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Newspaper Page TextPARAGRAMS. —Yesterday, in Now York, Gold wu quoted at I.IOJ. Cotton, 30. —The tunnol under the Uritiah Channel can he completed for twice the cost ol the Abyssinian expedition. —Of lha twenty seven States now repre sented in Congress, the Governors mid Leg islatures of eighteen are Republicans. —Money is so plenty in New York that loans were made on Monday at one per vent. per annum, nnd it was pressed on )tankers at 2*3 per cent. This is without precedeut in our financial history. —lt hns been decided by the Comm is sioner of Internal Revenue that personal property always follows the resilience, and that nil assessments must he made on it where the owner resides. —The Central Underground Railroad Corporation, which is to connect the city of New York with the country, Ims elected a hoard of directors, and work is to he com menced forthwith. Nothing is more perilous than journal istic independence in Russia. An able journal, published in St. Petersburg, has been officially warned for drawing n com parison between the working classes nnd the property owners. Some idou of the amount of money changing hands on the Derby races may be gained bv the tael that two commission agents hud to pay the backers of Blue Gown more than $1,500,000 in gold. —The population of Chicago is made up of 98,1*64 Americans, 92,433 Germans, 45,543 IrishnTen, 10,520 Englishmen ami Scotchmen, 10,992 Scandinavians, 9,144 persons of other nativities. —The largest dining room in the world is said to he at the White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier county, West Virginia, where twelve hundred peopl- can be seated at the same time. —Fractional currency printed last week, 8531,000 ; United Statrs notes, $100,1*00; fractional currency shipped, $129,618 ; National Rank notes issued, $180,99V; amount in circulation, $299,943,053 ; frac tional cuirency destroyed, $503,181. An extensive bed ot lossil oysters, more llwu two feet in thickness, lots been discov ered at a depth of nearly four hundred feet, in sinking a coal shaft, in WeSt Lancashire, England. The oysters are small, and are petrified into a solid mascas hard as flint —Minneapolis, Minn., has produced a sheet iron chimney which is made of three sheet iron cylinders, the space between the outer and second one being filled with ashes, thus securing safety front fire. It is lighter, and claimed to be safer than brick. —The New Jersey, the Camden and Amboy, the Junction, the Philadelphia, WiliniugN n and Baltimore, and Baltimore ami Ohio Railroad Companies, comprising the lines connecting New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, have effected a practical 'consolidation in order to promote the efficiency of their management. —The Chicago Superior Court ha- award ed $2,400 damages to Professor Spencer .1. Fowler, of llillshoro' Female College, who sued Charles Wilson, proprietor ot the Chicago Evening Journal, for nil alleged libel in publishing an erroneous statement, charging the plaintiff with immorality to ward one of his pupils. The Join nal had corrected the error on learning it to he such. —Detectives are obliged to adopt many disguises, but the most original recorded is that of :t special who was placed in the English exhibition to discover the author of a number of thefts, who had evaded detec tion. As they covered up the statues each night lie became a veiled Ajax, and when the thief was in the act he stepped down and secured him. —A gentleman who has had much experi ence in raising melons, informs us that the host tiling to keep hugs from the vines is: Sulphur, one tablespoonful; yellow snnfT, one tablespoonful; Cayenne pepper, one tablespoonfu! ; ground mustard, one table spoonlul. Mix the whole with half a pint of Hour, and apply to the plants when they are moist. The population of. Hartford is between forty and fifty thousand. The City Directory shows an increase of names front 1,636 in the year 1838, to 10.876 in 1868. The growth of the city has been steady and rapi 1. The earliest directory wist only a pamphlet of seventy two pages ; it now is a bound volume of five hundred and thirty seven pages. —Thnrlow Weed’s friends are urgently pressing him to take a brief trip to Europe, in order to recuperate bis health. For some weeks past he has been quite indisposed, and able to write but Very little for his paper. Over seventy years of age, he has been in the harness so long that he finds it diliieult to lay aside his pen, and, accordingly, chafes under the restraint imposed- by sick ness. Cos NV KM NO THE LhjISI.ATUREH OK XoRTH ami South Oakouxa. —The Washington Chronicle of Monday says: “On Saturday, General Grant received a telegraphic dis patch from General Canby, stating that he had modified his orders so as to sanction the proclamation of lion. W. W. Holden, Gov ernor elect of North Carolina, convening the Legislature ot that Stale, and also author izing General Scott, Governor elect of South Carolina, to issue a similar proclamation, the condition in both cases being that the proclamation shall not take effect until alter the Omnibus bill becomes a law. Should the hill finally fail to become a law, of course the proclamations will he of no effect. The only object in issuing them now is to notify members of the Legislatures, so that they may be ready to meet as soon as possible nhi i' the bill shall become a law. As we pointed out a lew days ago, this is an im portant matter, because Congress will not be likely to remain in session much longer, and it is ol the very highest importance that the Southern Senators and Representatives hould l/e admitted before its adjournment. ‘ Gen. Canby asked Gen. Grant’s approval ol the step he lias taken, which the latter has granted." Gk.xkkai. (Giant's I'a.mii.v,— in the very best of the short biographies of Grant printed since his nomination for President (Hint of Gen. .Lillies <L Wilson) we find the following: As whatever appertains to the illustrious soldier is of universal interest, we niust pause lor a moment, and devote a para graph to his family. His eldest son. Frederick, a youth of eighteen, is now a cadet at West Point, where Admiral Fnrra gut's son is also being educated, and is the bold little fellow who accompanied his father throughout the Vicksburg campaign. Another son, some fifteen years of age, is named Ulysses, and bis only daughter, called Nellie, is a sunny dispositioticd and merry young lady, whom everybody loves; while the youngest son, known as Jesse, and we presume named after his worthy grandfather, is a bright hid, who sometimes appears dressed in llighland oostume, the garb of bis Gaelic ancestors. The family therefore consists of the General and Mrs. Grant, three sons, and their only daughter. Miss Nellie.' National Ucpnblican XtJOtIHTA , THURSDAY MORNING June 25. !8«» For PRESIDENT Os tiik United States: ULYSSES S. (iIRAitT. FOR VICE PRESIDENT: Schuyler Colfax, OF WDIANA. RRPI HUKMN I'UATFORM, The National Kepublu ou party of the United States, assembled in National Convention, tn the city of Chi cago, on the 30th day of May, IBftrt, make the following Declaration of Principle* : let. We congratulate the country on the assured suc cess of the reconstruction policy of Congress, ui evinced by the adoption, in a majority of tbo States lately in rebellion, or Constitutions securing equal civil ami political rights to all, and regard it as the duty of the (Government to sustain tho.se institutions, ami to prevent the people of juch States from being remitted to a state of anarchy. 2d. The guarantee, by Congress, of equal suffrage to all loyal men in 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 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 was contracted. 4th. it is due to the labor of the nation that taxation should be equalized and reduced ns rapidly as the na tional faith will permit. sth. The national debt, contracted, as it lias 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 thefoon, whenever it con honestly be done. tith. That the best policy to diminish our burden of debt is to so improve our credit that capitalists will seek to loau us money at lower rates of interest than we now pay, nnd must continue to pay, so long as repudiation, partial or total, open or covert, is threatened or sus pected. 7th. The Government of the United States should be administered with the strictest economy, and the cor ruptions which have been so shamefully nursed nnd fbstered by Andrew Johnson call loudly for radical re form. Bth. We profoundly deplore the untimaly 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 ollice to induce other officerdßo ignore and violate the laws; lias employed his executive powers to reuder insecure the property, peace, liberty and life of the citizen; has abused the pardoning power: has denounced the National Legisla ture os 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; aud has been Justly impeached for high crimes nnd misdemeanors, and properly pronounced guilty thereof by the vote of thirty-five Senators. 9th. The doctrine of Great Britain and other European powers, that becauso 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 are enti tled to be protected In all their rights of citizenship as though they were natural born, ami no citizen of the United States, native or naturalized, must be liable to arrest and imprisonment, by any foreign power, for nets done, or words spoken, in this country, and if so arrested and imprisoned, it is the duty of the Government to interfere iu his behalf. 10th. Os all&ho were faithful in the trials of the late war, there were none eutitlcd to more especial honor than the brave soldiers nnd seamen, who endured the hardships of the campaign and cruise, and imperilled their lives in the service of the 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 of the gallant dead are the wards of' the people, a sacred legacy bequeathed to the nation’s protecting care. lltli. Foreign immigration, which in the past lias 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 all the oppressed people which arc struggling for their rights. to OUll COUNTRY SUBSCRIBERS. We are now sending out bills (which are long past dim) lor Subscription. Those receiving a reminder will please at once remit the amount, else, their papers will be discontinued. •♦ » - For the Campaign ! Till: C'EICAPEST IVUMiIt IV CEORRiI! The Presidential Campaign, for 1868, will be the most important that lias ever claimed the attention of American citizens. Our Republican friends, \vln> 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 and efficiency of the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN published every morning (Monday ex ccpted) at Augusta. On., the home of the Governor elect. Tiik Republican modestly claims that it lias done good service in the Union cause, and for the promotion of pure and undefiled Republicanism, since the party had an existence in Georgia. It will be guided, as it has been hitherto, by ttneom- promising loyalty to flic Union, ami will resist every attcmjrt to weaken the bonds that unite the American people into one Nation. Tiik Hkpitilk an will heartily support General Quant and S< m yi,i;r Coi.kax 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 Bouth, as needful to revive business and secure fair remune ration for Tabor. Tiik Hkio.iu.k an will always have all the NEWS -domestic, foreign, political, social, literary, and commercial -its pro prietors using enterprise and money to make the REST possible Newspaper, as well as the CHE A PEST. Its conductors will study condensation, clearness, point, and will endeavor to present its readers, daily, with a summary ot the world's doings in the most luminous nud. attractive manner. And, in order to place Tiik Nationai. Ri.im in,ir an within the vencli of all who desire a good daily ncmjtajx-r, we present the following low terms of subscription “FOR THE CAMPAIGN,’’ I Ermn now till lhefr.it of December.\ One Copy 25 Five Copies m 00 Ten “ |K 00 Twenty “ ... '.36 00 • HIE DEMOCRATIC DILEMMA. Though the day appointed for the selec tion of a Democratic’candidate for the Presidency is close at hand, the difficulties of the party in finding u man willing to undergo defeat seem to increase rather than tend towards a solution. Os the prominent candidates who have been spoken of, Chief Justice Chase ap pears now to be the only one who stands the least chance of a nomination. The objection to him is, that lie is not a Demo crat, but has been, and is, unless he lias utterly repudiated his old political opin ions, the most Radical among the Radicals, and to elect such a man, if his election were possible, can hardly be considered a Democratic victory. Those who opposed the war tor the Union can scarcely con sider their sentiments endorsed by the election of a man who did so much for its success; those who favor repudiation can expect nothing from one who, more than any other public man, stands committed to the payment of the national debt; those who arc horrified at negro suffrage wjll not have their indignation assuaged by the nomination of the chief originator and most powerful advocate of that measure. In no respect is Mr. Chase the representa tivcof the so called principles of the party, and in no particular will he, if elected carry its peculiar tenets- into practice, without belying the whole record of bis long public life. Yet Democratic politics have their peculiar necessities, and among them, at the present juncture, is the necessity of nominating some man who can gain votes from tlie Republican party. Pendleton, Seymour, Hancock, or any other of the smaller fry who have been mentioned in connection with the Democratic nomina tion, can gain nothing from the Republi cans. Chase alone can do this. It is not impossible that he may command the votes of the ultra Radicals of the Wendell Phillips and Ben Butler school, who think General Git ant too moderate, and we may again witness that incongruous coalition between ultra tire-eaters and ultra aboli tionists, which, when both classes of fanatics had living but opposite issues to contend for, was so successful in over throwing the greatest men and the purest party that bad ever existed in the Republic. It will be in the hope of forming such a coalition that the Democratic Convention will possibly nominate Chief Justice Chase. It is probable that a non-committal,.mean ingless platform may be fabricated, upon which he may consent to stand; but his true platform, and the one he will be judged by, will be the record ol‘ his life, and however ready the party, for the sake of success, may be to keep its own.history and tends in the back ground, Mr. Chase's record can not be ignored. We should regret to sec Mr. Chase nomi nated, because we should regret to-see so good a Republican suffer the mortification of defeat, and we should be sorry to have him defile his splendid lame by accepting a nomination from sqrh a faction. Present appearances indicate that the Democracy are ready to accept him, provided lie can be used as a tool to sever the Republican party, and it is possible that disappointed ambition may cause him to degrade him self sufficiently to accept the nomination. But yet, the coming Convention, in accord aitce with their not uncommon practice, may nominate some obscure individual’ whose want of reputation and insigniff eance will constitute his strength. The day. however, when men could succeed best when most unknown has, we trust, passed forever. Between such a person and Chief Justice Chase the choice of the Democracy now lies, and, in spite of the rueful remonstrances of the Southern Democracy, Mr. Chase’s star is in the ascendant ; they must worship it, if they would have the least hope of success. Bit ter as the support of so eminent a Radical will be to the Democracy, they must con trive to swallow it, and tints, by his nomi nation, place in the field a man whom the nation is bound to respect, and who, in the very doubtful event of his election, would lend no countenance to plots of disunion and treason. Wc should rejoice exceed ingly at the success of Grant, but could not be very sorry at the election of Chase. lit:PUBLICANS OF GEORGIA, HEW A HE! "After the-till day of March next, not a Ho publican will bo allowed to remain in iho Slate of Georgia—those who arc not luing, will ho driven out —black and while!" Tlie above is the utterance of one of the hybrid Democracy of our State, as reported to us by one who heard it. Os nil the jnck assica! tilings spoken now adays by the young and foolish self appointed Solomons of the hybrid Democracy, is it certainly the quintessence of them all. Allowed to live here by leniency- entirely cut oil' from all the offices of honor or profit in the State--and, like poor men at a frolic, merely allowed to look on—is it not astonishing that feelings can be given vent to by such silly mouthings! We have said before that liybriif Democracy dies hard. Is not the above an evidence of it ? Does it not show how utterly puerile and impotent men can show themselves to lx? by the use of tlic tongue. Wc hardly can recognize that any man is in his right mind, who could think or utter such thoughts. We are a Georgian—we intend to stay in our native State -wc intend to live and die in her bounds, and be buried in the soil we love so well and wc are a Republican, determined to use our best efforts to aid in making her, in deed and in fact, the “Empire" that she, as a State, was destined to become. Oknkrai. G n ant, the Republican leader, is (lie incarnation of the hopes of more than thirty millions of people—of the mil lions who pray foctlie ‘peace’ lie Ims prom ised in letter of acceptance, for the maintenance of their Individual and col lective liberty, for the return of prosperity to all sections and interests, amt for that harmonious in I ministration of the Govern ment which can alone be prevented by the triumph of the Democratic party in No vember. THE WORK BEFORE US. Now thut political reconstruction lias been accomplished, there come before us the graud questions of domestic industry, internal improvements, and all the interests of financial and commercial prosperity. Xaws scouring to all men the exercise of equal rights, establishing a generous sys tern- of public education, giving to labor protection and to capital security, and shielding life and,, liberty, are to be per fected and enforced. It is the duty of every man, in the pro motion of the public welfare, to merge politics Into patriotism, whenever they have descended below that scale, nnd to forget benefits or harm to individuals, when the good of the whole demands action upon any measure. Such are the fruits of enlightened statesmanship, that those who meet on the political arena as adversaries, advocating opposing interests, in other things may agree, without unworthy con cessions, to sustain the general welfare and promote the common prosperity. This disposition has Ijcou manifested on various occasions in the past, and wo trust will not be wanting in the future. * [Communicated. Tln-re is a good deal of conjecture as to who the nominees of the 4th of July Con. ventionwiil be. There is a good deal of bickering amongst the hybrids, wlio com pose the parly called fuir excellence the Democracy. Wc have our own opinions in regard to the matter. The fight will be between Chase and Pendleton—Repudia tion and anti-liepudiation of the national debt. The great West favors repudiation but Auguste Belmont, with his long purse and confreres of the bond-holding frater nity, will bitterly resent and circumvent, if possible, the Pendleton clique from the South and 'West; and as “A. J.,” the non cnity of the White House, is "now bidding for the pleasure of being defeated, lie will lie the dernier resort of the Convention, and will be nominated just as Polk was in 1844, as a compromise candidate. We hope he will not receive the compliment. Wo. arc afraid of tire influence his patronage may have upon the weak-kneed, who may now hold office under him, or xvlio may hope to obtain bis favor. We are fully satisfied he can be distanced in the race, as every Vice* President has been who ever nin for the first office, or any other man who seeks the honor at this meeting of the American nation in the contest ior Presi dential honors, offices and emoluments. Failing to harmonize, except upon tin* basis wc have indicated, the National Democracy can not enter upon the race with any degree of hope for success. Say what they will, they can not shoulder the heavy load they arc required td carry, nor can they stagger through with it. By these remarks wc do not wish to be understood as casting a slur upon tbeir weakness when united. We have in years [last witnessed too much of their power and strength, but Democracy lias been “shorn of its locks, ’’ and the “hybrids” who seek control of its management arc not of sufficient moral force as to accom plish the end aimed at, nor can they agree upon any policy or principle.' II a platform be made at all, the indica tions arc that the incongruous masses of matter attempted to be brought together in union' can not be cemented or held together long enough, if at all, to accom plish their object. Such being the casct we can not sec how else they can run their «»f*-conccni, without nominating “A. J.,” as lie alone, of all the men named in this connection, has the “public pap spoon” in bis possession and can do wonders with such means, while no sane man can hope that he or any other Democratic candidate will do more than give General Gkant an opportunity of a gallop around the Union Track to win the glittering prize. + [Communicated. HOW SHALL WE MANAGE FIS lu secret caueusses, in their family circle, in their bar room cha’.s, in their street corner talks, at their private social entertainments, in their beds, at tho -silent hour of midnight, and when they first wake in the morning, this all-absorbing question is the sole thought of the “so called Democracy’’—How shall wo manage to get appointments under Gov. Bullock? is it possible the offices are to pass out of our bands? Are we to be thrown upon our own resources after having led so long (rum tin: “public crib?’’ Perhaps, il we can lid get the offices “ourselves, we can gel. some lukewarm Union man in one who will now say ho supported Rulloek, but was too timid before and during the cam paign to avow his principles ; and then, with our well known shrewdness (rascality), hy the next election via him over to our side, and thus have die power of office to turn the election in our favor, and so come into office ourselves, and throw our poor dupe overboard : for “we can smile and smile, and murder while we smile.’’ Rut, should Gov. Bullock (or if we were speaking hon estly we should say he ought to do) give the appointments to those wiio openly advocated tho adoption of the Constitution and (ho res toration of the State? Should 110 give them to those whom we so openly villified at the polls ? Should ho givo them to those whom we have tried, in every way, to cut; those Irom whom we have taken our support in the way of trade; those whom we tried to intimidate at the polls; those whom we have villified and proscribed in every manner we could think of; those from whom wc would not like to receive the Christian treatment expressed in that bcantitul Cliriatian sentiment, "That mercy 1 to others show— That mercy show to mo ?” Should lie confer 1. is appointments on those ? Then, wbnt is to become of us? Wo will be a ruined Democracy. Hut we must try and 111 amigo; we are brazen-faced; we must, besiege bis office, although we called him “carpet bagger," “fool,” “scalawag," “negro on the brain man ;” we must smile, say. "all is fair in polities," talk of burying past, dif ferences, etc., but, at the same 6jme, cut those among us; but ml.kg a Irietld of him, and try and get some ol tho loaves. Wo must get all our tag men to ejdl on him and try to make him believe there, are none in lii.s parly capable of filling the bfjices ; and our papers must praise him, sdyihsr he is going to make his appointments without regard to political parly. In fact, we must put our heads to gether, and study every pla.it we can, for “pour Tom’s getting cold.” • Sneli are tlm till absorbing thoughts and soliloquies ol the “so-called let them not bo deceived, for, politically, Ijiey are dead in Georgia. Unmask. GEORGIANS RELIEVED. We copy tho following list of Georgians relieved from political disabilities by tho bill recently passed by Congress : Skc. 3. And be it further enacted, That all lognl and political disabilities imposed by the United States upon the following named citizens of Georgia in consequence of partici pation in the recent rebellion be, and the same are hereby removed, namely : Bibb county —James Martin. Hurke county— McWhorther Hungerford and Jesse Wimberly. Berrien county— Thomas Paulk. Cobb county— N N Gober. Carroll county— W W Merrill and Geor-o W Merrill. Chattooya county —W 0 Edmonson. Clark county —John C Johnson, Asa M Jackson, John W Johnson, Josiah A Browu in?, Joliiwt’ Nunnally, and Robert Flournoy. Dawson county John C Richardson, Daniel Fowler, William H Richardson, John Foutz, Robert M Barrett, and Samuel M Fowler,. Decatur county —Benjamin F Bruton, B F Powell, Richard H Whitely, and John Higdon. Echols county —L H Roberts. Franklin county— James A Harrison. Faye'fe county —S F W Minot. Floyd county —Nathan Yarbrough, and Thomas J Perry. Fulton county —Bluford D Smith, Joseph E Brown, and George S Thomas. Greene county —R L McWhorter, James It Bynum, D A Newsom, C S Caldwell, R C Ilnles, John Mitchell, G II Thompson, W H McWhorter, Jr., It Hulbert, and J C Broom. Glynn county —W II Rainey, John B Miller, Whitson Frohock, Henry F Beach, and John Brooks. Henry county —James II Maxwell, George M Wyatt, W J All urns, J C Griffin, John Fryer, and Willis Goodwin. Houston county —Joel It. Gridin, W'illiam A Matthews, John H Hose, Augustus Alden, A C Thompson, Kineheu Taylor, "Elbert Fagan, James W r Love, Jcssa Cooper, and Robert Braswell. Lee county —George F Page. Lowndes county —Joshua Griffin and A J Liles. Monroe county— M A Potts and M B Potts. Miller county —Francis M D Hopkins. Mitchell county —J M llusty (or Burl/,.) Morgan county —W Woods. Paulding county —S F Strickland aad C D Forsyth. Richmond county —Ephraim Tweedy, Jas N Ells, William Gibson, William Doyle, and Joseph. P Carr. Randolph county —Duncan Jordan and Wm B Dixson. St riven county —W D Hamilton. Troup county —J II Caldwell, J T Mc- Cormick, Thomas C Miller, and E H Worrell. Thomas county —John R Evans, M C Smith, Henry II Tookc, C II Latimer, Thus S Hopkins, Theophilus P Perry, and Thos S Paine. Talbot county —Marion Betbunc, J T Costin, Albert Costin, J L Gunn, and B Carlcy. Taliaferro county —Wm F Holden. Newton county —Augustus II Lee. Oglethorpe county —James II McWhorter, W II Ward, F L Upson, and F J Robinson. Randolph county —Edward It Harden. Steicarl county —David B Harrell. Ware county— L H Grocnlcaf. Wilkinson county —Wm Griffin. Putnam county —S C Prmjden and A C Mason. Twiggs county —W U Gibson and Samuel F Gove. Ribb county —W Iv DeGraffenreid, Mar shall DeGraffenreid, and W J Lawton. Franklin county —J H Harrison. Baldwin county— John R Strother. Brooks county —J G M Warnock, John McKinnon, William G Bagwell, Abraham Strickland, Murdock McCloud, aud Robert Humphries. Burke county —J It Corker. Taylor county —Win P Edwards. Clark county —John C Johnson, Asa M Jackson, John W Johnson, Robert Flour noy, Cl W Nunnally, Flournoy W Adams, and Peter W Hutcheson. Sumter county —Jas M Clark. Hall county —David Whelebel. Whitfield county —James Iluffaker. Madison county — John M Mathews, A L Byrd, (! II Byrd, II T Sanders, John N Montgomery, Joel Hunt, M A Daniel, Gabriel Nash, and V II Deadwyler. THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. The forthcoming Presidential campaign bids fair to be oue of intense excitement. The question as to whom the Democracy will nominate in New York on July 4th is stili involved in doubt ; but when the deed shall have been consummated the campaign will commence in earnest. It docs not matter who their candidate may bo, the issues of the campaign will be the same as those which controlled elections during the war. The Democratic party must perforce look to the secession principles and interests, and to what was known as the peace Democracy, as those forces existed during the war, for its strength. This party cannot separate itself from these influences. Secession, anti- Uiiionism, in every form, must attach to the Democratic organization, and must inevita bly control its machinery. The Democratic' party is hopelessly and irretrievably wedded 10 all that, fosters and perpetuates treason. It can no mere shako off this load of odium than Si 11 bad could rid himself of the old man ol the sea. As that is odious and un-Ameri can, and that is destructive in the rebellion, all that goes against the principles of true liberty and righteous government, must attacli itself to the self styled Democratic party, and must inhere in the Democratic policy of the campaign. We know that all sorts of intrigue and every possible system of fincisiny and man agement will bo resorted to, to keep out of sight the real purpose of the party. Rut, nevertheless, its intent is rule or ruin, repu diation, guilty combination with tho most destructive principles of secession, and the foisting into power of corrupt whiskey rings, and every possible scheme of corruption that is known or imaginable to the country, appertain to this party, and must succeed or fall with it. Whoever is nominated at New York will be a puppet. It may bo Hancock, Chase, Hendricks, or Pendleton; but whoever it may be, lie will be but putty in the'hands of a corrupt ring which rules the organization. The secession principles are the predomi nant views at the top of the heap, and the Democratic party, as at present organized, is (lie exponent and advocate of rebellion, and it can no more free itself of this senti ment and purpose than the leopard can change bis spots. Every disloyal man in tho country, every discontented Republican, overy time-server and shyster, every man who is an adventurer and a seeker for place for place itself, the odds and ends and factious of a turbulent and unwashed Democracy will rally upon the platform and to the support <n the can didates of the 4th of July Convention. When this ticket is made up, then the people will see, and they will choose, and the choice will not be a doubtful one. Grant and Colfax, a straightforward and economical government, that is pledged to a righteous and a sate and pure administration of public affairs, will win in the contest, and the con glomerate heterogeneous combination of accession, misrule and anarchy will go to the wall.— Washington Republican. DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT—JUNE TERM, 1868. J. Mosher & Cos., for Plaintiff in Error, vs. the Southern Express Cos., Defendants in Error. Case from Richmond. Wau.vku, C. J.—When the Agent, of the .Southern Express Company, at Augusta, receipted for a package of goods, to the shipper, marked C. A. Robinson, Carters ville, Ga., and in the printed receipt given by the Agent of the Company to the ship per, the following words were inserted : “which it is mutually agreed is to be for warded to our agency nearest or most convenient to destination only, and there delivered to other parties to complete the transportation."’ Held, that in case of the loss of the goods, the Company were liable therefor and could not protect themselves by show ing that their line of transportation extend only to the eity of Atlanta, when the evi dence in the record shows that that fact was not communicated to the shipper at the time of receiving tiie goods by the Agent of the Company. Harris, J., dis senting. Held, also, that the evidence in the record as to the seizure of the goods by legal process, was not sufficient to exonerate tiie Company from their legal liability as common carriers. Judgment reversed. Hook & Carr for Plaintiffs in Error. Win. T. Gould for Defendants in Error. City Council of Augusts, Plaintiff ii. Error, vs. Walton & Wnlton, Assignees of the Augusta Insurance and Banking Company, el al., Creditors, Defendants in Error. Equity from Richmond. Warner, C. J.—The City Council of Au gusta, on the 2d day ol June, 1865, passed an ordinance levying a specific tax of SI,OOO upon each and every incorporate Bank and Insurance Company in the city. Held that, inasmuch as the State of Georgia has not heretofore recogniz.ed the franchise of a Bank or Insurance Company as “taxable prop erty,” the City Council of Augusta did not have the power and authority, under their charter, lo levy and collect such tax. Judg ment affirmed. F. H. Miller, Hook & Carr, for Plaintiff in Error. Wright, Ganahl, Barnes & Cumraing, for Defendants in Error. Pierce, Wheeless it Cos., Plaintiffs in Error, ts. The City Council of Augusta, De fendant in Error. Equity from . I licit mond. Warner, C. J.—Where the City Couucil of Augusta passed an ordinance laying and assessing a tax on the gross sales of cotton, twenty five cents on every hundred dollars ; on every hundred dollars of commissions received by commission merchants and cotton factors, three dollars ; on cvery hundred dollars of the gross amount of all sales of goods, wares, merchandize, and produce (except cotton), and receipts for storage, one dollar. Held, that, the City Cohneil, nrider their charter, had the power and Authority to assess and collect said tax. Judgment affirmed. John T. Shewniakc for Plaintiffs in Error. Hock A Carr, Miller, • for Defendant in Error. J. A. Van Winkle & Cos., Plaintiffs in Error, vs, the South Carolina Railroad Company, Defendant in Error. Case from Rich mond. Warner, C. J.—When a common carrier receives goods for transpoitalion and seeks to protect himself from liability therefor, in case of loss, upon the ground that the goods were destroyed by the public enemies of the State: Hold that, as the presumption of law is against the carrier in ease of loss, it is incumbent on him to prove, by clear and satisfactory evidence, that the goods were so destroyed, which the evidence in this record fails to do, and that the Court below erred in granting anew trial. Judgment reversed. Hook & Carr, for Plaintiffs in Error. Wm. T. Gould, for Defendant iu Error. Before and After. —The New York World, before the nomination of General Grant: General Grant’s history should teach us to discriminate better than we Americans are apt to do between glitter and solid worth. * * * « When the mass ot men look upon such a character, they may learn a truer respect lor themselves and each other; they are taught by it that high qualities and great abilities are consistent with the simplicity of taste, contempt (or parade, and plainness of man ners, with which direct and earnest men have a strong natural sympathy: The World , after the nomination : Grant is probably the weakest man, intel lectually, ever nominated by either party for the Presidency. SPECIAL NOTICES. CONSIGNEES PER SOUTH CAR OLINA RAILROAD, dune 2-1, ISGB.—ocorgis R R Cos, Geo Kahrs and, Bro, Mrs S Solomon, Mrs L Brockman, Wyman A. May, S Iv Dick, Gray A Turley, O i*’ Ckcatam A Bro, 11 L A Balk, G Volgor, W It Tutt, 0 4: D, D R Wright ,t Cos, Mullarkcy A Bros, J A T A Bonos, J Miller, Stevenson A S, W C Jessup <t- Cos, # D Stellings, Q A A, B A C, J W M, C Emery, *M Hymns it Cos, R F Urquhart, J At Clark A Cos, John Bender, T S Morgan, V Richards A Bro, ICusel A Bro, I’ A S A Cos, It Morrison. Genkiui. Sui'EniNTENnnxT’s Office, ) Georgia Railroad Cos., > Augusta, Ga., 19th June, 1868. J BUSINESS TICKETS,ENTITLING the bolder to ride One Thousand -'tiles on the Georgia Railroad and branches, and the Macon and Augusta Railroad, can he had for Twenty Five Dollars, on application to J. A. Robert, General Ticket Agent. Ministers of tho Gospel, travelling oil these Roads from point to point, on Ministerial />,rty ( will be furnished with authority, by tho Station Ageuts, to travel at half rates. E. W. COLE, Gen’l Sup't. Allan ta, Millodgeville, Athens, Covington, Madison, Greensboro, Washington, and Sparta papers copy daily one month and weekly five tiraos. jc2B—dim fteg- GRAIN AND FLOUR SACKS I! The old established “Corn Exchange Bag Manufactory" Is prepared to furnish GRAIN SACKS of any desired sue or quality, and at short notice. Also, COTTON AND PAPER FLOUR SACKS Neatly printed to order. Information promptly furnishod upon applica tion. W. B. ASTEN A CO., jo 17—3 m 2.') Pearl Street, Now York City. SCRIP DIVIDEND, NO. I, OF THE GEORGIA HOME INSURANCE CO., of Columbus, Ga. Assets Ist of January, ISG7 A1 We have received ready for delivery the scrip of Dividend No. 1, amounting to 2. r > per cent., of the net premiums paid on participating, annual policies, on policies issued during the nine months interval from April Ist to Dee. .Hist, 1867. Dividend No. 3 will bo issued January Ist, 1869. Persons to whom Scrip is due are requostod to cull at once and rooeipt for sumo. A G. HALL, Agent, je?— Ini 221 Itroad street, Augusta, Ga. PitOl'OsAiM VJKALED PROPfißii. a ' l » * CKIVELI at U.U 1" S "Hi L July 34, W*. at which t lor supplying tbit Depot wij,^ 5 31 Wg, P0 "“ d8 oat * 41,800 pounds Cora P-rsyth street, whe r :X»«J2 ■uspected. - * kvaS' llay and Straw mu* i„ , „ ~ from dirt, weed*, or other a!? ax Qovernmeiit .Stable, SS&S. 1 equal amount* for th, *4, Separate bid* most be D r St in triplicate as u.-nal w£ and d * for «3*Si attached to ear l, and Bidders are invited to be nrt . at the opening of the- propoSS*”' The Government rewrWllu, ■, bide or accept or refu* the best interests of the- service^ lU]*6 1U] *6 . Proposals should he a <hWt signed, and endorsed uponoK posals for the delivery of V,,-' By order of BrJet Chief Q. M. H.J.KAVvbSfc, 'r?»r ’"'^Otl^ Georgia—Warm (W"' INTIIEDISIUICTcOfp'oSr, 1 H .t’ fur lhe Soutb "'> ha®!? In tiie matter of , “'‘Wte H. B- FITZPATRICK, i Tv rtn . Bankrupt. ' ( " Pursuant to an order from g, r , Register m Bankruptcy wit! u outcry, before the Court V* ton, iu tlie county aforecaCi " TvJ s *e« BAY IN ACBlVT°ne“ and ' b 0 bouts ot sale, one tract of J i ■ t!e <a county in the fork of Uockv rj' tup 1 , Creeks, containing ess free from tl.e encumbrance of EL,' 1 "' 1 land does not include the dwtlJSiL? incuts. Sold as the property oftt-i “v"'" Patrick, Bankrupt, VX ft** 4osier, Register in Bankruptcy TeZi‘ June 224.1808. LEVI F °^ jec'j—lawtd Assignee's Noticed P,. THE DISTRICT COURT OF » Georgia ,e * “ ,e Kw,i * n m In the matter of i PATRICK HAYDEN, UK BAKKIURTt Bankrupt. j The undersigned hereby sire appointment as Assignee of the wale oftto Hayden, of Atlanta, county of Fulton *jt|i. District, who has been adjudged abater;* bis own petit on by the District Com oftfi tnct. ■* . NOAH K. FOWIE je.o— lavrdic Aaip. Assignee's Notice. IN' TIIE DISTRICT COURT OF n A Tuned States fur the Nottliers Dates Georgia. In the matter of 1 P. &M. GALLAIIER, | PATRICK GALLAIIER. | IN BASKRUPS MICHAEL GALLAIIER | Bankrupts. J The undersigned hereby notice us a appointment as Assignee of P. & M.G&a Patrick Galiaber, Michael Gallahsr,fira.aaii dividual members of a firm, of Atlanta, ewsri Fulton, and .State of Georgia, who hate is adjudged Bankrupts upon their own pass by the District Court of said District NOAH R. FOWLER. j©2o—law*2w Assign* IN TIIK DISTRICT COURT 0? H United .States Pr the Northern District Georgia. In the matter of ]IN GANKRUPICT LEO C A UN, f Bankrupt. "j No. 330. The said Bankrupt having petitioned thefti for a discharge from all his debts provable uk the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867.n0C«i hereby given to all persons interested toijp on the loth day of July. 1868. at 10 o'clock a a forenoon, at Chambers of the said District Coal before Lawson Black. Esq., one of theKegiaa of the said Court in Bankruptcy, at ollice, in the eitt’ of Atlanta. Georgia, and a* cause why the prayer of the said peiitiwoh Bankrupt should not be granted. Aoi notice is hereby given that the secondind meetings of creditors will be held at * time and place. , Witness, the Honorable John traa fsE.vi.l Judge of smd District Coart.tk* day of June. l *! R je2s—lawSw « TN THE DISTRICT COTRI OF IB 1 United States for the Xeittom ww“ 60r i:i the matter of |IS ISAMU® Christopher C. Sams, > Bankrupt. J .}) V.;.-- The said Bankrupt having for a discharge from all hi.detaH** the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, I*. . hereby given to all persons intersw 'An on the loth day of July. 18(8,.ail \ at Chambers of said District Court be McKinley, one of the W in Bankruptcy. at the Register s o®«. { of New nan. Ga.. and ? ho S.Xp-idHii'* of the said petition of the Bank.i', ■ granted. And further notice: kA• second and third meetings ol (res llolß held at the same time and place-. ’ Witness, the HonoraM* Isk.u.l Judge of said Ihsmct Court « lib day ol sMITB je3;»— lawGW Georgia. ~.. mVKKIT® In 1 lie matter of ) D ‘ ‘ JOHN HAIL. . 503 3. The ini'LaXi.plhaving£ for a discharge from all Jus “K --the Bankrupt Act ol * ’ j-jtoipj* hereby given .0 a" per «“"£s*** 011 the lblh day ot July. R? ■■ lefcwA 1 at Chambers o< said District t Murray, cue ol the Registers _ Bankruptcy', ai (he Register» Griffin. Ga- and show Jioii*•* the said petition ot the lj*“h.d„ iw , * granted. And further " , ’ 1 second and I bird meetings ot cn . at the same time and phj- , , 6«* Witness, the ~f l (W®' [sK.u.j Judge of said Da‘r.rt day ol June. R SI ‘ V . S )|IIB. " C* je'Jj—lawHiv Notice to Citi**, T'ifrSSK'M.™ JSS graph Os the Thirty First Ordinance—ami are here . y| vf »foi^,., date the Ordinance will hi r C } fk* "It shall he the duty ot aU lands, whether the same -M* closed, to keen 'hen. clean J A permit 110 sink to count “ r lauds, ult low places on said lots or « ,m 5 J "to pass off the water. oxalic Sabbath. **£'*£s>*£l all decayed and decaying e T v^ substance, 1,1 f 6l , 10 ' t i, e same I®* 0 ® corrupt the air, auSP l *®* , lo# heaps) in the streets 01 f ' - t , 0 . 10 Jary and twenty loot from t , f % daylight and nine o ll, \ k ,j, into person shall throw-trash or Idtl & from his or her lots or than bet ween daylight and on the Sabbath day. qaML'BR ' By order of chi , iml ah Barber, Carr 4 * GENEBAI INSURANCE A of earrying on » . (n,tr»»*S* # L. b'^kss. friends is rospeetluH.' .ojj, Augusta, ita., •1110° 1