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THURSDAY MORNING April
For PRESIDENT.
Ok thk United States:
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
For Governor
OF GEORGIA :
Ilo\. It. B. BULLOCK
OF RICHMOND.
FOR CONGRESS:
J. W. Ciift, First District.
R. 11. Wuitklky, Second District-
Wm. P. Edwards, Third District.
Samuel F. Gove, Fourth District.
C. H. Prixce, Fifth District.
John A. Wimpy, Sixth District.
J. .Atkins, Seventh District.
flatfor¥,
Resolved, That we pledge our support to
die Constitution framed by the Constitu •
tutional Convention of this State now in
session.
Jlesolccd, That tee present to the J'riends of
Reconstruction in Georgia this Constitution
as our Platform, and tee urgently request
them to ratify it.
Resolved, That we pledge our support to
the llox. R. B. Bullock, our candidate for
Governor, this day nominated.
Resolved, That we earnestly request the
friends of Reconstruction to ratify the
Nomination of the Hon. R. B. Bullock in
their Primary Meetings, and sustain him by
their votes.
ORDER NO. 51.
As might have been expected, the
Democratic papers squirm desperately
under Gen. Meade’s Order forbidding the
publication of articles tending to produce
intimidation, riot, or bloodshed. They
have lived and prospered so long by pan
dering to tlie vilest passions of the mobs,
by exciting prejudice and counselling
proscription and persecution against all
who dared to differ with them, that
it is not to be wondered at that they
now feel that their vocation is gone.
The assassination of Ashburn has at
least been productive of one good re
sult, it has awakened the military au
thorities to the necessity of putting a
stop to the exhortations of those who
have been constantly preaching sedition
and threatening assassination. These
editors and speakers had gone on so long
in their career of licentiousness, that they
appeared to forget that there was any
power anywhere to curb them, and they
are now reminded, as they were sometime
soon after the close of the war, when they
were so decorous and submissive, that the
trumpeter who sounds the charge may be
held equally guilty with him who strikes
the blow.
No conquering government on earth
has shown such forbearance as ours to
those who were continually counselling
resistance to its authority and rebellion
agaihrt its laws. Its toleration verged
upon weakness. Desiring, for the sake of
the people, to restore them to their former
condition of peace and equal rights, it
found itself assailed at every turn by the
disseminators of treason and sedition.
It made no resistance to their attacks—
it uttered no prohibition, until tlia vile
teachings of the press and the stump
culminated in murder. Had it not been
for such teachings, the difficulties of the
present situation would have never ex
isted, or would have been removed long
ago. The forbearance of the Government
lias increased its own embarrassments and
the disquiet of the people; and it should
have put some restraint long since to the
incendiarism of the Democratic press,
which maligned it and libelled its officers
with impunity. We are glad that, at
ljst, some curb is to be put upon it,
though, on account of its forbearance, tlic
malignant spirit that the press has fos
tered will survive, and will hurst forth
when the restraint shall be removed.
“ THE KING IS DEAD—LONG LIVE
THE KING!"
No sooner is one Democratic candidate
for Governor demolished than up starts
another; one head of the Hydra is cut off
and another sprouts. No sooner is one
Democratic idol, “with feet of clay and
front of brass,” overthrown, that another
is established to receive the incense of the
worshippers. No sooner is it announced
to the multitude “The King is dead,” than
the shout goes up for anew monarch—
“ Long live the King.”
The Macon Regency, in their doleful ex
tremity and disappointment at the demoli
tion of Judges Reese and Imvix, have
concluded to pursue their quest in another
direction; so they have quit seeking a
candidate among the Judges and taken to
the Confederate Brigadiers. As the crop
of Generals is very large, being on an
average two to every county and village in
Georgia, it is to be expected that they will
at last find one who can stand the strain of
their nomination. They have commenced
their new dynasty of candidates with the
nomination of General Gokdon, and we
believe he has accepted the nomination on
the programme of bitter opposition to the
new State Constitution, under which lie
must hold his office, if elected, and which
he must swear to support. We must leave
to Democratic logic to explain the con
sistency of swearing to support a Consti
tution which he seeks to destroy; but we
suppose nothing is impossible to Demo
cratic sophistry.
Gen. Gordon is said to be a smart man,
though his speech at Concert Hall, in this
city, on last Thursday night, does not dis
play any great amount of talent. In fact,
such a quantity of “bosh” was seldom bc-
fore enunciated from the stage ol that Hall,
which has been rather prolific in nonsenae.
lie is said to bo eligible to the oflico of
Governor, though why he does not come in
the same category as RbesM and Irwin is
hard to perceive. He is said to be an honest
and honorable man, that, we do not doubt,
for he was an old Whig.
The objections to Gen. Gordon arc pre
cisely those which applied to Messrs. Reuse
and Irwin. He is opposed to reconstruc
tion ; he would defeat the new Constitu
tion ; lie would prevent the rc-establisli
ment of civil law ; he would continue the
people of Georgia under military rule; lie
would prevent the restoration of the State
to the Union ; he would obstruct its pros
perity ; he would shut its gates agaiust the
influx of capital and immigration. His
election, should it so happen that he could
hold his seat, would be a public calamity.
There is one thing gratifying in his can
didacy—nobody can mistake his position,
lie is opposed to reconstruction and op
posed to the adoption of the Constitution.
There were those who thought from Judge
Irwin's antecedents that reconstruction was
as possible under his candidacy as under
Col. Bullock’s. It is of no moment now
to consider whether they would have been
deceived or not. Judge Irwin is defunct.
But there can be no question about Gen.
Gordon. lie has declared himself against
Reconstruction and against the new Con
stitution. Those who vote for him arc
forewarned by himself that by doing so
they vote for the continuance of our
condition as a conquered people, subject
to the will of the conqueror. He has
openly declared that he would prefer a
military government to the adoption of
the Constitution under which he is a
candidate for office, and lie has exhorted
the people to vote it down. At last the
issue is fairly made, and the people can
vote understanding!)*, for General Gordon
and the continuance of military rule, or
Col. Bullock, the Constitution and Re
construction. In voting for the candidates
there can now be no mistake as to their
principles.
THE SITUATION.
We have abstained, for the last few days,
from making extracts from our extensive
correspondence from all sections of the
State, from the tact that our letters uni
versally speak of efforts at intimidation
which have been made by our political
opponents. Now that the military author
ities have undertaken so vigorously to put
down this unlawful and despicable system
of political oppression, we deem it wiser
to refrain from any further notice of these
outrages by the publication of the letters
to which we refer.
Our reports are uniformly cheering, and
indicate a large majority for the Constitu
tion and the regular nominee.
WIIO IS ELIGIBLE *FOR GOVERNOR?
Gen. John B. Gordon. —Wc place at
the head of our columns to-day the name
of General John B. Gordon, of Fulton
county, as the Democratic candidate for
Provisional Governor of Georgia, under and
by virtue of the unconstitutional Recon
struction acts.— Chronicle Sentinel.
For the benefit of the ignoramuses who
compose the Macon regency, we publish
an extract from the LAW.
“SUPPLEMENTARY RECONSTRUC
TION ACT OF CONGRESS, PASSED
JULY 19tii, 1807
‘‘Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That
* * * all persons hereafter elected * * *
to otlicc in said military districts * * *
shall be required to take the oath of office
prescribed by law, for officers of the United
States.”
The oath referred to is that commonly
known as the “test” (or “iron-clad”) oath.
A Tough Question. — It is fair to say that
Bullock, through his organs, denies that
he took an oath to support the Confedraoy.
But here is a question upon which he is
profoundly reticent. Quoth the Journal &
Messenger :
“Did you, as agent of the Southern Express
Company, either directly yourself, or through
any of your subordinates, furnish information to
the Federal army or any of its olticers, against
tbc Southern Confederacy V
We understand that General Rosecranz
publicly thanked the Southern Express
Company for such dirty work, and credited
it with more good service than a battalion
of spies and scouts. Is this so, or is it
not ? Constitutionalist.
Wo have no knowledge of what t eneral
Rosecranz may have said or done, but we
do not believe that he ever made the
statements above attributed to him ; neither
do we believe there is a man connected
with the Constitutionalist office who credits
the low insinuation that Col. Bullock
acted the part of a spy. We are rather
surprised to find such a dirty extract in so
respectable a journal. One would have
thought that such “ gems” should have
been left to the fostering care of the
“decent and respectable” organ up the
street. •
Gordox. —From the mountains to the
seaboard et every one work assiduously, and,
if General Meade is true to his promise for
a fair poll, Gordon will be elected by thirty
thousand majority.— Chronicled > Sentinel.
Gordon stands about as much chance of
election, as a.feline would in without
claws to get out.
Let, therefore, the friends of Reese and
Irwin unite cordially and work together
harmoniously and energetically, and the
Democratic party will roll up an overwhelm
ing majority lor Gordon on the 20th of April.
Chrinicle it Sentinel.
Are the people of Georgia a flock of silly
sheep to be led by such bell-wethers as are
endeavoring to transfer them to a forlorn
hope ?
To accomplish this it is the duty of every
Conservative to Register and get his friends
to Register. There is no time to be lost.—
Chronicle <(■ Sentinel.
Yes! to accomplish the work, it will taka
every Democrat, so-called, who is allowed a
vote, and double the number over, to effect
anything.
The women and children of three families
living near tsati Antonio, Texas, were
pounced upon by Indians, while the men
were away, and one of women killed ; the
others were carried away, but all the chil
dren were killed before they had gono a
mile, probably beenuse they couldn’t keep up
with their captors.
JFortbe National Republican.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Valdosta, Ga„ April sth, 1868.
This little town is quite excited just now;
Dr. Joseph AV. Clift, who is stumping this
District as the nominee of the Republican
Party to represent it in Congress, had an
nounced that he would speak there on Sat
urday night at Bo'elock. The notices were
torn down in the night and K. K. K. notices
appeared that morning, saying “Yankees
and Niggers, Beware 1”
About two hundred people had assembled,
when, at the appointed time, Dr. C., attend
ed by Judge John O’Neal and several other
gentlemen, entered the Court House- The
audience were being seated, when the Judge
was suddeuly called out, and almost at the
some moment some one discovered a keg of
powder under the building.
Seeing that the colored people wore gett’ng
very much exci'ed, and pistols being drawn
on both sides, Dr. C- informed them that be
would postpone the meeting, and endeavored
to get the colored people away, to prevent
bloodshed, asserting however, that he would
not leave Valdosta until he made a public
speech.
It was too late, however, for a white man
fired into the crowd, and presently a num
her of shots replied to him, and a regular
volley was fired on both sides.
AVhen the colored men emptied their
pistols, they left the mob in possession of
the Court House. By great exertions on
part of Dr. C. and others, the colored men,
who were terribly excited, were calmed,
and prevented from returning to renew
the fight.
Judgo O’Neal's life was repeatedly
threatened by the mob.
The mob had complete possession of
Valdosta all Saturday night, shouting and
firing pistols near the dwellings of Recon
structionists. They swore that some of
them should share the fate of Ashburn.
Union men were threatened, and were
guarded by their friends all night, expect
ing an attack.
The city authorities were overawed, and
did nothing. There are no police here.
The parties implicated are some of them
well connected, and belong to good families;
hence the effort will be strong to prevent a
fair investigation, and if the authorities try
them, from present appearances, it will be
all a farce.
Most of the citizens desire military
protection. The excitement, though not so
great to-day as last night, is still high, as
threats have been made that the disturb
ance will be renewed to night by an attack
on the Reconstructionists.
The policy seems to be to frighten white
men from republicanism, and colored men
from the polls at elections. Dr. C. declares
he will speak hero if he dies in the attempt.
This country has a bad reputation for
peace and good order.
Free speech must be maintained at all
hazards.
Monday April 6. —No mail went yesterday
and I add to day, that the Mayor put six
armed men ou police duty last night. Two
of the men who assisted in putting the
powder beneath the building have left the
city.
Registration commenced to day. Every
man who can, will enroll his name. I have
time only to state the bare facts connected
with tb* affair. Dr. Clift will speak here to
day or to morrow, in Thomasville, Saturday,
and Quitman on Monday next. Ratification
aud Bullock are all right in this Congres
sional District, and Clift makes friends
wherever he goes among candid , reasonable
men. Valdosta.
AND STILL THEY COME.
Hear our brother of the Macon Telegraph
discourse as follows:
Under the heading of "Democracy Be
trayed”—a very ungracious one, and
against which we enter our protest—the
Chronicle k Sentinel, of Sunday, has an
article which we regard as most ill-advised
and calculated to do a vast amount of harm
to a cause which it professes to serve, and
we believe does serve conscientiously, if
indiscreetly:
“ Our telegram from Atlanta stale that a
majority of the Democratic Central Execu
tive Committee have been so indiscreet as
rush into the trap set for them by Meade
and his understrappers, and have agreed to
abandon Irwin and put up Gen. Gordon.
The free Democracy should have stood by
Irwin to the bitter end. This is no time for
wavering or doubt. The great principle
involved requires—nay, demands heroic
action. Let us show to our Northern
friends—yea, to the whole .world, that the
people of Georgia will not surrender,
except through force, what little of freedom
of opinion is left them by the terms of the
Military bills.
Now this all sounds very well, but it is too
“heroic” for men engaged in the serious
work of saving their State from ruin, and
resolved to use the means necessary to
the end. The facts are not correctly stated
by our cotemporary. It was Judge Irwin
who abandoned the Democratic party and
the field, and not the Executive Committee
who abandoned him. He withdrew from the
canvass, positively refused the use of his
name in the election, thereby leaving the
Committee no alternative but to abandon the
contest or put forward a candidate of their
own. This latter, like wise, practical men,
they did, and they both chose a good man
and put him out in time to win the race, and
he will win it triumphantly. The most seri
ous obstacle he will have to contend with
will be the unwise course of a few of his
“heroic” friends, as illustrated in the article
from which we have quoted.
The action of the Committee is decided.
It approached unanimity nearer than any
previous recommendation they had made,
but a single member dissenting, and he,
probably, the author of the article in the
Chronicle. Under the circumstances, and as
there is no time for disagreements and recon
siderations, we think, when overruled, it
would have been far more graceful for him
to have acquiesced.
Cool!— In our editorial career fcf more
years than we like to enumerate, not being a
Benedict, we have known nothing cooler
than the Chronicle and Sentinel's article of
Sunday morning, headed “Stand by your
Colors.” The editor declares that “we must
nail the name of Irwin to our masthead,
and that it we go down it must be with our
colors floating on the breeze.” When we
consider that this advice comes from a
journal that has never hoisted Irwin's name
at all, and which has giveu, we most re
spectfully submit, rather a lukewarm sup
port to his candidate, the justice and pro
priety of the adjective will readily be appre
ciated.—Journal and Messenger.
Decidedly cool and Alaskian, and just
what we have thought in regard to the mat
ter. Hit him again; it’s none of our
funeral.
A wonderful crayon drawing by a deceased
English artist named Carter, who, bereft of
his arms, learned to manage his pencil with
his mouth, has been on exhibition in Boston,
where it has attracted a good deni of atten
tion, and will soon be brought to New York.
It represents a rat catcher and his dogs, and
has been praised by even so high an author
ity in canine portraiture as Sir Edwin Land
seer. This artist executed only four draw
ings, one of which is in the possession of
Queen Victoria.
G() VERNOR WELLS.
Tbo writer of the following letter is now
the Provisional Governor of Virginia. That
he is sound on tbo political issues now before
the country will be seen by his recommenda
tion, in 1865, of the policy afterwards
adopted by Congress :
LETTER FROM H* U. WELLS.
Being invited by a delegation of loyal
citizens of the State, to accompany them
to see the President, aud lay certain mat
ters affecting the future interest of the Com
monwealth before him, Gen. Wells address
ed the Chairman of the Committee the
following note, which we commend to the
careful perusal of our readers:
Alexandria, Va., June 21, 1865.
My Dear Sir :—l have the honor to ac
knowledge the receipt of your note inviting
me to accompany a Committee of loyal citi
zens of Virginia in a call upon the Presi
dent of the United States. My official duties
deny me that pleasure, but 1 cannot forego
the opportunity of expressing my earnest
sympathy in the movement you are inaugu
rating. Very soon after the full of Rich
mond I became aware that many of the
leading secessionists, despairing of resisting,
by force of arms, the power of the Govern
ment or the mighty logic of events, which
was soon to make Virginia truly free, had
determined to attempt by policy what force
could not do. Therefore it was, that soon
after that event, these persons in considera
ble numbers, and with such concert as to
indicate a common purpose, appeared and
took the oath of allegiance.
Au election of members of the Legisla
ture was soon to be held, and among those
who announced themselves as caudidates
were some who had uniformly refused to
take the oath, and preferred to lose their
property and be separated from their families
rather than to acknowledge the supremacy
of the Government ot the United States.
Two years of duty here, and such general
acquaintance as it brought, taught me that
an oath of allegiance was not conclusive
evidence of loyalty, but that it was nearly
worthless, unless accompanied by consistent
conduct and loyal acts, aud no surprise was
felt when, on counting the vote, it was found
that these gentlemen were elected by large
majorities to represent the people in a State
Government whoso legal existence they had
positively denied, and for whose overthrow
some of them had within one year plotted
and conspired. No one for a moment mis
understood their design, for it was too
palpable, and too frequently admitted by
the less discreet, to leave room for doubt.
With the Legislature in the hands of these
men, the calling of a Constitutional Con
vention, which would repeal the present and
restore the old Constitution, would be a work
of short time aud little labor, but very sad
in its consequences both to the white and
black man.
The country is to day in a most disturbed
condition. The rights of property are not
respected ; the man whose fidelity to the
Government has never been questioned, is
told by men fresh from the ranks of the
enemy, that Virginia will soon furnish him
no home ; that its boundaries are not broad
enough ; that there is no room for the “Yan
kee” or those who helped to carry on “the
Yankee war.” The colored man, who #as
held worthy to bear arms, and did fight
bravely, finds no protection, peace, or
security, except when in the immediate pres
ence of a military force, and not always
even then. This is all wrong, and you are
in danger of losing the very things for
which the war has been prosecuted; you
may theorize and speculate to the contrary,
but the facts remain, and tho only wise
course is to admit their existence and provide
the remedy.
And what is that remedy ? It is, in my
judgment, to establish a military provi
sional government, to locate a sufficient
military force to preserve peace, command
respect, and secure order. In other words,
to vindicate the supremacy of the law. Then
disfranchise those who are not loyal—
making loyal acts and not a paper oath
tho test of loyalty. This done, create a
perpetual balance of power, which will,
at all times, secure you from political
danger, or, more plainly, let the negro
vote. He has fought—let him enjoy
the fruits of victory which lie helped
to win ; and, in extending the elective
franchise to him, it is done not because be
is a negro, but because he is a free, native
born citizen of the United States, twenty
one y’ears of age, of sound mind, who has
always been, and now is, faithful to his
Gonernment, obeying all the laws of the
State ; and every man, white or black, who
has such a record, ought to vote. It is
true there i3 a prejudice—an old preju
dice, against such a measure ; but then it
is only a prejudice, and not an argument,
and should be weighed as such.
I am, very respectfully,
Your most obedient servant,
H. J. AY ELLS.
To S. F. Beach, Esq., President Va. Union
Association. „
THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO
RACE.
In one of his recent lectures in New
York, Du Chailu, the great traveller and
naturalist, who has seen more, perhaps, of
the interior of Africa than other living
white man, took occasion to give his views
concerning the relations of the different
races of men. According to the theory,
which is the same that has been advanced
in Great Britain and been maintained by
one of the great British Quarterly Reviews,
there is, among animals, a law of “natural
selection” which operates the disappearance
of the inferior types and the increased
prevalence of the superior. “I believe
firmly,” says Professor Du Chaillu, “in the
extinction of the races of men, with the
exception of the progressive Caucasian
rac». I not only believe in that extinction,
but I sec it. Wo all sec it. Hence the
Hottentot Bushman, being the lowest type
of the negro, will disappear first.” But he
does not accuse the white race of cruelty
and injustice to the other races. On the
contrary, he says: “I am amazed when I
hear men asserting that the white man is
the cause of the extinction of the aborigines
wherever he comes in contact with them—
as if races had only been disappearing of
late. We see the races disappearing one
after another; and, as I have said many
times before, I mourn not; for in this order
of things I see a wise law of Providence—
a law by which the highest man takes the
place of the lowest.”
If, indeed, there exists such a law of
■ature, how certainly will its operation be
hastened bjr every element of antagonism
that may be introduced between the white
and black races I —Charleston News.
Geokuia. —The election in Georgia takes
place from the 20th to the 21th of April.
Colonel R. B. Bullock, the Republican
candidate fbr Governor of Georgia, is a
native of New York, but has lived in
Georgia for ten years. The position of
Governor of that State, under the new
Constitution, is one of great responsibility
and influence, and the opposition to him is
mainly stimulated by the fear lest in his
selections for these offices he may prefer
loyal to disloyal men k His success removes
the whole tribe of placemen, and gives the
first opportunity for the friends of the
Union in that State to vote without fear of
intimidation from their recent oppressors—
Washington Chronicle.
Louisville has a trotting mule which has
made the mile in 2:21,
GENERAL ITEMS.
Boston’s new letter boxes are of glass.
Montreal claims to be growing twenty
thousand a year.
The Charleston, 8. C., boys have petition
ed for leave to fly kites.
The bridge over the Mississippi at Bur
lington, lowa, will be finished in July.
Helltown, in Florida, has changed its
name to Gordon.
A country paper says: Now that horse
flesh is an article of diet, we may expect to
see sweepstakes upon the table.
Buffalo harbor is to have a breakwater,
which will require twenty-seven thousand
cords of stone, and cost three million dollars.
Prentice proposes to stand by the Presi
dent. Shall they not both fall into the
ditch ?
The Republicans at Jeffersonville, Ind.,
are reviving the “Wide Awake ” organiza
tion, which did such good service in 1860.
Tho New York Sun says Admiral Farra
gut is a “great personal friend of Gen Grant,
and a more outspoken Radical than Gen.
Grant is.”
The unlucky rooster, displayed by the
Boston Post, the day after the election iu
New Hampshire, is called, by the Lowell
Courier, “the first blue bird of the season.”
Mr AVin. E. Dodge, of New York, re
cently gave SIO,OOO towards the building of
the contemplated Theological Ilall at Yale
College.
A farm, it is said, can be bought in South
Carolina for tho price of a spring overcoat
in Philadelphia, but the difficulty is how to
keep the farm.
The plumbago found near Easton, Pa.,
furnishes the lead used in American pencils.
It is said to be far superior to the imported
article.
The AVashingtou correspondent of the
Boston Journal says that it is every day
more evident that tho conviction and depo
sition of the President are inevitable.
Fifty cannon, made in France, over one
hundred years ago, and sold by tho Haylien
government two months since, have arrived
at Troy, and will bo recast into bells.
A large cave has been explored near
Bentonville, Ark. One chamber is six hun
dred feet high. The cave has been explored
to the distance of nine miles.
A. T. Stewart and Claflin k Cos., of New
York, have mad* large reductions in the
prices of calico prints, and their establish
ments are besieged by retail buyers.
A condenser is reported as having been
purchased by Colonel Mercwether, on the
Red Sea, capable of condensing 0,000
gallons a day.
The Detroit brewers have advanced tlicir
prices of ale, lager and porter. The new
rates are sl2 per barrel for present use,
sl4 for new, and $lO for old stock.
There arc one hundred and two public
billiard establishments in Chicago, with
over three hundred tables. The total
amount paid out for this game in that city
is estimated at $300,000 a year.
The Philadelphia Ledger advocates the
proposed new coinage of one, two, three,
five and ten cent pieces of nickel and cop
per, and a twenty cent piece of better metal,
perforated in tho centre.
An essay in an English Magazine, on
“Wall street and American Finance,” esti
mates the annual amount of money trans
actions in Wall street at between $15,000,-
000,000 and $10,000,000,000.
San Francisco had the excitement of a
boar chasein the streets a few weeks ago.
Four Mexican lasses fell upon the neck ot
the beast at the same instant, and cut short
its career.
Pleuropneumonia continues to commit
great ravages among some of the finest
herds of cattle in the vicinity of Baltimore.
Ir. one stable out of thirty eight cases, thirty
five proved fatal.
A mortgage for $20,000,000 is said to
have been lately given by the Hartford and
Erie Railroad Company, and recorded in
tho Clerk’s office ot Putnam county, in this
State.
Glycerine, equal to the best imported, is
now largely manufactured in th s country,
and sold at half the price of the foreign
article. One of the largest manufactories in
this country is at Cincinnati.
An immense number ot persons from the
Eastern States are leaving lor California.
The steamers going out are crowded with
passengers, and new steamers are being put
ou.
In thq Dead Letter Office at Washington
are now arranged in show cases, for public
exhibition, upwards of a thousand articles of
value and interest, which have, from time
to time, been received and yet remain unre
claimed.
Mr. Schwabe, a German astronomer, has
discovered greenish belts, which appear and
disappear periodically, in the moon. These
belts, he thinks, indicate vegetation. If this
be established, it will afford a presumptive
evidence of the moon's habitability.
Archbishop Manning, in a pastoral read
in the Roman Catholic churches of London
on the 23d instant, holds firmly by the
present denominational system of education,
and insists upon the element of religious
instruction in the education of the young.
It will be noticed that, while Senator Wade
scrupulously refrains from voting, Senator
Patterson, the son-iu-law of the accused,
votes every time. The virtuous indignation
designed for the interested parties who take
part in the trial can there find a proper
object on which to vent itself.
One of the most determined suicides on
record is that of Charles Billet of New
Orleans. On the 19th ultimo he prepared
something like a bombsbe I, locked himself
in his room, and waited for the explosion.
His body was shockingly mutilated.
A bill has been reported in the New York
Assembly, which requires street cars to have
divisions affixed to the seats, similar to those
in use iu ferry boats, such divisions to be
placed at least twenty inches apart. It adds
that in cars which have no such divisions,
passengers need not pay any fare.
Timothy Hurley, of Fall River, fell from
the top of the mainmast of schooner Phil.
Sheridan, on Tuesday, and was severely
injured. He was formerly one of the crew
of the famous Kearsage, and was on board
of her at the time of the fight with the
Alabama.
Chloromethyl is the name of anew
amesthetic agent. It is entirely free from
most of the unpleasant accompaniments of
chloroform or ether, and it is at the same
time as powerful. Properly, it should be
called bi chloride of methyline, but chloro
methyl is the more convenient abbrevia
tion.
Os Mr. Tennyson's lines “On a Spiteful
Letter” the Tomahawk says: To see
Napoleon on the rock of Elba turn round
and run after his cocked hat, which the
wind might have blown off - , would not be
as great a descent from the sublime to the
ridiculous as this sad ebullition of childish
ness on the part of the author of “In
Mcmoriam.”
Seventy-two Cardinals compose the
Sacred College at present, six Bishops,
fifty Priests and sixteen Deacons. Twenty
three hats are vacant. During the reign of
the present Pope eighty-four Cardinals
have died. The oldest Cardinal is the
Archbishop of Toledo, who is SB; the
oldest iu the ecclesiastical office has worn
the hat 30 years.
The Herald says “Indianapolis fa now
considered the greatest egg and poultry
market iu the AVest. There are twelve firms
engaged in packing eggs, some of whom
now pay out as much as S2OOO per day for
poultry and eggs. Two hundred and nine
teen barrels of eggs, averaging sixty eight
dozen to the barrel, were shipped from this
city yesterday, and the season has barely
commenced.”
Somebody who has seen the team-horses
of the world, including the famous animals
belonging to the London breweries, the draft
horses of Paris and Adams k Co.’s tandem
teams in New York, say3 the horses of the
Spragues’ factories iu Providence surpass
them all, and are veritable “marvels of
beauty and power.” One team of bays he
has never been matched outside of the stables
of Princes.
Ex-President Fillmore has been named as
the possible Democratic candidate for the
President. From his antecedents there
seems to be considerable probability that he
will be a favorite ot that party. He started
bis political life as an anti-Mason, afterwards
as an Abolitionist, then an Abolition Whig,
then a Know Nothing, and during the war a
disloyal Copperhead. With this record, Mr.
Fillmore’s chances for the Democratic nomi
nation ought to be good.
Chicago, in May next, is to have rather
more than her share of conventions. On
May 19th the Soldiers’ National Convention
will be convened there. On the 20th the
Republican National Convention will be
held. Ou the same day the National Con
vention of Wool Growers and Manufacturers
will take place. On the 21st of May the
General Conference of the Methodist De
nomination of the United States will be
held.
The Baton Rouge Advocate says that the
sugar cans in that State is progressing
finely, and on most of the few places planted
in cane the rows are lining already. The
stubble cane is sound and *hea!thy, and
there will doubtless he a heavy crop of cane
this fall. Little sugar, however, will be
made. The demand for plant cane for
places that will then be prepared to “go into
sugar,” it is thought, will consume the
surplus of every sugar plantation in this
vicinity.
Queen Victoria held a “Drawing Room”
at Buckingham Palace on the 12th instant,
and it is again noted in the Court Circular
that “the United States Envoy was absent
from unavoidable circumstances.” The “un
avoidable circumstances” are the absurd law
of Congress, prohibiting our foreign Minis
ters from wearing usual dress upon State
occasions, and Mr. Adams was too much of
a gentleman to intrude iu costume which was
not appropriate to the occasion.
An amusing incident occurred in this
vicinity a few days since. A right jolly
good fellow (but one who occasionally
mixes the water he drinks a little too
strong) was found by a lady friend in too
close proximity to the highway. Before
he could be removed from the gaze of the
travelling public, lie was brought to by
tho query, “Well, well, here, what’s the
matter now ?” “Oh, not (hie) anything,
Doctor, only laid down in the road a little
to scare this (hie), to make her (lrie) thiuk
think I’s dead.”
Here is Josh Billing’s last “essa" on the
fashions: “Street dresses are worn here
almost unanimously ; in fact, it iz impossible
tew see eny kind ov femail in the streets
without some kind ova dress on—l mean
street dress. They are made iu the shape
ova dinner bell, and fit just about az tb'ht.
AV ater-falls are a peg higher than they waz,
and soon will be worn on the top of the lied,
like a rooster’s comb. Hoop skirts are close
reefed, and tilters are on their last legs. Kid
gloves are the rags iu lavender; the more
the lavender the better ; and the hair eddy3
in the front like a nest ov yung whirlpools
just hatched out, and drops down behind
from the waterfalls in one link a foot long
about the size ova rope, with a poker com
ing out ov it.
A Lombard peasant, who had accumulated
a considerable sum in America, found that
in Italy his earnings were worth 45,000f. in
paper, and lost no time iu exchanging his
gold lor notes of the National Bank. He
was living in Narese, and when lie had bart
ered his Napoleons lor Government paper,
he laid his wealth upon a tabic, and sallied
forth, leaving a little child at play in his
room. AVhen he returned homo ho found
his hard earned fortune a mere smouldering
heap of ashes upon his hearth. The child,
for want of some better amusement, had
flung the pile of notes into the fire. In a
paroxysm of fury the man stretched the
innocent offender dead at his feet with a
single blow, and is now in jail awaiting his
trial for the murder.
Two women lately fought a prize battle in
the neighborhood of Shrewsbury, England,
for a stake of five shillings. No accompa
niment of the ordinary prize fight was
wanting, even to the seconds and the crowd
of blackguards. “Iu the third round,” we
learn, “Mary, smarting under a well aimed
blow, bit Alice in the arm.” This was a
breach of the rules of the ring, and a row
ensued. “The champions were then led
away to another field, where four more
rounds were fought with varying success:
but by this time the police came up and put
a -stop to further proceedings.” The princi
pals and three of the accessories were sub
sequently summoned before the magistrates
and fined in sums varying from fifteen shil
lings to a guinea.
A law of Kentucky, passed two years ago>
provides that the widow mid minor children
of a person killed by the careless, wanton,
or malicious use of firearms or other deadly
weapons, not in self-defence, may have an
action against the person or persons who
committed the killing, and all others aiding
or promoting the killing, or any one or more
of them ; and in such action the jury may
give vindictive damages. The first ease
uuder this law was tried iu the Casey county
Court, last week. Tbe suit was brought by
a Mrs. Portman against R. T. Pearce for
killing her husband. The homicide was
admitted, but it was claimed that the killing
was done in self-defence. The jury took
that view of the matter, and found for the
defendant.
I was perambulating the piazza of the
Hotel, in company with the daugh
ter of the landlord. She had been recount
ing to me all her father’s little successes
and reverses in life ever since he had
adopted the profession of a Boniface,
and among the latter (that is, the reverses),
the rather prominent and discouraging one
of having liis _ “hostelrio” burned down
without the mitigating circumstance of an
insurance upon it. I professed a proper
amount of sympathy for so great a calami
ty, and ventured to inquire whether acci
dent or the torch of the incendiary had
wrought the ruin. “Haow 1” inquired
Rustica. “Was it the work of an incen
diary ?” I repeated. She looked at me
with a puzzled air for a moment, and then :
“No,” said she, slowly shaking her head,
“no; some one sot fire to it."
The New Orleans Dee tells the
Democratic leaders who are trying to find
a Presidential candidate, that they “must
select either a War Democrat or a
Conservative Republican as their nominee,
if they wisli to avail themselves of all the
chances.” It warns them against politicians
of the stripe of Pendleton or Seymour, and
is cute enough to see that the nomination
of any such man means defeat. There is
truth in all this; but who, then, are the
Democrats to nominate, and on what
platform is lie to stand ? If they cannot
nominate any man who has been recognized
as a Democratic leader during
seven years; if they must rep u , Jia 7,
standard bearers as well as their
if they must enlist under the
ner while keeping step to the music
rogue's march, then how much Iw the
is left to them? AVe know thaf
Democratic party are in an exceeding i *
Plight; but they have wit
know that if it be ruin to nominate t « .*°
Democrat, it is everlasting ruin to
a bogus Republican.—AC A". Tim,^^-
One day last winter, a bov f™, ,
South, on a visit to the city L , ,! 1 *
his lesson in the art of “sliding dowr
when he suddenly found his fpetin^' I ?’’
close contact with a lady’s silk dres« -
prised, mortified, and confused he
from his sled, and, cap in hand
menced an earnest apology; ‘ iij c ’ a ‘
pardon, madam; 1 am very
"Nevermind” exclaimed the lady
is no great harm done, and you feel ,
about it than I do.” “B u t
said the boy, as his eyes filled wh&!’
“your dress is ruined. I thought r
would be very angry with me for heir,
careless.” “No, no,”’ replied the
“better have a soiled dress than a
temper.” “Oh ! isn't she a beauty-®* l
claimed the lad, as she passed on. J ei ‘
Boys, read that: See what nolit,*.
and good temper do. Such a comnlt “
to the lady was deserved if she had “
as homely in face as original sin. '
MARRIED
In this city on Sunday, .Marti Sth, jgg s ,
Kev. Mr. Peck, Mr. WILLIAM WILLEY
Athens, Ga., to Miss JENNIE FREY 0 f A ’ '
ta. No cards. ’ “" , *
SPECIAL NOTICES*" "
SST NOTICE THIS.-JACOBi^B
is nominated as a candidate for Congress in.
this (the sth Congressional) District by both ~
__ap9—td_ WHITE ft COLORED.
jj@“CONSIGNEES PER SOUTeTcar.
OLINA RAILROAD, April S, 186 S.—T y j
Son, Nelson & Mcllwane, W A Ramsey ft Cc J
A Gray A Cos, Wyman ft May, A Poullain, h.
gusta Factory, Gray ft Turley, C A CheatVnft
Bro, Ootjcn A Doscher.L Guerin ft Cos, C Spaeth
W M Jacobs, O F Cheatan, Conley Force ft CJ
A Frederick, So Ca P Mill Cos, W C Jessup, z
McCord, T Dalwiok, O S Hookey, H H Hickman.
JSaT-T IIE CITY TAX DIGESTFOUfe
has been placed in my hands for collection. So
in dulgeuce beyond that provided by the City In
Ordinances can be extended.
I. P. GARVIN,
a or 7—Kit Collector ft Treasurer.
fI@“FOR COUNTY
respectfully offer myself as a candidate for re
election to the office of Treasurer of Richmond
County at the ensuing flection.
apr7—td* HENRY E. CLARKE.
ARE AUTIIORIRED TO AN
ncunce tho Hon. John Harris, of Nemon county,
as the candidate cf Relief and the Constitution,
for Senator from the 27th Senatorial District,
which is comprised of the counties of Newton,
Walton and Clark. apr'-td
FOR TAX COLLECT OIL—WE ARE
authorized to announce JOHN A. BOHLEEass
candidate for re-election to tho office of Tai Col
lector of Richmond County, at tho ensuing elec
WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO AN
NOUNCE the name of Mr. MATTHEV
SIIERON as a Candidate for re-election to the
office of Receiver of Tax Returns for Richmond
County at the ensuing election. ap4—td
THE llox. HENRY W. HILLIARD
will be supported as a CANDIDATE FOR CON
GRESS from tho FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT of Georgia, at tho election on the
20th of April next, by MANY VOTERS.
mh24-td
T HER IGIITHREG FLA RMONTH-
Iy Meeting of the Reliance Loan and Building
Association, will bo held at tbo City Hall on
Thursday next, 9th inst., at 7) o'clock, P. M.
Members can pay their instalments to the
Treasurers. 11. Shepard, until 5 o’clock p. m.
of tho same day. W. 11. EDWARDS,
a pro eod3t Secre’ary.
jggp- 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 9th,
to nominate candidates for County offices, to to
supported at the coming election, and attend to
any other business that may come before tho
meeting.
Distinguished Speakers have been invited to
address tho meeting and it is expected that they
will do so.
Let there he a grand rally of tho frieeda of
Reconstruction and Col. Bullock, our candi
date for Governor.
By order County Executive Committee.
J. E. BRYANT,
apt—td Secretary.
Jjggr MARRIAGE and celibacy
AND TIIE HAPPINESS OF TRUE MAN
HOOD—An Essay for Young Men on tbo Crime
of Solitude, and the Physiological Errors, Abuses
and Diseases which create impediments to MAK*
111 AGE, with sure moans of Relief. Sent in
scaled letter envelopes, free of charge.
Address I)r. J. SKILLIN IIOUGHTO’,
Howard Association,
fel— out Philadelphia, Pa*
HEW ADVERTISEMENT^
STENT OILS
AND
KEY TAGS.
Tiie subscriber having beenap
pointed agent for the BALTIMORE STE>"
CIL WORKS, is prepared to take orders for a
kinds of Stencils and Key Tags.
Canvassers will call on the citizens gcncralip
Samples can also bo seen at the store of
GEO. A. OATES,
apO—St* 340 Broad
Change of Fare and Schedule.
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
Superintendent's Office, !
AUGUSTA & SUMMERVILLE R. R- CO..
Augusta, Ga., April 8, IS6S. )
[N ORDER TO MEET THE VIEWS 01
-L business public, the price of tickets is, 1.
this date, reduced to the rate of Slal* *
TICKETS FOR ONE DOLLAR instead
twelve as heretofore, and the Depot of the 0
pany, on McKinno street, is to be, hercaftc*-
established terminus of the City Line. ...
The first cars will leave the Depot, on * lc \
nie street, at 7.00 A. M., and every fijt c ? n
utes thereafter during the day until 7.w ‘ '
when tho last cars will leave the Depot an
turn about ¥.OO P. M.
SUMMERVILLE LINE.
{From Depot to United State’s AnetuM
First car leaves Depot at 0.10 A. M..
TJ. S. Arsenal. . \,
Cars leave U. S. Arsenal and Depot at * • .
M.,nnd at intervals of one hour thereafter, *
the day, until 8.00 P. M., when last car le P
from Arsenal.
Summerville cars leaving ArsenalatS. t * '* r
1.00 P. M. and C.OO P. M., will proceed to
of Broad and Jackson streets, and will lea'
point for Arsenal at 5.4 5 A. M., L J• ' '
fi. lo P. M., respectively.
aps—tf Superintend