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PARAGRAMS.
—Yesterday, in New York, Gold was
quoted at 1.40 j. Cotton, 32J.
—Mr. James R. Sanders was accidentally
thrown under his wagon and killed, a few
days ago, near Shelbyville, Tennessee.
Mrs. J. H. Evans, of Pine Bluff,' Ark.,
is one of the heirs of a fortune of SIB,OOO,
000, bequeathed by a relative in England.
—The city council of Toronto, has been
memorialized in favor of granting aid from
the civic funds to Miss Rye to bring out.
servant girls.
—The San Francisco Board of Supervision
have passed a resolution reserving over
thirteen hundred acres of public land for
a park, cemetery, schools, engine houses,
hospital and jail.
—There is great excitement in Nashville
about the Tennessee bonds. The State
Comptroller and bankers refuse to cash the
coupons due on the Ist. A call of the Leg
slature to repudiate the bonds and create
a school fund or railroad debt is talked of.
—A new parlor toy is a magnetic fish, cut
from strips of paper, and colored in imitation
of nature. If the palm of the hand be
moistened, and the fish placed thereon, it
writhes in various ways, though invariably
following the pulsations cf the wrist.
—California has decided to utilize the
antimony found in its silver mines, and
hitherto disregarded. Examination of its
properties shows that it is much harder than
the antimony most common, and therefore
better in the manufacture of type metal.
—The perils of journalism are strikingly
shown by the fate of seventy-nine new papers
of various kinds, which have appeared in
London since the beginning of the present
year. Only seyen are now in existence.
—At Versailles, the ladies of the highest
rank, complying with the wishes of Pius
IX, now wear a long vail, hanging down
to the waist, whenever they resort to the
Church of St. Louis, or to that of Notre
Dame.
—Charles Teller, of Williamsburg, New
York, was accidently shot by a friend named
Stearns, and instantly killed. On seeing
what he had done, Stearns ran to the foot
of Grand street and drowned himself.
—ThomasKerrigan, residing in Brooklyn,
was killed on Saturday afternoon by being
stabbed with a pair of tailor’s shears, by a
man named Lynch, whom he was entertain
ing at his house, and who became quarel
some under the influence of liquor.
—Dominion Day, July 1, appears to have
been observed most enthusiastically as a
public holiday all ovei the Canadas, East
and West. Pic nice, bonfires, torch-light
processions, and reviews of volunteers, took
place at various points; business was for
awhile suspended, and the people gave them
selves to relaxation and sport.
—A gentleman residing on the Hudson
river is endeavoring to bring out a light
river boat on a new principle connected
with displacement of water and resistance.
The inventor claims not only that she will
be useful for carrying mails and a few
passengers, but of unparalleled swiftness.
—lt requires 2,760,000 ties to support
the rails that make the Erie track that
runs from New York to Dunkirk. These,
at 30 cents each, arc worth $858,000. It
is stated that they last only about three '
years, so that an average of 800,000 must
be renewed every year to keep the road in
good condition.
—A monkey, whose usual business is to
collect pennies lor an Italian organ-grinder
in Detroit, escaped froip the quarters of his
master on Friday night, and was discovered,
next morning, upon the steeple of St. Mary’s
Church, from which perch he was coaxed
with considerable difficulty. r
—The yellow fever has greatly diminished
at Lima, and entirely disappeared at Callao.
The total deaths by the disease number
10,000. The fever, however, is still increas
ing at the Chinahas and Islay. The
English and French Vice Consuls at Italy
were among the victims.
—Mrs. Pollard the inharmonious wife of
the rebel historian, who spells public with
a k, has published a card in the New York
papers, in which she asserts that all she
has alleged in regard to her husband’s
bad treatment of her is true, and informs
the public that she takes leave of them for
ever, and will not trespass on their attention
again, however great may be the provoca
tion.
—There are now in operation, in Balti
more, nine public colored schools, having
about 1,100 scholars on the roll, with an
ttendance of 800, and employing 21 teachers.
The salaries of the teachers, basing the
caculation upon the maximum amount of
the present schedule, will amount to about
$12,050 per year, and the rents of buildings
amounting to §2,304 per year.
—Mr. Slade, nn Englishman, has bequeath
ed £45,000 for the promotion of the fine arts.
Os this sum £35,000 is divided into endow
ments of professorships in the Universities of
Oxford and of Cambridge, and the University
College of London, while the remaining
£IO,OOO is to be employed in six scholarships,
to be awarded for proficiency iu drawing,
painting or sculpture to the students in the
last of these institutions.
—Colonel Payne, who killed Captain
Allen, the alleged seducer of his wife, has
just been acquitted at Nashville. He is
believed to be insane, as he claims to have
acted as God’s agent in the act for which he
was tried. He is a man of talent, but
unsettled mind, and is the author of the
pamphlet called “ Ariel," which maintains
that the negro is not a human being.
—The Manchester unity of Odd Fellows
numbered on the Ist of January last,
417,432 members, an increase of
during the year, of whom 35 per cent,
were young men under twenty one years
of age. The revenues of the Society ex
ceed $2,500,000, and SIOO,OOO had been
added to the accumulated capital, which
amounted to the enormous sum of $12,000,-
000; $1,000,000 had been distributed for
sitk relief, and $340,000 for funeral ex
penses.
FALSE PERSONALTIES.
The man who deliberately invents and
starts a lie Bn its travels, in regard to a
candidate in any election, has in his heart
a fiendish malice that would vent itself in
murder on opportunity. Every Presi
dential canvass has seen humanity dis
graced in this manner, very little to the
advantage of any one, though for a time
to the injury, it may be, of the victim of
the malignant slanderer. We trust that
there is enough of fairness and honor on
both sjdes to frown down all such efforts
at calumny in the present canvass, from
whatever source. The cause that can not
triumph without such aid, should be
resignedly permitted to fail. ♦
Governor Bullock, says the Macon
holds his court for the present
at the National Hotel, where he has constant
audiences. His Excellency is of fine per
sonal appearance and pleasing address, and
I mks like a man of a good deal of energy
and executive force.
National Heptibitcan
A tTCIUSTA . OA.
FRIDXY MORNING July 10, 1888
For
Os ttie United States:
ULYSSES S. (mRAVT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF INDIANA.
THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
If we may credit the press telegrams, the
Democratic Convention on yesterdar nomi
nated Horatio Seymour, of New A ork
(anti-war Democrat) for president, and
Frank P. Blair, of Missouri (revolutionist)
for Vice President.
The lines have been drawn, Forward,
Union men rally ’round the starry ensign!
THE NA TIONAL ISSUE.
.Soon the nation must again choose be
tween the party of the Union anti the party
of the Rebellion. The issue no sophistry
can disguise. Not more necessary was it
that the friends anti not the foes of the
Union should direct the war for the Union,
than that the friends and not the foes of
the Union should preside in the reconstruc.
tion. Nothing is more obvious than that
from the firing on Fort Sumter to this hour
there have been two, and the same two
parties—one for treason, and, that failing,
for such a political readjustment as beaten
traitors might wish; and the other for
nationality, and, that triumphant, for such
a reconstruction ns would make secure in
peace the victory won at such cost in war.
Would it not be a marvel indeed, if the
men who so bitterly opposed the war for
the Union were now the safer party to
whom to entrust reconstruction ? The peo
ple can never be made to believe that the
tories and the patriots of the last seven
or eight years have suddenly -changed
places, and that the Vallandigiiams and
Pendletons of to-day stand where the
Wades and Mortons stood four yeas ago,
and vice versa.
The reconstruction initiated by the de
fenders of the Union has, despite the most
serious obstacles, been carried forward by
the same party with such success that State
after State of the ex-Confederacy is now
being admitted into the halls of Congress.
Many do not stop to reflect, as often as
they should, upon the intrinsic difficulties
inseparable from the task of national
restoration. Rarely has statesmanship
encountered a more perplexing problem.
All through the war the rebels and their
sympathizers on both sides of the Atlantic
were fund of dwelling with marked em
•phasis and an air of triumph on what they
held to be the impossibility of this work.
We were sneeringly pointed to the fatality
of admitting conquered rebel populations
at once to an equal share of political power,
and yet were told that without such admis
sion there could be no restored Union.
Since the conquest of peace, however, these
same rebels and rebel sympathizers have in
cessantly insisted that the fatality to which
they had pointed as to the sure failure of the
effort to preserve the Union must now be
at once and unqualifiedly embraced 1
Union men saw in the late Confederacy
rebel and loyal populations—the former
the open and still defiant and boastful
foes of the Union, and the latter most
deeply interested in being its friends.
What statesmanship worth the name
would ever have hesitated to enfranchise
the loyal population while disfranchising
at least the most dangerous of the dis
loyal ? Wisely the war policy which put
muskets into dulxy hands because these
hands were friendly, was supplemented by
a peace policy putting ballots into the
same hands for the same most excellent
reason. Can such infamy be possible as
that the blatant ‘white man’s party,’ the
slaveholders’ party of the past, the treason
defending party of the war, shall now lie
permitted to strike the ballot from the
hand of the sable Unionist of the South ?
Precisely this is what the democratic party
proposes to do. It will be found ail
exceedingly up hill work. - *
INFAMOUS.
Oar Atlanta dispatches intimate that the
Radicals will endeavor to oust several Democrats
from both Houses—which means that Joseph E.
Brown and Foster Blodgett, both traitors to
their State and outcasts from society, can not,
in the present organisation of the Legislature, bo
elected to (ho United States Senate. The aid of
General Meads is invoked in this work of infamy,
but it remains to bo seen whether or not ho will
lend his influence in securing the thirty pieces
of silver to these two modern Judas’—Brown
and Blodgett.—Aujasta Chronicle, Thursday.
The above low-down fling could not
have appeared in any other sheet- * cast of
the Oconee.’ It is, however, somewhat
ridiculous to hear the kidnapper of a free
negro (leaving mules out of the account)
talking about ‘outcasts from society.’ It
isn’t ‘respectable.’ . *
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Wc published, yesterday, a synopsis of
the platform adopted by the New York
Convention. The financial plank is sub
stantially the same as is found in the Re
publican platform. The debt, it says,
shall be paid in accordance with the terms
of the contract; there shall be but one
currency for all, and that, Seymour, in his
speech, said should lx? made as good as
gold, ami not worse than greenbacks, while
Pendleton says it shall be. greenbacks
further depreciated. The immediate ad
mission of the Southern States is demanded,
but as seven out of the ten have already
been admitted, and the way is open for the
rest, this demand does not amount to much.
The abolition of slavery is recognized, and
secession is declared a heresy. The ques
tion of suffrage is left to the States with
out recommendation.
It will be observed that the platform in
regard to finances, is so far negative that it
may be, and would he, and is doubtless
intended to be differently inteqireted in
different sections. It is made so that either
Chase, Pendleton or Seymour could
stand upon it This is the sham that the
Democratic Convention are preparing for
the people. ’*
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE.
General Capron, Commissioner ot Agri
culture, some time ago caused circulars to
bo sent to leading agriculturalists in each
State, propounding certain queries to
which he desired answers. Thus far, some
fifty responses have been received from
Georgia, and more or less from each
of the other States. These answers contain
an immense amount of valuable informa
tion, the substance of which will be
embraced in the next annual report of the
Commissioner. It is particularly worthy
of notice, that real estate has steadily
increased in value in all of the old free
States since 1860, and that there has been
nlso an increase of values in Maryland,
Northern Virginia, and other border States
where law and order has generally pre
vailed, and hence safe for Northern capi
talists to invest; while on the other hand,
in the other unreconstructed States, as a
rule, there lias been a great depreciation in
values; indeed, to such an extent that, in
some sections, land has only a nominal
value. All this will be changed at an
early day—as soon as the States arc
reconstructed and the loyal element has
control of local affairs, and can shape the
public policy anil give tone to public
sentiment.
The answer to the first question of the
Commissioner shows that in Georgia full
45 per cent, of the acreage actually culti
vated was, in 1860, planted in cotton, and
a large portion of the balance was in corn.
The prevailing mode of culture, with an
occasional and notable exception, was
that practised fifty years ago, and hence
no material increase in quantity to the
acre, and no increase of profit is shown;
while the cost of labor is one third less, on
the average, the present than any p’revious
year. The average product’ of ginned
cotton to the acre is represented to be 150
pounds, or 1,500 pounds per hand, at a
cost of about six cents per pound; while
Mr. Dickson, of Hancock county, a model
farmer, and one of the few, it appears, in
the State, has made from 3,000 to 5,000
pounds per hand, by cultivation and the
use of fertilizers. This shows that the
products of Georgia can easily be doubled.
One gentleman, residing in Butts county,
thus relates his experience: “In 1806, a
portion of the frecedinen worked poorly >
turned off the drones for 1867, and worked
them in squads; gave them half of every
thing except cotton, of which I gave them
one third; they found themselves; I fed
stock; they worked well and made good
crops; some made 300 to 400 bushels of
corn, and some 3 to 5 bags of cotton per
capita ; besides, they made large quanti
ties of potatoes and about 250 gallons of
syrup; sold 700 pounds dried peaches,
but, owing to the low price of cotton, there
was no profit."
The Georgia system of fanning appears
to be, to raise provisions for supplies and
to devote all attention to raising cotton for
profit.
Nearly all of these correspondents say
there is not one fourth the land cultivated
that there was in 1860, and recommend the
employment of a small rather than a large
number of hands—not more than fifteen
can be supervised by one man ; that color
ed men when left to themselves have inva
riably failed as cotton planters (have not
white men also ?) ; and the hard times arc
are attributed to the Uncertainty of the
present labor system and to the disturbed
state of the country. The preponderance
of the evidence goes to show, however,
that free labor is better than slave labor,
and all agree that the State offers great in
ducements for stock growers. In Tatnall
county, tobacco is considered the best crop,
and a correspondent thinks that a person
could make a fortune in a short time by
starting a tobacco factory there. In Charl
ton county, potatoes, sugar and turpentine
pay better than anything else. One writer,
in Meriwether county, thinks there is no
profit in farming now, and all the profit
there used to be was the increase of “little
negroes" which he estimates as a profit of
twenty-five per cent., now forever lost.—
In this county, it is proposed to tempt
white settlers by giving each head of a
family one hundred acres of land. Does,
it never occur to these parties to try the
experiment of giving ten or twenty acres
of land to heads of colored families <
These men arc acclimated, know something
about the soil and the crops suitable to the
climate. They could at least make a
living. The experiment has been tried
successfully in South Carolina, Virginia
and North Carolina, to our personal know
ledge. Even in Georgia, in Warren county,
a colored man, lust year, with one plough,
cultivated twenty-five acres and made
fifteen bags of cotton, weighing each lour
hundred and eighty pounds.
A correspondent residing in Glynn
county, says: “Litbor has improved vastly
since last year, under the ticket system”—
which is explained to lx?, payment of wages
on demand for what is done. In Stewart
county, “two negroes made from one to two
bags of cotton to the hand.’’
It strikes us that, with a little encourage
ment, the freedm® could sustain them
selves, and add materially to the wealth of
the State. Muscle, black or white, is wealth
to any State, when put to good use.
Who Shall Rule?—The Augusta Na
tional Republican, taking a bird’s-eye view
of the magnitude of the country and its pop
ulation, wants to know “who shall rule it?"
Without undertaking to say “who shall rule
it,” it appears easy enough to decide who
should not rule it. We should not entrust
the business to adventurers and cornfield
negroes, but to men of intelligence aud char
acter. Men who can not read should not be
entrusted with making laws. Men who have
no property should not be selected to impose
taxes. So much, at least, appears clear
enough.— Macon Telegraph.
How long, Iriend, has the democratic
party held the opinion that ‘ men who can
not read should not be entrusted with making
laws’? It is ‘clear euough’ that, for several
years past, many democratic members of
the Georgia Legislature were totally unable
to read. Does our Macon cotemporary know
of a republican in the present Legislature
who is under a similar disability? If yea,
please name him, irrespective of color. *
[From tho Atlanta Now Era.
The Columbus Prisoners.
TESTIMONY FOR THE DEFENCE CONTINUED.
Eighth Day.
Pursuant to adjournment the Commis
sion met at 10 o’clock yesterday morning.
The record of Tuesday’s proceedings was
read and approved.
Mr. Charles K. Maddox was sworn as
assistant reporter.
MISS WOODDIE C. SHEPHERD SWORN.
I have known Dr. Kirkscey about four
or five years. He is my brother-in-law.
(Points out Dr. K.) 1 live with my mother
in Wynnton—about a mile and a half from
Columbus. I do not reoollect the day off
the month or week Ashburn was killed.
I know where Dr. Kirkscey was the night
Ashburn was killed. He was at my
mother’s. We heard of Ashburn’s murder
in the afternoon of the next day. When I
heard it 1 also he.ird that the Yankees had
arrested Mr. Bedell, supposing him to be
connected. 1 heard they were making
promiscuous arrests, and I did not know
who they would arrest next. We tried to
locate the different members of our family to
see where they were that night, as thpre
were apprehensions cf their arresting every
body. That apprehension was that the
arrests would be confined to the Democratic
party. That was what the people thought.
When I tried to locate the members of our
family, I was able to locate Dr. Kirkscey,
because he came home a little after dark,
ate supper between 8 and !> o’clock, and
staid in my sister's room more than
an hour after eating supper. He then
went to his own room. I went to his
room afterward, and staid there perhaps
nearly two hours talking to him. I then
went to my room and retired, and, some time
after midnight, I was sent to his room to get
some medicine for my sister, Mrs. Moore,
who was sick. I knocked at his door, and
told him I wanted medicine. He struck a
light, got the medicine, brought it to the
door and put it into my hand. I carried the
medicine back and gave it to Mrs. Moore; it
was for her. Mrs. Moore’s room was next to
the Doctor's. I took the mediciuc into her
room. I remained in that room more than
an hour. It is usual for me to go to the
Doctor’s room every night after he retires, to
get the news of the day he generally brings
out. Mrs. Kirkscey was in the room when
I went in that night. They have one child.
Our house is fastened up at night. I
attend to the fastening of the house. The
doors are fastened with bare. The windows
are fastened with “catches." I look to
fastening the house every night. Two win
dows of Dr- Kirkscey’s rooms open on the
piazza. Bottom of window is two or three
inches above the floor. If these blinds were
not secured, there would be no difficulty
in entering this room from the outside. I
would not consider our house safe from
robbers, if those windows were left open, only
we have some very bad dogs. We have
been iu the habit of keeping the house fast
ened that way a number of years, I
sleep with Mrs. Kirkscey when the Doctor
is out at night. I haye never known the
Doctor to be out at night without Mrs.
Kirkscey calling some one to her room.
She is naturally timid and afraid to be left
alone. Ido not believe it possible for the
Doctor to have been out that night and she
not call some one to her room. I do not
believe it possible for him to have gotten up
out of bed and left that room without her
knowledge; 'any noise would have caused
the dogs to have barked. Dr. Kirkscey
could not have quieted them. They are
very severe. People coming at night call at
the gate, about fifty yards from the house.
They have to call very loud. This causes
barking of the dogs, and disturbs the dif
ferent ’ members of the family. I have
known them to run off persons who were
coming to visit before bed time. The dogs
uro considered very severe. From my
knowledge of the dogs and the situation of
Dr. K.’s room, it would not have been
possible for him to have gone out without
waking his wife. She always called me or
some other member of the family to sleep
with her when the Doctor went out. Mrs.
Moore and three other members of the
family were sick that night. I was attend
ing upon Mrs. Moore. I was up most of
the night. I do not think it possi
ble that any one could have left the
house that night without my know
ledge. I consider an oath very bind
ing—very solemn. Under the solemnity
On my oath I am willing to say that Dr.
Kirkscey was in my mother’s house that
night. I read only a portion of my mother’s
testimony. The latter did not come in the
evening paper. Major Moses advised me
not to read any part of it. I told him I had
already read the first part of it. He then
advised me not to read the remainder.
Major Moses asked me what I could prove.
I stated to him what 1 knew of the ease. I
don’t recollect exactly how long after the
death of Ashburn, Dr. Kirkscey was arrest
ed the first time. I think Mr. Chipley, Mr.
Wm. Bedell and Mr. Barber were arrested
at saire time. I think Tom Gaines was
arrested at same time. 1 think he was
running for some office ; btit don’t recollect
what. He was the Democratic candidate,
of course. I recollect Mr. Chipley was a
leader of the Democratic party. Mr. Bar
ber was .a Democratic candidate, I think.
1 don’t- remember what. When I heard Dr.
K. was arrested at the Court House 1 thought
it was because he was such a strong Demo
crat. It was not long before this trial hero
that I learned that he was arrested for some
connection with the Ashburn murder.
CROSS EXAMINATION.
I consider tin oath under nil circumstances
binding, even if administered by a person
who has no legal right to administer it. Q
Do you consider that you have taken an
oath if administered by a person who has
no legal- right to administer it ?
Mr. Stephens objected to the question.
Gov. Brown offered to withdraw the
question.
The Court retired tor consultation, and
after returning, announced that the question
could be withdrawn.
I am certain the Yankees commenced
making arrests the next day after Ashburn
was killed. I don’t think lam mistaken
about the Yankees arresting the day after
he was killed. I think the Yankees made
the arrest, because the parties arrested were
Democrats, aud the Yankees were opposed
to’tbem. 1 supposed they were arrested
because they were strong leaders in the
Democratic Club. The Democrats were
strong and very popular, and I supposed the
Radicals and Yankees wanted to put them
down. We thought these arrests were made
because theywere strong Democrats- I did
not understand at the time that they were
charged with the murder of Ashburn. Dr.
Kirkscey was a member of the Democratic
Club. Its meetings were not held at night.
Dr. K. never attended meetings at night.
He attended them day time. I have
heard him say that he attended them. I
have heard others say that he was there.
[The counsel for the defence asked the
Court to explain to the witness the difference
between swearing to tacts of her own know
ledge and upon the knowledge of others,
because she has knowledge of their truth.
The explanation was given and the examina
tion proceeded.)
I do not swear from my own knowledge
that Dr. Kirkscey attended these meetings,
but I know him to be a strong Democrat,
and suppose he attended, of course. (Wit
ness thought she hud heard ot the arrest
of persons on account of their being
Democrats, before the death of Ashburn ;
but could not state the time, place, nor
tho persons who were arrested). I never
heard of anybody but Democrats being
arrested immediately after the death of Ash
burn. By "promiscuous arrests" I meant the
Democrats, and that they might arrest any or
all of them. I didn’t know for what reason, or
that even ladies and children would not. I
hud heard, I think, of one lady being arrested
and sent off. I don't know who it was. 1
think she was sent out of Columbus. I can
give no definite reply as to where it was. I
didn't hear that Dr. K. was arrested for the
murder of Ashburn until the trial. I rfever
before suspected that was the cause of his
arrest. 1 could assign no reason for his
second arrest. Wo tried to locate him on
the night of the murder, because one arrest
was made and we didn't know when they
would make others.
[Here followed a greatly extended con
tinuation of this cross examination, for
which we have not the space, were we
disposed to burden our readers with it. It
did not elicit any new facts.]
Several questions followed from the
counsel for the defence, the prosecution, and
from the Court, for which'we cannot spare
the space. We think, however, we have
included above all the facts deduced.
The Court adjourned to meet at 10 o’clock
this morning.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
W NOTICE. —THE REGULAR
Monthly Mooting of tho Sunday School
Teachers' Association will be hold THIS (Fri
day) EVENING, 8 o’clock, at Presbyterian
Lecture Itoorn.
A full attendance is requested.
W. C. PERRY,
jylO —lt President.
GENERAL AGENCY, )
Phoenix Mutual Ltrs Insurance Co., >
Atlanta, Ga., June 20, 1863. )
MESSRS. BARBER, LATHROP
<£■ CO., General Insurance Agents, 219 Broad
street, Augusta, Ga., are tny duly qualified and
commissioned agents for the Phoenix Mutual
Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connec
ticut, and I will recognize all thoir official acts
as such. N. 0. ROCKWELL,
jyß—tf General Agent.
RELIANCE LOAN AND BUILD
ING ASSOCIATION.—Tho Eleventh Monthly
Meeting will be hold at tho City Hall, on
THURSDAY NEXT, 9th instant, at 8 o’clock
p. m.
Members can pay thoir instalments at any
time previous to 8. 11. Shepard, Treasurer.
W. 11. EDWARDS,
iy7—2lS4T Secretary.
General Superintendent’s Office, )
Georgia Railroad Co., >
Augusta, Ga., 19th June, 1868. )
BUSINESS TICKETS,ENTITLING
the holder, to ride Ono Thousand Milos on tho
Georgia Railroad and branches, and the 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,
Gcn’l Sup’t.
Altanta, Milledgeville, Athens, Covington,
Madison, Greensboro, Washington, and Sparta
papers copy daily one month and weekly five
times. je23—dim
GRAIN AND FLOUR SACKS!!
The old established
“Corn Exchange Bag 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. B. ASTEN A CO.,
j 0 17—3 m 25 Pearl Street, New York City.
SCRIP DIVIDEND, NO. 1, OF
THE GEORGIA HOME INSURANCE CO.,
of Columbus, Ga.
Assets Ist of January, 1867 $416,280.87
jy7—2tSAT
We 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 the
nine months interval from April Ist to Dec.
31st, 1867. Dividend No. 2 will be issued
January Ist, 1869.
Persons to whom Scrip is due arc requested
to call at onee and receipt for same.
A G. HALL, Agent,
joZ—lm 221 Broad street, Augusta, (la.
AUGUSTA FACTORY, >
Augusta, July 1, 1808. V
DIVIDEND 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.
o
Fire, Marine, Inland
AND
AOTiNTALWRAM
JEtaa Insurance Company,
Hartford
Phenix Insurance Company,
Afcm I’brXr.
Manhattan Insurance Company,
Jveto York.
Howard Insurance Company,
New York.
Standard Insurance Company,
New York
Commerce Insurance Company,
• New York.
Lamar Insurance Company,
New York.
Fireman’s Insurance Company,
New York.
Astor Insurance Company,
New York
Commercial Insurance Company
New York
Mercantile Insurance Company,
New York.
Phoenix Insurance Company,
Hartford
The above are all FIRST CLASS COM
PANIES with ample means to meet their liabili
ties.
All losses promptly and equitably adjusted.
WM. SHEAR,
Augusta, April 7th, 1868, Agent.
ap7-3m
Advertisements forwarded to all Newspapers
No advance charged on Publishers’ prices.
All leading newspapers kept on hie.
Information as to cost of Advertising furnished.
All orders receive careful attention.
, Inquiries by mail answered promptly.
Complete printed lists of Newspapers for sale.
Special lists prepared for customers.
Advertisements written and Notices secured.
Orders from Business Men especially solicited.
40 P a
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Assignee’s Sale.
WILL BE SOLD ON THE FIRST TUES
DAY IN AUGUST next, before the Court
House door in the town of Sparta, Hancock
county Georgia, between the hours of 10 o’clock
a. m. and 3 o’clock p. in., tho following property,
to wit:
Four hundred and sixty-two (462) acres of laud,
more or less, situated within one mile of tho town
of Linton, in said county, and adjoining lands of
John Stone, J. W. Duggan, and Stanley.
Also, the following promissory notes and other
evidences of debt, viz; Ono note on David 8
Brown, as guardian, for $858; one note ou
John F. Mulligan, for $393 ; one note on J. A.
P Robson ; one attorney's receipt for a note on
Frank S. Howard; one receipt of Win. Ingram
for a note on George W. Burton.
Sold as the property of James R. Gause, bank
rupt, of Hancock county, Georgia—free from the
incumbrance of liens—by order of Hou. A. G.
Foster, Register in Bankruptcy. Terms cash.
Archibald c. McKinley,
jylO—2od Assignee.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
qpHIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
X 20th day of May, A. D. 1868, a Warrant in
Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of
HENRY CLARK,
of Macon in the county of Bibb, and the State
•of Georgia, who has been adjudged a
Bankrupt’ on his own petition, and that the
payment of any debts, and delivery of any
property belonging to such Bankrupt, to him,
or for his use, and the transfer of any property
by him, arc forbidden by law; that a meeting
of the creditors of the said Bankrupt, to prove
their debts, and to choose one or more Assig
nees of his estate, will be held at a Court of
Bankruptcy, to be holdcn at the Register’s
office, in the Court House, Macon, Ga., before
Alexander G. Murray, Esq., Register, on the
24th day of July, A, D. 1868, at 3 o’clock p. m.
WM. G. DICKSON,
jylO—lt U.S. Marshal as Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
1 3d day of July, A. D. 1868, a Warrant in
Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of
GLADY G. ETHRIDGE,
of the county of Monroe, aud the State
of Georgia, who has been adjudged a
Baukrupt on her own petition, and that the
payment of any debts, and delivery of any
property belonging to such Bankrupt, to her,
or for her use, and the transfer of any property
by her, are forbidden by law; that a meeting
ot the creditors of said Bankrupt, to prove
their debts, and to choose one or more Assig
nees of her estate, will be held at a Court of
Bankruptcy, to bo holden at the Register’s
office in the Court House, Maeon, Ga., before
Alexander G. Murray, Esq., Register, on the 23d
day of July, A. D. 1868, at 4 o’clockjp. m.
WM. G. DICKSON,
jylO—ll. U. S. Marshal as Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
20th day of May, A. D. 1868, a Warrant in
Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of
SOLOMON J. GOODMAN,
of Macon, in the county of Bibb, and the
State of Georgia, who lias been adjudged a
Bankrupt on his own petition, and that the
payment of any debts, and delivery of any
property belonging to such Bankrupt, to him,
or for his use, and the transfer of any property
by him, are forbidden by law; that a meeting
of the creditors of the said Bankrupt, to prove
their debts, and to choose one or more Assig
nee? of bis estate, will be held at a Court of
Bankruptcy, to be holdcn at the Register’s
office, in the Court House, Macon, Ga., before
Alexander G. Murray, Esq., Register, on the
24th day of July, A. D. 1868, at 10 o’clock a. m.
WM. G. DICKSON,
jylO—lt U. S. Marshal as Messenger.
Sale of Land in Terrell County, and
Lease of Land at No. 1, Augusta &
Savannah Railroad, in the County
of Burke.
lI7TLL BE SOLD, AT THE COURT HOUSE
VV door in the county of Terrell, between the
lawful hours of sale, on the First Tuesday in
August next (1863), at public outcry, by order of
Hon. A. G. Foster, Register in Bankruptcy, a
certain tract of Laud, situate in said county of
Terrell, State of Georgia, containing two hundred
aud two and one half acres, more or less, origi
nally granted to Jonas Skinner, and situate in,
formerly Lee, now Terrell county, in the (12)
twelfth district, and known as Lot No. (160) one
bundled and sixty; ami by Jonas Skinner con
veyed to Joseph £>. Perry.
Also, at the Court House door in the county of
Burke, ou same day, between said hours, at public
outcry, by order as aforesaid, a certain lease of
land, with tenements thereon, situated in said
county of Burke, at or near Station No. 1, of Au
gusta &. Savannah Railroad, consisting of four
acres, more or less—the same formerly used by
Carter & Perry for a store. Said lease running
for five years from first of January, eighteen him
died aud sixty eight, at the sum of two hundred
dollars per annum, payable yearly.
Sold as the estate of Joseph 1). Perry, bank
rupt. and free from encumbrances of the creditors
thereof. Terms cash.
JOHN T. SIIEWMAKE,
jy7—lawtd Assignee.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for tho Northern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of 1
Augustus E.Cui.biieatii [LN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. J No. 44.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court
for a discharge from all bis debts provable under
the Baukrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is
hereby given to nil persons interested to appear
on the 21st day of July, 1868, at 1(1 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 ia the
city of Monroe, Ga., aud show cause why the
prayer of tire said petition of tlm Baukrupt should
not be granted. Aud 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,
[bi:ai.| Judge of said Court, this 6th day of
July, 1868.
W. B. SMITH,
jy9—law3w Clerk.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for the Northern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of 1
Joseph A. Hi ddleston, ;■ IN BANKRUPTCY
Bankrupt. J
The undersigned hereby gives notice of his
election as Assignee of JOSEPH A. HUDDLE
STON, of the county of Meriwether, and State of
Georgia, within said District, who has been ad
judged a Bankrupt upon.his own petition by the
District Court of said District.
ISAAC N. SHANNON,
jy9—law3w Assignee.
Assignee's Sale.
G. W. ADAIR, AUCTIONEER.
BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE IN BANK
RUPTCY, in the case of Franklin 11. Gay,
Bankrupt, I will sell on the premises, at the
former residence of said Gay, five miles south of
Lithonia, in DeKalb county, on SATURDAY,
Ist DAY OF AUGUST, commencing at 10
o’clock in the forenoon, free from alt incum
brance, the real estate of said Bankrupt, amount
ing to 101I5J acres, in DeKalb county, Ga., as
follows:
152 J aores of Land, lot No. 112; lots 81,82, and
117, each containing 202 j acres, oue half the
mineral interest in the latter reserved ; 59 ac'res
of lot No. 80; 195 acres of lot No. 251, and 2 acres
adjoining the last—nunibei not known; also, 40
acres of Land in Paulding county, being Lot No.
767, in the 18th district and 3d section.
ALSO,
Two silver watches, 2 gins, one half interest in
a mill in DeKalb county, 1 wagsin, cart, carriage,
a lot of lumber, and other articles of personal
property.
ALSO,
Sundry notes, accounts, aud rent contracts, be
longing to the estate of said bankiupt. All sold
for the benefit of his creditors. Terms cash.
G. W. ADAIR.
jyß—law3w Assignee.
To Rent.
A DESIRABLE BRICK DWELLING
HOUSE, situate corner of Ellis and Monu
ment streets, containing seven spacious Rooms.
For further particulars apply
jy9—3t ON THE PREMISES.
The Piano Book,
\\7HICH CANNOT BE EXCELLED, 18
V V Richardson's new method. Regular sales,
30,000 a year.
Sold by all music dealers, price $3.75 Sent
post paid.
OLIVER DITSON A CO.,
Publishers, 277 Washington St., Boston.
CHAS. H. DITSON A CO.,
jy3—tf TH Broadway, New York
City Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL BE SOLD AT TIIF LOWku
Market Ilouee, in the city of
the first Tuesday iu August next,
usual hours of sale, two Promisory noti #^o „
given one day after date, for $518.11, i h | av "®
Wright &. Mobley, dated Augusta, January 4.1
1868, signed Arthur A. Atkinson ; one ten a?”’
afterdate, dated January 6th, 1868, for srj(|,‘ l - !i
in favor of Wright & Mobley, signed Wim,«Al
M. Rivera. Levied on by virtue of a tl. •
favor of Hezekiah Bussey vs. Wright & Mobley 111
fi. fa. in the City Court of Augusta, returnable 7
the August term of said Citv Court.
’ ISAAC LEVY
jy4 —UI Sheriff City of Angm’ia
City Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL BE SOLD AT THE LOWER MARkrt
House, in the City of Augusta, betw Ml !
tho usual hours of sale, on the first Tuesday '
August next, four shares of the capital Stock
tho Empire State Insurance Company. Levitt
on by virtue of an attachment, returnable to tb
City Court of Augusta, in-favor of Sidney Koo'
vs. Alexander S. Myer and Julius J. Myer on
copartners under the name of A. S. Myer 4So
Sold by virtue of a 11. fa. founded on said attach!
ment; returnable to tho August term(lß6Bl i
said Court. ISAAC LEVY
jyl—td City Sheriff of August,.
City Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL BE SOLI) AT THE LOWER MARKET
House, in the City of Augusta, on tu
first Tuesday in August next, the house and lot
ofL. Dwcllo, Jr., —House north side Broad street
running through to Jones street; bounded on the
north by Jones street, oast by Mrs. Straub’s lot
south by Broad street and west by Dwelle's lot’
Levied on by virtue of a tax execution in favo[
of tho City Council of Augusta for the year 186’
returnable to tho City Council of Augusta. '
ISSAC LEVY,
jjr4—td Cil - V Augusta.
City Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL BE SOLD AT THE LOWER MARKET
House, in the City of Augusta, on the fim
Tuesday in August, all that lot or parcel of land
situate, lying aud being in the City of Augusta
having a front of thirty-three (33) feet on Centre
street, aud known as number twenty-two (22>
bounded on tho north by lot of Mrs. Mary Cellini
widow of Dennis Collins, on the south by lot of
Henry Leen, on tho east by alloy running through
from Broad to Reynolds street, ou the west by
Centro street. Levied on by virtue of a fi. fa. in
favor of John M. ClarkelSons vs. John Guilfoyle:
also, one City Tax fi. fa. in favor of tho City
Council of Augusta, for the year 1866, returnable
to the August term (1868) of said Court.
ISAAC LEVY,
jy4—td City Sheriff of Augusta.
City Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL BE SOLD AT THE LOWER MARKET
House, in the City of Augusta, on the first
Tuesday in August next, the house anil lot on
Market street belonging to W.V. Keener,Trustee.
Levied on by virtue of a tax execution iu favor
the City Council of Augusta, for the year 1866;
bounded north by Market street, south by Rey
nolds street, cast by Butler’s lot, and west by W.
V. Keener’s, returnable to the City Council of
Augusta. ISAAC LEVY,
jy4—ld City Sheriff of Augusta.
City Sheriff’s Sale.
IU ILL DE SOLD AT THE LOWER MARKET
’ V House in the City of Augusta, on the first
Tuesday in August next, the house and lot of
John T. King, sixty-six (66) feet, more or less,
on Houston street, running back ono hundred
and sixty six (166) feet, more or less; bounded
north by Matt. Pleasant’s, oast by John M. Tur
ner, south by Broad and west by Houston street'.
Levied on by virtue of two tax executions in
favor of the City Council of Augusta, fer the
years 1866 aud 1867, returnable (o the City
Councilor Augusta. ISAAC LEVY,
jy4—td City Sheriff of Augusta.
City Sheriff's Sale.
WILL BE SOLD AT THE LOWER MARKET
House, in the City of Augusta, on the first
Tuesday in August next, the house and lot of
John M. Turner, on north side of Broad street,
fronting 110 feet, more or les% and runningback
to Reynolds street t-bounded north by Reynolds
street, east by Peter Johnson’s aud Hannah Todd’s
lots, south by Broad Street and west by John T.
King’s and Matt. Pleasant’s lot?. Levied on by
virtue of tax execution in favor of tho City
Council of Augusta, for the year 1807, returnable
to the City Council of Augusta.
ISAAC LEVY,
jyl—td City .‘■her ill of Augusta.
City Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL BE SOLD AT THE LOWER MARKET
House, in tho City of Augusta, on the
first Tuesday in August next, between the usual
hours of sale, one house aud lot, tho prop
erty of Jerry Bunch, on tho south side of Fen
wick street, fronting 52 feet, more or less, and
running back 187 feet, more or less, to Calhoun
street; bounded north by Fenwick street, south
by Myer’s lot. oast by lot of C. A Platt, west by
lot of W. V. Kerr. Levied on as the-property 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 tho City Council of Augusta.
ISAAC LEVY,
jy4—td City Sheriff of Augusta.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States, fur tho Southern District of
Georgia.
tn the matter of )
ABN Elt MIM MS , [IN BANKRUPTCY.
Baukrupt. )
To whom it may concern: The undersigned
hereby gives notice of his appointment as the
assignee of Abner Minims, of Milford, in the
county of Baker, and State of Georgia, within
said District, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt
upon his own petition, by the District Court of
said District.
Dated at Albany, Georgia, this Ist day of July.
1868. JOS. J. BRADFORD,
jy 4 —law2w* Assignee.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
A United States for the Northern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of )
JAMES M SHEPHERD[IN BANKRUPTS
Baukrupt. ) No. 43.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Cent
for a discharge from all his debts provable unde:
the Bankrupt Act of March' 2d, 1867, notice i*
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 said District Court,
before Garnett Andrews, Esq., one of the Regis
ters of the said Court in Bankruptcy, at the Ke:
ister's office in Monroe, Ga., mid show cause why
the prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt
should not l» granted. Aud 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.
(heal.) Judge of said Court, and the seal thereof
this dav of , 1868.
VV. B. SMITH,
jy l—law3w* _Clcrk.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of )
WM. O’HALLORAN, [ln Bankruptcy.
Bankrupt. J No. 214.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the
Court for a discharge from all his debts prova
ble under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 186<-
notice is hereby given to all persons interested
to appear on thc27th day of July, 1868, at 1“
o’clock a. m., at chambers of said District
Court, before Lawson Black, Esq., one of th®
Registers of the said Court in Bankruptcy, Jl (
the Regnier's office, in Atlanta, Ga,, and sb*’*
cause why the prayer of the said petition, jg -■
Bankrupt should not be granted. Andi®
notice is given that the second and
meetings of creditors will be held at the
same time and place.
Witness, the Honorable John Erskine
[seal] Judge of said District Court ana
.the seal thereof, this 7th day of July.
1368. W. B. SMITH,
jy9~law3w* Clerk-
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for the Northern District »•
Georgia. (
In the matter of V Xaituu i.
NO WELL & FELKER [l* , AY
Bankrupts. J No.
The said Bankrupts having petitioned
Cou rt for a discharge from all their debts, pro'.’
blc under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d,
notice is hereby given to all persons interests
to appear on the 21st day of July, 1868, at i
o’clock a. m , at Chambers of said District
Court, before Garnett Andrews, Esq., one
the Registers of said Court in Bankruptcy, J
the Register’s Office, in the city of Monroe-
Georgia, and show cause why the prayer «
the said petition of the Bankrupts should.no
be granted. And further notice is given thtt
the second and third meetings of creditor’
will be held at the same time and place. ,
• Witness, the Honorable John Krskm •
r __,, . Judge of said Court, and the 84
*• ’’ thereof, this day of »186 -
W. B. SMITH,
jy4— law3w” Clerk-