The weekly loyal Georgian., 1867-08-24

The cost of the Surratt trial will be
at least 100000. The Marshal has
already paid out $4,000 for purely
legal fees.
| -Adolph Hill, one of the oldest and
most estimablc citizens Of Richmond,
died in that city, on Tuesday, at the
age Of about &c years.
The New York Tribune Associa.
ton has decided to erect new edifce,
at cost of $25O,OOO. 1t is to be
built upon the site of the present
building.
The Michigan Constitutional Con-
vention has rejected the proposition to
confer the elective franchise upon
women, by vote of forty six to twenty
two.
The Chicago Republican says that
"l50,OO0 persons in Chicago are with
out the influences of the Gospel as
preached from any pulpit; 10000 Of
these spend the Sabbath in saloons and
beer gardens"
Gilman Turner, for nearly a quar-
ter of century Superintendent of
Public Buildings in Maine, died very
suddenly at his home in Augusta, in that
State, on the 10th inst, at the age Of
GO years.
d. ID. Hitchcock, NJ. d., of Broom.
field, Mass, died of cholera at Fort
Gibson, Cherokee Nation, July Ii. lie
was for nearly forty years assistant
missionary of the American Board
among the Cherokees.
-Advices from the West say that
west Of the lakes there has been no
rain to injurc the crops. The wheat
harvest, both Spring and Winter, is
secured in Iowa, Illinois, and in about
one half of Wisconsin.
The fastest time in American
railroading was that of a directors train
on the New York Central Railroad, the
other day, from Hamburg to Buffalo
ten miles in eight minutes, or at the
rate Of thirty eight miles an hour.
John A. McRae, contractor on the
ST. Louis, Vandalia and Terre Haute
Railroad, was robbed on the l4th, in
the National Loan Bank, at st. Louis,
of $3.50, which he had just drawn
from the bank.
The prospects Of the Southern trade
next fall, are very good. The crops in
Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas
have done well, and much of the evil re
.sulting from the late heavy rains has
been overcome by persevering labor.
Doctor Witt, of Galesvillc, Ala,
was murdered near his home few days
ago by man named Rice Pucket, who
had a grudgc against the Doctor foI
some act done by the latter while serv'
ing as conscript officer during the
war.
Returns made to Gen. Steedman,
Collector of Internal Revenue at New
Orleans, show that the amount of tax
paid to the Government in his District
for the month of July, is $3O6,677.6l'
This is an increase over the correspond.
ing month of 1866.
A number Of prominent citizens Of
St. Joseph, Mo-, were arrested on Tues
day, charged with completely in the
burning of railroad bridge in 1861,
with the intention of thereby prccipi-
tating train of Union soldiers into the
river.
Orders are issued from tho Post
Office Department nearl J every day Tor
the reopening of Post Offices in the
Southern States, and i'll some instances
new Offices have been established to
meet the increasing demand for postal
service in this section.
We complain sometimes of the heat,
but at Lucknow, i'll India, in June,
the thermometer stood at 96 degrees at
seven in the morning, and rose to l2O
degrees in the shade while at Delhi it
ranged from 100 to 100 for two weeks
That exhausted natives as well as
foreigners.
Cyrus W. Field has been at Hearts
Content examining into the workings OF
the land and ocean cables. Tic broken
Atlantic cable will be working again in
few weeks, and arrangements are
being rapidly made to avoid the delay
occasioned by the imperfect workings OF
the Newfoundland wires.
Col. A. W. Nee, well known East
Tennessee Railroad Engineer, has been
Elected Chief Engineer Of the East
Tennessee and Western North Carolina
railroad. This road, leaving the line
of the L. L. & Va. road at some point
near Johnson's depot, is designed to
connect, at Morganton, N. c., with the
Western Carolina railroad, extending
from Salisbury to that point.
The Mexican Congress is to be
convened in November and the Presi-
dental election will take place in De-
cember. Santa Annals son, in protest
to Secretary Seward, against the seizure
of his father, at Sisal, intimates that the
Washington government must have
been in completely with the liberals who
arrested him. SaItilla letters contain
an account of the reported assassination
lot Lopez, tho betrayer Of Maximilan.