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About The National Republican. (Augusta, Ga.) 1867-1868 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1868)
PARAGRAMS. —Yesterday, in New York, Gold was quoted at 1.43[. Cotton, —•. —Troubles arc like babies; they grow bigger by nursing. —There are 390 teachers in the public schools of Chicago. —Last wook, 1,370 emigrants passed through Columbus. —The trial of Surratt has been postponed until September 21st. His bail was con tinued. —lt costs a million and a half dollars a year to do the printing of the National Government —The Alabama Legislature is calleS together by William 11. Smith, Governor elect, Monday, J uly 13th. —Fashionable young gentlemen, in New York, have discarded kids and have donned yellow lisle thread gloves. —Mrs. Abraham Lincoln and her little son Taddle will sail for Europe in a short time, for the purpose of staying with some friends in Scotland. —Gen. Sherman has adopted a son of the late Kit Carson, and will send him to the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, to be educated. Berlin physicians, it is said concur in the opinion that both Bismarck and King William will die very soon and very suddenly. —The State Lunatic Asylum buildings are greatly crowded, and every room is full. There are 385 inmates, 50 of whom are negroes. —lt cost the Australiifhs over $15,000,. 000 to entertain I’rince Alfred, which may be called paying very dear for one’s whistle. —The people of Philadelphia are talking about building a bridge across the Delc warc river, between that city and Camden, N. J. It would be over a mile long. —The directors of the Atlantic Cable Company have declared a dividend, paya ble .’st of July, of six per cent, on preferred stock, and three per cent, on original stock. —A Western editor, in response to a subscriber who grumbles that his morning paper is always intolerably damp, says “that is because there is so much due (dew) on it,’’ —The mail matter handled daily at the New York Post Office amounts to ninety live tuns, making two hundred wagon loads each day ; 250,000 letters are dispatched each day. —Thomas Campbell was murdered on Thursday, at Martinsville, near Lexington, Ky., by two brothers named Lilliard. An old grudge growing out of the war existed between them. A representation of a Hute and a harp has been found in a tomb near the Pyramids, which is considered to prove that these instruments are at least foiu' thousand years old. —Secretary McCulloch goes to London to take charge of a banking house soon to open in that city by Messrs, jay Cook & Co., says the Washington correspondent of the Balti more Gazette. —The harvesting of wheal is nearly over in the Northern section of the State. The weather has been favorable and the crop is now safe. We believe that over an average crop hat bi en made. —The negotiations pending between the Directors of the Macon and Brunswick Georgia, Railroad and a New York company, will have a favorable termination and the building of the road is only a question of time. —State bonds to the amount of $300,000 have been issued to the Southwestern Rail road Company, which proposes constructing a railroad from McMiiwiville, Tennessee, to Dunvillc, Kentucky. —A young lady living near Powder Springs was fatally poisoned by using a twig for a tooth brush wherein the locusts had deposited their eggs. Six boys havo also died in Tennessee, from eating mulberries poisoned in the same manner. —This month was the first called Quin tities, being the fifth month of the old ■ Roman year ; but, when the calendar was altered, it became the seventh, but still retained its ancient name until Marc Anthony changed it into Julius, or July, byway of compliment to Julius Ctesar, at that time Dictator of Rome, and who was born in it. —Vessels arriving from the east report an unusual number of icebergs in the Atlantic ocean, and it has been suggested that the coldness of thetemperature produced in the atmosphere of the ocean by these Arctic visitors is the cause of the excessive rains we have been having during the past few weeks. —The Government how, having given a credit of eighteen months on the tax due on whiskey, reduces the tax $1 40 per gallon, and gives a further credit of six months. This is treatment most people would be glad to receive, but the whiskey dealers think it hard. Other classes of tax payers will not see it in that light. —The editor of the Cerro Gordo (Iowa) Republican, has “taken in’’ one of the office boys as partner, and assigns as a reason that “Stephen has been to work for us all winter and wanted his pay, and we thought, after he had been proprietor a short lime, he would understand that paying help was not so easy.” —The Atlantic mid Gulf Railroad Com pany have agrt i-d to purchase and put in operation each section of ten miles of this road as fast as completed, guaranteeing seven percent., payable semi annually upon the stock of the company. The amount of stock so far subscribed is about $400,000, which will be. turned over to the Atlantic and Gulf Road, with all the rights and privileges of the charter of the same, upon certain conditions named in the written contract. A Railroad Humbug.—There has been a good deal said of late about the merging of the Central and Muscogee Railroads. It was confidently stated that the Central and Muscogee Railroads. It was.confi dently stated that the Central Road had proposed to lease the Muscogee Road for • ninety nine years, and that, in a short while, the Muscogee Road would be no thing more or less than a portion of the western end of the Georgia Central Road. Under this favorable showing of the Mus cogee Road its stock went up like a rocket, and it was generally believed that the merging of the road with the Central would soon place its stock on a par with any in the State. If the much talked of consolidation of the two roads was really soon to take place, the Muscogee stock would have commanded the same price in the market as that of the Central Road; but will the reader believe it, when we assure him that the Central Railroad Company has made no proposition to lease the Muscogee Road for ninety nine years, or any other length of time. Neither has the Muscogee Com pany made such a proposition to the Cen tral Road. There has been no negotia-. tions pending between the two roads, and •11 that we have heard to the contrary notwithstanding was bald faced humbug gery. Isn’t it rich I—Macon Tdeyraph. NationftlHcpublican AXTGITHTA. (FA. SUNDAY MORNING July 5 WM For MtESIIJEFfT Os the United States: ULYSSES S. GRANT. FOR VICE PRESIDENT: Schuyler Colfax, OF INDIANA. [OFFICIAL.] Proclama Idou ■ a‘.-. \ r’J BY THE GOVERNOR ELECT. Under authority granted by an Aet of Congress, entitled "An Act to admit the States of North Carolina, South Carolina Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, to representation in Congress,” which this day became a law : the persons who were elected Members of the General Assembly of this State, at an Election held on the 20lh, 21st, 22d and 23d days of April last, and who arc eligible to office under said Act, are hereby notified to convene in the City of Atlanta, at twelve o'clock noon, on Saturday, the Fourth Day of July next. RUFUS B. BULLOCK, Governor Elect of the State of Georgia. AdoustA, Ga , June 25, 1868. Augusta, Savannah, Atlanta, Macon, Columbus, and Milledgeville papers will publish till day and send bills to National Republican Office. TO OUR COUNTRY "SUBSCRIBERS. We are now sending out bills (which are long past due) for Subscription. Those receiving a reminder will please nt once remit the amount, else their papers will be discontinued. THE MARCH ON REVOLUTION. This is an age of progress, reform and revolution. The rapidity with which events are transpiring all over the globe gives us little time to reflect upon their importance and discover true significance. We feel an intensity of moral and political pressure, and a consciousness of pending events; but as they burst forth and take real shapes, we can but pause ami give expression to our wonder as to what will next startle us from our meditations and overthrow human calculations. The leaven of revolution seems to per vade every nation on the face of the earth, and even the islands of the sea are lifting up their hands in the struggle for a higher destiny. Old forms ami effete policies are yielding before the onward march of civil, ization and enlightenment, ami priestcraft and kingcraft are forced to acknowledge the lights of humanity. The cause of popular liberty is making rapid strides in England, the serf of Russia has been lifted from his former degradation, the emperor of the French is constantly compelled to acts of conciliation toward the laboring classes, and only the other day the wearer of the imperial crown of Austria told us he was driven to the alternative of reject, ing the concordat or resigning his throne. These arc the results of no outward pres sure, of no invasion and conquest by for eign foes, lint of quiet, irresistible interna] revolution in favor of human progress ami universal freedom. Our own fair country is no exception to the general rule. Her past career has been one of unexampled prosperity and gran deur—achieved not, like that of ancient Rome, by the conquest and plunder of other nations, but by her own innate growth and development, furnishing an example that has been alike the admiration of the philanthropist and the envy of the despot. Iler brightness has been obscured by a single cloud —black, dense, impenetrable— seemingly 'no bigger than u man’s hand.’ In an unexpected moment it broke forth in a revolutionary storm of unprecedented fury, and the heavens were filled with the din and the darkness ol the conflict. It was brief, terrible and decisive. When it passed, the sun of liberty shone down upon us again with redoubled effulgence, and on the dark canvas of the angry clouds, as they roll, rumbling ami muttering, away in the distance, is painted the beautiful rainbow of promise and hope. From all quarters of the habitable globe, the four winds ami the winged steed of the lightning bring to us the accounts of ‘wars and rumors ot wars.’ The volcanoes of the earth, vomiting forth fire and smoke, and the upheavals of mighty earthquakes, are but typical of the moral anil political con dition of the world. Mexico nnd the South American States are-still in the throes of anarchy and. revolution, ami all Europe is holding its breath in anticipation of a general ami rush to arms. Each power is putting forth every exertion in preparation for war, while striving to quiet the popular apprehension ami instinct by declarations of peaceful intentions and the assurance of the existence of nothing to disturb the peace of nations. Such a state of things can not last always. These forebodings ami these preparations augur the approach of a terrible ordeal. We have passed through ours, and theffilood that ran in rivers ami the smoke of battle have disappeared. The nations of Europe must take their turn. Ere long, all these preparations tor war will suddenly l>e called into requisi tion and the earth will tremble to its very centre with the tread of swarming legions and the clash of arms. Night and thick darkness will hang like a pall over the continent, and the proud and the mighty, in their despair, will flee to the moun tains and cull for the rocks to fall upon them and hide them from the impending wrath. But out of all this will rise a new ami better order of things. The same God that watches the sparrow and directs the whirlwind determines the results of buttle. Men are guided by ambition ami passion; but when in the midst of the conflict, they find that a higher Power controls their destiny ami uses them as the mere blind instruments of His will. Let us hope for the final deliverance of the millions from the oppression of man-made institutions, and have faith in that future of which the prophets caught partial glimpses and of which we all so fondly drcam : “Lo ! I seo long blissful ages, when those Mam mon days are done, Stretching like a golden evening forward to tho sotting of the sun.” * [From tho Atlanta New Era. The Colambus Prisoners EXAMINA IION OP WITNESSES CONTINUED. Fifth Day. Tin; prosecution. [Note. — In our report ot the testimony, published yesterday morning, the types made a merchant of the witness Bennett. He is a machinist. Another error occurred in stat ing that witness Bennett was concealed by some women’s clothing in Ashburn’s room. It was not in Ashburn’s room, but in the adjoining one.] The Commission met at ten o’clock, pursu ant to adjournment. Judge Henry L. Benning was introduced to the court ns assistant counsel for defense. The record of the previous day’s testimony was read and approved by the court. Council lor delense asked permission of the court to have Capt. Mills furnish the testimony taken nt the Coroner’s court. AMANDA PATTERSON SWORN. My name is Amanda Patterson. lam 18 years old. 1 have lived at Columbus about 6 years, I was acquainted with Mr. Ashburn about two weeks. Was living in the same house with him. Had known him previous to his going to the house to live. There were five rooms in the house. I occupied the second room from the front and Mr. Ashburn occupied the third. 1 was in my room the night Mr. Ashburn was killed. There came a crowd to the door and asked that it be opened. Hannah said “I can’t let my door be open to night for anybody,” and asked who was there. Some one said Mary Tilliughurst, and wanted to see .Mandy. Hannah told them they could not see her. They then asked for Hannah, and told her if they didn’t open they would burst the door down. She told them lo burst it down if they wanted to. They bursted it open and came in. Asked Hannah who was in there. Hannah said nobody but me and her. They went to the door of Ashburn’s room and told him to open it. IL: asked what they wanted. They told him to open the door. He opened the door and they then commened shooting. There was no light in the front room when they came in. 1 didn’t see the persons who fired on Ash burn. I went into the front room. I saw Mt. Bennett there. There were no females there but 1 and Hannah Flournoy. A good many persons were in the front room. Not very many came into the middle room. I was in the second (or middle) room. No person was in there with me at the time that I know of. I saw others in my room besides Chipley, Kirkscey, Hudson, Bar ber, Betts, Bedell, and Dukes. They had no mask faces. I saw but one without a mask. L did not know him. He was a stranger. Bedell lost his mask. It dropped off his face as. he wont out of the front door. There was no conversation between me and him, only he turned round and said if 1 told on him he would kill me The affair took place on Monday night between 12 and 1 o’clock. 1 had a conver sation previous to the killing with Chipley, Kirkscey,and Barber, about the killing of Ashburn. It took place over Speer’s jewelry store. 1 went there to sec Dr. Moses. They were in another room and called me to the door. Barber and Chipley told me they were going to kill old Ash burn on the night he was going m speak. 1 told them not to do it while 1 lived there. The conversation took place tho Tuesday evening before the Monday Ashburn was killed. I told them they couldn’t get in. They said they knew as well how the house was fixed as 1 did. They said if 1 told, they would kill me. On the Wednesday before tho killing, Bedell and Barber passed me on Broad street, and I heard Barber say to Bedell “we are going to kill old Ashburn.” I was acquainted with Bedell. 1 had talked with him -a few times, but not often. I have talked with him since. He came to my house about a week before 1 came away from Columbus. He was never in my house before. He did not stay more than half an hour then. Others were present (naming several wo men). lie wanted me to go to his room with him. I didn’t go. He gave no reason why he wished mo to go with him. I made no promise that I would go He told me whore his room was. I was sick at tho time, and he asked mo to come down when 1 got well. I hadaconvoisa tiou with Mr. Bennett, abouHeaving Co lumbus. He came to my house and wanted mo to go away. I told him no. He said if the Ku Klux Klan didn't kill us the Yankees would carry us off aud we’d die anyhow, and he didn't want to swear against these men. I told him I didn’t want to go away at all He said Mr. Bowers and Mr. Bedell would furnish the money to go away, if we would swear nothing against them. 1 didn't go with Bedell to his room when lie asked me, because I was afraid he would kill me because he was afraid 1 would tell some thing on him. CROSS EXAMINATION. 1 was examined at the coroner’s inquest. I believe 1 testified then that I did not know any of the parties. At the time Chipley, Barber and Kirkscey told me they were going to kill Ashburn, some more men were in the room. There was no one with me. It was in a room in the same building, with Dr. Moses' office over Speer’s jewelry store. 1 don’t know what day 1 was arrested. It will be six or seven weeks to day since I let', home. Capt. Mills sent aud had me arrested, and 1 was sent lo Fort Pulaski. 1 was treated mighty well. I wasputintoa tolerably large room by myself. Capt. Cook visited me there. He said nothing to me about this affair of of Ashburn’s assasiuation. Mr. Whitley first mentioned it after my arrest. He told me 1 was arrested to giye evidence on the subject, and asked mewhat I knew aboat it. He said I could be imprisoned until I told what I knew about it. He mentioned the n.aues ot no one until 1 told him who they were there. I saw Whitley belore I came to Atlanta- I saw him in Fort Pulaski. It is four weeks since 1 came to Atlanta. He never told me he would give me anything. I never told the guard he said he would give me a cer tain amount of money. KK-DlllECr. I would not. tell that I knew all about the killing of Ashburn before the Coronel s jury because I was afraid of my life. I was atraid of my life. I was airaid they would kill me. I knew they'd kill me if I told anything on them. 1 was warned by Chipley and them before it ever occurred that they would kill me if 1 told about it. Mr. Bennett told me not to tell anything about it there. He said he was not going to tell what he knew. He said if he did they would kill ms all. WADi STEPHENS SWORN. lam twenty two years of age. I reside in Columbus, and am a harness maker. I have resided there about eight years. J have known Dr. Kirksey seven or eight months. [Points him out.] I had a conversation with him about three weeks before the killing of Ashburn. I met him on the street below Cook’s Hotel. He stopped and called me to his buggy, and asked if I could keep a secret. 1 told him of course I could. He told mo a party was making up to kill Ashburn, and offered fifty dollars if 1 would join it. 1 refused the money and went away. He call ed me back, and told me if I wouldn’t go not to expose them. I spoke a few words again to him, while both were prisoners in the Court House. He called me by name when 1 entered, and welcomed me to the bull pen. 1 can't say how long Ashburn was killed before I was arrested and taken to tho Court House. cross examination. I don't reinember when I was arrested. When first arrested, I was released on bond. Some time before the election, and after the death ol Ashburn. I was arrested the second time, aud taken to Fort Pulaski. Barber and two negroes, John Wells and John Sta pler, were arrested at The same time. 1 was put in a cell at Fort Pulaski. Capt. Reed, Major Whitley, and Capt. Cook visited me there. I was not told what I was arrested for. 1 was asked what 1 kuew about the Ashburn affair. I told them 1 knew nothing. I was confined in a cell and had government rations. 1 fared about as well as prisoners could fare generally. I was not told that I would be subject to a close confinement, If I did not disclose. I made no disclosure there. Made lhe first disclosure at McPherson Bar. racks. 1 got no letters telling me that Barber Kirkscey and Chipley had confessed, or that they intended to commit me. I made no affidavit in Savannah. I made one here in presence of Major Whitley and some other gentleman—l forgot his name. The sub stance of it was what I have spoken here concerning Dr. Kirkscey. Dr. Kirkscey did not speak to me often before the arrest. He was rich and I was poor, and you don’t sup pose would speak to small potatoes, unless to get them into trouble. RE DIRECT EXAMINATION. I started to tell what I knew in the Fort, but some conversation between Reid and Whitley stopped me, and I turned and went back into my cell. I did not care to tell what 1 knew in such a place. I did not tell in Columbus, because I feared if I told —in all probability I would come out in the same fix as Ashburn was. About the time Ash burn was killed, there was much excitement about the organization known as the Ku Klux Klan. I found K. K. K. on my fence. Fear of the organization did not operate on me. Ido not know there was fear of assas sination about that time, in Columbus. SECOND CROSS EXAMINATION. I have a piece of ground in Columbus, and some plank nailed up that I call a fence. My mother bought the ground in 1859. I built a shanty or two on it. The improve ments are mine. A colored girl, or cook, lives with my mother. John Wells, a negro, did live there till I threatened to shoot his brains out. [ Witness here said he did not see what these questions lia-1 to do with the matter, and should answer no more of them. | SALLIE BEDELL [COLORED) SWORN. The night I beard thal Mr. Ashburn was killed, I was at aunt Nora Winters; saw Mr. Wiggins and Mr. Wood there. [She identifies them.] Mr. Wiggins had a masquerade suit. He said the suit was got from Mollie Jones. He didn’t say what he was going to do with it. Hi? brought it there. He said to aunt Nora Winters that thirty of them were going out disguised. I don’t know how long Mr. Wiggins and Mr. Wood staid there. They said they were going around to Temper ance Hall until the speaking was out. Mr. Wiggins camo back and went to bed. Mr. Wood did not. When ho went to bed tho mask suit was lying on a chest in aunt Nora’s room. After he went to bed I came then to the bed. lie was not doing any thing till he went to bed. 1 saw him come in from out doors. I don't know what time it was. It was after ho had gone to bed. I couldn’t tell which way he came. We wei 'iving up stairs. Aunt Nora said if they took up Mr. Wiggins she would swear he was there in lied with her, and she would make me and little Nora swear the same thing. The mask suit was on the bed and the mask was lying on the floor. The mask was broke up. It was made of pasteboard and black silk. I throwed it in the fire. 1 slept in Aunt Nora’s room on a couch that night. I was in the room sit ting down al the foot of the lounge when he came in after the meeting was over at the hall. He came in the next time about four o’clock in the morning. He didn’t stay in bed long the first time. He went to bed, again after he came in at four o'clock. When Nora said she would make me swear to such a time- no longer. Aunt Nora said before she’d see him killed she’d make me and little Nora swear he was in bed with her. CROSS EXAMINED. ’flies- questions have not been put to me before in Court. Out of Court they have been put four or live times by Mr. Bostock end that gentleman sitting over there (point ing to Whitley). I don’t know his name. Nora Winter keeps a boarding house, lhe masquerade suit was calico pants and worsted coat. There were two ot three suits in lhe house.. But one was taken out that night that 1 know of. One suit was taken out of the room, but I don’t know whether it was carried down stairs. Wiggins brought one of these suits in before he went to bed. He told aunt Nora there was a suit Emma Hinds sent back that she had borrowed. The suit was there as long as I staid. Mr. Wiggins was a policeman. I went to bed belore the speaking nt the hall, but didn’t g > to sleep. Aunt Nora asked Mr. Wood up stairs to take a drink. This was before the speaking at the hall. RE-DIRECT. Mr. Wiggins did not have the masquerade suit on when he went out, nor when he returned. He took it out ol the room with him. I don't know whether he carried it down stairs with him or not. • uitiM jotixsox (colored) sworn. 1 w.' . at Mr. Chapin’s store the Thursday alter Mr. Ashburn was killed. I saw Dr. Kirkscey. Mr. Bede.l and Mr. Chipley was there. (Identifies them.) I was going down the street and Dr. Kirkscey called me in and asked me where I stayed. 1 told him at widow McLaren’s boarding house. He asked me if there was where Mr. Bostock boarded. Told him it was. Dr. Kirkscey told me to find out if they were going to arrest any of them or not and let him know. 1 told him I would. He asked ine where was Mr. Bedell the night Aslibura was killed. ToU him Mr. Bennett said lie was at lhe middle door. He sail “if we had known he was there we, then he said the, Ku Klux would have fixed him like they did Ashburn.” He told me to question round Mr. Bostock aud sec if General Meade was coming down ia Mr. Ashburn’s place or no, and said if lie did let them know and "we,” then he sahl the, "Ku Klux will fix him like we did Ashburn.’’ Dr. Kirkscey tried to stop Mr. Bedell Irom talking, but H.amb Stewart said, ‘‘never mind Abram, he was in the war with me. He's a good boy. I took care of him.” Dr. Kirkscey first made remark about the Ku Klux. Dr- Kirkscey touched Mr. Bedell, tostophim from talking. Mr. Bedell was telling me to find out whether General Meade was corning down here or no, and let him know. Mrs. William Grady said something to mo about coming to testify. Mr. Bostock also. Mr. Moses—young lawyer Moses—threatened me it I swore in the case. He n ;:id, ‘‘if Dan'l Bostock wants you to go up yonder as witness don't you witness to nothing. If you do, these men will shoot you when you come back. If they don’t, I will ” It was the young lawyer Moses—don’t know his given name —his father is a lawyer, also. They are partners in the same law office. I don’t know his father’s name. There are no lawyers in Columbus but these two named Moses. CROSS EXAMINATION. The conversation about which I have tes tified took place in Mr. Chafin’s store, on Broad street, about an hour by sun. Mr. Chafin and Mr. Ashburn staid in the store. No one was absent bat Mr. Kirkscey, Mr. Chipley, Mr. Bedell, Mr. Chafin and Mr. Hamp Stewart. Mr. Bedd was in the back part of the store writing. 1 have been sworn in this case before, and did swear that Mr. Bostock said to me that he would give me one hundred dollars if I would swear what Barber and Betts said to Henry Kimbrough. 1 did not take the money. I did not swear that George Ashburn—the young son of Mr. Ashburn deceased, said he would give me one hundred and fifty dollars if I would swear to what Barber and Betts said to Kim brough. I did not make that reply to Mr. Bostock. He did not offer me one hundred dollars. He told me I would get the money. 1 told him 1 did not care anything about the money. 1 just believed in the right. I told him if he was of the mind to give it he could do so. Ido not expect him to give it to me. J have been here since Tuesday evening. Capt. Mills sent me up here. I was passing and he called me and told me not to get out of the way. He wanted me to go to Atlanta. Mr. Bostock told Captain Mills about my testimony. They say Mr. Bostock isiued warrants against these parties at their first arrest. The questious asked me to day were read over to me once before by Mr. Bostock. Young Mr. Ashburn did not offer me the §l5O. He told me I would get that much money. I believed in the right thing. Young Ashburn said if I’d stand to my word I’d get §l5O. He told me I’d get §l5O if I’d swear that way. KE-DIRECT. Do you pretend to say the same ques tions asked hero to day were asked you by Mr. Bostock? Yes, sir, 1 can over again. Have I not asked you some questions that Mr. Bostock did not ask you? No, sir. [The question was again put a little more plainly, and the witness answered in the affirmative.] Mr. Moses did not get me to swear anything before him. He just drawed up a paper that 1 told him. lie read it. 1 do not read. I do not know that he read it right Ido not understand that I was swearing. Mr. Moses (the father) gave me two dollars. He did not tell me ’ was swearing to it at the time. A motion was here made to adjourn, which motion was lost. BROKEN DAVIS (cOl.’d) SWORN. I have lived in Columbus twenty four years. I was in Columbus the day before Ashburn was killed. 1 saw Mr. Barber that day. 1 was standing with my wagon near a livery stable. Barber came up and had a new pair of shoes in his hand, and threw them in the w’agon and jumped in. He was about half drunk I suppose. Asked me if I was a Democrat. I said yes. Asked me if I was posted in the dots. I said no, sir. Asked me if 1 had been to the club room. I said no. He asked why didn't I go. I said I don’t feel like it. Why don’t you go to night ? I answered, I don’t care about it. He then said, “when you go up town go to Capt. Ratnsey, and lie will post you in the dots.” I tried to get shed of him, but ho kept qn to talk, and said, “whatever the Ku Klux do—do it in spite of hell. They hung seventy five up in Tennessee the other day.” I said, “is it possible ?” I whipped up the boss, and got down to the gate and let him out. He said, “Mr. Ashburn will be a dead man certain—shorter than any of us have any knowledge of.’’ I said, “is it possible?” 'I bis was on Monday evening. 1 heard next morning that Asliburu was killed. CROSS EXAMINATION. I told Mr. Barber I was a Democrat. I did not tell him the truth. He knew me very well ever since he was a child. 1 don’t know that he knew I was not a Democrat. I don’t know that my position in politics was well known at the time. 1 think Mr. Barber was not a very active politician. I was not very active, but was most determined in principle. RE-DIRECT. 1 think Mr. Barber was tn a condition to know what be was doing nt the time. SECO'.n CROSS EXAMINATION. I took him to bis house—got there in the neighborhood of sunset. 1 did not have to help him out of the wagon. The Court adjourned until 10 o’clock on Monday morning. The prosecution will close at the next sit ting of the Court. HO IP A PRINCESS POPPED THE QUESTION. I must disclose a charming little storv which came to me the other day about the Prince and Princess of Wales. Whether it was at Potsdam, at which residence of his royal sister the Prince of Wales is popularly supposed to have first set eyes on his charming bride, or some royal picnic in some highly refined and civilized solitude, 1 do not know ; but here is the story : “The Princess rose to depart. ‘You would,’ said Albert Edward, ‘make a for tune in England by reading Shakspeare.’ The maiden answered, ‘lf your Highness thinks so, why not engage me to be reader to the English Court ? 1 am sure you could well afford to pay me.’ ‘That,’ said the Prince, ‘depends entirely upon the price you may put upon your transcendant pow ers ’ (At this point it is difficult for an inquiring mind to resist a disposition to wonder whether Albert Edward was as yet aware of the identity of the lovely young lady whose powers of reading the works of the world poet had so greatly fascinated him, or whether his susceptibilities was leading him on into one of the little flirta tions in which he is believed to have had a somewhat perilous tendency to enter with the unknown owners of pretty faces; be that as it may), ‘On,’ said the Princess, smiling, *1 would not be greedy, you might engage me to read for life for the moderate sum of—let me sec—well, for five and twenty shillings.’ ‘Five and twenty shillings!’ ex claimed the Prince, ‘you are too modest in naming such a sum as five and twenty shillings.’ ‘Not a bit too modest.’ said the Princess, archly, stepping over the grass, ‘five and twenty shillings amount to some thing handsome; on reflection, you will find that it is an English sovereign and an English crown.’ Off went the royal maiden ; she was scarlet with blushes, a tear was on her cheek, she wished she could recall her words, she thought she had been too bold. But Albert Edward stood there fixed—the little girl had lodged a thousand arrows in h.s heart; for many days and nights he n ight have sung— When I sleep I dream, When I wake I'm weary , Rest—l can get none, For thinking of my dearie. The Danish Kings had hooked Brittania; to dawned the love that yields this day, this happy royal marriage.’ ” • ■—ln-Boston, forty thousand school chil dren will take part in the Fourth of July celebrations. SPECIAL NOTICES. JJaF* ALGI'ST X METHODIST UNION. —The Second Quarterly Mooting of tho Augusta Methodist Union will be bold at St. Jobu’B Church, THIS (Sunday) MORNING. Thu Union will convene at 10 o’clock, for the transaction of business. Al 10) o'clock, an appropriate Sermon will be preached by Rev. C. W. Key, after which the Sacrament of tho Lord's Supper will bo administered. In the afternoon, the several Methodist Sab bath Schools will assemble at St. John’s, at 4 o’clock. Interesting addresses may be expected from Mr. E. S. Florence and others. jys-lt AUGUSTA FACTORY, ) Augusta, July 1, 1868. ( jggp 1 >IVII)END No. 37.—A QUARTER LY dividend of Five per cent, this day declared, will be paid to stockholders on demand. W. E. JACKSON, jy 2—6l* . President. Geneiial Sui’isrintendbnt’s Office, ) Georgia Railroad Co., > Augusta, Ga., lath June, 1868. ) BUSINESS TICKETS;ENTITLING the holder to ride Ono Thousand Milos on tho Georgia Railroad and branches, and tho Macon and Augusta Railroad, can bo had for Twenty Five Dollars, on application to J. A. Robert, General Ticket Agent. Ministers of tho Gospel, travelling on these Roads from point to point, on Ministerial Duty, will be furnished with authority, by the Station Agents, to travel at half rates. E. W. COLE, Gen’l Sup’t. Altanta, Milledgeville, Athens, Covington, Madison, Greensboro, Washington, and Bparta papers copy daily one month and weekly five times. . jo23—dim AND FLOUR SACKS?! The old established “Corn Exchange Ba? Manufactory” Is prepared to furnish GRAIN SACKS of any desired size or quality, and at short notice. Also, COTTON AND PAPER FLOUR SACKS Neatly printed to order. Information promptly furnished upon applica tion. W. IL ASTEN <t CO., je l7—3m 25 Pearl Street, New York City. SCRIP DIVIDEND, NO. 1, OF THE GEORGIA HOME INSURANCE CO., of Columbus, Ga. Assets Ist of January, 1867 $116,280.87 Wo have received ready for delivery the scrip of. Dividend No. 1, amounting to 25 per cent., of the net premiums paid on participating, annual policies, on policies issued during tho nine months interval from April Ist to Doc. 31st. 1867. Dividend No. 2 will bo issued January Ist, 1869. Persons to whom Scrip is due arc requested to call at once and receipt for same. A G. HALL, Agent, je7—lm 221 Broad street, Augusta, Ga. Notice. rpHE FIRM OF BARBER, CARR A CO., I General lasuranco Agents, is this day dis solved by mutual consent. Either member of ths firm is authorized to sign tho name of tho firm in liquidation. WM. C. BARBER, CHARLES E. CARR, CHARLES A. LATHROP, WILLIAM G. TYSON. <Jopa rttie rs hi p Notice. The undersigned have this day formed a Co pership for the purpose of transacting a GENER AL INSURANCE BUSINESS under the name and stylo of Barber, Lathrop A Co., 219 Broad St., Augusta, Ga. WILLIAM C. BARBER, CHARLES A. LATHROP, WILLIAM <l. TYSON. Augusta, Ga., July 3d, 1868. . jyl - 3t TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE 1 United States for the Northern District of Georgia. In the matter of ) JOHN Z COOPER, >IN BANKRUPTCY Bankrupt. ) No. 47. The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all his debts provable under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is hereby given to nil persons intereited to appear on tile 21st day of July, 1868, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, ut chambers of the said District Court, before Garnett Andrews. Esq., one of the Regis ters of the said Court iu Bankruptcy, at the Regis ter’s office, in the city of Washington, Ga., and show cause why the prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt should not be granted. And further notice is given that the second and third meetings of creditors will be be id at the same time and place. Witness, the Honorable John Erskine, [seal I Judge of said Court, this day of jyl—law3w* Clerk. TN THE DIS TltH'T COURT OF THE 1 United States for the Northern District of Georgia. . In the matter of ) THOMAS A. STONE, !■ IN BANKRUPTCY. Bankrupt. J No. 48 The said Bankrupt having petioned the Court for a discharge from all his debts provable under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is hereby given to all persons interested to appear on the 21st day of July, 1868, at ten o’clock a. tn., at chambers of said District Court, before Garnett Andrews, Esq., one of the Registers of said Court, in Bankruptcy, at the Register’s office in Monroe. Ga., and show cause why the prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt should nut bo granted. And further notice is given that the second and third meetings of creditors will be held at the same time and place. Witness the Honorable John Erskine, [seal ] Judge of said District. Court, this day of , 1868. W. B. SMITH, jyl- law’Jw” Clerk. TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE 1 United Statci, for the Northern District of Georgia. In the matter of ] E A SMITH & CO., [IN BANKRUPTCY Bankrupts. ) No. 87. Tjie said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all his debts provable miller the Bankrupt Act of March 2d. 1867, nutice is hereby given to all persons interested to appear on the 21st day of July, 1868, at 10 o'clock, m the forenoon, at chambers of the said District Court, before G.vnett Andrews, Esq., one of the Registers ~f; the said Court in Bankruptcy, at the Reg ister's office, of Monroe, Georgia, and show cause why the prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt should not be granted. And further notice is given that the second and third meet ings of creditors will be held at the same time and place. Witness, the Honorable John Erskine, [seal.] Judge of said District Court, and the seal thereof, this day of , 1868. W. B. SMITH, jy4—law3w* Clerk. TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE A United States for the Northern District ol Georgia. In the matter of j SMITH, BULLOCH & Co J-IN BANKRUPTCY Bankrupts. j No. 68. The said Bankrupts having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all their debts provable under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice.is hereby given to all persons interested to appear on the 21st 'lay of July, 1868. at 10 o’clock a. m., at Chambers of said District Court, before Gar nett Andrews, Esq., one of the Registers of said Court in Bankruptcy, at the Register's office, in Monroe, Georgia, and show cause why the prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupts should not be granted. And further notice is given that the second and third meetings of creditors will be held at the same time and place. Witness, the Honorable John Erskine, [seal] Judge of said District Court, and the seal thereof,this the—day of . 1868. W. B SMITH, jy4—law3w* Clerk. Sleeve Buttons Lost) ON TUESDAY MORNING, BETWEEN THE Georgia Rail Road and 1911 Broad Street, a pair of Gold Sleeve Button-, set Green Blood Stones. The owner’s name is engraved underneath on the gold. The finder will be liberally rewarded by returning them to E. 11. I’UGHE, jy I—ts 190 Broad st. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. City Sheriff’s Sale. WILL BE SOLD AT THE LOWER Market House, in the city of Augusta, on the first Tuesday in August next, between the ) usual hours of sale, two Promisory notes—one 10 days after date, for §195.95, given Juno Gth, 1868 payable to the order of Wright A Mobley, signed Wingfield M. Rivers; the other for §llß.ll, dated January Itli, 1868, pavable to tlie order of Wright & Mobley, one day after date, signed Art. Atkin, son. Levied on as the property of Hezekiah Bus sey vs. Wright& Mobley—li. fa. in tho City Court, ot Augusta, returnable to the August term of said City Court. ISAAC LEVY, jy I—td City Sheriff of Augusta. City Sheriff"s Sale. IV ILL BE SOLD AT THE LOWER MARKET VV House, in the City of Augusta, between the usual hours of sale, on tho first Tuesday in August next, four shares of the capital Stock of tho Empire State Insurance Company. Levied on by virtue of an attachment, returnable to tho City Court of Augusta, in favor of Sidney R 0 vs. Alexander 8. Myer and Julius J. Myer, ones copartners under tho name of A. 8. Myer i Son. Sold by virtue of a fl. fa. lounded on said attach ment; returnable to tho August term(lß6B) said Court. ISAAC LEVY, jy4—td City Sheriff of Augusta. City Sheriff’s Sale. \V ILL BE SOLD AT THE LOWER MARKET ’ v House, in the City of Augusta, on the first Tuesday in August next, the house and lot of L. Dwelle, Jr., —House north side Broad street running through to Jones street; bounded on the north by Jones street, cast by Mrs. Straub’s lot, south by Broad street and west by Dwelie’s lot. i Levied on by virtue of a tax execution in favor of the City Council of Augusta for the year 1867, returnable to the City Council of Augusta. ISSAC LEVY, jyl—td City Sheriff of Augusta. City Sheriffs Sale. VyiLL RESOLD AT THE LOWER MARKET ’ » House, in the City of Augusta, on the first Tuesday in August, all that lot or parcel of land situate, lying and being iu the City of Augusta, having a front of thirty-three (33) feet on Centro street, and known as number twenty-two (22) ; bounded on tho north by lot of Mrs. Mary Collins, widow of Dennis Collins, on tho south by lot of Henry Leon, op the oast by alloy running through from Broad to Reynolds street, on the west by Centre street. Levied on by virtue of a fl. fa. in favor of John M. ClarkeASons vs. John Guilfoyle; also, one City Tax fi. fa. in favor of tho City Council of Augusta, for tho year 1866, returnable to tho August term (1868) of said Court. ISAAC LEVY, jyl—td City Sheriff of Augusta. City Sheriff’s Sale. WILL BE SOLD ATTIIE LOWER MARKET House, in tho City of Augusta, on tho first Tuesday in August next, the house and lot on Market street belonging to W.V. Keener,Trustee. Levied on by virtue of a tax execution in favor tho City Council of Augusta, forme year 1866 ; bounded north by Market street, south by Rey- * nolds street, oast by Butler's lot, and west by W. V. Keener's, returnable to tho City Council of Augusta. ISAAC LEVY, jy l—td City Sheriff of Augusta. City Sheriff’s Sale. \ V ill BE SOLD AT THE LOWER MARKET ’ ’ House in the City of Augusta, on tho first Tuesday in August next, tho house and lot of John T. King, sixty-six (66) feet, more or loss, on Houston street, running back one hundred and sixty six (166) feet, more or less; bounded north by Matt. Pleasant’s, east by John M. Tur ner, south by Broad and west by Houston streets. Levied on by virtue of two tax executions iu favor of the City Council of Augusta, for the years 1866 and 1867, returnable to the City Council of Augusta. ISAAC LEVY, jyl—td City Sherilf of Augusta. City Sheriff’s Sale. WILL BEjSOLD AT THE LOWER MARKET House, iu the City of Augusta, on the first Tuesday iu August next, tho house and lot of John M. Turner, on north side of Broad street, fronting 110 feet, more or lc .nid runningback to Reynolds street; bounded north by Reynolds street, cast by Peter Johnson’s and Hannah Todd’s lots, south by Broad Street and west by John T. King’d and Matt. Pleasant’s lots. Levied on by virtue of tax execution iu favor of the City Council of Augusta, for the year 1807, returnable to the City Council of Augusta. ISA \C LEVY, jy4—td City Sheriff <»f Augusta. City Sheriff’s Sale. 117 ILL BE SOLD ATTHE LOWER MARKET V » House, in the City of Augusta, between the usual hours of sale, one house and lot, tho prop erty of Jerry Bunch, on the south side of Fen wick street, fronting 52 teet, more or less, and running back 187 feet, more or less, to Calhoun street; bounded north by Fenwick street, south by Myer’s lot, cast by lot of C. A Platt, west by lot of W. V. Kerr. Levied on as the properly of Jerry Bunch, to satisfy two fi. fa.’s for City Tax for the years 1866 and 1867. The said fi. fa.’s returnable to the City Council of Augusta. ISAAC LEVY, jy4—td ' City Sheriff of Augusta. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE United States, for tho Southern District of Georgia. In tiio matter of ) ABNER MIMMB. )• IN BANKRUPTCY. Bankrupt. ) To whom it may concern : The undersigned hereby gives notice of his appointment as the assignee of Abner Minims, ol Milford, in the county of Baker, and State of Georgia, within said District, who lias been adjudged a Bankrupt upon his own petition, by the District Court of said District. Dated at Albany, Georgia, this Ist dav of July, 1868. JOS. J. BRADFORD, jy I—law2w* Assignee. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE JL United States for the Northern District of Georgia. In the matter of ) JAMES M SHEPHERD [ IN BANKRUPTCY Bankrupt. ) No. 43. The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all his debts provable under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is hereby given to all persons interested to appear on the 21st day of July, 1868, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, at chambers of said District Court, before Garnett Andrews, Esq., one of the Regis lers of the said Court in Bankiuptcy, at the Reg ister’s office in Monroe, Ga., and show cause why the prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt should not be granted. And farther notice is given that the second aud third meetings of creditors will be held at the same time and place. Witness, the Honorable John Erskine, [seal,.] Judge of said Court, and the seal thereof, this dav of , 1868 W. B. SMITH, _jy4—lawllw* Clerk. IN HIE DISTRICT COURT OF THE h ' 1 United .States for tho Southern District of Georgia—SS. In the matter of ] WM. W. KENDRICK, )IN BANKRUPTCY. Bankrupt. I . A Warrant in Bankruptcy has been issued by said Court against the estate of WILLIAM W KENDRICK of the county of Dougherty, State of Georgia, iu said District, who has been adjudged a Bank rupt upon petition of his creditors, and the pay ment of any debts, and delivery ol any property belonging to said Bankrupt, to him, or lor his use, and the trans ter of any property by him, are forbidden by law ; that a meeting ol the creditors of said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose oue or more Assig nees of his estate, will be held at a Court of •Bankruptcy, to be holden at Americus; In said District, on the 28th day of July, A. D. 1868, at 1 o’clock p. m., at the Court House, before Frank SHes»eltine, Esq., oue of tie Register, in Bankruptcy of said District. WM. G. DICKSON, jy4-2t U. S. Marshal for said District TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE L United States for "the Northern Diztrict of Georgia. In the matter of ) NOWELL & FELKER ) IN BANKRUPT'JY Bankrupts. ) No .‘"oroaaWi The said Bankrupts bavin® Exchange Court for a discharge fromalli--. 9 f ble under the Bankrupt Act of March 2o>ny iuress notice is hereby given to all persons intercSKiF''') to appear on the 21st day* of July, 1868, at 10 o’clock a. m., at Chambers of said District Court, before Garnett Andrews, Esq., one of the Registers of said Court in Bankruptcy, at the Register’s Office, in the city of Monroe, Georgia, and show cause why the prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupts should not be granted. And further notice is given that the second and third meetings of creditors will be held at the same time and place. Witness, the Honorable John Erskine, r,,,., i Judge of said Court, and the seal t‘ "t thereof, this day of , 1868. W. B. SMITH, jy4— lawSw" Clerk.
