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I'AK AG RAMS.
—Yesterday, in New York, Gold was
quoted at I.IOJ. Cotton, 30,
- The Groat Eiutcru has been chartered
to lay a submarine cable from liroat to New
York, by way of Aiores, this summer.
—lt U not fenerally known that there are
in California six thousand Russians. They
are said to be good citizens.
—This year is the semi-centennial anni
versary ol the admission of Illinois into the
Union, and it is proposed to celebrate it next
August.
—The ringing of the great bell of Notre
Datin', near South Bond, Indiana, can be
distinctly heard at Elkhart, eighteen miles
distant.
During the last year there has been
'200,000 whippings in the public schools of
New York city, and the boys there are not
yet all rood.
—Gustave Dore owns a block of shops in
Paris. Ue is the richest artist in France,
except Meissonier, who regards him as a
humbug, and is regarded as ditto.
—There is said not to he a single “stove
pipe but’’ in Utah. The slouched felt hat of
the “wide awake” pattern is universally worn
by the male saints.
—A spinning wheel made in the year
1768, ami in good preservation, was recently
sold in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for ten
cents. The people there evidently have no
regard for relics, and no veneration for the
antiquated.
—A man named Moses Johnson, was
murdered on Thursday or Friday, in his own
house, in Brookfield, Madison county. New
York, and his body was cast into a well. He
was first robbed ami then butchered with an
axe.
—The new system of boring wells on the
American principle, which has lately been
tried in Paris, and bv the Knglish expedi
tionary forces in Abyssinia, with such
wonderful auccess, is engaging the attention
of the rancheros in the Platte, and is likely
to be generally adopted before long.
The Massachusetts Iloilse has passed
the bill to erect a bridge to connect Boston
with East Boston, over the Governor’s veto.
The appropriations of the Massachusetts
Legislature for the present session, including
$5,000,000 for the Hoosac tunnel, amount
to $8,000,000.
—The contracts for the new jail in
Louisville, which is to cost $160,000, were
let on the 11th. There was much compe
tition, especially for the iron work, which
amounted to $74,750, there being bidders
from St. loniis, Chicago, Cincinnati and
other Western cities. After a sharp contest,
the contract was awarded to F. W. Mease,
of Louisville.
—Mr. Kerr, of Edinburgh, Scotland, has
invented a reflector for a locomotive, by the
means of which the engineer is able to see
the rear of liis train, the conductor, and all
who are either getting on or off, without
moving from his scat. It can be arranged
lor any length of train by simply changing
the angle of reflection.
—The wheat crop of France is about
600,000,000 bushel*; that of the United
States in 1850 was only 172,000,000. Our
corn crop, however, is ten times as large as
that of France. The average prices of grain
in France are: Wheat, $1.16 ; corn, 65c.;
,-its, 50c.; potatoes, 20c. The wine crop
of 1865 was 2,760,000,000 gallons.
—M. Gaudiu is said to have made a
chemical discovery which may cause quite a
revolution in jewelry. He has succeeded in
obtaining crystalized mass s that maybe
cut into any shape, and colored in every
possible way. They are exceedingly hard,
and will cut glass. It is asserted that he
has a whole set of “diamond’’ earrings,
bracelets, and necklaces made with these
crystals of his.
The Toronto Globe professes to have in
formation, on authority beyond dispute, that
the Fenian movement upon Canada has
actually commenced. It says forces are
being grad'tally concentrated at Buffalo
and other points Forty Fenians went from
Port Huron to Buffalo via the Grand Trunk
Railroad, Tuesday. The raid is possible
any dav after the 20th inst. The Globe
calls on the Governor to order into the field,
at once, the whole volunteer and regular
force of the country.
personal items.
General Grant is at West Point.
Thurlow Weed is going to Europe.
Governor Fenton is about to go into re
tirement.
Don liienri, Minister to Guatemala and
San Salvador, died in Brooklyn, Wednesday.
A statue of George Peabody is to be
erected on a site near the Royal Exchange,
London.
The five finest soprano singers of the do?
—Patti, Titiens, Kellogg, Lucca, and Nils
son—arc now in London.
On Saturday last, Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe gave a reading belore the inmates of
the Inebriate Asvlum, at Binghamton, New
York.
S. W. Intree,formerly member of Congress
from Alabama, and United States District
Attorney in California,died in San Francisco
on the I llh.
J. Ross Browne, t! e successor of Anson
Burlingame as Minister to China, was a
passenger by the Henry Channel), for As
pinwall, on Wednesday.
The North Carolina University, at its
recent commencement, conferred the hono
rary degree of LL. I). upon Hon. Thos. 11.
Seymour, of Connecticut, and B. F. Moore,
of North Carolina.
Byron's “Maid of Athens” became Mrs.
Black subsequently to becoming immortal,
and Professor Boise, of the Chicago Univer
sity, who saw her in 1851, reports that rim
was very beautiful even then.
POLITICAL XL IF.S'.
The Columbus Statesman says Pendleton
will not attend tbe New York Convention.
The Massachusetts delegates to the New
York Democratic Convention will have their
headquarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
The pay roll of the Legislature and Ex
ecutive Council of Massachusetts amounts to
$230,000.
Hon. Bamdel Shellabarger, of Ohio, will
not he a candidate for ri-Slection on account
of ill health.
The Cincinnati /inquirer is making daily
appeals to Pendleton follower* to visit New
York en masse on the Fourth. It says the
fare on the round trip will be $5, including
board on the trip. The projectors consider
washing extra.
The Lowell (Mass.) Courier says: "Mr.
Chase is 'dead in love’ with the Presidency,
and will do anything in reason to obtain it,
even at the expense of a political anostacy.
The Democratic party is sufficiently hard up
for a candidate who will make some show, to
swallow even the great Beelzebub of Radi
calism, if it can sugar-coat him with never
so thin a dressing of Democracy.”
The National Jnlelliyencer say*: ''The
World, like a free lancer, fights sometin.es
on one side and then on the other. No
prudent general ever nuts such a force down
on his muster roll without making provision
for possible desertions. Indeed, fairly con
sidered, the World is not so much a Demo
cratic journal as the New York Herald,
which makes no pretense of that sott.”
National Uepublif an
AUUUOTA. t*A.
THURSDAY MORNING Juno 18. 1889
For PRESIDENT
Of'the [Tnitkd States:
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF INDIANA.
rkpi bmcan i» lat fob nr.
The National Republican party of the United Staton,
assembled hi National Convention, in the city of Chi
cago, on ilia 9l)th day of May, 186S, make the following
Declaration of Principles :
lat. We congratulate the country on the assured auc
caaa of the reconstruction policy of Congreaa, a?
evinced by the adoption, in a majority of the States
lately in rebellion, of Constitution* securing equal civil
ami political rights to all, ami regard it a* the dutv of
the Government to sustain those institution*, and to
prevent the people of such State* from being remitted
to a state of anarchy.
2d. The guarantee, by Coßgreas, of equal suffrage to
all loyal men in the South wa« demanded by every con
sideration of public safety, of gratitude and of Justice,
and must be maintained, while the question of suffrage
In all the loyal States prnpcHy 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 g**od
faith, to all creditors, at home and abroad, not only
according to the letter, but tb6 spirit of the laws
under which it was contracted.
4th. It is due to the labor of ihe nation that taxation
should be equalized and minced 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 us money at lower rates of interest than we now
pay, and roast 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
ruption* which have been so shamefully nursed and
fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for rull;al re
form.
Bth. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession of
Andrew Johnson to the Presidency, who has acted
treacherously to the people who elected him and the
cause he was pledged to support ; lias usurped high
legislative and judicial functions; has refused to exe
cute the law ■; has used his high office to induce other
officers to ignore and violate the laws; has employed
his executive powers to render insecure the property,
peace, liberty and life of the citixen; has abused the
pardoning power: 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 patrouage 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
tliirty-five Senators.
9th. The doctrine of Great Britain and other European
powers, that because a man is once a subject, be is
always so, must be resisted at every hazard by the
United States, as a relic of the feudal time, not author
ised by the law of nations, and at war with our national
honor and independence. Naturalized citizens are enti
tled to be piotected in all their rights of citizenship as
though they were natural bom, and no citixen of the
United States, native or naturalized, must be liable to
arrest and imprisonment, by any foreign power, for acts
done, or words spoken, in this country, and if so arrested
and imprisoned, it is the duty of the Government to
interfere in his behalf.
10th. Os all who were faithful in the trials of the late
war, there were none entitled to more especial honor
than the brave soldiers and seamen, who endured the
hardships of the campaign and cruise, and imperilled
their lives in the service of the country. The bounties
and pensious provided by law for these brave defenders
of the nation are obligations never to be forgotten. The
widows and orphans of the gallant dead are the wards of
the people, a sacred legacy bequeathed to the nation’s
protecting care.
11th. Foreign immigration, which in the past has
added so much to the wealth, development of resources,
and increase of power of this nation, the asylum of the
oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encour
aged by a liberal and just policy.
12th. This Convention declares its sympathy with nil
the oppressed people which arc struggling for their
rights.
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<01011(0 t !
The Presidential Campaign, for 1808,
will be the most important that lias 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.
Tiik Rkiudlican modestly claims that
it has done good service in the Union
cause, and for the promotion of pure and
tindefiled Republicanism, since the party
had an existence in Georgia. It will be
guided, as it has been hitherto, by uncom
promising loyalty to the Union, and will
resist every attempt to weaken the bonds
that unite the American people into one
Nation.
Tiik Ukitiu.ican will heartily support
General Chant and Siiil'ylkr Colfax
for the responsible positions for which
they have been nominated. It will advo
cate retrenchment and economy in the
public expenditures, and tlie 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 Rki’ciii.ican will always have all
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social, literary, and commercial—its pro
prietors using enterprise and money to
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well as the CHEAPEST.
Its conductors will study condensation,
clearness, point, and will endeavor to
present its readers, daily, with a summary
of the world’s doings in the most luminous
and attractive manner.
And, in order to place Tiik National
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We have already expressed our cun vie
tion that a more popular Presidential
ticket than that put in nomination by the
Republican Convention at Chicago, was
never presented for the suffrages of the
loyal voters of the United States. The
names of Grant and Colfax inspire more
spontaneous and genuine enthusiasm —
enthusiasm not worked up by political
clap trap—than any Presidential candidate
since the days of Washinoton. The Re
publican platform, too, is eminently calcu
lated to suit the masses. And yet, with
our popular candidates and acceptable
platform, it is possible for the Republican
party to be beaten through too confident
reliance upon its own strength. Here is
our great, our real danger.
An unorganized multitude can not com
bat successfully with a thoroughly organ
ized party. A disciplined and well-drilled
regiment of soldiers can easily put to rout
many times their own number of unorgan
ized men. So a well-drilled party, though
in the minority, may, and oftentimes lias,
succeeded over its opponents hv the
superiority of its organization. There is
a dangerous • confidence in the strength of
our ticket and the righteousness of our
principles manifest throughout the country,
and it is the duty of Republicans, every
where, to shake off this overweaning faith
in a victory without labor—a glorious
triumph without a determined and earnest
struggle—and go to work.
Tlie Opposition arc already actively
preparing for the contest. By tlic time the
Democratic nominations shall have been
made, their party machinery will he in
complete working order, ready to open the
campaigu with vigor and concert of
action. The thousands of Johnson office
holders scattered all over the country, in
every State, county and town, give the
Democracy a great advantage. Add to
this tlic hundreds of thousands of dollars
which will l>c corruptly extracted from the
Government treasury, and used to promote
the success of the Democratic party, and
we shall see that the Republicans have to
contend with a powerful combination in
the coming election.
We say to Republicans, urbanize, awl
do it tril/iont debty. Let “Gr ant and Col
fax” clubs lie formed in every town and
village. Canvass every hamlet, and know
your strength. Circulate the documents.
Put wholesome reading into the hands of
every wavering and uncertain voter. Con
found the Democracy by the dissemination
of light and truth.
The Republican ticket and platform arc
invincible if the Republican voters do their
whole duty. Again we. say, organiee !
organize 1 work ! work !
-CUT AND DRIED. "
We are indebted to the Washington letter
of the Chronicle it Sentinel of yesterday for
the foreshadowed platform of the National
Democracy (so-called). This wonderful
production, like the • Hybrids" who father
it. and who expect to desecrate the Fourth
of July next in New York city, by a meet
ing of a Convention on that hallowed and
time honored day, is one of the regular
soft shell turtle order of animals. One can
get out of it “fish, flesh and fowl,” and it
remains tlic same turtle still; a frecsoiler,
an abolitionist, a rebel, a lire eater, a soap
tail, a nigger driver, and a negro hater can
come on the thing called a platform, and
neither one of them but can find he has a
piece of meat to cat ready cooked to ills
hand. Even the, Ku Klux Klaus are well
represented and can he “hail, fellows, well
met” in the cauldron of so-called Democ
racy. We design to give our readers a
dissected account of this wonderful, windy,
wordy production as soon as possible. We
shall endeavor to show up the real meaning
of this political catchpenny, and are well
convinced that wc can promise to lift the
veil of hypocrisy to the people, and treason
to the Union of tlic States and the welfare
of our people, not equalled by the ante
helium acts of the decency party of the
country, which rushed into civil war to
assert rights that were never denied, and to
spill the blood of brothers,who, as amass,
never desired the combat, and who reluc
tantly followed the lead of the arch
traitors who are now, by leniency, suffered
to pull the wires in the dark, to make
their puppets dance again to the music of
rebellion, fratricidal war and disunion!
In a few words wc can only say now to the
people of the South those of every party
—beware of the specious words that
Democracy engrafts upon platforms, talks
with glib tongues on street corners, and
with pretentious promises seeks to blind
the masses us to tlicir real designs. Re
member the nets of Democracy in 1860!
Preamble to Democratic Platform.
—The first clause acknowledges the
Supreme Being, ns every Christian nation
ought to do ; but a little farther on, when
they talk about “Federal Arms” and the
“preservation of the Union,” how the
galled jades of Southern rcbcldom wince
and grind their teeth! We owe die
preservation of the Union, under Provi
dence, to Federal arms! Yes, wc do.
We owe more than that to Federal arms.
We owe life, liberty, and the preservation
of our property, to the same powerful
source. And vet with all this, the asseve
rations of Democracy are but lip service,
anil their actions show that they make the
promise to the ear to break it to the hope.
Democratic Platform.— The first plank
goes on to say: “Times change, and men
often change with them, hut principles
never.”
The principles of tlie Democratic party
never change; for, from the days of
Calhoun’s memorable description of them,
it would be vain to look for any change,
unless it be pocket change; and, from our
own knowledge, it extends hack so far ns
well, wc won't say how long ago- we
know they have taken cspedJKl pains to
hold on to the spoils in any event. Sixty
consecutive years of public office holding
is evidence enough to convince a “doubting
Thomas,” \
SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVES FOR
CHASE.
Under the above beading wo find a letter,
under*diitc of Jane 6th, from Savannah,
Ga., and published in the New York Herald
of tho 15th inst. There is no signature to
it, but wo find upon perusing it that tho
writer pledges, in advance, the Southern
Conservative vote to Chase for President.
He seems to speak by the card. He claims
nativity at tho South. 11c is eloquent on
some points, and his hopes are that tho
Nutionnl Democratic Convention will take
Chase nolens volens to give Southern Con
servatives (?) a ohance to vote.
Now we don’t pretend to know who this
self appointed gunrdiaii of Southern Conser
vatives is in contradistinction to Southern
Democrats, but we opine that ho is not yet
prepared to be called Democrat, or to swal
low, without a wry face. Democratic physic,
but that he would ehecr.ully vote for Chase
—a well known Abolition Democrat—for
President, provided several questions are
ignored in tho canvass, mid bis candidate
open in so many vulnerable points to the
shafts of the Republican party, is suffered
to run th 3 race without being brought
strictly to the letter of his acts and doings,
lie further deprecates Ihe discussion of the
vital questions that will come up in the
approaching canvass. As Republicans we,
at least, shall let no sneaking be done by the
opposition.
We intend, if spared, to force these vital
questions upon tluhn everyday. We intend
that the people shall no longer bo galled
and deceived by Democratic ingenuity in
deception, if our feeble voice and pen can
save them -from such humiliation. Every
question that has arisen—every plank in the
platform—every step that may be taken—
shall be watched with eager eyes, and we
shall “cry aloud, and spare not the enemies
of our common country,” even if they belong
to our own household. Conservatism is a
flat, stale and unprofitable tiling, anywhere
in this country. There can be no such thing
outside of the Republican party, and when
we say so, we mean it ; for say wbat you
will, it is the only party now in this country
whose principles are truly conservative, and
we do not claim the name, because we have
one infinitely belter, andof more well defined
meaning. Such being the case, wc know
no National party, save our own, but the
National Democratic party, whose nominee,
whether be be Chase, or Hancock, or John
son, all who will be allowed to vote at the
South, outside of the Republican party, will
bo compelled to swallow, whether they arc
puked or purged by the operation.
First Resolution Democratic Plat-
Fomri- —The “confidence man” of the party
must have written that. Os course De
mocracy have an abundance of that article
called “confidence and trust” in the
“patriotism” “and the discriminating jus
tice (jis so) of the enlightened (phew!)
population of all tlic States, North, Soutli>
East and West.” The italics arc not ours.
\Yc are afraid our Democratic friends, like
the Irishman, would fare badly if they had
any kind of justice meted out to them,
especially the sort they describe as dis
criminating ; and, as for the enlightened
part of it, down South, they are using
every means to get the “ignorant” to vote
for and with them ! Is it not ridiculous
for a party to set up themselves as
patriots, when every effort of their lives
has been to “rule or ruin” the Government
of their country Our definition of the
word “patriotism” is love of country; and
our notion is, a patriot tries to build up
and not pull down the fabric of his Gov
ernment. Os course we may be wrong—
we are fallible—but in this case we think
we are right.
Wonns of Wisdom. —Brother Clisby, one
of the shrewdest journalists to ho found
anywhere, and a genuine Democrat of the
old school, thus discourses through his
paper—the Macon Teleyraph. Hear ye
him :
"We come now to the question of negro
suffrage in the States themselves, and
ask : Shall wc as States—as citizene of the
reconstructed States, at this time—raise the
question of negro suffrage ? This the
Teleyraph distinctly and emphatically de
clitics to do We have our views upon this
subject, which at a favorable time we will
try to present to tiie reader. But this is
not a favorable time first, because the
effort can amount to nothing. The advo
cates of universal suffrage in the plate
control nl! tho sources of official and legal
action. It is therefore, so far as practical
results can follow, a waste of breath to talk
about the matter.
“Secondly, as a punt of more party
policy. We have negro suffrage—we shall
vote under laws establishing negro suffrage,
and we therefore fail to seo any particular
vantage ground wc should occupy in pro
claiming opposition to negro suffrage as a
rallying cry in this campaign. On the
contrary it is bound to he a losing business.’’
“Strictly Private and Confidential.”
—A circular, thus headed, signed by the
National Managing Committoe, at Wash
ington, is sent to many office-holders in all
parts of the country. The person ad
dressed is told that he is “expected to
contribute live dollars to this General
Fund, the immediate reception of which
indicates your continuance in office over
all other applicants, and soeuros to your,
sell, or a friend by you recommonded (no
personal objections occurring), favorable
consideration to such other place of profit
and trust as may be desired in your local
politics.” Tho whole thing is a cheap
“gift enterprise swindle.” It is auony
mous, and the person at Washington, who
lias been detected in gathering in tho
responses, lias no more power to guarantee
offices than bo has to guarantee sense to
those who send him money. All such
cirridars are sure to be frauds. It is
always a safe rule to send no money on
anonymous demands, or to persons who
make such pledges about “continuance in
office.”
■4 ♦
Lord Brougham originated the phrase
“the school muster is abroad' ill one nl his
speeches on the Reform Hill.
Second Clause Peeamble of Demo
cratic Platvoem.—We are not astonished
at the verbiage of the second clause, but
wo l»eg leave to decline the idea therein
conveyed. While wo are fully prepared
to endorse and subscribe heartily to the
doctrine, “that the perpetuation of the
Federal Union as the palladium of our
civil and religious liberties is the only
sore bulwark of our American independ
ence,” we beg to say that the “Hybrids”
calling themselves Democrats, are uot the
men to build foundations or raise super
structures of that kind ; but the rather,
from past acts and present sentiments,
would be the proper persons to be set
about demolishing that Union. They
tried it once and failed most signally and
disastrously to the Southern wing espe
cially ; and would, if allowed, try the same
game again. But, thank God ! the Repub
lican brakes are on, and “Othello’s occtT
pation is gone.”
From tho Washington Chronicle.]
APPEAL TO SOUTHERN RE PUB
LIC A NS.
The passage of the bill readmitting six
Southern States into the Union, with Consti
tutions framed in the spirit ol justice and
equulity, makes with Arkansas, whose Sena
tors and Representatives are now waiting to
take their seats in the Congressof the United
States, seven of tho original seceding States
that have been restored under the acts of
reconstruction. Virginia, Mississippi, and
Texas will soon follow, and thus all that
voted for President in 1860 will vote for
President in 1868.
No eight years in the nation’s history have
been so full of interest to the human race as
those which began with Lincoln’s, and will
end with Johnson’s Administration.
They have seen a nation attacked by
slavery in arms not only crushing its
infuriated foe, but emerging from the
conflict entirely free, and securing the
blessings of perfect liberty to four millions
of its people who were supposed before the
war to be doomed to a servitude as hope
less to themselves as it was fatal to every
other class and condition of society.
We are now in the midst of anew
struggle, upon the issue of which depends
the question whether the fruits of this
conflict are to be gathered in peace, or
suspended and lost by the continuance of
the disturbances and divisions born of
Andrew Johnson’s unexampled treachery.
Upon you, Republicans of the ten origi
nal revolting States, many grave and
imperative duties have been devolved by
the exciting condition of public affairs
You will soon bo placed in complete com
rnand ol all these governments. Electing
your Senators and Representatives in Con
gress, you will also have control of the local
offices ; and with these you should lake care
that neither divisions nor indifference among
yourselves, nor the intrigues and seductions
of your wily and desperate adversaries,
prevent you from casting the electoral votes
of your respective States for the Republican
candidates for President and Vice President
in November next.
You have besides these advantages, the
experience of the late elections for delegates
to your several conventions, for Congress,
and the State Legislature, and for the ratifi
cation of the constitutions in the seven
restored commonwealths. This experience
will enable you to extend and to perfect your
organization by anew canvass of the voting
population, by the dissemination of docu
ments and newspapers, and by the distribu
tion of your active workingmen in the
several districts and counties.
Although the progress of reconstruction
has alarmed your enemies, it has not de
stroyed their hopes of defeating you in the
Presidential election. Their next effort will
be to demoralize the colored citizens; and
here they will employ not only the familiar
weapons of proscription and fraud, but Ihe
more dangerous influences of persuasion
and money. And if the rebel Democracy
can secure the nomination of Salmon P.
Chase as their candidate for President, they
will labor with more skill and assiduity lor
the ballots of the freed men. His own sur
render to them will be followed by their
hollow surrender to his doctrine of universal
suffrage, but you can easily decide how to
trust those who have never known how to
treat you ns human beings, even when they
are led by one whom you have trusted
The only candidates that deserve the
ardent support of the Southern Republi
cans arc Grant and Colfax. They were
nominated by a convention composed of
the sworn and tried friends of tho South
ern Republicans, including delegates care
fully selected by the latter, and they stand
upon a platform strong in itself and
clinched by deeds of unexampled heroism
on the field, and unsurpassed statesman
ship in the halls of Congress.
The candidates to be chosen at New
York, on the 4th of July, will be the choice
of the delegates of that false Democracy
which has always been in sympathy
with the rebellion and slavery, including
the recent slave lords of the South and the
leaders in the rebellion itself.
Republicans of the South, if the rebels
were the Southern wing of the Democratic
party during the war, and the Northern
Democrats the Northern wing of the rebel
army, you were the forlorn hope of the Union
during all that trying period; and new that
the Government saves itself by saving you,
.millions ol hearts pray for your firmness in
the coming Struggle-
Fidelity to yourselves is fidelity to the
whole nation, and devotion to the Republi
can party is the surest and straightest road
to your own enduring prosperity.
| From the Washington Republican.
REPUHLICAN FORM OF GOVERN*
MENT.
If there is one principle clearly enunciatrd
in the Constitution of the United States it
is this: that Congress “shall guarantee to
the Slates a republican form of govern
ment.” This the General Government is
bound to do.
We do not care to raise tho question in
this connection just how far this application
of the term republican should be carried.
There may be, there doubtless is, an honest
difference of opinion among Republicans as
to the precise extent that this idea of repub
lican form of government should be carried.
Some will contend that it should include
nothing less than what is known ns manhood
suffrage, and that auy State that stops short
of this is not a republican State. Others
will affirm that intelligence or property
qualifications should be insisted upon as the
sine qua non to admit persons to vote ; that
this should be the limit of tho elective fran
chise, and that this is absolutely necessary
in order to give permanency and safety to
our institutions. Then again, there arc
others who contend that the franchise should
be given to all, irrespective of sex or color.
For ourselves, we think that that is a repub
lican government where all the male citi
zens are allowed to participate in the gov
eminent.
Wo have been led to make these remarks
in consequence of what is being said in
reference to a apeedtk of Senator Yates. His
remarks have been garbled, and lie has been
claimed ns opposed to the Chicago platform,
because ho affirms that the National Govern
ment should adopt in law, if not in a Con
stitutional amendment, equal franchise for
all the Stales. We shall make no attempt to
controvert this doctrine of Mr. Yates, it
indeed lie lias announced it. We think,
qowever, when bit speech in full shall be
# ,Ten *° ll *« country, it will tie teen that he
does not oppose the Chicago platform, ah
some are anxious to show. That hn approves
that platform, we have good reason to know.
It does not certainly follow, that, because he
believes that there is power in the Constitu
tion to establish a uniform law in respect to
suffrage in ail tho States, that he objects to
what is announced in the platform in regard
to the reconstructed States.
The reasons for the action at Chicago arc
many and conclusive, and can be main
tained as just against the world.
We know that the objection to this plat
form from a certain standpoint is plausible,
hut we know also that it is untenable and
unsound. It is asserted that the policy is
partial in its application to the States
because it applies a principle for the gov
ernment of South Carolina which it does
not insist upon in Connecticut and other
States in the North. This objection rests
upon an assumption that the relative
position of these States is the same, whereas
the position is altogether different; South
Carolina has rebelled against the govern
ment, and Connecticut has not; South
Carolina was required justly, as all must
admit, to reconstruct her organic law, and
in doing it it was imperative that Bhc
should include in her policy of reconstruc
tion such men and such measures as were
loyal, and that in starting upon her new
career she should provide against all future
rebellions by excluding the active and
earnest participants in the last attempt to
break up the Union. Her loyal people,
black and white, were the only people to
he trusted.
Connecticut has not rebelled, and there
fore it cannot be claimed that the same
demand in respect to suffrage should be
made upon her that is made upon South
Carolina. Ihe Chicago platform recognizes
two principles of action, that is all.
Our opinion is that Congress under the
provision of the Constitution which empowers
ii to guarantee a Republican form of gov
eminent to all the States, can insist that
manhood suffrage shall he everywhere recog
nized, or, in other woids, that there shall be
one uniform law throughout the Union in
respect to the elective franchise. The power
is in the Constitution—the expediency of
applying it is another question. The appli
cation of this principle to the Southern States
at this lime, grows out of the rebellion, and
herein is found the reason for the adoption
of this doctrine in tlic South. No such
reasons appertain for applying the same
principles to the Northern States, where
harmony In Ihe General Government has
never been interrupted, nor has there been
any attempted interruption. Then, here is
the difference, and to us it appears conclu
sive, and tho argument satisfactory.
Chase. — The Chase idea is worked out.
It has already answered its purpose. The
Democratic managers and newspaper editors
have made the liberal and progressive por
tion of their parly believe that Democracy
means, ultimately, justice, security, and
equably, from Ihe fact that “potential influ
ences" have tried to nominate Chase. If
they fail, il is [he foriuuo of war.
At any rate, the effort shows that we are
n«>t so debased as the world generally thinks.
Os course we shall throw him overboard,
but keep that to yourself.
Don’t you see that it is necessary for us to
convince the minority and belter part of our
parly that we are trying to do right; if we
can succeed in this, we shall keep them from
going over to the other side.
Don’t you see that we do not want the
wurl-.l to think that our party is made up
entirely of the ignorance, brutality, rascality,
and kicked out members of all parties? You
must be a fool, if you do r.ot know that; and
although ‘>ve understand this Chase joke,”
it keeps “the moral element with us in even
making the pretense of nominating him.
Don’t you see?’ And besides, Chase would
not hare the office, although tendered to him
ii nani mon sly.— 7 Vnsh ingto n lleptt blic i u
Travel In ash Olt of New York.—
We have made a comparative estimate of
the travel in arid out of this city daily, of
what may be termed strangers—that is, of
persons not doing business here, who come
in and go out daily. On an average, there
are about twenty thousand sirangers
coining in and the same number going
out every day. That would be about seven
millions a year. From this estimate, we
include the-two to three hundred thousand
emigrants arriving every year, and all
those living outside and doing business in
the city. The strangers we speak of are
pleasure seekers, travellers, and those who
come on business. Supposing each indi
vidual spends only ten dollars, this would
bring to our hotels, restaurants, places of
amusement, and other establishments, an
income of over seventy millions a year, to
say nothing of the much larger amount
spent at the dry goods and other stores.
These are the evidences and advantages
of a mighty commercial metropolis. But
in the course of a few years, this travel to
and from New York and expenditure of
money here will be vastly augmented.
The growth and business of New York
represent the progress and wealth of the
country, and they march together.— Herald.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
CONSIGNEES PER SOUTH CAR
OLINA RAILROAD, Juno 17. 1863.—W J
Farr, J A Dortio, Hymns A Cos, Horton A
Walton, John D Rutt A ISro, Jatacs T Doth well,
Mrs L Brockman, Oetjen A 11, George Kahrs rs-
Bro, O Baker, C A Cheatham A liro, \V Craig,
S It Dick, K Von Kamp, W C Jessup A Cos, Blair
S A Cos. A Fulton, Col D IV Flagler.
CONSIGNEES PER CENTRAL
RAILROAD, June 17, 1868.-S A Frain, J G
Balic A liro, T J Nickerson, Schofield W A Cos,
W E Brodnnx, C A W ,f* Cos, [V], Mrs A Frede
rick, M A Cos, Fin inti <f- L, Dealt A- 11, C G Good
rich, K Burry, K It Schneider, Oetjen A D, T
J Appell, Stovall A K, An ale Murphy.
GRAIN AND FLOUR SACKS!!
The old established
“Corn Exchange Bag Manufactory”
Is prepared to famish GRAIN SACKS of any
desired size or quality, and at short notice.
Also,
COTTON AND PACK It FLOUR SACKS
Neatly printed to order.
Information promptly furnished upon applica
tion. W. B. ASTEN A CO.,
jo 17—Jin 23 Pearl Street, New York City.
SCRIP DIVIDEND, NO. 1, OF
THK GEORGIA HOME INSURANCE CO.,
of Columbus, Ga.
Assets Ist of January, 1867 ...,.$116,"280.87
Wo have received ready for dolivory tho scrip
of Dividend No. 1, amounting to 25 per cent.,
of the net premiums paid on participating,
annual policies, on policies issued during the
nine months interval from April Ist to Dec.
31st, 1867. Dividend No. 2 will bo issued
January Ist, 1860.
Persons to whom Scrip is due are requested
to call at once and reeoipt for same.
A G. HALL, Agent,
)«7 Ini 221 Broad stroot, Augusta, Ga.
Office Hours.
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, THE OFFICE
hours of the Clerk of Council will bo:
From II o'clock A. M. to 2 P. M.
JAMES N. KI.LS,
Oilv Hall, June 16, ISnS. Clerk,
jo 17—Ot
,BW ADV
Xotice in Admiralty ~ -
UHITEP STATES OP am FI
KKX district Os Ss&* 9 *
IK admiralty*^'
Where**, * libel re „ t
fifteenth ,lay „f J une W ll*
toart of the United Sutf, 6*5
Dutriet oi Georgia hr '■ i for **• -W?
***** “WV
an.! cargo, now at Venu, fwJZ
triet, ..0 .gain* all
for their luterett, thYrein r» r *
I tract, ci.il »„<! m *nti a ,, L *'***♦ m?
m the .aid libel mtnti^
u.ual procer. And monition ii
made: and that all ierv,ni■* ek^ tsu
tereu therein may '*‘““l u, £
the premise! ; and that ,L e
her tackle apparel,
condemned and .old to r-av iG. j rr> > i.
libellant. ‘* J lhe
And whereat., a ,
issued on the .aid fifteenth d.J **
the real of the raid f,, arl _ 7 ,f J «»t,
attach the .aid hark ‘\-ylvj-, It!
rel, furniture and cargo' and o'•
to all perron. claiming £
anrwer, and make claim lb,’ ,a
Now, therefore, I do here!..'.’-
to all person, claiming the /aid
her tackle, apparel, furniture
an, manner interested therein
appear at the Clerk’s OEcc
ol the United States
Georgia, in the cilv of S.vaon-^ "*£!?**
DAY, the first da/of JULY o.« 7 *o*6
11 o’clock, in the forenoon of th « £.
there to tnterpore their elaim. and£ J :‘? lB
allegation, in that behalf ’
p, -' ; “ST 11
Assignee’s Sale' —-
IV ILb BE SOLD BEFORE THE cnn..
“ Rouse door in the city of Ac,.,. M
o clock a. m.. on the fir,t TCESiWv • U ’"
next, the following Real Estate s.li ,CLI
of A.bury V. Bell and
bersof the firm of M. K. Bell A Cos.,
An undivided intere-t oi 40 »c rK _
less, in the ‘ Leonard or Kelson IW’ *
about two and a half miles West ofA.i
To be sold free f,„ m ineumbl^^
ca!h - JOHN MILLKDMJu h
MARSHALL J CT.4R?v
je IS—Javv*w
IN BANKRUPTCY; ——
u. s. marshals office, i
Atl&nLi, Ga., Jubal 1; jc« |
r rillS IS TO GIVE NOTICE rC. m \
L Dili day of June, A. I) I*B* a 'V is
tateof" BaUkr ° ptCy " a3 ■*—
ZACKERY At BRO
of ,U the county of Fulton, Us
Mata of Georgia, who have been adiifej
Bankrupts on their own petition, and Uuttit
payment of any debts, and delivery of m
pro perty belonging to such Bankrupt to Lea
or for their use, and the transfer of any ptomm
by them, are forbidden by law; thataVS
of he creditors of said Bankrupts, toame
their debts, and to choose one nr more Issir
nees of their estate, will be held at aCoartof
Bankruptcy, to he holden at the Registers
office, in the United Slates IIoU-I. Atlaau Geor
gia. before Lawa>n Blink Register, on the 30a
day of June, A. !) , IBGB, ;,t Pj o'clock a to
•to , „ CHARLES 11. KLYEA,
* • b. Dop Vsnlnltij^mpi
IN bankruptcy; ~~
u 8. MARSHAL’S OFFICE. )
Atlanta. Ga.. June 15,1868 (
r piUS IS TO GIVE NOTICE That on tie
X Illli day of June. A. 1).. 1868, a War
rant in Bankruptcy was issued against the K .
tate of
BALOV IX ][. WOODS,
of Ringgold, in the county of Catoosa, and Slate
o f Georgia, who lias been adjudged Bankrupt on his
ow n petitionrand that the payment of any debts and
delivery of any property belonging to said Bank
rupt, to him or for h;s use, and r tie transfer of any
property by him. are fotbidden bv law; that a
meeting of the creditm.- f .,id Bankrupt, to
prove their debts, and io choose oue or more
assignees of his estate, will he held at a Court of
Bankruptcy, to be holden at the Register's office,
ill the United Stitts Hotel. Atlanta, Georgia,
before Lawson Black, Register, on the »ii dav
of June, A. 1) 186S, at 10 o'clock a. m
CHARLES 11. ELYEA,
my 18—It U s. LV;>. Marsh r as Messenger.
Its BANKRUPTCY- ~
U. S. MARSHAL'S OFFICE. I
Atlanta, G».. June 16. IMS.}
r |MIIS KS TO GIVE NOTICE: Tbsteutbe
X 10th day ol March, A. D.. IBtB, a Wamnira
Hankruj.tev was issnetl against theeiUteof
SMYTH ATKIN’S,
of , in the comity of Newton, and the
State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bank
rupt on his own petition, and that tbe payment of
hdv debts, ami delivery ui any property belowisg
to such Bankrnpt. to him, or for his use, and toe
transfer of any property by him. are forbidden dt
law; that a meeting of the creditors of tbe said
Haukrupt,to prove their debts, and to choose one
or more Assignees of hi? estate, will be held at a
Couit of llankruptcv. to by holden at the Regis
ter’s office, in the Varrar Huilding, Griffin, Gt.
before Alexander G Mnrrav. Register, on tbe
30th day of .June, A P. 18GS. at 10 o’clockjl m.
CHARLES 11. ELYEA.
jelS -It U. S Dep. Marshal as Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
U. S. MARSHAL S OFFICE. (
Atlanta. Ga.. Jnnelo.
THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE: Tint on the
liith day of May, A. D. IS6S, a Warrant a
Bankruptcy was issued against the estate ot
‘ \VM. 11. FARMER,
of Bear Creek District, county cf
State of Georgia, who have been adjudged MM,
rupt on his own petition, and that the
any debts, and delivery of any property betog
to siieii Bankrupt, to him, or tor kis ns.
transfer of anv property by him are
law: that a meeting of tfiecreditorsoftta
Bankrupt, to prove t heir debts, and toekwe*
or more Assignees of their estate will *
Court, of Bankruptcy, to tie h" l . tal ?*
ister's office, in the Farrar Bulkkng, Gns•.- <£
before Alexander G Murray,
HOtli davof June, A. D. 18<>S. , !j ° K C . yci
CHARLES 11. tULA,
jelS-it U. S. Pep. Marshal tl *«««“.
IV BANKRUPTCY
rpn.S IS TO GIVE
1 Ist day ol June, A. D.
in Bankruptcy was issued -u® ....y
MARUUS A. lIhHONEi.
of Savannah, in :he county oft hat
of Georgia, who has been adjudge* ».
Oil Ills own petition: tliax the , le
ant- debts and delivery
longing to said Bankrupt, to linn fa
ami the transfer of any property i.' rs
bidden by law: that a meeting « ■
the said Bankrupt, to prove «“£££ will
choose one or more assignees ol ■ ‘
bo held lit u Court of Bankr.:p'r>,' , r
at the office of the Kcgi.-tcr, fs'
Drayton streets. Savannah, Ga TofJo k.
seltine, Esq., Register, on the >•'>«“*-
A.D. IMS, at!» o'clock a. nn mcKS0 X,
je.ff.-U
IN bankruptcy.
'THUS IS TO GIVE NOTICE r tfi .
1 Ist day of June,
rant in Bail k rnptey was r ,
7. ACIi A KIA It f A V
of Savannah, in the adjudged
State of Georgia, who
rupt on ills own petition: 11 ” r
debts, and deli very of »"/ P” W «»d *2?
said Bankrupt, to linn or for b -
for of anv property by him, nr 1 1 gpW"
that n meeting of the
to prove t heir debts, and t ,j a! a CoW*
assignees of his estate, will h* Regns*'
Bankruptcy, to be hold* , street®- d*
ister's office, corner Eay nm - , Esq,
vannah, Ga.. before * i p , IS*'-*’ 1
ter. on the 15th clay ol Ju . * * *
o'clock a. 111. WM.G.DI cK J?Lir
jeiS-.t
IN BANKRUPTCY- m
rpms IS TO GIVE NOTICEfIV
X Its day of agsiMt ,b *
rant in Bankruptcy was issutii
BERNARD If
of Savannah, in the eomißr . lJmikfjL
Georgia, who has hem
his own petition ; amt tbs' l j -,, ,| (l petag 10 T
and delivery of any
Bankrupt, to linn or jqr - _ ,, r |,j,|,|en »1 ' j
of any property by
that a meeting of the crediU » pi*
to prove their debts. , 1 J fat *
assignee* of his estate, wil «•''« Beg**”
Baiikrnptoy, to be h°de n •
office corner of Bay and Drav Esq-.
uah, Ga, before t' S Hesseluay^***,’
on the l r »th of day Jnl.V*
ara WM G
j, W _U U. 8. MamlisU-