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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. TO OUll COUNTRY SUIISCRIiIERS. We are now sending out bills (which are long past due) for Subscription. Those receiving a reminder will please at once remit the amount, else their papers will be discontinued. For the Campaign ! THE CHEAPEST PAPER BN GEOHOI V ! Tlie Presidential Campaign, for 1808, will be the most important that has ever claimed the attention of American citizens. Our Republican friends, who realize the advantages to be secured by the dissemi nation of political truths through the medium of a well conducted daily journal, should, at once, organize Clubs for the purpose of increasing the subscription list anil efliciency of the * NATIONAL REPUBLICAN published every morning (Monday ex cepted) at Augusta, Cin.. the home of the Governor elect. The Republican 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 be guided, as it lias been hitherto, bv uncom promising loyalty to flic Union, and will resist every attempt to weaken the bonds that unite the American people into one Nation. The Republican will heartily support General Grant and Schuyler Col pax 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. The Republican will always have all flic NEWS—domestic, foreign, political, social, literary, and commercial—its pro prietors using enterprise and money to make the REST possible Newspaper, as well us the CHEAPEST. Its conductors will study condensation, clearness, point, and will endeavor to present its readers, daily, with a summary of the world’s doings in the most luminous and attractive manner. And, in order to place The National Republican within the reach of all who desire a good daily neuisjMipcr, we present the following low terms of subscription “FOR THE CAMPAIGN,” I From now till the fret of Decern her. \ One Copy $2 25 Five Copies io no Ten “ IS 00 Twenty “ 86 00 “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.