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PAM A GRAMS.
—Yesterday, in New York Gold «■
<|uoted at 1.39 J. Cotton, So|. *
—The Massachusetts Senate hat refuted
to pats the bill forbidding the application of
rorporeal punishment in the public schools
to females.
—Ue». Dr. Barnes Sears, agent of the Poe
body educational fund, while in Mississippi,
Iqtcfy, expressed the hope to make a tour of
the South with Mr. J’oabodv next winter.
—The Michigan Southern Railroad earned,
in May last, $400,486, and in May of last
year, $337,149, showing an increase of
$42,737 this year.
—The first lightning rod put sp in this
country by Dr. Benjamin Franklin is now
to be seen on the old house, 32 Daniel
street, Portsmouth, N. H.
—Two boys have been fined in Loudon
for cursing and swearing in the public
streets, under the provisions of an act passed
in 1746.
The New York h thane declares that
“personal explanations'’ in Congress have
become an unbearable nuisance, and says
that hereafter it will print no more of them
except as advertisements on the usual terras.
The New York Republican State Com
inittee have resolved to call a State Conven
tion for .the nomination of Governor and
other Slate ofticers, at Syracuse, on the Htli
of July.
The Cincinnati Chamber ol Commerce
have adopted a rule, to go into effect July
Ist, that barrelled flour is unmerchantable
unless the head is lined; if unlined, the
seller or owner must pay for lining.
—Suicide is so common in France that they
have had to invent a suicide catcher, corres
ponding to a cow catcher on engines, to lift
from the track those persons who throw
themselves across the rails to be run over by
the cars.
—Steel rails for railroads are decidedly
getting into favor. Upwards of 1,000 tons
have been ordered for the Camden and
Amboy lines in New Jersey, and the New
Haven Company proposes to lay its entire
track with them.
—The American Dental Convention at
New York, on the 3d, elected Dr. John M.
Crowell, President; Dr. J. A. McClellan,
Vice President: Dr. J. S. Latimer,Secretary;
Dr. J. 11. Smith, Treasurer. It was resolved
that the next annual meeting of the Conven
tion be held at New Haven, Connecticut.
—A noteworthy incident of the visit of
the Chinese embassy, now in Washington,
was the hoisting of the flag of the Empire
of China at half-mast, on Thursday, in honor
of the memory of cx-President Buchanan.
It was the first Chinese embassy flag ever
raised in this country.
—Six hundred and seven Masonic Lodges
were represented in the Grand Lodge re
cently in session at New York. The annual
reports are favor .hie. Receipts of the year,
$67,922; number of members, upwards of
six thousand five hundred; filly one new
Lodges received warrants, and twenty eight
dispensations were issued.
—Some of the newspapers of this country
have lately been publishing a scurrilous
story about anew phase in the insanity of
“poor Carlotta.” The foreign journals
make no mention of any such condition of
the archduchess, but state her bodily and
mental health is good, and that hopes are
entertained of her complete restoration.
—The British convict establishments re
quire au annual expenditure of $603,760.
The establishment in Western Australia, with
1,430 prisoners, costs $340,110; Tasmania,
with 863 premiers, costs $182,770; New
South Wales, with 300 prisoners, costs
$72,175; Gibraltar, with 95 prisoners, costs
$13,705. The earnings of the convicts
amount in all to $58,815.
—The National Typographical Union has
chosen Albany, N* Y., as the place for die
next nnnual meeting, and adopted resolu
tions against the international copyright
law, in favor of an eight hour law for Gov
ernment workshops, and recommending a
tax of ten cents on each member of the
suborinalc Unions for a reserve fund to aid
weak Unions in contests with unscrupulous
capitalists during the ensiling year.
Fall River, Maas., contains 507,900
spindles, 11,500 looms, and manufactures
1 14,564,000 yards of clolli, or 04,977 miles,
which would encircle the earth two and a half
times. The amount of coal consumed is
32,482 tons, 47,990 gallons of oil, and
656,6*10 pounds of starch. The number of
hands employed is 6,750. The pay rolls of
the various corporations amount to $20,000
per month. The number of spindles in
Lowell, Mass., is but 439,138.
—The military authorities have obtained
p .-session of the Court House and Academy,
at Huntington and Durham, Canada, lor the
accommodation of troops to be stationed on
the frontier. The Seventy-Eighth Highland
ers are under orders for Quebec, to relieve
the Thirtieth Regiment, who return to Eng
land. It is believed the Government does
not attach sufficient importance to the E. nian
rumors to induce them to retain the Thirtieth
Regiment.
A if tier Las been received from Gen.
McClellan, in reply to one from a frimil,
asking permission to present his name (or
nomination at the 4th of duly Convention.
The General earnestly begs that this shall
not be done; urges the nomination of anew
man—a statesman who will command the
respect admiration, and enthusiastic support
o! the combined anti Republican elements
of the whole country, and pledges himself,
as soon as the nomination is made, to couie
home and canvass wherever needed j n behalf
o( the New York nominations.
GEN. GRANTS ACCEPTANCE.
General Grant's letter accepting the
nomination is the first public distinct
utterance of political sentiments and opin
ions which he has made since he acquired
a national position. He had previously
stood identified with the Republican party
only by his military career and bis official
acts, iiis letter is eminently judicious,
cautious, pertinent, pointed, comprehensive,
and satisfactory, home of our cotcmporu
ries are disposed to construe the exhorta
tions to “Peace,” which al‘e the only
reiterations it contains, as indicating an
implied rebuke to the advocates of ini -
pcachraent. They infer therefrom that
General Grant would have political peace
and quiet at the cost of submission to the
usurpations of a misguided and passionate
President. To test the accuracy of such
views it is only necessary to reflect that the
resolutions of the Convention declare that
•Johnson was justly convicted of high
crimes and misdemeanors by the votes of
thirty five Senators, and that General
Grant not only indorses the resolutions hut
commends them for their wisdom and
moderation.
(Jen, Grant also promises to administer
all the laws “with the view of giving peace,
quiet, and protection everywhere.” This
uems to imply that in those sections where
State Governments may fail in securing
protection to tile weak, Gen. Grant will see
that the shield of the national strength is
thrown over them. The experience of past
administrations proves the wisdom of his
reservation of the right to go forward with
the people in adopting new policies us new
emergencies arise. In view of such contin
gencies hit pledge returns to the simple
promise to respect the will of the people.
Mr. Colfax's views on every political issue
were already so well known to all that no
letter ol acceptance could make them more
explicitly understood. —N Y. Tribune,
NationalUtpnbliam
AtKH iti''.
TUESDAY MORNHMI J o "® 9 -
For FHESIDENT
Ok nils CJ.vrfKD States:
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Sumyler Colfax,
or is MAX A.
RKPUHMCaN FI.ATrOHM.
The National Republican party of tbo t T iiile<l State*,
assembled In National Convention, in the city of Chi
cago, on the SOth tier of May, IS«S, make the following
Declaration of Principles :
Ist. We congratulate the country on the assured sue
cess of the reconstruction policy of Congress, ai
evinced by the adoption, in a majority of the States
lately in rebellion, of Constitution* securing equal civil
ami political rights to all. and regard it as the duty of
the Government to sustain those institutions, and to
prevent the people of sitch 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 and 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, bnt tho spirit of the laws
muter which it was contracted.
4th. It is due to the labor of ihe nation that taxation
should be equalized and reduce* 1 as rapidly as the na
tional faith will permit.
6th. The national debt, contracted, as it has been, for
the preservation of the Union for all time to come,
>hould be extended over a fair period for redemption,
and it is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of in
terest thereon, w believer it can honestly be done.
6th. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
debt is to so improve our credit that capitalists will seek
to loan us money at lower rates of Interest than we now
pay. and must continue to pay, so lung as repudiation,
partial or total, open or co\ert, is threatened or sus
pected.
7th. The Government of the United States should be
administered w ith the strictest economy, and the cor
ruptions which have been so shamefully nursed and
fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for ridUal re
form.
Bth. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham lincoln, and regret the accession of
Andrew Johnson 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 liis high office to induce other
officer* to ignore and violate the laws; bus employed
his executive powers to render insecure the property,
peace, liberty and life of the citizen: has abused the
pardoning power: ha* denounced the National Legisla
tor® as unconstitutional; has persistently and corruptly
resisted, by every measure in his power, every proper
attempt at the reconstruction of the States lately in re
bellion; has perverted the public patronage into au
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.
9tli. 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 are enti
tled to be 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, 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
hardships of the campaign and cruise, and imperilled
their lives in the service of tho country. The bounties
and pensions provided by law for these brave defenders
of the nation are obligations never to be forgotten. The
widows nnd 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 has
added 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 declare* its sympathy with all
the oppressed people which are struggling for their
rights.
TO Ol'Ji COUNTRY SURSCRIIIERS.
We are now .-.omling out bills (which nro
lon# |>aM due) fur Subscription. Those
receiving a reminder will please at once
remit the amount, else their papers will be
discontinued.
For the Campaign!
THE « m:\I»EST BAKER IX
REOIUH 4 !
The Presidential Campaign, for 1808,
will be the most important that lias ever
claimed the attention <>t' American citizens.
Our Republican friends, who realize the
advantages to be secured by the dissemi
nation of political truths through tho
medium of a well conducted daily journal,
should, at once, organize (.’litbs for the
purpose of increasing the subscription list
and efficiency of the
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
published every morning (Monday ex
ceptcd) at Augusta. 6;i„ the home of the
Governor elect.
The llki’l iilh an modestly claims that
it lias done good service in the Union
cause, and for the promotion of pure and
ttndcftled Republicanism, since the party
had an existence in Georgia. It will be
guided, ns it has been hitherto, by uncom
promising loyalty to the Union, and will
resist every attempt to weaken the bonds
that unite the American people into one
Nation.
Tun Rni'iunit an will heartily support
General Grant and Soil:yi.ku Coj.fax
for the responsible positions for which
they have been nominated. It will advo
cate retrenchment and economy in the
public expenditures, and the redaction of
onerous taxation. It will advocate the
speedy restoration of the South, as needful
to revive business and secure fair remune
ration for labor.
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the NEWS—domestic, foreign, political,
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well as the CHEAPEST.
Its conductors will study condensation,
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present its readers, daily, with a summary
ol the world's doings in the most luminous
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desire a tjootl ibtili / m irspapcr, we present
the following low terms of subscription
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| From now till Ike first of December^
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lit the Republican nominees, Quant anil
Coi.cax. we have two more illustrations of
the Amcricnit way in which some rise to
the highest political honors Ity the sheer
force of their own inherent qualities. Both
of them have been working men, according
to the most practical meaning of that word.
Neither of them had names; neither of
them lyul fortunes; neither of them had
the advantage* of the higher culture. A
few years ago both of them were poor, un
known, struggling workers —one a printer,
the other a tanner— one a country editor,
the other an unambitious trader.
In widely different careers they have
risen, and by means as widely different as
their characters. In three stormy years,
Quant rose to greatness on the battle-field;
more slowly Colfax has risen to promi
nence in the political arena. The grave,
stern soldier the shrewd, bland politi
cian the quiet worker, l«>th depended
upon themselves for success, and wrought
out their careers by the exercise of their
own native powers. It is to their own
character nnd deeds alone, that they owe
the fact that they are now in the front of
the nation and their party, and in the ele
vated position of candidates for the two
highest offices in the gift of the American
people. *
• FIRST PRINCIFI.ES."
The “Conservative’’ journals declare
that after the next I’residcntial election
we shall go back to “first principles,” and
that the form of government established
by our fathers will be restored nnd more
firmly established. And our neighbor tip
street—the new convert, who is going to
the 4th-of July convention—vows that the
Conservatives of the North are determined
to make a final, decisive, and successful
struggle to bring back the' administration
of the government “to its ancient land
marks”—“to the very letter and spirit of
the Constitution.”
Some folks would be pleased to be
informed what all this means. What are
the “first principles” of which the ex-
Know Nothing orator speaks? What is
meant by the very letter and spirit of the
Constitution? We believe our Conservative
friends generally consider slavery as the
most important of all the “firstprinciples”;
and certainly in the good old Democratic
days this great first principle was pretty
well eared for in tho administration of the
government. YVill the Conservatives insist
upon going back to slavery ? Hardly.
The great complaint ot the ox Governor
East of the Oconee, and of the Conserva
tive party, is about “Negro equality.”
This is the curse, say they, under which
the country groans. Now, no one knows
better than the <«/ interim “Governor’’ that
there is no such thing in the South as
actual social equality. All this outcry
again -t the real condition of things is
because the Negro is free, and because lie
has been given the ballot in order that he
may protect himself. If the Conservatives
say that they do not wish to revoke the
freedom of the Negro, bnt only to take
from hint, or keep out of his hands, the
ballot, this is evidence enough that they
expect to be able to deprive him of the
rights en joyed by other men if they can
only prevent him from being a voter. We
repeat—and challenge contradiction to the
assertion that the only equality which
the Negro claims or enjoys with the White
Man, is an equality of rights: the right to
his own labor, the right to sue in the
courts, the right to hold property; and
when the Conservatives talk about destroy
ing Negro equality, they simply mean to
take away from him these rights.
We wish to hear, distinctly, wlmt is
meant by “first principles.” Tell its what
you mean by “the Constitution.” If the
Democratic party gets control of the gov
ernment, do you propose to recognize the
abolition of slavery 1 -will you repeal the
civil-lights bill !
One more query: lias the great Demo
cratic party, that is about (in the opinion
of the Chronicle) to win such a triumph,
and to carry the government back to first
principles, fallen so low that every little
outside organization feels at liberty to ap
point delegates to its National Conven
tion ? *
CA MPA ION TA CTIUS.
It is perfectly evident that our respecta
ble (so called) opponents mean to run the
campaign upon Denunciation as their
capital stock. The chief item in the
Conservative manual is the rabid and
inflammatory use of Epithets. This is
their Alpha and Omega. “Scalawags,”
“carpet baggers,” “aliens,” “place hunters,”
“office seekers,” “color probists,” “white
niggers,” etc., are specimens of the elegant
gentlemanly rhetoric of the respectable
Opposition.
Well, we are perfectly satisfied that they
should resort to such anjumenU. No
reasonable man was ever converted to, or
driven from, a righteous cause by the use
of epithets. We, therefore, adjure the
Conservatives to “sail in” with the full
strength of their opprobrium and calumny
-taking the Macon .Jmtrnnl and the
Augusta Cnronirle as models. Wo give
them credit for an aptness and an accom
plishment at tile business, which is the
result only of culture in that particular
direction. Irishwomen of Billingsgate and
the graduates of city stews and Iho vile
dens of the town rejoice in the same low
bred standard of character. The differ
ence, however, is, that while the latter do
not pretend to be liiayvcls of gentle
breading, the Conservative canvassers
affect to be and boast that they are Iho
living models of high breeding in Georgia.
God save the commonwealth !
Don't Do It. The poor old Chronicle if;
Sentinel , starving lor want of patronage, is
saying harsh things of Gen. Meade, in the
hope of having the establishment closed,
and thus saving the heavy losses, in the
cost of publication, which the proprietors
are continually sustaining.
HON. FOSTER ULODQETT.
Our gallant and glorious friend, Hon.
Foster Blodgett, has returned tcfhis home
in this city, from the Chicago Convention,
and from an extended tour through the
North and Northwest. He reports a perfect
ground-swell of enthusiasm for Giunt and
Colfax from Minnesota to Now York.
Such confidence has had no parallel since
the good old fashioned days of “Tippecanoe
and Tyler too.” A million of ex-soldiers at
the North, nearly half of whom arc of Demo
cratic antecedents, are thrilled with joy at
the bare mention of theij grent chieftain’s
name in connection with the Chief Magis
tracy of the Nation. jTheirg is no lethargic
confidence. It has all the vigor and vim of
a patriotic soldier’s fiery courage. It is as
untiring ns Northern energy, and will
increase in power until the close o! the polls
in the first Tuesday in \ -v mber next.
The people of the North teel and say that,
four years ago, when (he country had been
well nigh mined hv incompetents and
bunglers, and when a speedy cessation of
hostilities, by the defeat of the Confederate
armies and their unconditional surrender,
was an absolute necessity, they deinauded
that Ulyssrs S. Graxt should have supreme
control of all military operations. President
Lincoln, fully coinciding with the people in
their sagacious confidence in General Grant,
cheerfully gave him unrestrained control.
The result of this policy is a part of the his
tory of the nation.
General Grant brought au end to the war.
The masses of the people. North and South,
supposed that the end of the war was the
beginning of peace- But they were disap
pointed. The Toombs and Ren Hills of the
South, encouraged by the incompeteney and
treachery of Anlrew Johnson, set to work
to practically defeat all the ends supposed to
have been accomplished by a victorious war.
It is true, there is no war in the country—
neither is there peace. The people of the
North now say that they desire peace. They
say that, as they called on General Grant
four years ago to secure a cessation of
active hostilities, they now intend to place
him in an office whereby he can secure for
than ihe blessings of peace.
Gen. Grant is emphatically the peace
candidate, and, as such, no well-informed
person at the North, of any party, doubts
his triumphant election. The Democratic
party there have no hope of electing their
candidate, whomsoever he may be. All
their energies will be exerted to secure the
election of some of their pets to Congress
this Fall. That is the utmost they expect.
The thousands of friends of Mr. Blodgett
throughout Georgia will be glad to know
that he is enjoying excellent health. And
we may say to his blind and malicious
enemies, that none of their vile machina
tions can possibly succeed in either injuring
his character or impairing his usefulness.
When Grant shall have been elected
President, and the last hope of lording it
over the people shall have departed for
ever from the hearts of Toombs & Cos.; when
peace shall have spread her angel wings
over the grand old hills and beautiful
valleys of Georgia; when trade shall be
revived in all its branches; when the
intelligent stranger, with his energy and
capital, shall settle among us and help
devclope our boundless resources— then will
the wisdom nnd patriotism of Foster
Blodgett be universally acknowledged,
and those who aro now traducing him will
hang their heads in shame. f
EFFECT OF RECONSTRUCTION..
In the city of New Y ork, on Saturday
last, Georgia State Bonds, seven per cent.,
brought ninety-six cents—a higher rate
than has been obtained since the war.
It Avill be remembered that, in 1366,
Governor Jenkins offered these Bonds in
the same market, limiting them at ninety
two, and they were withdrawn in conse
quence of not bringing that price.
So much for the first fruits of Recon
struction. Will our cotemporaries across
and up the street make a note on’t ? *
Respectable.— ls to be a rebel to one’s
country makes men so honorable and
highly respectable, why is it that “rebel”
editors make such stupendous efforts to
prove that all the loyal men of Georgia
were once honorable, high minded gentle
men. because they were all once rebels
like themselves? A traitor to his country
is but another name, according to the
views of rebels, for a gentleman of the
first standing. The rebel editors are,
logically, traitors to their country, and,
having their own tails cut oil’, they want
to cut off the tails of all loyal, honorable,
high minded gentlemen, and bring them
down to the degraded level with them
selves. Misery and poverty love com
pany—so do rebels and traitors.
DiFKietix.T Dilemma. Vallandigham,
through the Dayton Lahjer , administers a
sharp rebuke to those Democratic news
papers which are opening the canvass by
assaults upon the capacity und military
services of General Git ant. He speaks ol
this as “the weakest and most foolish
thing that the Democratic press or Demo
cratic orators can do.” The strength ol
the Democracy in the canvass, ho thinks,
lies in the fact that the country wants a
statesman, rather than a soldier, for Presi
dent. If they overlook this consideration,
and try to run any soldier against Git ant,
they will throw awav their chances of
success.
That is true. The fact is they hare no
chances if they don't run a Soldier, and
they throw them away if they do. That
is rather a difficult dilemma.
I’kusonai.. Mr. I’omcroy, of the La
Crosse Democrat , gets another dig from one of
his Southern friends. The Southern Opinion,
adverting to the rumor that he w:»s in the
United States army during the will', says:
“We can say to our friends that they need
give themselves no trouble to uinko any
inquiries. ‘Brick’ is not a lighting man.
If lie was, he would have been in the Con
federate army during the war, the place
where all brave and honest men wore found,
who claimed to believe the doctrines he
advocated. ’Brick won’t light.” Mr. P.
must long since have arrived at the conclu
sion that these gentlemen are hard to
please.
THE “JEW ORDER."
In tbn midst of the war, when the array
was being demoralized by speculators seek
ing permits to trade, and it so happening
that most of these traders at the time were
Jews—that mean class of Jews who cared
more for money than they did for their
country, and did not care how the money
was obtained so that it wns secured—Gen.
Grant issued an order of which tho following
is a copy :
HEADQUARTERS 230 ARMY CORPS,)
Dki-artmknt or ths TtumssKE, )
Oxford, Miss., December 17, 18(52. J
General Order No. 11.
The Jews, as a class, violating every regula
tion of trade established by the Treasury Depart
ment, also department orders, arc horeby
expelled from the department within twenty
four hours from tho rocoipt of this ordor by post
commanders.
They will soo that all this class of people aro
furnished with passes and required to leave;
and any one returning after such notification
will bo arrested and held in confinement until un
opportunity occurs of sending them out as
prisoners, unloss furnished with permits from
these headquarters.
No pusses will be given this people to visit
headquarters for the purpose of making personal
application for trade permits.
liy order of Major Ucncral Grant.
John A. Rawlings, A. A. O.
Official: J. Lovell, Capt. and A. A. G.
Ihe class of Jews referred to were “viola
ting every regulation ot trade established
by the Treasury Department, also Depart
ment orders,” and for these offenses they
wgre expelled from the army and ordered to
get outside of the lines. In like manner
thieving Gentiles were frequently ordered to
leave.
This order is reproduced by the Cincinnati
Enquirer, which insults the “respectable”
Jews’of the country, by asking them to make
common cause with the army thieves, and
thus drag themselves down, ns a class, to a
level with those who are a disgrace to any
people. There are mean men among the
Jews as there are among the Christians, and
about in the same-proportion ; but we have
never before heard of an appeal to Jews or
Gentiles, as a class, to oppose a General or
a Judge because rascals were prohibited
from or punished for stealing.
Information Wanted. —Wo are tired of
this thing. Everybody we meet says:
“YVhere is Foster Blodgett?” We have not
been iniquitous enough to keep the “run” of
him for a long time, nnd consequently, do
not know where he is. We do know, how
ever, where he ought to be, and if any of his
friends need to be informed on that point, we
don’t think they will have much difficulty to
ascertain.— Atlanta Intelligencer.
YVc have no sort of doubt that such men
are “tired” of Foster Blodgett— -he has
always proved to be too much for them. YVe
can, however, for the information of “old
aunt Hannah,” inform our courteous cotem
porary that Mr. Blodgett is in Augusta—
attending to his business ; and we venture
the assertion that, when the General Assein
bly meets, the representatives of the People
of Georgia will send him “where he ought
to be”—to the United States Senate. *
—— . ♦.
Military. —Somebody has discovered
that the Republican ticket is purely mili
tary, being made up of General Grant and
Col. Fax. Its strongest supporter, as a
consequence, is General Satisfaction.
fFrom our Special Correspondent.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
The I.atc Municipal Election—Great Excitement
—-Two Lives Lost—The Colored Yotirs Their
Good Behaviour — Gen. Scho/icld a Republican
Death of “the old Public Functionary” —
The Presidential Canvass—A Bogus Circular —
The Chinese. Embassy.
Washington, Ik 0., .Tune 11, 1808.
The impeachment excitement only sub
sided to give place to one still greater, so
far as the National Capital is concerned'
Never, in the whole history of this city, was
there a political canvass so bitterly con
tested, or whero more of the worst passions
of men were aroused. The Opposition ele
ment here is made up pretty much the same
as it. is in cities farther South, with this dif
ference : we have the meanest of all treason
able trash to contend against, in the shape
of Northern Copperheads, besides ex-rebels,
Conservatives, etc. Last year the mongrel
Democracy lot the municipal election go by
default, and the Republicans swept the city ;
but as some of the officers held over, we did
not have full control of the government.
This year every man who could he dragged
out was registered on both sides, and the
contest was an exceedingly animated and
close one. We elect Bowen, the Republican
candidate for Mayor, by a majority of 71.
The Democrats have a majority in the Board
ol Aldermen and Cotincilmen. The vote is
so close that this may he reversed when tiie
returns are officially canvassed. The Rebel
Democracy endeavored, by every means in
their power, to inti mid ate the colored voters,
and on many occasions attempted the use of
force to keep them from exerciaitig their
dearly bought privileges at the polls, hut
generally unsuccessfully.
'The colored men acted with wonderful
forbearance—in no instance, it is ' believed,
assuming the offensive, but simply stood on
the defensive, in which they were supported
by all good citizens. A serious outbreak was
only preveuted on several occasions by the
prompt and efficient action of the police. As
it was, one white man was killed by a colored
man (in self-defence, it is believed), ami,
yesterday, while two inebriated Democrats
were quarreling about some trifling election
matter, one deliberately shot the other dead
in his tracks. There is much bad blood yet
aroused, principally by whiskey, however,
and a very little indiscretion may yet pro
duce more fearful results. Loyal men, at
least, are prepared to aid in suppressing any
outbreak.
The impeachment excitement has pretty
much died out. Andrew Johnson is held in
check somewhat by the remaining articles,
which can be revived at any time: hut some
of his subordinates have already commenced
the removal of Republican clerks. At least
a dozen lmve been removed by the Secretary
of the Treasury, for political offenses, and
the air is filled with rumors of a general
clearing out of the Department of all pro
nounced Republicans.
Gen. Schofield was selected by the Presi
dent as Secretary of War, doubtless, to pour
oil upon the troubled waters. Though not. a
politician, ho is now, and always has been, a
sound Republican. The guards have boon
removed from the War Office, and, for the
first time since 1800, the War Department is
run upon a peace basis. _
The Corruption Committees arc still taking
testimony, but it is not expectod they will
report for some time to come.
The press thought this section ol the
country had fallen into a singular mistake in
regard to the Oregon election: it is an
nouoced by papier* on both aides that we
have lost a United States Senator. Such i*
not the fact. The prescut Legislature is
elected for only two years, and will have no
opportunity to vote at all lor a Senator.
Senator Williams’ term does not expire
until 1871, ana Senator Corbett’s not’till
1873.
To day pretty much all business is sus
pended in the Capital on account of the
funeral obsequies at YVhealland, Pa., of ex-
President Buchanan. The departments and
banks arc closed, the public buildings are
draped in mourning, flags are at half mast,
and minute guns have been fired. The events
of the last seven years prove that Mr.
Buchanan’s whole life, like that of John C.
Calhoun, was a tailure ;he sacrificed every
thing lor place and power, llis name will
be handed down to posterity with that ot
many other able men, who did the bidding
ol the once great power, wielded by those
who trafficked in human liesh, and of all the
long list, lie proved to bo the worst enemy
ol the many professed friends of the South
from their stand-point—for bad he, in 1861,
acted up to the spirit of the age, the great
irrepressible conflict would have been post
poned to another age —slavery, with all its
horrors, would have still cursed the soil, and
“State rights,” lor years to come, would
have caused many more able men to crawl
in the dost. In the bauds of au inscrutable
Providence, James Buchanan was to this
nation au instrument of good, without hi3 so
knowing or intending it. So much in justice
to the dead—tor you see, I do not believe in
that sickly sentimentality which prompts
men to speak of the dead only in terms of
praise, believing that the lives of all public
men should be held up as examples ot good
or evil influences, that those who come after
them may shun the evil and accept the good.
The Presidential canvass is in a quiet
state, so far as the Republican party is
concerned. The action of the Chicago
Convention has nonplussed the Democracy;
the unanimity of the Convention, and,
above all, the character of the candidates,
is such that their ammunition of our oppo
nents is all dampened. The World and
kindred sheets have made a feeble attempt
to belittle Grant; hut even Mr. Vallandig
iiain has taken them to task for it, as being
the worst policy in the world. Grant is
simply human, not divine, and while he
uses, occasionally, stimulants—as General
Rawlins said to me to day—he is not a
drunkard. The President is using ail of
his influence to “match him” with Hancock;
but no one believes lie can ever obtain a
“two thirds” vote in a Democratic Conven
tion. Andrew Johnson has just been saved
by the two thirds rule, and that same rule
will save his friend from discomfiture and
defeat. If the ‘expediency’’ men are to
control Democratic affairs, Mr. Chase will
be nominated ; lie is a long way ahead of
Hancock. Belmont, who supplies all the
British, and pretty much all the American
gold, as to that matter, believes in the solid
argument of money, and not in expediency;
and the Eastern Democrats will think twice
before allowing the purse strings to be
closed against them.
The embassy from China is with us, and
will be officially introduced at the White
House to morrow. Mr. Burlingame is
winning golden opinions from all sorts of
people. The mission marks au epoch in
Oriental civilization, the importance of
which, as affecting the commercial relations
of the country, have not been over-estima
ted—indeed are generally fully appreciated.
The members of the embassy apparently
enjoy the attentions they receive iiugely,
and express themselves delighted with the
wisdom displayed in selecting as their chief
an American citizen.
To-day, a “recent circular” has been un
earthed, purporting to have been issued by
the Union Executive Committee, calling upon
all Republican office holders to contribute
five dollars each towards defraying the ex
penses of the approaching canvass, and, as
an inducement, giving them to understand
that their wishes .-.s to appointees in their
respective localities will be considered. It is
hardly necessary to say the circular is a
Democratic trick. There is no Republican
Committee known ns the Union Executive
Committee; but do not bo surprised if the
World should publish it as genuine, and
that all of yonr Democratic contemporaries
should follow suit, and swear ii genuine.
Capital.
PROPOSALS.
U. 8. SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT, )
Atlanta, Ga., June 2d, IS6S. J
Sealed Proposals
TN TiIIPLICATE, AUK INVITED UNTIL 12
JL M., on Juno 20,1865, for furnishing tho United
States Subsistence Department with FRESH
BEEF, of a good marketable quality, in equal
proportion of fore and hind quarter meat—necks,
shanks, nnd kidney tallow, to be excluded—in
such quantities as may be from time to time
required, and on such days as shall ho desig
nated by the Commanding Dffiocr, for a term of
six months, commencing July Ist, 1863.
To be delivered tv the V. 8. Troops at Augusta
Arsoual, and at the City of Augusta, Ga.
Payment will be made in Government funds,
monthly, upon delivery and acceptance.
Bids to bo directed to tho undersigned, and
marked “Proposals.”
Til OS. 0. SULLIVAN,
Bvt. Lieut. Col. & C. S., V. S. A.,
jeo-- dfc Chief O. S. 3d Military District.
Proposals for Transportation.
Office Acting Ass't Quartermaster. I
Augusta Arsenal, June 1,1868. 1
SEALED PROPOSALS (IN DUPLICATE)
are invited to do the hauling of Government
Stores and Supplies between tins Arsenal and the
Railroad Depots and Wharves in the city ot
Augusta.
Forms for proposals and terms to be complied
with ran he obtained by application to the under
signed.
Bids will be opened al 1(1 o'clock, on Thursday,
the 25th inst. Bidders invited to be present.
D. W. FLAGLER,
Bvt. Lt. Col. U. 8. A.,
jeti—lit A. A, Q. M,, Augusta Arsenal.
Governmeut Proposals for Fuel.
Office Acting Ass't Quartermastku, ?
Augusta Arsenal, June -I,lßt>B. )
CJEALED PROPOSALS (IN DUPLICATE)
o are invited for entering into contract to de
liver (o the Acting Assistant Quartermaster, at
tlie Augusta Arsenal:
80 Cords Merchantable Hard Wood, or
150 Cords Pine Wood ; and
■ld, ooo Lbs. of Anthracite, or
00,000 Lbs. Bituminous Coal.
Delivery to commence in July, 1808, and not
ices than one fifth of the whole amount to he do
livered per month till all is delivered.
Separate bids nniv tie made for any one ot the
above items, and 'bids must stale price charged
per cord or per thousand pounds. Rids must he
made in duplicate, and bidders must bo prepared
to give sufficient bonds for the laithful execution
of the contract. , ....
Forms for proposals may be obtained on appli
cation at Ibis office. Rids should be endorsed on
the outside, “Proposals to furnish >' ood or coal,
and addressed to the undersigned.
Bids will be opened at 10 a.m., on Thursday,
ihe “.Till ilift. Bidders invited to be present.
D. W. FLAGLER,
Hvt. Lt. Col., U. S. A.,
jefi—tit A. A. Q. M , Augusta Arsenal.
ASSESSOR’S OFFICE, ]
IT. s. In TK UN At, Rkvbnub, ad Dist. of Ga. >
Augusta, May 27th, 1868. )
Notice is hereby given to jasper
MITCHELL to come forward and show
cause (if any ho has), why the Wagon, Harness,
Whiskey, eto., etc , seised by Deputy Collector
Chas. Smith, ut Greensboro, on tho I9tb inst.,
also Whiskey seised by Assistant Assessor J»s.
h. Brown, on tho 22d inst., at tho same place,
shall not bo forfeited to the United States for
violation of tho Internal Revenue laws.
,1. BOWLES,
my 28—Ifli Assessor.
SOCIAL HOTICEs^I
SCRIP DIVIDE Ni> vTT 1
TJIE GEORGIA HOME >- Oil
of Coinmbus, Ga. ■
Assets Ist of January, ]&67 ■
ttUAlgfl
We have received ready f or «ut; I
of Dividend No. I, a ß<m *ti.g V/ 1
of the net premium* j, a jq 0 **l,l
annual polictas, on pol.cit,
n.ne months iutenal f rum ... * ,r “S(k|
31“, 18#7. Dividend No. 2 , in . V -|
January l,t, 180 V. I ** I
Persons to whom Scrip i, 4,, I
to call at once and receipt for
haul 4 CAHRAr.,, 1
-*g~ - 2il I
IST THE TENTH
LY Meeting of the Mance
Association will bo held at the Cii,
THURSDAY NEXT, Uth i„ lta J 1 ,
p. in. ' 5 4 «tkl
Members can pay their 1 1
Treasurer, S. 11. Shepard, uohl
of tho same day. W. 11. EDWaSM
ie7—2tSAT
- I
ADVEETISEaEKIsT^
Assignee's Notice.
IN TIIE DISTRICT COURT oe
1 United States for the Southern dLw® '
Georgia. |
In the matter of \
| HI BAXKBCPTcj
A"*Wi&Sft
signee of the estate of Robert F
city of Macon, in the county of Ribbands!"
Georgia, within said District, who has 1
judged a baukrnpt upon ids own netitimTv 7
District Court of said District P ™' *»»
Dated at Macon. Ga., this sth day of J™,
jeH-lawSw gT
I’C TH , E o I,[3TKICT COURT w ml
Georgia? * Swtherß I
In the matter of j I
“"SJGjr*
The undersigned hereby gives notice ofhk I
appointment as assignee of Leroy PollsniTi ■
Chattahoochee county, State of Georgia it? I
in said District, who has been adjudgedaßM I
rupt upon his own petition by tEe Dto I
Court of said District. “ ■
Dated at Perry, Ga., the 4th of .June, AD I
im - J- A. HOLTZC-LAW; o '' I
je9-law3w Assignee, etc. I
TX THE DISTRICT COURT OT THI I
1 United States fur the Northern District «f I
Georgia. I
In the matter of ) I
WILLIS S THORNTON [in BANKRUPTCY I
Bankrupt. ) I
To whom it may concern: The undersigned I
hereby gives notice of his appointment a/As. I
signee of the estate of Willis S. Thornton,*
Georgia, who has been adjudged a Eankraji
upon his own petition, by tie District Coot
of said District.
Dated at Ncwnan, 6th day of Juno,A.B
188S. ISAAC N SHANNOK, ’
j t‘J—l a w3t Assignee, etc.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
rpillS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
X Ith day of June. A. D., 1868,a Warrant
in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate ol
CLARENCE V WALKER,
of Augusta, in the couifty of Richmond,and Slate
of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankraptoa
his own petition ; that the payment of any debts,
and delivery of any properly belonging to said
Bankrupt, to him or for 1 > u?t\ and the transfer
of any property by him. arc f ’ bidden by law;
that a meeting of the creditors of said Bankrupt,
to prove their debts, auci to choose one or more
assignees ot his estate, will be held at a Court of
Bankrupt- y, to be holdeu at the Register’s office,
Warren Block, No I, 3d floor, n- in No 6. Jackson
street, Augusta, Georgia, before Albert (J Foster.
Register, on the Ist day of July, A. D.. 1868.
at 11 o’clock a m.
WM. •. DICKSON,
jeO—lt U S. Marshal as Messenger
15 BANKRUPTCY.
mills IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
X DL day of June, A. lb. IS6B, Win
rant in Bankruptcy was L-?ued ngaiust the es
tates of
H. .v N K. SOLOMON & HENRY SOLOMON
of Augusta, and NATHAN E- SOLOMON,
of ilie county of Troup, and the Sate
ol Georgia,' who have been adjudged
Bankrupts on their own petition,, and that tie
paymeut of any debts, and delivery of any
property belonging to such Bankrupts, to men,
or lor their use, and the transfer of any property
by them, are forbidden by law; that a meeting
of tho creditors of said Bankrupts, to prove
their debts, and to choose one or more Asig
nccs of their estate, will be held at a Court ot
Bankrnptcv, to be holden at the Reg
ister's office'. No 1. Warren Block, 3d floor, roo«
No 6. Jackson street. Augusta. Ga.. beforeal“n
G Foster, Esq, Register, on the Ist day ot Jntv,
A. I).. 1868. at ll> o'clock a. m.
WM. (5. DICKSON,
j e <l 1 1 U. 8. Marshal as MetsenKr
IN BANKRUPTCY
rpiIIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: Ibtm*
1 Ist day of May. A. 1).
Bankruptcy was issued aeumst thei estxWM
T PEARLSTIN & SON. THOMAS MBh
STIN. of Charleston, S. C.. ami LA •
PEAKLSTIN. of Forsyth, m county £■**>
Stale of Georgia, who have been adjndg ,
rapt# on their own petitions,and tbatffieptjjt*
any debts, and delivery ot any property
to such Bankrupts, totliem. or lorthe r ,®f”i e ,w
transfer of any property by them, are hi
law; that a meeting of tlm creditors of
Bankrupts, to prove their debts,audio ***
or more Assignees of their estate; wii! hs
Court of Bankruptcy, to be holden ts theMS£
ister's office, ill the Court House, gj
before Alexander G Murray. Register, <»
anda -'' ’>*' b‘V- D.LWo^ock^
V. 8. Marshal a^Mes^SfL
lN BANKRUPTCY.
tTP IDS IS TO GIVE NOTICE :
A titb day of March, A. 1
rant in Bankruptcy was: issueri againstlbee
ISAAC V I.NSIGN, uIJ
of Forsyth, in Hie county of ■ “j sßil! t
State of Georgia, w bo has been
nipt on his own petition; and •• property b«
of anv debts, and delivery ' d •' f f ,, r qis a*,
onging to said Bankrupt, to am.
and the transfer ot any property b
hidden by law; that a meeting ;t w i|pc |ioo»
said Bankrupt, to prove their dr =, k t do
one or more assignees ot hia <--*•- - j , j e „ a ; the
at a Court of Bankruptcy, to j[ ac on,G»-
Register's office, m the Court Houw .^ r ,«i
before Alexander G Mnrrav, *V, .gSf*
the 23d day es June, A. Ik .l*#- “j^goS,
jo_u jiSKu-isae-
Glt EAT BARGAIN
TO BK UAB 11
202 Broad Street,
Al fiBSTAi 6*.’
UNTIL THE 10th of JUN ■>
And all Goods uot sold by that <■“'
BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION.
Thoao Hi Waul oICMBA* 1
Boots and Shoes-
HAD BBTTSH
Call in at °ncU’
ASH cur what nor «»'
As the Stock now on Hand will b«C'
Out FOR CASS,
To Make Room for an J^ng,
NKW STOCK OF GOOD*
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