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National Ucpublican
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•THURSDAY MORNING April S3, 1861
For PHBSIDENT
Os the Uxited States:
ULYSSES S. (iRAIT,
For Governor
OF GEORGIA :
HON.K. B. BIJLLOCK
OF RICHMOND.
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FOR CONGRESS:
J. W. Ci ift, First District.
R. H. Wuiteley, Second District-
Wm. P. Edwards, Third District.
Samcei. F. Gove, Fourth District.
C. 11. Prince, Fifth District.
John A. Wimpy, Sixth District.
J. Atkins, Seventh District.
Richmond County Nominations.
For Stale Senator (18th District.) —
Hon. BENJAMIN CONLEY.
For House of Representatives —
EPHRAIM TWEEDY,
J. E. BRYANT,
Til OS. P. BEARD.
For Clerk of the Superior Court —
E. M. BRAYTON.
For Ordinary. —SAMUEL LEVY.
For Sheriff.—A. G. RUFFIN.
For Tax Collector. —W. T. PAGE.
For Tax Receiver. —J. B. VAUGIIN.
For Treasurer. —W. 11. STALLINGS.
For Coroner. —W. P. RHODES.
For Surveyor. —E. W. BROWN.
PLATFORM.
Resolved, That we pledge our support to
the Constitution framed by the Constitu
tutional Convention of this State now in
session.
Resolved, That we present to the friends of
Reconstruction in Georgia this Constitution
as our Platform, atul we urgently request
them to ratify it.
Resolved, That we pledge our support to
the Hon. 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..
Vote for Georgia and Hen*J*cople.
THE LAST DAY !
VOTE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL
LIBERTY!
VOTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS!
VOTE FOR YOUR ALTARS AND
YOUR HOMES!
VOTE FOR SELF-PR V.Simvatiom i
VOTE FOR LIFE, LIBERTY. PROP
ERTY, AND YOUR SACRED
HONOR!
VOTE FOR PEACE, FOR LAW AND
ORDER. FOR TRANQUILITY,
PROSPERITY, AND
HAPPINESS!
VOTE FOR YOUR INTERESTS, FOR
THE COUNTRY’S GOOD, AND
THE SUCCESS OF
TRUTH!
VOTE FOR YOUR HOMES, YOUR
FIRESIDES, YOUR FAMILIES,
YOUR CHILDREN, AND
YOUR CHILDREN’S
CHILDREN!
“ LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIH’ST
AT BE THY COUNTRY’S, THY
GOD’S, AND TRUTH’S 1”
TWO STRINGS TO THEIR BOW.
The Democracy have two modes by
which they hope to defeat reconstruction.
The first is by a direct vote against the
Constitution, tlie other by electing Gordon.
1 heir very ticket show’s tlieir design iu
this contest—“ Against the Constitution,
and for John B. Gordon.” Are not these
words significant ? A vote for Gordon is a
vote against the Constitution, and whoever
is deceived into voting a ticket “For the
Constitution” and for Gordon, might as
well “go the whole bog,” and vote against
the Constitution.
It is useless to say that Gordon, if
elected, will be sworn to support tlie Con
stitution ; he will have Ben Hill for his
Prime Minister, and will be taught to sup
port the Constitution as lie understands it.
There are a thousand ways in which un
scrupulous Governors and Presidents can
avoid carrying into effect any law or Con
stitution. Aside from the veto power, they
can, upon various pleas, render rAI and
void any provision of any law. They can
appoint officers and judges who will
declare any statute, and even the Constitu
tion itself, unconstitutional.
It is rather late to warn those who
desire ratification against voting for Gor
don, but there yet remains one day in
which something can be done to keep the
people from that suicidal course. It is
certain that if Gordon is elected, and can
serve in tlie office of Governor, that the
Constitution is as effectually defeated as
though voted down at the ballot box
He runs avowedly as tlie enemy of tlie
Constitution, and is any one foolish enough
to suppose lie is going to forget his hos
tility when he shall have attained the
power to gratify it ? Such magnanimity
would be unnatural. The only safe course
for those who desire peace and reconstruc
tion is to vote for the Constitution and its
friend, Col. Buli.ock. To commit the
Constitution into the hands of its enemies
is the height of folly and impudence.
DEMOCRATIC VILLANIES.
The party calling itself Democratic lias
betrayed its true character in tlie pending
election. There has been no sort of fraud
or swindling which has not been openly
practiced. We have advices from the more
remote counties which show that General
Meade’s orders in relation to selling whis
key and intimidation of voters, have been
flagrantly violated. Bribery haa been open
ly practiced, and vote# have been bought
at all prices, from one dollar up to twenty
or more. The soldiers sent to protect the
voters, have in some cases,instead of a pro
tection, proved nuisances, and have enlisted
themselves in the cause of disunion and
Democracy.
We think it unnecessary to say more at
present. The practices, both of some of
the military and of civilians will, doubtless,
be made the subject of investigation and
punishment. Wherever these iniquities
have been practiced and our candidates
defeated by them, the election should be
contested.
Tue Last Opportunity. —The argu
ment is exhausted—Unionists must stand
by their ballots.
We have brought forward precept upon
precept, exhibited example after example;
have faithfully laid good and evil before
the people, and warned them of the
dangerous consequences of refusing the
former ami choosing the latter. We now
tell our people again—in the most earnest
terms—that if they reject the Constitution
offered them, judging the future by the
past, they may expect still greater
calamities and sufferings.
The opposition journals and declaimers
have made all kinds of false statements
about the new Constitution, with a view
to deceive the people. They have asserted
that the Constitution provides for enormous
taxes—that it contemplates mixing the
white and the colored children in the
schools, and the white and the colored
men in the militia, etc. These are false
hoods of the most barefaced kind, and
these opposition leaders know them to be
such when they tell them.
If this Constitution he rejected, what
will follow ? This is the third chance the
people of this State have had to get back
to the Union. They must go back, sooner
or later. They can not remain out of the
Union and have any hope of better times.
They feel and know this to be so. Well,
then, is it not better for all of us to return
at once i Suppose we refuse for the third
time, think yc that we will thereby
conciliate the conqueror ? Will not his
terms be harder next time than they arc
now ? Will not the taxes be heavier, and
on a people still poorer and less able to
pay !
We call upon our people to judge for
themselves. Their dearest interests are at
stake, and no man should cast a vote
without knowing what the effect of his
vote will be.
The New Constitution. —The Dis
union leaders are asking the people of Geor
gia to reject the new Constitution. They
asked them to reject the Constitution made
in 1800. under President Johnson’s plan,
and they did it.' They had a chance to
get the “old Constitution’’ at that time,
but they would not have it.
These leaders now say that the new Con
stitution ought to be rejected on its merits
—and yet, long before it was framed, while
the Convention was in session, they pre-
Juulj'uul it DCIUIU llicv »aiY it, and virgorl flip
people to reject it. This fact, together
with their refusal to take the previous
Constitutional amendment, proves that
they are opposed to reconstruction unless
they can have it in their own way. Will
they get it in tlieir own way ? The man
who thinks they w ill, has not enough sense
to keep out of the Asylum west of the
Oconee.
The people can see for themselves wha
reason, or common sense, or fairness, or
honesty there is in the conduct of these
leaders in this respect, when they reflect
that they advised the people in advance to
reject any Constitution the Convention
might make.
Democratic Misrepresentation. —There
is no truth in the statement that, under the
new Constitution, white children will be
compelled to go to school with colored chil
dren. There will be separate schools. There
will be white teachers for white children, and
colored teachers for colored children. When
a dollar is paid out for the white child, a
dollar will be paid out for the colored child—-
but the children of the two races will not be
required to go to school together. The
colored people arc as much opposed to hav
ing the school together as the white people
are.
The schools for the two races are separate
in the Northern States, in West Virginia,
and in Tennessee. The Freedman’s Bureau,
acting for the Government, lias separate
schools.
The same is true as to militia. The white
and colored males will be enrolled into
separate companies and regiments as they
are divided by the Governnjent. Both races
prefer that this should be so. But they will
be drilled on the same parade grouud, and
they will fight, if war should come, under
the same flag.
All the colored people ask is equality of
political and civil rights—the same rights as
to schools with the whites, aud the same
rights as a portion of our arms-bearing pop
ulation.
The Constitution was not made for the
rich or the poor, or the white, the black, the
colored, or the tawney, but for the whole
people. It could not be it free Constitution
with color in it, or with provisions for any
peculiar class of people. All the Opposition
leaders wanted was to get the word white or
black in the Constitution, so as to destroy the
instrument. They could not get either of
these words in it, because it was designed to
protect the rights of all. They are now
seeking to inflame white men against
the Constitution by the false cries above
referred to. In making these false state
ments about the schools and the militia, they
know they are saying what is not so.
7iie Truth.- —The intelligent, knowing
friends of Gen. Gordon give up the race.
Bullock’s majority will be larger than we
had anticipated. Thousands of white men
are voting for him who did no talking pre
vious to the election. This is exactly as we
predicted it would be. We learn that Gen.
Gordon himself is far from being hopeful.
We also learn that Hon. Howell Cobb says
Bullock’s election is beyond a doubt. Gov.
Brown lias no fears as to the success of Bul
lock. — Era.
The Election in Georgia,
Washington, ApHl 21.—Up to-night
1,300 vote, polled. Large Republican ma
jority.
Dalton, April 21.—A1l is right here-
About 900 votes polled; Bullock 80 votes
ahead.
Crawnordville, April 22. —Republican
tieket, entire, elected. All right.
Madison, April 22.—First day, 575
nearly all for Bullock. Second day, 580.
Bullock far ahead.
Maxey’s (Oglethorpe Cos.), April 22.
Over 1,500 votes polled in two days; all
right. Bullock and the whole ticket will
be elected.
Faihbuun, April 7 —All serene for Bul
lock and the Constitution.
Waynesboro, April 21. —Everything is
going all right for the Republican tieket. Os
1,425 votes polled, 1,300 of them at least
are for Bullock and the Constitution.
[our own cor respondents.)
Washington, Ga., April 21, 1868.
Editor National Republican:
We have met with opposition from an un
expected source. The detachment of the
33d United States Infantry, sent here to
maintain order, etc., seems to have gone
over “boot and saddle” to the obstructionists.
Paragraphs 2d and 3d General Order No.
57 are violated with impunity. Democratic
whites and blacks are afforded every facility
to get to the polls, while Republicans are
kept back. There is no Commissioned
officer with the soldiers here, they are in
charge of a Corporal. Numerous instances
of Democrats just in from the country, being
permitted by the soldiers to go immediately
to the polls and vote- While many Republi
cans have patiently awaited since Monday
morning to get an opportunity, etc.
There are instances of Republicans pay
ing the soldiers as much as a dollar to afford
them an opportunity to vote.
But although the soldiers sent here to
enforce General Meade’s orders have proven
recreant to their trust, we shall carry the
county. That these soldiers may receive
the punishment they so justly merit at the
hands of General Meade, is the desire of
every loyal man in Wilkes.
Waurexton, Ga., April 22, 1868.
Editors National Republican :
Up to last night 1,179 votes were polled.
From all indications three-fourths of them
are for the Constitution and Bullock.
Everything goes along smoothly and quiet,
save the murder of one of the Federal
troops here, which had nothing to do with
the election, and is not disturbing the
voting. However, I think it has, and will
be, the cause of a good many not voting.
Say to Capt. Prince that ho is all right
so faras Warren county is concerned.
The case of murder above alluded to
was pretty thoroughly investigated yester
day, and I understand the evidence against
one the party is very strong.
Voter.
Greensboro, April 22, 1868.
Editor National Republican:
Greene county all O. K. Colonel R. B.
Bullock, the Constitution, and the full
Republican tieket, about 1,000 ahead.
Colored men voting in a solid body the full
Republican ticket. About 000 whites
voting— 2so, at least, calculated fur Bul
lock. We are hard at work. All things
working right. Gordon men all despondent.
Respectfully, Observer.
Lexington, Ga., April 21, 1808.
Dear Republican :
The report fioxn our polls to day is all
O. K. Many men, however, with white
skins, have voted for the mythical ticket,
called Democratic. It is thought here, this
p. ui., that a good many clever men, who
ran upon the Democratic ticket, will, before
long, deny that they w'ere ever in that
peculiar situation. Superior Court is being
held, but will adjourn to night, as the jurors
have been dismissed, and only some old
musty fusty law points remained to be talked
over, as only lawyers can talk. We learn
that the Hon. Robert Toombs is in town,
and that he was heard to say, upon the
streets to day, that “every man who voted
or advocated the Republican ticket ought to
be hung !” If your correspondent did not
know Bobuel so well, he would be scared
awfully, but as he has had many years’
experience in hearing Bobuel’s blasphemous
slang, there is nary scare. But on the
contrary, we think a trip to England, and
a very quick packing up, behooves the
gentleman, when Ben Wade is so sure of
being “Boss” of these “low grounds of sorrow.”
For if Ben Wade becomes President, these
and a good many in Bobuel’s situation in
Georgia, who had better begin packing
their “duds” and leaving for parts unknown.
The most outrageous thing that has oc
curred was enacted in Elberton on yester
day and to-day—partially by the troops sent
there to preserve order, but more especially
by the Rebels still unhuug, in the county of
Elbert; and we will proceed to give you
particulars as far as hoard from up to last
night. Every man who attempted to vote
the Republican ticket, black or white, was
threatened with murder if he did so, and all
the devilish means that could be devised
were used to prevent a fair and equal poll.
To show you what one gentleman received,
I copy the following. I have the original,
and I dare the man who wrote it to acknowl
edge that he did—to wit:
"Mr. S ns: You are here against the
people’s wish, talking your Radicalism and
handing around your Union Flag, and we think
best for you to get away from here.
(Signed) "Elbert.”
This note was not all. The gentleman to
whom it was given, and other gentlemen,
were threatened with murder if they re
mained in the town of Elberton.
The squad of five soldiers sent there
were furnished with Democratic tickets,
and did their best to palm them off upon
the ignorant freedmen as Radical tickets,
for the gentleman before alluded to, Mr.
S., caught them at it, and hence the threats
and intimidation used, not only by the
citizens, but by these U. S. soldiers! Is
this the business of U. S. troops ? Are
they sent to “keep the peace,” or are they
sent out to electioneer for Democratic
partisans ? That is a question we should
like to have answered by somebody who is
able to do it. Here, while every effort that
the d—l could instigate any party to iuvent,
has been used by the so-called Democracy,
men have voted against their own convic
tions, to our certain knowledge, from fear
of outside pressure; and threats have
been made against freedmen, which has
prevented them from voting as freemen.
In some of these cases we have the names
of these men, and shall report them to
Headquarters.
The peace has been very well kept
through these two days, and will, we hope,
to the end.
Wc want the Constitution and Bullock
to have this county with 1,200 majority, if
possible. Oglethorpe.
Lexinuton, Aprii 22d, 1868.
Dear Republican:
Since writing you lust evening I have to
report that a small crowd of Democratic
citizens called the Hon. Robt. Toombs out
to give them comfort, and to rehash and re
hearse some of his war horse speeches. He
spoke a few moments, and came as near as
he dare do to stir up the angry passions and
war spirit of tbo people. The “glorious
National Democracy” was his theme, and he
called on the handful present to stand by
them. Like his llamilcar speech in 1850—
ho was anxious to have the altarof his coun
try again sworn upou—which couutry we
did not hear him say, for he, we learu, has
taken the oath of ullcgiance lo some other
government and country than that of the
United States. The handful of men and
boys then proceeded to call out the Hon.
Linton Stephens, who made them a short ad
dress on Democratic (?) excellencies of course,
and especially that form of Democracy
known as Ben- Hill Democracy—National
Democracy in other sections —and Tory
Democracy everywhere. Such as has been
exhibited in Elbert county at the present elec
tion, and such Democracy as would have been
exhibited here aud elsewhere, if such Demo
cracy had dared to do it; and just such Demo)
cracyjas every where knows no diminution of
hate to those who are loyal to the Union, the
Constitution and the rights of the masses of
the people. Such Democracy as would see
this country again plunged into a fratric
idal war, if it were possible to bring it about,
and such Democracy as Andy Johusdn
created by his ignorance and deviltry, which
is opposed to peace, law and order.
Oglethorpe.
[communicated.
COME, LET US REASON lOGETHER.
Mr. Editor: What answer do you sup
pose would be given in response to the
question, What does the South most need
at this time ? Would not all sensible men,
irrespective of party ties, respond, Peace!
I think so.
In France, empire means peace; in
America, Union signifies the same thing.
To what do we attribute the continued
impoverished condition of our people 7 To
the unsettled state of the country, of course.
Arc any anxious to be delivered from these
encumbrances to progress and prosperity?
Yes, every man in Georgia, and the whole
South, desires that very thing. Is an
opportunity offered for the consummation
of this universal desire ? Yes ; and the
work of the remaining day will prove
whether or not men are alive to their own
interest, or that of party.
I am not a partisan ; but I shall support
candidates because of their real worth, aud
the service they may do their constituents,
and not because they belong to this party
or the other. I shall support all measures
which will, in my opiniou, be most bene
ficial to the State and country. That is
sound policy, is it not ? Will you not
counsel the same ?
Democracy I Has it ever occured to you,
Mr. Editor, that no allusion is made to the
principles of the time-honored Democratic
party? Reference to the newspapers of’44,
’4B, ’52, ’56 and ’6O will show that real
Democratic editors made the fight on princi
pie. Do you see—have you seen—anything
ot the kind in the writings, or have you heard
it in the speeches, of the Democratic leaders
of ’OB ? If you have, I have not. They have
a deal to say about universal suffrage. But
who conferred that privilege ? Did the
Constitutional Convention confer it? No!
Congress did it. Who manumitted the slaves
of the South ? Did the Convention of ’65, by
its action do it ? No! The voice of the Con
queror, the strong arm of power did it, and
Georgians in Convention assembled, as
under the circumstances they were in duty
bound to do, incorporated in the Constitution
an article confirming and guaranteeing their
manumission. All that was done in obedience
to authority ; all that is being done, and
proposed to be done, will be done in obedience
to authority, too.
Then why make such a splutter—why so
much ranting—why such scrambling after
office ? Behold, do they not declare that
every advocate of peaceful measures shall be
politically, morally and socially damned ?
Then why are they so anxious to serve their
fellow citizens iu positions created by these
very same .much abused, unconstitutional
measures? Why not be consistent? Consist
ency is a jewel—don’t they desire to be
jewels ?
Men should not allow themselves to be
blinded by the god of party. They should,
in tlieir manhood, rise superior to such
sickly promptings. Do have an eye to the
welfare of the country ; do perform some
act that will bear ameliorating fruit; do
abandon political, selfish ravings, and
listen to the voice of reason, and listening,
heed that voice ; and heeding, lend your
influence to the restoration of our dis
tracted, half ruined State to the Union,
from which thoughtlessness tore her seven
years since. Oldham.
The Party of Peace. —The Republican
party is the party of peace, concord and
good will. It proscribes no one. It says to
all, vote as you please ; the country is free—
enjoy your freedom.
To the Mechauic it says: We will protect
you by lien laws, and we will build you up
by giving prosperity once more lo the
country.
To the owner of a Homestead it says:
Stay were you are; the shelter over your
wives and children, and the land around
your house, shall not be takeu from you ;
enjoy them, improve your possessions, and
be prosperous and happy.
To the whole people it says: Let us go
back to the Union. We have been out too
long already. We shall have no prosperity
and no permanent civil government until we
submit in good faith to the national will and
return to the Union. Come, go with us, aud
we will do you good. We offer you peace,
concord, equal rights, and good government;
onr opponents offer you continued strife, dis
cord, high taxes, poverty, and ultimate
anarchy.
Postmaster General Randall, figured
badly on the impeacdiment trial on Saturday.
He removed a Postmaster named Blodgett,
at Augusta, Ga., as he admitted, without
regard to law. Blodgett was an active
Union man, chairman of a Republican com
mittee, and was endorsed by Generals Pope
and Meade as one of the most reliable Union
men in the State. The rebels, because of
his Unionism, charged him with perjury in
taking the test oath, had him indicted, and
upon this Randall removed him, without in
forming him of the charges, or reporting the
case to the Senate. Mr. Butler sent Mr.
Randall from the stand to get some papers
which he conveniently left behind, and told
him to come again on Monday.— Cincinnati
Gazette, April 20.
One great reason why children dislike
attending church and listening to addresses
made for their especial benefit is, that but
a small portion of the clergymen have the
tact of bringing their thoughts to a grade
equal to that of their young audience, and
that when they have said enough they
don’t know enough to stop. More brevity
and direct application arc all - that is
necessary to secure the attention of the
little ones ; if this is neglected, we cannot
blame a child, who, seeing a minister
gather his strength for anew assault,
yawns fearfully, and then cries out: “Oh,
mother, he isn’t going to stop at all! He’s
swelling all up again.”
The New York State Senate has passed a
bill authorizing railroad conductors to make
arrests, and giving them the powers of spe
cial policemeu.
PERSONAL ITEMS.
William M. Evarts, one of the President’s
counsel, is the grandson of Roger Sherman.
Mdlle. Nilsson and M. Gustave Dore are
engaged to be married.
Miss Scott Siddon! will visit this couutry,
professionally, in September.
A monument to the memory of Dante will
shortly be erected in Naples.
Mrs. E. B. Wasliburne reports that the
health of her hnsband is very much im
proved.
Blanche, the daughter of Gen. Butler, is
one of the most beautiful women in Wash
ington.
Whitman Place, the oldest resident of
Troy, N. Y., died there on Saturday last,
aged 91 years.
Cambridge University, England, bas con
ferred on Captain Maury, of the United
States, the degree of LL. I).
Cyrus McCormick, of reaper lame, is the
only man in Chicago who returns an income
exceeding $ 100,000. He returns $202,000.
A Western paper proposes John Mor
rissey for the Presidency—not because he
is the most fit, but because lie has “fit” the
most
The young folks of Robert Chapel, In
dianapolis, on Wednesday night, presented
their pastor, Rev. A. S. Kinnau, a fine gold
watch.
Romero, the Mexican Minister to the
United States, accepted a convent, valued at
SIOO,OOO, in payment of his salary of
SIO,OOO.
General Gideon P. Pillow and ex-Govern
or Isham G. Harris have formed a law part
nership; and taken up their residence in
Memphis.
Mr. Ward Hunt, the new Chancellor of
the British Exchequer, is six feet six inches
high, aud proportionately stout, the tallest
and heaviest man in the House of Commons.
It is said that the Menken is to appear in
the principal female character of a drama
founded on the legend of Lady Godiva and
Peeping Tom, of Coventry, soon to be pro
duced in London.
Samuel H. Lyon, of Bedford, Penn., was
fatally injured, a short time ago, by a kick
on the forehead from a horse. Last fall the
same animal ran off and killed Mr. Lyon’s
daughter.
Galignani’s Messenger prints a notice of
the birth of a son of John Smith, in Paris,
with the request that New York and
Chicago papers copy. A Boston paper
thinks the announcement will be news to
thousands.
Edward Jesse, author of a pleasant book
on “Dogs,” “Gleanings from Natural His
tory,” and a number of miscellaneous
writings, died recently in England, at the
ripe age of 88.
General Wade Hampton is urged by
South Carolinian Democrats as a candidate
for Governor, because, they say, he is
“known to and loved by the whole State" —
particularly by the colored population, they
should add.
It is reported of a pompous person who
announced himself to a hotel clerk as “the
Lieutenant Governor of ,” that he
received the reply : “That doesn’t make any
difference; you’ll be treated just as well as
the others.”
Judah P. Benjamin, some time ago,
brought suit in a New Orleans court for
fees for legal services rendered before the
war, and the case lias just been decided
against him, on the ground that he
forfeited all his legal rights by participating
in the rebellion. Mr. Benjamin is at
present practising law in England.
John Jacob Schiller, a resident cf Bt.
Louis, celebrated his one hundredth birth
day last Tuesday. Ho came to this country
twenty years ago, and lias since made this
his home. Ilia trade ivas that of a stone
mason. He enjoys fair health, and has
turned his hundredth year with it good
prospect of overlapping a century con
siderably.
Leman Bradley died at his late residence
in Pavillion, Genessee county, New Y'ork,
on Friday last, but before his funeral took
place his wife died, and they were buried
in one grave. He would have been eighty
years of age in August next —just twenty
years to day younger than his father, who
survives him, and is in robust health, who
numbered 99 years last August.
Late on Saturday afternoon, while Mr.
James K. Armstrong was conversing with
Mr. Ogden. Mr. Murray, and others, in the
Reading Room of the Union Club, New
Y’ork, he fell into an apparently quiet sleep.
Having remarked to Mr. Ogden that he was
to dine with his nephew, Mr. John Jacob
Astor, Mr. Ogden, thinking that he was
oversleeping his time, attempted to awaken
him, but found that his spirit had been
“wafted out on the wide ocean of eternity.”
The deceased was a son of the late General
John Armstrong, an officer of the Revolu
tionary army and Secretary of War in 1814.
lie was, therefore, a brother of Mrs. YVm.
B. Astor, the only survivor, we believe, of
that family.
American's in Egypt. —An Alexandria,
Egypt, letter of February fith, to the Boston
Post contains the following interesting para
graph :
“This is the season of the influx of Ameri
cans into Egypt, and the number is even
greater than in any previous year. Os the
seventy five dahabiychs, or private sailing
boats, which have ascended the Nile, no less
than fifty fly the American flag and contain
American parties. Last week four crowded
steamboats left Cario for the lower cataract,
simultaneously. All the passengers were
Americans, with two or three exceptions.
Among them were the Rev. Dr. Bellows, Mr.
Fettridge, the compiler of Harper's Hand
book of European Travel, Judge Allen, of
Arizona, James It. Lawrence, of Boston, and
one or two newspaper men from Boston and
New York. Mr. Consul General Hale, our
representative in Egypt, has just returned
from a trip on the Nile, for which a steam
boat was placed at his disposal by the viceroy.
At my hotel no less a person than John C.
Breekenridge is now sojourning. He has
been paying a brief visit to Cairo, and returns
in a day or two to France, whence he will
soon leave for Canada, with his children, who
are now at school in Versailles. He looks
much thinner and somewhat older than when
he sat in the United States Senate. He
declared, to an American at the dinner table
yesterday, in my hearing, that he was tired
of his prolonged absence from the country,
and longed to return. 1 ’
Farmington, Mass., is scourged with a
wonderful visitation of the measles, the first
for forty years. Churches, courts, schools
and stores are closed ; old and young alike
are victims of the malady.
The city hearse in Hallowed, Maine, is in
such bad order that the Gazette calls for its
immediate repair, as the editor says he
would be afraid to ride in it in its present
condition.
The Galena (111.) Gazette relates that a
citizen of that place recently met a member
of Grace (Episcopal) Church, and rallied
him on his abstinence from amusements
during Lent. He continued, “I believe your
church keeps Lent.” “Yes,” was the reply;
“and I believe your church keeps mort
gaged.”
Fifteen hundred tuns of timber weic land
ed at a factory at Boxford, Mass., last
winter, to be converted into friction matches.
Even this large amount is not thought to be
sufficient to last a year.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Mr. George L. F. Birdsong, of Upson
county, Ga., recently sold a fox dog to Mr.
Twiggs, of Kentucky; for SSOO cash.
The Massachusetts llonuHpalbic Society,
by a vote of 33 against 31, has refused to
admit a lady practitioner to its membership.
Princeton College received last week two
gifts—oneol SIOO,OOO, the other of $125,000,
raising the fund to $375,000.
A California editor says lie lately ine-l a
grammarian who had just made a tour
through the mines, coagitating thus : “Posi
tive, mine; comparative, miner; superlative,
minus.”
The number of infants “baptized” in the
Methodist Episcopal Church during the
year 18C7 was 42,055, being the largest in
any one year from the organization of the
Church.
A gentleman of Montreal offers to the
American Board SBOO per year, iu gold, for
ten years, and longer, if life and means aro
spared, to support a missionary iu China, in
addition to those who would otherwise be
sent.
A boy in a confectionery shop out West
ato four pounds of gum drops, amounting to
half a gallon in bulk. Ilis life was only
saved by the promptest administration of
decisive remedies.
Yucatan dates state that it appear* there
is a report that the British flag is now waving
over San Felix Bacalar, and deplore the
fact of thirty thousand natives paying tributo
to foreigners for their usurped lands.
In the New Jersey House, on Thursday,
the bill making the penalty for murder in
the first degree, hanging, or imprisonment
for life, had twenty one votes for, and nine
teen against it ; but lacking the requisite
thirty one votes, it was lost.
Arrangements have been made to have
the four Societies of the Armies of the
Tennessee, the Cumberland, the Ohio, and
of Georgia, meet at Chicago on the 15th and
lGth of December next, to have one common
celebration, instead of having separate meet
ings as heretofore.
By order of Gov. Merrill, of lowa, the
execution of S. P. Watkins, the doomed
Jackson county murderer, has been post
poned until the third Friday in October
next. The delay has been ordered for the
reason that two of his supposed accomplices
have been arrested, and it is thought their
trial may develope something more of the
circumstances.
The notorious Caroline Schumacher (Mar
quise de Maubreuil) is about to remove lrom
Paris to New York. Her furniture was
recently sold at auction, and brought about
60,000 franc3.
Stock certificates, recently stolen from an
office in Lowell, were discovered the next
day in the waste paper keg of a neighboring
physician just as he was preparing to light
a fire with them.
Twenty thousand dollars were, on Wednes
day, paid into the Sub Treasury in New
Y’ork, having been bequeathed to the nation
by the late Ralph S. Fretz, of San Fran
cisco, California, to help pay off the national
debt.
The Manchester Print Works, in New
Hampshire, employs two thousand five hun
dred hands, and run ninety thousand spin
dles and seventy sets woollen cards at full
capacity. Their works embrace manufac
tories of cassimereres, delaines, prints and
sheetings, of which the aggregate yearly
product is twelve million yards.
The raising of cotton in Egypt has
ceased to be remunerative since the termi
nation of our war, and large tracts of land
lately employed for that purpose are being
sown in wheat. In ancient time Egypt
was the granary of the world, and it may
become so again.
Abraham Kuowlton, of Wilbraliani, Mass.,
has been arrested for the murder of an infant,
the child of his own unmarried daughter,
and of which he is,supposed to have been
the father, as the two are known to have
lived in criminal intimacy. Kuowlton is
52 years old, and has been a widower for
three years.
An odd illustration of tho “seasons’ differ
ence” is afforded by an Australian paper of
last February. “Saturday, the first,” it says,
“was probably the hottest day that has been
experienced this summer. During the
greater part of the day there was not a
breath of wind, aud the rays of the sun
appeared “to beat upon the earth.” To this
succeeds a list of deaths and other casual
ties caused by this intense heat.
■ 1
SPECIAL NOTICES.
U®“TAX PAYERS WILL TAKE No
tice that the time allowed for collecting the Tax
levied by Ordnance of the Convention, will ex
pire on tho Ist of May, and that executions with
fifty per centum additional, and costs, must, and
surely will he, issued against all who have not
paid said tax by that time.
JOHN A. BOIILER,
ap23—td Tax Collector, Richmond Cos.
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL
23, 1865.- The teachers of St. James’ Sunday
School will please meet in their Sunday School
Room to-night, immediately after prayer meet
ing. WM. C. DERRY,
ap23—lt Sup't.
jfljgj-WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO An
nounce John 11. Meyer as a candidate for Clerk
of the Superior Court of Richmond, County, at
tlie election to come off on the 20th iost.
apll—td MANY VOTERS.
jggfTNOTICE THIS.—JACOB R. DAVIS
is nominated as a candidate for Congress from
this (the sth Congressional) District by both
api>—td WHITE* COLORED.
FORT COUNTY TREASURER.—I
respectfully offer myself as a candidate for re
election to tho office of Treasurer of Richmond
County at the ensuing election.
apr7 —td* HENRY E. CLARKE.
JgjgY”WE ARE AUTIIORIRED TO AN
ncurce tho Hon. John Harris, of Newton county,
as the candidate of Relief and tho Constitution,
for Sonator from the 27th Senatorial District
which is comprised of the counties of Newton
Walton and Clark. apr7 td
FOR TAX COLLECTOR.—WE ARE
authorized to announce JOHN A. BOIILER as a
candidate for re-election to the office of Tax Col
lector of Richmond County, at the onsuing elec
tion. apro—td*
ggr WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO AN
NOUNCE the name of Mr. MATTHEW
SHERON as a Candidate for re-clcction to the
offico of Receiver of Tax Returns for Richmond
County at the ensuing election. apt—td
JgSg“ THE Hon. HENRY W. HILLIARD
will be supported as a CANDIDATE FOR CON
GRESS from tho FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT of Georgia, at tho election on tbo
20th of April next, by MANY VOTERS.
mh24-td
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AND THE HAPPINESS OF TRUE MAN
HOOD—An Essay for Young Men on the Crime
of Solitude, and the Physiological Errors, Abuses
and Diseases which crcato impediments to MAR
RIAGE, with suro means of Relief. Sent in
sealed letter envelopes, froo of charge.
Address Dr. J. SKILLIN HOUGHTON,
Howard Association,
fel— 3m Philadelphia, l’a.
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- M FBroadway' N ew Y 4 [ t
UNITED STATES
orn District of Georgia. SOL YH.
Whereas a libel hath been filed rv
Court of the United State* for the SnmK
trict of Georgia, by James Brldv “ h a era Ij *
Steamer Annie, her tackle, apparel
for wages civil and maritime, aud wavi’no
against said Steamer, and that the saM g (S ,#et *
may be condemned and sold to nav
Now, therefore, in pnrsnauce the ma
under the seal of the said court to me
do hereby give public notice to al “ *
iug said Ship, her tackle, apparel etc ‘
and appear before the Clerk of kid .*
Court at Ins oifice in Savannah on th. sa
of May next, at 11 o’clock in the
that day, aud then and there to intenSu*?!, 01
claims and to make their allegations inXafil
Dated this 15th day of April im W “ ls
A. W. Stone, WM. g. DlCßsnv
Proctor for Libellant s. r * , ,
qps33—2w L 8. Marshal,
ASSESSOR’S 7~~
U. S. Internal Revenue, 3d Disr.op G.i l
Augusta, April 20th, 1868. j
ASSESSOR’S NOTICE
FOB APPEALS.
Tiie annual list of is6s for trf
Counties of Richmond, Columbia Serin,
Jefferson, Washington, Warren, Glascock Bark ’
Lincoln, Elbert, Wilkes, Taliaferro, Hanoi,,!
Baldwin Wilkinson Twiggs, Jones, TuX
Green, Oglethorpe, Morgan, Jasper and Newton
have been completed and wilt remain open at nv
office for inspection and appeals until the 39th
April, 1868, inclusive. ,J. BOWLES °
ap22 —td Assessor 3d District,
Fast
EXPRESS LINE
TO THE NORTH.
Great Atlantic coast line rail.
ways via Wilmington and Weldon. New
and fast schedule now in operation, with complete
and continuous connections from New Orleans
Mobile, Montgomery, via Atlanta or via Colum
bus, Macon and Millen, to Aughsta; thence Tii
Kingsville and Wilmington to Richmond, Wash,
ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York
Boston, and all principal points North.
No change of Passenger Cars between Weldon
and Acquia Creek. No omnibus transfer at
Petersburg or Richmond.
At Weldon passengers have choice of the fol
lowing routes, viz: Crisfield and Annamessit
Line, Washington or Inland Line, Baltimore or
Old Bay Line. Tickets good by either route.
Via Via Via
LEAVE Annames- Richmond A Old Bay
sic Route. Washington Line
Augusta 5.50 a.m. 5.50 a. m. 5-50a.it.
Kingsville 2.30 p.m. 2.30 p.m. 2.30 p. a
Wilmington 5.00 a. in, 5.00 a.m. 5.00 a.m.
Weldon 3.30p.m. 3.30p.m. 3.30p.m.
retersburg 7.00 p. m
Richmond 8.45 p. m
Washington 7.30 a. m
Portsmouth 7.45 p. m 7.45 p.m.
Baltimore 9.25 a. m. 9.25 aa.
Crisfield 2.30 a. ni.
Wilmington, Del 7.45 a.m. 12.26 p.m. 12.26 p. m.
Philadelphia.... 9.00 a.m. 1.30 p.m. 1.30 p. m.
N. Y. (Arrive.) 1.00 p. m. 5.20p.m. 5.20p.m.
Baggage checked through. Elegant Sleeping
Cars on all night trains. Through Tickets good
by either route, until used—with option of Pas
sengers of stopping at terminal points—can be
obtained in Southern cities at the Ticket offices
of all Railroads forming a part of this great
Through Line. For further particulars apply to
ISAAC LEW, Agent,
ap2l—tf 136 Broad st., Augusta Ga.
INSURANCE
Fire, Marine, inland
AND
ACMNTMIRII
Phenix Insurance Company,
New York.
Manhattan Insurance Company,
New York.
Howard Insurance Company,
New York.
Standard Insurance Company,
New York
Commerce Insurance Company,
New York,
Lamar Insurance Company,
New York.
Fireman’s Insurance Company,
New York.
Astor Insurance Company,
New York
Commercial Insurance Company
New York
Mercantile Insurance Company,
New York.
Phoenix Insurance Company,
Hartford.
Tho above are all FIKST CLASS COM
PANIES with ample means to meet their liabili
ties.
All losses promptly and equitably adjusted.
WM. SHEAR,
Augusta, April 7th, IS6S. Agent.
ap7-t>m
[ Liquors]
Whiskey! Whiskey!
7 UST RECEIVED
J A FINE LOT OF WHLhh 1
Os the following brands
Robinson’s Copper Distilled TUSCARORA,
Walker's NECTAR and OLD CABINET.
Also, CLARET WINE.
For sale low, by
W. B. dRirFD.
aplS—tf Cor Jackson A Fllisj'
BAR ROOMS
MUST BE
Closed on Election Days'
MAYOR’S OFFICE, j
Augusta, Ga., April 16th, IS6N)
TN CONFORMITY TO INSTRUCTIONS a
X ceivcd from Military Headquarters, t
prictors of all BAR ROOMS and other pl»« ! ‘
tho city of Augusta whero Spirituous Liqo®\
retailed, are notified to keep such Bar 800
such other places closed on tho2otb,A,
23d, and until 6 o’clock a. in. of the -R
instant. that
William C. Dillon, Chief of Police, will see
the above order is rigidly enforced. _
FOSTER BLODbEU
ap!7—7t M T-
Notice.
PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED,
X tho undersigned till the oOthi. -work*’
erecting a Powder xMagazine on the wa * aD( i
Lot, near tho Basins, according to P
specifications which may be seen at my s ’
12.*i Broad Street. _ «,veDtaDy
The Committeo reserve the right . t 0 A \J e w hol®
ouo of the proposals offered, or to rejec f or
of them if they oxcecd tho estimate t ley
the work. SAMUEL LEVL
api7—td CJua’n Cem- ea