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PARAGRAMS.
—Yesterday, in New York, Gold was
quoted at 1.46. Cotton, 29jc.
The degree of Doctor of Laws has been
conferred on Minister Bancroft by the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
The Chicago Jews worship in six syna
gogues, ono of which contains all the modern
improvements.
—The fish in Wisconsin walers are dying
in great quantities of excessive heat—like
, Job, troubled with boils.
—Mayor Conway, of New Orleuns, has
appointed Gen. Braxton Bragg as superin
tendent of the city water works-
—Gen. Canby will take command of the
Department of Washington, vice General
Emory, next week.
—There is a man in a lunatic asylum in
England, who believes that the BritisJ)
Government wishes to build an iron foundry
in his stomach.
- —The Alabama Senate have passed a bill
removing all political disabilities from citi
zens, simply on filing an application, no oath
being required.
—The Director of the Statistical Bureau
reports the aggregate domestic exports for
the last fiscal year to be $352,616,000,
an increase over the previous year of
$18,146,890.
—The inventor of a new style of horse
shoe has sent to a soliciting firm in New
York a mode! made of solid silver. The
inventor lives in Colorado, and could not
afford to use iron.
—The grasshoppers recently ate up a half
acre of tobacco for a man near Des Moines,
and when the owner went out to look at it
they sat on the fence and squirted tobacco
. juice in his eyes.
The two opposing candidates (Republi
can and Democratic) in the Sixth Con
gressional District of Ohio, are partners in
the law business.
' —The Empress Eugenie means to reintro
duce the costume of the gentle shepherdess,
so prettily depicted by Watteau, notwith
standing the hints that she is too old a girl
fur suhli nonsense.
—A Bostonian has discovered that
fanning a thermometer causes the mer
cury to rise. Reasoning from analogy, he
therefore concludes that he will keep cooler
by dispensing with fans.
—The wheat harvest in the British Isles
is nearly overhand according to the estimates
which can now be formed, the yield of the
crop will be double that of last year, and will
exceed by one-third the annual average.
—Several hundred families, styling
themselves “ Friends of Jerusalem,” are
going to leave Wurtemberg in August
next, and settle in Palestine. They base
their creed-on certain chapters of Jere
miah.
—Wine is becoming an important article
of manufacture in Kansas. The newspapers
of the city of Lawrence stales that - the
makers of domestic wise in Kansas are
busily engaged in gathering the summer
grapr, which now abounds in the Valley
Kay.
■—The walls of Paris are now placarded
with posters, bearing letters of enormous
size the legend— ‘ Don’t go to the sea
shore without Amelia.” This indispensa
ble companion is not, as might be supposed,
an agreeable young woman, but a species
ot shoe adapted to walking on the sand.
—A process has recently been patented in
England, by which the bran of flour, after
being separated, is ground into an impalpa
ble powder, and then again mixed with the
flour. In-this way all the nutritions ingre
dients are preserved, while the fineness of
tKe flour is not affected.
—The number of threshing machines in
the country is set down at 225,040, and it is
estimated that they save five per cent, more
of the grain than the flail. This would save
to the country more than nineteen millions
of bushels of grain, worth nt least thirty
millions of dollars.
—A New York correspondent, noticing
the rise in gold, says: “It is a notablecir
cumstance that, the export has ceased. I
find among the German houses an impres
sion that we shall import told this Fall—a
circumstance which, if it should occur,
would have a Very marked effect.
—There are seventy-five marriage brokers in
Paris, and two of them pay an income tax
on two hundred thousand francs per year.
They charge five per cent, on the dower of
rich wives, and two per cent when the for
tune of the husband and wife are about
equally large.' An extra charge.is made for
procuring husbands with aristocratic titles.
—The celebrated Appleton divorce case
came before the Supreme Court at New
York, on the 6th, on a motion fbr a stay of
proceedings pending the appeal to the
Court of last resort, from the general term
decision setting aside tire order granting
alimony to the defendant. The Court
reserved its decision.
• ‘—ln the New York Court iff General
. Sessions, on the 6th inst., John Real, the
murderder of the. late Officer Sinedick, of
the 21 st Precinct, was arraiged to plead to
the indictment lie pleaded not guilty,
and was remanded for trial, which wdl
probably take place at the October term of
the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
—All Northern Europe is languishing
under the unexampled heat of the present
summer, During the discussion in the French
Chumbur «xr J«ly 20, the heat was such that
the flow bad to be sprinkled with vinegar,
and in spite of this precaution, Gen. Meshn,
eighty two years of age, who was decorated
on the field of Waterloo, fainted and was
carried away.
, —Admiral Farragut is said to be a mil*-
liouaire. He owns a number of pretty
houses, some unoccupied lota, and twenty
acres now in wheat, within the city limits of
Vallejo, California. As that city is to be the
western terminus of the Central Pacific Rail
road, this property is destined to become a
mine of wealth, and with a year has trebled
in price.
—Dr. Richardson, of Springport, MonrOe
county, while investigating the subject of
eruptive diseases, made the following experi
ment : He placed a piece of frash beef under
pure water, leaving it there seventy hours.
It was thou rapidly decomposing, and the
water was full of animalculm, aboat twenty
thousand to the cubic inch. The doctor
swallowed four ounces of the water. A
sboyt time afterward he opened a vein in his
arm, and discovered in the blood a number
of microscopic aaiuials like those he had
perceived* in the water which he drank.
-M*- C. M. Patterson, while on a visit I
at Mr. Dick Taylor's, a short distance from
Carlinville, Illinois, sat down under a shade
tree in the dyr ynW. Placing her hand on
the ground,'she was bitten three times in
the. middle finger bjr a small rattlesnake.
She at first thought it to be a locust sting,
and when the truth was known, fainted will:
terror. Whiskey was administered freely
until intoxication was produced, nearly a
quart being required for that purpose, and
she is oat of danger, although still suffering
from the poison, the remedy and fright
combined,
NntionalHepttbliiftii
AUqUSTA, GKA.
WEDNESDAY MDRNING August 12, 18« S
For PRESIDENT
Os tiie United States:
ULYSSES S. GRAM.
FOB VICE PRESIDENT.
Schuyler Colfax,
OF INDIANA.
The present Presidential campaign in
volves more momentous consequences than
any previous political contest in the history
of thu country. The people of Georgia are
deeply interested in the' result, and will
therefore, look forward to the developments
of the campaign with increasing interest.
Tho dissemination of reliable news, and of
sound constitutional views on the important
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SEYMOUR'S LETTER.
After waiting a month, Horatio Sey
mour finally concluded to write a letter
accepting the nomination which he de
clared his honor compelled him to refuse.
The letter is long, and of course a tissue
of sophistry put together with all the
ingenuity characteristic of the author. No
one is a greater master of the style which
insinuates a calumny and makes a half
truth do the work of a direct falsehood.
In the letter before us he has ventured
farther than usual with one whose temper
ament is so cautious.
When he states that the “minds of
business men are perplexed with uncer
tainties,'’ he asserts a truth, but it is be
cause the party of which he is the standard
bearer occupies a position which threatens
the credit of the country. The rise in
gold immediately* begun on the promulga
tion of the democratic platform, and the
violent speeches of Mr. Seymours rebel
friends in the South, with their ‘threats of
a new rebellion, arc certainly not condu
cive to the tranquility of the mercantile
mind. When Mr. Seymour, leaving inu-
Cndo, ventures upon a direct charge, he
transgresses the limits of truth. Referring
to Congress, he charges that it has
given no “clear statement of what has
been done with the money drtlvvh
from them (the people) during the
past eight years.” This, in the light
of the statements of Mr. Blaine and
Mr. Welles, published all over. the
country, is an exhibition of wanton parti
sanship—not to use a harsher .term —
which we had not expected even from Mr.
Seymour. When he says that “the Con
gressional party has not only allied itself
with military power, which i§ to be
brought to bear directly upon the elections,
in many States, but it also holds itself in
perpetual session, with the avowed
purpose of making such laws as it shall
see fit, in view of the elections which will
take place in a few weeks,” he pretends to
ignore the fact that under Gen. Grant’s
orders, military government has been
abandoned in every one of the recon
structed States, and that those States
which still remain under the control of the
district commanders are to take no part
in the Presidential election. Should Mr.
Seymour’s rebel friends of Hie South
imitate the conduct of bis New York
friends, as indeed they threaten, and
excite disturbance, they may perhaps need
the intervention of the military; but the
soldiers Xiil be Used in no other manner
than they were in the State of New York
while Mr, SffvSfoC|tfiHed the gubernatorial
chair.
The p.atnpjifting tone tvhich the candi
date assumes toward the conservative
republicans Is amusing. He welcomes them
to the ranks of the democracy, and affects
to believe that they must now abandon the
party with which they have hitherto acted.
It would lie more satisfactory to know who
these conservative republicans are. Since
the nomination of Grant, radical and
conservative members of the republican
party have been alike unanimous in his
support. An appeal to “conservative men"
to join a party which pledges itself to
bring about a revolution, savors of the
ludicrous. Hod the New York convention
adopted another platform, and. in accord
ance .with Mr. Seymour's advice, uorni
nated the Chief Justice, an appeal to con
servative men would have come with better
grace. The sneer—Mr. Seymour has a
genius for sneering -at the Southern rep
resentatives who “can not live in the States
they claim to represent,” is nn acknowledg
ment that to love the Union is a crime with
the Southern wing of the party of which
Mr. Seymour is the candidate.
The attempt to soften and explain away
the effect of General Blair's letter has
been made too late. The writer of that
fiery manifesto is the real head of the party,
and, were tlte ticket elected, would lie the
controlling spirit of the administration.
Ilia utterances have already given the
watchword of the campaign, and have
been reSchoed from every democratic stump
and by every party organ in the South.
Even the journals which, as the World,
before the New York Convention, advised
a conservative course, and elaborately
argued that the reconstruction policy of
Congress could not be overthrown, but
must be supported even by a democratic
administration, have given in their adhe
sion to the scheme of revolution, and are
as violent in defence of it as Brick Pomeroy
himself. Mr. Seymour’s Wand phraseS
and promises that a democratic victory
would not bring about any violent changes
will not suffice to allay the storm which
lias been raised.
The concluding reference to the soldiers
is in the happiest vein of cynical impu
dence. To claim the indorsement of a body
of men who were snublied by the Tam
many convention and their chosen candi
date ruthlessly slaughtered by an ingenious
political trick, is worthy of Mr. Seymour's
great powers of dissimulation, yet we shall
be considerably surprised (almost as much
so as the candidate himself) should it gain
him more than the merest handful of the
soldiers’ ballots.
SEYMOUR’S LETT E R <> F
ACCEPTANCE.
Utica, August 4, 1868.
Gentlemen—When in the city of New
York on the 11th of July, in the presence of
a vast multitude, on behalf of the National
Democratic Convention, you tendered to me
its unanimous nomination as their candidate
for the office of President of the United
States, 1 stated I had no words “adequate to
express my gratitude for the good wilt and
kindness which that body had shown to me.
Its nomination was unsought and unex
pected. It was my ambition to take an
active part, from which I am now excluded,
in the great struggle going on fbr the
restoration of good government, of peace
and prosperity to our country. But I have
been caught up by the whelming tide which
if bearing us on to a great political change,
and I find myself unable to resist its
pressure. Yon have also given me a copy
of the resolutions put forth by the Conven
tion, showing its position upon all the great
questions which now agitate tho country.
As the presiding officer of that Convention,
I am familiar with their scope nnd import ;
as one of its members, 1 am a party to their
terms. They are in accord with my views,
and I stand upon them iu the contest upon
which wc are now entering, and I shall
strive to carry them out in future, wherever
I may be placed, in political or private life.”
I then stated that I would send you these
words of acceptance in a letter, as is the
customary form. I see no reason, upon
reflection, to change or qualify the terms of
my approval of the resolutions of the Con
vention.
1 have delayed the mere formal act of
communicating in writing what I thus
publicly said, for the purpose of seeing what
light the action of Congress would throw
upon the interests of the country. Its acts,
since the adjournment of the Convention,
show an alarm lest a change of political
power will give to the people what they
ought to have—a clear statement of what
has been done with the money drawn from
them during the past eight years. Thought
ful men feel that there have been wrongs in
the tinaneial management which have been
kept from the public knowledge. The Con
gressional party has npt only allied itself
with military power, which is to be brought
to bear directly upon tlffi elections in many
States, but it also holds itself in perpetual
session, with the avowed purpose of making
such laws as it shall see nt, in view of the
elections which will take place within a few
weeks. It did not, therefore, adjourn, hut
took a recess, to meet again if its partisan
interests shall demand its reassembling.
Never before, in the history of our
country, has Congress thus taken a
menacing attitude towards its electors.
Under its influence, some of the States
organized by its agents are proposing to
deprive the people of the right vote for
Presidential electors, and the first bold
steps are taken to destroy the rights of
suffrage. It is not strange, therefore, that
thoughtful men see in such action the
proof that there’s with those who shape
the policy of the Republican party, motives
stronger and deeper than tho more wish
to hold political power; that there is a
dread of some exposure which drives them
on to acts so desperate and impolitic.
Many of the ablest leaders and journals
of the Republican party have openly
deplored the violence of Congressional
action and its tendency to keep up discord
in our country. The great interests of out
Union demand peace, order, and a return
to those industrial pursuits without-which
we cannot maintain the faith or honor of
our Government. The minds of business
men are perplexed by uncertainties. The
hours of toil of our laborers are lengthened
by the costs of living made by the direct
and indirect exactions of
Our people are harassed by the heavy and'
frequent demands of the tax gatherer.
Without distinction of party there is a
strong feeling in favor of that line of action
which shall restore order and confidence,
and shall lift off the burdens which now
hinder and vex the industry of the country.
Yet, at this moment, those in power have
thrown into the Senate Chamber and
Congressional Hall new elementa-ef discord
and violence.
Mun have been admitted as Representa
tives of some’of the Southern' States with
the declaralmn upon their lips that they can
not live in the States they claim so represent
without -military protection. These men are
to make laws for the North as well'as the
South. These men, who, a few days since,
were seeking, as Suppliants, that Congress
would give them power within their respective
States, are to day the masters and controllers
of lhe actions of those bodies. Entering
them with minds filled with passions, their
first demands have been that Congress shall
look upon the States from which they come
as in conditions of civil war; that the ma
jority of their populations, embracing their
intelligence, shall be treated as public ene
mies ; that military forces shall be kept up
nt the cost of the people of’the North, and
that there shall be no peace and order at the
South, save that which is made by arbitrary
power.
Every intelligent uiau knows that these
men owe their seats in Congress to the dis
order in the South ; every man knows that
they not only owe their present position to
disorder, but that every motive springing
from the love of power, of gain, of a desire
for vengeance, prompts them to keep the
South in anarchy. While that exists they
are independent of the wills or wishes ot
their felfow-eilizcns. -While confusion reigns
they are the dispensers of the profits and the
honors which grow out of a government of
mere force. These men arc now placed iu
positions where they can not urge their
views of policy, but where they can enforce
them. When others shall bo admitted in
this manner from the remaining Southern
States, although will have, in truth, no
constituents, they will have more power in
the Senate Ilian a majority of the people of
the Union living in nine of the great Staton.
In vain the wisest members of the- Republi
can party protested against the policy that
led to this result.
While the chiefs of the late rebellion
have submitted to the results of lhe war,
and are now quietly engaged iu useful
pursuits for the support of themselves and
their families, and are trying by the force
of their example to lead back’the people of
the Soutli to the order and industry, not
only essential to their well being', but to
the greatness and prosperity of our com-
mon country, we see that those who, with
out ability or influence, have been thrown
by the agitations civil convulsion into
positions of honor and profit, ore striving
to keep alive the passions to which they
owe their elevation. And they clamorously
insist that they are the only friends of our
Union—a Union that can only have a
sure foundation in fraternal regard and a
common desire to promote the peace, the
order, and the happiness of all sections of
our land.
Events in Congress, since the adjourn
ment of the Convention, have vastly in
creased the importance of a political
victory by those who are seeking to bring
back economy, simplicity, and justice in
the administration of our national affairs.
Many Republicans have heretofore clung
to their party, who have regretted the
extremes of violence to which it has run.
They have cherished a faith that while tfic
action of their political friends has been
mistaken, their motives have been good.
They must now rec that the Republi
can party is in that condition that it can
not carry out a wise and peaceful policy,
whatever its motives may be. It is a
misfortune, not only to the country, but
to a governing party itself, when its action is
unchecked by any form of opposition. It has
been the misfortune of the Republican party
that the events of the past few years have
given it so much power that it has been able
to shackle the Executive, to trammel the
judiciary, and to carry out the views of the
most unwise and violent of its members.
When this state of things exists in any
party, it has ever been found that the sober
judgment of its ablest leaders do not control.
There is hardly an able man who helped to
build up the Republican organization, who
has not, within the past three years, warned
it against its excesses; who has not been
borne down and forced to give up his con
victions of what the interests of the country
called for; or, if too patriotic to do this, has
not been driven from its ranks. If this has
been the case heretofore, what will be its
action now, with this new infusion of men
who, without a decent respect for the views
of those who had just given them their
positions, begin their legislative career with
calls for arms, with demands that their States
shall be regarded in a condition of civil war,
and with a declaration that they arc ready
and anxious to degrade the President of the
Uniteci States, whenever they can persuade
or force Congress to bring forward new
articles of impeachment?
The Republican party, as well as wo are,
are interested in putting some check upon
this violence. It must be clear to every
thinking man that a division of political
power tends to check the violence of party
aefion and to assure the peace and good
order of society. The election of a Demo
cratic Executive and a majority of Demo
cratic members to the House of Representa
tive s would not give to that party organization
the power to make sudden or violent changes,
but it wculd serve to check those extreme
measures which have been deplored by the
best men of both political organizations.
The result would most certainly lead to that
peaceful restoration of the Union and
reestablishment of fraternal relationship
which the country desires. lam sure that
the best men of the Republican party deplore
as deeply as I do the spirit of violence
shown by those recently admitted lo seats in
Congress from the South. The condition of
civil war which they contemplate must be
abhorrent to every right-thinking man.
I have no mere personal wishes which
mislead iny judgment in regard to the
pending election. No man who has
weighed and measured the duties of the
office of President o.f the United States can
fail to ba impressed with the cares and
toils of him who is to meet its demands. It
is not merely to float with popular currents
without a policy or a purpose. On the
contrary, while our Constitution gives just
weight to the puublic will, its distinguish
ing feature is that it seeks to protect the
rights of minorities. Its greatest glory is
that it puts restraints upon power. It gives
force and form to those maxims and
principles of civil liberty for which lhe
martyrs of freedom have struggled through
ages. It declares the right of the people—
“To be secure in their persons, houses and
papers against unreasonable searches and
seizures. That Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion or
the free exercise thereof, or abridging the
freedom of speech or of the press, or the
right of the people to petition for the redress
of grievances. It secures the right of a
speedy and public' trial, by an impartial
jury.”
No man can rightfully enter upon the
duties of the Presidential office, unless he is
not only willing to carry out the wishes of
the people expressed in a constitutional way,
but is also prepared to stand up for the rights
of minorities. He must be ready to uphold
the free exercise of religion. He must de
nounce measures which would wrong personal
or home rights, or the religious conscience of
the humblest ciiizen of the laud. He must
maintain, without distinction of creed or
nationality, all ihe privileges of American
citizenship.
The experience iff every public man who
has been faithful to his trust teaches him
that no one can do the duties of the office
of President, unless he is ready, not only to
undergo' the falsehoods and abuse of the
bail, but- to suffer from the censure of the
-good, who are .paisled by prejudices and
misrepresentations. There are no jjttrac
tiens in such which deceive my
judgment, when I say that a great change
is going on in the public mind. The mass
<>f the Republican pony are more thought
ful, temperate and jh.«t tbffih they were
during the excitements which attended the
progress and close of the civil war. As the
energy of the Democratic party springs
from their devotion to their cause, and not
ro their candidates, T may, with propriety,
speak of the facDOhat never in the political
history 'of our country has the action of atty
like body been hailed with such universal
and widespread enthusiasm as that which
has been shown in relation to the National
Democratic Convention. With this, the
candidates had nothing ,to do. Had any
others of those names been selected, this
spirit would have been selected, this spirit
would have been perhaps more marked.
The zeal and energy of the conservative
masses spring from a desire to make a
change of political policy, and from the
confidences that they can carry out their
purpose.
In this faith they are etreugllicned by the
corporation of the great body of those who
served in the Union army during the war.
Having given nearly 16,000 commissions to
the officers of that army, I know their views
and wishes. They demand the Union for
which they fought. The largest meeting of
these gallant soldiers which ever assembled
was held in New York, and endorsed the
action of the National Convention. In words
instinct with meaning, they called upon the
Government to stop in its policy pf hate,
discord and disunion, aud in terms of fervid
eloquence they demanded the restoration of
the rights ami liberties of the American
people.
When there is such accord between those
who proved themselves brave and self-sacri-.
fiejng in war, and those who are thoughtful
aml'patrivtic iu council, 1 can not doubt we
shall gain a political triumph which will
restore our Union, bring back peace and
prosperity to our land, and will give once
inSre the blessings of a
and honest government.
1 am, gentlemen, truly yours, etc.,
Horatio Bbymour.
To Gen. G. W. Morgan and others, Com
mittee, etc.
STATEMENT OF THE PUBLIC
DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES,
ON THE in OF AUGUST, 1868.
DSBT BEARING COIN INTEREST.
5 per cent.
b0nd5.......... $221,588,400.00
n per cent.
bonds, 1881.. 283,677,300.00
6 per eent.
5-20 bonds... 1,583,106,100.00
DEBT BEARING CURRENCY INTEREST.
3-year Co m-
pound Inter-
est Notos 21,604,800.00
3 percent. Cer-
tificates 50,000,000.00
Navy Pension
Fund 13,000,000.00
MATURED DEBT NOT PRESENTED FOR PAY-
MENT.
3-year 7-30
Notos, dne
August 15,
1867 $8,433,800.00
Compound In-
terest Notes,
mat’red Juno
10, July 15,
August 15,
October 15,
Dec. 15,1867
and May 15,
1868 0,013,910.00
Bonds, Texas
Indemnity... 256,000.00
Troas. Notes,
Acts July 17
18 61, and
prior thereto 154,511.64
Bonds, Ap-il
15,1842, Jan
28,1847, and
March 31,
1848 1,925,941.80
Treas. Notes,
March 3,
1863..... 555,492.00
Temporary
Loan 746,520.00
Certificates of
Indebtedness 13,000.00
DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST.
U. S. Notes 356,021,. 73.00
Fractional Cur-
rency 31,807,818.37
Gold certificates
of deposit 22,414,000.00
2,601,378,756.37
Six per cent, (lawful money),
bonds issued to Pacific rail-
road companies 32,210,000.00
Total Debt 2,633,588,758.81
Am’t in Treas-
ury, coin 83,409,917.93
Am’t in Treas.
ury,currency, 26,644,358.21
Amount of debt, less cash in
Treasury 2,523,534,480.67
The foregoing is a correct statement of
the public debt, as appears from the books
and Treasurer’s returns in the Department,
on Ist of August, 1868.
Hugh McCulloch,
Secretary of the Treasury.
A comparison of the above statement
with that of June 1 (the last one issued)
shows that the debt bearing coin interest
has increased $67,543,958.50. The debt
bearing currency interest has decreased
$118,512,650, The matured debt not
presented for payment has increased
$7,264,972.80.
The debt bearing no interest has in
creased $1,328,909.43, and six per cent,
(currency) bonds to the amount of $32,-
210,000 have been issued to Pacific railroad
companies.
The-total debt has decreased $10,161,-
809.57, but the cash in the Treasury having
decreased $23,453,403.50, the total debt
less cash in the Treasury shows an increase
of $13,288,593.93.
COLFXT AND THE GERMANS.
When Mr. Colfax was enthusiastically
welcomed home by the Germans of South
Bend, he very appropriately rebuked and
put to silence a calumny which had repre
sented him as hostile to our foreign born
citizens.
“These assembled thousands,” said Mr*
Colfax, “are a fit answer to every falsehood
and calumny that has been said against me.
I was struck by the fact, when coming from
your depot this very day, that the hundred
and forty Germans of the German Grant and
Colfax Club set the seal of their condemna
tion and their denunciation upon not only
the calumny, but the forgery, to which 1 have
been subjected here. You know it is a false
hood ; you know that never in my public
life, from the commencement to the close, in
one year, month, or day, have I ever held any
other doctrine than that principles and
character, not birthplace and creed, were the
true test for official promotion. Men who
may resort to forgery may sign my name
with fingers, for a forgery is a
felony. You here know that there has not
been an election for the last twelve years that
1 have gone to the polls, not with a closed
ballot, but with an open one, and voted for
men of foreign birth, and who worshiped at
a different altar from what I did myself.
Here is the only place where I shall answer
that calumny; let it buried in the tomb,
where are buried calumnies and forgeries like
it iu the graves of the past.”
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POLITICAL NEWS.
The New Orleans litynbliwn. pluckily
prints a huge carpet bag at the head of its
columns.
The cost of putting down a Democratic
rebellion was over $3,000,000,000.
The Raleigh (N. C.) Standard guarantees
50,000 majority for Grant and Colfax in
North Carolina.
General Littlefield, with a saw mill and
100,000 acres ol pine land, near Charleston,
8. C., is a “carpet-bagger.”
There is a projiosition in Democratic
circles to bring out Eraslus Corning, of
Albany, as a competitor with Hoffman and
Murphy for the party’s nomination for
Governor.
The Ku Klux Gazette is the name of a
new paper to be started by Messrs. Jones,
King <t Co., in Houston, Texas. Its name
proves that it will support Seymour and
Blair.
The Detroit Advertiser says : “The orig
inal carpet-baggers were Jhe Democratic
patriots who, with a small, roll of clothing
under their arms, ran away to Canada to
escape the draft.”
A Vermont Volunteer "writes: “I have
a great respect for carpet-baggers, having
been one myaelf for a time during the ‘late
onpleasantness.’ My carpet-bag was
marked ‘U. S.’ ”
If 1 State hud to ran Horatio Seymour 5
time? to elect him Governor 2 times, how
many times will 37 States have to run him
to elect him President (or Governor of
them) 1 time 1
When Wade Hampton left Columbia at
the approach of Sherman's army, he
announced that he was “bound to Texas or
hell.” He didn’t go to Toxas, but to the
Democratic party. Hasn’t he kept his
word ?
Wiliam T. Dowdall, of the Peoris Demo
crat, having read Brick Poniery out of the
Democratic party, the latter replies by
calling Dowdall an “idiotic swill-headed
chunk.” Whereupon Dowdall calls Brick
a “Pandemoniac paste-pot cut throat.”
DIED,
In tbii city, on the 10th instant, Private
HENRY C. BURGESS, 33d Infautry, U.S.
Army.
Bath, Me., papers please copy.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
THE TWELFTH REGULAR
Meeting of the Reliance Loan and Buildibg
Association will bo held at the City Hall, on
THURSDAY NEXT, 13th instant, at 8 o’clock
p. m.
Members can pay their instalments to the
Treasurer, 8. H. Shepard, until 5 o’clock of the
same day. W. If. EDWARDS,
null—3t Secretary.
ORD J NARY.— THE OFFICE
HOURS of the ORDINARY of Richmond County
are from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m., and from 3 to 5 p. in.
daily, except Sunday.
SAMUEL LEVY,
auS—tf Ordinary.
GRAIN AND FLOUR SACKS I !
The old established
“Corn Exchange Bag Manufactory”
Is prepared to furnish GRAIN SACKS of any
desired siie or quality, and at short notice.
Also,
COTTON AND PAPER FLOUR SACKS
Neatly printed to order.
Information promptly furnished upon applica
tion. W. B. ASTEN A CO.,
je 17—3 m 25 Pearl Street, New York City.
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION
ROOMS OF STATE CENTRAL COM.)
Union Republican Paktt or Ga.,
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 Tuesday,
the 18th day of August next, for the purpose
of nominating Electors for Grant and Colfax.
The basis of representation will bo the same 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 Con. Committee.
Republican papers in this State wiil
please copy. jy 15—td
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Official.
Proclamation by the Governor.
Executive Department, )
Atlanta, Ga., August Btb, 1868. j
Whereas, By reason of the resignation of
A. Alpeoria Bradley, Senator from the First
District, a vacancy exists in the Senate;
And Whereas, By section 7, article XI of the
Constitution, Ordinaries of counties are au
thorised to perform the duties of Justices of the
Inferior Court; .
Now, therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor,
by virtue of the power vested in me by the
second section of article IV, of the Constitution,
and by section 1321 of the Revised Code, do
hereby issue this, my writ of election, to the
Ordinaries of the counties of Chatham, Bryan,
and Effingham, composing said District, direct
ing and requiring them to order and publish a
day for holding an election to fill said vacancy,
by giving at least twenty days’ notice, as re
quired by the law.
Given under my hand, and the seal of the
Executive Department, in the Capitol, at the
city of Atlanta, the day and year above written.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK.
By the Governor: Governor.
B. B. DeGraffenreid,
Seo’y Ex. Department.
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Official.
Appointments by the Governor.
Executive Department, )
Atlanta, AugustS, 1868. )
Ordered, That Edward Hulbert be, and he is
hereby appointed Superintendent of the Western
&. Atlantic Railroad, upon Ilia giving bond and
security in the sum of twenty thousand dollars,
and taking and subscribing the necessary oaths
required by the laws of thia State.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor; Governor.
B. B. DEGRAFFEKBEtn,
Sec’y Ex. Department.
Executive Department, )
Atlanta, August 8, 1868. j
Ordered, That John Wills, of the county of
Hall, be, <iud be is hereby, appointed Assistant
Keeper of the Penitentiary, by virtue of and in
accordance with tlie 4668th section of the Code of
Georgia, upon bis giving bond and security for the
faithful performance of bis duties.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor : Govern--r.
B. B. DeGbaffenreid,
See’y Ex. Department.
Executive Devabtment, )
Atlanta, August 8, 1868. j
Ordered. That Overton If. Walton, of the
county of Crawford, be, and he is hereby, appoint
ed Principal Keeper of tire Penitentiary, by vir
tue of and iu accordance with the 4(>6Bih section
of the Code of Georgia, upon his giving bend and
security for the faithful performance of bis duties.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor: Governor.
B. B. DeGbaffenreid,
See’y Ex. Departmmeut.
Executive Department, )
Atlanta, Ga., August 8, 1868. (
Ordered, That Dr. Wills, of the county Os Hall,
be, and he is hereby, appointed Physician of the
Penitentiary, by virtue of and in accordance with
tire 4668th section of the Code of Georgia, upon
his giving bond and security for the faithful per
formance of his duties.
R. B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor: Governor
•B. B. DeGBAFFENBIBU,
See’y Ex. Department.
Executive Department, )
Atlanta, Ga., August 8, 1868. J
Ordered, That Clayton Vaughn, of the county
of Baldwin, be. and he is hereby, appointed In
spector of the Penitentiary, by virtue of aud iu
accordance with the 4668th section of the Code of
Georgia, upon his giving bond and security for
the faithful performance of bis dnties.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor: Governor.
B. B. DeGraffenreid,
See’y Ex. Department.
Executive Department. /
Atlanta. Ga., August Btb, 1868. )
Ordered, That A. C. Tilden, of the county of
Warren, be, and he is hereby, appointed Book
Keeper of the Penitentiary by virtue of and in
accordance with the 1668th section of the Code of
Georgia, and upon his giving bond and security
for the faithful performance of hie duties.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor: Governor.
B. B. DcGraffbnbeid,
See’y Ex. Department.
Executive Department, I
Atlanta, Ga., Augnst 10th, 1868. j
Ordered. That Nathan P. Hotchkiss, of the
county of Waltou.be, and he is hereby, appointed
Auditor of the Western & Atlantic Railroad, upon
his giving bond and security in the sum of twenty
thousand dollars, and taking and subscribing the
necessary oaths required by the laws of this State.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor: Governor.
B. B. DxGraffenbbid,
See’y Ex. Department.
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S \M L. HARRIS, General Inspector.
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of 19th street, Washington, D. C. r
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BRANCH AT AUGUSTA, GA.,
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Open every day—Sundays and Holidays or
ccpted—from 9a.m.to 2p. m., and Saturday
evenings from 6 to 8 p. m. 3
DEPOSITS OF ANY AMOUNT FROM
FIVE CENTS UPWARDS, RE
CEIVED FROM ANY
PERSON.
Deposits can always be withdrawn without no
tice. Deposits in specie are repaid in specie
All other deposits are repaid in “Greenback/ 1
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Interest payable in July, November and March
in each year, and by special rule on deposits
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least thirty days.
All the profits belong to the depositors.
Branches have been established in the princi
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torest.
The Institution hai on deposit over $750 000
and this Branch has on deposit over $13,000.’ '
We draw exchange on New York, and all the
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Drafts on New York, are payable at the Bank
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Government Drafts on Savannah, Charleston
Washington and New York, also Bank Drafts
and Certificates of Deposit cashed at tho lowest
rates.
Gold, Silver and Government Securities bought
and sold.
Investments are only made in Securities of
the United States. GEO. 11. HARRIS,
Chairman Advisory Committee.
ROBERT T. Kent,
Secretary.
SAM L. HARRIS,
Gen’l Inspector & Act. Cashier.
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Selling off at Cost.
Mrs. m. tweedy
OFFERS HER ENTIRE STOCK OF
MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS,
CONSISTING OF
BONNETS,
HATS,
FLOWERS, and
| RIBBONS,
With a variety of other articles too tedious to
mention, at and below cost, in order to make
room for her Fall Stock, at
BROAD STREET.
au4- l Opposite Central Hotel.
To Rent.
THE FIRST OF OCTOBER NEX’I
that Desirable Dwelling on the S. W. corner
of Broad and Kollock streets, lately occupied by
Frank 11. Miller, Esq. It contains nine rooms,
with an abundance of closets and other con
veniences, besides a Water Closet and Bath
Room, and has also Gas in most of the rooms.
Apply to R. S. AGNEW,
jy3o—lm 360 Broad st.
To Hent,
Rooms in the new odd fellows
HALL BUILDING.
Terms —sl2.so per Month, payable in advance.
1 Possession given immediately.
Apply to
W. B. GRIFFIN,
’ auß—lw Corner Jackson and Ellis Streets.
Coal! Coal! Coal!
THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING BEEN
appointed agent for the
CASTLE ROCK COAL MINES,
1 will be receiving, from this time, aud during
1 the Winter, One Thousand Tons of the above
* VERY SUPERIOR COAL.
' This Coal will bo sold FAR BELOW THE
' PRICE OF WOOD, In proportion to its value
as fuel. In the altered condition of our system
of labor, its advantages arc important, and
should bo considered by all consumers:
Ist. It is cheaper. •
2d. Ono third loss labor is required to han
dle it.
3d. All temptation to pilfer is removed.
i 4th. Great security against the accidents of
fires.
It will bo sold, at the Coal Yard (Georgia
j Railroad Depot), at
Eleven Dollars per Ton !
Or TWELVE DOLLARS,
Delivered in any Portion of Uio City!
To parties taking a CAR LOAD, prior to-Sep
tember Ist (when rates of freight are advanced),
a deduction of
Four Dollars per Car l.oart
will be made. CHAS. A ROWLAND,
jy 16—ts
SoiicS.
Having this Day disposed of my
entire stock of MILLINERY and FANCY
GOODS to Mrs. O. A HICKS, of Burke county,
I cheerfully recommend her to my former friends
and patrons.
1 will be found at my Old Stand, where parties
indebted to me will plums call and settle their
accounts.
Mrs. M. L. PRITCHARD
Having this day purchased from
Mis. PRITCHARD her entire stock of
MILLINERY and FANCY GQOES, I will carry
on the business as before.
Mrs. C. A. HICKS,
aug?—lw of Burke County, Ga.
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ment. je 17—2m*_
Postponed U. S. Marshal’s Sale*
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A WRIT
of Jitri facia* issued out of the honorable the
Fifth Circuit Court of the United States for the
Southern District of Georgia, in favor of the plain
tiff, in the following case, to-wit: George W,
Hatch vs. the Bank of Commerce. I have levied
upon as the property of the defendant the Bans
of Commerce, part of lot of land number ten (10),
Jekyl Tything, Derliy Ward, together with all
the improvements thereon, consisting of a build
ing, known as the Bank of Commerce Building,
situate, lying, and being in the city of Savannah,
county of Chatham, and State of Georgia, ana
will sell the same at public auction, at the Court
House, in the city of Savannah. Chatham comity.
Georgia, on the FIRST TUESDAY in BKHTEM
HER next, between the lawful hours- of sale.
Dated Savannah, Ga , May 20th, 1868. _
WM. G. DICKSON,
aus-law4t U. S. Marshal.