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FAR AO HAMS.
— Yesterday, in New York, Gold was
quoted at 1.40. Cotton, 29.
—There Me ti fit lour savings banks in I lie
S ate of Connecticut, holding deposits to the
amount of $36,283,160.81. There are
138,840 depositors, and the average amount
to each person is $261,
—lt is stated that it takes $30,000 worth
of gold to gild the China ware made annu
ally in England. The trades using standard
goal buy it in clipped sovereigns nt the
mint.
—The Ktuperor of Kussia has issued a
nbut setting free nil persons of Russian
birth now exiled in Siberia, and all natives
of Russian Poland who are sentenced to less
thau twenty years' exile.
—The salaries of the Chicago public
.school teachers, lost rear, amounted to
$238,193, and the Board estimates that they
will seed, during the coming year, $857,000
for the same purpose.
—The Kmporor of China has been select
ing a wife, or rather his mother has been
doing it for him. One hundred nud twenty
candidates were presented, and of these
seven were told to call again.
—The coal beavers of Philadelphia have
male a demand for an increase ol their
wages from 18 eents to 25 cents. The em
ployers refused, and the workmen have
stopped work. There are about 1,000 on
the strike.
Counterfeit ten dollar bills on the Sara
toga National Bank, of Waterford, N. Y.,
arc in circulation. Look sharp at bills ot
that bank of that denomination, the paper
of which is thick and soft, the monogram
(U. S.) in each corner poorly executed, and
other portions wanting in artistic finish.
—Near Lafayette, Ind., during a violent
storm of rain and wind, Mrs- May and her
two little daughters were passing through a
piece of woodland when a tree, that was
blown down by the storm, fell on them,
killing the mother and younger child
immediately, and seriously injuring the
other one.
—Dover, England, was enabled by a
mirage, a few days ago, to see Boulogne, iu
France, distinctly with the naked eye, and
with a telescope the windows ot houses, and
inhabitants could be clearly discerned. A
railroad train was watched for several miles
of its journey towards Calais.
—The Supremo King of Siam has pub
lished an official list, with the names of his
children, the dates of their birth, and the
dates of those deceased. The whole num
ber is eighty oue, of whom the eldest was
born in 1823, the youngest in 1808- Sixty
six are now living. The late second king
had sixty three children, of whom thirty are
now living.
Horace Greeley, in his speech at the New
York Grant and Colfax ratification meeting,
related that he helped Schuyler Colfax to
mount a barrel to speak for Henry Clay
when Schuyler was only nineteen years old.
That was a shrewd dodge on the part of
Horace aud Schuyler—speaking for Henry
Clay from a Democratic platform.
—At Troy, New York, on Saturday,
6th inst., Bishop McFarland ordtiiued twenty
three young men priests, and admitted to
deaconship and minor orders nearly one
hundred others. This is the largest number
of priests ever ordained in the United States
in one day. The ceremony was very im
pressive, and lasted four hoars.
—The deviee adopted for the new national
Hag for the Dominion of Canada is described
as follows: “A white field, containing a
garland of autumnal maple leaves, bound
with the Order of the Garter, and surmounted
with an imperial crown, the irrepressible
beaver, and a number of maple leaves in the
centre.”
—South Carolina is a part of the circuit
jurisdiction of the Chief Justice of the
United States, and Chief Justice Chase is
expected lo preside in Charleston about the
middle of this month. Since the war none
of the Supreme Judges have presided within
the limitsof the State. Judge Bryan has
been discharging the duties of both Distri t
and Circuit Judge.
—ln Maine, men reach their greatest
height at 27 ; in New Hampseire, at 35 ; in
Massachusetts, at 31. The tallest men,
averaging G‘J inches in height, come Irom
lowa. Maine, Vermont, Ohio, Indiana,
Minnesota, and Missouri give us men of a
little over 08 inches ; and the average of
all shows the Americans to be a very tall
people.
—A patent has been applied for by a gen
tleman in Detroit, Mich., which, according
to his views, will revolutionize the system of
population by steam. His plan consists of
four iron airtight cylinders, cone shaped at
the ends, which run the entire length of the
boat. In these cylinders are shafts, on
which are adjusted continuous screw threads
answering for buckets. With these lie ex
pects to be able to propel a boat at the rate
of thirty five miles an hour.
—The copper mines of Newfoundland,
though only lately opened, have proved very
successful. One hundred and seventy men
and hoys are employed at one place, and a
settlement of about five hundred people has
been formed which was unknown three years
since. Some of the men make as much as
£l7 per month, tiie average being Iroin £lO
to £l2. The quality of the ore is excellent,
and several thousand tons have already been
extracted.
—Some persons who were hunting in tlie
woods near Meridian, Miss., recently made
a shocking discovery. There lay a dead
negro and there lay a dead hog. The
strangest part is, the hog had the man by
the throat, the tusks deep buried in the
flesh, bolding on “like grim death to a dead
nigger.” This desperate bite, which un
doubtedly killed the negro, is supposed to
have been given in a last struggle on the
part of the hog to revenge a personal injury,
which resulted in the hog's death—the hog
was half skinned.
—A strange tragedy is related in tlie
Cheyenne papers. It appears that a woman
who had been living for some years as the
mistress of a man named Owens, last
winter married another man, one Hooker.
Afterward she returned to live with Owens,
and ilooki r, therefore, poisoned himself.
His wife, stricken with remorse on hearing
of this, went to the house where an imprest
was being held upon the dead body, swat
lowed poison, and in a few moments was
herself the subject for another inquest
Since then Owens, the old lover, has disap
peared, and it is reported that he has also
committed suicide.
The old spirit crops out in the following
resolution, adopted at a Conservative meet
ing in Warrenton, Fauquier county, Va;
“That in view of the vital importance of the
issues now presented, involving the purity,
honor, and existence of the white race in
Virginia,-we hold the white man who, in
this crisis, does not identify himself with his
own race, by his vote, ns unworthy of our
association or countenance, and we will have
no intercourse with such, either of a business
or social character.”
A cony of articles ot agreement between
one of the chivalry of Virginia named Over
street and two colored men is published,
which contains the following clause among
other business items; “That the said Over
street may not be frustrated in bis arrange
inenla, they further agree with the said Over
street in voting they will conform to tho
wishes and advice of him, the said Over
street.”
Nntionflltlepttbliffln
AUOUBTA. 9A.
SUNDAY MOHNINU June 14,1868
For PRESIDENT
O* the United States:
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
FOE VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF ISM AX A.
It KPI IU.KM > I*l, A'l'L Olt .tl.
Th« National Republican party of the United State.*),
assembled in National Convention, in the city of Chi
cago, on the 80th day of May, 1888, make the following
Declaration of Principles :
Ist. We congratulate the country on the assured suc
cess of the reconstruction policy of Congress, a s
evinced by the adoption, in a majority of the States
lately in rebellion, of Constitutions 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.
td. 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 oil 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, in the utmost good
faith, to all creditors, at home and abroad, not only
accosting to the letter, but the spirit of the laws
under which it was contracted.
4th. It is due to the labor of ihc nation that taxation
should be equalised and reduced as rapidly as the na
tional faith will permit.
sth. The national debt, contracted, as it has been, for
the preservation of the Union for 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, whenever 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 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.
Tth. The Government of th<a 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 rulizal re
form.
Bth. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Uucoln, an.l regietthe 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 oflice to induce other
officers to Ignore and violate the laws; has employed
his executive powers to render insecure the property,
peace, iiberiy and life of the citizen; has -bused the
pardoning power; lias 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 pronounced guilty thereof by the vote of
thirty-five Senators.
9th. The doctrine of Great Britain and other European
powers, that because a man is once a subject, ne is
always so, must be resisted at every hazard by the
United States, as a relic of the feudal time, not author
ized by the law of nations, and at war with our national
honor and independence. Naturalized citizens arc enti
tled to be pi otected in all their rights of citizenship 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, 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 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 ail nations, should be fostered and encour
aged by a liberal and just policy.
12th. This Convention declares its sympathy with all
the oppressed people which are struggling for their
rights.
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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 Republican will heartily support
General Grant and Schuylkk Colka.v
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RELIGIOUS TOLERATION.
The age is Incoming more liberal in re
ligious sentiment. Denominations are
clinging with unwonted tenacity to their
respective creeds, and are beginning to
arraigu before synod and council tlicir
refractory members who believe that Chris
tianity is something more than adherence
to a dogma. The spirit of bigotry is
always excited when theological strong
hojds are thought to be endangered, aud
the fact that some of tho best and purest
men among all the denominations have
lately been censured or excommunicated
from membership, is the best possible evi
dence of the struggle which is now going
on, and which will not cease until the
spirit of liberty enters the churches as fully
aud freely as it enters the laws.
The censure of Mr. Tyno by tho Epis
copalians, the irregularity of Mr. Malcolm
according to the Baptists, the excommuni
cation of Mr. Stuart by the Presbyterians,
all indicate an intensity of feeling among
these seels, which, extending into all, is
prophetic of a kindlier and more liberal
sentiment in the future. These men can
safely trust their reputations to the people.
They are well known for their Christian
benevolence, eminent abilities and fervent
piety. Not an act of theirs has sullied
their reputations with even a suspicion of
wrong. They stand before the country
and the Christian world with as fair names
and characters as any now within tlie fold
of the Church. Their only sin, if so it can
be called, was that they did not adhere to
the strict formalities of their respective
creeds, but clasped hands in Christian fel
lowship Avith members of different denomi
nations. For this, and this only, they have
been condemned by the churches; but for
this, united with their distinguished talents
and undoubted piety, they will be ap
plauded by all who believe that the Chris
tian life is something more than belief in
creeds and adherence to particular com
munions. “By their fruits ye shall know
them'’ is the true text of the faithful, and
he who adds or takes away from this
assumes to be Aviser than his Lord.
Wc do not believe in destroying the
walls of faith which the fathers have built
up by years of toil and sacrifice. We honor
the truths made hallowed by their devotion
and consistent lives, but would not en
courage the spirit of bigotry that refuses a
recognition of Christian brotherhood be
cause of difference ot creed—which asserts
that he who disbelieves in certain doctrines
is heretical, and forever barred from asso
ciation with the elect. We aim at the
establishment of more charitable relations
between men living in the same age, tread
ing the same paths, and having a common
destiny. Churches are but aids to faith.
They are the means and not the end.
Creeds are changeable, for they are not
Divine. The law of progress is inexora
ble, binding upon the conscience and
affecting the belief. The church or indi
vidual that opposes it must go down before
it. for intelligence is sure to sweep away
crroi and to upbuild truth.
We believe that tliis anxiety for the de
fence of creeds is but prophetic of a more
liberal Christianity. Men are not naturally
bigoted Upon the ordinary questions of
life they are liberal to a fault almost.
While they maintain implicitly their own
beliefs, they as willingly accord to others
the privilege of upholding theirs. This
feeling of respect for others’ opinions has
not been without effect, and the readiness
witli which many good men join in philan
thropic enterprises is evidence of a sym
pathy that will yet destroy all bitterness
and bigotry, and bring all hearts together
in Christian fellowship. The mysteries of
science arc not yet all revealejl. Divine
revelation has not yet opened to the human
vision all the fullness of truth. Faith is
left to work, while sight is dimmed. No
man is infallible. To no one is imparted
the certain knowledge of the Infinite or of
Ills plans. To claim to know and walk
the one, the exclusive path that leads to
future happiness, is an assumption as sac
rilegious as it is false and foolish. Living
in a free country, under the benign influ
ence of free institutions, wc naturally
accord to others the right to their opinions
upon all subjects.
Civilization has too far advanced to
admit of infallibility of doctrine in any
man or any class ot men. The very fact
of universal seeking after the truth is a
confession of its wants. Our institutions
arc planted upon the foundations of civil
and religious liberty. Freedom of con
science is still sacred throughout the land.
The nation and the world stand with out
stretched hands imploring a fuller know
ledge of Divine truth ; and lie who boasts
that he has fully gained it, and needs no
further light, convinces all that he is sadly
wanting it.
To allay denominational prejudices, to
juin heart and hand in all good work, to
respect each other’s view's, while holding
firmly to each one’s own, is the great duty
of Christian men. He who would widen
the gulf now existing, is false to the unity
that must prevail in God’s great family
false to the principles of liberty that
underlie republican institutions false to
truth itself, that lias chosen no special
expounders to whom it has revealed itself.
For all men now discern but feebly what
is to be, and, seeing through a glass
darkly, can not wisely attempt to interpret
the Inlinitc, whether they minister at the
altars of the Church or expound the law at
the corners of the streets.
Orkuon is called by (he Conservative
journals “the first gun of the Presidential
campaign.” New Hampshire, Connecticut,
Chicago, and several small towns, have
already supplied “first guns,” in the Demo
crude estimation -so fond are that sort of
people of counting unhatched chickens. Hut
if Oregon is a “first gun,” it is a very small
pistol—fired, apparently, to alarm the Dem
ocratic camp, and give notice of the fact
*hut the host under UitANr and Colfax are
coming down upon it like on avalanche. *
- Kx Governor (and United States Sena
tor elect) Huehinghom, of ( ,’onneoticut, lies
dangerously ill in Illinois.
GEORGIA AGAIN IN TUE UNION.
That Georgia, with other Southern
States, is again hock in tho Union of our
fathers—of our first love—the telegraph
informs us; an object for the accomplish
ment of which avc have labored long,
have borne abuse and lies innumerable;
aud now that hope has ended in fruition,
surely wc can be allowed to congratulate
the true patriots of the State upon the
result. While many of them, perhaps,
are not well pleased, and, may-bc, feel
disheartened, wc arc sure that the best
featuro of relief still remains to our people;
we mean the Homestead Law. Wc again
repeat our belief that the General Assem
bly soon to meet will so arrange tlie law
as to prevent the unrestrained and heart
less destruction of our citizens, by levy
and sale, of what little personal and real
property remains to them. With these
facts in view, avc can see no use in de
sponding or of giving sore head Democ-
racy any excuse to litter ribald jokes,
Avlien the tilth so soon approaches when
their laugh will be changed to the vacant
grin of detected culprits; and the other
side of their mouths will be a picture for
an artist to copy, Wc liavo all along
contended that to lie reinstated in the
Union was of higher importance to our
people than anything else. Minor matters
could lie avcll laid aside until this grand
object was accomplished. The majorities
in both Houses Avere such ns to place
beyond doubt the determination of Con
gress to receive the States named in the
Omnibus bill back into tlie Union despite
the veto of President Johnson, should lie
attempt to continue the Avar avith Con
gress, and against peace and 'good order.
The exercise of such a privilege, which at
this time, it seems to us, would b« but a
spiteful exhibition of power, and a disre
gard of humane principles, will not be
brought to bear, avc hope, avlicu the bill is
submitted to him for signature, for it will
be a fruitless slioav, and will neither bene
fit the author of it or tlie malcontents
whom he may be seeking to conciliate in
the ambitious but vain hope of the Demo
cratic nomination. Back again in the
Union—back again under tlie protection
of tlie civil laAV, and again enabled to
make laws for our State Government —
surely avc should rejoice that tlie object is
beyond farther cavil a fixed fact. To the
Republican party in our State and in
Congress is due this great achievement.
To the first, in Georgia, all our citizens
owe tlicir redemption from the chaos
which lias existed since the conclusion of
the war. And however much the opposi
tion have demurred and endeavored to
prevent this consummation, wc have no
doubt, if they would candidly acknowl
edge their sober feelings in the matter,
they would also say as avc do, that we are
rejoiced that the end of strife and conflict
lias come.
WAR CLOUD IN EUROPE.
We have intelligence that the Avar cloud
is again gathering over Europe. The
nations sleep upon their arms, expecting
every hour to hear the drum beat that
summons them to battle. The sword has
become more familiar than tho plougli-
share, and the spear than the pruning
hook. Peace has ceased to he tlie law,
and has become the rare exception.
Though almost every year has witnessed
the marshalling of armies, Europe is not
•yet satiated with war. Again die quiet of
the nations is engendered. France and
Prussia look upon each other with jealous
eyes, waiting for the moment when they
can fling their legions against each other
in the shock of battle.
The other nations realize the danger,
and knowing the uncertain complications
that result from protracted war, gird on
their armor ready to accept whatever is
thrust upon them. In the preservation of
balance of power in Europe, is mutual
safety. Consolidation of power by im
portant conquest on the part of any one
of the great nations would endanger all
the rest. Russia Lias absorbed Poland
after years of endeavor, and now looks
with greedy eyes upon the kingdom of
the Sultan. Prussia, dissatisfied with the
laurels won from Austria, seeks to become
the master of till Germany. France, with
an aspiration tor power that extends
beyond the limits of one country, would
subjugate Europe to her control and
become the sovereign of the world.
When peace has lost its sway in human
hearts, war takes up the sceptre and rules
in regal slate, and with its glittering
sword asserts dominion until there are no
more worlds to conquer. But in hearts
that have no love tor bloodshed tuid no
thirst for warlike fame, that hope that
kindliness and Christian brotherhood may
yet prevail among all nations, the prayer
goes up forever to Heaven’s chancery
trout purest lips, “Let us have peace!”
Mr. Gorham. —The Comtitulioualist wea
ries itself in a futile attempt to prove that
Mr. Gorham, recently elected Secretary of
the United States Senate, is a “corrup
tionist,”
Why did not that paper have the candor
to state that evo;ry Democratic Senator,
save one, voted for him ? Would they
support a corrupt ionist, “My Maryland”—
yea or nay ?
The California Farmer affirms that the
Golden State “cu n beat all the other States,
and the world, ir< silk culture, and China
and Japan besides. The bugbear about cost,
of labor is nothing, for our expense in feed
ing is only one-xjuarter or one-filth of any
other place in the world, and wo need no
material cost or care for sheltering the worms
from storms or dumps. Everything is in our
favor, and in less than live years we will
export from this Sl.ato to our friends East
such manufactured products ns shall aston
ish them. We can and wc will succeed in
this grant enterprise."
The Albany Journal observes: “A cam
paign is being opened which involves the
political welfare of the nation. And in
this the alliance and support of all who
give a cordial indorsement to the candi
dates ami platform of the Chicago Conven
tion should he welcomed heartily. This wo
know to be the sentiment of the Republican
masses through the State."
f From our Spaelat Correspondent.
LETTER FROM WASHINOTON.
The Seventeen Year Loenvtv-Tke Witnvvv Woolley
Tkv Providential Campaign—Our Oriental
Vivitorv—Local PoUHcv.
Washinotox, D. C., June 9, 1868.
I lie seventeen year locusts are upon us.
You will pardon this allusion at the com
mencement of a letter, when, as you will
percoive by the sequel, that your Stole is
particularly interested, and I propose to
give some facts of interest.
In the latter part of May the locusts
commenced to appear in Maryland and the
northern portion of tho District of Colum
bia in swarms; they were marked with the
inevitable W upon the wings, and conse*
quently the superstitious predicted Avar and
other dire calamities. In Montgomery
county, Maryland, tho farmers became
exceedingly alarmed, and it wa3 alleged
that their hogs were all dying by being
surfeited or poisoned by eating these
seventeen year grubs. Reports of indi-
viduals having been poisoned are rife, also,
and various calamities arc currently re
ported ; but after consulting the best
authorities on record, and the savans of
this city, inclflding Professor Glover, of
the Agricultural Department, and others
equally competent connected with the
Smithsonian Institute, I am satisfied that
the seventeen year locusts ( Cicada Septem
decim) is in no way poisonous, and in no
way dangerous. The habits of these pests
are well known to naturalists, and aside
from tho slight damage done lo treos and
shrubbery, they do no harm. In some
respects these locusts are the most remarka
ble insects of which we have any knowledge;
the unusual length of time required for
their growth, tho perfect regularity with
which every generation, numbering many
millions of individuals, attain maturity, so
as to come forth at the end of seventeen
years, the entire brood hatching within a
few' day’s time, has caused the insect to be
noted throughout the world. It is wholly
unlike the locust proper, but the early
settlers upon this continent doubtless gave
it this name from its habits, being similar
to the migratory locusts of the East.
One of the remarkable facts in connection
with this insect is stated by naturalists to bo
that in different districts of this country
broods appear in different years, yet the
brood in each district invariably preserves
the interval of seventeen years for coming
out in its winged state. Briefly slated the
career of the insect is thus: The egg is
deposited in the wood of a tree (about five
hundred eggs each), the female then dies ;
when the pupa is formed it drops to the
ground, and goes to the depth of from one
to five feet, fostering generally upon the roots
of trees, sometimes grass, and there remains
for seventeen years before developed. In
April last, when land was ploughed, the
insect was not to be seen. In the latter part
of May the ground was found to be full of
them.
There are nine distinct broods in this
country—three partly in the State of New
York, and the remaining broods in other
portions of the States.
The first of the broods inhabit the valley
of the Hudson river, its northern limit
extending to Sehuylerviile and Fort Miller—
the most northern point where they have yet
appeared ; from thence along both sides of
the Hudson to its mouth, East into Connec
ticut as far as New Ilaveu, and West across
the north part of New Jersey and into
Pennsylvania. Their last appearance in
this district wae in 1860, nud they will
reappear in 1877.
The second brood appears in Western
New York, Western Pennsylvania, and
Eastern Ohio. Its last appearance was in
1866.
The third brood lias-the most exteusive
range geographically, and extends from
Southwestern Massachusetts across Long
Island, along the Atlantic coast to Chesa
peake Bay, and up the Susquehanna as far
as Carlisle, and by some it is said the same
brood reaches Ohio and the valley of the
Kanawha, in Western Virginia, down the
Mississippi, and up its tributaries West, and
into the Territories. The locusts, reported
to have appeared the present season in Ten
nessee and vicinity, prove not to be the
seventeen year locust, but ure believed to be
the Creviced cicnda (ti rimosa, Say), which
comes out in the same month, but are en
tirely a different insect. The third brood
appeared last in 1855, and will reappear in
1872.
The fourth brood covers the District of
Columbia, Maryland, South Carolina and
Georgia, with a detached branch in South
western Massachusetts. In the last district
the brood has regularly reappeared every
seventeenth year since 1715—the last time
in 1851 ; and this being the seventeenth
year, they are upon us again like a cloud.
The fifth brood extends from Western
Pennsylvania to the Ohio Valley, down the
Mississippi to Louisiana, where they up
peared last in 18G3.
The sixth brood appeared first in 1851, at
the head of Lake Michigan, to the East to
the middle of the State of Michigan, and
West across Northern Illinois into lowa,
reaching South as far as Peoria, and North
to the line of Wisconsin.
The seventh brood is first recorded as
having put in an appearance in ihe western
part of North Carolina in 1847, and reap
peared in 18G1.
An eighth brood was noticed in Marthas
Vinyard in 183;!, and the ninth in the valley
of the Connecticut and Massachusetts in 1818.
The insect varies from one and a half to
one and three fourth inches in extreme
length ; they havo four wings and a drum
just under each principal wing, visible to
the naked eye, and their music is mkde by
the expulsion of air, which acts upon them.
They havo but one noto (with variations),
which may ho represented by the letters,
l«h ce e c cc c ou, uttered continually, and
prolonged to a quarter or half minute in
length, the middle of the note being
doafeningly shrill, loud, and piercing to
the ear, and its termination gradually
lowered till tho sound expires.
RECONSTRUCTION.
It is not easy to foretell the exact form
in which the hvw will be passed to read
mit the Southern States. But the actions
of the Commander in Louisiana has opened
the eyes of Congressmen to the scheme of
Andrew Johnson to keep the States out
until after November, and, rely upon it,
he will be thwarted. Some kind of a bill
will be passed, and eight of the States are
soon to be represented at an early day,
notwithstanding the efforts of the President
to the contrary.
Woolley, the rooaltricent witness, has
furnished us with n little sensation of late ;
lie has got tired of fighting Butler, and
yields, as gracefully as possible, to the
logie of events; and well ho may, for the
money ho is supposed to havo obtained for
bribing Sonators never has been paid over,
hut is safely locked up in one of the
hotels. Butler, it is feared, struck too
quick.
We are doubly blessed liy hnving two
sots of ukiormcn and councilman, but, it is
confidently believed, we shall ultimately
have a Republican majority in both boards
io co-operate with Mr. Bowen, our first
Republican Mayor.
Our oriental friends are enjoying them
selves hugely, and aro quite taken with the
attention tlioy receive from all classes of
pooplo. Tlioy havo seen all the sights in
and about Washington, and the Ambassa
dors have commenced a round of dinners—
the first at tljo White Houso last night.
IN TH« POLITICAL WOULD,
all is quiet—everybody seems to be await
ing the action of the Democratic Conven
tion, when the ball will open in good
earnest. The Republicans are very quietly,
but thoroughly, preparing for the cam
paign, and can go to work at a moment’s
notice. _ Capital.
MILITARYOIt CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
We find the following article in the New
York Herald of Wednesday, and ask for it a
careful perusal:
Will the people have military government
or civil government in the United States?
This is what they are to decide in the next
Presidential election. This is the real issue
that must he fought out between Grant as
the impersonation ot the Republican policy
and the candidate of the opposition, if the
opposition has any practical purpose to win
the battle. There is some appearance that
the opposition is not awake to this fact. The
Western Democracy presses its favorite can
didate, Pendleton, in a way that indicates
absolute ignorance of the true difference be
tween the parties that are to appeal to the
people for support in this canvass. Its advo
cates seem to live in the geological museums
ol politics, where they wander up and down
muttering or shoaling “Pendleton and Dem
ocratic principles!” What are these aston
ishing Democratic principles that only Pen
dleton can stand for? Pendleton is distin
guished, is known to the country for one
great fact—he was a peace man during the
war. But the war is over. All men are
peace men now, and the distinction is gone.
Can it be that these Democrats of the West,
who were so long in some ways in finding
out that there had been a war, are equally
unconscious now that there is peace ? Is this
tho reason that they go on with their Pen
dleton hocus-pocus, shouting that they will
have no leader but one whom they knew in
another struggle, who came before the coun
try on an issue that is dead and dried up,
and who died with it?
If this is an indication of the course the
Democracy is to be driven into by the West
they will be fighting the buttle where there
are none to oppose them, and will find when
the contest is over that they have wasted
their effort and their ammunition. These
Western Democrats insist upon ignoring the
issue—they insist upon occunying some
other ground than that which is imporlant
in this contest. They are far away from
the main point, and seem determined to
keep away. They are unconscious of the
fact that politicians can not make issues,
but must accept those that are the growth
of events and do what they may to direct
the people in regard to these. There has
been much of this folly in our political
history, and nowhere more than in the
career of these same spurious Democrats
who noAV desire to control the coarse of the
opposition to Grant. Njsver was there a
more flagrant instance of it than in thq
circumstance that brought Pendleton prom
inently before the people. The great
struggle of the Democracy before tlie Avar
was for the country against that disorgan
izing coterie, the “abolitionistsand the
Democracy Avent on blindly fighting this
mere name of "abolitionist” until, in tlie
changes of time, the whole people Avere
abolitionists—until the cause of the aboli
tionists was the cause of the country ; and
then Avas seen the queer spectacle of a
Democracy arrayed against the people, of
a party fighting in the name of a country
against the measures absolutely necessary
to preserve the very existence of the
country. There is nothing clearer than
that Pendleton is not a Democrat as the
people are now ready to apply that term.
His so-called “Democratic principles” arc
merely the copperhead rubbish that was
used during the Avar in opposition to the
nation and the cause of the people. If the
Democrats intend to stand on such princi
ples all will rejoice in their defeat. Any
party that is to tvin in this contest, so far
from boasting Pendleton as its banner man,
must cover him up and hide him from
sight and smell; for he has no political
existence save as an offence in the national
nostrils.
POSITION OF JUSTICE CHASE.
Washington, May 25, 1868.
My Dear Sir : You arc right in believing
that I "shall never abandon the great
principles, for the success of Avbich I have
given my entire life.” I adhere to my “old
creed of equal rights.” without one jot or
tittle of abatement. 1 shall be glad if the
new professors of that < reed adhere to it as
faithfully.
lam amazed by the torrent of invectives
by which I am drenched. Almost every
thing alleged as fact is falsehood out of the
whole cloth. Where an allegation has a
little fact in it, the tact is so perverted and
travestied that it becomes falsehood. I
know no motive for all this except disap
pointment that impeachment has not thus
far proved a success, coupled with a belief
that I have done something to prevent its
being a success. I have not been a partisan
of impeachment certainly ; but I have not
been a partisan on the other side. As pre
siding officer over the trial, n.y conscience
testifies that I have been strictly impartial ;
and I am sure that any one who reads Ihc
report will say so. Individually I have my
convictions and opinions, hut I have very
seldom given utterance to them. Indeed, I
do not think that the case, in any of its
aspects, has been the subject for conversa
tion between myself and more than four or
five Senators, and then only casually and
briefly. No senator will say that 1 have
sought lo influence him.
The real ground of denunciation is that I
have not been a partisan of conviction ; and
this denunciation I am willing to bear.
They may denounce and abuse me, and
read me out of the party, if they choose. I
follow my old lights, not the new.
What the developments of the future may
be I know not. I neither expect nor desire
to be a candidate for office again. It
would, however, gratify me exceedingly if
tho Democratic party would take ground
which would assure the party against all
attempts to subvert the principle of universal
suffrage established iu eight, and to be
established in all of the Southern constitu
tions. Then, I think, the future of the
great cause—for which I have labored so
long—would be secure, and I should not
regret my absence from political labors.
Salmon P. Chask.
The Dry Goods Reporter says: “There
is no question hut trade is in a forlorn con
dition ; and although it is to be hoped we
shall not ull be lost in a restless sea, even
though we may be ‘homeward bound,’ still
there ore breakers ahead, so long as cloth is
made and sold at such comparatively unre
muneralivo prices ns have prevailed through
the season, while in other respects high rents
and heavy taxes are usiug up the best part
of the profits of every merchant.”
J. J. BROWNE.
QAIt V B R AND GILD lyt.
Looking Glass and Picture Frames
CORNICES, BRACKETS,
CONSOLE TABLES
MADE TO ORDER.
Old PICTURE and LOOKING GLASS
FRAMES REQILT, and OIL PAINTINGS RE
STORED, LINED and VARNISHED,
AT 185 IIHUM) STREET,
Auuvsta, Ga.
JeU—lwtf
Tribute of Re.pecT'H
Acocvta, (!*._ P[7\ I
At a meeting of the Botrd „f ~ '“tt, I
City Loan end B«il,l iDg
■ng preamble and resolution, “
Whereas, Since our last *,^***’l
have been cited upon to , tcor4 J*jsJ
00. who ha. been ou, <1
organisation of our As.oci.ti * <J
mg. of sadness * e announce tb. "* *1
and associate Director, f, c j, >uj
asleep upon /.VaWs bo.om. “i*Y
from earthly vieiiiitndes and car.,, “
tion of ret and immortality, fin ** ‘•h.l
ba. been sacredly consigned t, M
immortal life has passed !>.. m Zm M
ment to an abiding home of y,. trat* I
I
tion and painful .offering, endured “ ' *
Plaint or repining, ever relyin- .jo? 1 *
Iran in God', merciful
.Uffenng humanity ; expressing eonnJ
Dation to his Creator's will; e ” cr u **B'
ward with faith and hope u thst..^ 1 *»•
of time when his immortality -hoald* ******
occupy ii, earthly abode, a „d p
Jehovah’s keeping. iatt
As an associate, his demise has 1- ■
pressed upon us how dear was our j ou * *'■
Possessed of indomitable energy,
correct in all business connections’
and kind h bis deportment to .U I
course will) him, ever infl u ,n C ed by , **'■
purpose and action that commanded
and esteem, ho has passed away from "**■
associations, leaving for out emulation esu?l
of Faith Hope and Charity; in cornel
of which, be it 1 ■
Revoked, That the Directory of theCil.t I
and Building Association announce withlt I
Barber" 2 ” 1 thß demi ‘ C ° f °' ar " swi “U?|
Revoked, That with bumble submish o ,„|
yield obedience to the will of our <w I
calling from amongst us our associate and 1* I
pan,on offering grateful thanks for that Cl
heavenly frame of mind that I
deceased in his last trying moments of earth;, I
existence. ■ I
Revoked, That the Association and Direlml
offer to the widow, children and wnneU*2l
the deceased their sincere condolence, olein. I
humble prajer to the Creator of all huminitr I
to surround them with Bis protecting ’ I
give them peace through earth's pilgrim-„i
an abiding hope of immortality and etentllif,
when passing from mortal to immortal eiistm*.
Revoked, That a page of record h« •»
priated tu the memory|a'nd worth of our dwwj
member, F. C. Bakber, and that a copy of ties
resolutions be forwarded to his family, and mb
listed in the city papers.
HENRY MYERS, President
A. F. Plumb, Secret iry.
SPECIAL NOTICES"
j* sg“ SCRIP DIVIDEND, NO. 1, OF
TUE GEORGIA HOME INSURANCE CO,
of Columbus, Ga.
Assets Ist of January, 1567 S4I6,MM!
IVe have received ready fur delivery tit strip
of Dividend No. 1, amounting to 25 per mt,
of the net premiums paid -on participating,
annual policies, on policies issued during the
nine months interval from April Ist to Dec.
31st, 1367. Dividend No. 2 will be issued
January Ist, 1869.
Persons to whom Scrip is duo are requested
to call at once and receipt for -ume.
A G. HALL, Agent,
je7—lrn 221 Broad street, Augusta, fin. f
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
; COLLEGE"COMMEICEMEffi
mgi iis iiieSS
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE)
Georgia Rail Road Company, }
Augusta, Ga., June 13,1865. J
Tiie commencement exercises or
Colleges will be held
At Covington, Wednesday, June 24th.
At Penfioid, Wednesday, July Bth-
At Oxford. Wednesday, July 19th.
At Athens, Wednesday, August sth,
Persons wishing to attend College Commence
ments at either ot the above-namedipiaces will
be passed over the Georgia Railroad andßranctes
for ONE FARE—full faro required going; »4
Agent selling such ticket to fairish return ticket
FREE. Return tickets good for ten dijs-fr™
Saturday belore the Commencement Day to Mon
day Evening subsequent to such Commencement
Day. E. COLE, _
jet4—oaw tauga Pen 1 Snp
N otic©.
q-UIE COPARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE
1 existing under the name and style of HAD
& CARR, Insurance Agents, was this day “
solved by mutual consent. A. o. HA
continue Ihe Insurance business, and U»W
authorized to adjust any unsettled basiaes
the late firm. (Signed) Q
C. E. CARE,
Augusta, it.:.. 13th June, 1365. jeJ4—lw_
Baibsr. Carr & Cos.»
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS,
A COPARTNERSHIP FIRM, AS
A. has this day been formed
of carrying no a GENERAL n f their old
BUSIN ESS. The further patronage of J»
friends is respectfully solicited by : c ’r
Augusta, Ga., June IS, 186S- ___)— —
IX THE DISTRICT COPW
1 United States for the Northern w*
Georgia.
11l the matter ot ) wKUn’W
WM HAMMETT, Jr-, I ' ANtvK
Bankrupt. ) , „ pwlaG.
By- virtue of an order from die Ho • io
McKinley, one of the Bugwtci* >«‘
said District, there will be ‘ '''f ““f Jnlv, A
meeting of creditois, on the .HU J. fc iuirte
I). 1368. at 10 o clock a. in.. at the
G McKinley, Register as aloiesaid,
poses named in the twenty-seve
Bankrupt Act of Marched, L< • gijmaWre* 1
Give,! under nay hand and oLiri
Newnau, Ga., this
ie 14—l»w3w
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry.
|7> it. SUMMER, 184 BROAD - TRE
Ej. AUGUSTA, O'- W du
SPECTACLES, KYS-GLAsSE■>
makers' Tools, Materials and Glatsw- _
fgßfß
REPAIRED AND WARE***®*
Jewelry mado ands«
All kinds of Hair Braiding>n#.
Singer’s Sewing Machines.
Machines repaired and warran
jel4— law Sm—
1855-
THOMAS RUSSEL^’
S#ewe , lß1 t £
198i Broad St.,
NEXT POOR BET w TIIK FRENCH STORE
- I — 9 7 tßivetin' rE
WATCHES, CLOCKS, and JL' work »»r
PAIRED at Ihe shortest notice.
""nwill
promptly attended to.
jel4-lawly