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NationaUfUpnblican
AUUUBTA, OA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING Much 18. 1888
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For PRESIDENT
Os the United States:
ULYSSES _S. GRANT.
For Governor
OF GEORGIA :
llovlMl. BULLOCK
OF RICHMOND.
PLATFORM.
Resolved, That we jiledge our support to
the Constitution framed by the Constitu
tutional Contention of this State note in
session.
Resolved, That ire present to the friends of
Reconstruction in Georgia this Constitution
as our Platform, and tee urgently request
them to ratify it.
Resolved', That tee pledge our support to
the llos. R. B. Bullock, our candidate for
Governor, this day nominated.
Resolved, That tee- earnestly request the
friends of Reconstruction to ratify the
Nomination of the Hon. R- B. Bullock in
their Primary Meetings, and sustain him by
their votes.
77/A' CAMPAIGN.
No one can overestimate tbe importance
attached to the political campaign upon
which we arc entering. The respective
hosts have chosen their leaders and raised
their standard. The issue is made up.
Thk National Republican will be
found battling, in the front rank, for the
Restoration of Georgia, for the new Con
stitution framed by her representatives in
the Convention at Atlanta, for new men
and new measures, and, as a sequence, for
the peace and prosperity of our people.
“There’s work for every man to do.”
To make Tiie National Republican
effective in the great work before us, we
propose the following liberal
BATES FOR THE CAMPAIGN:
DAILY, single copy, 3 months |I.OO
“ 10 copies, “ “ 8.00
The Republican contains more reading
matter than any other daily 7 journal in the
State, including the latest news by mails
and telegraph. ts
TILE RELIEF MEASURE.
They who think that the relief clause in
the new Constitution will be declared
unconstitutional by the judicial authori
ties, will find themselves mistaken. Every
point is so well guarded, and the consti
tutional objections are so skilfully avoided,
that no loophole is left for astute lawyers
to insert a lever by which the structure can
be overset. One of the ablest lawyers in the
State—a member of the Convention—is a
persistent and violent enemy of the
measure, who declared that, though he
wished the courts might declare the relief
clause unconstitutional, yet he feared they
could not so decide.
Great stress is laid upon that clause of
the Federal Constitution which forbids
any State passing any law impairing the
obligation of contracts. Aside from the
question whether Georgia is a State as
contemplated by the Constitution (for if
she is a State, she is treated very much as
if she were a territory), the Constitution
framed by the late Convention is not a law
until it is ratified by Congress. The action
of the Convention does not give it the force
df law, but the ratification of Congress.
Congress enacts the law, not the State
represented in Convention. Though no
State can impair the obligation of con
tracts, there is nothing in the Constitution
to prevent Congress doing that, and many
other things forbidden by the same clause.
It has, for instance, declared greenbacks a
legal tender, and thereby impaired the
obligation of contracts, made previous to
that declaration, to the amount of the
difference in value Itctwecn greenbacks and
specie, yet the power of Congress to do
this, which is forbidden to the States, has
never been successfully questioned.
Those who think that Congress will
reject the Constitution on account of the
Relief feature, will find themselves equally
mistaken. Most of the debts upon which
it operates were founded on Confederate
considerations, or were for slaves, and are
not, therefore likely to meet with much
favor from Congress. In view of the un
doubted fact that the power of Congress
extends even to the impairing of con
tracts, Congress will not lie apt to inquire
farther as to our Constitution than to ask
if it fulfils the requirement that it should
Ire republican in form.
Valub or W aurants. —'We advise all
persons against disposing of the warrants
issued by the Convention, at the large dis
count that shavers nre disposed to grind out
of them. These warrants, on and after the
loth of May, will be worth dollar for dollar,
aud any discount on them now is just that
much clear loss to the seller. The tax
assessed for the purpose of defraying the
expenses of the Convention will be ample to
satisfy these warrants, and will be collected
in time to meet the obligations as fast as
they become due. —Ateanla Era.
The Maine Historical Society has a piece
of paper taken from the solid wood of a saw
log, received for sawing at Augusta some
time ago. The paper hears the words, “1775,
J. B. Dunkirk, with Arnold.” Ninety
circles in the wood wero counted outside of
it, the precise number of years since Ar
nold’s expedition up tho Kennebec.
REASONS FOR VO TIE & FOR MB.
BULLOCK.
I %
Third, I will role for Mr. Bullock, be
cause he is not a popular orator. I want
the country to see it can be goverpod
by oieu who have uot the “gift of the. gab,”
for wo are a gab-afflicted nation. By the
gift of the gab the State was made to
secede, amt by the gab we continue to drift
to ruin (iko feathers blown by tbe breath of
the itump orators.
I wish once more to seo men in power,
like Grant and Bullock, who rely upon
thought and acts, and not on empty words.
Neither Washington, Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe nor Jackson were popular orators,
uor such Governors as Troup, Clark, Rabun,
Talbot and Lumpkin.
The thousands of good and sterling men
in Georgia who possess first rate administra
tive business talent, are interested to break
down this spell of windy words, by which
this country has beau ruled for near half a
century, and not only ruled but ruined ; for
they have been almost as effectually kept
out of high employments, as if it were a
disqualification for office not to be able to
delude the people by stump oratory. Al
most every man in Congress, and all the
Governors of have a monopoly of
those offices, because of the “gift of the
gab.” Why, if Washington were alive,
without the prestige of his name—and I
don’t know but v*ith U—a second rate County
Court lawyer, who could get the “grin on
him” on tho stump, would “turn him down”
with the great herd possessed with an
admiration of the gab.
The first question about a candidate
should be, is he honest, wise and industri
ous? but it is, “ can he speak V and hence
this gab-afflicted nation has been groaning
under the folly of badly regulated gas for
nearly half a century.
The temperament that makes a man an
orator unhinges the judgment; tho power
of sending words from heart to heart, and
of splitting an oak table at the end of every
sentence, is an indication of an extravagant
and unreliable mind, and such men “ run
things into the ground.” If they get an
idea in their head,.such as that of Secession,
they can believe it is feasible, that it will
scare all creation and override all justice,
make one Southerner equal to three “ Yan
kees,” and that to utter big words is to “die
in the last ditch.”
In private life you can see that your
windy men arc unsafe. How few of them
ever die with fortunes, while your unpre
tending, thinking, and acting men leave
their families rich.
Ben Hill, the other day at Atlanta, ridi
culed the idea of making an Express Agent
Governor, at which the audience, no doubt,
grinned and yelled but not one of them
who would not have entrusted Mr. Bullock
—politics out of tbe way—with private
business of the nature and magnitude of
the Executive office, in preference to forty
Ben Hills, witli all his wind—which some
day will burst him.
This, State and Federal, has become a
government of lawyers, because they possess
the gift of tho gab, and to our cost we have
seen they possess the gift of ruin ; and
ruin will follow us until wo learn to appre
ciate sound solid worth, sense, industry,
and judgment, like U. S. Grant’s and R. B.
Bullock’s.
I notice the Secessionists have nominated
one of the gaseous gentlemen, though I
don’t know that he has wind enough to hurt
any one. But to Secessiondom he has the
high recommendation of having been a
traitor to his friends as well as the govern
ment, for he was elected to the Secession
Convention by a strohg Union constituency,
whom he betrayed as soon as he entered
that treasonable body. False alike to the
friends by whom he was trusted, and the
government which he betrayed, ho is a fit
representative of a party begotten by
treason. Libertv.
From our Special Correspondent.)
FROM WASHINGTON.
Impeachment—The object of the Dcjcnce — Delay-
Moral Turpitude of the. President—Reimburse
ment for Harbor Improvements Financial
Affaire of the Freedmen—lndian Difficulties
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
Washington, March 13, 18G8.
Another stop Was taken in the trial of
President Johnson to day, when, through
counsel, ho answered to the summons to
appear at tho bar of the Senate. The
excitement in regard to this trial has ma
terially abated ; in fact there were no more
visitors at tho Capitol than are frequently
seen when subjects of great public interest
are under consideration—of course tho wcl*
understood impossibility of obtaining an
entrance to the Senate wing without a
ticket, had something to do with the
meagre attendance. The largo detachment
of extra policemen and supernumerary
officials had little or nothing to do, for at
no time after the first grand rush of ticket
holders were there more than two hundred
and fifty people in the rotunda ; two
policemen found no difficulty whatever in
keeping passage from one wing of tho
Capitol to tho other. Outside, tho only
indication of anything unusual going on
was «n extra Dumber of hocks in waiting
for fares, which they did not receive. The
arrival of a circus company would have
created more excitement throughout the
city; even the few hundred ex-Confede
rates who have been sneaking into the city
during the last two weeks, in tho expecta
tion of participating in a “scene,” generally
kept out of sight, and the few who had any
suppressed wrath to get rid of, confined their
excoriations to boon companions in the
slums of the city. The “gallant” Mosby was
a quiet observer, but did not, it is believed,
bring his train hand along with him. The
only new feature of special intercstdeveloped
in the impeachment proceedings is the fact
that Mr. Johnson proposes to fight to the
the l&nguagc of tho victims
of Ijburu, ho intends to “die gamo” ; N his
demand for ninety days to propuro to plead
shows a determination to consume us much
time us possible. His counsel possess
varied talent, and understand all tho tricks
of the profession, and it has given wide
spread satisfaction to find, at tho first onset,
that in the managers they have found foeinen
worthy of their steel, it being understood
that what Judge Bingham lack* is made up
i* Geueral Butler, aud the two together are
considered equal to any question that may
b* raised on legel or technical wround. On
the 23d, the case will be on afaio, and the
defendant compelled to plead. Judge Bing
ham says he can prepare hie replication in
two days, which will bring it up to the 25th,
when the defence may, perhaps, reasonably,
obtain seven—certaiuly. not to exceed ten
days to prepare to go on. No more than
ten days wilt be granted, it Gen.
Delay will not navo any command in this
affair. I dto not believe there is any reason
able loundation for the current intimation
that the Chief Justice will, in any way,
embarrass tho proceeding by his rulings ; he
undoubtedly feel# the great responsibility
resting upon him as presiding officer, ana
knowing that the rulingß in this case will
undergo the scrutiny of fnturo generations, for
his reputation, to say nothing of the question
of justice, he will only act upon oouvictions,
the result of mature deliberation. The only
levity manifested thus far has been by the
defendant, while he professes not to care the
snap of his finger for what the Senate may
do. The members of the Senate, on the
contrary, feel tho full importance of the
business in hand. The reckless indiffer
ence and flippant manner with which Mr.
Johnson has thus far treated the proceed
ings, has lost him the sympathy of many
valued friends. No man, possessing any
appreciation of the fitness of things, would
give State dinners, with Members of Con
gress as guests, and other entertainments,
while resting onder charges which, if proven
against him, will make nis name stink for
ever in the nostrils of the American people.
That he is callous to all the finer feelings of
our nature, is a fact too well known ; but
some of his best friends are 1 disgusted with
him for attempting to defy public opinion.
The President has, possibly, before his iqind
the caae of Warren Hastings, the Governor
General of India, who worried his enemies
through eight long years, and then secured
an acquittal. He has numerous Logans to
defend him in prose, and a Simpkins to
burlesque the managers, and innumerable
men like John Williams, "malignant aud
filthy,” to aid him ; and if he has not ex
actly subsidized a portion of k the press, their
correspondents almost without number
sound his pi rises. But the Senate is uot a
House of Lords, nor is the Democratic
party disposed to act the part of the East
India Company by footing the bills ; so that
the reaction which Hastings worked for and
obtained, probably never can be brought
about by the present incumbent of the
White House.
The industrious representatve of the Mil
waukee District, General Paine, has receutly
laid before the House a bill to reimburse the
city of Milwaukee for harbor improvements.
However just the demand may be, to say
nothing of the precedent to be established,
should the appropriation be made, a no more
inappropriate time could have been selected
perhaps, to press such a claim. Retrench
ment and economy are demanded by the
people, indeed it is a necessity of the times,
and it is doubtful if such a claim will receive
full consideration. Moreover the represen
tatives of several other localities have simu
lar demands to make, aud the multiplicity of
these demands may appal the Bull -dogs
guarding UucleSamuel’s strong box; it is
not probable that any policy will be agreed
upon during the present session of Congress
in regard to claims of this kind. It should
be understood however, that these claims in
no way affect the regular appropriations for
river and harbor improvements.
fhekdmen’s savings trust co.
The report of the Cashier of the branches
of this institution for February, shows the
following state of facts:
Branches. Deposits. Drafts.
Augusta 1,114 87 3,10 t 37
Baltimore 13,929 58 11,985 35
Beaufort 35,097 62 31,303 32
Charleston 20,200 39 19,315 99
Huntsville 924 S4 1,929 10
Jacksonville no returns
Louisville 4,781 03 7,623 93
Memphis 5,655 47 5,717 08
Mobile 12,130 S5 9,264 19
Nashville 2,830 24 3,363 28
Newborn 5,817 82 3,718 64
New Orleans, 1,864 31 3,183 68
New York 5,362 86 5,296 77
Norfolk 2,225 95 2,074 47
Savannah 5,670 07 4,151 75
Talahassee 3,469 99 4,598 73
Vicksburg 20,587 16 19,729 50
Washington, D. C. 22,430 75 14,087 28
$181,554 77 $164,654 74
Excess of deposits ovor drafts $16,900 03
Total deposit since this institution
was established 3,582,367 38
Total draw ll ou t 2,944,079 36
Total now on deposit.) 638,288 02
In Northern cities where Savings Banks
are best understood, it rarely occurrs that
more than 20 per cent, of the population are
depositors. In Mobile, Ala., over 13 per
cent of the colored population are depositors;
in Jacksonville, Fla-, 20 per cent., aud at
other branches, from 3 to 10 per cent.
ASSISTANT secuetary of the treasury.
Tho Hon. E. Cooper, nominated for the
office of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
and rejected by tho Senate, continues to
discharge the duties of that office, under an
act passed in 1795, giving the President
authority to niako such appointments for
the period of six months. Mr. Cooper’s six
months will expire on the Ist of June.
INDIAN DIFFICULTIES-
Commissioner Taylor, of the Indian
Bureau, does not credit the voport of lato
Indian outrages. The Pcaco Commis
sioners are to nave a meeting with several
of the Indian tribes in April, in the upper
waters of the Missouri, where it is expected
that the Sioux Nation will be induced
peaceably to abandon tho Powder River
route. Capital.
tifgnee of J
i?cw Hampshire cam
paign is over, and the results are all that
loyal men can desire. The election in Con
necticut is next in order, and will take place
on the first Monday—the 6th—of April.
Marshall Jewell is the Republican, and
James E. English the Democratic candidato
for Governor. For Lieutenant Governor
the Republicans have nominated Francis
Wayland, a son of tho lato venerated Presi
dent of Brown University. His Democratic
opponent is Ephriam Hyde. Hiram Appel
man is the Republican, and Leverett Pease
the Democratic nominee for Secretary of
State. For Treasurer the Republicans have
nominated Levdrett, W. Weslells, and the
Democrats Edward 8. Mosely. James \Y.
Manning is the Republican, and Jesse Kney
tho Democratic candidates for comptrollers.
The contest is even more interesting,
because the vote is closer, and the conclu
sion more doubtful than that in Now Hamp
shite. During the past two years, each party
has alternately gained tho victory, aud in
both cases the majorities wore less than one
thousand. In 1866, the Republicans were
tho conquerors by 531 majority, while in
1867, tho Democrats beat them by 987 votes.
The Manchester Guardian relates that
Mr. Thornton, the British Minister to Wash
ington, on the eve of bis departure for
Amorica, mot an Americnn gentleman whom
he did not recognize as n member of the
Republican party, and to whom he praised
Mr. Johnson highly for his administrative
vigor and skill. Finding no response, he
modified his tone, and said : “At all events,
all must admit that he does wonders for an
entirely Sblf-raade man.” “It may be so,"
was the rejoinder ; “but, if he bn self-made,
I will say that it relieves God Almighty of
a grave responsibility."
EXTRACTS I ROM TIIE ATLANTA
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CIN
CINNATI GAZETTE.
In relation to the aystem of Education
proposed by the olaborate report of tb« Com
mittee oo Education in the Georgia Constitu
tional Convention, the correspondent says:
WHAT WAS REALLY W ANTES.
All that coaid profitably be done, was to
make it obligatory upon tbe Legislature to
provide a aystem of common schools, leav
ing to that body the Retails of the system,
and allowing them to alter and perfect the
same as tne wishes of the people should
require, and as their” ability should justify.
11 ARRIS.
This fact was clearly perceived by Mr. A.
L. Harris, of Chatham (Savannah), whom
Ohio readers will recollect as a gentleman
long and prominently connected with the
press of the Buckeye State. He is one of
that class whose influence in the South is
always emphatically for good. Engaging in
no disgraceful scrambto for office, devoting
tho greater portion of his time to the intel
ligent management of a large plantation near
Savannah ; deporting himself with that up
rightness, honesty and affability which com
pels esteem, he has secured the respect and
good will of all with whom he associates,
At the same time be has stood firm as a
rock to principle, yielding nothing in any
direction, but quietly, intelligently and per
sistently using bis influence in favor of those
enlightened principles of national unity and
human rights, which he brought with him
from Ohio. In tho Union Republican party
he perceives the efficient instrument by
which those principles are to be embodied in
the forms ot law, and afterwards perpetuated
and maintained. Hence he is a thorough,
consistent and unflinching; Republican,
always acting, voting and speaking for the
right.
At great personal sacrifice he consented
to come to the Georgia Convention; and in
conjunction with those great leaders of
Georgia Republicanism, Foster Blodgett and
U. B. Bullock, he has done much in framing
a wise and just Constitution for Georgia, and
has been so firmly and uniformly consistent
and loyal in his course, that be has secured
the unqualified respect, eve-j of the enemies
of the cause.
tiie want supplied.
Yesterday, Mr. Harris introduced his
substitute, composed of but two sections, one
making it obligatory upon the Legislature to
provide for a general system of education,
the other designating a State Superintendent,
to be appointed by the Governor, as the head
of that system.
After a long aud desultory debate, during
which Mr. Harris made a long, but pointed
explanation of his substitute, and the colored
delegates, who participated in the discussion
more generally than usual, exhibited great
good sense in almost unanimously pronoun
cing for the substitute. The latter was
adopted by an immense majority, without
any alteration.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION ADJOURNS.
At tho time Mr. Blodgett made his
motion to adjourn, the floor of the Conven
tion was completely filled with delegates
and distinguished gentlemen from different
parts of the State, while the lobbies were
crowded with spectators to their utmost
capacity. Mr. Blodgett’s object was to call
the members together, in nominating con
vention, immediately after tho Constitu
tional Convention adjourned.
Mr. J. E. Blount, the highly inflam
matory old “Conservative” from Stewart,
jumped up, pulled out a paper, and declared
he had a protest to read. The motion to
adjourn, however, was declared not to be
debatable. Mr. Blount then insisted upon
a two-third vote to carry the adjournment,
which was so palpably absurd that even
Parrott, the President, so decided it. The
yeas and nays were then demanded, and
the adjournment carried—Bß to 50.
NOMINATING CONVENTION ASSEMBLES.
Mr. Blodgett then called the meeting to
order, as Chairman of the Central Com
mittee, and Mr. A. L. Harris, of Chatham
(Savannah), was called to tho chair.
“CONSERVATIVE” FAILURE.
The roll was then called, so as to ascer
tain how many delegates to the Constitu
tional Convention would participate in the
Nominating Convention, and 95 persons
answered to their names. The entire
number present was 138, so that witli three
or four exceptions, every Republican
remained to participate in the work. Thus
had the effort of the ultra “ Conservatives”
and Hancock Democrats to cheek the
movement and divide the Union mep
completely failed.
If there had before been any doubt about
the nomination of Mr. Bullock for the
Governorship, there was none whatever
now; and it was simply a question of time
as to when the Convention would make
known its well considered will.
R. B. BULLOCK FOR COVERNOR.
An effort (which failed) to compromise
with the “Conservatives;” a re-assembling
of tho Constitutional Convention at 3 p. in.,
and its immediate re adjournment to make
way for the Nominating Convention; a
motion, unanimously carried, that the
Convention proceed to nominate a candidate
for Governor; and then Foster Blodgett, of
Augusta, in a few well chosen words,
nominated his colleague, R. B. Bullock.
A motion by IL K. McCay, of Sumter,
that the nomination of Mr. Bullock be
made by acclamation, was put and carried
unanimously, and amid a storm of enthu
siasm, which shook tho hall.
A TRUE, BRAVE MAN.
Mr. Bullock being loudly called for, arose,
and spoke but a score of words; but they
were enough to mark the character of the
man. lie thanked the Convention for tho
honor conferred upon him, and declared he
accepted the nomination as the standard
bearer ol the Union Republican Party.
Amid so many timid souls who would
prefer the name of “Reconstruction party,”
and thus kick their own support from under
their leet, those few, brave, wise words of
Mr. Bullock, point him out as one of the
true spirits of the South ; ono upon wham
the nation may rely; one of the coming men.
Those words were a fitting rebuke to some
even of the mon recently from the North in
that Convention j who, either from childish
fear, or overweening anxiety to grasp office
at the first election, would lower the stan
dard of Republicanism in Georgia, and so
in a year or two utterly ruin our cause.
Thank Heaven, that the destinies of the
party are at present in the hands of a better
man than these, and that Mr. Bullock, even
with the glittering prize of the Governorship
before him, plants himself upon tho eternal
rock of principle! He is worthy lobe the
Chief Magistrate of an American State, and
deserves the success which he will all the
more surely win, because he would not
compromise with wrong, nor make Truth
ashamed to bliow herself under her own
name in Hie presence of her enemies.
AFTER PROCEEDINGS.
The after proceedings of the Convention
were unimportant to your readers. In tho
evening, a great ratification meeting was
held at tho City Hall, which was addressed
by Ex-Gov. Joseph E. Browu and others,
until n Into hour of the night.
Mr. Eyre, the lute Governor of Jamaica,
having arrived in London, on application
will bo made for a warrant to bring him be
fore tho Ofcurt, charged with being accessory
to tho murder of George William Gordon.
The former application, which was stopped
by tho Grand Jury, notwithstanding the
strong charge of tho Lord Chief Justice of
England in fivorof tho case goitt£ to trial,
was against General Nelson and Lieutenant
Brand, Mr; Eyre not having at that time
come forwa*l to meet the charge.
THE BANKRUPTCY LA WS.
There are few questions so difficult of
solution os an equitable adjustment of the
laws of bankruptcy, and this arises from
the fact that however seyere or lenient the
statutes may be thejo must occur cases
where gross injustice is meted out either to
debtor or creditor. Tho annals of our
courts, showing as they do every phase
between hoaestlnsolveney and speculative
fraud, prove indisputably that tbe laws as
they now stand are in need of revision.
The expense, trouble and loss of time
involved in the adjudication, lead many
creditors to effect a compromise where
strict morality imperatively demands the
most ample investigation; while on the
other side, traders who have incurred
losses through transactions to which no
blame can be attached, see their estate
gradually diminish under extortionate law
charges, so as to render a favorable adjust
ment almost impracticable.
These laws will outer anew phase on the
first of June next, after which period no
bankrupt can pass an examination unless he
ean show assets of fifty cents on the dollar.
Comment ii useless on snch legislation, as
it appears improbable that a debtor in such
a case will not elect rather to compromise
the claims upon him than incur the expense
and odium attached to compulsory bank
ruptcy. Tho more earnestly the matter is
consiuered in all its bearings the more clear
ly is demonstrated tbe necessity of regarding
our preseut laws as mere transitory measures
which, with experience, may be developed
into a code that shall ensure to all concerned
a more equitable settlement.
Nor are the difficulties attending the just
execution of these laws confined to this
country. In England the same complaints
are made, as to the facility with which debt
ors are discharged from their liabilities and
the cost incurred in the legal proceedings.
At a meeting recently convened in Liverpool
to take into consideration the laxity of
commercial morals, as evidenced by the
flagrant cases of fraud then under exami
nation in the Courts of Bankruptcy, it was
even proposed to brand as a criminal tha
trader who should be obliged to have re
course to that tribunal for au adjustment of
his difficulties. Now, considering that in
that country the Commissioner has the power
to withhold the certificate in case of a gross
imprudence or fraud, thus rendering the
debtor amenable to imprisonment, there is
an appearance of undue severity in seeking
ter render bankruptcy a disgraceful crime.
A committee was appointed to take the
whole proceedings connected with the sub
ject into consideration, and we have no
doubt but that the resolutions emanating
from that body will have great weight in
remedying laws recognized as lax, expensive
and inefficient. An ample discussion of the
matter will have an excellent effect socially ;
but the vigilance of the mercantile profes
sion in preventing fraud, and a due caution
shown in granting credits, will do more to
uphold commercial morality than all the
laws concerning bankruptcy that have ever
been passed in Christendom.— New York
Bulletin.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Houston, Texas, was agitated by a bogus
“extra” the other day, in which civil war at
Washington, was announced. New York
has enjoyed that sensation several times
within the last two weeks.
The Pall Mall Gazelle announces that
Lord Derby expressed in the strongest terms
to the Queen the confidence he felt in Mr.
Disraeli, and his conviction that he was the
only possible Premier at this juncture.
A clause of the Reform Act of last year
will obviate the necessity for the reflection
of any present minister in the House of
Commons on his changing one office for
another.
Os 92,000 Russian recruits for the
Russian army, but one iu twelve was able*
to read and write. Os 10,000 Polish
recruits, one in ten possessed these accom
plishments.
There is an immense knife in one of the
cutlery establishments at Sheffied, England,
which has 1.8G7 blades. One is added every
year; but the incautious reader is not to
suppose that the knife was commenced with
the Christian era.
A number of women living in the suburbs
and outskirts of Boston have subscribed
money for tbe purpose of building a club
house for their own convenience iu a central
part of tbe city. Gentlemen, unless with
consent of all the members, will be rigidly
excluded. Only those will be received who
may have business reasons for coming.
One of the deputies iu the Italian Par
liament has called the attention of the
Government to a regular traffic in Italian
music boys. The mode of operation is to go
through the poor districts and purchase the
boys of their parents for a nominal sum,
and then transport them to Loudon or Now
York. lie asserted of his own knowledge,
having for many years lived in England,
that a company existed iu London that had
made a large fortune by engaging in this
traffic.
A reporter for a London paper wrote the
verdict of a coroner's jury, “died from
haemorrhage,” and the public gained tho
information the next day that the deceased
“died from her marriage.” This is on a
Bar with the experince of a reporter in a
'etroit paper, who, in an article on the
city poor, spoke of tho groat number of
persons reduced to poverty by the “myste
rious decrees of Providence.” Ilis aston
ishment may be imagined when ho saw tho
passage printed, “mysterious decrease of
provisions.”
The demand for cheap shoes has been
so pressing of lat» years, say's the Lynn
Repot ter, that it has induced the most rigid
economy in the manufacture. Hardly a
scrap of leather is allowed to go to waste.
The wagon loads of odds and ends made in
cutting—the refuse of tho splitting ma
chines—aro all worked up again into that
kind of leather known as “pancake.” This
is made by pasting and pressing together
the scraps of which wo have spoken. This
being rolled and dried, is made to do
service in the cheaper grades of shoos, as
inner sole leather, or as “lifts” for heels.
So skilfully are these operations performed
that sometimes the substitute is, for some
purposes, almost as good as tho genuine
article. Some firms do a large business iu
the manufacture of “panoako,” which is
accomplished by powerful machinery driven
by steam.
Civil War. —Tho Southern ultra press
is hugging itself and chuckling with great
complacency over the prospoct of civil war
in the Northern States. Thoy tako it for
§ ranted that tho contest betweon the Presi
ent and Congress will inevitably become
a conflict of force. “Civil war,” says one of
tho journals referred to, “will soon cuvelopo
the whole North in fiamos; lot us rebels
get our opera glasses roatly and securo
good soaLs in the parquotte and dress
circle.” This plonsing spectaolo, wo venture
to assure our Southern Sybarites, will not
come off. They will scarcely slake their
thirst for excitement and amusement in
this way. All these troubles will bo settled
peacefully—no matter which side may win.
The example sot us by tho South of
plunging into bloody war to bettor their
condition, was not successful enough to
lend us to imitate it.— N. 17 Times,
SPECIAL NOTICES.
-SrCObiItJNSES PER SOUTH CAR
OLINA RAIUIOAD, March 17,1808.—Wyman
A May, J A Gray * Cos, Chaa Dakar, T R
Rhodes, [B], D R Wright A Cos, JM Clark A
Cos, J A T A Bones, Gray A Turley, R M Adams,
Pollard Cox A Cos, Ramey 8 A TANARUS, C A Rowland,
F W Pickens, W II Tutt, W C Jessup A Cos, 1 W
•Carr, M Adams, W M J, P M, Vaughn A Mur
phy, ;T Lyons, D Stalling, R A Cos, Bothwell
Whitehead A Cos, Cos, E O’Donnell, L J Miller, M
Hyams A Cos, Z, fG], Geraty <fc Armstcoag, R W
Maher, W L A Cos, W A Ramsey A Cos, W J
Farr, W H Yelldell, P A Brahe, E H Sommer,Dr
J Dennis', T K A Son.
■fay- CONSIGNEES PER CENTRAL
RAILROAD, March 17, 1868.—P Fleming, Beall
S A Cos, I T Heard Ac Cos. Warren L Ac Cos, J O M
A Cos, G K A Bro, E O’D, E U Rogers, E Mas
tic, CBDA Co.JDBA Bro, |B|, I Levy, J C
Moore <fc Cos, W D Bowen, E F Blodgett A Cos,
Mullarkey Bros, 15 W A Cos, Myers A M, Vaughn
Ac M, V Richards A Bro, II F Russell A Cos, P
Hansberger, G A Oates, J W Apel, G Hertx A
Cos, Conley F & Cos, A Poullain, R F Urqufiart, 8
Pisor, C E Mnstin.
NOTICE. — WE, TIIE DRAYMEN
OF THE CITY OF AUGUSTA, having agreod
among ourselves to haul for the Public at large
for FIFTY CENTS per load, we ask the pat
ronage of our friends, as heretofore, as we feel
that onr rights by taxation, as Draymon, have
•been infringed upon. The blame is somewhere,
but we censure no one, but simply ask our friends
to sustain us with their patronage,
B. GLASSCOCK,
PERRY THOMAS,
F. MILLER,
C. DAVIS,
JAMES PARKS,
D. KEY, and others.
mhlO—2w*
jg®“ NOTICE—
TO THE TAX PAYERS OF RICHMOND
County. In compliance with instructions
received from tho Comptroller General of the
State of Georgia, I shall commence on the 9th
day of March instant to collect a Tax of one
tenth of one per cont. on the digest of this
County for the year 1867. The levy of this Tax
is provided for by an ordinance of the State
Convention; and said ordinance further provides
that twenty days after the date of this notice it
shall ho the duty of the Collector to issue
execution, with the addition of fifty per centum
and alt costs of levy and sale.
My instructions are imperative, and I must
enforce the same rule against Tax-payers.
JOHN A. BOIILER,
Tax Collector Richmond County.
mar3—tapl_
MARRIAGE AND CELIBACY,
AND THE HAPPINESS OF TRUE MAN
HOOD—An Essay for Young Mon on the Crime
of Solitude, and the Physiological Errors, Abuses
and Diseases which create impediments to MAR
RIAGE, with sure means of Relief. Sent in
scaled letter envelopes, free of charge.
Address Dr. J. SKILLIN HOUGHTON,
Howard Association,
fel— 3m I’biladelphia^Pa.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS-
Notice.
rpilE PARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE EX
-- ISTING under the style of COHEN A
KAPLAN is hereby dissolved by mulual con
sent. Mr. JACOB KAPLAN is alone author
ized to settle all claims of the late firm.
G. COHEN,
Augusta, March 13, 1868. J. KAPLAN.
COPARTNEItSHIP NOTICE.
Tho undersigned having this day formed a
copartnership wiih his brother, LEVY KAPLAN,
tho name and style of the firm will bo hereafter
known as J. KAPLAN A BROTHER.
JACOB KAPLAN.
Augusta, March 14, IS6B. mhlS—3t
TNTIIK DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
JL States for tho Northern District of Georgia.
In the matter of )
IIILLEY BROOKS, [IN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. J
To whom it may concern : The undersigned
hereby gives notico of his appointment as As
signee of Hilley Brooks, of White Water, in the
county of Fayette, aud State of Georgia, within
said District, who has boon adjudged a Bank
rupt upon his own petition by the District Court
of said District. , .
Dated Nownan, the 9th day of March, A. D.,
1868. WILLIAM C. BARNES,
mhlS—lt Assignee, etc.
Freight _N"otice!
PERSONS WISHING TO SniP COTTON
or other Freights by tho Augusta <fc Sum
merville R. It. Cos., will find an order book at
ihe storos of Messrs. Claghorn A Herring, corner
of Warren Block and Reynolds street, and at
Messrs. Hatch & Goodrich, No. 171 Broad street,
whore all orders loft will be promptly attended
to- A. HATCH, Superintendent,
nth 17—ts
IST otice.
A LL PKIISONS HAVING CLAIMS against
the Estate of AAItON 11. JONES, deceased,
will present them, properly attested; and all
persons indebted to the same will make payment
to J. A. JONES, at Jones, Smyth & Co.’s.
11. E. CLAItKE, Executor.
MYRA IS* JONES, Executrix.
mhls-*-lawf)’.v
NSW SPRING- GOODS!
11l AV E RECEIVED
A FINE ASSORTMENT of
NEW SPRING PRINTS,
GINGHAM,
ROB ROY, for Balmorals,
PARASOLS, etc., etc.
These goods wore bought beforo tho recont ad
vance in prices, and will be sold LOW.
11. 1.. A. BALK,
fobl6-tf 172 Broad Street.
ESTABLISHED 1855.
THOMAS RUSSELL,
JEWBLLKR.
198a Broad. St.,
NBXT DOOR BKLOW THU FRENCH STORE.
WATCHES, CLOCKS, and JEWELRY RE
PAIRED at tho shortest notice. All work war
rontod.
Alt orders will bo thnukfully recoived, add
promptly nttendod to.
mh 11—lawly
LIME!
I DOCKLAND LIME !!
Ik WHITEWASHING LIME 11!
A fresh supply of best ROPKLAN D LIME on
hand and arrivlug.
1). H. DENNING,
Office at Hatch A Goodrich’s,
mlitl— lOt 271 lliroad Street.
HEW ADVEBTni»qjgS
OCCULT SCIEHq
Astonishing fiesgi
IN AUGUSTA AND ATLisJI
Mysteries of Past Age,
“ Trutl ** "'jtyr undnn ‘
Healing th e Bic
or toe
I)AV,NG ox op
OR
ANIMAL stag NET,I
PROFESSOR ROBERTS LATH n,
Orleans and Memphis,
nealer, will treat all manner *«
Afflictions, not incurable at
HOTEL, Augusta, Ga.. SflV* *3
By Animal Magnetism we
eased and deranged action of
vacular systems are restored to .
nnm much more readily than hr
known to the medical world dWt.* 11
or the past ages. ‘ Nature tn’ust 7?, 7*
is the saying of every sensible and U?
cian, and that “all we can do in If"*
is to aid Nature.” This Prof.KoSz?
by tho great science of Animal it,,?? 1
that, too, without drugs! It.kT®*!
the medication that las God as HimS*
example, or that can he eusuinsd
common senae. "
Consultation free. Uuers-.o
be accompanied with .a stamp f7w
see or send ior circular.
Prof. Roberts treats successfully tL u.
named diseases, together with mi* J"?
of human maladies not herein speciMii '
All diseases of the Brain. Kfc.hZS. «
Debility, Neuralgia, Weak SpmetW
the Spine, Inflamed Sore Eyes
Eyes, Partial Biiuduees. Drowns lEgT,
Scrofula in its varied lorms. CoiuZS
betes, Weakness of the Limbs,Broot&f
Voice, Palpitation of.the Heart Di*Zi7‘
Liver, Kidneys, and Bowels,
of the Womb, Suppressed AlenseT
kinds of Sexual Diseases, ImporitiMofGi
etc., etc. Paralysis and Deafness an tfe«
uncertain of all diseases to cure,
afflicted even with these terribie mkie, 3
more or less beuelitted, if noLnred brln
Treatment. ’ ’r
GREAT TRIUMPH OF AS'Sihviga
ISM IN AUGUSTA!— uLD FOOT,
AND THE ENEMIES OF TStTESIf
■•REGULAR” XjRTIIITESIU. ‘
Ai'«t.sn, Gr.,hard 13,8
I hereby ccrtity that I Live been pus*,
lyzed for four years. Koar EMhi of ai£
w;w not able to make a step, or even so
move oue of my toes on either foot.aim
tirely destitute of feeling in my leri
I was examined by forty eight Crta
Army Surgeons, all pro:, racing a in*
having Curvature of the Spine, whichpnta
paralysis. I commenced taking trataodj
lessor Roberts, March 4th. 1868.andnov,*
taking nine treatments, by Annul ,ksja*i
feel like a "new creature f" I ran up 44)
and walk any desired distance, rdtare
or canes, which was utterly mptiA&fsr.
l Kan four years before seeing Dr. Robertt.
For reputation and responsibility, I ufc*
interested to Mr. W. A. Ramsey, Hr. Ea
Rodgers, Mr. John M. Clark.Mr SicMsla
blood, and Mr John Houston, all of Anga*|t
Mv address is EdgefieldConrthoqo.lt
[Signed) A. SHABPTOW
Professor Roberta wfil heal the sick at Ata
Hotel, until May Ist, ISSB.
Avgusta, Ga., Fel. St!,■
This is to certify that I hare been Ml
Prof. Roberts for it dropsical tumor in the kii
with which I have been afflicted for thehota
years. au«l am confident that 1 am entireiyo
not having c.cnenenccd any of the up
symptoms winch I did before the tneatOl
this by animal magnetism.
MARTHA A. GOJDOf
I am cognisant >■; all the facts cottuiadz
above state-nn nt, the Lily having beenisfl
of tnv family fir a number of rears.
ANDREW 0. Lllfl
Augusta Hotel,
March 6th, I#M.
Tills certifies that I have been a tnfl
with Rheumatism for five rears.ml
being much swollen, very stiff
was treated twice only Dr.
Augusta Hotel. February
now have ne tytep: -.mi.of
pain in my bo.lv. All the me®** *
seem ed to make me teeftt, sad I
any relief until 1
may laugh ; but I have no mow
paiiis—that’s so. H|
I work in th ■ Augusta Hot'..
(Signed! hAM/1 *T^M
A«ajta,Ga„W.l^B
I have been a hopeless inv-oM
space often oi twelve years. laMmr>*|
combination of dreadful diseases.
since been nronoutued hitnraM.
grown nipi llv worse, utwl three
brought to this citv ouabed,he'“S“"JJM
to sit np, for the purpose of
famed Prof. Roberts. Alter tse
which was only a few mmnles ;
pain and able to walk anywhere, .-.
so well and strong 1 can scarce
am the same b.-iug' who ns
lug so much three days since.
mv heartfelt gratitndetolhe man
ful skill has tints relieved me * ,f “"s.
sible suffering. May God,, '!l„.
whciev. i lie goes, is tr.y h ,u« /
tS,<?nCdl Lwejov’sWfl^B
To whom it may '-' iK ’ en ] : T „
for eight mouths post _ I
with Neuralgia in the right
most of the time sufferedmo«
during which time 1 have » r
from the regular medical If
certity that I was relieved toe
treated bv Prof. Roberts,aud
neatly cured alter being ttttW*
most confidently recommend ••
aiHicted. Wtw
Atlas ta, Gb.
Dr.lt. It. Robert,:- g»
lmve, for live years P ast . J;,
goitre. Physicians uronoMW* »
from them 1 obtained no rebel,
tniry continued m grow. »<»*•.
yon four times, l-v Amm- •'Sg B(
and February. ISoCt.since wlie
disappeared, and Inm entirely reis ■
lering will. it.
lam very kindly. 1 - iU j p .Fi»K
[Signed]
Witness to tne above. j
ATL.ISTA,Gi.,Ih«**^B
This certifies that 1 ft*”
with u largo tumor ou the le.t
twenty live years. During .
has been removed twice by
turns, which only seemed toags
When Dr. Roberts came
meat by Animal Maf«di
greatly benefitted bv him m 1
than by the on;ire ticentf-sec
who have attended me.
fuder the treatment, the .
diiced in sire, tho hearing
restored, and my left arm. 'vhi
lees, lias been restored to jt» llliat
can now sleep on my left •">
do for many years M* .'I.V
could continue tho treatme , g
entirely disappear. 4
Atlanta,
Dr. It. It. Rol*rte-W»* &*■
signed, would
turn to our city. "<• 11 f yoor
of your society and tna J
but in behalf of sutlenng
Mrs. McLiu and many. «'f m - MM
von have relieved so »» • |(J
We trust you will eonsGt
among us for n time, ll m j
(Signed) sK. Wigan
j. a B
Professor liohe.ts 11
at th-August.. Hote!. mi"! Ms)« Hf
mill ft—cod 111 l MB