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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO 00 “ six months 5 oo “ three months 2 so Tri-Weekly—one year 500 “ six months 260 Weekly—one year 2 00 six months 1 qq Single copies, sets. To news dealers. cts. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. 1 lie paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for, * JAS. G. BAILIE, \ FRANCIS COGIN, Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON,) Address all Letters to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager. Beresford Hope’s tribute to Stonewall Jackson arrived at Richmond yesterday. The statue was received with distinguished honors. We are pleased to welcome back to Au gusta, after an absence of thirteen months in Europe, Air. Wit. B. Davison, who looks very much improved by his trip. Servia and Montenegro have at last declared that they will stand neutral in the war between Turkey and the North western provinces. Peace has been restored between the Re public of Colombia and the Coast States. As for news from that country in the im mediate future vve must fall back upon her regular supply of earthquakes. The Spanish Fandango is lively. The communication of the Carlists has been cut in two and the remnant of their forces are being hard pressed by the troops of the King. Aleantime the bombshell fired from the Vatican into Madrid is as yet unex ploded. but the fuse is burning. The Mad rid Government will certainly reject the demands of the Pope, after which lie will null for Don Carlos. Joe Alorris has finally landed in the Sandersvilie jail. The State will find the same difficulty convicting him it did the others. Some overt act must be proven- Joe, it seems, had devilish intentions, but he had not carried them out before bis siupi i plans were discovered and frustrat ed. After escaping from Burke he came direct to Augusta and lay around here until a few days ago, when he went up to Atlanta to see Col. Potash Farrow. Delano has gone to Ohio to wake up his slumbering brethren. His congregation have dwindled to a Mulligan’s Guard squad in that State. Delano has been detailed by Grant to look after them. He is the last hope. But he is too late. He had bet ter stay in Washington and look after those Indian rings. The country demands of him a reply to the terrible indictment of Welsh, instead of political speeches in the Ohio campaign. Such people as Delano have almost ruined this country. It is cer tainly in no humor to receive any advice from any of his kind. The Prince of Wales will leave England to-morrow for India, where he will spend the winter. His visit is intended as a di plomatic move: It is well known that Rus sia is slowly moving upon the British pos sessions on that Continent, each nation running a race as to which will first absorb the remaining independent provinces. In either event we should rejoice. Great Brit ain has taught In ia all the civilization and decency it has. No doubt the appear ance of the illustrious son of Victoria, and the future King of the most powerful na tion on earth, will have a good effect. We have some additional details of the late gale on the Gulf. The little towns on the Texas coast west of Galveston were well nigh washed and blown from the face of the earth. From all accounts there has not been such a hurricane since the acqui sition of that State. Ihe exposed towns had no brakewaterand Lhorofoie LlieHouoco had to withstand the full shock of the waves, before which strong stone walls could alo:.e stand. Of all the oceans in the world this Gulf of Mexico is the worst lor cyclones and all other terrible win 's. In deed, the cyclones which sweep across the Atlantic ocean and across our land, are all born there. Two more failures occurred in New York yesterday of sufficient importance to tele graph— C. & A. S. Schuyler and the Peeks kill Iron and Mining Company. Returned Southern tourists say that only the large an 1 important suspensions are published, and that the name of the rest is legion. They say that the number of houses “ To Let” in New York are fifty per cent great er than < ver known; that more people are idle; that yhat are known as "tramps” are factory people and mechanics thrown out of employment, and, like hungry v < Ives, they take provisions wherever they can find them rather than starve. At night the public parks of the city where they sleep are crowded with them. Winter is approaching, and it is looked forward to with the gravest apprehensions. Apropos of the changeable weather we have had of late, we learn that Lord Houghton, now travelling in this country admires the vicissitudes or temperature least of all things he has encountered. He remarked, when out West, that “the cli mate in this country was very changeable, and when it was suggested that the pres ent low temperature was unusual in this section, replied that he had felt a change while in St. Louis, in a few hours, from about a hundred degrees down to sixty, and was told that was an unusual change, so he was rather inclined to the belief that unusual changes were quite common in this country.” Even in the South this is true, and if the noble Lord were to worship in some of our unwarmed churches, in winter, he would make a rapid transit to a London fog. Rook a fellow! He who used to rock the innocent Georgia Radical cradle. He pulied out from Atlanta several years ago and instead of bringing up in some forrest, 1 iving boards and splitting rails, brought up in Washington, as you might have ex jiected. Of course he was the victim of a bitter persecution for opinions’ sake, had Ku-Klux scars to exhibit in quantity and qualify on deman ', which nothing would lieal but an office. But Grant has not yet given him this soothing and healing poul tice, and being impecunious, or in other words flat broke, he has now goce into the pictorial business, selecting his own phiz as the main chroino. These he obtained on credit, and intended to ship to Athens, but the artist who got them up is after him with a bill which closes time. May pros perous breezes waft him in every direction except towards Georgia. XiLp Emperor of Austria declares there is nothing now threatening the peace of Eu rope. We think this is a sincere and truth ful assertion. Erance is in no condition to sfo to war now. fe>he first has to establish a new government. That government will have much to do regulating internal affairs before trying conclusions with a foreign power. Hut the French will, sooner or 1 ter, make a great effort to get back Al f-aco and Lorraine. Germany, Italy and Austria have no present ambition to ac quire more territory, and Russia is satis fied with the constant conquests she is making in Asia. The Spaniard will carry on his guerrilla war for a year or two yet, and end it— nobody cares how. John Bunn has enough wild lands to supply subjects, • Whom his o’er-cloged country vomits forth To desperate ventures, for one hundred years to come. A large number of sensational journals in this country are constantly asserting that Eu rope is on the verge of a general war. There is not rfow the slightest prospect of their ardent wish coming to pass. ®l|c Constitoticmttiist Established 1799. STONEWALL JACKSON. Reception of Foley’s Statue at Rich mond —Speeches of Bradley Johnson and Gov. Kemper—England’s Trib ute to the Departed Hero. Richmond, September 23.—Foley’s statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson, pre sented to Virginia by Hon. Beresford Hope, M. P., and other English gentle men, which arrived here last evening from Baltimore, was formerly received to-day by Governor Kemper. The peo ple turned out en nmsse to witness the reception, the streets presenting a holi day appearance. At 3:30 p. m. the First Regiment Virginia Volunteers, the veterans of the old First Virginia and the Richmond Howitzers, proceed ed to the wharf of the Powhat tan Steamboat Company where the case containing the statue awaited transportation to the capitol. It had been placed upon a wagon, and was covered with the flags of Great Britain and Virginia. Long ropes were at tached to the wagon, and at the word of command the veterans of the Old First, together with a largo number of citizens, took hold, and, with a portion of the present First Regiment at the head of the column, took up the line of march, the remainder of the regiment and the Howitzers bringing up the rear. Upon reaching Capitol Square, the wagon was drawn to the foot of the steps of the capitol, where Col. Brad ley T. Johnson, commandant of the First, formally delivered the statue to Gjv. Ivember in a brief speech, refer ing in feeling terms to the time, 12 years ago, when he commanded the funeral escort of the true and gallant soldier who was now being honored by the people of Great Britain. Gov ernor Kemper responded, receiving the statue in the name of the people of Virginia, and thanking the soldiers and citizens for the spontaneous honor which had been done to as true a hero as ever trod the earth. Iu doing this they had done much algo to testify the gratitude of Virginians to the noble friends on the other side of the world, who had sent this great tribute of ad miration and sympathy from the Old World to the New, from Great Britain to Virginia. Governor Kemper, in the name of Virginia, took possession of the gift, receiving it, not more as a great sculp tor’s work of art than a work of Eng lish affection for her immortal son. Iu response to loud calls from the immense throng present, Mayor Kei ley also made a beautiful and stirring speech. The case was then placed iu the basement of the capitol, where it will remain until the pedestal being prepared in Capitol squire is ready. The statue will be unveiled the latter part of October, during State fair week. FROM NEW YORK. Notes From the Metropolis. New York, September 23.—A private telegram announces that a treaty of , peace between the Republic of Colom bia and the rebellious coast States has 1 heen signed. Delegates from South Carolina to the Insurance Convention aro excluded on account of the by-laws. Coal has been advanced ten cents per ton. The Delaware and Hudson and Dela ware Lackawana and Western Com panies have agreed to suspend ship ments to competitive points for two weeks, conliuing business to tbe West ern and local trade. The house of James H. Rutan, with his aged mother, was burned on Staten Island. A Rally for Greenbacks. New Y t ork, September 23.—A meet ing was held at Cooper Institute, under the auspices of the Legal Tender Club, the object of which, in |the words of the circular, was, “To demon strate that greenbacks must meet the necessities of peace as well as they met those of war.” Hon. Richard Sehel! presided. A list of Vice Presidents was read, among whom was Peter Cooper, Benjamin Minier, G. W. Peillon, Robert McCafferty, Gideon J. Tuck er, Horace P. Whitney, and Gen. Davies. Letters were read expressing regret at being unable to at tend from Wendell Phillips, of Mass., Wm. E. Pollyea, of Pa., and Thos. C. Durant, of Washington. Mr. Peter Cooper was on the platform. Gen. But ler, Hon. W. D. Kelley and other promi nent gentlemen announced to speak were not present. Speeches were made by Theodore E. Tomlinson, Edward Crane, of BostoD, J. K. McGee, of 111., and others. The following resolutions were adopted : Resolved, That the contraction of the currency heretofore made, and further contraction proposed with a view to fore and resumption of specie payment has already brought disaster to the business ol’ the country, anil threatens general bankrupt cy, we demand that this policy’ be aban doned, and that the volu ; e or currency be made and kept equal to the wants of trade, leaving restoration legal tenders to par with gold, to be brought about by pro moting the industries of the people, and not by destroying them. Resolved, I hat the policy already initia ted of abolishing legal tenders and g ving national batiks power to furnish all the currency will increase power already dan gerous, monopoly, and enormous burdens now oppressing the people, and that we op pose this policy and demand that all na tional bank circulation be promptly and permanently retired and legal tenders is sued in place. Resolved, That the public interest de mands that the Government should cease to distrust its own currency, and. should make its legal tenders receivable for ail public dues, except where respect for the obligations of contracts require payment in coin, and that we favor the payment of at least half of the cm toms in legal ten ders. Resolved, That we demand the extension of the present national bank establishment instead of the system of free banks of dis count and deposit, under such regulations as the States may respectively prescribe, and no paper currency except such as may be issued directly by and upon the faith of the general Government. Resolved, That we send cheer and sym pathy to the great Democratic party of the West, and that we hail their success as a triumph of the people over monopoly, which threatens the safety of the country Resolved, That we recommend the elec tore throughout the State of New York to assemble in their various districts and form legal tender clubs, in conformity with resolutions adopted by this meeting, to give strength to the great Democratic party in Uhio and Pennsylvania in the ap proaching canvass. The chairman stated this was the first of a series of mass meetings to be held under the auspices of the Legal Tender Club. Adjourned. An audience mostly composed of la boring men filled the hall. Assassination. Newberry Port, Mass., September 23.—Dr. Norton, dentist, called out to see a patient, was shot, chloroformed and robbed of his watch and $l6O. Chances favor Norton’s recovery. Fob* Laramie, September 23. —The body of John Little was brought here, killed and mutilatafl ty Indians. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Riegnolds arrived at New York on Saturday last. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. The Emperor of Austria and the Peace of Europe. Vienna, September 23.—The Empe ror of Austria, in receiving the parlia mentary delegations, spoke hopefully of the maintenance of European peace. The Spanish Fandango. Hendaye, September 23.—The North ern army has cut communication be-* tween the Carlists in N avarre and Ar ragou, who are compelled to cross the frontier. Darregaray has concentrated his forces around Estella. Madr ; d, September 23.—The police have discovered depositories of arms and ammunition, supposed to be for the socialists’ rising. The Madrid Government will be firm. It will re spect religion but at the same time protect the rights of the State. It is believed here the Vatican will finally abate its pretensions. Address to Prince Milan. Belgrade, September 23.—The reply to Prince Milau is published. It says all the means necessary to protect the liberty of the people and secure the country are placed at the disposal of Prince Milan. Referring to the insur rection in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the address says: “Perpetual suffering has compelled our brethren to take up arms. Our hearts bleed for them. We give your Highness every means to en able you to assist in restoring peace to Bosnia and Herzegovina and confide in your wisdom for the accomplishment of the noble mission.” The Servian Minister of War has ordered five bat teries of artillery and four battalions of iufantry to proceed to the Bosnian frontier. Turkish troops are stationed on the other side of the line. The Times special says Server Pasha, with uine battalions, entered Piva near Travnick uninterrupted. Departure of the Prince of Wales. London, September 23.—Thousands visited the Seraphis to-day. The bag gage of the Prince of Wales, that of his suite and plate presents were em barked. The vessel makes a six hours trial trip to-morrow. She sails Satur day for Brindis, Italy, where the Prince embarks. Servia and Montenegro to he Neutral. London, September 23.—A special dispatch to the Daily Telegraph, from Vienna, states that Servia and Monte negro have notified the powers of their determination to remain neutral in the troubles between Turkey and her Northwestern provinces. Great Britain and Honduras. London, September 23.—The Times in a leading article commenting on the detailed report of the special commit tee of the House on foreign loans says, if these allegations cannot be rebuted, Don Jutierrez Minister of Honduras must be held guilty of having conspir ed with Mr. Lefeare and others to de fraud the British public. There cannot be any question that the Government is bound to refuse him any further re cognition. This historical account fur nishes no satisfactory answer to tliese charges. The time has arrived when ho luuit be moro explicit, from Washington; Extracts from Barr’s Note Book. Washington, September 23. —Delano has gone to Ohio. Burt’s bond has arrived. There will be no change in the Boston Post Office. The Collectorship of Customs of Chi cago has been tendered to J. Russell Jones. The Attorney General has gone to New York. The wreck of the bark Evilin has shifted its position since last buoyed. The present bearings of Cape Henry Lighthouse are west by north % north, distant miles; wind mill at Sand town west by north % north, distant six miles. The wreck lies head to westward, second-class buoy, green, with the word “ wreck ” in six-inch white letters placed iu thirty feet of her stern, in six and three-quarter fathoms of water. Assignments : Quartermasters—Maj. Dandy who relieves Maj. Hodges Buf falo ; Captain Howell, San Antonio, Texas; Captain Foster, Charleston, S. C.; Captain Bristow, Raleigh, N. C.; Captain Belcher, Columbia, S. C.; Cap tain Allegood, San Antonio, Texas. Persons having documentary stamps of denominations greater than two cents are reminded that under an enact ment of the last Congress the same cannot be redeemed unless presented to the Commissioner of Internal Re venue for that purpose prior to the first proximo. The steamer Rebecca Clyde is at Hat teras inlet disabled, damaged in her en gine off Hatteras Light. i % 11 * THE GEORGIA STATE FAIR. A Great Success Anticipated —Distin- guished Visitors to be There. Macon, September 23.—The State Fair which opens at Macon on the 18th of October and continues one week promises to be the largest in point of exhibition and attendance of visitors held South since the war. Many dis tinguished gentlemen from Northern, Western and Eastern States will be present. Among them Senator Thur man, Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton, Mr. F. Hassaurek, of Ohio; Hendricks and Voorhees, of Indiana; Bayard, of Dela ware; Kelly, of Pennsylvania; Fernando Wood, of New York; Poland, of Ver mont; Christiancy and Willard, of Michigan; Dr. George B. Loriug, of Boston; Gen. Hawley, President of the United States Centennial Commission, and a full delegation from the Centen nial Board. Several of the above named gentlemen deliver addresses on differ ent days of the fair. Horrible Murder iu Ohio. Bellefontaine, Ohio, September 23. — Yesterday Miss Laughten, a young lady aged sixteen, accompanied a man named Schell and wife on an excursion to Reservoir, several miles distant. Mrs. Schell being fatigued was left with the team. Schell, with the young lady, started after wild plums. Schell returned without Miss Laughten, stating that she had strayed from him and he could not find her. The alarm was given and search made, resulting iu finding the body of the young lady nearly nude with her throat cut from ear to ear, the grass showing that a desperate strug gle had occurred. Schell was arrested. A bloody knife was found in his pocket. He is now under arrest with a heavy guard around him to protect him from excited people. New York Failures, i New York, September 23. — C. &A. S. Schuyler, wholesale grocers, failsd. The Peekskill Mining and Iron Com pany failed for $150,000: Drake & Colby, large grain export ers, have failed. AUGUSTA. GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1875. SUPREME COURT I ECISIONS. Decisions Rendered in Alanta, Ga, September 21, 1875 — lon. Hiram Warner, Chief Justice, Hons. L. E. Bleckley and James Jac ! son, J udges. Scroggins vs. The State. Petition for certiorari, from Sumter. BLECKLEY, J. 1. An affidavit neither attested by an officer authorized to administer oaths, nor purporting to be sworn to in open court, is void, as the basis of a criminal proceeding. 2. Criminal proceedings Jin a court of limited and special jurislictiou, must show on their face the f; cts requisite to give the court author ty under the law, to try the case, pr mounce sen tence, and inflict punishm* Qt. 3. Where such a court i empowered by statute to try a misdemeanor upon written accusation foundedfon affidavit, provided the accused shal|iirst indo se upon the accusation a warier of indict ment by the grand jury, ajvalid affida vit is essential; and if th| affidavit be void, objection to it may b* taken after conviction and sentence, in such case, the whole trial is a nullity,iind the con viction should be set asicL by the Su perior Court on certiorari, f 4. Indorsement that th* defendant waives indictment by thef grand jury, and demands the jury alloj/ed by law, is equivalent to the prescribed indorse ment of “indictment by th! grand jury waived.” 1 5. In acting on a petition* for certio rari, it is error for the to with hold his sanction of any l fact which does not appear in the petition, or to hear from the magistrate Jwhose pro ceedings are complained o$ any state ment or explanation touching the case. What the magistrate has tj> say can be heard only through his return to the certiorari after it has been granted. Judgment reversed. | N. A. Smith for error. C. F. CiL,, Soli .'itor General; Fort & McClesky, for the State.! Stokes vs. Morrow. Equiti, from Lee. BLECKLEY, J. 1. If ejectment or statutory/ complaint for land be brought by fa stranger against one of two persons i a joint pos session, ft not appearing .hat either claims under the other, tin judgment, as a general rule, will bit 1 only the one who is defendant in *he action ; and the other, not being a iparty, can not be expelled under the of pos session, even though the ileclaration, the judgment and the writ (Itnbrace the whole of the premises, aill treat the defendant as sole occupant* Judgment reversed. $ R. F. Lyon, Hawkin & l|awkins, G. W. Warwick, Geo, Kimbfough, for plaintiff in error. j K. J. Warren, L. P. D. q'arren, for defendant. f f Kemp and Mack vs. G. M. Ivne. Claim from Dougherty ! JACKSON, J. | Where a note is given b}|the buyer to the sellers “for one four-Oo'dwA H..v,l +nKlp o 4 ft** - j " 1 *" 1 ™* ble to be subject for purchase i&oney, pa rol evidence is admissible ti show the terms of the contract ol’ side between the parties. ‘ Judgment reversed. * Jos. Armstrong, Yason Davis, for plaintiffs iu error. j R. N. Ely, for defendant. | B’ F. Salter vs. E. Taylor. Proceeding to abate a nuisance, fromlLee. JACKSON, J. 1. The stopping or impedi|g a private way is a private nuisance. 2. Such a nuisance may bq abated by a proceeding before two justices of the peace and a jury, under sections 4094 and 4098 of the Code. j Judgment affirmed. I Cook & Crisp; George IJimbrough, for plaintiff in error. R. F. Lyon, G. W. Warw< 3k, for de fendant. Thomas J. Morgan vs. Setltß. Taylor. Claim, from Surntei. JACKSON, J. I 1. A levy on sufficient perlonal prop erty to satisfy the executlm, undis posed of on the face thereoflis no legal j. round for withholding the* execution from the jury, if it be show i, aliunde, to the satisfaction of thof presiding Judge that such levy was unproductive and without injury to the Je endaut.' 2. A bona fide purchase ( f land by parol, with payment of part >f the pur chase money, and immediat entry by the purchaser into open and exclusive possession, more than four y ars before the levy of the execution £ gainst the vendor, and the payment iff the bal ance of the purchase monee, and tak ing a conveyance within iji>ur years prior to the levy, will, if si|:h posses sion be continuous, discharge the laud from the lien of the judgmelt. 3. In such case, the four years’ pos session must be open and n dorvxs for the full term, in order to discharge the land from the lien of the judgment. 4. A charge to the effect inat if the defendant in fl. fa. and jpurchaser agreed to keep the trad., a secret, the possession under it would fe no pro tection to the claimant, wgio is the purchaser, is too broad, i Such an agreement is a circumstarpe tending to show bad faith in the tfile and to cast suspicion upon the fairgess of the trade and the possession thereunder, but, by itself, it is not enough totally to destroy the claimant’s right.-; It should be considered in connection with the explanation of the parties and the other facts of the case, and ihe charge of the court should have fceen so re stricted and guarded. | 5. Where the evidence is Iconflieting this court will not control she discre tion of the court below inlrefusing a new trial on the ground th ,t the ver dict is contrary to the charg 6. Dilligence must be shown, and party and counsel must s ,voar that they did not know of the tu .timony at the time of the trial, befor* the court will grant anew trial on the! ground of newly discovered testimony! 7. Where the court ertsd in his charge on material points lof law on which the jury might have found their verdict without considering the real issue of fact, on which the pise should have been put by the courts and deter mined by the jury, this cour* will grant anew trial, unless the evidence be so decisive and without conflict* as to have required the verdict, notwithstanding such errors in the charge. ? Judgment reversed. | Hawkins & Hawkins, forfplaintiff in error. I N. A. Smith; J. A. Ansley,lor defend ant. f Thos. D. Speer, guardian, -|s. Rebecca L. Tinsley, et al. Appeal from the Court of Ordinary, from Uumter. JACKSON, J. j 1 1. A plea by a guardian c*;ed before ? the Court of Ordinary to settle with his wards, that he had taken the note of the executor of their father’s will in settlement with such executor, that such executor was solvent at the time; that some time thereafter he ascertain ed that the executor was in debt, and in a year or two took a mortgage upon slaves to secure the note; that after wards the executor absconded, and all his property was attached, and that he, the guardian, bought the morgaged slaves, who were afterwards emancipa ted by the war and were a loss to him, connected with the allegation in the plea that he had charged himself, as guardian, with so much money due to each ward, and not alleging in said plea that the note he took was payable to him as guardian, or thejuortgage made to him as such, and alleging as an ex cuse for not making the balance of the money due to his wards out of said ex ecutor, that he hoped to have made it by a trade with the executor, is bad, and on demurrer was properly stricken by the court. 2. In such trial, on appeal to the Su perior Court, it is not error to allow the wards to show additional indebted ness of their guardian to them, by showing that they are heirs Yo their deceased brother, who was also a w r ard of the same guardian, and whoso funds were in his hands; and his return to the Ordinary of the estate of such de ceased ward is proper evidence against the guardian. 3. Where the court, on demurrer thereto, has stricken defendant’s plea, it is not error to rule out testimony offered to prove the facts set out in the plea, iu substance the same, though slightly different, to avoid the force of the blow, which struck the plea. 4. On a settlement between guardian and wards, the guardian may show “all reasonable disbursements and expenses suitable to the circumstances of his wards,” and if in the series of years in which he has managed his wards’ es tates, he has not expended the corpus, he cannot be held responsible for the profits or interest of the estate, though he may have spent for his wards more than the profits or interest of a given year that year, or less another year ; provided, during the whole period of his guardianship, he has not expended more than the entire interest, and has disbursed it reasonably and suitably to the circumstances of his wards, and legally in other respects. Judgment reversed. 5. C. Elam, McCay & Trippe, for plaintiff in error. N. A. Smith, Hawkins & Hawkins, for defendants. PLAYING AT AVAR. Grand Autumn Manoeuvers of the German Army—One of Bluclier’s Victories Acted Over Again. Leignitz, Silesia, September 18.—The grand autumn manoeuvers of the Ger man array concluded yesterday, near Leignitz. After the day’s earnest krieg spiel (war play), which resembled real war rather than play, two army corps, the Fifth, commanded by Gen. Vou Kirchback, and the ( Sixth t t under Gen. strong, were pitted against each other. Although executing the plans of battle laid down for them, they endeavored to gain the victory as adjudged by the Kaiser and tliegeneral staff. The ground on which the manoeuvers took place was, to a great extent, the scene of Blucher’s victory over MacDonald, on the Katzbach river, in 1813. The Fifth Army Corps, representing Blucher’s army, repeated his movements, and the Sixth took the place of the foe. The Sixth advanced in the direction of Hay nau, but the Fifth, offering a vigorous opposition, pushed it back across the creek, and virtually defeated it by pre venting its advance on Leignitz. Being hard pressed, the defeated corps en deavored to reach Jaurea, a town en closed by double walls and a fosse, sit uated on the right bank of the Neisse, ten miles southeast of Leignitz, by marching via Goklbuig on the Katz bach, eleven miles south of Leignitz. It crossed that river in the hope of be ing able to form anew base of opera tions and receive reinfoicemeuts.— Though successfully effecting the pass age of Katzbach, the Fifth Corps effec tually checked its further advance.— On the third day, however, the Sixth Corps takes the offensive, and succeeds in pressing the Fifth back upon Leig nitz. This was the general plan. The execution of the details was left to the skill of the commanders, many of whom won laurels on these mimic battlefields, and some disgraced themselves. The Sixth Corps was commanded to-day by the Graud Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin. Each day the scene was brilliant in the extreme. The contest for the passage of the Katzbach, on Friday morning, as seen from the heights above Ivroitiscli, resembled more a real than a sham battle. Bridges has been erected during the night, and the position of the Sixth Corps was maintained by many brilliant charges. The battle-ground was nine miles in diameter, and from every point iu the horizon clouds of dust marked the ad vance of troops. The lovely valley of Katzbach was enveloped at times in the smoke of artillery and from in fantry tiring. To-day’s contest was concluded by the brilliant storming of the heights near Rathkirch by the Sixth Corps, deciding the victory in its favor. The Emperor was watching the ma noeuvers, attended by a brilliantly uni formed suite, including the foreign officers. With the Emperor were the Crown Prince, the King of Saxony; Archduke Albrecht, of Austria; Prince August, the Crown Prince of Portugal; Princes Frederick Charles and Carl Al brecht, of Prussia; Prince August, of Wurtomberg, and Prince Arthur, of England. The Americans present were Quartermaster General Meigs, with his son, and Lieutenant Newcomb and Col onels Dickenson, Woodruff and De laney Floyd-Jones. The Emperor rode an immense dis tance daily, accompanied by Yon Moltke, often dashing up on eminences where the fight was thickest, criticising the storming and commending. The foreign officers were unanimous in praising the discipline, activity and precision of the evolutions. The troops bivouacked for the night on the field of battle, and their camp fires extended over a circumference of fifteen miles. The scene was visited by thousands, and presented a magnificent spectacle. The valley of the Katzbach was lit up by camp-fires, and the pla teau towards Leignitz made up a scene that is seldom witnessed. The war was earnest, without any deaths. The Prussians entered heartily into the spirit of the undertaking. The Empe ror and suite, aud the foreign officers, left Leignitz at 5 o’clock, and will ar rive in Berlin to-morrow. It is probable that Madame Ristori and Signor Rossi will play together in London next spring. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. Dr. Broun’s Resignation. [For the Constitutionalist ] Augusta, September 18. It is now no longer a mere rumor, but a settled fact, that Dr. Broun has severed his connection with our Uni versity. He has been recently elected, at about the same time, both to the chair of Applied Mathematics at the University of Virginia, and to the chair of Pure Mathematics at Vanderbilt Uuiversity. It is the latter position which he has accepted. The intelli gence of his resignation at Athens will awaken a feeling of sorrow in the hearts of his many admirers through out the State, and should cause deep regret to every true friend of education in Georgia. Dr. Broun graduated with the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Virginia, bis native State, and was soon after called to the chair of Pure Math ematics iu Frankliu College. In this capacity he was the supporter, and often the originator, of many of tnose changes and inter nal improvements which raised Franklin College from a state of medi ocrity, and made it worthy of bearing, as it now does, the name of the Uni versity of Georgia. During the late war, he was chief of the Ordnance De partment at Richmond; but when the excitement incident to the conflict of arms had subsided, aud the halls of learning had been again thrown open, he was invited to fill the Chair of Nat ural Science at Franklin College, and since that time he has been an earnest and prominent co-operator in every movement for the advancement of the popular education of the State that had adopted him as one of her own sons. On being elected to the Presi dency of the State College, it would seem that he considered himself the god-father of the State’s new offspring, and for the past three years he has most assiduously labored in its behalf. Asa result of his exertions and the untiring efforts of a few others, we see the State College of Georgia in a most flourishing condition—so much so that the State of Texas, encouraged by our success, has enquired concerning its mode of operation; we see dedi cated to the cause of education a large, magnificent building, the money to erect, which was donated after much persuasion by the city of Athens ; and last, but not least, it was mainly through the efforts of Dr. Broun aud Dr. Carlton, of the Athens Gewgian, that we saw the Legislature, at its last session, voting $15,000 for the purpose of equipping the institu tion with the necessary apparatus. These facts, together with many others that might be adduced, give unmistak able proof that he possesses no ordi nary administrative capacity. Endowed by nature with a powerful intellect, and trained in one of the first schools of the land, Dr. Broun was ■ thoroughly qualified to give instruc tion in any department of a liberal education ; but a natural taste, an in quiring mind and diligent application the” dofielative" branenes" of° mathe matics and natural science. Asa pro fessor, he is eminently master of his subject, sympathetic yet impartial iu his dealings with his pupils, dignified iu his demeauor, clear, concise and right to the point in his lectures ; as a gentleman he is pure, generous, high toned aud courteous—a true Virginian to the core. But, if these things be true, the question arises, Why did Dr. Broun leave Georgia and accept a position at the Vanderbilt University in Tennes see? The same question, slightly al tered, might be asked concerning the venerable ex-Chancellor, Dr. Lipscomb. The writer does not pretend to know all the causes which may have influ enced these distinguished gentlemen in leaving the scene of their former la bors, where they have spent much of the strength of their manhood, but he does not hesitate to say that he knows a great many reasons why they might have douo so. Prudence forbids the statement of these reasons; but suffice it to say that unless the Board of Trus tees change their present method of declaring the professorships vacant every four years, and advertising for learned professors as they would for quack medicino agents; unless they put down the sectarian party spirit thar, is said to mark their proceedings; un less they show a higher appreciation of men of talent, and put forth some effort to retain them in Georgia, instead of making war upon them, Vanderbilt and the other universities of the land will soon take from off the brow of our Alma Mater the laurels she now wears. A Former Student. LETTER FROM LINCOLN. The Weather and the Crops—Cotton Rapidly Opening—A Poor Yield — Blue Prospects. [Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.] Goshen, Lincoln Cos., Ga., ) Sept. 16, 1875. j Living as we do, in a county cut off from railroads, and among a people naturally quiet, and who generally attend to their own business, not many events of interest transpire in Lincoln to communicate to a daily newspaper. Hence my long silence. I write at this time merely to give some little infor mation about the crops and the con tinued dry weather aud its bad effects upon the people. Cotton has been and is still opening very fast—almost too much so for the farmers to get it out iu time. If this dry, warm weather continues much longer, many of the planters will have all their cotton open and picked out before the next frost. We are just now in the busiest of the cotton-picking season, and every available hand is now at this work. From what I hear the cotton crop in a largo portion of this county will be very poor indeed, some making only two-thirds and others about half a crop. The rust has injured it no little. Corn is not as good as we would wish, but better than cot ton. The protracted drouth has dried up nearly all the smaller streams, and there is much difficulty in getting grain ground at the mills. Many are se riously discommoded thereby. C. Radical Sacrilege.— The Raieigh News, commenting on the speech of ex- Judge Tourgee in the Convention last Friday, says; “He went into an his torical defence of the carpet-baggef, in which he had the brazen effrontery with his God-defying blasphemy, to call our blessed Saviour a ‘carpet bagger.’ Jesus of Nazareth the pro totype of the Laflins and Littlefields, the Deweeses and Tourgees! The sub ject defies comment or denunciation. Its naked, foul blasphemy is its suffi cient condemnation.” New Series —Vol. 28, No. 43. GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS. Says the Georgian: Col. L. H. Charbon nier will take temporary charge of Prof. Broun’s chair at the University. The Canton, Cherokee county, Georgian reports: “There are forty-four white and four colored free schools in this county, all reported to be in a flourishing condition.” Griffin News: Mrs. Cynthia Chapman, one of the oldest and most esteemed ladies, died rather suddenly in this city Saturday night. She was 82 years old, was com plaining some on Saturday morning, and died about 10 o’clock p. m. Rome Courier: We regret to learn of the death of Capt. James T. Garman, an old citizen of Rome, which occurred at Annis ton, Alabama, on Sunday last of apoplexy. He was a highly respected citizen, and we regret to record his death. He was about 53 years old, and leaves a wife and an only daughter, recently married. The Athens Georgian has appeared in a new and very handsome dress. It is now one of the best papers which comes to our office, and deserves a fine patronage. But just now we beg “Picciola” to request his news room superintendent to put heads to his locals and “dash them off.” They run into one another, so we have to stop and think where one ends and the other begins. Besides there is a fortune in good heads, you know. Speaking of the death of Mrs. James T. Thweatt, the Columbus Enquire r-Sun says: This young and lovely wife and mother died Sunday of consumption. She was one of the sweetest and most cultivated of wo men, loved for her virtues, nobleness of na ture and Christian grace of character, and admired for the excellence of a well educa ted mind. She was only twenty-live years of age. Besides her husband, she leaves a little girl several years old and a babe of two days. Her last hours were those of peace and happiness passing away as gently as a Summer cloud drifting across the heavens—breathed a bles-ing upon lov ed ones, then winged her way to heaven. Greenville Southern: Col. A. H. Moore, one of the owners and business manager of the Battle Branch Mines, is in the city. He showed us a rich specimen of the ore. He is crushing with eight largo stamps with entire success. He reports his works (one of the most elaborate and expensive) nearly all completed. Th -y include 21 miles of ditch, a large dam, and two very expensive tunnels. He expects to reach his vein with the last one in a few days, 81 feet below where they are working it now. This will supersede the necessity of pumping, as it drains the mines from below. No one not visiting the mines or Upper Georgia has any conception of the operations of the different companies. McDuffie Journal: Gen. Toombs, who is here in attendance upon the Superior Court, was serenaded by "the Thomson Cornet Band, Monday night, and called on for a speech. The old statesman, who is always readj r , responded in a few eloquent and en couraging remarks on the recent revolu tion in political affairs, denounced the error of sacrificing principles to policy, urged the importance of strict adherence to the old Democratic doctrines of Jefferson, Madi son, Clay and other great statesmen, and predicted the utter destruction of the Radi cal party in the great political contest of 1876. Judge Twiggs and Hop. C. S. Dußose were also called out for speeches, who, with thanks for the compliment, graceful ly excused themselves. The local editor of the Atlanta Common wealth had an interview with General Joe Morris in jail: The General’s external ap pearance doesn’tcorrespond with his name, indeed we thought the wrong man had come to the door when Joe put in his ap pearance, and began to look around for the General. He is five feet eight inches tali, will weigh about one hundred and forty pounds, and is of a dark sandy color, hav ing a smooth face with the exception of a slight moustache. He says he is twenty eight years old, but he looks like he is at least forty. There is but very little intel ligence expressed in the face of Ihe man. features, with the exception or rue n so, which is that of a negro’s. He has the ap pearance of a poor man, wearing common jeans pants and coat,and a coarse cotton shirt. He says he had no object in coming to Atlanta, except to see it; but showed very plainly that he was mistaken about it, and that he didn’t want to expose his purpose. He says that he has been in and around Augusta ever since the insurrection excitement, and that he started from there last week for this place on foot. He came on here walking, riding when he had the money, arriving here last Saturday morn ing. He says that he staid at a little eat ing saloon on Decatur street until arrested. He is very vehement in hi, assertion that he knew nothing of the plans of insurrec tionists, and had nothing to do with it. He says that ho never attended any secret meetings of the negroes, and never saw Rivers in his life. He says that he don’t know how he came to be called General, unless it is because he is so popular with tho negroes of his county. GRANT’S FUTURE POLICY. A Forecast of Ilis Next Message to Congress—He Will Urge Prepara tion for a Return to Specie Pay ments. [Long Branch Di-patch to the Boston Transcript] There is good authority for saying that President Grant is well pleased with the present political outlook. For the past few days the President has abandoned the reticence for which he is usually remarkable, and has not hesitated to express his views of cur rent events freely among his friends. Under all circumstances, President Grant believes the people will be com pelled to recognize the Democratic party as the party of inflation and re pudiation, and the Republicrn party as the friend of resumption and of the preservation of the national honor and credit. The issue of next year’s campaign, says the President, is al ready made, and has been chosen by the Democracy. Iu his message to Congress, wheD a Democratic House of Representatives will have the privilege of considering his recommendations, he will set forth as strongly as he possibly can, the de pressed and suffering condition of the business and commerce of the nation, and will direct attention to the neces sity of taking measures to establish the currency on a sound basis by pre paring for resumption under the exist ing law in 1879, to which we will say we alone can look for a restoration of con fidence and credit and a revival of trade. He will enlarge upon the necessity of increasing the national revenues as a preliminary to resumption. He will to that end recommend the restoration of the duty on tea and coffee, by the abo lition of which the Government has lost from twenty millions to twenty-five millions a year without any benefit to the consumer ; the taxation of all arti cles of foreign manufacture, and prob ably the abolition of the entire free list. In addition the President will proba bly suggest such an amendment of the legal-tender acts as will require the payment of all internal revenue duties in gold, as a further provision for re sumption. The President will make it clear in his message to Congress that he intends to practically carry out the duty imposed upon the Government by the resumption act, by proceeding to contract the present greenback issue to the limit allowed by the law. Upon this point, more than any other, he re lies for the support of the moneyed in terests of the country in the Republi can Presidential Convention, FIRE IN KANSAS CITY. Two Hotels, Depot and Man Burned. Kansas City, September 23.—The Chi cago House, St. James Hotel and the Union Depot were burned. Geo. Find lay, a guest of the Chicago House, was urned to death. To Advertisers and Subscribers. On AND after this date (April 21, 1375,) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates for office, 20 cents per line each insertion. Money may be remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news pg,id for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned, and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. DEMOCRATIC SENTIMENT. Gov. Allen, of Ohio, Expresses Him self on the Subject of Thieves and Office-Holders. “You pay taxes. You pay them to the State Government and to the Fed eral Government, and how much do you suppose you pay the Federal Gov ernment? There are, I apprehend, 3,000,000 of people in the State of Ohio. And how much taxes do you pay every year to this thing called the Federal Government? We have got in the habit of talking so much about millions that we have actually lost sight of tho meaning of the word millions. In tho old times when we had ten, twenty, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, those words meant something. We understood them. But now they run up into the millions; and, my God, a man cannot easily imagine what a big pile of money that is. You pay this thing called the Gov ernment of the United States every year 30,000,000 of money. You pay a part of this in what is called direct taxes, and you pay the other half in what is called indirect taxes. Now, this indirect taxation is a thing that op presses you most, and is felt by you least. There is not a maa of you that has a shirt, or a hat or a pair of boots who did not, when he bought those ar ticles, pay a tax to the Federal Gov ernment of the United States. It was called price. The merchant called it price. This thing is worth so many dollars, he says. That is the price of it. If you had inquired of tho merchaut how came the price so high he would have told you that they had to pay for the privilege of bringing it out here so many dollars and so many cents, and he nicknamed that a price and stuck it on to the farmer. That is called an indirect tax. It ought to be called a midnight tax, a burglarious tax, a tax paid by the people without their know ing it. Now, if we had nothing to do but to pay necessary taxes wo could get along very well. No difficulty about that. Our necessary taxes paid to the Federal Government would be probably —supposing the Government to be in Democratic hands, [laughter]—in stead of thirty millions, about three or four millions. But there is a use for taxes besides carrying on the govern ment of the country. There is a grow ing use for taxes because there is a growing propensity among the public officers to steal the public money; and you must have more taxes for that.— The war is long over. Why are not the taxes of the Federal Government reduced down to about seventy-five millions, instead of being three times that amount? Why? Because it is a convenient thing for the eighth regi ment of office-holders, counting each regiment at 1,000 strong, and making an army of 80,000 office-holders, it is a convenience for these gentry to have a little surplus money in the Treasury. They raise their salaries with it. Be sides, there is about one-third of the money that never gets into the Trea sury. They steal it on tho way.— I wonder how many of those fel lows that are defaulters are in the tentiary. I think I will have an inquiry made of that sort. That they have been stealing at a woful rate all over the Union is an admitted fact. Why, they have an investigation going on at Washington all the time of some new, fresh gang of thieves that has just been detected. They don't deny it. Stealing has become a regular, or ganized branch of business. It is not incorporated yet—[laughter]—but it has formed itself into rings. You don’t know anything about those rings ex cept that occasionally you see them noticed in the newspapers. But I will tell you what you do know. You know that if one private man steals the prop perty of another he is indicted and sent to the penitentiary. You all know that. But when a public officer, who ought to be doubly armed against the tempta tions of public plunder, when he, with an enormous salary, devotes his whole time to find out how much more he can get out of the public treasury than he is entitled to—when that is the case, when he steals, when he shamelesslyand no toriously steals before the eyes of the whole world, it is called—what? steal ing? Not a bit of it. It is called a de falcation. That is one of the means of throwing sand iu the eyes of the peo ple. If they would call it by its true name, the people would understand the whole of it. They would punish the fellow. But it is ‘defalcation.’ Now, our Ohio Penitentiary has more than 1,200 men in it, and probably fully one half are there for petty crimes, but all that they steal put together would not amount to the official stealing of a single rogue in Washington City in one night.” A Dream that Parted Man and Wife. Bundy has been married.two weeks and has left his wife. Bundy is a little man, and his wife weighs 240 pounds, and was the relict of the late Peter Potts. About ten days after marriage Bundy was surprised, on awakening in the morning, to find his better half sit ting up in bed crying as if her heart would break. Astonished, he asked the cause of her sorrow, but receiving no reply he began to surmise that there must be some secret on her mind that she withheld from him, that was the cause of her anguish, so he remarked to Mrs. B. that as they were married she should tell him the cause of her grief, so. if possible, he could avert it, and after considerable coaxing he elicit ed the following from her; “ Last night I dreamed I was single, and as I walked through a well-lighted street I came to a store where a sign in front advertised husbands for sale.— Thinking it curious, I entered, and ranged along the wall on either side were men with prioes affixed to them, some for 81,000, some for SSOO, and so on to 8150. And as I had not that amount I could not purchase.” Thinking to console her, B. placed his arm lovingly around her, and ask ed : “And did you see any naan like me there?” “Oh, yes,” she replied, drawing away from him ; “lots like you. They were tied up in bunches, like asparagus, and sold for ten cents pei bunch.” Bundy got up, and went to see his lawyer if he had sufficient grounds for divorce - The Georgia Crops. Atlanta, Ga., September 23.— The monthly report of the condition of tne crops of Georgia, State Department of Agriculture, for the month ending 15th instant, gives the following general averages of yield for the crops named compared with the yield of last year : Corn, 85; eotton, 73; sugar cane, 70; sorghum, 105; sweet potatoes, 75; field peas, 81; ground peas, 75. The area of turnips sowed, compared with last is 102,