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National Uepnblif an AUUUBTA. t*A.. 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. “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 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 __ NEW .ISVERTISi -tsU^ Concert Hall.' J7OR A FEW NIGHTS ONLY, MONDAY APRIL SARGENT, THE ILLI'SIOM^ti ONCE MOBEJIN THE field. ’ Great Treat for the Citizen ? ~r . ' 3 -I At/yu>l„: A HANDSOME SET OF COTTA GE F U UNIT I'ftj. TO RE GIVES. AH A T ; together WITH 150 II HAITI m, i*uese\ Ts , ADMISSION: Parquctte ~ Gallery J ’»tetu. Seats can bo secured at the MujL,. J. C. Schreiner 4 Sons, without extra For particulars, see small bills. ap4—tf MATERIA MUSICA, OR, MATERIALS FOR IHE PIANIST’ A CLASS BOOK, CONTAIXIXB te iX Principles of Music applied to p*i lc , j Playing, adapted for private tuition, Wf* especially arranged for the use of echo'’• • young ladies’ normal schools, and other , !H naries of learning. By J. C. Ecgelbrecht '**’ Just published. Price, 75 cents— paid. ’ r t! ' OLIVER DITSON i CO Publishers, 277 Washington »t Tel C. 11. DITSON4CO.’, apl—tf 711 Broadway, Sts 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 “