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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVIJ. vvaiouulc & TKIIMH OK «tl!l!tC'«U’TJO>. , ir uaily floo •j. ii:• ; .. .to rc.r ’.V.’.V.’.’.V.’. •“* TKt WXEg Y. •.n n- '*,. ' ‘. .V.. .. . V> r t.- u .. woo ....W ,« - • : ..." I 60 i* 3 m WKD.YKtiDIT .V SEI’TKMBKK 14. A Aiitii.nitl Snooting Slatch The rncct'ng of our great Fair in Oe tober will afford a Coe opportunity fora trY of .still in the noble and elevated art of gunnery. We have in our midst some of tli-' finest shots in America. We would Lc [ 'cased to see them tried iD a match with some of the best shots North and South, .Such a match would add much interest j to our Fair, and would attract large crowds j to witness the contest- We suggest that 1 tome of our amateurs meet at one;, form a club, and in connection with the man' agersof the Fair Association arrange fora gfand match during the second oc. third day of the approaching Fair. ■Suitable prizes for the best and second h st sho‘scan tic provided for if the matter is taken promptly in hand. No time is to bo lost if wo would bavo a match drawing into the contest the beet shots ol the entire country. Our Approsciting Fair. The recent action of Council with refer ence to our Fair Association, places it on a firm financial bisis, and nothing now should prevent all the bright anticipations fha’ lmo been formed of its f lture from being morn than realiz'd. A grand stand cipableof seating several thousand per sons is contracted for and many other necessary buildings. This Fair has many advantages over any similar enterprise wo know of. The Grounds could not be more suitable if we fiad the whole State lo choose a location fro 1 -xml besides they are within the city —steam and horse cars will communicate with them every few minuto3. Telegraph wires arc already erected. The water pipes are losing laid, thus ensuring a plentiful supply from the Savannah river -and which, when tho Association gels u little further advanced —can be used for decorative purposes, to an cetcnt such as no other Groucds that, we know of possesses. Already, exhibitors and visitors from almost every State in the country have given notification rs their being here. Tho managers are persoveringly working to have all ready in time—-but we would again counsel them not to overlook one of the most important of all duties—to have accommodations provided fir our v sitors when they cotuo, our citizens can do much toward this end, ami it is time they were stirlng in the matter. Aliitiiiinit Democratic btato Con vention. The Alabama Democracy were in Con vention two days last week. Tho meeting was large and in every respect encourag ing. '•'he following State ticket was put in nomination: FOR GOVERNOR : R It. LINDSAY, of Colbert. Ml rTENANT GOVERNOR : H 11. MORF,N,cif Bibb. ATTORNEY GENERA I,: JOHN VV. A. SAi'FORD, of Montg’inry. TREASURER: Ij F. McCOY, of Lee. ■SECRETARY'OF STATE : J. J. PARKER, of Monroe. SUPERINTENDENT OP EDUCATION : JOSEPH HODGSON, of Montgomery. Ti e greatest harmony prevailed through out tho entire deliberations of tho Conven tion; and although there were four candi dates for Governor, four for Lieut. Gov orin r, and four for Attorney General, the friends of tho defeated candidates sank t heir individual preforenees for the sake of tho party good, and gave their enthusiastic support to the notniuees. The names of the nomiuces, except those for Attorney General and Superintendent of Education, arc new to us. They arc, however, warmly spoken of by those who know them, and highly commended for their probity, intelligence and patriotism. Col. John \V. A. Sanfon’r we know well, lie is a native of Ba’dwin county, Oa., and .son of the distinguished and venerable soldier and statesmen, General J. W. A. Sanford, of M lledgeville. Col. Sanford is a gentleman of high oh iraeter and very marked ability. The candidate fir Superintendent of Education is Col. Hodgson the able and fearless editor of the Montgomery Mail. We congratulate our c 'temporary on his good fortune, and trust that he will re ceive at tho polls as large a majority as his worth end fid css for the place so fully deserves. Below we publish in fu'l the Platform adopted by tho Convention : DEMOCRATIC AND CONSERVATIVE CON VENTION PLATFORM. The lUmocratio an 1 Conservative party of the State of Alabama, in entering upen tho contest tor the redemption of the State Government from tho liadieal usurpers who now contn 1 it, adopt and de clare as their platform 1. That we. stand ready to obey the con stitution of the United States and the laws pas id i.i nursuar.ee thereof, and the constitution and the laws of the State of Alabama, so long as they remain in force and un.'epeaied. ‘J. That we a 1 c opposed to the unjust, ex'ruvagaut and unnecessary taxation; both State and Federal, with which our people are now oppressed; to the wasteful niuandering sud emb> wuement of the pub lie money and public property, and we are in favor of the strictest economy in public expenditures, and of a rigid a: and prompt accountability of all public officers. 3. That we are in favor of law and or ,l r ; fair and peaceful olec'ions, free from fraud and corruption ; and that we shall demand a lair oount ot the ballots east. 4. That we arein favor of confiding the government of tho State to our own peo pie, to men of known capacity and integ rity, who accept office for the genera! goed ani and > not seek official position for public plunder. 5. 1 hat ti e party now in control of this State have obtained power by usurpation, r.udost the wi 1 of the people, and theb have itui used enormous ar.d unnecessary .taxes; t•'ey have created unnecessary aod useless offices for the sole purpose of feed ing their needy followers; they have, ly iirofit/atc extravagance and corruption, in ctcased the debt of the State many mil lion- of b-Tiars, and have even refused to execute the i revisions of their own consti tution relating to the classification of State Senators and tirn'r tenure of office; 3ttd by numerous otLci enormities in legisla tion they have shown themselves unfit to govern the people of a tree State, sad they ought to be ejected, through the ballot box, from the offices they hold in defiance of the wishes and in eontemyt of the in terests of the people. Proposition for a State Regatta.— ! The August* Chronicle recommends that measures be taken to have a State Regatta at that place during the week of the l’air. and suggests that such a contest would add much to the interest of that oc ision, and be of great service in promot ing friendship and cordiality between the youog men of the seaboard and up coun try. , A regatta would certainly be a pleasant episode in the weeks’ entertainment, and would afford many of our up country friends au opportunity of enjoving the n vcity of an acquatte contest. We have no doubt that our Savannah clubs will , heerfully respond should the Regatta be determined on. —Savannah News. The Early county A ties says : Corn is now down tosl per busltM in these parts, and the prospect is good for it to get still lower in a month or 60. Mew com is already beginning to come in. Exit Napoleon—The Empire Exploded. Charles Louts Napoleon, otherwise call- Napoleon 111, is the youngest son ofLouis, King of Holland, and Hortense. daughter ! of theJimpresa Josephine, and was born in i’ans, April 20,1808. His early life, after the battle of Waterloo, was spent in Swit zerland, and subsequently in Italy. Hit principal tutor was M. La has, a strong Republican, and from him he imbibed those beautiful ideas of Republicanism, which, to after life, he so pompously expressed yet so fatally warred against. After the death of the Duke of Reich stadt, in 1832, he became the successor of the Great Napoleon, not by regular de scent, but by virture of the Imperial edicts, of 1804 and 1805, which fixed the ordered' succession in the heirs of Joseph, instead of the older brothers of the first Emperor. Soon after this, Louis seemed to have come to theiconelusion that destiny had fixed up on him as the utlivcier of the French Re publicans, and, in connexion with Colonel Yaudry, and other officers of the garrison of Strasbourg, on the 30th ot October, 1836, he proclaimed a revolution. This attempt to raise himself resulted, io a few d-iyr, io a miserable failure. Taken pris oner by Louis Piiiilippe, instead of being executed for insurrection, as he expected, he wa®, through the intercession of his rr.otbe., merely banished the kingdom. Coming to this country, he led a life of idleness for some time, and then went to South America. Boon after, he returned to Europe, and re-visiting his sick mother at Arer.enburg, he reached there just in time ,o witness her death. Here, he scon commenced various publications in defence of his Strasbourg fiasco, which caused Louis Phillippe to demand his expulsion from Switzerland, to avoid which he vol untarily withdrew, and took up his resi dence in England. Here, ho occupied his time in writing his lUet Napoleoniennes, and in getting up another revolutionary expedition. In 1840, accompanied by Count Mon tholon, an old friend and favorite of the Great Emperor and a retinue of about fifty persons he sailed from Margate, and in a few days after landed at Bolognc, ma chcd to the barracks and called upon the soldiers to surrender or join his stan dard. This they refused—a few shots were exchanged when the nephew of his uncle retire 1 to the hills where he was soon after captured. He was tried for treason before the House of Peers—was defended by Rcrryer, convicted and sentenced to perpetual imprisonment in the Fortress of Ham. 1) I Sit) he managed to escape from prison, and two years after when the Revolution of 1848 broke out he repaired to Puris, and was chosen a deputy to the National Assembly from the department of the Seine and three other departments. An effort was made in the Assembly to effect his banisLment which movement was led by Lamartine, but after a stormy debate be was admitted to his seat. He was then professedly a strong Republican, and as the known pupil of Lubas received much credit for his sincerity. In May, 1850, he was elected President of the Republic by a large majority. Though nominally Republican, it was soon discovered that his government was direct ed mainly to strengthening his own power and the revival of Napoleonic ideas. Ghangarnier, a staunch Republican, who commanded the army of Paris, was dis missed from his command in 1851, and the legislative assembly which showed some consistency iu refusing to yield to his personal wishes, were startled on the 2d of December in that year by the promulgation of an order by the Prince President, as he had come to be designated, declaring Paris in a state of siege, dissolving the as sembly and placing 180 of tho most con spicuous of its members under arrest. At tho same time a decree was published, es tab'ishing universal suffrage, and ordering an election for President far tea years. Os course tho "Nephew” was elected, and he immediately set to work preparing, for the Empire. Iu 1852 a national guard was established, and new orders of nobility issued. Later in tho year the people were required to vote on a piebDcitum, recogniz ing the imperial dynasty in the person of Louis. Tbe majority was largely in his favor, and thus was founded the new Empire, which, od the 2d of September, 1870, went out amid the smoke of battle, the boom of artillery and the red glare of Prussian needle guns on the bloody heights of Sedan. Tho Empire is ended—tho nephew of his uncle is disgraced, dishonored and dethroned. The victorious host of William turn their faces towards Paris—the long coveted metropolis—and the rich valleys of the Moselle, tho Meuse, tho Aube and the Seine will, ere long, wake to the echos of tlie triumphant tread of William’s soldiery. In less than ten days the shadow of Notre Dame will fall upon a scried line of armed invaders and the sub dued tones of cathedral bells greet tho ears of the riule North men in their temporary bivouac on the heights around tho apparent ly doomed city. The Emperor dethroned—Trochu Dicta tor. These be strange words. One short mouth ago Napoleon the 111, grand Em peror of heroic France, was the talismanic word which waked to life the slumbering fires of the Frencli soldiery. But one short month back and tho man who now, by the voice of the people, takes the ab solute command of La belle Francois, was not known beyond the limits of the small coterie of officers who had shared his toils and successes in Africa. The star of Louis has set. That of the youthful Trochu appears for the first time above the horizon. With best wishes sot his success, we shall anxiously await the de velopments of the next few days. Why the Jews Sympathise wilh France —French Religious Toleration. To the Editor of the World : S'R: The editorials published in your journal need no indorsement; hut I can not refrain, with your permission, from adding a few words to the paragraph in to-day's paper, in regard to Jewish sytn- ! pathy in the present European war. It j is ati undoubted fact that a majority of the Israelites living in this country warm- ; ly sympathize with France. Ever since the time of the first Napoleon French Jews have enjoyed the same privileges in corn- ; tnon with their Catholic and l’rotestan: fellow citizens. To prove this. 1 may say 1 that the late Berry or was of Jewish ex traction; M. Jules Simon and M. Cre | mieux (doth great Republicans) are Isra elites ; a large number of officers in the j Garde Mobile are Jews. There is no honorable or lucrative positionto which a i French Jew may not aspire with a fair i chance to attain liis desire. In Prussia—land of philosophy and Protestantism— the case is entirely differ ent. . , It is only a few years since the Jews 1 were emancipated, and even at the present ! day most lamentable prejudice is mani i tested against them. Not two years ago a j debate took place in the North German Parliament on a bill to allow Israelities to till certain professorships in the I ni versitv. The bill was passed by a bare ! majority, but the debate served to display ! the remarkable ignorance and silly pre | iudiee possessed by many German law ! makers. 1 think these fuel* speak for themselves, j and it is not wonderful that many Isra : elites should love France, a land where religions liberty has found an abiding | home. Yours, truly. 1 J. L. Mamt. | New York, September 2. A Compliment. -The Rome Commer cial «*ys that Bullock withdrew his pat ronage trom that paper, because the name ot the Hon. Dunlap Scott was hoisted at its mast head as the candidate for Congress trom that District, and considers it a merit ed compliment to Capt. Scott, Prolongation—Democrats to l»e Bought Up. The public mind is still anxious and feverish in regard to the possibility of a | failure to have an election this fall. The action of the Legislature in defeating the Tweedy-Smith prorogation bill for a time quieted those apprehensions, but the sub sequent announcement made by Bullock in a Radioal caueus in Atlanta, that no election should be held, has renewed anxiety on this question. The people, without distinction of race or color, demand that their right to select members of the Legislature and Representatives to Con ' gress shall not be denied them. They are constantly in apprehension lest some new trick—some bold conspiracy of Bullock and plodgett—may yet defeat the popular will. We have not, until very recently, shared in these fears. We do not now, since wc have discovered the trick by which Bullock hopes to accomplish his ne farious purpose. A leading Republican in this State—one who has the ear of Bullock aa<l Blodgett, but who opposes them on this question says that it is a fact which can be relied on, " that pnlongation is not dead—that it will yet be carried by the aid of absent AND DODGING DEMOCRATS, BOUGHT UP for the purpose. ’ The gentleman who makes this statement is entirely reliab'e, and wo know that he has recently been in council with Bullock and Blodgett. He is a strong Republican, but is utterly op posed to prolongation, because he fears it would ruin the Republican party. We op pose it because we know it would ruin the best interests of the entire people of the State. The honest men everywhere op pose it because it would be subversive of the Gonstitution—a violation of the rights of the citizeD, and lead to an utter over throw of public confidence in Representa tive Government. The point which gives us most alarm in the disclosure made by this leading Re publican, is the fact that this infamous ini quity is to be perpetrated by tho aid of Democratic vo'es and Democratic dodgers. We confess that the success of the con tempitble outrage would, in itself, givo us much pain, but if this iniquity is to be forced upon us by the treachery of Demo cratic member®, humiliation will be added to injury. We cannot, even fora moment, bear the idea that any man claiming to be a Democrat can disgrace his name and past respectable associates by becoming tho supple tool of such unprincipled charla tans as Bullock and Blodgett in fastening upon the people of the State for two years longer the present incompetent and cor rupt State government. We assure those members who aro now or expect to become the tools of Bullock, that having bad their eyes opened and their attention directed to this matter, the people will very surely mark every man who is absent from his place when this new movement is made. Neither sickness, business engagements, mis-connections of railroad trains, nor high water courses, the usual reasons given lor short comings of this sort, will be accepted as a sufficient excuse by an outraged peo ple. Every Democratic member is expect ed to be and remain constantly at his post. The per diem they have voted themselves is sufficiently great to secure their continu al presence. We do not know how long it will be before this new movement may be started. We must be prepared to meet it each and every day. We give the warn ing in time. Let those who fear the in dignation of an outraged and injured pub lic be careful that they are not absent in the trying hour. The Dictator «f Paris. General Trochu, who was placed in su preme command at Paris a few weeks since by the Emperor, is said to be quite a young mar,—not more than thirty-six years of age. Hi has shown more of prac tical statesmanship and true military genius since the war began than any other officer belonging to the French army. Ilis proclamation on assuming absolute control of Paris and its environs had the ring of the true metal, and his roply to the strictures of the editor of the Temps upon that production, which we print in another column, stamps him at once a statesman and a patriot. It is possible that this new and unde veloped genius may bo able to reorganize the shattered French forces—rally to his aid the populace of the nation —secure the aid and co-operation of the extremists of both factions, and ultimately succeed in driving the invader from the French soil. To do this requires talent and skill and industry and pluck aod energy and ad ministrative ability of the very highest order, combined with a pure, elevated, and unselfish patriotism, which shall dis card all minor schemes in the one grand effort to arouse French enthusiasm, and purify French patriotism. Upon this brilliant young man haogt now all the hopes of the sorely beaten and. humiliated French people. Already we find the eyes of the leading members of the Corps Legislatif directed to the brilliant young Breton. A proposi tion was made to invest him with still more extraordinary powers than he now erjoys immediately upon the reception of the news of McMahon’s defeat and the surrender of bis army. That he will l e invested in a few days with absolute supreme power throughout the Empire, we think more than probable. Then will be afforded an opportunity to bring into active employment all the great powers which we ere inclined t • believe he really possesses. We shall be able to tell within a week whether he is equal to tbe great emergency. If he succeeds tho French people will have another favorite upon whom, in the lavishness of their gratitude, they may spoil by investing with imperial powers. The Cold Bond Bill. The Gold Bond measure passed the House. We give the text of the bill a3 it passed: A BILL. Tc.be entitled an act to authorize the issue of bonds cf this State, whereby to redeem all bonds, and the interest thereon, now due, or tailing due, and for other pur poses therein mentioned. Section 1. Tne General Assembly of the S'ate of Georgia do enact, that for the purpose of meeting an i redeeming a I bonis of this State, and the interest there on, now due or to fall due before January, Ist, 1873, and for such other purposes as the General Assembly may direct bis Ex- ■ cellency, the Governor, is hereby authoriz ed to issue bends ol this State, sufficient in amount to meet all outstanding bonis. j and the interest thereon, now due or t 6 j fall due before January Ist, 1873, until j otherwise ordered by law, and for such other purposes as the General Assembly j may direct; such bonds to bear interest at | a rate, not exceeding seven per cent, per | annum, with interest payable semi-annu- j ally in gold, at such place or places as the | Governor may designate; said bonds hav ing twenty years to run, and to be re deemed at the end of that period in gold j ; coin. Section 2. But nothing in this act shall j be construed to authorize the use of said j | gold bonds in fundiug the outstanding j bonds, or to authorize the exchange of j said gold bonds for any outstanding bonds i ! of the State. I Section 3. Be it further enacted. That j said bonds shall be signed by his Excel lency, the Governor, and countersigned by the Comptroller General, and shall, by the Comptroller-General, be registered in i a book, to be kept for that purpose, and the amount so issued reported also for re ! co rd in the Treanrer’s office. Section 4. Be it further enacted , That the sterling bond*, and the interest there on, until paid, be paid in gold or its equivalent. Section 5. Be it further enacted, That I all laws and parts of laws conflicting with [ this act be, and they are hereby repealed. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1870. [communicated. 1 The Agricultural Congress of ihe South ern States!!! Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: There seems great unanimity and uni versal approval throughout the Southern States upon the practical organization of an Agricultural Congress, an enterprise in truth, fraught with greater future results upOD our industries than any action of cur people at any period in our history since the inauguration of our nationality. Let the South send up to this council her industrial intelligences. If there are aDy agricultural statesmen “in the old land yet,” who survive the spirits of Wash ington, Jefferson, Ilieves, Clay, CalhouD, McDuffie, Hammond, Troup, and Couper, let them “come forth” and do honor, homage, and reverence to the memories of these illustrious statesmen, who ennobled, honored and dignified the agriculture of their beloved country when they could be spared from the councils o the nation. Other nations and govern ments have boasted and held up to the admiration cf the world, their agricultural statesmen. Let the South in this her day of agricultural gloom and embarrassment, look the subject full in all its urgent bear ings and demands. Our faith is running over ; and wo fcoi confident—should not the present man hood of the South respond in intellectual strength to meet the cri-is—childhood and youth will, rre another generation passes, furnish these inteliigencies, “to the manor born,” who will, in their day and history, record themselves “masters of the situa tion.” We live amid a great industrial revolution, and being propelled, under a pressure that knows no maximum grade, and under our rapid flight of progress, often feel and acknowledge in it all the manifest hand cf Deity. Inventive genius and the laws of science are casting benign rays of light and truth in rapid refulgence upon the long benight ed fields of agriculture, and- under their united revelations the hidden riches and recesses of nature are developing an en lightened agricultural system that knows no limits nor boundaries. In contempla ting this rapid flight in the vast field of progress, we aro lost in wonder and amazement, that the husbandman of to day is the creature of yesterday. There are thousands of earnest, intelli gent and practical men in the South, labor ing with noble hearts, large brains and trained muscles for her material advance ment. A large and learned corps of agri cultural writers are discussing, experiment ing and illustrating plans to enhance the fertility of an abused soil and ameliorate the industrial condition of a common coun try. Thousands of callous hands are up lifted to-day, opening shorter approaches and closer connections between the indus tries of agriculture, manufacture and com merce. But, with all this, we must ele vate the standard, assert and espouse the cause, and achieve our agricultural inde pendence, come weal or woe. Upon the organization of this Congress the most vital questions that will claim its mature deliberation will be the following; First. An independent agricultural press, established under the anspicies and made the organ of this Congress. This will he also sought and adopted by all kindred local and State organizations as a medium and organ of communication, is sued weekly and edited by an able corps of agriculturalists, liberally remunerated. Let it be strictly independent and espouse, in an eminent course, the cause of an in dependent agriculture. Let the mutterings of its slumbering thunders be heard, the flashes of its vivid lightnings seen afar, and the terrors of its electral shocks felt and dreaded with its teachings and policy— loud, open and outspoken. Monthly agricultural journalism in the South, since the close of the war, has fallen far short of its high behest. Its days are numbered, and its short comings re corded among the historic wrongs of Southern interests. We have become of late too progressive a people, and our in dustrial pursuits too diversified and ex panding, to sit do-wn quietly under the shade of a monthly converse with our in dustrial motherhood anil enlightenment. We must, as a family, assemble as often as once a week around the domestic hearth, exchange and relate agricultural conver sion and experience. We must, oftener than once a month, consult this oracle of our faith. We have an agricultural literature and practical system in all its hearings—the most enlightened known to the civilized world. Our future is bright under the rainbow that spans our industrial canopy. Second. Will be a practical solution of the great labor problem of the South. The laying ot the corner-stones, and foundation upon which must rest the future material wealth of the Southern States. Significant as the fact exists the imbecility of State Legislatures and their faithless employees have not, nor never will, fathom the depth and conceive the magnitude of this great question. We believe in this Con gress ; there will bo present men who will grasp this grave question, and give it a practical bearing. We look with groat confidence to this Congress and its action. Third. Will be the establishing of an agricultural bureau, independent of the States, with an able and practical chemist at its head, who will arrest in its progress and ruin} the commercial drainage of the South, and manurial mania that have seized upon her husbandry. Fourth. The inauguration of gress will be an auspicious time t •'his Con organize an associatian of the o meet and INVENTORS OF THE SOUTHREX STATES. The realm of invention has been invaded within the last decide, by tbe Igenius o! the South, in the economy of labor iu our fields and workshops. This truth is preg nant with grander results in onr industrial history than has been reached within the last fourth of a century, which will be practically illustrated in its triumphs during the exhibitions soon to be made throughout the Southern States in all that, dignifies and enconomises labor. Under hisauspioiousenlightenment weeherish an abiding faith, 3nd “hope springs eternal” in our hearts. To this feast and council, we invite you to come. Brethren shall be proud to meet and exchange the hand of fellowship with you. This UoDgrcss should be annual ar.d migratory in its sessions, holding in eon junction with local and Stats agricultu ral societies annual fairs at the principal commercial centres offering the largest re muneration, and to make the Circuit of the States, eomptsi. g the Congress—be fore two sessions can be held in any one State consecutively. The, badges, diplomas and medals of this organization, shall be the highest evidence of reward and merit known in this country, and its decisions in the ad judication of all appeals upon agricultural questions, final and conclusive. Shall have power to confer honors of distinction upon men, who distinguish.themselves.in'agricul ture, inventors in agricultural mechanics, and the arts. Also to woman in her mis sion of love, mercy, charity, good will od earth and the domestic relations of life. Uodcr the promptings of this Congress directed bv wise aod practical councils, the South must be aroused to activity ; and a vitality infused into all ' social and in dustrial relations that will be wide spead and universal. GEORGIA. September 3, 1870. Billie Grain by Hail for the South. The first car load of grain in bulk ever shipped from this city South, by rail, went off yesterday. It was shipped by Marma duke & Brown to J. M. Clark & Cos., Au gusta, Georgia, and went over the Iron Mountain railroad in charge ot the G.een lino. It will go by Belmont, Nashville, Chattanooga and Atlanta to Augusta, without change of car. In consideration of its pioneer character, it was taken free. The experiment promises to be followed by a large business in tuik shipments of grain to tho Soath by rail. — St. Louie Republican. We congratulate Messrs. Clark & Cos. upon tbe inception of this important enter prise, and trust that they will find it to their interests to continue the policy of direct through shipments so auspiciously begun. The merchants of Augusta arc always wide awake, and we expect to chronicle in a few days the fact that all of our leading grocery and grain dealers are receiving direct through shipments from the large provision depots of the far West. Death of Dk. Douglass, of Chester. — We learn from the Chester Reporter that Dr. John Douglass departed this life on the 24th ultimo, after a short illness. The Reporter says: “For more than seventy years Dr. Douglass has been knowu to tbe people of Chester. Asa physician his skill was well known; as a politician he was highly esteemed, and as a man uni versally respected,” [communicated.] Letter from Hon. Linton Stephens. Sparta, Ga., 6th September, 1870. Col. li. A. Alston, Secretary of the Demo cratic Executive Committee of Georgia: Dear Sip.:— Your letter was duly re ceived, informing me that I was chosen Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of this State, at a meeting held at Atlanta on the Ist inst., in pursuance of a call from the President of the Demo cratic Convention, to assemble at the time and place stated, and complete their or ganization by electing a Chairman outside of their own number. While sending to the committee through you ray aceeptauce of the position as signed, and my sincere acknowledgment of the honor conferred, I take this occasion to express my own views on a subject which the committee has brought betore the public, by taking actiou on it before their selected Chairman hail accepted his appointment, and before, therefore, they had a complete organization or even the number required by the resolution of the Convention providing for the formation of an Executive Committee. The subject to which I allude is tho selection of candidates in the approach ing election, with reference to their eligi bility under existing s D called laws, and the certainty of tlidr being allow ed to take their seats if elected. The recommendation which some membets of the Committee, in its unorganized and in complete state, have given to the people on this subject is already receiving different interpretations. For my own part lam at a total loss to imagine how any man elected to Congress from this State could have any “certainty” of being allowed to take his seat without avowing his unconditional adhesion to the creed ot the Radical party. If the recommendation means this it will be promptly repudiated by every true Democrat in the United States; and I will not do the mo > bers of the Committee who rut forth the recommendation, the injustice to believe for a single moment that tb>'v intended it to reach to this ex tent. Nor can 1 believe, as some suppose, that they intended to advise the people to put up only such candidates as can take the iron-clad or test oath. The difficulty of making a recommendation whieli should present any uniform rule applicable alike to elections for Congress and elections for the State Legislature was foreseen by tho recent Democratic Convention, and in duced ts e Business Committee of that body and that body itself, to forego the attempt. I must also remark that the gentlemen who have put forth the recom mendation in question, have fallen into a mistake as to there having been any recom mends, tion on this subject from the Demo cratic Executive Committee of the United States. On the contrary, the whole subject of eligibility of candidates as affected by so-called disabilities, has been left by the National Demo cratic organization and by the Demo cratic State Convention, without any recommendation at all leaving the members of the party everywhere per fectly free to shape their action according to their own convictions of principle and policy in the different localities. But since the subject has been brought before the public in a quasi oftioisl form by mem bers of tho Committee with which I am officially connected, I deem it due to my self to make known my own distinct and strong convictions as to the course re quired by sound policy and sanctioned by sound principles. As to members of the Legislature, I think the people should select only those who are free troin all the so-called dis abilities ; and this simply as a matter of policy. The Legislature will be subject to the manipulation ot the dominant party at Washington ; and that party will certain ly exclude from it all persons who may he subject to any of the disabilities which they have prescribed for, and attempted to fix upon, that class of officers. For the Legislature we have abundant sound ma terial which is free from all disabilities prescribed for that class ; and by electing a Legislature from this material, we shall either get a sound administration of State aft» Jri ’, or else .Live the enemies of constitutional liberty into tho perpetra tion of some new outrage, and thus pile up and accelerate the which awaits them at tho hands of an indignant people. It must be borne in mind that the iron-clad, or test oath, has not yet ■been required for members of the Legisla ture. Members of Congress stand on a different footing, and with regard to them I believe a different policy is demanded In their case the iron-clad or test oath is required. Lit not our people persuade themselves that the party now dominant in Congress will dispense with that oath in individual cases or by general repeal, except for a consider ation —a price paid, or to be paid. That price will be nothing less than the accep tance of all their usurpations as "fixed facts,” without even a pledge against un limited usurpation in the future. I firmly believe it would be far better that our peo ple should remain forever unrepresented than that they should bo misrepresented by men who can either take that oath, or get a dispensation from it. It is idle and foolish to expect the Radical party, in the preseut condition of affairs, to admit into Congress any real representatives of our people. They will accept only those who would destroy our moral power by mis representing and debasing us. Let us, therefore, dismi ss a’i idea of getting real representatives into a Congress where there is a Radical majority ; and let us not forget that a true Democratic Congress will ad mit any members who may have the quali fications required by the true Constitution. Stripped ot the destructive usurpations which are attempted to be foisted upon it by no higher authority than Congressional enactment and Presidential proclamations. There are, and can be, no disqualifications or disabilities for member of Congress but such as are prescribed by the Constitution itself, and b j the Constitution I mean that sacred instrument in its purity as contra distinguished from the so-called 14th and 15th amendments. This doctrine was sol emnly and repeatedly adjudicated by Congress itself in its better better days. It has never been violated but by Radi cal revolutionary violence. Amd never let it be forgotten that this violation now perpetrated in the name, and under color of the 14th and 15th Amendments, was equally perpetrated by the same revolu tionary party before the passage of either one ot those so-called amendments. I re mark just here in passing that the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery stands upon an entirely different footing, and, in my judgment, constitutes a valid part of the Constitution. This doctrine —that the only possible disqualifications or disa bilities for members of Congress are those to be found in the Constitution itself— always observed in the better days of the government, and violated only by revolu tionary Radicalism, will certainly be re spected and enforced by every true Demo cratic Congress in tbe tutors. I think, therefore, that we should select members of Congress without the slightest regird to so-called disabilities, except that we should not fail to send at least some who are sutject to them, and who have ability to show their invalidity and enor mity. They must have a hearing on the question of their right to seats, and 'that question, well argued on the theatre of Congress, would shake this country from centre to circumference• Our strength iies in attack—in attacking the usurpation and enormities of the party who are seeking to overthrow our whole system of govern ment by first crushing out the States which stand as the obstae'e in the way of' their scheme of centralization and conse quent unobstructed public plunder. Our strength is in the truth, and their weak ness is in their guilt. Our policy is not to shrink from the contest, but to wage an unremitting war on the field of truth and reason ; and we must bring forward such issues as will reveal tbe malignity of their designs and the enormity of tbeir guilt. It is a time when cowardice is folly and weak -1 ness, and courage is wisdom and strength. We are invincible on the issues if they are rightly made; and let u3 remember that nobody ever gained a victory by running away from the battle-field. These outline ideas may be enlarged if the Committee shall hereafter submit an j address to the people of Georgia. T ours, very respectfully, Linton Stephens. A Woman Kills Herself Shouting. —At Betl el church, in Catoosa county, a woman, ueder the influence of a religious exettemem, commenced shouting, and so intense was her enthusiasm that she did not cease her gyrations until overcome by violent exertion, intense heat, and the foeted atmosphere of a close room. In this condition of utter prostration of mind and body, Bhe was borne out of the house; but her vital energies could not be resusci tated and she was soon a corpse. A young man, during the same meeting, was car ried out, having been overcome by oppres sive heat while shouting. ; Condensed Prussian Official Re port of the Campaign. I The following is the Prussian official ac count (condensed) of the Campaign up to and including the battles around Metz: On the 6th of August the First Prus sian army found itself before Baarbruek and Sarr-Louie, feeling the Seoond French oorps, occupying a position on the heights near Saarbruck. The Fourteenth divi-ion attacked the I reach as they were preparing to leave on the trains, and was supported by the Fifteenth division and some por tions of the Second army under General Bteinmctz A bloody victory was achieved, and 3,000 prisoners were captured. Gen eral Frossard retired from Forbaeh to Metz, leaving his baggage, private stores of champagne, pontoon train, camp ket tles, &e., &o. Meanwhile the First corps moved on Metz, waiting for the Second army, which had to lay a railroad track as it moved along. On the 14th of August tho First army was placed thus : First oorps with the Second division near Etileg, between Metz and Boulay, wi.h another division near Convaiiies, between Metz and Avoid ; Seventh corps with the Fif teenth division at Langes ; Fourteenth di vision rear Donnanville; the advance oorps in reserve near the village of Vioti ville ; the third division on the left wing near Bazlc; the first cavalry near Froui gray, the advance po3t, close to the French line, scaroely a German mile from Metz, while the main body was encamped on the banks of the Miede, Tho enemy had occupied with considerable force the small water courses between Colomby and Denvuelly. The movements of the enemy about four o’clock led to a rcconnoLsaoca. Eaorgetic resistance was encountered. The enemy developed great strength, and General Manteuffel, of the First army corps, and General Stosstrcw, cf the Seventh, en gaged promptly General Gottz’s brigade, of the Seventh, in advanoe. Ttie first di vision advanced towards Colomby, and was soon involved in a very violent combat, but maintained itself till Osten’s brigade came up, fronting a force far outnumbering it. General Stosstrow armed at five o’clock to the east cf Colomby, taking command-in-ohief'.aDd advancing his whole corps at six o’clock. All -of Gluncher’s division was engaged near Colomby, main taining itself with difficulty against a su perior force. At 7 o’clock Kainock’s di vision was concentrated at Maigilly. A t that moment six batteries were engaged with others in reserve to extricate and sustain Gluner and Stagsrow. At 5 o’clock MagDaob’s brigade was sent to attack the enemy’s right, near Colomby. The brig&de, with splendid bravery, drove the enemy, enabling Osten’s brigade to occupy the woods north of Colomby. The Twenty-seventh bri gade remained intact in reserve. At 8 o’clock the'enemy withdrew at all points. Meantime the Seventh Corps, with the ad vance of tire First, advanced under cover of the cavalry near the roads connecting Avoid with Metz and Eting with Metz. The corps opened the attack until the first division noar Montbois the second near Mais»arvil!e. Tho enemy in forco at tempting to advance on the latter point were repulsed with force by the prompt service ol the corps of artillery and re serves of infantry. Darkness closed the fight. On the extreme left the first divis ion of horse approached Mucylhaut, the battery advancing with pauses to fire ; thirty-seventh regiment of the ninth, be longing to the left wing of the second army, had advanced on the east on tne same line at the extreme right. The third division of cavalry advanced to Ogg, where its battery opened on the enemy north of Seigny. At 8 o’clock the enemy retired at all the points from the left bank of tho Moselle under the guns of Metz. Pursuit was stopped by the fire from the guns of the fortress. The field was covered with French dead. A few prisoners were taken and a few trophies. Owing to the activity of the fortress, the of which tore through the Prussian masses, General Stei')"> o ''. "Lo came in, wa« ,ioc o give orders for the night, and on the fol lowing day to prepare for a renewal of the oonflicc. The result was that the enemy in one quarter was driven from the river bank to the fortress. Iu another quarter a heavy body was left to retreat on Paris and fall into the bands of the Second army, which was moving rapidly on the left bank of the Moselle. Leaving the First corps and the Second division of cavalry on the east ot Metz, the army next day moved to the left without resistance, passing the Moselle at Avey and Bornay. On the 17th the corps was beyond Ansui Moselle; the eighth and ninth corps at Gorge, while the second army was marching rapidly to wards Metz, on the Verdun road. After the Victorious fights at Vionville and Fanigoy, the task of the first army corps this day was to act as the right of all lines of attack, holding the left bank of the Moselle, while the second army, moved to the front, would extend from the north toward the east, thus bringing in the first and. second armies between arid Paris. On the 17tb an offensive move ment wa3 made, the Prussian army being in a sheltered position near Gravel tte, tbe Seventh corps contending itself with tepelliug a slight reconnisance ucar the forest of Vaux. At this movement Gen eral Steinmetz, who was reconuoiccring at tbe south of GravJotte in the forest of of Ogcoicl), discovered the enemy, three corps strong, encamped cn ihe heights of' Gravelotte, with the farm of St. Hubert and Point du lona o cupied. About noon Gen. Steinmetz, hearing can nooadeing at Vernvilie, and advised that the head of the Ninth corps was en gaged in it, gave orders to resume the at tack. The Seventh coips was deployed on the south and east heights of Gr&vslotte. A formidable artille-y practice followed, presenting a« imposing spectacie. Fifty can non presently augmented to eighty opened on the enemy’s battery, while advancing steadily along the high road was a mitrail ieus, whence the fire opened on the recon noitering party. The strong outposts we.'e sustained whero they were placed, and the enemy made no serious attack that day. On the 13th the first army remained quiet, the enemy equally so, while the second army, advancing to Verneville, Aube, and Mauie AuxChenes to renew the fight up the hill. Steiametz and staff remained by the batteries under a shower of projectiles, but hardly had an hour passed before the French batteries grew silent and the French began to retire. The infantry of the 7th corps meanwhile rested in the woodv gorge between Gravc lotie and Pont du Jour, but Galiz’s brig ade, posted noar Ars, to guard the Mo selle valley, was actively engaged in the combat. It took the village ofVau and the heights of Fussy, where it sustained itself. In the meantime, the Seventh and Eighth Corp3 coming from Resonville, opened the attack with heavy artillery practice, while the first division of cavalry took the first sheltered position behind it. The infantry attacked the enemy in the woods of Gemvaux. Again the enemy’s guDS were silenced, while the infantry en countered an obstinate resistance is the Gemvaux woods, where the fight continued* for hours. Owing to the density of the woods the hostile forces intermixed, and the Germans and French frequently fired into their own ranks. Emerging at last from tho wood the Prussians carried the heights and the form of St, Hubert with great loss. A farther advance was impossible on this side. The Frenoh artillery was withdrawn and tho Prussians became silent. About three o’clock, supposing the enemy had gone, Steinmetz ordered Hartmann’s cav alry to cross the defile with two horse bat teries and the Fourth Uhlans and pursue. This was effected at fourp. m. The pur suers found that the enemy had not yet retreated; but was sheltered from tbe can nonade by the troops which had ad vanced. Our men encountered a murder ous fire from the Chassepots, cannon, and mutrailleurs. The dead and wounded in stantly enc :mbered the road. The Prus sian batteries soon re-opened, shattering the cavalry. The duel continued until dark, when, leaving a force on tbe field, the Prussian main body fell back. At four o’clock in the morning the Prussian artil lery re-opened, the French replying until silenced. At the left, between Vern ville and Arneau-Yillers, the infantry fire alone was felt at first, hut soon the artillery began showing the approach of Prince Frederick Charles. The German i infantry held firmly, awaiting the support i of the artillery, and keDt the enemy busy, i The French all day usod the Chasscpot j from the trenches at 2,000 and 2 200 1 yards, inflicting dismay and severe losses, i but they were, nevertheless, in a danger j ous condition, end. being surrounded and attacked on all tries, their only chance j was to retreat to the fortress. At seven 1 o’clock in the evening they made one more j effort to cut through our lines to Paris. 1 Line after line of riflemen firing over each others shoulders and shouting wildly rushed from the heights to the ravine through the treos.the Prussian infantry was thinned and weakened fearfully. The moment was a critical one, but the artillery providentially opened and hurled hack with slaughter the assailants. The Prussians then assumed the offensive. Reinforcements happily ar rived, the King having approached and dispatched the former and a corps that had never been under fire to the front. It’s aid was decisive. Rushrag lor ward and firing, it carried the heights, winning the day. On the 19th the uaemy took refuge in Metz. Prussian organization. Dr. Russell, more familiarly known in this country as “Bull Run Russell,” writes to the London limes tho following account of the thorough organization of every de partment of the Prussian invading army. Ihe writer is a warm sympathizer with the Prussian cause, and may give a little too much coloring to bis statements: Everything is organized here. There is even a corns of gravediggers—dead buriers, “todten graber” they are called— who are under command, and have to do their duty like every one else. From the general to the gravedigger, there has been work for every one to-day; and, but for the activity of the latter functionarie-', the Spicheren heights and the plains bes'de them would be poisonous with miasma, and the dead would be killing the living. The sanitary and spiritual columns give almost a religious aspect to the warlike procession, which, as it moves away over tho bills, looks here and there, when the red crosses of the Kralcentragcr arid the blacky and white dresses of the Krahcntra ger Schwcstcrn strike the eye more like a procession of pilgrims approaching the holy shrine than of soldiers invading a hostile coun ry. Os the Krakentrager, some are men of the Laudwehr, wearing uniforms, others aro students from the hospitals or universities, in plain clothes. All exhibit the red cross worked or stamped on a white cloth, which is tied around the left arm. Besides tho Sis ters in black and white, there is a corps of Sisters who wear dark slate colored dresses and white hoods with butterfly wings, and, like the Krakentager, display round the left arm the red cross on a white ground. These admirable women have already done excellent service. They were on the field ot battid, on the Light of tho Oth, before the firing had ceased, and this morning as the dock struck five, I saw a party of them walking through the streets on their way toward Forbaeh. beyond which town there will soon be more work for them to do. All the Sisters march on foot, each little company proceeded by a priest or a pastor.” The same correspondent, in visiting a battle-field was struck by the sight of a number of sticks standing about the ground. He adds: “These aro not sticks, however, they are ueedle-gucs. Where these five needle guns are planted in the earth (with bay onets for roots) five Prussian soldiers have fallen. The men are buried, but their arms, for this day at least, arc to ha left here. A few yards ahead there are three more ct these needle-plants; then nine, rhen a dozen ; then close to a ridge, where the Prussian assailants bad thought they would find e >ver, but failed to do so, twenty-seven. Passing, this ridge, anil climbing, not without difficulty, up the sleep ascent, I find knapsacks lying torn open on the ground, broken accoutrements, battered helmets, blood stained cloches, and bodies rigid in tho convulsions of death. Prussians alone are to be seen here, and looking down into the plain I observe three different paths of ascent marked, as if to show how difficult they were, with needie-guns stuck in tho turt. Every man who owned one of these mus ketfc either died close to where his weapon stands as a sign, or. at ieast, iell unable any longer to use it.” General Trochu. Paris, August 10.—Uer. Trcehu, re plying to the criticisms provoked by the passage in the proclamation, which I yes terday noticed as objectionable, has ad dressed the following letter to the Tempt: Faris, August 19.--While appreciating with a friendliness, for which I thank you, the document by which in the night ofmy return from the army I put myself in com munication with the people of Paris, you appear to desire explanations on the sub ject of the following passage in my pro clamation : “I appeal to men of all parties, belong ing myself as is well known in the army to no party but that of the country. I ap peal to their devotedness to restrain by moral authority those ardent spirits who cannot restrain themselves, aod to do jus tice with their own hands on (.hose wen of the party who see in the public calamity only an occasion to satisfy their detestable appetites.” I have all my life’been for free discus sion, and to tho explanation you call for I will add my profession of faith. The error of all the Governments which I have known has been to consider forco as the ultima ratio of power. All, without ex ception, have more or less relegated to the background that true force, the only forco which is efficacious, at all times the only decisive force when the difficult problems which agitate civilization are to be re solved—moral force. All these Govern ments have been more or less personal, not perceiving that impersonal power which considers itself but as the delega tion of the nation—which thinks and acts but in the interest of the nation, and never for its own interest—which submits cheerfully to all the control which it may please the nation to require—which is loyal, sincere, ardent for the public good, and ever guided by principles of public honesty— is alone in possession of that moral force the power of which I have de fined. it is in this spirit that I addressed the population of Paris; it is in this spirit that I have lived, and that in the measure of my ability and my position I have strug gled against those errors which have brought the country to the state ofmonrn ing in which she is. I have asked for the assistance of men of all parties, offering mine gratuitously, without reserve, and as I have said, and I could not say more, with all my heart, and this is what I un derstand by the purely moral assist ance which I ask for. The idea of main taining order in Paris, now a prey to most legitimate anguish and consequent notation, fills me with horror and disgust- The idea of maintaining order by the as cendency of patriotism freely expressing itself, and by the feeling of honor amidst t ie manifest perils of the nation inspires me with hope and serenity. But the 1 ri/blem is an arduous one. I cannot solve it alone. I can only solve it by the help of all those who have the same faith and belief that I have- This is what I mean 1 by nava! force. But a moment may come when Pari-, menaced throughout the ii x-ent of Ij- r u’r ai uer, and suffer ing fvm iii ■ tiiu > of a siege, wilt tie to a Certain extent given oo- rro that special class ot scoundrel> Qp-alius), who see in the public a ciuy only an occasion to sat isfy their detestable appetites. These are tho men who go about tbe alarmed city crying we are betrayed,‘break into house* and pillage them. It is such men only that I recommend all hontfst people to seize by the cellar in the absence of the I übiic force which will be oo the ramparts 1 meant nothing more. I beg you, Mr Editor, to receive the assurance of my dis tinguished consideration. Gen. Trochu. The Temps is greatly pleabed with the explanation, and more so with the general tone of the Dictator’s letter; but it sug gests that since thicvc-3 only were meant in the original proclamation to be designated as the objects of the people’s summary justice, it would greatly simplify matters if the discharged convicts who must be known to the police were to be sent away. Struck hv Lightning.— On the 20th inst., two men, twin-brothers, were struck by lightning on Mr. Clark Gordon’s plan tation in Coosa county. They were plow ing, when a thunder storm coming over, caused them to seek shelter frem the rain under a large tree that stood in the field. A bolt struck the tree and felled the two men to the earth. Both were badly in jured ; one it is feared, will not recover. It is stated by the wife of one of the-e men that a physical sympathy exists be tween the brethers. When either gets sick, the other is affected in precisely the same manner. One never received an in jury without the other meeting a similar accident. If this be true, it is something remarkable. Engineers are engaged in locating the route of tbe Air Line road through Spar tanburg. Mr. Ciayton, of Asheville, N. C., ha3 taken a large contract, and has ar rived at Spartanburg C. H., with his la borers, mules, etc., and will at once un dertake the work. NEW SERIES, VOL. XXYIII. NO. 37. The War. THE SURRENDER OF NAPOLEON and mcmaiion. VALOR OF THE VANQUISHED AND VICTORS. DETAILS OF THE BATTLES. From the New York World. NAPOLEON VANQUISHED. London, September 3.—A special dis patch lias been received troin Sedan, via Bouillon, September 2, midnight, which says: The die is east. So far as McMu lion’s fine army and the fortunes of the Em pire are concerned all is over with France. I have already telegraphed briefly" the facts of the bat ties of Tuesday aud Wed nesday, each day’s fighting being terrific. The results at the close ot each day were favorable to the Prussians. Thursday day light showed the French forces reinforced aud occupying a strong elevated position from Bazeilles, exteuding along the rail road to Douzy, and thence to Mairy, on tho line of tho Mouzon Railroad. At 5 o’clock the Prussians re-commenced the battle, making a simultaneous attack on the French front and left flank. The fight ing at first was confined to the artillery, both armies firing incessantly, tho French evidently having a weaker 'force of guns than tho Prussians. AT NOON A ViEUCE ATTACK was made by the Prussian infantry at Douzy, with the object of breaking tiie French centre; but, after tremendous fighting, the Prussians fell back. A pause seemed to take plaoe at 1 o’clock, the firing being less incessant; but it was only a prelude of a yet fiercer assault. At 2 o’clock a simultaneous movement was made along the whole Prussian line the infantry charging tho French guns. ’ At 3 o’clock the French line, whtoh pre viously stood firm, wavered, and imme diatly thereafter broke. The battle then became a rout. McMahon is reported to have been seriously wounded during the last attack. The roads now presented a terrific aspect. The French left every thing, flying iu every direction, and throw ing away their arms. 'J he Prussian forces pressed forward resolutely, bent upon cut ting off their retreat to raids Belgium. The Prussian troops used the bayonet with terrible effeet. NIGUT CLOSED ON TIIE ROUT and the pursuit, leaving tho Prussians gathering in largo cumbers around Sedan. The Emperor femained at Sedan through out the battle. At 2:30 o’clock a message was sent to the Emperor at his headquar ters advising him to fly to Belgium, but the Emperor was too ill to undertake the journey. This morning the Prussians prepared to attack Sedan, which was not in a condition to resist. At 12 o’clock a party of officers, headed by [General Wimpfen, left Sedan bearing A FLAG OF TRUCE. It was received by the Prussian advance guard and conducted to the rear to the Prussian headquarters, whore the General formally surrendered the French army and the fortress to King William. The French party also bore a letter from the Emperor Napoleon to King William, stating that he desired to surrender himself, not hav ing any command. The formal capitulation took place at 1:30 o’clock. It is said that the Euaperor will be sent under a strong escort to Magdeburg, but his destination is a secret. A large number of tho French escaped into Belgium. LAYING HIS SWORD AT THE FEET OF KING WILLIAM. London, September 3.—A special cor respondent telegraphs from the King’s headquarters at Vendves, near Sedan, Friday The battle of Sedan began at f> o’clock in tbe morning, September 1. Two Prussian corps were in position on the we9t of Sedan, having cot there by long forced marches to cut off the French retreat to Mtzieres. South < f Sedan was the First Bavarian Corps, and east, across tho Meuse, the Second Bavarian Corps. The Saxons were on the northeast with the Guards. I was with tho King through out the day ON THE HILL ABOVE ST. MEUSE, commanding a splendid view of the valley of the Meuse and tbe field. After a tre mendous battle, tlia Prussians having completely surrounded Sedan and the Ba varians having entered tho fortifications of Sedan, the Emperor capitulated at 5:15 p. m. His letter to the King of Prussia said : "As I cannot die at the head of my army, I lay my sword at. thfc feet ot your Majesty,” Napoleon left Sedan for the Prussian headquarters at Vendres. At 7 o’clock on tho morning of September 2. McMahon’s whole army, comprising 100,000 prisoners, capitulated without con ditions. The Prussians had 240,000 men engaged or in reserve ; the French 120,- 000. THE NEWS IN LONDON. London, September 3.— lntense excite ment is caused here to-day by the news of the suriender ot the Emperor Napoleon, with tho army of Marshal McMahon, to the King of Prussia at Sedan. This impor tant event took place yesterday, as the King’s telegram announces, at half past one o’clock in the afternoon. The surren der of the army was made by General De Wimpffen, a cousin of the General De Wimpffen of the Prussian army. Marshal McMahon was severely wounded, exposing himself with heroic bravery in the vic torious combat of Wednesday. A private telegram from Brussels informs me that King William was profoundly overcome when tho Emperor’s proffer of surrender was bronght to him by General Count Lepio, one of the imperial aids. His Majesty appointed a meeting at once, and exhibited the most considerate courtesy. It was not fully known by the Prussians that tbe Emperor was with the army nntil the surrender was proposed by him. It is said that the Emperor insisted upon the surrender of the army against the urgency of the younger officers, as he was so much shocked by the fearful slaughter of Wednesday and Thursday. It is believed the residence of the Elector of Hesse Cas sel will be assigned to him by King William. IMMENSE EXCITEMENT. Berlin and Brussels, as well as London, are in a state of immense excitement. A vast crowd moved through the Unter den Linden this afternoon, and wont to the BchDss singing tho national anthem, and the Q teen’s Ghamberlain came out with her Majesty on the balcony and read the King’s dispatch. ESTIMATE OF TIIE CAUSES. It is thought here at tho military clubs that the French troops never fought so magnificently as in these late battles, but the testim nv of all observers is that they were most abominably supplied with both provisions and ammunitions, and not at all well handled by the divisional commanders under MeMabon. It ia reported that General de Failly, who lost the battle of Wurth by an assetted mistake in a tele graph, and who ia said to have lost the bittle of Tnursdiy by abandoning a hill which he was ordere 1 and was able to hold, was charged with treachery in the oocn field by one of his colonels, ami shot dead from his horse with a pistol. Os the con duct of tbe Germans there is but one opin ion, that their campaign has been simply perfect- L. BERLIN TRIUMPHS. Berlin, September 3.—The receipt of the news that the Emperor and McMahon had capitulated has occasioned TIIE MOST PRODIGIOUS ENTUSIA3M here. Thousands of people through the streets, moving in ranks, with arms tinkod, singing patriotic songs, shouting, and ex hibiting every sign of enthusiasm. A surging crowd assembled before the palace, when in response to the cheering THE QUEEN APPEARED and made a short address. All tbe schools were closed and the children given a h di day. The monument to Fredrick the Sec oud wa3 literally buried in flags. Deni u strations were made before the residences of Count von Bismarck, Baron do Moltkc and Minister of War de Boon. The shops and stores were mostly closed, and the day given up to festivities and rejoicings. GREAT PRUSSIAN REJOICINGS. A special dispatch from Berlin received here to day, soys the ri joicing over the re ception of the glorious news from Sedan baffles description. It was known at 8 o’clock in the morning. The whole pop ulation poured into the streets and rushed to the palace of the Queen. In a very few minutes the Queen was oat on the balcony, dressed in a plain mornmg wrap per, weeping with joy as she received the deafening cheers of the multitude. Hun dreds of women went down on their knees with streaming eyes, thanking God for the apparent approach of the close of the ter rible war. THE SCHOOLS WERE CLOSED and processions of childrea were formed in all quarters. Many climbed the statue of Frederick the Great, coveriog it with veaths and flags. An impromptu proces sl t zen i Y as s° tton “P. which uarched through the streets with banners 1f , 13 , tho « CDaral beliof that w - , abandon farther resistance, ill financial circles share in the exultation, which is shown by the buoyancy of the markets. Tae people gladly welcome ■cace on the most genesous terms conse nt with perfect security against future vars. m’mailom.] From the chaos of unintelligible and conflicting telegrams we gather' that Mc- Mahon was proceeding to the relief of Metz, when he was* encountered and Uiven back by the Germans, who pursued him so closely and constantly that col lisions were inevitable. Hence conflicts nave been reported all tho week. There was serious work at Sedan on Tuesday alien McMahon reached tho heights of V aux, near Carrignan. THITHER CAME THE EMPEROR on Tuesday. On that day 80,000 of Mc- Mauous army was attacked between Mouzon and Moulins. This was the first battle of Beaumont, reported by King '•'» iliiam to the Queen. Tne French were driven over the Meuse to Mousson. The encounter on the other hank of the river became general. The French were ex pelled from Vaux, and only faced about mi Wednesday between Douzy and Bazeil les, with the Men sc and Cher bet ween them and tho enemy. A severe engage ment occurred. The Prussians turned the french right, necessitating a retirement on Sedan, before which they again renew ed the tight on lhursday, when they were <1 riven into the fortress. TUB FIGITT OF NORSEVILLE. Malenoottrt, Friday, noon, September and. Since Wednesday morning Bazaine has constantly sought to get to the nortli \vunl from Metz with liis army. The forces of Prince Frederic diaries and General Monteuffel repelled all his efforts, and es pecially in the action that may be styled the battle of Norseville, the French were iiung back into the fortress. The Prussian torce in this battle was composed of tho First aud Second Corps and a portion of the Landwehr. The conflicts occurred tor the most part around Serigny aud Norseville. Berlin, September 3.—A dispatch just received has the following : Since Wednesday last Marshal Bazaino lias steadily sought to escape to the north, but has always beou frustrated by Gen. Mauteuffel, directed by Prince Frederic Charles. A PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE. London, September 3.—A special dis patch from Bouillon, Belgium, August 31, says: The Emperor and General McMa hon nad a narrow escape from capture on form between Steoay and iJouzoD. G eneral McMahon met the Em* peror on the way to SedaD. While they v.crc bieakfasting two Prussian divisions came suddenly upon them. The Emperor had but time to jump on the back ot his horse and reach tho high rdft five minutes before the i’russians arrived at the farm house. The French were wholly unaware of their approach. They kept no patrol ®eouts or advanced guard. Had not the Prussian advance guard been weak, both ! be Emperor and General McMahon would have been made prisoners. TWELVE DAYS IN THE SADDLE. Berlin, September 3.-A letter from .! z, dated September 2, gives tho fol io w mg information : Sl ice the engagement at Gravelotte. -v ve days have passed without giving ne French an opportunity to leave the -jil lie. The army in such case is noees. sarily demoralized and unable to oppose the Germans, or prevent theif securiug chosen positions. THE BELEAGURED ARMY, with its numerous wounded, the garrison of tho city and suburban refugees, must aggregate two hundred thousand souls. Fevers are, therefore, a necessary conse quence, and are accompanied with want and suffering. BrzaiDC must have countod on tho ar rival of McMahon to relieve this misery, l int hope has been destroyed by the Prus ►'•in movements. The first thought of the j’i'ussiana was that McMahon was hasten mg to the defence of Paris, but it was aUo feared he might, by hugging the B I gian frontier, march seoretly back to Metz, where Rnzainp sag osapnil up, aod the Prussians in the rear, with the co operation of Bazaine. Hence the advance of the Prussians in three great columns. SWEEPING THE EXTENDED LINE of the Belgian frontier from along the Meuse to the Aube effectually shutting out McMahon from Metz. The belief on the parr of the Prussians, that McMahon had tr ine from Rheirns northward toward the Belgian border, seemed to be confirmed from tho following circumstance : A Saxon cavalry regiment in the north overtook a regiment of the Chasseurs D Afrique. The Saxons immediately gave them battle, and after a short and sharp encounter defeated them. Theso Chas seurs were then found to belong to General Failiy’s carps of McMahon’s army. From this the proximity of Marshal McMahon’s army was inferred. How France Has Been Hwlnflled. J'rom the New York Journal of Commerce, It is related of the Czar Nicholas that, shortly after tho Crimean war broke out, he was strolling through the ordinance yard at Sebastopol, surveying with pride the pyramids of cannon balls piled up there, when he idly chanced to strike one of them with his walking stick. It gave back a strange, dull sound. An examina tion revealed that it was made of wood, and tlie same exaggerated wooden nutmeg imposture had been practiced by tlie con tractor in supplying all the balls there stored away. Following up this clue the Czar ascertained that jobbing and fraud pervaded all departments of the army ser vice, and that, except on paper, his empire was in no condition to contend with tlie allied powers. Napoleon’s army and mili tary equipments and provisions are not as deficient, and delusive as those of Nicholas; but they fell far short of what he and the world expected them to be. We question, in the first place, whether the active army was anything like 400,000 strong. Wo h ive never been able to figure up more tiian 250,000 or 275,000 regular Frencli troops in the advance on Prussia; and wo believe that tlie actual enumeration of tlie men at his command was the principal rea son that induced Napoleon to stand on tlie defensive instead of attempting an invasion of Prussia. Somebody—or some military rir g—has been deceiving the Emperor and getting rich out of the rations and supplies of a paper army. Then, too, the reserve of 400,000 men, which were supposed to be capable of taking Ihe field at short no tice, why have they not been available to reinforce tbe regular army more promptly ? Because, we venture to say, the War De partment was unable to furnish them with rifles or muskets of any description, to say nothing of Ghassepots, equipments and uniforms. More than a year ago we read the statement that France had over a mil lion Ghassepots in her arsenals; and the government factories were said to be still turning them out. But, immediately after McMahon’s defeat, complaints began to be rife that Francs was short, not only of Ghasierots, hut of arms of every kind. The French commissariat is wor-c, if pos sible, than any other branch of the service, if we may believe a tithe of the statements made by correspondents. McMahon’s army was represented to be almost starving for some days, and that, too, in a region in eisy communication with the capita!. All these deficiencies and weaknesses in the French army, disclosed by the light of events, astonish those who believe that, -i»;C 1 1866, France has been making unre ! mining effoits for a war with Prussia. I Ether she has bad no serious intent of ‘.S iting Prussia iu all that time, or the i E uptror has been grossly duped by his I V/orites, who have deluded him into the belief that France was prepared "to con in. nt every eventuality” (to quote from his -oiv'ch to the bodies of state, January 18, ! 869), and have profited by his credulity to amass fortunes. Probable Capture of Criminals.— Oa Tuesday night, tho 23d of August, a diabolical attempt was mad : to draw the Northeastern train off the track of Lane’s Turn Out, by placing two iron bars across the track to meet the up passenger train. The engine known as the "Denial leaven el” was thrown from the track, and con siderably injured. Two cars were ruined. These on the train miraculously escaped. Since then, measures have been in progress to detect the fiends. Parties have been ar rested, who are believe 1 to be the gu.hy ones, and they will b? brought to town to undergo an examination. I hey are color ed men. — Courier. On Monday last, Mr. Geo. 11. Elliott, formerly of Savannah, made the trip from bis home near Cartersville, on the Etowah, to Rome, a distance of forty-two miles, in his boat, the Baudy Moore, in six hours. The speed made was seven miles an hour. The “Baudy Moore” is a poplar plank boat, 18 feet long, 18 inches wide, and 7 inches in depth.
