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—Y«*tcrd»Ti in X«rk, OoW *a,
quoted at 1.39]. Cotton, 30.
—Two ladies, ««>«> •intern, both married
and living .part, recently * h * “ m *
day, in France, nt the ngw of 100 year*.
—A cotempornry i» of opinion, cemeteries
will be abolished and corpus will be burned,
when we become a little further advanced
in civilisation.
A physician in Michigan has been at
rested for punishing bia daughter, a woman
grown, by deluging her with water, while
securely fastened in a chair.
One of the lady attaches of Yankee
Robinson's Circus is a daughter of a 1 tula
dolphin Banker, and a graduate of a first
class fashionable boarsling school.
_ In one week in April over thirty patents
were issued to Southern met!, mostly for
agricultural machinery. Before the war,
fewer wore in a \o<ii\
The famous surgeon, Hr. Nelaton, lias
lately left Paris for Stockholm, to operate
for a tumor on Baron Iloepner. His fee in
to be #22,000 and travelling expenses,
-Orders have been issued in New Orleans
lor the establishment of quarantine against
all the ports of Nicaragua, Central America
and Vera Crux.
—The Union Pacific Railroad has been
opened to business six hundred miles beyond
Omaha, Nebraska. Sixty miles have been
built this spring, and a larger force of laborers
than ever is at work on the road.
Mrs. Judd, or New Haven, is advertised
to lecture in Bridgeport, Conn , on 1 hursday
evening ; her subject, as announced, being :
“Shall women be subjected to cruel indig
nities, and have no retires !
—The Children’s Aid Society, in New
York, furnishes to poor boys good, clean,
comfortable beds, with t-ie use of bath
room, sitting-room and clolhes-closcts for
five cents a night.
—Charles Dickens has written a Christ
inas play f>r Mr. Jarr-tl, the theatrical
manager, who is to bring it out in splendid
style at Niblo’s Garden, in December next.
Dickens will receive SIO,OOO for it.
—ln Stanford, Conn., several Roman
Catholic Priests have been holding pro
tracted temperance meetings, and, as a
consequence, two hundred men and women
have signed the pledge, and five liquor
sellers have closed their shops.
—William Reeves was instantly killed on
Thursday, at Delhi, Ohio, by the explosion
of one of the rendering tanks of the Fertiliz
ing Company at that place. Three other
employees of the Company were injured.
The cause of the explosion is unknown.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is said to be at
the head of a movement in New \ ork to
establish schools in which women can be
fitted for the practical duties of life—in the
art of teaching, nursing invalids, li lusebold
qualifications, e'c.
=-It is stated that the retail sales of in
toxicating liquors in the United States,
amounts to nearly as much as the total value
of all the railroads in th« country, with
their equipments, which are estimated at
$1,054,050,700.
—One of the last things an American or
Englishman learns when in Europe, is to
lift his hat on entering a shop or case, and
■intil he docs learn it he is never treated
wn- jMo.h respect and pays double prices
f° r "V man nanicit I'icrce, living in jamaic
.trinont, has a child four mouths old which
he says has been able to talk for some time.
The little dear must have remarkable aptness
to learn a language ns difficult as English,
in so short a time.
—Hon. Amass Walker, in an article in
Haul's May:atine for June, on the “Econo
my of Tnxaiion,’' states that upon the whole
amount collected through custom houses the
people, pay sl.Bti forevery dollar the govern
ment raises.
—While there is a considerable proportion
of colored men in the new Arkansas legisla
ture—something which of course never hap
pened before —it is stated that it is the fir.-t
legislature of that State in which every
member can write his own name in a legible
hand.
—The Kansas people have found a way
to circumvent the gras-hoppers. It consists
in turning sheep upon the wheat to eat it
down, so that when the insects come and
find nothing they leave in disgust. The
wheat recovers from the feeding of the
sheep, but if the grasshoppers go over it
they take root as well as statk.
—Professor Morse has telegraphed to all
the capitalists of Europe to know whether
any of Cook and Wheatstone’s instruments
are in use in those countries, and the reply
has been from every one of them that “no
English instrument is in m-o here—no
instrument but Morse's.”
lt is a curious circumstance, that since
the invention of the present form of the
violin, about 250 years ago, the instrument
has undergone no improvement. None of
the changes which successive makers have
attempted to introduce have proved of the
least value. The old are still the best, and
for once the general law of progress seems
to have been set aside.
—Silver money being at a discount in
Canada, the Ship Lilmrers’ Benevolent
Society have adopted a resolution binding
themselves not to accept pay tor their labor
except in bankable funds. They claim that
the stevedores and captains buy .silver at a
discount and pay it out at its par value,
thereby subjecting the laborer to a loss equal
to the discount.
—lntelligence received in Washington
from Cretan sources represent that several
haul' s took place in Crete last ironth be
tween the insurgents and the Turkish
lories, in all of which the Cretans are said
to have gained advantages. The refugee
Cretans in Greece were suffering severely.
The Greek government had already spent
three millions of dollars to keep them from
starvation
• A young machinist in Ifctroit lias made
a locomotive engine and tender, complete,
about four feet in length, and weighing
only three hundred pounds—attached are
head light, bell, whistle, and every “liiin”
tii he found in a regular locomotive engine.
It can he run with fifteen pounds of steam,
though as high its thirty pounds can be
put on, if necessary. The boiler has thir
teen flues. The maker has refused 500
for it.
—The New Haven Railroad arc to lay
down thirty miles of steel rails at once, and
as fast as the old iron rails wear out on
other parts of the road they will he replaced
by steel. These rails cost twice as much as
ron ones, hut, besides the additional safety
obtained by their use, are much more eco
nomical, as they are said to wear more than
ten times at long as iron rails.
A New York correspondent says that it is
becoming dangerous to wear a stove pipe hat
in that city after dark. KXpert pickpockets
make nothing of knocking it over a fallow's
eyes, and while he is in a state of utter be
wilderment ‘‘going through him" in the most
approved and thorough style. Such cases
are becoming frequent, and have created
quite a serious panic in favor of the soft
low-crowned hat.
NntianatUcpublirna
AUmWI'A. OA.
TIIUK.SDAY MORNING M*y 2S. IHtD
For PKESIOENT
Or thk United States:
ILISSES S. GKWT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
N< hi vLicit Colfax,
OF IXDfAXA.
itivtM iti.K %\ i*i % noun.
The National ItepvhUean parly of the Fulled States,
Assembled in National Convention, in the city of Chi
eago, on the MOth day of May, 18fiS, make the following
lvd»r*tion of Principle* :
Ist. We congratulate the country on the assured suc
cess of the reconstruction policy us Congress, as
evinced by the adoption, in a majority of the States
lately in rebellion, of Constitution* Mcurtng equal civil
and political rights to all. and regard it ns tho duty of
the Government to sustain those institutions, and to
prevent the people ©f such States from being remitted
to a state of anarchy.
2d. The guarantee, by Congress, of equal suffrage «-•
all loyal men in Ihe South was demanded by every con -
Migration of public safety, of gratitude and of justice,
and must be maintained, while the question of suffrage
In all the loyal States property belongs to the people of
those States.
Sd. We denounce all forms of repudiation ns a na
tional crime, and the national honor requires the pay
ment of the public indebtedness, in the utmost good
faith, to all creditors, at home ami abroad, not only
according to the letter, but the spirit of the laws
under which it w«s contracted.
4th. It is due to the labor of ihc nation that taxation
should be equalised and reduced as rapidly as the na
tional faith will permit.
sth. The national debt, contracted, as it has been, for
the preservation of the Union for all time to come,
should he extended over a fair period for redemption,
and it is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of in
terest thereon, whenever it can honestly be don*.
©th. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
debt is to so improve our credit that capitalists will seek
to loon us mouey at lower rates of interest than we now
pay, and must continue to pay, so long as repudiation,
partial or total, open or covert, is threatened or sus
pected.
7th. The Government of the United States .should be
administered with the strictest economy, ami the cor
ruptions which have been so shamefully nursed and
fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for ndiral re
form.
8tl». Wc profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, ami reeret the accession of
Andrew Johnson to llie Presidency, who has acted
treacherously to the people who elected him and ihe
cause he was pledged to support ; has usurped high
legislative and judicial functions; has refused to exe
cute the laws; has used his high office to induce other
officers to ignore and violate the laws; has employed
his executive powers to render insecure the property,
peace, liberty and life of the citizen; has abused the
pardoning power; has denounced the National Legisla
ture as unconstitutional; has persistently ami corruptly
resisted, by every measure in his power, every proper
attempt at the reconstruction of the Stales lately in re
bellion; has perverted the public patronage into an
engine of wholesale corruption; and has been justly
impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and
properly pronounced guilty thereof by the vote of
thirty-five Senators.
ffth. The doctrine of Great Kriuin and other European
powers, th.it because a man is once n subject, he is
always so, must be resisted at every hazard l>y the
United States, ns a relic of the feudal time, not author
ized by the law of nations, and at war with our national
honor and independence. Naturalized citizens are enti
tled to be piotected in all their rights of citizenship ns
though they were natural born, and no citizen of the
United States* native or naturalized, must be liable to
arrest and imprisonment, by any foreign power, for acts
done, or wonts spoken, in this country, ami if so arrested
and imprisoned, it is the duty of the Government to
interfere in his behalf.
10th. Os all who were faithful in the trials of the late
war, there were none entitled to more especial honor
than the brave soldiers and seamen, who endured the
i hardships of the campaign and cruise, and imperilled
their lives in the service of tho country. 'Hie bounties
and pensions provided by law for these brave defenders
of the nation are obligations never to be forgotten. The
widows and orphans <>r the gallant dead are the wards of
the people, a sacred legacy bequeathed to the nation’s
protecting care.
11th. Foreign immigration, which in the past lias
lidded so much to the wealth, development of resources,
and increase of power of this nation, the asylum of the
oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encour
aged by a liberal and just policy.
12th. This Convention declares its sympathy with .»ll
the oppressed people which are struggling for their
rights.
Lettej! fhom thk Editor.— Wo re
evenrog, mailed from Chicago on tin- “Ist
instant—only six days old ! The telegraph
and New 5 oik papers (the latter coming
to us by Express in forty eight hours) have
anticipated the correspondence. Wc may
add that Mr. C. left the next day for home,
r in New York.
RESTORATION
Ihe t.iith of the Nation is pledged to
admit tile hite insurrectionary Slates so
| soon us the conditions proposed by the
I Congress shall have been complied with.
I The people of the South o understand it
! the people of the North so understand it—
the Congress so umh islands it,and Congress
will stand to its pledges. When impeach
ment is finally disposed of, if not before,
the Senate will act. There need be no
apprehension as to wli.tt that action will be,
Sensible men agree that the development
of material prosperity is an important clc
ment of reconstruction. Let peace and
security be reestablished, and the tide of
Northern capital and enterprise will flow
into the South. Our agriculture will re
vive on anew basis; our commerce will
spread and prosper: new towns and vil
lages will arise, while the old ones take a
newstart of improvement; and the cx
“robel,” now impoverished and believing
himself outraged, will suddenly discover
that all tlm change has been for his benefit
—that be has profited by the abolition
of slavery -tlmt his property has trebled
and quadrupled in value —that new chances
and opportunities of enriching himself are
crowding around him and that free labor,
after all, is a blessing and not an injury.
The South is mnv asked to listen to the
voice of reason. Gentlemen of the sunny
clime, tile natural resources of this section
of country are great All it requires is the
repression of the spirit of violence. Let
order and security be maintained, and
prosperity is sure to follow.
WHO SHOULD HOLD OFIIOK IN
CKO HO l A {
This question seems to be much agitated
at this time in our State. We can see no
reason for the furor. It may be well under
stood that the right men will be found and
put, in flic right places, if human .judgment
is able to accomplish file work.
It would bo altogether unreasonable to
suppose that a lukewarm quasi friend of
the administration soon to be inaugurated,
could receive the same sort of considera
tion as one who stood his ground like a
man, and fought bravely, against fearful
odds, for the success of the Constitution
and the Reconstruction Acts of Congress
and for Governor Bullock, at the recent
election. We say it is unreasonable; yen,
wc believe it would be damaging to flic
Republican party, and not for a moment to
be thought of.
I lie rewards arc certainly inuiieasiiruhl v
<l'te to the veterans who carry the scars,
ami not to the new recruits, who never
smelt the powder or heard the roar of the
guns and the whistle of the bullets in the
lute war for the Right. While we know
there are very many clever men even in the
ranks of the "so called." who wo would
trust, to do justice and equity in all eases
and to nil parties, on the llenelt, or in any
other eiipaeity, ns ollieiul . ivc cannot, get.
our consent to see a single one of them
receive an appointment of any kind, feeling
as we do the unjust and false and unfair
means used against tlic Republican party,
the abuse and unification of the best men
in tlic State, which was and is the practice
of the lenders of the Democratic party,
“so-called,” even to this day.
It may lie that some may have conceived
the mistaken notion iu fact, we have seen
appeals of the sort made—that the Repub
lican party should Im) generous (?) It will
be —and it should Iks— to its friends, its
real friends; not to those who were open
and avowed enemies, nor again, to those
who iu secret endeavored to stall, while
openly pretending to be friends;nor again,
to those who with “open rear” occupied
the position of the rifleman, who tired so
as to “hit it it should be a deer and miss if
a colt.” Neither of these classes, we are
sure, have any claim upon the Republican
administration.
THE I‘HIMIEIISIIIP.
The political “situation” in London, has
become very interesting. Disraeli re
fuses to resign ; he clings to the Premier
ship with a tenacity worthy of liis race.
Notwithstanding his signal defeat upon the
Discndowment question, he did not resign
his place according to the usual custom in
such instances, but astonished political
friends and foes by liis continuance in
office.
The contest between the two great
leaders in the House ot Commons was
brilliant and exciting. On the one side
was Disraeli, flushed with liis late pre
ferment, and determined not to be baffled
just after the achievement of the hope of
years. Supported by the Government and
the Tory interest, lie felt that no efforts of
the Opposition could wrest frem liis hand
the sceptre lie had won. On the other
side was Gladstone, thirsting for power—
a model leader of the Opposition. Life to
him had been a continual conflict for
place. When he saw Disraeli assume
the Premiership as the reward for success
fill leadership in the House of Commons,
he felt that to defeat the new minister on
some test question would be to secure the
ascendancy in England after long and
weary years of patient waiting. The
golden opportunity came in the question
of the discndowment of the Church in
Ireland—and before Disraeli had been
fairly seated in his new office, he found
himself defeated by the brilliant roup <le
etat of liis skilful adversary.
According to custom, all England then
expected the resignation of the Tory
Cabinet, and the investment of Mr. Glad
stone with the Premiership, ns the lender
of the party that had just won such a signal
victory. But the new Premier “wouldn't";
he had not reached liis position so easily
that he was willing to yield it because of
one defeat, and he determined to enter the
li'ts again as the antagonist of his rival
before he would yield the palm of victory,
minister determined to “ tick" he dial
hinged the crdicism of his opponents and
remained steadfastly in office. Since then,
tlie gauntlet thrown down bv Mr. Glad
stone wa- taken up by Ihe Premier. On
the Scotch Reform Bill, giving seven new
member, to Scotland, ihe Tories, who
opposed it, were defeated by the Liberals
who favored it. Thus a second time since
his ministry, Mr. Disraeli was warned of
the uncertain teimre-of office and of the
slight hold of any man on the popular
favor and support. And now, for the
third time, the cable dispatches advise us
of tke defeat of Disraeli, after a severe
contest, over the question of passing the
Irish Church hill to a second reading. A
division was called for and resulted in the
defeat of the ministry by a vote of 812
against “58, or a Liberal majority of •> t.
The Opposition demand that the Premier
shall immediately resign or dissolve Parlia
ment. lint he lias a fair precedent for not
immediately dissolving Parliament : in
December, 1783, the second William Pitt
became Prime Minister, with a majority of
seventy three against him. and persevered,
during ten weeks of debates and defeats,
in continuing in office, without dissolving
Parliament. -‘Gradually the opposition
melted away like snow on the mountain
tops, and when a general election did take
place, a very large majority- in favor of Mr.
Pitt's administration was tin: result.”
Tut; Nio.vr Vick President. In the
nomination of Srin;vj,i;it Comma. the argu
ments of locality yielded to considerations
of his fitness and worth. From all the
other candidates, delegates turned to him.
as after all the best, man to be put on the
ticket with Grant. Neither men arc sec
tional in sentiment or affection. Both arc
national in their principles and services.
It makes little difference from what State
cither of them hails. Their patriotism
includes the whole Union. They will be
President and Vice President of the United
States. Neither Illinois nor Indiana will
monopolize the attention or the allections
ot cither. I hey Are not chosen for their
locality. They are taken as the best men,
all in all, for the positions for which they
are named, and to which they will lie
called by the people at the coming elec,
tion.
“Wanted to Know, You Know,"’ liow
much it cost to buy the votes ol that squad
of tlio banditti, who went to Chicago from
Georgia ?
Rumor bus it (hat all of them bat Brown
and Blodgett were eager to sell out on any
terms, and snapped at the first hid. she
two busy It’s held them hack, though, and
with the coyness an old baud affects to
whet the appetite of the bidder and make
her battered charms more marketable,
played virtuous till a respectable offer was
made. Trust them for that. The hungry
stay at-homes who, of course, are interested
in the divide, ought to hold a meeting and
pass a vote of thanks to It. and It. Marou
Journal and- Memeaycr.
Wo “want to know, you know,” how it is
possible for the good-looking, curly headed,
Bhuk Crook hating, Opera repudiating,
moral young man, of the virtuous ./. d' .1/ ,
to know anything about the seductive
blandishments of an "old band”! Is hr
ever “hungry " ? *
The Raxerupt Law.— An opinion is
abroad that the fifty per cent clause has
been postponed from the first of noxt June
to January 1, 1809. This is a mistake. A
bill providing for an extension of the full
benefits of tho not to tho latter date passed
the House of Representatives some weeks
ago, but it lias not passe 1 the Senate, and
it is fur from certain that it will do so.
Many Senators are known to be opposed to
the extension, believing that all who are
unable to pay fifty per cent, of their debts
should be compelled to go into bankruptcy
prior to June Ist. As the law now states,
any bankrupt who files liis papers on or
after June Ist, will be emu polled to procure
the written assent to bis discharge of the
majority of liis creditors, i t number ami in
value, who have proved their claims, unless
liis assets pay tis l i per cad. <>J the. debts
proved gainst liis estate. This, of course,
is after the costs have been paid; and us
these will not be less than ten per cent., in
ordinary eases, tho assets of a bankrupt
who will then obtain an unconditional dis
charge must be quite large. This will be
the more evident when it is remembered
that no assignee can close up and convert
into cash an embarrassed estate at the full
value of the property. There will always
he sacrifices ami forced sales.
l’ructieally, tlioii, after June first, unless
further legislation is had, tho Bankrupt
Law will cease, except as an agency on tho
part of creditors to compel failing and
dishonest debtors to make full and impartial
distribution of their property. For this
purpose it is and will bo permanently very
valuable. But voluntary cases in bank
ruptcy will be few, and the registers,
hitherto so busy, will have ample leisure
for other duties.
[Communicate 1.
HO IF DOES THE CONSTITUTION
ALIST PRAY?
That it does pray, there is internal evi
dence. Its words are so sweet and loving—
its thoughts are so tender and humane—its
spirit so Christ-like—its every utterance so
manifestly marked with the signs ot lull,
plenary inspiration, it must be a praying
paper, and its editors praying men. But
what kind of prayers does it offer ? Evidently
it does not pray like other men. Its thoughts,
wishes, hopes, aspirations are not like those
of the great mass of praying people. Its
strictures on the prayer of tho Chaplain of
the House, iu its issjje of the 23d, give full
proof that its prayers are not in sympathy
with the wants of other men. After
quoting from the Rev. Doctor’s prayer
tho words: “May ail things bo so done as
to vindicate the honor and dignity of Amer
ican Statesmen. May no one so vote as that
his children shall blush for it when they
stand by his grave. The Lord preserve
every one from doing anythiug by which
the interests of the country might be en
dangered, or the cause of liberty put in
peril,” it proceeds to make tho following com
ments : “Although Boynton, sweet angel,
prayed to the House of Representatives, he
was all the while glancing askew at the
doubtful Senators. We trust, for the sake
of posterity, that Boynton is a bachelor. It
is a sad heritage for children to know that
their progenitor thought so xvell of himself
that lie undertook to lecture Almighty God,
th'' lace of his pocket divinity,'ami Qucqueg
drove a spike into his fetish, wc have had
nothing so awful as Chaplain Boynton—
Reverend by brevet, of Messrs. Donnelley.
Washburn: and Forney.”
Elegant diction; Maeauley could not
have done better. What is there, we ask,
about this prayer which should challenge
such words of ensure?
What is true progress? Is it not the out
pouring of a burdened spirit into the ear of
Heaven? I’he telling God our wants and
■ kin: him to supply them? Did not the
Chaplain ot the House, when lie uttered llie
prayer quoted above, pray just as Christ
taught us? “give us this day our daily
bread, Whatever you mad to day, ask
lor. And could the Chaplain of the House
on th.it eventful dav, when a question was to
he decided, which was baking the nation
from the centre to the circumference
could ain in, called by the representatives
of the people to olli r prayer for ihe guidance
and welfare ot the nation, make no :iTl uoioi i
to it? Was i: a question so totally iirelevant
10 our wants ami tile wants ot llie republic,
that lie could touch it on no side with
prayer.
W e cannot account tor I lie criticism ot the
Constitutionalist on any other theory than
that it feels itself and tin cause so manifest
ly in the wrong that nil genuine prayer
inu-t make against it. Had the Constitu
tionalist been Chaplain, 1 suppose it would
have prayed at that time which tried men’s
souls, “ter the hringin ; iu ot the Jews and
the Conversion of the Gentiles.” It would
have told the Lord how great sinners the
Jews were, Hid thanked Him that the Con
stilidioiutisl was not like other men. And
it it came any rear r to the linn s, it might
have put up a fervent prayer lor the success
of the “whi key ring.” But, doubtless, its
great burden at ,11 limes it. —“Depart from
US, U 1 oid! lor we desire not the knowledge
of thy wins.’’ * #
[ Communicated.
Mu. Imutoi. : I uni plea-cd to see that,
yi.a properly repudiate the idea llmt‘ Gov
ernor Bullock in mainly indebted to the
Atlanta Era and Uov<rm>r Brown for his
election." 1 have nothing to so/ns to the
modesty ol the Fra in placing itself before
Governor Brown in the scale of influence at
the late election. If I were permitted to
“venture” any opinion on the subject, J
would say that, in my judgment. Governor
bullock could have been elected if Mr. Bard
h id remained in Louisiana, and if Governor
Brown had remained a secessionist. The
truth is, that tho great mass of tiie white
men in Northern Georgia who voted for
Bullock were for tho Union before the war,
for the Union during the war, and voted for
tho Union in April. Tho Era's or Gov.
Brown’s position had nothing to do with
their choice. The Era, and Governor
Brown, ami the National Republican, en
couraged many persons to go to the polls,
who night otherwise have done so. That is
nil. Repuhltcan.
New Baptist Church —Mr. A. B. ,Sharp,
of Georgia, is visiting our city for the pur
pose ol obtaining help to build n house ol
worship for the First Baptist Church congre
gation of Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. S. informs
us that the church and congregation wore
reduced to such poverty by the war (lossing
everything valuable) that they are unable to
accomplish so desirable an object, 'fhe
church and city ol Atlanta have authorized
Mr. Sharp to represent them, ami they send
by him a very strong appeal for help, en
dorsed by many of tin-substantial merchants
of Atlanta, llio Mayor nf the city, all the
churches, without denominational distinction;
ex Governor .1. M. Brown, Governor I’alt in,
of Alabama; Major General John l’ope,
Rev. R, Fuller, pastor of the Seventh Bap
tist Church of Baltimore, and many oilier
distinguished gentlemen. This is a worthy
object, and we bespeak lor Mr. S, a liberal
t espouse. Wan hi iii/ton Chronicle, Map 25.
Bad Taste —Oil 1 fashioned people, with
good memories, are Ixginuing to cull into
question tlic taste displayed by the Era
who, at the eleventh hour, closed up his
rear that had remained open so long, and
is now gasconading hugely concerning his
devotion to the Republican cause, borne
of these old-time folks have preserved the
following exeerjits front the Atlanta Era,
about twelve months since. Said the
Neie Era, then:
WE STAND BY THE CONSTITUTION AND THE
PRESIDENT AS THE LAST AND ONLY HOPE,
WE DO, INDEED.
A subscriber wishes to know if we still
intend to adhere to the reconstruction
policy of President Johnson. We answer
yes, and that too, till the last plank sinks
to rise no more. The President lias becu
right from first to last, and we of the South
cannot and must not forsake him.
HE HAS WON IM.MORTALITY.
President Johnson’s veto of the Sherman
Reconstruction bill lias rendered liis name
immortal among the nations of the earth,
and lie ranks to day among the most
cxaulted of living statesmen. He is by far
the greatest living defender of the Consti
tution as it was, and if the American pco
pie fail to sustain him, in this hour of
national gloom, they will deserve bondage
for all time to come.
Centbal Park, New York. —-From an
article .before us wo learn that this park—
destined in time to be ilie grandest park in
the world for extern and beauty—has, dur
ing the past year, made vast improvements
amounting iu the aggregate st‘J9,2Gl.ofl.
Amongst these items we find 4,798 feet of
walks, rustic arbors, rustic seats, 235 lord
cages, G drinking fountains, etc., etc. A
gallery of paintings and sculpture is being
established at Mount St, Vincent buildings,
formerly a convent. The number of visitors
during 1807 were 7,228 805. Toe whole
number of arrests were 157 only —57 for
fast driving and 11 for disorderly conduct—
but one arrest was made for breaking shrubs
and flowers out of this large number of
visitors I The Central Park contains
8G2.70-100 acres of land.
—The only business which is thriving in
Boston, at the present time, is the umbrella
trade. It is not yet 100 years since these
very necessary articles were first made use
of in England. The first one carried pub
licly in the streets of I .on don was by Jonas
llanaway, the philanthropist, who died in
I7BG. Up to 1778 there were no umbrellas
worn in London except in noblemen’s
and gentlemen’s houses, where there xvas a
large one hung in the ball to hold over a
lady, it it rained, between the door and the
carriage. An umbrella is described in the
old dictionaries as “a portable pent house to
carry in a person’s hand to screen him from
violent rain or heat.” Umbrellas are, how
ever, of great antiquity, and were early
known to the Chinese and other Eastern
nations.
Death ok a Bureau Officer. — We learn
that Captain H. C. Brandt, an officer of the
Bureau, who was for some time in charge ot
the business of that office in Beaufort and
Barnwell Districts, was found dead in his
bed yesterday morning, in a room which he
occupied in the old City Hotel Building,
He was forty five years of age, a native ot
one of the German States, and had been an
officer of the United States army previous to
taking liis situation in tho Bureau. —Savan
nah Advertiser, Wednesday.
.. J.U : rV.!t \hh s ,,Lhfib,,Pi l ,llCE;--M’J^o l , }'■
Columbus, Georgia, by- order of General
Meade, as have all the Aldermen Marshal
and Deputy Marshal of that city. Captain
Win. Mills, lGili Infantry, U. S. A- is ap
pointed to the Mayoralty, Joseph If. W e lister,
Revenue officer; Thos. M, Hogan, Post
master; George C. Hungerford, Walter li.
Johnson, and Johnson W. Duer mo ap
pointed Aldermen. Thomas Grier is tie
new Deputy Marshal.
Drowned.—Mr. John Forsyth, ot tho
firm of Forsyth & Carmichael, of Montezuma,
was drowned in a mill pond, near this place,
last Saturday evening. He went, in bathing
and it is supposed must have been attacked
with the cramp, as his limbs were found to
be very much contractu 1. Tho body was
not discovered until Sunday morning, when
it was brought to this place and dccc.utlv
interied. Sunder Republican.
......The La Crosse Democrat is really I
working in the interest of the Radicals by
making the support of such Democrat v as it
professes too manifestly hopeless, .absurd
and disgusting ordecentmen to swallow.—
A. 1. Ciiuen.
We are afraid there is much tiutli in the
above sentence.— Lynchbunj News.
Wc concur with the News. The La. Crosse
Democrat is a disgrace to any party, end
would ruin any party it it were imitated—-
Charlottesville Citron iele.
Will the Reverend “agent” in this cits
please make a note on’i ?
Wasted. —Any transparency or other de
vice bearing the name of 11. S. Grant, now
or receetly in the possession of the Demo
cratic organizations, will be purchased at
original cost by the Grant, Col fax', and Vic
tory Committee. Apply at any respectable
home iu the land. - Wash. Chronicle.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
SPECIAL THOSE PAR
TIES indebted to us are respectfully requovtod to
call and settle at once; many of our papers and
accounts wore destroyed by the firo which occur
od in our store. We hope alt who can will eciuo
forward and report themselves and oi.aides us to
arrange our affairs at au early day.
lb F. BLODGETT A CO-,
jay27—fit 202 Broad St.
aesr notice, -all persons
having Returns to mako to the Ordinary’s
Office, Richmond county, for tho year 1567, or
fur previous years, ore hereby notified that if (ho
same arc not tiled on or before the first Monday
in July next, as requited by law, they will
subject them solves to a forfeiture of their com
missions i and unless good cause bo shown for
their delinquency, incur such other penalties
as the law provides.
B. M. BRAYTON,
my2P td Ordinary If. C.
IST otice.
1 1 bom this hath \vis shall bo our
■I COMMISSION BUSINESS under tho
stylo of
BRANCH, SCOTT & CO.,
AO ENTS FOR MANUFACTURED TOBACCO,
an i>
GENERAL
COM M ISSION M IIKOIi^TS,
A’O. 26S BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, QA.
BRANCH, SONS At CO.,
Rankers, Georgia R. K. Banking House.
uiy23—3t
ISTotioe.
A rirnnoN hasufkn fh,ki> to tuk
* * Muy Term, 1868, ot the Court of Ordiuary
<»t Itichmond comity, for leave to sell tho Real Kn
tnto of Surah May, deceased. At the July
Term, 18(18, application will he made lor tho pa >
FHgo of tho Order required bv IttW.
liIFII AKD W. MAIIKIi,
niyßcow2m Adnt'r of Sarah May,
£ AMUBEMENTS.
C < > neei*t r-Tall.
JOHN TEMPLETON Manager
U’O.MTIVKI.Y
THE LAST NIGHT!
THURSDAY. MAY 28, 1868.
Tho Great
Seven Sisters!
Aiid tho
Ku - _Klux - Klan !
AdiiiiiKiuiL
Tickets fl 00
Kcgurvnl . tat 1 25
Children Half I’rico. Gallery 75 Cents.
Doon opvn ut 7J ; to commence at b o'clock.
my2B It
FESTIVAL & CONCERT
UNDER tilt; AUSPICES OF THE AID
SOCIETY OF ST. JAMES’ CHURCH
A CO.-NCEICT AND FESTIVAL
Will ho given at
Masonic Mali,
ox NKXT
Friday Afternoon, June 291 h
Tho proceed* of which will bo used iu payment
of some old claim*, and f*»r repairs on tho Church
edifice.
The FESTIVAL, given by the Ladies of the
Church and congregation, will open at 4 o'clock.
Those willing to assist the ladies arc requested to
send their contributions ot Cream, Sherbet,
Strawberries, Cake, etc, ai early on Friday as
possible.
The O »NC 1C ItT, given bv tho YOUNG .MEN’S
.AMATiiUIi and tho \\ (jUSIA QUAHTKTTK
CLU US, Mud by
Messrs. O'JUU UN,
MO KUAN', and
SCII KLIN CK,
W ill open at S\ o’clock. Tickets at the Kook
Stores aud the dour. IV cc, 50 cent)*.
in.) 27—td
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
L’S O i FI 3i 5, |
IN S. I.M'KRXAL Kkvesur, 3d Dist. of Ga. >
Augusta, May 27th, 186 b. J
N’OTICUIS JIERKBY GIVKN TO JASPER
MITCHELL to come forward and show
cause (if any be has), why the Wagon, Harness,
Whiskey, etc., etc-, seized by Deputy Collector
Char. Smith, at Greensboro, on tho HUh inst.,
also Whiskey seized by As.sistant Assessor Jae.
L. Brown, ou tb- 221 inst, at tho same place,
shall not be forfeited 1. the United States f»r
violation us the Intcrral Revenue liws.
J. BOWLES,
my2S lOt Assessor.
INkBANKKUPTCY.
U. 8. MARSHAL’S OFFICE, >
Atlanta. Ga., May “G, IBGB. \
'THUS 18 TO GIVE NOTICE: Thai on the
J "Jllth (tuy ol May, A. I). 1808, a Warrant
in Bankruptcy was issueii against the estate ot
'HENRY E. LUCAS,
of Athens, iu the county of Clarke State of Geor
gia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on
his own petition ; that the payment of any debts
and delivery of any property belonging to said
Bankrupt, to him or for lua use, amt the transfer
of any property by him. are forbidden by law ;
that a meeting oi' the creditors of said Bank
nipt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or
more assigne -s ot his estate, will be held at a
Court of Bankruptcy, to be lioldeu a! I. &. 11
Cobb's Law OUicc, in Athens, Clark county,
Georgia, before Garnet Andrews,Register, outlie
-.‘d-t dav ol June, A. 1). ISOS, at 9 o'clock a. m.
CHARLES U. ELYEA,
niy .’S—lt U. S. Dep. Marshal as Messenger.
IN THE UISTKL, (f)L'RT "77f THE
_ United States tor li..- Northern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of )
~ imoi.- 'i\- lnvin.-i-iiTDV
Bankrupt. )
The under igoe and hereby * . iin'i- eof his
-ii p iiitoicnt -i ■ Wig e> n! I’m. ft. 0. Pace, us
t-ranklio, in t!--- < ... v . or i, ;;:nl i-lato of
Georgia, whi n .i t u. id. . wdo has been
adjudged al! mkruj I wn po i-.iou by
tho District <urtof - iii P .'rivt.
D a at New n il,, . , .'rttli : yof Miy, IS6B.
ISAAC N. Si! vNNON,
liiy/.s i■ " . Assignee.
Assignee’s Sale.
O' N SATURDAY THE l.itli DAY OF JUNE,
IStiS, will be sold to the highest bidder, for
cash, at Madison, in Morgan comity, Ga., tin-fol
lowing properly, tn-wii ■ one -ilvtr watch, one
-J horse wagon, three horses, one cow aud two
("lives . the same being ihe. proj-erty of Eugene
W. Alhston, of Morgan county, Ga and soldnr
der a decree in lianknmtcv. for the benefit of his
creditors. T.’H 8. BROBSTON,
ui.v-.8- bin Iw. Assignee.
Assignee’s S le.
W ll - 1, 1:K BOLD (IN TUESDAY. THE
»V 9lh (lav of Join-. I-EA, nt the resilience of
H. It. Fitzpatrick, bankrupt, of county.
two miles south of Warn-nton, L. r flowing
properly, viz : Mali -. <ai!le. hogs two buggies,
tanning tools, ami other farm imp’, aim :s neressa
IT on a fitrni. one bedstead, bed ami bedding, peas,
one navy pistol, corn shelter, straw cutter! nnd
other articles too tedious to mention.
Terms cash. LEVI FOWLER,
iny2B--lu\vtd Assignee.
•Servant Wanted
WHITE WOMAN I’ll I.FKRKID.—ONE
* V who can IV k, Wasu and Ikon may hear
! *>f a good situation :n u small family.
She must .■ 11 recommended, \pply at
my27—3t» THIS OFFICE.
I3STS URANOB
Firo, Marine, Inland
-111 MM Hi
2Etua lus ranee Company.
Ilttr/fiot!
Fhenix Insurance ompany,
Nor).,/,.
Manhattan Insurance Company,
.1 v lb, . .
Howard Insurance Uniupanv.
" AY: lb..':.
Standard Insurance Company,
Ny loth
Commerce Insurance Company,
.'(/c lork.
Lamar Insuranc t Company,
1 New York.
Fireman’s Insurance Company,
Sew lort\
Astor Insurance Company,
Commercial Insurance Company
New York
Mercantile Insurance Company,
Xew York.
Phoenix Insurance Company,
/[iirt/ord.
The above are all Fill ST CLASS COM
PANIF ' with amp!- me tins to meet their liabili
ties.
All locro.s promntlv and equitably adjusted.
\V.\f. SIIKAIt,
Augusta, April 7th, 1868 Agent.
ap7-om
22 tILHOAI)
Breakfast. Dinner, and Supper House.
PERSONS REAVING AUGUSTA BY
• either morniug or evening Pacsongor Trains,
or Atlanta l»y morning Pas-engor Train, or by
any of the Freight Trains, can always get a
HOOD AIKAL at UKRZFLIA, twenty miles
from Augusta, on the Georgia Railroad
K. NKIUIUT,
mh.il—tf Proprietor.
FRBIGHT ON COTTON.
Charleston to New York, $l5O per Hale.
Uf E WILL RECEIVE AND F.iRWARB
to Now York, by IHo Regular Line
Steamers, nil COTTON consigned to'to, at ONE
DOLLAR AND \ HALF I*KR RALE, free of
Commis-iou. Oral age, and other r.\yell:■ ,'l>.
RAVEN 111. i 00.,
A gen la Regular Line Stoauiers,
uih2B -2iu Charleston, S. 0.
TDK
EXHIBITS IF MXTy-lKf i
THE DAYS OF ROMAN CHIYa„‘
ECLIPSED!
Hons ton quern! by a W #i4|(
KOVAL BENGAL TIGERS SUBD Dlt
The Monster Loose in u,
Streets of Augusta !
THURSDAY AND FR| D * Y
JUNE 4th and sth.
GOt. t.T. amgu
NEW ORLEANS
MENA6ERIE, CIHCtI,
AND
Tropical Aviary.
The trippic coufcderatii.il, almostilliaiUWt
in its resources, and iu re gorge™ uid,
gantly equipped than any kindred Eshibitiw
extaut.
The corps active numbers TilltLTY SEYG
AUt-OMFLISIIED ARTISTS, male andfeial.
representatives of the most elegant, gnctM,
and pleasing Olympian Sports, includingEqto
trianism, Gymnastics, Pantomimic;, Acrobati-s,
■fioristatics, and Athletics. Among tkewg
distinguished of the Troupe arc
M’lle ESTELLE ZOYAIIUA.
VICTORIA DE LEE.
Madame ELIZABETH.
Mr. TsTOS. WATSON.
Mr. XV. NAYLOIt.
Mr. LEWIS CARR.
Mr. HORACE SMITH.
Signor TIERS.
Mr. E. AYINXE.
The CASTILION BROTHER
Mr. E. GOODING.
Mr. E. BANKER.
Master f ItANK.
Master GEORGE, and the
TWO INTENSELY Ht MOK-JIS CLOWS?,
Bob Smith and Johnny Lawton.
TH E
ZGGLOfaCtI, ; UrARTHEAT
Is of imiu n it luagnitub, c 1 embrace; kin
dreds of Wild Beasts, of almost croty spew
and geographical range, from the ELEPHANT
cats
of the burning desert of Africa, to the WHITS
BE Mt of the Arctic feu.-, or the BISON of oar
own Western Wilds. To this is added »
unusually LARGE AVIARY, of most bow* 1
and brilliant Birds and Few:.. Monkeys,Ap s '
and Baboons, in countless numbers .red emf
tribe.
A BAND OF MUSICIANS!
That acknowledge no superiors in the r.nditi 9n
f true harmony.
FERFORMING HORSES
TRICK rONIES
EDUCATED MI.LI' k
acting .monkeys,
SAGACIOUS DOGS, Be-
THE
Only Lion Enchantress in the World-
The beautiful and fairy-like
SUfNOIUTA. KLLA KUGBKR
and tho distinguished N’atunPi't and
plis h c and T ige r ■ j* lav cr,
IIKRH KLUAII LKN’OEL,
accompanies this Cd > ii CouiL-inali o ®*
caeli exhibition display (heir iniramDos
and indomitable c'uraga, b.v eaten.* tt' 4 ™’
of I lie ....
TIGMIiS, LIONS, 1-ANTIIEIIS,
LEOPAItOS.
THE GRAND PROCESSION
On the nu ruing of the Jay of exkffu" 1 ? 4
unusually gorgeous and grand. “ ,fpn«
home two triumphal Cars. '» itONS!
will be EUGENIE SURROUNDED
On the other, sealed side by cdo. ‘.,j,
AND A ROYAL TIOER-tho only •“% „
species that ever permitted himselt t -
tho will of man.
BEAR IT IN YOUR MIND I
That Giis is strictly a Southern
the I‘roprietor and Managers P lod -f f
that the disreputable, or at least q** not
style of advertising attractions | hr
present, shall in no instance , r ''* 8 ‘ . ptt i,lic
them, but that every promise made to
shall bo kept to tho letter. .
