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Natitmalttcpublicnn AUtKWTA. t*-V. 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. __—* 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 "Command see sample* l