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National Ucpublican AUSUBTA. <*A.. •THURSDAY MORNING April S3, 1861 For PHBSIDENT Os the Uxited States: ULYSSES S. (iRAIT, For Governor OF GEORGIA : HON.K. B. BIJLLOCK OF RICHMOND. ,♦» 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 ||jjp» MARRIAGE AND CELIBACY, 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. NEW ADVERTISEMENT^ 515 Piano Primers, Catechism* e t/- BERTINI’S SELF-TEACHING CATErUR. 40 cU. Burrowes’ Piano Primer to Practice, improved edition, 30 cU Catechism, enlarged edition, 38 c t, ’ , * r »'i Catechism, new edition, 25 ct». i ments, 50 cte. Knorr’s Guido f-, r TWt* eta. Forde’a Class Book, 40 cts. Tunn •’ 75 60 cts. Dictionary of 5000 Term- 7i cott’s Musical Grammar, SI.OO Mat.,:, 75 cts. Mailed, postpaid. lttn ‘«S ~ u i OI iIY KK bIT.SON ACO Publishers, 2,, Washington, St. to’ CHAS. H. DlTßoNirn - 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