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CALHODN TIMES.
ELAM CHRISTIAN, - - - EDITOR.
CALHOUN, (iA:
6, 1870.
Democratic Nominees.
FOR CONORESB 7tII DISTRICT.
GEN. P. M. B. YOUNG,
OF BARTOW.
FOR STATE SENATOR,
Hon. L. N. TRAMMELL,
OF WHITFIELD.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
lion. .T. C. PAIN,
OF CALIIOUN.
itir The exciting news about Rus
sian war preparations is said to be un
true.
ti&r Only twenty-one candidates are
announced in the Atlanta Constitution.
The United St ates Supreme
court does not now require its Lawyers
to take the iron clad oath.
Jfeiy* The yellow fever has made its
appearance at New Orleans, and is also
at Mobile.
The Floods.— The news from Vir
ginia this week is very exciting. We
only have room for the most important
points given in lengthy telegrams.
W&* Confederate General Beauregard
is said to be in France, raising an inde
pendent army to fight the invading
Prussians.
From the accounts given by tele
graph, the Green Line excursionists had
a gay time, during their Cinciunatti
trip.
Rome Daily Commercial. —This
favorite spicy daily has failed to reach
us for a week past. What’s the matter,
Grady ?
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The blacks and mulattoes of
South Carolina have fallen out about
the nominations for office, and the con
test promises to be a bitter one.
t&OT Carl Schurz has been trying his
hand at getting a stump-fight out of old
Drake in Missouri, but Drake refuses to
meet him.
fcaT* The father-in-law of Dr. Liv
ingstone, the African explorer, told an
audience at Manchester, last Sunday
night, that he felt sure that his son was
safe.
US* The 11. I. Kimball House, in
Atlanta, is being pushed rapidly to com
pletion, and will accommodate a great
number during the fair. It will be
worth a trip to Atlanta to see this im
mense hotel and the splendid iron pas
senger depot.
I6S* The papers all over the Northern,
Eastern, and Western States are speak
ing in high terms of our approaching
State fair, and it bids fair to be the
hugest thing of the kind ever seen in
the South.
ftS 5 ” A Washington dispatch of the
3d, says the Government will sell a
million of Gold every Wednesday and
Thursday, and purchase two million
bonds every Thursday during the pre
sent month.
—
Bid?" The telegrams of the 2d, say the
Prussians are thundering against the
walls of Paris. The new French Gov
ernment refuses the Prussian demands,
and it is thought the city cannot long
withstand the efforts of the victorious
Germans, although despatches from
French sources are still hopeful.
Gen. Lee. —A dispatch dated Oct.,
3d, says that Gen. Lee, after presiding
over a large meeting of the faculty of
Washington College, and an exciting
meeting of the vestry of the Episcopal
church, and on returning to his resi
dence fainted from fatigue, but has no
symptoms of apoplexy or paralysis.—
His physicians expect a speedy recovery.
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©S* Mr. Bryant, the representative
from Skowhegia, has done one good
thing during his paying sojourn in
Georgia. Just before the final passage
of the fraud-protecting election bill, he
got an amendment through allowing the
ordinaries of the various counties to ap
point two of the election managers.
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©aT* The New Era heads an article
“ a man wanted.” The public has for
some time wanted to find out whether
or not such a thing had any connection
with that paper, and will now take it
for granted that it really lacks a man.
We would advise “ old Spence ” to
apply for a situation at once.
Another Ecclesiastical Ruler
Dethroned. —Brigham Young like
Pope Pius, has been compelled to sur
render his temporal sovereignty. A late
order of the United States commander
in Utah forbids the drilling of Mormon
militia and demands the surrender of all
arms and munitions, whether the prop
erty of the Territory or of the Uneted
States.
The new issue of the fifty cent note
lias been counterfeited.
©S* The Pope declines to quit Rome.
The Election Bill.
This monstrous document will be
found on our outside. It speaks for
itself, and like a penitentiary convict,
bears its condemnation on its face.—
Seeing that it has only had the effect of
uniting more firmly and strengthening
the determination of the Democratic
party, the Ilads are considerably dis
gruntled about it, and are now talking
about putting through a supplemental
bill of some kind, for fear there is yet
some chance for the people of Georgia
to enforce a fair election even under
that bill. Such is Radicalism.
Letter from Lebanon, Tenn.
Lebanon, Tenn., Sept. 28, 1870.
Mr. Editor : —College has opened un
der flattering prospects. Cumberland
University is already feeling the invig
orating effects of the abundant year.—
Patronage is decidedly on the increase.
At present there are two hundred and
seven matriculates in the Institution.
Forty-eight are Law students, seventy
are in the department of Arts, and about
twelve in the department of Theology.
The remainder attend the preparatory
school. I have just entered upon my
seignior (literary) course, with a class of
nineteen young men. If there is any
part of the curriculum, that I esteem
above another, it is the scientific part.
This bias may be due to the skill and
ability of the instructor in the depart
ment, Prof. Safford, Ph. I). No doubt
but that the competency or incompeten
cy of a teacher influences the relish a
student has for his study. Dr. S. is a
graduate of Yale College. He has been
for many years associated with the Fac
ulty here. His ability as a Geologist is
recognized in the United States and Eu
rope. He has exchanged fossil speci
mens with sholars in Germany—has giv
en and received the results of scientific
investigations, &c. To aid the Profes
sor’s instruction, he has at command, a
handsome little Cabinet, and well fur
nished Laboratory. Here, in this room,
I hold converse with nature in all her
visible forms. Here, every sense finds
delightful employment. Not one but
that brings its beautiful sheaves intothe
garner of mind. In other studies it is
not so. Sight is almost the only sense
used in other fields of mental effort.
Last week, the Wilson county Fair
was held at this place. In conjunction
with that event, the Railroad from Nash
ville to Lebanon was completed. On
Thursday, a free ride was given, and I
heard that two thousand people came in
on the cars. The new railroad opens a
new commercial era to the merchants of
Lebanon. I have no doubt, it will in
fuse a fresh animus into every industrial
department in the community. The
same thing will occur at Calhoun when
her railroad enterprise is accomplished.
Fairs in Tennessee (just as they are
in Georgia, I suppose.) are the popular
resorts of belles and beaux, as well as of
artisans and stockmen. The former con
sideration induced your humble corres
pondent to be present on two days. The
ampithcatre is large and splendid, mount
ed with a wide and handsome prome
nade. This walk was constantly a live
ly scene of beauty and gallantry. lam
glad to say, that I was an ardent partic
ipant in its festivities. I reckon, Mr.
Editor, I was about as much delighted
as David Copperfield was at the Picnic.
During the week, the religious and lit
erary circles of the community were set
astir, at the arrival of the distinguished
Dr. Munsey, of Baltimore. This learned
divine is now traveling in the South,
and delivering lectures. He is disqual
ified the pulpit, by the feebleness of his
health. He now lectures as a means of
support, this being a lighter labor than
the pulpit demands. He gave us, what
has been styled his best lecture—sub
ject—‘Man.’ Dr. Munsey is a living
energy. His manner is quick and deci
ded. The exertion he was accustomed
to put forth in preaching, completely
prostrated him. Even his labor in a
lecture, is above that of more than half
the preachers. How lamentable, that,
genius so often has so frail a tenement!
That great soul must slumber. It can
only give an exhibition of its wondrous
might, at the risk of shaking down the
infirm walls of its physical temple.
Very respectfully, W. S.
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Internal Revenue. —The new In
ternal Revenue law repealing all taxes
on gross receipts, of sales except tobaceo,
cigars and spirits, and abolishing the
use of stamps on all receipts for money
and on promissory notes of less denomi
nation than one hundred dollars, bil
liards. and also all taxes imposed by
schedule of June 30th, 1864, takes effect
October Ist, and hereafter no taxes are
to be collected on any of above named
articles.
The debt statement shows a decrease
of §9,000,000 for the month.
Schedule A which ceased to exist
that day, required taxes to be paid on
carriages, gold watches, billiard tables,
gold and silver plate, &c. The tax on
broker’s sales is not repealed by law as
erroneously stated.
Coin in treasury 896,000,000; Cur
rency 832,000,000.
The Secretary of the Navy gives or
ders for a proper celebration of the Far
ragut obsequies on December 30th. The
department here will be closed.
The Relief Bill.
Below we give this bill, as it passed
the Senate on the 28th September:
Section 1. In all suits pending, or
hereafter brought, in or before any
court of this State, founded upon any
debt or contract made or implied before
the first day of June, 1865, or upon any
debt or contract in renewal thereof, it
shall not be lawful for the plaintiff to
have a verdict or judgment in his favor
until he has made it clearly appear to
the tribunal trying the same, that all
legal taxes, chargeable by law upon the
same, have been duly paid for each year
since the making or implying of said
debt or contract.
Sec. 2. In any suit now pending, or
hereafter brought, it shall be the duty
of tliQ plaintiff, within six months after
the passage of this act, if the suit be
pending, and at the filing of the writ,
it the suit be hereafter brought, to file
with the clerk of the court, or justice,
an affidavit, if the suit is founded on
any debt or contract, as described in
section 1, that all legal taxes, chargeable
by law, upon such debts or contracts,
have been duly paid, or the income
thereon, for each year since the making
of the same, and that he expects to
prove the same upon the trial. And on
failure to file such affidavit as herein
required, said suit shall, on motion, be
dismissed.
Sec. 3. In suits upon aurb pnnfmMa,-
in every case the burden of proof, show
ing that the taxes have been duly paid,
shall be upon the party plaintiff, with
out plea by the defendant, and the de
fendant may, upon this point, cross ex
amine witnesses, introduce proof in de
nial and rebuttal to the plaintiff’s proof,
without plea
Sec. 4. In every trial upon a suit
founded upon any such debt or contract
as described in this act, provided that
said debt has been regularly given in
for taxes, and the taxes paid, shall be a
condition precedent to recovery on the
same; and in every such case if the
tribunal trying is not clearly satisfied
that said taxes have been duly given in
and paid, it shall so find, and said suit
shall be disuiissed.
Sec. 5. No execution founded on any
debt or contract, shall proceed to levy or
sale until the plaintiff, or owner there
of, shall attach thereto his affidavit that
all legal taxes chargeable by law by him
on said debt, have been paid from the
time of making or implying of said con
tract until the day of such attaching of
said affidavit; and any defendant, or
claimant of property levied on by said
execution, may stop the same, as in
cases of affidavit of illegality, by filing
his affidavit denying that said taxes
have been paid ; and said affidavit shall
be returned and tried, and have effect
as in other cases of illegality.
Sec. 6. In all suits now pending, or
hereafter to be brought in any court in
this State, founded on any such con
tract, or upon any debt in renewal
thereof, it shall be lawful for the de
fendant to plead and prove in defense,
and as an off-set to the same, any losses
the said defendant may have suffered
by, or in consequence of the late war
against the United States, by the people
of this and other States, whether said
losses be from the destruction or depre
ciation of property, or in any other way
be fairly caused by said war and the
results thereof.
Sec. 7. No plea or proof under this
act, of damage or loss, as aforesaid, shall
be had as setting up damages too remote
or speculative, if it appeared that it was
fairly and legitimately produced, direct
ly or indirectly, by said war, or the re
sults thereof.
Sec. 8. No set-off pleaded under this
Act shall entitle the defendant to any
judgment in his favor for any such
damages, only so far as to set-off the
same against the plaintiff's claims.
Sec. 9. In all cases where any debt,
as described in the first section of this
Act, has been reduced to judgment, and
is still unsatisfied, it shall be lawful for
the defendant to set-eft’ against said
judgment said loss or damage against
the same, as a credit on the same, in
the same terms as is provided in this
Act, when the debt has not been re
duced to judgments as follows: in term
time the defendant may move in open
court to have said credit made, setting
forth in the grounds of the same; upon
this motion the plaintiff may join issue,
and the issue may be tried by a jury,
whose verdict shall be final or the facts.
Sec. 10. If execution has issued and
be proceeding, the defendant may file
an affidavit setting forth his claim and
the grounds thereof, which shall be re
turned and tried, and shall operate as is
provided by law in case of other illegali
ties : Provided , That said affidavit shall
set forth that such credit was not plead
or allowed in the original trial; the fact
that said credit or set-off existed at the
date of the judgment, shall be no objec
tion thereto: And provided further.
That if the defendant in said judgment
has already had the said debt reduced
under the Relief Act of IS6S, the set
off or credit under this Act shall not be
indorsed on the same.
Sec. 11. AY hen a judgment is pro
ceeding against property which the de
fendant has sold, the owner thereof may
set-off against the same his losses or
damages by said war, on the same terms
as are provided in this act for the de
fendant.
Sec. 12. In all suits now pending,
founded ou any such contract as describ
ed in the first section of this act, tne
cause shall not be ready for trial until
the affidavit of the plaintiff, required by
the several sections of this act, shall
have been duly filed in Clerk’s office, or
notice thereof given to the defendant at
least three months before the trial.
Sec. 13. And be it further enacted.
That nothing contained in this act shall
be construed as to apply to effect or
hinder any judgment or execution issued
from any of the courts of this State,
when on the trial thereof, the relief plea
allowed under the act of IS6B, was filed
and sustained by the court, the facts
submitted and passed upon by the jury,
nor any note given in renewal of a note
given prior to June, 1865.
Mr. Speer offered an amendment, pro
vided that nothing in this act shall be
so construed as to effect any claim due
anv widow or minor contracted prior to
June Ht, 1865, but shall be settled
upon the principles of equity and ius
tice. J
This amendment was adopted
Mr. Candler offered an amendment to
the effect that the provisions of this act
shall not apply to administrators, execu
tors, etc., who mismanage the estate or
property entrusted to them. Adopted,
and the section passed.
Sec. 14. Repeals conflicting laws.
Mr. Smith, of the 36th, called the
previous question, which was sustained.
Mr. Holcombe made the point that
no Senator interested could vote. The
President overruled the point. The
bill was passed.
Homicide of Dr. Godbee in
Burke County.
The Chronicle k Sentinel reports
the killing of Dr. Godbee, of Burke
county, by Warren Little, a negro black
smith, as follows:
It appears that on last Tuesday even
ing about seven o’clock, Dr. Godbee was
sitting in the piazza of his house, con
: versing with two other gentlemen, when
; Warren Little entered the yard. The
negro was intoxicated at the time, and
| perceiving his condition. Dr. Godbee or
; dered him to leave the premises. He
refused to go and made souie insolent
I reply, which caused Dr. Godbee to go
; out into the yard and kick him. Little
I flwm went out of tlio yard, hnt ctoppod
near the gate, and addressed some very
insulting language to his employer.—
The latter seized his walking stick and
went out of the gate, leaving his friends
in the piazza. The latter heard and
saw nothing more until Dr. Godbee
cried “ murder !” Rushing to the spot
the gentlemen found the Dr. extended
upon the ground while Little sat upon
his chest stabbing him in the head and
neck. They immediately pulled the
murderer off his victim, but he managed
to shake off their hold and make his
escape, after aiming a blow with his
knife at one of his captors, which fortu
nately did no damage. Raising Dr.
Godbee up the gentlemen found that he
had been mutilated in a most horrible
manner by the knife of the negro. He
was stabbed in thirteen places, and a
short examination sufficed to show that
he had but a few hours to live. The
murderous weapon had entered his back
in five places, and had been driven no
less than eight times into his head and
neck. It is supposed that as soon as
Dr. Godbee emerged from the yard, the
negro, ‘who must have been waiting with
his knife open, sprang upon him and
threw his arms around his waist.—
While in this position the stabs in the
back were inflicted, and when Dr. God
bee sank to the ground the negro plant
ed himself on liis chest and plunged the
cruel steel again and again into the head
and throat of his victim, Dr. Godbee
was taken into bis house and everything
possible was done to save his life, but
without avail, and he expired a little
after twelve o’clock.
The Augusta Agricultural
Congress.
The Constitutionalist , of Tuesday,
says :
4 he idea of convening an Agricultu
ral Congress in this city during the
approaching Fair, has met with the
hearty approbation of the people in our
sister States. Daily reports are received
from all sections of the South of the
appointment of delegates, and the pro
jected Congress is assuming a magnitude
at once gratifying, while it is astonish
ing to the most sanguine of the progres
sive gentlemen of the Cotton States
Mechanics’ and Agricultural Fair As
sociation and the Augusta Board of
trade, who have so energetically present
ed the advantages of this convention to
the leading agriculturalists in all acces
sible sections of our sister States. The
best agricultural men of the South have
cordially sanctioned the project which
Augusta has the honor of. conceiving,
| and which there is every promise now
will result in the assemblage of the
largest ar.d most accomplished body of
agriculturists ever convened in the
South.
Jhe Constitutionalist , also publishes
i a communication from Mr. Tutt. Presi
dent of the Association, and from the
Board of Trade, which says that every
State of the South, from Maryland to
Texas, will be largely represented, and
pledges those bodies to make the occa
sion a proud and memorable epoch in
the history of Augusta. The Congress
will meet on the 26th of October next.
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A Sensible Colored Minister.—
The Rev. Thos. O. Bannon, a colored
minister at Black River, Louisiana, hav
ing been put upon the Radical Execu
tive Committee of the Parish, writes to
the Harrisonburg New Era. as follows:
I beg leave to state through the
columns of your paper that this has been
dene without u<y knowledge or consent,
and further that my convictions lead me
to act politically, in concert with my old
neighbors and friends of this vicinity,
who have generally extended cheerfully
to the colored people of the parish all
the political rights aud privileges due
them in their changed relations, and
give them liberal wages and support for
themselves and families. In my opinion,
the best interests of the colored people
require them to stand by and sustain
those with whom they have been rais
ed. and whom they know to be hon
est. true and faithful to their promises
to their race. There exists a mutual
dependence, which is fast producing a
state of mutual confidence, kindness
and good feeling, which, I trust and be
lieve, w ill soon be firmly established.—
Experience teaches us to be suspicious
of the promises of those made by we
don’t know whom or when or where to
find.
Henry Clay used to say that
there were three classes of people with
whom it was never safe to quarrel.—
First—ministers; for the reason that
they could denounce me from the pulpit,
and I had none through which to reply
Second—editors; for they had the most
powerful engines from which they could
every day hurl wrath and fury upon me.
and I had none through which to reply.
And, finally, with women, for they would
have the last word anv how.
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Disastrous Freshet in Vir
ginia
The following paragraphs from the
telegraphic dispatches will give our read- j
ers some idea of the magnitude of the j
great floods on the water courses in Vir
ginia :
Richmond, September 30.—S uper- i
intendent Kates, of the Western Union !
lines, telegraphs this morning, that a
number ot buildings at Lynchburg have
been swept away and both gas and wa
ter-works are submerged. Houses from
the country above have been floating by
all the morning and during last night.
The new iron bridges of the Suutli Side
Iload were carried away this morning. j
The highest freshet ever known is j
prevailing at Lynchburg. The passeu- j
ger bridge across the James river, quar- j
ter of a mile long, washed away last
night. the depots ol the Orange and
Alexander Railroad, and the Virginia
and Tennessee Railroad are submerged.
The canal is submerged and the boats
are going about over the tow path and
through the lower streets of the city.—
The water washed up the main gas pipe
and at 11 o’clock last night Lynchburg
was suddenly thrown into total dark
ness. A large number of employees on
the Southside Railroad are cut off on an
island below the city. '
The accounts that come in from Gor
dnu&villn. report the flood is uioro
more disastrous. The Orange and Al
exandria Railroad bridge over Kockfish
River, is reported swept away. The
bridges over the Havana and Moore’s
Creek on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad has also gone.
Burly’s and Wells’ two mills are both
floating down the Havana, with four
hundred barrels flour floating around
them. A dwelling house completely
furnished went by this afteonoon. The
Ravana is filled with debris of furniture,
farms, agricultural implements, crops,
&c. All the crops on the low ground
are a total loss. Telegraph lines to
Lynchburg and the west are badly dam
aged
Vice President Wickham of the Ches
apeake and Ohio Railroad, is between
Greenwood and Waynesboro with two
trains, unable to recede or advance.
The flood reached here at 12.30 in a
wave five feet high, and in twenty min
utes the river rose six feet. Great ex
citement in the lower part of the city J
removing goods from places accessable
to water. The Orange Hotel and Or
ange and Alexandria railroad bridge/t
Lynchburg have been swept away tfia
morning.
A Telegram from Gordonsville *tys
the Ravana river is flooding all the/sur
rounding country, houses, hurras of
fleur, and cattle have been wasliinj/iown
stream all morning.
The water has risen here ten felt since
noon. This is water from the Havana.
Richmnod, October I. — Tie river
here rose twenty-five feet last rfght, and
this afternoon is within a fi>>t of the
Danville Railroad bridge ajul Mayo’s
passenger bridge.
The streets, for Tour five bl »cks in the
vicinity of the old market—the lowest
point in the city—are submerged in four
feet of water.
Many small houses aid wrecks of
houses, fencing, dead cattle, Ac., are
drifting down.
The gas works are submerged.
The first wave from Lynchburg
freshet struck here at 5 o’clock this
morning, and the river commenced ris
ing with greater rapidity than before,
when it was only swollen by the over
flow. In three hours the lower end of
the city kuown as Rocketts was under
water, and the scene there beggars de-
scription.
Two hundred families in that portion
of the city who are houseless to-night,
are camping on neighboring hiils.
About noon the street cars, on Main
street, which had been running through
the flood, with water up to the seats,
gave up, and connections between up
town and down-town was made by fer
ries.
At this time a portion of Mayo’s pas
senger bridge, built by the military af
ter the evacuation, was swept oft’, and
was so< n follow and by the whole struct
ure. The bridge was three quarters of
mile long. The water then entered
Mayo’s tobacco warehouse, thirty-five
feet above low water mark. All the
teams in the city were impressed to save
the tobacco, much of which was for the
French and German governments; all.
with the exception of about 180 hogs
heads, saved.
The lower portion of Lilby Prison
took fire at 11 o’clock from a quantity
of lime being over-floAved by the flood.
The fire was stopped before much dam
age was done. Furniture, trunks, bar
rels of flour and whiskey are floating
down the river.
The river at Lynchburg has fallen
eight feet, several bridges on the Vir
ginia and Tennessee llailroad were
washed away. The persons drowned at
Lynchburg were Mrs. Ransom, her
daughter, three children of Mr. Whit
low and a colored woman.
Just here it was found the upper por
tion of the city was in danger from an
overflow of the canal down which an im
mense body of water was rushing and
spreading above the banks. The canal
was ent two miles above the city, and
the danger abated.
In the lower portion of the city the
street lamps are under water. The city
is in darkness to-night, the gas works
being submerged.
The loss of merchants is greater than
it would have been if the telegrams from
Lynchburg announcing the flood had
been heeded. It is pr< bable 200,000
persons well acquainted with the sec
tions of the State flooded, say that in
cluding railroad losses, and the 1 ss in
the State is four millions.
All the large cotton, iron ar ? flour
mills, employing two thousa Is,
have been forced by the flood to st p
operations.
dhe City Water Works have also
been stopped, being so damaged they
cannot be repaired in two weeks. The
reservoir only c< ntains five days’ supply
for the city.
All the ice houses in the city are on
the river bank, and are twenty feet un
der water.
The water is seven feet higher than
was ever known before.
A dispatch from Lynchburg says the
river is rising again.
Wheeling, October I. —Harpers
Ferry advices record a great flood in the
Shenandoah. The lower part of the
city is flooded, many substantial buil
dings have gone or are crumbling.—
Fifty lives have been lost.
Many are in peril beyond aid.
Richmond. October 3. —The flood
has <r**ne down, and the merchants are
calculating their losses.
It is thought this afternoon that half
a million will cover the loss in the city,
but not in *he towns above here.
The Legislature will adjourn from
day to dav until a quorum cau be obtain
ed.
Aeten, Va., near Greenwood, Oc
j tober3.—Accounts coining in from this
! county and Alberuiale represent the de
! struction of property as immense and
| many lives are lost.
The flood in some instances swept
j away entire families. The number of
lives lost in Albermarle county as far as
heard from are 14. The amount of the
; destruction of grain, tobacco, barns, fen
ces. cattle, hogs, houses and mills is in-
I calculable. The number of mills and
I dams destroyed within the range of the
flood is about 50. The freshet was con
fined within the regions of the upper
valley of Virginia, the flood was so great
that it CiiiiW co-n-n mwl pig's before it
like so many chips of wood. It was par
ticularly severe along the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad. At Shadwell about
a mile of track was •washed away.—
There are some dozen landslides between
Cobharn and Milboro, and eight or ten
bridges swept away. The road is dam
aged to the extent ofßloo.ooo. At the
Mountain Top House, on the summit of
the Blue llidge Mountains, the kitchen
was fooded with water.
FEOM EUROPE.
London, October 4.
/Sullivan and O’Reilly, understood to
be from the United States, have been
arrested at Cork as Fenians. Uniforms,
revolvers and ammunition were found
a! their lodgings.
The Belgium Bishops have united in
protests against events at Rome.
Advices from Bitsche represent t|ie
condition of the town as distressing.—
Before the bombardment the mob plun
dered the shops and the population tak
ing refuge ;Iu cellars were either suffoca
ted or burned to death.
The Pope has made anew appeal to
the King of Prussia in favor of Peace.
Little faith is placed in the authenti
city of long manifestos purporting to
have been written by Napoleon.
From Lyons it is stated that Marea
rette, the Governor, has been arrested
for supineness and insurbordination.
The associate of Gen. Claseret has
been imprisoned.
It is reported the people of Metz arc
suffering from want of salt.
Garibaldi denies any intention of
serving under the French republic.
The barracks at Khcims were burned,
it is said, by an accident.
Paris, October 3.
An official decree lias been issued for
the purpose of enforcing discipline and
order. The most vigorous measures
have been taken with that view. Court
niartials will replace councils of war
during the continuance of the war.—
There will be no revision of and no al
teration in sentences pronounced by
Courts martial. Article (>th punishes
with death, desertion, murders, spying,
theiving. and pillage, with or without
arms, refused to obey a sup ri r. menaces
to or assaults on a superior, provocation
to mutiny or indiscipline, Uss of arms
with the purpose of avoiding combat,
destruction of munitions with the same
purpose. During a fight, any commis
sioned or non-commissioned officer is
authorized to shoot soldiers for acting
cowardly, not assuming places to which
they are ordered, or endeavoring to
create panics. All non-military persons
participating in any of the above offenses
may be subjected to a death penalty.
Each army division will be accompanied
by a force of Geris d’Armes. The Pro
vost Marshal may issue orders to enforce
these rules, and may, upon his own
authority, make arrests. The whole of
this decree is applicable to all armed
forces of the Republic.
Prefects and mayors have been or
dered to proceed to Mobilization and
report on their progress every three
days, under penalty of revocation for
non-compliance.
Decisive measures meet hearty ap
proval from the whole population here.
The Government is much pre-occu
pied with finding means to prevent dis
orders at Lyons, where parties who have
usurped authority have just sequestra- I
ted properties of religious corporations, j
Berlin, October 4.—The Parisians i
having ordered no prisoners to be taken,
because the consume supplies, the Prus- j
sian commanders have ordered no pris- :
oners taken.
All the villages around Metz have i
been destroyed by the late cannonade
The navigation of the Baltic will
doubtless be safe before steamers start
ing from America arrive.
Washington, October 4. — A dis
patch dated Ferrier. yesterday, via Ber
lin says nothing interesting around Par
is since last dispatch.
A sortie from Mctzon Thursdav was
repulsed by Gen. Kremme with heavy j
lo&s to the French.
The Austrian Government organ dis
claims any anxiety about Russian de
s gns upon Danubian principalities.
The increase in the sale of postage
star ps this over last year is a million mid
a half.
Road Steamers. —ilhe practicability
of using steam on common roads appears
at last to have been th roughly tested
in Scotland, where the success of Mr..
R. W. Thom ps n’s road steamers, after
various trials, has earned the end rse
uient of th e most skeptical. A six-horse
road steamer has been running for
several ne nths from Aberdeen, a dis
tance of four miles, over a wretched road,
to the Kittoek 1 1 ur Mills. In many
parts of the road the grade is one in
eight, over which the steam engine
draws ten tons with great ease at the
rate of three miles and a half an hour.
Special Invitation to Romo
Fair.
At a meeting of the Secretary of the
Agricultural Fair Association for the
Cherokee country of Georgia and Ala
bama, at Rome. Georgia, the following
resolution was adopted :
Rrxolvrd, That the President, Sec
retary and Executive Committee of the
State Agricultural Society, (including
officers now acting and newly elected
ones.) The officers and Directors of the
following Associations to wit; Carters
ville, Dalton, Columbus, Macon, Augus
ta and Selma, are invited to attend our
Fair beginning Oct., 11th who will be
furnished with Complimentary tickets
or Badges, upon application to the Sec
retary. Papers in and adjacent to the
points named will please copy.
B. P. Jones, Secy.
Rome, September 30th.
Pleasant News.— The tariff upon
i'a is now twenty-five cents per pound,
ifter January Ist. 1871, the tariff upon
km will be fifteen cents per pound, and
ipon coffee three cents per pound.
the Republicans who run the govern
ntntal machine have conceeded this
nheh to the laboring men of the ooun
trj. The Democracy advocate free tea
ai|l coffee.
[V Valuable Discovery.—The
Ckmnissioner of Customs has reeeiv .1
inhumation from the Collector of the
p<*t of San Francisco of the arrival
thee of a vessel having on board 11,-
501 fur-seal skins,which had been taken
fren animals killed by the crew on a
hiherto unknown and uninhabited is
land, off the coast of Alaska. This is
a valuable capture, the skins bein'
worth 311 each in gold in London.
trST Roderick Random Butler has
been renominated for Congress in East
Tennessee. With his friends at home
running him for Congress and the Pen
sion Bureau at Washington running him
for tho penitentiary, there is no telling
w here the poor devil will land in the
end.— Courier-Journal.
Bold Larceny, —On last Sunday
night, says the Marietta Journal , of the
30th, while Mr. Pilgrim and family were
at church, some negroes entered his res
idence and abstracted from the trunk of
Mr. \\ heelsn $«,000 of Revenue fuuds,
just collected in the upper counties.—
Three little negro boys confessing the
theft, have been arrested and legally ex
amined, but no clue as to the wherea
bouts of the stolen money can be elici
ted from them.
31 it. Cassim, lately of Griffin, is about
to settle in Rome. He has only thir
teen in family. The oldest boy is fif
teen. and the mother just 28.
The grand jury of Bartow county pre
sent the jail as entirely unfit for the pur
pose for which it was intended, and a
disgrace to the county.
In consequence of severe illness in
his family, Judge Parrott adjourned
Bartow Superior Court to the fourth
Monday in November next.
Put up your Bread Corn in the
shuck, to guard it against the ravages of
the weevil.
A mule race is to be a feature of the
Georg’a State Fair.
Ne w A <1 vert i sc hi en 1 s.
MISS HELEN JONES'
female School*
OPENED in Calhoun, October 3rd, ami will
continue for ten months, with an inter
m:s-ion of one wok's vacation at Christmas.
Kates of Tuition per Session of forty
weeks, payable monthly:
Preparatory Department, S‘2o OO
Academic “ 30 OO
Music “ 40 Os)
French “ 15 00
Contingent Expenses, 2 00
Charges commenced from time of entrance.
No deduction made for absence, except in
cases of protracted illness. octG’TOtf
WHEAT GONE UP!
LOOK OUT!
T PROPOSE to give per bushel for
1 White Wheat, and sl.lO for Red Wheat,
when taken in payment of any accounts due
on my books.
Let those who owe me now% bring on their
Wheat and get good prices for it.
M. H. JACKSON.
Calhoun, Ga., October G, 1870—ts
“Home Again.”
J. Q. RAWLINS. Prop'r.
CHOICE - HOTEL
BROAD ST., ROME, GA.
Passengers taken to and from the Depot Free
of Charge. octG’7otf
TENNESSEE HOUSE,
ROME, GEORGIA ,
J. A. STANSBUKY, Proprietor.
fl'Hh, above Hole is located whbin T went,
I Steps of the Railroad Plat orm. Baggage
bandied free ot Charge. o t6*7Qu
ALBERT O. PITnKR. HENRY H. SMITH.
PITNER & SMITH,
Wholesale and Retail
Grocers & Commission Merchants
AND DEALERS IX
PURE KENTUCKY WHISKIES &c.
Nr>. 25, Corner Broad k Howard sta.
ROME , - - GEORGIA •
0ct6,1870-ly
Boot & Shoe Store in Rome. G’a.
M. F. GOVAN & CO.,
Manufacturers and dealer- m
kinds of Roots and Shoes, Calf-Skins.
Leather and Trunks. Our Roots and Shoes
are warranted and will be repaired free o
cost, if they require it before they need a hal»
sole. rchauts supplied at New lork
< a, with freight added. octG-lm
PINK VIVKM
FOR SALK
DR. J. KING offers a bargain in a splendid
Farm, situated on the
CALHOUN A RO' E ROAR
Seven mil .5 from Cali.< un, containing st '‘ r
hundred and twenty acres —three huie rt
acres under a fine .-tate of cultivation. '
of said land lies within 300 yards of the
xD.R. R. Said land can be divided
four different farms to suit purchM*’
Ruihlinge-and fencing in good order. •
gain can be had in the above by apply l ll r ll
mediately to Dr. C. King, on the premise-,
or I>R. J. KING, Rome, Ga.
1 oct6’7o-2m