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National Uepnblif an
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SATURDAY MORNING April 4. IMS
For PHESIDENT
Or the United States:
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
♦ ♦ *
For Governor
OF GEORGIA :
llo\. R. B. BULLOCH
OF RICHMOND.
FOR CONGRESS:
J. \V. Ci.ift, First District.
R. H. Wuitelet, Second District.
W’m. P. Edwards, Third District.
Samuel F. Gove, Fourth District
C. H. Prince, Fifth District.
John A. Wimpy, Sixth District.
J. Atkixb, Seventh District. _
PLATFORM.
Resolved, That tee pledge our support to
he Constitution framed bg the Constitu
tutioiuU Convention of this State note in
session.
Resolved, That tec present to the friends of
Reconstniction in Georgia this Constitution
as our Platform, and tee urgently request
them to ratify it.
Resolved, That tee pledge our support to
the llon. R. B. Bullock, our candidate for
Gocernor, this day nominated.
Resolved, That tee earnestly rapiest the
friends of Reconstruction to ratify the
Nomination of the Hon. R. B. Bullock in
their Primary Meetings, and sustain him by
their vo'es,
THE CAMPAIGN.
No one can overestimate the importance
attached to the political campaign upon
which we are entering. The respective
hosts have chosen tlicir leaders and raised
their standard. The issue is made up.
Tub National Republican- will be
found battling, in the front rank, for the
Restoration of Georgia, for the new Con
stitution framed by her representatives in
the Convention at Atlanta, for new men
and new measures, and, as a sequence, for
the peace and prosperity of our people.
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Tiie Republican contains more reading
matter than any other daily journal in the
State, including the latest news by mails
and telegraph.
ASSASSINATION A PRINCIPLE OF
THE DEMO CRA CT.
Somebody remarked, in defining tbe
government of tlie Russian Empire, that
“it ivas a despotism modified by assassina
tion.” Democracy, as practiced here
abouts, is very near akin to Russian
despotism. It allows no freedom of speech;
it exercises a rigid censorship over the
Press; it proscribes, with a cruel pro
scription, all who venture to dispute its
tyranny ; finally, it murders at midnight,
and when they are defenceless, those who
contest against its sway. Modern, bogus
Democracy may well be defined as “des
potism maintained by assassination.”
Leaving out of the question the hundreds
of Union men murdered in every part of
the South for their adherence to the
Government of their Fathers, and their
repugnance to the Democratic doctrine of
secession, we have now to do with only a
recent proof that assassination is a principle
of the Democratic party—a means used to
silence opponents and to obtain power.
G. W. Ashbukn, a Republican (he could
not be called a Radical, for, with his
whole strength, he opposed the disfran
chisement of any citizen of Georgia, and
even of some of the very men that murdered
him;, has been slain by a band of midnight
assassins, disguised and masked. The
Democratic papers, anxious to excuse this
damnable crime, assert: first, that he was
killed by U. S. soldiers; secondly, that he
was killed by the Radicals; thirdly, that
he was killed by the negroes instigated by
one Turner ! Now, “ all these lies are like
the father that begets them—gross as a
mountain, open, palpable.” How will a
plain question put them all down ? And
this is the question :
Does any sane man suppose that Ash
bcrn would have been assassinated if he
had not been a Republican ?
It is useless to tell the aforesaid sane
man that Ashbukn was killed because of
his intemperance of language. That
won’t do. Ilis language never half so
much tended to excite sedition and dis.
turbance as that of Ben llill and tlie
other stumpists ot the Tory party; never
half so much as the editorials of their
press tend toward anarchy and civil war.
No; had his language been in advance
ment of the ends of the bogus Democracy,
it, would have been lauded as patriotic'
eloquent, heart-stirring, noble, and any
other fulsome epithet those papers are
accustomed to apply to all those who
advocate conspiracy, sedition, and civil
war. And—say these editorial apologists
for murder—his bed had “a dirty quilt
upon it.” The house where he lodged
had but three rooms in it, was of only
one story, and had in it a split bottomed
chair, etc.; and, therefore, every man who
liveß in a one story house, sleeps under
anything but a silken coverlet, or has
any other but mahogany cliuirs, can be
murdered with impunity; and the verdict
of the coroner’s jury will be, “came to his
death by the hands ot persons unknown,” J
though the masks of the “persons un
known” may fall off, and they arc recog
nized by persons who are scared into
denying their own oaths.
The question recurs, Was Abbbuiin
killed for any other reason than for his
political principles ?
One of the witnesses testifies that the
murderers were “nice, dandy young men,
belonging to Columbus.” Several were
recognized and their names given, yet the
coroner's jury iound that they were “un
known persons." Such u mockery of law
and justice would never have been perpe
trated had Ashbcrn not been a Radical.
Does nnybody suppose that thirty “nice
dandyyoung men” are going to turn out
of their beds at midnight to assassinate a
man merely because he sleeps under a dirty
coverlet, or lives in a one story house f
God help the country if the two-story
house men have the right to kill, when
ever they please, all those who live in one
storv houses!
But the mail was “thoroughly detested”
and therefore they had a right to kill him.
Suppose it to be so, is it a Democratic
excuse for assassination that every man who
happens to be unpopular can legitimately
lie assassinated ? We know and care
nothing for Asuburn's private character;
it does not follow because the Democratic
papers say so, that it was disreputable, for
they have libelled every mau who stood up
for the welfare of the countty, and there
fore stood in their way, but is the rule to
be established that every man may be
murdered who don't come up to the stand
ard of respectability set up by the Demo
cratic journals ? But we arc tired of follow
ing these weak excuses for murder, and we
arc glad to iiud that one of their papers in
this city has the manliness to denounce the
transaction as a cruel and cowardly assassi
nation, though ths Editor endeavors to
smother his generous impulse by quoting
from the Columbus Sun to prove that the
Radicals, or Turner, or the soldiers, did it!
Ridiculous! Would Ashburn have been
assassinated had he been a Democrat ?
The occurrence shows the need of a
loyal municipal government in every city
in the State. We have such an one in
Augusta, and such affairs never occur.
The police do their duty and life is safe,
though frequently threatened. Civil gov
ernment, and even the mild despotism of
our military government, seem unequal to
the protection of life and property where
the city government is disloyal and Demo
cratic.
If the murder of Ashburn were not so
brutal, it would provoke ridicule for its
impolicy and folly. Do these party assas
sins suppose they can go on murdering
until all the “ Itadical-negro ” party are
under the sod ? If they are going to con
tinue in the same course we shall soon
know it, and we must prepare for self
defence. We do not counsel retaliation 1
we have deep appreciation of the horrors
that retaliation would bring forth; but
we do counsel self-defence—it is the first
law of nature. If both the civil and mili
tary governments arc powerless to protect
the lives of Union men, they must protect
themselves: and if the worst- comes to the
worst, there is not a doubt which party
will go under. Wc are not to be again
taken by surprise*and cheated as we were
in IS6O.
MR. LjNTON STEPHENS ON RELIEF.
We understand that the above-named
gentleman pitched into the Relief clause
of the Constitution in his speech on
Thursday night. Now, this very Mr.
Stephens was one of the chief champions
of the Stay Law, contending that it only
denied the remedy, without impairing the
obligation of the contract. Mr. Stephens
knows the Relief measures in the new
Constitution operate upon old debts in the
same way; yet Mr. Stephens, in support
of his new Democratic allies, is willing to
overset his own recorded arguments, and
contradict all his assertions. Wc appeal
from the Stephens of to day to the
Stephens of former days.
The Reason. —The tory papers claim
some merit for Judge Irwin that lie did
not take his scat in the Convention, and
they leave it to be inferred that lie disap
proved the object of the Convention. It
appears, however, that Judge Irwin, “not
wishing to resign his seat on the bench,
declined the nomination,” so says the At
lanta InteUvjeneer.
He had no desire to give up a fat and
permanent office for one that was uncertain
in its duration, and notwithstanding he
was such a zealous advocate of reconstruc
tion, refused to sacrifice anything to assist
in carrying it into effect. lie would not
give up office for the sake of his country—
so his own advocates acknowledge.
MEETING IN CRAWFORD COUNTY.
Crawford Cos., March 28, 1868.
Editor National Republican: '
Perhaps the largest and most enthusiastic
political meeting ever held in this county,
took place to day. The object of the meet
ing was stated by the undersigned to be to
nominate a candidate for the Legislature and
county officers, which was done with the
greatest harmony and good feeling. The
nominees are all gentlemen of great worth
and intelligence. They are of the metal
that has the right ring.
The following resolutions were introduced
and passed, without one dissenting voice,
amid the greatest cheering :
Resolved, That we heartily endorse the
Constitution framed bv our delegates in Con
vention, and wi 1 do all we can for its ratifi
cation.
Resolved, That we do most heartily sup
port the name of Col. R. B. Bullock for
Governor, and pledge ourselvs to do all we
can honestly to elect him.
Resolved, J hat we will most cordially' sup-
P.°. Edwards for Congress from
this District, and use our best ability to have
him elected.
Resolved, That wo do most cheerfully
ratify the nomination of Capt. O. 11. Walton
for this the 23d Senatorial District, and
pledge him our united support.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the New Era and
National Republican.
The meeting then adjourned.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Alt Pools Day tit lA< Capital — lmpeachment
Important Teetimony— Vie* Preeident Wado—
Arlraneae Affection —The Weather.
Wasiiinuton, D. C., April 1, 1868.
The fools arc not all dead yet, at all events
there is a large class of people in this city j
and at least one newspaper editor, who
believes so, if the efforts to fool the unwary
to day, can be taken as an indication. The
Republican of this morning came out with a
long article describing the arrival in the
river of Minister Burlingame and suite, in
Chinese junks. It bore such internal evidence
of being a “sell” I do not suppose one per
son was deceived. All sorts of reports were
afloat during the early part of the day, about
the President, Secretary of War, and Chief
Justice Chase ; the first named had placed a
guard about the War Department; Stanton
had resisted and was under arrest; Mr.
Chase hud signified his intention not to sub
mit to the dictation of the Impeachment
Managers, and other equally silly reports
gained considerable currency. The effect
was to draw an unusual number of people to
the capital at noon, but nothing of the mar
velous accounts.
The question raised in the Court of Im
peachment yesterday, on the right of the
Chief Justice to decide questions of evidence
in the first instance, has been very generally
discussed by professional and non-professional
men. As stated by one of the Managers,
it is fortunate the isiue was raised upon a
decision in their favor, and it is still more
fortunate that it comes up thus early in the
proceedings. As is well known, the Chief
Justice is very tenacious of his prerogatives,
and will not yield a hair’s breadth for the
sake of expediency and harmony. Some of
the Managers are equally tenacious of their
rights, but may yield a point to expedite
the business of the trial. The Democrats
are in an unwarrantable flood of good
spirits over the contest, and look at the vote
on the seventh rule as showing the doubtful
Republicans on the final vote. Republicans
very generally expected the issue to be
made, and are gratified that it has come up
so early, for, once settled, it cannot come
up again.
The defense have been taken entirely by
surprise at the complete preparations made
for this trial by the prosecution. The
Managers have the whole case at their
finger ends, backed up by all the legal
authorities to sustain their points as wanted.
It was surmised, from the negligent manner
the House has sometimes transacted busi
ness, that there would be abundance of
opportunity to prolong the proceedings by
practices so well known to the legal
fraternity; but, thus far, there has been
little opportunity to interpose objections.
The testimony of the Appointment Clerk
of the Treasury Department, going to show
that the Tenure-of-Officc Law had been
officially recognized by Mr. Johnson, took
even some of the Republicans by surprise,
its importance being fully realized at once.
Major General Hancock, the new com
mander of the new District, has taken up
his headquarters temporarily at the Metro
politan Hotel. He has already commenced
issuing orders, and evidently feels that, next
to Andrew Johnson, he is the most import
ant personage in these parts. He keeps
open rooms at the Hotel and receives calls
from Copperhead politicians and Southern
Conservatives; but the men who have sus
tained the government during the last seven
years keep aloof. How have the mighty
fallen 1
Rousseau will doubtless soon be here, and
it is understood, succeeds General Emory in
command of this District.
The motive influencing Andrew Johnson
in selecting these officers for duty in the
capital cannot be misunderstood, but all the
preparation for resistance will do him no
good, on the contrary, much harm.
Vice President Wade’s position just at
thio time is nut a very enviable one. Being
looked upon by a large class as sure to
occupy the Presidential chair at an early
day, he is bored almost to death by persons
proffering advice, and asking favors. Mr.
Wade’s disposition under ordinary circum
stances is not the most agreeable.
The official returns from Arkansas, show
ing that the Constitution of that State lias
been accepted, has given unbounded satis
faction, and to some extent, made up for the
damage done by the failure in Alabama.
Arkansas will be represented in Congress at
an early day, which event will be the com
mencement ofanewerain the work of recon
struction.
The hot sultry weather of Summer is upon
us, and even Congressmen begin* to wish
they couldjleave for a me »e congenial latitude ;
but no such good luck is in store for them
and others having business here.
Capital.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Madison, Ga., March 30, 18GS.
Mr. Editor: The Democracy of Morgan
held a meeting last Saturday. Col. J. A.
Billups opened the speaking by a speech
of half an hour in length. His effort was
mild, modest and respectful. Next in order
came your fellow citizen, Gen. A. Rausome
Wright, ex-Governor East of the Oconee.
“ The Atlanta mongrel concern, carpet
baggers and the 1 so-called ’ Constitution,”
which he flourished in his hand while speak
ing, met no mercy from the extinguished
General. The “so-called” Relief consumed
about half his time—he spoke two hours.
He alluded a time or two to the “Sage of
Buckhead, the “Champion ol Relief” of
Morgan, who happened to be present, and
asked the General a few questions which
were answered evasively. He, however,
acknowledged that Congress had made
greenbacks a legal tender, and, therefore,
creditors were compelled to receive that
currency, although depreciated, for debts
based on specie valuation, and to this extent
had impaired theobligation ofconrtacts. Yet
it was highly probable this law would be
declared unconstitutional next Fall. Jack
son also asked the General if it was not true
that the Constitution and Ordinances of the
Convention had no binding force until given
vitality by Congress? and if this be so,
would not the acceptance of sa’d Constitu
tion be the action of the Congress of the
United States rather than the act of Georgia
as a State in the Union ? If the General
answered this I did not hear it.
The vote for Judge Irwin will be small in
this county. R. B. Bullock, and Ratification
will carry the day in this and adjoining
counties. The Relief men can’t quite under
stand why it is, if the Relief measures be
only a trap and a snare to catch votes, that
such a “devil a do ” is made over it by the
Shylock tribe when it must all come to
naught. Joe Brown come from the wheat
field, let Bullock come from an Express
office, or from an Express wagon, we care
not, but like him the better. A Voter.
Peers and Lords.— AH the members of
the English House of Peers, as well as the
Scottish and Irish nobility, are spoken of as
“Lord” so-and-so, but there is no rank of
that precise grade. The title “Sir” properly
belongs only to baronets and knights.
Younger sons of noblemen are styled “Hon
orable," and sometimes, by’ courtesy,
“Lord,” as the Hon. Mr. John Russell,
before he was created an Earl, was called
Lord John Russell, though he had no right
to the appellation, being only the third son
of the Duke of Bedford. The older sons
of Dukes, Earls, etc., have sometimes specific
titles during their father's life time, as, for
instance, the oldest son of the Marquis of
Westminster is Viscount Grosvenor.— N. Y,
Sun.
[From the Bt. Louis Democrat.
A CANDIDATE WANTED.
The phases of political predilections are
often as confused and as sudden aa the com
bination of colors in a kaleidoscope. Just
now the Democratic party are greatly exer
cised to secure a Presidential candidate that
can, by some possibility, be elected over the
Republican candidate, whomsoever ho may
be. Somewhat more than a year ago Gen.
Grant was the most generally acceptable
man to them, not so much from any knowl
edge they had of his principles, us became
they did not know them. He had proved
himself a great general, a man of sagacious
judgment, of a calm, dispassionate ability to
decide wisely in great emergencies, and with
a wisdom that led him to keep his own coun
sels till the time came for them to be
fashioned into noble acts. These qualities
secured him respect, such as but one man in
all our national hisiory had achieved before
him, and he was the nation’s idol. Led off
by the New York Herald, the Democratic
press assumed that he was just the man to
organize the dissevered elements of the old
pro-slavery forces, and lead them to anew
victory.
But time changed the aspect of public
affairs, and by degrees, as exigencies de
manded positive declarations, the great chief
tain was found to be where he had been
continually, on the Bide of equal rights,
national integrity, the Constitution and the
laws. These qualifications were the exact
conditions necessary to defeat their purposes,
and as suddenly as a dense cloud obscures
the sun, the Democratic heavens became
dark, and the low rautterings of discontent
took the place of jubilant indorsement, and
these were succeeded by fierce denunciation,
villainous aspersion, and bitter anathemas,
where before only fulsome adulations pre
vailed. He grew in popular favor with the
National Republicans just in proportion as
his late admirers denounced him, till by
common consent, apparently, every great
man’s name gave place to the hero who had
conquered the rebellion.
Even Mr. Chase, the embodiment of all
that Republicans sought to establish, took,
perhaps—although that is not yet certain—
the second place in the party’s choice for a
candidate, not because they honored the Chief
Justice less, but because the imperative
history ol the times made his coadjutor the
more prominent in the nation’s regards.
These events sent disastrous doubt into
Democratic counsels, and every day has
served to fill them with more direful uncer
tainty. With Grant for an opponent there
was no possibility of marshaling their hosts
of rebel sympathisers, national debt repudia
tors, displaced officeholders, disloyal dema
gogues, and treason mongers generally,
except to a condign and certain overthrow.
Their great names had no strength to infuse
into effete principles, and Seymour, Vallau
digham, IlaQCoek, Cox, Rousseau and Pen
dleton were each alike adjudged incapable
of giving tenacity to purposes as incongruous
as the inconsistencies and crude nonsense
uttered by the men themselves.
They have kept up a show of courage,
and have lived in a forlorn hope that the
gods would send some new revelation by
which they might be led into a political
land of promise. But we did not look for
such a humiliating confession of their
utterly lost hopes—their abject confession
of conquest before the battle—as they are
giving out. They talk of Chief Justice
Chase as the candidate of the Democratic
party for President! They, negro haters,
and partial advocates of human rights
to white men only, assume that the man
whose whole life is a monument of devo
tion to civil liberty for all men, and
especially to the men of color whom they
have degraded, is acceptable to the party
who, if they had the power to day, would
recall the emancipation act, and doom the
freed millions to perpetual slavery. They,
advocates of the repudiation of the national
debt, and inveighers of the necessities that
made it, nro -willing to aooopt tlio man
whose genius initiated our financial system,
gave vitality to the national Treasury, and
the all absorbing pride of whoso life is to
»ee that system carried or , to a perfect and
complete fulfilment and j istification.
The fact is astounding m any view, and
not the less so that we are assured by high
authority that the suggestion at first whis
pered furtively, but now openly advocated
by leading men in the party has been put
forward without any consultation with Mr.
Chase whatever. It is at once a confession
of the most desperate hopelessness of the
Democratic party, in either the professions
they make or of any support from the people,
and at the same time the most reckless
attempt to seduce from the principles of a
life time a man of heretofore incorrupt cflu
sistency. The very suggestion of the fact as
a serious possibility is an insult to the Chief
Justice. It is an open insinuation that he is
embittered towards his own party because its
popular demonstrations are not all given as
incense to his name alone, and that, thereby
he is lost to all self respect and can be
bought and sold by a promise of power
that the purchasers have not the ability to
give.
We have, indeed, sacred and poetical
authorities to show that the highest archangel
in Heaven fell into “hideous ruin and com
bustion dire,” but Salmon P. Chase is not
just the man to follow the illustrious example,
and descend like another fallen angel into a
hell of ambition. He is made of better
stuff. We have before now heard of the
devil’s taking a distinguished individual into
confidence, and promising to give him all
the kingdoms ot the world if he would fall
down and worship. And we speak it rever
ently when we say that, like that tempted
Sou of Light, Chief Justice Chase will say
to each of these modern plotters—“ Get thee
behind me Satan, for thou art an offense
unto me."
A Down East paper relates that when the
fleet of Massachusetts fishing vessels were on
the Banks last spring, one of the vessels
broke adrift and came rapidly down toward
another. Collision appeared inevitable, and
certain death to all on board would surely
follow. The captain of the drifting craft
shouted, “Cut away, and I’ll pay for the
cabie and anchor!” In the midst of the
excitement and danger, and just as the cap
tain was about to comply with the order, one
of the crew halloed out, “Don’t do it, captain,
unless he’ll give it to you in writing 1” The
captain was so struck that he waited a mo
ment in order to comprehend the matter, and
just then the schooner went by without
striking. The very idea of alluding to pen
and ink, under such circumstances, exhib
ited a degree of coolness most remarkable,
and the captain and all hands enjoyed a
hearty laugh over it, although just escaped
from the very jaws of death.
A novel bet has been made in London in
connection with this year’s Derby. A noble
lord, a member of the Four-in-hand Club, is
to leave Grace Church street, London,
driving his drag, at 10 n. m., on the Derby
day. At the same hour a female pedestrian,
having a start of four and a half miles in
seventeen, is to leave the Plough at Clapham
for Epsom Downs, and expects to reach the
Grand Stand belore his lordship's four-in
hand. The lady’s age is fifty five. At pres
ent the odds are said to be five to four on the
petticoat.
Conservative Englishmen were recently
overwhelmed with astonishment upon read
ing in the London Times that the Arch«
bishop of Canterbury had been writing
about the “destructive doctrines of the
Church of England ” They recovered
their equanimity when tho Time < explained
in its next issue that his Grace alluded to
the “distinctive dootrines,” etc.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Queen Victoria propose* to visit Germany
in the autumn.
The London Times advertises: “To
invalid, hard worked, and young clergymen,
six.hundred manuscript sermous" for sale.
Western papers profess to believe that the
bloodiest Indian war on record will com
mence about the middle of April.
The Prince of Wales will opeu the great
National Exhibition of Works of Art, at
Leeds, on May 18.
We learn from the Press that Gun. Han
cock is the handsomest man a woman’s eyes
ever rested on in the military service.
An Edinburgh newspaper contains the
following -singular “personal” advertise
ment: “Young lady wanted, about seventeen
or eighteen, to go to a ball on the 14th.”
Jesse U. Fell declines a Congressional
nomination in Uliuois, for the reason, doubt
less, that if defeated, his opponents might
make a joke of his name.
The ex-King Louis, of Bavaria, received
a telegraphic blessing from the Pope before
he died. It is said he left 20,000,000 florins
to his heirs.
In New Haven, Connecticut, the violent
wind of Saturday, March 21, so rocked the
Third Church steeple as to toll the bell iu
the tower.
It is interesting to hear that the Hon.
the Maharajah Murza Rizeram Gujaputty
Raj Munos Sooltan Dahadcor of Wiziana
gram, K. C. S. L, has paid for a drinking
fountain in Hyde Park, London.
A French physician, who has examined
t'.# statistics of the births of many countries,
states that 10C boys are born to every 100
girls, hut more boys die before reaching one
year than girls.
Henry Stuart Foot, who during the last
twenty five years has at one time or another
been somewhat prominently before the
public, has just joined the Methodist church
at Nashville.
Balzac says women at forty five often
have new and stronger affections than ever
before, and that their love is deeper and
more disinterested than when they are
young.
The Revolution says that man generally
popstkequestionin an “awkward,stammering
way.” The ladies who conduct that journal
must, of course, be well informed on this
subject.
English papers report that Archbishop
Manning has ordered that there shall be no
more choir singing in any of the churches of
his diocese after Easter. The service in
future is to bo Gregorian, chanted by the
priests.
The Chamber of the Duchy of Meiningen
has adopted a measure conferring political
and civil rights upon Jews. A provision,
however, is maintained that children of
mixed Jewish and Christian marriages shall
be educated in the latter faith.
A portrait of the prudish Menken, taken
in conjunction with the shy and modest Mr.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, has been
issued by the London Stereoscopic Com
pany, and is the occasion of considerable
comment.
Dorothea Saprcs, grand niece of the
famous French revolutionist Marat, died
the other day at Vienna, where she had
lived for the last twelve years as lady’s
maid to the Baroness Dursch. With her
decease the race becomes extinct.
The publisher of the Delaware Express
has recently recovered at law thirteen years’
subsciiption and costs from a subscriber who
pleaded the statute of limitations, which the
claimed barred the claim for all exceeding
six years. The Judge held that it was a
continuing contract.
The Duke of Beaufort’s racing stud,
recently brought to the hammer in London,
realized £16,000. Vauban, a famous winner
of last season, was knocked down to Capt
Maeheil for 3,200 guineas. Large as this
sum may seem, it is only a little more than
half the money that was paid for Kentucky.
The new Baden Cabinet includes a Jew—
Herr Elstetter—as Minister of Finance.
This is the first time that such an office has
been conferred iu Germany upon one of the
ancient faith. Strange enough, the innova
tion occurs iu the south of Germany, where
the Jews, as a rule, are far from holding the
eminent social position they do iu the north.
The present year is said to be one fur the
reappearance of the seventeen year locusts.
The Observer, published at Centreviile, Ma
ryland, states that these locusts made their
first recorded appearance in Maryland in
I<9J, and returned every seventeen years
alter that time, their last appearance being
in 1851.
The Corporation of London have for
several years been discussing the propriety
of pulling down Temple Bar, which is a
serious impediment to travel along the over
crowded Strand. But that historic structure
seems likely to settle the question by tum
bling down of its own accord. A huge
transverse crack is now visible on its west
ern side, and the authorities are urged to
demolish it before worse happens.
Notice.
TO CONSUMERS
OF
Soluble Pacific
GUANO
The high character attained by
this Guano for superior excellence has, it
appears, instigated the appropriation of the same
name to articles of little or no real value, which
we are credibly informed,, are freely offered in
New Voik and other markets with assurance of
genuineness. Hence it becomes necessary, botli
for tlie protection of ♦nsumers and the PACIFIC
GUANO COMPANY, to call attention to tlie
fact, in order that proper caution mav be ob
served.
The only guarantee the purchaser can have is"
that afforded by the name.of the Company’s Gen
eral Agents stencilled on the packages, and buyers
arc advised that luitess the name of Jno. S. Keesk
& Cos.. Gen'l Agents, Baltimore, is found
stencilled on the bags, the Guano is ticiitious, and
not genuine.
J. O. DIATIIKWNON A Cos.,
eo- J . , Scllia ff Agents, Augusta, Ga.
mh27-detw2t ’
Notice to Passengers.
r pilE NEW SCHEDULE TO NEW YORK,
A and all points North and East, by tho
Great Atlantic Seaboard Route,
is now oompioto and in operation. No delay or
interruption. At Woldun, passengers havo
choice of three routes, vis.:
Via ANNAMESSIC LINE,
D'a RICHMOND anil WASHINGTON CITY
Via OLD BAY LINE.
THIS IS THIS
PLEASANTEST, SAFEST, CHEAPEST,
and QUICKEST ROUTE
TO THE NORTH!
P. 11. LANGDON,
General Southern Agent.
ISAAC LEVY,
apl—tf Agent Ua.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
I®°“ WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO AN
NOUNCE the name of Mr. MATTHEW
SHERON aa a Candidate for re-election to the
office of lieceivar of Tax Returns for Richmond
County at the ensuing election. ap4 td
REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING,
—The Republican Voters of Richmond county
are requested to meet in Mass Meeting, at the
CITY IIALL, in the city of Augusta,
Ox THURSDAY, APRIL » T n,
to nominate candidates for County offices, to be
supported at the coming election, and attend to
any other business that may come before the
meeting.
Distinguished Speakers liavo been invited to
address the meeting and it is expected that they
will do so.
Let there be a grand rally of the friends of
Reconstruction and Col. Bullock, our candi
date for Governor.
By order County Exccutivo Committee.
J. E. BRYANT,
ap4—td Secretary.
JO»CONSIGNEES' PER SOUTH" CAR
OLINA RAILROAD, April 3, 1868.—W Hill,
C A Cheatam A Bro, Wyman & May, Geraty <t-
Armstrong, W C Jessup <£- Cos, PII Pond, 0 F
Cheatam, BesEman Ilallahan, J Prager, W M
Jacobs, J J Bredcnburg, Isaac Levy, Mullarkey
Bros, J W Moore, R <fc J W Timmeiman, J M
Dorn, Augusta City It R Cos, M Ilyam?.
consignees”"per central
RAILROAD, April 3, 1568.—8, Mrs II McKin
non, T R Rhodes, W A R A Cos, E T Murphy,
E W Berry, Plumb & L, Vaughn A M, Blair S
& Cos, W E Brodnax, Pollard C <t Cos, J C
Galvan, Mrs W E Cavenaugb, Nelson A Mel,
J McNultz, Wilcox G A Cos, Jones S A Cos, Maj
W Walker.
ELECTION NOTICE.—AUGUSTA
FIRE DEPARTMENT.—In accordance with
an order passed by the Officers of the Augusta
Fire Department, an Election for Secretary of
the Department will be held on Monday night
next, 6th instaut, at the meeting rooms of
the different Companies.
Candidate.—WM. il. CRANE, Jr. (J. D.
Kavannagh having declined.)
The Commanding Officer of each Company
will meet at the Pioneer Hook A Ladder House,
on Tuesday, 7th instant, at S o’clock p. m.,
for the purpose of canvassing the votes.
WM. BYRNES,
upti—ot Chairman of Officers’ Meeting.
AUGUSTA FACTORY, I
Augusta, April 1, 1868.]
tsgr DIVIDEND NO. 36.—a QUAR
TERLY Dividend of FIVE PER CENT., this
day will he paid to Stockholders on
demand. W. E. JACKSON,
__ ap2—4t* President.
BATH 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—3l President.
THE Hon. HENRY IV. HILLIARD
will be supported as a CANDIDATE FOR CON
GRESS from the FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT of Georgia, at the election on the
20th of April next, by MANY VOTERS.
mh24-td
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
IN BANKRUPTCY^
npiIIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
X 27th day of March, A. D., 1868, a War
rant in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of
JOSEPH C BASKINS,
of Perry, in the county of Houston, and State
of Georgia, who have been adjudged a Bauk
rapt on Ills own petition ; and that the
payment of any debts and delivery of any pron
ertv belonging to said Bankrupt, to him" or for
bis use, and the transfer of any property by him,
are forbidden by law; that a meeting of the
creditor* of the said Bankrupt, to prove his debts,
and to choose one or more assignees of his estate,
will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be
Bankruptcy, to be lioiden at the Jaw office of
King & Branham, Fort. Valley, Ga., before FS
llesseltine, Esq., Register, on the Ist day of May,
A. 1).. 1868, at 3 o'clock p. m.
WM. G. DICKSON,
ap4—lt U. S. Marshal as Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
nruus IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
i 27th day of March, A. D., 1868, a War
rant in Bankruptcy was issued against tiie es
tate of
CHARLES II BUTLER,
of Savannah, iu the county of Chatham, and State
of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on
bis own petition ; that the payment of any debts
and delivery of any property belonging to said
Bankrupt, to him or for bis use, and the transfer
of any property by him, are forbidden by law;
that a meet’ng of the creditors of said Bank
rupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or
more assignees of bis estate, will be held at a
Court of Bankruptcy, to be lioiden at the Reg
ister’s office, at the corner of Bay and Drayton
streets, Savannah,Ga , before F S llesseltine, Esq.,
Register, on the 18th day ol April, A. D., 1868,
at 9 o’clock a. m.
WM. G. DICKSON,
*l’4 —It Li. S. Marshal as Messenger
IN BANKRUPTCY.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE : That on the
27th day of March, A. D., IS6B, a War
rant in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of
REDDING C HARDWICK,
of Savannah, in the county of Chatham, State of
Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on
his own petition and that the payment of any debts
and delivery of any property 'belonging to said
Bankrupt, to him or for his use, and the transfer
of any property by him, are forbidden by law;
that a meeting of tiie creditors of said Bankrupt,
to prove tlicir debts, and to choose one or more
assignees of his estate, will he held at a Court of
Bankruptcy, to be lioiden at the Register’s office,
corner Bay and Drayton streets, Savannah, Ga.,
before F S llesseltine. Esq., Register, oil the
20th day of April, A. D.,-186S at 9 o’clock a. m
WM. G. DICKSON,
ap4—lt U. S. Marsha! as Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
riUIIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE : That on the
X 27th day of March, A. D., 1868, a War
rant in Bankruptcy was issued against the es
tate of
M LEOD KING,
of Ogeeehee, in the county of Chatham, State of
Georgia who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on bis
own petition-,and that tbe payment of any debts and
delivery of any property belonging to’said Bank
rupt, to him or for Bis use, and tlie transfer of any
property by him, are forbidden by law; that a
meeting ol' the creditors of said Bankrupt, to
their debts, and to choose one or more
assignees of his estate, will .be held at- a Court of
Bankruptcy, to be liolden at the Register’s office
.oilier Bay and Drayton streets, Savannah, Ga ,
before F S Hesseltine, Esq., Register, on |tiie 21st
day of April, A. 1).,11868, at 11 o’clock a. m
wm. g. dickson;
apl—lt U. S. Marshal as Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
nnHIS IS TO GIVE-NOTICE That on the
X 28th day ot March, A.D., 1868, a Warrant
in Bankruptcy was issued against tlie estate of
SEABORN J NELSON,
of Bloodwortli. in the county of Wilkinson, and
State of Georgia, who lias been adjudged a Bank
rupt on bis own petition; and that tbe payment
of any debts, and delivery of any property be
longing to said Bankrupt, to him or for his use,
and tlie transfer of any property by him, are for
bidden by law; that a meeting of the creditors of
said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose
0110 or more assignees of his estate, will be Held
at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be liolden at tbe
Register's office, in tho Court House, Macon Ga.
belore Alexander G Murray, Esq., Register, on
the 22d day of April, A. D., 1868, at 10 o’clock
a. in.
WM. G. DICKSON,
ap-I—lt U. S. Marshal as Mossougcr.
NOTICE.
TWO MONTHS AFTER DATE, APPLI
-1. CATION will he made to the Court of Ordi
nary ol Richmond county for leave to sell the
real estate ot John 11, Hull, late of said comity
deceased. wm. 11. HULL,
April Ist, 1868. Administrator.
ap-J—l fv’wi'or^ui
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Assignee’s Notice of Appointment
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OK Tar
United States for the Southern District tr
Georgia.
In the matter of j
WILLIAM B. GILBERT >IN BANKRUPTCY
Bankrupt. J u
To whom it may concern: Tire andersioel
hereby gives notice of bis appointment
aignee of WM. B. GILBERT, of .
comity of Deeatnr and State of Georgia, wife
said District, who has been adjudged a Bank—-
upon his own petition by the District Court N
said District. GEORGE W. HIKES
apl— law3t Assignee.
U. S. Marshal's Sale.
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A WEil
of fieri facias, issued out of the Honon .*
the Fifth Circuit Court of tiie United State:
the Southern District of Georgia, in favor efi
plaintifls, in the following cases, to wit:
Howes, Hyatt &, Cos. versus George M. Her
Baldwin, Starr & Cos. versus same,
I have levied upon as the property of the ss
fetid ant, George M. Hay :
West half of Lot No. 5, in the 18th Distrc
Webster (originally Lee) county, containing is l ,
*teres, more or less;
Also, the place iu Webster county (numbered
district unknown), known as the Shringaire
Place, together with all the improvements that
on, containing 202} acres, more or less;
Also, Lot No. 240, iu the 13th District, Won:
county, containing 202 J acres, more or less;
Also, Lot No. 50, in the 14th District, Decatur
county, containing 250 acres, more or less,
Also, Lot No. 118, in the 26th District, Mills:
county, containing 250 acres, more or less ,
Also, Lot No. 170, iu the 26u District, Ear>
county, containing 250 acres, more or less
And will sell all the above described property
at public auction, at tiie Court House, in the city
of Macon, Bibb county, Georgia, on the FUST
TUESDAY IN MAY next, between the laws!
hours of sale.
Dated, Savannah, March 31st..
WM G, DICKSOX,
ap4—td U. S. Marshal.
U. S. Marshal’s Sale.
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A WRIT
of fieri facias, issued out of the Honorable
the Fifth Circuit Court of the United States for
the Southern District of Georgia, in favor of the
plaintiff, in the following case, to-wit:
George M. Brauner versus Mary J. McLendon,
Administratrix of James 11. McLendon, doceasei,
I have levied upon as the property of the ie
feudaut, Mary J. .McLendon, the following lots::
land, with the improvements thereon, sitawr,
lying, and being, in the city of ThomasA
comity of Tliomaß, Georgia :
Lot No. 8, Square I, together with a onestetr
dwelling house of wood, and outbuildings thereon.
Lot No. 1, Square A, together with a frame
iivery stable aud outbuildiugs thereon.
And will sell all the above described property
at public auction, at the Court House in the cit’v
of Macon, Bibb county, Georgia, on the FIRSI
TUESDAY IN MAY uext, between the legs!
hours of sale.
Dated, March 31st, 1868.
WM. G. DICKSOX,
ap l—td U. 8. Marsha!
IN BANKRUPTCY.
''PHIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on tie
-L 27th day of March, A. D., 1868, a Warms
iu Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of
SHADRACH ATKINSON,
of Albany, iu the county of Dougherty, State of
Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on
his own petition; that the payment of any deb!;,
aud delivery of any property belonging to said
Bankrupt, to him or lor his use, and the transfer
of any property by him, are forbidden by law,
that a meeting of the creditors of said Bankrupt,
to prove their debts, and to choose one or men
assignees ot his estate, will be held at a Court cf
Bankruptcy, to be lioiden at tiie law office ot
Wright & Warren, Albany. Ga., before F r
llesseltine, Esq., Register, on the 28th day of
April, A. D., 1868, at 3 o’clock p.m.
WM. G. DICKSOX,
apl—lt U. S. Marshal asMesa-n.u
IN BANKRUPTCY,
rpms IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on th
X 27th day of March, A. 1!)., 1868,a Warns*
in Bankruptcy was issued against tiie estate of
JOHN T J«AMAR,
of Amerious, in the county of Sumter, <uw
of Georgia, who has been adjudged ;i li.iukrapi
on his own petition that the paymeutofMJ
debts and the delivery of any property belongisu
to said Bankrupt, to him or for his use. ana t j
transfer of any property by him, are forbiutf
by law; that a meeting of the creditors of-
- to prove their debts, and choose on
or more assignees of his estate, will lie held a>
Court of Bankruptcy, to be lioiden «t the »
otiice of Willis A. Hawkins, iu Ameruu
lia., before F. S. Hesseltiue, Esq , Register, oa •
noth day of April. A. I).. 180S. at •* o’clock a.&•
WM. 0. DICKSON,
apl—lt U. S. Marshal
IN BANKRUPTCY
rnfiIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE That on 1m
1 27th day of March, A. 1).. 1868.
j rant in Bankruptcy was issued against !-■'
tate of
WILLIAM HICKSON, .. .
cf near Vienna, in the county of Dooy,-- I ''
of Georgia, who lias been adjudged a t““*
nipt oil his own petition; that the payment 01.
debts and delivery of any property belong 11 1?
said Bankrupt, to him or for Ins use. and the
for of any property by him, are forbidden of *
that a meeting ot the creditors of said H* o * ’
to prove their debts, and to choose one or
assignees of bis estate, will be Held at a 6™ ' ;
Bankruptcy, to be liolden at the law j®' J
Kingifc Branham, in Fort Valley. Ga.. •
S Hesseltine, Esq., Register, on tbe Ist “ ■
Mav, A. D., 1868, at 3 o'clock p. m.
WM. 0. DH’IvsO.V
apt—1 1 U.S. Marshal as Meaatng^
IN BANKRUPTCY- ~
Tins IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That 0“'
X 27th day of March, A. IX. RbS, a Wiirra
in Bankiuptcv was issued against the estiin
' JOHN I. BIRCH, ~u
of l’erry, in the county ot Houston,»,
State of Georgia, who lias been adjudged *
runt ou liis own petition ; that the payment
debts, and delivery of any property belong s
said Bankrupt, to him or for bis use, and ttt '
fer of any property by him, are forbidden o. '■
that a meeting of the’creditors of said M
to’prove their debts, and to choose one oi j
assignees of his estate, will be held at :lt .. 0 (
Bankruptcy, to he liolden at the law o
King & Branham in Fort Valley, “ ,j ie
before I*\ S. Hesseltine, Esq- Register, >
Ist day of May, A.D , 1868, at 3 o’clock p.
WM. G. DICKSONi
ap I—lt _ V. S. Marshal as
Notice. rIAIXg
ALL PERSONS HAVING J/ViSf,
against the BATH MILLS •
are hereby notified to present them 10 is 4
inentby the first day of May next; 0 f
they will bo debarred payment, as the * t
tho Company will bo closed up, and 1
cease to exist, on that day. „ ~,,
WM. CUAHj.
ap2—l2t fre9 “ le “