Newspaper Page Text
National Ucpublican
AUUUSTA. OA..
THURSDAY MORNING April J. 1863
For PRESIDENT
Os the United States:
ULYSSES S. GRAMT.
■ - •♦ •
For Governor
OF GEORGIA :
Hoy. R. B. BULLOCK
Os BIOHMOND.
FOR CONGRESS:
J. W. Ci ift, First District.
R.H. Whitelet, Second District-
AVm. P. Edwards, Third District.
SamuelF. Gove, Fourth District.
C. 11. Pbixce, Fifth District.
John A. Wimpy, Sixth District.
J. Atkins. Seventh District.
~ PLATFORM,
Resolved, That tee pledge our support to
he Constitution framed by the Constitu
tutional Convention of this State now in
session.
Resolved, That we present to the friends of
Reconstruction in Georgia this Constitution
os our Platform, and we urgently request
them to ratify it.
Resolved, That we pledge our support to
the Hon. R. B. Bullock, our candidate for
Governor, this day nominated.
Resolved, 'That ire earnestly request the
friends of Reconstruction to ratify the
Nomination of the Hon. R. B. Bullock in
their Primary Meetings, and sustain him by
their votes.
THE CAMPAIGN.
No one can overestimate tlic importance
attached to the political campaign upon
which we arc entering. The respective
hosts have chosen their leaders and raised
their standard. The issue is made up.
The National Republican will lie
found battling, in the front rank, for tlic
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, wo
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.
THE DEMO UR A TIC NEGIt O CANDI
DATES.
Wc learn that in some counties of this
State the bogus Democracy arc encour
aging and bribing negroes to run for the
Legislature, promising them their support.
Now, we do not pretend to blame the
Democracy for this course. They are
only practicing a, legitimate strategem of
political warfare—attempting to divide
the opposing party—and if they think
they can be appropriately represented by
the foolish fellow's they can buy up with
money and promises, it is not for us to
object; but it rather strikes us as being
inconsistent with their sayings and doings
hitherto.
Surely, if it is wrong and disgraceful
for a Republican to vote for ‘‘niggers”—as
they wittily call colored men—it must be
equally wrong for a Democrat. It is hard
to understand how “all the indecency
party” reconcile their professions of horror
at negroes holding office with these at
tempts to elect negroes to office. How
their dread of negro supremacy can permit
them to place one of the despised and
persecuted race in a position to make laws,
which all, white and black, must obey.
How they can make such a turmoil about
negro suffrage, and yet electioneer with
negroes to vote for a negro candidate, and
vote for him themselves. They were not sin
cere in their declared hatred for the negro,
or they are not sincere in their present
love for him.
But their proceedings in this regard are
characteristic of the party. If they can
effect a purpose, they arc ready to forget
all their professions, to forswear all their
vows, to falsify all their declarations, and
falsify all promises. If they thought they
had the slightest chance to gain office by
the colored vote, wc should have them
flattering and fawning on the negro with
ten times the unction of tlic much maligned
"carpet-baggers.” Already we sec symp
toms of a desire in them to conciliate those
whom they have so much vilified. Does
a colored man vote as they dictate, lie is
v cry "respectableit he votes us he thinks
right, he is nothing but a “damned nigger.”
'flic truth is, if the colored vote was
Democratic instead of Republican we
should hear nothing of the horrors of
negro suffrage and negro supremacy. They
would even submit to negro juries if their
verdicts were always in their favor.
But the Democrats will hardly get the
colored voters to believe in their sudden
conversion to goodness. They have be
stowed upon them too much of their liltliy
and profane vituperation to be easily or
soon forgotten. Low as the estimate is
which they place upon the negro’s intel
lect they will find themselves mistaken
when they undertake to make him believe
they meant only a joke in their übusc of
him. The time has been when they might
have made a Democratic proselyte of him,
but that time has passed, and now tlic
Democracy must go through a season of
probation and good behavior before they
can gain much credit with the colored
voters; he understands all this pretended
7,cal for his welfare; this anxiety to scad
him to the Legislature; he knows it
proceeds only from a dosite to curry
favor with hiiu, and by his own instru
mentality to gain power to oppress him,
and he is not likely to lie cheated by
these pretended friends. Here and there
may be found a colored man who, to
put money in liis pocket, may call him
self a Democrat, but such a monstrous com
bination cannot exist either in nature or
politics.
By the way, some of the indecency party
have got up a report that Col. Bullock
said he wanted fifty negroes in the Legis
lature. Supposing this to be true, is it any
worse for Col. Bullock to have said so
than for them to be striving to elect negroes
and promising to vote for them ?
PROSCRIPTION.
Tlic wide-spread disposition to proscribe,
ostracise, and, if necessary, assassinate the
friends of the Government of our country,
rather than permit them to exercise the
rights of American citizens at the coming
election, has become so public, and so
shamelessly stimulated and encouraged by
the disunion press and speakers, that we
feel it a duty we owe to the peace, order
and safety of society, to enter our solemn
protest and to warn these men who
plunged the country into an unnecessary
and an unholy war, that they will not be
permitted to again repeat their crime,
without having visited upon them the just
punishment they have so long escaped.
The American people are aroused, and woe
be to those who defy* their authority.
We find in adjoining States, and even
here in our own midst, outcroppings of the
old spirit of’ol which developed Vigilance
Committees; the spirit of ’63 that mur
dered Union men who refused to submit to
conscription, and the spirit of '65 that
glorified the cowardly assassination of
Abraham Lincoln.
In Tennessee the slumber of honest men
is being disturbed by midnight prowling
bands. In Mississippi the stealthy coward
creeps behind his victim at night, and in
our own State tho telegraph brings us the
startling announcement that Col. G. W.
Asiiburn has been murdered! !!
The friends of the Constitution, of law
and of order, cannot now be intimidated.
They will go prepared to defend them
selves, and woe be those who dare molest
them. The friends of the Union arc law
abiding people, but they will not be
oppressed. They and their friends are in
every household and in every family.
They know their rights and dare main
tain them. With a full realization of the
awful consequences that will follow the
least attempt to carry out tlic threats of
these political charlatans, we warn them
to abandon! their mad schemes for over
awing and proscribing tlic friends of Re
construction. If they persist in their
Satanic purposes, the torch and the knife
will make this a land whare incarnate fiends
may revel with hellish delight.
Feeling Bad. —The “ Obstructionists”
hereabouts arc wearing elongated coun
tenances. They try to assume a hold front
and talk hopefully, but they are evidently
despondent—in the condition of the
recreant Nincvehitc in the whale's custody,
“ down in the mouth.” The nomination of
so acceptable a man by the Republicans
for Governor, has depressed them more
than they can express, and they have dis
covered that the tide of our success is
rolling on with more than railroad speed.
Nay, most of them, in fits of candor, will
admit their inability to find a man who
can butt our Bullock off the bridge of
Reconstruction.
And now, the prospect of “A. J.’s”
certain and early removal, and the inaugu
ration of a Radical successor, is more than
they can wade through; it has about taken
all the life out of them. Pottle, “ Brother
Butler,” the Medical Protessor, and the
small-fry leaders, have t]one their best to
comfort and encourage them, but the
fearful forebodings arc too potential*
Their organs here have piled on the agony,
too; still their spirits are weighed down.
They now see how useless it is to tight
against fate.
It is not in our hearts to taunt the
creatures, although they deserve it for
their persistence in opposition to the
restoration of that peace, law, order and
prosperity they contributed to destroy.
Ku Klux Klan. — I The Chronicle (organ
of the K. K. If.), in its issue of yesterday,
endeavored to make it appear that the
dozen young men who surrendered to three
policemen on Monday night—or rather
about two o'clock on Tuesday morning—
were not genuine Ku Klux. This may be
so; but we know that the frightened
young gentlemen who were escorted to the
Police office carried an effigy labelled
“ Ku Klux,” and were evidently exercised
through fear lest their namessliould appear
in print. Iu the hope that for the future
they would be found in better company,
their names were withheld from public
print .
Obtained His Price. —Henry 8. Fitch
has been nominated for Congress for the
First Congressional District, embracing the
city of Savannah. This aspirant for Con
gressional honors is the U. S. District
Attorney who ivas induced to violate his
pledged word, in the case of Mr. Blodgett,
by the promise of the Democrats that he
should receive the nomination. lie has
been paid.
Chicken Feud.— —We know of nothing
better for young chickens and turkeys than
hard boiled eggs chopped fine, and fed with
cracked corn and wheat. The first few
weeks is the most critical time with them
and they need animal food in some form'
especially in the early Spring, before grubs’
and insects are plenty. We have fed raw
liver, chopped fine, with advantage. A
change of food is desirable. Wheat or
barley steeped in milk, toasted bread crumbs,
and hominy, are excellent. They should be
fed as often ns five times a day, until they
are a month old, aud should have access to
clean water at all times. -
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C., March 27, 1868.
Editor of the Era: Having a few moments
ol leisure at my command, I avail myself of
it to give you au idoa of the curreut of events
here.
I’olitieally, the prospect is indeed encour
aging to the much abused Union men of the
country, as well as for tho re union of the
States at an early day. The disunionists
may retard, bnt cannot prevent its consum
mation on the Congressional plan.
Hon. W. D. Kelley delivered an able and
patriotic speech in the House on yesterday,
which, if it could be published and circula
ted in the South, would do n great deal of
good. He shows conclusively that Congress
is intent on the Reconstruction of the Union,
by the restoration of the Southern Stateß,
and that the members will do their whole
duty in tho premises. But they will see to
it that the enemies of the Union shall not
obtain the power to render nugatory the
beneficent provisions of your new Constitu
tion, or to oppress the Reconstructionists.
No objection is raised to the Relief and
Homestead clauses contained in the Consti
tution. They are regarded as merely local
measures, and not violative of the United
States Constitution. The people of Georgia
rely on its acceptance in its entirety by
Congress. I speak confidently, because I
have taken pains to inform myself. I know
whereof I speak.
The whole matter, therefore, rests with
the people of Georgia. With them rests
the responsibility of its ratification or
rejection. If they desire restoration, with
relief from the burden of old debts, a
liberal homestead, and the abolishment of
imprisonment for debt, and a prosperity
hitherto unknown in the State, they will
ratify the Constitution and elect Colonel
Bollock by a decisive majority. But if
they desiro to remain as they are, pros
trated, industrially, with no capital and no
incentive to work, they will vote for Judge
Irwin and against the Constitution. [Our
correspondent seems to be no less ignorant
of the Judge’s ineligibility than the
“all-tlie-knowledge-party” who nominated
him.— Ed. Era.]
Do call the attention of the people of Geor
gia to the important fact that the Constitu
tion may be ratified, and yet they may not
secure the full benefit of its provisions ;
which will be the case if they fail to elect
Relief men tor Governor and members of the
Legislature. Appeal to the Reconstructionist
and Relief men to unite heartily and cordially
with the Republicans, and elect R. B. Bul
lock and the right sort of a Legislature.
Then all will be well. Press this matter
home.
My observation constrains me to believe
that the conviction of Johnson is certain. Its
accomplishment is only a question of time.
The Republicans here are confident and
unyielding, and in the highest spirits. They
feel that on all the great issues before the
country they have the people with them. In
fact they arc almost jubilant. They feel sure
of carrying Connecticut on tho 6th of April.
By the way, Col. Parrott of your State,
arrived in Washington last night. In a brief
interview I had with him, he declared him
self warmly and strongly for Bullock, assert
ing that no person or paper in Georgia had
any authority whatever for stating he would
support Judge Irwin, or any other obstruc
tionist. This, I presume, accord with what
was well known among true reconstruction
ists, really well informed. Catitol.
[From the Atlanta Era.
JUDGE IRWIN AND RELIEF.
“ If Judge Irwin was not *in favor of the
new Constitution,” does any man believe he
would accept office under it 7
"That Constitution embodies certain “re
lief” measures. Does any sane man believe
Judge Irwin would take an oath to support
the Constitution, and then ignore its lelief
clause ?
“It is the province of the Supreme Court,
and not of the Executive, to decide what laws
and ordinances are Constitutional, and what
are unconstitutional. Until such decision is
had, the Executive is bound by his oath of
office to enforce them. Does any sane man
imagine Judge Irwin capable of perjury?—
[Daily Opinion, March 28,”
It is difficult to say whether the writer of
the above is most knave or fool. Does he
mean to say that every man who runs for
office at the approaching election is “in favor
of the new Constitution ?” Is it not remark
able that the editor of the Opinion, even,
should not know better than this? Was
every man who held a seat in the Conven
tion in favor of the Convention ? Are there
no Democrats, so-called, who want office ?
Are none of them to run ? Really, it is
sickeniug to see so feeble and depraved an
intellect as that which gave birth to the above
extract laboring to produce an idea.
This editor ot the Opinion was but re
cently an advocate of Relief, feeble and
puerile, it is true, but apparently earnest and
sincere. He now believes, or affects to
believe, that the Governor has very little to
do with the reconstruction measures in the
new Constitution—that he is simply to en
force these relief provisions until the' Su
preme Court declares them unconstitutional,
and then to disregard them. He makes the
Governor a mere automaton, to move as he
is moved upon. What on earth does the
man mean ? Does he not know that the
Judges of the Supreme Court are to be
appointed by the Governor ? Does he not
know that he will—as all other men do—
appoint men who have supported him, and
whose views and opinions on leading ques
tions agree with his own ? Now, how will
this work ? In order to make it perfectly
plain to the dim understanding of the editor
of the Opinion, let us illustrate :
Suppose Irwin is elected Governor, what
three men would, perhaps, compose his
Supreme Court ? Let us suppose he would
appoint Warner, Harris and Akerman.
Warner and Harris have just decided the
Stay Law unconstitutional, and Akerman
was the mortal foe of Relief in the Conven
tion. What would be the decision of this
Court on the Relief measures? Cannot
tho spavined intellect of the editor of the
Opinion, even, see that Judge Irwin would
be bound by his oath no longer to support
them ?
Again : If Irwin is Governor, he must
swear to support the Constitution of the
United States as well as the Constitution
of the State, and as between these two, in
case of conflict, he must support tho former
in preference to the latter. Now, if Irwin
believes the relief portion of the State
Constitution to be in conflict with that
clause of the United States Constitution,
which says, “no State shall pass any law
impairing the obligation of contracts/'
then he must disregard these Relief
measures before any decision has been
made against them, or he will be guilty of
perjury. Cannot this poor, weak editor of
tho Opinion comprehend the proposition,
also ?
Now, let us suppose Bullock Governor.
He will, of course, appoint as Judges of the
Supreme Court men who have supported
him, and men who believe relief constitu
tional and right. We will suppose, for the
purpose of further illustration, that he
appoints Judge Walker, Gen. McCay and
Governor Brown. Judge Walker dissented
from the opiuion of the Supreme Court,
which decided the Stay Law unconstitutional
and Geu. McCay and Gov. Brown are both
sincere and able advocates of relief, believ
ing it not only constitutional, but right in
itself. This Court would, us everybody
knows, be quite ns able as tho Court which
Irwin would have, and it would unanimously
decide tho relief measures of the new Con
stitution good and valid, for all time to come.
Who does not see the difference in the two
cases? Even the editor of the Opinion ought
to be able to see it.
Again, suppose Irwin, if elected, should
make up his mind to betray the party that
elected him, and organize a Supreme Court
favorable to rebel ? Whore would he get his
Judges? What Relief men in Georgia are
supporting him ? None, verily, except the
editor of the Opinion —and even this man’s
love of tho printing of the W. A A. R. R. is
stronger than his love for Relief to the peo
ple, as his meretricious support of Irwin
clearly shows. What other Relief man,
except this poor, weak editor, could Irwin
appoint to the Supreme Bench ? The num
ber of Judges would have to be reduced to
one ; the editor of the Ojiinion would have
to be the Judge, and this glimmering, flick
ering light would be tho only illumination
which that once august tribunal would have.
[From the New Era.
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME
COURT AND TIIE RELIEF.
The enemies of Relief are growing
desperate. They are resorting to all sorts
of arguments, or rather [sophistry, to
deceive the Relief men, and make them
believe that after all, no Relief can be
obtained. These men, who worship the
“Golden Calf” moro than they sympathize
with suffering humanity, see clearly that if
Bullock is elected Governor, and Bullock
men are made Judges, the Relief measures
of the new Constitution will be held good
and valid. Their only hope is in deceiving
the people, so that Bullock may be defeated
and Irwin elected Governor. By this
means Anti-Relief men will get on the
Bench, and tho note shavers and collecting
lawyers will then have a feast.
The suffering and ruined debtors of the
State are assured that the United States Su
preme Court is the Court of last resort,
where all these Relief measures must be
passed upon, and where, it is asserted, every
thing like Relief will be pronounced null and
void. But let us see upon what this asser
tion is based.
The Federal Constitution says: “No
State shall pass any law impairing the obli
gation of contracts.” We say that this pro
vision is not in the way of Relief provisions
of the new Constitution, for three good and
sufficient reasons.
1. It does not say that “every State shall
provide remedies for the enforcement of all
contracts.” The remedy for the enforcement
of contracts is a very different thing from the
obligation of contracts. A thousand decisions
of the Courts of this country and of England,
from the highest to the lowest, might be cited
in support of this distinction. Chief J ustice
Marshall of the United States Supreme Court,
the greatest Judge that ever presided in a
human tribunal, strongly asserts that a State
cannot be compelled to furnish a remedy for
the enforcement of the contracts.
2. The Federal Constitution does not say
that Congress shall not impair the obligation
of contracts. Congress may not only impair
the obligation of contracts—it may destroy
them altogether; This is done in every case
where a man tries to take the benefit of the
Bankrupt act. Now, the new Constitution
lor Georgia has no force nor effect until ap
proved by Congress. Itjis not like the case
of the formation of other Constitutions, which
required no approval of Congress to put
them in force. This Constitution is simply
proposed to Congress, it then becomes the
act of Congress, and becomes, at the same
time, the fundamental law of Georgia. If
the obligation of any contract has been im
paired, it has been done by Congress in
accepting and putting in force a Constitu
tion proposed by a Convention of the pbople
of Georgia. We propose it—Congress
enacts it. Will not this position stand the
test of the most rigid judicial scrutiny? Is
it not conclusive in favor of the legality of
this portion of the new Constitution.
3. But there is another answer that is,
if possible, still more conclusive. Georgia
is not a State in the Union in such a sense
that this part of the Federal Constitution,
forbidding States to impair the obligation
of contracts, applies to her. We are out of
the Union, or we are, more properly, a
territory of the United States. Our State
Government has been destroyed by seces
sion. Whatever our status is, we all know
that wo are now seeking and anxiously
knocking for admission into the Union of
States. While wo are denied many of the
blessings of the Union, we are also out
from under some of the restraints imposed
upon States in the Union. If we pass a
law now that impairs the obligation
of contracts, and are afterward ad
mitted into the Union with that law,
it remains of force. This has been
expressly decided by the Supreme Judi
cial Tribunal of the United States, with a
full beuch and a unanimous court. The
decisions were made in two cases that went
up from Texas. Before Texas was admitted,
she passed certain laws which were said to
impair the ebligation of contracts. After
her admission, the United States Supreme
Court was asked to declare these laws null
and void. The Court refused, on the ground
that Texas was not a State in the Union
when these laws were passed. So the laws
remained of force. The language of the
Supreme Court is as follows:
“How (hr the people of the State of Texas
ore bound to acknowledge contracts or titles
repudiated by the late republic, is a queslion
to be decided by their own tribunals, and
with which this Court has no right to inter
fere under any power granted to them by
the Constitution and acts of Congress.”
See these cases fully reported in 11 How
ard’s United States Supreme Court Reports,
page 185, (League vs. DeYoung), and 14
Howard, page 79, (Herman vs. Pbalan.)
Dalton, March 28th, 1868.
Editor of the Era —To day has been a
day for the Reconstruction party in Whit
field, Catoosa, and Murray counties. Last
night Colonel Atkins, our candidate for
Congress, addressed a large crowd at this
place, and made an excellent impression.
He is a man of fine sense—open, frank, and
independent. He goes for Bullock and the
Constitution, without equivocation or con
cealment of hL views.
To day Colonel Atkins went to Spring
Place, in Murray county, and addressed a
laige crowd, who were much pleased. He
will get a very heavy vote for Congress in
this District.
At two o’clock last night Ex-Gov. Brown
arrived on the train, and at ten o’clock to
day, in accordance with previous appoint
ment, addressed our people. lie had a
large, appreciative audience. He spoke two
hours. His argument in favor of the elec
tion of Bullock and the ratification of the
Constitution was logical, forcible, and un
answerable. I have never seen a more
attentive audience, or one that seemed more
profoundly impressed. The work was well
and thoroughly done. Bullock will carry
the county, and the Constitution will have a
decided majority.
At, 1 o’clock Governor Brown took the
train, accompanied by a number ot our citi
zens, for Ringgold, to fill an appointment he
had there at two o’clock. Col. C. E. Broyles,
of this county, went up to represent Col.
Atkina. lam informed there was a large
assemblage at Ringgold waiting to receive
them. They repaired at once to the Court
House, and addressed the citizens. Gov.
Brown led off in an unanswerable argument,
and was followed by Col. Broyles in an
eloquent, forcible speech, which was received
with respectful attention. At luill-past five
o’clock tho meeting adjourned, Bullock,
Atkins and the Constitution being in the
ascendant. Credit no stories told by tho
Irwin men, that they will sweep this county.
The result wilMje the other way.
Hon. D. A. Walker, who is not a politician,
and as a Judge of the Supreme Court does
not mingle actively in politics, takes a
decided interest for tbo adoption of the Con
stitution, and is an open, firm supporter of
Col. Bullock. In this section all is right.
Whitfield.
PO UL TRY OLE A KING S.
Poultry in a Small Enclosure.—Torn
can keep a score of hens, and rear chickens
from them on 500 square yards. If it is not
all grass, you will have to supply them with
green food. They must lip.vc green food
and dust.
Camphor Administered to Cure Gapes.
—The dose for a chicken five or six weeks
old is a pill of camphor the size of a small
garden pea. Where the camphor julep
given them to drink is strong, they seldom
require a pill. It is the odor of the cam
phor that kills the gap worms ; there is no
real contact with it, which is impossible, be
cause the parasites are iu the windpipes.
Hens Eating Each Other's Feathers.
—Spanish fowls are more prone than any
to eat each other's feathers, and like most
bad habits, it finds many imitators. There
is no doubt it arises, in the first place, from
the lack of some necessary food —something
they require at this season of the year.
Those that have no access to grass always
do it. We believe if they are supplied with
a grass run, they always discontinue the
habit. A good supply of lettuce cures
them, and those that are gone to seed are
best for the purpose. If you can not give
your fowls a grass run, let them have large
sods nf growing gmss, cut with plenty of
mould, thrown into their pens daily, and
supply them with lettuce freely.
Pullets.— A pullet hatched early in the
spring begins to lay at the approach of
winter, and pullets hatched late in the
summer begin to lay in the ensuing spring,
and it is by saving a certain proportion of
pullets from the early and late broods that
you make sure of winter eggs, a few early
hatched chickens for catching the highest
markets, and a numerous flock of chickens
in the warm months, when rearing is least
precarious. The lieu continues in her
prime for two, and, at most, three years ;
therefore, save every year pullets equal to
a third of your brood stock, selling off at a
trifling price the same number of aged
hens, or offering them up in a stewed dish
or well baked pie. However, I have no
scruple about keeping a heavy, symmetri
cally-made, splendidly-feathered “partlet”
for four years, for the sake of her stock.
Many farmers grumble about their poultry,
from not paying attention to such a simple
matter as their not looking over their brood
stock once a year, drafting all the old
dames (known by the developed scales on
their legs), and reserving from the market
basket the most promising young pullets
during the season.
Democracy. —One of our Republican
exchanges opens on the opponents of uni'
versal suffrage in this way :
Every man who owes a bill at the barber's
which he does not intend to pay, will surely
vote against equal suffrage. The superiority
of race must be maintained!
The nice young man who cheats his col
ored washerwoman will be certain to vote
against equal suffrage. The proud superi
ority of the white must he vindicated !
If negroes are allowed to vote, negroes
may be elected to office, object the Demo
crats against equal suffrage. Imagine a
Democratic bummer arrested by a black
constable I What an outrage !
When a man objects to equal suffrage
because it would produce negro equality, he
simply acknowledges that if the negro could
vote he would be his equal, the vote being
the only distinction between them. This
is generally as much of a slander against tho
negro as it is ridiculous on the part of the
white.
A Modern Glossary. —Angel The
name of a woman, commonly a very had
one.
Author—A laughiug stock. It means,
likewise, a poor fellow, and, in general, an
object of contempt.
Bear—A country gentleman ; or, indeed,
any animal on two legs.
Brute—A word implying plain dealing,
and sincerity in general, hut more especially
applied to a philosopher.
Dress —The principal accomplishment
of men and women.
Dullness—A word applied by all writers
to tho wit and humor of others.
Fool—A complex idea compounded of
poverty, honesty, piety, and simplicity.
Knave—The name of four cards in even
pack.
Love—A word properly applied to our
delight in particular kinds of food, some
times metaphorically spoken of the favorite
objects of our appetites.
Mischief—Fun, sport, or pastime.
Modesty—Awkwardness.
Nonsense—Philosophy, especially the phil
osophical writings of tho aucients.
Patriot—A candidate for public office.
Politics—The art of getting such an
office.
Rogue—Rascal—A man of different opiu
ion from yourself.
Sermon—A sleepy dose.
Taste—The present whim ot the town,
whatever it may be.
Temperance —Want of spirit.
Wit—Abuse of all good men aud good
things.
An Awful Muddle.—A youug gentle
man by the name of Conkey, having united
in the holy bonds of wedlock, sent the mar
riage notice, with a couplet of his own
composition, to a local paper, for publication,
as follows :
Married on August Ist, A. Conkey, Esq.,
Attorney at Law, to Miss Eupkcmia Wig
gins.
Love is the union of two hearts that beat in
softest melody,
Time with its ravages imparts no bitter fusion
to its eestacy.
Mr. Conkey looked with much anxiety for
the issue of the paper, that he might see his
name in print. The typo, in whose charge
the notice was placed, happened to be on a
spree at the time, and made some wonderful
blunders in setting it up, thus :
Married on August Ist, A Doukey, Esq.,
Eternally at Law, to Miss Euphunia Piggins.
Jove is a onion with two heads that belt in soft'
est melody.
Time with its cabbages imparts no bettor food to
an extra dray.
•*«..—.
There is a story current in Loudon that
Lord Lytton one day asked Earl Derby, who
had just resigned the Premiership on account
of the gout, whether he would rather be the
Premier peer of England, with a rent roll of
£300,000 a year, but.sixty years of age, or
an oflicer of the guards, aged twenty two,
just upon the town, with only a £5 note in
his pocket; and Lord Derby is said to have
replied that he would exchange with the
young officer that morneut, if he could.
Fruit Trees.
JUST RECEIVED, A FINE LOT OF PEACII
TREES, of the following varieties :
Halos, Troths, Crawfords, Smooks, Old Mixon,
York, Stump the World, Harker’s Seedling, and
Wards—all guarautood to grow. For salo at
10 oents each, by
W. 11. GRIFFIN,
Corner Jaukson and Ellis streets.
ALSO,
BACON SIDES and JOLES, CANDLES and
STARCH, on hand. inh2o—eodlt
SPECIAL NOTICES.
AUGUSTA FACTORY, ~t
Augusta, April 1, 1868. j
Jfpf DIVIDEND NO. 36.—A QUAR
TERLY Dividend of FIVE I'ER CENT., this
day declared, will be paid to Stockholders on
demand. W. E. JACKSON,
ap2—4t* President.
jBATH PAPER MILLS COMPANY.
- A Dividend of One Dollar and Fifty Cents has
been declared, payable on demand, at the office
of the Company, Mclntosh street.
WM. CRAIG,
ap2—3t President.
Jg©- CONSIGNEES PER CEN TRAL
RAILROAD, April 2, 1868.—Wilcox G t Cos,,
E O’D, Mrs Frederick, PAL, [ll], G Rappold,
J D B A Bro, J Stogncr, J N A S, W U Tel Cos,
E T Muiphy, R W Maher, E W Berry, T J Apel,
D It Wright A Cos, Vaughn A M, Stallings A it,
E F B <fc Cos, C Cohen, J F Miller, M Blankcn
eee, A Myers, II E Clarke, Hatch A G, V
Richards A Bro, Muilarltcy Bros, T Richards A
Son, W E Jackson A IJro, W A R A Cos, J A T
A Bones, E F Blodgett <£: Cos, W F Herring,
Campfield <f- Cos, O, L Sylvester, J Welsh, J G
Bailie A Bro, F A Mauge, J C Moore <£- Cos,
Pourne’le A Wilson, G II Conway, J T Both
well, I X Heard A Cos, J A Gray A Cos, D O
Batesmau.
flgg- DIVIDEND.—A DIVIDEND of
$5.00 a Share will Do paid to tho Stockholders
in the Graniteviile Manufacturing Company on
demand. 11. H. HICKMAN,
April 1,1868 —2 t President.
BSP THE Hon. HENRY W. HILLIARD
will be supported as a CANDIDATE FOR CON
GRESS from tho FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT of Georgia, at the election on the
20th of April next, by MANY VOTERS.
inh24-td
gMARRIAGE AND CELIBACY,
AND THE HAPPINESS OF TRUE MAN
HOOD—An Essay for Young Mon on the Crime
of Solitude, and the Physiological Errors, Abuses
and Diseases which create impediments to MAR
RIAGE, with sure means of Relief. Sent in
sealed letter envelopes, free of charge.
Address Dr. J. SKILLIN HOUGHTON,
Howard Association,
fel— 3m Philadelphia, Pa.
To the Ladies of Augusta.
QOME AND SEE
THE DIFFERENT STYLES
OF
HATS !
NOW OPENED AT
BLAUVELT’S
And when you hear the prices, you arc
bound to buy.
Friug with you or send your children, and
have them fitted with a FASHIONABLE lIAT.
either of Straw, Felt, or Wool.
Send your Husbands (if you have any),
Brothers, and Sweethearts, and huve them deco
rated with a NICE IIAT.
BLAUVELfI’,
mh2y—6t 253 BROAD STREET.
HENRY L. A. BALK
172 BROAD STREET,
NEW SPRING GOODS!
I WILL OI’LN TO-DAY A FRESH ASSORTMENT OF*
New Spring Prints,
VERY HANDSOME, AT LOW PRICES.
FINE CAMBRIC CHINTZ.
NEW PRINTED LAWNS,
NEW SPRING DeLAINES,
CIIALLIES, etc-., ETC.
New Spring Ginghams,
VERY HANDSOME, AT A LOW PRICE.
FRENCH CASSIMERES,
AMERICAN CASSIMERES, and
JEANES.
BED TICKING,
STRIPES,
BLEACHED SHIRTING,
BROWN HOMESPUN,
PARASOLS, HOOP SKIRTS,
UMBRELLAS, GLOVES,
STOCKINGS,
PERFUMERY, etc
All of which will bo sold at as LOW PRICES
as can be had in town.
IIEIVRI 1,. A. Bil.K,
172 Broad Street.
mh2l-ly
IN' otic©.
TO CONSUMERS
OF
Soluble Pacific
GUANO
THE HIGH CHARACTER ATTAINED BY
this Guano for superior excellence has, it
appears, instigated the appropription of the same
name to articles of little or no real value, which
we are credibly informed, are freely offered in
New York aud’other markets with assurance of
‘genuineness. Hence it becomes necessary, both
for the protection of consumers and the PACIFIC
GUANO COMPANY, to call attention to the
fact, iu 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
are advised that unless the name of Jno 8. Ueesk
& Cos.. GknT. Agents, Raltinokk, is found
stencilled on tho bags, the Guano is fictitious, and
not genuine.
J. O. MATHEWSON
Selling Agents, Augusta, Ga.
mh27-d6tw2t
"W anted.
UNITED STATES ARSENAL, >
Augusta, Ga., March 27, IB6S. j
QMX GOOD MEN, TO ENLIST IN THE
O Orduance Department, for tbreo years’ ser
vice, at tho Augusta Arsenal. The pay is from
sixteen to thirty-four dollars per month, with
olothing, rations, etc., furnished. Only men
who can show ovidonco of good character will be
enlisted. Mechanics are preferred. Apply at
tho Arsenal. D. W. FLAGLER,
B vt Lt. Col. U. S. A., Commanding.
mh29—2ot
NEW adveetisemehtT^*
Notice.
all PERSONS HAVING cti.
XA. against the BATH MILLS COWoVII
- hereby notified to present ih. m , AS I,
mentbythe first day of May next
thay will bo debarred payment a- tV
the Company will be closed ur. an H
cease to exist, on that day. 1 tll *
ap2-12t __ '
, NOTICE.
TWO MONTHS AFTER DATE ano
CATION will be made n, theO,,*bi
nary of Richmond county for leave ft 1 *
real estate of JohnH. Ilnll. iate ofAi 8 * ti “-
deceased. WM H nm, co ®k»
April Ist 1868 ' AdSL '
a fu —le2wfor2m
Assignee's Sale. -
WILL BE SOLD, ON TIIE First t,
DAY IN MAY before the
door in Appling, within the legal hour*
one Tract of Land, lying in the county of f
liia, on the waters of Sullivans Creek .j 1
joining lauds of Cartledge, Calvin, Minijr
Dnnn, containing 406 acres, more or lew ,? 1 '
one 40 acre lot, m Cherokee cotmtv iW-nT 1
plat as being in Fifteenth District of “
lion, No. 30. Said laud sold as tl le S’*
Thomas K. Blalock, a Bankrupt, tottX"/*
his creditors. 1 ben «« of
At the same time and place will u
Tract of Land, lying in Colombia
adjoining lands of the estate of Wm J v. '.'
Marion McDaniel, and Mrs. Meriiwether r
taiiiing three hundred aud seventy -wo ijp, '
more or less. Sold as the propc-rtv" of aJnl'r
Dnun, a Bankrupt, for the benefit of his ere!-,.
R. S. NEA!
March 30,1868.
ap2—lawdw As!?r “
Assignee's Notice of AppointmenT
Pt- TH A DISTKICT COURT OF TRf
*- Lnitcd States for the Bouthem Distrir- r
Georgia.
In the matter of j
CIIAPMAX. [is BANKRCITCI
To whom it may concern: The underlie
hereby gives notice that he Las been
Assignee of HENRY A. CHAPMAN, of CoW"
ons, Muscogee coumy, Georgia, who has ben
adjudged a Bankrupt upon his own petition hriv.
District Court of said District • lte
JOHN JOHNSON,
Dated Columbus, Ga., March 3ist, 18t&
ap2—law3w . ’
Assignee’s Notice of Appointment'
TN TIIE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
X United States for the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of 1
WM. 11. H. PHELPS, [IS BANKRUPTCY
Bankrupt. )
To whom it may concern The undersigned
hereby gives notice that lie lias been elected
Assignee ol WILLIAM 11. If PHELPS oi
Columbus, Muscogee county, Georgia, who hai
been adjudged a Bankrupt upon hid own petition
by the District Court of said District.
JOHN JOHNSON,
Assignee.
Dated Columbus, Ga., March 31st, 1868.
a; id—law3w
liotice to Passengers,
THE NEW SCHEDULE TO NEW YOKE,
and all points North and East, by the
Great Atlantic Seaboard Route,
is now complete and in operation. No delay or
interruption. At Weldon, passengers have
choice of three routes, viz.:
Via ANNAMESSIC LINE.
Via RICHMOND and WASHINGTON CITY
Via OLD BAY LINE.
THIS IS THE
PLEASANTEST, SAFEST, CHEAPEST,
aud QUICKEST ROUTE
T O TIIE NOn T II!
P. H. LANGDON,
General Southern Agent.
ISAAC LEVY,
apl—tf Agent at Augusta, Ga.
GEORGIA RAILROAD
Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper House,
PERSONS LEAVING AUGUSTA BY
either morning or evening Passenger Trains,
or Atlanta by morning Passenger Train, or by
any of the Freight Trains, can always get a
GOOD MEAL at BERZELIA, twenty miles
from Augusta, on the Georgia Railroad.
E. NEBHUT,
mh3l—tf Proprietor.
BRITISH PERIODICALS
THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW
(Conservative),
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW’ (Whig),
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW (Radical),
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW (Free
Church),
Aud BLACKWOOD’S EDINBURGH MAGA
ZINE (Tory).
These periodicals are ably- sustained by tic
contributions of the best writers on Science.
Religion, and General Literature, and stand un
rivalled in the world of letters. They are indis
pensable to the scholar and the professional
man, and to every reading man, as they furniii
a better record ol the current literature of the
day than can be obtained from any other
source.
TERMS FOR IS6B.
For any one of the Reviews $4.00 per an.
For any two of the Reviews 7.00
For any three of tho Reviews 10.00
For all four of the Reviews 12.00
For Blackwood’s Magazine 4.00 “
For Blackwood and one Review... 7.00 “
For Blackwood and any two of the
Reviews 10.00 “
For Blackwood and three of the
Reviews 13.00 “
For Blackwood and the 4: Reviews.ls.oo
CLUBS.
A discount of twenty jrer cent, will be allow
ed to clubs of four or more persons. Thus,
four copies of Blackwood, or of one
will be sent to one address for sl2 SO. Four
copies of the four Reviews and Blackwood, wr
S4B 00, and so on.
POSTAGE.
Subscribers should prepay by the quarter, at
the office of delivery. The postage to anypart
es the United States is two cexts a number.
This rate only applies to curreut subscriptions.
For back numbers the postage is double.
PREMIUMS TO NEtV SUBSCRIBERS
New subscribers to any two of the wove
periodicals for IS6S will be entitled to receive,
gratis, any ouc of the four Reviews fer
New subscribers to all live of the periodical
for IS6S may receive, gratis, Blackwood or an.
two of the four Reviews for 1867.* .
Subscribers may obtain back numbers ai
following reduced rates, viz.: . ~,
The North British from January, 1563, to De
cember, 1867, inclusive; Edinburgh and tw
Westminster from April, 1564, to Deeemiw.
1867, inclusive, and the London Quarterly w
the years 1565, 1866, and 1867, at the rate
$1.50 a year for. each or any Review;
Blackwood for 1866 and 1567, for $2.50 ay e ,
or the two years together for $4.00,
gg” Neither premiums to subscribers, “ ■
discount to clubs, nor reduced prices tor t« l
numbers, can be allowed, unless the mom. -
remitted direct to the Publishers.
No premiums can be given to clubs.
THE LEONARD SCOTT PUBLISHING to -
140 Fulton street, >• *•
The L. S. Publishing Cos., also publish the
FABMEB’S guide, ~h c
By Henry Stephens, of Edinburgh, and t
late J. P. Norton, of Yale College. 3 '0 s -i
royal octavo, 1600 pages, and numerous l
Price $7 for tlic two volumes—by mai'i IN’'
paid, SB. !c)ii— Itn
400 SACKS
Double Extra California Flour
FOR SALE BY
THOMAS K. RHODES.
Corner Broad and Monument Street s
mh22-t f
anted,
\ SITUATION BY AN
YX Saleswoman as Hoad Clerk m a
Store, of as Milliner and Mantua Maker.
Add! ess, MRS. ELLA 1- 6 ' c
mh2o—Ot Charlotte, a- •