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Newspaper Page TextPA RAO RAMS. Yesterday, * n New York, Gold wuc quoted at 1.40. Cotton, ill. Prof. M. K. Maury, lute of the Confederate nary, ia to lake charge of a department in the Virginia Military Institute. —Fire Kpiscopnl clergymen within the diocese of liondon hare lately pono orer to the Roman Catholic Church, as also an entire sisterhood. —The rich men ot Cincinnati are great buyer* of Dusseldorf pictures. There arc upwards of thirty landscapes by Achenbach in that city. —On last Saturday, the eldest son of Kd. HusUin, K»q., of Fayette county, was thrown from a skittish young mule against a tree and instantly killed. —lt is said that the increase of cholera in lml ; a is owing to the destruction of the crocodiles hy Englishmen. These animals used to eat the corpses which were thrown into the Canges. —The sugar crop of Louisiana for lust year was 37,047 hogsheads, against about a half million, which wa.t the product in “a state of slavery.’’ However, the culture is reviving, and may in a few years exceed old resnlts. —The amount of grain in store iu Chicago is as follows: Wheat, 300,000 bushtds; cork, 900,000 bushels ; 0at5,338,000 bushels; rve, 20,000 bushels; and of barley, 3,000' This is a considerable reduction from the previous week. —Chicago thieves cover their canes with glue, and marching into drinking saloons, plunder the till by reaching over the counter into the piles of currency while the attention of the bar keeper is engag ed in compounding lieverages. ln the new Florida Constitution amend ments are provided for in the same manner as in the new Constitution of New York, and iu numerous other features the new Constitution seems to have been modeled after the New York instrument. —Farmers in northeastern Ohio complain of a singular throat disease which has appeared among horses, and is spreading rapidly, always proving fatal iu a short time. Whole neighborhoods are infected, and no remedy has been discovered. —lt is predicted that in the course of a few years the Telegraph will, in a great measure, supersede the Post Office. In soire countries of Europe telegrams are now transmitted very cheap. In Paris the tariff has recently been reduced to live cents for twenty words sent anywhere in the city. —Coburn and McCoole, the pugilists who didn’t fight, are now in the county jail at Lawrencoburg, Indiana, where they will draw rations for forty days for violating the laws of that State. The Judge, in sen tencing them, kindly expressed great regret that he couldn’t send them for a longer term. —A New York paper says the paper hangers and paper makers are much excited just now with the news of the invention of gutta percha paper, which, for durability and imperviousness, surpasses all previous attempts at fabrication of a damp resisting medium. It is to he prepared for paper hanging, and will very shortly be in the market. —The Second Adventists have been disap pointed again in the coming of Christ, and the end of the world. The time was fixed during the Jewish year 1808, which ended on the 20th of March. The 2d of October next is now announced as the period, beyond all doubt, when the Son ot Man shall be revealed, and time shall end. —The remains of Stephen A. Doocias will, on lo day, the anniversary ol his death, be transferred, with appropriate public cere monies, to the tomb prepared for their recep tion at Ciiicago. The metalie ease contain ing the body will be deposited in a white marble sarcophagus, standing in the centre of the chamber of the mausoleum, and visible through the grated doorway. —Judge Darrell, of the United States District Court, iu New Orleans, has decided that United States Marshals are liable for all property seized by them. Under this decis ion a judgment has been rendered against Marshal Heron for the amount of the libel against the steamer Southerner, which vessel was burned while in his possession. The bill increasing the capital of the New York and New Haven Railroad from $7,000,000 to $10,000,000, which recently passed the Connecticut Legislature, has become a law by the expiration of the constitutional period, while the State Senate was debating whether it should be recalled front the Governor or not. —Passengers for Philadelphia, on pur chasing tickets at the offices in New York, are furnished witli secured seats. Their tickets specify the number of the car and the seat they are to occupy, and at the depot ushers are in attendance to show them to their places. This is a decided improve ment on the old scrambling system, and a pleasant indication that railway managers are really waking up to the necessity ol their customers. —Samuel Davis, Jr., was taken out of the jail at flarrodsbiirg, Kentucky, on Saturday night last, about 12 o'clock, and conveyed about half a mile from town, on the Lexing ton turnpike, where he was hung to n tree. He was under indictment for counterfeiting, and besides that, was a Union soldier, and was on Sherman’s “inarch to the sea.” No other prisoner was molested, although there were several hard characters <. oufitied there— one for murder and another for robbery. —The question of the legality ol the cotton tax has lately been argued in the District Court of the united States for the State of Alabama, and submitted for decision to Judge Busteed, who presides over tlint Court, and who now has it under advisement. The question was raised in a suit wherein it was alleged that a certain shipment of cotton, G!0 bales, made on hoard the steamboat Planter, at Montgomery, in tiaiixilu for New Orleans, was in violation of the law of Con gress imposing a tax of two and a half cents per pound upon that article. The cotton was libeled by the Government. Conxisi riN<; Enci.ami and Fits mi;.— I here's no knowing bet the most astounding sent of engineering is to come yet, and that not very far in the future. There have been several plans proposed for connecting England arid France-hy tubular bridge, wrial bridge, submarine tunnel and railway, floating railway, etc., etc., but all have been easily rejected as not feasible. At lust a French engineer, M. limited, has hit upon a plan lor a railway bridge, which has at last gained the serious attention ol the Empe ror, who is no fool, and who lias given much attention lo the subject. An audience having been granted, the Courrier itu Pot ile Calait states that the Emperor declared the plan lar more practicable then any yel suggested, requesting the engineer to make detailed memoranda of construction, cost, time, and calculated profit*, and promised the Imperial support. This is certainly a long step in advance, and if ever the scheme marches to a success, it will be a cause of gratulation to thousands ol wretched ones, besides being of immense profit to the constructors and advantage to the two pntioiiK. National Ucpubltcon A UtSt/HT-A. t*A. WEDNESDAY MORNING June 3, I*6B For PRESIDENT Os tiik United States: ULYSSES S. UK ANT. FOR VICE PRESIDENT: Sen iv it it Colfax, or IX MAN A, HKl*t IIMCMIM FLATIOHIH. The National Republican party of the United State*, aaaeniblod in National Convention, ia the city of Chi cago, ou the ‘JOth day of Muy, 186s, make the following Declaration of Principle* : Ist. We congratulate the country on the assured suc cess of the reconstruction policy of Congress, as evinced by the adoption, in a majority of the .States lately iu rebellion, of Constitutions securing equal civil and political rights to all. and regard it as the duty of the Government to sustaiu those institutions, and to prevent the people of such States from being remitted to a state of anarchy. 2d. The guarantee, by Congress, of equal suffrage to all loyal men in the South was demanded by every con sideration of public safety, of gratitude siul of justice, and must be maintained, while the question of suffrage in all the loyal States properly belongs to the people of those States. 3d. We denounce all forms of repudiation as a na tional crime, and the national honor requires the pay ment of the public indebtedness, m the utmost good faith, to all creditors, at home and abroad, not only according to the letter, but the spirit of the laws under which it was contracted. 4th. It is due to the labor of ihe nation that taxation should be equalized aud reduced as rapidly as the na tional faith will permit. sth. The national debt, contracted, os it has been, for the preservation of the Union for all time to come, should be extended over a fair period for redemption, ami it is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of in terest thereon, whenever it con honestly be done. 6th. That the best policy to diminish our burden of debt is to so improve Qur credit that capitalists w ill seek to loan us money 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 he administered with the strictest economy, and the cor ruption* which have been so shamefully nursed and fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for radical re form. 8tl». We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic death of Abraham Lincoln, aud regret the accession of Andrew Juunson to the Presidency, who has acted treacherously to the people who elected him and the 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 and corruptly resisted, by every measure in his power, ever)' proper attempt at the reconstruction of the States 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, aud properly prououuced guilty thereof by the vote of thirty-five Senators. 9th. The doctrine of Great Britain and other European powers, that because a man is once a subject, he is always so, must be resisted at every hazard by the United States, as 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 arc enti tled to bo protected in all their rights of citizenship as 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 words spoken, iu this country, and 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 tiro late war, there were none entitled to more especial honor than the brave soldiers and seamen, who endured the hardships of the campaign and cruise, and imperilled their lives in the service of the country. The bounties ami pensions provided by law for these brave defenders of the nation arc obligations never to be forgotten. The widows and orphans of 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 added so much to the wealth, development of resources, and increase of power of this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, : ln»uld be fostered and encour aged by a liberal and just policy. 12th. This Convention declaims its sympathy with all the oppressed people which are struggling for their rights. To on: COUNTRY SUJtSC CIDERS. We ;m- limy sending out I• ■ll ; (which arc Ion:; post i]uc) frr .Subscription. Those receiving a reminder will please nt once remit the amount, else their papers will he discontinue-!. OCR PARTY. No party in a free country like this was ever built up or broken down by misrepre sentation and abuse. The people, capable as they are of self-government, tire in the habit of examining principles and meas ures carefully, and of estimating public men according.to their real merits. It seldom happens that they are so excited or prejudiced as they are supposed to be by orators and presses that assume to lead them. No party in this country was ever so misrepresented, maligned and abused as the Republican party. This party liar, calmly endured ill this, for the past ten years, and lias gone on growing in numbers and power, until it holds in its hands all the great interests and the destiny of the nation. In our own State this party is in its infancy. It is but twelve months old ; yet it has excited more interest, encoun tered more abuse, and achieved a greater victory than any party lias ever done in our State history. What does this prove ? It proves, in the first place, that it is a party of principle; secondly, that these, principles are such as to commend themselves to tlie judgment and hearts of the people; and, thirdly, that it has men. as the exponents of these principles, who are. possessed of uncommon fortitude, intelligence and courage. The Republican parky asks only for a fair trial. It is willing to be judged by its acts. It is a great jiojiulii.r party, devoted to the Constitution and the Union. Its guiding star is liberty for all, civil and po litical equality for all. It proposes to give every one a fair start in the race of life, and let each one succeed or fail according to his merits, the people themselves being the judges. One of its first aims will be to dcvclope the resources of the State. It will do this for the good of all. Steadily, industri ously, intelligently, it will address itself to the great work of building up Georgia. Other States have been made rich, and in fluential, and powerful, and their people contented and happy, by just such men carrying out just such principles. Tho people of this Stale and especially the poor people those who nresfriiggling with adversity, mid striving to do something for themselves and their children, will yet thank Heaven that the Republican party has prevailed in Georgia. This party does not mind abuse, or ridi cule, or calumny, or falsehood. As it is not controlled by passion, so it is not affected in its course lij the malignant passions ol others. Let our opponents lernemher this when they uhuse and revile IIS. They can not hint ns. The Republi Him party lives. It controls the State it makes the law - it is paramount. Ifs mis sion is to live on, lo prosper and flourish, to labor for the great interests of Liberty and Humanity, and to make Georgia one of the greatest Stales in the Union. CHURCH RECONSTRUCTION. Political ami ecclesiastical reconstruc tion arc marching hand in hand ; and it is claimed, by the Tribune , that the work which has been accomplished in the South by the Methodist Church during the past four years, atul which the General Confer ence endeavors to consolitlate, can not fail to have a good influence upon the progress of political reconstruction. Like many other American Churches, the Methodist Episcopal Church was, in 1844, rent in twain by tbc Slavery question. There were, of course, many ministers and members who were opposed to secession) but most of them yielded to coercion and foil in with the movement. Thus not a single congregation remained in connection with the Methodist Episcopal Church in the States of North Carolina, South Caro lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis sippi, Louisiana. Texas, and Tennessee. A feeble remainder proved loyal to the Churli in Arkansas, Kentucky, and Vir ginia. In Maryland and Delaware all the Methodists continued to be members of the M. E. Church : but they were ultra Conser vative; and when, in 1800, some more stringent measures against Slavery were adopter! by the General Conference, a large portion of them went over to the Method ist Episcopal Church, South. At the time of the General Conference of 1864, some missions in connection with the Church had been organized in the Southern States, especially in the large cities, but no new Annual Conference could yet he reconstituted. Since then tlie work has progressed with wonderful rapidity. The Bishops have reorganized Holston (Tenn.l, Mississippi, South Caro lina, Georgia, Virginia, and Alabama Conferences, and beside constituted two Conferences, consisting exclusively of col ored members. Delegates from all these Conferences appeared at the General Con ference which is now in session. An interesting debate sprang up upon the recognition of the new Conferences as Annual Conferences, and the immediate admission of the .delegates. Only a few members were found to oppose these measures, which were carried hy an over whelming majority. Tints the Methodist Episcopal Church has been reconstructed, by the side of the “Methodist Episcopal Church, South,” in every Southern State. It already has in the late slave Stales a membership of about 150,000, and is even now one of the most numerous ecclesiasti cal Ixxlies in these States. Another reconstruction measure of great importance is pending in Chicago, before the Methodist General Conference. The two African Methodist Episcopal Churches, which together have a membership of about 350,000, mostly in tlie South, have made a formal proposition to the Chicago Conference for reunion, and the Committee to which the proposition lias been referred has made a report in its favor. The success of this movement would make the Methodist Episcopal Church a great power in each of the Southern States, and aid in strengthening the consolidation of the Union. SOUTHERN LVMIGRA TJON. There are thousands of people in the North who have in contemplation the taking up of their residence in tlie South. There are various reasons which conjoin and operate to induce this change of lo cality on the part of tho Yankee. The climate is more congenial, aud not so detri mental and injurious to certain constitu tions as the more vigorous and harsher climate of the North. The land is more fertile as a general thing, and much easier cultivated. Besides, as it is much more productive, it does not require anything like the amount of labor and cost to obtain a crop as is required in the more sterile ami frozen regions of the North. A greater variety of crops can he raised, and at a much less expense and care than is neces sary in the higher latitudes of the Northern States. The South can not only raise cotton, but she can and soon will make use of her un appropriated water power, which rentiers her capable of manufacturing the raw ma terial at her own door. We have seen it stated, on what appears to he perfectly re liable authority, that one-fourth of all Ihe land in the Southern State is now in the market. This land is said to he generally fertile, and there are scarcely any crops, with perhaps the exception of cotton, that can not be produced. Every description ot the cereals can be raised in abundance, and this is the crop which is more especially needed at this time. Good prices can be obtained, at least for several years to come, for all the surplus wheat and corn the South may have to export, to the Northern and .Middle States, or to Europe. Only give us reconstruction, the sure in c lude to quietness in political matters, and the languishing places in the South will, ere long, blossom as the rose. “Best Fkikmis.” —The Democrats in tills flection are endeavoring to make the colored men believe tli.it they tire their best friends. The nclinnn ot the Opposition Conservative Democracy, however, speak louder than words For instance : Mr. W. |{. Quid, a disabled Confederate soldier, undertook, some tints since, after securing permission of the neighboring people, to tench a colored school near Canton Hill, DoSoto county, Mississippi. At his suggestion, llm (reedmetl built a house for a place i,l worship and for a school. He started out very encouragingly. Besides a week-day rhool, he instructed the children >" the Bible on Sabbath morning. He soon found that he was giving offense to thu neighbors, who objected to a Southern rebel teaching “niggers," and he was notified to desist. He paid no attention to the notice, whereupon his school bouso was pulled down The negroes rebuilt it, as tin y did twice afterwards, when it was burnt by thu neighbors. Mr. Ould persisted, but recently the Democrats assembled and again destroyed his school house, compelling him In leave Hie place. Congressional.—lt will be seen, by the exceedingly meugre telegram from Washington, that the hill recently passed by the House, admitting five of tlie Southern States (including Georgia), is to come up in the Senate, to day, “with amendments.” A bill, reportcil by Mr. Edmunds, eondilioiodly excluding from tlie Electoral College the votes of States lately in rebellion, was referred to tlie Judiciary Committee. It is also rumored that Aln bama Ims been erased from the Omnibus bill. Personal. —Our amiable cotemporary ot the Journal <C- Momemjcr will, doubtless, be gratified to learn, by the telegraphic dispatches, that his friend Blodgett has left Chicago, and is doing good service at the National Capital. The veracious Macon editor tried to make his readers believe, the other day, that Mr. Blod gett's sojourn at Chicago was involun tarily prolonged. | Sweet Journal , what do you mean by such conduct as those ?| * [Communicated. PRESIDENT (A. J.) DA VIS' TRIAL COMMENCED. We sec, by lho Chronicle of yesterday, that “President (A. .J.) Davis" is here, trying to get the Fourth Ward Democratic Club to beg 25 cents subscriptions in behalf of his suffering Democratic constituency. A competent Army Surgeon (of well remem bered experience in such matters) has been secured lor the granting of “certificates,” on reasonable terms; and it is said that 'Squire Whitaker (late manager of the election held nt Appling, Columbia county) will canvass the Ward with the President. Whereas. [Communicated. DEMOCRA TIC CAIU'ET DAGGERS. Mr. Editor: I sec a statement in your paper to the effect that Postmaster General Ilandall expects soon to be elected to the United States Senate from the “recon structed’’ State of Florida. Well, what of it? If Texas is to have her Stouccker, from Pennsylvania ; Georgia her Fitch, from Indiana; Louisiana her Steedman, from Ohio—why not let little Florida have her little Randall, from Wisconsin ? Republican. | Comma nicatod. A TRIP HOME. Lexington', Ga., June Ist, 1808. Dear Republican : We came along pleas antly Saturday last, our train was well manned; we had our old friend Jim Mullen at the helm, and Purcell ns conductor, and you can well believe all things worked like a charm. We first halted to “wood up’’ the inner man at Ncbhut’s Breakfast House, at Berzelia, and you better believe wo found all things au fail, and did as ample justice to his spread as our capacity would admit of. There’s the place to get a good break fast, by the day train, up, just at the time when the fresh morning air and a two | Lours’ ride sharpens the appetite. From thence we made no stop until ut j Union Point the veteran Hart gave us a dinner that ho knows exactly how to get I up—substantial, good, wholesome food, well prepared, with as nice an addendum as one I could wish. We saw few fields of good wheat; we heard of many complaints of the rust, which it is thought will cut off the crop in certain points of our largely extended country, but we do not despond as t« the general results. There, is always a erv of disaster every year, but except in a few exceptional eases, we always find the grand aggregate relieves the fears of the people, and abundance of bread is to be had. The cotton crop looks decidedly sick; we have seen no good stand or any very large cotton, but litis is only the first of June and it itas now four months or more to grow in, and there is no guessing about results tit tlti s early stage of the game. Polities are still on the rampage in this county—there is still a number of “sore heads'’ wh • are daily rubbing off thu scales to keep up the irritation, determined not to let time heal tlie wounds, fs this human? Is this Christian ? Is this right? We trow that it is neither the one or the other. This sort of social status might be congenial to some climes and some people, but we do hold that, in America, it is a nuisance and a disgrace, and especially so to men and women w ho claim to be natives of the Sunny South —men and women, who, in days past claimed to he, and many of whom were, the true exponents and exemplars of all the chivalry. It were more disgraceful, it does seem to us, to lose this character from the passions of ttie moment than to “have lost all the bloods of all the Howards,” or to have lost all the property of the country at a game of chance. We have no doubt that tlie so-called Ik: mocrncy ol Oglethorpe county, as in every oilier county in Georgia will leave no stone unturned to hoodwink thu uneducated and guileless colored and white voters, and will spare no money, or whiskey, or threats, or intimidation to overcome tho largo majorities against, them, lo Clarke county, we are in formed that ten thousand dollars have already been subscribed to “bribe voters” with. Ail wo have to say is this : Wo have an abiding confidence that the voters of Georgia, as a mass, are not to be worked upon hy those allurements. All who do succumb will reap a bitter experience in the future, without a doubt. Every Democratic vote east l y a colored man for anybody, for any office, is driving a null into his own coffin, and the performance of the burial requiem of bis own race! Wo hope they will so see the matter, and, with firmness ot purpose and true fealty to their race and to their rights, already guaranteed to them, they will spurn the bribe and defy the offerer. There is no question so necessary to the welfare of all our people as the very early restoration of our State to her original place in the Union. I toes any sane man believe that division, and elimination and recrimination here, will bring it about. Yours, etc., R. Some people seem to bo constitution ally unable to comprehend that the real strength and wealth of a nation lies in its laboring men. We could hotter afford at any time to k)3C a million of dollars in gold, than to part with a hundred laborers, no matter how ignorant and unskilful. This is true of black laborers as well as ol white ones. Tho negro, to bo sore, has not so far exhibited anything like tho capacity and aptitude of tho white race, hut his labor is valuable in its way, and cveu indispensable, in a certain region of country, to the growth of several very important crops, such as sugar, rice, ami cotton. Yet, in the face of this well known fact, Mr. Phelps of Mary land, gravely proposes that tho Government should tako pains to send black laborers out of tho country to Liberia. Ho wishes to begin with tho colored soldiers now in service, hut tho principle applies to all tho black race, and is about as false a one as can bo imagined.— N. T. Sun. POLITICAL. The Chicago Timet says that the plain [act is that it is the States which have instructed for Mr. Pendleton that will determine tho contest, and it ia solely because the Democracy of these States feel that Mr. Pendleton is stronger in them than anybody else; that his nomination offers the best chance ot carrying them, and the only chance of carrying some of them, that they have instructed for him. And the Timet adds : “ i’he Democracy of the West are seeking only for success. They realize that the burden of the fight will be upon them, and they assume to know, better than can be known elsewhere, with whom ns the candi date they can curry the most electoral votes.” The Buffalo Courier says that one of the seven Republican Senators who voted lor acquittal, said a few days ago, when the action of the Chicago Convention in not reading him out of the party was alluded to, “I could have voted for that resolution now in the platlorin. I believe Johnson ought to be convicted and removed, but the Managers did not give us a shadow of legality on which to do it.” The States which have instructed for Mr. Pendleton are, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Nebraska, Oregon, California and Kentucky, and he is understood to be the first choice of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maryland and Tennessee. At the next general eiectioa in Illinois, in November, the people will decide whether a Convention to form anew State Constitution shall be held. Both political parties iti the Legislature united in passing the resolution submitting the question to the people. Tho Delaware Democrats will hold their State Convention in Dover, on the 17th of June, to elect delegates to the New York Convention. There is said to be a great rivalry between the war and the peace wings in that State. SPECIAL NOTICES- PER SOUTH CAR OLINA RAILROAD, June 2, 1863.—C Emery, T E Dalwick, J U Bailie A Rro, W II Jailett A Bro, Horton A W, J T Bothwull, D Stellings, McK A O B, J M Clark A Cos, W M TANARUS, J II Blau vclt, V Richards A Rro, E R Derry A Cos, W K Glover, J it: T A Bones, J N Freeman, ,M Hyams A Cos, B A C, I Simon A Bro, G A A, Sister N Ignations, J D A Murphy, I Lory, D R Wright A Cos, C Ii Day rfc Cos, Kenney A Gray, T W C, Leon Guerin, Mularkey A Bro, H L A Balk, B, A S Nowhouse, X 8 Morgan, R B Bullock, T R Rhodes, [W], O it- D, 1’ Quinn, W Brenner, I, J Miller. ggp- CONSIGNEES PER CENTRAL RAILROAD, June 2, 1868.—L A Son, J W Bcssman, J Miller, Octjeu A D, W II Tutt, E R Schneider, E O’D, D II Dennis, J T B, P A S A Cos, l’lumb A L, G Kahrs A Bro, .1 IV Besson, W C Jessup <€■ Cos, F Von Kanip, O’D A M, C A IV A Cos, [WJ, C II Warner, R S A TANARUS, Beall A 11, Barrett C A Cos, II McLean, G Cooper, E Mustin, Conley F A Cos, J Hansel, J C Schreiner A Sods, T Richards A Son, G liappold, Mularkey Bros, II <6 IV, J C Mooro A Cos, P Hansbcrgcr A Cos, C A Robbe, SchoOeld W A Cos, tl L A Balk, R F Urquohart, J Stogncr, H Morrison, Dr It Hansen. OFFICIAL. State of Greorgia. Office ok ihe Comptroller General, ) Milledgeville, May ISOS. ( HPIIK ATTENTION OK HANKS, KAIL- X I&OADS, and Insurance Companies, etc., is colled to the following wi tions of the Code and Laws of Georgia: Sec. 3. Title 28, Laws ok Georgia (1800). All National Hunks, Railroad Companies in ope ration. whose charters do not forbid so high a tax, all Express Companies and Insurauce Com panies ineorpointed by the Laws of Georgia, shall pay an annual tax of one halt of one p<*r cent, on their capital stock. Sec. IV. Title 28. That all Agents of Insurance Companies from oilier States, or of Foreign In surance Companies doin'* business in this State, shall pay a tax of two per cent, on the amount of premiums received l>y them; aud all Agents of Express Companies from other States doing busi ness in this State shall pay a tax of one per rent, on the gross amount of their receipts at their office in this State. The returns of said Hanks or Companies will be made in writing, and sworn toby the presiding officer or agent, to he a just, true, and full return of the capital stock, net annual profits, or other property or effects I >r which said institutions are subject to taxation hy the laws of Geoigia. Said returns will be made without delay to thi.' office, and the tax will be paid as icqnired, by the first of October next, to tlie State Treasury, Any violation of tin* above cited sections will subject the violator to the penalties prescribed in sucii caaes. C. WIIEATON, Capt. U. S. Army, je2 -3t Prov. Comp. GenM. GRAIN BAGS ! New and second hand burlap, Linen, and Cotton Bags, suitable for Wheat, Com, etc., for sale in quant ties to suit. Bags loaned for the transportation of Grain, by T. ATWATER, J jig Manufacturer. uiy3o—d.3m 10 and 42 Whitehall at., N. V. 11ST S U I £A. N aIC Fire, Marine, Inland AND MiimiiiiiLtiii TEtna Insurance Company, Hartford Phenix Insurance Company, New )«/;/.-. Manhattan Insurance Company, New York. Howard Insurance Company, New York. Standard Insurance Company, New York Commerce Insurance Company, New York, Lamar Insurance Company, New York. Fireman's Insurance Company, New York. Astor Insurance Company, New York Commercial Insurance Company New York Mercantile Insurance Company, New York. Phoenix Insurance Company, Hartford. Tho above aro all FIRST CLASS COM PANIES with aiuplo moans to meet their liabili ties. All lossos promptly and equitably adjusted. WM. SHEAR, Augusta, April 7th, 1868 Agent. ap7-Sm Garmina Collegensia: i COMPLETE COLLECTION OF THE ./V Songs of tho American Colleges, with Piano Forte accompaniments; to. which ia added a com nendimn of College History, collected and edited l>y H. K. Waite. This km the most extensive collection of student Sorias presented to the public. Every college in the United States having been solicited to eontri bate lo its pages, nearly a thousandflOßge wnv re reived from which great care was taken to select those most valuable in reference to quality, per nmuency aud general interest: only such being used ns possessed intrinsic merit, or cast light upon some peculiar College custom. Price.— In (doth, emblematically embossed, neat ami durable, $ Superior edition, on oxtia na per, full doth, emblematically embossed, gilt edge $3 00. Mailed postpaid. OLIVER DITSON .1 CO.. Publishers, 277 Washington, St., Boston. Oil AS. li. DITSON .1 Os)., my 29 -ts 711 Broadway, New York. NEW ADVERTIBEMENTB. GUI!AT BARGAINS TO BE HAD AT 202 Broad Street, AitnusTA, <;a., UNTIL THE 10th of JUNE, And all Good* not sold by that time will BE SOLD AT POBUC AUCTION. S liUKi: in Want of CIIKAI* Boots and Shoes! HAD BETTER Call in at Once, AND lIUY WItAT THEY IVANT, As tho Stock now on Hand will bo Closed Out FOR CASH, To Make Hoorn for an Entire NEW STOCK OF GOODS. je3 —ts The Law Register, (COMPRISING ALL TIIE LAWYERS IN V_y the United States. THE STATE RECORD, containing the State and county officers, the organization, jurisdic tion, and terms of lie Courts for every State and Territory. TJIE OFFICIAL DIRECTORY FOR TIIE UNITED STATES, containing the officers of the Federal Government, the duties of the sev eral departments, sketches of all the Members of Congress, the officers ami terms of tho Federal Courts. TIIE COLLECTOR’S ASSISTANT, giving the laws for collecting debts, executing deeds, verifying claims, and taking testimony, with forms for every State, with much other useful information; the whole constituting au official and business manual. Prepared from official returns by John Liv ingston, of the New York Bar, Secretary of the Merchants* Union Law Company. New \ r ork. Published by the Merchants* Union Law Company, No. 12S Broadway, Third Floor (in tho American Exchange National Bank Building.) The Book will be sent, prepaid, to any address in the United States on receipt of TEN DOL LARS; or, it will be forwarded by Express, with hill, to bo paid on delivory. je3—tf IN BANKRUPTCY. U. S. MARSHAL’S OFFICE, I Atlanta, Ga., June 1, 1868.) riMUS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the 1 29th day of May, A D. 1868, a Warrant in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate ol JOSEPH A HUDDLESTON, of the 10th District, in the county of Meriwether, State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on his own petition, and that the payment of any debts, and delivery of any property belonging to such Bankrupt, to him, or for his use, and the transfer of any property hy him, are forbidden by law': that a meeting of the creditors of said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or more Assig nees of his estate, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to he liolden at the Register's office, in the city of Newman, Ga., before 6’has. G. McKinley, Esq, Register, ou tlie 3d day of July. A. D. IS6B, at Si o’clock a. m. CHARLES H. ELYEA, jeo—It U S Dep. Marshal as Messenger. IN BANKRUPTCY. r | 'lilts IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the I 30th day of May, A. 11.1868, a Warrant in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of QUINTON (J PURCELL, of Columbus, in the county of Muscogee, and State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on his own petition, and that the payment of any debts, and delivery of any property belonging to such Bankrupt, to him, or. for his use, aud the transfer ol any property by him,are forbidden by law: that a meeting ot the creditors of said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or more Assig nees of ids estate, will ho held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to he liolden at tho Register’s office, in the city ot Newman, Ga., before Clias. G. McKinley, E.-q., Register, on the oth day of July, A. D. 1868, at 10 o’clock A. M. WM. G. DICKSON, je3—lt U. S. Marshal as Messenger. IN BANKRUPTCY. riMUS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on tlie I -'Hill Jay of May A. I).. 18t>8, a Warrant in Bankruptcy was i.~su«*d against the estate of ' REDDICK 0 PEARCE, (’nliimlms, in the county of Muscogee, and tlie State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Hank rupt on hid own petition, and that the payment of any debts, and delivery of any property belonging to >nch Bankrupt, to him, or for ids use, and the transfer of any property hy him, an* forbidden by law: that a meeting of tlie creditors «>f the said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or more Assignees of his estate, will be held at a Com t of Bankruptcy,* to be liolden at the Regis ter's office, in the city of Ncwimn. Ga.. before Charles G McKinley, Register, on the Ist day of July, A D. 186S, at 10 o’clock a. m. WM. G. DICKSON, jc*3 It U.S. Marshal as Messenger. O T AIK OF GEORGIA— Richmond Counly. Wiirrkas, James A. Gray, Administrator on tho cstuto of Francis O'Conner, applios to mo for Letters of Dismission. ? hose arc therefore to cito aud admonish all and singular, tho kindred and creditors of said deceased, to he and appear at my office on or before tho first Monday in November next, to show cause, if any they have, why said l etters should not bo granted. Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Augusta, this 2d dav of Juuc, ISfiS. E. M. Jill AVION, i"3 -6m* Ordinary. ASSESSOR’S OFFIOK, ) U. S. Inteknm. Kkvkntk, 3d Hist, or Ga. Augusta, May 27th, 186$. j N otice is hereby given to jasper MITCHELL to come forward and show cause (if any he. has), why tho Wagon, Harness, Whiskey, etc., etc., seized by Deputy Collector Cbas. Smith, at Greeusboio, on tho lUih inst., also Whiskey seized by Assistant Assessor Jas. L. Brown, on tho 22d inst., at the same place, shall not be forfeited to the United States for violation of the Internal Revenue laws. J. BOWLES, my 28 lOt Assessor. HENRY L A. BA Mi na ItROil) STREET, NEW SPRING GOODS! I WILL OPEN TO-l».\.Y A FRESH ASSORTMENT OF New Spring Prints, VERY HANDSOME, AT LOW PRICES. FINE CAMBRIC CHINTZ NKW PRINTED LAWNS, NEW SI’RING UeLAINKS, CIIALLIES, etc., etc. New Spring Ginghams, VERY HANDSOME, AT A LOW PRICK. FRENCH OASSIMKRKS. AMERICAN CASSIMERES, aud J KANES. BED TICKING, STRIPES, BLEACHED SHIRTING,I BROWN HOMESPUN, PARASOLS, HOOP SKIRTS, UMBRELLAS, GLOVES, g HOSIERY^ PERFUMERY, etc All of which will be sold at as LOW PRICKS can bo had in town. ' HIINRY 1.. A. BALK, 172 Broad Street. mh24-ly T H K EXHIBITION OF SIXTHISB, Lions Conquered by a ROYAL BENGAL TIGERS The Monster Loose j„ t(l{ Streets of Augusta! THURSDAY AND FR| oav JUNE 4th ami sth. COL. c/l 7 . AMEs NEW ORLEANS MENAGERIE, CIRCUS AND Tropical Aviary, The tripple confederate n, almost illiniuU, in ita resources, and lir,to gorgeoiu anib gantly equipped than any kindred KiWie. extant. 11 The corps active numbers THIRTY SEVFt ACCOMPLISHED ARTISTS, mate representatives of the most elegant, meek and pleasing Olympian Sports, includingEi» trianism. Gymnastics, Paniomimiei, Acrdntk ■Constaties, and Athletics. Amon- las distinguished of the Troupe are— ° M’lle ESTELLE ZOYAWiA. VICTORIA DE LEE. Madame ELIZABETH Mr. TUOS. WATSON. Mr. W. NAYLOR. Mr. LEWIS CARIi. Mr. HORACE SMITH. Signor TIBBS. Mr. E. WINNE. The CASTILIOX BROTHERS. Mr. E. GOODING. Mr. E. BANKER. Master PRANK. .Master GEORGE, an I the TWO INTENSELY HUMOROUS CLOWS:. Bob Smith and Johnny Lawton. ZOO i .044 If Ai. i> iJUKTHEJI Is of immense maguPu k, ani embnis hu dred-i of Wild Beasts, of almost every ipeeiei and geographical range, :r ... the ELEFHA.M of the burning desert of Africa, to to BEAR of the Arctic Sea-, r the BfcOJ®'*- own Western Wilds. To this is a ? ... unusually LARGE AVIARY, of inest ho* and brilliant Birds atd F0«,.-. Mottaft _ and Baboons, in countless number; m tribe. A BAND OF MUSICIANS•' That acknowledge no superiors ia the rend® of true harmony. PERFORMING HORSES TRICK PONIES EDUCATED M! 1.E.-. apply; moMaU • SAG ACIOI'S DOGS, L TIIE Only Lion Enchantress in the Wori The beautiful aud fairy-lAe SKiNOItITA KLI.-V EUGH^ and tho distinguished Naturalist “ plisbed Tiger Slayer, IIERR ELM MI LKSUM accompanies this C.-l >ss:H M’“^ a l,niif* each exhibition di-play ion- ter ; c g the and indomitable e nrage, by ««""*• of the ..n-iu'i;< A$ TIGERS. LIONS, l’.\Nl lU “" LEO I’AU OS. . i . cl: >'••• CO" • On the morning of the ll ; 1J “..‘p In r L unusually gorgeous am ? ■ , hc wp v borne two triumphal..(“tj.' xpKPS' will be KUGKNIKSI hbOi > On tho other, seated- only l '‘Lj » and a ROYAL Vlb^.i,^!fte^ species that ever permitted Him the will of man. BEAR IT LN y°f lv n lliat this is strictly a pled? lS f*> the Proprietor and »“ *• Ic ,-t * that the disreputable. ' Style Os advertising.»t f' 1 „ reW&tf present, shall in no 1 <c ms* le ihe..., but that every l ” I '* shall bo kept to the otter.