising under the evidence on both sides. Gertrude J. Woolf oik vs. Joseph E. Murray. Homestead of Bankrupt. McKay, J.—When the United States Court, under toe bankrnpt act of 1867, have acquired jurisdiction of toe estate of bankrnpt, the State courts lose jurisdiction of all claims against him except oertain specific liens; and toe homestead and exemption provisions of the constitution of 1868 do not create suoh a speoifio lien npon the title to his family, as may be heard or adjudi cated in toe State courts pending toe bankruptcy proceedings. Whether suoh claim is suoh a one as may be produced in bankruptcy Federal Court, is a question for that oo n T,“ tc decide. Judgment affirmed. Lavina Williams et aL vs. O. F » Ejectment.' Defective record of deed 4 Wabneb, J.—This was an action "of.- ment to recover a lot in the city of Macm toe trial of the case the plaintiff introdn-L, evidenoe a deed to the lot from JJaru,. i liams, dated the 11th of March, 1851^/’ Apri1 ’ 1854 i ^ deed?, Martha Williams to defendant, dated 21* August, 1866, and recorded toe 28th; andt' sd the defendant in possession of the lani The main question in the case turned effect of toe record of the prior deed, that; was recorded with the names of the only the subscribing witnesses, neither ot was a judicial officer, and there was no nr-;, of the deed by the others. There no» pears on the face of the deed three subs, ing witnesses, one of whom subscribes name as a notary public, which the failed to record when he recorded the d- and the question is whether the record of prior deed, as the same appears on the ret- was such notice under the law as will defeat title of the defendant as a subsequent putdu. from Mrs. Williams. The point in the cast; whether an irregular registration of a dee-'! notice to a subsequent purchaser, whose < has been regularly recorded according to. The court below deoided it was not, an! charged the jury. A verdict was found fo: defendant. The plaintiff excepted to thee of the Conrt, and also moved for a new on the ground of surprise and newly disco; evidence; that one of the witnesses to the. wonld swear that the witnesses who had tested the deed as notary pnblio subscribed name thereto at the time of its execution, that the Clerk had failed so to record it motion was overruled, and the plaintiff cepted. The 2663 section of the Code declares every deed conveying lands shall bo re< in the office of the Clerk of the Superior _ of the county where the land lies, within year from the date of such deed. On failure' record within this time the record may be e* at any time thereafter; but such deed loses priority over a subsequent deed from the V vendor reoorded in time and taken withont tice of the existence of tho first. ” This se of the Code is in substance the same in its effect as the act of 1837. The question in case is whether prior deeds from Mrs. Whe never having been recorded within twe} months from the date thereof, and when iec ed the reoord thereof did not show that itsu cation had been attested as required by lar" as to admit the same to probate, was legal n& to the defandant as a subsequent purchaser^ her. The defendant was only bound to b what toe reoord discloses, and the record that the deed had been recorded without - lawful authority to do so. This court held, 11th Ga. E., p. 639, that j irregular registration of a deed was no noth There was no error in toe charge of the in this case, or in refusing the new trial newly discovered evidence will not alter the dence, as it existed at the time the defen: purchased the lot. Judgment affirmed. Influence of Temperature on Health.-; the fall the difference between the temperate{ night and day is greater than at any other tin* j toe year. In the early autumn the quicksilver s times rises as high during the day as in then forvid summer weather; while at night it oh sinks to an almost wintry point. The human l not being made of steel or India rubber, ea feels these tremendous changes. To fortifjb system against them, a genuine tonic is req and the public haslong since discovered that t this description of medicines Hostetter’s Stoic Bitters is infinitely the beat. It gently quicker!)! circulation, regulates the bowels, tones the 1 braces the nerveB, and thus pnts the wholes php on its defense against the vicisitndes of te: tore in our climate. • Fow, if any, caeca of e demic fever are heard of in localities where it iiij common use. As it becomes more and more \ known, and the demand for it increases, chills i fever, and the bilious remittent seem to recede 1 fore it, and if ever it should come into unir: uee, these diseases would cease to be known as a ecourges of onr low-lying and marshy dteti That homely bit of proverbial philosophy, I 'prevention is better than cure,” should bee daily borne in mind in ihe an tumn months;! indeed all seasons, together with the factI among all the preventives of malarious Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is the most safer potent. Be certain, however, to obtain the genuine i cle, as countless imitations of a pernicious ch ter are abroad. Bee that the externals are al! i and remember that Hostetter’s Stomach Bitten j gold in bottles alone. Cheapest and Best.—Mrs. Whitcomb’s 6m for children Is sold by druggists for 25 cents ab tie, and is an admirable preparation for infs: disorders. Changes of Food in the Intestines.—The:-] nalstagoof digestion has for its object thee verting into blood of so much of the food aab not been already absorbed directly from the stc ach. The seat of this process is in the intesti In the duodenum (the portion of tho int< next to the stomach) too food, dissolved in t gastric juice, is commingled with the bile andfi pancreatic fluid, which are poured in through:* separate ducts. The. latter substance, the se; tion of the pancreas, is alkaline, and some* similar to saliva. It neutralizes (that is, dissoK oils; and also converts starchy compounds is sug-r. The bile, again, is the secretion of the li«| formed not as other secretions, from arterial, l exceptionally, from venous blood. The food, after passing from the stomach, is ab by numerous minute tubes, the lactaeU, through the thoracic duct, is led from the 1 to the left subclavian vein, and tons into the g£ eral circulation. The food so becomes part of blood, the fluid which renovates the worn-out fc' sues of the system, worn-out in life’s ceiaeltfl wear and tear. But, besides being an agent in t4 digestive process, the bile is also nature’s cboiaj and most efficient laxative and purgative. Dr. Fisch’s Bitters promote, (at the same timere?! nlaling,) the flow of this secretion. The system s| thus effectually secured from biliousness onfij one hand, and from constipation on tho other. olent purging is not toe way to remove constipates Neither is violent purging a purifier of tho An abundance of food, with an abundance o!t'| and the allied fluids, to digest it, will make an ab*£ dance of good, nourishing, strengthening blo-J-j! not needing purifying. CHOLERA. HOW TO CUBE IT. At the commencement of the diarrhee, whid> I ways precedes an attack of the cholera, take j teaspoonful of THE PAIN KILLB? in sugar and water, (hot if convenient,) bathe freely the stomach and bowels with the Killer dear. Should the diarrhee or crampe^i inue, repeat toe dose every ten or fifteen mi®* 1 until the patient is relieved. In extreme j two or more teaspoonfuls may be given at a w’yj The Pain Killer, as an internal remedy, equal. In eases of cholera, summer comp'* 1 ” j dyspepsia, dysentery, asthma, It cures inonefflPj by taking it internally, and bathing with it Its action is like magic, when externally »PP ! ‘y^| old sores, burns, scalds, and sprains. For J headache and toothaoe, don’t fail to try it-, short, it is a Pain Ktt.t.eb. Directions accompany each bottle. *s The Pain Killer is sold by all dealers in ® " tines. Prioe 25 cents, 50 cents and 81 per bottle. aug5-eod&wlm
