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TUESDAY MOKNIXU February 4, 13#s
A SIGNIFICANT ELECTION.
The recent election for Congress in the
Eighth District of Ohio, though appa
rently of no greater national importance
than the maintenance, unimpaired, of the
Republican majority in Congress, is of
great significance, demonstrating as it does
that the Democratic victory last fall was
owing, not to any real falling away of the
Republican vote, but to the influence of
local issues with which national politics
had nothing to do. The election was to
fill the vacancy in Congress caused by the
death of Mr. Hamilton, the former repre
sentative, At his election the Republican
majority was only 347, and at the State
election last fall the Democrats carried the
District upon the questions of negro suf
frage and the disfranchisement of deserters.
At the election which took place last week,
the Republican candidate, General Beatty,
was elected by over 1,000 majority. Thus,
the Republicans have not only annihilated
the Democratic majority of the fall elec
tion, but have more than quadrupled that
by which they elected Mr. Hamilton.
This result indicates that when the
people of the North have presented to
them a National question, pure and simple,
they stand by the Union banner; but when
local issues enter into any election, they
vote without reference to National politics.
Thus those who have deceived themselves
with the idea that because Ohio elected a
Democratic Legislature last Fall, and the
Democrats in other States gained partial
victories, therefore a revulion ot public
sentiment was going to sweep the Repub
lican party from power, based their hope
on deceitful appearances, and those poli
ticians who arc deceiving the Southern
people with the assurance that' something
will turn up to defeat the reconstruction
measure of Congress, ignorantly or know
ingly mislead them. They keep out of
sight entirely, that in every State in
which Democratic advantages have been
gained, there were local questions which
influenced the result.
We shall hear little of the recent Con
gressional election in Ohio, because its
significance is too plain to be misunder
stood or misconstrued. The Democratic
papers here have scarcely mentioned it,
and when Democratic orators again take
the stump in opposition to reconstruction,
they will carefully and totally ignore it in
their efforts to prove that a majority of the
Northern people, who wasted so much
blood and treasure in the effort to restore
the Union, are now opposed to its restora
tion. The election to which we have re
ferred, proves that no such violent and
sudden change of opinion has taken place,
and that when the Presidential election
occurs, in which nothing else than Na'
tional questions shall be involved, they
will decide with as mueli unanimity as
they did in 1804 in favor of the restoration
of the Union.
[COMMUNICATED.
OUR PUBLIC SbHO’LS.
It must be truly gratifying to the friends
of Education in this county, to know that
zealous efforts are making for the improve
ment of our present Public School system.
The writer knows that the Board of Edu
cation is fully alive to the importance of
this interesting subject. Already has the
Board acted upon certain of the wise
recommendations made in the present
ment of the Grand Jury. And the Board
will soon take another sensible step toward
the accomplishment of a much coveted
object, in appointing a Superintendent o 1
Public Schools. Certainly, this great work
has been auspiciously begun.
Competent authority estimates that
there are npwards of twenty-one hundred
white children in this city, between the
ages of six and eighteen. Now, how many
of these children are in school ? I
have ascertained that there are about eight
hundred and sixty in the Public, and six
hundred in the Private Schools, making a
total of fourteen hundred and sixty.
It will be immediately perceived, that
there are six hundred and forty out of
school. Let us suppose that half this
number are at work—there still remain
over three hundred, m whose behalf extra
exertion should be made, in order that
they may be brought under the influence
and care of good teachers.
The question is: How can this be accom
plished? I answer, by the adoption of
new tactics—tactics that are in keeping
with the educational progress of the age.
The Teachers must be just such persons
as the Board of Education has determined
to employ—men and women fully compe
tent to the discharge of the duties incident
to their responsible positions; and they
should be made easy as to compensation.
The proposed Superintendent should be
“the right man in the right place.” To
attain every desirable end, he must be a
man, who possesses the faculty of sympa
thizing with teachers and pupils, and the
power to beget in them a laudible en
thusiasm. Any man will not fill the place.
Indeed, there are but very few persons
who possess the necessary qualifications
of heart and bead.
To bo an efficient Superintendent, the
man must have his whole soul absorbed in
the noble work in which he is about to
engage. He must be an untiring worker,
a close observer, and equally progressive
in his ideas; not confined to a beaten path
and obsolete customs, but free and watch
ful, appropriating and adopting the most
approved modes of conducting schools.
He must visit the schools—study the
teachers and pupils, lie must bring in
the wanderers, and win back, to the path
of.duty, the thoughtless truants. This can
be done, but it will require a peculiarly
constituted man to do it.
The average daily attendance of pupils,
about equals two-tbirds or threc-fourthe of
the whole number enrolled; whereas it
should be at least seven-eights thereof.
This is an svil for which a good Superin
tendent can provide an effectual remedy.
At the proper time he should seek and
improve opportunities of bringing the sub
ject of Education prominently before the
masses, through the instrumentality of
addresses, full of rare common sense.
The schools should be systemixed as soon
a« possible; their standard elevated, and
their tast-books made uniform.
The people will expect the Superinten
dent to work out all those things.
There are those who believo that the
proposition to systemixe the schools is
utterly impracticable, however desirable
the results to arise from its consummation
may appear to be. I am of tho opinion
that the proposition is eminently practica
ble, and the plan by no means difficult.
Give us for Superintendent just such a man
as 1 have attempted to describe, and the
calends of October will prove that the
friends of this measure arc right
Aside from the consideratiDn of the great
benefit that will accrue to the pupils ol
those schools, from the proposed change,
there is au additional inducement to sys
temixe them immediately ; in that, wo can
then claim, and will receive, at least one
thousand dollars ($1,000) per aunum from
the Peabody Fund Fifteen hundred dol
lars ($1,500) might bo obtained, under tho
provisions of a resolution adopted at the
recent meeting of the Board of Trustees, at
Richmond, Virginia, by which Dr. Stars,
the General Agent, was authorized to in
crease the amount of donation, he had
proposed to make—payment to bo made
quarterly or seini-anuuallj', as circuit
stances demand.
Let those who have this work in Land
diapl ly the proper energy, and all will he
well. Martin V. Calvin..
P. S.—lt is meet that tho fact, that I
am not careless as to the condition of the
Public Schools iu the county proper,should
be announced. They can be largely ben
efitted by the adoption of some such plan
as shall apply to the wants of our city
schools. Sparseness of population will,
perhaps, operate against a thorougli sys
teuiizatiou of those schools; they can,
nevertheless, bo wonderfully improved,
and the necessities of the people, of neigh
borhoods removed from each other, success
fully administed to, by the adoption of the
circuit system , into an elaborate explana
tion of which I cannot, at this time, enter.
M. V. C.
Augusta, Ga., Feb. 3, 1868.
Froifi the Atlanta New Era.]
State Constitutional Convention
Atlanta, Jan. 31, 1868.
The Convention met at 94 o’clock, pur
suant to adjournment.
Journal read and approved.
Mr. Martin, of Habersham, from the
Special Committee to petition Congress for
a loan to Southern needy planters, submit
ted a report, which was read, and, on
motion, the rules were suspended, and the
report taken up and read as follows :
The Special Committee, to whom was
referred the preamble and resolutions peti
tioning Congress for a loan, etc., have had
the same under consideration, and recom
mend their adoption as amended.
[Signed] Philip Martin, Chm’n.
Isaac Seellv,
John T. Costin,
H. H. Christian,
O. H. Walton,
11, K. McCay,
N. P. Hotchkiss,
The Constitutional Convention of the Stale
of Georgia presents to the Congress of the
United States the following considera
tions :
A loan by the United States Govern
ment to the impoverished planters of the
South, of a reasonable amount of United
Slates currency for agricultural purposes,
properly guarded by mortgages, and equi
tably distributed among the most needy,
would be of incalculable advantage to the
whole country.
Such a loan would restore the produc
tions of the South, and give a market for
the goods of the North and the produce of
the West.
It would at once energize the South in an
honorable attempt to compete with Eng
land—our rival in cotton raising—and
return with interest a full payment for all
her zeal in fostering our late troubles, in
order that she might establish her selfish
policy of producing cotton in the East to
the injury of our cotton States, and thereby
take commanding control of what has been
the great source of our commercial pros
perity as a people. Mortgages on real
estate can be taken of twice the value of
money loaned.
No man need borrow more than two
thirds of what he can give good assurances
will be the value ot his coming crop.
The people 'of the South need relief.
Almost destroyed by the great conflict just
over, Providence, so far, has not smiled
upon the Southern planter.
In 1866 there was a short crop, from
drought and other causes. In 1867 plant
ers planted, hoping to realize from 25 to
30 cents per pound. By the decline in
market, cotton planters have failed to
realize tho cost of production, and are to
an alarming extent now comparatively
helpless for the coming crop. In propor
tion as the cotton planter is unable to
plant for a large amount ot cotton, will
the freedman necessarily suffer. The
extent of suffering among tho Ireedmen,
unless Southern planters are fostered by
the Government, will be appalling to the
Christian heart. The “ nation’s wards”
cannot be better cared for than by thus
providing for them remunerative labor
upon that staple with the production of
which they are already familiar, and which
yields to them the greatest reward for that
service, which they are best fitted, by their
raising, to perform.
A liberal law by Congress, as indicated,
would do much to stimulate national Ira
ternity.
In view of the foregoing, bo it therefore
Resolved, That the Congress of the
United States be respectfully petitioned to
appropriate $30,000,000 of United States
currency, to be loaned, under proper regu
lations, to aiil the developing of the agri
cultural interests of needy Southern planters.
Resolved, That copies of the foregoing
preamble and resolution be transmitted to
the President of the Senate and Speaker of
the House of Representatives of the United
States, with the request that they be laid
before those bodies ; and that copies be
alio transmitted to the Presidents of the
Constitutional Conventions in tho Southern
States, and that we invite the cooperation of
such Conventions in this application to Con
gress.
Tho resolution was adopted by a vote of
yeax, 111 ; nays, 13.
The reports of the majority and minority
on tho subject of relief was taken up, and
after speeches lor and against relief, the
vote was taken on the motion to postpone
indefinitely the various measures proposed.
The yeas and nays were requested to be
recorded, and these are, yeas, 37 5 nays, 78.
Mr. Trammel offered the following as a
substitute for the reports of the oommittee.
No oourt in this State shall bare juris
diction of any oontract or agreement made
prior to the first day of June, 1865, nor if
any wrong or injury committed prior to
said date; nor shall any ministerial officer
have jurisdiction to enforce any jodgment
or execution rendered upon any such con
tract or execution rendered upon any such
contract or agreement, or for damages on
account of any such wrong or injury. And
in case any suit shall be brought or pend
ing upon any such supposed cause of
action against any inhabitant of this State,
it shall be dismissed by the Court upon a
pleu to the jurisdiction filed by the defend
ant, and upon proof that the cause of
action originated prior to June Ist, 1865
Resolved, That no such plea shall be
sustained by the Court if the plaintiff or
plaintiffs shall establish by proof that
prior to the commencement of said suit,
he, personally or by attorney or agent, pro
posed to the defendant or defendants to
submit the matter in controversy between
them to the decision of arbitrators, chosen
equally by both parties, with an umpire
chosen by the arbitrators, upon principles
of natural equity, taking into account the
losses of the respective parties by the
calamities of the war. and all other grounds
which, in the opinion of the arbitrators,
may, in good conscience, bear upon the
merits of the case, ind that the award of
the arbitrators be made the judgment of
the proper court, which the defendant or
defendants refused to do within one month
after said proposition. And in case of
judgment or execution heretofore rendered,
the proper officer may proceed with the
collection upon proof to the satisfaction of
the court, that the plaintiff or piaintiffs
have submitted, and the defendant or de
fendants have rejected a like proposition to
refer the matter between them to arbi
trament and award as aforesaid, but not
otherwise.
And provided further , That no such plea
to the jurisdiction shall be sustained where
the defendant resides beyond the limits ot
this State, or is actually removing, or about
to remove, his person or proper without the
limits of this State or any county thereof.
And provided further. That the lien of a
judgment now in existence shall not be lost
by said arbitration, but anew execution
shall be issued by the clerk, and shall pro
ceed after one year fsorn the date of award,
for tho collection of the amount of such
award. The right of set off shall exist as
heretofore.
On motion, the Convention adjourned.
"ROOT, HOG, OR DIE!"
To the Editor of the Tribune:
Sir— ln inclosing you money for your Tri
bune Almanac. I beg leave to say a few
words for your columns concerning the con
dition of the South. Your article ‘‘Root,
Hog, or Die,” published in your Weekly ot
the 15th instant, will be the text for my
remarks.
You have, to use another “sturdy-, rugged
Anglo-Saxon” expression, “hit the nail on
the head”—not to say the “hog,” one of
whose characteristics our Southern people
possess in an extraordinary degree, to wit—
indolence.
“Go to work” is one of the remedies for
all our troutdes. But, first, we must have
reconstruction ; and if we can’t get it on our
own terms, we must take it 011 yours, and be
thankful that we get it any way ; for recon
struction is the first grand desideratum with
the Southern people. If we work at all. we
shall work in vain without reconstruction.
Men work to make a living, and to acquire
property. The* need good government to
protect them in the enjoyment of the frnits
ol their labor. Now, we at the South have
no government worthy of the name.
Without reconstruction, we shall con
tinue to have no government; without
government we have no law ; without law
we have no title ; without title we have no
property ; without the hope of acquiring
property we shall have no well developed
system of labor, and withont labor we
shall have no bread. Can you detect a
broken link in this chain? No; and it
leads direct to tny conclusion, already laid
down, that reconstruction is tho one grand
desideratum needed for relief to the South.
Therefore, I beg the Northern people, in
whose hands the matter is, to hurry up
Reconstruction. The sooner it is attained
the better for all parties. We at the South
are very poor. You Northern people don’t
want a poor customer. The sooner you
put us in the way to get rich, the more
plethoric your coffers will become.
You Northern peogie all seem to desire
Reconstruction. President Johnson wants
it, and Congress is striving for it. But the
President has opened one door to the
Union, and Congress one, and each swears,
by all that is good and holy, we shall only
enter the door it opens for us. We ap
proach the door opened by the President,
and finds that Congress guards that en
trance, and fells us to earth with its
porter’s club the moment our feet touch
the threshold. We then go to the door
opened by Congress, and are again
knocked down by the club of the Presi
dent for seeking to approach that entrance.
Then over us—bleeding, prostrate, cold,
and hungry—tho two belligerents stand,
making mouths and brandishing their
clubs at each other, each calling upon us
to rise, and each knocking us down when
we attempt to rise, in the manner pointed
out by the other. This may all bo fun
(upon “sturdy, rugged Anglo-Saxon,” you
see)—this may all bo “fun” to the Presi
dent and Congress, hnt it is “death to us.”
Now I am no partisan. I belong neither
to the -‘House of York, nor the House ot
Lancaster,” if you can tolerate this hack
neyed quotation. I am not a free man.
I am a disfranchised inhabitant of the con
quered Military province of Geoigia—an
ex-”RebeT' (so called). As parlies are at
present constituted, I am neither a Demo
crat, Copperhead, or Conservative, nor a
Radical, or Republican. In politics lam
nothings buts am under bonds to the
United States Government, taken of me
by one General Wilson, to keep the peace.
lam subject to the “powers that be.” I
intend to obey the laws of Congress aud
the orders of General Meade, (and I most
ardently desire that he will hurry up recon
struction. This by way of parenthesis.)
But the remarks in the above paragraph,
touching my not being a partisan, are
preparatory to wliat I am now going to
say. As to past contests between the
President and Congress. I have nothing to
say. The President may have been right
in his first attempt at reconstruction, and
Congress wrong, or vice versa. But the
President is wrong now, in his opposition
to Congress. When ho found that his
plans were not acceptable to tho conquer
ing, dominant, controlling, and govern
ing representatives ol the Northern people,
he should have abandoned his plans and
fidopted theirs. I speak what Ido know,
from an intimate knowledge of my people,
and their feelings, when I say that but for
an expectation ou the part of tho Southern
people, encouraged by tho policy of our
President, that the Chief Executive would
revolutionize the Government, nnd become
real, if not ostensible dictator, there would
not now bo any open opposition to the
Congressional plan for Reconstruction.
Hero is where President Johnson injures
us incalculably. His incendiary talk,
proclamations, and speeches, encourage
our people to reeiat Reconstruction, exoept
by bia plan. He talks so as to curry favor
with the South, and yet be is going on
quietly to execute the Reconstruction act*,
whioh he denounces. Nine tenths of onr
white people, to-day, misled by President
Johnson, and leaders in onr midst, believe
the work of the Convention in Atlanta
•• amounts to nothingthat it will be
*• declared nnll and void," or •• set aside”
by the Supreme Court, or President John
son, or the Northern Democracy. Is not
this deplorable ? Why, any government
under Heaven, that is stable, certain, and
uniform in its action, is preferable to the
state of snspense and anarchy in which
wo live. Therefore, we beg our conquerors,
Radicals, Republicans, Democrats, Copper
heads, Conservatives, Congress, President,
press, and people, to hurry up Reconstruc
tion, since we can not or will not work, until
we have it. And, without work, we can
have no Relief. The idea of “Reconstruc
tion and Relief,” which formed the motto
upon which our present Georgia Convention
was elected, wbs originated by your corres
pondent in a newspaper article published bv
him nearly twelve months ago.
We need relief from old debts, and Con
federate debts—l mean we of the South. I
know your general views as to repudiation,
or anything like it, are correct. Yet I hope
that under the appalling poverty which per
vades the South, yon will admit (Anglo Sax
onice) that “circumstances alter cases,” and
not only not oppose the relief proposed by
the Southern conventions, but urge its adop
tion by Congress, as it will be incorporated
in our constitutions. With reconstruction,
and this kind of legal relief, we can and will
be again a prosperous and happy people,
provided we will work!
This brings me, too late, to your “root
hog or dio”—since I have already been too
prolix. If we can get back into the
American Union, have constitutional and
legal relief from the inculms of debt that
weighs down all our energies, so that we
may go to work with a prospect of reaping
the fruits of our labor, and will do so. then,
I repeat, we may again be a prosperous
and happy people.
But reconstruction will be in vain, and
relief will be vain unless we do go to work.
Tho pauper aristocracy of the South (of
which I am one, being an ex-planter as
well as an ex-" Rebel,” so called), must
learn to labor and teach their children to
labor, or they will become vagabonds on
the face of the earth, and the children of
the laboring man, white or black, will
come iu and possess the inheritance of the
late landed oligarchy. I see, and know,
and accept the situation so far as I am
concerned, and would persuade my people
to do the same.
What we want now at the South are dif
ferently constructed buildings to suit our
changed circumstances, so that so many
servants will not be needed. We want
smaller farms and more of them. We want
a homestead lor every family, white or black,
to be gained by laborious industry. Wo want
our freedmen made intelligent and indusiri
ous, and secured in all their just rights. We
can have no prosperity without it. No
people can be prosperous with -one half of
the population paupers and criminals, which
one half of the Southern population are or
is —which will you have it, Mr. Fould, author
of “Good English ?”
We want our planters (ex planters I should
say), if they are not willing to sell their land,
or the laborer, white or black, is not able to
buy, to lease it for a term of years, contract
ing for heavy manuring, thorough tilling,
and substantial improvements. And then
we want every man, woman and child, white
or black, big or little, to “root, hog, or die.”
J. A. Turner.
Eatonton, Ga., Jan. 22, 1868.
Ohio.— A Republican Victory. --Gen.
Beatty, the Republican candidate in the
vacant Ohio district, has been elected to
Congress by a majority of over 1,000 ; last
Fall the same district gave only 264 Re
publican majority. Some of our over
sanguine neighbors may find, in this cir
cumstance. reason to moderate and tone
down” somewhat their exultant expecta
tions. They may see that they are not
quite so certain as they supposed of
‘‘sweeping the Northern States in the
coming Presidential election.” The Re
publican party may have been greatly
weakened by the excesses which have
marked the action of Radical leaders—
but it is not yet, by any means, so reduced
in strength as to make its overthrow a
matter of course.
Stubborn. The announcement that
Gov. Jenkins has instituted legal proceed
ings against Gen. Meade, in relation to the
funds of the State, lias taken nobody by
surprise. It was expected, and is only an
incident in the great programme to retard
the work of Reconstruction, which the fos
sil politicians of the State were incubating
throughout the summer, and finally
hatched at the Macon Convention.
The people of Georgia have ceased to an
ticipate aid from their old leaders, in the
work of getting back into the Union. This
is evident from the fact that they are cast
ing about for new men to inaugurate the
uew measures. The dominant party in the
late election is not disposed to act hastily
in preparing for the next, and will not, we
trust, lie led to do so. The fitness of candi
dates should he the primary consideration,
and disorimination govern the selection.
If these rules obtain, all will be well.—
Atlanta Opinion.
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J|@“ NOTICE.—
Augusta, Ga., Doc. 21, 1567.
To the Stockholders of the Milledgeville, or
Macon and Augusta Railroad Cos :
Calls for payment on Subscriptions to the
Capital Stock of this Company have been made
np to fifty-five per cent. Stock upon whioh this
amount has not been paid will he forfeited to tho
Company.
A further call is now made for twenty-five
per cent., payable on or before February 20th,
IS6S, at which date eighty per cent, will be due,
and Stock forfeited, if not paid.
All Stockholders in arrears will at once cor
respond with the Treasurer.
The Road is now in operation to Miiledge
ville, and is doing a large business. It is
believed that arrangements will be made by
which further calls will be avoided, if prompt pay
ment is now made.
By order of the Board of Directors.
R. B. BULLOCK, President.
J. A. '6. Milligan,
Secretary and Treasurer.
de2l— flOt
ffdl" Savannah Republican, New* and llerald;
Macon Telegraph , Journal and Messenger ,- Mil
lcdgevillo Recorder, Federal Union ; Atlanta
Intelligencer aud New Kra, will please copy
above for sixty days, and send hill to tbe
Treasurer of Macon nnd Augusta Railroad, at
Augusta.
SPECIAL WOTICEB.
fry. REPUBLICAN STATE CONVEN
TION POSTPONED.
Atlanta, Ga., Ju. 31, 1838.
//on. foster Blodgett, Chairman State Central
Committee —
Dear Sir; We, the undersigned, member* 0
the State Centre! Committee, request that the
eatl for a State Convention of the Republican
party, on the 19th day of February, be expen
ded, Among other reaeona, we would call your
attention to the fact that the Constitutional
Convention will not hero closed its labors by
that time, and, therefore, if said Republican
Conrention desired to nominate State Officer!,
it would not know whet office! would be created.
We fear that the party will not be fatly repre
sented at that time. We, therefore, very respect
fully request you to suspend tho call lor said
Republican Convention.
Very respectfully, yours,
William Markham, C.C. IJichakdsos,
J. E. Bryant, Okoruc Wallace,
B. Smith, John Bowles,
W. ll.Nobls, P M. Sheiblkt,
Robert Alixandxr, H. M. Turner,
Benj. Dunnegan, G. W. Ash burs,
S. W. Braird, T. G. Campbell.
Ball Ga. Cohstitutional Convention, )
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 31, 1868. j
Iu compliance with the request of e majority
of the State Central Committee of the Republi
can party, and over two-lhirda of the members
signing tbo call for the meeting on the 19th
instant, said call is hereby suspended, for the
reasons stated.
Due notice will be given of such date as may
be deemed advisable for the meeting cf the Con
vention, and for the purpose fur which it will be
held. FOSTER BLODGETT,
Chairman State Central Committee.
P. S.—All papers in this State friendly to Re
publicanism are requested to copy.
feb4—tf F. B.
jjig- TEACHERS, TAKE NOTICE.—
The Board of Education of Richmond County
will meet again on SATURDAY next, the Bth
instant, at 2 o’clock p. m. at tho Ordinary's
Office, for the purpose of granting license to
those who may apply for leave to teach in any
of the public schools of said County for the
present year. feh4—td
CONSIGNEES PEti SOUTH CAR
OLINA RAILROAD, February 3, 1888.—J J
Bredenburg, Dorsey T care Ilorton & W, S H
Manget, G S Hookey, G A Oates, Z McCord, D
R Wright <£ Cos, M Hyams A Cos, J M C A Sons,
Oetjon A D, J Leary, J Danforth, C B, F VonK,
Bones Brown A Cos, J J James, J P Hopper, J A
Brenner, J Huit, J P Hancock, Charles Williams
or II Thomas, Armentrous J- Son, Clark A Mar
tin, W O Hopper, Zeb Ray, H H Hickman, [P|,
Wyman A May, J J Robinson, B S A Cos, J O
Matbewson A Cos, H Cohen, A Toler, H Cranston,
W B Tayi-r
CONSIGNEES PER CENTRAL
RAILROAD, February 3, 1868.—J M Burdell,
W A R A Cos, C A W A Cos, E H Rogers, E O’D,
C H Warner, J 0 M A Co,V Richards A Bro, W
A Walton, Pollard & Cos, J Nelson A Son, R F
Urquhart, Z McCord, Mrs Frederick, C'aghorn
H A Cos, E P Clayton A Cos, J Jones, S D Heard,
J M Dye, J W Walker, F Phiuizy A Cos.
fI®“THE SICK AND AFFLICTED, IN
MIND OR BODY.—DR. J. R. NEWTON will
HEAL THE SICK, free, “without money and
without price," at the MasoDie Hall, from half
past 9 to 12 o’clock each morning.
In the afternoons at the Globe Hotel for alt
those who oro able and willing to pay.
He will remain in Augusta for a few days.
HENRY J. OSBORNE,
ja3l—tf Secretary^
NOTICE TO STATE AND
COUNTY TAX PAYERS.—By instructions
from the Comptroller General of Georgia, I am
required to collect at once the unpaid Taxes of
this county. As the law holds me to a strict ac
countability, I shall surely issue executions
against all who fail to pay by the 20th of Feb
ruary, after which time settlement will have to
be trade with the Sheriff.
JOHN A. BOHI.ER,
Tax Collector Richmond County.
ja2s—t2othFeb
g(jg“ MARRIAGE AND CELIBACY,
AND THE HAPPINESS OF TRUE MAN
HOOD—An Essay for Young Men on the Crime
of Solitude, and tho Physiological Errors, Abases
and Diseases which create impediments to MAR
RIAGE, with sure means of Relief. Sent in
sealed letter envelopes, free of charge.
Address Da. J. SKILLIN HOUGHTON,
Howard Association,
fcl— 3m Philadelphia, Pa.
CITY SEXTON.—THE SEXTON
will be found at his office, at the Cemetery-, from
8 a. m. to 1 p. m., and from 2 to 5 p. m., every
day.
All orders left at any time will he promptly
attended to.
Residence—No. 6 Fenwick street.
P. B. HALL,
ja2l—lm Sexton.
TAX NOTICE.
g@~CLERK OF COUNCIL’S OFFICE,
Augusta, Ga., January 14, 1868.—A1l persons
liable for City Taxes (except those who are re
quired to make quarterly returns), are hereby
notified that tho CITY TAX DIGEST for 1868
is now open at my office (City Hall), and will
remain open until the first day of March next,
by which time all returns must be made.
All those who fail to retuin by that time will
be returned for double taxation, and a fiue of
not less than ten dollars per day will be imposed
for each day of such failure to return.
JSS- Office hours: From 9 o’clock a.m to 1
o’clock p.m., and from 3 o’clock p.m. to 5 o’clock
p.m., daily (Sundays excepted).
JAMES N. ELLS,
janls—td Clerk of Council.
jgg- GEORGIA. RICHMOND COUNTY
CLERK’S OFFICE SUPERIOR COURT.—The
following namod Grand Jurors of the regular
drawn pannel, having attended at tho Term"
of the Court to date, nre required to be present
at the adjourned term, to be held on the THIRD
MONDAY’ of this month, the 17th. Otherwise,
His Honor, William Gibson, Judge of said Court,
directs that tho fines prescribed against absent
Grand Jurors will be collected from them :
1. John C. Moore, 14. J. B. Knight,
2. J. M. Mosely, 15. John M. Doxicr,
3. Andrew M. Johnson, 16. John F. Cox,
4 W. T. Timmerman, 17. Robert Campboli,
5. George S. Hookey, 18. 11. T. Edmonston,
6. James O. Clarke, 19. Wiley B. Griffin,
7. 11. W. D. Ford, 20. Joshua W. Butt,
8. Henry T. Peay, 21. William Skinner,
9. John L. Crocker, 22. M. Gallaher,
10. H. Brandt, 23. Robert C. Kerr,
11. Isaac Layton, 24. Henry A. Byrd,
12. John J. Clayton, 25. W. E. Archer.
13. Robert 11. Lewis,
LAFAYETTE McLAWS, Clerk.
Fobruary 1, 1868. fcb2—3
frigF- OFFICE GAS LIGHT COMPANY
OF AUGUSTA. January 31st, 1868.—Tho Buard
of Directors have this day declared a Dividend
of $1.25 per share, payable in currency at this
office on and after the 3d day of February.
fel>2—2t L. A. DUGAS, President.
NEW ADVEETIBEMEHTB.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
U S. MARSHAL’S OFFICE, )
Atlanta. Ga., February 1,1838. j
rpHlfi 18 TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
JL 28th day of January, A. D., 1868, a War
rant iu Bankruptcy waa ieeued against the es
tate of
FRANKLIN H. GAY,
of Lithonia, in the county of DeKalb, and State of
Georgia, who haa been adjudged a Bankrupt on
hie own petition ; that the payment of any debt!
and delivery of any property belonging to eaid
Bankrupt, to him or for hie use, and toe transfer of
any property by him, are forbidden by law; that
a meeting of the creditor* ot said Bankrupt, to
prove their debte, and to choose one or more
assignees of his estate, will be held at a Court of
Bankruptcy, to be hidden at Boom No. 56. in the
United States Hotel, in the city of Atlanta,
Georgia, before Lawson Black. Register, on the
19tb day of February, A. D., 1868.
CHARLES H. ELYEA,
fet>4—lt U. 8. Dep. Marshal as Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
U. 8. MARSHAL S OFFICE, /
Atlanta. Ga., February 1, 1868. S
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
18th day of January, A. D., 1868, a War
rant in Banktuptcy waa issued against the es
tate of
WILLIAM BUSSEY,
of the Bth District, in the county of Pike, and
State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bank
rapt on hie own petition ; that the payment of any
debts and delivery of any property belonging to
said Bankrupt, to him or for his use, and the
transfer of any property by him, are forbidden by
law : that a meeting of the creditors of said Bant
rnpt. to prove their debts, and to choose one or
more assignees of his estate, will beheld at aConrt
of Bankruptcy, to be holden at the Register’s office,
in the Farrar Building. Griffin, Ga., before Alex
ander G Murray, Register, on tbe 13lh day of
February, A. D., 1868, at 10 o’clock a. m.
CHARLES H. ELYEA,
feb4—it U. S. Dep. Marshal os Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
U. S. MARSHAL’S OFFICE, )
Atlanta, Ga., February 1, 1868. J
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE : That on the
18tb day of Janaary, A.D., 1868. a War
rant in Bankruptcy wa3 issued against the es
tate of
JOHN W McCORD,
of Jackson, in the county of Batts, and State
of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bank
rupt on his own petition ; that the payment of any
debts and delivery of any properly belonging to
said Bankrupt, to him or for his usd, and the irans
fer of any property by him. are forbidden by law;
that a meeting of the creditors of said Bankrupt,
to prove their debts, and to choose one or more
assignees of his estate, will be held at a Court of
Bankruptcy, to be holden at the Register's office,
in the Farrar Building, Griffin, Georgia, before
Alexander G. Murray, Register, on the 13th day
of February, A. D., 1868. at 10 o’clock a m.
CHARLES H. ELYEA,
feb4—2t U. S. Dep. Marshal as Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
U. S. MARSHAL’S OFFICE, 1
Atlanta, Ga., February 1.1868. j
fPHIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE; That on the
X 17th day of January, A. D., 1868, a War
rant in Bankruptcy was issued against the es
tate of
THOMAS J. MARTIN,
of Jackson, ;n the county of Butts, and State
of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bank
-1 npt on his own petition ; that the payment of
any debts and the delivery of any property be
longing to said Bankrupt, to him or lor his use,
and the transfer of any property by him, are for
bidden by law ; that a meeting of the creditors of
said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and choose
one or more assignees 01 his estate, will be held
at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be holden at the
Register’s Office, in the Farrar Building, Griffin,
Georgia, before Alexander G. Murray, Register,
on the 12th day of February, A.D., 1868, at 2
o’clock p. m. ' CHARLES H. ELYEA,
feb4—2t C. S. Dep. Marshal as Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
U. S. MARSHAL’S OFFICE, >
Atlanta, Ga., February 1, 1868. \
rpHIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
A 31 Pt day of January, A. D., 1868, a War
rant in Bankruptcy was issued against the es
tate of
KATE A. COBRA,
of Atlanta, in the county of Fultou. and State of
Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt
on her own petition; that the payment of
any debts and delivery of any property be
longing to said Bankrupt, to tier or for Her use,
and the transfer of any property by her, are for
bidden by law ; that a meeting of the creditors of
said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and choose
oue or more assignees of her estate, will be held
at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be holden at Boom
No. 56, in the United States Hotel, at Atlanta,
Georgia, before Lawson Black, Register, on the
19th dav February, A. D., 1868, at 2 o'clock p. m.
CHARLES H. ELYEA,
feb4—lt U. S. Dep. Marshal as Messenger.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for tho Northern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of )
JOSHUA OWENS, V IN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. J
To whom it may Concern : The undersigned
hereby gives notice of his appointment as As
signee of Joshua Owens, of the Town of Ilomer,
in the county of Banks, and State ot Georgia,
within said District, who has been adjudged a
Bankrupt upon his own petition by the District
Court of said District.
Dated this 21st day of January, 1868.
james McDonald,
feb4—law3w Assignee of Joshua Owens.
U. S. Marshal’s Sale-
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A WRIT OF
fieri facias issued out of the Honorable the
Fifth Circuit Court of the United States for the
Southern District of Georgia, in favor of the
plaintiff, in the following case, to wit: George
W. Hatch vs. the Bank of Commerce—l have
levied upon as tho property of the defendant, the
Bank of Commerce, part of a lot of land, to
gether with all the improvements thereon, con
sisting of a building known as the Bank of
Commerce Building, situate, lying and being in
the City of Savannah, Chatham county, Georgia,
and known and distinguished in the plan of said
city as part of lot No. 10—Jykil Tything, Derby
Ward—and will sell the same at public auction
at the Court House, in tbe City of Savannah,
Chatham county, Georgia, on the FIRST TUES
DAY IN MARCH next, between tho lawful
hours of sale.
Dated Savaanah, January 31st, 1868.
WM. G. DICKSON,
feb2—3od U. S. Marshal.
Watches, Clocks aud Jewelry*
EH. SUMMER, 184 BROAD STREET,
. AUGUSTA, GA.
SPECTACLES, KYE--GLASSES, etc.; Watch
makers’ Tools, Materials and Glasses.
WATCHES and CLOCKS REPAIRED and
WARRANTED. Jewelry mado and repaired.
AII kinds of Hair Braiding dono. Agent for
Singer’s Sewing Machines. All kinds of Sewing
Machines repaired and warranted.
fo2—law3m
Gonvention Chorus Book
A COLLECTION OF ANTHEMS, CHORUSES,
Glees and Concerted Pieces, for the use of
Musical Conventions, Choral Societies, etc. Tho
object of this work is to furnish at a very low
price, the bes* pieces of Music of the classes
above enumerated. It contains fourteen Sacred
and seventeen Secular pioces from Oratorios,
Operas, etc., and is the cheapest hook of tho kind
published. Price, 60 cents. Mailed free.
OLIVER DITSON & CO.,
Publishers, 277 Washington St., Boston.
CHARLES 11. DITSON A CO.,
fol>2—tf New York.
Messrs. Balme & Uo.,
Horticulturists and florists of
Paris, offer for sale at the OLD CITY’
HOTEL, opposite Monument street, the most
splendid collection of PLANTS and FLOWERS
over imported, with a handsome assortment of
ROSES, and all kinds of FRUIT TREES,
BULBS, ONIONS, and Seeds fur Gardens.
jan3o-6t
-Notice.
SIXTY DAYS AFTER DATE, APPLICA
TION will ho made to the Court of Ordi
nary of Warren County or leave to sell the Rea
Estate of Hansel! Reese, deceased.
HARRISON REESE, Adm’r.
December Ist, 1867. [de8 —law6od
Fruit Trees.
At private sale, the following
list of valuable PEACH TREES: Troth’s
early, Hale's oarly, Early Y’ork, Crawford late
aud early, Old Mixon free, and Smock’s late free,
from Moorestown, New Jersoy.
AU in superior order, and for solo at reasona
ble priocs by W. B. GRIFFIN,
Auction and Commission Merchant
ja22—lawow Cor Jackson and Ellis >t*
AUCTION SALBg"^
U- S. Marshal's Sale ''
ttndeh and by VIBTITP
Uof Seri facias, issued out ofthf *1
Fifth Circuit Court of the United
Southern District or Georgia 7“** «*
plaintiffs, in the following caw* ’J *
Wells & Cos. versus BilL ovemZ :
Hoyt It Cos , versus same .
same ; H. E. Dibblee It Cos. 1
levied upon, as the property of tuYV
giiM Overstreet, Six 16,1L0t, o ‘ s fefej
with all tbe improvements thereomSJ?
and being in tbe county of Pierei,
SS&SnKmk'tg £4
“•Si—
One lot of Land, together with all
menu thereon, situate, lying and
District of Pierce county,
the plan of said county and districts, w*"
92, and containing 490 acre*, more or ta?* 1
One lot of Land, together with all nT:
menu thereon, situate, lying and
District of Pierce county. Ga! know?
ber 23, and containing 180 acres M . 10, l
One lot of Land, together
ments thereon, situate, lying and
town of Bhtckehear, Pierce county ft? *
ing one acre—bounded as follows■(Va? 1
east by lands of Silas Overstreet C.iTf
lands of the late A. C Strickland nom? 1
lands formerly owned bv H. \V Grad.'”***
in the northeast corner of the Pablicfta’ „ l
Two low of Land, together with aH*?
provements thereon, eitoate in the townJi
shear, both tying on the cart side of «*»*
joining each other, and bounded as foil™ !
one lot fronting on “A’’ street, and ml; !
125 feet j bounded on the southwest br-SS
and on the northwest by lands of thsU?
Moses C. Eason, and on the northeast Iwt?
lot to be hereafter described, and on th. ’ 1
land owned by Mrs. Shaves Second ***
lyiDg northeast of the one just described £
Ding back in a northeast direction 85
containing 2| acres, more or less—bomffi
northwest by lands owned by H. B Shift!
on the northeast by lands owned by thS
A. C. Strickland; on the southeast byS
Charles Raylon ; on the southwest bv l 2
Mrs. Shaves, H. W. Grady, and Mcee. LT
One lot of Land, together with all thejn,
ments thereon, situate in the town of BlseH
Pierce county, Ga., bounded as follows
“A” street 2o feet, running back 45
on the southeast by lot owned by Bim2
Donglass; on the northwest by lot owns?!
Overstreet, and lying on the soathwaTJ
“A” street.
One lot of Land, together with all the ins
ments thereon, situate in the townof Bid
Pierce county, Ga., aud bounded aifS
Fronting 90 yards on “A" street, rniaist ‘a
yards; bounded on the southeast bvSsi,
B. Robinson; on the northeast by !a4 J
late A. C. Stnekhmd ; on the northwest hrV
S. Overstreet.
One lot of Land, together with all tie
ments thereon, situate in the town of BUtti
Pierce county, Ga.. known in the pfcng
town as lot number 1.
One lot of Land, together with all tbe aw
ments thereon, situate in the town of Blaris
Pierce county, Ga. . known in the plan'd
town as lot number —, fronting the rightofse
the S. A. and G K. R., and running backldli
bounded on the southwest by land, of 5.0
street; sontheast by lands of the late A. Cis
land; northeast by lauds of J. X. Stephen
One let of Land, together with all the usm
ments thereon, situate in the town of RBnS
Pierce county, Ga., known in the planofaiit
as lot number 24.
Two lots of Land, together widish imps
mints thereon, situate in the town of Blub)
Pierce county, Georgia, known in the pie
said town as lot No. . and lot X'o. 25,15;
26 being boundedr.s follows: fronting “A”«
75 feot, and fronting S. A. i a. R. R. 12li
lot No. bounded by and frontingS. A.t
K. R., running back 105 feet, bounded.!
northeast by S. A. & G. K. R., southwes by,
Kinney’s lot, and on all other sides bylui
A. C. Strickland and Wm. Scheely.
One lot of Land, together with all impn
ments thereon, situate inthe town of Blaehsfa
Pierce county, Georgia, known as N0.24,1j
on the north side of A street, bounded on
east by lands ofS. Cutncr, west by land, of I
dry A Stephens, fronting A street SO feet,l
ning back 120 feet.
One lot of Land, together with *ll impn
meets thereon, situate in tbe town of Blacki
Pierce eounty, Georgia, containing j acrt,l
or less, and bounded as follows; ontheeid
lauds of S. Overstreet, south by Smith’s Uai
One lot or parcel of land containing 3*
rnuiu or togctucs w.vu au v^sprlJnSi
thereon, consisting of Dwelling, Barn*, i
baiidiDgs, etc., situate in the town of Blaefcki
couEty of Pierce, and State of Georgia, I
known as the late town residence of SiiajOi
street, the same being now occupied by Ji
Nichols, Esq.
One lot of Land containing sacre,mon
less, together with all the improvements then
consisting of Store, Dwelling, etc., situate, lji
and being in tbe town ot Waresboro, 1
county, Georgia, and bounded as follow;
the north by what was formerly known u
Old Court House Square, east by back stnl
said town, south by lets of Austin Smith, i
by main street of said town.
One lot of Land containing 1 acre, mon
less, together with all improvements them
consisting of Dwelling, etc., situate, lying, ■
being in the town of Waresboro, lYare cous
Goorgia, and bounded as follows; on them
by old public road to Tewton’s Ferry, ei<
main street of said town, south by lots of Aai*
Smith, and west by Cox Creek.
And will sell all of the above
at public auction at the Court Hoasa \Ruecuj
of Savannah, Chatham pointy on tj
first Tuesday in March next, between thelilfc
hours of sale.
Dated Savannah, January 31,1&65.
WM. G. DICKSON,
jap3o-30t U. S. Marehii.
U. S. Marshal's Sale.
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A WMf
fieri facias issued out of the HonorMw
Fifth Circuit Court of the United States for
Southern District of Georgia, in favor
plaintiff, in the following cause, to wit:
W. Hatch vs. the Bank of Commerce, I ■
levied upon as the property cf the defend*
Bank of Commerce, part of a lot oi«Wrj
gether with all the improvements thereoa?**
lying and being in the City of
ham County, Georgia, and known an “ . j
guished in the plan cf said City as part ol
10—Jykil Tything, Derby M'arA-more pm
larly described as the brick building corner*™*
ton street and Bay Lane, ami will sell the
public auction at the Court House, in the
Savannah, Chatham County, Ga., on the
TUESDAY IN MARCH next, between
hours of sale.
Dated Savannah, January 30,1368.
VVM. G. DICKSOTm
feb2—3Pd U. >■
U. S. Marshal’s Sale.
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A W®]
Seri facias issued out of the Honors
Fifth Circuit Court of the United StiW
Southern District of Georgia, in ’ a y°
plaintiffs, in the following case, to *•*• ,
A Collender vs. John Finn <C Cos., I “*
upon, as the property of G. M. day, o» -
defendants, a Uouso and l>o!. contain**
acres, more or less, situate in the town *
cus, Sumpter county, Ga., now oocup
George M. Hay, Esq. Two Storehouse^ #
Lots, situate on the northwest corn
public square of said town. Also,
lot number 32, in the Thirty-first
originally Lee, now Webster county, .
half of lot number la, in the Twenty- .
trict of originally Lee, now W-et»
Ga.; in all containing 2021 acres, iw
Three Lots, together with all theu®P
thereon, situate in the town of Iresto \ ~
county, Ga., known and distinguish
plan of said town as Lots number » j
21, in block 15, and known as tho reside" (
M. Hay, Esq. One Lot, situate m said »
county, together with all the ID P ,
thereon, consisting of a Storehouse,
and distinguished in the plan of e* l
lot number 4, in block B. One Lot, * g
said town and county, containing *
or less, togother with all the
thereon, consisting of a House, etc-,
follows : on the north by vacant lot o
W. Josey j on the south by J- B- ’ J!
the cast by lot of S. B. Hawkins: on
the Lumpkin road —basement story o
ing known as the .Masonic Hall, »»
shed, more particularly described a» g
2, and o, in Block C, in said town oi*
county of Webster and State of c . cn
will sell the same at public auction, a
house in the city of Macon, co “ nt L? K< nAl 1
State of Georgia, on tho FIRST
MARCH next, between the lawtul hours
Dated Savannah, January
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