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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 ? »■ 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. ♦ » ©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. - ©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. — 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. ►- 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. r 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