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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.
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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.
