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WEDNESDAY MORNING April 1, 18**
For PKFSIDKNT
Os tuk United Status:
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
For Governor
OF GEORGIA :
llo\. K. It. IHJLLOCK
of niCKCivroaNrxD.
FOR CONGRESS:
J. \V. Ci ift. First District.
R. H. Whitilkt, Second District.
AVm. P. Edwards, Third District.
Samuel F. Gove, Fourth District.
C. 11. Prixcb, Fifth District.
John A. Wimpt, Sixth District.
J. Atkins, Seventh District.
PLATFORM.
Resolved, That tee pledge our support to
lie Constitution framed by the Conslitu
tutiomtl Convention of this State now in
session.
Resolved , That we present to the friends of
Reconstruction in Georgia this Constitution
as our Platform , and we urgently request
them to ratify it.
Resolved, That we pledge our support to
the llon. R. B. Bullock, our candidate for
Governor, this day nominated:
Resolved, That wc earnestly request the
friends of Reconstruction to ratify the
Nomination of the Hon It. B. Bui.lock in
their Primary Meetings, and sustain him by
their vo'es.
THE CAMPAIGN.
No one can overestimate the importance
attached to tiie political campaign upon
which wc are entering. The respective
hosts have chosen their leaders and raisc t |
their standard. The issue is made up.
The National Republican will be
found battling, in the front rank, l'or 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 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.
POLICY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
DEMAGOGUES.
It has been determined by the Macon
regency to snub cx-Govcrnor Jenkins, and
scout his advice, which was to have nothing
to do with the election. They arc resolved
to make the fight, thus writing themselves
down “perjured traitors,” for as such Mr.
Hill, their great oracle, not many months
since denounced all who advocated recon
struction or had anything to do with the
Sherman-Shallabarger Bills. Wc shall see
if Mr. Hill himself does not come under
his own denunciation before the canvass is
done.
We are glad tlie new fashioned Democra
cy have determined to reject Governor
Jenkins’ advice, though the insolent man
ner in which they have done it shows that
their respect for him is rapidly on the wane.
He has served their purpose ; he can he of
no further use to them; he has sacrificed
himself to carry out their disorganizing
schemes, and can do no more, therefore he
is to be laid on the shelf as a worn-out aud
useless instrument. Such will be the fate
of all who trust to that unprincipled crowd,
and such will be the fate of Judge litwiN
when they are done using him.
We say we are rejoiced that the Macon
Cabal have determined to push their fol
lowers into a tight against the ratification
of the Constitution, and against a return
to the Union, and we hope they will get
to the polls every man whom they are
able to cheat into voting to aid their plot
against the peace and prosperity of the
people, and for the candidate they have
put up to represent their principles, or
rather their lack of all principle. Wc
want a fair stand-up light, in which every
voter in the State shall take a part.
If a majority of the people desire to
remain under military law, with its rigors
ten fold increased—if they desire to hold
their liberty and their property at the
will of the conqueror—if they desire not
the control of their own civil affairs—if
they wish to bring down upon themselves
the financial disaster which would be the
consequence of a rejection of the new
Constitution, let them say so at the ballot
box. Wc have no desire tliqj, the State
should be restored to the Union by a
minority of the people, as it was carried
out of the Union ; and we want no more
supplemental laws of Congress to bring
the State buck. Let her stay out, if the
majority so decide, till the present terms
are complied with.
We have nothing to regret, then, in the
determination of the Macon Regency, and
we hope their subjects will obey their
decree, and repudiate Governor Jenkins
and his counsels. One of the greatest
dangers those who desire the new Consti
tution to be ratified had to apprehend
was, that those who were in favor of
ratification would stay away from the
polls in dread of the persecution and
proscription which every man who dares
to think for himself and desires a settle
ment of our present political difficulties,
has had to encounter from the petty
tyrants and dcspGrate demagogues who
have ruled, and still rule the State. The
idea that the Constitution would be rati
fied bcyoml peradventure, is universal.
Its friends thought there was little noed of
efTort ands little use in encountering the
storm of filthy abuse which has been
showered upon all who exercised, accord
ing to their own will, the privileges of
freemen.
Now, it is evident that those who desire
ratification, and yet dread to vote for it,
will have to exercise a little moral courage
anti go to the polls, or lose all they had
hoped for. Ratification is to be defeated,
if possible. Cunning and unscrupulous
politicians—the same men who plunged
the State into ruin—are laboring against
any redemption of the people from ruin.
They are using their ohl arts of falsehood*
abuse and slander; they will stick at
nothing to accomplish their ends, and they'
will defeat ratification, unless those who
favor it have the courage to come forward
and vote. The choice lies between en
countering the vituperation of those whose
opinions are worth nothing, and redemp
tion from impending destruction.
These political tricksters pretend not to
see any inconsistency in attempting to
secure the rejection of the new Constitu
tion, and yet arc trying to elect officers
under it. The Macon Regency, in their
last proclamation, say that it is illegitimate
in its origin and odious in its character,
yet they call upon their followers to elect
their candidates to the offices created by
this illegal and odious Constitution, which
illegal and odious instrument those very
officers would have to swear to maintain, if
elected. Any of them are willing to swear
to a void and odious Constitution, provided
only they can get the offices created by it. 1
If Hill could denounce those as “perjured
traitors” who obeyed laws wliich they
believed to be Constitutional and valid,
with how much more propriety can he
condemn his own parasites, who are
willing to swear allegiance to a Constitu
tion which they declare to be illegal and
odious 'i In what a rediculous position do
these men put their candidate for Governor
—trying to elect him -to an office which
they pretend to believe is not legitimately
created, and, if elected, requiring him to
swear to a Constitution which they declare
is illegitimate ; and, therefore, of no
authority ? If they succeed in their pro
gramme, and defeat the Constitution, but
elect their Governor, he is placed in the
rediculous position of attempting to take
his seat in a gubernatorial chair that has
just been jerked away from under him,
and if the Constitution is ratified, and their
Governor elected, by the averment of his
own friends he is not a Governor and has
no authority to act as such, because the
Constitution under which he holds his
office is illegitimate. If ever a political
party occupied a more inconsistent position
wc have yet to hear of it.
IMPEDIMENTS TO RECONSTRUC
TION.
We find the following in the New York
Tribune :
We have been shown a private letter
from a distinguished politician in Texas,
a prominent iawyer, and formerly a Judge
of the Court, a native-born Southerner,
from which wo make an extract. It is
evident that the genuine Union men of
that or of the other Southern Stales realize
that the hope of the South and the peace of
the country depend upon the successful
enforcement of the reconstruction measures
of Congress- While admitting the prejudice
against negroes voting, he is at a loss to
understand why Union men should refrain
from voting on that account.
If the correspondent referred to those
who lived in Georgia, he would understand
why “Union men should refrain from
voting.”
It i# because the Union men, as a
rule, are engaging in some useful business
or employment, and giving credence to
the billingsgate threats and abuse of the
destructives are fearful, that if they partici
pate in the election and exercise the
rights of free-born white men, they may he
ostracised, and their business lose patronage-
The political “Ku-Klux,” who write as
follows, are the real impediments to recon
struction :
But there is a remedy, and the time has
come for its insertion. Tbe-e men who
are taking advantage of our present misfor
tunes, to enforce upon us a Constitution
which they know we hate, and who are
seeking, under the prostituted protection of
bayonets, to subvert our government, destroy
our society, and rob us of our little remain
ing substance, must be made to feel what
they will not see.
We believe (he extract is from one of Ben
Hill’s late letters, and the military authori
ties need not look beyond the class of
“wreckers’ who arc led by that chief of the
“rule or ruin” party to find the causes for
the present unsettled aud inflamed state of
the public mind. But the day of our de
liverance is nigh—an honest Union man
and a patriot will soon occupy the position
now disgraced by Andy Johnson, and when
he does, Ben. Hill and his “Ku-Klux” must
take penetential seats and keep them.
We repeat, for the information of our
friends, that Ben. Wade says,
The very first thing I should try, if such
a thing as we are talking about should
happen, would he to see to it that the real
Union men of the South are protected.
Those people down there have made us
enough of trouble —first by their treason,
and since the surrender by their continual
turbulence. I don’t believe they have ever
been ruled with a firm enough hand. I am
of course in favor of giving them justice
always; but they must not interfere with
the rights of others or disobey the laws.
A Favohitk Letter— lt is evident that
K is a favorite letter with political parties
in this country. In 1840 everything was
“O. K.” In Know Nothing times, “K. N.”
were often used, and now wc have
“K. K. K.," representing who knows
what ? Charleston News.
That’s so, as to the favorite letter, K,
and if you will overhaul your memory,
friend News, you will find that, in child
hood days, it was a favorite letter, too, for
we had Kriss Kringlc, or Santa Klaus and
•Kauphy,” and ever so many moro of such
specimens of orthography.
[communicated.
DEMOCRACY.
Mr. Editor: I have never in my life ex
changed a word with Judge Gould on politic*
or political matters, aud therefore, I feel
justified in making inquiry from our Demo
cratic fellow-citizens, if Judge G. ever
attended a Democratic meeting or acted as
an official in one, or ever authorized any one
to put him in an official position in a Demo*
cratic Club ; and moreover, is Judge Gould
a Democrat, and when did he become one ?
If these questions are answered as we think
they will be and should be, then we should
like to know, if not a Democrat, and not an
official in a Democrat Club as stated, how
he could resign an office he never held ?
The writer of this could mention several
persons who have been surreptitiously placed
in positions they gave no one permission to
place them in, for the express purpose of
endeavoring to give the so called Democratic
Clubs an appearance of respectability to
the world. Another thing I should like to
know, Mr. Editor, was the President of the
Second Ward so-called Democratic Club ever
at one of the meetings ? Paul Pry.
March 31, 1868.
A MEEIING OF THE REPUBLICANS
AT THOMSON.
A meeting of the Republicans of Co
lumbia, Lincoln and Wilkes counties, for
the purpose of nominating a Senator for
the Twenty-ninth Senatorial District, was
held at Thomson on Friday last. Tbo
various counties were largely represented
by both white and colored. Addresses
were made by the Hons. C. H. Prince,
Joseph Adkins, J. Mason Rice, Romulus
Moore, and others.
The Hon. Josiah Sherman received a
unanimous nomination for Senator.
The sentiments of the people of this
, portion of the State is indicated in the
following resolutions, passed without a
dissenting voice by the large assemblage:
Resolved, That we cordially approve the
principles and aims of the Union Republi
can Party, recognizing, as it does, the
equal civil and political rights of all men,
and laboring to establish throughout our
broad land the principles of national unity
and harmony.
Resolved, That in the Constitution recent
ly regularly framed at Atlanta and now
submitted for our endorsement, we have an
instrument embodying, to a large extent,
the principles, and that, therefore, we pledge
to its ratification our most vigorous and
liberal efforts.
Resolved, That in the Hon. R. B. Bul
lock, nominee for Governor, and Hon. C.
11. Prince, representative for Congress from
this District, we have men whose record in
the past gives assurance to the future of
unswerving adherence to the principles of
the party and that wc shall use all rightful
means to secure their election.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions
be furnished for publication to the Atlanta
New Era and the Augusta National Re
publican.
Naturalization. —Every man who is
acquainted with a foreign horn person, who,
by reason of residence for a sufficient length
of time in the United States, is entitled to
naturalization, should seo to it that he ap
plies to the County Court to day, and receive
the rights of citizenship, and then have him
registered. Every vote couuts ; and every
man should consider it his duty to bring out
each and every vote that he can. Hard
work, early and late, in season and out of
season, will earry the day, and save the
country from worse than Pandemonium.—
Savannah Republican.
We adopt the above with but slight altera
tion—but, Mr. Republican, is it not strange
that the modern Democracy— most of whom
are Know Nothings, and we believe you
were among them—should have such a
wonderful love for our foreign population ?
We adopt the above advice and reiterate it
to the Republican party of Georgia. “Every
vote counts.” Aye, does it Mr. Republican
—even a colored man’s vote counts, and we
should not be at all surprised if your party
don’t “go into the streets and highways” and
beg even the much despised race to come to
your feast of folly, before the campaign is
half over.
Bargains in Southern Lands. —Sheriff
Thomas, Pickens District, South Carolina,
sold last week several tracts of lands for
arrearages of taxes, at the following ruinous
prices for each parcel: Three hundred and
sixty for S3O, two hundred for $29, one hun
dred and fifty for $47, three hundred for
s2l, ninety for sl4, two hundred for $lO,
one hundred for $lO, one hundred for $9,
and sixty acres for $11.20. There must be
great distress where a large farm will bring
no more at auction than a coat or a pair of
pantaloons.— Ex.
Men of Georgia 1 who'are opposed to relief
—who are clothed with humanity—who feel
sympathy for their fellow men, how can you
read the above sacrifices and longer oppose
your best interests as well as the interests of
your fellows, who would, by the failure to
ratify the Constitution and elect a Governor
who stands square upon it, be thrust out of
house and home, to be outcasts upon the
earth.
Pointed. —We commend to the mature
consideration of our opponents the follow
ing extract from the New York Times' edi
torial :
“The political campaign in Georgia is
waxing hot. Very hard language is used,
as usual, by each side against the opposing
candidate. A terrible accusation is brought
against Mr. Bullock, the Republican nomi
nee, who, it seems, has been agent of an
express company and president of a Southern
railroad. It is alleged that the one has not
paid a dividend for two years, and that the
stock of the other is below par. Is there
any enterprise of any sort in the Southern
States whick has paid a dividend within the
last two years, or where stock is above par?
The Southern politicians are introducing
new and rather startling tests of fitness for
public office—tests certainly not suited to
that latitude.”
Supreme Court. —ln the Georgia case,
which is believed to involve questions ns to
the validity of the reconstruction laws, the
Supreme Court has ordered a hearing on
Friday of this week.
The evident purpose of the administration
is to force a decision in this case before the
impeachment trial shall be concluded. And
as they claim to have the sympathy of a
majority of the court, they anticipate a
decision in Eupporl of the Johnson policy.
Should Mr. Johnson realize his expecta
tions in this regard, lie will call upon the
rebel State Senators to appear and demand
their seats, with the view of defeating im
peachment by their votes. It is a most
infamous scheme, and will fail, but it is the
secret reason why Mr. Johnson is so anxious
for delay in the impeachment trial. Those
who speak and vote for delay may bo sure
that new complications will follow every
postponeme n t. — Exchange.
ALAS! POOR VARNEY.
We find in the Atlanta correspondence of
the Cincinnati Gazette, the following photo
graph of the chief fugleman of the Irwin
Office Grabblers:
And again, there arc others who have
favored, aud still favor, the Reconstruction
movement, simply as a means of getting
relief from their political disabilities, so that
they may once more and effectually renew
their welfare upon the Republican party and
the progressive ideas which if represents.
This sub-class was well represented last
evening, in the person of Hon. V. A. Gas
kill, who delivered an address upon political
topics at the City Hall. I listened to him
carefully : he is a gentleman of whom, per
sonally, I have a high opinion, and I trust I
do not misrepresent him when I state the
following to have been about the position he
assumed:
He was an ardent rebel during the war ;
be thought the cause for which Jeff. Davis
contended _ a good one ; ho considered Lee
the greatest General that ever lived; but
unfortunately the Confederates, through the
superior power of their enemies, were over
whelmed. This, if I understand Mr. G., did
not prove the cause a bad one ; hut simply
indicated that at the time the force of num
bers was against it. The conqueror imposed
certain terms. It is necessary that the
conquered shall in some way resume their
political activity. Shall they do so by
accepting tho terms, or shall they wait in
hopes that the arms of the conqueror may
become paralyzed ? This was the question
presented to Mr. Gaskill, when the Four
teenth Constitutional Amendment, followed
by the reconstruction measures,"was pro
posed to the people of the South. lie
examined the terms. They were not nearly
so severe as the conqueror might have
imposed. Nay, Mr. G. generously admitted
that they were not nearly so severe as he
himself would have imposed had he been the
conqueror and the ‘ Yankees” the conquered.
Still more, they were not nearly 60
severe as the conqueror might yet impose
if these were rejected. And these con
siderations—the latter principally—deter
mined Mr. G. to accept. lie did not like
the Congressional policy, but he took it in
preference to something worse. It was a
bitter pill, but, as by means of it he might
work off the disabilities incurred by failure,
Mr. G, concluded to swallow it. At the
same time, he wished it understood, that
by taking this course, he had not com
mitted himself to any political party, and
especially, to use his own phrase, he had
not “sold out” to the Republican party.
Mr. G. considered himself at present in a
narrow mountain pass, compelled to travel
only in a certain direction, for thero was
darkness behind, but a ray of light ahead.
By travelling in that direction, he would,
ere long, get out of the pass, the broad,
sunlit plain would lie before him, and
then he could travel in any direction he
should choose.
Such is the doctrine of Georgia Recon
structionist. What did it, what could it
mean ? Sure that the speaker favored Recou
struction now, so that the weapons stricken
from his hands might be restored to him,
and then that he might battle against the
Government, at least against the party, that
had forced him to swallow this bitter pill,
and so far as possible, might undo what had
been done. What can be hoped from such
men as this lor the great cause we advocate?
After Mr. Gaskill’s address was finished, I
met two gentlemen, one a native Georgian,
the other a resident of the Slate for the past
fifteen years. Both their names will shine
brightly in the history of Georgia. “Well,”
said I, “how did you like it ?” and I men
tally thanked God when both together an
swered, “it was a rebel speech.” And so it
was. He that is for us in such a way as
that, is worse than against us. Mr. Gaskill
probably did not intend to injure the cause;
but Heaven help it, if it had no other ad
vocate than he 1 It was indeed cheering to
know that two Georgians, eminent both in
talent and integrity, saw it so readily and
clearly.”
We repeat “what can be hoped from such
men as this lor the great cause we advocate?”
and we reply, nothing hut selfish, self-seek
ing, trading for personal advancement.
A TERRIBLE DILEMMA.
President Johnson, and the Democratic
supporters of his disgraceful and criminal
career, are in a terrible excitement over the
fact that the abused patience of the nation
has at length forced the people’s representa
tives to bring him to the bar of outraged
justice to answer for his flagitious deeds.
For two years and more some of the most
observant and cool-headed men of the nation
have urged thut this man’s faithless course
demanded impeachment, and with singular
foresight predicted exactly the disastrous
consequences of its neglect. From that
hour onward voices have been heard every
where from wise patriots, in public aud in
private, urging the measure as a solemn duty;
and we think it evident that nothing but the
most patriotic pride in the fame of those
who have heretofore held the high office of
President has made men almost criminally
unwilling to tarnish the escutcheon of the
nation by dooming a successor of Washing
ton, Adams and Jefferson to the rolls of
infamy irrevocable. For long months the
subject has been before Congress, and notes
of warning have been sounded continually,
while his defiance of Constitution, of law,
honor, integrity, and public and private faith
has grown upon the President until lie has
become the personification of insolent per
versity. And yet, when his open and sense
less defiance forces steps to check his mad
career, such papers as the Chicago Times
charge that he is pushed “with indecent
haste!" “The charges,” say they, “were
preferred with shocking precipitancy.”
The President’s counsel, they tell us, were
forced to go without proper sleep, in order
to get up answers to the charges, and “by
the most assiduous labor they have accom
plished their task.” Poor fellows I How
they are to be pitied, to be sure. We are
competed to say that the answers read very
much like the productions of sleepy heads,
fabricating excuses for a criminal caught in
the act, when he fully expected to escape
unuoticed. “I didn’t do it!” these sleepy
gentlemen say for their client, in their great
hurry, “and if I did I didn’t mean to, mid if
meant to I didn’t think you’d dare to notice
it.” “I appointed Thomas Secretary of War
ad interim, I acknowledge, but then that I
had a right to do, for Stanton was no Secre
tary for me. It is true I once suspended
Stauton under the tenure of o(lice bill, and
reported my action to the Senate for appro
val or rejection, thus giving it my sanction,
and the Senate disapproved my action < and
restored Stanton. lam sorry now that 1
recognized the law then, and I choose to
take the ground that lie was not restored at
all, and therefore there is no Secretary, and
I have broken no law. But if I have I am
penitent, and only did it to see how far the
Constitution, the Senate, and the Supreme
Court would let me go before they would
bring me up with a round turn. ’
Such is the spirit of the senseless
twaddle of the Chief Magistrate of the
nation, supported by the Democratic party,
and it is no w onder that the Times asks, in
an outburst of conscious alarm for its
favored champion—“ Can it he that the
authors of these monstrous proceedings are
not provoking an overwhelming torront of
public displeasure ?” But it is too late for
these plotters to cry out against the swift
judgment that is overtaking their chief
and their cause. They have invoked their
own doom, and they must stand by it.
They have sown the wind and they must
reap the whirlwind. There is no escape for
them, nor are they the first criminals who,
being often reproved, harden their necks,
and arc suddenly desrtoyed without remedy.
Courage forsake* them at the last moment,
and they are overwhelmed at the long
delay, yet finally speedy retribution,
llicsc signs are truly significant, and assure
the loyal boHts of patriots that the triumph
of the right is sure, even if it lie slow.—
St. Louis Democrat.
HIE REV MR. TYNG TO APPEAL
FROM THE CENSURE.
The Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., has
addressed the following letter to Bishop
Potter:
“Church of the Holy Trinity, 1
New York, March 11, 1868. f
“Right Rev. 11. Potter, D. D., L. L. I)., D.
C. L., Oxon:
“Right Rev. and Dear Sir —l have now
silently suffered all that the ecclesiastical
authorities of this diocese have desired to
inflict. Notwithstanding the allegation of
your address, 1 affirm, without fear of dis
proval, that from the beginning to the end of
my trial I have neither in my pulpit, before
the public, nor through the press argued,
still less agitated, the issues involved. I
should, however, be false to candor and my
independence as a presbyter and a man, did
I not now take some notice of the ignomini
ous cetemony to which I have, in submission
to your request, been subjected, and the
prolonged admonition and argument to
which I have listened from your lips.
“So soon as my Lenten engagements will
permit, I purpose to present, both to yourself
and the public, a lull and frank review ol the
whole proceedings, including the language
of your sentence.
“The church which you chose as the scene,
the presence of the city police, the clergy
whom you selected as witnesses, the religious
services which introduced and completed the
exercises, your pbsitive and rude refusal to
receive the protest of my venerable and
reverend counsel and father—all these were
adapted, if not intended, to aggravate the
attempted disgrace.
“That there may be no reasonable ground
for misunderstanding, previously to the
preparation of the observations to which I
have already referred, I desire now, and in
full consciousness of the responsibilities
which it may entail, solemnly to protest
against the whole course, conduct and con
clusion of the Ecclesiastical trial in which I
have appeared as respondent. I hold it, as
in duty bound, to have been equally opposed
to the principles of tho common law, tho
canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
and the doctrine aud discipline ol Christ as
this church hath received the same. I
absolutely deny its regularity and renounce its
authority. From its unjust presentment, op
pressive rulings, predetermined decision and
insinuating censure I appeal to the general
judgment of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
to the impartial review of the other Christian
churches of this land, to the word of the
living God and to Jesus, the chief shepherd
and bishop of us all.
“Your servant in the Church.
“Stephen H. Tyng, jr.”
GENERAL ITEMS.
Elijah Butterfield, of Marysville, Franklin
county, lowa, had his leg amputated a few
days since, in consequence of a severe attack
of inflammatory rheumatism.
The New York Chamber of Commerce
was organized April sth, 1768. Tho Cham
ber proposes having a centennial celebra
tion next month.
Captain Kit Carson, with his Ute Indians,
is pushing Westward as fast as possible. The
inconveniences of civilization, and the con
stant interference of police officers, have
disgusted him.
It is stated that in the register of St.
Clement Dane’s Church, London, there
appears oft one page, among the baptisms in
1567, the familiar names of “Richard Cob
den” and “John Bright.”
It is said that Queen Victoria will visit
Cambridge University this commencement,
for the purpose of inaugurating the statue of
the late Prince Consort, subscribed for by
the members of the Senate.
Johnson Brown, of Jefferson county, Ind.,
who is now one hundred years old, can yet
take his rifle and kill squirrels as well as
anybody. He first came to that State in
1798, but afterwards went to Kentucky,
returning to Indiana in 1814.
A Western paper alluding to the hope of
the Democrats that impeachment would
create a furore all over the country, remarks
that siuce the election the party have in
dulged in very few roars indeed.
A Democrat being told that Thomas Jef
ferson and George Washington voted with
negiOMß, and believed in equal suffrage,
retorted: “Well, Washington and Jefferson
were geutlemen, and could afford to vote
with niggers ; I can’t.”— Detroit Post.
The Rev. David llo„t, of Vineland, N. J.,
was recently robbed by his wife of $40,000
worth of bonds. The wife has not been
heard from since, and no clue can be
obtained as to her whereabouts. Mr. Root
has been unfortunate in matrimony. His
first .with obtained a divorce from him last
falj, after nine months of marriage, with
an alimony of SI,OOO. The second—the
present alleged culprit—was the divorced
wife of Mr. Hadley, of New Haven, and the
mother of the young man who, in December
last, was arrested for having robbed the
Merchants’ Union Express Company.— New
York Sun.
Prophetic. —lt is stated in some of the
public prints, that Ex-Governor Joseph E.
Brown was recently hung in efligy at Kings
ton.
“Coming events cast their shadows be
fore.”—Journal & Messenger.
It is seriously doubted in this bailiwick
whether you are blessed with “mystical
love” sufficient to make any such prophecies 1
eh !
Power of Humbug. —An individual
owned a small tavern near the field of
Waterloo, the scene of the last great action
of Napoleon, and was frequently ques
tioned as to whether he did not possess
some relics of the battle, and he invariably
and honestly' answered in the negative.
He was very poor, and one day, while
lamenting to a neighbor not only his
poverty, but the annoyance to which
travellers subjected him, his friend cut him
short with—
“ Well, make one help the other. Make
some relics.”
“But what can I do ?” inquired the poor
man.
“Tell them that Napoleon or Welling
ton entered your shop during the battle,
and sat on that chair.”
Not long after an English tourist entered
the tavern, and, inquiring for relics, was
told the chair story. The next comer was
told that Wellington had taken a drink,
and the Wellington tumbler was accord
ingly sold. The third gazed with breathless
wonder upon the nail on which Bonaparte
hung his hat. The fourth purchased the
door posts between which he entered, and
the fifth became the happy possessor of the
floor upon which Napoleon had trodden.
At last advices the fortunate tavern
keopor had not a roof to cover his bead,
and was sitting on a bag of gold in the
centre of a deep pit formed by selling the
earth on which the house stood.
_ SPECIAL NOTICES.
OST DIVIDEND.— A DIVIDEND OF
$5.00 a Share will be p*i(l to the Stockholder:
in the Grauitevillc Manufacturing Company on
demand. 11. 11. HICKMAN,
April 1, 1863—2 t President.
PER SOUTH CAR
OLINA RAILROAD, March 31, 1868.—Qeraty
A Armstrong, Cf Evers, J Hahn, C A Cheatham
Sl Urn, Wyman 4 May, Octjen A Dosehor, Hatch
<t■ Goodrich, Isaac Levy, W II Toil, A Myers,
Mrs A Frederick, Mosher T A 8, W A Ramsey
<t Cos, Fonteney Mills, J A T A Bones, T W
Carwile, Myers it Marcus, S Lcckie, W Brenner,
Q J Sheppard, Stevenson <£- Shelton, J C M A
Cos, J O Mathewson A Cos, J Sibley A S, O’Dowd
A Mulhcrin, [GIB, II Warner.
CONSIGNEES PER CENTRAL
RAILROAD, March 31, 1868 Wilcox G A Cos,
W L <t Cos, E O’D, J U B A Bro, C A W A Cos,
A Stevens, J F Milicr, J Herts A Cos, P & L,
A Myers, .1 S it Cos, Stelling3 A R, V R A Bre,
Mullarkey Bros, Mrs Frederick, H E Clarke,
G Cohen, H F R A Cos, J I) A Murphy A Cos,
R McKnight, M Blankcnsec, Conley F A Cos,
Mooro A Cos, A P Clayton it Cos, J M D A Cos.
THE Hon. HENRY W. HILLIARD
will be supported as a CANDIDATE FOR CON
GRESS from the FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT of Georgia, at tho election on the
20th of April next, by MANY VOTERS.
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Jjjjg 0 * N OTIC E—
i’O THE TAX PAYERS OF RICHMOND
County. In compliance with instructions
received from tho Comptroller General of the
State of Georgia, I shall commence ou 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 tho State
Convention ; and said ordinance further provides
that twenty days after the date of this notice it
shall bo tho duty of the Collector to issue
execution, with the addition of fifty per centum
and all cost3 of levy and sale.
My instructions are imperative, and I must
enforce the same rule against Tax payers.
JOHN A. BOHLER,
Tax Collector Richmond County.
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M A RRIAG B AN J > 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 means of Relief. Sent in
sealed letter envelopes, free of charge.
Address Dr. J. SKILLIN HOUGIITON,
Howard Association,
fel— 3m Philadelphia, Pa.
To the Ladies of Augusta.
QO.VIE AND SEE
THE DIFFERENT STYLES
OF
HATS!
NOW OPENED AT
BLAU VELT’S
And when you hear the prices, you are
bound to buy.
Bring with you or send your children, and
have them fitted with a FASHIONABLE HAT,
either of Straw, Felt, or Wool.
Send your Husbands (if you have any),
Brothers, and Sweethearts, and have them deco
rated with a NICE HAT.
351* U'VELT,
wh29—6t 2aS BROAD STREET.
IIEXKV L. A. BALK
IV-i BROAD STREET,
NEW SPRING GOODS!
I \StLI. OPEN TO-DAY A FIJIiSU ASSORTMENT OF.J
New Spring Prints,
VERY HANDSOME, AT LOW PRICE:?.
FINE CAMBRIC CHINTZ.
NEW PRINTED LAWNS,
NEW SPRING DeLAINES,
CHALLIES, etc., etc.
New Spring Ginghams,
VERY HANDSOME, AT A LOW PRICE.
FRENCH CASSIMERES,
AMERICAN CASSIMERES, aud
JEANES.
BED TICKING,
STRIPES,
BLEACHED SHIRTING,
BROWN HOMESPUN,
PARASOLS, HOOP SKIRTS,
UMBRELLAS, GLOVES,
STOCKINGS,
PERFUMERY, etc
All of which will be sold at as LOW PRICES
as can he had in town.
IREIVRV A. IE4LK,
172 Broad Street.
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Notice.
TO CONSUMERS
OF
Soluble Pacific
GUANO
The high character attained by
this Guano for superior excellence has, it
appears, instigated the appropriptiou of the same
name to articles of little or no real value, which
we are credibly informed, arc freely offered in
New York and*other markets with assurance of
genuineness. Hence it becomes necessary, both
sos the protection of consumers and the PACIFIC
GUANO COMPANY, to call attention to the
fact, in order that proper caution may be ob
served. #
The only guarantee the purchaser can have is
that afforded by tne name of the Company’s Gen
eral Agents stencilled on the packages, and buyers
arc advised that ‘unless the name of Jno S. Rekse
& Cos.. Gkn'l Agents, Baltimore, is found
stencilled on the bags, the Guano is liciitious, and
not genuine.
J. O. HIATHKWSON «V Co o
Selling Agents, Augusta, Ga.
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Book and job printing
Executed at this Office
At the Lowest Terms ami in the Host Style*
Command see samples.
NEW ADVEBTIBEMENtT SS *
Notice to Passenge^
IJIIIE NEW SCHEDULE TO Np W v
1 and all points North and East, 1,, £l ’>
Great Atlantic Seaboard Route
i« now complete and in operation. No H i
interruption. At Weldon, passen«/ ■
choice of three routes, viz.: ri ,i, ' ,
17<i ANNAMESSIC LINK.
Via RICHMOND and WASHINGTON c;i-
Via OLD BAY LINE. ‘ ”
THIS IS THE
PLEASANTEST, SAFEST, CHEAPEST
and QUICKEST EOr T ,
TO THE NORTH*
P. 11. LANGUOR,
General Southern W,
ISAAC LEVY, ‘
apl ~ tf Agent at A ugtm4i
US. Marshal's Sale! "
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A w
of fieri facias, issued out of the 11
the Fifth Circuit Court of the Unite,,T"*' 1 :'
the Southern District of Gcorria it I ' Bl
the plaintiff, in the following ca-°c, to wit t!-
win, Starr & Cos. vs. George M H,-'n
Hyatt <fc Cos. vs. the same. I have levied i,,
the property of the defendant, a stoek 7? r"
Goods, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Notio a*
and will sell the same at public ’auction'll"”
Court House in the town of Preston co'- ,'”*•
Webster, and Btato of Georgia, on iLnl/
TUESDAY IN APRIL NEXT, betae.- ?
lawful hours of sale. c
Dated at Savannah, March 30, 1553
WM. G. DICKSOV
. “P 1 - 211 8- Maribii.
TJ. S. Marshal's Sale.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SOYTu
ERN Distiict of Georgia—ln Admiralty
Wnic.'tEAS, A libel in rem has been filed ,j.- r
twenty-seventh day of March, in the vm!
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, in the Dittsj
Court of the United States “for the Southern
District of Georgia, by James bean,
a certain quantity of lumber, now at barit i
the State aud Southern District of Gearjii.
aforesaid, cargo of the brig Virginia, of EiS
mood, Maine, in a cause of salvage, civil uj
maritime, for reasons and causes in the'-v
libel mentioned, ani praying the usual
and monition in that behalf to be made, and
that all persona claiming any interest therej.
may be cited to appear and answer the ptenio
and that the said lumber may be condemned
and sold to pay the demands of the liMj.-
And whoroas, a warrant of arrest in rut %
been issued on the day and year aforesaid, under
the seal of the said Court commanding ntts
attach tbo said quantity of lumber, and to g-j.
due notice to all persons claiming the same ;t
appear and answer, and make claim thereto upon
a certain day and at a certain place theni
named.
Now, therefore, I do hereby give public cotia
to all persons claiming the said certain quantirt
of lumber, now at Darien, Georgia, cargo of the
brig Virginia, or in any manner interested
therein, that they be and appear at the Clerk’s
Office of the District Court of the United Stams
for the Southern District of Georgia, in them
of Savannah, on WEDNESDAY, the IIP
TEENTH DAY OF APRIL next, at eleven
o’clock, in the forenoon of that day, to and
there to interpose their claims, and to make
their allegations in that behalf.
Dated this 27th day cf March, A. D., 1565.
WM. 0. DICKSON,
U. S. Marshs:.
Thos. E. Lloyd, Henry Williams, Proctors
for Libellants. apl—l4t
IN BANKRUPTCY^
U. S. MARSHAL S OFFICE, (
Atlanta. Ga.. March 27,1868. J
rpHIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
I 23d day of March, A. D.. 1868, a Wet
rant in Bankruptcy was issued against the »
tat-e of
THOMAS P. MOSS,
of Lexington, in the conutv of Oglethorpe,She
of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt
bis own petition ; that the payment of any fee
and delivery of any property belonging to ssi
Bankrupt, to hint or for his use. and the traMu
of any property by him. are forbidden by kjf.
that a meet’ng of the creditors of said Ban
nipt, to prove their debts, aud to choose one «
more assignees of his estate, will be held a: a
Court of Bankruptcy, to be liolden at the fc;
ister's office, Madisou, Morgan county, Ga , before
Albert G Foster. Register, on the 28th day;!
April, A. D., 1868. at 10 o'clock a. m.
' CHARLES 11. ELYEA,
apl-It U.S. Pep. Marshal as Messenger,
Assignee's Notice of Appointment
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
States for tho Southern District 0/ Georgia.
In the matter of 1
ARCHIBALD MARTIN ! p;
adjudged on his j
own petition a Bankrupt. J
The undersigned hereby- gives notice to
parties concerned that he has been July it
pointed Assignee of the estate, real and person,
of ARCHIBALD MARTIN, who, in theCiitti
States District Court for the Southern DistriE
of Georgia, has been adjudged a Bankrupt K
his own petition.
GEORGE F. PIERCE,Sn,
Assignee.
Dated Sparta, Ga., March 30, IS6S.
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SOUTHEuN DISTRICT OF GEORGU &
at Savannah, this 30th day of March, Adn
IS6B. ‘
The undersigned hereby gives notice
appointment as Assignee of JOHN A.
in the county of Chatham, and State es GeorfA
vrithin said District, who has been
Bankrupt upon his own petition by the D:*t r
Court of said District.
PETER V. lIOBINSOy
apl—law3w Assignee.
I N THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE US®
L States for the Southern Dis rict of Georg*
In the matter of ] rnT , v
SAMUEL LEVIN, } IN BANKRIPm
Bankrupt. J . N°. 6-.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned tneo- '
for a discharge from all his debts provablei*-v
the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 186 TANARUS, Do “\.
hereby given to all persons interested to
on the 20th day of April, IS6S, at lO ocl •
in., at Chambers of tho said District
before Frank S. Hcrseltinc, Lsq*, ° DO j;
Registers of tho said Court in Bankrnpv
his office, corner of Bay and
in the city of Savannah, and ehow c i u ‘ t-j?
the prayer of the said petition of the i
should not be granted. And further
givou that tho second and third mee .
creditors will be held at the same timo an •’
Witness the Honorable *• •.
JAMES M.WBWS.
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OEOKOI I RAILROAD
Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper ®^.
PERSONS LEAVING A™ 1 * V*
L cither morning or evening 1 assß —° : B *ij
or Atlanta by morning I’assongcr ',,
any of the Freight Trains, run » • -0
GOOD MEAL at BERZELI ««
from Augusta, on the Georgia
mi,3t—tf
Board. (i) .
rpiIREE OR FOUR GENTLI3M b *' ! i
1 obtain BOARD, with wlt “ a ‘ n V*-
Rooms, in a pleasant part of tno ci Ji
able terms. 3tO“
Apply at Un» “I"---''"
Frui t Tree^-j
I UST RECEIVED, A FINr. W j
J TREES, of tho following
Hales, Troths, Crawfords. hmo«-.
York, Stump the World- Darner» yb *'
Wards —all guaranteed to gross
-10 cents oach, by u - ]!. 01SIFF® I
Corner Jackson and E«' s ’
ALSO,
BACON SIDES and JOLbs, u-* w jo_
STARCH, on hand.
; Wanted, .
\ SITUATION BY AN < f„t<
■ Saleswoman as Head C er
Store, or as Milliner and p. 0» |
Address, MIU ' chariots * v ' I
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