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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. TO OUR COUNTRY SUBSCRIBERS. We are now sending out bills (which are lone past due) for Subscription. Those receiving a reminder will please at once remit the amount, else their papers will be discontinued. ■—. . For the Campaign! THU CHEAPEST PAPER I.\ GEORGI A ! The Presidential Campaign, for 1868, will he the most important that has ever claimed the attention of American citizens. Our Republican friends, who realize the advantages to be secured by the dissemi nation of political truths through the medium of a well conducted daily journal, should, at once, organize Clubs for the purpose of increasing the subscription list and efficiency of the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN published every morning (Monday ex cepted) at Augusta, Ga., the home of the Governor elect. Tiie Republican modestly claims that it has 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 Republican will heartily support General Grant and Schuylkk Colka.v 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, as needful to revive business and secure fair remune ration for labor. The Republican will always have all the NEWS—domestic, foreign, political, social, literary, and commercial—its pro prietors using enterprise and money to make the REST possible Newspaper, as well as the CHEAPEST. Its conductors will study condensation, clearness, point, and will endeavor to present its readers, daily, with a summary o( the world's doings in tho most luminous and attractive manner. And, in order to place The National Republican within the reach of all who desire a good daily namjiajicr, we present the following low terms of subscription “FOR THE CAMPAIGN," | From now till the first of December. | One Copy *2 25 Five Copies 10 00 Ten “ 18 00 Twenty “ 35 00 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