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SUNDAY MOBNINtI April ISM
For PBESIDEAT
Os the United States:
I'IiYSSES S. GRANT.
For Governor
OF GEORGIA:
llov It. It. BULLOCK
OF RICHMOND.
FOR CONGRESS:
J. \V. Curr, First District.
R. H. Wiiitei.ey, Second District-
Wm. I*. Edwakus, Third District.
Samuel F. Gove, Fourth District.
G. 11. Prisck, Fifth District.
.lohn A. ffuirv, Sixth District.
J. Atkins. Seventh District.
PLATFORM,
Resolved, That ire pledge our support to
the Constitution /’rained by the Constitu
tutional Convention of this State note in
session.
Resolved, That tee present to the friends of
Reconstruction in Georgia this Constitution
as our Platform, and ire urgently request
than to ratify it.
Resolved, That ice pledge our support to
the llo.v. R. B. Bullock, our candidate for
Governor, t7sis day nominated.
Resolved, That ire earnestly request the
friends of Reconstruction to ratify the
Nomination of the Hon. It. B. Bullock in
their Primary Meetings, aiul sustain, him by
their ro'es.
THE CAMPAIGN.
Mo one can overestimate the 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.
Tlu: National Kei’UßLican 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, “ “ S.OO
The Republican contains more reading
matter than any other daily journal in the
State, including the latest news by mails
and telegraph.
THE VALUE OF GEORGIA LANDS.
The report of the Commissioner of Agri
culture, for February, contnino Konio
significant statistics in relation to the value
of lands in the South generally, and par
ticularly in Georgia. The Commissioner
reports the depreciation in the value ol
farm lands since 1860 at from forty to sixty
per cent, in the major portion of the State,
and that the average price in most coun
ties is about two dollars per acre.
These statistics indicate that the causes
which have produced this immense de
preciation are merely political, and are
removable at the will of the people.
Lands in Georgia never bore their ful|
value, because the system under which wc
have lived tended to keep down the white
farmer, and to discourage immigration.
Slavery existed at the expense of the land:
it exhausted instead of improving, and
discouraged instead of inviting white
immigration. Almost as a necessity, the
lands more and more fell into the hands of
large proprietors, and nothing is now more
common than to find a dozen or more ‘‘old
settlements” upon plantations, considered,
of late years, of moderate size. Counties
in Middle Georgia where, fifty years ago,
fifteen hundred or two thousand votes were
polled, in 1860 had but seven hundred or
a thousand voters. The small farmers
had sold out to the large ones and bad
gone West, and the consequence was that
schools, which once were numerous, could
not be maintained; churches languished,
and the mercantile and other business of
the county towns dwindled away. Where
a dozen farmers of moderate means once
lived and supported schools, churches, and
stores, there was but one family sending
its children to other States for an educa
tion, and trading by wholesale in the
cities.
The return of that day of small farmers
may be expected from the settlement of
our preseut political difficulties and the
first step toward that return is the re-es
tablishmcnt of civil government. Wc
must look to immigration to take off the
hands of the impoverished landholders, at
a remunerative price, that portion of their
property now useless and a dead expense
to them. But immigrants will not come
to a State under military rule. They had
enough of that in their own country.
Nor will they risk their lives and property
where either is unsafe, from the weakness
of civil law". To induce immigration we
must have civil law, and have it firmly
executed. That the South, under its
present regime, is not inviting to immi
grants, is sufficiently evident from the
figures of the Emigration Board in New
York. Out ol the thousand immigrants
per day who land at that port, it is rare
for more than a dozen to come South of Vir
ginia; and lately when a company of fifty
ventured to that State, it was sufficiently
wonderful to be telegraphed all over the
country, and to cause u tremendous glorifi
cation in the newspapers.
It is passing strange that any large
holder of lands in Georgia should resist
reconstruction, and desire the continuance
of the present state of disturbance and
uncertainty Such an one must l*c the
most obtuse or the most disinterested of
nun. An idea has got abroad that it is a
good policy to invite immigration merely
to procure laborers. Even with that view
we must put an end to our political
difficulties. But those who entertain that
view alone, and think that, by holding on
to their lands, they will be üble to get
white laborers, better and cheaper than
their former slaves, are very much in error
The class of immigrants coming to this
country now are not mere laborers; they
nearly all possess capital, more or less,
which they design to invest in land. By
resisting reconstruction and the rc-cstab'
lishment of civil law, we drive away this
population and capital, and the land
holder who sides with the demagogues to
prolong our unquiet condition, does so at
the expense of the State and of his own
pocket. It may be very ignoble in the
estimation of the superb patriots who
control the Democratic party to talk of
money, and to address the pecuniary
interests of the landholders—-but, somehow,
pecuniary considerations have their weight,
and ought to have. There is no reason,
except the political condition of the State,
why a part of the immense immigration
daily coming to our country may not be
diverted to Georgia. No State in the
Union possesses such advantages—no one
presents such an inviting variety of
climate, soil, and productions, and when
the insanity of the present hour is over,
and the people begin to comprehend that
they have got to move on as the world
moves, or be overwhelmed, there is hope
that the day when a dozen humble but
happy and prosperous homes were to be
found where now is only a desolate
expanse of pine thicket and old fields, will
dawn again on Georgia.
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rnr: POLITICAL FUTURE.
THE SOUTH AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
The Charleston Mercury is giving advice
to the whites o! South Carolina, as to the
course which they ought to pursue in regard
to the political future. One of its counsels!
with Ihe reasons for it, is thus stated :
‘'Association with the great Democratic party
of the United States. In this association, we
will havo a powerful external support. If they
succeed in the approaching Presidential election,
negro rule, wherever established, will be over
thrown. The whito people will have a conven
tion of their owe, take possession of the State,
and ho supported by the Government of the
United States. If they fail, having acted with
them, our cause becomes their cause, and linked
with their great struggle for free government
and the Constitution against revolution and
despotism.”
This is unmistakeably the tendency of
events. The Democratic party is drifting
into an alliance, offensive and defensive,
with that portion of the whites in the South
ern Slates which asserts the absolute domi
nation of the whites over the blacks, and
which will use the power ol the National
Government, when it gets it, to sustain and
enforce this domination.
The blacks may not be again reduced to
slavery—that cannot be done. The Con
stitution forbids it, and the people of the
whole country would resort to war again, if
tteceesary, to prevent it. But the blacks
are not, under any circumstances, to share
political power or to enjoy the rights ot citi
zenship. The denial of those rights is tho
corner-stone of the “white man’s party”
represented by the Mercury, with which the
Democratic party of the whole country is
expected to ally itself. If the Democrats
carry the Presidential election, the white
raco is to “take possession" of the Southern
States—and the National Government, in
the hands of the Democrats, is to “sustain
them. - ’ That is, the blacks are to be de
prived of whatever rights may have been
conferred upon them by Congress—by the
use of force, if necessary; and the triumph
of the Democratic party in the Presidential
election is to secure this result. —Neie York
Tunes.
The above picture and commentary we
take from the Times, and from the same
article we shall further make extracts and
running comments. We commend the whole
to the Tory or Democratic Press, and the
people of Georgia who are endeavoring to be
come aligned with the National Democratic
Party. Read and ponder the above, and what
follows.
This, then, is the entertainment to which
the country is invited. It is notenticing.
Whatever dissatisfaction the past action of
Republican Congress may have created, we
want no such prolonged and angry contro
versy as this sweeping reversal of it would
involve. What the country needs most of
all is peace. It wants something settled—
the Union restored, the normal and natural
working of the Government resumed, so
that the industry, energy and enterprise of
the country can again go forward with
confidence and success.— N. Y. Times.
A strong desire seems to be a cardinal
principle among the Democratic party
now as intluenced the llhelt’s and Yancey’s
in 1860 at the Charleston Convention. It
was then “rule or ruin.” It is the same
thing now. Wc are not astonished that the
Mercury, and other Tory papers, are trying
to educate the Southern people after the
same manner as iB6O. Treason to the
United States Government was spawned in
Charleston and in South Carolina, and the
rebellious leaveu then concocted still
permeates the lump of dough there and
elsewhere, although the United States
Government kneaded and baked the same
so thoroughly that one would have supposed
thpre would be none of it left in all the
land.
But there are many things which,though bad
in themselves, can be made better only by be
ing let alone. Time will correct their errors
and mend their defects, much better than any
violent effort to overthrow them. And this
is preeminently the case with the reconstruc
tion action of Congress. Let the Southern
States cotne into the Union under it—thoy
will then resume their powers of sell govern
ment, and can regulate their own affairs,—
New York 'Times.
Ihis is just what we have over and often
insisted was the true policy. Get back into
the Union and resume self government rather
than stubbornly refuse to aid in reconstruc
tion and restoration under the Congressional
bills. As wc are situated there can bo nothing
gained by acting as a parcel of John Don
keys, with feet in the mud and heels in the
air, kicking at the wind.
Wc do not doubt that a good deal o( diffi
culty will attend the. inauguration of State
Governments on this basis in the South.
But unleu the intelligent portion of the
Southern whites have lost all their old courage,
political skill and perseverance, the difficulty
ought not to be insurmountable. Most cer*
tainly it would be less than such • sweepingly
reactionary policy as the Democrats and
Southern whites together intend to carry out.
Democratic ascendency at such a price would
bo purchased much too dearly.— New York
Times.
While we cannot lliiuk there will be any
great difficulty in inaugurating our State
Governments under the Congressional bills,
we are sure there would be the contrary,
were it possible for the bogus Southern
Democracy to get into power by book or by
crook.
We append the last of the extract front
the Times article and commend it to the
attention of our readers :
The blacks in tho South, having once
tasted of freedom and of power, cannot
peaceably be deprived of either. Even if the
Democrats should carry the Presidential
election, and should give the aid of the Gov
ernment to the threatened seizure of power
in the Southern States, the blacks would
keep Southern society in a state of constant
alarm, and carry the terror and ruin of
constant insurrections into every corner ol
the Southern States. It must be borne in
mind that they are no longer slaves. They
cannot depend on the whites for support.
They must depend on themselves for every
thing they have. They would be stimulated
and supported, in whatever reprisals or
revenges they might attempt, by a powerful,
active and remorseless party at the North,
and would become to a far greater extant
than they ever have been heretofore, au
•lenient of disturbance, turmoil and danger
to every interest and every section of the
country, and especially to the Southern
States.
The Democratic Party and the Southern
whites do not read aright the lessons of the
war or of history. They are seeking peace
from a violent and extreme reaction. They
aim to restore the state of things that existed
before the war. The effort will be vain.
That 3tate of things can never return. The
condition of the country, the relative distri
bution of political power, the temper of all
classes of the people, have been so changed
«» to render this impossible. There are
certain great and radical changes which they
must accept as inevitable. They must take
the condition of things substantially as they
find it—and must make that their point of
departure in their political calculations for
tho future. Such a retractory policy as they
propose would be ruinous, if it were not
impossible.
NEIV YORK TIMES ITEMS.
The question is canvassed in Ohio whether,
if Senator Wade becomes acting President
by tho conviction and removal of Mr. John
son, there will be a vacancy in the repre
sentation of Ohio in the Senate, to be filled
by the Legislature. Mr. Vallandighum thinks
there will; bnt the better opinion is that
there will not. If Mr. Wade becomes acting
President, it will be solely because he is
President of the Senate—and he holds that
office only as a Senator. If he ceases to be
a Senator, be will ipso facto cease to be
President of the Senate, and cannot therefore
be acting President. It seems quite clear
that his office as Senator will not be vacated
in case of the President’s conviction.
Now, that wo are to havo the’Freedmen’s
Bureau for another year, we trust that Gen.
Howard will go to work and see that its
expenditures are reduced to the lowest pos
sible limit. So far as the money is used for
the sustenance ot destitute negroes we
should think the disbursements should be
very small this year. The rule for the distri
bution of rations should be a very rigid one.
There must not be the slightest encourage
ment to idleness in any case, and the blacks
must, by hard lessons, be forced to feel the
necessity of self-help. Gen. Howard is a
conscientious and upright officer, and he
manages his Bureau with honesty and the
feelings of a philanthropist. If he will con
duct it with the closest and severest econo
my, watch tho conduct of every subordinate,
scrutinize the expenditure of every dollar,
and keep an eye on the distribution of every
pound of meal, he will commend this national
charity to the endurance of those who are
taxed for its support.
We have heard of a number of attempts
to kidnap negroes from Florida and carry
them to Cuba for sale as slaves. A Louisi
ana paper has information of two small
vessels having made an attempt in this
direction* and it gives the names of a num
ber of persons alleged to have been engaged
in the affair. Even though the accuracy of
these statements may be doubted, it would
be worth while for Mr. Seward to call the
attention of Capt. Gen. Lersundi to the sub
ject, and to the probability of such attempts.
No slave can be landed in any part of the
island without his instant knowledge of the
event; and we venture to say that, eager
though the Cuban planters may be for
negroes, he will at once make it impossible
that one should be introduced to Cuba from
this country. lie is anxious for the friend
liest relations with the United States, and
will tolerate nothing that threatens to inter
rupt those relations.
A Texas paper assails Grant because he
was once a wood seller in St. Louis, and
afterward a dealer in hardware, nails, and
old iron, in Galena, 111. It says that “these
pursuits require no ability, and indicate, in
the individual who will consent to follow
them, very little of greatness of thought and
extension of view which are said to distin
guish those who are destined to become the
rulers of men.” Now, we must beg leave to
differ from thi3 rebel as to these pursuits
requiring no ability. We hold that immense
ability may be associated with them, and
we hope the Texas editor has the ability to
refrain from being funny over the assertion.
A man may possess as much “greatness of
thought and extension of view” when he is
dealing in nails and old iron, as when he is
governing a State or leading a conquering
army. He may exercise high intellectual
powers as a “wood seller,” and may put as
much genius into a common business as
would serve for the management of the
affairs of a world. The highest intellects
do not always occupy the highest or most
prominent places ; else why should this
lofty critic of Grant be a mere scribbler in a
Texas newspaper?
The Rev. Dr. Caird, whose sermon
on Religion in Common Life was rendered
so famous by Queen Victoria’s commendation
of it says that the preacher most likely to
become popular, is one
“Who never hesitates, who is never un
certain, whose dogmatism is rigid in the
measure of its feebleness, and whose denun
ciation of other men's opinions is loud in
proportion to the slender grounds he has
for his own. The ‘faithful’ preacher for
them is lie who shuts out the light of advan
cing thought, ignores the difficulties which
criticism, science, philosophy are starting
in the educated rniud; or, if he notices
them at all, confounds intellectual differ
ences with moral culpability, silences doubt
by base appeals to terror, and rouses the
prejudices of ignorance against men who
dare to be wiser and more conscientious
than himself. At such a time, the only
safety is to be silent, or to echo to the letter
tho peculiar form of dogmatism which is
favored by the multitude.” —New York Sun.
Special Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette.]
A STRANGE STORY FROM
CHARLESTON 11 ARBOR.
Washington, March 28.
DID BUCHANAN FURNISH ARMS FOR THE RE
DUCTION OF SCMTEII?
A South Carolinian, of unquestionable
personal honor aud of the best standing at
home, has been telling one of the mauagers
of the impeachment a curious story. It
seems scarcely credible, and yet witnesses
are named aud dates given with a niinute
neu that at least warrants its repet'tion.
In the winter of 1860-Gl, belore Major
Anderson had left Fort Moultrie for Sumter
—the story runs—a small boat oue night
approached the landiug before the gate ol
Moultrie, aud was hailed by the sentry. The
gentleman in the boat sent word to the com
mandant of the fortwthat he was the bearer
of a message from the President of the
United States. It was after midnight, and
Major Anderson, on being aroused to receive
the message, sent word that he would see the
gentleman in the morning. In a few mo
ments tho puzzled sentry returned. The
gentleman said that he was instructed by
the President of the United States to deliver
a certain message; that his instructions
required him to deliver it forthwith ; that he
had used all possible dispatch in presenting
himself, and that he must insist on being
received without delay.
Thereupon, Maj. Anderson hastily dressed
himself, and ordered his untimely and per
tinacious visitor to be admitted. The
gentleman proved to be an officer, holding a
responsible position in the civil service of
the Government in South Carolina. lie
presented a communication addressed to the
commanding officer in Charleston harbor,
and signed “James Buchanan, President of
the United States.” It required him to
deliver, on receipt of the order, fifty cases of
rifled arms, then in his possession, to the
civil authorities of the State of South Caro
lina. Major Anderson remonstrated. The
bearer of the order persisted. “There is the
handwriting,” he said, “of your commander
in chief; 1 insist upon an obedience to its
requirement.” Or, if the Major was un
willing to obey, he insisted upon an explicit
statement to that effect. Thus pressed, the
well intentioned officer, the story goes od,
saw no escape from obedience, and an order
for the delivery of guns was signed. These
were the guns, the South Carolinian who
makes these statements adds, with which
sharpshooters afterwards picked off our
soldiers at the embrasures ot Suinter, while
the insurgents reduced the fort.
“The question arises,” said the manager,
who told me the story, “whether the order
thus presented was a forgery. If not, then I
hold that we ought yet to try, and hang
James Buchanan.” For myself, I confess,
the thing wears a mythical look, but the
people who tell it are men whose words can
not be questioned ; and it can do no harm
to ask whether any body else knows any
thing about the sending or the delivery ot
such an extraordinary order, shortly before
the transfer of Anderson’s garrison front
Moultrie to Sumter?
GENERAL ITEMS.
More than a hundred horses are training
in Kentucky for the spring races.
Krupp, the great Prussian iron founder, is
constructing a hammer, the head of which
will weigh 120 tons.
The heavy snow storm of last Saturday
surprised the strawberries in some parts of
Delaware in full blossom.
Women are gradually working their way
into the pursuits of life heretofore exclu
sively occupied by men. It is stated that
Chicago has 518 women clerks.
The remains of the rebel General John
Morgan, who was killed in East Tennessee
in the fall of 1864, are to be removed to
Kentucky for final interment.
A Boston numismatist recently purchased
a silver dollar of the coinage of 1804, for
the sum of seven hundred aud fifty dollars.
Only three dollars were coined in that
year.
Mexican journalists exhibit a somewhat
eccentric taste in the selection of names for
their papers. “Anti-Christ,” “The Devil’s
Own,’ and “The Devil’s Tail,” are speci
mens.
Mrs. Hopkins, a resident of Ironton, Ohio,
now eighty four years of age, has not drank
any water for sixty years, using only such
beverages as tea and coffee, and those
moderately.
A man recently sued another for use of
room, lights, fuel, meals, etc., while he was
courting the plaintiff’s daughter. The Court,
justly indignant at this attempt to reduce
courting to a matter of dollars and cents,
decided that there was no cause of action.
Four new peers are to be erected in Eng
land on the recommendation of Lord Derby.
Among them is Sir William Stirling Max
well, who, as William Stirling, is well known
as the author of “Cloister Life of the Em
peror Charles V,” and other works.
A Chicago paper, indignant with a Detroit
contemporary for keeping up a regular an
nouncement, “So and-so was the last myste
rious disapperattce in Chicago, exclaims:
“Why, bless you, we have more persons
‘mysteriously disappear’ in Chicago every
week than Detroit secs in a month.”
Albert C. Greene, author of “Old Grimes,”
was engaged for several years before his death
upon a humorous poem, into which it was
his purpose to weave every genuine Yankee
phrase that he could gather. It grew year
by year, waxing to a handsome epic, and is
soon to be published.
The Naples journals record tho death of
a man named Carlo Felice, at the age of
105 years. He had a family of twenty
sons, one of whom is at present SB years
old. A few mouths back the deceased
centenarian visited Mount Vesuvius to
witness the eruption.
A man named Thomas Kerr died recently
near Edinburgh, who between 1841 and 1866
had gained upwards of sixty prizes at com
petitions in ploughing ; forty of these were
the highest prizes awarded. At the time of
his death he had in his possession twenty
one medals of the Highland and Agricul
tural Society of Scotland.
Dr. Dosey was ill; his friend, the Rev.
Peter Quick, applied to the patron for the
uext presentation ; but the Doctor recovered,
and upbraided the Rev. Peter for such a
breach of friendship, saying, “You looked
for my death.” “No. no, Doctor,” said
Peter, “you quite mistake ; it was my living
I looked for.”
Hepworth Dixon, in a recent lecture at
Brighton, England, defended the American
theory of representation against the English
—contending that a member of Parliament
should give, not merely his opinion, but
those of his constituents—that he should,
in fact, represent the wishes and needs of
tho constituency which elected him.
Johu Ruskiu, in criticising Dore's illustra
tions of Balzac, says : “Nothing more in
ventively horrible has yet been produced by
the evil art of man ; nor can 1 conceive it
possible to go beyond them in their speciali
ties of corruption. There is not one which
does not violate every instinct of deceucy
and law of virtue or life written in the human
soul.”
There is reason to suppose that France
has not yet abandoned the idea of lighting
Prussia. Immense military preparations
are still going on—one of the latest being
the transport from Algeria to the principal
fortresses on the Rhine frontier of all the
guns, war materiel, and camp stores not
considered absolutely necessary to be kept
in the colony, so that soldiers suddenly con
centrated on that line would find all tbeir
tools ready for instant use.s
The dedication of the Centenary M. E.
Church, of Chicago, took place on the 15th;
$42,000 were raised by voluntary subscrip
tions on the occasion.
The United States has over 60,000 re
ligious teachers, and, it may be fairly sup
posed, 70,000 houses of religious worship,
in which a capital of over $200,000,000 is
invested.
The, General Synod of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in the United States will
meet on Thursday, May 7th, 1868, in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It has been in
existence about forty-eight years.
The Old School General Assembly has
sixty-three missionaries among the freod
men, and thirty-one colored students.
Fifty-six churches have been organized,
and twenty houses of worship built.
There are twenty-five Roman Catholic
priests in Pekin, and about 6,000 native
converts. The mission has been estab
lished more than two hundred years, and at
times has been very influential at th*
court.
A Canadian paper proposes to settle the
Irish Church establishment question thus :
The Church of England and Ireland is
rather more than half way over to Rome ;
let it go the rest of the distance, and there
is an end of the Irish Church question.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church
and the Unitarians have formed an alliance.
The members of the former Church agreeing
to disseminate the tracts aud other publica
tions of the Unitarians, the favor to be
repaid by assistance in money and men to
the theoin«!<-ol o»t>o»L of • !*■= Aftivnu M^tL
odist Episcopal Church.
Kev. Mr. Wright, paster of the Zion
Church, Lansingburg, New York, says :
“I wish to say that I never went to school
one day in my life. I went to bed not
knowing how to read in the Bible, and the
next morning I could road any chapter in
the book.” The reverend gentleman must
have been drunk, surely.
l’he Evangelical Church party in the
eastern counties of England have formed a
church association for the defence and
maintenance ot Protestant and Evangelical
principles in the Church of England. The
object of the association is further defined to
be a union of the Protestant and Evangeli
cal churches of that part of the kingdom, so
R3 to more effectually counteract the pro
gress of Romanism and Ritualism.
The Atlanta correspondent of a Georgia
paper tells of a chap who came down from
one of the upper counties and encountered a
man with a hand organ covered with green
cloth. The man began to turn and the
countryman put down a quarter, which the
other immediately took up. Down went
another, which shared the same fate, and
then another. The stranger, finding his
pile getting low, turned to a bystander aud
asked, “Mister, what sort of a game is this,
anyhow ?”
Louis 11. of Bavaria meditates abdication.
His Majesty is ardently devoted to the fine
arts, and too honorable, it is said, to be
indifferent to the possibility of the public
business suffering from his musical predilec
tions. It is thought he would have taken
such a step before this had he not been
deterred by the consideration that Bavaria,
while his grand-father was alive, would have
had to maintain three Kings. If his inten
tion is carried out, the throne will devolve
on his brother Otho, a young man of 20,
who has hitherto paid no attention to politics.
At the Lutheran Church, Dayton, Ohio,
recently, not less than eight hundred mem
bers and pastors of the Lutheran, Presby
terian, Methodist, Congregational, German
Reformed and United Brethren Churches
united in celebrating the Lord's Supper.
The scene was one of extraordinary interest.
[This gathering is unprecedented ! Can it
be an outcropping of the looked for
Millenium. When the Lion and the Lamb
shall lie down together, etc.?]
Shysters. —Cincinnati has its libel suit
and carried it to a righteous decision. One
Myers, a professional “shyster” and lob
byist with the city government, lately sued
Mr. Halstead, proprietor of the Commercial,
for $50,000, or some other fabulous amount
of damages, for exposing some of his tricks,
and the corruption of the city government
which tolerated and encouraged them.
The case was one of great popular interest,
and one in which many men of high local
and official position were interested, as the
Commercial's expose had damaged their
political prospects, besides ruining Myers
business and spoiling several fat jobs
waiting for their turn. Mr. Halstead
himself was put upon the witness stand,
and gave a thorough and manly defense of
his course, and of what he considered to be
the rights and the duty of newspaper
publishers, and one which commanded wide
approval from men of all professions. The
jury were finally unable to agree, and,
Saturday, were discharged, standing at the
last, two for conviction, two for one cent
damages, and eight for full acquittal, a
verdict, which, considering Cincinnati and
the circumstances, shows a gratifying
appreciation of liberal and independent
journalism. —Spring field Republican.
It seems, from tho above extract, that
“shysters” are not confined to this locality,
but arc indigenous elsewhere. Wonder
how much pay these creatures get for their
laborious work. From the above history of
the ease, and the value put upon it by ten
of the jury, we should judge that “shyster’s”
labors are not very remunerative anywhere.
A fabulous amount is claimed for damages
it seems, and tho difference between two
cents and $50,000 is a fair sample of the
great distance between equity and justice,
and the remarkable distance between
muzzling the Press and “ a gratifying
appreciation of liberal and independent
journalism.”
We sympathize with tho Charleston
Mercury in its laments over the troubles
which now afflict the South, and heartily
endorse its urgent appeal to Southerners to
remain in their own tail- land, enduring tho
grievous prescut iu hope of a happier future,
when the passions of the day have subsided.
But, in the article that follows ou the very
heels of that sensible and patriotic advice,
the Mercury indulges in wild and uncouth
objurgations of the impeachment trial, mag
nifying into a great disgrace the simple and
necessary issuing of tickets of admission to
the Senate Chamber ; it refers in threatening
significance to the formation of the Ku-Klux
Alan and other “secret societies for the law
less redress of public greivatices,” and closes
by saying : “When Robespierre, the tiger;
and Marat, the wolhjsurrounded by the wild
beasts of Paris, were lapping the best blood
o! France, they little thought that their own
was to follow. The law of violence is reac
tion of violence. In that which has been
behold the thing which will be, and there is
no new thing under the sun.’ ” Does it
never occur to them to think that this season
is “the reaction of violence” already com
mitted ? They should have considered this
law before they inaugurated war. Better
now follow the Mercury’s own advice, and
await the natural issuo of all these things.
But throats of physical violence aro some
what too stale to be effective—save in pro
ducing disgust.— N. Y. Sun:
SPECIAL NOTICES.
jpyFOKTAX COLLECTOR.—WE ARE
authorized to announce JOHN A. liOHLUII ai a
candidate fur re-election to tba office of Tax Col
lector of tticbtnond County, at the ensuing elec
tion. aprs—td*
TII EE IGI IT 11 IiHGULA It MONTII-
Iy Meeting of the Reliance Loan and Building
Association, will be held at the City Hall on
Thursday noxt, 9th inst., at 7J o’clock, I‘. M.
.Members can pay tbeir instalments to the
Treasurct, S. If. Shepard, until 5 o’clock p. m.»
of the same day. IV. 11. EDWARDS,
aprs - eodot Secretary.
PER SOUTH CAB.
OLINA RAILROAD, April 4 , 1868.—W M
Jacobs, J W Moore, Wyman A May, Cbas Wil
liams, 0 F Chcatam, J J James, E O’Donnell
J 0 Mathewson, llyams A Cos, P Malone, II
Cranston, II Ward, J M Dorn, T W Carwile j
U J Butlor, If If Hickman, |P H Pond, J A T A
Bones, W 0 Gibson, J [G] B, II MorrisoD, Beas
uian <t- Hallaban, W J Farr, W Ilill, C A Row
land, W C Jessup A Cos, Augusta City R R Co>
Col R B Bullock.
WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO AN
NOUNCE the name of Mr. MATTHEW
SIIEKON as a Candidate for re-election to th»
office of Receiver of Tax Returns for Richmond
County at the ensuing election. ap4—td
jg@=> REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING.
—The Republican Voters of Richmond county
are requested to meet in Mass Meeting, at the
CITY HALL, in tho city of Augusta,
On THURSDAY, APRIL 9th,
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 bpeaaers w n invited *o
address the meeting and it is cx-pected 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 Executive Committee.
J. E. BRYANT,
apt—td Secretary.
fELECTION NOTICE.—AUGUSTA
FIRE DEPARTMENT.—In accordance with
an order passed by tho Officers of the Augusta
Fire Department, an Election for Secretary of
the Department will be held ou Monday night
next, 6th instant, at the meeting rooms of
the different Companies.
Candidate.—WM. 11. CRANE, Jn. (J. D.
Kavannagli having declined.)
The Commanding Officer of each Company
will meet at the Pioneer Ilouk A Ladder House,
on Tuesday, 7th instant, at 8 o'clock p. m.,
for tho purpose of canvassing the votes.
WM. BYRNES,
up3—3t Chairman of Officers' Meeting.
AUGUSTA FACTORY, 1
Augusta, April 1, IS6B. j
Jftg- DIVIDEND NO. 36.—A QUAII
TKRLY Dividend of FIVE PER CENT., this
day declared, will be paid to Stockholders on
demand. W. E. JACKSON,
ap2—4t : President.
MARRIAGE AND CELIBACY,
AND THE HAPPINESS OF TRUE MAN
HOOD—An Essay for Young Men on the Crime
of Solitude, aud the Physiological Errors, Abuses
and Diseases which create impediments to MAR
RIAGE, with suro means of Relief. Sent in
sealed letter envelopes, free of charge.
Address Da. J. SKILLIN HOUGHTON,
Howard Association,
fel— 3m Philadelphia, Pa.
BSP THE Hon. HENRY W. HILLIARD
will be supported as a CANDIDATE FOR CON
GRESS from the FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT of Georgia, at the election on tho
20th of April next, by MANY VOTERS.
mb24-td
NEW ADVERTISFMENfS.
By Isaac Levy, Auctioneer.
\mLL BE SOLI) AT THE LOWER MAR
'V KET HOUSE, io the city of Augusta,
within the usual hours of sale, one HOUSE and
LOT, situated on the North aide of Reynolds
street, No. 0f»; tho House containing 7 Rooms,
and ono Kitchen.
Terms cash. spa—ts
ESTABLISHED 1855.
THOMAS RUSSELL,
.JEWELLER.
19Si Uroacl St.,
NEXT POOR BELOW THE FRENCH STORE.
WATCHES, CLOCKS, and JEWELRY RE
PAIRED at the shortest notice. All work war
rented.
All orders will be thankfully received, and
prouiptl}- attended to.
aps—lawly
J. J. BROWNE,
Q A RYE R AND GILDER.
Looking' Glass and Picture Frames
CORNICES, BRACKETS,
CONSOLE TAISL, E S
MADE TO ORDER.
Old PICTURE and LOOKING GLASS
FRAMES REGILT, and OIL PAINTINGS RE
STORED, LINED and VARNISHED,
AT 135 BROAD STREET,
AuecstA, Ga.
ap s—lwtf
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry.
17 11. SUMMER, LSI RROAD STREET,
-*-*• AUGUSTA, GA.
SPECTACLES, EYE-GLASSES, etc.; Watch,
makers’ Tools, Materials and Glasses.
M ATCHES and CLOCKS REPAIRED and
WARRANTED. Jewelry made and repaired.
All kinds of Hair Braiding done. Agent for
Singer’s Sewing Machines. All kinds of Sewing
Machines repaired and warranted,
ape—lawSm
/GEORGIA—
IT Richmond County.
Charles Catlan, Administrator tie bonis non on
the estate of Adna Rowe, having failed to make
returns of his actings and doings, as required by
law, and it appearing that he is not to be found
in said county : Ordered, That the said Charles
Catlin, Administrator as aforesaid, be and ap
pear at my office, on or before the first Monday
in May, and show cause, if any he has, why his
Letters of Administration, on said estate, should
not ho revoked. Further ordered, That this
rule be published, once a week for four woeks, in
tite National Kkpr plica.n, one of tire public
gazettes of said city.
Given under my hand and official signature,
at office in Augusta, this Ith day of April, IS6S.
E. M. BRAYTON,
aps-law4t» Ordinary.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
HTHIS is TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
JL Ist day of April A. 11., 1868, (l War
rant iti Bankruptcy was issued against tile es
tate of
FREDERICK C LOMEUNE,
of Savannah, in tile county of Chatham, and Statu
ot Georgia, who lias been adjudged a Bankrupt on
bis own petition ; that the payment of attv debts
and delivery of any property belongiug lo sa ;<j
Bankrupt, to hiui or for his use, and the transfer
of any property by him, are forbidden by law;
that a meeting ot the creditors of said'Bank
rupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or
more assignees of lua estate, will be held at a
Court of Bankruptcy, to he lioldeu at the Reg
ister's office, at the corner of Bav and Drayton
streets, Savannah,(la , before F S Hesseltme. Esq.,
Register, ou the 9th day ol Mav, A. I)., 1868,
at 10 o’clock a. m.
WM. (!. DICKSON,
aps~lt U. 8. Marshal as Messenger
and
fancy goods.
MBS. n TWEED!
SHAKES GREAT PLEASURE tv tv
L iDgtheLadiMthit th " -^“5
New York
w ith a well selected
STOCK OF MILLIHEjj
Straw and Fancy Goods.
EMBRACING ALL Till; XOVELTI
THE SEASONS. ' !
216 Broad
y*~ lw °PPo*it*Cra^
Harris’
Seamless Kid Gloves'
BLACK AND COLORED.
Assorted Sizes the Finest ever niad«
the Genuine “ “
ALEXANDERS
KID GLOVES
w )
JUST RECEIVER AI
MRS. M. TWEEDY.
215 Broad Street,
- apra | lw Opporit* CwtnlH*
Horse Po we?
THRESHING MACHINE*
W E the*: -
f ? , Machines of our own pattern, and vl
we believe arc superior to any of the kind ■
or any other market, ’ ®
STRONG, mu ABLE AXDCHFIP
We also build F
STEAM ENGINES. GRIST MILL S m
MILLt, WROUGHT IRON SCP.EWr -
TON PRESSES, COTTON PLANTE?;
GIN GEAR, IRON RAILKG
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS- ’
IRON and ERASS CASTE®
and all other kinds of Machinery needed hi
South- Planters will do well to call on a; beS
making contracts.
PENDLETON A BOARDMAJ,
Engineers and Mickaiin,
Foundry and Machine Works, Mocks,*
positc Excelsior Flour Mills.
aprs—3m
Change of Schedule— Central! 1
gssgima
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, APRIL =l£
1868, the Passenger Train onCenttzlß.t
will run ns follows :
DAY TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at .S 41 il
Arrive at Savannah 6.1i?1
Arrive at Macon
Leave Savannah yii.l
Arrive at Augusta 3.6P.1
Arrive at Macon 74SP.X
Leave Macon at Vtf.l
Arrive at Augusta 3.0f.1
Arrivo at Savannah 6.1;?I
NIGHT TRAIN.
Leave Savannah at J.SFI
Arrive at Macon 13;Al
Leave Macon at ..5.4;? I
Arrive at Savannah Mil
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at .L25P.1
Arrive at Savannah 12.90?.l
Leave Savannabfat ...19.Mil
Arrive at Auguita .3.39 Al
Passengers on tho Day Train from Alp
will make close connection at Milieu,udotp
cars for Savannah and Macon.
Passengers on Accommodation Trait ist
Augusta will run through, without cbznjtt
cars, to Savannah, but will make close coses-4
tion and change cars at Nlillen forMacom
The Central Passenger Depot (6. R.H n
still be used for arrival and departure of :rzis
A. F. BL'ILEE.
apra—Ot Agent C. £ '•
Richmond County Sheriffs Sale.
\ DILL BE SOLD ON THE FACT Il'EShl
\ V in May next, between tte usual hoars
sale, at tho Lower Market K:use. inthecitj
Augusta, the following property.to--wit*.
All of that tract of Land in Richmond Com?!
Ga., bounded north by Ha.’e st , east by Ge«|»
Ra lroad avenue, south by {lot of Mrs.
and west bv Carnes’ road, and
No. 192, 193, 194, 21/, 217, 218, 236. 2’v *
255, 157, 15S, 159. and ll, 111*
a plan of lots made by Moore & Tattled- j
ward Thomas, May 15. 1855, and recoraM--- •
Clerk’s Office of Richmond Superior Cos::-
X N. folio 155, consisting, also, of. the:.-?
land between Railroad avenue and railroad. •
ing lots 112, 113 and 114; said land :
same conveyed bv Edward Thomas w •
Osmond, July 26, iSivL by deed of
vS S, 130 and 13J. Mild property levied W
virtuo of a li. fa. issued in favor of John
Tax Collector of Richmond County, for'
City Taxes; the other in favor of Htt.
Cook vs. Jesse Osmond. Terms cash.
jobs D.fcJina
aprh—wlt
Richmond County Sheriff’s Sate-
T \f ILL RE SOLD ON THE FIRS!
VV in May next, between the unm ,
sale, at the Lower Market House, in the
Augusta, 7 Horses and 2 double
upon by virtue of a li. fa. issuod from w ■
able to tho Superior Court ol Richmea*-
in favor of Geo. 1. Barnes, 1
Southern Express Company. I'f’fSSJj,
out by defendants. 8- I': 1 ", j’i.
apru—lawfw J)epu_tj_Boen^>
Richmond County Sheriffs SD
WILL BE SOLD ON THE FIRST
in May next between the n-' u * A,
sale, at the Lower -Market House, in V,
Augusta, the property known as the •,
situated in the City of Augusta ; ,n 1 ,
of Broad st., bounded south by ht-- ’ ~.
an alley- running from Bread to 1.,;
west by the store now in the yccnpM. -
Garmany. Said property levied upon .
of a li. fa. issued from and returra ~
Superior Court of Richmond Count?
Joseph M. New by; vs. tho Southern ‘L,* ...
pany. Terms cash. Property P°'”7j;u?
plaintiff. S ' U ’cSh
apri—law4t Deputy
L~ TNITED STAfESOF ASIKKICT »"
/ era District of Georgia.
Whereas a libel hath been hied in ; p.
Court of the United States for the* ;.
trictof Georgia, by Joseph G. “'A-'ii, nf
Wells, Richard Wells and Ho
tiers, under tile firm ol John i> ells ‘ ,A
aud Frank Greene. Master of the tt ■ L,. t ;
Webster, against the schooner *««•' ; psi
tackle, apparel, furniture and ears'
that the said steam tug brought pmii? 1
Savannah, from sea, the said sen I
mer and her cargo—the said sch j
masted—and that they are entitle
share of said schooner and ® ar S®.-S
thereof: and praying process ».-f“ Mr s>' -
er and cargo, for reasonable am P
and that the said schooner, her 1
furniture and cargo may be eonik ,J
pav such salvage with costs, cliatg •■
Now. therefore, in pursuance oi g
under the seal of the said court. ‘
do lierebv give public notice 10 Cp t'ursf M
ing the said ship, her tackle, »ll Cfcjjjj
and cargo to he and-appear bei- M
said District Court at Ins olhw oc lock i* a
the 18th duv of April, inst., at . i .
forenoon of that day and then . ' pifgsl*® j
pose their claims aud to make t a
that behalf- is ,g J
Dated this ‘.M day of April, j? 1 „ IC KSO> .
Thos. E. Li.ovo." WM. O. yR'® jri a.
Proctor for Ia bell ant*. '
aprs—‘,’w
go<*
At the Lowest Terms mid 10
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