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PARAGRAMS.
—Yesterday, iu New York, Gold was
quoted at 1.44 J. Cotton, .10 Jc.
—An Enoch Arden case is reported in
Holyoke, Mass.
—James Maun, just deceased,Democratic
Congressman from Louisiana, was a carpet
bagger <rom Maine.
Mildred Lee, daughter of Robert E.
Lee, is extremely ill at Hot Springs, with
typhus fever.
The Lpuisville Journal (Democrat)
calls Secretary of the Interior, Browning,
“the Prince of Black-Mailers.”
The hog may not be thoroughly posted
in arithmetic, but when you come to square
root, he is there—the hog is.
—Edmund Cooper, the President’s protege,
has given up office hunting, and has resumed
the practice of law in Tennessee.
—W. E. Thompson, one of the old race of
New Orleans merchants, died at his rcsi
dence, near that city, on the 18th.
—General Grant and hia family are now
in Chicago, the guests of bis brother, Orville
Grant.
—Edwin Paschal, a teacher, son of a
former editor of the Nashville Gazette, com
mitted suicide at Kingston Springs on the
25th.
—At a Republican meeting in Mishawaka,
• St. Joseph county, ten persons,
heretofore Democrats, united with the fight
ing boys in blue.
—Springfield has produced a curiosity.
It is a two-cent piece, genuine, placed in a
missionary contribution box by a young man
who has a bank account of $15,000.
—The election for Congressmen in Cali
fornia will not take place until November,
instead of September 18th, as previously
reported.
—John F. M. Bradley, of Pavilion Centre,
New York, who voted for Washington, will
be one hundred years of age qp Saturday.
He goes for Graut and Colfax.
—Stephen A. Douglas once said of Frank
Blair: “He is the most pernicious dema
gogue iu the United States.” The sentence
contains a life picture.
—Mr. Robert Boling, a connection by
marriage of the family of Gen. Lee, has
abandoned the Revolutionary Democracy
and favors Grant and Colfax.
—Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovitch,
third son of the Czar of Russia, is en route
to the United States, lie sailed from
Algeria on Saturday last.
—General Robert C. Schenck was tiomi
, nated for Congress, by acclamation, on the
27th, by the Republicans of the Third Ohio
District. His opponent is the notorious Val
laudigharo.
—The last carpet-bagger is Perry Fuller,
of Kansas, who has gone to New Orleans to
take charge of the office of Collector of Cus
toms, to which he has been appointed by
President Johnson.
—There are five candidates for Thad.
Stevens’ seat in the House. Colonel 0. J.
Dickey, Mr. Stevens’ law partner, will
probably succeed.
—They have in Indianapolis an organiza
tion of Democratic soldiers called the “White
Boys in Blue.” After the election they will
be blue bqys in white.
—Miles J. Shinn, Esq., a prominent and
life-long Democrat iu Wayne county,
Indiana, has become disgusted with the
nominee of that party, and, on Thursday
evening last, made a‘speech near Richmond
for Grant and Colfax.
—•The President has appointed Mrs. Clara
A. Drake postmistress at Westfield, New
York; Lloyd D. Waddell, Assessor First
District of Georgia, and Isaac W. Webster
postmaster at Kenosha, Wisconsin.
—Victor Hugo writes all his manuscripts
with a very soft lead pencil, which he often
forgets to sharpen, so that the letters assume
a gigantic size, and eight or ten lines cover
nearly a whole sheet of paper.
—Punch gives these scientific terms:
Absorption—lced brandy and soda. Radia
tion —On the countenance after a certain
number of glasses. Reflection—as to taking
one more or not.
—A boy only thirteen years of age, who
is said to be an adept in crime, was arrested
in Cbioago for the murder of another boy.
The papers describe the murderer as a
“criminal with scarcely a parallel iu pro
ficiency and heartlessness.”
—Mr.xO. Pool, of Shawneetown, HI., a
gentleman of large influence in Southern
Illinois, has come out for Grant and 'Colfax.
• Mr. Pool was originally a Clay Whig, but
has been acting with the Democrats since
1854.
—Judy says a Belgraviau mamma, who
lias succeeded in getting her own seven
daughters “ well off her hands,” has deter
mined to extend to others the benefit of her
“system.” Sire is going to open a “class”
for the iustruction'of young ladies in the art
of hueband catching. It is to be called the
•“ school of design.”
—Senator Sumner, in n letter regretting
his inability toAttend a political meeting in
Virginia, says : “It was a Virginian who
wrote the Declaration of Independence. I
rejoice to believe that the State of Jefferson
will recognize at last his principles. To do
this it must begin by renouncing the rebel
party, which is the true name for our modern
Democracy.”
—Dr. I’usey lives a retired life in Oxford,
and is looked upon with awe by all behold
en. He seldom moves abroad, but keeps
up a communication with the outward world
by means of visitors who call on him, and
are usheted into the great man’s presence
, by a cadaverous looking individual, who
looks as if he never enjoyed a good meal,
.and whose whisper through the crack of the
half-open door is the first sniff the visitor
getS'of the mysterious doctrines supposed to
prevail within. Dr. Pusey’s corner is a sort
of “Ghost’s Walk” at Christ Church Col
lege, Oxford.
—Commissioner Rollins is about to put an
end to the dead lock concerning appoint
ments under the new Revenue law, by ac
ceding to the President’s request, through
McCulAhl to select part of the Supervisors
from Conservatives and Democrats. Leading
members of the Finance and Ways and
Means Committees have advised him to that
course rather than to longer delay reorgan
ization of the Revenue Department under
the new law. Mr. Rollins lias been acting
from the first, and iu all these matters, in
accordance with the desires of prominent
Republicans, and unless the President is
determined to make new trouble, everything
can be ready to go on smoothly in a few days.
—Some time ago Mr. Seward wrote Mr.
Bancroft to ascertain how Bismarck felt about
'recognizing the Mexican Republic, and to
urge him to doit. Bismarck agreed, and
directed Baron Gerolt here to confer with
Mr. Seward about it. Mr. Seward sent word
to Juarez, that Prussia was ready to send
a minister to Mexico, if desired. Juarez
replied that the Mexican Republic having
lately expelled the representatives of all
powers which had recognized Maximilian,
before receiving a minister; a new treaty of
friendship would be a suitable preliminary.
This, in tarn, Bismarck declines.
Ntitionafttcpublican
AUHWI’A. OA.
TUESDAY MORNING...SEPTEMBER 1, 1S«8
For" l*l{ JEHIi >EI\ r r
Os the United States:
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF LVDZA.V.t.
Republican Electoral Ticket.
STATE AT LARGE.
Electort. Alternate).
A. T. AKERMAN, D. A. WALKER,
H. P. FARROW, C. H. HOPKINS.
DISTRICTS.
I. Aaron Wilbur, E. E. Howard.
2. E. R. Harder, 8. F. Salter.
3. E. J. Higbee, I. R. Thomas.
4. W,H. Whitehead, 11. Glover.
5. J. E. Bryant, F. J. Robinson.
6. J. Fain, J. 8. Clement.
7. W, W. Boyd, F. A. King.
OUR PAPER.
The present Presidential campaign in
volves more momentous consequences than
any previous political contest in the history
of the 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.
The dissemination of reliable news, and of
sound constitutional views on the important
issues of the day are essential to the success
of the Republican party.
To supply in a measure this need, we will
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We appeal to the old supporters of the
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circulation. We pledge ourselves to devote
all our energy and ability to the success of
the great cause in which the Union Ropub
licati Party is embarked; and to spare
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Specimen copies sent free to any address
CATCHING A TARTAR.
The Democracy in the Legislature have
apparently caught a very troublesome
Tartar in their attempt to turn the colored
members out of the Legislature. They
thought they had the Tartar, but now,
when they want to get rid of him, they
find the Tartar will not let them go. They
supposed that they themselves were the
only machines that could manufacture gas,
so they gracionsly permitted the colored
members to have a word to say why sen
tence ot expulsion should not be pro.
nounccd upon them. They could not well
refuse them the privilege when such windy
spouters as Dunlap Scott were permitted
to occupy a whole day in teUing the Legis
lature about Buonllparte and the pyramids,
the Anglo-Saxons, etc., etc., which had as
much to do with the question us the ob
scenity of Bob Toombs or the eclipse of
the sun. So the«colored members* follow
ing the example Stott, are taking a
day each to “define their position.” As
there are some twenty odd yet to speak,
there is likely to be the same number of
days consumed before the matter is dis
posed'of. The Democrats would gladly
get rid of it, but they don’t know how.
They drew a prodigious elephant when
they took tickets in that lottery. They
have raised a stosm they can uot quiet.
Nobody but the originators of the move
ment arc to be blamed for its consequences.
They got up a resolution plainly in viola
tion of the Constitution and laws. If it
is costing the State some two or three
thousand dollars per day, if it is exasperat
ing angry feelings between the races, if it
should bring on revolution, if it should
bring down upon us the power of the
Federal Government, solemnly pledged to
the defence of the rights o f all its citizens
of whatever complexion, upon the heads of
the Democracy be all the responsibility.
If it should be the cause ot plunging the
country again into war and bloodshed the
Republican party can say to the Demo
cratic—“ Shake not thy gory locks at me,
thou cans’t not say I did it 1”
WHAT BOES IT MEANT
We notice that a large firm in this city,
> who have heretofore dealt almost exclusively
1 in the fleecy staple, now advertise themselves
1 as agenfs for a new and improved rifle, with
the capacity of being fired sixty times pea
. minute, with case, and by experts oue hun
dred and twenty times. Does not the intro
-1 duction of this destructive fire-arm at this
time indicate the determination of the revo
i lutionary Democracy to carry the November
election in this State by force ? It is absurd
J to suppbse that this kind of weapon is in
. Jcnded for mere sporting purposes, The
i peaceably disposed portion of the citizens of
the whole country, North and South, wilt
watch with jealousy these movements, and
cast their ballots with those who prefer the
scythe and the plow to the musket and rifle.
The people were caught napping in 1861.
They could have throttled the war spirit
then. That spirit must be crushed now.
Query.—ls it had so happened that one
: of those strange things, a Democratic negro,
had been elected to the Legislature, would
’ not his white brethren have turned him out
with just as little compunction as they are
now trying to turn out the Republican ue
groes ? As color is the great crime of which,
they are accused, is not a Democratic negro
just as criminal on that score as .a .Repub
lican ? But perhaps the Democracy don’t
believe that sauee for the goose is
for the gander, and would let the Democratic
negro retain his seat, though he were as
black as charcoal, and expel Ike Republican,
though he were whiter than they are.
Toombs about to Loss his Laurels.—.
Bob Toombs had better look out, for Wil
lingham, of the La Grange Reporter, prom
ises soon to distance him in obscenity and
nastiness.
NO MORE NORTHERN CREDIT.
The Charleston News comments some
what severely upon the recent action of
leading Northern merchants in determin
ing to refuse credit to Southern merchants
this Fall. Upon the whole we can not see
but that these Northern merchants are
justified in using unusual precaution in
making sales on time to dealers in this
section. The most narrow-minded and
exacting can not complain of the liberality
of the commercial men of the North. At
the close of the war, in 18C5, unlimited
accommodations were extended to our
people, and continued until the popular
passions became so aroused on the ques
tion of Reconstruction ns to cripple industry
and bring trade to a standstill. And now
that the ol<l political leaders of the South,
backed by the most violent leaders of the
North who have regained their control of
the old Democratic party, boldly avow
their intention to use the army to undo all
that has been done since the war, the
monied men of the North, Democrats and
Republicans, have wisely determined not
to be caught in the trap they were caught
in in 1801. We know of several firms in
Augusta that have been notified in the
kindest yet firmest manner that until mat
ters are settled cash must accompany orders.
What reasonable man can complain of this?
When our business men uphold a set of
debauched leaders who prefer politics to
business—war to work—office to peace—
. they should expect nothing but disaster
and ruin. When these dealers make up
their minds to accept the present State
Governments as legal, to protect black and
white alike without regard to religious or
political belief—when they come to the
conclusion not to force things, but to rely
on Time, that great arbiter of all political
questions, for the remedying of any evils
that may exist —then confidence will be
restored, money will flow into the South
for investment, industry will be revived,
and commerce become profitable. If the
business men only will it, life and property
will be safe, Grant will be President, and
the scalawags of both parties will be forced
into deserved oblivion.
P. S.—Since the above was written we
have received the New York Times of the
28th, containing the following article from
the Brooklyn Union of the day previous,
and copy for the information of the readers
of the Republican :
Wo are assured, on what seems very good
authority, that a meeting of the leading dry
goods firms of New York was held yesterday
afternoon, at which it was resolved that they
would sell no more goods to merchants in the
Southern States, except for cash, during the
present season. This is very significant action
on thelmrt of the perspicacious business men of
the metropolis, and furnishes an example which
will undoubtedly be promptly followed by all
merchants dealing in whatever business with the
Southerners. It shows that the threats of an
other revolution in which the Democratic loaders
have so liberally indulged ; the continued an
archy in which the rebels have retained many of
the Southern States; the persistent determina
tion of President Johnson to prevent the loyal
men from governing the South, and the revolu
tionary speeches of Frank Blair and of Southern
Are -eaters, who have taken their cue from him,
are having their effect on loyal merchants at the
North, who consider their extensive business
interests, the preservation of the country, and
their financial security, of too great value to bo
hazarded among a people, many of whom still
owe largely on goods sold to them years ago,
and wbo have shown that their loyalty to their
obligatfonj to the country can not bo relied upon
any more than their loyalty to tbair obligations
to their fellow merchants.
Slander.—The last number of the La
Grange Reporter contains a column of the
most scandalous matter, charging Chief Jus
tice Brown with criminal intimacy with a
married woman in the years 1861-’65. The
statement of pretended facts are too gross
for publication in any decent paper, and bear
internal evidences of falsehood, as they un
questionably are. Even the editor of the
Savannah News <t Herald rebukes the Re
porter for the infamous publication. The
Reporter's informer says that the woman was
the wife of one Col. J. 11. Martin, a citizen
of Meridian, Miss., who “is well known as a
man of responsibility.” The idea that a
man that would cravenly submit to the dis
honor of his family silently for more than
three years, and then proclaim the same offer
his wife’s death, for political capital, being a
“man of responsibility”—or any sort of a
man— is an insult to decency. The Ahole
matter is evidently a forgery for the vilest
political purposes. Before W. 11. C. Wil-
Linguam got to sloshing around in the dirty
pool of revolutionary Democracy he would
have scorned to have disgraced his manhood
by circulating such a charge.
Colored Democratic Clubs.—There is
an organization of this kind in this city, we
have heard, and if there were not, it would
be very wonderful. Black tneh are not any
more true than white men ; iadeed, we sus
pect that human nature has the same general
characteristics now-a-days as of old, and the
time never has been when those could not
be found who would sell their birth-rights
for a mess of pottage, and when men could
not be found who would betray, for a price,
their own interests,.and the interests of those
who love them and work for them. But
these Esaus and Judasxs always have their
reward, and find the fruits of folly and
treachery to be bitter. These lines tire not
written with the hope of warning such
from the evil oJ their ways, but with the solo
purpose of encouraging those colored men
who are true to so remain, and to look with
charity upon the Esaus of their tribe, and
with, forbearance upon the Judases, who
would betray them into the hands of their
enemies
Frank Blair. —It is said this notorious
personage can out drink, out swear, and out
lie (politically), any fifty politicians in the
United Statesl— Atlanta New Era.
Frank Blair may be, and from all
acconnts doubtless is, a great drunkard,
Very profane, and (politically) a great liar;
but the editor of the New Era does him
gross injustice iu putting him against “any
fifty politicians in the United States.” Has
the Era forgotten Bob Toombs’? He can
‘‘out drink, out swear, and out lie,” Frank
Blair, after giving the latter two in the
game. The revolutionary candidate for inc
X ice Presidency is a vicious man ; but not
so bad as Toombs. Besides, there is some
virtue iu courage—Blair has that, and
Toombs has not.
HEARING ITS LEGITIMATE FRUIT.
The revolutionary programme proclaimed
at New York is bearing its legitimate fruits
in the assassination and murder of unof
fending freedmen, and ci white Unionists.
The knowledge of these acts of violence
is usually kept from the public. Perhaps
not one murder in fifty of this class evbr
reaches the newspapers. The Democrats
won’t tell, as a general thing, and the
Republicans are afraid of summary ven
geance at the hands of the Ku-Klux. Now
and then a Democratic newspaper gives us
an inkling of what is going on in the inte
rior. An instance is now before us. The
Elberton Gazette of the 28th says i
We learn that two or throe negroes have boon
shot in this county within the last ten days, one
of whom is said to bo dead. Wc have net learned
the particulars in eitner oase, but, ns far as we
have heard, there eeems to have been nothing
whatever to justify the perpetration of these
foul deeds.
If the Democrats are the “best friends"
of the negro, why is it that tlic latter are
being constantly shot down by the former ?
It is due to the editor of the Gazette to
state that he condemns these murderers,
but of what use is a rebuke from him, while
Toombs and Cobb are proclaiming hatred
to the negro as a citizen.
TAXATION.
Every man iu the United States has to
pay taxes on
The hat on his head.
The boots on his feet.
The clothes on his person.
The food he eats.
The tea and coffee he drinks.
The pot it is cooked in.
The cup he drinks it out of.
The implements on his farm.
The tools he works with.
The paper he writes on.
The pen and ink lie uses.
The papers and books he reads.
The furniture in his house.
The gas or oil he burns.
The coal he consumes.
The stove he burns it in.
The match he lights it with.
The medicine he takes.
The tobacco he smokes.
The pipe he smokes it in.
The dishes on his table.
All he eats off them.
All these impositions because Toombs,
Cobb, Hill & Co., finding that they could
never hope to be President while the
country remained a unit, and but one
President could be elected, attempted to
divide the country, and thus doubling the
number of offices, and at the same tiriie
doubling their chances of success. The
honest tax payers are now paying the cost
of the treasonable plots of these dema
gogues. . Pet these same desperate gam
blers arc attempting the same game, and
are deluding the people into backing them.
To Toombs & Co. can justly be ascribed all
the evils the people are laboring under, in
ulwding onerous taxation. Arc they going
to double those evils and that taxation by
following-their advice again ?
“Mr Rights.”—“l have trampled on
the dirty rag they call the stars and stripes
once, and I will trample on it again unless
I get my rights,” bellowed Boanerges Bob
in his speech in this city a- few days ago.
Now what right is Toombs deprived of
that other citizens of the State enjoy; and
hois not a citizen, for he lias renounced his
allegiance and has never renewed it, and
swears Ire will not. True, Toombs can not
hold officb till his disabilities are removed,
and his conduct of late demonstrates the
wisdom of Congress in imposing disabili
ties on him and such as him. Put him
and his accomplices in office anti it would
not lie long before they would renew their
attempts to rule, anil if to
ruin. They have all the rights which
other citizens hare, hut their great and
unpardonable grievance is that .they may
not monopolize all the offices. Deprive a
Democrat of the chance to get office, how
ever little he may deserve it, and he thinks
he has lost all worth living for.
STATe'nEWS.
The Dawson Journal, of the 27th, says
that the farmers in Clay, Randolph, Calhoun
and Baker counties continue to complain of
tha ravages Os the boll worm.
Under th« heading “ Marriage in High
Life,’’ the Macon Journal <£■ Messenger of
the 28th publishes the following : “ Married,
at Castle Rossc, in this city, on the evening
of the 28th instant, by the Hon. and Rev
erend Charles Henry de Courcey, Lord
Frederick Ellesmere, second sou of the Mar
quis deiWaxe, and Lady ’Alice Peveril,
eldest daughter of the Duke of Honiton.’ 1
The Macon- telegraph says that Jud"e
Cole has made application to the Legisla
ture for a special statute authorizing him to
use the panel of jurors last drawn, to hold a
called session of t(fe Superioi Court for Bibb
county. Ills Honor is of the opinion that
the act lately passed authorizing the use of
these jurors applies only to the regular ses
sions of the Court; and there is a great,
necessity for a" called session in this county
to dispose of the accumulated criminal
business which has been thrown upon the
Court.
The Elberton Gazelle of Friday says that
an interesting revival is in progress in the
Methodist Church of that place. Thirty odd
have already connected themselves with the
church, and a large number of penitents
still crowd the anxious seat.
The Albany News says that five negroes
escaped from the jail of Dougherty county a
few days since by throwing a bucket of
water in the jailor’s face, and two of the
prisoners holding him until the three escaped,
when the two run. The jailor shot at the
latter aijd .thinks he wounded them.
Martin Martin, son of Mr. Smith Martin,
furmcr’y of Newnan, was fatally stabbed in
Dawson, Georgia, as he was coming out of
church on the evening of the 19th, by a
young man named Abner Keyton, and died
in a few hours.
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF
GEORGIA, of the Soldiers 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. Nelati, Macon, Ga.
Captain J. Mathewson and Lieutenant
Charles Sherwood, Atlanta, Ga.
Captain C. B. Blacker, Cartersville. Ga.
Headquarters at Atlanta, Ga.
—Paris letters say tliat Adah Isaacs
Menken called in 'a Jewish rabbi before her
death, and renewed her devotion to that
faith. She wav buried in a Jawlsh cemetery.
[Correspondence Augusta Republican
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Political Horiaon—Schemes and Tricks of
the Eiuiny—Democracy South and Democracy
North—Cuttlefish Plan of Conducting a Cam
paign—Thc Tribulations of A. Hampton,
Toombs A Co., to be White- Washed —A’etr
Elements of the Congress—The Credit of North
Carolina, Etc.
Washington, August 26, 1868.
Political affairs on the Democratic side
are rather mixed just now; the cuttlefish
plan of a campaign resulted so admirably
in 1814 that the leaders of the party have
evidently resolved to try it again. Then
the great issue was on the tariff question —
Democratic leaders in the manufacturing
districts advocated a tariff for protection,
and in agricultural sections just the reverse,
competing with the Whigs for votes upon
their own platform. The result was the peo
ple got befogged and “Teems” K. Polk
carried off the prize. Jyst now the remnants
of that party are trying the same game
again ; at the South the leaders are making
much of the colored men and trying to
seduce them from the Republican ranks,
while the leaders of the same party at the
North pursue j ust the opposite course. No
man can make a Democratic audience boil
over with enthusiasm like Senator Doolittle
when he attempts to prove that the negro
is not a human being, and, hence, not en
titled to all the privileges of the white race.
Ex-Governor Seymour arrives at the same
conclusion by arguing that the negro be
longs to an inferior race, and these repre
sentative men arc followed in their
sophistries by every Democratic speaker,
big and little, throughout the entire North.
A northern man going South or a southern
man coming North and listening to Demo
cratic speeches and reading Democratic
editorials would bo puzzled, as the Pennsyl
vanians were in 1844, which set of principles
represented the original Jacobs.
Upon the authority of the President’s
private secretary and newspaper correspond
ent, we are now assured that A. J. cordially
supports the measures of the rebel Demo
cratic Convention. This is a happy way
Mr. Johnson has of saying things to the
public, which he may at some future time
wish to disavow. A score of instances of
the kind have occurred during the last year,
where the poor correspondent has had to
swallow his own words, and all for two thou
sand five hundred dollars a year. But in
the present instance, there is some evidence
of the truthfulness of the correspondent’s
statement. A. J. is treading as close upon
the heels of the Tenure-of-Officc law as he
dare. lie has a cuttle-fish arrangement
through the Attorney-General, who is just
now muddling the political waters with long
winded opinions upon every conceivable
subject —all of which is done to befog the
public. An honest Executive would find no
difficulty in arriving at the intent of a Con
gressional enactment. Not so with Mr. John
son. His constant study is how to evade the
execution of laws. Within the last ten days
not less than twelve official opinions have
been ground out at the Attorney-General’s
office, and Walt Whitman is partially disa
bled by being cempelled to copy them. We
have an opinion about the Collectorship of
Aliaska, the Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue, the District Attorneyship for the E. D.
of Pennsylvania, and various other matters,
all ostensibly to brush the cob-webs from A.
J.’s addled brain ; but it is the old play over
again of “How not to do it.” The real
design has been to obtain the sanction of the
Attorney-General for again violating the
Tenure-of-Office law. Mr. Evarts, however,
■ though serving his master pretty well, is not
quite so facile as was his predecessor, and
hence the President’s hands are not free. If
they were free, ot, in other words, were he
not afraid of the reassembling ff Congress
in September, and that his punishment
would be swift and sure, -it is believed he
would ignore the Tenure-of-Office law in toto,
and use the whole power of the office of the
Chief Executive to aid the cause of Sey
mour and Blair; not because be hates
them less, but Grant more. There is no
love in the matter. He has never forgiven
Grant for defeating him in the War-Office
affair. The President, however, is doing all
he can for the Democratic candidates; his
efforts arc all in that direction. The ap
pointment of Perry Fuller to the New
Orleans Collectorship is one thing he'has
done recently, aud aided by Senator Fowler,
who is now here perhaps after the reward
for his vote on impeachment—he may suc
ceed in obtaining possession of the Internal
Revenue Bureau. The charges against
Commissioner Rollins have not come to light
yet; but they were considered iu Cabinet
meeting to-day; so much is sure. The
patronage of this branched the Government
in the hands of the President he will be able
to buy up quite a number of men who are
in the market.
The latest move of the President, how
ever, smacks of diplomacy. Your readers
are not fully aware perhaps, what a shock
the speeches of Toombs, Hampton & C0.,-
gave the people of all political proclivities
at the North. Better Republican eapaign
documents were never promulgated; and
notwithstanding the brazen effrontery of the
New York World in almost daily denying
the authenticity of those speeches—copied
as they were from Southern papers friendly
to the speakers —the people feel that not only
were the speeches correctly reported but the
sentiments are those of a majority of the
friends of Seymour and Blair in the South.
To counteract, the effect of these incendiary
documents is Mr. Johnson’s latest ambition.
Simultaneously, and as if by concert of
action (as undoubtedly was), we find gath
ered in aiiu about Washington a dozen or
more men distinguished for their services iu
the rebel cause; anon, the same party assem
ble at Greenbrier Springs, Virginia. Imme
diately following a two days’ interview at the
White House, General Rosecranz turns up at
the same fashionable watering place, and has
long aud labored interviews with the ex-
Confederate leaders. The object of these
interviews iA well understood in political cir
cles here to be to smooth over the damage
done by Hampton, Tooinbs & Co. Whether
the attempt will be made through an address
signed by influential Southern conservatives,
or some other plan, we. arc not yet advised ;
I doubt very much if the question is yet
determined. It is a knotty subject to handle.
The loyal element is wide awake, aud not
likely to be deceived, either by after-dinner
speeches or second-hand and studied har
angues. Men are apt to give utterance to
their honest sentiments on the impulse of the
moment, as Wade Hampton did in Charles
ton, and Cobb and Toombs at Atlanta.
When men stop to deliberate, their utter
anees too often conceal their real views.
Whatever may*be done by the Springs con
claves, the self-appointed committee can not
change the opinions of loyal people. Says a
prominent Democrat to tpe, .to-day: “We
do not expect to do more than to keep the
party together; if something is not done,
we shall not poll two-thirds of the Democratic
vote." And that is a true statement of the
case, doubtless. R. E. Lee’s name gives it no
weight with loyal men. Our soldiers remem
ber his Order 9, issued after the surrender at
Appommattox C. 11., in which he said the
Confederate soldiers could gi> to their hott)gs»
“conscious of having done their duty.’’.
,SuqJi an older, in any other country, would
have cost the General issuing it his life, under
the same circumstances.
The caucus is already enlivened by the
reappearance of Boh Old (as he used to be
called here) in his old rble of misropresenta
tiou, to aid the rebel cause. But no man
can wipe out the Southern prisotbpens ; the
barbarities there committed will stand forever
in history, and the damned spots will not
“out” at the bidding of any man or body of
men. There are too many witnesses of the
atrocities there committed. Ex-Confeds far
better let the subject drop. Then we are to
have the celebrated General McClellan, it is
said, on the stump next month. Thera will
be nothing inconsistent in this course; be
was always on the rebel side.
The new State authorities ot North Caro
lina have just been in the market, and ob
tained SIOO,OOO at six per dent. So much
for reconstruction. Think of what Union
men have done for that State and weep, oh
ye hotspurs, who still oppose reconstruction.
General Spinner, Treasurer of the United
States, is out in a letter in favor of an imme
diate resumption of specie payments as the
best plan of settling all our financial difficul
ties ; and, what is better still, he shows the
practicability of his plan. Capital.
SPECIAL NOTICES-
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.—
The Republicans of Richmond County are re
quested, to meet in Convention at the Court
House, in Augusta, on SATURDAY, September
sth, at 2 o’clock, for the purpose of electing
Delegates'to the Republican Convention of the
Fifth Congressional District, whiqji eneets in the
city of Augusta on the 10th day of September,
to nominate a candidate for Congress.
J. E. BRYANT,
sopl—st Chin’n Republican County Com.
Notice.
Clerk op Council s Of#cb, 1
Augusta, August 29, 1868. J
INSTITUTE TEACH
ERS.—At » regular meeting of the City Council
of Augusta, held on the Bth instant, the Clerk
was instructed to give notice that at the next
regular mectiiig an election will be hold for
Teachers of the Houghton Institute.
The City Council will meet on FRIDAY, 4th
day of September, 1868. A Principal (male)
and three Assistant Teachers for the Institute
will bo elected.
Applicants will please hand in their names, at
this Office, by two -o’clock on Thursday, the 3d
proximo. JAMES N; ELLS,
aug3o—lt Clerk of Council.
ORDIN AR Y. THE OFFICE
HOURS of the ORDINARY of Richmond County
arc from 9 a. m. to 1 p. tu., and from 3 to 5 p. in.
daily, except Sunday.
SAMUEL LEVY,
auß—tf Ordinary.
GRAIN AND FLOUR SACKB!
The old established
“Corn Exchange Bag Manufactory"
Is prepared to furnish DRAIN SACKS of any
desired size or. quality, and at short notice.
Also,
COTTON AND PAPER FLOUR SACKS
Neatly piinted to order.
Information promptly furnished upon applica
tion. W. B. ASTEN & CO.,
jo IT—3m 25 Pearl Street, New York City.
To Herit.
IfROM THE FIRST OF OCTOBER NEXT
JL 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.
NOTICE
To Retailers of Spirituous Liquors.
Retailers of spirituous liquors
whoso County License have expired, or who
have not yet taken out such license, are hereby
notified that they must renew or take out tho
same forthwith, or they will be dealt with accord*
ing to law. SAMUEL LEVY,
au 25—10 t Ordinary Richmond County.
Official.
Appointments by the Governor.
Executive Department, 1
Atlanta, Gta., August 21 th, 1868. j
Ordered —That James B. Wilson, Esq-, of the
county of Richmond, be and he is hereby ap
pointed Tanner of tho Penitentiary, by virtue of
and in accordance with the 1636th section of the
Code of Georgia.
RUFUS ’B. BULLOCK,
By tho Governor : Governor.
B. B. DeQuaffexueid,
Sec’y Ex. Department.
Confirm'd by the, Senate, August 21, 18,68.
lion. Philip B. Robinson, of the county of
Greene, to be Judge of the Superior Court in
the Ocmulgee. Circuit for the term of four years.
Hon. Fleming Jordan, of the county of Jasper,
to be Solicitor General of the Superior Court in
the Ocnrulgee Circuit for tho term of four years.
au26—St
HKVRI L. A. BALK
e IT» BROAD STREET,
NEW SPRING GOODS I
I WILL OPEN TO-DIY A FBESH ASSORTMENT OF
New Spring Prints,
VERY HANDSOME, AT’LOW PRICES.
•FINE CAMBRIC CHINTZ
NEW PRINTED LAWNS,
NEW SPRING DeLAINES,
CHALLIES, etc., etc
New Spring Ginghams,
VERY HANDSOME, AT A LOW PRICE
FRENCH CASSIMERES,
AMERICAN CASSIMERES, and
JEANES.
BED TICKING,
STRIPES,
BLEACHED SHIRTING,
BROWN HOMESPUN,
PARASOLS, HOOP SKIRTS,
. UMBRELLAS, GLOVES,
f;
PERFUMERY, etc
All of which will bo Bold at as LOW PRICES
can be had in town.
HENRY L. A. BALK,
» 172 Broad Street.
mh24-ly ,
W. B. GRIFF n,
Corner of Jackson and Ellis Streets,
COMMISSION MERCHANT
AMD
.A. uctio n eer,
AUGUSTA, GEO.,
WILL GIVE HIS PROMPT AND PER-
V » BONA L attention to consignments of COT
TON, PRODUCE and MERCHANDISE sent to
him, and do the best be eat> for all who may
favor him with their patronage--and having a
large and Fire-Proof Store, where Goods of any
kind will be safe and secure. * •
Terms as modarate as any respectable house in
the city. . - aug!s—2w
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
SBS Reward!
STRAYED- FROM MY Rl£<< r
on Sunday inorniuir V
£POINTER PUP,
month '! 01d - Tho above rewaH I’,"
be paid for bis delivery to me
Messrs. J. AT. A. Bones, or information !
can got him. 0 1
soI—I*JAMES HENDERSON
Letters of Guardianships " 1
STATE OF GEORGIA—
Richmond Countu 1
WhbiieAs, James M. Palmer applies 1
tors of Guardianship of Rebecca Frances os'
William Stephen Odom, and Martha Jane Oil° B ’
minor children of James Harris Odom °{°'
ceased — ’ “ 6 -
Those aro therefore to cito and admonish
and singular, tho kiudred and friends of
minors, to bo and appear at my office within <8
time proscribed by law, to show cause if ™
they have, why said Letters should ’not*”/
granted. “ 8
Given under my hand and official signature
office in Augusta, thia 31at day of August is??
SAMUEL LEVY ’'
‘"V 30 * 1 ' Ordinary.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT
At Quitman on the 11th day of August ls'«7
The undersigned hereby gives notice of hi. '
Etment as assignee of JOHN Is. HOLST r
iman, in the county of Brooks and State’ t
rgia, within said district, who line beeu ad
udged a Bankrupt upon hie own petition bv th
District Court of eaid District. • ' lne
SAMUEL W. BROOKS
senl—law3w Assignee, etc.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORgiaZ
At Quitman on the 28th day of August 18(17
Tho undersigned hereby- gives notice df hi’
appointment as assignee of JAMES S. HARRIS
of Quitman, in the county of Brooke and State
Georgia, fvithin said district, who has been ad
judged a Bankrupt upon his own petition bv
the District Court of said District. 1
8. 8. KINGSBERY,
ecpl—lawtlwAssignee.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA-!
At Quitman on the 28th day of August, 1868 •
The undersigned hereby gives notice of‘bis
appointment us assignee of 11. M. MITCHELL
ot Quitman, in the county of Brooks and State of
Georgia, within eaid District, who has been ad
judged a bankrupt upon hie own petition by the
District Court of said District.
8. 8. KINGSBERY
sepU law3w Assignee.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA-
At Quitman on the 28th day of August, 186*
Tho undersigned hereby gives notice of hii
appointment as Assignee of SAM’L W. BROOKS
of Qmtmau, in the county of Brooks and State of
Georgia, within said District, who has beeu ad
judged a bankrupt upon his own petition, by the
District Court of said District.
8. 8. KINGSBERY,
sepl—la3w - Assignee.
Official.
Proclamations by the Governor,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, |
Atlanta, Ga., August 27, 1868. (
To the Principal of the Penitentiary:
Wububas, At the October term, A. D., 1867,
of the Superior Court, held in and for tho oountj
of Dooly, iu this State, Francis S. Mitchell was
tried for, and convicted of, tho crime of murder,
tho verdict of the jury having been accompa
nied with a recommendation that ho be im
prisoned for life; and was in pursuance of inch
verdict and recommendation, then and there, by
tho prodding Judge, sentenced to be imprisoned
in tho Penitentiary of this State for and during
his natural life; And, whereas, from a careful
examination of the testimony as given in before
tho jury on said trial, it is not certain that the
death <f deceased resulted from the blow
inflicted by the said Francis S. Mitchell, as
deceased was, at the time of the infliction of the
blow, in a state of intoxication, and seriously ill
from the effect of intoxicating liquor:
Therefore, by virtue of the power and author
, ity in me vested by tho Constitution of this
State, I hereby commute the said sentence of
imprisonment for life iu tho Penitentiary of this
State, so passed as afofesaid, upon the said
' Francis S. Mitchell, to imprisonment at hard
r labor in said Penitentiary for, and during a
r period or term of five years, and no longer, com
, fiuting the time at which he, the said Francis 8.
Mitchell, was first arrested for tho said homicide.
1 to-wit: from tho tenth day of April, A. D., 1867,
up to, and ending on tho tenth day of April, A.
D. 1872; and it is hereby ordered, that at the
expiration of said period or term of five years,
the said Francis S. Mitohell ba discharged from
•aid Penitentiary, and set at liberty.
Given under my hand and the Seal of tho
Executive Department, at the Capitol in Atlants,
tho day and year above written.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
> By the Governor: Governor,
r B. B. DeGkAFFENKEID,
a Sce’y Ex. Department.
Executive Department,)
Atlanta, Ga.. August 27, 1868. j
Wmkbeas, It has been certified <o this De
partment by mistake, that, at au election held in
tho county of Houston, in this State, on the 21st,
22d, 23d and 24th days of April last, J, Swift
was duly elected to the office of Tax Collector of
o said county of Houston, and was, therefore, on
- the 20th instant, commissioned as such; and
f whereas, it now appears, from a full and careful
e examination and counting of the ballots cast at
said election, which ballots and election return:
are now on file in this Department, that at eaid
election, E. Fagan received fifteen hundred and
ninety-five votes for the said office of Tax Col
lector, and that the said J. Swift received for the
same office fifteen hundred and seventy five votes.
, giving E. Fagan a majority of twenty votes
over the .-aid J. Swift for said office :
* Therefore, To the end that said mistake may
1 bo corrected, and tho person elected cummis
sioned, as the law requires, it is ordered,
’ That the said Commission so issued as afore
said by mistake, or under a misapprehension as
to "a true slattf of the polls of tho said election,
to J. Swift, as Tax Collector of Houston county,
be, and the same is hereby, revoked, and that tho
, same be for,hwith returned to this Department
to be cancelled; and that a Commission issue
forthwith to the said E. Fagan, as Tax Collector
of the said county of Houston, by virtue of bis
I having received the highest number of votes at
■ aaid election fyr the said office.
I Given under my hand and the Seal of the
Executive Department, attho Capitol, in Atlanta,
the day aud year above written.
R. B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor: Governor.
B. B. DeGbaffenbied,
Sec’y Ex. Department. au3o—3l
Appointments by the Governor.
Confirmed by the Senate, August 28, 1868.
Honorable Noel B. Knight, of the county of
Cobb, to be Judge of the Superior Court of the
Blue Ridge Circuit for the term of eight years.
Honorable Henry P. Farrow, of the county of
Fulton, to be Attorney General of the State o*
Georgia for the term of four years.
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All other deposits are repaid in •‘Greenbacks
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Investmenu are only made in Securities 0
the United States. . GKO. IL.HARRIS
Chairman Advisory Committee.
ROBERT T. KENT,
Secretary-
DAVID A. RITTER,
Acting Oashrw
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