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pakaokams.
_Yesterday, 5" Now York, Gold was
quoted at 1.40|. Cotton, 30.
—Both, Gladatona and Disraeli, it is said,
will have a hard fight to maintain their
present seats in the new Parliament.
—Mules in New Orleans know what is
said of them in either French, Englilb, or
Spanish.
—Beecher's income is double that of an
English bishop; and bishops are “lords,
and UfO in palaces."
—Nearly a hundred acres of widows are
cultivated in Wyoming county, N. Y. When
ready for market they bring from $l7O to
S2OO per acre.
—Mr. Selah l’lummer, of UratUcboro',
Vermont, applied the oil of tobacco to a
corn on his foot, and came near losing his
life in consequcface.
—The now bridge over the Susquehanna,
at Columbia, Pa., is 5,549 feet long and
20 feet wide, with n railroad truck in the
centre.
—An immense bad of solid salt, said to
bo five hundred foct thick aud extending
no ono knows how far, has been discovered
in the immediate neighborhood of Berlin,
Prussia.
—Miles M. Bond was arrested some days
ago at Sonora, Kentucky, for the murder
of Wm. H. Randolph, provost marshal of
Blandinville, Illinois The murder was
committed more than three years ago.
—Boston is going to light its street lamps
in the only sensible and economical way—
bv electricity. By this method every lamp
in the city arc instantly lighted and in—
staatly turned off.
—There is some very pretty mourning
jewelry of onyx, made in the stylo now
fashionable for coral, formed of solid balls
and bars, arranged in circles and crescents,
with pearl shaped pendants.
—Speaker Colfax has written to friends
in Colorado that he expects to he there
about the Ist of August, and will probably
remain a month, visiting mountains, mines,
peaks, and plains.
—Advices from Mexico state that two
Generals aud four hundred followers have
proclaimed Diaz President of the Republic,
and declared the Constitution of 1857
inviolate. Rivera continued his guerilla
operations.
—The Methodist thinks there can be no
organic union between the Methodists and
Episcopalians “until every vestige and sem
blance of Popery is driven out of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church.”
—The production of petroleum in 1867
was about 11,000 barrels per day, while the
consumption in the same year was 13,000
barrels. The best authority estimates the
present production at 9,000 barrels per day.
—The Pennsylvania Railway Company
adapts a sort of cooperative system by
agreeing to divide among the engineers and
firemen all that they will save from last
year's expenditure of fuel, oil, and other
articles in running their locomotives.
—The Mississippi river is depositing a
sand bar in front of the northern part of St.
Louis, which threatens to make that city
inaccessible fur considerable vessels, the
channel tending more and more towards the
Jlliuois side of the river.
—Chief Justice Chase authorizes denials
of all accounts of his recent interview with
the President, wherein he is represented as
urging the retention of Mr. McCulloch as
Secretary of the Treasury, and also that the
President told him that his first choice at
the Democratic Convention in New York
was the Chief Justice.
—lt is authoritatively announced that
the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Com
pany has purchased the Mississippi and
Missouri River Air Line Railroad. When
the road is built, this will give, tbo former
a direct connection to the leading points
west from Philadelphia to the Pacific
Ocean, crossing Illinois midway between
St Louis and Chicago.
—A monster cannon, presented by the
Sultan to Queen Victoria, has been received
at Woolrieh Arsenal. The balls accompa
nying it are of granite, and weigh 050
pounds each. They arc similar to those
described in Gibbon’s “Riso and Fall of
the Roman Empire,” as being used by
Mahomet 11, at the siege of Adrianople
in 1453.
—The Philadelphia horse railroad com
panies have raised the fare from six cents
to seven, to meet the losses by the conduc
tors, whose peculations arc estimated in the
aggregate at'hall a million dollars a year.
On the same principle the Philadelphia
banks will probably increase their rates of
discount whenever they suffer losses from
defaulting tellers.
—Father Lambert Young, the Catholic
priest who has been confined in the Louis
ville (Ky.) jail for declining to testify in the
Frankfort lynching ease before the United
States Court, was released ou Monday by
Judge Ballard on bond. Father Young
was dangerously attacked with erysipelas
about three years ago, and his confinement
in jail caused the disease to break out again.
The bond was fixed at $1 ,000 for ten dajß,
or rftich time as he may have fully recovered.
diaries I). fuller, who was committed
to the Connecticut State Prison Inst fall for
five years, charged with theft of $20,000 in
bonds from the Hartford Hank, of which ho
was cashier, presented the Legislative Com
mittee, on their visit there recently, a
detailed statement of his case, lie alleges
that he sold the bonds from time to time at
convenience of one H. T. Abbott, of whom
no trace has been found since November 10.
'fuller reasserts his entire innocence, and
asks for release as an act of justice,
FA CETLE.
Misery loves company—so does a mar
riageable young woman.
.Some fishermen use cotton for bait—so
do some women.
How sweet to recline iu the lapse of ages
—say about eighteen.
A man who courts a young wotnnn in the
starlight probably expects to get a wife in
a Iwinkling.
What is the difference between a young
lady and a night cap ? One is born to wed,
and the other is worn to bed.
“Sain, are you one of the Southern chiv
airy ?” “No, massn, l’sc one of the Southern
nhovclry. 1 shoveled dirt at Dutoli Can
Canal.
The following rules are posted in a Now
Jersey school house : “No kissing the girls
in school hours; no lickin the master
during holidays.”
A poor lellow rescued, half drowned,
from a river, was naked to take some spirits
and water. “No, I thank you,” replied he.
"I have had water enough already ; I’ll
take the spirits alone.”
Different sounds travel with different
degrees of velocity; a call for dinner will
run over a ten acre lot instantly, while a
summons to work will take from five to ten
minutes.
“You ought to lay up something fora
rainy day,” said an anxious father to his
profligate sort. “And so I have," replied
the youth. “Whnt?” “An umbrella."
National Ucpublicnn
syffOUMTAI < *A..
WBDNKSDAY MOKRINO Jane *4. is«g
For PRESIDENT
Ok tiik United States:
riVSSIS S. GRANT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF INDIAXA.
HKPV HMrW PLATFOIIIfI.
The National Republican parly of the United States,
assembled in National Convention, in the city of Chi
cago, on the 90th day of May, 18GB, make the following
Declaration of Principles :
lat. We congratulate the country on the assured suc
cess of Uia reconstruction policy of Congress, as
eviuced by the adoption, in a nmjority of the States
lately in rs hellion, of Constitution* 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 stata*of anarchy.
2d. 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 be maintained, while the question of suffrage
in all the loyal States properly belongs to the people of
those States. . ~ ,
3d. We denounce all forms of repudiation os 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 ouly
according to the letter, but the spirit of the laws
under which it was contracted.
4th. It is due to the labor of the 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 honestly be done.
6th. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
debt is to so iiflprove 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 economy, und the cor
ruptions which have been so shamefully nursed and
fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for rtdioal re
form.
Bth. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession of
Andrew Johnson to the Presidency, who has acted
treacherously to the people who elected him and the
cause he was pledged to support; has usurped high
legislative and judicial functions; has refused to exe
cute the laws; has used his high oftico to induce other
ollicers to iguore 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, and
properly pronounced guilty thereof by the vote of
thirty-five Senators.
9th. The doctrine of Great Uritaiu and other European
powers, that because a man is once a subject, he 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 arc enti
tled to be pi elected in all their rights of citizenship as
though they were natural born, and no citizen or the
United States, native or naturalized, must be liable to
arrest and imprisonment, by any foreign power, for acts
done, or words spoken, in this country, and if so arrested
and imprisoned, it is the duty of the Government to
interfere in his behalf.
10th. Os all who were faithful in the trials of the late
war, there were none entitled to more especial honor
than the brave soldiers and seamen, who endured the
hardships of the campaign and cruise, and imperilled
their lives in the service of tho country. The bounties
and pensions provided by law for these brave defenders
of the nation are obliagtions never to be forgotten. The
widows and orphans or the gallant dead are the wards of
the people, a sacred legacy bequeathed to the nation’s
protecting care.
11th. Foreign immigration, which in the past has
added so much to the wealth, development of resources,
and increase of power of this nation, the asylum of the
oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encour
aged by a liberal and just policy.
12th. This Convention declares its sympathy with nil
the oppressed people which arc struggling for their
rights.
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“A WHITE MAN'S GOVERNMENT."
It Becnu to be conceded that the Chabk
niorement—gotten up to test the temper
of the Democratic party—is ‘played out,’
and present indications warrant the belief
that the ‘reaction’ will carry the day in the
grand pow-wow at New York on the fourth
proximo. The etatu* of tho so called Demo
cratic party is graphically depicted in the
New York Time * of tlie 20tli.
“This is a white man’s government” is
to he the rallying cry of the Democracy in
the coming canvass ; and somebody will be
nominated who represents it. The entire
exclusion of the negro from political power
is to be the aim of tlie party—tlie great
practical object to be attained by a Demo
cratic victory. It is not hostility to Con
gressional action on the subject, but hos
tility to any action, by Congress or the
States, which shall give tho negro the right
to vote. It does not rest on alleged lack
ot intelligence, of thrift, of experience; it
rests on the simple fact of complexion.
The Democrats propose to exclude the
negro from all political rights, and from
all share in political power, solely and
exclusively because lie u a negro.
The Timex argues that the permanent
exclusion of the negro from the exercise
of political power, simply because he is
a Negro, has nothing whatever to rest on
but a prejudice —and one, the basis and
sole strength of which disappeared when
slavery ceased to exist. So long as the
great bulk of the black population were
slaves, it was natural, if not rational or
just, to consider that whole class of popu
lation subjects of power, not sharers in it,
and to exclude them from all political
riglfts. It was, even then, only a preju
dice, but it had the great fact of slavery
to rest upon. But even then the doctrine
was not carried so far as it is pushed now’.
Negroes were not excluded from voting
merely because of their color, but because
their unfitness to vote was fairly to be
inferred from their condition. Asa
general rule, negroes were slaves; slaves
having neither education, experience, nor
knowledge, and not being allowed to
acquire them, were unlit to vote; there
fore, as a general rule, negroes were unfit.
But in almost every State of the Union, at
some period of its history, special excep
tions have been made to this general rule,
and negroes who were presumably fit were
allowed to vote. But now the Democratic
party seems inclined to extend the rule
and to make color the only absolute test
of fitness to vote. Any man who is white
may vote ; no man who is black shall vote,
under any circumstances, no matter what
his qualifications may he in every other
respect.
This doctrine will not stand. No po
litical party can stand upon it. We do
not believe that any political party can go
successfully through a single national can
vass on it. And the Democratic party,—
taking ground upon it. making this doc
trine the corner-stone of its political
faith, —will, in all probability, come out of
the contest so utterly demoralized, so
thoroughly emptied of all vitality, of all
hold on the intellectual convictions and
the moral sentiments of humanity, that it
can never be rallied for another tight. No
political party can live on prejudice alone,
especially when the course of events lias
destroyed the only basis which ever gave
that prejudice any color of strength or
support.
The Negro is a man. lie has all the
faculties of a man. He has reason, judg
ment, human sympathies —all that (listin'
guishes man from other orders of creation.
These may all be developed, in greater or
less degree, according to opportunity and
circumstances. The Negro can learn from
experience, like other men. There is
nothing—absolutely nothing—to distin
guish him from other men, to furnish any
pretext for drawing a line of distinction,
but the fact of color and race. He is sub
ject to the laws—is required to obey them;
ho is made to contribute by taxation to the
support of the Government. Upon what
possible ground of reason, consistent with
the fundamental principles of our institu
tions, can we vindicate his absolute and
permanent exclusion from all share in
making those laws, and in choosing the
rulers who are to enforce them upon him t
The question will not stand argument
for a moment. The prejudice on which
the theory of the Democratic party reals,
and by which alone it can be made plausi
ble or acceptable, will disappear utterly
when it is canvassed and considered. Even
the history of the past, dark as it is, heavy
and black as is the cloud of slavery which
rests upon it, gives this prejudice no just
support. Our Government never has pro
mulgated or accepted the doctrine that it
was exclusively "the white man’s Govern
ment,” or the Government of any one race
or color. It is the Government of the
people, and there is nothing in any docu
ment, or formula, or action of the Gov
ernment to exclude any class or race of
the people from sharing the political
power which includes and is over them all
alike.
If the Democrats, directly or indirectly,
by words or by acts, by doctrines they
announce, or by.men they nominate, take
their stand upon this position, that this is
exclusively a “white man’s Government,”
they doom themselves not only to defeat,
but to disaster and death. It is not only a
reaction against the war, and against tin:
principles which it established; it is a
reaction against the tendencies ami events
of the age—against that broader and higher
civilization which is making men every
where more tolerant of mere accidental
distinctions, and which is admitting them
an men to share the rights and responsibili
ties, oh they must share the burdens and
penalties, of Governments and laws. *
Ei.oiiida Lroislatubb.—From (ho Florhla
Union, w« o bserve that the new Legis
lature has gone to work and adopted
the fourteenth article, abolishing slavery,
commonly known iih the Howard amend
ment. Governor Reed informed the Leg
islature that, until the State was admitted to
representation, the government would ho
provisional only.
Impartial Sutfkaor.— Tho necessity of
the ‘situation’ here in the South (as cor
fe-sed by the Chronicle <fc Sentinel , of yes
terday) compels the Democrats to seek
negro votes, lor the very worthy motive of
placing them in power when they hope to
establish their pet theory that “this is a
white man’s government.” The article
alluded to Is, indeed, the coolest thing of
the season, and we advise our readers,
‘irrespective of color,’ to invest five cents
in the purchase of a copy of yesterday’s
Chronicle, in order that they mqy enjoy the
pleasure of seeing Monsieur llausc in his
great equestrian feat of riding two horses
(not mules) at once.
Some of us remember the time, not very
long ago, when this identical would-be
leader of the Democratic party, ‘cast of the
Oconee,’ made himself hoarse and ridicu
lous in bawling forth his conviction that
the mind of an Irishman wufi different from
that of an American—that Germans and
all other persons of foreign birth were not
lit to have the right of suffrage—and who
cried ‘Put none but Americans on guard,’
‘Americans shall rule America,’ and the
like. But the calm good sense of the
people presently concluded that the
foreign-born citizen who makes his home
here has from that time just as much at
stake here as any other citizen—that he
needs the protection of a free government
as much as any, pays taxes for its support
as much as any, contributes by his labor to
the wealth of the county as much as any
other citizen. Suppose the majority dis
franchise the Negro to-day; wliat hinders
them from disfranchising the German to
morrow, the Irishman the next day, and
. then the- -Catholic—because the majority
may think his creed dangerous to the State
—and so on to the end ? We all say it
would be unjust, and we say truly. But is
it not also unjust to disfranchise the help
less colored, man? If we tolerate any
departure from justice, who shall say how
far it may extend, or which one of us may
next suffer the consequences ? *
Tiyc Doctrine of True Democracy. —
Wc believe iu the grand old doctrine of
true Democracy, “Equal and exact justice
to all men.” If Thomas Jefferson were
alive to-day, the noble words that fell from
liis pen, and once formed the war cry of a
powerful party, would not be forgotten by
him—though many of those who wear the
name of that party, and profess reverence
for his teachings, no longer regard them. *
Color. — A Democratic editor in Ohio
roundly abused two white girls for working
for a colored dressmaker; but somehow it
leaked out that he had been doing the
same thing, having printed bills for her
and received the money for the job. The
girls probably thought “sauce for the
gander was sauce for the goose” in that
case. Holdj a vote or a ten cent stamp
before such a chap’s eyes, and he couldn't
tell black from white. *
Suppose a Case.—Suppose, in ordinary
life, an individual were to be put on trial for
liigh crimA and misdemeanors. Suppose
the culprit were acquitted by the demonstra
tive action of the presiding judge. Suppose
the presiding judge to become a candidate
for a high office. Suppose the acquitted
culprit to wield a large patronage, and to
proclaim that all of this he would cast on the
side of the judge who had relieved him of
the consequences of his crime. What, in
ordinary life, would be thought of die whole
case? Wliat would plain people say of the
acquittal, of the judge, of the culprit ?
A Black Man’s Government. —lt is said
no one can vote in Liberia unless he be of
African descent. We don't know whether
they object to the “visible mixture,” as tho
“white folks” do in Ohio, or not. But cer
taiuly no Copperhead can find fault with this
political exclusiveness. It may be a ques
tion in Liberia as to whether a white man is
intelligent enough to he entrusted with the
elective franchise. They may be waiting to
know bow intelligently he will use it in the
land of tin- “white man’s government.”
II yu kx i K. —There appears to be a great deal
ol bad blood in the Democratic party,just now.
It v ill nodoubt much improve the health of its
members to take another trip to the salubri
ons clime of Salt river, the saline waters of
which are excellent for ouch eruptions as
they are troubled with. We are prepared to
Guant them free passage on the first Mon
day in November next.
[Communicated.
’HIE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Knoxville, June IS, 18G8.
E'li/nr A 'ullonal llepublican :
The time fin- the Legislature, under the
new Constitution, to assemble, has passed,
and as it is believed that the same will lie
convened in a very short lime, it is eminently
proper that the members thereof should
investigate the claims, and determine who
arc the proper ones to fill the positions of
Speaker of the House of Representatives and
President of the Senate. It is absolutely
necessary that the Speaker of the House
and the President of the Senate should be
experienced Parliamentarians—quick, well
balanced minds, and of extra firmness. They
should be gentlemen ot irreproachable in
tegrity, and urbane in manners. Can gen
tlemen be found in the Legislature to fill the
hill? I unhesitatingly answer, yes. There
are numbers, in both the House and Senate,
from which to make the selection. In the
House we find Rev. J. 11. CaldwcU of
Troup, General Marion Bethunc of Talbot,
and Hon. It. L. McWhorter of Greene,
besides numbers of others, who, if elected,
would discharge the duties of Speaker of
the House with honor to themselves and
dignity to tlio house. Neither Rev. J H.
Caldwell nor Gen. Bethiino can be spared
Irom the floor of the House. It is very
essential that they remain on the floor for
the two fold purpose of watching the oppo
nents of the Constitution and giving dis
patch to business. Judge McWhorter has,
in a very happy degree, a combination of all
the prerequisites of a good presiding officer.
I have no doubt but that the House will
elect the Judge Speaker without opposition.
As to the President ol the Sennte, l con
not for a moment suppose there will bo hut
one name put in nomination, viz-: lfon. 15.
Conley, of Augusta. Wo were members of
the late Convention. It was during the
sitting of that Convention that he so
thoroughly satisfied the members of his
practical knowledge of Parliamentary usage.
1 can saloly say that «s a Parliamentarian,
ho bus no superior in the State and tint few
equals.
It wore supererogation for mo to say any
thing in favor of his popularity. That will
lie shown by his unanimous election to tlio
Presidency of tlio Georgia Senate. Then I
cun say voti mi in compos. Chawfohd. I
DEMOCRATIC CHANCES.
The chanees of success which loom up
Bofore the Democratic party since the
Thioago Convention, are daily being whit
tled down to a very narrow point, and they
will “grow beautifully less" till they “vanish
into thin air.”
Pendleton looms up in the West and
Northwest, nnd will be a formidable candi
date at Tammany Hall on tho Fourth of
July ; but the knowing ones who manage
the party are afraid of him, because of
his known opposition to the war for tho
Union, and his greenback theory. He can’t
win.
Hancock is a convenient candidate, a sort
of decoy duck, to bo used in an emergency,
in case things nnd events favor his nomi
nation. Ho has no States, except, perhaps,
the South, who are willing to go for the
successful candidate, provided lie has a
look to win.
Seymour is reticent. He don’t want it.
It is so given out. Repudiation don’t suit
him ; and he plays sby for a purpose. Every
other man who is talked of may or may
not come to the top.
The leaders are at their wit's ends and
are drifting. The more prudent and cau
tious talk of Chief Justice Chase, and of
a platform that will save Mr. Chase upon
his anti-slavery and suffrage record, as he
is suspected to be pretty firm upon the
principles heretofore avowed by him.
The question is, how to do it ? Some of
the wisest leaders are ready to make a plat
lorin upon which Mr. Chase can stand. In
other words, “if the mountain will not go to
Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the moun
tain.” But just here lies the difficulty ;
while the leaders would consent to any
platform, however inconsistent with all of
their past notions and professions, the rauk
and file will not so easily forswear their
principles. When a class of men have been
educated to believe that certain views are
correct, they do not change all their habits
of thought and belief in a day. The leaders
see this, and are puzzled.
The leaders concede that the Democratic
party proper cannot carry the country, no
matter who the candidates may be, unless
they can get that strength which the/ have
supposed the disaffected Republicans would
bring to their ranks. Hence, the expectation
based upon those people whom they have
been pleased to designate as ‘Conservative
Republicans and disaffected Radicals.” It
so happens, however, that there are no such
persons to rely upon. Such a man as a
“Conservative Republican” and a“disaffected
Radical” docs not turn up since the Chicago
Convention. All chances, therefore, for the
Democracy vanish ; and, like Micawber, the
leaders are now “waiting for something to
turn up.” They will have a good time.—
Washington Republican.
[From tho Charleston News, Tuesday.
. ANOTHER FIRE.
For more than three months our city has
been spared the visitations of the fire demon,
but the fiends-who act as his agents could
no longer remain quiet. Yesterday we chroni
cled a large fire, which occurred on Saturday
night (the probable act of an incendiary),
and the embers were still smouldering, when
the alarm was again sounded, and another
fire discovered within a stone’s throw of the
first. The time was well chosen, as few
persons were in the streets, and the flames
had some headway before the alarm was
sounded. Tho fire originated in the second
story of the store lately occupied by Messrs.
Dowie & Moise, and tlie flames burnt some
time before sufficient smoke was raised to
create an alarm.
At first the bell struck only the number
of the ward, but as the flames increased, the
general alarm was sounded, calling out the
entire Fire Department. The flames soon
spread to the building on the south occupied
by Messrs. Goodrich & Wineman as a
wholesale drug store, and, from the inflam
mable nature of the stock, it required the
utmost exertions of the firemen to prevent
tho fire frsm spreading. From the sudden
ness of the alarm, and the rapidity with
which the flames seized upon the houses, it
was found impossible to save much of the
stock, and persons living in the vicinity
packed up their movables instanter. Messrs.
E. J. Dawson & Cos. removed their stock of
books to the Charleston Hotel porch and to
some of the adjoining houses. Messrs.
Dewing, Burkett A Cos. also prepared to
move.
At one time it seemed as if the entire
block of buildings was doomed to destruc
tioti, and every effort was made to secure
the removal of valuables, in case such a
proceeding should be necessary. The two
stores burnt were only separated by a party
wall, but a narrow alley way ran between
them and the store occupied by E. J.
Dawson & Cos. The wall of this alley fell
inward, crushing out the flames and mate
rially assisting the firemen in their efforts
to subdue the fire. It wa3 remarked by
some of the oldest members of the depart
ment that it was one of the hottest and
fiercest fires they had known. It burnt
steadily until after daylight, and was only
subdued through the strenuous exertions of
the firemen. From the nature of the stocks
it was impossible to save more than a few
articles. Messrs. Goodrich & Wineman
saved several barrels of turpentine that
were stowed in the rear of their store, but
their entiro stock may bo said to have
been destroyed. Messrs. Dowie & Moise
had moved to the corner above only
a few weeks previous, but had a few
articles still remaining. A barrel of
alcohol and a cask of copperas were
saved, but the remainder were burnt. Messrs.
E. J. Dawson & Cos. removed their stock, as
was stated, hut suffered some loss by the
move, and more still by smoke and water.
Messrs. Dewing, Burkett it Cos. were also
damaged, but both the stock and building
were covered by insurance. Tlio storo oecu
pied by Messrs. Goodricli & Wineman was
owned by Dr. Strohecker, and was insured
for SIO,OOO in Northern agencies. Their
stock was insured as follows: Agency of
Colburn & Howell, $7,000; S. Y. Tupper,
$5,000; \V. B. Heriot & Cos., $5,500; Z. B.
Oakes, $5,000; J. L. Honour, $2,500. Total,
$25,000. Their stock was valued at from
$28,000 to $30,000. The store formerly
occupied by Dowie & Moise was owned by
Mr. 11. F. Strohecker, and was uninsured.
Messrs. Dowie & Moise lost about SSOO, also
uninsured. Messrs. E. J. Dawson & Cos.
were insured Air SIO,OOO, and the storo,
which was owned by Mr. C. C. Strohecker,
was insured for SIO,OOO, both in Northern
agencies of Colburn & Howell, J. D. Ford,
and others.
The fire was still smouldering yesterday
morning, but it was not thought that any
thing of value could be dug out. Among
the losses were a choice assortment of Eu
ropean drugs and chemicals, imported by
the firm of Goodrich, Wineman & Cos. These
gentlemen uro undismayed by tlio destruc
tion of their property, and will continue to
have orders filled preparatory to recom
mencing business nt an early day.
The scenes in tho Charleston Hotel during
the early progress of the fire were to out
siders interesting in the extreme. At least
lift'-en of the prettiest frilled nightcaps ill
this city, of beautiful women, wero visible to
the naked eye, and the lovely faces they
encircled looked just enough frightened to bo
intensely attractive. Tho alarm among tho
inmates was very considerable. One gentle
man we wot ol was discovered in an extra
ordinary frame of mind, pulling two family
trunks down stairs, alter which lie made a
bee-line for tho Battery. Major Horbach
was prompt iu adopting measures of protec
tion mid allaying excitement. Last night
tlio presence of tlio baud on the portico
made ono forget all that had passed.
PERSONAL ITEMS.
History is playing in Washington.
Gen. Hooker bas gone west.
John Stuart Mill is an advocate of female
suffrage.
Ex-Gov. Buckingham, of Connecticut, is
recovering his health, and is now at Chicago.
Thurlow Weed contemplates visiting Eu
rope for the benefit of his health.
Madame Rislori will sail for Europe in
tho steamer Napoleon, on Saturday, the
27th.
“Grace Greenwood” is in future to be (he
Washington correspondent of the Inde
pendent.
It is reported from Paris that Lamartine
has lost his mental faculties, and that his
death is daily expected.
Swiss papers say that Jeff. Davis is going
to take up his abode in Geneva as soon as
his trial is out of the way.
It is thought that Miss Charlotte P. Cush
man will make the vicinity of Boston her
permanent home.
When in Hamilton, C. W., Ole Bull lost a
handsome diamond, valued at $250, that
was set in one end of his bow.
There is a report that Senor Romero, the
late Mexican minister, will soon take a bride
from Philadelphia.
Mr. M. C. Conway lately lectured on
America and its institutions, before the
working women of London.
Jacob Flanders, one of the last pioneers of
Cambria, died last Saturday, at the advanced
age of eighty three years.
Rev. P. D. Gurley, of Washington, Presi
dent Lincoln’s favorite pastor, has been
lying very ill at the house of a friend in
Brooklyn for some days past.
A Portland, Maine, maiden of twelve
years, named Alice Witkaui, is raising
money for charitable purposes by public
entertainments gotten up by herself.
Elihu Burritt has issued anew book,
similar in character to his last one, entitled,
"Walks in the Black Country nnd its Green
Border Land.”
It is said that Hon. Reverdy Johnson has
determined to postpone his resignation as
Senator for a few days, in order that he may
participate in some incomplete legislation.
He will depart lor England about the first of
July.
Miss Clough, a relative of the late poet
Arthur Clough, has devoted much time to
the preparation of a course of weekly lectures
for women in various cities in the North of
England.
The World declares that the negro
vote does not, alter all, endanger our insti
tutions so much as the white Republican
vote. Wo, therefore, infer that if both the
Republican party and the voters possessing
a “visible admixture" could be excluded
from the right o( suffrage, so that none but
the Democratic parly could vote, tho insti
tutions of the country would be safe and
the political heavens serene. The imme
diate disfranchisement of two thirds of the
American people by the remaining one
third not being feasible, the World pro
poses to convert Republicans 'to the Demo
cratic (aith by persuading the Democratic
party to adopt a Republican platform. It
seems to think that the Democratic party,
being only sixteen years behind the times
in which they live, could stand very well on
the Republican platform of 1856. Thev
can, at the three next Presidential elections,
move forward and adopt the Republican
platform successively of 1860, 1864, and
1868, reaching the present Republican
stand point in tho year of grace 1880. The
World is frisky, but the Democratic party
can not keep up with it They can not
stand these rapid forward movements.—
Tribune.
ALBERT G. HALL,
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT,
221 BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, GA.
IT 1 IRE, LIFE, AND MARINE INSURANCE
effected to any amount in tho most reliable
Companies in the country.
The following Companies are especially repre
sented by him :
The QUEEN INSURANCE CO., of London and
Liverpool.
The GEORGIA HOME INSURANCE CO., of
Columbus, Ca.
The NORTH AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE
CO., of Hartford, Conn.
The JEFF lid SON INSURANCE CO., of
Scottavillo, Va.
Tho NORWICH FIRE INSURANCE CO., of
Norwich, Conn.
Tho JAMES RIVER INSURANCE CO., of
Montreal, Va.
The INSURANCE A SAVING CO., of Rich
mond, Va.
Tho UNION FIRE INSURANCE CO., of Balti
more, Md.
The VIRGINIA INSURANCE CO., of Staun
ton, Va.
AI.SO,
Tho MANHATTAN LIFfitINSURANCE CO.,
of New Y'ork. Cash Assets, $1,361,773-to.
je23—ly
Excursion!
Aii“ list* to flew York
AND
It BIT I Jit,Y I" OK OiYK IMItIH!
SOUTH CAROLINA R. R. COMFI’, ;
Augusta, Ga., June IS, 1868. S
ON AND AFTER SATURDAY, JOth IN
STANT, Tickets will be put. on sale at Pas
senger Ticket Office for each train. Passengers
can go via Wilmington, Richmond and Washing
ton, or via Portsmouth, Anatnessic or Bay Line,
or via Columbia and Danville. Return Tickets
good until July 31st, inclusive.
je2tl—3t JOHN E. MAULEY, Agt,
WANTED,
Agents— $175 per month to sell
lbo NATIONAL FAMILY SEWING MA
CHINE. This Machine is equal to the standard
Machines in every respect, and is sold at tho low
price of S2O. Address National Sowing Machine
On., Pittsburgh, Pa. jo2l —tin
Office Hours.
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, TIIE OFFICE
hours of tho Clerk of Council will be:
From U o’clock A. M. to 2 P. M.
JAMES N. ELLS,
City Hall, Juno Iff, 18(>8. Clerk,
jo 17—fft-
Notice to Citizens.
The attention ok the citizens of
AUGUSTA is called to the following para
graph of iho Thirty First Section of the General
Ordinance—and are hereby notified that from this
date the Ordinance will be' rigidly enforced :
“It shall bo the duty of all holders of lots or
lands, whether the same be enclosed or unen
closed, to keep them clean and dry ; they shall
permit no sink to contain water, hut shall" fill up
nil low places on said lots or lauds, in such manner
ns to pass oil the water, and shall, every day,
except tho Sabbath, remove from said lots or lands
all decayed ami decaying vegetable and animal
substances, and iu general everything tending to
corrupt, the air, and place the same (tit convement
heaps) in tlio streets opposite said lots or lands,
and twenty feet from their boundary, between
day light amt nine o'clock in the morning; aud no
ivergon .hall throw trash or filth into tlio streets,
from his or her lots or lands, at any other time
than bet ween daylight and nine o'clock a. in., nor
on tlie Sablvuth day.
By order of SAMUEL LEVY,
Chairman Hoard of lllialtlk
Jas. N. Etta, Clerk of Council. je'-H)—lfit
City papers copy three times.
SPECIAL KOIiCE^ s *H
vh v OrT , - I
OLINA RAILROAD,
L Brockman, I Levy, w,-
R F Urquhart, II L A " Sibß
Gray 4 Turley, b Steffin,, ’ y lB
C A Cbeat&m A Bro, (, //..■
lire, A A K, Orley A W, j KM
Meredith, J \Y Moore, C Kraer,^
RAILROAD, Juno 23, mS-Lf
Pieer, Geo T Jack.on, C A Ijlu
Conley F 4 Cos, J<} Bailie An '
KnighLSKDiek, I ho. Ki^ 1 *
Tutt, Darren I, 4 Cos,
rich, J C Galvan, !' iIa D8 t* r 'l
nor, IV IVaman. “ '
G K s E nai..Sn PEIII , T
Augusta, (ia , l*lh ■
m- business tickets ki^Jß
the holder to ride One Th,,,,.,
Georgia Railroad ami bran •!
and Augusta Railroad, can ,
Five Dollars, on application j‘ 'fSH
General Ticket Agent.
Ministers of the (iosr.,l , ■
Roads from point to point, on Jiv”*****■
will be furnished with autWiiv
Agents, to travel at hair Id
E - IV. COLE, fl
Altanta, Milledgcvilic, I
Madirun, Grcensb ro, IVa •;
papers copy daily one ~„h a . d
times.. ■"M
GRAIN AND
The old established I
"Corn Exchange Ba ? Mantfewl
Is prepared to furnish GRAIN I
desired size or quality, r.r„l' at
Also, H
COTTON AND PAPER FLOUR gicts ■
Neatly printed to order. ■
Information promptly furnished opes
tion - W. B. ASMS* CO I
.I-. 1 7 ~ :i " 1 J-’ i’eart Street, Sew VorkCu;. I
SCRIP ihvidkndTnoTml
THE GEORGIA HUME INSURANCE
of Columbus, Ga. U
Assets Ist of January, 1567
We have received ready for delivery the job I
of Dividend No. 1, amounting t 025 j» t w I
of the net premiums paid on pwtnptk]
annual policies, on policies issued during th I
nine months interval from April Irt to°ht|
31st, 18(57. Dividend So. 2 will k iattl
January Ist, 1869. I
Persons to whom Scrip is due are reooe-.til
to call at once and receipt fur same. I
. AG. HALL, Agent, I
-j street. Augusta, tii I
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
To Rent.
THE NEAT TWO STORY ERICK DWll
ING, corner of Monument and Ellis strati I
on reasonable tetms. Apply to !
' MRS. TITUS,
jc24- lt On tbe premie.
IN BANKRUPTCY
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
16th day of June, A. D. 1868, a Warrant h
Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of
WILLIAM UNCLES,
of Savannah, in the county of Chatham, ana
State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a |
Bankrupt on his ewn petition, and that the!
payment of any debts, and delivery of any
property belonging to such Bankrupt, to hint
or, for his use, aud the transfer of any property
by him, arc forbidden hy law: that a meetiaj
ot the creditors of said Bankrupt, to prove
their debts, and to choose one or more Assig
nees of his estate, will he held at a Court of I
Bankruptcy, to be holdcn at the Registers:
office, corner Bay and Drayton streets, Saus-j
nah, Ga.. before F S Hesseltine, Esq, Registts.
on the 23 i day of July, A. D. 18S8,it9i‘M]
a. m.
WM. G. DICKSOX,
j.xM-lt C. S. sh>rdial as Messenger.
INBANKRUPTCY.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That ontha
16th day ol June, A. D. IS6S, a Warrant ia
Bankruptcy was issued against the esta'eof
LAWRENCE 51 SHAFER,
of Savannah, in the county of Chatham, ini j
State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a j
Bankrupt on his own petition, and that the
payment of any debts, and delivery ot any j
property belonging to such Bankrupt, to ha,
or tor his use, and the transfer of any property
by him, are forbidden by law: that a meeting
of the creditors of the said Bankrupt, to prove
their debts, and to choose one or not* Assig
nees of his estate, will be held at a Cotut of
Bankruptcy, to be holdcn at the office of the
Register, corner Bay aud Drayton streets,
Savannah, Ga., before F S Hesseltine, Esq.,
Register, on the 4th day of August, A
at 9 o’clock a. m. „„„„
WM. G. DICKSOX,
je24—lt IT. S. Marshal as Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE. Tint**
16l h day of June, A. D. 18®, a
in Bankruptcy was issued against the estue®
THOMAS ADDISON,
of Savannah, in the county of Chatham, an '
of Georgia, who lias been adjodgeda r
on his own petition; that the W*
at:y debts and delivery ot any
longing to said Bankrupt, to biia **»™ l jj
and the transfer ot any property b j
liiddeu by law; that a meeting oi . ■ c Jju, s «i
the said Bankrupt, to prove their «*'•
choose one or more assignees of ins es* .
lie held ala Court of Bankruptcy. to “r‘ j
lat the oliice of the Register, coryw™ U
I Drayton streets, Savannah, («»■ jjfjP j u T ,
seltiiie. Esq., Register, ou the Lad do.
Al) ath o'clock m g DICKSO X,
fc24~.1t U. S. Marshal#**?*?:
IN bankruptcy.
Tins IS TO GIVE NOTICE: ***£
X lt»th day ol June, A. 1 -.' * . ateo f
rant in Bankruptcy was ‘
c R HANLMTKK
of Sa van nail, m the county ) a Bank
State of Georgia, w ho lms
rupt uu his own petition ; that t- 1 -
debts, and delivery of any propel<) SWr
said Bankrupt, tohim or for
fer of any property by him. ilre ~ v^hapt.
that a meeting of the creditors otmudlßM
to prove their debts, and to cla • a ol
assignees of his estate, will be he 1 R*ij*f*
Bankruptcy, to be holdcn a ■ Si
office, corner 'Bay and Drayton gs
vanimh, Ga., before F S Hesseltine.• “jfcg „«
tor, on the 23d day ol duly, A. ■>
o'clock a. m. ' tfjl. G. DICKS®
Ja34—lt f. S. MarobalosMo^t.
IN bankruptcy^
rpit IS IS TO GIVE NOTICE i W
1 lfitli day of June. A. D, ibe »
rant in Bankruptcy was issued as»
" ,,eo ' HARLAN P
of Savnnurth, in the county ot v
Georgia, who has been adpws l ieU
his own petition; aud that the PA' i,
and delivery of any property J ’ j ttw It*** 1 '
Bankrupt, to him or for his °? f ;. ■,ty k*'
of any property by him. aw I** jfcikupt
that li meeting of the creditors c. - pr jk«
to prove their debts, and o
assignees of his estate, will bo L Reyi**'
Bankruptcy, to bo holden «>
office, corner of Bay ami Dravt pm, HoffS
nab, Ga., before F S HeMo | m>‘jl«J,
on the 23d dav of July. A. D
WM.G.DI*&*.
jeiM—lt U. S. Mar»h»L!t“-^'
Carr & ®**g
GENERAL INSURANCE A® 11
is
A COPARTNERSHIP Wt»« p<!
A has this day been formed
of carrying on a tIhNER- ‘ ,ftin'
BUSINESS. The farther P»kr“"T,|t* ..
friends is respectfully solicited . jol-t—*
Augusta, tl»., June 13, 1868.