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National Ucpublican AUGUSTA. C*A.. TUBSIMT MORNING M»rcti ill, 18«8 For l-HESIDENT Ok the United States: MASSES S. GRANT. For Governor OF GEORGIA : Hon. R. B. BULLOCK OF RICHMOND. FOR CONGRESS J. W. Ci ift, First District. R. IJ. Wuiteley, Second District. Wm. P. Howards, Third District. Samuel F. Gove, Fourth District. C. H. Prince, Fifth District. John A. Wimpy, Sixth District. J. Atkins, Seventh District. PLATFORM. IF sol ml, That icc pledge our support to he Constitution framed by the Constitu tutional Convention of this State note in session. Resolved, That ire present to the friends of Reconstruction in Georgia this Constitution as our Platform, and ice urgently request them to ratify it. Resolved, That ice pledge our support to the Hox. 11. B. Bullock, our candidate for Governor, this day nominated. Resolved, That ice earnestly request the friends of Reconstruction to ratify the Nomination of the Hon. U. B. Bullock in their Primary Meetings, and sustain him by their vo’vs. ■ THE CAMPAIGN. -No one can overestimate the importance attached to the political campaign upon which we are entering. The respective hosts have chosen their leaders and raised their standard. The issue is made up. The National Republican will he found battling, in the front rank, for the Restoration of Georgia, for tlic 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 The National Republican effective in the great work before us, we propose the following liberal RATES FOR THE CAMPAIGN: DAILY, single copy, 3 months SI.OO “ 10 copies, “ “ 8.00 The Republican contains more reading matter than any other daily journal in the State, including the latest news by mails and -telegraph. TIIE TWO STRINGS OF THE ~ DEMO CRA TIC BOW. We can not too often press upon those who favor a settlement of our present difficulties, and a return to our former con dition of self-government and prosperity, the necessity not only of ratifying the new Constitution, but also of electing under it a Governor and other officers pledged to support it and carry it out in all its pro visions. The Constitution itself has intrinsic merits, which will, leaving aside the Relief and the Homestead features—the only ones that have been seriously attacked—com mend it to the favorable consideration of all who desire good government and the pacification of the country. There is to be found in it no confiscation, no disfranchise ment—such as the untruthful Democratic editors and stump speakers told the people would result from the assemblage of the Convention; in fact, all its provisions are conservative in the true sense of that term, and not radical in the worst sense of that term. We are not certain that its provis ions are not too liberal, considering the vile and villainous conduct of those who oppose it and all measures of peace and settlement. Not one argument has pro ceeded from them yet against the new Constitution. They content themselves with abusing the nien who made it. This is better than was to have been expected, for they had declared war upon it in ad vance—even before the men who made it were elected to the Convention. The im potence of its enemies shows that the work is impregnable, and as nearly perfect as men’s works generally arc. But no matter how faultless it may be, the enemies of the Constitution and the traitors to the country arc determined to defeat it and to condemn the people of the State to more long years of confusion and disaster, in two ways by which they hope to gain their end: by defeating ratifi fication at the polls in the first place. But their favorite strategy is to render it of no effect by electing officers under it who will refuse to carry out its pro visions. We have nothing to say of the kind of conscience a Governor and other officers must be possessed of, who, when taking their offices, swear to support a Constitution they are determined to make void, or of the modesty of men who are willing to be candidates for offices created by a fundamental law they believe to be illegitimate. We arc unable to test the callousness of a Democratic conscience and the profundity of Democratic faith, where office is in question. Luckily, their game is well understood- They will make but a weak light against ratification, because they think an open fight is useless. They will adopt the surer and more insidious programme. They could not well advise their dupes to vote against the Constitu tion, while having iir the field candi dates l'or the very offices which the Constitution created, but it looks more pluusable to pretend to acquiesce in the Constitution, while they effectually defeat it by electing Candidates oppoaetl to it. They eau thus annul it just as effectually as if they bad procured a majority of Totes against it. Their candidates arc pledged, if elected, to refuse to carry out its pro visions, notwithstanding the ontli they arc obliged to take to support' it. Their Gov ernor ran recommend laws which can nullify its most important provisions: can refuse to veto laws passed in con traveution of it, or can veto those passed to carry it into effect. He can appoint judges pledged to declare the most vital parts unconstitutional, and officers who will refuse to execute laws providing for its execution. All depart ments of the Government can be filled by officers who will set at naught its provis ions, and thus it will be as effectually de feated us if the people had refused to ratify it. The only safeguard against the plans of these traitorous and designing demagogues is boldly to come to the polls and ratify the Constitution, ami at the same time vote for the officers who will carry out its provisions; by neglecting to do either its beneficent provisions arc rendered void. There is but one candidate for Governor— he whose name stands at the head of our columns—who is fully committed to the reconstruction of the State and stands squarely upon the Constitution as his platform—vote for Bullock —for Ratifi cation and Reconstruction. [communicated. A WORD TO THE WISE. It is now generally admitted that the Con stitution prepared by the “negroes and traitors'’ at Atlanta will be ratified by the people—that hereafter, in Georgia, the col' ored man will be a voter. Let the men of sense and of property, in the counties of Middle and Southwestern Georgia, open their eyes to the consequences of the course the newspapers and old party hacks are now advising. Suppose you convene your Democratic clubs, nominate your candidates for office, array yourselves against the negro and his friends, spit out your venom, launch your thunderbolts against negro suffrage, what will it end in ? Do you hope to get the negro vote? Will they cast their ballots for men who openly proclaim that they oppose negro suffrage ? No, no, no, you will, all of you, be beaten. The county offices and the Legislature, in all the counties where there is a colored majority, will be, can be filled by none but the friends of Bullock and the Constitution. The negroes are well drilled, and, as big fools as you think them, they have sense enough to vote against any man who denies them the right to vote. It is actually laughable to see three or four hundred white voters, in a county where the negroes are, perhaps, two or three to one in the majority, solemnly parade their resolutions of undying hate to negro suf frage, and tack on to the end of their mad ness a full ticket for county officers and for the Legislature. Such men are insane— they have been bit by the madman, Ben. Hill. They arc pushing, forcing the negroes to adhere, with the grip of a vice, to their own color. If this nonsense is continued, every office iu the counties, where there is a colored majority will be filled by negroes. You torce them to it. Think you that the negroes and their friends— the men you have so shamefully abused— will quietly march up to the polls and put in office their bitterest enemies. If you do, you are sadly mistaken. The negroes are well drilled, well organized, and they will vole only for their friends. 'lhere will be hardly a break in the line. On the ticket of Bullock and the Constitu tion, no other name will go but that of a friend of Bullock and the Constitution. You must lead the negro or follow him. He is easily led by his political friends —he longs to be led by the white men he has known from his childhood. If you take ground in his favor—if you burst the ropes iu which the politicians and newspapers have now got you bound—if you submit to the inevitable—if you come out frankly fully for the Constitution and its friends, you cau lead the negro ; lead him for his good and your good ; lead him for the good gov ernment of the State, and the counties. He will be glad to follow you. But you must get his confidence —yon must encourage his rights—you must quit the madmen who are doing their best to force the negro into a party by himself. Men of Georgia, open your eyes. See where you stand. See where the politi cians and newspapers are leading you. You profess to have superior sense and intelligence to the negro, and no doubt you have; but are you not making a miserable use 6f it when you take such a position as forces the negro to vote against you—and all. too, for nothing. You are utterly powerless. The negro will vote ; you can not prevent it. You can, if you will) lead him. You will, if you go on thus, be driven to follow him. Common Sense. [communicated. Editor National Republican: Dear Sir : Our Democratic fellow-citizens had a pow-wow on Tuesday night last sure enough, as it secm3 by the report in the Constitutionalist, and appointed delegates to a Congressional Covention to assemble to morrow in Augusta. What struck us as passing strange was that Dr. Wm. S. Jones, was appointed the President of the Demo cratic Club of Richmond county. What “strange bed fellows” polities make in these latter days. Every man to his notion, how ever, as the old woman said when she kissed the cow. Silex. Poor Bullock, we conjure thee come out from among these many cattle, and drive your Express wagon beneath the umbrageous shade of the Democratic tree, and verily, we will do thee good.— Griffin Star. We advise Fitch and the Democrats generally not to “wait for the wagon.” It’s one in which you cau’t “all take a ride.” Bullock’s Reconstruction wagon is goiiig so fast, and is so far ahead, that you never will get in sight of it till you visit the capital as a spectator during the inaugura tion ceremony. From our Special Correspondent.) WASHINGTON LETTER. The Presidential Campaign — Danner. Appre hended— The Purchaee of a Cooley Station in Samana—Sotietary Sevrd'e Record on the Subject. Washington, D. C., March 28, 1808. The next National Republican Convention will have a more delicate and intricate duty to perforin lhau either of its predecessors. In 1850 the party was in its infancy, and the movement an experiment; success re sulted in 1860, by reason of dissensions among its opponents, while in 1864 Mr. Lincoln’s reflection was assured by a union of all favoring the prosecution of the war then pending. New and uutried issues will onter into the campaign of 18G8-—the finan cial question certainly, and possibly others equally surrounded bydifficulties,about which there may be a wide difference of opinion entertained by the most earnest Republicans. The Convention, besides the difficult task of agreeing upon a platform, will have the equally important one of selecting candi dates for the offices of President and Vice- President. It is of the selection of suitable candidates I now wish t» say something ; not to advance any opinions of my own, for I have no present nor remote interest what ever iu any individual whose name has been mentioned in connection either with the first or second offices within the gift of the people, but 1 have a desire that such wisdom shall be displayed iu the selection to be made as will secure the united action of Republicans everywhere, and thereby the success of the party; as a truthful reporter of passing events, I shall only chronicle such facts as must be apparent to the most obtuse observer of affairs at this, the political centre of the Nation. It must be apparent that there is an ele ment of discoid beginning to crop out within the ranks of the Republican party, which, if not looked alter, and- firmly met, may prove to be -the fore-runners of an overwhelming disaster. As the time for selecting standard bearers approaches, it becomes more and more evident that there is danger that the strength of the party of progress, now undoubtedly in a large majority, may be frittered away upon two candidates. This condition of affairs has been brought about by various causes, but mainly through the indiscreet action of zealous parlizans, who have attempted to ride rough shodden others who conceive that their opinions are at least eutitled to consideration. The great central figure before the party to day is Gen. Grant, standing head and shoulders above ali others it: the hearts of the American people, for reasons apparent to all. He has been seized upon by certain managers as the most fit leader of the party for the next four years. They have successfully controlled a majority of the organs of public opinion, and as a consequence, legislatures, town meetings, conventions, and other political bodies have put him forward as the coming man. Such has been the overwhelming pressure iu favor of Grant, that it has beeome almost treason in the minds of some tneu to suggest the name of any other man, and herein lies the danger. While all Republicans admit the claims of Gen. Grant upon the American people, all do not admit that he is the right man to carry aloft the standard of the party. They lreelv accord all that may be said of him as a General and as a firm, conscien tious man—one solely controlled by his own judgment as to what is right. But say the same people: “What guarantee have we that, if elected President, he will carry out the principles so dear to the Republican party ? Where is the evidence that he has any political convictions ? True the party is iudebted to him for standing as a barrier to prevent Andrew Johnson carrying out his treasonable designs ; but is this any reason why the life long services of others should be ignored ?” Prominent and active Re publicans from all sections reason in this way. Representative men at the South have their complaints. Say they : “We are expected to vote en masse for Republican candidates ; but, at the Capital, we are told, you must not oppose the nomination of Grant; the loyal people of the North must designate the candidate without your inter ference, or we shall be compelled to keep you out until after the candidates have been selected. This talk is very naturally irri tating. The recent onslaught upon Chief Justice Chase has done no good; on the contrary, much harm, for it originates with men profess ing to be Republicans. No man in his senses believes any Democrat ever seriously enter tained the thought, of nominating the Chief Justice for the Presidency. No man be lieves he ever sought or would accept such a nomination, if tendered. The fact that Mr. Chase has many warm friends in his own party can not be ignored, and they resent with indignation even the intimation of a possibility that he could "desert that party. The fact that several presses urging the claims of General Grant have treated these reports seriously, has not tended to better the condition of things. There are other men, too, whose claims upon the good will of the party must be duly considered, and not flippantly thrown aside at the dictation of a single interest. The acquisition of a “coaling station ” in the Bay of Samana, is again azitated in diplomatic circles, and will soon be brought again officially before Congress. It is be lieved that France, England and Spain have entered their "protest,” the latter govern ment going so far as to intimate some sharp practice by Mr, Seward, quoting in support of this a note (No. 87) from the Depart ment of State, to our Minister at Madrid, in 1864, in which it is distinctly stated that the United States Government has no designs upon obtaining a foothold in the Bay named, “although,” says the Secretary, “I am aware that schemes for the purchase of that Bay were heretofore entertained by some parties connected with this Government in the times when its policy was attempted to be directed towards the acquisition of Cuba, Mexico and Central America, with a view to establish a slaveholding dominion on the shores and islands of the Gulf of Mexico.” The project will assuredly meet with oppo sition before the object is accomplished. Reconstruction.— Wo see statements that the new Constitution of Arkansas has been defeated; but thus far the returns made public do not conclusively prove such a result, though they seem to indicate it. It is said that the vote of the freedmen is unex pectedly small, and that oi the whites op posed to reconstruction correspondingly large. If so, the result will prove that the new law, permitting a majority of those voting to adopt a Constitution, is as easily thwarted as was the original act requiring a majority of all the voters registered. In the latter case, the obstructionists refused to vote, and by persuasion, threats of violence, and discharge from work, “prevailed upon” thousands of freedmen not to vote. *ln the new plan, the persuasion, threats, and de priving of work, are fully as effectual, while the white men will poll their last vote to make a negative majority. In either case, and uuder all circumstances, the results seem-to prove that the Democratic element in the South are determined not to return tc the Union until they can mako their own terms. The Constitution of Arkansas is almost a model of its kind, and is fully up to the spirit of the age. Thero are no vin dictive measures on it, but it is throughout eminently liberal aud enlightened. Bat the Democrats of that or of any other of the Southern States would vote down the Ten Commandments, if their adoption should even seem to be a concession to the Con gressional plan of reconstruction.— N. Y. Tribune. TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA. Having been unanimously nominated for the office of Governor, by a Convention fully representing a largo majority of the voter* of the State, I do not feel at liberty to disre gard their wishes by refusing to accept the great honor thus conferred. My only desire is to be of service to the whole people of our great State, with whom my lot has beon so long and so pleasantly cost, iu building up her waste places and in reviving her prostrated, industrial and com mercial system, under the benign influence of a civil government, in which all her citi zens may participate. To the consummation of this object my every effort shall be devoted. The Constitution adopted by the late Con vention is before you. It was my privilege to aid in the formation of that instrument, and thus to become familiar with not only the letter of this fundamental law, but also with the spirit and the intentions of those who framed[it. My votes are recorded upon all its various branches, and it is therefore unnecessary for me to enter into any state ment of my political principles, other than to say that 1 stand fully committed to the new Constitution, and have an earnest desire to vitalize those great measures—the “Relief ” and the “Homestead”—and thus enable our ruined people to take courage for the future, with a full assurance that the results of their labor shall be enjoyed by themselves and their families. It will be the duty of the General Assem bly to provide a thorough system of educa* tion for the State. If called by your votes to assume the exalted position of your Chief Executive, it will be my duty, and no less a pleasure, to nominate to the Senate, for confirmation, persons whose past services, well established character and ability, have secured for them selves the confidence of # their fellow citizens in their respective districts, and whose fit ness, by reason of their known intelligence and moral worth, for the positions to which they may be recommended, will ensure tbeir confirmation by the representatives of the people. “With malice toward none, with charity for all,” looking only to the glory, peace,and prosperity of our noble State, and the perpe tuity of free, civil government throughout the land. I have the honor to be your fellow citizen, R. B. Bullock. GOV. BROWN LOW ON THE SITU A TION IN TENNESSEE. I have seen, with profound regret, a dispo sition among some Republicans to form a party upon the platform that Tennessee shall be ruled only by native Tennesseeans, and that ours shall be “a white man's Govern ment.” I cannot but regard all such move ments as alike inexpedient, unjust, and mischievous. I will enter into no section alizing conspiracy to prescribe Northern men. I will not consent, for one, that fraud and oppression shall be practiced upon the colored man. Nor will I, now or hereafter, lend my humble influence to the support of any man for office who may plant himself upon such a platform. In a Government like ours, political parties only can and only ought to succeed permanently, as they are based on the great principle of right and justice. ®nly these can give coherence, stability, and endurance to a party. The evil alluded to outrages all those principles. I cannot but warn my fellow citizens against an error so flagrant and injurious. It will not bear the light of honest scrutiny. The colored man has vindicated his right to freedom and to exercise the full franchises of complete manhood and citizenship, by his loyalty to the flag during the dark hours of rebellion ; by his manly, heroic patriotism as a soldier of the Republic, and by his political affiliatiou, both in Tennessee and elsewhere —but especially in Tennessee—with the loyal men of the nation. For Republicans in Tennessee, after all this, to prescribe and depress him, and to limit his privileges, would be the most outrageous injustice. Negro testimony, negro suffrage, and negro elevation generally, are the results of the rebellion, brought on by the slavehold ers themselves. The ghost of slavery haunts these practical Abolitionists—South ern Rebels—at every step in the successive stages of the negro’s advancement to the rights of manhood. Upon nothing are they more sensitive than to see this African Mordecai “sitting iu the king’s gate.” To the extent that the Republicans can be drawn into the senseless clamor against “negro equality” and in favor of “a white man’s government,” so-called, to the same extent are they weakening their own pariy and giving aid to that of the Rebels. In every position where they have placed the colored man, he has proved himself true and trusty. We will not now throw him off and aid in his degradation. So in reference to this native Tennessee question. It is no man's right or business to inquire of a candidate for office on which side of Mason and Dixon’s line he was born. This is a narrow, sectional proscription—the very spirit that animated the cause of rebellion. Verily, we have bad enough of sectionalism to suffice for a century. The old tests of fitness for office are all that is necessary. “Is the candidate honest? Is he capable?” We shall certainly not commit the folly of adding this: “ Was he born in Ten nessee ?” When the gallant Union army came South to suppress the slaveholders’ re bellion, loyal men of Tennessee were clamorous for their entrance into our State. We did not stop to inquire whether the soldiers coming for our rescue were Ten nesseeans or New Englanders, whether they hailed from New York or Minnesota, from Ohio or Missouri, and surely we shall not now, after they have helped us to conquer the right to live in Tennessee and assert ourselves under the forms of law, turn upon them and deny them the right to hold office among us because they happen to be of Northern birth. Should the Re publicans of Tennessee, as a party, adopt a policy so narrow, so unjust, they would deserve the defeat which such folly would make inevitable. What we need as a party in this State is harmony and concert of action becoming the great impending contest. With these, our success is assured. It will be grand—decisive. If we suffer bad men to divide and distract our ranks, we shall bo defeated. Our defeat in the Presidential election would be an inex pressible calamity—an almost irreparable disaster. A Cool Proceeding. —Sunday evening last an amusing little scene was witnessed by a portion of the audience at one of our fashionable churches. While the sermon was being delivered a lady deliberately re moved her hat, took down her back hair by the usual operation of removing the comb, and taking out., one by one, seventy or eighty hair pins. The raven locks fell upon her shoulders, and the people, instead of attend ing to the sermon, looked (or the next move ment. It came in several quiet, satisfactory, enjoying movements of the comb down the back of the head and through the hair. Instead of attending to the sermon, people still continued to watch the lady. The hair was then gathered in both hands, dexter ously retwisted, the comb inserted, those seventy live hair pins (and it seemed as if they would never be all put in) replaced, one by one; the short hairs on the neck tucked under, and finally the hat was resumed, and then the lady turned her attention to the minister with greater ease and more zeal than did the amused audience. — Utica Herald. GENERAL ITEMS. In regard to recognising the Confederacy when she did, Lord Stanley frankly con fesses that England was wrong. His words are; “I grant that we were wrong in recog nizing the Confederacy when we did.” A letter from Sitka says that, though the thermometer indicates a temperature fifteen degrees below zero, the Indians come out of their lodges in the morning and plunge into the water like so many seals, Greenwood Cemetery, the fasionable New York burial place, had 6,000 interments last year, and holds, in all, 129,410 bodies. Its receipts and expenditures in 1867 were over a quarter of a million dollars. The latest advices received regarding the Arkansas election a>-e from Little Itock, to the Congressional Committee, which repre sent the Constitution carried by three thou sand majority. “Herbert, my darling,” said a fond mother to her son, “I've not seen your book for several days or more—where is it?” “I know where it is.” “Well, where?” “Why it’s only a little—kinder in the bare, or round out doors, sotn’are, I guess, p'raps up garret or behind the wood pile—l guess.” Mr. Peter Crame has accepted John Deerey’s challenge “to play any man in the world a French game, five hundred points up, on a carom table, for $1,000.” Mr. Deery is allowed to choose the table (any maker’s) and the size of ball he may pre fer. The Albany Evening Journal says : We have, in the past, oftener differed with Ben. Wade than otherwise—and probably shall eontiuue to do so in the tuture. But if the decision of the High Court of Impeachment does not put him in the Presidential chair, we shall have—in refreshing contrast to the present incumbent—a true and honest man. The members of the English Parliament receive no pay, and the acceptance of such a post is, therefore, almost impossible for a poor man.- To remedy this defect, the Trades Council at Birmingham, who have resolved on having a “working man” as their third Representative iu Parliament, propose to pay him $1,500 a year and his election expenses. The resolution v.as unanimously adopted at a full meeting of the Trades Council. The Democratic papers are circulating a story, to the effect that General Logan, in a letter written to some one in Indianapolis, said he doubted the success of impeachment. General Logan has, therefore, written a letter, in which he says he has written no letter to Indianapolis since the trial com menced, and that in none of his correspond ence has he expressed a doubt of the con viction of the President. He has the fullest confidence in the impeachment of the Presi dent at an early day. Republican town officers have been chosen in the following towns in Maine : Dexter, Dover, China, Somerville, Mount Vernon, Wayne, Westbrook, Palermo, Eddington, Hampden, Brewer, Holden, Oldtown, Le vant, Sebec, Bradford, Corinth, Foxcroft, Bluehill, Sedgewick, Franklin, Brownville, Bucksport, and Dedham. A large majority of the towns in Waldo county have chosen Republican municipal officers by handsome majorities. The New Albany Commercial devotes its daily issues largely to incidents of the great revival there. At the close of one of its articles, it says: “The young and the old, the rich and the poor, the learned and the illiterate, the distinguished and the humble, are all alike affected by the wonderful re ligious influences that pervade the city. Such a work of revival was never known here before. No one talks ot anything else than religion. It is the topic on the streets, in the stores, offices, and shops. The Richmond Examiner says that the clergy of the South are starved out. It doubtless refers to the Episcopal and Pres byterian (South Side) communions, to which most of the Southern slaveholders have be longed. The Methodists, who embrace more of the middle class, are pushing ecclesiasti cal reconstruction with great energy and success. Some of the Baptist sects of the South go upon the principle that a minister should not be a hireling, but earn his living in the week, and on Sunday exhort for nothing. A brush making machine has been in vented, by which beautiful and durable brushes are made without the use ot glue or veneers. The holes are bored at any angle on any shaped block, and at any desired distance from each other. The quantity of bristle which is required for each hole is taken up, bound with a band of iron, and holds them permanently, producing a better brush than can be made by hand, and can be made to suit any ta'-te. The Columbus, (Ohio) Journal says a company in that city will he the only manufacturers of this im proved brush. SPECIAL NOTICES. REPUBLICAN CLUB, ATTEN TION ! —Tborc will be a meeting of the Ropubli can Club at7£ o’clock, at the CLOU ROOMS, THIS EVENING (Tuesday.) _ Rally, Roys, Rally. iuh3l-lt CONSIGNEES PER CENTRAL RAILROAD, March 30, 1808.—Warren L & Cos, Western Union Telegraph Company, II F Russell & Cos, Plumb A Leitner, Mullarky Bros, V Rich ards and: Bro, James Miller, Myors A Marcus, Jas A Gray A. Cos, John Nelson A Son, Moore ifc Cos, J F Miller, C A Sens, E Muslin, P Quinn, Mrs A Frederick, C A Williams, E R Schneider, Mrs Ludckins, G Kahrs if- Bro, Platt Bros, A Stevens, [B], E O’Donnell, C Quintell, Branch Sons & Cos, J Curry, .1 Blanchard, 11 C Brycon, 0 Martin. THE Hon. HENRY W. HILLIARD will be supported as a CANDIDATE FOR CON GRESS from the FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT of Georgia, at the election ou the 20th of April next, by MANY VOTERS. mh24-td gjg- notice— TO THE TAX PAYERS OF RICHMOND County. In compliance with instructions received from the Comptroller General of the Stato of Georgia, I shall commence on the 9th day of March instant to collect a Tax of one tenth of one per cent, 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 be the duty of the Collector to is«ue execution, with the addition of fifty per centum and all costs of levy and sale. My instructions arc imperative, and I must enforce the same rule against Tax-payers. JOHN A. BOIILER, Tax Collector Richmond County. mar3—tapl gjg- MARRIAGE AND CELIBACY, AND THE HAPPINESS OF TRUE MAN HOOD—An Essay for Young Men on the Crime of Solitude, and the Physiological Errors, Abuses and Diseases which create impediments to MAR RIAGE, with sure moans of Relief. Sent in sealed letter envelopes, freo of charge. Address Dr. J. SKILLIN HOUGHTON, Howard Association, fel— 3m Philadelphia, Pa. AV" anted, \ SITUATION BY AN EXPERIENCED IA .Saleswoman as Head Clerk in a Fnnoy Store, or as Milliner and Mantua Maker. Address, MRS. ELLA P. G., mh29—Ct Charlotte, N. C. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Masonic Hall. Young Men’* Library Associations “THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY,” A Plea for Popular Government — Continued. PROFESSOR FORD Sr., Will deliver bis second Lecture on the above subject, before the Young Men's Library Asso ciation, at the above named Hall, THIS (Tuesday) NIGHT, MARCH 31st, Commencing at 8 o'clock. Admission 50 cents. Tickets can be obtained at Messrs. W. C Jones’, Geo. A. Oates’, ani Stevenson A Shel ton's, and at the Library Rooms during the day, and at the door of the Hall to-night. mh3l—lt CMBOKGI RAILROAD Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper House. PERSONS LEAVING AUGUSTA BY either morning or evening Pa-senger Trains, or Atlanta by m*»rning Pas-engcr Train, or by any of the Freight Train?, can always get a GOOD MEAL at BERZELI twenty miles from Augusta, on the Georgia Railroad E. NEBHUT, mh3l—tf Proprietor. Letters of Administration. STATE OF GEORGIA— Richmond County. Whereas, Julia Euphemia Brooks applies to me for Letters of Administration, de bonis non, with the will annexed, on the estate of Olivia M. Oliver, late of said county, deceased. These arc, therefore, to cite and adtnn' ish all and singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office, on or before the first Monday in May next, to show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Augusta, 30th day of March, 186S. E. M. DRAYTON, mh3l—3ol Ordinary. TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE A United State?, for the Southern District of Georgia. In the matter Os 1 Tvr n.vrnTmm ~y COL. W. ROLLERS, i IN BANKRLIToY, Bankrupt. j I '° l2 ’ The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all his debts provable under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is hereby given to al! persons interested to appear on the first day of May, 1868, at 10 o’clock A. M., at Chambers of said District Court, before Frank S. Ilesseltinc, Esq., one of the Registers of said Court in Bankruptcy, at hi* office at the law office of King it Branham, at Fort Valley, Georgia, and show cause why the prayer of tile said petition of the Bankrupt should not be granted. And further notice is given that the second and third meetings cf creditors will be held at the same timo and place. • Witness, the Honorable Johu Erskine, ISFILI Judge of said Court, at Savannah, Georgia, this 28th day of March, 1868. james McPherson, mh3l—law3w Clerk. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE United States for the Southern District of Georgia. Iu the matter of JOHN T. VEREEN, t IN BANKRUPTCY, Bankrupt. ) "° - The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all his debts provable under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is hereby given to all persons interested to appear on the 21st day of April, 1868, at 10 o’clock a. m., at Chambers'of tlie said District Court, before Frank S. Hesseltine, Esq., one of the Registers of said Court in Bankruptcy, at his cilice, corner of Bay and Drayton streets, iu the city of Savannah, and show cause why the prayer of the said peti tion of tile Bankrupt should not be granted. And further notice is given that the second and third meeting of creditors will be held at the same time and place. Witness the Honorable JohnErakiue, I Judge of said Court, at Savannah, ‘ '' this 28th dav of March, 1868. james mcpherson, nih'Jl law2w Clerk. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE United Stales for the Southern District of Georgia. In the matter of 1 TVr i,, vl -nmiTi,v THOMAS J. GRAVES. lINl IN BANKRUPTCY, Bankrupt. ) £so. 11. The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all his debts provable under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is hereby given to all persona interested to appear on the Ist of May, 1868, at 10 o clock A. M., at Chambers of the said District Court, before Frank S. Ilcsseitiuc, Esq., one of the Registers of the said Court in Bankruptcy, at bis office at the law office of lviug tSi Branham, in Fort Valley, Ga., and show cause why the prayer of the said’petition of the Bankrupt should not*be granted. And further notice is given that the second and third meetings of creditors will be held at the same time and place. Witness the Honorable John Erskine. I Judge of the said Court, at Savan -1 J nalijGa,, this 28th day of March. 1868. JAMES McPHERSON, mh3l—law3w Clerk. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE i United States for the Southern Dislrict of Georgia. In the matter of ) Tv »> * XTT-T»T-Tvn JOHN I. O’QUINN, £ IN BANIvKUrrCI. Bankrupt. 5 ho - 10 ’ The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all his debts provable uuder the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is hereby given to all persons interested to appear on the first day of May, 1868, at 10 o’clock A M., at Chambers of said District Court, before Frank S. Hesseltine, Esq., one of tile Registers in the said Court iu Bankruptcy, at his office at the law office of King & Branliam, at Fort Valley, Ga , and show cause why the prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt should not be granted. And fur ther notice is given that the second and third meetings of creditors will be held at. the same time and place. Witness, the Honorable John Erskine, r-i Judge of said Court, at Savannah, L ' ” Georgia, this 28tli day of March 18- : 8. JAMES McPIIERSON; inli3l—law3w Clerk. TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE A United States for the Southern District of Georgia. ABRAM ILLONG, } IN BANKRUPTCY. Bankrupt. \ No ’ The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all his debts provable under the Banka upt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is hereby given to all persons interested to appear onthe'first dayofMay, 1868, at 10 o’clock A. M., ft Chambers of said District Court, before Frank S. Hesseltine, Esq,, one of the Registers of said Court in Bankruptcy, at his office at the law office of King &. ikrauliani, at Fort Valiev, Ga.,aad show cause why the prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt should not be granted. And further notice is given that the second and third meetings of creditors will be held at the same time and place. Witness, the Honorable John Erskine, . i Judge of said Court at Savannah, b " Georgia, this 28th day ot March, 1868. JAMES McPIIERSON, mh3l—law3w Clerk. IN BANKRUPTCY. THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE : That on the 17th day of March, A. D., 1868, a Wmraut in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of COLUMBUS C WILLIS, of the county of Quitman, and the State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on his own petition; that the payment of any debts, and deliver}- of any property belonging to said Bankrupt, to him of tor his use, and the transfer 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 ot his estate, will he held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to he hoiden at the office of C. B. Wooten, in the city of uawson, Ga.. before F. S. Hesseltine, Esq , Register, on the 27th day of April, A. 1)., 1868, at 10 o’clock a m. WM. G. DICKSON, m!)3l—H, U. S. Marshal as Messenger. Fruit Trees. | UST RECEIVED, A FINE LOT OF PEACH J TREES, of tha following varieties : Hales, Troths, Crawfords, Smocks, Old Mixon, York, Stamp the World. Marker's Seedling, and Wards—all guaranteed to grow. For sale at 10 cents caoh, by W. B. GRIFFIN, Corner Jackson and Ellis streets ALSO, BACON SIDES and JOLES, CANDLES and STARCH, on hand. mh29—eod4t NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.'"^ 5 IN BANKRUPTCY rpiIIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE That ou ,i X 24th day of February, A. I), 18»i8 aW* * rant in Bankruptcy was issued arainst the THOMAS 8 POWELL tfcc,f of Cuthbert, in the county of Randolph, and gran, of Georgia, who hare been adjudged s rupt on his own petition; and that tl payment of any debts and delivery of any r, r , erty belonging to said Bankrupt, to him or tV, hisuse, and the transfer of any property |, v p: ’’ are forbidden by law; that a meeting of creditors of the said Bankrupt, to prove hiedehn and to choose one or more assignees of hu eslut will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy to I*' Bankruptcy, to be bolden at the law office 0 f ft Wooten, in the city of Dawson, Ga., before V < Hesseltine, Register, on the 27th dav of An»,ii D. 1868, at 10 o’clock a. m. pIU ’ A WM. G DICKSON mhJ!—lt U. S. Marelial a* Messenger. IN bankruptcy! This is to give notice: That on 9. 17th day of March, A D., 1868, a War rant in Bankruptcy was issued against the «. tatc of JAMES S ODOM. of Montgomery, in the county of Macon. State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on hi. own petition ; that the payment of any debt, 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 o) the creditors of said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose- one or more as signees of his estate, will he held at a Court o' Bankruptcy, to he hoiden at the law office of C W B’isk, in Oglethorge, Georgia, before F S seltine, Esq., Register, on the ist day of Mar A. D. 1868, at 10 o’clock a m. ” WM. G. DICKSON mil 32—It U. S. Marshal as Messenger IN BANKRUPTCY. ~~ rpHIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE - That on th. 1 17th day of March. An., 1808, a Warrant in Uiiokriiptcv was issued against the estate of STEPHEN R SMITH, of Fort Valley, in the county of Houston, and State of Georgia, uho has been adjudged a BanL rapt on bis own petition ; and that the p&vmen: of any debts, and delivery of any property be' longing to said Bankrupt, to him or for his'use and the transfer of any property by him, are for hidden 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 he holdea at the law office of King Ac Branliam, in Fort Valiev, Ga., before F S Hesseltine, Esq., Register, on the Ist day of May, A. D., 1868, at 1 o'clock pm WM. G. DICKSON, mh3l—lt U. -S Marshal as Messenger. IN bankruptcy! This IS TO GIVE NOTICE : That on the 17tli day of March, A. D.. 1868, a War rant in Bankruptcy was issued against theestate of WILLIAM II WILLIS, of Oglethorpe, in the county of Macon, State of Georgia, who lias been adjudged a Bankrupt on his own petition; and 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 hv law ; that a meeting of the creditors of said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or more assigrees of his estate, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be bolden at the law office of G. W. Fish, of Oglethorpe, Ga., before F. S. Hesse! tine, Esq., Register, on the Ist day May, A. D„ 1868 at 10 o’clock a. m WM. G. DICKSON. mli3l—lt U. S. Marshal as Messenger. IN BANKRUPTCY. rrtHIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the A 20th day of February, A. D., 1808, a War rant in Bankruptcy was issued against the es tate of THOMAS F WALKER, of Longstreet, in the comity of Pulaski, 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 property belonging to said Bankrupt, to him or for his use, ami the trans fer of any property by him, are forbidden bylaw that a meeting of the creditors of said Bankrupt, to prove tbeir debts, and to choose one or more assignees of his estate, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be hoiden at the law office of Emory F Best, 88 Cherry street, Macon, Ga.. before F. S. Hesseltine, Esq., Register, on the 20th day of Mav, A.D , 1868, at 4 o'clock p. m. WM. G. DICKSON, tuli29—lt U. S. Marshal as Messenger. IN BANKRUPTCY. ’ rpiIIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE : That on the X l'tli day of March, A. !>.. 1868, a War rant iu Bankruptcy was issued against the es tate of ELBERT ELLIOTT, of Fort Gaines, iu the county of C(«y.Piute of Georgia who lias beenadjudged a Bankrupt on his own petitiomand that the payment of any debts and delivery of any property belonging to said Bank rupt, to him or for his use, and the transfer of any property by him. are forbidden by law; that a meeting oi’ 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 he hoiden at the law office of Cj C. Wooten. Dawson, Ga., before F. S. Hesseltine, Register, ou the 27th day of April. A. D., 1868, at 10 o’clock a. m. WM. G. DICKSON, mlißl—lt U. S. Marshal as Messenger. Tn bankruptcy. rpiIIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE : That on the I 17th day- of March, A. D., 1863, a Warrant in Bankruptcy whs issued against the estate ol James l Roberts, of Hatcher’s Station, in comity ot Quitman, State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on his 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 meetiug o’s the creditors of said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to elioose one or more assignees of his estate, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be hoiden at the law office ofC. B. Wooten,iii the city of Dawson, Ga,, before F. S. Hesseltine, Esq., Register, on the2?tli day of April, A. D , 1868, at 10 o’clock a. m. WM. G. DICKSON, mli3l—lt U. S. Marshal as Messenger. IN BANKRUPTCY. nnilis IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the _L 17th clay of March, A. I).. IS6B, a War rant in Bankruptcy was issued against th« estate of ICIIABOD M COX, of Lumpkin, in the county of Stewart, State of Georgia, ay ho has been adjudged a Bmkrupt on hi3 own petition; that the payment of any debts and delivery of any property be longing to said Bankrupt, to him or for his use. and the transfer ol’ any property by him, are for bidden by law: that a meetiug of the creditors of the said* Bankrupt, to prove their debts, ami choose one or more assignees of his estate, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to ba liolden at- the law office of Willis A Hawkins, in Amen cits. Ga., before F S Ilesseutine, Esq. Register, on the 30th dav of April, 1868, at o’clock, a. m. WM. G. DICKSON, mh3l—lt U. S. Marshal as MoMenrer. I** BANKRUPTCY. rtpilis IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the X 17th day of March, A. D., 1868, a Marrant in Bankruptcy was issued against the tstate of JOSEPH L VARNER, of Cuthbert, iu the county of Randolph, ami State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on his own petition ; that the payment ot auv debts and the delivery of any property belonging to said Bankrupt, to him or for his use, and J 1 transfer of any property by him, are forbidden by law; that a meeting* of the creditors ot & Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and choose ou or more assignees of his estate, will be held at ‘ Court of Bankruptcy, to be hoiden at the la office of C. B. Wooten in the city of PawsOj Ga., before F. S. Hesseltine. Esq . Register, on 27th dav of April, A. D.. 1868, at 10 o’clock a ®- WM. G. DICKSON. tuliJJ—lt U. S. Marshal as Messeug^ IN BANKRUPTCY riJHIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE That ou - the 1 17th day of March, A. p„ 1868, a VU [ rant in Bankruptcy was issued against tne late of JAMES A GLENN, cf "Blakely, in the county of Early, j of Georgia’, who has been adjudged a 1 “ rupt on his own petition; that the payment oi . debts and delivery of any property belong'Jik said Bankrupt, to him or for his use, and the (f) l'er of any property by him, are forbidden by * ' that a meeting ot the creditors ol' said Bi| n *- * to prove their debts, and to choose one or . assignees of his estate, will he held at a Lon Bankruptcy, to he hoiden at the law office It. Wooten, in the city of Dawson. Ga-, hm l ’ . 8. Hesseltine, Esq., Register, ou the -< tli» . April, A. I)., (868, at 10 o’clock a. tn. 1 WM. G. DICKSON, mh3l—lt U. S. Marshal as MeseengeL_ Board. cp lIIIEE OR FOUR GENTLEMEN <-AN 1 obtain BOARD, with or without Rooms, in a pleasant part of the city, on ro ablo terms. , j Apply at tiki* QJBe*- inh«t>—