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Notional Republican
A IJCiUST A . liA.
FRIDAY MORNWO M.r «. «**•
lA»r PRESIDENT
Or tiik United States:
I'M SSI'S S. GHAUT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF IS I*l A AM.
CHICAGO CONVENTION.
Gen. U. S. GRAItfT
UNANIMOUSLY
Nominated for President!
Hon. Schuyler Colfax
OF lADIIAA.
\o mi tinted <>n the Fifth lint lot
FOB. VICE PRESIDENT
Chicago, May 21, 1868.
The Committee on Resolution.-; icporlwl.
They congratulate the country on the
ou.uru.l -<f .ft>.. I cuiniml nfiui
of Reconstruction.
Congress must guarantee and maintain
suffrage to Southern loyalists.
Denounces repudiation as a national
crime.
National obligations must be paid in
letter and spirit.
Demands the equalization and reduction
of taxes.
Favors i steading the redemption of the
National Debt to the latest day, and rc
dueing the interest whenever honorably
possible.
The Government should be administered
with the strictest economy.
Corruption and extravagance fostered by
Johnson should be reformed.
Lincoln's death is deplored.
Deplores Johnson's seci ‘.don, and de
nounces him as a usurper, a violator of lavs,
an obsliuclor of Reconstruction, and justly
impi ached of high i nuo . and ini de
meanors.
No citizens, native nr naturalized, must be
imprisoned when abroad, except for viola
tions of lav/.
Eulogizes soldo is nnd sailors their
bounties are obligations never to be for
gotten; their orphans and widows are the
nation’s wards.
Immigration should be fostered by lile ral
nnd just policy.
Convention sympathises with all oppressed
people who tire struggling for their rights.
Adopted—two or three dissenting.
Gen. Lo,an nominated Gen. Grant, who
was UNANIMOUSLY NOMINATED.
Gov. Brown in Announcing Georgia's vote
said, that the maxiin of Georgia was
“enemies in war in peace, friends.' 1
At the first ballot lor Vico President,
Wade received one hundred and forty nine.
Fenton received one hundred end lDirty
two.
Wilson received one hundred and nineteen,
Coltax received one hundred mid eighteen.
Harlan received sixteen.
Kilby received six.
Cre.swcll received fourteen.
Pomeroy received one.
On the fifth Imllot Colfax was nominated,
receiving five hundred and fifty two volis.
The Convention adjourned, subject to a
i nil from the President.
HKSTOUA TION.
The bill recently introduced by Mr.
Stevens, provides for the admission of the
States of North Carolina, South Cnrolinn,
Georgia and Alnlianm, as soon as the Legis
lature's of these' States shall have ratified
the amendment to the Constitution, known
as the fourteenth article, upon certain con
ditions. Among these, it is provided tlmt
no State shall ever amend its Constitution
so us to prevent any person from voting
who is now privileged to vote by their
respective Constitutions, except in eases of
conviction for crimes. It also provides
against any person lieing held to labor ns
a punishment, except by officers duly dele
gated to execute sentences. In case the
day fixed for the meeting of the Legisla
ture of any of the States shall have passed
by before the present enactment shall be
passed, the Legislature may be convened
by the President of the Convention which
framed the Constitution, within thirty day -
after the passage of the Act. The Act is
to take effect as soon as the President
proclaims the Constitutions of the States
ratified. _
'the NSW*TAX Jill. /..
The new bill, as reported in the House
of Representatives, has no radical altera
tion upon the old one. The tax of two
dollars per gallon on whiskey is retained,
notwithstanding the great trouble that has
been caused bv the inability id officers to
discover how distillers can pay a tax ot
two dollars a gallon upon an article which
they sell for much less, and yet make
money. The tobacco and cigar tax is
modified slightly. Some ot the details
relating to the income tux are also modi
tied. Anew feature of the bill is the
erection of an Internal Revenue Bureau,
whose head shall be the same as tile heads
ot the other departments. The bill ex
empts manufacturers from taxation sub
stantially in accordance with the law
which was passed several weeks ago. The
only articles which are continued from
the old list are ground coffee, gas, spices,
and petroleum. The tax on gas is re
duced from 25 cents per 1,000 cubic feet
to 10 cents ; and the tax on refined petro
leum is retained at 10 cents a gallon. The
tax on imitation wines remains substan
tially the same, and the bill contains
nothing about iron or coal. The bill
contains fifteen sections on the subject
| of bonded warehouses, and consolidates
into one act all existing internal tax bills.
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TIIK XA ri7> \A L IXQCEST.
The People of the United Blate:, cs. An
drew Johnson, acting President long eotir.se
of misconduct in office.
The subjects of the remedy ol impeach
j meat, as the sixty fourth aitiele in Ibe Fed—
j rnlist says, “are lli -scoffenses which proceed
I from the misconduct of public men, or, in
other words, from the. abuse or violation of
| some public trust. They aie of a nature
j which may with peculiar propriety be
denominated roMTH'.vb, as they relate
chiefly to injuries done to society itself. ’ It
is “designed as a method of National
In this view of the limiter, the Cincinnati
Gazette well remarks that the Senators “can
not shntlie this great national inquest of the
public misconduct of the acting President
into a private affair of i lit ir own, and assume
that nobody right to know anything
of the merits hut they. They cannot change
themselves into ignorant jurors, nor this into
a jury trial. They need not shake their
trial oaths at us, and pretend that fliey alone
act upon this matter under any solemn
responsibility, and that this makes their act
sured and infallible, and disables all public
opinion to the contrary. They also are
under the obligations of tlieir Senatorial
oaths, and of tlieir representative trust, and
they can not dodge tlieir own responsibility
in these.’’
CO M if E XJ) All L E.
In a communication published in the
Griffin Star, from Rev. 11. J. Adams (a
worthy clergyman of the Methodist Church,
and well known in this community), an
appeal is made in behalf of a church of
which Albert McGcliee, freedman, is pastor.
We have 1 eon impressed with the closing
pa rag ram of Brother Adams’ appeal, as
follows:
Tho pastor is worthy, arid the membership
give attention to religion, not polities, in
tlieir meetings, anil it is Imped that they
will succeed in building tlieir house of
worship.
Are we ovr r-siingiiiiio in expressing tin:
hope that the lime is not far distant when
all the ehurelns in can land, ol every name
and color, will “give attention li R1'.1.1-GION,
GION, not polities, in tlieir meetings' ?
Hasten, auspicious day !
Ot thidk PitKWitK, Democratic journ
alists have declared that every Senator
would perjure himself who voted to convict
Andy Johnson. They have sought to pre
judice the case by exciting personal preju
dice against the men appointed to manage
it. They have coarsely assailed every Sen
ator who objected to rulings which they
thought would tend to defeat impeachment,
or who offered rules which they inspected
to tend to conviction.
And yet, with these facts patent to the
country, these unscroitpulous partisans now
set till a whine about what they call an
“indecent attempt to influence a court”;
about a pressure being brought to bear
inside and outside of Congress; about the
Radical prejudgment of the case and their
desperate endeavor to break down the
respect for law. It will prove a futile at
tempt they are making to have public
opinion silenced in this case of the I’cople
against a bad Executive, while all his ad
herents have license to prejudge the ease
and to defame every mail who i . sie peeted
of fidelity to the country.
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Tiik CD khtion Hk.tti.kh.- ll can no
longer be a question of doubt as to who
will be the Democratic candidate for
President. 'The Chronirh ,l Sentinel Ims
expressed its preference for Pendleton
and “that </» settle ib” Friend Sneed
ought to telegraph Mr. Belmont to lids
affect. *
Thk Un ukconstiu cted States.— The
Southern Staten which have not yet held
elections on the ratification of tliu new
Constitutions, under the Reconstruction
laws, are Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas.
Virginia completed her Constitution,
and her Convention adjourned on Friday
night, April 17. The election for its rati
fication has not yet been ordered.
In Mississippi the Convention is still in
session, and the Constitution not yet com
pleted.
Texas is very far behind in (he work of
Reconstruction. Her election for a Con
veution lias been held, resulting favorably,
anil General Buchanan lias issued an order
fixing the first of June ns the time for the
meeting of that body. The work of framing
a Constitution will probably consume two
or three months, so that tile election for its
ratification can hardly take place until
some time in the fall.
Ax IM I'oRTANT Concession.— Wo are
gratified to find the following paragrain in
the Journal <(• Messenger of yesterday, which,
it is hoped will “remove the pressure ’ :
Seriously : We, ol course, recognize the
perfect right of the lelvgraph, ur any other
paper to publish or exclude just such matter
as it chooses.
♦ **
Gov. Dhows vr Chicago.- The honor
of introducing the President of the Repub
lican Convention (Governor llawley, of
Connecticut), at Chicago, yesterday, de
volved on our distinguished fellow-citizen,
lion. Joseph E. Brown.
1 from our Special Correspondent.
LE 77 Jilt FROM ITA S7// XGTON.
Tin■ fiiipsinjnnent Uni'll,: —l|7i,y .Inin*. n no, ue
tjuith.tl on the X/tlt Article- 'The Chicago
Convention llioijmjihy of Cmntirfatt 9.
Washington, D. 0., May 17. 1868.
I have delayed writing one day beyond my
usual time, to be able to unravel the painful
mystery surrounding the course of certain
Senators who voted to acquit Andrew J Jin
son. The air is filled with rumors of bargain
and corruption, and witnesses will lie sum
moned and examined before the mystery can
he cleaved away. It so happens that three
ol tho rcc remit Senators were among the
earliest and most earnest advocates of im
peachment. They knew as much of the ease
before as since tin taking of testimony. If
there ever was a mqes. iiv for the removal of
Andrew Johnson that necessity exists today
more than ever before.
J dare “O' offer a prediction as lo the
future, but tiiere is, at least, a possibility that
he may he removed on one or more of the
Articles yet to be voted upon. Ido not be
lieve the current reports that Senators have
been paid money; on the contrary it is more
likely that several ot them have allowed their
hitter hostility to Mr. Wade sway tlieir judg
ment. Ho this us it may. it is a matter
hardly worth while to speculate about when
all the facts are likely to lie known at a very
early day. I predicted some w e-.a ago that
the impeachment trial would not be brought
to a close before the Chicago Convention
ifiet, and recent events have vet died this
prediction, the hair that Mi .IV ade would
exercise undue influence over licit ( 'inven
tion if placed in 'lie Wl.it, House, why
Mr. Johnson was not convicted 0:1 the Xlili
Ai '.ivkb ml; , ’"t ) l , iV' ! ' l tn!iV:' 1 111 'a 'word) it Is a
faction of wire pullers within their party who
arc determined to rule or rum, at which
Thnrlow Weed stands at the head, opeiating
mainly through his manakins in this city.
Tlieir scheme;; however will prnv a failure.
The excitement during tile whole of last
week was so intense as to be painful. The
city being crowded wi'.fi strangers, of course
the verdict was the all—absorbing topic with
til I classes ol people, and any verdict would
have afforded relief. To day the Capital is
nearly depleted of its surplus population,
including many well known politicians who
have turned their I'm os to tin* political Mecca
of the West —Chicago. Grant will of course
be nominated, and the great light will be
ovei lie nominee fur V ice President.
The candidates (rom which a choice will
have almost necessarily to be made have
been reduced to nine, namely : Vv’ade, Cur
t i 11, Colfax, Crcswcll, Wilson, Fenton,
Hamlin, Geary, and Buckingham. They
are all true men, and cither one will carry
the Republican banner high. Just at this
time, perhaps, a brief biography ol'the most
prominent of these men may prove inter
esting :
JItN'JAMt.N I'. WADI)
was bom in Feeday liiils Parish, Mass.,
October 27th, 1800; received a limited
education, and commenced active life by
teaching school and attending to agricultural
pursuits in Ohio, to which .State he removed
when twenty one years of age. He studied
law, and was admitted to the bar in 1828,
and held tho various positions of Justice ol
the l'euee, Prosecuting Attorney for Ashla
billa county, State Senator, and Picsidenl
of a Judicial Circuit. In 1851 In: was elected
a Senator in Congress, from Ohio, fiir the
term ending In 1857 : and he was nit lei ted
for a second and third term, ending in I any,
serving as Chairman ol the Committee on
Territories, and of the Special Committee
on the conduct ot thoAVar, ami as a member
of tho Committee on Foreign Relations, and
on the District of Columbia.
W.M. A. DUCK IMi IIA M
is a native of Norwich, Connecticut, in which
town he has always resided, is about 58 yours
olil - He is a graduate of Vale College, but
lias always been engaged in mercantile pur
suits. lie is a high minded Christian gentle
man of the old school, and has always taken
an active part in all reforms, and has been
conspicuous as a Republican Ironi the start,
an advocate of Temperance, and tbe promo
ter of every good work. Though never an
office seeker, he has frequently been called
upon to hold local offices, and for two or
three terms has been Governor of the State,
and during the war was one ot that baud of
noble loyal Governors who did so much to
aid tbe National Government.
III.NUY WILSON
was born February !(i, 1812, in Farmington,
N. 11., was brought up on a farm, and when
21 went to Natick, Mass., where he learned
to make shoes. In 1840 he was elected to
the Legislature of Massachusetts, served
lour years, and then four years in the Senate,
oi which he was President two sessions ; was
Free Soil candidate lor Governor in 1.X.V2,
but was defeated ; in 1852 was a member of
the Stale CunAlilutioual Convention; was
elected United Stales Senator in IXbb, |,,
succeed Edward Everett, ami Ims since held
tbe position.
From 1812 to 18hl, be was actively cm.-
neclcd with the militia, ami held various
offices, including that, of Brigadier General,
la lßtil, he raised the Twenty Second
Massachusetts Volunteers, of which lie be
came Colonel, and alter going with the
Army of the Potomac, was niudo a member
of General McClellan’s staff, on which he
served until Iho meeting of Congress, lie
has been Chairman of the Committee on
Military A (fans since 1851. In 185li, he
was challenged by Preston Brooks for
pronouncing his assault upon Sumner "mur
derous, brutal, tupl cowardly."
lie published a work entitled "Anti-
Slavery Measure* of Congre**,” and a Hi»J
tor j at the Thirty Seventh and Thirty
Eighth Congresses, and originated tho bill
ahohidiing slavery in tho District ot Co
lumbia.
SCIIOYLKII I’OLKA A
is n native of New York City, a printer by
trade, and a resident of South Ruud, Ind.
He was onco a Whig, and was elected to the
Thirty Fourth and each successive Congress
since, and is now Speaker. Age, 45.
AXDIIEW CUUTI.N
is a manufacturer, and old line Whig, and
for two terms (six years) was Governor of
Pennsylvania. He is about 55 years old.
RKtJUKN E. KSNTON
was born in Chnntauque county, N. Y., in
18It), has served five terms in Cougress,
and has been twice elected Governor of
New York. A lawyer by profession.
JOHN A. .1. CRESWKM,
was bora in Cecil county, Md., in 1828;
graduated at Dickinson College, and is a
lawyer by profession. He was a member of
the '1 liirly Eighth Congress, nnd an old
Whig. Capital.
POLITICAL
Hon. John Morrissey report.-; the South
and AVe.it earnest and united for Pendleton.
Gov. Pierpoint, it i.i said, will accept a
nomination for Congress from the second
District of Virginia.
Kentucky presents S. 15. Churchill of
Franklort, and E. C. Phistcr, of Rowan
county, for Vi-c President on the Democratic
ticket.
The Nation.il Temperance Advocate
strongly favor.-; Gen. Grant for President,
avowing its bdicfio the rectitude of his habits,
after careful investigation.
Gen. McClellan is credited with a purpose
to return to this country in September and
actively advocate the election of the Demo
cratic candidate for President whoever he
may be.
Tlie filth Avenue Hotel will he the Pen
dleton headquarters-during the sitting of the
IXmocraiiu National Convention in Now
York. The tHiio and Indiana delegates
have already secured rooms there.
’The Irish Republican Ciul) ol Omaha
have endorsed the Republican State ticket,
nominated at Nebraska city last week, and
favors the lion. J. M. Thayer, for Vico
President with Gen. Grant.
The Boston Post, which recently declared
in favor of Gen. Ilnucock as tho Democratic
candidate for the Presidency, now urges the
lion. Charles Francis Adams for the A'ice
Presidency.
Gen. James AValkcr, the Democratic can
didate for Lieutenant Governor in Virginia,
is familiarly known as “Stonewall Jim.”
“lie is,” says the Valley Virginian, “the
only Confederate General who inherited the
name of the immortal and God-inspired T.
J. Jackson.
Thomas B. Florence, for ten years a Dem
ocratic representative of the First Pennsyl
vania District, and now tho editor of the
Constitutional Union, an extreme Demo
cratic paper in Washington City, has created
Homo surprise by announcing himself in
favor of conferring the elective franchise
upon all races and sexes.
Damaging Defense.—Tho journal which
gave the shrewd judgment that there were
about a dozen Republican Senators who
would rather see Johnson in the White
House than lien. Wade, and which ex
horted them to act upon this noble motive,
and to take the decision of the case into
tlieir own hands, is now making the motions
of a defense of these Senators against any
imputations upon their motives, or any
popular censure upon tlieir action.
If these Senators are lo be injured by the
e-ti.mate.iii which ***"l._ l - -’ a "J"
ue nara to nnd any imputation more infa
mous than that their judgment in this ease
was influenced by the motive upon which
the anti-impeaching journal called them to
act. The charge tlmt they had sold tlieir
vote for a bribe, or for Executive patronage,
would really be less be to theiii'thaii that
they had betrayed their country, because of
the mean viee of jealousy of" Mr. AYade.
i The popular resentment at the disappeiut
j iiioiit which their unfaithfulness lias caused,
'“H "ot, in it ; greatest excitement, charge
them wilh :.ay motive more degrading lo
their c;i,' .u ter than the one which was
coolly ascribed to them by the journal
which now els il.seil up a; tlieir champion,
and upon w hich motive it appealed to them
b> 'bleat impeachment. Cincinnati Co
zed,;.
Bohemia. It is lime that the word “Bo
hemian,' as used to designate certain mem
bers ol the literary and artistic world, should
be discontinued. It was copied from the
French, but so awkwardly copied that all the
joke—originally ol \, ry poor quality—has
been iost in the proc'ss. The smaller Iry of
writers and artists in l’.tris, often of wander
ing find irregiil ir habits, got tho nickname
of “Bohemians" Bohemian being French
sos Gipsey. Iho word was caught by some
English writers who, proh-ihiy, did not know
that Bohemian ands >ip-ey were synonymous,
and those writers, again, are now imitated
in using the nickname by others, who go
still ftirthi r, and speak ol eert lin classes of
literary and artistic people, in tho aggregate,
as constituting “Bohemia.” Thus I have
lately seen, in writings not intended to ho
joeoxo, the phrases “literature ol Bohemia,”
"Bohemian art. Now the ancient kingdom
ol Bohemia .lie- and not lent’ comparison with
any other European State in all that relates
to literature and science; and xve offer an
insult to her authors and professors, many of
whom are conversant with English, and rend
our hooks,when we.apply the term ‘Bohemian’
to that which is low in tone and character.
An educated Bohemian cannot feel hurt at
meeting tho term '‘Bohemian” as used in
French works ; for ho is aware of the word
being, in that language, simply the equiva
lent ot “Gipsey,’’ .and lie knows, too, that the
French never employ it to signify a real
native ol Bohemia.— heller to the London
Athcnec.nm.
V steiiax Rage Horses. — jwo veteran
mi l renowned racers appeared on our streets
yesterday, says the Nashville Union and
Dispatch. Anna Chase, who was on the
tort nearly twenty live years ago, a runner
herself, and the mother of good runners;
and AV hirlwinil, who made tho celebrated
race lie’ last one run oil the Walnut
Course, thirteen years since, in which Henry
IVrritt, who Inis tho fastest one nnle time
on record -I42j— lost his life. These
horses are the property ol n gentleman from
Georgia, and we learn they were brought
here to he exposed for sale.
EsfAri.ii. -V\ e learn from good authority,
that .lelf. Anderson, who was sentenced to
the Penitentiary for life, lor being implicated
in tin- murder of Captain Craven, of White
county, during the war, and two other con
victs, Marion Hayes, sentenced for two years,
and Matthew Abbott, for three years, made
their escape from the guard, near Athens,
Ga., a few days since, while on their way to
the Penitentiary. Dahloiuyu Siynal.
I lie original "old oaken bucket,’ 1 upon
whii li Samuel Woodworth wrote his fair.oua
lines, has just arrived in New York City,
having been purchased from its owner in
South Seituate, Mass. It is on exhibition
w ith the picturo of that name.
There are forty seven women in the Insane
Hospital ol Indiana, crazed by the brutal
conduct of drunken husbands. And there
ought to be, correspondingly, Ibrty seven
men in tbe Indiana •Statu Prison.
nJOG ll A Plll C A r. SA'ET Vll
OK
SCHUYLER COLFAX.
Schuyler Colfax was born at a house in
North Monroe street, near West liroadway, in
the City ofNew York, March 23, 1823. His
mother is but sixteen years his senior. He
received a good common school education ;
was bred a printer, and settled in Indiana in
1830. He soon became foreman and assist
ant editor of the village paper of South Bend.
It was then a very small sheet, such as every
Western settlement issues, as a sort of flyer to
a job printing business as soon as it has got
its school house, grocery, hotel, nnd black
smith shop, and begins to think about having
a meeting house. The “typo” out AVcat
frequently gets liie start of the preacher,
though the race is clos*. Those who saw
Colfax then “«t the case” describe him as a
light, spindling, flaxen haired, boyish look
ing youth—clever rather in the Yankee than
the English sense—with a delicacy ol tem
perament which suggested a doubt whether
lie Imd the stamina to live lo manhood,
without the faintest suggestion that in his
mature years he would be Speaker of the
House, and the second choice of the country
lor President. The news then came to South
Bend, by stage, from Detroit, or up the St.
Jo river from the Lake. There was but little
of it, and though Mr. Colfax became the
editor and publisher of the South Bend
Register, ns soon as lie became of age, other
and subsequent evidences were required to
establish his claim to intellectual superiority.
In 1 8 Is he was a delegate to and Secretary
of the Whig National Convention. In 1850
he was a member of the Indiana Constitu
tional Convention. In 1852 lie was again
Secretary of the AVliig National Convention,
lie was elected to the Thirty Fourth Con-
gress, and has been regularly re-elected to
every subsequent Congiv.-: lie was elected
Speaker of the Thirty Eighth Congress, and
has been re-elected Speaker of the Thirty
Ninth and Fortieth, lie was urged, hut he
declined to accept a seat in the United States
Senate, preferring his presiding chair in the
House. His open, pleasant face,hn» become
familiar to large audiences throughout the
country, who have listened to his addresses
upon political topics, upon the late President
Lincoln—by whom lie was warmly loved—-
upon bis tour across the continent to the
Pacific, or upon subjects connected with the
work of the Sanitary and Christian Commis
sions.
lie is pure in bis personal and moral
habits, has a broad, outspoken, and catholic
sympathy with every good work of reform,
whether political, moral, intellectual, or
religious, and has the warm and enthusias
tic confidence of cliristiaijs and temperance
reformers throughout the country. lie
attends, and we believe is a member of the
Reformed Dutch Church, and is a thorough
teciotalist. AVithout being educated as a
scholar, industrious reading has given him
much of what is valuable in scholarship
unalloyed by its pedantry, its clannishness,
or its egotism. AVithout being bred a law
yer, practical familiarity with legislation
has taught him all that is most valuable iu
law, freed from the conservatism and in
aptitude for change and reform which rest
like an incubus on so many of those minds
which arc bred by the habits of the legal
profession to look for precedents which
show what the law has been, rather than to
broad principles which settle what the law
ought to he. Act Mr. Colfax has frequently
shown the happiest familiarity with prece
dents, especially in questions of parliamen
tary practice. Asa presiding officer he is
tho most popular tha House lias had since
Henry Clay. His marvellous quickness of
thought, and talent for the rapid administra
.iv... v.r uciano, cnuoies mm to hold the
reins of the House of Representatives, even
in its most boistvous and turbulent moods
(and with the exception of the New York
Board of Brokers, the British House of Com
mons, or a Fair at Donnyhrook, it is the
most uproarious body in the world), with
as much case and grace as Mr. Conner
would show the paces of Dexter in Central
Park, or as Gottschalk would thread the
keys of a piano, in a dreamy maze of fault
less, quivering melody. As an orator, Mr.
Colfax is not argumentative, except as clear
statement and sound judgment are convinc
ing. He rides no erratic hobbies. lie de
mands few policies which the average sens*
• f intelligent men cannot be made to assent
to on a clear statement of his position. Ib
is eminently representative. A glance at
his broad, well balanced, practical brain,
indicates that his leading faculty is the sum
of all the faculties -judgment—and that
what lie believes the majority of tbe people
either believe or can be made to believe.
Some men may be further ahead of the age.
Mr. Colfax funis sufficient occupation and
us- fulness in adapting himself to times and
things as they are. without cutting his
throat with paradoxes or stealing a march
on mankind with some new light, which
they are very likely to regard as ;i “will o’-
thc-wisp.” Ho has no eccentricities, but
great tact, llis ta’cnts are administrate. ■
and executive, rather than deliberative, lie
would maka good appointments, and adopt
sure policies. He would make a bettor
President, or Speaker of the House, than
Senator, lie knows men well, estimates
them correctly, treats them all fairly and
candidly. No man will got through his
business with you in fewer minutes, and vet
none is more freo from the horrid bnts<jn
nexs of busy men. There arc heart and
kindness in Mr. Colfax’s politeness. Men
leave bis presence with the impression that
be is at once an able, honest, and kind
man. Political opponents like him person
ally, as well as his political friends.
Wo have never heard that he has any
enemies. The breath of slander has been
silent toward his fair, spotless fame. The
wile of his youth, after being for a long lime
an invalid, sank to her final rest several
years ago, leaving him childless. Ills
mother and sister preside at his receptions,
which for many years have been, not tin
most brilliant, but the most popular of any
given at the Capital. Socially, Mr, Colfax
is frank, lively, jolly. It may be that lie
feels bis oats in some degree, but dignity
hasn’t spoiled him. The everlasting 1-hood
and Us-ness of great men is forgotten in his
presence. His manners are not quite so
familiar as those of Lincoln, but nearly to.
They are gentle, natural, graceful, with a
bird like or business like quickness of
(bought and motion. But they are very far
from the high and mighty style of Sumner,
or the judicial coolness ol Fessenden, Sher
man, and Trumbull. Though manly, they
are genial and winning. American mothers
believe in Schuyler Colfax. There are
more babies named lor him than for any
public man since Cloy. It is a sure test of
greatness when mothers are willing to take
the name of a public man to the baptismal
fount, and sacredly link together that oft
repeated name, and that tender, unfledged
lile, with holy prayer. They know that,
come what will, that name, however tried
and tempted, will never disgrace their off
spring. What more shall we say of Schuyler
Colfax ? The nation honors him. We are
willing to believe he will -some day be Pres
ident. Whether President or not, bo can
afford to be riyht.
For Sale.
yy If HAT FANS
HORSE POWERS,
THRASHERS,
AND
CIRCULAR SAWS.
myl—Stewlm R. P. URQUHART.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
*B r REPUBLICAN CLUB.—WE ABE
requested l» eUte that * ipccbl meeting es the
Republican Club of ihii County w ’,n )*, held to
night at the Club Room*? and that nil Republi
cans are requested to attend. m>2l —lt
CONSIGNEES PER CENTRAL
RAILROAD, MAY 21, 1868,-Jolm «fc Tho* A
Bones, J T DotJuvci!, J G I; k JJro, Beall k 11,
Wis Tuft, Plumb A 1 7, Barrett C k Cos, E Barry
11 L A Bulk, (j S Hookey, Wyman & May'
Steven on k u, E II J [tjj li, J O
[lt], li, Blair <’<•, S BSc'tkley, <J k.l Kap
l>old, K U’H, C A W k Cos, K Muatin, T J Ape!,
J Kyan, A I’oullain, Mra Frederick, J D A
Murphy, Au;u.ta Factory, S «fc Cos, 1*
Ilan-bergcr, J F Miller, (Jeraty A A, C K
Mustin, r.'-iid V Ocj.-n <f* !), J C Moore k
Cos, Arm*tr<»?. ; A !), J I, Craw, C A Itobbe, O'l)
A )J, Platt Bros, Sam l*isi.r, Conley F k Cos
it McK ti igbt, .J W A pel, F Vou Kaiup, J
Blanchard, J Bussell, (J W Broadhiirst, W W
Montgomery, J A Brenner, J> Hinkh.
*@“*oonsk;n t kk:; i>i:u south Car
olina RAILROAD, May 21, 1868.—K J Bowe,
Horten >*u W, W E Brodnax, V* llappold, .Jones
S A Cos, Cray k TANARUS, 1) Stalling, B A C, J Setzc»
Jl Barry, V/juun «l May, b U Wright A Cos,
V Richard »-*•.. I! il Sumner, J D Butt A
15 ro, W C eJc.-'up A Cos, My era A M, <1 L Penn,
Stcveutfou A >, M 11 and Cos, J J Bredcnburg,
C Baker, \V »I Tutt, J ** i;, T S Morgan, Octjen
A Bosch* r, I» : Donnijg.
NOTICE. -ALL PERSONS
haying itci irn. ‘ jn.iko to ihc Ordinary’s
Office, Richiii' c l C' litity, fur the year 1567, or
for prtvi g ir. , ci#v hereby notified that if the
same •*:<■ i > : liU l < :i or before (lie iirtt Monday
in .1«» ii r.v, as required by law, they will
subject themselvc! a forfeiture of tbeir com
mission $ ; and uit'cos good cause be shown for
their delinquency, i ur uch other penalties
as the aw provi ! ■ .
E. M. CRAYTON,
my2o—td Ordinary R. C.
AUGUSTA, G.c, Mav 7th, 1808.-
On and alter May 20th, nil DOGS found running
at large without the proper badge, will bo shot.
Collars f-’r sale at the Police Office.
W. C. DILLON,
iuyß 10t Chief of Police.
h: \v adv:'PvTis'■ ments
Assignee's Notice*
j 5 Till*: Dfr-TRICT OOt'KT Or TUB
i I’nilc l .States for the Northern District of
Georgia.
in the matter of ;
FRED. S. BT EWART, / IN BANKRUPTCY'.
Bankrupt. )
T«* ’vhoin it may vmern: Tip.* undersigned
hereby giv- - noli. *- t his appointmetit as As
signet- «*f Fredeiick S. Stew trt of AGrttitA,
county of Fulton and State of Georgia, within
said District, who In- been adjudged a Bankrupt
upon hi. own petition by the District Court ot
said District. NOAH R. FOWLER,
my— l a w'Jw Assignee.
Assignee’s Notice.
IN TUB DISTRICT COURT OR THE
i l uitdd Elate for tho Northern District of
In the matter of }
WM. * . EY : r, ,LX BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. j
To whom it may concern : The undersigned
hereby gives notice of his appointment as As
signee of Wm. 8. Everett, of Atlanta, county of
Fulton, State of Georgia, within said District,
who has been x adjudged a Bankrupt upon his
own p tition hr the District Court of said Dis
' ni*ah n. rowLua,
my —l iiw.’w A s?iguee.
Assignee’s Notice of Appointment.
IN THK DISTRICT COURT OF THE
■- United States for the Northern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of i
THOMAS B. MOSS, -IX BANKRUPTCY
Bankrupt. \
To whom it may < "mvrn. The undersigned
hereby giws notice <*f Ids appointment as* As
signee of Thomas B. Moss, of Lexington, in tho
county <>f Oglethorpe and Slate of Georgia, within
futid Distil ?. who ! ■ hern adjudged a Bankrupt
upon hi 4 own pi-! .i a by the District Court of
said Dist.i;
Dated at i. rciugfon (la., Hus May RUh. ISOS.
GEOROE F. PLATT,
inyli * —law3\v Assignee, etc-
Assignee’s Sale.
/ YX TUESDAY, THE ‘Jtii DAY OF JUNE.
y J 18l>8. will he sold to the highest bidder, for
cash, at Madison, in Morgan county, Oa.. a lot of
Land, containing two hundred am! jwo and one
half acres, described as Lot No. lot, District
If, and Second Section, lying in Mai ion county,
the same being the property of Joint Brewer, of
Morgan county, Cm., and sold under a decree in
Bankruptcy, for the benefit ot his creditors.
T. II S BROBSTON.
m v\? I— VOt Assignee.
Assigaee’s Sale.
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER
i 'tied by Lawson Black, Register in Bank
ruptcy, we will proceed to sell, comuu living on
Monday, the li instant, at the auction room of
U. A. (’rawiord & Cos. on Peach Tree street, city
«>f Atlanta, a large ami varied stock ot Staple and
Fancy Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, em
bracing lull lin* > of Coosiuiercs, Broadcloths.
Silks, Calicoes, Shirtings, Sheetings, and, in fact,
everything kept in a first class dry goods estab
lishment. All s *lt! as the property of J. 11. White
iV Cos., Bankrupts—tho sale continue from day
to day until all are sold.
W. L HUBBARD.
ROBERT BOOTH,
my.'- 1 til Assignee’s.
C ) ( >iico l* t II a 11.
JOH i TEMPLETON Manager.
a lie Gr< :i! Oi-iuiliul
BLACK CROOK!!
I’D I BI \8 <; MTS O \ V !
MONDAY, TUEBD.W AND WEDNESDAY,
liy 2,'ith, 2f>th aud 27tb,
BLACK CKOOK!
THURSDAY NIGHT, MAY 2Sni,
Grand Combination and Last, Night.
The Great
MAGICAI« AND SPECTACULAR DRAMA,
In Four Acts, entitled
Black: Croc>k.
Solo right from Chat leu M. Barr as to produce iu
Charleston, Savaunah and adjacent cities, the
wo:ijii;i: or mi: would!
Clayed nearly hvo years iu New York; now pre
sented for the
FIRST AND ONLY TIME IN AUHUSTA,
With all its Unparalleled Beauties.
The piece will be produced with the principal
new scenes painted in New York, the Urotto ami
Transtbriuatiou, rivalling Niblo’s famous scenes.
Ad iiiis’vitui.
Tickets $1 00
Res.wwd Seats 1
Children Half Price. Hallory 50 Cents.
?T«T'Se:its can be secured, at once, fur any of
the performances of the BLACK BROOK, at
Schreiner'. Music Store. Broad street.
Doors open at 71 ; to commence at S o’clock,
my 21 6t
No 1 ice.
A PETITION HAS BEEN FILED TO THE
/A May form, ISOS, of the Court of Ordinary
of Richmond county, for leave to aell the Real Es
tate of Surah May, deceased. At the duly
Term. 180S, application will be made for the pus
srttfo of tlio Order required by 1 iw.
RICHARD W. lUAHER,
myS-eow2ui Adui'r of Sarah May.
Auction Saleß.
Assignee’s Sale. ""
T WILL OFFER FOR SALE at
1 outcry, before the Court Hoaae a, P^Uc
is and 08 in Bcvenlh district of i rwi „
said State. Said lands sold a« tl„- Drod^***?*»
M Griffin, a bankrupt, for
creditors. ent of
At the same time and place w ,ii . ,
doable barrelled SbotOnn. sold
Deittlnr Richardson, alrankrupt forth?!!!!?*
Ins creditors. 1 ’ ""
Also, at the same time and place will i .
single eased Gold Watch and Ell „
land No.:««, and 1 If, acres ol! ~f o’, k*3
fifteenth district of said Co«ntv, said Undl"'
wff in the a/ercoatc V,:, !:( . rt : B
land sold subject to a judgment lieu ,
of parties not creditors of the bankru^
ITJMSISSpj?.'!
tors. 01 Went
Also, at the same time and nUw.;n ,
lots of land fm j*,. and
fractional lots 211 and 21.7 in twentv SL’?’*
of said County (said land sold subject m
lien); alio, G bead of cat:le, & I.JS *,
and 1 boKKV and harness Said i row« f
belongiiiK to T. K. .1, Cowait a tlanKSs
benefit of big creditors ' rn P*! fortte
Also, at the same time aud place will ~
undivided half interest in lot No ten 4t
district ot said Countv. Said' land soM I ! e *« t
property of John T. Wimberly a 'JaY ***
the henelit of his creditors ' ankra P>- hr
my 17—td H M
AsnKnee.
H. S. Marshall Sale. "
IN ADMIRALTY
Under ami by virtue of aa order ion..! „
honorable the District Court of tbelVii^if 1 *
for the Southern District of (ieorcia in Vk^^*** l
entitled case, and to me ‘‘if*
public auction at Dari. n. Ga.. on tire aTI T *
waatassS
TJ. S* Marshal’s Sale.
T AMES BRADY vs. STEAMER ayvt»
fj her Tackle, Apparel, Furniture etc
IN ADMIRALTY.
Under aud by virtue of an order issued
the honorable the District Court of thFlv
States for the Southern District of Georm
above entitled case, and to me directed I will Jn
at public auction, at Savannah, on the 27th H-.o
May. between the legal hours of sale the sigL?
Annie, her Tackle, Apparel. Furniture aT** 9
WM. G.DICKSOK,
m y ll ’- |llt i'S-Marthk
Assignee’s Sale.
G. AV. ADAIR, Auctioneer.
By VIRTUE OF A DECREE IN BAM
KUPTC’Y in the case o! George
lsankrupt, we will sell, at the corner of WhiS
and Alabama streets, iu the city of Atlanta, «tl
o'clock iu the afternoon, on TUESDAY the 2d
day of June next, all the Real Estatebeloimtt,
said Bankrupt, viz:
The lot oil which tlie post office corner in A*,
lanta ia erected, fronting -J.j feet on R roa d
and running tiack GO feet on Alabama street—U»
improvements comprising the corner half of the
Bell Johnson Building and three lots of laid*
St. Mary's River, in Cauideu county, Geoaria.of
1000 acres each. All sold free from incunrVraMt,
ALSO,
The personal property of said Bankrupt »
sistinK 111 part of nineteen Gold Watches mosof
them worth from £.NK> to 930 V. and some of tie*
very line; three Billiard Tables; one Bagatelle
Table; one Iron Safe; lot of liar Fixtures ; m .
oral Rood Stoves; Gas Fixtures; half interest in
the Chairs Benches, Scenery and Fixtures of
the Bell Johnson Opera Bali; numerous arti
cles of Furniture, and other property; :ind a large
number of notes and accounts.
All sold as the property of sai l Bankrupt, for
tlie benefit of his creditors,
J. T. GLENN,
G. W. ADAIK,
my 13-lawiiw Assignees.
Assignee’s Sale.
By virtue of a decree in bank
ruptcy in the case ot FRANKLIN H.
GAY, Bankrupt, 1 will sell on the premises, at
iiu* former residence of tin* said Gay, live miles
South of Lithoiiiu, in DeKalb County, on SAT
UiiU.tl, the atttli DAY OF MAY, commencing
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, free trom all incum
brances. the Real Estate of said Bankrupt
amounting to HUJJ acres, iu Dclvalb county, Or
as follows:
175 acres of land, lot number 112; lots SI. 8
and 117, each containing '.'•''.’j acres, one-half of
the mineral interest in the latter reserved; S)
acres of lot manlier SO; 1, 1 5 ceres of let r.umter
251, ami',' acres adjoining the last—number not
known. Also, 111 acres of land iu Pauling
county, being lot number 707, in the 18th district
and Ihi section
ALSO,
Two silver watches,'-’ gins, cue half interest®
a saw mill in DeKalb county, I wagon, cart,or
ria.ge, a lot of shucks, cotton seed and lumber,
and other articles of personal property.
ALSO,
.Sundry iici. sand accounts belonging to the
estate ot said Bankrupt, all sold for the benefitef
Ids credit;us. G. \V. ADAIR,
mylff— law3w Asagnet-
Fayette Sheriff's Sale.
1A TILL 1!E SOLD, BEFORE THE CO®
' \ House door iu the town of Fayetteville,
Fayette countv, Georgia, within ilie legal boas
of sale, ou thi* first- TUESDAY in JCSE aJj
Hie following property, to wit: One lot oi law
situated and lying in die liftli district, originally
Henry, now Fayette » >ir ty. number not knoWj
adjoining Seaborn Harris. Nazareth Norton m
others, levied on as the properly of James I.
Austin, to satisfy a tax ti fa. agaiust said Ansui
Levied bv Count v Bailin’.
Mav 3, lSbSi D. C. MINOR, j
my ld-t.i !
Fayette Sheriff’s Sale*
St? ILL BE SOLD, BEFORE THE COW
V\ Hcurse door ia the mwii cf FareW*
Favettecountv, Georgia, within the
of eale, on tin' first TCKSIkVY in JCNb
the following property, to wit: One town 0 •
the town of Fayetteville, known as I°t J®* | j
levied on as property belonguij to tlie esw
Eli Edmon.'on, dvee«i!*ed, to satiHy n to*
against sai l e.-tate. 1 J - * •
May 5, I sits. Shenfl
my 10—td
Fayette Sheriffs Postponed Sale*
W 'ILL BE SOLD. BEFORE THE I'O
> \ House door in the toon ol Fave* '
Favettecoiiniv. Geortria. wilhin the “01 .
of sale, ou the first TUESDAT *2 La ii
tlie f'ollowiiii; property, to wit; Letoi ,
I lie upper 7th Id Favelte eeiinty. sl : le 'w "
as a part of the estate of Wright Martin, J
to satisfy a li la. ill favor of John Hme,
Mays is„s
mylO—td
U. S. Marshal's Sale*
[ TNDER AND BY VIKTTEOEAMkn 1
U ot lien facias, issued out otlh.'
Fifth Circuit Court ol tin i :;i; ‘ ‘J* ' o f il*
Southern Distrirt of Goorirm. m '*
plaintiff, in the following rase, to
Broknn vs. Willis J. l’aineh. 1 - a' l , jj,.
as the property of the defendant. ‘
ated in the city of Thomiisvillc. La'lW. a
ami known ns the Railroad Heme; .k er eoi,
land in said city, with
known :.s the residence of ' ve a»l»
also, six acre- of hint, with ;lie iui|'r>’'“
thereon, situated on the .dd I!u : ,,hrH^«g rf
known as the Parnell Bnu, T> l ™*' n j Hon*
tho same at public auction, at Ha' ; gatt*f !
m tlie oil vot Macon, com,tv ot BH;l>*»2i jp>T
Geonjia, on the FIRST ITEsDAk I*''
next .'between the lawful hours pt s*u-
Dated Savannah. April BY
~ , , ' V. S.
my9> lawlw
Administrator's Sale.
gTATH OK dEOIIGIA-.^
Will be sold, at the Lower Mart* l 'VjgpjT
the citv ot Augusta, on the l' 1 " fall,
IN JUNK next,between the usual
by leave of the honorable the l
ot Uiehmond County, the foUowjns t UM rs
belonging to the estate of J»° o ® '.,'jmcnK®
said county, deceased. AH the »«[ t ' a
lot No. ’.SS, Telfair street, be fq# l,
and Humming streets, occur' 0,1 of S’*
All of the buildings on Southeast: i p (e )]ii|
and Kollock streets, consisting <’
and Kitchen, formerly occupiS' . 0J u«
one small l'lvolling House, with '' i,Riding*-
Storo oil tho corner, with otner > - j(ors v .f
Sold for the benefit of the he‘rs atm 0
tho deceased. Terms sash.
for papers. . , V lUt&
B 0
At tho Lowest Terms and m 1110
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