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fARAORAMS.
—Yesterday, in Now York, Gold tw
quoted at l.3v|. Cotton, 30.
—Tba New York police force now num
ber* two thousand <»o heddred and sixty.
A Missourian ha* invented a machine
which reapa, threshes, eleaus and sacks
wheat at one operation.
—A New York lady, who bathe*
daily in milk, sells the fluid in tlacoua to her
admirers.
—Theodore Ulois, a prominent citiaeu of
Savannah, died on Wednesday evening in
that citr.
Kx-Governnr Levi Lincoln, of Massachu
setts, died at his residence in Worcester Fri
day morning, in his eightieth year.
—Dr. Joseph A. Mnrrell, formerly a
citiscn of Covington, died in Minden, La-,
ou the 7th iust. He had many relatives
and friends in this State.
—The Cherokee Indians have sold I heir
neutral lands, and will realize about
$1,000,000 for the 798,613 acres contained
in the contract.
jt ; s si U ,l that some of Brigham Young’s
wives, liiou/u “sealed” to him, as the Mor
mon phrase is, are deserting his bed nnd
board. It seems that the seals, like a good
many of our post office stamps, don’t slick.
A new steamboat, of three thousand
lons gurthen, was launched at Cincinnati on
the slh. She is said to be the largest cralt
ever on the Western or Southern waters.
She is to be called Thompson Deane.
—The widow of the Marquis Deßoissy,
better known as Conn teas Guiceioli, is about
to publish her memoirs, which will contain
a great many curious details respecting
Lord Byron.
Mr. Hoe, the inventor of the cylinder
press, whose patent (twenty one years)
expires in duly, is in Washington asking for
a renewal, upon the ground that he has not
been sufficiently compensated. A
—Fifteen years ago a man left Gardner,
Me ,to try his fortune in Chicago. Ho had
SBOO. which heinviSted in buying house lots
about a mile from the centre of the then
city. To day, that same property would sell
at unction for $250,000.
—The emigration from Prussia to Ameri
ca this year, it is expected, will reach
250,000. It is composed chiefly of inhabi
tants of the northern provinces, who are for
the most part Protestants, and have a small
capital at their command.
—The two sons of Stephen A. Douglass,
both of whom are resident in North Caro
lina, arc said to be members of the Republi
can party, the oldest being the private
secretary of W. \V. Holden, Governor of
that State.
—A German physician reports that he has
traced six cases of lead cholic and piralysis
to the use of tobacco held in leaden boxes.
A lead foil, improperly called tin foil, will
finally become impregnated with a poisonous
salt of lead.
—The indignation in Kansas on account
of the recreancy ol Senator Ross, is increas
ing. Meetings arc being held in a most
every town and village in the State, at which
he is being called upon to resign. It is
believed that he will never again attempt to
cuter Kansas.
—George W. Dill, a leading Republican
in South Carolina, was murdered lu-t Thurs
day evening, by a gang of men who sur
rounded his house near Camden, South
Carolina, and killed him and a colored man,
and also badly wounded his wife. No
arrests.
—California will eventually become a
great wine country. Los Angelos county
has 14,000,000 grape vines, which last year
produced 1,500,000 gallons of brandy. The
town of Anaheim, besides many grape vines,
has a plain upon whic are growing 10,000
choice fruit trees of various descriptions.
—The Germans in Texas are over sixty
thousand in number, nnd it is estimated
that at least three fourths of them are eu
gaged in agricultural pursuits. Careful and
intelligent observers believe that at least
one third of the whole cotton crop of
Texas is now planted and secured by their
labor.
—Aunt Susan, about seventy years of
age, is unanimous on man ; she says, “If all
men were taken off, she’ll make arrange
ments for her funeral forthwith.” .She also
gays, “suppose all the men were in one coun
try, and all the women in another, with a big
river between th-m.what lots of poor women
would he drowned. 1 '
—1 he citizens ot Nevada and California
have organized a company to build a rail
road from a point ou the Central Pacific
Railroad on Humboldt river, Eastern Nc
vada, to the head ol navigation on the
Colorado river, in connection with the line
of the Southern Pacific. The capital stock
is $1,500,000. The length of the road is
about two hundred and silty miles.
—No more petitions in bankruptcy, save
in cases where the bankrupt is able to show
assets to the amount of filly cents on the
dollar, can now be tiled. The week just past
ended the opportunity. The bill proposing
to extend tbe time to the Ist ot January,
18ti9, has never been reported by the Judi
ciary Committee, and, therefore, has not been
acted upon by Congress. This announcement
may serve to remove an erroneous impression
which seems to prevail to some extent.
—Gold is used more extensively in the
arts than is generally imagined. It is stated
that nearly $50,000 worth of this metal is
consumed evpry year in the decoration of
Chinaware, in England, principally nt the
Staffordshire potteries. The total amount
used in gilding generally in England and
France is estimated at, §81)0,000 per annum.
The trades in England, using standard gold,
go regularly to the mint and purchase the
clipped sovereigns by weight. In this way
the tiovernment saves the expense of recoin
age of the light pieces, and satisfy si legiti
mate demand of the industrial arts.
—Of all the sights in I’aris, none is more
curious than the snail-seller. lie trundles a
largo and shallow hand curt through tlm
streets, covered with huge snails, crawling
all over the side of the cart, with horns
extended and house on back. A dozen cun
be purchased for the small sum of two sons ;
you can select them yourself, and carry them
away in a paper bag. Borne people eat them
raw, like oysters, others roast them with
savory herbs. The best snails come from
Burgundy in the Autumn, and are fattened
on the vine leaves. Those now selling arc
gathered in every ditch outside the city, the
several cemeteries yielding the largest sup
plies.
—Charleston lias seldom experienced a
more thorough washing than that of the past
few days. The slight rain of Tuesday morn
ing increased by night, mid at 10 o’clock it
seemed as if the windows of Heaven were
opened and the floods had descended upon
the earth. In the Northeastern portion of
the city the streets bordering on the river
were completely submerged, and pedestrians
were comnelled to swim and wade before
they could reach their destination. The fall
of water was greater than has before been
recorded in the same length of time, and,
during twenty-four hours jhowed a total
depth of four and a half inches.
National tlcpubluan
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FRIDAY M0KM.N0..... .....Juns IS. IM<
For Pit i:s11 > 10NT
Or the United States:
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
or ISM AN A.
REPUBLICAN I'LXTFOHR.
The National Uepublican party of the, United States,
assembled in National Convention, In the city of Chi
cago, ou the 90th day of May, 186 H, make the following
Declaration of Principles :
lat. We conn r a tula to the country on the assured sue
ceaa of the reconstruction policy of Congreaa, as
evinced by the adoption, in a majority of the States
lately in rebellion, of ConatUutions securing equal civil
and political right* to all, and regard It as the dutv of
the tiovemment to austain those Institutions, and to
prevent the people of such State* fWim being remitted
to a state of anarchy.
Id. 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 mini 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 ami 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 be 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 done.
tkh. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
debt is to so improve our credit that capitalists will seek
to loan ns 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 be
administered with the strictest economy, and the cor
ruptions which have been so. shamefully nursed aiul
fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for ridteal re
form.
Bth. We profoundly deplore the imtimely 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 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 citixeu Abas abused the
pardoning power: ha* denounced the National Legisla
ture as unconstitutional; has persistently and corruptly
resisted, by every measure in his power, every proper
attempt at tlie reconstruction of the States lately in re
bellion ; ha* perverted the public patronage into on
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.
oth. The doctrine of Great Uritain and other European
powers, that because a man is once a subject, lie is
always so, must be resisted at every hazard by the
United States, as a relic of the feudal time, not author
ised by the law of nations, and at war with our national
honor and independence. Naturalized citizens are enti
tled to be piotectedin 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, 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 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 the country. The bounties
and peusion* provided by law for these brave defenders
of the nation are 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 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 declares it* sympathy with all
the oppressed people which are struggling for their
rights.
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The Presidential Campaign, for 18G8,
will be the most important that lias ever
claimed the attention of American citizens.
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nation of political truths through the
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NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
published every morning (Monday cx
ceptcd) at Augusta. Ga.. the home of the
Governor elect.
The Reiu ih.k'an modestly claims that
it lias done good service in the Union
cause, and for the promotion of pure and
undefiled Republicanism, since the party
had an existence in Georgia. It will be
guided, as it lias 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.
The Kepi hi.ican will heartily support
General On ant and St uuyluu Colfax
for the responsible positions for which
they have been nominated. It will advo
cate retrenchment and economy in the
public expenditures, and the reduction of
onerous taxation. It will advocate the
speedy restoration of the South, us needful
to revive business and secure fair remune
ration for labor.
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OUR FLAG.
Thu names of Quant and Colfax will
stand at the head of our columns till the
echoing voice of the people’s will is borne
on Novcmlrer gales, announcing them the
chosen rulers of the nation. General Grant
represents no State, but the whole Union.
and Mr. Colfax, nlso known to the whole
world by his ability, fidelity, and great
success as the Speaker of the Thirty-ninth
and Fortieth Congress, has a national,
rather than a local strength. Both arc
men who have hold upon the sympathies
ol the people. Both have splendid records;
both nro men whose services to the nation,
whether in the field or council, deserve
honor ami reward, and thus the great
Convention of 18<>8 the first Republican
convention in which all the States were
fully represented—selects to perfect the
work of restoration and to preside over the
destinies of the Union when restored, the
two men who, as Soldier and as Statesman,
have won the widest approval by their
deeds, nml whose fame is the property, not
of any State or section, but of the whole
Republic.
The unparalleled unity of sentiment
exhibited at Chicago is wonderful as a
proof of the exalted patriotism that moved
all hearts as by one pulsation, and will be
rfinnipotent in its effects. No machinations
can make head against it, no combinations
of hostility resist, it. It will swell through
the country kindling enthusiasm; it will
cheer the faithful, recall the doubting, and
win the disaffected. Henceforward the
watchword of “ Grant and Colfax” will
ring through the nation like a bugle-call
to battle, and summon the patriotic hosts to
victory. The national flag will float from a
million staffs inscribed with these names,
and kindle emulation in support of them
in every corner of the land. No tongue of
calumny can be moved against them. They
arc the pritle of the people—one scarcely
less conspicuous for his devotion to the
government and his patriotism in civil life,
than the Other in military affairs. Popular
with the masses,-undeviating in integrity,
considerate in counsel, sound in judgment,
gml reliable in principle, they xvill attract
to them the support of all good men
North, South, East and West—and every
malign attack of their enemies will only
make them new friends. Under their lead
the day of the nation’s triumph is drawing
near, and in spite of the bitter hostility of
the Democratic party, the woes that have
desolated the country are speedily coming
to an end; the distracted Southern States
will shortly be all restored to their old
places in the Union, and the administra
tion of Grant and Colfax will be over a
united country, bound together by the
bonds of a pure statesmanship, a fraternal
community of interests, and a recognition
of justice and equality. *
SORE HEADED DEMOCRACY {BO
CA I.L El).)
For the past two days we have noted with
interest the tremendous efforts of the new
dispensation. The time approaches lor the
great meeting at New York. The Fourth
of July —the grand anniversary of the Decla
ration ol American Independence—has been
chosen hy the Ktt Klux Klaus to be dese
crated by a meeting of their head centres,
etc., at the metropolis of the Union. Every
“Grand Kignior'' and ‘ X road tool" will be
there, if he can get a “dead head,” or borrow,
beg', or steal money enough to pay his way.
We shall watch the movements, and await
the development we are sure will he made,
with much interest. Not because we have
any fen in of n liarmottimm nominaffioii or a
harmonious vote for ihe nominees, but just
to see how a chemical experiment will
succeed of mixing oil, water, soft soap,
turpentine, kerosene oil, benzine, and nitro
glycerine. livery ingredient known, and
many, no doubt, wholly unknown, will ho
put into the seething cauldron, to be set
boiling on the 4lli proximo. We take Time
by the forelock, and warn our personal
friends iu the South, in advance, to Imware
of this thing. The time was when a Simon
pure Democratic Convention was a for mid a*
hie article, to b: well considered by every
one, but that time hn.s passed, so
far as wc ol the South are concerned!
and never will return to vex tlie patriot’s
heart. The bogus concern to assemble in
New York on the Fourth of July, 1808, bus
so many palpable features of forgery and
counterfeit that a wayfaring man can not
fail to see them. The only tiring the
Republican party cau fear in tho action of
the National Democratic (?) Convention, it
seems to us, is that old “A. J.” will be
nominated as their candidate in the first
place, and Ranso Wright, “the Governor
of Georgia East of the Oconee, with tho
dependencies thereof,” as the second man.
If this be done, we leaf wo shall have to
take the place of Captain Scott’s coon, and
‘‘conic down” and save the ammunition.
Seriously, the Republican party—the, party
of the Union—the party for Reconstruction
and the early restoration of the Union
have only to bo firm, stand by their colors,
do their duty, “come wliat may,” and
vote for Quant aud Coi.fax despite tho
money, the lying sophistries, the boasted
strength, or the vain promises of a party
“conceived in sin and brought forth iu
iniquity,” and to whose acts the people of
the South owe this day all tho evils under
which they suffer.
GRANT.
In his celebrated ode upon the Duke ol
Wellington, tho English poet Tennyson hns
some striking expressions which might seem
to have been intended for a different subject.
They nre us follows :
“Tlie ntnteNiniiii-wsrri'ir, moderate, resolute,
Wholo in liiuidclf, a common good,
Our greatest, yet with least protonso,
Great in council and great in war,
Foremost captain of Ids time,
Kich in saving com mini sense,
Anil, as Bin greatest only are,
In his simplicity subliino.”
It would be difficult to produce a heller
description of General Grant than is given
iu these few lilies.
Funeiial. —The funeral of Mr . Muni It J.
.Smith, wife of Surgeon A. K. Smith, U, S.
A., und daughter ol Gen. C. C. Sibley, took
piano yesterday morning' Tho remains were
followed to the cemetery hy a long train of
carriages, containing many officers ol the
post, with their families, mid n largo number
of our uitizans. —Atlanta Era, Thursday. \
RELIEF.
We arc amused at the gyrations of the
Ku Klux press of Georgia on the action of
Congress in regard to the relief clause in
the Georgia Constitution. Poor fellow*!
we do pity them, and are willing to let
them have a brief hobnobing over the pre
sent ambiguous action of Congress. They
are so sore, and so spiteful, we think they
should be treated with many grains of
allowance for the fantasies they are now
cutting before high Heaven. We are
charitable—we can smile even when wc
give them this small donation, and wc can
view with jocoseness the great furore they
make over a crumb! “Oh, yes, ice told you
so 1" Precisely—you said so—no doubt of
it. The cow ate up the grindstone, too ;
and wc can see no difference between you
and the cow, only this—the cow is a useful
critter, and, if anybody lias yet discovered
that sore haul Democracy is of any essen
tial use or benefit to their country, we hope
he will get a, patent at once for the discov
ery. Wc cannot see it wc cannot feel
it wc don’t believe it!
“the omnibus rill. 1 ’
We see by telegraph reports that the Omni
has bill, so called, which admits North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiaiuq
and in which is ineluded Alabama, has
passed the Senate and gone back to the
House. The “relief” clause in the Georgia
Constitution was stricken out. What the
House will do with the matter, wo are left to
conjecture. It may accede to the Senate
amendment; we doubt it, and wo hope that
the House will insist upon its own bill as it
was when sent to the Senate. But if nob
and the relief measure be nullified, then
there is another alternative to be taken,
which will be done by the Legislature, that
will prevent the Shylocks of the land from
exercising their present and past instincts,
to the utter destruction of tlie people of the
Stole. We shall see.
GRANT AND THE RADICALS.
Consistency is the wooden god before
which fools how down and worship. The
consistent man never changes because he
never learns anything. New facts make no
impression upon his fossilized brain. The
changing, growing world moves on, but its
experiences have no power to enlighten the
stupidly consistent and consistently stupid
creature ; not even a revelation from above
would shake his stolid conceit; and so the
world rolls by, leaving him, a wooden headed
mile post, by the way side, sticking and
rotting in his familiar hole. The Republican
is ambitious to he such a mile post. Wo
arc not. The Republican conceives that it
is the unpardonable sin for a man to change
his opinions, and gOes about boasting that
no trip hammer nor pile driver could ever
force anew idea into its head. To our
notion, on the contrary, uew ideas are highly
desirable, the faculty of learning something
from passing events is eminently valuable,
and a change of opinion tor good cause is
decidedly praiseworthy. We try to learn
what we can, and to keep up with the world
as nearly as vve cau, nnil leave the question
of consistency to fools.
We segregate the above from an article in
lhe Missouri Democrat, and will merely
explain that it is a thorough going, able
Republican daily, while the Republican
newspaper alluded to is of the new school
Democracy—both published at St. Louis.
We commend the true sentiments contained
in it to the thousands in Georgia bolonging
to the press, and outside of it; for the article
suits our meridian quite as well as any other
we know 01. A “bump on a tree” is an
object, in the vegetable kingdom, of no
pleasant sight, but a liumah bump is far
more so, whether he is regarded in a social,
political, or religions light. With a skull
impenetrable to reason, a disposition of
dogmatism and a mind incapable ot appre
ciating new ideas as they come up—what
more like n “bump” on a tree?
The Repudiation Fla<l— The Roches
ter Union proclaims its devotion to the
Pendleton scheme of Repudiation. It
sugar-coats it after this fashion :
We arc, justified in the conclusion that the
New York Convention of July 4th will be
substantially a unit for One Taxation and
One Currency for all. Upon this as the
main plank of the platform, opposed to the
Republican plan for the perpetuation of a
Bondholding Aristocracy, free from taxation
and pampered with gold, and fora tax-ridden
people put off with rags and compelled to
support the aristocracy hy the toil ot their
hands and the sweat of their brows.
That is doubtless the platform which
the New York Convention will put for
ward, unless it shall conclude to take
Chase and greenbacks. The repudiation
platform finds increasing support, and bold
defenders, 'i he Democracy may find it
wise to make war on savings banks, anil
on tho investments of widows and orphans,
as well ns on the public faith ; but we
doubt it. The laboring men will not be
deceived into favoring the issue of more
paper money to increase the cost of every
morsel of food and every article of wear.
They believe that “honesty is the best
policy” for the nation as well as for indi
viduals. They will not be deceived by
False cries, and will not be champions of
rag money. They will do nothing to pre
vent the return of gold and silver to circu -
lation, as soon ns the business of the
country will justify it.
To nr: Expected.— Henceforth, until the
election in November, we may expect a
steady supply of slander, misrepresentation
and abuse about the Presidential candi
dates. It lias already begun with the Chi
cago nominations; but not until the selec
tion of the opposition candidates, will
party feeling have full sway. Already we
have had disputes about Colfax's birth
place, and Git ant’s right to his surname,
and we may soon look for a general raking
tip of nil tho other discreditable stories
relating to their histories which can begot
together. Tito accusation ot drunkenness
against Grant has missed tire; and, indeed,
it Ims failed so many times in other eases,
we think it might be permanently nban
dotted as a party weapon and laid on the
shelf. Wlutt other facts about candidates'
parentage, personal Imbits, etc., will be
brought to light, we have not sufficient
imagination to predict. Their appearance,
however, is inevitable. The word has
gone forth, and the order is now “Cry
slander, and let loose tlie editors.”
From the Now York Herald.
THE NEW OXYGEN GAS LIOUI.
A second exhibition of the light edueed
by a mixture of pure oxygen with street
(hydrogen) gas was giycn yesterday after
noon, in thejpreseuce or several distinguished
gentlemen, in a darkened compartment in
the offices of Messrs. Sterns, Stevens k
French, 22 Nassau street. To produce the
oxygen gas cheaply and in sufficient quanti
ties, resort is had to mangnusotes (compounds
ot inaiigunorie acid with gases), which arc
dooxodyzed at a temperature of 500 degrees
Fahrenheit, by passing hot steam over them
in retorts. 'lhe oxygen disengaged is
conveyed to a receiver. By this process
manganates, acting ns sponges, nre again
charged with the electro negative element,
the vital part of the atmosphere and sup
porter o! combustion. This gas, when
played upon a magnesiau pencil in combi
nation with the hydrogen, produces a pure,
soft, white light, sixteen times stronger titnn
the ordinary gas, or, to express it more
plainly, one jet of the oxygen gas is equal to
sixteen lights of ordinary street gas, the
burners being of like capacity.
From the new light there is no impure
smell. It does not heat or adulterate the
atmosphere. Rather, it purifies it, acting
in this capacity as u depurator. When burnt
or combined with pure hydrogen, such as it
is proposed to extract from lime and coal, by
anew process in the hands of the gentlemen
named above, the light will bo beyond even
present conception magnificent. It will be
all but drawing tlie light of the sun into a
midnight of darkness. Unshaded, the new
illuminator has the sparkle, but in intensity
almost infinitely multiplied, of the diamond.
Shaded it seems to please the eye, which is
never fatigued, however long it may rest
upon it.
We have been given to understand that it
is about to be introduced into several hotels,
stores, manufactories, and private establish
ments, and we do not think the time distant
when it will be as commonly used in dwel
lings, public places, street lamps, and
elsewhere as the ordinary illuminative gas
now' is.
While, ns has been stated, the intensity,
and, therefore, brilliancy of the oxygen gas
is as sixteen to one of hydrogen, it is not
more expensive; if anything, it is believed
that in a little while it can be made much
cheaper—that is, the oxygen in combination
with pure hydrogen at the burner, and for
the reason that, by anew process, for which
patents are held covering the United States
by Messrs. Sterns, Stevens & French, the
last named gas can be obtained in large
volumes from anthracite coal. It lias been
ascertained that, by placing equal parts of
lime and anthracite in a retort, four volumes
of hydrogen, under certain ascertained con
ditions, cau be obtained to one from the
bituminous coal. This, with the fact that,
by the process of Tessie du Motay aud
Marechal’s, for obtaining large volumes of
oxygen at exceedingly low figures, will place
the new gaslight within the reach of all—a
light which will be of incalculable benefit to
the world—a light so powerful, though so
mild to the eye, that it may be used equally
with daylight for photographic purposes.
It has recently been found in France,
where experiments in the new light are being
conducted on ft large scale, that a substitute
for the magnesian pencil has been found,
which will prove far more durable. This, of
course, will help to greatly reduce the cost
of burning the gas.
Wonderful Story of a Skull.—Twenty
years ago, in Cavendish, Vt., a man named
Sage, twenty five years of age, possessing
an irou will and an iron frame, met with a
singular accident, the particulars of which
we collect from a paper ready by Dr.
Harlow, a few days since, before the Massa
chusetts Medical Society. Sage was ram
ming a hole that had been charged with
powder. The iron struck fire from the rock,
and the iron he was ramming with was
driven up through hi3 cheek, out of the top
of his head, high in the air, and was
afterward found, several rods distant,
smeared with blood and brains. The
tamping iron was 3J feet in length and If
inches thick, and pointed at one end, the
taper being seven inches long, and the
diameter ol the point a quarter of an inch.
It weighed thirteen pounds. The point was
upward, and the iron smooth.
The missile entered, by its pointed end,
the left side of the face, immediately anterior
to the angle of the lower jaw, and, passing
obliquely upward and slightly backwards,
emerged out of the top of the head in the
median line at the back part of the frontal
bone, near the coronal square. The ordinary
reader will understand it better, if we say
that, pointing upward, it entered tlie check
outside the teeth, and under the cheek bone,
went inside an inch behind the eye, and out
of the top of (he head in the centre, two
inches back > f the line where the forehead
and hair meet. Alter a few minutes, the
man was taken three-quarters of a mile, in a
sitting position, in a cart. The opening in
the brain was two inches wide by three and
a half inches long. In fifty-nine days the
patient was abroad. The effect of the injury
was the instruction of the equilibrium be
tween his animal and intellectual faculties.
The man lived until 1801, when Dr. llurlou
secured tlie skull, which he exhibited, iihi3
trative of the statements contained in his
paper. —Pittsburg Commercial.
Decisions or the Supreme Court—June
Term, 18G8.—Abner P. Robertson, vs. John
D. Smith, Sheriff—Rule from Richmoud.
Walker, J.
It is the duty of a Sheriff to execute with
due diliigenee the processes placed iu his
hands, and pay promptly to the party enti
tled, money collected by him as Sheriff, and
on his tailing to do so, lie is liable to fine and
attachment for contempt (Code, sections
397, 401, .’’>B73 and 3881). While the Court
will require strict fidelity on the part of its
officers, it will also enforce his rights for his
costs and fees as against suitors ; therefore,
when a Sheriff, at the instance of a plaintiff,
levied on die property ot a defendant, and
incurred expenses in securing and taking
care of the property so levied on, and the
levy was subsequently dismissed by the order
of the plaintiff, the Sheriff will not be driven
to an action to recover the costs so due him,
but judgment may be entered up against
the plaintiff for the same, and execution
issue therefor (Code, section 400 and 3G35).
Tho amount of compensation due the
Sheriff may bn awarded by the Court. In
this case there being no contest as to the
amount due to tho Sheriff and he beiug
entitled to a judgment for tho amount
against tho plaintiff; there being apparent
reason why one claim should not be pro
tanlo extinguished by the other; and tho
Court having done in this equitable pro
ceeding what is right between tho parties,
this Court will not, ou a more technicality,
reverse tho judgment; more especially
when it appears that by having a judgment
rendered for the costs admitted to be due
tho Sheriff, lie would have a valid claim for
a set off against tho plaintiff’s demand.—
Judgment affirmed.
Marsden A. Cleckly vs. Beall, Spears &
Co.—Equity from Richmond. Walker,
Judge:
Whore a party is suod, it. is his duty to
make his delcuce promptly, i( he bus any.
He cannot permit a judgment to he rendered
against him at law and then sec it aside in
equity, unless ho had a good defenoe of
which ho was entirely ignorant; or he was
prevented from making it by fraud or acci
dent, or the act of the adverse party, unmixed
with fraud or negligenco on his part (Code,
3074). Judgment nllirmed.
Death of Theodore Bloi*.—lt become*
our painful duty, this morning, to announce
the demise of the above well known and
highly esteemed citizen.
Mr. Bloi* was born in the city of Bavan
nab, on the 12th day of May, 1831. After
graduating at the Chatham Academy with
high honors, he entered the office of the
Rejniblican newspaper, in 1848, as clerk,
and continued in that positiou until bis
brother William, who was commercial editor
of this journal, died, when Theodore look his
place, filling it in a most acceptable maimer,
and subsequently became business manager
of the Republican. In 1858 he relinquished
this position and purchased the Morning
News, of which journal he was proprietor
nud publisher until the entree of Sherman’s
army into Savannah. After the close of the
war he became the business manager of the
News and Herald, and remained in that
capacity until failing health compelled him
to relinquish its arduous duties, after which
be retired to private life. Mr. Blois’ health
for the past year has been gradually failing,
and it wits evident death was near at hand.
In hope of regaining his health he visited
the North and different portions of the South,
hut all in vain.
llis constitution was too badly shattered,
and although his health failed, lie was
arranging for a trip to Europe, hoping to
recuperate by the voyage. Though his
sufferings were intense, he bore them with
resignation up to the hour of his final
dissolution, and expired yesterday afternoon,
at five minutes before seven o’clock.
Realizing his condition, and aware that
his feeble strength was fast waning away,
Mr. Blois summoned to his bedside quite a
number of his relatives and friends, aud
administered to them in eloquent language
the advice of a dying Christian, and as his
breath faded away, in audible tones ex
claimed, “Never let your love of tlie world
lead you to forget your God.” —Savannah
Republics n, 1 burs day.
Intkiie.stiko Sexatorial Statistics.
Average weight of ihe Senators, 1711 lbs.;
average height, 5 feet 10) inches ; average
chest, 38J inches; m casurement of head,
22 510 inches; average age, 51 years 11
months 14 days. Charles Sumner is the
tallest Senator, height 0 feet 3J inches;
Van Winkle has the lurgest weight, viz.:
234 pounds; Van Winkle has also the
best chest, 43 inches. Van Winkle, Pome
roy and Grimes have the largest heads,
each 29 inches. The six footers and over
are Chandler, Edmunds, Henderson, Howe,
Morgan, Sherman, Stewart, Sumner, Willey
and Williams. The lowest (physically) is
Vickers, 5 feet inches, and he is also the
lightest, 127 pounds. Fessenden has the
smallest chest, 33 inches; Trumbull the
smallest head, 22 inches. The following
Senators are Welsh by past descent: An
thony, Garrett Davis, Morgan, Pomeroy,
Williams (all Welsh). The following have
French blood in them : Sprague, Pomeroy,
Rcverdv Johnson, Buckalew. Those of
pure English stock, are Dixon, Fessenden,
Chief Justice Chase, Wm. Pitt Fessenden,
James W. Grimes, Benjamin F. Butler,
Zachariah Chandler; five of the most
prominent personages of the impeachment
trial are all natives of New Hampshire.
Circus Tent Prostrated A Tragic
Event.— The heavy wind and rain of
Tuesday night proved too much for tho
giant pavilion of the New Orleans Cireus,
and the canvas blew, flapped and strained
in such a manner that the managers
loosened the ropes and drew it down. Un
fortunately the spot selected for the show is
the lowest on the cairpus, and the water
settled around the tent and rendered navi
gation somewhat difficult. The animals
objected seriously to being exposed to the
weather, and testified their disapprobation
by sundry growls, but they were not heeded
until a Brazilian tiger made a dash on an
African leopard in tho same cage and soon
reconstructed tho unfortunate animal. The
tiger was evidently alarmed at the unusual
warring of the elements, and was in such
a stew himself that he made a hash of his
companion.— Charleston News. #
Returxeo—-It it announced that that
pure soul, known in the flesh as Foster
Blodgett, has returned to Augusta. —Macon
Journal.
And thereby proved the Journal scribbler
a wiifnl falsifier.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
fljgV- CONSIGNEES PER CENTRAL
RAILROAD, June 11, IS6S.—O'D & M, CAW
.t Cos, L E 0, J 0 M A Cos, [A], CAR, « K A
B, Barrett C A Cos, J M Clark A Cos, C E Mustin,
A Frederick, T Doris, G Volger, E R Derry A
Cos, C B, J G I! A Bro, J D A Murphy, T
Richards A Son, G A OaOs, E Mustie, J Ben
der, I’ A Mango, J W Rigsby, W II Goodrich,
J J Brown, Adolph Baum, E*M, V A M, Platt
Bros, J Levy, A !\, Jones S A Cos, Elliott A P,
J 8 if- Son, Jennings, Mrs E L Walker, Mrs W
Moore, E O’D, Conley F A Cos, H McLean,
Diana Suuierall.
F«ar- SCRIP DIVIDEND,' NO. 1, OF
THE GEORGIA HOME INSURANCE CO.,
of Columbus, Ga.
Assets Ist of January, 1567 $4t6,250.57
Wo have received ready for delivery the scrip
of Dividend No. 1, amounting to 25 per cont.,
of tho net premiums paid on participating,
annual policies, on policies issuod during the
nine months interval from April Ist to Deo.
31st, 1867. Dividend No. 2 will bo issued
January Ist, ISfitt.
l’orsons to whom Scrip is duo are requested
to call at once and receipt for same.
BALL A CARR, Agents,
je7—lui 221 Broad street, Augusta, Ga.
To Ixeiit,
\ PLEASANT DWELLING OF FOUR
Rooms, on Greene street, near tho 801 l
Tower. Carriago Room, Stable, and good
Water—all for sls per month.
Call at THIS OFFICE,
jell—ts
GREAT BARGAINS
TO BK HAD AT
202 Broad Street,
AIIGU3r.It GA.,
UNTIL THE 10th of JUNE,
Aiul all Goods not sold by that liuio will
BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION.
Those Hi Waul off CIIKAF
Hoots and Shoes!
HAD BETTER
Call in at Once,
AND HUY WHAT THEY WANT,
As tho Stock now ou Hand will bo Closed
Out FOR CASH,
To Make Boom for an Entire
NEW STOCK OF GOODS.
jeS—tf
NEW ADVERtisbJJJJ^
Asiatic Cholera in
almost every car
CI;HED WITH
PA IN KILLER
1 ) KAD THE FOLLOWING i
li Rev. K. Telford.
visiting I,is home in Pc-misj| Tlu Jj| 1 .' li
Meitrr. Perry DacH&lyl' " ,lu *2.ik
Dear Sira-Daring » raid
years as a Missionary in Siam and r? *
your vegetable Pain Kiiler a
remedy for that fearful scourge LSpifi
In administering the medidi- j 7**
effectual to give a tca.poonf.il
Kill of hot witter sweetened wiin“
after about fifteen minute., begin s
spoonfnl ot the same minute
relief was obtained. Apply
the extremities, Bathe tj,
Killer, clear and rub the limbs bririri,
who bad the cholera, and took the
fully in the way stated above,
recovered. W, *'*
I r TgUflU
It an attack with Diarrlicea,
Cramp Colic, don't delay the L
Ktller Sold hy all tuedaiiie dsen
cents, oO cents, and *1 per bottle.
more about the Pain Killer. IconmWi,.
valuable medicine, and always keeo it ™i!?
I have travelled a good deal since fLreWF
Kansas, and never without, taking it JuT J
In my practice I used it freely s ot
Cholera, in 1849, and with better saccea;tl«s
other medicine : I also used it here fortEZ?
1855, with the same good result,
Truly, yours, A. HUNTING, i &
. Swmo.Cmjl
Cholera I * * * I regret to ay hat
cholera lias prevailed here of late to a'a*
extent. For the last three weeks, from
fifty or sixty fatal cases each day has lea.
ported. I should add that the PauiKille- »
recently from the Mission House,
with considerable success during this epidanc
If taken in season is generally cllectna! iaSJ
ing tlie disease,
Ktv. CHARLES UAKDINIG,
Sholapore, India.
(From tlie Portland Monthly]
Summer Complaint and Dysentery.
Bowel complaints seem jus- now to be tie
prevailing element, and any medicine that s
every where acceptable, and ’that ia reliable, in
very desirable acquisition. From what we ban
seen, heard, and experienced, we believe Dari
Pain Killer is this desideratnm. For the b«
method of using it, we quote from the directioa:
. “For common bowel complaints, give one i»
spoonful iu a gill of new milk and molaseg, ii
equal part£, stirred well together; lessen the dot
for children, according to the age. If the pain be
severe, bathe the bowels aud back with the nedi
cine. This mode of treatment is good in cases of
the cholera morbus, sndden stoppages, etc. Re
peat the dose every hour.
“The quickest way I ever saw the dysentery
cured was by taking one spoonful*of the Pw
Killer iu one* gill of milk ami molasses shrad
■well together aud drank hot, at the same hoi
bathing the bowels freely with medicine. Let
the dose be repeated every hoar until the patient
is relieved.*’
If every persou wiio has reason wfeartw
disease would provide themselves with a bottle
of this medicine, and use as occasion required, f*
believe a great amount of suffering andeckn*
would be saved. jel*2—2a
fX~THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
JL United States for the Southern Districtcf
Georgia.
In the matter of ) I-'* BAXKROTTCI*
THOMAS R. HIKES, \
Bankrupt. j .
The rani Bankrupt having petitioned u» MB
for a discharge from all his debts provablenwi
the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, nonce a
hereby given to all persons interested to appeu
on the 23 day of July. 1868, at Id o’c™
at Chambers of said District Coart belort A.a.
Foster, Esq., one of the Registers of ad W
in ‘Bankruptcy, at his cilice at No.
Block, third floor, Room Xo. t>, Jaekeon ftwt
Augusta, Georgia, and shew cause "V*
praver of tlie said petition ol the Bankrupt s&o*
not'be granted. And further noticeis giv®**
the second and third meetings of creditors win*
held at the same time aud place.
Witness, the Honorable John trsrae,
[seal] Judge of said Court at tun*
L Georgia, tins 9th day of June, •»
JAMES MCPHERSON,
jel2—law3w
TN TilE DISTRICT COURT OF W
I United States, for tho Northern Distntl*
Ge T a ,ho mattered lIN BANEECPICT.
AMOSC. VANEPPS, j-
The said Bankrupt having petitioned tteCs*
for a discharge from sll his debM P
the Bankrupt Act ot March , ..Uwua
hereby given to all persons mtercswd •gWjj,
lire 29th day of June, 18to. sllM**-*
forenoon, at chambers of the slid mjegn
before Lawson Black, Esq., cue of the S"|
of the said Court in Bankrarttff * “f “ J
office, in the city ot Atlanta, be |“h.
cause why ihe prayer of the sad I*, ,
Bankrupt sh uld not be grant**.
notice is hereby given that ! ' (11l aael®
meetings of creditors will be lit Id at
[seal.| Judge of said Didrict
Is; day of June, >»• n&
"• b ClerE
jel2—law-', w
TN THE DISTRICT COlWt
1 United states for the Noiiaern
Georgia.
in the matter of ) . .vggpPftl'
JOHN 11. MEAD, |IN
Bankrupt. J Theno***?!
To all whom it may concern - > .„ Af
hereby gives notice of his jn ikj
signee of John H. Me:m, and.
county of DeKalb, State ol u •. K ' krn pj gft
District, who has been adjnds^ 1 of
his own petition by «hj ™
District. h Ass**
jel2—law2t
■ ■ .xEI fSI
TN THE DISTRICT COW
1 United States for the Northern
Georgia. v
In the matter of j R i vfcBUD* 1
MARY A. SANDS, liA ‘
Bankrupt , ’ .
Tho undersigned hereby P « ' 0 j W
appointment as Assignee °* n r BartoV.JJ
A l . Sands, of Kingston, comg f
of Georgia, within said (
adjudged a Bankrupt up°>' .
the District Court of said P' st (! C y O yVL£R>
MiA* l Asste**
jeftl—law3w _
Sale of Land in Burke
'II7ILL BE SOLD, AT TUB
YV door in the town ot , ’’ v c loek »■ »'K
couutv, Georgia, between vijjgT Tl®wi(
three o’clock p- »>.. o 'i
IN JULY next, at pnMw®'so
lion. A. G Foster, Register . in
certain tract of Land, situate
couut v of llnrke, containing the eSl4 |Li
more 3 or less, adjoining
John U. Poy ill rose. deeeu**l ot h«rt>s
estate of Alexander BerutielJ. Tho®#,
tract conveyed to linn l ’V liousWif^J*
Cullen, less fifty acres, B*»WJ
and surveyed for Joseph D- of (b#
Sold free from encumbrances, f o reau<b*®*
said Joseph D. Perry, by o nlj cajh- ..
the estate of said
jell—d&wtd ' ”*
At the Lowest Terms and >» '’
Come and see <w'“i ,le9 ’