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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.