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POLITICAL,
A Vermont paper «ay* that whole State
id blossoming out with Grant Clubs.
The Democracy of the First lowa District
hare nominated Tho*. W. Claggutt, editor of
the Keoknk Constitution , for Congress.
M. I. Mills, late Mayor of Detroit will boa
candidate for the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Michigan. •
T. A. Plant declines n renomination lor
Representative in Congress from the Fif
teenth Ohio District.
MtCoolc, one of the priso lighters now iu
jail in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, was one ol
the principal attractions at a I»cmocratic
Convention in the Southern part of Indiana,
ou the 27th ol May.
It is a severe commentary upon the
paucity of intellect in the Radical party
that it possessed but one man who was so
much as thought of as a candidate for the
Presidency.— World.
The Lancaster (Pa.) Inte/ligeucer—Ute
Buchanan organ—opposes Chase's nomina
tion, and says the chief competitors will be
Pendleton, Hancock, and Hendricks, with
chances in favor of one of the last named.
The Tennessee Democratic Convention,
on Wednesday, adopted resolutions assert
ing “the just rights of the States,” enthusi
astically endorsing the greenback policy,
and laudatory of President Johnson. A
majority of the Convention were Pendleton
men.
The "Black Hawk” ticket for the Presi
dency, as printed and circulated, reads :
“For President, Salmon P. Chase, ol Ohio ;
for Vice President, Jefferson Davis, of
Mississippi. United we stand, divided we
fall.”
Hon. Michael C. Kerr. Democrat, has
been nominated for reflection to Congress
in the Second Indiana District, and John S.
Reid, of Connersville, is the Democratic
nominee against Julian, in the Fourth
Indiana District.
Win- A. Moore, of Detroit, Chairman ot
the Michigan Democratic State Central
Committee, will probably receive the Con
gressional nomination in the First District,
aud C. W. Barnes as a candidate for the
nomination against Mr. Blair in the Third
District.
The Cleveland Herald believes that Mr.
Chase “but courts the destiny ol Andrew
Johnson, W. H. Seward, Doolittle, Dixon
aud others, in abandoning the great princi
ples ol his life, as he must, it apprehends, in
seeking Presidential glory through the Dera
oeratic pasty."
The Chinese Emperor, fourteen years old,
was married eti the 27th of March. One
hundred and twenty of the finest ladies in
the realm were presented to theboy’s mother,
from whom she selected her future daughter,
subject, however, to the vote of the Em
peror.
The opinion continues to prevail among
members of Congress that the tux bill will
not pass Congress, owing to want of time
for both Houses to act upon the measure. It
is thought, however, that several of the
-rctions, with regard to whiskey und tobacco,
may be embodied in a separate bill and
become a law.
The Prince of Montenegro must be a
model of virtue and self denial. The National
Assembly of the Principality recently voted
him the sum of ten thousand ducats tor the
civil list. This lie magnanimously declined,
saying that half the sum would suffice. The
Assembly insisted, and as a compromise
the Prince finally censented to accept six
thousand ducats.
A great county and river Republican
mass meeting is to be held iu Newburg,
N. Y., on the Fourth of July. The follow
ing - - - 1-- ■• • * -
tHresses on the occasion : Gen. John A.
Logan, Gen. James W. Nye, Hon. John A.
Bingham, and Ex-Gov. George S. Boutwell.
The meeting will probably be the largest
ever assembled on the Hudson.
To the above, the Commercial responds as
follows: “This is refreshingly cool to come
from the organ of a party which is now
doing its level best to seduce a Chief
Justice from bis high Republican moor
ings in order to make a Democratic candi
date of him, and which, fearing to take a
man from its own ranks, endeavors to
smuggle one out of ours.”
The Buffalo Courier says that “military
men accustomed to command seldom pos
sess the virtues attributed by the New
York Time s to Gen. Grant.” That is
perfectly true, and it is that feature of the
ease which makes Gen. Grant’s case so
remarkable. That he had those qualities—
generosity, self-distrust, and magnanimity
in a very high degree, his whole history
proves, and the Courier does not deny.
The Washington correspondent of the
Charleston Courier says General McClellan
has written a political letter, strongly re
commending the selection of Geu. Hancock
as the candidate for the National Democratic
Convention. The letter is not to be published
immediately, inasmuch as it might prejudice
the claims of other candidates, or tend to
produce depression in the Convention.
FACKTIJE.
“Oh, for a thousand tongues 1” as a boy
remarked, when inside a molasses hogshead.
“See ere, mishter,” said a seven year old
Irishman, driven up a tree hy a dog, “il you
don't take that dog away, I'll eat up all your
apples.”
A man describing a church in Minnesota,
writes to a friend : “No velvet cushions in
our pews; we don’t go in (or style. The
fattest person lias the softest seat.”
“Are you near sighted, Miss ?” said an
impudent fellow to a young lady who did not
once choose to notice him. “Yes ; at this
distance 1 can hardly tel! whether you are a
pig or puppy.”
“How old is your mamma V asked a
love smitten old bachelor of the daughter of
the widow who had enchanted him. “I
don't know, sir ; mil’s age varies from about
forty three to twenty five,” was the artless
reply ; and the bachelor was disenchanted.
A good story is told of a boot black whose
energies were taxed by the huge shoes of a
Private just, returned from the war. The
little fellow, kneeling down, looked over his
shoulder to a comrade, and exclaimed:
Lend me a spit, Jim. I've got an army
contract.”
The latest puzzle lias relation to a very
lamentable fact in regard to the present
spring. It is:
C 0
S I
Which a long beaded friend interprets to
mean, “The C t on it backward.”
At an evening party, while the guests
were eating supper, Mr. A iisked Mr. L. to
help him to some polpic. Mr. L. said,
“Certainly, certainly,” and in his hurry
stumbled and fell on the table, his hand
going into the pot pie. The accident was
turned into a joke by Mr. 10., who ex
claimed, “Just help me to some while your
hand is in,”
In a town in which they were making u
railroad was iin ployed it paily of Irishmen,
one of whom went to a neighboring shop
kept hy a Yankee, and asked for a yard of
pork. The Yankee deliberately cut off
three pig's feet and pave them to him.
“Sum is this what you <i be after callin' a
yard of pork ?” asked the Irishmen. “Yes,
indeed; don't three feet make a yard
The biter was hit.
National Republican
iVtTettTgr A . <*-*•
FRIDAY MORNING • June * 9 - 1 8 ® S
{Tor PRESIDENT
Ok tub United States:
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF INDIANA,
lti:t»« l»Ll<\%* ITATFOBHI.
Th* National Republican party of the I niictl State*,
a&tenibletl in National Convention, in the city of Chi
cago, on the 30th day of May, 18flS, make the following
Declaration of Principles :
let. We congratulate the country on the assured «uc
ces» of the reconstruction policy of Congress, aj
evinced by the adoption, iu 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.
3d. The guarantee, by Congress, of equal suffrage to
all loyal men iu the South was demanded by every con
sideration of public safety, of gratitude and of Justice,
and must he maintained, while the question of suffrage
in all the loyal States properiy 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 und abroad, not only
according to the letter, but the spirit of the laws
under which it was contracted.
4th. It is due to the labor of ihe nation that taxation
should be equalised and reduced as rapidly as the na
tional faith will permit.
sth. The uatioual debt, contracted, ns it has been, for
the preservation of the Union for alt time to come,
should be extended over a fair pcritnl 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, ami must continue to pay, so long as repudiation,
partial or total, open or covert, is threatened or sus
pected.
7th. The Government of the United States should be
administered with the strictest economy, and the cor
ruptions which have been so shamefully nursed and
fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for ridical rc-
Btb. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, aud regret the accession of
Andrew Johnson to the Presidency, 9110 has acted
treacherously to the people who elected him ami Ihe
cause he was pledged to support ; has usurped high
legislative and judicial functions; lias refused to exe
cute the laws; 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 citizen; 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 patronage into an
engine of wholesale corruption; and has been Justly
impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, am!
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, lie 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 are enti
tled to be protected in all their rights of citizenship as
though they were natural born, and no citizen of the
United States, native or naturalized, must be liable to
arrest and imprisonment, by any foreign power, for acta
done, or words spoken, in this country, ami if so arrested
and imprisoned, it is the duty of the Government to
interfere in hks 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. 'Hie 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 all nations, should be fostered and encour
aged by a liberal and just policy,
12tli. This Convention declares its sympathy with all
the oppressed people which are struggling for their
rights.
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GEORGIA !
The Presidential Campaign, for 1808,
will be the most important that has ever
claimed the attention of American citizens.
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advantages to he secured by the dissemi
nation of political truths through the
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NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
published every morning (Monday ex
cepted) at Augusta. Gn.. the home of the
Governor elect.
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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 has been hitherto, by uncom
promising loyally to the Union, and will
resist every attempt to weaken the bonds
that unite the American people into one
Nation.
The Repum.uax will heartily support
General Chant and Schuyler Colfax
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
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THE TWO PARTIES.
The democratic leaders claim to be the
friends jntr excellence of the working classes;
yet, tlioy discard the principle of universal
suffrage, and the head of their organiza
tion, Mr. AI’OUSTB Bex.mont, a foreigner
by birth, is the financial representative of
the Rothschilds, who holds the money
bags of Europe. He is os much of a
moneyed aristocrat as any man living, und
has never had the reputation of sacrificing
his pecuniary interests, or those of his
European principals, in any way for the
benefit of the poor man or the promotion
of pure democracy. Thus, while stealing
the livery of democracy to serve the party
in, the democratic organization is as
thoroughly aristocratic as can well he
imagined. It is in direct alliance with the
money lords and rotten monarchies of
Europe, through the chairman of its
national committee, while the machinery
of the party is relentlessly despotic in its
operations. The few wire-pullers com
pletely control the nominations, and every
thing is nicely adjusted to their ideas of
policy—principle being with them a matter
of secondary consideration. They have
always been held together by the “cohesive
power of public plunder,” and their motto
has ever been the infamous one— “to the
victors belong the spoils.” How to gull
the masses and secure the majority of the
votes, is their controlling idea; and they
are willing to espouse any candidate and
adopt any platform that, while appearing
antagonistic to their opponents, are likely
to achieve success.
The republican party proposes to put the
ballot into every man's hand, and bid him
use it for the preservation and promotion
of his rights. In him it vests all power,
and expects him to choose representatives
who will give expression to his will and
act as his agent in the promotion of the
public welfare. It insists that this expres
sion of the popular will, so given through
the ballot-box, shall be respected by all,
and it pledges itself to the support of
human rights and universal freedom. IVhat
more can be expected in the administration
of a popular government ? And if the
true ends of a government of the people
can not be secured through the means of
universal suffrage, as is proposed by the
republican party, in what way can they be
secured t Surely a direct expression of
the will of the people can in no other way
be so effectually and satisfactorily ob
tained.
Between these two great political par
ties, thus constituted, arc the people of the
United States called upon to prepare
themselves to decide. The democratic
party propose restricting suffrage and man
aging nominations through the inexorable
machinery of a party organization headed
by a European representative. The repub
lican party have already put forward the
spontaneous choice of the people, Grant
and Colfax, for the two highest offices in
the gift of the nation; and promise, in
case of their election, to secure universal
Sllffram- nnionr-inl fr.Wlnm on.l univnrant
peace to a distracted and divided Union—
a Union once happy and prosperous, but
now disrupted and ruined by the pernicious
teachings of the self-styled democracy and
the tyrannical working of their party
machinery. In such a fight and such a
cause, the victory can not be doubtful.
The people must prove (rue to themselves,
and rebuke* the demagogues who would
deceive and rob them in the name of
democracy.
REPUBLICANISM.
The powers of the State govern
ment, will soon be in the hands of
the friends of the National govern
rnent. Let them sec to it that the
enemies of peace, good will, prosperity,
liberty, and even life itself, are removed
from every public office and position, and
the friends of the State and general gov
ernment are put in their places. Let a
clean sweep be made, from the highest to
the lowest office. This is just and right
in order to preserve the peace and con
serve the administration of the State
government. Unsound men make un
just rulers. Evil, oppressive men break
up good governments and destroy liberty.
These nre perilous times. Re vigilant to
preserve the nation and to maintain liberty.
Republican reconstruction is now a fixed
fact. Let disunionists murmur, hope, and
despond; leave them to themselves—they
can do no harm. Cultivate peace and
give justice to all.
The Republican theory of progress will
soon take the place of the old Opposition
regime. Republican principles trill govern
in every department of the public service
As sure as the sun rises again to deck the
eastern hills, so sure is “manhood rights’’
a fixed principle in the organic structure
of this government. We bid all good
men hold fast to those rights. With the
election of Grant and Colfax, the temple
ot American freedom and equal rights
will be completed for ages to come.
A FiiHTtE of Speech.— ln a speech
recently delivered before the Young Men's
Democratic Association of New York city,
Mr. RrciiAUD O’Gohman, the Irish orator,
said there wnj a standing army of 50,000
men in the Southern States, maintained
at an annual cost of $100,000,000. So
much for the figure of speech. Matter of
fact statistics—the figures that don't lie—
show the entire number of troops in the
South to be 18,781. Os these, 2,721 are
employed against the Indians, and 2,112
more garrison the forts on the sea coast.
This leaves a total force of 13,500 engaged
in preserving order in the Southern
States. The average cost per man, offi
cers included, is $1,057.76 a year, which,
multiplied by 13,500, gives a total expense
of *14,351,314,00.
This shows the mathematical difference
between the truth and a figure of speech.
■M
The new carriages on the Austrian
railroads have patent locks on the doors,
and when recently the key was lost, no loss
a person than Francis Joseph was -impris
oned for some little time, to the terror of
tiie negligent officials,
TinUD RKSOlUlitfk DEMOCHA TIC I
EL A TtORM.
This third plank ets forth their “con
cord”—their devotion t the "Virginia and
Kentucky resolutions f 1798 and 1799
which ttio results of tit war of the rebel
lion has so effectually killed and buried
that the day of resurrection will never
eomo, let the political trumpeters of De
mocracy blow ovory so loudly ; that they
have “a steadfast faith i a free (?) repre
sentative government,” finch, if it were
really their intentions, jrould not be ob
jected to by anyone, ye.suppose; that
they desire to “renew heir former rela
tions with their Soujiern Democratic
brothers,” having axes p grind and logs
to roll—alt together ri miring all the help
they can get and more (no; and winding
up their grand flourish tith a fling at the
Congress of Ihe United;States, who, in
doing its duty to ihe niole country, has
incurred the ire of tho “Hybrids” calling
themselves the National democratic party-
First paragraph of thir< resolution goes it
strong on the Constitution—argues briefly its
meaning, and expresses fiyrs of the dangers
surrounding it, because ftrsooth, they, just
about these days, do not lijve the manipula
tion of ilie laws made ujdcr it—many of
them, being healthy restrictions upon their
“rule or mitt” policy, espedally tiie Acts of
Congress known as the Reconstruction laws.
Paragraph second is gtjat on economy
and love for the people’s pickets iu a way
that, it is notoriously knonp, never charac
terized tho Democratic jßrty, from Van
Bureu's administration to his day. While
the Pendleton doctrine of repudiation is
scouted, the public debt is held sacred, on,d
a tariff recommended for i.s lull payment;
while they also advocate the removal of the
burthens of taxation now hearing so hard
upon tho dear people—espetially that portion
ot them known as the “Whiskey Ring.”
“Rigid economy” has always been a favorite
catch-word with Democracy—but when was
it ever practiced in their management of the
Government? A specie basis is another
long-exploded fallacy ot theirs, which is not
absolutely necessary, and, in a trading
nation like ours, only required in traffic with
foreigners.
Domestic trade docs not require to he
incommoded with coin as a circulating
medium, but prefers a paper currency for
convenient transmission, and what is better,
just such a currency as wo have now, where
a bill issued by a National Bank in Maine
is at par in Louisiana, aud vice versa. With
some well defined checks and balances
placed in the law creating National Banks>
it is by far tiie best system of banking we
have over known. We weil-rcmember the
great difficulties experienced, not only by
business men, but by every one else, under
tiie old State Bank system. Private Banks
have played out, and it is well so good a
substitute has been found to take their
places. So far from National Banks being
a national calamity, the people have never
hud so great a blessing bestowed upon them
as a currency since the Government was
first formed. It is futile and mawkish
semi,..—f or pseudo democracy to
prate of calamity to the people, when the
bold, palpable, staring fact of the value of
the present currency, not only* exhibits
itself to tiie eye, but visits tiie pockets of
tho masses, there to be kept safely deposi
ted or spent for the benefit of tiie body or
tiie appetite. There is no danger of dis
count and ruinous losses to the, poor who
hold these National Bank notes, for strange
and anomalous as it may appear, tiie notes
of a bio!.-, n National Bank often soil at a
premium of 10 percent.
W s it ever known in all tiie history ol
banking, before this, that a broken bank note
was wortli a premium over a bank in full
credit ? If there is, wo never heard of it,
and for thirty years hack we have been cm
tiie business stage of life. What an exhibi
tion of knavery, then, is it for modern hybrid
Democracy to make the declaration set forth
in paragraph third of the third resolution of
tiie foreshadowed platform of the 4th of
July Convention ? Democratic financiering
jit the past has left no tiail behind it that
commends itself to tiie masses of the people
of our country ; and had we the time and
Ihe ineiin ition we could easily p-oduee tho
tacts ami figures to show the delinquency of
these “currency linkers,” but we have
neither ihe one or the oilier, for tho reason
that on; people, who view the subject in a
common a-.-nsc light, desire no such change
as Demur-racy would bring them, and are as
well posted ns to their wants as we are. We
are well satisfied that the oiap-trap of this
concoction should nut, for a single moment,
weigh a hair in the balance upon the cur
rency ; and we fully believe that the masses
of the people, who have daily proof of the
tangibility and value of the currency of our
country, have no desire lor a change.
How to Avoid Another Ctvn. Watt.—
A correspondent of the Washington
Chronicle thinks that in case the election
of the Republican candidates for President
and Vico Presieent should depend upon
the electoral vote of the Southern States,
there will lie no way of avoiding civil
war, as the Copperheads and Disunionists
will unite in claiming the election by
throwing out those votes, if against them,
or counting them if in their favor. We
doubt very much whether they will ever
again wish to try titles with the sword-
The issue of the late sanguinary contest
is not at all favorable to such a desire.
Hut a very sensible way of dispelling all
doubt nml chance of catastrophe is sug
gested. It is, to make a tremendous rally
and elect Quant and Coi.fax by an over
whelming majority in the loyal States. *
—A man named Newton Stewart, while
in a pleasure lmat near Philadelphia, on
Sunday, jocularly made the remark, re
ferring to (ho crowd on hourd, that if the
children were drowned there would he
more room. On landing in Philadelphia,
Homo time after, a. man rushed at him on
account of the remark and struck him,
knocking him down, so flint Ids head
utruek violently on the curb, causing Ids
dentil in a few hours. The assailant
escaped.
«—*- ■
1 ,iindn«er’« “Deerstalkers” recently sold
in liondou for #B,OOO in gold. Turner's
“Modern Itnly" brought $14,100.
[From oar Special Correapoadont.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Wasiiisotox, D. C., June 15, 1868.
MUNICIPAL,
Our municipal imbroglio continues to be
the town talk. We nre the heat—or worst —
governed people in the world, liaviug two
sets of officors—Republican and Copper
head—throughout. Cougress will pass a
bill to day to untangle tho municipal snarl,
and then there will be a feartul gnashing of
teeth among the Rebels and Copperheads,
for the bill, iu effect, will place the Republi
can Mayor in the Chair; and through the
stubbornness of our opponents in not assem
bling at the proper time, will temporarily
give ns a Republican majority in the two
Boards.
MORK I.AWYKUS.
Another hatch of about seventy five law
yers was turned loose upon the community,
a few days since, by the Professors of the
Columbia College Law School. What they
all propose to do 1 am not quite sure ; but I
am sure that law is a poor profession for
any young man without a large capital in
these parts. But they need not starve, for
tiie Pacific Railroad Company is iu want of
a large torce of laborers.
Wc arc enjoying just now all the luxu
ries peculiar to tiie hot season —boat racing,
German singers, all the way from “fader
laud,” lager beer, soda water, strawberries,
cream, and last hut not least, pretty women.
As yet we arc not threatened with any of
the diseases common to this season of tiie
year.
Congress is likely to remain in session
until the fourth of March next, only taking
a recess from about the middle of July to
the latter part of August. That is the
programme to day. There is an immense
amount of work to be done, and upon its
being well done depends somewhat tiie
majority for Grant and Colfax.
The bill admitting seven of the Southern
States was sent to the President on Satur
day ; it is not known whether he will veto
it or not; opinions as to this nre about
equally divided. If he docs it will cause
only a delay of a few days, for the bill can
easily be passed thruugh botli Houses over
a veto.
The corruption committee of the House
is still in session. Enougit has already
been ascertained to show corruption some
where, but whether it can be traced to the
hands of Senators remains to bo seen. Two
of the recusant Senators, you will perceive,
continue to act with tho Democratic Sena
tors. Capital.
[Communicated.
THE NEW SYSTEM OF PUBLIC
SCHOOLS.
M Esstts. Editors : The undersigned,
teachers of three of the Public Schools of
this city, having read the communication of
Martin V. Calvin, Esq., City Superintendent
of Public Schools, which appeared in your
columns on the 19th May ult., were most
favorably impressed with the same, aud now
desire, in this public manner, to testify to
the ability displayed by Mr. Calvin since his
appointment as Superintendent; and from
our intimate acquaintance with the subject
matter of which he treats in his communica
tion, on the matter of graded schools, and
his often expressed wish to see the standard
of the school elevated, we feel fully justified
in saying that when the Legislature assem
bles, Mr. Calvin’s views should meet with
that calm and cool consideration which the
importance of the subject should at all times
demand. There is no doubt that it would
bo beneficial to teachers and pupils. His
suggestions in regard to the State furnishing
schools and apparatus is a simple net of
justice. Nothing would afford us more sat
isfaction than to see the State Superinteud
ency tendered to Mr. Calvin, and accepted by
him. Respectfully,
Daniel JlcCantup,
Curistis C. Gordon*,
Andrew G. LaTaste.
Augusta, Ga., Jane 18, 18G8.
Unity.— The object which the Republi
can party have in view is the election of
Grant and Colfax, and in order to secure
this result there must be harmony, and
united action and effort. We must let by
gones be by-gones. All old feuds must lie
buried in the sea of oblivion. It matters
not what any man lias been. The only
question is, What is he to day ? Is he
sound now, and will lie support, by all his
might and with honest purpose, the plat
form and its candidates ? The platform
wc know and we approve it, and the can
didates we know and will support them.
Let all, therefore, who desire the overthrow
of the bogus Democracy rally as one man
to the rescue, and a glorious victory awaits
us. *
More Modern Democracy. —The Exam
iner and Enquirer, of Richmond, advises
“tiie white men of Virginia to instruct their
negro employees as to the duty they arc
under to represent, in the votes they-are soon
to be permitted for the last time to east in
\ irginia, the interests ot theiremployers and
of the lands on which they live. Require
them to vole thus or be silent, on pain of
dismissal as soon as their present contracts
cease.”
This seems to us to he a very mistaken
course. Instruct them as much as possible,
hut do not attempt to coerce them. The
blacks of the South now have the suffrage,
and it is not likely tlrlit it will ever be taken
from them. It. is much bettor policy to
make them your friends than your enemies.
— N. Y. Sun.
Well answered, Mr. Sun. In Georgia the
same game was played at our last election,
and tiie same cropping out of rebel senti
ments were plainly visible. It is more than
likely, however, that so far from the blacks
of tho South having “voted for the last time,”
this will be tho case with a large number of
the whites of tiie “E. and I£.” school.
Girardin wants to consolidate the six
Liberal papers of Paris.
Louisa Muhlback says she is too success
ful to mind criticism.
Auber is composing another opera,
culled “Itcves d’Amour.”
A French paper, advertising for an
editor, promises double pay while in prison.
The Princess Dagmar received a $;>2,090
diamond necklace for bringing Russia an
heir.
The Grand Duchese Maria, only daugh
ter of the Czar, is to bo affianced to the
Crown Prince of Saxe Weimar.
Offenbach’s price for anew opera, with
English libretto, was $5,000 down, $25 a
night for the run, and $5,000 on the hun
dredth representation.
The Prussian infantry are being trained
to attack railway ears while in motion, to
the surprise of travellers, who find their
train suddenly hoarded by a dozen or more,
who go through the manual o( arms in the
passage and then jump off.
Charivari has a caricature representing
Mars, his enormous sword hung on a peg
above his head,stretched out fast asleep noon
a pile of very (nil money hags- The reflet
lion is : “lie sleeps, and that is well: but his
mattresses must ho very costly.”
THE DOWNFALt. OF BROOKS.
The world, wo presume, hag not forgotten
ft remarkable valedictory address delivered
by the Ron. James Brooks, last Winter, in
the House of Representatives, wherein, being
a good deal flustered with tho prospect that
persons who were not altogether white might
get into the halls of Congress, ho said some
very fine things about facial angles, hair
with a kink in it, shapely Kgs, the Cau
casian race, and the color of the skin ; and
then, murmuring,
“Good bye, p'ond world, I’m going home,”
(or words to that effect) hurst into tears and
sat down. There was no reason why Mr.
Brooks should have hidden farewell to all his
greatness on that impressive occasion, and, as
our readers well know, he did not go home,
but remains to cheer and encourage mankind,
and will continue, we trust, for many years
to make farewell appearances at frequent
intervals. Neither was there any reason why
Mr. Brooks should have fell special alarm
about tiie negroes just at t4iat time, unless
he happened to he dyspeptic or otherwise
unwell (we have observed that whenever Mr.
Brooks gets “low” he is like a man with
delirium tremens, and constantly sees black
tilings) ; but the speech was a noble one,
aud was several times printed at full length
in tiie Evening Express. Remembering
then how Mr. Brooks put himself squarely
on record as the champion of a pure white
aristocracy, how strong nre his feelings with
regard to skies, skulls, legs, and a fine, fash
ionable head of hair, and how, at the mere
possibility of a dusky countenance passing
the doorkeeper of tiie House of Representa
tives, lie was on the point of seizing his hat
and rushing madly back to New York, fancy
our feelings on learning that Mr. Brooks was
actually seen walking tiie House on Tuesday
arm-in arm with a man of color. Since the
celebrated procession,symbolical of the union
of Massachusetts and South Carolina at the
Philadelphia Convention, no more remarka
ble sight has been witnessed in our country.
Brooks, tiie foremost representative of
Caucasian exclusiveness, treating a dusky
Mongrel as a man ai.d a brother ! Brooks,
with his peculiar feelings about hair,
escorting a Chinaman who wears a pig
tail! IVhere, permit us to ask, shall truth
and consistency be found henceforth ?
The estimable Sun Tnjen who had the
honor of receiving Mr. Brooks’ attentions
on that never to be forgotten Tuesday, is
an Embassador, to be sure, and if he were
only white he would he a gentleman. But
then he isn’t white, and he has not a drop
of Caucasian blood in iiis veins; his facial
angle is altogether wrong ; and wc have
our doubts about his shins. Mr. Brooks,
Mr. Brooks, lion* could you ? For the
empty honor of a place in a curious
pageant, you have turned your back upon
the principles of a life time, and sacrificed
tiie proud preeminence which you have so
long adorned in tiie councils of the nigger
hating Democracy.
They shall march prospering—not through your
presence ;
Songs may inspirit th in not from your lyre.
In the course of a week or so, we dare
say Mr. Brooks will have fallen low enough
to bo willing to ride in tiie same car
with a negro washerwoman, possibly even
to vote for a colored aldc-rmen.— N. 11
Tribune.
Theirs said recently to an Englishman that
if another Dante should write another
inferno, ho has no doubt he would mention
among the dreadful penalties inflicted in
that hot place the reading of Scott’s Life of
Napoleon mid Allison’s History of Europe.
A French actress, more celebrated for her
beauty and frankness than for her intelli
gence and her virtue, was in tiie habit of
attributing her inconsistency to her bad
luck. “The moment l become really attached
t > anybody.” site used to say, “I nui certain
to be introduced to somebody else whom I
like better.”
SPECIAL NOTICES.
jggg-OONSIGNEES I’ER SOUTH CAR
OLINA RAILROAD, Juno IS, IB6S.—J IV
April, J J B, Ooljen A U, M Ream Cos, D
Stelling, I) R Wright ,t Cos, J Kaufman, V Iticb
arJs <f' Rio, George Kahrs ,C Rro, [TJ, C 15,
W II TuU, G i. Penn, V/ C Jessup & Cos, Steven
son A S, S K Dick, J O Mathcwson A Cos, I
Simon J* Rro, I Hatton. ! -1 F It Cook, Wyman
A May, R It 1) A Cos, T W Oanvile, H E Clarke,
11 Meyer.-*, Georgia 11 It Cos, T Sweeney, J D A
Murphy, li 1. A Balk. Col D W Flagler, [T li|
Ifjp CONSIGNEES PER CENTRAL
RAILROAD, June IS, 1868.—W S Royall, T.
Richards A Son, J M Clark A Cos, Torier Flem
ing, C A W A Cos, Mrs A Frederick, J Levy,
Jones, S & Cos, G <t* J Rappold, E Muslin, Chits
Spaetb, Augusta F'aetory, S A Frain, II A Cos,
I’ Ilansbergcr, M Cohen, Plumb A L, Dr J 11a*.-
ton, Moore & Cos, jV], II K Clark, Robert W
Potter, Diana Numeral!, 1) It Strother, M A Cos,
Sehofic'd W A Cos, R M A S Jennings O’Dowd
A M, Mrs J I- Walker, Oscly A W, E Broadbnrst,
!! II Warren, J W Walker,
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Is prepared to furnish GRAIN SACKS of any
desired size or quality, and at short notice.
Also,
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Neatly pi intc<l to order.
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mgr SCRIP DIVIDEND, NO. 1, OF
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Assets Ist of January, 1 Sf>7 $U6,250.57
Wo have received ready for delivery 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.
3lst, 1567. Dividend No. 2 will be issued
January Ist, 18(19.
Persons to whom Scrip is due arc requested
to call ut once and receipt for same.
A (3. GALL, Agent,
jo7—lm 221 Broad street, Augusta, Ga.
Office Tfourvs.
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, TIIK OFFICE
hours of tbo Clerk of Council will bo;
From k o'clock A. M. to 2 P. M.
JAMES N. ELLS,
City llall, June 16, 1868. Clork.
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South- Planters will do well to call on us before
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City Ordinance,
AN ORDINANCE, to provide for the control
and management of persons condemned ft
labor on the Public Works of the City 2
Augusta. 3 91
Ist. Be it Ordained by the City Comal of
gueta, and U is hereby Ordained by the Jkorh.
of the same. That there shall be an cS-r [
Council, to be known as Superintendent of th,
Working Gang, at a salary of *1,200 per annum
which officer may be employed, suspended «I
discharged, by the Mayor, at any time dariee
his official term. 6
2d. He shall be subject at all times to th.
order of the Mayor or the Jail Committee. It
shall be his duty-to receive from the Jailer each
morning, Sundays excepted, those persons able
to work who have been sentenced to laboron
the Public Works, and shall, with such guard,
as the Mayor and Council shall furnish him.
take charge and direction of the same, and &
that they faithfully work. lie shall prevent all
intercourse between citizens and the prisoners
while they arc under his charge. He shall en
forco rigid discipline, and shall punish intubor
dination in such manner as shall be approvedbj
the Mayor and Jail Committee.
3d. It shall be tho duty of the Mayor to order,
or procure, for tho prisoners such clothing ns
the Jail Committee shall decide to be suitable;
which clothing shall bo worn by them until their
discharge. Hot no clothing, tools, or other
urtic ts shall be purchased for the use of the
Working Gang except by order of the Mayor #r
Chairman of tho Jail Coinmiitcc.
4th. The labor of the males, in the Working
Gang, shall bo devoted to the preparation of
rocks for the McAdainizing of the public streets,
unless otherwise directed by special order from
tho Mayor or Chairman of the Jail Committee.
Mb. The hours of labor shall bo from 6to 12
a. m., and from 2 to 5 p. m., which hours shall
not bo changed except by order of the Mijor
or tho Jail Committee.
Be it further ordained, Tin; all Oniinuces
or parts of Ordinances : ilitatiug against this
Ordinance he, and the same arc hereby repealed.
Done in Council, this loth day of June, A. D.
1868. Attest: James N. Ells,
jel7—lOt Clerk of Council.
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AUGUSTA, LA..
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And all Goods not sold by that time will
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Notice.
r pilK COPARTNERSHIP * lKr ' B J,°o|ii
I existing under the naive and sty r « •
& CAR It. Insurance Agents, ws» thu«J a
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'TnilF COMMENCKMKN f EXERCIs® 8 0
JL Colleges will bo hold
At Covington. Wednesday. J ,iae 8
At Penfield, Wednesday, J«U Bth '
At Oxford, Wednesday, July I®^'
At Athens, Wednesday, August sth^
Persons wishing to attend College
meats at either of the above namm l ?Kranche*
l>e passed over the Georgia Railroad »n aQ d
for ONE FARE—full fare rea»'" J *“!f,'icirl
Agent selling such ticket to famish 10 fp*
FREE. Return tickets good for ten 1 ) g,, t .
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