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Natumfllliepublicrtu AI'OIWT*. «a. 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. mh24-td 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. mar3—tapl 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. mh24-ly 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. mh'S -ddtwJt 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. apl—lawot __ 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. apl-lavr2w 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 mh2o—6t