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DARAGRAMS.
—Yesterday, in Now York, Gold was
quoted at 1.43 J. Cotton, 311. -
—A geological and mineralogical surrey
of New Hampshire is soon to be made.
—London paid $1,000,000 to make South
wark, bridge free.
—Ono Fanueil Hall marketman sells the
Bostonians six thousand frogs’ lege each
week. j
—Maine will soon present 40,000. testi
monials to her soldiers.
—Brigham Young has thirty-five mar
riageable daughters.
—There are 100,000 inhabitants in
Stockholm, and only one daily newspaper.
—From ten to twenty thousand white fish
are now taken frSm Oswego Lake in a single
night.
. • —A mammoth bear, weighing 425
pounds, was caught in a trap in Pawnal,
Vt., a few days since.
—The execution of Maximilian, and its
canse, the Mexican expedition, cost France
one thousand millions of framts.
—An American cooking stove is en routt
# to Siam, where it is to form part of the
dower of a Siamese princess.
—Lord Napier, of Magdala, is the new
title which General Napier assumes when
he enters the peerage.
—Chicago has recently built another im
mense grain elevator, and now boasts of
sixteen.
—Brunettes are sovereigns in Saratoga,
but the most beautiful woman there is Said
to be a uew arrival—a married woman from
western Pennsylvania.
—Dealers in hair in Paris find the supply
running short, and children are robbed of
their luxuriant locks in passing alone
through the city.
—Cordelia Wade, of Cincinnati, has taken
poison several times, but has always Seen
stomach-pumped into life and safety again.
She is one of the most persistent self
destructives on record.
—The Louisiana planters are expecting to
save their cotton this year, by the aid of the
black ants, which cover the plants and
devour the eggs of insects ns fast as they ai-e
deposited.
—The clergy of Lyons, France, lately
appointed an earlier hour than usual for the
• Sunday services, in order to allow the people
time who wished to attend the races which
were to occur on that day.
—Pirate Semmes can’t get over the idea
that the public must feel an intense interest
in him and his deeds, and consequently he is
writing a six hundred pagcVook about his
robberies, rascalities, inhumanities, disgrace,
and barbarism.
—France has invented a submarine lamp
which derivss the oxygen necessary for
combustion from a reservoir of the com
pressed gas which accompanies it. Experi
ments have been made, and it has proved a
great success.
—A reccut fashion writer reported that “a
light salmon, approaching to pink, is a
favorite color.” The Tammany choice is
otherwise. They take that pink of loyalty,
Horatio, and won't have anything to do with
“Salmon.”
—Asiatic cholera has appeared in Troy ; it
is said to be the real thing, and we suggest
that some enterprising roalaslic theatre
manager have a sensation play written and
secure some of the real thing to draw audi
ences.
—Admiral Farragut, accompanied by his
wife, Mrs. Peacock, Capt. W. E. Leroy,
Lieut- S. N. Kane, and Lieut. T. G. Willis,
_ United States Navy, arrived in Edinburgh
on the 27th ult. The party are on a tour
through Scotland.
A machine lor breaking up stone has
been invented in Germany, in which they
are carried round very rapidly on a disk, and
then projected by their centrifugal force with
such violence against a steel plate as to
shiver them into fragments.
—A gold coiu has boon dug up near
Omaha, which i« dated 1586. On the
strength of this Omaha is going to lay
claims to antiquity, and her old families will
probably look down upon those of Boston
mid Philadelphia as mere upstarts.
—Gold placers, it is asserted, were worked
in California five years before the discovery
at Sutter's mill in 1848. A mine at San
Francisquito, thirty-five miles from Los
Angelos, was worked from 1842 to 184(1 by
Mexicans, who took out $6,000 to SB,OOO
yearly.
—Hydraulic Jacks have bccu substituted
at the Woolwich (England) arsenal, in the
place of the heavy wagons formerly used to
sling large ordnance. Two six-pound jocks,
worked each by two men, give the same
result as the cumbersome and expensive
machinery, while the expense is very small.
—A process has recently been patented in
England by which the bran of flpur, after
being separated, is ground into an ini pal pa
ble powder, and thou again mixed with the
flour. In this way all nutritious ingredients
are preserved, while the fineness of the flour
is not affected.
I, —Mexico City will, before long, be in
| direct telegraphic communication with New
York, ami thus with Europe. If this com-
• BHinication hod existed a year or’two ago,
perhaps Maximilian would now have been
enjoying private life at Miramir, instead of
sleeping in the Imperial vaults of the Capu
chin Church at Vienna.
—Wilburn Waters is the name of a re
markable man, known as the hermit of
White Top, Va-, and the greatest hunter of
the age. He is now fiftyfi-ve years of age,
and during his hermit life has killed 106
bears, 88 wolves, more than 400 deer, and a
number ot wild cats or catamounts, having
killed 20 ot the latter during the last year.
—The hot weather has largely increased
diarrhoeal diseases, and destroyed hundreds
of children in the tenement districts of New
York city. ’ The sanitary regulations of the
Board pt Health have done much to protect
the city from epidemics, otherwise the heat
would be' much more destructive of life.
The exceeding coolness which prevailed
during the month of J uue has made the heat
yiore trying to citizens.
—During the displays of the magnetic
storm, or aurora borealis, o» Friday even
ing, which was an object of wonder and
admiration, tlie telegraph operators at Val
paraiso and Fort Wayne, Indiana, curious to
test its effect in working the telegraph lines,
disconnected the bajteries from the line,
and put in ground wires, when they had
got magnetism sufficient to work the instru
ment quite well, enabling them to Commu
nicate with each other. The magnetism
was varied in intensity as the current be
tween Aurora and Valparaiso changed.
—Successful experiments were made with
the “Gattling battery gun” at Fort Hamil
ton, in New York harbor, on Thursday last.
A target, distant 2,500 feet, at a slope behind
tbe fort, was penetrated by the balls, although
the distance was an extreme oae for the size
of tbe gun, yhich throws only an ounce ball.
J'lie target. at 400 feet, was easily penetrated,
many of the shots entering the bull’s eye,
and *ll near enough to satisfy observers of
the fearful certainty of the unceasing re-
• volver.
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AUHUSTA. <>A.
THURSDAY MORNING July JB, ISAS
For PRESIDEM
Os the United States:
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
FOB VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF INDIANA.
REPUBL 7C. 1-V J/- I JQEI TT.
Unless there is some understanding
among the Ku-Klux permitting their men
to vote for the Constitutional Amendment,
in the hope of thus getting clear of mili
tary authority, we may safely count on a
good working majority in the General
Assembly.
The platform of the Ku-Klux, adopted'
nt New York, finds its foundation in hos
tility to Congress—while that of the He
publicans, framed at Chicago, rests upon
the eternal truths proclaimed and vitalized
by the reconstruction acts of Congress.
A joint ballot, on the 21st instant at
Atlanta, developed a majority of thirty
four for the Congressional plan of recon
struction. Will any sane man believe that
any one of this majority are Democrats ?
*
THE MUDDLE.
What with the platform and the candi
dates of the Democracy, its editors and its
managers are at their wits’ ends and are
thrown completely upon the defensive,
and sorry work do they make of it. Their
candidate for the Presidency is, or rather
his speeches so place him, in favor of
keeping faith with the public creditor,
and of paying the .bonds, interest, and
principal, in coin, but the party has placed
him upon a platform which goes for
repudiation.
During the war the cry in the Demo
cratic party was for peace—give us peace,
said its citampions. Now they have nomi
nated a candidate lor Vice President who
goes for war—war in its most terrible
aspect. He would inaugurate war all
over the country—not a sectional struggle
like the first—but war everywhere through,
out the land. It is amusing to see bow
the knowing ones struggle to relieve the
party from this terrible embarrassment.
The newspapers of the party are floun
dering about, and making desperate eflorts
to reconcile what they have said heretofore
with what they are obliged to say now
and in flic future.
The World is certain that the platform
must be construed to mean this: that the
greenbacks must be brought up to gold
values, and then they may be employed to
redeem the public debt.
' On the other hand, the Chicago Times
is alike confident that the platform in
dorses Mr. Pendleton’s view, which is that
the debt slwuld be paid in currency, be its
value what it may.
Thus it will lie seen that these papers
have entered upon a work ot explanation
which it will take them from now till
November to complete. We have them
on the hip. They must explain.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATEOdiM,
On most points this document is a Del
phic oracle—on others it is a muddle. It
will admit of just such an interpretation
as any one may choose to give it. It is
about ns definite on the financial question
as any; but this is so ambiguous that the
World struggles through nearly two
columns in trying to convince its readers
that it does not mean greenbacks - -or. if it
does mean greenbacks, that it means green
backs as good as gold. A Pendlctonian
would not require half the space to prove
that it meansgreenbacks, and nothing else;
nnd not the borrowing of old greenbacks,
as the World argues, but the printing and
issuing of new greenbacks**? libitum.
The Times very properly cliaracteriz.es it
as a strange mixture of fact and fustian, of
courage and duplicity, of propositions that
are lucid anti propositions that arc muddy-
It is bold to the verge of rashness in regard
to finances, equivocal in its allusions to
reconstruction, confused in its exposition
of fiscal and administrative reforms, diffuse
an<l turgid in its arraignment of the ruling
party. It is tbe’ work, apparently, of dif
ferent hands—one having the nerve inspired
by clear and strong conviction, another
accustomed to manipulate the common
places of partisan confessions of faith, and
a third crippled and weak under a burden
of words through which we search vainly
for precision or fairness.
In short, it is the attempt of a set of
hungry, cunning and unscrupulous poli
ticians to overreach and head off each
other, while at the same time struggling to
conceal tbe fact of their mutual hatred,
and trying to deceive and cajole tbe ]>coj>le
into their support. They are like the fox -
or, rather, a pack of famished foxes—coax
ing the cock to come down. But these
democratic foxes are not sly enough flor
smnrt enough to either get a meal or make
their escape. The war-dogs are on their
track. ♦
♦ ♦♦-
The Military Commission Dissolved.—
By an order, yesterday, from Gen. Meade,
the Military Commission at Atlanta,
which has been investigating tbe Ashburn
tragedy for twenty days, was suspended.
The prisoners arc to be retained in cus
tody until further' orders. See telegram.
.
Do not be Deceives. Let no one
imagine that no effort is needed to achieve a
Republican victory. Ou the contrary, much
hard work is to be done. In this battle is
concentrated the last hope ot the Democracy,
and they will fi£ht with all the desperation
of coward* in a corner. We must meet them
with a coolness and determination equal to
their impetuosity and desperation. If we
do, we shall pierce their armor at the
vulnerable point, and the victory will be ours
for years. *
The Columbus Prisoners,
TESTIMONY FOR THE DEFENCE CONTINUED.
Nineteenth Day.
testimony or koswell ellis.
lam acquainted with Mr. Chipley. 1
have never known him to be out nt night
except at the meetings of our Reading and
Chess Club, of which I was President
several months. Chipley had been married
several months previous to the death of
Ashburn. He was not so regular in his
attendance at the Club after his marriage,
and his irregularity was remarked by other
members of the Club. It seemed he had
lost the interest in the Club which he for
merly had. There were some jocular pro
'ceedings in the Club, or threats to expel
him, I think. There was no betting allow
ed, neither was drinking allowed in the
room. Mr. Chipley is regarded as one of
the best citizens iu Columbus—his character
is unexceptionable. I never heard of him
being enaaged in a broil of any sort. 1
think there are several in Columbus whose
appearance would correspond with that of
Mr. Chipley. I know Mr. Hogan. 1 think
his appearance would compare closely with
Mr. Chipley. If they were masked, and in
the dark, 1 would not undertake to swear
which was which.
Several other gentlemen were named over,
and witness stated that their forms compared
with that of Mr. Chipley very closely.
I have heard persons speak through a
mask. It alters the natural voice. The only
masked party I ever attended was at Mr.
Chipley’s house. It was a select party, and
I could not recognize any of them -even my
most intimate friends. That fact created a
good deal ol merriment. I was not masked.
They removed the masks before tbe supper.
My knowledge of the rewards offered.for the
discovery of the murderers of A- was derived
altogether from the newspapers. The City
Coimail of Columbus offered a reward of
SSOO for proof to convict. 1 understood the
reward offered by the Provisional Governor
to be §2,000 for the firdt conviction, and
SI,OOO each for every subsequent one.
CROSS EXAMINED.
Being President of the Club, it was made
my duty to be present regularly, arid it was
on that account I resigned the Presidency,
as I found it difficult for me to attend. 1
spent very few evenings in my room until
my ordinary bed—time. I sometimes met Mr,
Chipley of evenings, when I did not attend at
the Club House. For several months 1 passed
bis residence and stopped a few moments to
talk with him occasionally* 1 can t -state
where he spent his evenings, unless he spent
them with his family, when he was not at
the dub room. I can, On an ordinary star
light night, distinguish my acquaintances.
There are some that 1 could not. It is not
improbable that I would distinguish him.
Even if I could not see their features, I
have often distinguished some by their
carriage. I testified that I could recognize
Bedell by the sound of his footsteps. I
could recognize others in the same manner,
if I was as intimate with them as with
Bedell.
By the Court —What is your occupa
tion ?
Answer—l am a Commission Merchant.
TESTIMONY OF dtCKEO JOHNSON (colored.)
1 was 24 years old the first day of last
July. I know Mr. Columbus C. Bedell. 1
see him in the Court—(witness pointed out
Mr. Bedell.) I bad been in his service
about a year up to the time he was arrested.
1 attended his room. I was attending his
room the night of the death of A. 1 went
there in the evening after I knocked off work.
At that time I visited his room before I went
to work in the morning. 1 attended his room
the night of the death of A. I attended next
morning a little earlier than usual. I did so
because I awoke up -Farher that mooning
than usual. 1 heard of the death of Ashburn
and went to his house. 1 heard nt Ashburn's
house that, there was some such looking man
as Mr. Bedell seen there that night. I
remarked to some of the people who were
standing around there talking; that-I waited
~u Mr° Betlell’S room, and if there was
anything out of it I would know it.' I got to
his room about suurise. When I got to bi
room 1 found him there in his room as 1
usually fo'nnd him. He was asleep. I would
suppose lie was asleep. I found him as I
usually found him. When I went in bis room
and lookdd around, I thought it was a mistake
about his being there, because 1 found
nothing to give me any evidence that lie was
connected with the murder. I found, every
thin" as I usually found it, and all things
were’ou the table as I left them the evening
before. 1 speak of his books, pistol, and
goblets. His pistol was lying just as I left
it. Alter I got through with my usual busi
tiess, 1 woke him up mid told him 'A. was
murdered, and he said it could not be pos
sible. He eaid it was a very bad piece of
business—it would only make it worse fur
tbe city. I didn’t tell him about what I
heard about his being suspected, because I
didn’t know whether jt was so or not, and I
didn’t want to say anything about it. 1
have a key and B. has a key. 1 find the
bank key on the table mornings when 1 get
there. His table is about four feet from
the bed, I picked up the pistol and looked
at it before 1 waked him up. There was no
load shot out of It. I washed the bowl out
that morning. 1 did not sec any colored oT
muddy water about.it. 1 never saw at-any
time a mask of any sort in his room.
CROSS HXAMINED.
1 light the lamp every night aud leave it
burning, turned down low. 1 did not take
any notice of the oil. WHien I went to
his room, he appeared to be asleep. 1
could positively bow long it took
me to get through with my ordinary busi
ness that morning. 1 could not say
whether it tpdk me longer that morning or
not, because there was great excitement on
account of the death of A. I don't suppose
I was in his room more than a few minutes
after I woke him up. I could not say whether
he was sick or not—he said nothing to me
about it. 1 unlock) d the debt that morning
when I went in. The loek made a pretty
loud noise. If Mr. Ellis was awake in bis
room, he could have heard it. I don't thiuk
it would wake him up. I walked heavily, as
I usually do, when I went to Mr. B.'s room-
I went out of the room and. returned twice.
I did not loek the door, but just pulled it to.
I don’t know wbnt time he left to go to
breaklast that morning. I don't know whether
lie went to breakiast at all or not. I did not
lock the door when I left the room —1 never
lock it when he is in there.
To Mr. Stephens —Closing the door makes
twice tho noise that locking it docs, because
it is a spring lock.
To the Judge Advocate —The door could
be left nearly dosed without shutting it
tight
By the Court—Do you know Low many
pistols ot revolvers Mr. B. owns or Ims in
hie possession 1 ’
Answer-—I never knew him to have, but
one.
Question —Does he faewp a pistol at tbe
Bank ?
Answer—l am not able to say.
Question—Are you aertaiu tbe pistol Ims
not been discharged or re-loaded ?
Answer—l am.
Question —Why ?
Answer—Because I picked it up and
looked at it, as I heard such a looking man
as he had been seen at tho place ol the
murder.
Question—Was the pistol always kept
loaded. •
Answer—l never knew it to be any other
way. It was somewhat rusty, and I never
knew it to be shot off.
Question—Where was the amokmitiou
kept?
Answer —J never saw any.
Question —Was the pistoli always kept in
that one place ?
Answer—lt was laying naked on the
table.
Question—Can’t the bolt of-Aho spring
lock be caught so as not to spring out ?
Answer—Yes.
Question--On what part of the pistol was
the rust?
Answer—On the part where the cartridge
enters to the barrel.
Question —Can you- always tell that a
pistol has not been discharged by looking at
it?—that it hns not been re-loaded?
Answer-1 jean when it has been laying a
long time ; but if it has been often discharged
and re loaded, I could not tell.
The testimony of this witness, at his
request, was read over to him from the Re
porter's notes, and he was discharged.
To. Mr. Stephens—The people 1 heard
talking at the house where A. was killed, and
to whom I made the remark about Bedell,
were colored people.
The Court then adjourned.
• •
The Georgia Legislature.
Atlanta, July 21.
SENATE.
A message was received from the Gov
ernoj- which was taken up and read.
. Mr. Winn moved that tbe resolution
reported by him on yesterday be taken up.
-Mr. Merrill reported a resolution as a
substitute:
Be it Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives, in General Assembly met,
That the amendment to tho Constitution of
the United States, proposed in the Thirty
Ninth Congress, and known as Article 14,
be and the same is hereby ratified as a
part of the Constitution of the United
States, and also upon this further funda
mental condition, to wit: (This is the arti
cle striking out relief.)
Mr. Candler offered a substitute, in sub
stance, that the message of the Governor,
and all matters pertaining to the Four
teenth Amendment, be referred to the
Judiciary Committee to be appointed, who
will report at as early a day as practicable.
Mr. Campbell (colored) opposed Mr.
Candler’s substitute on the grounds of
delay. We were here for the purpose of
putting Georgia back into the Union onco
more. Therefore, delay of any kind should
be ignored, and not impugning the motives
of the gentleman, his own mind, no doubt,
will convince him that such a measure is
fraught with danger. There is not a
Senator here who loves his country and’
who has her interests at stake, but who
should feel it his duty to east his vote for
the amendment. He called upon every
member of this House to show, by our acts,
that wo aro loyal to the government, and
desire to live under the protection of the
same ; to secure the blessings of the people
at large, an equitable judiciary system,
and promote peace and harmony.
Mr. Brock said he would not detain the
House long. He did not believe that there
was a Republican here (and some Democrats)
whoTiad upt made up their minds to vote for
the amenSaSent. The gentleman who had
offered this resolution the other day wished
us to hasten matters, and uow he wishes to
have it delayed. He wishes this matter to
■be referred to the Judiciary Committee for
the reason-of delay, and let them investigate
the matter on a subject which has been
before the country for months.
He closed by calling the previous question,
« hich was sustained.
The resolution of Mr. Candler was lost.
The resolution of Mr, Merrill was then
put and passed-—yeas 28, nays 14.
Those who voted in tlje- affirmative are
Messrs. Adkins, Bowers, Bradley, Brock,
Brutton, Campbell,Coleman, Conley, Corbitt,
Dickey, Griffin, of the 6th, Griflinot the 21st,
Harris, Higbee, Hungerford, Jones, Jordan,
Merrill, McWhorter, Sherman, Smith of
ths 7th, Smith of the 36th, Speer, Stringer,
Wallace, Welch and Winn.
I’liOse Voting iu-lue uegauvu ale Messi’s.
Anderson, Burns, Candler, Collier, Fain,
Hicks, ITinton, Holcombe, McArthur, Mc-
Cutchen, Nisbet, Nunnaly, Wellborn and
Woolen.
Mr. Hinton reporled-a resoiulkm that lour
Senators be added to the Committee on
investigating the chargeS against Aaron
Alpeyria Bradley. «
Mr. Adkins moved that lhe Committee be
discharged, and the matter referred to the
Committee on I’iivilcgos and Elections when
appointed.
Mr. Candler urged that the matter be
investigated at once. He gave notice in the
conclusion of his remarks th:it there was one
way the Senate could reach the case. A
resolution should be introduced, charging that’
a felon was sitting in your midst, and the
proof .introduced, aud Senators should vote
according to the oaths they had taken.
The resolution of Mr. Hinton, and the
motion of Mr, Adkins were laid on the table.
Mr. Smith reported a resolution that the
Senate meet at I) o’clock and adjourn at 1
o'clock.
Mr. Wellborn offered a resolution that
persons interested in contested elections be
invited to seats on the floor.
Tho resolution was agreed to.
Mr. Higbee offered a resolution that a
• Committee of three from the Senate and five
Irom lhe 1 lutite, be appointed to wait upon
trie Governor cleet, and notify him that the
two Houses will be ready to inaugurate him
Govoruur, at such time as may suit his
convenience, in the Hall of Representatives.
On motion of Mr. Burns, the Senate pro
ceeded to elect a President, pro tern., which
resulted in the election of the Hou. C. B.
Wooten.
Mr. Smith, of lhe Seventh, reported a
resolution that a certified copy of the action
of the Legislature on the Fourteenth Amend
ment be forwarded by the Provisional Gov
ernor to the President of the United States
and Secretary of State. The same was
agreed to.
•By permission, Mr. Spear and Mr. Ander
son were relieved from serving on the com
mittee appointed on the Bradley case, and
Messrs. Merrill aud Fain appointed in their
stead.
The Senate adjourned until 3 o’clock to
morrow.
HOUSE.
Resolution of Mr. Bell, of Ijanks, to fur
nish each member with one copy of Judge
Irwin’s<lievised Cede and other books, was
adopted.
The following niessage was received from
His Excellency, the Provisional Governor,
through Mr. DcGraffenreid, his Secretary:
Mr. Speaker: lam directed by His Ex
cellency, the Provisional Governor, to trans
mit to the Hottsa of Representatives a.
communicafion in writing, with accompany
ing docuuieuts:
Office of the )
-■FuuVimon-al Governor of Georgia. >
Atlanta, July 21, 1868. )
' the Senate and Haune of Hepreeentativee ;
Tbe following communication from the Com
manding General of this District, is respectfully
tranruiittcd fur tbe infurmatiun of the General
Assemtdy:
HrAnquAiUßns Third Military District,!
(Department of Georgia, Florida j Alabama, >
Atlanta, Ge., July 20, 1868.}
Non. H. B. th. llSele, Ih-ovone>nal Iloteeirnor of
tieorgia :
GovKnaon—l have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 18th instant, ad
vising mo that a committee of tho Honee of
Representatives bad wailed on yoa and verbally
informed you “that the Bouse, having made a
Careful investigation into the eligibility of its
members, have decided, by a vote Os the House,
that all persona now in their Mats are eligible.”
I have already acknowledged the receipt of
year latter of the 17th, reporting the action of
the Senate on the same tulyeet.
I have now to advise and instruct you that each
House, having complied with the requirements
of my communication of the Bth inst., by
examining into and deciding on the eligibility of
their members, under the acts of Congress, and
Fourteenth Article Constitutional amendment, I
have no further opposition to make to their pro
ceeding to the business for which they were
called together, as I consider them legally
organised from the 18th instaut, the date of the
action of the House.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Geo. G. Meade.
By the provisions of the act of Congress
entitled “an act to admit the States of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia,
Alabama and Florida to representation in
Congress," passed June 25th, 1808, you are
required to duly ratify the amendment to the
Constitution proposed by the 30th Congress and
known ns article 11, and by solemn, public act,
declare the assent of the State to that portion of
the said act of Congress which makes null and
void tho first and third sub-divisions of section
17 of the sth article of tho State Constitution,
except tho proviso to the first sub division,
before tho State shall be entitled and admitted
to representation in Congress as a State of the
Union.
Copies of tho said act of Congress, and of tho
said proposed amendment to the Constitution,
are herewith transmitted.
Rufus B. But.t.ock,
Provisional Governor.
After it and the communication of General
Meade was read, Mr. Lane, of Brooks, offered
the following resolution:
Resolved, by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Georgia,
That the amendment to the Constitution of
the United States known as Article Four
teenth, proposed by the Thirty-Ninth Con
gress of the United States, and which is, in
substance,.as follows, (here see the fourteenth
Article) be, and hereby is, ratified by the
State of Georgia.
Mr. Crawford opposed the adoption, and
was .responded to by Mr. O’Neal who favored
its adoption. At the close of his remarks,
he called the previous question, which was
put, atrd the vote taken by ayes and nays.
Those who voted in the affirmative are :
Yeas—Messrs. Allen, of Hart, Allen of
Jasper, Ayer, Earnes, Beard, Belcher, Beil,
Bennett, Bethune, Brinson, Bryant, Buch
anan, Burtz, Caldwell, Campbell, Carpenter,
Carson, Chambers, Claiborne, Clower, Colby,
Costin, Cunningham, Darnel), Davis, Ellis,
Evans, Fitzpatrick, Floyd, Franks, Fyall,
Gardner, Golden, Hall of Glynn, Hall ol
Meriwether, Hamilton, Haren, Harrison of
Hancock, Harden, Higdon, Hillyer, Holden,
Hooks, Hopkins, Houston, Hughes, Joiner,
Johnson of Towns, Laue, Lastinger, Lee,
Linder, Lindsay, Long, Lumpkin, McCor
mick, Madden, Madison, Maxwell, Maul,
Moore, Neal, O’Neal of Lowndes. O’Neil of
Baldwin, Osgood, Page, Perkins of Cherokee,
Perkins of Dawson, Porter, Prudden, Read,
Rice, Richardson, Salter, Scroggins, Sewell,
Sims, Smith of Charlton, Smith ol Muscogee,
Stone, Strickland, Turner, Tweedy, Warren
of Burke, Watkins, Williams of Harris,
Williams of Haralson, Williams of Morgan,
Zellars—Ayes 89,
Those who voted in the negative are :
Nays—Messrs. Anderson, Atkins, Ballan
ger, Barnum, Bradford, Brassell, Brown,
Butt, Clarke, Cleghorn, Cloud, Cobb, Craw
ford, Drake, Duncan, Ellis of Spalding,
Darwin, Felder, Fincanon, Flournoy, Ford,
Fowler, Fryer, George, Gober, Gcff, Gray,
Gullatt, Hall, Harkness, Harrison of Frank
lin, Harris, Harper of Sumter, Harper of
Terrell, Hook, Hudson, Humber, Kellogg,
Kytle, McCullough, McDougald, Matthews,
Meadows, Nash, Nisbet, Nunn, Parke, Pep
per, Phillips, Price, Rainey, Rawls, Rosser,
Rumph, Scott, Scales, Shackleford, Shumate,
Sisson, Sorrells, Taliaferro, Tate, Tumiin,
Turnipseed, Vinson, Walthal, Warren of
Quitman, Welchel, Williams of Dooly—
Nays 70.
Mr. Bethune offered the following :
Resolved, That a committee of five be
appointed by tho Speaker, to join such com
mittee as the Senate may appoint to wait
upon His Excellency R. B. Bullock, Provi
sional Governor, and inform him that this
House has duly ratified the amendment to
the Constitution of the United States, pro
posed by the 39th Congress, and known as
Article 14th, and that this House has also
declared its assent to the fundamental condi l
lions imposed on this State, and annexed
thereto by an Act of Congress ; and that
both branches ol the General Assembly will,
at such time as he may designate, be ready
to inaugurate the Governor elect; and that
the Clerk of this House transmit forthwith
to the Senate a copy of this resolution, and
request the concurrence of that body.
Adopted.
Messrs. Bethune, of Talbot, Williams, of
Dooly, Johnson, of Towns, Mathews, of
Houston, and Neal, of Warren, were ap
pointed the Committee on the part of the
House.
Mr. Tumiin, of Randolph, offered the
following resolution :
Resolved, That we respectfully and earn
estly petition the Congress of the United
States to remove from every citizen of
Georgia, irrespective of party association,
the disabilities imposed by the third Sec
tion of the proposed amendment to the
Constitution of the United States known as
Article 14.
It waß not taken up—rote, 94 to 60. (It
requires three fourths to suspend the rules,
which must be done in order to act upon a
resolution the same day it is offered.)
Mr. 'Turner (colored) offered a resolution
instructing the committee of five to make
arrangements to inaugurate the Governor
in some other .place than the hall*of the
House.
Adopted, and the House adjourned to 4
p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
4 o’clock f. m.
Mr. Betlmne submitted the following:
Mr. Speaker. As chairman of the com
mittee appointed by this House to join such
committee as the Senate might create, to wait
upon his Excellency R. B. Bullock, Provi
sional Governor of this State, and inform him
of the adoption of the amendment to the
Constitution of the United States proposed by
the 39th Congress,and known as Article XIV',
and that the General Assembly of the State
had declared its assent to the fundamental
conditions annexed thereto by an Act of-Con
gress, and to inform him that both Houses
of the General Assembly are ready to inau
gurate the Governor elect of this State at
such time as he may designate, I have the
honor to report that your committee having
joined a similar committee appoint
ed by the Senate, have performed the
duty assigned them, by communicating the
action of the General Assembly as stated in
the - resolution under which they were
appointed, to his Excellency R. B. Bullock,
Provisional Governor, who expressed great
satisfaction, and stated - that he would im
mediately inform the commanding General
of the Third Military District of the informa
tion thus received by him, and that if it
meets the approbation of both Houses of the
General Assembly, it was the pleasure of the
Governor elect to meet them in this Hall
on Wednesday, the 22d at 12 o’clock,
m., then and there to be inaugurated
Governor of the State of Georgia.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Marlon Bethune, Chairman.
Mr. O’Neal, of Lowndes, submitted the
following:
• Mr. Speaker: Your Committee to whom
was assigned the duty of informing Major
General Meade of the action of this House
upon the -Constitutional Amendment and
other fundamental conditions, and of inviting
him and his staff to a seat upon this floor
during the inauguration of the Governor, beg
leave to report that they have performed said
duty, and received from General Meade his
thanks for the kindness and courtesy of this
body as well as an expression of his desire
and intentions to accept the invitation.
Mr. Bryant offered the following:
Resolved, That in preparing for the
inauguration ceremonies the messenger be
instructed to remove the desks from Ibis
Hall, and that chairs be provided for mem
bers of the House and Senate, invited guests
and gentlemen aceoinpaiied by ladies.
Adopted.
Mr. Hull, of Glenn, offered the following :
Resolved, That each member of the Sen
ate and House of Representatives receive
a ticket admitting one person to the in
augural ceremonies. to morrow ; that their
tickets be printed this-p. m., and those en
titled to them be supplied from the Clerk’s
desk of this House in thou, m., and that the
whole of the galleries be reserved for the
purpose. Adopted.
Mr. Duncan offered the following :
Resolved, That a committee of five bo
appointed, by the Chair, to investigate and
report to this House upon the eligibility of
a seat on this floor of F. 11. Fyall, of the
county of Macon, and that said committee
have power to send for persons and papers.
On motion the House adjourned to 10
o'clock to-morrow morning.
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF
GEORGIA, of the Soldier’s and Sailor’s
National Republican Committee,
Major E. T. Pillsbery and Colonel J. F
Brown, Savannah, Ga.
Captain John Murphy, Albany, Ga.
Colonel John Bowles, Augusta, Ga.
Major John Knox, Athens, Ga.
Captain John A. Madden and Sergeant
Seaborn Jones, Waynesboro’, Ga.
Sergeant S. Nolan, Macon, Ga.
Captain J. Mathewson and Lieutenant
Charles Sherwood, Atlanta, Ga.
Captain C. B Blacker, Cartersville. Ga.
Headquarters at Atlanta, Ga.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Wvtagt
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jy 23—2 t 172 Broad St.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
GEORGIA RAILROAD, I
Office of this Superintendent, |
Augusta, Ga., July 17, 1888. J
AGENTS OF THIS ROAD HAVE
been instructed to commence, on the 21st iast.,
selling-TICKETS TO THE CONVENTION to
be held in Atlanta on the 23d instant.
Passengers paying full fare going, will bo fur
nished with a RETURN TICKET FREE—
good unlil 28th instant, inclusive.
The privilege extended only to those pur
chasing tickets before getting on tho ears.
E. W. COLE,
jy 18—St General bapt.
GRAIN AND FLOUR SACKS!!
Tho 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 prdet.
Information promptly furuished upon applica
tion. W. B. ASTEN & CO.,
je 17—3 m 25 Pearl Street, NcwJYork Oily.
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION
rooms of State central com. t
Unium Republican Party of Ga., >
Augusta, Ga., July IJ, )
jgfcgT AT THE REQUEST OF MEMBERS
of tho Central Committee, I hereby call a
State Convention of the Republican party of
Georgia, to assemble in JITLANTA, on Tendon,
the fourth day of Augiurt ntfxl, for the purpose
of nominating Electors for Guant and Colfax.
Tho basis of representation will be the same as
in.thodower house of the General Asbembly.
Republicans are requested to hold meetings in
their rcFpcctrvo Congressional Districts, and
nominate candidates for Congress.
FOSTER BLODGETT,
Chm’n State CeW. Committee.
Republican papers in this State will
please copy. jy 15—td
JOHN B- FULLER,
17 DEY St., NEW YORK CITY,
Manufacturer and -Dealer in
PORTABLE ANU {STATIONARY
Steam Engines & Boilers
From 2 to 260 Horse Power.
Must approved Circular and Upright Saw
Mills, Grist Mills, Sugar Mills, aud all kinds
of Mining and Plantation Machinery on- hand
aud built to order.
Shafting, Bullies, Leather and Rubber Belt
ing, and all kinds of Iron and Wood working
Machinery.
Machinery and Railroad supplies in store an
shipped at the lowest rates.
STEAM «A.S A!Y«»
atcr Pipes,
BOILER FLUES,
And all kinds of Brass and Iron Fittings
Tools, etc., for Steam,and Gas Fitter's use.
The best and largest assortment in the city
and st greatly reduced prices. Send for Price
List.
NEW 30 BARREL
TURPENTINE STILL
With Extra Heavy Motion!,
All complete, Jor Sale much below Cost.
Stills of all sizes built to order and
DISTILLERS fitted out at the lowest rates
EVERY KIND OF
Plantation Machinery,
ENGINES, HORSE POWERS, GRIST
MILLS, AGRICULTURAL
IMPLEMENTS
Os every description -in store, and fer sale
at the lowest rates.
COTTOS CIWS AIUP
COTTON PROW
The best
McCARTY GIN EVER MADE
With the TAYLOR, EAGLE, BROWN
SOUTHERN and the New CRAVEN
Saw Gins, Cotton Presses,
With Engine and Horse power, and all seppliei
in store, for sale at the lowest rates, by
J. B. FULLER
47 Day Street, New York'Jitv
seß—ly .
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.-
At Blakeley, the Sth day of July, A. D. 1868.
The nudersigued hereby gi-vee notice of bis
appointment ae assignee of James B. Jwten, °>
Blakeley, in the county of Early 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.
GEORGE B. SWANN,
jyH—law3w * Assignee, etc.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States, for tho Southern District
Georgia.
In the matter of 1
JAMES II ENE Y, J-IN BANKRUPTCY
Bankrupt. | • < lt ’
The undersigned, hereby gives notice of bis
appointment as Assignee of the estate of James
He’ney, of Rielinioud county, Slate of Georgia
within said District, who lias been adjudged a
Bankrupt npon his own petition by the District*
Court of said District.
IBADORE P. GIRAKDEY,
jvJ9—law3w Assignee.
To Builders.
GMRBAI. SW>ERtNTJ,NDBXt’s Officb, )
Georgia Railkuad Co., ’ I
Augusta, Ga., July Tilth, 1868 |
OEALED PROPOSALS WILL Ift! RECEIVED
O at the office of tho Georgia Railroad and
Banking Company, in Atlanta, until the first
day of August proximo, to furnish material ant
build a FIRST CLASS- FREIGHT WARE
HOUSE AND OFFICES for this Company so
Atlanta, Qa.—two hundred and seventy-five feet
long, fifty feet wide, aud front for offices, three
' stories. Full information may bo obtained aud
plans and specifications seen at the office of Mr
Corput, Architect and Civil Engineer, Granite
Block, Broad street, Atlanta, Ga.
The Company reserves the right to accept anv
bid or refuse all. 1
E. W. COLE,
DIS —124■ General Supt.
Anthracite Coal.
TN ADDITION TO THE COAL ADVERTISED
, -1- in another column, I shall have a canto of
CHOICE PHILADELPHIA PARLOR C'OAL
for early delivery, and at a small advance above
the cost of importation. .
jy 17—Iw CHAS. A. ROWLAND.
U. S. INTERNAL REVENUE.
COLLECTOR’S OFFICE,)
Augusta, Ga., July 14,1868 j
WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION
at 11) o’clock a. m., on FRIDAY, JULY
24th, 1868, at tho United States Bonded Ware
house, rear of tho store ol W. A. Ramsey i Co
8 Boxes CHEWING TOBACCO-no brand ’’
‘ " o " D - W -
? " “ A. Fuller.
. 0 “ “ no brand.
33 COPPER STlLLS—with fixtures.
3 IRON STEAM BOILERS.
Said articles having been seized for violation
I of the Internal Revenue Laws of tho United
States. WILL. D. BARD,
jy 15—2 t 15a24 Collector 3d Dist. Ga.
AUCTION SALES.
City Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL BE SOLD AT THE LOWER
Market House, in the city of Augusta, on
the first Tuesday in August next, between the
usual hours of sale, two Prqmisory notes—one
given one day after date, for >518.11, in favor of
’ right & Mobley, dated Augusta, January 4th,
, 1868, signed Arthur A. Atkinson ; one ten days
afterdate, dated January Gth, 1868, for $1'20.95
in favor of Wright & Mobley, signed Wingfield
M. Rivers. Levied on by virtue of a fi. fa., in
. favor of Hezekiah Bussey Vs. Wright & Mobley
li. fa. in the City Court, of Augusta, returnable to
the August term of said Citv Court.
’ ISAAC LEVY,
lyl-td Sheriff City of Aagnsta.
City Sheriff's .Sale.
WILL BE SOLD AT THE LOWER MARKET
I ’ » House, in the City of Augusta, between
' tho usual hours of sale, on tho first Tuesday in
August next, four shares of the capital Stock of
the Empire State Insurance Company. Levied
on by virtue of an attachment; returnable to the
City Court of Augusta, in favor of Sidney Hoot
vs. Alexander S. Myer and Julius J. Myer, once
copartners under the name of A. S. Myer A Son.
Sold by virtue of a fi. fa. founded unsaid attach
ment; returnable to tho August term(lß6B) of
said Court. ISAAC LEVY,
jy l—td City Sheriff of Augusta.
City Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL BE SOLD AT THE LOWER
Market, tn the city of Augusta’, between the
usual hours of sale,on the First Tuesday in August
next, the following property, to-wit:
Oue House and Lot, <>n the corner of Washing
ton and Ellis streets, fronting on Washington
40 feet, ipore or less, and extenilffig down Ellis
street 88 feet, mere or less; and Imuuded North
by lot owned by J. R. Powell, Trustee of R. E.
t Nehrand Emanuel Nehr aud Wm. B. Kulkley.
East by lot belonging to the estate of Richard
Aldsworth; South by Ellis street, and Westby
, Washington street. Levied on by virtue of a
, Distress-Warrant hi favor ot John B. Pourneii
vs. J. R. Powell, Trustee of K. E. Nehr, Emanuel
Nehr, and Wm. B. Kulkley, returnable to the Au
i gnst Term of the City Court of Atigusfa. Also, to
satisfy One tax execution for the year 1867, City
Council of Augusta vs. J. K. Powell, Trustee of
1 R. E Nobr, returnable to the August Term of the
1 City Court of Augusta.
Augusta, Ga., July 3, 1868.
ISAAC LEVY,
jy3—td City Sheriff C. A.
i City Sheriff’s Sale,
w ILI»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, the house and lot of
L. Dwells, 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 favor
of the City Council of Augusta for the year 1867,
; returnable to tho City Cuanoi! pf Augusta.
ISBAC LEVY,
jy4—td City Sheriff of Augusto.
City Sheriff’s Sale.
■ YU ILL BE SOLD ATTHE LOWER MARKET
’ • House, in the City of Augusta, ob the first
Tuesday in August next, between- the usual
hours of sale, the house and lot on Market
street belonging to W-. V. Keener, Trustee.
Levied on by virtue of a tax execution in favor
the City Council of Augusta, for the year r<66;
bounded north by Market street, south by Rey
nolds struct, <jast by Hutter’s lot, and west by W.
V. Keener’s, returnable to tho City Coaincil of
Augusta. ISAAC LEVY,
jy4—«td City Sheriff of Augusta.
City Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL BE BQLJJ AT THE LtHVER MARKET
House in the Cjity of Augusta, on the first
Tuesday in August next, between the usual
hours of sale, the house and 10l of John
T. King, sixty-sfr (66) feet, more Or less,
on Houston street, running back one hundred
and sixty six (166) feet, more or less; bounded
north by Malt. Pleasaot’s, east by John M. Tur
ner, south by Broad and west by iloukfon streets.
Levied on by virtue of two tax executions in
favor of the City Couneil of Augusta, for the
years 1866 and 1867, returnable to the City
Council of Augusta. ISAAC LEVY’,
jy4—td City Sheriff of Augusta.
, City Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL BE SOLD AT THE LOWER MARKET
House, io tho City of Augusta, on tho first
Tuesday in August next, between the usual
hours of sale, the houso and lot of John
M. Turner, on north side of Broad
fronting 110 feet, mote or loss, and running VJ*
to Reynolds street; bounded north by Reynolds
street, east by Peter Johnson’s and Hannah Todd s
lets, south by Broad Street aiid west by John '!•
King’s and Matt. Pleasant’s lots. Levied on by
virtue of tax execution in favor of the City
Council of Augusta, fox tho year lyi67, returnable
to the City Council of Augusta.
ISAAC LEVY,
jy-4—td City Sheriff of Augusta.
’V- ’! «*■ ?
City Sheriff’s Sale-
WILL BE SOLD AT TLE LOWER MARKEI
House, in the City ©f Augusta, on the
first Tuesday in August next, between the usual
boors of sale, one bouse and lot, the prop
erty bf Jerry Ruach, bn the south side of Fen
wick street, fronting 62 feet, more or less, and
running baek 187 feet, more or less, to Calhoun
rtreet; bounded north by Fenwick street, south
by Myer’s lot, east by lot of C. A Platt, west I’7
lot of w. V. Kerr. Levied on av the property <■>
Jerry Bunch, to satisfy two fi. fa.’s for City Tax
for the years 1866 and 1867. The saidfi-f*-'
returnable to tha City Council of Augusta.
ISA.<CLEVY,
jyl—td City Sheriff of August*-
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA'
O At Blakeley, tbe Bth day of July, A. D-
Tbe undersigned hereby gives notice of l»-
apptHutment. as assignee of James B. Brown, o
Blakeley, in the county of Early and Slate o
Georgia, within said District, who hM been at
judged n bankrupt upon bis ow» petition by t <
District Court of said District.
GEORGE B. SWANN.
jyH—law Jw Aligns*, iM