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ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Tuesday Morning, October 13,
1868.
THJC ATLANTA DAILY INTELLIGENCER
BAN THE
Largest City, County. and State Circulation
or ANT PAPER I8SUKD AT THIN POINT I
FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 8TATES :
HORATIO SEYMOUR
or New York.
FOR VICE
PRESIDENT:
FRANCIS I*. BLAIR,
Of Mlawouri,
STATE ELECTORAL TICKET.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE:
Gen. JOHN B. GORDON, ol Fulton.
Hon. JOHN T. CLARKE, of Randolph,
FOR TUB DISTRICTS:
L JOHN 0, NICHOLS, of Pierce.
2. Col. CHARLES T. GOODE, of Sumter.
3. RAPHAEL J. MOSES, of Muscogee.
4. AUGUSTUS O. BACON, ol Bibb.
5. Maj. J. B. CUM MING, ol Richmond.
C. H. P. BELL, of Forsytfi.
7. Col. JAMES D. WADDELL, of Cobb.
FOR CONGRESS, SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Gen. I*. M. B. YOUNG,
Of Bartow County.
Tbe Savannah papers of Saturday announce
the death of Colonel William Thorne Williams,
a resident of that city for the last half century.
Democratic Victory in Delaware.
The Wilmington “Delaware Gazette" ol tlie
9th instant sets down the Democratic majority
in that State at the recent election at about 3.-
034 and hopes “to put tbe hard-faced and hard
hearted Radicals on taller stilts in November.”
Bully for Delaware!
Tbe Conatittillon and I.atvw of Georgia,
Governing llic Approaching Election,
The reader’s attention is called to a compila
tion made by the Macon Telegraph—which ap
pears on the first page of this morning’s Intel
ligencer—of the Constitution and Laws of the
State governing the approaching election. It is
an important document, embracing valuable
information aud should be carefully preserved
for use on the day ol the election. Let our
friends see to it that a copy be ready lor use at
every election precinct iu the State. The De
mocratic party want, and will hg.ve, a fair election,
according to the letter and spirit of the Consti
tution and the law. The document to which
we refer will aid largely in securing what they
wil) demand at the polls.
Be sure to preserve this paper.
Wlio “Encouraged Secession.”
The Radicals believe that they demolish tjie
entire Democratic party when urcy say that
Northern Democrats encouraged secession aud
ere responsible lor it. They make this charge
in the noisiest manner whenever they are hard
pressed about taxation, expenditures, and the
increase ot the public debt, and as Delmar has
recently given them a terrible blow, with on
accord ail the Radical spoolers and scribblers
shout at the top ot their voices that the Demo
cratic party of the North advised the Southern
States to secede.
We remember pretty accurately the history of
secession. We reinember what occurred before
and alter our ordinances were passed and with
the exception of Dan. E. bickles, B. Butler,
John Cochrane, John A. Lygan, Edwin M.
Stanton, aud one or two others ot the same stamp
but a size smaller, we do uot recollect a single
Northern Democrat who encouraged secession.
Many Northern Democrats believed that if the
Southern States should secede there was
no Constitutional power vested either iu the
President or Congress to coerse them to remain
in the Union, but the worthies we have named
alone encouraged secession, patted us on the
back and told us to go ahead that they would
stand by us.
It is a satisfaction to us iu our misfortune to
know that every one of these advocates ot seces
sion abandoned us iu the hour ot trial. They
are now among the Radicals, where they beloug,
and where we hope they will remain until they
join Thad. Stevens. But while the Democrats
did not encourage or ad vise secession, we cannot
say the same of our friends, the Radicals. From
Ben Wade to Horace Greely, the Radicals in
sisted that we had a clear right to secede, and
to secede in peace, and tuat they would resist the
adoption of any measures to coerce or pre
vent us.
We know that Greely would say we are “liars,”
and that Ben Wade would say we are “
liars,” if we could uot adduce the proof to con
vict them both. We will cile, therefore, the
following from the Congressional Globe's report
ot a speech made iu the Senate by Mr. Wade:
“I am not one of those who would ask them
to coutiuue in such a Union. It would be do
ing violence to the platform ot the party to which
I belong. We have adopted tbe old Declaration ot
Independence as the basis of our political move
ments, which declares that any people,when their
government cetis s to protect their right—when
it is so subverted troui the true purposes of gov
eminent as to oppose them, have the right to re
ter to fundamental principles, and, it need be, to
destroy the government uuder which they live,
aud to erect ou its ruins another more conducive
to their welfare. 1 hold that they have this
right. I will uot blame any people tor exercis
ing it, whenever they think this contingency
has come. * * * You cannot forcibly hold
men in this Union, for the attempt to do so, it
seems to me, would subvert the first principles
ot the government, under which we live.”
Mr. Horace Greeley, who, thank goodness,
has never been supposed to be a Democrat, en
couraged secession in the following languge, be
fore Sooth Caroliua thought of seedling:
“It the cotton States shall become satisfied
that they cau do better out of the Union than
iu it, we insist on letting them go in jieace. The
right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but
it exists nevertheless. * * * *
* * We must ever resist the right of any
State to remain iu the Union and nullify or defy
Uie laws thereof. To withdraw from lie Uuion
is quite another matter. Whenever a consider
able section of our Union shall deliberately re
solve to go out, we shall resist all coercive meas
ures designed to keep them in. We hope never
to live m a republic whereof one section is
pinned to another by bayonets.
The principal organ of Ohio Republicanism
in 1860 was exceedingly encouraging. It said :
“Now, it any State or States wish to renounce
the benefits of this general protection, how can
they be compelled to continue the recipients ot
such advantages ? The Gotten States are not re
belling against the Federal authorities, nor nulli
fying any general or particular law. They
simply request to be released from the Union
compact. To coerce them to remain in the
Union, by the fore* a >f the U aited States Govern
ment, is to entirely change tbe nature of Federal
authority. It will be to make the Federal Gov
ernment, not a representative of the States, their
instrument in providing for tbe common defense,
&c., but a superior, neutralized power, having
an existence iudependeut of the States. We re
gret being compelled to take this view ot the
matter, bat it seems inevitable.”
We might cite other encouragement from Repub
lican sources, but we think we have given enough
to prove that the Republicans, and not the Dem
ocrats, encouraged secession. The few Demo
crats who encouraged secession joined the Rad
icals for hire and perquisites, and we wish the
Radicals joy ot their acquisition.
We are so poor and weak now, it would be
utter ruin to count Sickles, Butler, and wretched
John Cochrane, among our friends. We are
grateful that our Northern triend-*, although they
did not encourage secession, beloDg to a widely
different class than that to which these heroes
belong.
C'om«pondence-Gen. P. 91. D. louns
Accept* the Nomination.
We take great pleasure in laying t'yie follow
ing correspondence between tbe committee
pointed by the Seventh Congressional District
Convention, recently assembled at Kingston to
nominate a candidate for Congress, and Gen.
P. M. B. Young, from which it will be seen that
the General in a graceful manner accepts the
nomination—his letter evidencing also that pure
spirit of patriotism and devotion to his native
Boutb, for which he is so eminently distinguish
ed ; which have inspired confidence iu, and
drawn the hearts of the people ot this congres
sional uistrict so warmly unto him. To the
people of this congressional district, as well as to
the General’s democratic constituency, we com
mend the perusal, of this
correspon den ce.
Atlanta, Oct. 5th, 1808.
General P 4 M. B. Young:
Dear Gen. : We were appointed by the Demo
cratic Convention tor the Seventh Congressional
District, which assembled at Kingston on the
2d ot this month, to inform yon that you were
nominated by acclamation as our candidate, and
to request your acceptance of the trust. It gives
us great pleasure to say that nothing could have
exceeded the unanimity aud cordiality of the
feelings of the delegates present, and as your
friends we beg leave to say how entirely we
sympathised in this ieeling. Hoping that it will
be agreeable to you to accept the position as
signed you of “ standard-bearer ” of the Demo
cracy of tbe Seventh District, we subscribe our
selves truly, your friends,
Carey W. Styles,
Geo. N. Lester,
John Milledge, Jr.
Cartersville, Ga., Oct 7,1868.
Messrs. Girey W. Styles, Geo. N. Lester, John
Milledge, Committee:
Gentlemen—I have to acknowledge your
polite note ot the 5th, communicating the fact
of my nomination as the Democratic candidate
for Congres,lor the Seventh District, by the King
ston Convention, which assembled on the 2d of
this month. Accept gentlemen my warmest
thanks for the kind manner in which you convey
thip intelligence, and I also desire to express to
the Convention, through you, the profound sense
of obligation I feel to each member for the dis
tinguished honor conferred upon me. But I
assure you gentlemen, in all truth and solemnity
that my pleasunTfiifrilTS^vent is not unmingted
with a solicitude of a painful character. Tome
it is e'ear that American politics have reached a
point iu the downward track ot .decline and
corruption, which leaves it barely possible tor
the true friends ot liberty aud law to inaugurate
recovering measures. Our receptive capacity as
a people tor the arts of the demagogue, aud our
toleration of the pranks and insolence of tyranny
are most astounding. To-day, in less than eighty
years of a political existence, we are forced to
our election between tbe best and tbe worst gov
ernment iu the experience ot mankind.
I say the best government, because the world
can bear witness to the universal freedom and
happiness of our people, uudet the seventy years
of Democratic and Constitutional Government
which preceded these sad days. I say the worst,
because throughout this unhappy South we are
so trampled upon and outraged that we cau al
most declare that any change whatever would be
a mercy. And now, right now, we are all put to
our tlectiou. The last day of next Nov. will find
this once glorious heritage a prey to a most re
morseless party, or the reins ot goverument once
more in the firm grasp of the law-abiding and law-
loving Democracy. If once again this glorious
old party, which made America what she was
in her palmy days, shall be firmly seated in
authority, our very enemies themselves shall
bless the day that we hurled (hem irorn power.
But it God, in His awful and afflictive provi
deuce, shall sorter us again to be leased out to
tbe misrule and venality of a corrupt party for
four years more, then, to my hupe the book is
closed, aud all the glory that could be recorded
of us is already* written.
Feeling thus, gentlemen, you may easily enter
into tbe anxious stale ot my mind when you
recall the important post you have assigned me
in this great struggle, as your “standard bearer.”
May I not reasonably aud confidently invoke
i tie hearty co-operation of Democrats every
where in the Seventh Congressional District? 1
do most earnestly ask the aid ot every lriend ot
ttic Constitution aud of constitutional liberty in
my efforts to bear aloft aud to triumph, our glo
rious bauner, well assured of tbe happy result to
all our stricken country upon our success.
I have, gentlemen, the honor to lie your obe
dient servant, P. M. B. Young.
Information Wanted.—Any information
in regard to Francis M. Hood, a confederate
soldier who was captured near Atlanta, Ga , and
carried to Camp Chase, will be thankfully re
ceived by bis father,at LaFayette Ala., post office.
The missiug man is about five feet nine inches
high, fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, and
about twenty-five years ot age.
Exchanges will confer a favor upon an old
man by copying the above notice.
Thomas Jefferson, iu reierring to the ne
groes, held the following prophetic language:
Nothing is more certainly written in the book
ol tale man that these people are to be tree.
Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally
tree, cannot live in the same government. Na
ture, habit, opinion, have drawn indelible lines
ol distinction between them.
Georgia Masonic Mutual Life Insurance
Company.—J. W. Burke, Secretary and Treas
urer of this orgamzation, gives notice that a
meeting of stockholders will be held in Macon
on the 29ih instant, at Masonic Hall.
Counterfeit Notes Afloat.—We learn
that a nuuitier of counterfeit two-dollar treasury
notes have been put afloat in tnis city, and our
readers had better examine closely all notes ol
that denomination which may be ottered to
thun. The eouub-rleits are printed on paper so
like that used by the Treasury Department as
to be well calculated to deceive, but- in a close
scrutiny of the engraving the spurious notes
may be detected, as the vignette is poorly exe
cuted. Look out for them.—Savannah ffem.
On tlie Death of the late Howell Cobh.
The following is an extract from a sermon
delivered on Sunday, the 11th instant, in the
Second Baptist Church of this city by its pastor
the Rev. Dr. Brantley, the subject being
“Christian Liberty,” from John viii, 38, in which
the lamented death of Georgia’s late noble son,
the Hon. Howell Cobb, his services to the
State and the nation, his fame as a statesman and
his many virtues as a man, are feelingly, .el
oquently and appropriately commented upon.
We commevd it to the perusal of our readers
[Extract j
“The duty to ’which I have referred is affect-
ingly urged upon our consideration by that mel
ancholy event which wa3 yesterday announced
to our community by a telegraphic despatch
from New York. 1 allude to the death ot the
Hon. Howell Cobb. This occurrence, which
has awakened sincere sorrow in many hearts all
over our land, has covered with mourning the
homes of several members of this Church- An
illustrious man has fallen. Whether we consid
er his intellectual endowments, the commanding
force ot his oratory, the extensive in
fluence he wielded, the high positions he
so long and so ably filled, both in
the State and the National counsels, or his ar
dent and disinterested patriotism, it must be
conceded by all parties that he was one of tbe
most distinguished men Georgia has ever pro
duced. Self possessed, discriminating, prompt,
and impartial, he was, as a presiding oflieer,
fully the peer of the ablest man who ever pre
ceded or followed him in tbe Speaker’s chair of
the National House of Representatives. When
Georgia passed her ordinance of secession, no
uian entered more earnestly and self-sacrificiogly
than did he into the cause ol Southern inde
pendence; and when that cause was over
whelmed with irretrievable disaster, no man was
more truly afflicted.
But the honors which men heaped upon him
are of small value now !
V How loved, how valued once, avails thee not—
To whom related, or by whom begot;
A heap of dust alone remains of thee—
’Tie all thou art, and all fee great shall be.”
Was he a Christian ? Had Christ invested
him with that exalted freedom of which I have
been speaking to you this morning ? He made
no public profession of his faith in a Dirifie
Saviour, yet there is good reason for believing
that the great question ot bis soul’s salvation
was with him a matter of profound concern,
and that he was not a stranger to that prepara
tion without which lallen man cannot meet his
Maker in peace. Years ago, when I was his
pastor in Athens, 1 h id occasion to visit him
during a period ot domestic affliction. In answer
to a question proposed at that time, he said: ‘ 1
do not see how it is possible for any man to be
without concern in regard to liis spiritual condi
tion.’ Subsequently, I met him at the bedside
of his dying father; and when he saw how
peacefully, and even triumphantly, his aged sire
responded to the summons from which, though
a consistent Christian, he had recoiled through
life, an impression was made on the mind ot the
soil which was never effaced.”
“ Those who only saw him as he mingled
among men, in all the exuberance of his natural
hilarity, bad little idea of the spiritual strug
gling s which were progressing within. On oiie
occasion in his native town he rose : before a
large congregation and presented himself among
thos who were sflthciting an iqtereefc in Jffie
prayers of Christian people. The last time J
preached in Macon, (s^fewi
him in the congrgMfiliPfl
attention as 1
as “ the way and the life.” Pious
friends, to whom of late he more particularly
disclosed his religious emotions, have told me
since his death that he had given them very
consoling evidence that he was a regenerated
man. He signified to them and to others his
determination to profess publicly his faith
in Christ at an early day. There
ground, then, tor believing that he was
not a stranger to that faith which he did not
openly avow, and that tbe blow wbicb so in
stantaneously broke tbe “pitcher at the tountain’
—thus arresting with a mortal chill, the action
ot the natural heart did nut fall upon a heart
spiritually unprepared for tbe solemn event.—
We may comfort ourselves with the persuasion
that the summons which came “like a clap of
thunder in an unclouded sky,” was but a call to
“depart and be with Christ which is far better”
than to be here.
“But let this startingly sudden death admonish
us all. We must be insensible and stupid in
deed, if from this event we hear not a voice
saying to us “be ye also ready; for in such an
hour as ye think not the Son ot Man cometh.”
“ Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it
with thy might; tor in the grave whither thou
goest there is no work, nor knowledge, nor wis
dom, uor device.”
WM. S. CARROLL,
(Formerly WYLY & CARROLLL,)
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
AND DEALER IN
Somebody who had arranged a trip to Bacon, Lard. Corn, Flour, Rope, Bagging, Sugar, Coflee,
, ' *i - t> - Molasses, Salt, Candles, Cheese, Ac.,
No. 8 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga.
oclo - 30d
tower, had been building for months, toppled
and tell, and crushed the hearts and hopes of
the architects beneath their ruins. Not one re
mains to tell the story oi the visionary grandeur
that floated before so many eyes. Somebody
who expected to ride in a coach will take it a-foot
as usual, and the road will seem rougher than
Before. Somebody who had arranged a trip to
Europe next spring, and saw himself in Paris,
the glass of fashion and tbe mould ot form,”
jrith a pocket lull ot Napoleons to spend ad libi
tum, won’t go yet awhile. That suberb mansion
Mr. —— had laid out will not be contracted for,
and the splendid farm that somebody thought to
buy with the $16,000 (!) income from the Pascliall
House of a year or two, will not change owners
tor the present. Ah! how many hearts have
sickened w ith hope deferred under that crue!
55,792? It may be safely said that the enjoy
ment and comfort which the prizes in this grand
scheme will briDg iheir lucky drawers, will tall
far short of equaling the misery of disappoint
ment that now settles on the hopes and energies
of the thousands who, for months and weeks,
have looked forward to this tliiDg, to lift them
out of the ruts of poverty, aud debt, and duns,
and everything damnable, and place them on
the mountain tops of independence and luxury.
•But 55,792 is inexorable, and oar advice to all
who nursed these gorgeous, but blasted pros
pects, is to go to work. “ In the sweat ot thy
face shall tliou eat thy bread.” You will never
keep the Poschall House, nor board there, as
the owner of the establishment.—Nashville
Union <£ American.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NEW YORK ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES
■I NIG JIT DISPATCHES.
St ■
Washington, OcL 12.—Gen. Thomas is here,
and called on the President and Gen. Schofield.
Ii is understood the Dyer case investigation
hasten postponed.
Gen. Thomas returns to his command at once.
Gov. Boreman of West Virginia is here. He
wants troops for the election, ne thinks the
moral effect of a lew companies will answer his
purpose.
In noticing the President’s order of to-day the
Star says: “In Republican quarters it seems to
be apprehended that in those unrepresented
States the conservatives will now make arrange
ments to choose Presidental electors, and that
President Johnson will demand that their votes
be counted.
New .A-dvertisemeiits.
G. W. ADAIR, Auctioneer.
WILLIFORD PROPERTY!
I AM preparing a Plat ot B. N. Williford’s Property,
on Peters street, at the Railroad crossing. 1 will
divide it into three lots. No. 1 has his splendid new
cottage ot 6 rooms, and the kitchen upon it. No. 2 is
unimproved, hat beautifully situated. No. 3 has a cot
tage of 4 rooms. I will sell this val aable central property
at auction in a few days. See posters.
G. W. ADAIR,
Real Estate.and Insurance Agent,
Office: No. 5 Railroad Block,
OC.M3 —21 Opposite National Hotel.
C. W. ADAIR, Auctioneer.
Central Unimproved Lot!
I WILL sell on thJ* premises, corner of Peters aud
Loyd streets, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon of Thurs
day next, the 15th instant, an UNIMPROVED CORNER
LOT, 50 by 200 feet, running back to a 10-foot alley in
tlie rear.
Tnis Lot is opposite the fine new brick residence of
Peter Lynch, Esq. It is near the center of the city, aud
convenient to business. Terms cash.
G. W. ADAIR,
Real Estate and Insurance Agent,
No. 5 Railroad Block, Opposite National Hotel,
octlS—3t Atlanta. Georgia,
Headquarters of the Army,
Adjutant General’s Office.
Washington, October loth, 1898
General Order No. 82.
The following provisions from the Constitu
tion and laws of the United States, in relation
to the election of a President and Vice Presi
dent of the United States, together with an act
of Congress prohibiting all persons engaged in
the military and naval service, from interfering
in any general or special election in any State,
are published lor the information and govern £
rn&it ot all concerned. *"
’‘The following are the authorities quoted :
‘Article II, section 1 of the Constitution. Ar
ticle XII of the amendments to the Constitution.
An act of Congress relative to election of
President aud Vice President approved March
the 1st 1792. An act to establish a uniform time
for election of Presidential electors, approved
January the 28th, 1845. An act compensating
persons appointed as electors, approved Febru
ary the 11th, 1825. The order concludes—an
act to prevent officers of the army,, navy, and
other persons employed in the military.,.and
naval service of the United States friMa thter-
Jeilng in elections in the States. Be it enacted
that it shall not be lawtol^iy^BRflltttaiiLor
pi.navahofflcer of the U;
engaged
G. W. ADAIR, Auctioneer.
Beautiful Cottage and New Furniture!
HORSE AND BUGGY !—MILK COW
I WTLL sell on the premises, on Ivy street, between
Forest avenue aad Baker stre^t.on FRIDAY MORN
1NG NEXT, the lfiih instant, commencing at 10 o’clock
A Nice Cottage of Seven Rooms!
Six closets, pantry, hath room, &c. It is the neatest
coziest, best kept, and most convenient cottage I have
ever offered for sale, aud is in a first clasB neighborhood.
The Lot fronts 70 leet and runs back 240.
At the same time and place,
The Splendid New Furniture !
In the house, consisting, in part, of a Black Walnut Par
lor and Chamber Set, Dining Room and Kitchen Furni
ture, Carpets, Rugs, Oil Cloths, Ac. Also, Garden Im
plements, and
A No. 1 Family Horse and New Buggy!
A superior Milk Cow, and many other artie’es.
Terms i ash. Possession given at once.
G. W. ADAIR,
Real Estate and Insurance Agent,
No. 5 Railroad Block, Opposite National note!,
OCtl3—4t Atlanta, Georgia.
A Lucky Wicket.
One ot tlie tickets sold by McClure, ot this
city, in the great Pascliall House drawing
which took place on Friday, to John E. Wilcox
of Clarksville, drew a filteen thousand dollar
prize, iu the shape of a house and lot in St.
Louis. This prize covers in value all the tickets
sold hv the agency in this city. The lucky tick
et fell into tlie hands ot a worthy gentleman,
one who shared the misfortunes of Dixie, and
one who uot more needs than he deserves this
favor ot fortune.—Nashville Union and Ameri
can.
A TALE OF WOE—52,792, AND OTHER FIGURES.
This community, like many another, was all
agog yesterday morning over the wondrous ar
rangement of figures—55,792. Eighteen thou
sand dollars’ worth of tickets in the Pascliall
House Lottery had been sold at the Nashville
agency, and thousands ot hearts beat flutteringly
and anxiously as eyes ran down the telegraph
coIucqds of the morning papers. Many, having
one and even more tickets (some had thirty or
forty) had committed their numbers to memory,
and had been saying them over like school chil
dren getting lessons, until sleep overtook them on
the previous night. Others, with poor memories,
or too agitated to think clearly, read the lucky
numbers aud then tremblingly threw their eyes
upon their tickets. Everybody was disappointed.
Not a prize fell to a Nashville holder, at least as
tar as heard Irom ; and it is safe to predict that
none ot the major prizes will come this way.—
Our man on the corner ot Broad and Cedar
streets, had as much luck as anybody, and he,
like the balance, sucks his thumbs in utter hope
less, helpless, despondency. Mr. was sure
he had it, but alas ! 55,972 woiiidn t do the work.
Mrs. sprained an aukle rushing upstairs to
get her ticket—54,792, but the fatal 4 dissipated
her golden visions, and poor thing, she is
poorer now than on Friday morning. One
blasphemous cuss made the air about him
turn blue over 55,793. Another, with
suicidal air, rose from tbe rueful contemplation
ol 52,795. 57,592 seared the eyeballs of a fair
young friend, aud her b isoni heaved “ a sigh so
piteous and profound as it did seem to shatter all
her bulk and end her being.” A clever citizen
saw the papers, and rushed frantically home
with his brain whirling about with fives and
nines, and sevens, swearing at every leap he had
it; but Mr. Launam had tailed to place them to
<uit the fickle goddess ot the wheel, and he sub
sided in a jiffy and walked back down town
looking like a poor nun at a cash sale. All the
figures iu the various prizes were pulled and
hauled about, as they have not been by so many
people at ihe same time for many a day, but the
obstinate little things would’nt stand right, and
by BUndown Nashvil’e was in the dumps deci
dedly. All the airy castles that, tower after
QUARTERLY REPORT
Of the Georgia National Bank of Atlanta, Ga, on the
morning or the first Monday in October, 1868.
resources.
Loans and Discounts $157,541 01
Overdrafts 1,121
U. S. Bonds deposited with U. S. Treasury to
secure circulatio a........ 100,000 00
Dae from approved Redeeming Agen ts in New
York City 47,225 66
Due from other National Banks 6,931 11
Bue from other banks and bankers 9,8o9 10
Real Estate 4,772 5* i
Furniture and Fixtures 8,024 28
Current Expenses and Taxes paid . 4,511 39
Cash on hand, viz :
Cash items (including Stamps).. 8,369 34
' » of other National Banks................ 20,656 00
ctional.Currency —... 2,263 91
rirtf^tfMiliiK;.y.... oo
briDg, ‘ keep,
or control any
places where any generi
held in any State of the United _ Slat?^iDless it
shall be to repel armed enemies of the United
States or to keep the peace at the polls ; and
that it shall not be lawful for any officer of the
army or navy of the Untted States to prescribe
or fix, or attempt to prescribe or fix, by procla
mation, order or otherwise, qualifications for
voters in any part of the United States, or in
auy manner to interfere with the freedom of acy
electfSn in any State, or with the exercise ol
free right of suffrage in auy of the United States.
Any officer of the army or navy of the United
Slates, or other person engaged in the civil or
military or naval service ot the United States
who violates this condition shall for every such
offense be liable to indictment for misdemeanor
in any court of the United States having juris
diction to hear, try and determine cases ot mis
demeanor, and, on conviction, shall pay a fine
not exceeding lour thousand dollars, and shall
suffer imprisonment in the penitentiary not less
than three months or more than two years, sub
ject to the discretion of the court trying the
same; and any person convicted as aforesaid
shall moreover be disqualified from holding any
office of honor, profit or trust under the Gov
ernment ot the United States: Provided, That
nothing herein contained shall be so construed
as to prevent any officers, soldiers, sailors or ma
rines from exercising the right of suffrage in any
election district to which they may belong, if not
otherwise qualified according to {he laws of the
States in which they shall offer to vote.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any
officer or person in tbe military or naval service
of the United States who shall order or advise,
or who shall directly or indirectly, by force,
threat, menace, intimidate, or otherwise pre
vent, or attempt to prevent, any qualified voter
of any State of the United States from freely ex
ercising the right of suffrage at any general or
special election in any State of the United States
or who shall in like manner compel, or attempt
to compel, any officer of an election in such State
to receive a vote from a person not legally quali
fied to vote* or who shall impose, or attempt to
impose, aDy rules or regulations for conducting
such election different lrom those prescribed by
law, or interfere in any manner with any officer
of said election in the discharge of his duties,
shall, lor any such offense, be liable to indict
ment for misdemeanor in any court of the Uni
ted States having jurisdiction to hear, try, and
determine any cases ol misdemeanor,and on con
viction thereof, shall pay a fine not exceeding five
thousand dollars, aDd suffer imprisonment in the
penitentiary not exceeding five years, at the dis
cretion ot tbe Court trying the same; and any
person convicted as aforesaid shall, moreover,
be disqualified from holding any office of honor,
profit or trust, under the government of the
United States. Approved February 25,1865.
By command of Gen. Grant.
E. D. Townsend, A. A G. (
t Montgomery, October 12.—Gov. Smith has
issued a proclamation lor an election in this
State for Presdent on the 3d of November. The
proclamation is issued in accordance with the
election law passed by the Legislature. Under
that law there is to be no other election in this
State before November, 1870. At that time
members of Congress, Governor, State officers,
Legislators, etc., are to be elected—the present
incumbent to hold over until that time.
Registration commenced this morning in this
city. The negroes largely outnumber the
whites.
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock :.... $100,000 00
Surplus Fond 7,000 00
Exchange, Discount, and Profit and Loss 6,820 48
Circulation 89,000 00
Individual Deposits 225.335 98
Due to National Banks 5,756 79
Due to other Banks and Bankers 5,465 05
$439,378 30
OFFIC LAL.
Proclamation by the Governor.
Executive Department, )
Atlanta, Ga., October 9,1868. J
Whereas, John T. Green, Sheriff of Early county, ha
reported to this Department, under date 6th October,
instant, that the dead body of a negro man was found
one and a half miles from Blakely, in this State, near the
road leading from Blakely to Fort Gaines, and that,
from marks on the body, the man mast have come to his
death by violence at the hands of some person or per
sons unknown, and that the said body was identified as
that of William T. Walker, of Atlanta, Georgia:
And whereas, The said Sheriff further reports that
the said Walker stopped at the house of Charles Fryer,
on the Friday night previous to the finding of the dead
body; that some time during the said Friday night,
some person or persons to the said Fryer unknown, came
to his house and called for said Walker, stating in his
hearing “that they had been following him (the Baid
Walker) for several days, and that they now came up
with him.” The said Walker was then taken away by
the said unknown person or persons :
And whereas, It is further reported to this Depart
ment, through other sources, that the said Walker was
a public speaker, engaged and employed by the Execu
tive Committee of the Republican party, and that he
was sent to Early county by the said committee for the
purpose of holding public meetings and delivering
speeches in the interest of the said party :
And whereas, Threats had been made against the life
of said Walker to intimidate him from engaging in said
public speaking :
And whereas, The said Sheriff reports that he has
used every means in his power for the discovery of the
perpetrators of the deed, or of evidence which would
lead to their discovery, but without avai 1 :
Now, therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor of this
State, and Comtnander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy,
and of the Militia thereof, do issue this my Proclama
tion, offering a reward of five thousand dollars for the
apprehension and conviction of the person or persons
engaged in the murder of the said William Walker.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of tbe State,
at the Copitol in Atlanta, this tenth day of October,
in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and sixty
eight,and of the Independence oi the United State*
of America, the ninety-third.
Rufus B. Bullock, Governor.
By the Governor:
David G. Ootting, Secretary of State.
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New Advertisements.
THEATER!
J. V. GILBERT, Lessee and Manager.
J. P. BUTTON, Stage Manager.
JAME8 M. GILBERT, Treasurer.
Tuesday, October 13th. 1S6S.
SKIFF & GAYLORD’S
MINS !
CHANGE OF PROGRAMME EVERY NIGHT!
SCALE OF PRICKS;
Orchestra Chairs p,)
Dress Circle aud Parquette, 75
Family Circle, 50
Colored Gallery 25
Private Boxes 80 to $ti.
KSr*No postponement on account of weather.
“ RICHMOND IS ItinSEtFAGtlN!”
THE GOOD OLD TIMES RETURNED !
r|YHE uqderrtgned begs leuve to inform his numerous
JL irieuds, aud the public generally, that he has open
ed the
Star Barber Shop !
Ou Alabama Street, in the Lynch Block, next to the
Post Office Saloon, where he intends to shave for 15
cent* from this date. Hoping to see his old friends
again, and any amount of new ones, he will try aud sus
tain his reputation as one of the best Barbers in the
State. _
ocil3-lw D.HUCHIN8.
Presentments of the Grand Jury, sworn for the 1st
Week of the October Term of the Superior Court
% of Fulton County, 1868.
We congratulate our fellow-citizens upon the return of
civil government in our State, and we earnestly desire
that every distracting element may speedily be removed,
and that all our people may unite with the officers of tbe
law in promoting peace aud harmony ; and earuest'y re
commend to all the people ot this county to aid his
Honor Judge Pope iu his determination, as expressed in
his cnarge to us, to restrain crime and relieve the dock
ets, upon the civil side of tbe court, of tbe burden im
posed upon them by the distracted condition of the
country for the last several years.
Owing to the short time that ,he Court has been in ses
sion this week, and the amount of criminal business
brought to our attention, we have been ntable to give
attention to any other business except the jail,and there
fore respectfully refer the usu il routine of county busi
ness to the Grand Juries of the following weeks of the
term.
It is brought to our notice that the sale of lottery tick
ets still continues, and we regret that the biff passed by
the late Legislature lor their suppression is not put in
force.
We find the Jail in as good condition as cou’d be ex
pected, with the great number of prisoners confined
taerein, and award great credit to the Jailor for its clean
ly and comfortable condition ; but we consider t he build
ing entirely too small, and inadequate for the purposes
ol the county. We regret to fiud so la-ge a number of
criminals in the jail ana so much criminal business upon
the docket. It is a pa>'nful e\ idence that crime is not so
much on the decrease as could be desired. With regard
to the changed condition of society, the subject of edu
cation forces itself upon our Legislature as a matter of
the utmost importance, and we respectfully, but earnest
ly recommend that at its next session it have that atten
tion which it so urgently demands, and we hope that the
Ordinaries in tlie different counries will be faithful in
procuring such information as will assist the Legislature
m periecting si ch a system as will ensue to the benefit
of all classes, and especially the poor.
We would also urge upon the Ordinary of this county
to use all the means m his power to compensate such
teachers in this county as have not been paid for ser
vices already rendered in teaehiug the poor of the county.
In taking leave of his Honor Judge Pope, we tender
him our thanks for the dignified and impartial discharge
of his duty, and the high moral stand evmced in his
charge to us.
We also tender to the Solicitor, W. A. Adams, onr
thanks for his kind and courteous attention to our body.
We request that these presentments be published m
the city papers.
Edward E Rawson, Foreman.
Robert Crawford,
Ambrose B Forsyth,
Julius A Hayden,
Peyton H Snook,
Jabez J Richards,
Er Lawshe,
William Markham,
Garland D Black,
Josiah Bradfleld.
Stephen Sprewell,
Leonard Bellingrath,
William Kidd,
James L Dunning,
Young Garrett,
Edward R Sasseen,
Aaron Alexander,
Thomas M Acton,
James L Zachry,
John Gavan,
William C Austin,
William Armstead.
oct!3—'t
DAVIS’ THEATER.
FOUR NIGHTS ONLY, commmencing on MONDAY
EVENING, October I2th, 1868.
-TJt« Prigi.pa.1 Stiff & Gaylord's Minstrels
J *\ $439,818 ao ARE nwOn ASOTAJTTOUR;
' . '' ' "—— numbers TWENTY distinguished
Mm
day. A Grand Triple Clog Dance, by Stiles, Phelps
Armstrong ; Andy McKee, the original Song and D)
Performers, mra they are excelled by cone of the present
ilps and’
LVIig , AllUJ 1Q.U.V, UlO imcium uvu^ auil IlflDCC
man; Joe MaliS, the faaclnating impersonator ol Fe
male Character; Lon Gaylord and Frank Peil, the two
inimitable Comedians.
This is the only Company that has successfully per
formed TEN years withont dissolution or cessation of
any character whatever.
The evening’s entertainment will conc’ude with Prof.
Schaffer’s productions of
PANITHIOPOTICONICA,
Pronounced by the Press and Public to be the greatest
sensalion of the age.
Doors open at 7 o’clock; performances commence at
8. Admission—Orchestra Chairs, $1.00; Parquette and
Dress Circle, 75 cunts ; Family Circle, 50 cents ; Gallery,
(colored) 25 cents ; Private Boxes, $5 to $6.
JOE GAYLORD, General Agent.
Joe Mack, Assistant Agent. oct8—7t
HOUSE AND LOT,
W ITH TWENTY-FIVE ACRES OF LAND, lor sale,
all within the corporate limits of the city, one
miie from the passenger shed. An excellent bargain
will be given.
Call on or address
MARK W. JOHNSON,
oc1l—6t* at McBride & Co.’s.
Garden and”!Canal Wheelbarrows!
THERMOMETER AND DASH CHURNS!
Dog-Power for Churning!
S CYTHE BLADES. SWATHS, RAKES, GARDEN
Hoes, Axes, and all kinds of Implements, at
P. W. J. ECHOLS’
Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store,
ocll— Broad street, by the Bridge.
The Globe Insurance Co. of Kentucky.
^~^N the 16th of July last, a meeting was called for the
purpose of electing permanent. Directors of the
v/vriupany, when Thomas B. Overton, J. D. Bondurant,
J. T. S. Brown, H. Hewitt, Alfred M. Brown, and R. D.
Geoghegan were elected.
The following Directors were elected officers ot the
Company: Alfred M. Brown, President; Thomas B.
Overton, Vice President; H. Hewitt, Secretary.
The Directors of the Globe Insurance Co. respect
fully call the attention of the Policy Holders and the pub
lic to the following testimonial leters:
Elizabethtown, Kr , July 1868.
It affords ns pleasure to be able to indorse the present
Directors of the Globe Insurance Company of Kentucky,
as perfectly reliable gentlemen and good business men ;
and whatever may have been the management of the
Company heretofore, every one may rest assured that so
long as controlled by the present Directory, it will be
honestly and economically managed.
SB THOMAS, M. H. COFKR, B. R YOUNG,
K. C WINTERSMITH, SAM, Hi TCP.A FT.
State of Kentucky, Executive Dep’t, |
Frankfort, Sept. 24, 1868. f
W. J. Alert, Agent Globe Insurance Company of Ken
tucky, Atlanta, Ga.—
Dear Sib : Your favor of 21st Sept, received. I have not
the pleasure of a personal acquaintance wilh T. B. Over-
ton J T S Brown, J. D. Bondnrant, R. D. Geoghegan,
or Alfred M. Brown, but they are known to me by repu
tation as gentlemen of the highest integrity, strict busi
ness habits, large experience, and entitled to the highest
confidence and credit. I know intimately and pert-on-
concur with them in their indorsement ol the present
Directors of the Globe Insurance Company of Kentucky.
OCtl3-ltd2tW
Hespect/il^
HN W. ^TJJYBNSON,
Consult the Wishes of the Ladies f
AND BCY
STON E’S
PERFECT CLOTHES FRAME!
Patented February 11,1868.
T HERE will be no more improvements in CLOTHES
FRAMES, for the t-nmmit of excellence has been
attained in this. It is, without, exception, the best arti
cle oi its kind ever offered to the public.
When in use it occupies no more room than a couple
of chairs. It stands firm, and contains about forty feet
of bars. When not in use it is closed up, occupying no
more space than a broom.
The undersigned has secured the rigtit of the State of
Georgia, and will dispose of territory to the advantage
of purchasers.
The Clothes Frames are on exhibition and for sale at
Echols, Langford & McGrath’s. Whitehall slreet, At
lanta. Georgia. Price: TWO DOLLARS.
ocll—
fi. W. STOCK IN.
C O W AND CALF
FOR SALE.
Address :
Mark W. Johnson,
at McBride A Co.’s.
»R. It. F. NEELY’S
SELECT SCHOOL.
B RANCHES TAUGHT:—English, French, German,
Latin, Greek. Algebra. Geo'motry, (with their vari
ous applications to Navigation, Surveying. &c.,) Astron
omy and use of the Globes. Also, Book-Keeping
Pe ivate Instruction will be given in any of the above
subjects. Terms, &c., made known on application, (cor
ner of Fair and ftrew streets > W tin o *
GEORGIA, Gwinnett County.
T WO months afterdate application will be made to
the Court of Oraiuary of said county for leave to
sell all the lands belonging to the estate of William C.
Harris, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs aud ciedi
tors. This October 5th, 1868.
M d(Y £. HARRIS, Administratrix.
JOHN T. CLOWEK, Administrator.
ot9 -2m Printer’s fee $6
HOUSE,
- - GEORGIA.
LANIER
MACON, - .
COLLIER & BOYS
H AVING assumed the management of this House,
respectfully solicit a share of the public patronage.
Free Omnibus to and from the house. Attentive Pors-
ers. oct8—3m