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National Us publican AIfIHWTA. **A. -.f THU RSI* AY MORNING April J*. ISSS Kor PKESII>KN'r Ok thk llnttkd Status: I I YSSBS S. liRAIT, til.KCTBft BY “WOOER VOTA'S'' The Tories nrv very fond of rusting in llie teeth of the succesaftil candidates of the Republican party that they have b*e* elected tty negro votes, forgetful thnt they themselves struggled with all their power to get negro votes, and if they had been clroted would bare thought tlte complexion of Me voters no reproach against their suc cessful candidates. Their mortification arises solely front their not having got enough of negro votes. It is by such votes their candidates would have been elected, if elected. That they have no objection in the world to negro votes is mfficicntly proved by the efforts they have made to obtain them. We should not have seen them practicing all the arts of an eloctioneerer if they objected to negro votes. The community would not have inflicted upon it. by Democratic editors, columns of bald erdash, exhorting the party to turn out of house and home all negroes who voted the Radical ticket. The Democratic dema gogues have no objection to the negroes voting, provided they vote the Democratic ticket. That is a plain proposition. This cry of negro suffrage and negro supremacy is the baldest of humbugs. The Tories have not the slightest objection to negro suffrage provided it helps them to Democratic supremacy. nit: FROGRESS OF JIRCONSTRFC TION. South Carolina, Arkansas and Louisiana have already voted for reconstruction, and will soon resume their places in the Union, North Carolina and Georgia have doubt less decided in the same way. Thus the time is not far distant when the stars which have been stricken out of the Union ban ner will again appear upon its folds. The Slates which have yet to vote will lie much influenced by the course of those which have already voted, and will decide to resume the course of prosperity which was interrupted by the madness of secession. ELIGIBILITY FOR OFFICE. As the question of eligibility under the new Provisional Government is now one of great interest, we copy tiro following from the Atlanta New Era. A person who had never held an office before the war, but who voluntarily aided and abetted the rebellion by holding a civil office at one time during the war, sought the opinion of the Commanding General a.s to whether he would now be eligible if elected. We "ire below the official opinion, by which it will Ire seen that the test oath will be required. Congress will, however, no doubt pn.-s an maiding act, relieving persons who, in good aitli, desire a restoration of the Union (and who bare piovcd their faith by their works), from die oper lion of the 9th section, and of other disabilities, which would otherwise pre veiit them fiom aiding in restoration : ir,.Airv'ns Tmlllr I I.ITAIIV MIST.. | (Dep't Georgia, Alabama, dad Florida), , Atlanta. Ga., April la, 1868. ) The Sixth Section of the first Reconstruc tion Act ol Congress declares: “That, until the people ol said rebel States shall be. by law, admitted to representation in the Con gress of the United States, any civil govern ment which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional onlr." etc. Under the provisions ol the Fifth Section of the same Act, “the people of said Stale can not be admitted to representation in Congress until they shall have ratified the Constitution submitted to them under the Reconstruction Acts, and Congress shall have approved the same: and, until said Slate shall have adopted the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, pro posed by Congress, and known as ‘Article I t,’ and .slid Article slia’i have become a pait of the Consti ntion of the United States.” These mid other provisions of the Recon *truction Arts clearly show that whatever aovn nineiil limy exist in Georgia, before the lilfilliiii nt < -f the iiljnvi' conditions, must “be deemed provisional only." The ninth sec tion of the Siip|ileiiii-nimv Reconstruction Act, passed ,lu!y I'.Mi, 1867, "requires ail officii* elected or appointed under the pro visional government ol a State, to take and subscribe the oath nt office prescribed by law lor officers ot tin- United States.” This makes a condition ot eligibility to office under a provisional government very rnatcri ally different Irma eirtici eligibility to regis tration as u voter, or eligibility to office under the provision: < >f the prnpos - I Consti tutional amcnduient. Before f iltering upon his duties, a pro visional officer is required, among other things, to swear that he Ims neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority, or pretended authority, in hos lility to the United States. Mr. held office under the au thority of the State of Georgia while that Stale was in hostility to the United States. Me is consequently ineligible t > office under the provisional bovcrnmciit. It is not deemed necessary here to discuss the effect this view of the law may hint- ns to other officers. : But legislation has to he taken while the Stale is yet under provisional government: and the members of the Legislature must lie qualified to bold office under tfiat provisional government. Official: (Signed) H. C. Drum, A. A. G. What, a Pity.- —I he road to a negro's intelligence lies through bis belly. Pinch •be latter and you enlarge bis understanding, brighten bis intellect, aud quicken bis per cetUive powers.— Ckipnitle it' Sentinel. What*a .pity the Shyster’s nurse did not '•pinch his b'dlyf when In- was taking the "liaby fret." ’ He might then have arrived at the a common field bund. Kkmoval. or “A. .I."—There is one sense and one onlyf in which tin: removal of An drew Johnson can be called a parly neces sity. The Republican parly can not allord to lie recreant to its fluty. When it loses the eourugtf or the will to do right,,it is lime lor It to die. Its plain duly to the country is to iolivieH*ie President. The necessity ba it to perform that fluty is of the Sarin; kind which mifttes* it fmperutive upon every indi Vfflual man to. obey the 'JVuCorfliirfllidliicnt*. —A. J'. Tribune:. 1 C4Rl>: ’‘>: * , Auocsta, Ga., April 29, 18W. Col. J. E. Bryant: D*ah Sik—The Chronirte «i Sentinel, of tilts morning, aaserts that you will be eup ported by the Republican party, at the next election, a* a candidate lor Mayor of tku city. i am requested by some of your friends to ask if you will allow them to use your nnme as a candidate for that position. Very Respectfully, AttifST*, (la., April 29, 1808. To Deaii Sik —Your favor of this morning is before me. In reply, I hove the honor to inform you that I shall, under no cir cumstances. he a candidate for Mayor of this city. If the present Mayor—Hon. Foster Rlodgett— is a candidate, I shall do all in my power to elect him, and I trust my frieuds will do the same. If he is not a candidate, I trust lion. E. Tweedy will allow us to elect him to that position. I ant, very truly, .1. E. Buyast. FALSE CHARGES. Thu Georgia press make loud complaints of radical frauds at the lute election. It is charged that 500 illegal votes were polled at Macon.— AW (trier, H , Crttceet. There never was a thief yet who, when the "Hue and Cry" ol stop thief “was raised, who did not jcin the loudest in the pursuit— at.d so it is with the Tory Democrat press of Georgia. If there has been a single ease of fraud or attempt nt baud, ami deception used, it will be found upon investigation to have been committed by the “respectability and decency'' so-called. Hence the beg ging question alluded to by the Crescent, and the cry of “stop thief raised by so many of the Tory Dress. Time will derelope this matter, and flic bribery and corruption used we hope will be thoroughly ventilated. The ignorant and unsophisticated have been im posed on by lies in thousands of eases— not only blacks, but whites—ami a clean shewing will no doubt be made, which will exhibit st picture ol venality on the part of nevvligtil Democracy that will evidence to the world a disbelief in the morality of men who have stood high in the world of letters, religion and -tatemansbip. We hope this exhibition wi 111 e made without “fear, affec tion or favor.” We wish justice to be done all parlies in this matter, and we condemn ns premature any prejudgtnent of the man ner in which the recent election was held, until time has been given those in authority, who are charged with the duty, to have a full and lair investigation and supervision of the returns of the Foils.. | COMMUNICATED. FREE SPEECH. Mtt. Ehitok.—Free speech, and the right that every man has to act in accordance with the dictates of his judgment, constitute the subject of opposition harangues, and so entic'd editorials. But arc not these mal contents exercising themselves to the utmost extent of their ability to beget in the hearts of those who listen to them, proscription ! The rantings answer, “Yea,” verily. They threatened social ostracism during the recent election if a mini was strong minded enough to vote a.s lie conceived for the peace and welfurc of the country. Now, doubtless, .some will feign to inaugu rate this social, mercantile, political, pro scription. Whin of it? They are blind and t t i 'y Sensible mon know the fate that awaits them. Does anybody remember the 24th day of December, 1860, when the solid men, the grey haired men of this city and country, assi milled at the City Hull, lor the purpose of entering tlieir protest against the ravings of Secessionists ? Hon. Fos-er Rlodgett was in the Chair; ex-Governor Jenkins, nnl other distinguished patriots, were the speak ers ; and the audience—of whom was it composed ? Our very foremost men. The speeches on that occasion faith fully por trayed the results and the disintegrating effects secession would work. But that view of the situation did not suit a portion of the assembled throng outside the bar and Court room. Judge Jenkins and his friends were hooted and constantly interrupted ; and there was a ranter, who, on the front steps, in a speech lo the ‘ Minute. Men” (gallant and true young men they were, who were not responsible for an honest, heartfelt enthu siasm), alluded to the meeting within doors a.s flic assembly of old grannies, asking, in derisive triumph : Who would strike a cripple woman? And when the election cante on, Govcrnoi Jenkins presented himself that he might c-a.il his vole against secession. He made hi. way to the polls amid the whis pered cin is and cnntcinptiiMis sneers of the bystanders. There is a lesson in this. Briefly staled, it is as follows : Men should he careless as lo the sneers of lliose. who try to wrest from them an inalienable right. If you voted with an eye to the best interests of your Stale and country, you discharged your duty, and have nothing of which to be ashamed nothing to fear. Truth will tri umph, Ihe machinations of “ranters” and “discordant spirits'’ to the contrary, notwith standing. s- Tho vote on the Constitution shows that the peopl ol Georgia are tired of suspense and military rule; tired of “pecuniary cramp;” tired ol everything save effort* to secure to themselves and their children’s children good government. April 28, 1808, Oldham, An extraordinary step Ims lately been taken in photography. By a process, which is still a secret, M. Adolphe Brim, of Dor nacli (Haul Khin),has produced an immense number of absolute sac similes of the best drawings left by tin- great masters. These new photographs are superior to all former works ol the same kind in the ordinary excellencies of detail and surface quality. They also reproduce exactly the. tint of the original, neutral, blown, red, or greenish, as the case may be. They arc confidently as serted to be absolutely permanent, but this must, of course, remain to be proved by lime. A envious custom prevails in the Sand wicli Islands, ol subjecting a husband who is accused of infidelity by bis wife to the ordeal of jumping inlfi the ocean among the sharks. He is required to do this after nightfall, when the sharks are most raven ous, and lie must, while in the water, shout the words I'au Erie, pail Mann, which are supposed to inform the imiu-cating monsters ol his purpose in exposing himself to their jaws. It thereupon they sutler him to pass unharmed, tie is taken to lie innocent; if they do not, lie suffers (or his temerity, if not for his guilt. An observance of this custom actually took place only a few weeks since at Honolulu, und ihu man escaping, his wife received him without any further distrust. It has been decided by n Tennessee judge that n lawyer cannot make oath to Ins accounts with a client. -a- 1 ii. -a— a-- .»+■ .n-. -- 7-^ The Election in Georgia. Vote for the Coaititution and Governor COUSTIES C °«OK rW " i ' GOVERNOR AMO MSI—-| H DISTRICTS. rua | jia’n >tuocij uuevos Duran r l— n Chatham 4415 Sl4l 1 3371 57S‘l Bryan i 309 177 Kffinfhaia »7 MO *« DINTRH T 2 l.ibertv 714 IU ; TU 146 Tat nail . Mclntosh .... Distant 3 Wajm .... PI MM Appling. 62 233 KM 109 District 4 til/nn .... Camden .... .... Charlton ....... * ...V .. .... District 5 Coffee ...* ..... .... Ware Clinch .... .... District • Kchol.* .... Lowndes .... Berrien .... Distan t 7 Brooks !*.>» 378 ti4o 420 Thomas' .... Colquitt j .... Distant S Decatur 1 Mitchell Miller ! .... Distant *J Cnlhonn 422 343 4.11 371 K»rly :i56 586 :i55 597 Baker 344 tifStf 257 I 842 Distant 10— j Lee 813 573 Worth 4 84 24H Doughtrtj ,’ 1893 1043 1067 1151 District 11— Clay 319 438 Randolph 703 1987 617 1113 Terrell 311 861 332 «53 District 12— Stewart 762 922 732 941 Webster 212 218 j 202 444 Quitman | 6 35b District 13— Suintar 1318 1285 4 1249 1333 Schley ; 1 .389 374 Macon .... .... |, .... , District 14- Dooly .514 700 467 749 Wilcox 119 167 j 3 284 Pulaski ... 829 690 y 809 702 District 1 i>— Montgomery 88 232 34 1 239 Telfair .... ; ....!! ... Irwin .... District 16— Laurens i 312 377 510 .386 Johnson.... 163 253 Emanuel 209 222 166 295 District 17— Bullock i .... .... .... j .... Scriven 740 224 ' 673 225 Burke ; 2121 492 ;| 2133 MB District 18— Richmond 3153 1722 3077 1746 Glasscock .... | .... Jefferson . 105 b 451) 1052 428 District 19— Taliaferro 628 332 622 347 Warren 1144 494 1133 544 Greene 1632 729 ( 1632 808 District 20— Baldw in '.189 I 718 U9P 11* Hancock | 1383 t BOH * 139* 5 W Washington ■... .. . ! Di.-tkm i 21— Twiggs 1170 1901, im Hfil Wilkinson *W 560 Ml 645 Jones 725 475 0711 49* Disiau r 20- Bibb j 2162 161) Monroe i j .... Pike I j: 5» 650 Disthu r 26 Houston i 1572 j 1794 j: 1520 ISOO Crawford ' .... j .... jl 514 565 Taylor 1 I .... j! 560 575 Distwct 21- Marion .J .... 656 781 Chattahoochee [ I 277 557 Muacogce 1698 1 1108 1 1010 1169 District 25- | I | Harris j 955 1055 , 875 Upson .. 768 j 705 ‘ 728 | 785 Talbot 1045 i 754 rj 1057 70S District 26 Fayette 444 : 595 1 409 485 Spalding 698 : 7cti 070 SOI Butts . . ' ... District 27 Newton 1(, 1. 93s ( 1001 988 Walton 63.1 r. 77 j 632 725 Clark *97* 806 Unis 836 Distbict 28- Jasper • • •; Putnam 434 losj 467 Morgan L 234 391 12i)2 455 Distant 29 Wilkes W 2 669 979 672 Lincoln <lO ' 3«8 j, 406 350 Columbia .436 1222 457 Distan t ‘M>— Oglethrope ILSO 510 1144 r»8-3 Madison Elbert 754 221 76ti District 31 Hart ... »»42 , 162 447 312 Franklin 48* 320 1 477 .150 Habersham 390 153 409 255 District 32- White .. .. • 2.50 219 273 Lumpkin v»7b 378 270 385 Dawson W 7 136 285 130 llali .... I .... i .... | .... Banks 307 225 j 314 266 Jackson 739 492 j 670 509 Distan t 31 Gwinnett .'*47 841 1 605 886 DeKalb • 275 925 Henry Ol4 780 Distrk r 35 Clayton....: 446 | 23,3 326 349 Fulton ‘-’US 201a i mu 2:157 Cobb : .... 1 .... ; .... District 3»>— Coweta Hob; 9941 llgfj 1021 Campbell ~.. J 1 .... .... Merriweiher ! 1172, I 1120 77S District 57 Troup jl ‘ Heard. .. 411 405 455 411 Carroll District 08 — Haralson ' .... ... . j j ... Polk 3', I 594 i .*,117 1,111 Paulding 1 j .... District 39 Ckerokre ... ! .... 1 Milton . ! l'orsyth 576 534 331 sso District 40— Union I j I ... Towns Rabun j .... District It— Fannin ... ... .... Gilmer j : | .... j .... Pickens . .... .... District 42 Bartow ii.'A ! 1185 j 754 14*0 Floyd 546 | 1174 j s»l 1225 Chattooga 225: 460 !! 207 495 District 43 Murray ...Mi 53 u 509 Wbitlield ... Gordon— 422 j 7115 j 32s ! 757 Distri, 1 44- Waiker I jj Dade v r , 94 247 j j 65 j 254 Catoosa | 356 1 304 11 23(1 I 42S Width County.—Congress: Christy, tl 274 ; Wimpy, r 216. Senate : Landrum, r 250 j Richardson, tl 210. - Dawson County.—Congress : Wimpy, r 280 ; Christy, tl 150. Senate: Richardson, tl 285 ; Landrum,/' 140. Laurens County.—Congress: Clift, r 510 ; Fitch, tl 688 Lumpkin County.—Congress: Christy, tl .'IBO ; Wimpy, r 208. Senator: Landrum, and 582; Richardson, /• 208. Representatives: Price, tl 502; Spencer r 210. Grkknk County—Congress: Prince, r liiiil ; Crumley, tl 10(1. Senate: Atkins,/- 1611; Johnson, and 800. Representatives: McWhorter, r 1081; A. Colby, r 1021 ; Seals, and 75J ; Barks, tl 768. Coi.umbia County—Congress: C. H. Prince, r 1222 ; Jacob R. Davis, tl 102. Senator: Josiah Sherman, /• 1222 ; P. F. Burgess, 452. Re presentatives :J. M. Rice, /• 1225 ; Rom ulus Moore, /• 1226 ; J. 11. Scott, and 451; J. G. Cold well, tl 140. A Warning to Watkr I)mnk ions.—A gentleman in Charlestown, who wns for merly one of the Engineers of the Fire De partment, found liia physical onergies par tially paralyzed recently, and was at a loss to account for the cansc. He Imd often boasted of the purity of a well of spring water at his residence, and lie was somewhat surprised, on consulting a physician, to find that he was suffering from the effects of drinking water impregnated with lead. An investigation showed that, the servant had neglected to pump off the water in the morning, anil had made the coffee with water that hail remained in tlia lead pipe during the night. The water was so full of sul phates tlilit the pipe was nearly oaten throuvh, and was so thin that it would have lasted hut a short time longer. flmlnn Traveller. THE CLASS WHO UOJLD QN. The article by Thurlow Weed on tb j millionaires of New York, published in yeeterdav’s Gazette, is interesting, iuetru.- tire end eugpestivo. The richest men in Ne»i York, »t is ebown, arc those who acquired real estate by inheritance or pur chase, and held on, reinvesting the income, and taking no risks ; those, in a word, who did nothing to advance the interests of the city or society, but wc.e satisfied to fatten on the fruits of the labors of others. W. B. Astor, the writer informs us, wns never known to take a risk. He watched for safe investments that would yield four, live, six or seven per cent., and into these he put his money. _ We heard one of the richest men in Cin cinnati boast that he had never subscribed a dollar to aid in the construction of a rail road. If all the people of Cincinnati had adopted this man’s policy; if all the people of New York had followed the example of IV. B. Astor, what would either city be worth today ? The men who build up cities aud develop the resources of the country, are the men who do take risks—and these are the men who are missed when they die. What interest sutlers when the “hold-last” class die ? Such men are not missed, and the sooner they are laid in their graves the better lor ihe world and the better for the community in which they live. There are no numbers of o iety more useleis than these “hold-fast" millionaires. Producin" nothing, they fatten on the industry of ofh” ers. Taking no risks, they crow ricli from the efforts of those.who do take risks—.vho arc working men and the life of society. A man is not lo be condemned because be is rich, but a man is responsible for the wealth which ho controls. In the eyes of God and man, a miser is a most contempti ble creature. Equally to be despised is the rich man who lives exclusively for himself. For this crime he may not suffer in his own life, but liis sins will be visited upon his children unto the third and fourth genera tion.” How literally this is fulfilled, wc need not stop to point out. Rarely does the wealth of the father reach the third generation. The mau who “holds fast” usually trains up his children in the way they should not go, and the accumulations of the father are generally scattered by the children, and character, too, often disap pears with the money.— Cincinnati Gazette. PERSONAL ITEMS. Frederick Douglass, it is reported, intends to settle at Vineland, N. J. Wash. Spraking (colored) is one of the rich men of Louisville. He returns property valued at $77,945 for Stato and municipal taxation. Captain Ilolter J. Breed, who commanded the famous privateer Grand Turk, during during the war of 1812, and captured thirty prisoners and prize goods valued at $05,000, died at Salem, Mass., on the lGtb, aged eighty six. It was supposed that Elias Howe, the inventor of sewing machines, left an estate of several millions of dollars, but’his exccu tors found many large debts, and his disap pointed heirs are not likely to get anything. The Czarowitx, the oldest son of the Em peror of Russia, and heir of the throne, has arrived at Nice, in grand style. The object of his visit is to be present at the consecra tion of the church erected on the site of the Villa Bermond, where his brother died. No less than two false reports of the mar riage of Gov. McCormick, of Arizona, have lately appeared in the Eastern papers. As it is nut a year since the Governor lost his most estimable wife, and he has not contem plated a second marriage, these reports are very annoying to him. Brigham Young is a model ot frankness. He speaks of himself nthe most unreserved manner, and the other day, in the course ol a harangue to the faithful at Salt Lake City, 1W said : “When I spoak to the Saints I include myself. I profess to be a Saint with the rest of my brethren and sisters, ami my public aud private life is the proof whether i am truly a Saint or not.” A Dresden letter says that the Queen of Saxony has expressed displeasure at the untidy, disheveled style of wearing the hair which has lately come into fashion. Hav ing frequently to receive English and American ladies, who sometimes appear with their hair hanging loosely about, their shoul ders, her Majesty has established a regula tion that all persons with stielt coiffures shall not be admitted at Court. The Austrian Archduke Ernest has just resigned the military command which he held at Crutz. The eausc of this act, as we learn front Vienna, is said to lie in the intention of the young l’rince to follow the example of his brother Henry, by marrying a lady not of noble birth. This allianee is stated to Ire disapproved of by the Emperor, who, in bis capacity of bead of the Imperial family, has refused bis consent. Hon. Chauncey Jerome, of New 11 veil, whose clocks have made bis name known world wide, died on Monday, alter a brief illness, in the TOili year ol bis age. lie was a roan of great, simplicity as well as gieat honesty. When be supposed himself to bo in the height ot bis prosperity, lie formed business connections which resulted in failure, and be Was reduced from affluence to poverty. He was Mayor of New Haven one term. lie built, at his own expense, a church, lor tlie First Baptist Society of New Haven, at a cost of more Ilian $20,000. A Lover ox the Ra.mi-age —The follow ing unique specimen of a love letter is pub lished ill a Lynchburg (Va.) paper: Roanoke County Va March 2.8 G 8 Dear Miss L ft is by the iuvisibcl hand of providence that my mantle Idies has bin conglomerated upon the unblotted and unsofisticated face of love, could the keenist compunctisions of conscience alle viate me a single Mallissium of a mine an in thv favor I would commence poring lorlli Teers at such a lavish rate as to drown the rath of heavens horrizonic artillery sbal cease to vociferate lo the constination of the zodic before toy love shal sease to he ex tinguished No brighter dose tlie mid day sun uUuuiiiinte My desponding heart than the hope of one day calling you mine oh, that I could [link from the elysium fields of thought the most butiful timed flower that ever grew on the enamuel banks of con ception clothed in the language ot the fable guard mercury. It would tale to givo you eaten an enadequate (die of My ever deep an lasting love oh that 1 could dive-in to the ociou of language an from beneath its un changed waves I would Express to you a lovers charged hart quickly to you would I return the fountain of my soul, oh that. I could unlock to you with the keey of kuew born words I would peas it out. like levy of my dope an lasting love an may each <(' every brease impart to you a full assurance of your everlasting lover. Dear miss wilt though on the reception ot this tender me a line or too in return for I am very impatient to here from the my love. If this Meets with your Approbation answer without Prower.istination and give me a fare iuvesligashun. your Trow lover Jacob Tinnei.. Miss A. Harris, ol Winston county, Miss., last year, raised ft bftle of cotton weighing six hundred pounds. The entire work ol planting, cultivating, picking, and giuniug, was done by herself. The cotton wfls sold a few days ago for 91!)2, bringing lour cents a pound above the average .market price, on account of its superior quality and cleanli ness. THE SOUTHERN 'ELECTIONS. ' The progress of Southern elections, says the Utica Herald, develops some suggestive facts. Perhaps the most striking is, that the Oonservattves, who have been so bit tcrly opposed to the extension of suffrage to the blacks devote themselves with espe cial zeal to courting their votes. They succeed in convincing some of the colored men that they are really the best friends they cun have. They boast of the votes thus secured ns an especial triumph. In winning this accession, the Conservative lenders have associated on terms of entire intimacy with the freedmen, have drank with them, and caroused with them, and been hale fellows well met. The blacks who vote on tlieir side, the original chivalry doubtless, accept as competent and worthy to exercise the elective franchise. The same impression will find its way into the brains, and possibly through the prejudices, of the strain Democracy of the North. The colored votfers will not appear altogether horrible to them, when some of them may he termed. “ fellow Democrats and fellow Conserva tives.” The claim is put Ibrward thut the Consti tutions are defeated both in Georgia and North Carolina, while the candidates for Governor opposed to reconstruction are elected. The defeat of the Constitution renders the choice of officers of no account; for they are named to serve under the new organization of their respective States, and if the popular vote rejects the Constitution, it refuses to provide offices to he filled. Possibly these two States may have pro nounced adversely to reconstruction under the laws of Congress. They will then continue under the present rule. It' they deliberately prefer military control to self government, they can have it. With the removal of the usurper, the influence, of federal counsel and patronage will cease to be hostile to loyal organization. The ad ministration of the federal supervision will once more aid and lift up Union men, and the hope of the rebellion that it can re establish itself, finally perish. While then the failure of any State to adopt a free and loyal organization is to be regretted, only delay is to he assumed. That is the sum total of the success of the opponents of reconstruction. They attain to no offices: they gain no control ; they simply bold things as they are. They compel new elections by and by, in which the attempt to restore the State to the Union will again he made. But we do not believe that either Georgia or North Carolina will fail now to take its start iu a fresh career as a loyal State. Three States at least have adopted tlieir new Constitutions : Arkansas, South Caro lina and Louisiana. Congress will soon be called to pass upon them. Florida will vote in the first week in May. Virginia will follow in the same month. Mississippi and Texas remain. The renewed courage and determination of the late rebels, inspired by the suggestions and support given by Mr. Johnson, may render some of these States doubtful. If a majority at the ballot- box shall proclaim in favor of a sullen and recal citrant policy, they must he suffered to have their fit of pouting out. With a national administration in earnest in favor of the rule of Union men at the South, hindrances to reconstruction will disappear, and those who are now most defiant, will learn the ways of peace and loyalty. OA TH OF THE KU KLUXKLAN. The police recently made a descent upon the Memphis division of the Ku Klux lxlan. About twenty of the plotters wore captured and marched to the station house. Upon the person of each prisoner was found a mask of black cloth, with boles for eyes, but concealing the rest of the face. On the president's tabic, in their hall, one human skull served for ornament. The Constitu tion of the lxlan wns found in the pocket of one of those apprehended. This document announces that the object of the order is “to protect the South from the hand of murder ers now preying on it, even to the last resort—assassination.” The oath we give below in full: Here in tlia presence of this skull anti the members here assembled, f solemnly swear to It true to the order, to its members individually and collectively, and should I over, by s gn, word or deed, betray a secret, or a member of the brotherhood, that the skull upon which I now look may be a counterpart of mine, and 1 hope that, all the social relations 1 now enjoy may he sundered ; that honesty in the men, or \irtuo in the females, may not be known in my family and generation, and that all who own my name shall he branded ns dogs and harlots. I further swear to oli 'y ini| : ; o'y the order of the (Irand Cyclops, regu! trly issued through bis L'onhcil, and as soon as I ceoivc an order to fulfill it. I again swear, that should a mombtc of this order ho in danger, that, oven at the risk of my own life, I will defend and endeavor to save him. That 1 will gtVo no outward sign or hint that a person may know of the existence of the K. K. S\\, un less authorized by the Grand Cyclops; and that each member of this order, as soou as the -igu is given, I will recognize, defend and protect as a brother. I further swear, that I will, under and in all circumstances, bear true allegiance to the South and her interests, as interpreted by the Supreme Cyclopean Council, and when I receive its orders, should i he even in the embraces id my wife, I will leave her to obey them. I further swear, that all Radicals and negroes who have placed themselves opposite to the interests of the owners of the soil »f Tennessee, shall forever ho my enemies, and that under u» eircuiu tanecs will f have other connection with them if I cau help it, than to “welcome them with bloody hands to hospitable graves.” That my family and the family of a Radical shall never inter change visits. And 1 further pray that the God of the South, whom I now invoke, shall strike me dead should t ever, even in letter or spirit, infringe upon the things set forth in this oath. To all of which 1 swear in honesty of heart and sincerity of purpose. So help me God. Nor Generally Known.—Martin Van lltiren is the only man who held the offices of President, Vico President, Minister to England, Governor of his own State, and member of both houses of Congress. Thomas 11. Kenton is the only man who held a seat in the United States Senate for thirty consecutive years. Tho only instance of father and son in the United States Senate, nt the same time, is that of Hon. llenry Dodge, Senator from Wisconsin, and his son, Augustus In. Dodge, Senator from lowa. General James Shields is the only man who ever represented two States in tho United Slates Senate. At one time he was Senator from Illinois, and subsequently from Minnesota. John Quincy Adams held positions under the government during every administration from that of Wash ington to that of Polk, during which he died. Lie had been Minister to England, member of both Houses of Congress, Sec retary of State, and President of the United States. He died while a member of tho House of Representatives. The Richmond Examiner awl Enquirer objects violently to that part of the now Constitution of Virginia which proclaims that the people of that Slate "are part of the American nation, and that attempts, from whatever source or upon whatever pretext, to dissolve said Union or to sever said nation, are unauthorized and must lie resisted.” Opposition to a principle so plain and so fundamental, shows clearly that Jlie virus of secession is lar from being eradicated J'rom the minds of its old advo cates and champions. The new live cent coins from the Mint in l’liiladelphia are the size of the present piece; the three cent and one cent pieces are some what smaller. The devices on all of them are alike—on one side, the head ol the God dess of Liberty, surrounded by the words "United States of America;” on the oilier side are the Roman numerals 1., ill., aud V. • GENERAL ITEMS. The easiest and belt way to expand the chest is to have a good large heart in it. Tho streets in Detroit were recently flooded because of the obstructions of the sewers by cast-off hoop skirts. A gentleman in I’hiladelphia has dis covered I,‘JUO different ways of spelling the name of (Shakespeare. Such is tame. A box for the season at either of th London opera houses costs only a little over $1,2.70. There are fitly Methodist Churches iu Philadelphia, with a membership of 16,000, and worth a million dollars. Lieutenant General Sherman’s house, in St. Louis, was broken into a few nights ago, and several small articles of silver ware stolen. The annual report of the Central Pacific Railroad shows the earnings from all sources, for 1867, to be nearly a million and a half of dol'ars. Empress Eugenic used to h* known as the best looking and worst dressed woman in Europe. She is no longer the best look ing. but is known as the best dressed. The evidence against Wlieelan, who is suspected of the murder of McGee, is daily becoming stronger, lie has voluntarily mads many damaging admissions. There are in Congress, House and Senate, 13 Major Generals, lo Brigadier Generals, and 6 Colousls, besides 11 volunteer officers o! a lower grade. The number of inmates admitted to tha Five Points House ol Industry, for the past year, ivas 1,075. Nine teachers were em ployed, and 1,089 children taught. The peach crop in Delaware has been killed by the frost and snow. In the West, au abundant yield of all sorts of fruit is promised. A few Sundays ago, Mrs. Liversey, wifa of the ltev. William Liversey, supplied the pulpit of the Methodist Church iu Middle town, Conn., in the absence of her husband. Not one representation of Shakspearian drama has taken place in Boston for six months until last week, although five thea tres have been in coustant operation. Sixteen of the most prominent citizens of Johnson county, Indiana, have been in dicted for murder, they having helped to lynch two other murderers several months since. A lady was-urged by her friends to marry a widower, and as an argument, they spoke of his two beautiful children. “Children,'’ replied the lady, are like toothpicks—a person wants her own.” The original “Old Oaken Bucket,” upon which Samuel Woodsworth wrote his famous lines, has just arrived in Boston, having been purchased from its owner in South SciltiiUe, Mass. Accounts from the interior of Alabama and Mississippi report serious damage to plantations from the late rains. It is feared that a generttl replanting will have to he done. “Do you understand me now?” thundered an irate pedagogue to an urchin at whose head he had thrown an inkstand. “I've got an inkling ot what you mean,” replied the boy. People in Cheyenne are informed of the crime for' which persons are lynched by observing the tree from which their bodies depend. There is a special tree for each crime in the Code Cheyenne. An advertising butcher, as au additional attraction, says of his sausages that in one respect they are like the wife of Ctcsar they are above suspicion. Su«h classical learning deserves encouragement. Be natural. Act yourself. Talk as you mean, and mean as you talk; with this qualification—don’t put the quality ol mean ness into either talk or action. Better be your natural self than unnaturally some one else. It is reported of a pompous person who announced himself to the hotel clerk a.s “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.” The accounts of the State Inebriate Asylum, at Binghamton, N. Y., show that there have been applications for admission from 39 clergymen, 80 judges, 350 mer chant-, 126 physicians, 210 gentleman, and 2,300 rich men’s daughters. Eliza K. Wiltberger, a rich widow of Philadelphia, who died without issue recently, left by will her entire fortune, over a quarter of a million, to the various Episcopal charity institutions of that eitv, and to Bishop Stevens, in trust, for the poor of the church. A battle was fought near Rogersville, Tenn.. in November, 1863, in which the Seventh Ohio Cavalry took part. A few days ago, according to the Greenville (Tenn,) _YV«' Era, a plow boy turned up in the field a bolt containing upward of SIO,OOO in greenbacks, in it good state of preservation. The Baden Government, which has for some time past employed women in the telegraphic service, lias now made them kieket sellers at the railway stations, and an official notice states that a similar measure will shortly be adopted in several of the post office establishments. The lion. Robert Lytton, better known hy his iivm dc plume of “Owen Meredith,'’ lately Secretary of Legation at Lisbon, has been promoted to a similar post in the British Embassy at Madrid. In 1849, he was at Washington as attache and private secretary to his uncle, Sir Henry Bulwer, then British Minister there. The accession of Mr. D’lsraeli to the premier has so much revived the interest in and demand lor his novels and tales, that the shilling and library editions, published by Warne & Cos., London, can not be pro duced fast enough to supply the public. A third edition, of five volumes, each contain ing 700 pages, and called ‘-The D’lsraeli Edition,” has just been issued. During tho first representation of Hamlet at tiie grand opera in Paris, tho Empress scut a boquet of violets to Christine Nilsson, in token of her admiration. The young artiste wrote a charming letter of acknowl edgment, and ordered a little coffer to be made, in which she deposited the flowers, and which was then, by her orders, hermeti cally sealed. At a musical “soiree” given in Paris during Lent by Madame A , a celebrated flutist from the opera orchestra executed a few bars of one ot the airs. Madame , next day, asked him what she was iu bis debt. He replied, “A hundred francs, mad aim:.'’ “What! for eighty notes ?” “ Oiti, nradanie. 1 ’ Theodore Barker, coming home, some years ago, from Concord, whither he had been to visit Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson and other literary celebrities, was accosted by a raving Millcrite, who toll him the world would be destroyed on a certain day, naming the day. Mr. Barker patiently heard him through, and quietly replied: “But, my good sir, all this does not concern me ; I live in Boston I” \\ hen it Chinese is killed by accident in performing any kind of work, his fellow countrymen refuse to work any longer at the same business. After the snow slide on the Bacilio railroad last, winter, by which thirty Chinese laborers were overwhelmed, Ihe whole loree quit work, and nothing can in duce them to return. BPECIAL «rCONBIGNEEBpii^^ LINA RAILROAD, April 29 hafiar, A C Small, T C 0.1*4 g *«*! R Rhode., M ll,am. * Cos, Kamev kT**’ J Youngblood, Wjnun A M», fS A / * Armstrong, P Slenson, Va uz h n McCord, W C Je.-up i Ct ,J W k “"'#l,l .cm A Son, W H Tutt, (4 Volg. r 4 J *i Gray, T W Carwile, Oetjeo A D, **-NOTICE.—TO Air^ wr, concern, white an ,| C(J . II mtmee on the Ist of May, f e „: ’ e*. eeuttons on all that,re interJte/ JWTTAX PAYERS WILL tice that the time allowed for colW levied b, Ordnance of the hi pire on the lot of May, and that ,fll * fifty per centum additional, and how »i4 surely will be, i.-ued against all paid said tax hy that time. aplbl-fi marriage and ceus7^ AND THE HAPPINESS OF HOOD-An Ewe, lor Youn- JL K ' J of Solitude, and the Physiological Er ?, ur yoF ea w?,h ‘ ch crcatc JUAGK, with Bure means of Relief c sealed letter envelopes, free of char.. ® Address Da. J. SKILLIN HOCQHIoy NEW ADVEETISE^P 5 IN BANKRUPTCY. — ~~ U. S. MARSHAL'S OFFicg TUIIS IS TO GIVE A Gth day of February, A. D iati . in Bankruptcy was issned atrainn th. . " ar^B Robert c fiovtxv u,eof °f > in the conntv of Floiot of Georgia, who has been aiijndged ins own petition ; that tiie pavSSt and delivery of any property belong gl 73 Bankrupt, to him or for bis use, and thenLa* ot any property by him, are forbidden that a meeting of the creditors of rupt, to prove their debts, and to chowoS more assignees of lii a estate, will * Court Os" Bankruptcy, to Cl.oMen' Register s office m the Lmted States Hotel ith. ta, Ga., hetore Lawson Black, Kezister 18th day ot May, A. D„ ISfis/atlo®“ CHARLES H. ELYE* Khp.JO—-It U. S. Pep. Marshal as IN BANKRUPTCY ‘ U. S. MARSHAL’S OFFICE, l Atlanta, Ga., April 28 lie:, THIS 18 TO GIVE NOTICE: ThttVa. 1 6th <iav of February, A. D., 1868 a jra rant in Bankruptcy was issued acainst the’eaca WILLIAM II DOZIER, of—, in the county of Gordon, and Stite of Georgia, who lias lieen adjudged s Bank rupt on his own petition; and fiat j, payment of any debts and delivery of any pn» erty belonging to said Bankrupt, to him or fe liisuse, and the transfer of any property It hi are forbidden by law ; that" a meeting of & creditors of the said Bankrupt, to provehisdebtt and to choose one or more assignees 8f histaia will be bold at a Court ot Bankruptcy,to behoida at tiie Register's office, in tiie United States Hold Atlanta, Ga.. before Lawson Black, Register!® I tic 1 Ith day of May. A. D.. 180S,at lOo'clockii CHARLES H. ELYEA, up 3ii—lt U. S Pep. Marshal as Messenger. IN BANKRUPTCY. U. S. MARSHAL'S OFFICE. ) Atlanta. Ga„ Aprils, 1868. rpms IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the JL 18th day of March, A. D., 1868, a Warns: in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of MILES W JOHNSON, of Rome, in the county of Floyd, and Stale of Georgia, who lias been adjudged a Bankrupt ot bis own petition : that the payment of any debts aud delivery of any property belonging to ail Bankrupt, to him or for his nst-. aud thetranafexof any property by him, are forbidden by law; tint a meeting of the creditors of said Bankrupt, ta prove their debts, and to choose one or non ■ assignees of his estate, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to beholden at the Register'soSct, in the United States Hotel. Atlanta, 6a.. Won Lawson Black, Register, on the 18th day of May, A D 18ii8, at 10 o'clock a. m. CHARLES 11. ELYEA. ap3o It U. S. Pep. Marshal as Messenger, IN BANKRUPTCY. V. S. MARSHAL'S OFFICE, I Atlanta, Ga., April3B,lSC-S. ■ rivals IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on th 1 • ICth dav of February, A. D., 1868, a Wsr rant in Bankruptcy was issued against the * tate of NATHANIEL HARMON, of , in the county of Floyd, and Stall of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on his own petition : that the payment of «i; debts and the delivery of auy property belonm to said Bankrupt, to him or for his use, and th transfer of any property by him, are lcir ™*“i by law : that a meeting of the creditors of at) Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and chop*® or more assignees ol bis estate, will be heldxi Court of Bankruptcv, to be liolden at th Register’s office, in rite United States Hotel.il lanta, Ga.. before Lawson Black, Register,ot!» ISili dav of Mnv, A. D.. 1868, at 10o'clock aa CH ARLES H. ELYEA. ap3o 1 1 U. S. Pep. Marshal as Messenger. ] N THE PISIRICTCOURT t'FTHEUWW I States, for the Northern Districtof Georgia In the matter of ) MM. It. BEASLEY, [iN iIANKKIIPKI- Bankrupt. J No. oC. Till- Slid Bankrupt having petitioned the Coat for .1 discharge from all his debts provable unfit the Bankrupt Act of March 2, 1567,n0U«» hereby given to all persons interested to »pf* on the 25th day of May, IS6S, the forenoon, at Chambers of the said Dti» Court, before Lawsou Black, Esq-, one ot ■ Registers of the said Court in bankruptcy the Register’s office in Room Number 56, in United States Hotel, Atlanta, Ga., andiho»«w why the prayer of the said petition of tne rupt should not-be granted. ~ Witness the Honorable John &■» r , Judge of said District Court, >nd® t SEA, 'J seal thereof, this JSth dwofiP 1868. 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