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rA RAG RAMS.
—Yesterday, in New York, Gold »u
quoted at 1.391. Cotton, 29J.
—lion. Roverdy Johnson has been con
firmed as Minister to the Court of St. James.
—The cotton receipts »t Norfolk, from
October 1, 1867, to June 1, 1868, amounted
to 141,398 bales.
There is great excitement in Bath
county, Virginia, on account of lha recent
discovery of raluablo silrer mines there.
—The largest Roman Catholic Cathedral
in tho United States is about to be erected
in Brooklyn, N. T. It is expected to cost
#1,200,000.
—New York has two hundred thousand
tons of ice more than last year. Iho cost ol
the whole amount in store is OTer three mil
lion dollars.
—The level of Lake Michigan lately
rose four feet in fire minutes at Hacine,
and in five minutes more it had sunk six
feet. No cause is assigned for the strange
phenomenon.
—Two silver dollars of the coinage of 1804
were lately sold at Newark, N. J.—one ol
them f>r $l5O, and the-other for the enor
mous sum of #8,641. There were only five
dollars coined that year.
—lntelligence from Japan was telegraphed,
from England, a few days ago, svhich was
eighteen days earlier than the news which
the papers of this country had received sev
eral days before by way of San Francisco.
-Dr. Jacob Bigelow remarked at the
dinner of the Massachusetts Medical Society,
that he was indebted for his good health to
the joint agencies of temperance, hard work,
and nbseuce from medicine.
—The tide of emigration has already
begun to pour West, and the western frontier
counties of Minnesota are rapidly filling up.
One day last week eight teams in one train
passed through Preston, and others arc
passing through daily.
The eitixens of Gloucester, Mass., have
voted unauiuiously not to license the sale ot
distilled or fermented liquors, to be drunk on
tho premises. One hundred and five
ballots were cast against distilled, and one
hundred and two against fermented liquors.
—The new Constitution of Florida is said
to have been modelled after the Constitution
of New York, and particularly in the clauses
providing for the adoption of amendments by
two successive Legislatures, and their subse
quent ratification by the people.
—A convention of delegates is to meet at
Bristol, Tennessee, on the loth day of July,
tor the purpose of inaugurating the Ten
nessee and Virginia Steamship Transporta
tion Company, to establish a line of steamers
between Norfolk ami Liverpool. England.
A codfish weigbingforty pom ds recently
fell a victim to his own gluttony, at Little
Harbor, N. Q. He got into a weir, and was
helping himself to the small fry, when he
was left high and dry by the tide. When
onened. thirty-three fish were found in his
stomach, none of them do- omposed.
—A man named Edward Perry was left
upon one of the islands of Lake Superior
last fall to attend to the light house.
Winter set in and no vessel could ie,ach
the island. A few days ago his dead body
was found in the light house. The poor
man uad starved to death.
There is living in New Haven an obi
soldier of Napoicon I, who fought all through
the campaigns of the Empire, including
Waterloo. This vetoran, who bears the name
of Bertrand, is now in hit eightieth year,
and, with his wife, of the same age as him
self, is dependent upon the kindness of
friends for his support.
—The doctors of Chicago have
examining tiiat precocious Cincinnairpersr 1 *
of three years who has all
of a full grown woman. T M ,.,-e tik*t
it is wonderful, and wi*l send the child
woman over to Europe *°r the delectation
of the medical savan*-
yj r _ p, \\\ Ctate«, of Chicago, during
the past ve«*> has given twelve hundred
emu.- for the erection and furnishing of the
Woman’s Home in that city ; and there has
been expended by other citizens of Chicago
ou the U'.me over fifteen thousand dollars.
The design is to furoish a home for a
worthy class of women who receive sural!
wages.
—Peanuts in North Carolina, where they
are chiefly raised, have almost taken the
place of cotton as the great staple, and
bring their cultivators annually SIOO per
acre. Eight thousand bushels on a single
plantation is considered but an average
crop, while from ten to sixteen thousand
bushels is not regarded as a very extra
ordinary yield.
—Horace Greeley said at a Grant ratifk-a
tion meeting at New Y’ork, a few nights
since, that Colfax was the first person ever
nominated for President or Vice President
who was born in that city, and that he had
known him tor a long tint--, and recollected
helping him to mount a barrel when he was
only nineteen years of age, that he might
speak for Henry Cloy, in front of the old
National Hall.
—1 he light spr.ng dress goods which the
ladies are displaying so profusely upon the
streets, cost but a sixpence a vard in
Europe, and are made mostly of’ cotton,
with just enough wool to alter the com
pliction. After they have passed through
the United States customhouse they ure
worth thirty five cents a yard; hut'when
they are sold at retail the ladies pay fifty
cents a yard for them.
A few weeks since the trustees of Wil
liam and Mary College received from Eng.
hud a remittance of some SB,OOO, the
secnn-.ulaird proceeds of a legacy left them
for the college in 1742, by an English lady
hy the name of Margaret Whaley. The
original legacy was £.>o sterling, to be
!• j.plied bv the executors of the Whaley
estate to William and Mary College, and has
Into hitherto unknown or forgotten, until
accidentally discovered by a lawyer in
searching over some old papers.
On the 14th of M.<v, the Electoral Col
lege* of Peru were still casting their votes
for President, being so far almost unanimous
for Balta. The strong probability of war
lietween Cbiii and Peru v», exciting some
attention and apprehension. The vellow
fever was on the increase, the deaths' aver
aging two hundred and fifty a day. Among
the recent victims were Captain Blakelev
inventor of the Blakeley gun, and Bigniir
Fort ana, the baritone opera singer. It is no
secret that a conspirac y is on f.iot to reinstate
Prado.
—Some time since our copperhead cotem
porariea were greatly distressed that Mr.
Stanton should bold on to the Wnr Office
when the President proposed to turu him
out. Now would it not be fair for the jour
nals that were so greatly pained by Mr.
Stanton - * persistenee to advocate the Presi
dent's resignation on the same grounds 7
The will of the people that elected Mr.
Johnson has been expressed through a large
majority in the Senate, pronouncing him
guilty of high crimes aud misdemeanors iu
office, and declaring that he should be
removed. If the Democratic principles are
sound, he ought to resign at once.— X. }'
Tribune.
National Uepnblican
AlKtintTA, It A.
SATURDAY MORNING, Jane 13, I8«8
For PRESIDENT
Os tjib United States:
HiVSSKS S. GRANT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Summit Colfax,
or INDIANA*
rbffdlifax platiohm.
The National Republican party of tho UnH*i SUtW,
assembled In National Convention, In the city of
cago, on the ftQtti day of May, 1818, make the following
Declaration of Principles :
lat. We congratulate tho country on the assured she
ets* of the reconstruction policy of Congress, as
evinced by the adoption. In a majority of the State*
lately in rebellion, of Constitution* securing equal civil
and political rights to all. and regard it as the duty of
the Government to sustain those institutions, and to
prevent the people of such States from being remitted
to a state of anarchy.
3d. 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 alt the loyal States properly belongs to the people of
those States. , „ .
3d. Wt denounce all forms of repudiation ns a na
tional crime, and the national honor requires the pay
ment of the public indebtedness, in the utmost good
faith, to all creditors, at home ami abroad, not only
according to the letter, but the spirit of the laws
under which it was contracted.
4th. It is due to the labor of ilie nation that taxation
should be equalised and reduced as rapidly ns the na
tional faith will permit.
sth. The national debt, contracted, as it has been, for
the preservation of the Union for nil 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, w henever it can honestly be done.
tUh. That the best policy to diminish our bunion of
debt is to so Improve our credit that capitalists will seek
to loan us money at lower rates of interest than w e now
pay. ami 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 and
fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for ndl:a! re
form.
Bth. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, aud 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; lias used his high office to induce other
officers to Iguore and violate the laws; lias employed
his executive powers to render insecure the property,
peace, liberty and life of the citisen; has abused the
pardoning pow er; has denounced the National legisla
ture 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 an
engine of wholesale corruption; and has been justly
impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and
properly prononneed guilty thereof by the vote of
thirty-five Senators.
Ihh. 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
ised by the law of nations, and at w ar with our national
honor and independence. Naturalised citizens are enti
tled to be pi otected in all their rights of citizeuship as
though they were natural bom. 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 soarrested
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 and orphans of the gallant dead are the wards of
the people, a sacred legacy bequeathed to the nation’s
protecting care.
11 tli. 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. Tills Convention declares its sympathy with all
the oppressed people which are struggling for their
rights.
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The Democracy arc in trouble. They
fight against getting used to defeat. The
action of the recent Republican Conven
tion, its harmony, its sound, just, and
comprehensive platform and popular
nominees, have convinced the wiser among
the Democratic leaders that it is a forlorn
hope upon which they enter in the coming
campaign. They desire to avoid an issue
upon the righteousness ot the late war on
the part of the Government; upon the
abolition of slavery: upon the honest
payment of the national debt, and upon
the just reconstruction of the Southern
States. And yet (us has been well re
marked by the Providence /Ve*») every
leading Delnocrnt, from Johnson to Doo
little, from Vallandiglinm to Seymour,
and from Pendleton to Franklin Pierce,
have a record which, to face in a popular
election, would l>c equal to storming a
battery of grape and canister.
Not a lending man in the party is
available. Andrew Johnson the party
can not take, although they support him
for the patronage lie may be able to
bestow to further their ends. lie would be
a millstone about the neck of the party
which would bury it in oblivion without
shadow of hope of resurrection.
In this strait, a few of the more sensible
look to a complete and fundamental revo
lution of the party, as its only means of
safety as an organization. They have
talked about Sai.mox P. Chase as their
candidate. They have felt the pulse of
the party. They have sought to bring the
party to a position on the subject of slavery
and kindred questions in advance of the
Republican party, and, stealing its pro
gressive thunder, go to the country on
principles more in accordance with the
spirit of Democracy, and less in harmony
with the decayed and fogy platforms which
have forced the Democratic party into de
feat. They know the incorruptibility of
Chief Justice Cii ask on the great issues of
liberty and equality against slavery and
aristocracy ; and if the party summersault
could be made, if the unterritied Democ
racy could be brought to change front and
take the most obnoxious pill ever offered
to a sick patient, and if Chief Justice
Chase would take their nomination and
run as their candidate, they flatter them
selves that a little hope would dawn upon
their prospects.
There are too many “ifs” in the way.
The Democracy may be struck with light
ning “individually and collectively,'’ by a
shaft, because such a thing is possible : so
may the Democracy get down upon their
knees and cat the dirtiest kind of dirt for
success; may nominate Chief Justice
Chase because it is jtomble, but neither
are within the range of ordinary proba
bility. The Chief Justice wuy accept a
nomination at their hands upon a doubtful
or precise platform, but lie also may be
struck with lightning.
We regret that the position of the emi
>,fnt «tot<uu»on makes it imnropcr for hint
to announce authoritatively his real optn
ions of all this twaddling rumor which is
afloat.
HE COXS Til UC TI ox.
In the House of Representatives, yi-tor
day, the “Omnibus bill -1 was passed—by a
vote of one hundred and eleven to twenty
eight. It now goes to the President forliis
signature. Will he withhold it ! We
think not.
Ini: Tk.oiim.kils. Senator Doolittle
(who lias in v r done much), in a recent
speech against the admission of Alabama,
under her loyal State officers elect, asserted,
on behalf of the di-unionists of that section,
that “they will trample the reconstruction
acts of Congress Under their feet, - ’ and the
Washington Chronicle thinks that in this
defiant language more is meant than meets
the ear, for Mr. Doolittle is a recognized
leader of tho Democratic party and a trusted
counsellor of the recreant President of th •
United States. Mr. !>., and those bo so
unworthily represents in iiis bellicose speech,
may be assured that his language is most
untimely, as it comes a “little 100 late or
much too earlv. - ’ To consummate this
“trampling” of the laws of the land “under
their fee'” wilt require, first, that the loyal
millions of the country shall forget the
horrors of the rebellion, and secondly, that
the patty of which Mr. Doolittle is the
exponent should triumph throughout this
broad laud. Well may the Chronicle assure
tho sensational expounder of the “tramp
ling” system that if this nation is ever
doomed again to tread the wine press of
domestic war, it will crush the last seed of
rebellion out of the republic. The tram p
lers will be trampled.
Judge Chase.—ln another column will
be found the report of a recent interview
la-tween Judge Cham; and a colored
Republican of North Carolina. The
frank and manly avowal of the Chief
Justice is what might have been expected
of him; and had he been talking to a
Democrat, instead of a black man, he
would probably have added some other
things—such as his views respecting
State rights, the elevation of the cur
rency to the same value as gold, the
independence of the Judiciary and of the
Executive—which would have shown
them that there is very little difference
between his principles end those of the
Democracy.
“Axyboiiv.” Tlie democracy just now
arc in the search of a candidate in very
much the condition of the matrimonially
inclined old maid in the story. She had
gone into the woods to pray that Provi
dence would supply her with a husband.
In her fervor she heard a response : “who
She proceeded with her supplications, and
again the answer; “to who?” With in
creasing warmth, she went on, and from
the tree, a third time, came the query: “to
who?*' Confident now that her prayer was
beard, she cried: “anybody, oh Lord!”
Ami the owl flew away, and left the old
maid in the situation in which the de
mocracy continue to day. •
[Communicated.
Charleston, Juno 11,1808.
Rain, rain, rain—a kingdom for a cloud
less day! To the ilisjoiJforts of not a few
persons, a severe rain storm has prevailed
for several days. No change, however, is
wrought in the fixed situation hereabout’
From morn till eve, you hear tho saino
lumbering carto and other vehicles, and
the usual refrain from men, women, and
boys: “Snap beans,’titers, cabbage, mul
let,” etc.
What between the Circus and a recently
captured (so called) devil fish, lovers of
amusement and the curious have had
enough to engage their attention for a few
days. But the devil fish was a delusion.
Examination proved it to belong to the
“clam cracking” species. This stranger
has a bird-like head ; a mouth bony struc.
tured ; lie measured five feet two inohes
from wing to wing, and four feet from nose
to tail.
The burnt district having been nearly
fenced in, does not present such a desolate
appearance as before.
The pavements on tho principal streets
have been greatly improved. A citizen of
this place discovered the idea of paving
the public walks with a composition very
similar to mastic roofing. The ingredients
are, I believe, tar, gravel, and cement-
The composition makes a very fine pave
ment indeed. The authorities of Augusta
would net wisely if they would adopt it.
It must he cheap ; it certainly is durable.
Quis.
Novelty. —lt will be a novel sight to
see that party, the members of which have
bawled themselves hoarse in their contin
uous and incessant shoutings, “This is a
irhite hum's gorernmtnt” turning square
round and in the National Convention
which meets in New York on July 4th,
resolve that universal suffrage must hence
forth be a plank in their platform. There
is no end to marvels, but this must cap the
climax of all marvelous deeds.
Thk Whiskey Tax. —We trust that Con
gress will reduce the whiskey tax to 20
cents, if not below that figure. It is hardly
possible that the hill, as reported hy Mr.
Selicuck, can, under existing circumstances,
pass the House ; at least, we trust it will not.
Congress has a good work before it, and it
should go straight forward to consummate
the overthrow of the whiskey ring. Public
safety, the welfare of the government, and
the purity of elections, demand this.
PR OS Cl! IPTION I. Y THE PAST—
OUR DUTY IX THE FUTURE.
Wc clip the following item from an
exchange:
‘ The Mobile Tribune claims it has done
more titan any other paper in that vicinity
to ‘make radicalism odious.’ It says that
no declared Radical can carry on business
in Mobile, or associate with gentlemen, and
proudly boasts that it has brought about
this state of things."
Wo have no doubt the statement is
entirely true.
But there is a lesson hero for us all.
Radicalism made odious means that no
Republican shall he permitted to associate
with gentlemen; that he shall not be
allowed to carry on business ; and that his
family is to be excluded from genteel
society.
Radicals in Mobile arc kept out of busi
iieis. How ? Why, all trade is taken
from them ; they arc undersold, and
cheated in Court and out of Court, with no
hope of redress, and as a last resort, tbe
torch of the incendiary finishes the work ;
aud thus r.o Radical is permitted to carry
on business in Mobile.
Tin: victim of this barbarous treatment is
as good a man as any of his enemies : lie
is honest, sober, industrious and charitable,
but be is a Radical, and that is euough to
render him odious, an outlaw, and an out
cast.
We have heard that the excommunica
tion of Emperors, by the l’ope, has made
them so miserable that they travelled to
Rome and humiliated themselves before
their Holy Father. We have been told
that private citizens thus excommunicated,
found comfort only in death. We have been
told that Puritanic persecution drove Roger
Williams into the wilderness of Rhode
I-land, and that Episcopal intolerance made
dissenters odious in colonial Virginia ; that
in many eves men have been made odious
for opinion’s sake, and persecuted to death ;
but in an enlightened ag-' like this we have
been taught to believe that such warfare
against humanity is only practiced by
barbarous nations and savage men. In
deed, there arc white barbarians in the
South, as savage and cruel as the uncivil
ized negro of Africa or the tawny native of
America.
The Southern heart is tired with the
flames of he’d. Men are murdered for being
Radicals, who never injured a human being,
and whose only offence is freedom of
thought. They are driven out of genteel
society, the tongue of slander pursues them
to retirement, and sp ires not the wife or
daughter. he bullet of the assassin and
the torch of the incendiary are ever ready
for them and their property. They are made
aliens in the land of their birth, and so far
as the powei of their enemies goes, life is
rendered miserable.
With us in North Carolina this proserip
tion will soon be a thing of the past. Rut
we can never forget or forgive.
It is our duty hereafter to reward friends,
and give enemies nothing —not one stiver
more than the law allows or God commands;
to build up a society amongst ourselves,
which shall proscribe no one, but which
shall not admit traitors or barbarians until
they repent and become civilized ; to give
our countenance in business and every pecu
niary favor to friends, and leave our enemies
win re they have placed themselves.
This course has been forced upon us. As
long as the sun shines and rebels pursue the
same course, we have only this alternative
left. We have seen darker days than we
shall ever see again, and avo can maintain
ourselves without their assistance hereafter,
as we have been obliged to do heretofore.
We do not complain ot political proscrip
tion. To the victor belongs the spoil*. Hut
when the oSices passed fiom our hands, hate
and vengeance pursued us into private life,
and into every business relation. And this
was done because AVe were logul. It wits a
bitter cup to drink, but we have drained it to
the dregs, and there is nothing left now tor
any one. We might say to our enemies that
wicked inventions return to plague the
inventor; we might commend their poisoned
chalice to their own lips, but the Ilepublican
party is above such im liable meanness, ami
it has too bitterly learned to scorn such prac
tices, in m.m or woman, to imitate them
now. All we intend to do is to sustain our
selves against every foe, auJ resort to their
weapons only when obliged to in self defence.
The devil, like other spirits damned, is afraid
of fire. Raleigh Standard,
[From tbs Syracuse Journal.
MR. CHASE AND THE PRESIDENCY.
Washixutom, June, 1868.
Reference has quite often been made of
late to the advice given by the Chicl Justice
to leading colored men from the South.
James 11. Harris, of North Carolina, is
well known as one of the ablest and most
active Republicans in the South.
On Thursday last, after his return from
Chicago, be called upon the Chief Justice.
Like other leading men of his race, he had
consulted with Mr. Chase. Several intima
tions had been given him of the surprise the
Chief Justice felt because he had not cnlled
ns usual. Soon after the ordinary civilities
were exchanged, Mr. Chase began to talk on
politics by asking hour they felt down South.
Mr. Harris replied, “that many of the
Republicans were feeling rather bud, nnd
that they were uncertain of the future, espe
cially since the failure of impeachment.”
“How is that?” asked Mr. Chase.
"I shall speak frankly to you,” replied
Mr. Harris, “if you will allow me, Mr. Chief
Justice. The truth is, that we not only
fear the effect of impeachment, but we fear
much more divisions among our friends. We
are told, Mr. Chase, that you yourself are
engaged in a movement for the organization
of a third party. We have always felt the
highest regard for you, mid there was a
time when we hn i hoped to see you the Re
publican candidate. We saw no other party
out that, and cannot now.’’
Mr. Chase replied very emphatically that
he “never had any thought of organizing a
third party movement; had never been
consulted thereon, and would not consent to
run on one.”
Harris then told him that there was a
great deal of talk about his being a Demo
cratic candidate, on a platform o! universal
amnesty and universal suffrage.
In substance Mr. Chase replied that he
had always been an anti-slavery man and
always expected to be ; that he never had
gone down to any man or party. In 1818,
in Ohio, neither of the great parties could
elect a Senator without the aid of the Lib
erty party. The Democrats made a proposi
tion to its members, and agreed for their
support to repeal the black laws and elect a
Free Soilcr to the United States Senate. He
was himself elected on that coalition, aud
the bill repealing the bluek laws passed as
he had himself drafted it. He had not gone
down to them—they had come ap to him. If
his friends placed him in a similar position
now, he was in their hands.
He also said that as was stated, he had
always been opposed to impeachment, con
sidering it wrong and ill-advised, whether in
principle or policy. For this he had been
grossly abused. Alluding to reports in news
papers, he stated that he had not been in the
White House for many months.
In response to a fear expressed by Mr.
Harris that the division in the Senate might
prevent tho Southern States being admitted
to representation, if the President vetoed
the bill, the Chief Justice was emphatic in
assuring the North Carolinian that, in his
opinion, the President would not veto any
such bill. He then passed on to a defence
of Mr. Johnson, declaring that he could not
be charged with opposing the Reconstruction
laws, and asked Mr. Harris if good com
manders had not been selected ? The latter
referred to Hancock, to which the Chief
Justice said lie thought the General did
wrong at New Orleans.
Senator Iloss catno in while Harris was
present, and an introduction took place, the
Chief Justice presenting him as a man who
refused a unanimous nomination to Congress.
Harris said, in doing so, he had only the
good of his race in view. Ross said that he
had heard of him, and should have been
glad to have seen him on the floor of the
House. Ho further remarked that this was
meant seriously, though he was charged
witn being a renegade to pwitj i>n4 freedom,
and that it would yet be found who was the
true man.
MONEY AND MURDER.
Up to about the commencement of the
late rebellion, there lived in New Orleans
a woman of bad reputation, who main
tained one of those glittering palaces of
pros'itution so common in all large cities,
and whose place was visited by men of all
classes of society, but trorc especially
those of affluence. The house alluded to
was frequented by men of position, rank,
aad fortune, and the woman was the kept
mistress of a man who was quite wealthy,
lie was reputed to he worth at least
8100,000, most of which was iti real es’ate,
and his wealth was used in “keeping up
appearances" in the mansion of which we
speak. The woman was one who, from all
appearances, “accepted the situation’’ not
from necessity but choice. She saw in the
future enjoyment only in the possession of
gold. She was a woman of middle age,
not very handsome, but what is termed as
“good ] •<.k- lg.” Her disposition was
rather quiet than otherwise, and, all in all,
she was a woman who might by pure
sophistry win the admiration of any fool
who did not have any better sense than to
part with his money and give it to such a
person. Like his mistress, he revelled in
luxuries, and, it is supposed, was finally
induced to give his entire wealth to the
object of his affections. Ceriaia it is,
however, it was given to some one, and
after that he became a nobody in tho
estimation of her who had secured her
object.
Just before the breaking out es the war
the man died suddenly. Ilis death was
thought to have been brought about by
violent means ; yet to save his friends from
that disgrace which would certainly follow
a judicial investigation, nothing was said
or done concerning the matter. After
death, the man’s friends sought after his
property, and were severely disappointed
to find that he had none ; or if he had had
any, it had been converted into money,
hut hy whom none could tell. A private
investigation was ordered hut before its
conclusion the rebellion broke out and put
a temporary veto upon the thing, and the
matter was suffered to lie over until peace
should be restored and further efforts to
sift the mystery could svith safety be under
taken. The war bill fair to be of long
duration, and all business arrangements
Avere lost in vicav of the excitement of the
hour. The woman referred to took advan
tage of the occasion ta come North, and, it
appears, went to a prominent city in one of
the extreme Northern States, where she
plied her old vocation, and opened one of
the most magnificent places for the resort
of the lewd characters in the country.
Under an assumed name, she was enabled
to pass unrecognized ; in fact there were
few persons avlio ever visited that extreme
Northern section of the country from New
Orleans, and under the circumstances she
had little difficulty in maintaining a se
cluded position.
In this place she remained until after the
war closed, when she removed to Detroit,
and, it is said, purchased a residence on one
ol the principal street*, at a cost of consid
erably over s.'>o,ooo, and she has since re
ntained there. After the close of the war.
the relatives and friends ol the deceased
renewed their investigations into matters
pertaining to his death, ami they not only
came to the conclusion that he had been
murdered, but that his mistress had first ob
tained possession of his property, and had
then been chiefly instrumental in putting
him out ol the way. An experienced detec
tive recently tracked the woman to Detroit,
and has communicated his discoveries to the
New Orleans authorities. We understand
that n complaint for murder will be made
out against the woman, mid wo are informed
the proof is not Avanting to establish the
charge.
EXPOSURE OF A MALIGNANT
SLANDER.
Washi.notox, May 28, 1868.
To the Editor oj the South Haul Register:
The Democratic paper of our city copies
from the Indianapolis Sentinel an article
signed “N. M. Moore,” asserting that, as a
soldier, he called on me in the winter of
1862, and that the following then occurred :
A finely dressed gentleman came imme
diately behind me; a colored boy met us
in the reception room. He asked us for our
cards; the citizen laid his upon the silver
waiter. I informed him I had none. He
then left the room. In a few minutes Mr.
Colfax made his uppeurauce. He spoke in
a very affable way to the citizen gentle
man, not deigning to notice me. In a short
time the gentleman left, and Mr. Colfax
turned short around, and in no very
,amiable way said: “ Well, what will you
have?” I then, in cs few words as possible,
explained the object of my visit. In reply,
he said lie had no time to fool away with
soldiers.
The whole story is utterly false, and if its
author swears to it, as he says be is willing
to do, he will swear to a wicked and malig
nant falsehood. I do not kuow any such
man. I never had a silver card waiter in
my life. I never used such language as he
alleges to any human being who called on
me —man, woman, citizen, or soldier. Nor
is there a single fair or just man at my home,
of any party (I do not include in this the
editor of the Union), who believes that I
could, or would, reply to any soldier who
called upon me that “I had no time to fool
away with soldiers.” Many Indiana soldiers
know that, at that very time, I was spending
one day each week in visiting soldiers at the
hospitals, and, in addition thereto, attending
to their business at the departments. It is
shameful that political opposition should
induce th° manufacture and publication of
such vile fabrications.
Schuyler Colfax.
11 OX. E. STARNES.
In the Supreme Court of Georgia, June
term, 1808. the following proceedings wc-re
had:
The committee appointed to prepare a
minute on the death of lion. Ebenezer
Starnes, submitted the following report:
Again we are called to note the passing
away of a brother and a friend. Since the
last term, the Hon. Ebenezer Starnes, of
Augusta, formerly a Judge of this Court, has
been taken from us. It is fitting that a
memento of his virtues, and a mark of the
respect in which he was held by his brethren
ot the Bench and Bar, should be recorded
here.
The deceased was still in the prime of
life and in the midst of a large and labo
rious practice when the summons came.
Ilis death was sudden, and its announce
ment fell with a shock on the public ear,
without even a note of warning, or a
moment’s preparation to hear it. In the
community where he lived no man was
more respected, or commanded a larger
share of their trust and confidence. He
had lived in the same city from youth up.
Beginning life with no peculiar advantages
of fortune or family connections, and not
gifted with those brilliant qualities that
strike and dazzle the public eye, his rise
in life was steady, regular, and due to
patient industry, perseverance, and un
swerving integrity.
He became Attorney Genera! of his Cir
cuit, then Judge of the Superior Court, then
Judge of the Supreme Court: and in every
station acquitted himseit with credit and
honor, adding to bis daily increasing repu
tation, and heie.g more nnd more appreciated
by the people of his State. For the last
thirteen years of his life he filled no office,
but devoted himself to a heavy and lucrative
practice at the bar. But his professional
engagements, absorbing ns they were: did
not cool his pitriot-m, or prevent his active
participation in every good work. During
the late civil war ho was the head and soui
of that most useful and beneficent institution,
the Georgia Relict Association, and many a
suffering soldier felt the effects of his un
wearied efforts in its behalf. At the time of
his death he was engaged, wish zeal and
energy, in the duty assigned to him by the
bar of the State, of raising a monument to
the late eminent and beloved Chief Justice.
Activity, assiduity, and zealous effort
marked his movements iu every position in
which he was placed. Asa lawyer he was
faithful, laborious, able, and eminently suc
cessful. Asa Judge, he was patient, inves
tigating. impartial, and a lover of justice.
His written opinions in the Georgia
Reports are the monuments of his high
qualities as a judge. His demeanor at the
bar was that of the high toned gentleman.
No man was further from any approach to
littleness. For trickery and finesse he had
an abiding contempt and aversion. Truth
and candor were conspicuous in all his
dealings. His life and success offer to our
young brethren a bright and useful ex
ample ; for, what he was, they can make
themselves, by the use of the same means,
industry, patience, integrity and honor.
We submit the following resolutions:
Resolved, That we have heart! with deep
regret of the sudden and untimely death of
Hon. Ebenezer Starnes, formerly Judge of!
this Court; that we sympathize with his j
family and friends in their bereavement: and j
that, in testimony of our respect for his high i
qualities of mind and heart, that the Court !
be requested to order that the foregoing j
preamble and resolution be entered on the I
minutes of the Court.
Resolved, That the Clerk be requested to
cause these proceedings to he published in
the papers ol this city and of Augusta, and
that a copy of the same be sent to the larnily
of the deceased.
W. T. Hull,
\X. T. Gocld,
G. T. Barxes,
Committee.
Shall tub Democracy Bid eor the
Negro Vote? —The New York World, in
reviewing the political situation, stys:
“The only odcu question is, what course
the Democratic party shall pursue with refer
ence to this fact ? Shall we attempt, in the
face of these disadvantages, to carry the
Southern States, or shall we give them up as
hopeless? If we make any serious attempt
to carry them, we must divide the negro
vote : and the most effective method of doing
that is a problem which demands our most
earnest consideration.”
That question is tinder serious considera
tion. It is no joke. The World and Gov.
Seymour seeking to “divide the negro vote
Avill be a new and thrilling event in our
politics.
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U. S. MARSHAL s OFFICE, ) I
Atlanta, oa. jj ! I
rplllS IS TO GIVE NOTICE TV,, 1 I
1 10th day of Jane. A D ft* •'M
tate" of* BaUkrnptCy
f k v ILLIAiI CII END KICKS
of liome, m the county of Fiovd I
of Georgia, who has been .Bi.lL.****>
ropt on Ins own petition ; tut the
debts, anil delivery of any i, r --i-rtr’lieU I
said bankrupt, to him or
fer of any property by him. are forbidlenth!'
that a meeting of the creditors of said fiSI
to prove their debts, aud to choose <JT2j
assignees of his estate, will he held»U
Bankruptcy to be holder, at tbe Wv
office, in the Lotted Stater Hotel, AtWfil’
gia, before I.awj>u Black. Itcgister iooe
day ot June, A. L), 1868. at 10 o'clock » ,
CHARLES H. ELtla
.lelJ—lt t, S. Pep Marshal as Meaaw,
IN bankruptcy?"
U. s. MARSHAL S OFFICE. )
Atlanta. Ga., June 11 18og
THIS «TO GIVE NOTICE: That u- j
X ftlth day of Jane. A. D.. 1868 aWe
i :4,l t i" Bankruptcy was issued a<ai*t the »
tate of
ALBERT M RIXEY,
of Rome, in the conntv of Fiovd and Su,
0 f Georgia,who has beeu adjudged Baakrmtotis
own petitiomand that the payment ofanv iluisj
delivery of any property belonging toaidßak
rupt, to him or for his use, and tbe transfer of m
property by him. are forbidden hr law thsi
meeting of tire creditors of said 'BanW. *
prove their debts, and to choose one onson
assignees of his estate, will to held at i Cobsg
Bankruptcy, to he lioldea at the Kegisersofee
in the United States Hotel. Atlanta, Georgia
lieforp Lawson Black. Reghter. on the Sts |»
of June, A. D. 1868. at 10 o'clock a. tn
CHARLES H. ELTEA,
mylJ-lt t. S. Dep. Marsha; - Messenger.
Asiatic Oitol tau China,
ALMOST EVERY CASE
CURED WITH
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Xi. Uev. K. Tci; Mi—: :.,try h Chim. sot
visiting iiir-: • i . K-.-
Washington. Pa.. Jane 25,1386.
Mtssr.i. I\ y lhin< tl* .V .-r ie%ct.R.L
Dear Sirs -Dariak' . r -: :rr 'r of !«k iea
years as a M>>i :i irv in s - i CLer. I
your venerable Pain K be: .»
removiy for that fearfal sc ctvr. Cholera.
In administering the l-sc:- :. - I foscuiiaoa
effect»ial dve a te.-.s- v.:'- : Pain
krill of ho; w.-ittr wr.~ silta: ika.
after ah nit tifreen Liinrr-.'. I- iire aabie*
spooafa! ot the same - v r 'y nintite
relief was ohrahie-l. A;; !y ap-t)ba:»a*»
the cxtri-ruiti-s lhu.hv ;.* wiia Fsa
Killer, ilear a.-nt rub the limb' lnskly._ OtuN*
who had the cholera, n;. * *• .r
fully ill tiie w;-y s-a*fi a- v*_. nzh: est ot ttt
recovered. »ar«. trily.
R TELFORD.
I? an attack with ce. or
Cramp C die. den : delay ase e: *•*?
Killer. *o!«i ny a l meiiALc driers.
cents, dl cents, and $1 per Lottie.
11aNHxrrvx. Kvxsu. April!'•
Gentlemen— * * * I want t» sty
more al>nut the Pair. K: hr. I cyaaJerit
raluolie medic* m\ aud always ■’ : n
I have travelled ac ed dea. sr. ' 1 1 Live -_•*
Kansas, and never without tacrf »
In mv nractire 1 used it frse.y fer ***““
Cholera! in I'L. « ::: V ; "' " ; A,
other modi; me I also nsrd . t.-* ix<&*
ISoh with the same • >i ro; . n
Truly, yours A liUMD ’
<tvaTo, Cl®;
Cholcin i- ** ! rvgwt »■' »? J^Li
cholera has prevailed here ot .mt » * •
exrent. For the !a-t litre
riftv Ol sixty fatal c.,.-ef <• •-JO.*
ported. Isi iild .. :J : -i : ‘'L.lbibil
recentlv tr. iu tin- Mission U f
with considerable success * ‘Jwt-
If taken !:-.:s hi- ,'' '- ' '*
the dl-rnSe. ~nAKDINkb
jtv'iifore. is*
[From tire IVrtLtw JL-athli-i
Summer Complaint and
Bowel co®plaints seem - u * ‘
prevailing clearest, and any at
everywhere acceptable. :c.:J ! -;;U jjr!
very desirable acquisition. Inn p,T»
seen, heard,and experience- we - -
Pain Killer is this JesUerata-r-. f.a-cdHK
method of u*mg it. we qa :e nea l4 '. m
“Forcommon bowel 9
spoonful in uaill of new mnk 5111 . ,L.km
equal par!.-, stirred well r ce; b(
tor children, according to the : -- e - . , 3*o
severe, bathe tbe bowels and ■ v
cine. This mode of treat® - .- -' .. f. Sc
the cholera morbns. sodden *topp*S -
peal the dose every boar
•Tire quickest way I ever »*“*,;* fits
cured was by takiug one
Killer in one gill of milk an- —., —*(tiat
well together aad drank -tot - e to
bathing the bowels freely wit.
the dose be repeated every hoar a
is relieved.” . &*r tk*
If every perse a who cos reasxt, * ioak
disease would provide tbevtselve* '
of this medicine, and use as e***®!®* \-’j w .-k**
believe a great amount ot saaenas —hi
would be saved. _JX- '
Sale of Land in Burke
\ 1 .'ILL BE SOLD. ATTHSIVI*^
W door in the town o, M-.
connly. tiroex». between tea■ Tl Esl)if
three o'clock p. m . on the or*r^
IN JULY next, at public ' al '/ nJfcjafW.'-*
Hon. A. G. Footer, Register “AjSTV* -
certain tract of Laud, situate -•'V.rfted
rountv of lturke. containim: twv, f
more * or lose, atijomiu* Held*
John C. Poyt hre-ss. deceased. > Wjf
estate ot Alexander Bearn ret. »». *'
tract oonveved to bin; hf AYsm, set ***
Cullen, lets fitly acres, imlummc
and surveved tor Joseph l * \-
Sold free from encumbrances sad *
said Joseph I>. Perry, by or 'fc r JL rt s*.
tne estate of said
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