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PA R AG R AMS.
—Yesterday, in New York, Gold was
quoted at 1.42 J, Cotton, 32.
—Mississippi thinks her white population
has increased 50,000 since the war.
Central Illinois reports the best wheat
crop ever gathered.
—The new.cable for the Florida and Cuba
line weighs 263 pounds to the nautical mile.
—North Germany has set free all persons
in prison for debt within its limits.
—The suspension bridge which spans the
chasm but a short distance below the Falls
of Niagara will be passable next month.
—Our English word “shocking” has been
adopted into the French language, but it is
spelled and pronounced “cboquin.”
—A gymnast in Liverpool beats a drum
while hanging to a rope by his teeth, at a
height of forty feet.
—G. P. Disosoway, a well known contribu
tor to the religious press, died a few days
since at Staten Island.
—The Connecticut Legislature has voted
to hold their sessions daily during the present
week, to commence al 9, 3 and 7:30 o'clock.
—lt took two men four hours to break
into a safe in Bryan, Ohio, when their labor
was rewarded with thirty cents cash, which
had been deposited for security within.
—A New Yorker is digging for concealed
treasure in the garden of a house in Nash
ville. The sum is said to be 885,000, but he
has not found it yet.
—One of our exchanges praises an egg
which it says “was laid on our table by the
Rev. Mr. Smith.” Mr. Smith seems to be
a layman as well as a minister.
—Certain young ladies were very much
disappointed by finding, on application to
their favorite book store, that “Drake on
Attachment,’’ was a mere law book.
—A discovery of a bed of blue clay,
admirably adapted to use for paint, has
been made at Hole Creek, near Lamme’s :
Mill, about seven miles from Dayton, Ohio. ]
—A Cincinnati infant was soothed so 1
much by doses of a certain extensively |
advertised “soothing syrup,” that a eoroner’s
jury had to be called to sit with it.
—Now York has the promise of a female j
barber shop in the Fifth Avenue, the
“artists” to ho exclusively women, and the ’
customers exclusively men. (
—A sycamore tree one hundred aud ten 1
feet high, with a hollow fourteen feet in the a
clear, is reported to be standing in Calhoun <.
county, 111. y
—A little girl was burned so badly in r
Buffalo, a day or two ago, by reason of her
clothes taking fire from fire crackers thrown
up.on her by boys, that she died in a few 11
hours.
—Among the five millions of people by
whom Jeddo, in Japan, is inhabited, there is
not a beggar in the streets, not a man unable
to read, not a boor, not a drunkard, not a
ruffian.
—An impertinent fellow asked a gentle
man at a public gathering why he had
shaved off his side whiskers, and was an
swered, that to meet some men he required
more “cheek.”
—Mademouene Patti has written a formal
letter announcing her approaching marriage
to the Marquis de Caux, adding that it will
take place at the close of the present London
season.
—One cattle ranclie in Texas is 50 miles
'"in extent; tic"number of cattle is 100,000,
and 20,000 tree sent to market every year—
enough to. supply the New York market six
weeks.
—Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, late of the
Confedera’e service, has received a full
th® President, through the
influent of Aftj Secretary Seward. This is
the first pardon'yct granted to a full General
j n the Confederate service. .
—A planet, hitherto unknown, was dis
covered by Prof. Coatson, of Ann Arbor,-
Michigan, on the night of the 11th, in
constellation
star of the eleventh magnitude.
—lt is thought by those who have seen
the trial of the elevated railway in New
York, that there is some doubt as to the
strength of the structure and its ability to
sustain the necessary wear and tear of such
a road.
—Fig trees can easily be grown from the
cuttings or root shoots, and it is certainly
strange that they are not (dantod in every
lot in town, and farm in the country. The
fig is universally esteemed as the best of
fruit, and the tree is long living and
ornamefitak
—The following are the ruling rates of
seamen at Savannah, Ga.: To Liverpool,
able-bodied seamen receive S3O per month
and S6O advance ; to South America ranges
the same; to British North America, S3O
per month and a month’s advance.
—On Thursday evening last, during
services at a church in Lynchburg, Ya., a
young lady—Miss Annie Walker—tlie
adopted daughter of the late Itaniel 1 W ar
wick, was taken suddenly ill and died in a
few minutes. She was subject to heart
disease.
—ln Floyd county, Indiana, there is a
family which consists of the father, mother,
and nineteen children —seventeen boys and
two girls. There arc eight pairs of twins.
There has never been a death in the family,
arid parcels and children are remarkably
vigorous.
—A girl of ton years, at Toronto, C. W.,
was recently accidentally shot at the distance
of seventy feet, by the discharge of a toy
cannon, fired off by some boys. The bullet
from the cannon struck’roe girl in the back
of the neck, shattering the spinal marrow and
causing paralysis below the shoulders. She
died the next morning.
—There is a mule in Galveston,* Texas,
whose right eyeball contains a miniature
serpent about two and a half inches long,
and perfectly white. It was at first thought
to be a hair, which, when soaked in water,
assumed the appearance of a reptile, but it
lias in a few aays increased in length so
rapidly that this theory does not seem to
explain the phenomenon. The mule is still
able to see with the eye, but the owner fears
that if the serpent grows much larger the
eye vriH be destroyed.
—An unexpected difficulty has caused
the bull fights announced as about to take
place at Havre to be postponed. The bulls,
selected for their ferocity in the plains of
Guadaquiver, have been treated so kindly
by the railway servants during their journey
across Spain and France, that they are now
perfectly tame, and will not fight; and the
sight seers at Havre are to have a regatta
instead of a bull fight on the day appointed
for the festivities.
—The United States Consul at Victoria,
Vancouver's Island, says that an old ex
perienced miner named Frenchie, found in
Alaska, last season, a rieh gold field. So
confident who know Frenchie,
in hislstetement, that an expedition is being
organised for the Skiena river country, and
will sail in a few days. In another letter
he mentions the reports which have reached
us by "telegraph already, to the effect that
the miners bad found a rich field of gold
and were gathering the precious metal by
the lamp.
NationalUcpublican
AiratMTA. ua.
FRIDAY MORNING July 17,
For PRESIDENT
Os the United States:
II.ISSFS S. GRANT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Stlllll.Uß COIFAX,
of Indiana.
THE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE OE THE
i SO UTIIERN STA TEE.
The joint resolution which has now pav
ed both Houses, defining the standing ol
■ the Southern States in the Electoral Col
lege is denounced by the Jouruul of Com
ment ns “an undisguised jxilitical device,
1 designed to make sure the election of
Grant and Colfax by throwing out every
Southern Democratic State.” The same
allegation was preferred by every Demo
cratic Senator and member who spoke
in opposition to the resolution. But nothing
could be more unjust or untrue. The
resolution in no manner contemplates an
invidious or partisan exercise of power-
On the contrary, it provides effectively
against both by determining in advance
the general principle which shall regulate
the relation of the Southern States in the
Presidential contest.
As originally introduced by Mr. EdmcnDs,
the resolution was open to the objection that
by including in its enumeration States
whose restoration to the Union has been
completed, it seemed to confer a right
in no wise contingent upon Congression
al action. As finally adopted, it mere
ly affirms the necessity of perfect res
toration as a condition precedent of par
ticipation in’ the approaching election.
Some specific declaration of this sort is
necessary to prevent serious complications
in the Electoral College. If the matter
were allowed to stand over, leaving to
Congress the option of admitting or
rejecting the vote of the Southern States
at the last stage, there would plausible
ground for imputing partisan designs. Do
what it might, short of unconditional
recognition, Congress would be exposed to
the charge of political favoritism or
hostility. •
Equally clear it is that Congress can not
recognize, in respect to the
States which in the light ol the reconstruc
tion acts may at the time be out of
the Union. If they are not pos
sessed of the privileges of the States in
the Union, as eyidcnced by representa
tion at Washington, their position in
regard to the Presidency is not different
from that of Territories. Mississippi, un
reconstructed and therefore still out of the
Union, will have no stronger title to
admission to the Electoral College than
Montana. In the eye of the law, one is at
this moment no more of a State than the
other.
It is expedient, then, to have it under
stood that only those of the Southern
States which shall have reconstructed
governments in full operation at the time,
of the election will be entiled to repre
sentation in the Electoral College. Any
other basis would be illogical aud embar
rassing. With this principle affirmed how,
there can be no future cause of misunder
standing or complaint, save that which in
operative against the entire plan-of recon
struction. *
BRICK POMEROY ON THE HYBRID
CANDIDATES. _
This great apostle of the Democracy in
the South handled Seymour and Blair
(before they received the Humiliation) with
out gloves, in fiis delectable sheet, under
date of July Gib. He said :
It is well known that Gov. Seymour is opposed
to tosrebing the financial question—wants to
leave it stand as it is, all in flavor of the bond
holders, and against the people—gold, and no
taxes to pay, for the former ; and rags, and all
the taxes to pay, for the latter. With charac
teristic sophistry, be says that “our debt is not
due until fifteen years from that time.” There
fore, he says its present discussion is useless
it is not a practical question. Gov. Saymour
is trying to put the public mind asleep upon the
bond question, and leave the plowholders to
sweat and stagger and starve under the load of
taxation to pay the bondholders their semi
annual interest in gold, and their tuxes in addi
tion, by telling the country that the financial
question should not bo bsoug'.it into the canvass
this year; that everything is well enough as it
is, if you will only make the Government eeono
mile in its expenditures ; and that a generation
hence will be time ensugh to talk about the
Rational debt.
Os the Bi.ahis, he said t
Has the Democratic parly fallen so low as to
use such creatures 1 Is it so craven as to allow
such fellows to say what it shall do or what it
shall net de ? Ose »f Wwta Motta the impw
dence to say that the party can not ho united on
any one of the candidates now named—some new.
man must be taken up! Think of it! Look it
over ! 0, the sublimity of this fellow’s ooeceit !
Where’s Train ? Send for Train ! He only ean
match him. The Democratic party can net be
united on any candidate already named! Good !
Where did you loom all that Montgomery ? Dy
going to Silver Spring and consulting the old
man, or sending out to St. Louis and consulting
brother Frank ? Then the Blair family stands
out against tba nomination of any candidate
already named ! Os coarse the Democratic party
ean net be united then, on any of these candi
dates. The Blair family ‘goes back’ on these
candidates. So the party ean not unite on any
one of them ! The party is not united without
the Blairs! In fact, it is no party without the
Blairs ! Whew ! What a big family ! To use
the elegant expression of their late lamented
master, "What a loug tai! our cat has got!”
But all this difficulty could be g>t over if the
Convention would unite the party by nominating
General Frank. Thun the party would be united,
of course, for the Blair family would bo satisfied.
When they are satiwfied the party is united.
How simple. Why hat not this been thought of
before? Now, gentlemen, enough of thu. The
Democratic party is anited—unite'! as never
before, upon principles and a man. You know
this full well, and all your efforts will avail
nothing to defeat the people’s will. In this
great crisis you are of no amount; you have no
weight; you must stand aside, and give place tn
the millions who are going to do the Voting and
elect the ticket, and will have it to suit them, or
know the reason why.
Let tilk assertiok of the New York
Herald be put on record ; “If the Dmno
crwtic National Convention nominates a
presidential candidate tinctured with cop
perheadism, New York will give fifty thous
and majority for General Grakt.”
-■ ....a—.
—The people of Macon are discussing the
project of building a free bridge across the
Ocmulgee river at the foot of Second street.
It is thought if the right is obtained the
money can be raised in ten days.
PUBLIC SLANDER.
We sincerely unite in the hope indulged
in by the New York Timet, that in this
Presidential campaign our public journals
will discuss the great issues of the time
with decency and falrnessl There can be
no apology for any other conduct. Even
in a hotly-contestcd campaign, where in'
veterate prejudices clash against each other
as in the discussions -now going on in
England on the Irish Church question,
personal abuse is disgusting, and answers
no great purpose. But in the campaign
which we are conducting, there is not even
\liat feeble excuse for tire personal denun
ciation of candidates which might be
urged in the case of a closer contort. Ccr
tainly our liepublican journals have no
such excuse.
The election of Grant and Colfax is as
certain as if it had already been officially
promulgated. We can afford then to let
our ‘respectable’ democratic cotemporaries
call General Grant a butcher, a drunkard,
or whatever else they may choose. But
there is no need to rctabate in the same
spirit of unfairness. The public records of
Mr. Seymour and Gen. Blair are open to
criticism. Let the criticism be sharp and
unsparing, but let it be lair and honest.
The grand question before us is the
speedy restoration of the country upon the
principle of‘equal rights ti all men.’ That
object can not be further ad by any want of
fairness, honesty or charity. Oh the con
trary, fairness, honesty unci charity arc the
great necessities of the hour.
•
[From Oar Own Correspondent.
B\l SHING TO N L ETTER.
The Dolitieal Iloriton—Tke Hebei Democratic
Nominee Their I lie toritnd Dfo^jccls —Secret
Ilietory of the Rebellion.
Washington, D. C v July 11, 1868.
The nomination of Horatio Seymour and
Francis P. Blair, Jr., by the New York
Convention, fell like a wet blanket upon the
anxious Democrats in this city. It has
long been conceded by thinking tnevi of the
Democratic persuasion . that a man to
“match” Grant on the Presidential course
must have a war record above suspicion;
hence Chase, Hancock, and English, were
urged as candidates in caucus with all the
earnestness of drowning men catching at
straws. But the Copperhead element under
the lead of Pendleton’s manipulators held
the balance of power, and with the Southern
delegates could nominate any candidate
they might* agree upon under the two thirds
rvle—a rule adopted originally to slaughter
prominent men and introduce some one for
the support of the party comparatively un
known. Since the rule was adopted in
1844, the Democratic Conventions have
succeeded in securing this result, except in
a single instance when Buchanan Was nomi
nated in 1856. It docs seem as though
there was an overruling Providence in all
these matters,leading men to-be the innocent
agents of building up what they would fain
destroy. If the Democracy made a mistake
in their ardent d'etre for the flesh pots th
1864, they have certainly made a blunder or
something worse than that in 1868. I have
yet to hear the first Democrat predict suc
cess ; on the contrary, all count upon an
overwhelming defeat, while some go so far
as to say that they can not carry more than
three States—Delaware, Maryland, and
Kentucky. Seymour was elected'Governor
of New York in 1862 under false pretenses l ---
a more vigorous prosecution ol the war.
Ouee in office he used all his influence
against the war, and the people, bearing this
in mind defeated him bv tm overwhelming
vqte iu 1864.
Let us look a little at the record of the
candidates. Mr. Seymour is a lawyer of
respectable abilities, but when he essays a
flight into the regions of statesmanship, be
displays all the subtleness of a lawyer who
has a prjsoi.cr to defend without witnesses.
Me deals in platitudes nnd glittering gener
alities, which may mean something or
nothing as a future policy may dictate. As
a politician, he has always belonged to the
extreme State rights school, which naturally
led him to sympathize with the Confederate
cause, and he probaldy aided that cause
during the fete war more than auy other
Northern man—a service to which lie
has alio devoted himself most assiduously
since the war. It was truthfully said of him
in 1863, when Lee invaded Pennsylvania,
that he commanded the left wing of that
army, and did so temporarily Io »>innjuip.
pose, as wns indicated when his ‘friends,’ as
he then called them, held fell sway in New
York for the whole week, and murdered
scores of innocent people, destroyed properly
and committed the most wanton outrages.
Mr. Seymour’s most offensive record com
menced in 1862, when, under the flimsy
pretence of prosecuting the war more vigor
ously, and taking advantage of the de
pression then prevailing among the pco
£le owing to tlie incompetency of
IcClellan in the management of our
armies, he rodo into the Guberna
torial chair. That his anxiety to
prosecute the war more Vigorously was
a sham was soon made apparent. lie had
not been in office more than four hours
before he threw aside his mask and attempt
ed to get control of the Metropolitan Police.
The Police Commissioners wefle suiflmoncd
before him and given two days to prepare
for their trial. The charges against them
involved no dereliction of duty in the imme
diate concerns of their office; but related
exclusively V<> tiffs aid they had afforded the
national government in its attempts to ex
tirpate treason and preserve the nation’s
life ; they suffered Superintendent Kennedy
to "exercise” the functions of the pretended
office of Special Provost Marshal under the
government; they justified thi» his “un
lawful assumption of power” ; permitted
the station houses to be used us prisons for
the government, and in a word, di I all they
could, consistently, to. aid in suppressing
the rebellion and crush in the bud incipient
treason. This was 100 formidable a loyal
body to be tolerated in New York, and
hence Gov. Seymour sought to get control
of tbo organization by removing the com
missioners, and appointing men in their
places who would do his bidding and let
traitors and tho South alone. He deserved
no merit for abandoning the contest, be
cause public opinion was clearlv against
him, as was indicated by tffe thrill of satis
faction given by Gen. Dix when be wrote
the Governor—in response to an offer of
troops to keep the peace--that he had force
enough to>control the mob and the Governor
too. During his whole term of office be at
tempted to withdraw the support ofNew York
from the General Government, and, at one
lime, through his associates, nearly swamped
the Government, by influencing the holders
of gold not to buy United States bonds.
Four of the six columns of his first message
were devoted to a single purpose— alienation.
By dilating with emphasis upon States’
rights—by denouncing arbitrary arrests—by
elaborately arguing against the rightful
possibility of martial law outside of the
military lines, and by stigmatizing the
Emancipation Proclamation ns “impolitic,
unjust and unconstitutional"—he did his best
to diminish confidence in the Genera’ Gov
ernment: and, oil the other hand, he sought
to stir up a jealousy and bitteraees between
the larger States and smaller ones, by
dwelling uptm their inequality of population
and equality of representation in the Senate.
He opposed soldiers voting, and tried to make
people believe the war was a failure, and*
that a reaction was going v» which would
sweep the Union party from power; endeav
ored -to get control of the State Legislature
by force—importing New York city roughs
to intimidate members; and, on July 4th,
1863, while Grant was countyig his prisoners
at Vicksburg, and before the cannonading at
Gettysburg hud died away, be could find no
more timely or inspiring theme than the
degeneracy of our people and the tyranny of
the Government —but not a of con
demnation for the rebels —hot a syllable of
hope or encouragement for those who wore
fighting against them—not an effort to rouse
the patriotic fervor and courage of the thou
sands who heard him. He took occasion to
address the July draft rioters in New
York, and addressing them as his “friends,”
be implored them “to refrain from
committin r further outrages,” promising
to use his influence to have the draf.t
Suspended, or the order for it entirely revoked',
and that he had already sent his Adjutant
General to Washington oft that mission. He
was the marplot at Chicago in 1864, when
the war is-a failure party picked up Mr.
MeClclkni, to be rejected by the people, and
was himself assigned to obscurity, only to
emerge in season to refuse the Democratic
nomination for President before it had been
tendered him, while all the time he was
working to secure the nomination he has
now received ; and at the hands of whom 1
Peace and copperhead Democrats, and men
who were leaders in the Confederate cause I
Men who could not be induced to vote for
any other than an out aud out copperhead.
—such as Horatio Seymour is known to be.
Os Francis P- Blair, Jr., little need be said
to those who know the Blair family. To
those who do not, they are respectfully re
ferred to his last letter.
No wonder that Democrats were every
where taken by surprise by such men being
placed before the people, and no -wonder
they feel that the Democratic cause is hope
less. Three members of the Cabinet hive
said it was impossible for them to vote such
a ticket, to say nothing of the platform on
which they are placed.
As the rebel element becomes more em
boldened aud outspoken, the secret history of
the rebellion gradually comes to light. It
is" now stated upon the very Jiest authority
that there was a mutual understanding
between Lee and other army officers, before
the former deserted the Federal service,
how the difficulties then pending should be
adjusted. McClellan was in the plot; and
the agreement was that there should be no
serious fighting butthat the patience of the
people should be worn out by delay, and
then a settlement was to be made based on
the Dred Scott decision. This accounts for
McClellan not annihilating Lee at Antietam
and explains the cause of the interview
between the commanding generals j ust after
that battle—a fact which has nover been
authoritatively denied.
The uprising of the people show how short
sighted the leaders in the movement were ;
the Seymours, Woods, Vallandighams,
Pendletons and Woodwards were all in the
plot, but the loyal masses hurled them from
power and won a permanent peace by force
of arms. They will be just as successful in
crushing out the new rebellion.
Gem O. O. Howard has given directions
to turn the affairs of the freedmen in
Arkansas over to the • State authorities, at
thewnrHcst p'rKctk'able moment.
Capital.
[From tbo New York Times.
.1 VIOLENT ASSERTION OE PAPAL
POWER.
The Pope‘is getting on bad terms with all
the Catholic Governments of Europe- ’ In
addition to bis bitter quarrel with the Italian,
or, as he styles it, the Sub-
Alpine Government, lie is carrying his fury
against the Austrian Government to such
extremities, as must result in the repudiation
of all his pretensions.
We publish, this morning, the recent allo
cution of His Holines i ugainst the Austrian
Government.
In its dictatorial character, its haughty
tone, its musty bigotry, it could not be sur
passed by anything ev> r issued from Rome,
even at the time when the Papal Power
claimed supremacy over all th? Kings and
Governments of Europe.
In violent language, the Pope reviews all
the “abominable” measures adopted by the
Reichsrath. This body, it appears, has even
gone so far as to “establish free liberty for
all opinions, liberty of tho press, liberty of
all faith, no matter what confession or doc
trine; it grants to the members of every
creed the right of establishing public schools
and colleges, and members of every confes
sion are allowed to be admitted ou the same
footing, with the sanction of the State.” The
Austrian Reichsrath lias promulgated a law
which suppresses all the influence of the
Church over education, decreeing that the
whole superior supervision of education,
literature and science, as also tlie inspection
of seb o's, pertains to tho State, and that any
religious society may open private or special
ißrltools for the youth of its faith. It admits
and even confirms the form of marriage
absolutely condeninable, called civil mar
riage ; and it permits the bodies of heretics
to be bull' d in Catholic cemeteries, if the
heretics have no churchyards of their own.
All these wicked mid abominable laws have
been sanctioned by the Austrian Govern
ment.
“Then,” says the Popo, “in virtue of the
care of ail churches entrusted to us by the
Lord Jesus Christ, we raise our voice ; we
reprove and condemn by our apostolic au -
thority the laws which wc have enumerated,
and everything general and special, in those
same laws. And in virtue of this same
authority, which appertains to us, we declare
those decrees null and powerless in them
selves and in their effect, both as regards
the' present and the future.” And he ends
by warning both those who originated and
those who attempt to execute these laws
that they are liable to tho penalties fulmi
nated by the eecleiastical canons against
the enhnies of the Church—which is con
sidered as tantamount to an excommunica
tion of the Austrian authorities.
The low ami bitter assault of the Pope
upon all those things which wc in America
are accustomed to regard as the very fonn
dation stdnes of civil liberty, ■ shows the
determined antagonism of the Pope to
liberal institutions. There maledictions
against all those measures of freedom and
reform which ’have been regarded by the
Austrian people as the highest benefaction
they ever received from their Govurunient,
are calculated to rouse the popular senti
ment against the political interference of
the Church of Romo. This extravagant,
though powerless, attempt of Pius IX to
overthrow the authority of the Austrian
Guveriiffient, has very naturally excited the
hostility of that Government and compelled
it to issue something like a declaration of
independence of Rome. We learned by
cable the other day that the Austrian
Premier von Beust lias written a sharp note
in reply to this allocution, telling the Pope
that his intermeddling with the domestic
legislation of Austria is a violation of the
independence and dignity of the Empire. •
It is not in the power of the Austrian
Emperor himself, much less in the power of
the Pope, to annul these liberal and admira
ble laws of the Keichs ruth. Were Francis
Joseph to attempt to reverse the current of
freedom, now swelling gloriously in Austria,
ho would be driven from bis throne in shorter
time than it took to overthrow his armies at
Sadown. Austria is for the abolishment of
despotism and the establishment of civil
liberty, and not all the curses-of Rome can
alter the fact.
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[from the Atlanta New Bra
The Columbus Prisoners*
Fourteenth liny.
The Court met at 10 o’clock on Wednes
day morning, pursuant to adjournment.
The record of Tuesday’s proceedings was
read and approved.
Mr. Stephens appeared in Court apparently
in his usual health.
DR. u. A. style’s testimony continued —
cross EXAMINATION.
(The testimony of this witness closed
abruptly on Monday, by objections being
raised to the question) “why did you connect
the 30th of March with that incident rather
than the 29th of March ?” The objection
was withdrawn, and witness answered:)
In referring to my memorandum I did not see
that I visited Mr. Greet on the 29th. I did
on the 30th. I fouud no memorandum of
any other visit to Greer near the 30t h of
March. I visited him some time four or five
days before the 30th of March, and about
the same number of days after. I visited
several other patients on the same afternoon.
I can single put Greer’s case rather than the
others, because the plantations were not on
my raeniOKtndum, as I attended them by con
tract. I remember that it was on the 30th
of March, on Monday, that ( visited Greer’s,
and on my return met Waytie Duke, with
two steers, on his way home. Nothing
occurred at that time to remind me that 1
would ever be called on as a witness. As
soon as I heard of the arrest of William
Duke I felt certain of his innocence, and, on
thinking it over, I remembered having first
heard of the assassination from him. 1 had
never thought of the necessity of locating
Duke at the time of Ashburn’s death until 1
heard of Duke’s arrest —about a month ago.
I got my first information of the assassina
tion from Duke. I do not remember that
he said anything in regard to its being a
masked assassination. I saw in the papers
that it was a masked assassination, and
heard it in common talk. I read it in the
Columbus Nun, 1 think. I do not take the
Sun. I read it in a paper at the Sulphur
Springs. I do not know to whom it be
longed. [The questions eliciting the few
preceding answers were objected to by a
member of the court. Gov. Brown said the
object of the questions was simply to test
the strength of the witness’ memory. The
court retired for consultation, and upon its
return, announced that the objection was
overrulbd, and witness continued.] Duke
told me the day on which the assassination
occurred, but not the day of the mouth. I
heard of that afterward, and read it iu the
papers. I referred to my memorandum
book after 1 heard I would be needed here—
about a week and a half ago. I looked at
the entries near the 30th of March, and saw
that I had not passed there immediately be
fore or after on my way coming from Greer’s.
The testimony of Dr.'Styles was all here
read over to him from the reporter’s notes,
and he was
COL. F. O. WILKINS SWORN.
I reside in Columbus, Ga. I was at home
at the time of the death of Ashburn. I was
Mayor of Columbus at the time. [Witness
here named over nil those who were officers
under him.] I was first informed of the
death of Ashburn about ten minutes to 2
o’clock. 1 weut immediately to the scene.
I weut into the hpuse. I found in the house
four people. A negro man was standing
outside the door. The names ot two of the
parties I saw there were Hannah Flournoy
and this man Bennett. I assembled the
negro woman, the white woman and Bennett,
and tried to ascertain if they could give any
definite idea of the perpetrators of the act.
Alter talking with them a few foments,
without finding out anything, as all seemed
very much frightened, I went into the room
where the body lay, straightened it out, and
sent one of the policemen to summon the
coroner, aud ordered a jury of the most intel
ligent mbu-iu the city to hold an inquest as
early as possible in the morning. I then in
structed the Marshal to distribute the men to
the best possible advantage, and instruct
them to arrest every one found passing
about the streets between that time and
day, and also to keep a man in the neigh
borhood of the house. I then instructed
the Marshal ;o notify tbo Board of Aider
men to meet me at the Council Chamber at
9 o'clock. All came save two, and a reso
lution was passed condemning the act and
offering a reward of five hundred dollars for
the perpetrator or perpetrators of the act.
The usual reward offered in case of murder,
by the Governor, is, 1 believe, from two
hundred and fifty to five hundred dollars.
During the day increased the police force
to sixty men, and had them all on duty by
night, under instructions to be vigilant and
do everything they could to ferret, out the
perpetrators of the deed. A greater portion
of those men were kept on duty until after
the election.
Tbo Court here took a recess of fifteen
minutes.
Upon reassembling, on account of the
sickness of one ofitbc members of the Court,
the Court adjourned until ten o’clock on
Thursday.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
PER SOUTH CAR
OLINA RAILROAD, July 16, 1868.—T S Mor
gan, II Scjjnciker, Osley A Wilson, W H Good
rich, Clark A Co, Cheatham A Bro, G Rappold
A Bro, Gray A T, I’ Quinn, Mullarkey A Bro,
H L Balk, Wyman A May, G L Bonn, E Barry,
C U Dunn, E O’Donnell, [B], [MJ, Rev W H
Clark, G T Jackson, C A Rowland, 11 Morrison,
Oetjen A D, I) Stalling, Beall A 11, W Hill, W C
Jessup A Co, W II Tutt, A Bobne, M Hyams A
Co, A P Biggs, W Craig, R T Parks, J T Both
well, C Emory, P Mims, G Kehrs, Plumb A L,
JohnXi’reer, L J Miller, Bean A A, D R Wright
A Co.
REPUBLICAN STATE CON VENTION
ROOMS OF STATE CENTRAL COM. i
Union RsrußiicAs Party or Ga., L
Augusta, Ga., July 14, 1868.)
AT THE REQUEST OF MEMBERS
of the Central Committee, I hereby call a
State Convention of the Republican party of
Georgia, to assemble in ATLANTA, on Tuenday,
the fourth day of August next, for the purpose
of nominating Electors for Grant and Colfax.
The basis of representation will be the saute as
in the lower house of the General Assembly.
Republicans are requested to hold meetings in
their respective Congressional Districts, and
nominate candidates for Congress.
FOSTER BLODGETT,
Chm’n State Cen. Committee.
Republican papers in this State will
plearceopy. Jyls— td
GENERAL AGENCY, 1
PnoKxrx Mtrrcil Ltrs Insurance Co., v
Atlanta, Ga., June 20, ISIS. J
MESSRS. BARBER, LATHROP
<L- CO., General Insurance Agents, 210 Broad
street, Augusta, -Ga.,' are my duly qualified and
commtnionud agents for the Phoenix Mutual
Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connec
ticut, and I will recognise all their official acta
as such. N. 0. ROCKWELL,
jyS— tf General Agent.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Anthracite Coal.
Pl ADDITION TO THE COAL ADVERTISED
in another solo ran, I shall have a cargo at
CHOICE PHILADELPHIA PARLOR.COAL
for early delivery, and nt a small advance above
, the cost of importation. <
jy 17— Iw CHAS. A. ROWLAND.
Administrator’s Sate.
WILL BE SOLD, ON THE FIRST TUES
DAY in SEPTEMBER next, at tbe Lower
Market House iu the city of Augusta, between the
legal hours of aide, pursuant to the order of tbe
Court of Ordinary, passed at July Tern, 1868, all
tl at lot of Land, with the improvements, consist
ing of one Brick Store, belonging to the Estate of
Sarah May, on tbe West side of Centre street, in
the city ot Augusta, Imtween Broad aud Reynolds
street, and known as Bridge row—bounded North
by lot ’formerly F. Murray’s, East by Centro
street, South by lot of Thomas B. Phiuizy, aud
West by lot of John 11. iluuu, having a front of
twenty-nine feet aud a depth of eighty-two feet
six inches, conveyed by John Phiuixy to Thomas
May, April 26, 1858, and turned over to Sarah
May, soln heir of Thomas May, July 5,1866.
Terms cash, purchaser to pay for papers.
R. W, MAHER,
jyl*—iOt Administrator.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United Slates for the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of 1
BERNARD F. McKENNA, > I» Bankruptcy.
Bankrupt. )
Tbe undersigned hereby gives notice of his
appointment as assignee of Bernard,F. McKenna,
of the city of Savannah, comity of Chatham, and
State of Georgia, within said District, who has
been adjudged a Bankrupt, upon his own petition,
by the District Court of said District.
ROBERT SUIREAU,
jyl7—lavvJw ■ Assignee.
IN THE DISTRICT ~CQURT OF THE
United States for the Southern Patriot of
Georgia.
In the matter of i
ZACHARIAH FALK, LIN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt, J
Hie undersigned hereby gives notice of his
appointment as assignee of Zachariah Falk, ot
the city of Savannah, eortuty of Chatham, and
State of Georgia, within said District, who Ims
been adjudged a Bankrupt, upon his own petition,
by the District Court of said District.
. _ , ROBERT SUIREAU,
jy!7- law.lw Assignee.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of y
MARCUS A. DEHONEYJIn Bank RUPTCY.
Bankrupt. )
The undersigned, hereby gives notice of his
appointment as assignee of Marcus A. Dchouey,
of Savannah, Chatham county, witliiu said Dis
trict, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt, upon
his owti petition, by the District Court of said
District. ALFRED WILSON.
July Lith, 1868. jy]7 —law3w.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for the Southern District of
Georgia. , -
In the matter of y
GABRIEL SELIG, [IN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. ) No. 89.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the
Court for a discharge from all his debts prova
ble under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867,
notice is hereby given to all persons interested
to appear on the -Ith day of August. 1868, at ten
o’clock a. m,. at chambers of said District
Court, before Charles G. McKinley, Esq., one
the Registers of said Court in Bankruptcy, at
bis office at Newnan, Ga., and show cause why
tbe prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt
should not be granted. And further notice is
given that the second and third meeting of
creditors will be held at the same time and
place.
Dated at Savannah, Ga., this 15th day of July,
1868. ■ james McPherson,
jy 17— law 3 w __ Clerk,
IN THE DISTRICT COUkT OF THE
United States for the Northern District of
Georgia.
.Iu the matter of y
JOHNSTON-WHATLEY [ IN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. ) No. 119.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the
Court for a discharge from ail his debts prova
ble undei the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867,
notice is hereby given to all persons interested
to appear on the 28th dayot July, 1868, at 10
o’clock in the forenoon, at chambers of tire
said District Court, before Charles G. McKin
ley, one of the Registers of the said Court iu
Bankrcptey, at the Register’s office, in the city
ofNewnau, Ga., and show cause why the prayer
of the said petition of tbe Bankrupt should not
be granted. And further notice is giveu that
the second and third meetings of creditors will
be held at the same time aud place.
Witness, the Honorable John Erskine,
[heal.] Judge of said District Court, and the
seal thereof, this 15th day of July,
1868. W. I’. SMITH,
jy!7—lawow* Clerk.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for tho Northcru Djptrict of
Georgia.
In the matter of )
JOSHUA J HANES, MN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. ? No. 275.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the
Court for a discharge from all his debts prova
ble under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867,
notice IS hereby given to all persons interested
to appear on the 28th day of July, 1868, at 10
o’clock in the forenoon, at chambers of the said
District Court, before Charles G. McKinley,
one of the Registers of the said Court in Bank
ruptcy, at the Register’s office, in the city of
Newnan, 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 held at the same time and place.
Witness, the Honorable John Erskine,
. Judge of said District Court, and
*•' L ' tho seal thereof, this 15th day of
July, 1868. W.B. SMITH,
jy!7—lawJw” Cleric.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Tlftl
I United States for the Northern District of
Georgia.
Tn the matter of I
JAMES B KEY, j-lN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. J No. 276.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the
Court for a discharge from all his debts prova
ble under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, •
notice Is hereby given to all persons interested
. to appear on the 28th day of July, 1868, at 16
o’clock a. m., at chambers of the. said District
Court, beforaCharles (I. McKinley, one of the
Registers of the said Court in Bankruptcy, at
the Register’s office, ill the city of Newnan, Ga.,
and show cause why the prayer of the said peti
tion of the Bankrupt should not be granted;
and further notice is given that the second and
third meetings of creditors will be held nt the
same time nnd place.
Witness, tho Honorable John Erskine,
I 1 Judge of said Dstrict Court, and tho
*■' " ' seal thereof, this 15th day of June,
1868. W.B. SMITH,
jylawSw* Clerk.
IN BANKRUPTCY
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE ■. That on the
13th day of July, A. D. 1868, a Warrant in
Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of
CHARLES W. DOUGHTY,
of Augusta, in the county of Richmond, and
Stdto of Georgia, who has been adjudged a
Bankrupt on His own petit-ton, 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 move Assig
nees of his estate, will be held at a Court of
Bankruptcy, to be holden at the Register’s
office, No. 1. Warren Block, 3d floor, room No.
6, Jackson street, in the city of Augusta, Ga.,
before Albert G. Foster, Esq., Register, on
the 3d day of August, A. D. 1868, at 11 o’clock
a.* in.
WM. G. DICKSON,
jyl7—lt U.fl. Marshal as Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
rpHIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
A 13th day of July, A. D. 1868, a Warrant in
Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of
WILLIAM S. ROYAL,
of Augusta, in the county of Richmond, aM
State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a
Bankrupt on his own petition, and that the
payment of any debts, and delivery of any
properly belonging to such Bankrupt, to him,
or for his use, and the transfer of an? 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
nees of his restate, will be held at a Court of
Bankruptcy,!to bb,holden at the Register’s
office, No. 1, Varrtn Block, 3d floor, room No.
6, Jacksan strekt, In the city of Augusta, Ga.,
before Albert V>. Foster, Esq., Register, on
the 4th day of -Wgust, A. D. 1868, at 4 o dock
t>. m. ’•
WM. G. DICKSON,
jy!7—lt ' U.'iS- Marshal as Messenger.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
~ IX BANKRUPTCY. ~~
Tins IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
13th day©f July, A. D. 1868, a Warrant in
Banbnptcy was issued against the estate of
Wancis Colman,
of Augnsta, in tbo county of Richmond, State
of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt
on his own petition, and that the payment of
any dobte, and delivery of any property belong-
Ing to such Baifkrnpt, to mm, or for his use
aud Ua transfer of u»y property by him,
forbidden by law; that a meeting of the cred
itors of the said Bankrupt, to prove thoir debts
and to choose one or more Assignees of his
ns Ute, will bcjield at a Court of Bankruptcy,
to be holdon at the Register’s office, Ro. I
Warren Block, 3d Hoot, room No. 6, Jackson
street, city of Augwsta, Ga., before Albert G.
Foster, • Esq., Register, on the 3d day o i
August, A. D. 1808, at 12 o’clock rtf.
WM. G. DICKSON,
jy!7—lt U. S. Marshal ns Mesaeuger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
13th day of July, A, D. 1808, a Warrant in
Bankruptcy was issued’against the estate of
SALMON MORRIS,
of Warrenton, in the cornify of Warren, State of
Georgia,who has been adjudged aßankrnpt on his
owu’petitiou;|and that. the payment of any debts and
delivery of any property belonging to said Hauk
nipt, to him or for his use, find the transfer of any.
property by him, are forbidden by law; that a
meeting of the creditors of said Bankrupt, to
prove their debts, and to choose one or more
assignees of his estate, will be lield at a Uourtof
Bankruptcy, to beholden at tho Register’s office,
No. 1, Warren. Block, 3d Hour, room No. 6, Jack
son street, city of Augusta, Georgia, before Al
bert G Foster, Esq., Register, on the 3d day of
August, A- D. 1868, at 10 o’clock n. m.
WM. G. DICKSON,
jy 17—It U. 8. Marshal as Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
rpins 18 TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
JL 13th day of July. A. D. 1868,"a Warrant iu
Bankruptcy was issued-against the estate of
CHARLES P McCALLA,
of Augusta, in the county of Richmond, and State
of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on
bis own petition ; that the payment of any debts
and delivery of any property-belonging to said
Bankrupt, to him or for his use, and the transfer
of any property by him, ure forbidden by law;
that a meeting of the creditors of said Bank,
nipt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or
moiie assignees of his estate, will be held at the
Court of Bankruptcy, to be holden at the Reg
ister’s office, No. 1, Warren Block, 3d floor, rooia
No. 6, Jackson street, city of Augusta, Georgia,
before Albert G Foster, Esq., Register, on the 3d
day of August, A. D. 1868, at 1 o’clock p. in.
WM. G. DICKSON,
jy 17—It U. 8. Marshal lie Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
U. S. MARSHAL’S OFFICE, I
Atlanta, Ga , July , 1868. j
r piIIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE; That on the
JL 9th day of July, A. D., 1868, a War
rant in Bankruptcy was issued against the es
tate of
JOHN F ANDREWS,
of Washington, iu tbe county of Wilkes, State
of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on
his own petition ; that the payment of any debts
and delivery of any property belonging to said
Bankrupt, to him or for his use, and the transferor
any property by him, are forbidden by law ; that
a meeting of the creditors of said Bankrupt, to
prove their debts, and to choose one or more
assignees of iii» estate. Will be held at a Court of
Bankruptcy, to be holden at the Register’s office,
in the city of Madison. Mprgnn county, Georgia,
before Albert G. Foster, Register, on the 2Zth day
of July, A. D. 1868, nt 10 o‘i-li>ck a. m.
CHARLES 11. ELYEA,
jy 17—It U. S. Dep. Marshal as Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
rpiIIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the
J_ 13Mi day of July, A. D.. 1868, a Warrant in
Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of •
WILLIAM O NORRELL,
of Augusta, in the county of Richmond, and
State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bank
rapt ou his own petition, and that tbe 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, ure forbidden by
law; that a meeting of the creditors of the said
Bankrupt, to prove tlieir debts, and to choose one
or more Assignees of his estate, will be held at a
Court of Bankruptcy/to be holden at the Regis
ter’s office, No. 1, Warren Block, 3d floor, room
No. 6, Jackson street., city of Augusta, Georgia,
before Albert G Foster, Esq., Register, outlie 4tli
day of Augusts at D. 1868, at 12 o’clock m.
WM. G. DICKSON,
jy!7—lt U. 8 Marshal as Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
rtllllS IS TO GIVE NOTICE. That on the
1 13th day of July, A. it. 1808, a Warrant in
Bankruptcy was issued agaiust the estate of
JEFFERSON S BRISCOE,
of , iu the county of Columbia, and 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, are forbidden by
law ; that a meeting of the creditors of wild Bank
rupt, toprove their debts, and to choose one or
more Assignees of his estate, will be held at a
Court of■ Bankruptcy, tube holden at the Reg
ister's office, No. 1, Warren Block, 3d floor, room
No. 6, Jackson street, city of Augusta, Ga., before
Albert G Foster Esq., Register, on the Ith day
of August, A. D. 1868, at 11 o’clock a. nr.
WM. G. DICKSON,
jyl~—lt U. S. Marshal us Messenger.
U. S. INTERNAL REVENUE.
COLLECTOR’S OFFICE, |
Augusta, Ga.. July 14, 1818. J
A 4/ ILL BE SOLD PUBLIC AUCTION,
VV at 10 o’clock, a. m., on FRIDAY, JULY
24th, 1868, at tho United States Bonded Ware
house, rear of tho store of W. A. Ramsey X Co.,
8 Boxes CHEWING TOBACCO—ho brand.
19 “ “ “ D. W. Stoete
5 “ “ “ A. Faller.
5 “ “ “ no brand.
33 COPPER STlLLS—with fixtures.
3 IRfJN STEAM BOILERS.
Said articles having been seized for violation
of tho Internal Revenue Lows of tho United
States. WILL. D. BARD,
jy 15—2 t 15a24 Collector 3d Dial. Ga.
[OFFICIAL.]-
Proclanatiou by the Governor.
Executive Office Provisional Gov. Ga., I
Atlanta, July lOtb, 1868. j
VS7HEREAS, OFFICIAL INFORMATION
vv has been")oceived at this office that a war
rant has issued from the hands of J. D. Davis,
Justice of the Peace of District of Houston
county, charging and accusing ono G. T,
COFIELD with the offence of murder, committed
upon the body of Toney McCauley (colored man),
on the 3d day of November,!B67, in said county
and State; and that said COFIELD has fled
from justice.
I therefore issue this my pi oelamalion, hereby
offering a toward of TWO HUNDRED DOL
LARS for the apprehension and delivery of tho
said COFIELD to tho Sheriff of the said county
and Slate.
And I do, moreover, charge and tequiro all
offijers in this Stalo to be vigilant in endeavor
ing to apprehend the said COFIELD, in order
that he may be brought to trial for tho offence
with which ho stands charged.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
jy!s—3t Provisional Governor.
v 7—"? ——"
SOUTHERN DISTRICT GEORGIA
At Blake’ey, the Sth day of July, A. D. 1868.
Tl'.c undersigned hereby gives notice of his
Appointment as utwiguee of Hardy C. Fryer, of
Blakeley, in the conuty of Early and State of
Georgia, within said District, who has beenfod--
judged a bankrupt u>on his own petition by th'-
District Court of saw District,
GEORGE B. SWANN,
jy 14—law3w Assignee, etc.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
1 United States for the Nbrthem District of
Georgia.
In -the matter of )
Augustus E. Cuj.nr.Exra > IN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. J No. 44.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court
for a discharge from all bis debts provable under
the bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is
hendiy given to all persons interested to appear
on the 21st day of July, 1868, at 10 o'clock a. n> ••
at tfliambqrs of said District Court before Garnett
Andrews, Esq., one of the Registers of said
Court iu Bankruptcy, at the Register’s office in the
city of Monroe. Ga., and show cause why the
prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt snonM
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 Court, this 6lh day of
Jnly, 1868,
jy'j—law3w ,W. B. SMITH, Clerk