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PAR A GRAMS.
—Yoeterday, in New York, Hold was
quoted at I.4#L Cotton, 30J.
—Charles E. Newhall, a prominent
eitiien of Ljnn, Maas-, committed suicide
on the 15th.
Rhode Island must be a nice liule
State, with a few axes to grind. The legis
lature sat only two days.
—Several wealthy goutlemcu of New
York, representing perhaps twenty million
dollars, n»T6 made a proposition to com
plete the Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
—An infant born in Lincoln rounty, Ten
nessee, on the l-ili of May It*'* ** un
exhibition in Nashville. Its peculainties
nre, that it has four feet and twenty-one toes.
Should the proposed division of Texas
he effecUni, according to the bill now l*cod—
in? in Congress, East Texas would contain
a population ol 500,000, Texas 400,000, and
South Texas 300,000.
known publisher, who purchased a South
Carolina farm last year for 115,000, has a
prospect of pnyiug for it with the peach crop
of the present year.
—A Urge number of hogs nrrive in St.
l.ouis every day, smothered to death on the
cars, and are sold to unprincipled dealers,
who dress them up and put such pork in
market for sale at redueed rales.
—lt is rumored that a sixty four "un
man of war is now on the stocks of a
private yard in New York, being built for
the Spanish Government, to be used in the
war against Peru and Chili.
—The first cotton boll was received at
Memphis on the 17th, from Kgg Poiut, Miss.
The crop reports are generally favorable.
There are some complaints of drouth in
Arkansas and Mississippi.
—lt is now clearly evident that the
English arc going to abandon all attempts
to hold or to annex Abyssinia to the
British realm. The troops under General
Napier are all to be withdrawn. Perhaps
our English cousins have come to the
conclusion thnt it won't pay.
—Captain T. Cartwright, his wife and
children, several guests and a cook, living
at Nashville, Tcnn., were poisoned at dinner
on the 17th. Mrs. C. had, through mistake,
put arsenic instead of soda in some cakes.
All are more or less sick, but none danger
ously.
—St. Domingo advices say the Govern
ment is tuking every precaution against the
revolutionists. Jcshurun, the Jew banker,
is expressing himself very sorry that he
loaned Baez all the money he did. Catrnl
is reported to have been offered all the help
he wants to drive Baer. ofF the island.
—George Bethel, of Memphis, was shot
and killed by Clarence Collier, while
fishing at Ten Milo Bayou, on the 16th.
The murder was deliberate and unpro
voked. Collier, after Shooting Bethel,
reloaded bis shot gun and rode off, defying
arrest.
—Francis Todd, about twenty one years
of age, was bitten in the hand by a small
dog, in New llaven, two or three weeks
ago, and died on Monday evening last, of
hydrophobia. The wound in his hand
was very slight, and no ill effects were
apprehended until Sunday, when it first
grew painful.
—A legacy of s 1,000 is left to the Re
formed Church of Peapaek, N. J., by the
will of Jacob Tiger, deceased, upon condi
tion that the church grounds he kept free
from Canada thistles and wild carrots. If the
growth of such loul weeds is permitted to
any extent, then the legacy is to be for
feited.
—lt is stated that experiments made in
the sewers of Paris, by which sounds can
be carried a great distance, prove that the
rapidity with which sound is conveyed
differs according to the pitch. Low tones
are transmitted more rapidly than high, and
in playing well known airs the succession
of the notes were changed in a surprising
manner, contrary to the generally received
theory.
—An old man named Paul Salomon died
lately in France, who realized a hand ionic
fortune in a few days. During the tumultu
ous days of 1830 lie bought up all the red,
white and blue ribbons in Paris, from which
lie manufactured the tricolor rosettes. This
operation yielded him $30,000 in twenty
four hours. He then ordered five hundred
thousand metres of tricolor ribbon, all of
which were disposed ol in rosettes at four
cents each.
--A double white camelia, with fifteen
hundred expanded flowers and an equal
number of buds, was recently exhibited at
the great Horticultural show at Ghent. There
were also to he seen on a plant of Camelian
Chandlf rii, one thousand expanded and many
in bud, with a like number on a plant of
Camelia Imbricate. These plants formed
cones about fifteen feet through at the base,
and an equal height. They were all very
insignificant plants in pots ten years ago.
—Fordham, the English jockey, who rode
Suzeran and won the French Derby this
year, and also the rider of the Marquis of
Hastings’ Lady Elizabeth, earns £4,000 a
year in the business. What makes him
especially sought as a rider of running
horses is, that when two horses are finishing
neck and neck, he possesses the extraordi
nary knack of suddenly elevating the head
of the animal he is riding, and so winning
"by a nose 1”
—lt is rumored that “one of Chief Justice
Chase’s daughters has captured one of
Virginia’s most brilliant sons—one whose
position and talents, if linked with such a
Northern source, might he most fortunate
in its public effects It is only necessary to
elate that rumor begins the name of this
gentleman with an A, in order to inform
all who are familiar with Virginia politics
or literature who this captive is.’’
—ln the course of a discussion in the
British Parliament, in 1805, a Mr. Ball
presented this overwhelming argument
against a free school system of education
as adopted : “If a national system of edu
cation is adopted, the children of rnv
tenants will be sent to school; if the
children of my tenants are sent to school,
my turnips will not be weeded ; if my
turnips are not weeded, I shall eat fat
mutton no more.”
-A eurious inquirer having taken the
trouble to examine into the character of a
so called “working men's liberal conserva
tive” meeting lately held in England,
discovered that the “working men” con
sisted of the following persons; Three
justices of the peace, nine members of the
town council, one doctor of medicine,
three gentlemen, four solicitors, one
brewer, one navy agent, one farmer, ten
tradesmen, one timber merchant, nrnl
three licensed vietualers.
—One or two .points relative to the
decision by the House of Lords on the
copyright case are further explained by the
arrival of later mails. It seems that to
secure copyright an American author must
publish first in Great Britain, and also that
publication must take place in the United
kingdom. Works published in Canada or
in any ol the colonies are entitled only to
local copyright. Works issued in England,
Wales, Scotland, or Ireland, are pioteeted
in every part of the kingdom.
National Republican
AUHtTWTA. OA..
TUESDAY MORNING Juns 2?, W 8
'i\>r PRESIDENT
Or tub United States:
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF IXD/A Alt.
HRPI OLHMK PlsATFOnilf.
The National Republican party of the United SUte-s
assembled In National Convention, In the city of Chi
cago, on the 30th day of May, 1808, make the following
Declaration of Prlndplet :
Ist. We congratulate the country on the assured auc
coaa of the reconstruction policy of Congress, a j
evinced by the adoption, in a majority of the Mates
lately in rebellion, of Constitution* aecuriiig equal civil
and political right* to all, and regard it as the duty of
the Government to sustain those institutions, and to
prevent the people of such State* from being remitted
to a state of anareby. , _ , _.
2d. The guarantee, by Cougress, of equal suffrage to
all loyal men in the South was demanded by every con
sideration of public safety, «f gratitude and of Justice,
and must be maintained, while the question of suffrage
in all the loyal State* properiy belongs to the people of
those States.
3d. We denounce all form* or repudiation as a na
tional crime, and the national honor requires the pay
ment of the public indebtedness, in the utmost good
faith, to all creditors, at home and abroad, not only
according to the letter, but the spirit of the laws
under which it wui 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 national debt, contracted, as it has been, for
the preservation of the Union for all 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 houestly be done.
oth. That the best policy to dimhiiih 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 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 ecouomy, and the cor
ruptions which have been so shamefully nursed and
fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for radical re
form.
Bth. Wc profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession of
Andrew Johnson to the Presidency, who lias acted
treacherously to the people who elected him and the
cause be was pledged to support; lias usurped high
legislative and judicial functions; has refused to exe
cute the laws; has used his high office to induce other
officers to ignore and violate the laws; lias 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; anti has been Justly
impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and
properly pronounced guilty thereof by the vote of
thirty-five Senator*.
oth. The doctrine of Great Britain and other European
powers, that because a man is once a subject, ne is
always so, roust be resisted nt 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 citizen* are enti
tled to be pioteeted in all their rights of citizenship as
though they were natural bom, and no citizen of the
United State*, 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 live* in the service of the country. The bounties
and pension* 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 ward3 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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GRANT'S PRACTICABILITY. ‘
The same qualities which enabled Gen.
Git ant to ptfHbrtn the decisive part in the
war, lit him for a leading part in the great
settlement which is to follow the war.
The same comprehensive and accurate
foresight and insight by which he carried
every one of lus great campaigns, without
a single exception, to a successful issue,
may still he made just as serviceable to
his country in frustrating the manceuvres
and machinations of treason and faction,
and securing nil the due fruits ol pence.
’flic same practical management of men
which got such grand patriotic work out
of the hearts anil limbs of soldiers from
every State, will avail just as effectually
in getting the best civil service from all
true Union men in every part of the
country.
The same discernment of character
through which, as commander, he infalli
bly selected the fittest officer, for each
special line of duty, and the same un
jealous and noble spirit by which he
animated them all with his own public
devotion, will, in like manner, give splen
did unity, compactness, and efficiency, to
his civil administration.
In a word, the whole round of high
faculties and qualities which empowered
Git ant to consummate one of the most
magnificent military triumphs on histori
cal record, will assuredly secure him from
any failure in organizing victory.
TIIE WHISKEY CRISIS.
The public are advised, through Wash
ington telegrams, that the whiskey ring is
in greater force at the Capital now than at
any previous time. Their object is to
prevent a reduction of the tax on whiskey.
The Committee on Ways and Means have
been instructed to report a tax bill
whiskey and tobacco. The whiskey ring
do not expect to he able to keep the tax
up to $2 if the bill should he acted upon.
Few Congressmen would dare to vote for
such a tax, in the face of the prevailing
sentiment. The plan, therefore, is : First—
To delay the report of the Ways and
Means Committee. Second—To prolong
debate in the House until members become
clamorous for adjournment, and then
secure a tedious debate in the Senate.
Third—ls it should finally pass, bring
about a Presidential veto. In this way
they hope to have an adjournment before
the hill can become a law. This would,
of course, leave the tax where it is now,
and the whiskey thieves would have eight
months more to operate in, which would
enable them to steal about sixty millions.
P. S.—Our dispatches state that the new
tax bill places whiskey at sixty cents —-
still leaving a wide margin for rascality.
AGRICULTURE IN THE SOUTH.
The zeal which the people of the South
have displayed in the development of her
agricultural resources, promises rich and
satisfactory returns for their labor. The
close ot the war found out - people greatly
impoverished, with little hope of speedy
improvement. Their plantations had been
injured by the ravages of war; their
laborers had been scattered, so that nothing
remained to them but their fertile lands
and their own perseverance and energy.
The prospect before them was gloomy; but
they proved themselves superior to their
condition, and, with a manly effort, turned
their attention to the cultivation of the
soil. Few among them cared for political
discussion. They had suffered too much
from the influences of demagogues to
remain longer in their toils. The war had
taught them the folly of political ambition,
and, true to the lesson, they have been
willing to devote themselves to such pur
suits as will ensure to them the present
means of livelihood, and ultimately con
duce to the wealth and influence of our
sunny clime.
From all parts of the South we receive
the most gratifying intelligence of success
in husbandry. In our own State, corn and
cotton promise abundant harvests; the
fields look thrifty, and hope tills every
heart. In South Carolina, agricultural
labor is equally rewarding. '1 he lines of
steamers from Charleston to New York
and Baltimore enable our neighbors over
the river to find a ready market for their
produce, and the activity in the exporta
tion of early vegetables is unprecedented
in her history. The value of this business
may be partly estimated from the fact,
that from the middle of April to the
present time over ten thousand crates of
green peas, string beans, cucumbers and
squashes, and over eight thousand barrels
of potatoes have been exported from the
port of Charleston alone, affording to the
producers a net profit of nearly sixty-two
thousand dollars. Those vegetables arc by
no mentis the staple productions of this
State, but may give an idea of what
skill and industry may do when applied to
the fertile lands of the South.
The people of our section have already
entered the path that leads to wealth and
influence. We will in a few years recover
from the effects of war, if wc steadily apply
ourselves to the work which wo have so
well begun. There is no one more inde
pendent, on God’s green earth, than the
tiller of the soil. Removed from the con
tingencies of mercantile life, relieved from
the doubts and fears of the mechanic, and
without the vexations and cares incidental
to a professional tareer, he depends only
upon his own energy and industry, supple
mented’by the favoring smiles of Heaven
Wo live in an ago and country where honest
toil is always well requited, where Ceres
is more potent than Mars, and where the
golden harvest is the nation’s wealth.
Asa reunited people, wo shall soon enter
upon anew and hopeful future. If w e are
true to the opportunities before us, and
within our power, we shall make this land
the granary of the world, and from the
bosom of our fertile soil obtain a wealth
greater and better than any to !<c gained
from our mines ot gold.
—•The yellow fever is still prevalent at
Vera Cruz, and the cholera has again
broken out at Matunzas, in Cuba,
THE IN El. A TION RILL.
Mr. Sukhmax’s bill to increase the Na
tional Haak circulation twenty millions more,
in order to supply States that have not their
proportion, aud to prohibit the banks from
paying interest to each other on their de
posits, who amended so as to withdraw circu
lation from States which have more, to give
to States which have less, thus making a
redistribution without any increase. It was
also amended by striking out the prohibition
of paying interest on deposits. As thus
amended it become a very different thing.
The prohibition of interest on deposits would
have neutralized the grant of more circula
tion to remote hanks; for if circulation is
distributed according to locality, and not
according to business, the remote banks will
need to send their circulation to New York
and draw interest on it, in order to get any
benefit.
- It is to be remarked that, at a time when
motley is a drug in Mew Y’ork, in conse
quence of the interior hanks depositing their
money there to draw interest, because they
cannot find safe (tse for it in the channels of
trade at homo, the Finance Committee of the
Senate have imagined it necessary to author
ize more circulation to the interior banks, in
order to distribute the money. They are
essaying to distribute by means of legislation,
while the laws of trade* gather it in the
money centres. *
| From tho Utica Ilcrald.
THE DEMOCRATIC SITUATION.
The Democratic leaders appear to bo in
as “sad a predicament” now as they were
in the days “lang sync,” when the poetaster
said,
“They have six horses in tho pasture,
And don’t know which can run tho faster,’’
and they met with a Tippccanoo defeat in
IS4<), and had their inner works stormed by
the hero of Buena Vista in 18-18. Then, the
trouble was too many statesmen in their
ranks, each equally capable and equally
deserving. Now, there is a dearth of eligible
material in the party, and they are much in
the fix of the author of Don Juan—“in want
of a hero.” They have nothing with which
to make a respectable show since the last,
and, for them, most unfortunate of the
“giants” expired with Stephen A. Douglas.
There is no man left among them capable of
rallying and inspiring the rank and file ; and
Diogones might go through their entire line
of would-be Generals, with his lantern, and
not satisfy himself that he had discovered
anything better than a demagogue.
To add to the difficulties in the Democratic
camp, tho factions of the East and of the
West are now apparently in more hopeless
antagonism than were those of the North
and South in 1860. In 1864, the East
succeeded in controlling tho National Con
vention. They dictated the platform and
named the Presidential candidate, who was
allowed to accept the nomination and sub
stitute his own platform for that adopted by
ihe Convention, This was exceedingly
humiliating and irritating to the West, who
now —partly in revenge and partly as a right
—are determined to have their own candi
date and control the making of the platform.
Their first choice is Pendleton. If they
cannot get him, they would take Hendricks,
or Woodward, or any other peaC3 Democrat,
who is “loose” on tho financial question.
But a war Democrat and a “bondholder’s
friend,” they nre determined never to accept.
To back them, these is quite a numerous
taction of peace Democrats in New York
city, and tho East, of the Thomas 11. Sey
mour and John McKeon stripe, who will
labor hard to break down the Tammany
Hall “ring” and the influence of the national
committee.
The Tammanyites and the national com
mittee, aided by Horatio Seymour and the
World newspaper, want a man utterly op
posed to any form of repudiation, but con
scious of the danger of the situation, they
touch very lightly on the greenback question.
Despairing of securing the nomination of a
man avowedly in favor of paying the public
debt acci/ptling to contract, they will struggle
hard to nominate a man who is non-com
mittal on the financial question, and can be
readily moulded to their wili. McClellan
aud Farragul are both in training by the
national rommittee, and we suspect it is in a
measure through their influence that a
diversion has been gotten up in favor of
Chase. They will do almost anything rather
than allow the reins of the party to pass into
the hands of the western repudiators and
tlrcir friends, the peace Democrats. It was
no doubt with a view to the counteraction
of the greenback influence of the West
that tire committee decided to hold the
national convention in New York. They
hopi (1 by ibis to be the better able to ma
nipulate the members and control its pro
ceedings.
But in this they made a great, if not a
fatal mistake. Tho movemeut was ut once
seen through and taken advantage of by the
friends of Mr. Pendleton and ol repudiation
It lias been turned against the committee by
the. peace Democrats, and the Western dele
gation will enter the Convention clothed in
triple mail, as did the friends of Douglas at
Charleston. It now seems inevitable that
the end will he either an unconditional sur
render ol I'.-iuimany and the committee to
the colon t.s of repudiation, or a hopeless
disruption of the Democratic! party. But,
“we shall sec what we shall see.”
DEMi >CR 1 TIC INS TINCT.
Nothing affords a clearer illustration o
the utter confusion and demoralization o
the Democratic party than certain of the
party newspapers. The struggle to be upon
both sides of the fence lit once, to please the
pence men mid the war men, the repudiators
and the holiest debtors, is very absurd and
very edifying. It is a continuation of the
noble Democratic policy during the rebellion,
which consisted in supporting the war and
opposing its prosecution. The only hearti
ness left to tho party organs is in their
sneers nt the war, their ribaldry against the
colored race, and their hatred of equal
rights. Their acceptance of the results of
the struggle is reluctant and formal. One
ol These papers lately published a long
article stating what the Democratic platform
ought to be. It remaiked that the average
judgment of, tho party is that “the late
civil war was, by itself, a necessary exer
cise of the authority of a constitutional
Government to put down a rebellion.” But
n few days utter the same papor, which hud
thus formally justified the war, showed its
real feeling, ttie feeling that it could not
C nieeal while the struggle was still pending,
by alluding to a phrase in one of Dr. Bel
lows' letters, which speaks ol the cotton
fields of the .South : "'The' cotton fields I ’
exclaims the paper: "‘our' cotton fields,
Doctor; price, a half million lives and six
thousand times that many dollars, and now
growing, under the beneficent iegis of Iree
dom, the very best weeds that over you
saw.”
This is in tho most characteristic Demo
cratic vein, A war which is conceded to be
necessary, ends victoriously lor the Govern
ment, abolishes the most odious slavery,
redeems tho honor and humanity ol the
national name, aud removes the great
disgrace and disaster of the country, and the
contemptuous organ of a “Democracy” that
did all the dirty work of slavery can only
gibe at “Freedom,” — Harper's Weekly.
A TtHP HOME.
Lexington, June 20, 1868.
Hear Easy Chair: We bid you farewell
at 7 a. in., and took the Georgia Railroad
Day Train up. The small shower of last
night had given elasticity to everything,
braced up the physical man, and made
on o feci like he had anew lease on life,
while inhaling tho delightful morning air.
I’ho employees of tho train wore accommo
dating, pleasant, and agrocablo, and it
wont along smoothly and with celerity.
At Berzolia, where a halt was made for
breakfast, we found Mr. Nebhut, as usual,
had a variety of comestibles, which, to a
hungry man, aftor a morning ride, was
not to he ignored. Wo took special care
to view the crops of corn and cotton along
the Road, and we never saw them better
at this season of tho year. Both may bo
somewhat smaller than usual, but bear a
tine, deep, rich green color, giving the
prospect to tho planter of a good return.
From Union Point down to below Crftw
fordville a good rain fell last night.
On the branch to AthoDS, within a few
days, rain has fallen, and we noticed many
places where the crops were bette r than on
the main road. The gardens seem to have
suffered the most. The wheat crop has
nearly all been harvested, and is being
thrashed and cleaned as fast as possible.
The universal opinion is, that an average
wheat crop will be made throughout all this
section. Oats are being cut, and while
there is a good crop made there seems to
be a deficiency in the corn supply, and n
great deal of the crop will be used to feed
plow stock with. On Friday (yesterday) a
storm passed over the Lexington depot,
with severe lightning and thunder. A
young colored woman, within one mile of
the depot, while in the act of carrying
some wood to her house, was stricken down
by a flash of lightning and instantly killed.
Her clothes were set on lire, aud her body
severely scorched.
Rains are passing around, and the
parched earth welcomes tho refreshment,
while the vegetable kingdom rejoices in
the renewed strength thus given to it.
The fruit crop promises to be enormous,
and no doubt many a gallon of pure and
unadulterated peach brandy, plum brandy,
and “apple jack” will be the result; not to
say anything of blackberry wiue, which has
become so universal in the domestic menage,
that one would hardly find an exception to
the general rule in an extended peregrina
tion over Middle Georgia. Until we become,
as we will in time, a wine growing people,
we shall not be what Providence designed—
we have no doubt that we should be in our
parallels of latitude. With a climate unap
proachable by any other—with water as pure
and as plentiful as heart could desire, we can
see no reason why, in the new era already
inaugurated by the arduous labor of the
Itepublicaus, our Empire State does not
become the Eden of America. The Empire
State o! the South (so called during the
ancient regime) is destined, under Providence,
'to become really an Empire of all that makes
earth habitable—all that the most enthu
siastic may predict for her greatness, and
all that sober reason in its solid re
sults may require. Provided, those
of us who have gone through much tribula
tion, are allowed to pursue the subject to
certain and fixed ends. Otherwise we can
not look with hope to the future; for, say
what you will, the Republican parly, to
whom has been committed the welfare, pro
gress, and ultimate prosperity of our common
country, commending itself to any patriot,
must have the control, if we would succeed
in the grand development. “Rule or ruin”
Democracy have not one single claim to
ascendancy, and those citizens who blindly
follow the Ben Hills and Ratisc Wrights and
Bob Toombs of the country neither deserve
our aid or sympathy, because they know the
past, and are consummate fools if they hope
for anything from such leaders in the future.
Instead of trying to build up the ruin they
have made, they are now endeavoring to
raze tho very broken down pillars of the
edifice. If it were possible, it is a pity but
that such men—such recreant sons of the
sunny South—could buried under the
debris to eternal infamy. Like the cast-up
surf wood of the sea, they are valueless
waifs upon the surface, and should he
allowed to decay and rot upon the beach of
rebellion, where they have been cast up high
and dry. R.
CnASE.—The following is from the New
York Times. Read it:
The Democratic candidate for the Presi
dency suits us to a dot. As one of the
distinguished soldiers in the war for the
Union, he has a record of which any loyal
man might be proud. As an uncompro
mising opponent of the cruel war waged
against the South, he deserves the support
of every ma i who is faithful to the traditions
of the party. As the originator and founder
of. greenbacks, be not only sustained the
credit of the nation, but enabled ns to build
up a solid superstructure of honorable debt.
As the abolislier of debt, credit, greenbacks,
arid honor, he has a great work yet before
him. Asa believer in negro rights and
universal suffrage, he has shown his devotion
to the most advanced principles of freedom.
Asa supporter of tho doctrine that this is a
white man’s government, and an admirer of
the Died Scott decision, ho holds out large
hopes of peace and harmony in the future.
No one should refuse to vote for him without
thinking seriously over his varied merits.
A Canadian Miracle —A Man Fed jiy
the Vißiii.v.- A Canadian paper, the Unis
des Cantons, relates the following eurious
story :
A young man, named Joseph Lc Clere,
son of a farmer living in the township of
Somerset, Eastern Township, aged about
thirty years, and dumb from his birth, who
is described as a “model of piety,” though a
little imbecile, left bis father's house on the
2d of May, and, to the great alarm and
sulicitudo ol his parents, could not be found
anywhere up to the 18th of the same month.
On this day ton men went out in search
of the truant, and, after some search, found
him on tho hanks of tho Itiviere Noire, not
far from its junction with the Becauour, He
was without shoes, and lightly clad; but
although the weather lor some time previous
hadfbeeu almost wintry, he did not seem to
have suffered from cold. To the eager
questions put to him by tho discoverers, he
gave tho following account of himself:
Seeing that he had lost his way, he lay down
and considered how ho might best employ
his time.
lie then set to work to clear the bush,
and had actually succeeded in making
about a quarter of an acre of ground
tolerably presentable, 110 averred that lie
had never suffered the least front hunger ;
that a tall lady in white, very beautiful
and amiable, had every day brought him
two supplies of food, consisting of a sort of
large round biscuit, far better than any
biscuits lie lmd ever seen before. She
came to him, flying, and at night covered
hint carefully with a large quilt, which
kept him quite warm. All this he related
in a simple, natural manner, without any
sign of deoeption.
The article concludes thus:
These are the certain facts. Who can
explain them otherwise than by a mysteri
ous protection of Heaven? If not, wo
must start many suppositions, and it is
moro natural to believe that tho Holy
Virgin condescended to take care of this
young man, and to restore him in safety
to his family as a roward for his virtue.
—There is a fig tree in Ceylon 2,155
years old. Its history is preserved by both
documentary and traditional evidence.
THE'MYSTERIES OF FINANCE ..
Untied Stales lies for twenty yearn
owed 98,000,000 of six per cents, borrowed
in 1848 to prosecute the war then being
waged against Mexico. The debt falls due
on tbe Ist of Jftly, now close at hand. The
Government has the coin in vault to pay this
debt, with a good deal more. In Wit, it has
lor two years or more kept fifty to ouo hun
dred millions of coin on hand—to no good
end, so far as wc can see—instead of using
it as fast as it came in to pay off debt, and
thus improve its credit. Had the Secretary
of the Treasury—for wc may as well speak
right out—seen fit thus to use hie surpluses
as fast as 1 hoy accrued, we believe he would
have saved at least ten millions of interest,
while decidedly appreciating the National
credit. We firmly believe that the premium
on gold for the last two years would have
ranged at least five per cent, lower than it
has done had no considerable surplus of
coin been allowed to accumulate in the
Treasury.
All this we have urged till our readers
must be weary of its repetition. AVe rather
like Mr. McCulloch on the whole, and heartily
wish he would let us like him better still.
We pretend to no skill in the intricaciei and
subtleties of finance. We have no “scheme”
for paying off the national debt otherwise
than by flat-footed taxation. We believe it
must be paid by honest sweat, and that the
process, so happily begun, should never have
been arrested, nor even slackened. We
believe that, had the people evinced a stern
resolve to pay at least $>100,000,000 per
annum of the principal till the last bond was
canceled and burned, we might now be
funding our five twenties in ten-forties so
fast as tho option matures, aud thus saving
$20,000,000 per annum of coin interest. In
short, while we repose as much faith in
McCulloch as he will permit, we admire hi3
Fort Wayne speech and annual reports a
great deal more than we do his every-day
doings. He “talks like a book;” we only
wish he would act as well.
Wc arc moved, so to speak, by a cat
like purring suggestion in certain quarters
that the Government wed rvd pay off the
Mexican War Loan aforesaid at maturity—
that the holders arc perfectly willing to let
it stand awhile and draw interest as it has
done since it was negotiated. Wc havn’t
a shadow of doubt of it. But what possible
reason—we mean what honest, avowable
reason—can the Treasury have for paying
interest longer on this matured loan ?
Why shouldn’t it be paid off and cancelled
the very day it falls due ? Why should
there be a thought, a hint, of any other
course ? Tribune.
Have Patience. —Some of our readers
who like a blood and thunder editorial in
every paper, think strange that the Star is
so quiet now-a-days, but don’t stop to reflect
what we may have to do within twenty
days. Just now we are in tho fix of the
Irishman who prayed “Good Lord, good
devil; for faix,” said he, “ l don't know
whose hands I may fall into.” Some of
our Southern cotemporaries are belaboring
Chase with all the vituperation at their
command, when it is quite probable he may
receive the New York nomination, and these
very papers will have to eat their words of
condemnation, fall into line, and support
him. Then they will be at infinite pains to
explain away what they arc now saying.
Not only this: they may have to swallow
negro suffrage even in some form or other.
For ourselves, we hold ourselves in readiness
to support the action of the New York Con
vention, even if it contains a resolution in its
platform to annex Fluto’s domains to the
United States, including demon suffrage aud
all the other suffrages and sufferings. Any
thing now to beat Grant, and to escape the
existing despotism. IPe can't be worsted I
If Chase is the man, up goes our hat for
Chase, and Mrs. Sprague, especially the
latter. Meanwhile we will possess our souls
iu patience for a few days longer, nor pre
sume to dictate to Ihe assembled wisdom of
tbe so-called Democracy.— Griffin Star.
Ku-Klcx. The Cincinnati Enquirer
warns Western delegates that if they sell out
to the World-ring and nominate an expedi
ency candidate, they will find it expedient to
seek new homes, as their own States wili be
too hot for tin in. This indicates danger
lurking all around —danger that Pendleton
delegates may cave in, and danger of terrible
consequences, if they do. None but genuine
Ku-Kluxes should bo put oil guard in such
an hour of danger. If the party will not
“lake the World as it is,” perhaps the
World w ill be so obliging as to accommodate
itself to the party. The poet tells us —
The World i? not so bail a H’orW
As sonio would wish to make it,
Bat whether good or whether bad
Depends on how you lake it—
which we suppose means whether you pay
for it or have it sent to you gratis during the
campaign.
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DELEGATES TO NEW YORK CONVEN
TION desiring to go via Charleston and
New York steamers, can procure Tickets for the
round trip at Passenger Ticket Office. Return
Tickets good until July 31st, inclusive.
je‘^o—eod'Jt JOHN E. MAULEY, Agt.
Notice to Citizens.
rpilE ATTENTION OF THE CITIZENS OF
1 AUGUSTA is railed to the following para
graph of the Thirty First Section of the Geuerat
Ordinance —and arc hereby notified that from this
date the Ordinance will be rigidly enforced :
“It eluill ho tho duty of nil holders of lots or
lands, whether the same he enclosed or unen
closed, to keep them clean and dry: they shall
permit no sink to contain water, hut shall till up
all low places on said lots or lands, in such manner
us to pass off the water, and shall, every day.
except the Sabbath, remove from said lots or lauds
all decayed and decaying vegetable and animal
substances, and in general everything tending to
corrupt the air, and place tho same (in convenient
heaps) in the streets opposite said lots or lands,
and twenty feci from iheir boundary, between
daylight und niue o'clock in the morning; and no
person slmll throw trash or filth into the streets,
from his or her lots or lands, at any other time
than between daylight aud nine o’clock a. nt., nor
on the Sabbath day.’’
By tinier of SAMUEL LEVY,
Chairman Hoard of Health.
Jas. N. Et.t.s, Clerk of Council. je3o—lOt
City papers copy three times.
Baiber, Carr & Cos.,
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS.
A COUAUTNKRSHII* FIRM, AS ABOVR,
has this day been formed for the purpose
of carrying on a GENERAL INSURANCE
BUSINESS. The further patronage of thoirold
friends is respectfully solicited liy tho firm.
Augusta, Ga., Juno 13, 1868, je!4—ltn
_ SPECIAL NOTICE^ 59
Gzmbai. BtJr*ElXTl,D^T'ro7: —-
G.OMIA RaiLBOAS cY
Augusta, Ga, 18ih June. W f
nr- business tickets,EkiTthl
tha holder to ride Oac Thoaiwd v-t L ‘' I,J
Georgia Kail road and branebej, aad thl * **
and Augusta Railroad, can be had so V’*'*
Five Dollars, on application to J i r 1
General Ticket Agent.
Minister, of the Gospel, txaMg*. .
Roads from point to point, on M.ui.ZJ, ,
will be furnished with authority, by tk, ,
Agents, to travel at half rates.
E W. COLE,
as ..
Atlanta, Millcdgcviile, Atheni, Co* H
Madison, Greensboro, Washington,
papers copy daily one month and wo-k' l *''*
times. , so
> -• .
mr GItA IN AND FLOnTSgj;
The old established
‘•Corn Exchange Ba~ Nairn W
Is prepared to furnish GRAIN SACKS «f
desired size or quality, and at short n,
Also,
COTTON AND PAPER FLOUR g AC£s
Neatly printed to order.
Information promptly furnished upon
tion - W. B. ASTEN a co
Je 17—4tm 25 Pearl Street, No* Yurttty
M&~ SCRIP DIVIDENdTSTTv
TIIE GEORGIA HOME INSURANCE cr.
of Columbus, Ga. 1
Assets Ist of January, 1867 s4l6s!^
We have received ready for delivery the •
of Dividend No. 1, amounting
of tho net premiums paid on parting,’
annual policies, on polids: foued during so
nine months interval from April Ist to lw
31st, 1867. Dividend No. 2 will h c
January Ist, IS6'J.
Persons to whom Scrip is due arc nmtot
to call at once and receipt for same.
A G. HALL, A’ent
ij L
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ~~~
ALBERT G. HALI|~
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT,
221 BBOAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, (JA.
Tj'IRE, LIFE, AND MARINE INSURANCE
J- effected to any amount in the most reliable
Companies in the country.
Tho following Companies are especially rente.
sented by him :
The QUEEN INSURANCE CO., of London
Liverpool.
The GEORGIA HOME INSURANCE C0.,0f
Columbus, Ga.
Tho NORTH AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE
CO., of Hartford, Conn.
The JEFFERSON INSURANCE! CO, g {
Pcottsviile, Va.
Tho NORWICH FIRE INSURANCE CO, of
Norwich, Conn.
The JAMES RIVER INSURANCE CO, ol
Montreal, Va.
The INSURANCE & SAVING CO, of Rich
mond, Va.
The UNION FIRE INSURANCE CO, of Belli
more, Md.
The VIRGINIA INSURANCE CO, of Stun
ton, Va.
A LSO,
Tho MANHATTAN LIFE IN.-UR ‘.NCE CO,
of New York. Cash Assets, $!,351,773.0.
je23— ly
IN BANKRUPTCY.
U. S MARSHAL'S OFFICE, j
Atlanta. Ga.. Jmte 12.1868.)
rpms IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on tie
I 19th day of June, A. I).. ISOS, a War
rant in Bankruptcy was issued against the es
tate of
JAMES J. MORRISON,
of Atlanta, in the county of Fulton, and Sate
of Georgia,who has been adjudged Bankrupt onte
o wu petitiomand that the payment of any debtsand
delivery of any property belonging to said Bat
rnpt, to him or for his nee, and the transfer of ant
property by him. are forbidden by law: that a
meeting of tbe creditors of said Bankrupt, lo
prove their debts, aud to choose one or mote
assignees of Itis estate, will he held at aUotmof
Bankruptcy, to he boldeu at the Register f office,
in tho United States Hotel, Atlanta, Georgs,
before Lawson Black, Register, on the Wli
of June, A. D. 1368, at 10 o’clock a. m
CHARLES H. ELYEA,
my'23 -It U. S. Dcp. Marshal as Messenger.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT
I United States for the Southern District ot
Georgia.
In the matter of j -m'Y
EDWARD J. PURSE, I IN BAN Mil PA*
AM) ? ~ ,•
STEPHEN A M PURSE, | No. 10.
Bankrupts. j
The said Bankrupts having petitioned the
for tl discharge from all tliell ' uel ,". s l’ r o 0 ( I ab j!to is
the Bankrupt Act of March -J,
hereby given to all persons interested to»PP«
on the 24t1» -lay of July,. 18«>, at 9
at Chambers of said District ( onrt,
Hesse Hi ne, Esq., one of the Registers of®
in Bankruptcy, at his office at.the conns s
and Drayton streets, Savannah, Georgia,
show cause why the prayer ol the studpe
( lie Hank runts should not be granted.
t her notice is given that the
meeting* of creditors will be he.d a
time and place. ~ . , tvAioe.
Witness, the Honorable Joln E^
[skaa] Judge of said Court »t
Georgia, this 20th day « ’
JAMES MePHEUSOF.
je33—law3w 9?--
IN THE DISTRICT COURT o*Jf
I United States, for the Northern
Georgia.
In the matter of j „ ~. vi-tiI'PICY
W. A. QUINN, |IN BANkßfirlv*
of the firm of I- . ...
W. I). &W. A. Qt-isx, I
Bankrupt. ' j i c«ut
The said Bankrupt having petitia*”Si
for a discharge from all Ins dekj* 1’ I‘ «
the Bankrupt Act of March -d,
hereby given to all persons mterestrf
on the 18th day of July, IS*"-, at I . .
forenoon, at chambers of the said * f ‘N Register
before G.’.'uett Andrews, Esq., one of
of the said Court in Bankruptcy, at t f
office, in the city of Washington.
cause why the prayer of the said [ , fu fot
Bankrupt chonld not be granted. .
notice is given that the second .
ings of creditors will be held at the
and place. ~ , hn Eriki*
Witness, the Ilonorablo JoW“ g
[SBAt.J Judge of said Court, this
June, 1868. ggjtf,
Clerk
joJ3—law3w
Excursion!
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