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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 The troops under General Napier are all to be withdrawn.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. TO OUIi COUNTRY SUBSCRIBERS. Wc are now winding out bills (which arc lon-; past due) for Subscription. Those receiving a reminder will please nt once remit the amount, else their papers will be discontinued. For the Campaign! Till: CHEAPEST IMP Ell IN r.EOßta.i r The Presidential Campaign, for 1868, will be the most important that has ever claimed the attention of American citizens. Our Republican friends, who realize the advantages to he 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 N&TIONAL REPUBLICAN published every morning (Monday ex cepted) at Augusta. Gn„ the home of the Governor elect. • The Rei’Ubi.u ax modestly claims that it has done good service in the Union cause, and for the promotion of pure and undefiled Republicanism, since the party had an existence in Georgia. It will he 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. Thk Ukdcumcan will heartily support General Chant and S< itcvi.ioit 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 ration for labor. ■ This Rki-mhacan will always have all the NEWS—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 it tost luminous and attractive manner. And, in order to place Tim National Rkpi'iilican within the reach of all who desire a good tUiily hcicHjiapcr, we present the following low terms of subscription “FOR THE CAMPAIGN,” | From now till Ike first of December. | One Copy *2 25 Five Copies..,.*. 10 00 Ten “ 1H 00 Twenty “ i 35 00 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. WANTED, \ GENT.*?—sl7s PER MONTH TO SELL the NATIONAL FAMILY SEWING MA CHINE. This Machine is equal t-» the standard Machines in every respect, and is sold a.t the low price of Address National Sewing Machine Go., Pittsburgh, Pa. je2l I in Wanted to Bent. A HOUSE, FURNISH EH OR UNFUR Y V NISIIKD— a furnished House preferred. Address ROOM NO. o, je2o—lt* Planters’ Hote l , Augusta, Ga. Wanted Immediately, \ WET NURSE, EITHER WHITE OR 1 V BLACK, who can come well recommended, to nurse a child six weeks old. Apply «*it jelU cod2t THIS OFFICE. IST otice. SOUTH CAROLINA R. R. COMPANY. ) Augusta, GA.,June 10, 1868. $ 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! Augusta to Mew Van AND RETURN FOR ONE Flßt SOUTH CAROLINA B ja 0 i8(8. 1 'I Augusta. Ga., Jane ff . /AN AND AFTER SATURDAY. * ( p* O ST A NT, Tickets will be put on sotiger Ticket Office for each '™'" , call go via Wilmington. Richmond an ijas, ton, or via Portsmouth, Anameie ... urn ThY* 1 * or via Columbia and Danville. J,,| y !,|S john'e* marlbla^ Office Hour*, T TNTIL FURTHER NOTEF, M* U hours of the Clerk of Conned wm From 9 o’cloek A. M. to 21. • JAMBo A'- City Ball, Juno 1«, IS6S. j* If -fit Book and job priswnu Executed at thi» "gtjh At tho Lowest Terms and m th Come aud see samp l ® l *