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CALHOUN TIMES.
ELAM CHRISTIAN, - - - EDITOR.
< VMIOI N, GA:
JANUARY 19, 1871.
The Columbus negroes are going
to contest the election for county officers
in .Muscogee county.
Major John H. Steele, the .vet
eran editor of the Atlanta Intel)igenccr.
and about the oldest editor in the State,
died last week.
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Anna Dickenson's stock of clothes
must be running low, as & report of her
last lecture says “she .appeared attired
in a modest but rich necklace.”
Congress^
The Georgia delegation arrived in
Washington on the 15th. Messrs.
\oung, Price, Bethune, and Jeff. Long,
(negro) were sworn in.
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The 3rd District. —The returns
show a Radical majority in the 3rd Dis
trict, of twelve to fourteen hundred
votes. It elects poor old Bethune to the
41st Congress, Bigby to the 42nd.
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i&F Newfoundland Is m> »,.jv.
the military protection of England, the
last of the garrison having recently been
removed from St. Johns, after an occu
pation of more than a century.
The local of the Atlanta Intelli
gencer Is decidedly a particular man. —
He begs a dog’s pardon, and poetizes
him a little for having called him by the
wrong name, in speaking of a fox chase.
afigp* A. Pope, Esq., General Freight
Agent of the State Road, has resigned
his position to accept the position of
General Freight and Ticket Agent of
the Wilmington and Weldon and Wil
mington, Columbia and Augusta Rail
roads.
Bullock and tiie Election. —The
New Era of Sunday, contains an official
order to the effect that the Governor has
not to issue commissions to parties elec
ted who arc believed to be ineligible un
der the NlVth Amendment, until the
courts have decided the cases.
POT There are forty bar-rooms in Co
lumbus—eight first-class, and thirty-two
second-cIaRS. The former sell 25 cent
drinks, the latter 10 cents and under.
They yield an annual revenue to the city
of about $2,800; first class pay 8100
license, second-class 850.
WaST The miracle of the age lias been
found in the person of William 11.
North, who won’t take the State Sena
torship of the 10th District of Wiscon
son, because he only got the certificate
of election on account of the misprint
ing of his opponent’s name on some six
hundred ballots.
It is announced that “Mrs. Grant
will receive guests every Tuesday after
noon during the winter, beginning with
January 10.” .Shanks says Mr. Grant
is ready to receive anything—from a
hound-purp to a costly mansion—at any
hour of the day or night—winter or
summer.
££jgr An Ohio man who passed around
a plate at a religious meeting for con
tributions for the heathens, and then
pocketed the money, has been acquitted
of stealing by a jury of the vicinage, on
the ground that he was the greatest
heathen they knew, and therefore justly
entitled to the money.
The Atlanta Sun proposes “from
time to time to give brief sketches of the
business characteristics of Georgians,
living and dead, whose connection with
its commercial advancement and pro
gress have stamped their biography with
marks sufficiently strong as to invite at
tention to them as representatives of
their class,”
Joseph E. Brown has written a
letter on grasses. It is pronounced a
very sensible document. Everything
undertaken by Ex-Governor Brown has
proven a success, except his present po
litical schedule. We have heard him
called almost every hard name, except a
fool. Nobobodv charges him with that
—-nor do we think they consistently
could.
Captain Travers, of Rochester,
has made a wager of $25 that he will,
lit the distance of thirty-six feet, with
a pistol, shoot from the top of a wine
bottle a cork on which is placed a bullet,
dropping the bullet into the bottle, .and
not breaking the bottle. He has twelve
shots, and engages to perform the feat
four times.
Colon ei, E. W. Cole. —The election
of Colonrl E. W. Cole, as General Su
perintendent of the Western and At
lantic Railroad, is eminently a wise and
j udicious one, and assures the successful
running of the road. Colonel Cole is
now the leading and most important
railroad officer iu the South, lie will
have control of the roilroad line from
St. Louis to Savannah. — Era.
W. P. Grimsley sent in a bill to the
* grand jury, at Goldsboro, North Caro
lina, against the editor of the Messenger,
for calling him an “ irresponsible, drunk
-s*<en Radical/’ but they seem to have
con cm led that he was, and ignored the
bill.
The Lease.
Capt. Dunlap Scott, the reputed au
| of the bill for the lease of the State
J Road, and its champion in the lower
House, has written a long letter, giving
the history of the bill, and quoting the
expressed opinions of Ilowell Cobb, 11.
\ . Johnson, and other prominent men,
in favor of the course pursued by the
Legislature in regard to the Road, to
gether with his own very plausible rea
sons for the lease. He al«o states that
the bill received the united vote of all
Democrats present, in both Houses, ex
cept Dr. Parks, of Gwinnett, who fa
vored the five hundred thousand dollar
appropriation.
The New Era, the shining light of
Georgia Radicalism, thinks this letter of
Scott’s gives evidence of the fact that
there is ‘‘something rotten” at the bot
tom of the transaction.
Our own opinion is, that Foster Blod
gett’s failure to get hold of the Road,
is about the rottencst thing that has
~coine under the well-greased smeller of
that Journal; and that, if Blodgett had
got ths road, —so as to keep up the sup
ply of grease which has been running
their machine sometime—there would
not have b.een * 1
ant about it.
There is one thing very strange to us
—to-wit: After running the State Road
a long time, failing to make it pay ex
penses —even asking a large appropria
tion to put it in good order —getting
months behind with the employees, and
getting in debt generally—Mr. Blodgett
proposes to lease the Road at $11,500
per month more than Gov. Brown was
willing to pay. Is it not strange that
Mr. Blodgett is willing to pay thirty-six
thousand five hundred dollars per month
for property which has been getting in
debt for more than a year under his
own management?
Now, Mr. Era, turn up your right
eous nose, for, verily, right here is the
rottenest part of the whole State Road
business.
Hats off to John Barleycorn.
If we desired to test the “blowing” ca
pacity of the Atlanta locals, we would
only have to start anew tippling shop in
that city. Mr. John Kimbrough has
recently opened anew ticket office to the
Devils Grand Carnival, and the papers
are about to Kimballize him on account
of its magnificent splendor.
The- IT. I. Kimball House, the beauti
ful new Passenger Depot, the mammoth
church edifices—all, all, have apparent
ly sunk into the shade, since this bril
liant, mirror-walled liquor-shop has
opened its doors for the purpose of ex
changing misery, want, degradation, and
woe, for the ill-gotten gains of some,
and the hard earned greenbacks of oth
ers.
No wonder our country is sinking—
politically, morally, and intellectually—
when it is only necessary for a man to
open a brilliant drinking saloon, to be
come a lion with the press of a preten
tious city.
Let the City Council allow a one
legged Confederate soldier to establish a
fruit-stand on some corner, and we see
almost daily attention called to it as a
nuisance; but let some man whose love
of money kills his conscience, establish a
fancy bar, and he is-lauded to the skies.
We submit the question whether this
is worship of Jug-or-not ?
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Georgia.
Georgia has been redeemed. Her
democracy have covered themselves with
glory. In spite of Grant’s soldiers, Bul
lock’s cunningly devised schemes to
cheat at the polls, and Redical negro re
peaters, the Democrats have carried the
State by about forty thousand majority,
and have both brances of the Legisla
ture When Grant heard this unplea%
ant news he immediately “lost his faith
in human nature,” and gave way to a fit
of political blues. The Radical party
had no particular faith in human nature
to lose, but they lost political control of
the State, which is of a good deal more
account to them. The Radical-carpet
bag-scalawag fraternity may consider
themselves about gone up a tree in Geor
gia. and they will hardly be able to get
down in this generation. The places of
profit and trust and stealings which have
known them, and which they have stuck
as close to as the bark to a tree, since
the close of the war, are not likely to
know them any more for a goodly num
ber of years to come. What weeping
and wailing and lamentation there is in
the Radical household throughout the
land of Georgia, and what packing up
of carpet-bags and “gitting” there ought
to be ! The jig is up with this pestife
rous set, and if they have any gumption
left they will look out for “pastures
green” in some other locality. South
Carolina and San Domingo are about the
only two countries where they can go
without a prospect of being disturbed at
the next election. We should like to
examine their carpet-bags as they cross
the linos. They may not contain spoons,
but we “lay forty big apples” that they
are loaded with a good deal of fatness of
the land. Good-bye, carpet-bagger!—
Doj/lestoirn (Pa.') Democrat.
It is understood that Mercer Univer
sity will rent a few rooms in Macon and
re-open the last of January.
' Progress and Improvement.
History furnishes no examples of
greater and more material advance
ment being made in progressive enter
prise and improvement by any Nation
than that exhibited by the American
People. \V bile we, as it would seem,
from the late unhappy struggle through
which we have just passed, have noth
ing wherewith to boast of immuuity
from defective legislation and unwise
statesmanship; yet. notwithstanding,
the rapid strides that have been and are |
still being made by our people in all the
material developments of her great re
sources, would be apparent to all.
Towns and villages are springing up j
as if by magic throughout the length j
and breadth of the land. Railroads are ,
forming a complete net-work of trans
portation and travel over the entire
country, affording employment to thous
ands of operatives and calling into
existence by the very law of their con
struction, those hidden treasures of
mind and genius,- so essential to their
proper and correct management and
control. From what personal knowl
edge we possess in connection with that
substantial improvements which are
being made in most of the cities, towns,
and villages in the State of Georgia.
But whilst such is the case elsewhere,
the lamentable fact stares us in the
face, that our own town of Calhoun, is
according to her facilities and natural
advantages, most woefully and culpably
behind in the progressive movements of
the age. We have cast our lot among
this people, our interest are identified
with their’s, and such being the case, we
naturally feel an interest in the general
welfare of the place and people.
Calhoun, in many important
is equal, if not superior, to many other
towns which are ahead of her in enter
prise and spirit. For a high toned
generous, and intelligent people, rfone
are superior to ours, but that public
spirit and enterprise so essentially ne
cessary to building up our waste places,
and beautifying our homes, is wanting.
And how, may it be asked, such being
the low pecuniary condition of the peo
ple, can we do anything just now—we
must wait until we get into a brisk way
of making money and building up trade.
Then we will look about us and see
what can be done towards improve
ments, &c.
Mistaken philosophy ! misguided zeal.
Other places of considerably less natural
advantages than our own, as respects
climate, location and surroundings, are
far beyond ns in the race of improve
ment. Have their people remained in
active, looking solely to individual ad
vantage irrespective of the general
interests of the community ? Not so.
They have gone bravely to work, putting
agencies to work, that have built them
measurably up in spite of themselves.
And now, what is it the duty of the
people of our place and county to do
under the circumstances, if they wish
to vie with their neighbors in the paths
of prosperity and progress. To our
mind the way is plain; and right here
we would remark, that we would be
glad of contributions from any of our
readers as to the best mode and manner
of effcctng and putting on foot the pro
per ways and means far effecting the
desired object.
In the meantime we would suggest as
one of the principal agencies to be used
in this great work is the Church.—
Though wc do not profess to be worse
than other people, yet the moral and
elevating tone, induced by constant
exercise upon the administrations of the
church cannot be denied. Every com
munity blessed with good churches and
schools never lacks for material for any
laudable enterprize or undertaking.—
While wc deprecate as much as any one
can religious furor and excitement as it
is generally understood, still we feci
that we live in a Christian land, and we
desire for ourselves and our children
those high moral examples, set forth by
a high toned and well regulated minis
trv. so essential to the good order and
goverment of every well and properly
regulated place. As indifferent as we
appear to be to the cause of morality
and religion in our midst, yet were we
entirely deprived of these blessings, we
would not live here another day.
If we then, place sueh great reliance
upon those agencies for good and ad
vancement. is it not our duty as well as
oar high privilege to see to it. that
these interests are fostered and cherish
ed? they being the entering wedge to
all that is great and sublime in ethics,
and to complete and certain success in
the secular concerns of life. We would
suggest to our people the propriety of
supplying our town with more church
buildings and better. Let all who de
sire the prosperity and well being of
the citizens of Calhoun, and the sur
rounding country, agitate the subject
and keep it agitated until the end is
accomplished and the first important
step taken on the road to progress and
improvement. We have cause to con
gratulate our citizens in reference to the
School at this place. The Institution
is supplied with an able and efficient
corps of Instructors, and numbers of
suitors at the Pierian Spring daily
throng its spacious halls, so may the
good work continue until all in our
midst shall have availed themselves of
the blessings of an Education.'
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Re-re-Construction.
The World says that the Congression
al Radicals will probably seat only one
of the Democratic members elect from
Georgia--—General Young—whoso nia
-1 jority is too heavy to be disregarded.
And in reference to the State, the
[ World's telegrams throw out these om
j uious hints:
| Washington, December 28.—The
I succession of Democratic victories in the
j Southern States is producing a great
; deal of irritation and uneasiness in Rad
! ical quarters here. A Western Senator,
who is most notable fbr heeding the
"beck and nod ’ of the administration,
seriously proposed to-day to begin the
work of re-construction over again, be
ginning with North Carolina and Flori
da. It will be remembered that after
the Conservative victory in Tennessee
last year just sueh a movement was in
augurated in the House by some of the 1
Radical members from that State, and
considerable evidence was taken by the j
Reconstruction Committee, but" the j
movement, even for the Republican par
ty. was so startling and aggressive in its :
nature that it has never been finally dis
posed of by tho committee.
3 he flimsy pretexts for re-reconstruct
ing North Carolina are the old outrage
stories, the pending impeachment of I
Governor Holden, and the proposed de- •
gia. in the case 01 uroiueh, xw»x**
cals affect to believe that the Democrats
are inaugurating a movement to destroy
the work of re-construction in that State.
Whether anything will actually come
from these Radical fears and threats re- ;
main for the future to develop, but it is
plain that they emanate from the White
House, where it is well known that a
united Democratic South means defeat
for the Grant progromine for the Presi
dential succession.
Preach the Word.
A sbuject that is now engrossing the
attention of Christian ministers and the
religious press of the country is the
sparseness of the congregations on the
Sabbath. The complaint is not con
fined to any particular church or deno
mination of Protestants, but is exper
ienced more or less by them all. They
find that magnificent and well appointed
churches, exquisite music by quarters
and organs, eloquent preaching—sen
sational, popular or otherwise —and all
that can charm the senses and "ratify
the aesthetic tastes of men, fail to attract
the masses. On any given Sabbath in
the year it will be found that not one in
fifty of any rejigifus congregation be
longs to the working classes or to the
really poor of our population. This
may be accounted for, however, partly
by the fashion ableness of our churches,
which have been built of late years
without much, if any, regard to the
moral or spiritual wants of the poorer
people, and partly by the style and
character of the preaching, which con
sists very much of the novelistic mate
rial—a grain of wheat in a bushel of
chaff—or .the newspaper Jenkins style
of two lines of news and a column of
“dummy and dilution.” Ministers do
not seem fully to appreciate the age in
which wo live, or to comprehend that
the people to whom they preach under
stand theoretically as much of religious
truth as do their teachers. People live
deeper and higher now than they ever
did, and the various forms of truth,
social, moral, spiritual, scientific, enter
far more into the daily life and conver
sation of every one of us than they ever
did in any age before. There, is there
fore, greater inquiry than ever; but
tlii3 inquiry is after truth, not theory or
speculation. — X. Y. Herald.
Great Southern Trunk Line.
In an article on the proposed Cincin
nati Southern Railroad, the Ga.ctt , has
the following paragraph :
This enterprise is in the hands of
Trustees appointed according to law,
and with due responsibility, and in
whom the people have confidence. The
Legislature of Kentucky, manipulated
by local and railroad interests, refused
by a small majority to grant the right
of way; but this is so palpable an out
rage on the citizens of a great section
of the State that it is believed it cannot
be persisted in, and that at the next
session the heart of the State will assert
its right to communications with the
world, and will prevail. Meanwhile the
Trustees liavfe improved the time by
making thorough surveys, by which, as
soon as the required legislation shall be
provided, they can immediately locate
and let the work. By this preliminary
thoroughness they will secure every
economy and advantage in location and
construction, and. as all who are engaged
in any industrial operations know, the
coming season will be much more favor
able for the economical construction of
the road than the last.
We think when Kentucky shall have
thoroughly considered this matter, the
recent legislative action will be reversed.
The short-sighted policy which dictated
the course recently persued by that
State brings her into a smart degree of
reproach. The proposed road passes
directly through the heart of that State
—a section not yet reached by rail
roads—and promises as much benefit to
Kentuckians as to the people of any
other State. We think therefore, that
her legislators will have different in
structions from their constituents, and
we hope one more effort will be suffi
cient to secure the necessary legislation.
(Atlanta Sun.
Mrs. Wm. Taylor, tried the Macon
skating rink, the other day. and fractur
ed one of her limbs in three places.
A silver shekel, said to have once
lain in one of the vaults of King Solo
mon’s temple, is on exhibition at Nor
wich, Conn.
Save your money and you will find it
one of your most useful frieuds.
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Eat not the bread of idleness. Labor
is pleasant as well" as healthy.
He who suppresses a moment’s anger
may prevent days of sorro'w.
The Deed of Lease to the State
Koad of the Brown Company.
Know all men by these presents, that
the following named persons have been
accepted by the Governor of Georgia as
the lessees of the Western and Atlantic
liailroad, under an act of the Gen ral
I Assembly of said State, approved Octo
ber 24, A. D. 1870, and as such lessees
| have, by the order of the Governor of
| said State, dated the 27th day of De
cember, A. D. 18<0, duly and properly
entered upon the minutes of the Execu
tive Department, and by virtue of the
I °f the provision of the act aforesaid, be
come a body corporate and politic, under
the name and style of the ••Western and
Atlautic Railroad Company,” to-wit:
John 11.l 1 . King, of Augusta, Ga.; Jos
eph E. Brown, of Atlanta, Ga.; Benja
min 11. Hill, of Athens, Ga.; William I
Holt, of Macon, Ga.; William B.
Johnston, of Macon, Ga.; Andrew J.
M hite, of Maeor. Ga.; John T. Grant,
of Walton county, Ga.; 'William C. Mor
rill. of Macon, Ga.; Charles A. Nutting,
of Macon, Ga.; Simon Cameron, of Har
risburg. Pa.; John S. Delano, of Mount
Vermont, O.; Wm. T. Walters, of Bal
timore, Md.; Thomas A. Scott,of Phil
adelphia, Pa,; Hannibal T. Kimball, of
Atlanta, Ga.; Edmund W. Cole, of Nash
ville, Tenn.; Richard Peters, of Atlan
ta, Ga.; George Cook, of New Haven,
Conn.; 11. B. Plant, of Augusta, Geo.;
A.ften7 ot Alo.;Uuid
William B. Dinsmore, of New York;
Therefore, I, Rufus B Bullock, Gov
ernor of the State of Georgia, by virtue
of the power and authority vested in me
by the aforesaid act of the General As
sembly of Georgia, do hereby grant, con
vey and lease to the Western and At
lantic Railroad Company, composed of
the persons whose names are herein giv
en, and to their successors, representa
tives, heirs, or assigns the Western and
Atlantic Railroad, which is the proper
ty of the State of Georgia, together with
all its houses, workshops, depots, rolling
stock and appurtenances of every char
acter for the full term of tweney years
from this date, to have and to hold the
same to the said company, and the indi
viduals composing the same hereinbefore
named, and their successors, representa
tives, assignees or heirs amply, freely
and completely, without let or hinder
anee, until the full expiration of said
twenty years, in the following propor
tions of interest, to-wit: each of said
lessees being entitled to. one of twenty
three shares, into the property
hereby leased has been divided by their
proposition to lease the same, and which
proposition was accepted by the Gover
nor of Georgia before the names of said
lessees were entered on the minutes of
the Executive Department of said State;
except as follows:
Joseph E. Brown is entitled to one
share and one-half of a share ; Hanni
bal I. Kimball is entitled to one share
and one-half of one share; Thomas Al
len is entitled only to one-half of one
share; Alexander H. Stephens is enti
tled to only one-half of one share ; Simon
Cameron is entitled to one share and
one-half of one share; and Andrew J.
White is entitled only to one-half of one
share.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad
Company, composed of the persons here
in mentioned, who represent the several
interests herein described, covenants and
agrees for itself, its successors, represen
tatives and assignees, to pay into the
Treasury of the State of Georgia for the
use of the State, monthly, and at the
end of each month, a rental of twenty
five thousand dollars during the contin
uance of this lease.
Also, to return said road and its ap
purtenances at the expiration, termina
tion or forfeiture of this lease, in as good
condition as it was as in when received
by said company from sai<l State under
this lease. This lease is given and ac
cepted under all the provisions, grants
and conditions prescribed by the act of
the General Assembly of Georgia, enti
tled “An Act to authorise the lease of
the Western and Atlantic llailroad, and
for other purposes therein mentioned,”
approved October the 24th, A. D. 1870,
and hereinafter referred to.
, —* —. Given under my hand and
f A | the Great Seal of the State, at
I J ' ' the Capitol in Atlanta, this
Twenty-seventh day of Decem
ber, in the year of cur Lord. Eighteen
Hundred and Seventy, and of the Inde
pendence of the United States of Amer
ica, the Ninety-fiftH.
Rufus IL Bullock.
By the Governor:
David G. Lotting, Sec’y of State.
Tiie Horror of War. —Ten days
ago, says a correspondent, a party of
French soldiers were drinking together,
when one proposed to attack a Prussian
picket of thirteen men. The leader
agreed, and, gathering twenty-two men,
he crept up upon the post. The senti
nel was shot, and the twenty two hurst
into the hut where the relief was sitting
about the fire. Before the Germans
could rise they received a volley and
were bavonetted before they could -re
cover their arms. Twelve in n, without
arms in their hands to defend them
selves, were killed; the thirteenth man
was brought away, wounded dangerous
ly. “On the 12th of November, at St.
Cloud, Capt. Neverlee, with his com
pany of volunteers, surrounded a patrol
of the enemy. The six men who com
posed it made a lively resistance; five
were killed upon the spot, and the sixth
was brought away gravely wounded with
two serious bayonet stabs. ’’ This, is
found placarded upon the walls as an
official order, in which the commander
of the party is thanked.
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Disastrous Railroad Accident.—
Yesterday morning a very severe acci
dent occurred on the Western and At
lantic Railroad between Kennesaw and
Acworth. Freight Train No. 5, which
leaves Atlanta at 5 a. in., stops at Ken
nesaw for breakfast, and should wait
for No. 8. the down fast freight. From
some cause as yet unexplained to us.
No. 5 started for Acworth before the
arrival of No. 8, and the result was that
as there was but one line of rails and
two trains coming from opposite direc
tions there was some toot-tooting done,
some leaps for life made, and in less
time than it takes to write or even read
it, there was a fearful collision. The
j engines, one we believe the Jessie, per
haps the finest engine in the State, were
so badly mashed up as to be almost
worthless. The damage done will aai
. ount to many thousand dollars. Forfu
! n 4ely, as far as we Can learn, all the
j train hands escaped injury.
[Atar Era. loth.
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Dry Times in Vermont.—The
Vermonters have recently been very
} summarily choked off from their cups.
Ao more gin and sugar, rum and tansey,
cocktails, punches, slings, etc., in public.
r lhe law is very* stringent and bears
very severely upon hotels, of course,
which aic not allowed to sell liquor
even to their own guests. Four of the
hotel keepers at Rutland wor* recently,
it is said, found guilty of the first and
second grades of the offence, and de
manded of the town authorities immu
nity from the operation of the law. so
far as the selling of liquor to travelers
was concerned. This request, it ap
pears, was denied; and the four hotel
keepers at once entered into a compact
to cease business. Accordingly they
dismissed the servants and guests, and
now all the hotels of the place are jhw
manently closed, the proprietors nailing
bars across their front entrances
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says:
A thrilling scene, which might have
been taken from “Under the Gaslight/*
occurred near the Thirtieth-street De
pot of the Hudson River Railroad Fri
day night, as the express train was com
ing in from Albany. Dennis Murphy,
the switchman, was about leaving his
little shelter-box to turn the switch,
when a wild looking man rushed upon
him with an uplifted hammer in his
hand, and threatened to brain him if he
touched the switch. Murphy although
alarmed, acted quickly and effectually.
With a sudden rush he butted the man
with his head in the abdomen with such
force as to knock him senseless for the
moment, then turning the switch, the
train sped swiftly on in the right course,
whereas in a few seconds it would have
dashed into a heavily loaded freight
train.
Gov. Scott, of South Carolina, is call
ed : —“Last in war, last in peace, and
first in the pockets of his countrymen,”
by one of the newspapers there.
TELE G 1i A PIIIC.
FRANCE.
. Lemans, January 10. —12 m. —Spe-
cial to the N. Y. Telegram.
The army of the Loire, the hope of
France, has been defeated in a bloody
battle within seven miles of this city.—
The report of cannon was heard all day.
The entire population of Lemans were
on the house tops and in the suburbs of
the city and all thoroughfares.
The progress of the fight was anxious
ly watched, although the people are ac
customed to the roar of cannon, there
never was seen such excitement. At
nine o’clock in the morning the right
wing of the French army, which was on
the east of Lemans, was suddenly at
tacked by the van guard of the Prus
sians, which emerged from the woods
on the extreme right of the French.
Upon the alarm being given the ad
vance of the Frerfch infantry wheeled
into line of battle, the artillery pushing
forward through intervals. The caval
ry took positions upon the right and left
wings. A more perfect line of battle
could not have been formed by the fin
est army. The artillery was well sup
plied with ammunitions, and the infant
ry with one hundred rounds per man ;
supply trains were conveniently posted
m the rear and real bloody work began.
The battle field was a valley, and the
two armies occupied heights opposite to
each other. The French line was semi
circular, and extended twelve miles,
overlooking the valley, which was cover
ed by twelve inches of snow. On the
opposite heights the Prussians held an
almost similar position.
Shortly after 9 o’clock, the Prussians
began a furious cannonading from the
woods.near the extreme left, flanked by
an immense force of cavalry, the woods
concealing their position, when the
troops were massed with evident inden
tion of turning Chauscy’s right. Ar
tillery firing continued on both tides
until the ammunition of the Prussian
artillery was almost exhausted, when
the Prussians became furious and gave
an order for an advance of infantry
The French advanced with equal rapid
ity, along the whole line, to meet the
Germans in a fair hand-to-hand fight.
The firmans were cool and collected
and the French were behaving bravely,
but near noon the mobiles began to wa
ver and the French were no longer able
to hold their position, and began to re
treat. Meanwhile dead and wounded
strewed the ground. The fields were
red with blood and the carnage was fear
ful. Fifteen thousand French had fal
len before 5. o’clock, when the whole
French army was in full retreat, ihe
number of troops actually engaged on
each side numbered sixty thousand(?)
Versailles. Jan. 18- —The Prus-**
sian fire has slaeked. The French re
ply continues weak.
The Prussians captured 10.000 of j
Cbausey’s army from the Otli to the 12th.
with 12 camion and mitraileuscs.
In the battle near LeUians the Ger
mans captured 12 guns and 1,800 pris
oners.
London, January 10. —A special to
the Telegram, indirect, gives intelligence
from Paris to the morning of the 13th.
Shelling continued with murderous
consequences. The people do not urge
capitulation, and cling to a chance of re
lief from the forts on the eastern side.
All the forts on that side of the city,
including Regent and Rothnjre. it is
certain that they are telling with ter
rible effect on the Prussians. 1 hat
part of the city is said to be crowded
with people. Temporary shelter is
found for thousands ot inhabitants in
the Bois de Vincennes. The works of
art of the Luxembourg are safely stored
away. The building only is nearly de
stroyed.
Ne wA dvertl fe
Rctai! Prices of Goods
ms rioMivs.
c.iurorx. geo. '
Whfa 4 J«U.,
Choice N O« tt
Porto Rico “ 44 M
Java Coffee, 3J « t 4
Coice Kio coffee, 4 »* „
Strictly prime coffee. 4} •*
Prime coffee, 4J .« „
Rico > 8 ••
New Orleans Syrup, new crop. $1 nor Pa n
Cuba Molasses. 50 cents per rallon pa “°°
Lxtra Family Flour, 4 cents i>o r , * .
Family Flour. Si cents per
Roswell Thread, $1 50
Candles, 20 cents pJr p Tun d
Spices SQ to confs por poun(J
onot. lo cents per pound.
Powder, best thnibble F, 50 cents per pom,,}
Lead, lo cents per pound. F p un<l
- (best brand.) Ba.. $1 25.
Nads, 8 cents per pound.
Wrought Nail, ]a, rem,
pair; Breast chains, 75 to Slpair; W
shovels, L»>0; Rowland’s shovels, fit
Spades, l,2o; Petro Oil. 50c per gallon - V
osene Oil, GQc per gallon; Spirits Turn
line, SI per gallon ; Castor Oil,*sl per
OU. UO DcrvalL w
Double half-sole shoos, 2,00; Double
half-sole Roys shoes, 1,R5; Guru fhmphof
1,40 per lb; Assufortida, 90c per lb; Borai
50e per lb; Ex. Logwood, 30c por lb; Mag
nesia, per paper. 10c; Sulphur and Salts, fu
per lb; Spanish Brown, 20c per lb; Vene
tian lied. 10c per lb; Scovill Hoes, IK) cent,.
Strictly Pure White Lend, 15cper lb; l’utt\,
10c; Window Glass, various sizes. 7 to 20i
per light; Rope, various sizes. 20c per lb;
Shoe Pegs, 10c per quart ; Bi Garb Soda. 10c
per lb; Soap, 10 to 12.1 c per lb ; Axle grease,
20e per box; Brooms. 40 to 50 each ; Clover
seed, per bushel, ten dollars.
“Live *nd let live” is our motto.—
Quick sales and short profits. Cash always
paid for grain. janl‘J’7l
GREAT IMIlfEIYIS!
FOR
€ A S H!
BUY YOUR GOODS OF
BOAZ, BARItETT & CO.,
AT THE
Dig 15i*iel«: 81010 !
NEAR THE RAILROAD.
II r E arc nlvvays psepared, with a full
IT and complete stock, to offer induce
ments to purchasers of
STAPLE DRY GOOD.
FANCY DRESS GOODS,
FURNISHING GOODS,
CLOTHING,
•HATS,
* BOOTS,
SHOES,
NOTIONS, Ac.
We also keep a large and choice Stock of
EMIT GROOMS!
Which we are prepared to sell as Cheap as
anybody in this part of the country.
Our stock consists in part of
SUGAR,
COFFEE,
FLOUR,
BACON,
LARD,
SYRUP,
RICE,
SALT.
Tobacco, Snuff,
And, in fact, everything usually found in
a FIRST CLASS Family Grocery Store,
and will sell as
CHEAP
As any one in this market.
We are “regularly in” the
Wheat Market,-
and pay the Highest Market Prices for
Wheat and Produce generally.
BOAZ, BARRETT & CO.
Calhoun, Ga., Jan. 12,1870.tf
A. W. BALLEWT
DEALER IN
DRY-GOODS,
NOTIONS,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Groceries*
Hardware, Queensware, &£.,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
i FACTORY YARNS, SHIRTING?
| AND
READY-MADE CLOTHING.
Rai’rocd Street, - - C-&LUOI A,
Nov. 10, 1870-ts t )
J*
SccATts, Coffees, Teas. Syrup, Rice. Client*
Pepper and Spice, and Factory
abundance at DkJOL lIXETT A 80N S.
Comer Store, Rome. u *
A (loon assortment of New Meeker -
White Fish, &C., &c., for sale by
DeJOUKNETT k «0-V
Cor. Broad 4; Bridge sts.. Rome- d*