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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. TO OL’D COtINTRT SUBSCRIBERS. We are now sending out bills (which are long past due) for Subscription. Those receiving a reminder will please at once remit the amount, else their papers will be discontinued. For the Campaign! r riiK cihupest I'ier.n ix <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 the NKWS -domestic, foreign, political, social, literary, and commercial—its pro prietors using enterprise and money to make the BEST 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 of the world’s doings in the most luminous and attractive manner. And, in order to place Tiik National Rkiutilk an within the reach of all who desire a yowl daily nem}Mper t we present the following low terms of subscription “FOR THE CAMPAIGN,’’ | From now till Hie first of December. | One Copy $2 25 Five Copies 10 00 IVn " 1H 00 Twenty “ .....35 00 ORGANIZE! % 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-