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/ ,} K U THE WEEKLY VOLUME IV. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MOENING, OCTOBER 19, 1870. NUMBER 32 Important Proclamation by the Gorernor Wo publish this morning an important proc lamation by the Governor in relation to tho appointment of managers provided in section four .of tho Election Law. Whilst the lan guage of the law providing for the nomination of two of the five managers by the Ordinaries, is too plain to be misundsntood, wo axe glad the Governor has taken every precaution to avoid the possibility of a misunderstanding on this point It is quite evident that the law contemplates the nomination by (he Ordinaries and confirmation by the Senate, the same as in the case of the three nominated by the Governor. Still we are glad that his Excellency took the precaution to ask the Senate’s con struction, before issuing the proclamation, as nothing should occur to invalidate or prevent an election. The Message of the Governor on this point will be found elsewhere, and will be read with interest. His great desire seems to be that nothing shall occur to prevent the holding of an election in Dooember, and that this election shall be fair and legal, and that nothing shall occur to invalidate it. Death of General bee. Robert E. Loo is no more on earth. The tidings will fill thousands of hearts with mourning and sadness. He was a noble type of manhood, and enjoyed the respect of all the old army officers against whom his fortunes were cast during the late Rebellion. He was a man of truth, of courage, and of high executive abilities; and he was a Christian gentleman no less than n skillful military leader. Origi nally a Union man, he opposed the mad scheme of disintegration; but like thousands of tho ablest and best men in the armies of the late Confederacy, he yielded his judgment to the decision of his State, and responded to his sympathies for the people of his immedi ate section. After the war, his conduct was such as to win him the confidence and esteem of all right minded men everywhere. Ho sought to live os a private gentleman, yielded a faithful and uncomplaining allegiance to the Government; and unlike many cf his subordinate officers who were ambitions for civic honors, discour aged the insano counsels of further resistance to tho policy and laws of a Government to which he had renewed his allegiance. Hod the Democratic politicians of the Sonth, who wrought the war, been actuated by the same motives that inspired General Lee, Reconstruction had not been delayed until five long, weary years after the surren der at Appoinatox. The walking John Diinmy, whose name presides over the editorial columns of a Sa vannah paper, is very much interested in the Georgia State Fair, which is to open here in a few days. The jovial old soaktsl is not con tent with sneering at Mr. Kimball, bnt is very nnhappy lest somebody from Savannah will be present at tho Fair. We have seldom wit nessed the some degree of littleness connected with the newspaper press, even, where Benzine is the leading spirit, and where Bacchus was tho presiding deity. The Key Stone State. “As goes Pennsylvania, so goes the Union' is an old motto in tho dialect of American pol itics. And the indications are that the Re publicans have made heavy gains iu Pennsyl vania. In addition to greatly increased ma jorities, they havo gained two Congressmen. Is this the way Mr. Stepans’ party is going to “shake the country from center to circumfer ence ?” What are the Imuci In the Election. A Democratic paper in the Southern section of this State, says Federal politics will not enter into the issues of the approaching elec tion. It says Georgia Democrats care noth ing about Tariff, Pacific Railroads, the Fund ing Bill, or anything of that kind. And so far as Reconstruction and Constitutional Amendments are concerned, the “organ” re minds Democrots that Judge Stephens re signed his position in consequence of talking too freely upon that subject! “What then are the issues ?" asks this Dem ocratic oracle. Ah indeed, that’s the rub! Bnt hear what tho “organ** aforesaid says in response to this, its most potent enquiry; "The main Uano in which we are concerned Is the administration of onr State goverame'it, and the char* acter of the Legislature, soon to be elected." Now this is lucid to a degree that chal lenges onr unqualified admiration. It is a clear and succinct statement of the precise thing which the Democracy aims at The leaders of that party in Georgia care nothing about Federal taxation, the completion of the Reconstruction policy, the enforcement of the Constitutional amendments, the Southern Pa cific Railway—nothing iu fact pertaining to Na tional politics! They have very considerately surrendered all that All that now vex their honest souls is “the administration of_onr State Government” Ah! Give them the offices, and then all will be lovely! The un selfish patriotism of this “Democracy” is one of tho marvels of the Nineteenth Century! Gen. Young aiul his Party, The circumstances under which General Young became a candidate fi r Representative from the Seventh District in the 41st and 42d Congresses, pledges him to the policy of hos tility to tho Government It pledges him to uncompromising hostility to the Reconstruc tion Acts, to the constitutional amendments, to the new Constitution of the State, and to the State government under which he seeks position. It pledges him in opposition to the policy of Impartial Suffrage, and makes him a solicitor of the votes of a large class of citizens, to whom he denies the right to vote at all 1 He and his friends ask colored men to vote for him, when they, at the same time, believe such votes to be “unconstitutional” and the result of devolution and fraud.” He asks the suffrage of colored men to aid him and his party iu disfranchising colored men, by aiding him and his party in undoing the work of reconstruction and rescinding the XTVth aud XVth Amendments. He and bis party ask Union men to vote for him, when acoordiog to hisown party creed, these same Union men are “on worthy the'confidence and support of tho Southern people;”and they are thus unworthy because they did not sympathize with the Secession movement, and therefore because they are not obnoxious to the XIYth Article. In ether words, the ticket of which General Young is head, represents the Democratic par- of 1860. It represents the theory of “State Sovereignty,” and ultimate local allegiance. It represents, therefore, the dogma of Secession. represents the Constitutional right of any one State in the Union to break np the “com pact,” and to destroy the National Govern ment upon any pretext that the individual State may see proper to offer! It represents the proposition that “tho war settled no po litical question;” and, consequently, that the distracting issues of 18C1 have not been set tled, bnt only adjourned until a more conve nient season. In short, it represents the iden tical political heresies which plunged the country into .civil war, and which desolated the whole Southern land, and beggared the Southern people. Now it remains to be seen how many col ored men will support this ticket! We await with some curiosity to see how many Union men will support it! It remains to be seen how many conservative Democrats will sup port a ticket the success ef which will effectu ally exclude all except the old leaders and representatives of the Secession Democracy from positions of favor and emolument! Are they going to vote to place men in power who represent a faction that can see no virtue, or honor, or patriotism, or morality, nor any thing lovely, in any men or set of men who would not restore the old Proscriptive Democ racy, and acknowledge the divine right of its violent and reckless leaders to rule ? Personally, General Young may be a clever gentleman; but no man, representing such principles, or seekiug the accomplishment of such an end, can hope for the suffrages of a people who consider that the war did settle the issues promulgated by the South Carolina Nullifiers in 1832—issues which were nurtured into a devastating Rebellion in 1861, and which have cost the Southern people so much trouble and anxiety for the past uino years. Thousands of Southern men who periled their lives in defense of the Southern cause, and who bore the brunt of a war precipitated by General Young's proscriptive party, will not now vote for him ; and this simply because they deem it worse than madness to fight their battleso ver again, either at the ballot-box or in the tented field. They have had enough of war and Democratic dictation. Henceforth they want Peace, free speech, a free press, free ballot, and a united and prosperous country ; a country aspiring to the dignity of Nationality, and whose existence is not dependent upon .the caprices and selfish am bition of the leaders of that party which has made two ineffectual efforts to destroy it with in the last thirty years. THE ROME COMMERCIAL, (DEM.) In an article reviewing theaction of the Sen ate in their response to the inquiry of the Governor relative to their construction of the 4th clause of the election law, says : We think the time has past for the people of this State to stand idly by and see themselves outraged in this manner, and make no attempt to stay the hands of the assassins who are standing ready to rob them of every inheri tance. Delays are dangerous. Unless the people rise in their power and hurl these base, oad men from the places they are disgracing, the time will not be long before they will be called upon to surrender every right of free men. We are assured that the Akerwan Election Bill is unconstitutional. If so, it is the duty of the people to resist its enforcement. [Now when Democracy is charged with be ing turbulent, disorderly and revolutionary, its organs get ashy; and yet they talk as uuconsti- Robert E. Lee. History or Fiction ? The death of General Robert E. Lee is a In 1866, an ex-Confederate officer of high rank calamity to the people of the South, the nation I acknowledged ability, wrote a review of and the world at large. When his illness was the Georgia campaign for the purpose of vin- announced, a few days ago, there was a gene- dicating Gen. * Joseph E. Johnston, and in do- ral expression of sympathy all over the land, jng this, he was necessarily severe upon the Nor was the feeling confined to this country ex-Confederate President This, of course, alone. The intelligence was flashed across l forth a howl- Mr. Davis was then a tho ocean and England claimed a share in our I prisoner of war, but he had a number of sorrow. The London Standard came out with I friends who “flew into print” in his defense; the following eulogium: and in doing this, they, in turn, were savage “ A country which has given birth to such a man as I upon Gen. Johnston. Thus the controversy Robert K. Lee may look the proudest nation, in the en ded without seriously disturbing public sen- most chivalrioperiod of the history of Europe, fear- .. . , . fe«lr tattoacTfor aonc.hu in my ,« produced tu “ ent or “W converts pro or con. “oblrr.olJi„, iihrtottan gentleman nd m, thm The soldiers of the Western armies Of the late the heroic Virginia Captain." ( Confederacy, still idolized their old chief, and The man whose death could call forth so *ke admirers of Mr. Davis were none the less enthusiastic a tribute from a land of strangers I ardent in their devotions, must have possessed genius or virtue of a very Very recently, the controversyjhas broken out high order. A brief review of his life and a phase; and the New Orleans Times— glance at his more prominent traits of Chirac- a Democratic paper—has found it necessary lboT< J No me h «’said the "law ... ter cannot be without interest to every one, to os«ul ^ military reputation of General I tuliomJ eIcept th lea(lers of this revolntion- andmayaid ns in divining the secret of his I Johnston. Tins of course creates a ripple, and Democracy- rhey seem to havo cnlti- wonderful mastery over mankind. ono of 010 “oticable features in the contro- Tated a tende, regard for the Constitu- During the reign of Charles I there resided, versy is, that a writer in Savannah, who, four ^ ^ o ,Member. 180811 in England, a gentleman whose fine sense, *8°. found it necessary to assail Gen. m xn ^^ TOTI . aECOKDER (DEM.) sprightly genius and manly nature made Joskin in order to defend Mr. Davis, now thoicry of “Down with Eadicals, and him on ornament to one of the oldest fami- A* 68 lnto 1110 of onr New Orleans con- tjnck witll t h 0 Capitol to MilledgevUlo.” [Is lies in the country. Tho name of thi, temporary for doing just what 1m did then! that to be one of lhe Democratic issues before gentleman was Bicliard Lee-* lineal ancestor The moral to the story is abont Ibis: hover ^ ^ stato elccli<m?] of the illnstrions deceased. Richard I*e ob- »“» ° r o£ , “ iU ; (dem.) tained an official appointment and emigrated *“7 campaigns until the heroes have all had I “ 1 ^ ' 1 time to die or make friends. General John-. ... . ... his days. The Lee family grew in numbers]*- - ™w -t down by the New the and in influence. The names of Richard otbc as a militaly feUure; and the same „ Akerma , . . ,. ... . Henty Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Henry 1 11116 of Mr, Da' 1 -’, as judged by Ms critics. But I bo ® V ^ r Q jjj^j dUtaifcefrom °the Bullock Lee and Arthur Lee, will over occupy a prom-1 most striking feature in the case is, that p ellj and let honest men be appointed to inent place in American history. Robert E. I ca** °f enti** denounce the other as guard it. Let every Democrat be requested Lee the snhieet of -his sketch was the son of "Northern importations," “traitors to their after ho has marched up to the Bollock pen l-ee, tne suoject 01 *ms sKetcn, was the son oi 1 . ’ . - and voted, to deposit a duplicate of his vote in Gen. Harr^Loe, a gallant revolutionary offi-1 section, enemies in disguise or villains and I citizen’s box. • • • * Again, cer. He was bom in 180(1, and the exciting 1 Blockheads. In other words, tho measure of j e t the citizens appoint a committee of four or year* of his vonth donbUess hadtbeir infln- loyalty to the memory of the past, as well as more, who shall stand at a lawful distance once in-thc formation of his character. En- °» intelligence, is the meado of admiration of “^t a'rime teriug the military academy of West Point, at I *b° person of some particular hero of times ^ su ffl c j en t to watch the Bullock pen, so the agt» of nineteen, he remained four years, I now kmg past and best forgotton. It is a I that they can, from time to time, relieve each without ever receiving a reprimand or mark I sensible and logical discussion surely! But other. Let these men not only count all who of demerit, and when he graduated at the I it illustrates tho real valoe of contemporane- f^Zd who vote illi head of his class he was appointed brevet J ous history. J gaily and report them for prosecution, second-lieutenant in the corps of topographi- Arc We a Christian People ? I [That Editor ought to read the recent Act cal engineers. In 1832 be married » daughter It _ taam *E l ^ thirty million of dollars of Congress on the matter of Intimidation.] of Mr. Custis, and received, with his bride, ^ annnaIly raiMd and oppn)priated by the the Augusts chboxiche and sektisel (dem.) o tpagm cen property own os .e g*j various denominations of Christians in the I Has an abnsive tirade upen General Terry, ton estate. Promoted to a captaincy, Lee j United States. This, of ©©urse, includes [We preKume the General will survive !] went through the Mexican war as chief engin J u a tiiolics, Protestants, Uni verbalists, Sweeden-1 the macon amebican union, (hep.) spicuoos that Gen^ 0 Scott | »' “culous and -fortunate Government Itonntlci. Tho Savannah Republican is dimatisBed with tho change of the ‘■Southern" to that of the “National" Commercial Convention, a reason for this dissent, it urges the tact that the Northern States are interested in a Pro tective Tariff; and, further, that “all the bounties of the Government have been monop olised by the North daring the past ten years.' As regards the first, the Republican might know, if it wonld, that the Sonth as a manu facturing section will be as much interested in Protection as the North; and that the Sonth will become a country of mannfactnres, no man who has given the subject a moment's reflection doubts. It Is only a question of time. Tho second objection seems very childish. "Ten years" takes us back to 1860. No one expected the South to share, mucK less to monopolise, the bounties of the Government daring the period intervening between Seces sion and Reconstruction. And one of the strongest arguments in favor of reconstruction upon the basis of the Republican policy, was that it wonld placo the Sonth in a position to share a bounty of which she was originally deprived by the madness and folly of her Dem ocratic leaders. Henceforth we shall be in a position to share this bounty, provided the old Secession dogma and its insane advocates and apologists,can each be allowed to remain where tho issue of the war assigned them. The President's Proel»m»t!oi That the President is anxious, if possible, to use his good offices to bring about a peace between the European belligerents, there can be little doubt All well authenticated reports corroborate this statement. The President seems to be of opinion that our Government wonld thereby be made stronger in the eyee of the European nations, and in this he is sup ported by the intelligent public sentiment of the oountry. His Proclamation which we pub lish this morning is of especial interest. Modern Warfare. If modern science has made wars more de structive, itfalso tends to makojthexn of shorter duration. If more men are killed at a single battle than were formerly at twenty, it is also true that one battle is generally mors de cisive than were twenty in the days of Chorla magne. Science, therefore, really ameliorates the hardships of war; aud it does this by mak ing war more terrible and destructive. If men are killed on the field, fewer die of starvation and if an invading army is more desolating under the modern appliances, tho repair is sooner made by the application of science to agriculture and the practical business of life. A few years ago Northe:n Georgia was a wil derness of fenceless farms and charred chim neys. It seemed incredible that tho country could be restored to its former prosperity within a decade. That was only four years ago; and yet the country is already more pros perous and more fertile m resources, than it has ever been. The greater part of France is now a scene of devastation. The march of the Federal army through Northern Georgia, was a mild affair compared with that of the Prussian forces through the North of France. And yet, such is the recuperative powers of the Anglo- Saxon race under the atimnlns of modern science, that the districts marched overby the Prussian forces sixty days ago, are already be ginning to show signs of renewed energy. And the war once dosed, and peace securely made, leaving the French people a good and stable government, France will be more pros perous five years hence, than the ever was before. spirit of r GEORGIA PRESS. THE WAR. Important Proclamation by the Prcsi- new Catholic magazine i Father Hecker. .based upon the Old and New Testament 1. r*u men ted him in his dispatches and officially. it I blunder in the 5th District, says. Tonnrts nnd uhpn war «ndod he re-1 . , . I The Convention which nominated these reports, and when the war ended he re- guch ^ of money M this, annually men> (Fannin and Beard,) we are informed, turned home, bearing his honorable scars ana i <i ona ted by the American people for the pur-1 was composed of self-constituted delegates, tbe well-earned title of Colonel. Alter thi. M of the truths of the Gospel, and men entirely without the confidence of “baptism of fire” the Indian wars and John , ., f ., .... . the Republican party. We therefore take the Bm ro's raidcnoaoedhirrra-ices and inall of “ d “ n6€ T ne " U y for the ^'ghtinent of man- ubert 6ugB ^Ung names which wo think Brown s raid engaged bis services, aud mall of ki nd , w °nld seem to indicate that we ore m t h 0 party can sustain. They wiU be fonnd these affairs ho distinguished himself. I ftt j vance Q j the civilization of tho Old World. I among our candidates, and will be held there Then came the gigantic struggle between tbe Jt u c#rUto!y a 8Unl _ in proporlion to subject to tbe choice of tbe Republican party. North and Sonth. Colonel Lee was placed in I wealthand population that expended by I [TBe names proposed by the Union are an embarrassing and painlnl situation. Uo I any of the nations of Western Europe. Aud with I Ephraim Tweedy nnd Simeon W. Beard.] was an officer of the regular atmy, ho owed vast amount invested in Christian works, the macon tedeouaph (dem.) his edneation to the United States, Govern- L t wonl d that crime and ignorance | -f rom the Atlanta papers” that Judge ment; he had followed the -old flag through I shoQld flourish less luxuriantly in the very I Parrott mad e a speech in Representatives UaU many a glonons campaign, and it was hmde- of American civilization. Perhaps the ou q,,. gnbject of the Western and Atlantic Ti,- , | 8 1011 e \ n I explanation maybe partly fonnd in the fact Hailroad, and then proceeds to quote from the the stany folds of his conntey s banner. His that the money thus subscribed, is often j Eea . 8 report of t!ie Bpeecll (as coming “from associations, sympathies ^and better judgment iD j a dicionsly or improperly disposed of. Onr tte AOa hta papers”) with this comment: were all on the ado of the Union. LikeaU church, organizations are getting conspicu- Thi Jndgftook the time-honored, patriotic, honorable soldiers lm despised the tricks ana | ous |y Fashionable. Large sums are expend- magnificent role, bnt the impudent Fitzpatrick chicanery of intriguing politicians, and tbe 1 et j__ we bad almost said squandered—in the broke him down on the question of profit and scheme of certain designing men to break up erect j 0n of „ an dy palaces and fashionable I lo3s ' Fite interrupted him pertenaciously— tho Union of bis tethers he regarded 'r‘ t h ati t , n , ple , t therein the class of men and women {^I- 'amlTorced th^Judg^to'admit'that the the alarm and abhorrence ox a patriot. But I ^ w bom tbe great Founder of the fuith al- I expenses of tho road had exceeded the re- tho mad fnry of revolutionary passion, blind- most i OTaria bly addressed Himself when on ceipts, and it was a losidg concern in the ed tho eyes of the masses, and tBe L rtbi never cntcr . Take any city iu the Uni-1 Bandsof the Slate. people of the entire country were L* states, or in Georgia, for instance, num- Bather hard upon • our Fite. The same startled by the intelligence that South over twmty tb ousan d inhabitants. P a P« r close8 * U “ 0tl “ “ fcU f. w8 , : ... Carolina had broken her compact, forfeited Here we ^d church edifices to be sure; - her allegiance and seceded from the Union city without them; and yet what propor- cnre d beyond contingency to the redemption of with the insane purpose of establishing a I y on D f (be population habitually attend the State bonds, it is better to do it now than separate aud independent government When c h orc h G r what proportion could be accom- delay farther and faro worse. U the bal- Colonel Leo received the fatal news he wept in thev should desire to attend » “? c0 ° f 1116 ? ,t ? te ““ stand the administration .... , , .. ,. ,, , modated in case tney should desire to attena. of interests by private corporations, like a child. He saw it all tho dangers, ^as reflections of this kind thnt led Mr. &a can Atlanta and North Georgia. At all disasters aud ruin which menaced his native Wadey and the great reformers of his day, to events, tho State at large should not be taxed South. He retained his position in the United out among tho People, seeking to carry t0 enIlbl f a ° Western and Atlantic Railway States army until the .war had teirly com- of ^ Gos!^ into the b/ways a^ I fartUer to Wnsta ° r ~ na8e ,tS *“• mcnced. Virginia seceded and Colonel Lee, J badges of society, and, as they expressed it, with many doubts and fears, acted as many to b^d the Devil in his own dens.” , t . , . .. . - conscientious Union men did, and allied his I Fashionable preachers and fashionable I re I> reB ™ ted > n Atlanta, as toucuing the abo\o fortunes with his nativo State. churches have their uses ; but they are very I P ro P OSI,,on -J We come now to a period in bis life which 1 expensive and, in too many cases, equally as belongs to tbe history of tbe nation and is 1 profitless. An eccentric preacher once re- familiar to every man, woman and child, in marked that it cost-dollars to convert one man the country. It would be tedious and useless I in fashionable temples, where it cost only [It is generally understood here that the Macon and Savannah Railroad wings are STATE NEWS. CABTEKSVIIXE. Hon. Mr. Gobeyfell off the train the other HOME. Gen. Wm. M. Browne was to deliver an ad- SAVANNAH. John Screven received 1332 votes for Mayor. to review the terrible conflict in which General I cents to convert ten in the adhomiitm style I Heavy rain storm Monday night Gen. Lee bore so heroic apart It is enough to I of preaching in the highways and hedges. I Jos. E. Johnston lus returned Bishop say that after a four years struggle almost un- And Wendell Phillips’ theory of “practical | Percisco is expected to-day. precedented in tbe annals of nations General Christianity,” that is the setting up rival thea- Lce surrendered to lieutenant General Grant, I ters, billiard rooms and other places of amuse- and- tho magnanimous victor not only re-1 ment, in order the better to contend with this I da7imd"narrowly es^ped with liis UfiT fused to receive the sword of his species of the Devil’s strategems, seems almost 1 vanquished foe, bat treated tho shat-1 as plausible as the practice of establishing tered remnant of the Confederate army I select, churches where fashionable frivolity is with A delicate consideration, honorable expected to assume a religious turn of mind, dress at the Fair yesterday. Skiff and Gay- alike to conqueror and conquered. General I — ••• 1 lord in town Opening day of the Fair was Lee retired to private life and devoted himself I Political. very unpleasant to the duties which devolved uptft him as Pres- A-Convention of the native Union ^en of newnan. identof Washington College. Keeping studi- ‘BeSouth isodlod to meet at Knoxville, Tenn., j. c . Broadna x aud Mr. Jack Phelps are ously aloof from politics, and carefully avoid-1 November 1st I ^ ea< b W. W. Brinens will bo ordained ing anything like sectionalism, he presented j Senator Morton will return to Washington nexfc Sunday. example worthy of admiration and of imi-1 City in a few days, when we shall probably jolledgeville. tation. It would have been well for the hear something more about the English mis- ^ ttUached to th(J EiecuUv0 Sonth if her politioian. had profited by tbe Sion. was partially consumed by fire Sun- example of Jier greatest citizens and now that | The Massachnsetts State Republican Con- day moming . D r. John C. Cook was mar- his death is the cause of universal sorrow, let ventioa was a large an harmonious gathering. rfed to c xf.rtin. a t the residence ns hope that his life and its lessons may not Ex-Governor Bullock presided and made a of r l Denning, Tuesday night, be forgotton. I long speech. It is a remarkable fact that General Lee is outrages In Alabama by the Ku no less popular at the North than at the South, deep jndignztion at the North. He was a national man. He was far too high- minded and patriotic to harbor those sectional prejudices which originate in base natures and . . , A . . . , ,, , . . , . , , ^ cent, and the salaries of tho femals ten per are cherished by men of weak minds and evil \ He was a Union man. The sion of bis native State was the saddest event of bis life and it was with some misgivings Worn at Home. Prof. Huxley of England, whoso lecture on the Physical Basis of Life, published some eighteen months ago, created such a flutter in scientific and literary circles, has started another hobby. In his ethnological researches, he has become cognizant of tbe fact that there axe savages in the cities of London and liver- pool as much depraved in the scale of hu manity as are the Digger Indians of ous Pa cific Territory, or the Aboriginees of Australia. What is true of large cities in England is doubtless relatively true of large cities in America; and the announcement by the learned Professor furnishes an interesting theme for the officials of Missionary Societies. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, author of “The Y^ar Between the States,” has been sug gested by tbe Democratic press as a suitable candidate to represent the Bourbons In Con- » for the Yth District On the evening of the 8th inst, President Grant issued the following proclamation, a brief notice of which we have already had by telegraph: BY THE PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION: Whereas, on the 22d day of August, 1870, nay proclamation was issued enjoining neutral ity in the preseut war between France and the North German Confederation and its allies, and declaring, so far as then seemed to be necessary, the respective rights and obligations of the belligerent parties and of the citizens of the United States; and, Whereas, Subsequent information gives rea son to apprehend that armed cruisers of the belligerents may be tempted to abuse the hospitality awarded to them in the ports, har- boTs, roadsteads and other waters of the United States by making such waters subser vient to the purposes of war. Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, Presi dent of the United States of America, do here by proclaim and declare that any frequenting and use of the waters within the jurisdiction of the United States by the armed vessels of either belligerent, whether public ships or privateers, for the purpose of preparing for hostile operations or as ports ot observation upon tho ships of war, or privateers, or mer chants’ vessels of tho other belligerent lying within or being about to enter the jurisdiction of the United States, must bo regarded as un friendly and offensive, and in violation of that neutrality which it is in the determination of this Government to observe. And to the end that the hazard and inconvenience of such apprehended practices may be avoided, I fur ther proclaim aud declare that from and after the 12th day of October inst, and during the continuance of the present hostilities be tween France and the North German Confed eration and its allies, no ship of war or pri vateer of either belligerent shall be permitted to make use of any port, harbor or roadstead or other waters within the jurisdiction of the United States as a station or place of resort for any. warlike purpose, or for the purpose of obtaining any facilities of warlike equipment. And no ship of war or privateer of either bel- ligoront eball be permitted to soil oat of or leave any port, harbor, roadstead or waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States from which a vessel of the other bellig erent, whether the same shall be a ship of war, a privateer or a merchant ship, shall have previously departed, until after the ex piration of at least twenty-tour hours from the departure of such last mentioned vessel beyond the jurisdiction of the United States. If any ship of war or privateer of either belligerent shall, after the time this notifica tion takes effect, enter any port, harbor, road stead, or waters of tbe United States, such vessel shall be required to depart and to put to sea within twenty-four hours after her en trance into such port, harbor, roadstead, or waters, except in case of stress of weather, or of her requiring provisions or things neces sary for the subsistence of her crew, or for re pairs, in either of which coses the authorities of the port, or of the nearest port, os tho case may be, shall require her to put to sea as soon ns possible after the expiration of such period of twenty-four hours, without permitting her to take in supplies beyond what may bo nec essary for her immediate use; and no such ves sel which may have been permitted to remain within the waters of the United States for the purpose of repair shall continue within such port, harbor, roadstead, or wa ters for a longer period than twenty- four hours after her necessary repairs shall have been completed, unless with- such twenty-four hours a vessel, whether ship-of-war, privateer or merchant Bbip, of the other belligerent shall havo departed there from, in which case tho time limited for the departure of such sliip-of-war or privateer shall be extended so far as may be necessary to se cure an interval of ifot less than twenty-four hours between such departure and that of any ship-of-war, privateer or merchant ship of the other belligerent which may have previously quit the same port, harbor, roadstead or other waters. No ship-of-war or privateer of either belligerent shall be detained in any port, har bor, roadstead or other waters of the United States more than twenty-four hours by reason of the successive departures from such port, harbor, roadstead or other waters of more than ono vessel of the other belligerent; but if there bo several vessels of each or either of the two belligerents in tho same port, haibor, roadstead or waters, the order of their de parture shall be so arranged as to afford the opportunity of leaving alternately to the ves sels of the respective belligerents, and to cause tho least detention consistent with the ob jects of this proclamation. No ship-of- war or privateer of either belligerent shall be permitted, while in any port, harbor, road stead or waters within the jurisdiction of the United States, to take in any supplies except provisions and such other things as may be re quisite for the subsistence of her cr»w, and except so much cool only as may be sufficient to carry such vessel, if without sail power, to the nearest European port of her own coun try; or, in case tho vessel is rigged to go under sail, and may also be propelled by steam power, then with half the quantity of coal which she would bo entitled to receive if de- icndont upon steam alone; and no coal shall >e again supplied to any such ship-of-war or mvateer, in the same or any other port, liar- ;or, roadstead or waters of the United States, without special permission, until after the ex piration of three months from the time when such cool may have been last supplied to her within the waters of the United States, unless such ship-of-war or privateer shall since last thus supplied have entered a .European port of the government to which she belongs. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the <Sity of Washington this eighth day of October, in tbe year of onr Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and of the independence of the United States of America the ninety-fifth. w v U. S. Grant. By the President: Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State. TILE LATEST NEWS. By Mail to tho Atlanta Era.] Gen. Robert E. Lee continues to improve. The French organ in New York is disconso late over the situation. The Scandinavians of Boston will give M'llo Nilsson a public reception; Tho Anti-Coolie meetings in Pennsylvania still continue. to bo started by Paris papers continue to publish extracts from Napoleon’s private correspondence. De Witt Van Buren, editor of the New York Leader, is dead. The street car drivers of New York are strike. Jane Eyre has been dramatized for th& New York stage. The Liberal party of North aud South Ger many are trying to unite. Isabella, ex-Queen of Spain, is leading a quiet life in Switzerland. The wife of the Russian Minister at Wash ington is insane. Wendell Phillips is out West lecturing to the Workingmen. A few Paris journals accompanied the gov ernment to Tours. Fifteen American vessels have been seized for smuggling on tbe corst of Nova Scotia. Jules Favre finds time to thank English workingmen for their sympathy. Gen. Trochu says that Paris can hold out two months. Young women will be ndmitted to tho Uni versity of California. Tho new Spanish commander in Cuba is seventy-eight years old, and has been sixty years a soldier. Eugenie has concluded not to give up the Regency. Hon. H. S. Foote of Tennessee is writing a work on “Venice and the Venetians.” Fifteen cities in the United States contain a population of over 100,000 inhabitants. Father Suffield, an English Catholic priest, has left the Roman church. French prisoners are to be distributed iu order to prevent a revolt English ladies who volunteered their serv ices to the French as nurses, were frightened off by the information that they might have to attend to naked men. said that the charming Montaland of Fisk’s Opera Tronpe is one of the fourteen hundred bod women lately expelled from Paris. At Hartford, Conn., tho other day, James Wilson, charged with murder, rejected coun sel ; tried to defend himself; got mad ; gave it up, and was sentenced to be hanged, appa rently to his entire satisfaction. Things. Messrs. Graves and Powell, two members of the British Parliament, arc visiting Louis ville. Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull, in her paper, advises employees tr have as few children as imployers do, and then they need not strike for more wages. The mother of General B. F. Butler died at her residence in Massachnsetts on Wednes day. She is reported as having been highly esteemed. It is rumored that “Scissors” on one of tho Cincinnati papers is about to havo his'resigna- tion accepted. He went and clipped a para graph before it bad been copied by the Boston Post A Mr. Southworth, of Warren, Pennsylva nia, after holding a good sized frog in his stomach for fifteen years, ejected from his stomach, through his month, a lively croaker who croaked awhile and died. Brick Pomeroy said to a visitor recently, ‘Going out West, you’ll see my brother, tell him to be virtuous and he’ll be correspond ingly happy—but he won’t have half so much fun.” It is reported that Catacazy, the Russian Minister, is engaged translating Mark Twain’s account of the American’s interview with the Emperor of Russia to send to that sovereign. A correspondent writes to the New York Standard: “I met Mrs. General Williams out riding yesterday. She is as lovely and as ■sli as a rose. Tbe Geueral and herself make handsome couple, and a most remarkable happy one, I should judge, though it cannot bo very pleasing to him to be known and spoken of all the time as ‘Mrs. Douglas’ hns- baud.”* * THE LATEST FASHIONS. AUGUSTA. Hon. A. H. Stephens is expected to visit the Fair in this city..... AJgrand Tournament Boll The Philadelphia Board of Education has j will come off daring the Fair, raised the salaries of male teachers forty per cent Points. The Now York Herald says that great re views create literature. A little reflection will show that literature creates the reviews. London critics declare that they cannot tell Gem. Breckinridge and Gem Banks met at Cincinnati, the other day, and had a friendly thst ho rapoused her cause. These" fiu£ 1 after many years of estrangement . . t.t.n in connection with his known Jxmes Brooks, of New York, wants to go to | Twmn ui^ m carnest or jesting, hostility to the extension of slavery, I Congress again. and his native nobility of character I The last Female Suffrage Convention in account for liis popularity at the North, Boston wss a failure. They ought to be shown np as the “Innocents Abroad. 'A last word,” in the New York Tribune, and indeed, all over the civilized world.Th e Democracy of Montgomery, Ala., tried 1“ ^ colum “ ,OI >e- Has that paper a fe- v.ra• v: male editor Principle was the guiding star of his life, and I ^ bold a big meeting the other night and got if he was mistaken he is none the less np a complete fizzle. titled to our respect There ore thousands of ^ M q[ &e ^ ^ ^d ^n ^ot wfo togh7for Tei - Confederate cause because they were raged on Nebraska has twenty-seven candrdates for by a conscientious conviction of duty. In I United States Senator. fact the men who served the Confederacy with Whatever may bo said of tho lost Napoleon, I ^tLlWora girls to lose tho “even tenor the most ability and constancy were Union I he was a big thing on IITs. ' men before the war, and opposed to secession, j a Cincinnati politician has left politics in Tbe death of Robert E. Lee will eauso ran- j disgust and gone to brick-making, rorsal sorrow throughout tho land. His tomb will be garlanded with the rarest flowers and j Total Rcllp.e of the San his memory will be adorned with the bright'! There will be a total eclipse of the son on on its staff? Julia Ward Howe wants tho women to stop the war in Europe. Howe ? The Latin races in Europe still continue. The Prussians act as managers. A “misplaced switch” causes many a loco, motive to run off the track. It also causes of their ways.' Since the beginning of war the Emperor Napoleon has died three times. He now stands a good chance of dying again. McMa hon was killed at Sedan, and then died- in Brigadier-General John C. Vaughn, of Mc- Minn conuty, Tennessee, and a cavalry officer of same note in tho Confederate army, is a candidate for the Senate in that State. his memory will be adorned with the bright- xnere win oe a wuu ecupse or sue suu ou He doi welL King William est tribute of fancy. It is fcrtunate that he the 21st December, which wiU, however, ^ I lo8 t his senses, on the march to Paris, and has leaves behind him tho memories of a pure I -visible only in Europe, aud, m all its com - | commallded the army ever since. Gen-Moltke and noble life. Let ns cherish them as men plateness,. on the Mediterranean. Congress ^ becn bnrUa Ho now pIon . and weave them into ora character as .a peo- baring appropriated *20,000 to the Deport- tJje si of Pariai Truly the cable is pie. I ment of Coast Survey for the purpose of fitting ** . - out au expedition to take observations, the I 61 Miss Isabella McCullogh denies the story of her marriage to Brignoli, and the birth of twins. They are the frbrications of some malicious scoundrel. The oft-repeated declaration that women | United States party will soon sail in charge of I A New York correspondent describing tho elegant costumes for women brought out for the fall, goes into raptures over some of the handsome dresses he saw on exhibition. He says men stood gazing with awe on tho mys tery and magnificence of feminine attire, and then he goes off after the following fashion: Behold the lilies of the field! What are they In all thoir glory but very poor and smut ty compared with these robes of Sheba? No bird of Paradise, no flamingo of the tropics, in all their splendor of attire, ever surpassed the plumage of woman, fabricated by Eustaco Roberts, Fournisseur de L. M. L*Ymperatrico de toutes les Kussias, de la Famille Royalo de Prusse, etc. These robes, all disposed upon “forms,” and elevated on a platform, are con templated to perfect advantage. First, we have a RECEPTION DRESS, composed of black velvet, gold satin, and point lace. The train is of black velvet, two yards and a half long, trimmed at intervals around the entire expanse with clusters of gold, colored ostrich plumes, and autumn leaves. A deep scolloped pannier of gold satin, bordered with point lace, headed with wreaths of autumn leaves, has the effect of the wings of a butterfly. The front is of gold satin, festooned with elaborate piping, garland of autumn leaves and flowers forming “the apron.” The price of this dress, $1,200. Next is a white dress, the train heavy cord ed silk; the skirt of illusion. The train is three yards long, edged with white satin and bordered with water lilies. Tbe illusion skirt is trimmed with deep tabs of white satin and marabout feathers. Price, $500. Here is a violet silk, flounced with point applique lace, bordered with garlands of vio lets and boquets of roses; the sash, with two ends of black satin and one of violet, trimmed with point applique with long pendants of lets. Price, $400. A pink silk reception dress, of the pure tint Stenographic Reporting by Machinery. Andrew J. Graham, in his Phonographic Visitor, gives the following account from the Scientific American of a reporting machine, and appends some comments of -his own: It is said that a stenographic press has been invented in England, by tne use of which the art of reporting verbatim can be acquired in much less timn than by the;old methods^ The reporter sits at something like the keyboard of a pianoforte, and by applying his fingers to the keys, prints the words as they drop from the lips of the speaker, syllable by syllable, off a strip Of paper which rolls along under neath. When we say this we do not,’ of course, mean that the words are printed in letters. The keyboard appears to be divided into three parte of eight keys each. The left side, worked by the fonr fingers of the left hand, prints signs which represent initial consonants; the right, worked bv tho fingers of the right hand, prints final consonants; and the middle, acted on by the two thumbs, prints the me dium vowels. We gather that something like a phonetic system of signs _ is employed. A few months’ practice is said to enable any operator to follow the most fluent speaker with ease. We ought to say that M. Gensoul’s sys tem renders it unnccssary to transcribe the copy. Just as with the phonetic system if legibly written the compositor can set up the speech in common type, from the printed strips furnished .by the machine. As to the comparative ease’ of writing characters with a printing them in the way here described, we can give no opinion. An English paper says if this machine should come into use in the Houses of Parliament that “ we should miss that happy skill with which the reporters con dense the speeches from their notes: Very few speakers could bear to be reported by a machine.” So for os the description gives us any idea of the construction of this machine, it does not materially differ from one constructed and Bismarck says he wants peace. A few weeks are brutal toward each other receives some J Superintendent Benjamin Pierce, of the Coast I a 8° clamored for pieces, proof in the fact that female Justices of the Survey. Tbe best use has been mado of the We believe there are five or six Browns run- Pcacein the West punish the erring of their I appropriation to secure the results of a thor-lning for Governor in various States. This own sex with cruel vigor, while male offen- j ough observation, astronomical and photo- J “Brown study” ought to be productive of ders escape with light penalties. I graphic, of the phenomenon. | good results. invented nearly eighteen years ago by Mr. Fairbanks, then in the employ of this of The Religion of Labor. Religion does not altogether consist of de votional < xercises, but, os well, of daily work. We get a wrong idea of Christianity when wa reduce it all to songs and sermons, to prayers, solemn faces, aud ecclesiastical paraphernalia. It is not especially for Sabbaths ana sanctua ries, but also for week days, for shops, for stores, for streets, and fields. Religion is largely an out-door institution. Its author was born, baptised, transfigured, and crucified under no roof but the sky. It means dili gence in business, serving -the Lord in com mon vocations and every day relations, as well as iu consecrated syllables on set occasions. Jesus was more sublimely great, standing un known at the carpenter’s bench in Nazareth, with apron on, than if he had been surpliced os a priest in the temple, or arrayed in robes of royalty on Pilate’s throne. He was greater with an adze in his hand than with a crown on his head. Christianity allows no aversion toward the mechanic. It gives him honorable position. It invites him to its home, and visits him in his. Yet how much rich young ladies who would scorn to associate with tho sons and daughters of our working men! Tho matri monial problems that busy their brains in volve such fractious as lawyers, physicians, large-salaried preachers, wholesale merchants, milliou&res, and gentlemen of leisure. It would be ridiculous, they think, to throw themselves away on mechanics 1 Of course, society has ite affinities, and that is well. Education grants it. Refinement and culture seek their level. But we dip down for gold. Too often disipated dandyism is petted and honored, while intelligent industry is denied a place. The difference between building houses and selling houses is not so great that one should be considered contemptible and the other illustrious. Really, as a business, it makes but little difference whether a man mends clothes, bones, pens, houses, laws or morals. Work is work and nothing less; man is man aud nothing more.—Clark's Workday Christianity. of a blush rose, trimmed with Mettemich ruches and festooned with long sprays of blush roses and buds; the whole enveloped in an over dress of pale pink tule. Price $400. A gray silk under skirt, flounced with plait* ed black satin over skirt in points; headed with black feather trimming, black and white I ruiparo lace and ostrich plumes at intervals. *rice, $500. A black silk empress train, three yards long, flounced with deep Chantilly lace, head ed with jet pendants, and turned on the side of the waist to form reverses. Price, $800. • Next a BEAUTIFUL BLUE BILR dinner dress—train two and a half yards long; over-skirt two yards long, puffed behind to form three panniers, between which hang pen dants of sable fur, the entire over-skirt bor dered with sable for, beaded with rich black gimp. Price, $900. A wonderful robe of. illusion nnd flamme- colored silk. The first train is of white lace with a deep flounce of silk beaded one-half of tho skirt with bows; the other with exquis itely twisted wreaths of geranium leaves. Then comes two over-skirts of white tulle sur mounted by empress train of flammo silk two yards and a half long, bordered with point applique, looped on either side with sashes of .white geranium flowers and clusters of rich leaves; the pannier formed entirely of flowers and leaves. Price, $C50. Wo arc informed that Coulter has accepted Walter Brown’s challenge to row five miles at Springfield, Mass., for $1,000 a side and the championship of America. On the motion to adopt tbe substitute pro viding for the lease of the Road, those voting in the affirmative were Yeas—Messrs. Atkins, Armstrong, Ander son, Allen of Jasper, Bell, Bethune, Belcher, Beard, Bennett, Brown, Barnum, Ballanger, Bryant, Carson, Carpenter, Clark, Clower, Cloud. Cleghom, Cobb, Colby, Duncan, Ev ans, Felder, Fowler, Fineannon, Gardner, Gray, Harden, Harkness, Hook, Hooks, Hum ber, Harris of Murray, Harper of Sumter, Harrison of Franklin, Harrison of Hancock, Hall of Bulloch, Hall of Glynn, Johnson of Spalding, Johnson of Forsyth, Kytle, Lee.. Lastinger, Matthews, Maxwell, Maull, McCor mick, Neal, Nash, Nesbitt of Gordon, Osgood, O’Neal of Baldwin, Parks, Price, Paulk, Phillips, Porter. Perkins of Cherokee, Ric$, Reddish, Rainey, Rosser, Rawles, Rurnpb, Strickland, Simms, Stone, Seale, Shackleford, Scott, Sorrells, Smith of Telfair, Smith of Ware, Tweedy, Tate, Wat kins, Walthall, Wilcox, Ware, Welcber, War ren of Quitman, Williams of Haralson, Wil liams of Morgan, Zellars. NAYS—Barnes, Bradford, Campbell, Cun ningham, Darnell, Davis, Fitzpatrick, Floyd, Ford, Goodwin, Golden, Guilford, Gullatt, Holcombe, Houston, Haren, .Joiner, Jackson, Lane, Under, Madison,' O’Neal of Lowndes, Pepper, Perkins of Dawson, Rogers, Richard son, Saulter, Scroggins, Smith of Muscogee, Thomason, Turner, Williams of Harris. Annie Dickinson. It is a favorite recreation of the moral boot blacks and pious newsboys of New York, to gather in the evening on the steps of Mr. Frothingham’s church, and scare each other with thrilling stories of the gentle Annie’s fierce exploits and deeds of daring. Among the best authenticated of these (stripped of the ornate figures of speech with which the pious newsboys are want to emblemish the simple facts) are the following: 1. Iu the memorable canvass of 1848, Miss Dickinson stomped the mining districts of Pennsylvania for Fred. Douglass, and was shot at by the infuriated miners forty-two times, the bullets whistling through her back hair to that extent, that her chignon looked like a section of suction-hose when the cam paign was over. 2. Near the close of tho rebellion. Miss Dickinson wrote to Jeff. Davis that she was f oing to raise a regiment and go for him. ’eace followed promptly. 3. In tho year 18(57 she published a book. 4. Iu tho year 1808 she went to California overland, by railroad, alone. 5. In the year 1809 she attended a lecture by Olive Logan, and further showed her fearless nature by embracing Miss Logan tempestu ously, and offering to marry her. 0. At various times daring her career sho has received and successfully done battle with 14,024 proposals of marriage, 14,600 of which wtre mado to her in the city of Odcrujo ! . These evidences of her courage are sufficient to show what she is equal to, under any emer gency. We are now Waiting to hear of a sev enth act of bravery ou her part winch will distance all the above; when she will have an nounced that she is prepared to lecture on “Charles Dickens,-” she will have given the last convincing proof that she is equal to any thing terrible.—FuncWndig, A Louisville Divorce Nlppfd In the Dad. Frpm tho Courier-Journsl.] A singular incident occurred in the office of an attorney at law, in this city, last week. A couple who had been married for sixteen or seventeen years bad wearied of matrimonial harness, and the wife had brought suit for di vorce, upon the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment The affidavits had all been made out in due form and filed in the conrt, and she had called at the office of her attorney that day for the praposo of urging him to push the suit While seated in tiie office her husband came in. He sat and tooked at his wife for some time, and then said, “Old wo man, we lived together for a long time/ 1 The wife replied, “Yes, we did.” *nie husband said, “Don’t yon think we had better try it again?” Tbe wife repliod, “Tee, if you wiU treat me right” Tbe old man rose up, lifted his hand to heaven, and, witfi a voice tremulous with emotion, repeated his vows to nourish, cherish, love, honor and protect, until death, the bride of his youth, and then folded her to his bosom, and they both wept together for joy. Even the flinty hearted at torney, who saw a good rase, with big fees, fading forever from his sight, was moved to tears. The gentleman then paid the fees apd costs, and the attorney was then .authorized to withdraw tho pending snit, and the old peo ple left the office hand in hand, and as happy as Juno bags. The boat race for $100 a side between James Mulcahey and Robert Glassford came off at the Battery Monday, 20th nit The men rowed five miles in 17 foot working boats, Glassford won easily, by five lengths in 44 minutes 12 seconds. Messrs. Cosgrove end Byder were the judges. Robert Byrnes was referee. At Naugatuck, Connecticut, on tho 24th ult, Samuel Warnock and R. L. McAlister jumped one standing jump for $100 a side. Warnock won, clearing 125} to his opponents 12:4. The men afterward made another match to imnp three standing jnmps for $100 a side, at Hartford, on tho 11th of October. The thirteenth annual regatta of the Brook lyn Yacht Clnb, Thursday, 29th nit, was one of the most successful of the season. Tho Sappho won tho prize for schooners and the Adme V. that for sloops. At Framingham, Mass., on the 24th nit, uomaauii, xurner, xunamsu. Robert McDaniels and Charles Stapleton shot Tho substituted bill was passed without a at 16 single rises for $100 a side. McDaniels call of tho yeas and nays. | won, killing 14 to his opponent’s 1L