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PARAGKAMB.
—Yesterday, in New Yofk, Gold wm
quoted at 1.44 J. Cotton, 29Jc.
—Howard, the proclamation forger, is
managing editor of the New York Democrat
—James Doyle, h well known Nashville
merchant, died on Friday last at that city.
The Macon advocates the
establishment of a race course in that city.
—A Terra Haute Jew writes to bet
§IO,OOO, three to one, on the election of
Grant.
—Forty - bears were surrounded and de
stroyed by fire in one of the swamps of Can
ada lately.
—St. Petersburg has a Chinese library of
• 11,001 volumes, 1,178 wood engraviags, and
’ 2745 manuscripts-
-•■There arc 29 cardinals, 28 patriarchs,
arohbifhops and bishops, 1,372 priests, 790
seminarists, 2,497 monks, 2,191 nuns, 4,602
Jews and Jewesses, and 488 Protestants in
Rome.
—The Roudoubt Freeman says: “ Gradu
ates of Vassar College are to receive the
degree of 1 Queen of Arts,’ so that the first
knave that comes along will take them.”
—Two persons are under trial at Detroit
for smuggling nutmegs. That conies of not
patronizing home manufactures. Connec
ticut knows a better way.
—»Thc Louisville Journal says woman,
with all her beauty and worth, should re
member that man was the chief matter con
sidered at the creation. She was only a
side issue.
—General Franz Scigei. who is a resident
Morrisania, Westchester county, New York,
is talked of as the Republican candidate for
Congress from the Tenth District of that
. State.
—The Boston Advertiser intimates the
probability of General Wilson being a mem
ber of the new Cabinet if General Grant is
elected President.
—A sixteen year old boy in Detroit has
run 10,015 points, caroms, at billiards, and
has not yet completed his run. He plays
until he gets tired, and then stops for the
day.
—A general meeting of Freemasons is
announced to take place in Havre, France,
on the 18th of September. All French and
foreign lodges will receive invitations.
—The colt Narragansctt, which won the
Sequel Slake at Narragansett Park recently,
has "been sold to Mr. Dennison, of New York,
for §IO,OOO, the highest price paid for a colt
of that age in this country.
• —A trader in a Connecticut town, who
sells whiskey in the basement, and drugs in
the first story of his shop, very thoughtfully
keeps coffins on the second floor for the
accommodation of his customers.
■—The United States Marshal has levied
on the rolling stock of the Virginia and Ten
nessee Railroad, for debts due by the com
pany on their coupons, amounting to §B,OOO.
The running of the road is not interfered
with..
—The London Lancet says that it was
lately stated at the Paddington Board of
Gnardians that. 138 gallons of medicine had
been dispensed in two months, including 30
gallons of quinine mixture. If was remarked
that the inmates were never satisfied unless
they were taking medicine.
—B. 1. Howze, Esq., of Cnatham, N. C.,
’ heretofore a prominent member of the Con
servative party, announces his intention to
take the stump for Grant .and Colfax. Mr-
Howze is a lawyer and a good speaker, and
we welcome him into the, service of the
Great Captain.
—At the meeting in St. Louis, on Satur
day night, Mr. Edward Cullen, a former
Democrat, a muu of ability and a vigorous
. speaker, declared himself for Grant and
Colfax and the whole Republican ticket.
Thus-truly patriotic men will rally in every
part of the land, when they realize thnt the
Republic is in danger.
—The Indianapolis Journal says the late
Jukr.sou party of Indiana precede their Cin
cinnati friends. It knows of bat one man
of pvombieuce, who Johnsonixcd in the
Bfote, who is tiot now for Grant and Colfax.
The exception.is Judge Gooding. Another
war is not popular with Johnson’s friends in
Indiana.
—Louis Napoleon has the distinction of
wearing the finest hat in the world. Three
hats of the first quality in every respect were
produced at bis order in Moyabamba—each
of which cost §IOO in gold. Brazil is the
largest customer of fine hats ; the West In
dies and Spanish Maine comes next; then
Australia follows; next comes France, and
low down in the scale is the United States.
“Now York don’t pay,” was the remark
made to us by oue of the largest dealers.
—The Greensboro’ Times learns that Mr-
William Burkhead, of Randolph, held a
family gathering at his house, a few days
since, on which occasion tier* were present
ciglity-fivclineal descendants and twenty-on*
connected by marriaee—making the snag
little" sum of one hundred and six. There
wwc present about four hundred other per
sons. Mr. Burkhcad is in his eighty-seventh
- year, and his wife eighty-two —both are in
good health.
—“Brick” Pomeroy, in his Democrat, thus
laments a departed friend and creditor:
“ Died—A young friend of ours named
Bacon, formerly a resident of LaCrosse, late
ol New Jersey, is dead. He borrowed five
dollars of us four weeks ago, promising to
return it in a week if he lived. Being a
and tsaa pf hU word, as he has
not been near us since, of course he is dead.
Ilia age was about thirty-five, and he was a
Democrat in politics."
- A Harrisburg paper has an account of
a race between storm and steam, that came
off oil the Reading Railroad recently. When
the train, was IShving Port Clinton a heavy
win from the north deluged the last five ears,
without reaching the first car and engine.
They ran ahead of the storm to Hamburg,
where, stopping for passengers, it again
caught up to them. The same thing oc
curred at Mooreville and Leesport, and when
they reached Reading, all the cars except
the first and the engine were drenched with
rain. As they were leaving Reading, the
rain caught them at the lower depot, and it
wis a neck-and-neck race to Philadelphia.
The running time of the train from Port
Clinton to Beading, including stoppages, is
fifty-three minutes ; distance, twenty miles.
The storm, therefore, made just one second
less than 2.40 time.
—The Republicans of the Ninth Cimgre*-
sionul District of IHinois met ait Beardstown,
on the 20th inst., and nominated General
Leonard F. Ross, of Faiton county, for Con
gress, in place of A. C. Babcock, declined.
General Koos is a brother of Lew. a ßom, the
present Copperhead representative of the
press, but in every other respect his anti
podes. The Peoria franscript says cf him:
“ General Boss was a soldier in the Mexican
wai. He was a Democrat up to 1860.
When the rebellion broke out he rrllied at
the call at his country, raised a company of
volunteers, joined the 17th Illinois, was
elected Colonel,'and served as such until he
was promoted to the command of a brigade.
The old Seventeenth never had a. better
colonel, nor one more beloved by bis com
mand. General Ross made a good record
during the war, and has remained true to
his loyal convictions sisce tftn.”
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* AUaUBTA. CIA..
SUNDAY MORNING. 9, ISOB
Fort’RESIDESr
Os the United States:
ulisses s. grot.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF INDIANA.
Republican Electoral Ticket.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE.
HENRY P. FARROW, of Fulton.
AMOS T. AKER MAN, of Elbert.
ALTERNATES.
Judge Dawson Walker, of Whitfield.
C. H. Hopkins, of Chatham.
FOR THE DISTRICTS.
Ist District— A. WILBUR, of Chatham.
Alternate— E. E. Howard, of Chatham.
2d District— E. R. HARDEN, of Randolph.
Alternate— S. F. Salter, of Pulaski.
3d District— E. I. HIGBEE, of Talbot.
Alternate—J. R. Thomasson, of Carroll.
Mk District— Wm. 11. WHITEHEAD, of
Butts.
Alternate— Henry Glover, of Jasper.
Stk District— J. E. BRYANT, of Richmond.
Alternate— F. J. Robinson, of Oglethorpe.
6tA District —J. S. FAIN, of Union.
Alternate— lsaac S. Clements, of Forsyth.
Ith District .
Alternate— F. A. Kirby, of Chattooga.
AUGUSTA MUNICIPAL BILL.
We publish elsewhere the substance of
the Augusta Municipal Bill, as it passed the
Senate on Friday, and which was concurred
in by the House yesterday. It is a mon
strous fraud on the voters of Augusta. It
has a wrong title. The title should read :
“ A bill to disfranchise three hundred loyal
voters in Augusta, and to place poor labor
ing men in the power of unscrupulous rich
men." How does it disfranchise any loyal
voter ? The new Constitution of Georgia, by
virtue of which the Legislature is now in
session, makes every man who has been a
citizen of the Slate and county for six
mouths a loyal voter. Should uot a citizen
entitled to vote for all State and county
officers be allowed to vote for municipal
officers ?■ Has the Legislature the power to
prevent them from so doing ? Surely not I
But they here done so, in a cowardly and
sneaking manner, by requiring,' in section
3, “ Each and every person applying for
registry to take the oath heretofore prescribed
by law for voters in the city of Augusta.’
That oath requires two years’ citizenship.
We print it entire ;
“You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you
are a citizen of the United States ; that you hare
resided in the State of Georgia Jor the last tro
years, and in this City for the last six months ;
that you are twenty-one years of age ; that you
have paid all City taxes and assessments, ami
have made all returns required by tho City
Ordinances that have been in your power to pay
or make, according to said Ordinances ; that you
are now entitled to registration, and -thereupon
to vote, according to tho terms of tho Act of the
General Assembly of this State, in such case
made and provided—so help you God!’’
Now, there are at least three hundred
citizens, legal voters, who can not take this
oath. It is in conflict with the Constitu
tion, and we can not see how Governor
Bullock can approve the bill. Qf course
we can understand how the majority in
the Legislature could pass the bill, for they
neither respect the rights of the people or
the Constitution and laws of the State.
The section requiring the presentation of
the certificate of registration is a scheme
of corruption and roguery. The poor
num’s certificate they can not purchase
they will steal. It is characteristic of the
reckless aspirants who desire to obtain
control of the city government of Augusta.
AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT.
We publish to-day the protest of the
colored members of the Legislature who
were expelled ou Thursday, concured in
by those white Republicans who are for a
time suffered to retain their seats. The
Democracy added to their other wrongs by
refusing to allow the protest to be spread
upon the journals of the House, thus vio
lating all parliamentary rule and courtesy,
for it is unprecedented that the remon
strances of even one member, still more
that of so large a proportion us one-eighth
of the members of any legislative body,
should be refused the privilege of being
placed upon record.
The protest indignantly contrasts the
conduct of those Democratic members who
were plainly ineligible by the provisions
of-the 14th Article, with that of the pro
testants and that' of other Republicans
when an attempt was made, at the com
mencement of the session, to oust said Dem
ocrats from scats to which tlioy 110 *
right. Most, if not all, of these colored
men voted to retain them in their scats;
the thanks they get for their magnanimity
and forbearance is to find those very Dem
ocrats (having attained a majority by
means which we will not characterize)
turning upon and destroying them. Per
haps, however, when this case Incomes
known to the country these Ku-Klux en
gineers will find themselves hoisted with
their own petard.
Answebkd.—The pestiferous Yankee
humlnig, Sim Atkinson - , of the Athens
Banner, wishes to know how loitg the
BusjnesaHcad of this establishment, whom
he elegantly characterizes as an “unnatural
ized beef-eater,” has “been hare I” Lang
enough to respect the flag of the glorious
country that protects his person and prop
erty! Is his late editorial hireling an
swered ?
Noble Sentiment.—The northern bum
mer, Haves, of the Savannah liepublican,
having advocated lynch law, the editor of
the Macon Telegraph, in reply, gives utter
»n™ to the following noble sentiment,
which we heartily endorse :
Never advocate lynch law under any eir»
curastance*. It is the effort to cure crime
by crime, which is absurd and impractica
ble. The law punishes without malice, and
therefore breeds none. Lynch law punishes
in passion, and often perpetuates the mis
chief it seeks to cure. Lot no paper ever
recommend or suggest lynch law.'
HAS GEORGIA COMPLIED WITH
THE REQUIREMENTS OF CON
GRESS. ■
The conditions imposed by Congress on
the people of Georgia as necessary to the
rartoration ot: civil law are very well un
derstood by every intelligent person. The
conditions were, briefly, the ratification of
the Fourteenth Article amending the Con
stitution of the United States, and the ex
punging of several provisions from the State
Constitution. It is an equally notorious
fact that this so-called Legislature claims
to have complied with these Congressional
requirements. By so claiming, and such
ratification,if it is a fact,they acknowledged
its necessity, if not justice. In the light
of events which have transpired at Atlanta
since the 4th of July last, the question
whether the State of Georgia, through
her legal representatives. Has ratified
iu a legal tuunuer, the Fourteenth Article
and expunged the Relief clause, becomes
an interesting one. If she has not, has
this so-called State Government the right
to take advantage of its own wrong, and
fraud, to get possession of affairs, and, by
unfriendly legislation and bigoted persecu
tion, crush out the last vestige of devotion
to the country within the broad limits of
the State 1 After a calm and dispassion
ate review of all the facts connected with
the organization and subsequent acts of
this pretended Legislature, we boldly affirm
that the Fourteenth Article has not been
legally ratified in accordance with the re
quirements of Congress.
To commence at the beginning: The
Fourteenth Article (■which was and is a
part of the Constitution without the ap
proval of Georgia) forbids any person hold
ing any office under the United States, or
any State, vtho held certain offices before
the war, requiring an oath to -support
the United States Constitution, and after
wards engaged in rebellion. The Senate
of Georgia decided, iu the late Bradley
case, that legislators were officers. We
know that the Legislature went through
the farce of deciding on the eligibility of
members under this Article. But the pre
tended investigation would have been
ludicrous had it not been a criminal white"
washing of disqualified members. There
are thirty-nine men holding seats in the
House iu flagrant violation of the Con
stitutional Amendment. With a sickly
sentimentalism about magnanimity and
corrupt trafticing about two United States
Senators, these thirty-nine members were
permitted to remain, and on Thursday
last disgraced the name of legislators by
expelling men having what they had not,
legal rights iu the House. Magnanimity
to a Democrat, indeed! As well talk of
taming hyenas 1
Add these thirty-nine members, who are
illegally such, to the twenty-four members
who were eligible but who have been de
clared otherwise by the Rouse, and the
four others that will be expelled in a few
days, and we have sixty-seven members in
the House alone, at the time of the so-call
ed ratification of the Constitutional
Amendment, who were not properly there
in the opinion of one party or the other.
And as the Amendment only passed the
House by nineteen majority, and as
more than that number voting in
the affirmative have since been declared
ineligible, it unquestionably follows that
the Amendment has not been adopted, that
Congress has been deceived and that it is
right and proper—aye. necessary—that the
State be remanded to a Provisional condi
tion. Congress can not escape this issue if
it were so disposed. It is a naked question
an.to which shall lie the controlling author
ity, the laws of the United States or the
mere wicked will of the old rebel element.
The reliels have undisturbed sway in the
House, and will soon reconstruct the Senate
to suit their villainous purposes. When
that is done the Executive, the Courts and
all State patronage will be atrfheir mercy.
There is no power anywhere to strangle
these vipers except that of the loyal Nortli.
That thcunited 'manhood of that glorious
and free people will not, at this late day,
basely surrender the loyal and law-abid
ing people of Georgia to the supple tools
qf Toombs, Cobb and Hill we have an
abiding confidence. For we tell Congress,
and the whole North, that when the leaders
of this resurrected rebellion snuff out the
element here, it will then be the turn ot
those at the North who have heretofore
sustained the Government, to be proscribed.
There is no audacious'crime against popu
lar government which they will hesitate
to commit. They have no confidence id
Republican institutions and ever after will
resort to chicanery and force to secure the
emoluments and power of official station.
We repeat, that we have vor.fidenee.in th<-
loyal North. We think she will extend to
us relief, and that she will .teach these re vo
lutionary politicians an important lesson.
We may not obtain this relief until De
cember. In that case, we must patiently
bear proscription and persecution until that
time. Trusting in God, ths Northern peo
ple, and our own strong right arms, we
tan not fail of an ultimate glorious tri
umph over the combined forces of the
demagogues and traitors now manacling
Georgia as they were wontto manacle their
slaves.
“On Humbugs.”—The editor of the Ban
ner says there is “no danger of the Rtteun
lican humbugging the Athenians with
anything.” That's so. Tlw Republican is
not in that business, and hence there is no
danger of our imposing on the Athenians.
Not so with “81m Atkinson.” As a hum
buggist of the Athenians he is a success.
He not only humbugs them with second
hand wood cuts but he actually makes
them believe he » a Democrat. Arid that,
after writing multitudes of Republican
articles for this journal.
MJBManwemrxt.—We have unbounded
confidence in Ben Hill's£x>litic|>l misman
agement, and are much gratified to learn
that lie is attending the Democratic legis
lative caucuses at Atlanta. Ben will never
serve any party unless he can control it»
and he never controls a party that he does
not ruin.
IMPOR TANT DOCUMENT— PROTEST
OF THE COLORED MEMBERS.
House of Representatives, 1
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 3d, 1868. j
To the Speaker and Members of the House
of Representatives.
This House having decided by a veto this
day, to expel the undersigned members from
the seats to which they have been legally
elected, from no improper conduct on their
.part, and for no other legal reason, or pre
tended cause, except their color, the under
signed ardently desiring the pcaee of society,
and the prosperity of the State, and deter
mined to do nil in their power to avoid blood
shed or a war of races, have decided to
stiffer wrong for a time, rather than to
attempt to redress them in a manner that
may, in this time of high political excite
ment, produce civil strife.
Tor these considerations the undersigned
will abide the decision of this House, and
will peaceably retire from the seats to which
they consider themselves legally elected.
. But before doing so, the undersigned, as
tha representatives of their consisting
of over five hundred thousand citizens, and
over ninety thousand legal electors, of this
State, in the name of the State whose peace
ful citizens they are, whose laws they have
and whose white women and children
they nave supported and protected when
their fathers aud brothers were upon distant
battle-fields, in the service of the Confederate
States; in the name of justice and that
equality before the laws to which they are
entitled; in the name of peace and human
ity, without which anarchy and confusion
must take the place of good government,
stability and protection of life and property ;
and in the name of that friendship and good
understanding, which it is their interest and
their ardent desire to cultivate with the white
race, do hereby enter their solemn protest
against the outrage perpetrated upon their
race by the action of this House ; and they
hereby give notice that they will appeal, at
the "proper time, to the Congress of the
United States and the justice of the Ameri
can people, to redress their grievances, to
which they are subjected by the intolerant
and .oppressive conduct of the dominant
party in this House, who, while part of their
members were in danger of losing their seats
on account of ineligibility under the Four
teenth Constitutional Amendment, were met
by the colored members of this House in a
spirit of conciliation and kindness during
that investigation:
But who, when they had obtained an
erroneous decision of the House in their
favor, which enabled them to retain seats, to
which, under the Constitution of the United
States, they are not entitled, bn account of
their participation in the rebeTion, forgetting
that Congress has power, under said Consti
tutional Amendment, to pass all laws and
establish all courts or tribunals necessary to
carry out said Amendment, and that by the
judgment of such tribunals they may yet be
compelled to vacate seats illegally held by
them who now make war on the rights of
colored members and drive them for this
Hall.
The undersigned respectfully demand that
this, their protest, be entered upon the Jour
nal of the House.
County Represented.
Philip Joiner, Dougherty.
Edwiu Belcher, Wilkes.
Mat. Davis, Clarke.
Thomas P. Beard, Richmond.
Thomas M. Alien, Jasper.
Alexander Stone, Jefferson.
Henry M. Turner, Bibb.
Peter O'Neal, Baldwin.
Abram Colby, Green.
T. H. Fyall, Macon.
J. T. Costin, Talbot.
James Porter, Chatham.
James M. Simms, ' Chatham.
W. L. Houston, Bryan.
G. H. Clower, Monroo.
W. A. Gliding, Liberty.
George lander, Laurens.
Robert Lumpkin, t Macon.
S. Gardner, Warren.
A. Richardson, Clarke.
A. Smith, Muscogee.
Munday Floyd, Morgan.
E. C. Barnes, Hancock.
John Warren, Burke.
M. Claiborne, Burke.
Samuel Williams, Harris.
W. 11. Harrison, Hancock.
R. Moore, Columbia.
We, the undersigned members of the
House of Representatives of the State of
Georgia, join iu making solemn protest
against the proceedings ot the House of Rep
resentatives in expelling the .colored mem
bers from this House :
Names. County Represented.
John A. Madden, Burke.
Virgil 11 illy or, Camden.
G. W. Towns.
Jarnos Fitzpatrick, Bibb.
J. Mason Rico, Columbia.
Y. E. J. Franks, Bibb.
Benjamin Ayer, Jefferson.
Ephraim Tweedy, Richmond.
J. E. Bryant, Richmond.
Alexander Haren, Fanin.
S. F. Bauftcr, ’ - Fanin.
8. A. Darnoil, Pickens.
Pendleton Frightened.—John A. Mc-
Clernand, one of the Damphool Federal
Generals who support* Sbvmour, because
General Grant discovered, during the war,
that he belonged tp the Damphool Family,
and dispensed with his services, has let a
Demoeratio “cat out of the bag.” It
shows that Pendleton is frightened about
the result in Ohio. Here is Young Greon
bafte’s dispatch : ’
“Just got home. The condition of the
canvass iu Ohio is such that I must with
draw all my appointments in Illinois.
(Signed) ‘■Georo’R IT. Pendleton.”
Brick after a Democratic Editor. —
Brick Pomeroy’s new paper, the Democrat,
says :
The Natioml Inlcltigencer, of Washing
ton, steals its postage on letteia by using the
printed autograph frank of a member of
Congress. Common .stealing—nothing more
nor less.
■— • ■
Not True.—lt is not true that Bluster
ing Bob Toombs, inspired by the reforma
tion of the “wickedest man in New York,”
has determined to. keep sober, abandon
profanity and vulgarity, and cease ch-
assassination.
- -■
A. H. Stephens.— The revolutionary
Democratic editors of tho South don’t seem
to relish Little Ellick as a Democratic
lender. Thu Mobile Tribune thus speaks of
him
“ Where he stands politically, at the pres
ent moment, it is hard to say; but we know
of uo name in the South which was so fatal
to the success of the Confederate cause as
that of Alexander H. Stephens, except that
of Governor. Joseph Brown. He was always
too ill to preside in the Confederate Senate,
bnt he was always well enough to assist Joe
Brown in resisting the actions of President
Davis and the laws of the Confederate Cou
gress. We have no use for such a man. A
man should be one thing or the other.”
—A small placard, surrounded with a
deep black border, and bearing the usual
emblems of mourning, with the following
inscription, is being circulated in Now York:
“Sacred to the memory of the Colored
Orphan Asylum of New York, which was
burned to ashes July, 186& by a ruffianly
mob,who were acknowledged and addressed
by Horatio Seymour,' Governor of New
Y’ork, as being his ‘friends.’ God save the’
State of New York.”
REPUBLICAN MEETING.
A large number of the Republicans of
Richmond county assembled at the City
Hall yesterday afternoon. Mr. J. B.
Vaughn Was called to the Chair, and Mr.
Richard L. Newson requested to act as
Secretary.
After the meeting was organized speeches
were made by Col. J. E. Bryant, Mr. J. B.
Vaughn, and Mr. Wm. Hale.
On motion, a committee of ten were ap
pointed to report delegates to the District
Convention, to be held in this city on the
10th instant, for the nomination of a candi
date for Congress.
The Committee retired, and after a short
absence returned and reported the fol
lowing Delegates: Hon. Foster Blodgett,
Wm. Hale, Ellis Lyons, J. E. Bryant, Wm.
White and A. 8. Blodgett.
The Committee also reported the follow
ing Alternates: Thomas H. Hankerson*
George R. Snowden, J. M. Jcanes, Gteorge
M. Hood, W. H. Stallings and M. Mayam.
The report was accepted, and on motion
the meeting adjourned.
[Communicated.
THE CAUSE IN THE FIRST
DISTRICT.
Savannah, September 3, 1868.
Mr. Editor:— Having just returned from
the Republican Convention for the First
Congressional District, which was held yes
terday at Blackshear, I have the pleasure of
informing you of the action of that body in
nominating the lion. J. W. Clift as our can
didate for a seat in the first Congress that
shall assemble under the administration of
Grant and Colfax.
The proceedings of the Convention were
of the most harmonious and satisfactory
character. Although several names had
been mentioned in connection with the nom
ination, when it became apparent that a ma
jority of the delegates favored the re-nomi
nation of the present member, individual
preferences were cheerfully surrendered, and
on the first ballot every delegate present cast
his vote for the man who, last spring, car
ried the District by thirty-eight hundred ma
jority.
The First District comprises nearly one
third the entire area of Georgia, and its
population being so widely scattered makes
a representative Convention difficult to ob
tain ; but, in the present instance, fourteen
counties were represented—and, as an illus
tration of the spirit manifested, I will men
tion the fact that Captain Wm. 8. Spencer,
of Camden county, travelled seventy-five
miles on horse-back to attend this Conven
tion.
Look out for a sweeping victory for the
Republicans in the First District. *
[Correspondence Augusta Republican.
THIRD DISTRICT CONGRESSIONAL
CONVENTION.
LaGrange, September 3, 1868.
At a convention held in this city, accord
ing to previous notice, for the purpose of
nominating a Republican candidate for
Congress in the Third Congressional Dis
trict, delegates from nine of the fifteen coun
ties composing the District appeared and
took their seats.
The Convention was organized by calling
Mr. Walter II- Johnson, of Muscogee, to the
Chair, and appointing Mr. 9. H. Cupid, of
Houston, Secretary.
On a call of counties, delegates presented
their credentials and were duly recognized.
On motion of Mr- James Harrison, repre
senting by proxy the county of Talbot, Hon.
John H. Caldwell, of Troup, was unani
mously chysen as the candidate to represent
said District in the Forty-First Congress.
The nomination was hailed with enthu
siasm by the large mass meeting assembled
on the occasion.
On the announcement of this by the Chair,
Mr- Cnldwell addressed the meeting on the.
issues involved in the pending struggle,
thanking the Convention for the honor con
ferred, and accepting the nomination ten
dered him.
The meeting was also addressed by Mr.
Walter H. Johnson, Chairman, Dr. C. W.
Arnold, of Muscogee, Mr. C. 11. Cupid, of
Houston, Rev. Samuel Smith, of Coweta, and
others.
The enthusiasm of the people for Grant,
Colfax and the Congressional nominee was
unbounded.
On motion of Dr. Arnold, the proceedings
of the Convention were ordered to be pub
lished iff the Atlanta New Era, the Augusta
Republican, and the American Union.
Ou motion, the Couveulion adjourned sine
die. Walter 11. Johnson,
•Chairman.
C. H. Cupid; Secretary.
A white inau named Jeter, employed on
tho Central road as a train hand, fell off the
train, yesterday afternoon, whilst it was
running very rapidly, and striking his head
on the end of cross-tie, was instantly killed.
The accident occurred within three or four
miles ot this city.— Macon Telegraph.
We noticed the cotton as we passed up
and down the Mobile and Girard railroad
the other day. The prospect olut good yield
is not at all promising. What we heard
faom the farmers, and we met and talked
with them from all directions, was gloomy
enough. The best account we heard was
from a gentleman living north of the
Springs. He eaid he would make « tolera
ble crop. The account of the yield of the
corn was not so bad— some saying they
would make good crops and others enough
to get along on.— Columbus Enquirer.
The unfortunate lady, Mrs. Anderson, so
brutally treated by her busband some days
ago, died yesterday about 9 o’clock, from the
effects of the injuries she had received, the
very mention ot which makes the blood run
cold.— Columbus Enquirer.
Our sick report this week is quite large,
there being at least fifty persons in town con
fined Co their beds from various causes, prin
cipally consisting of intermittent fever. We
are glad to announce that but one death has
taken place during the past week—a negro
man from sun-stroke, ou Wednesday last.
Warrenton once bore the name of a healthy
place, but that was in tiie days of long ago,
before the writer took np his aljftde in this
part of the geographical vineyard.— War
renton Clipper.
Tl»e Sumpter Republican of Thursday
learns that a fatal rencontre took place at
Green’s Mills, in Lee county, on Thursday
last between a young man by the name of
Crocker, another named Bradford, and Mr.
James Green and his son, resulting in the
killing of old Mr. Crocker by his son, and
the wounding of Bradford and the two
Greens. It is believed that both Bradford
and young Green are mortally wounded.
The shot that proved fatal to old Mr. Crock
er was discharged at the Greens by young
Crocker. The weapons employed were shot
guns and revolvers, and some twenty shots
were fired by the parties. They were all
respectable citizens of Lee county. Politics
baa nothing to do in the matter. The
difficulty originated by one of the parties
insulting the sister of the other.
[From the Albany News.
ELECTION FOR CONGRESSMEN.
We are permitted to publish the following
correspondence:
Albany, Ga., August 20, 1868.
Zb Hu Excellency 11. B. Bullock, Gober nor,
Atlanta, Ga.:
Dear Sir—Permit me to inquire of you
at what time the elections will be held in
Georgia for members of the next (41st) Con
gress.
Tlie Constitution of Georgia—-Article 2d
Section 11—fixes the time “ after the year
1868” for “ Tuesday after the first Monday
in November,unless otherwise provided by
law." 1
Irwin’s Revised Code—Section 1,313
provides that the election shall be held on
the first Wednesday in October 1861, and
biennially thereafter.
The biennial elections after 186 b would be
1863-5-7. The year 1868 is excluded.
Is not an act of the Legislature necessary
to legalize an election, if held within the
present year? Your answer will oblige.
Very respectfully, your obedient serv’t,
Nelson Tift.
Executive Department, |
Atlanta, Ga , August, 1868. )
Hon. Nelson Tift, Albany, Ga.:
Sir—l am instructed by His Excellency
to say, in reply to your esteemed inquiry of
recent date, that, after an examination of
the provisions and articles referred to, he
deems legislation necessary.
Very respectfully.
Eugene Davis,
Secretary Ex. Dep’t.
—•——
Authors of the Apostles' Creed.—The
precise origin of this simple and most
ancient of aii the creeds is involved in some
uncertainty, and has long been a matter of
much dispute among learned theologians. It
is at least certain that its universal use in
the church may be traced back, if not to the
apostolic age itself, yet to that immediately
succeeding, and there is a very old tradition
that each of the twelve articles of the creed
was composed by an apostolic author. It is
said -that the twelve assembled in council
before dispersing themselves to preach the
gospel throughout the world, to frame pie
symbol or watch-word of the Christian
church : and it will be interesting to many of
onr readers to know the apostle to whom
each article is ascribed. The tradition is as
follows:
St. Peter—“l believe in God the Father
Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth.”
St. Andrew—“ And in Jesus Christ, Bis
only Son, our Lord.”
St. James the Great—“ Who was con
ceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin
Mary."
St. John —“Suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead and buried.”
St. Thomas—“He descended into bell,”
(or, “He went into the place of departed
spirits,” which are considered as words of
the same meaning); “the third day He arose
from the dead.”
St. James the Less—“He ascended into
Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God
the Father Almighty.”
St. Philip—“ From hence He shall come
to judge the quick and the dead.”
St. Bartholomew—“l believe in the Holy
Ghost."
Sf Matthew—“ The Holy Catholic Church,
communion of saints."
St. Simon —“The forgiveness of sins.”
St. Judas Thaddeus—“ The resurrection of
the body.”
St. Mathiar—“And the life everlasting.
Amen.”
MARRIED,
On tho evening of August 27tb, by the Rev
Mr. Flournoy, at Avenue, in Baker county, Ga.,
Mr. L. H. CARTER, formerly of Virginia, and
Mrs. MARY A. JONES.
At the Rectory of St. Phi Hips, by Rev. Charles
W. Thomas W. W. GRANT, Esq., and Miss
MATTIE A. HUNT, daughter of W. 11. Hunt,
all of Atlanta.
On the evening of the 30 th August, -ISHW, at
the residence of the bride’s father, in Cuwpta
county, by J. D. Sinims, Esq , Mr. F. M. CAN
TRELL and Miss CAROLINE JONES.
In Hancock county, on the 25th ultimo, at the
residence of James Hardwick, by Rev. W. I.
Harley, Mr. JAMBS G. HESTER, formerly of
• Wilkes, and Miss BESSIE C. DAVIS, of Al
bany, Ga.
—— Bl llHaMimßWl'lllWl—lIIIIXW IJ~~L rm:-jr— 2
SPECIAL NOTICES.
THIT FIRST ANNUAL MEET
ING of tho Reliance Loan and Building
Association will be held at tho City Hall, otl
THURSDAY NEXT, 10th instant, at 8 o’clock
p. m.
There will be an election for President and
Directors for the ensuing year.
Members can pay their instalments to the
Treasurer, 8. H. Shepard, until 5 o’clock of the
same day. W. H. EDWARDS,
sepO—2t Secretary.
MEETING will be bold wt tho City Hall on
THURSDAY EVENING next, at 3 o’clock, Sep
tember 10th. Speakers art expected to be pres
ent to address the meeting.
Como One! Come Everybody !!
G. B. SNOWDEN,
See. of Grant Club.
GEORGIA. RAILROAD, ?
Augusto, Ga., September 1, 1868. 5
NOTICE TO MERCHANTS.—
Until further notice, on and after let of Septem
ber, 1868, the rote on BACON from St. Louis to
Augusta, by Nashville and Northwestern and
Nashville and Chattanooga Railreads, is reduced
to ONE DOLLAR per lOOlbs.
• S. K. JOHNSON,
sepl—7t Assistant Superintendent.
FLOUR SACKsT?
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 order.
Information promptly famished upon applica
tion. W. B. ASTEN 4 CO.,
je IT—3m 25 Pearl Street, New York City.
To Rent.
f'ROM THE FIRST OCTOBER NEXT,
that Desirable Cottage Residence, No. 196
South Green street, at present occupied by J. B.
Preston, Esq.
Apply to R. S. AGNEW,
sep3—td 360 Broad st.
To Rent.
I3ROM THE FIRST OCTOBER NEXT.
r the House, No. 70 South Broad street, At
present occupied by Dr. Wilson. It contains
eight rooms, garden and all necessary
outbuildings.
Apply to B. S. AGNEW,
sep3—td 3AO Broad st.
NOTICE
T« Retailer* of Spirituous Liquors.
Retailers of spirituous liquors
whose County License have expired, orwho
have not yet taken out such license, are hereby
notified that they must renew or take out the
same forthwith, or they will be dealt with acooro’
ing to law. SAMUEL LEVY, •
au 25—10 t Ordinary Richmond County.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Appointments by the Governor
Confirmed by the Senate, September 4, 1868.
Honorable John R. Prescott, of Emanual
county, to be Solicitor General of the Middle
Circuit for the term of four years.
Honorable Alford B. Smith, of Chatham
eotinty, to bo Solictor General of the Eastern
Circuit for the term of four years.
sop6—3t
I”"n THE DISTRICT COURT. OF~THg
United States for the Northerd District of
Georgia.
In the matter of )
WILLIAM 11. GILES, [IN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. ) No. 146.
Tire said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court
for a discharge from all his debts provable under
the Bankrupt Aet of March 2d, 1867, uoticp ; 8
hereby given to all persons interetted to iinpeiu on
the sth day of October, 1868, at 10 o’clock in u 1( ,
forenoon, at chambers of the said District Court
before Alexander G Murray Esq., one of the Reg'
isters of the said Court in Bankruptcy, at the Reg.
ister’s office, in the city of Griffiu, Georgia,
show cause why the prayer of the suid petition of
the Bankrupt should not be granted. And further
notice is given that the second and third mcetinse
of creditors will be held at the same time and place
Witness, the Honorable John Erskine
■ r.ear Jud ß s of said District Court, this
[seal. 3d day of September, 1868.
W. B. SMITH,
septi—lt” Clerk,
Official.
Proclamations
■'lkl "ii i
BY THE GOVERNOR.
Executive Department, 1
Atlanta, Ga., September 3, 1868. J
To the Principal Keeper of the Penitentiary:
Whereas, at the February Term, 1866, of the
Superior Court of Walton county in this State, R
W. Chaffin was convicted on his g>len of guilty
after offence of being accessory after the fact of
simple larceny, and was then and there sentenced
therefor, by the Judge of said Court, to be iin
prisoned at hard labor in the Penitentiary for the
term of three years; and whereas, the General
Assembly of this State, at a session thereof held
at Milledgeville nr December, 1866, passed a
joint resolution requesting His Excellency, Gov.
eruor Jenkins to relieie said R. W. Chaffin from
such imprisonment and set him at liberty, which
joint resolution was approved by said Governor
the 3d day of December, 1866, but was new
acted upon by His Excellency, leaving the said
Chaffin still imprisoned in tho Penitentiary as
aforesaid under said sentence ■
Therefore, by the authority in me vested by the
Constitution of this Slate, I hereby fully pardon
the said R. W. Chaffin of the said offence, and it
is hereby ordeied that he be forthwith discharged
and set at liberty, and restored to all civil rights
as a citizen of this State.
Given under my hand and Seal of the Executive
Department, at the Capitol in Atlanta, the day
and year above written.
R. B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor: Governor.
B. B. DeGbaffenbied,
Scc’y Ex. Department. sepo—3t
Assignee's Sale.
STATE OF GEORGIA—RICHMOND COUN
TY.- Pursuant to an order from the Hon.
Frank S. Hesscltine, Register in Bankruptcy for
the Southern District of Georgia, will be sold in
the city of Augusta, at the Lower-Market House,
on the FIRST TUESDAY IN OCTOBER next,
between the usual hours of tale, all that Tractor
lot of Land on the south side of Ellis street, be
tween Campbell and Washington streets, known
as the Palace Stables, together with all the im
provements thereon. AH the above real estate
sold as the property of Marcus A- Dehoney,
Bankrupt, fur the benefit of his creditors.
This property will be' sold free of all incline
brances, they having been ordered to be trans
ferred to the proceeds of sale of tho same.
Also, at the same time and place, will bo sold
all tho Notes and Bank Accounts belonging to
and surrendered by Marcus A. Dohonoy.
Purchaser to pay for papers.
A. WILSON, Assignee.
Augusta, September 3, 1858.
seps—lawtds
“national
MDMW SAVINGS
AND
TRUST COMPANY.
O-
Chartered by Act oF Congrc**.
o
Banking House, Pennsylvania Avenue,, corner
of 19th street, Washington, D. C.
o
BRANCH AT AUGUSTA. GA,
HO 10 JACKSOX ST.
Open every day—Sundays and Holidays ex
cepted—from 9 a. m. to 2 p. m., and Saturday
evenings from 6 to 8 p. m.
DEPOSITS OF ANY AMOUNT FROM
FIVE CENTS UPWARDS, RE
CEIVED FROM ANY
PERSON.
Deposits can always bo withdrawn without no
tice. Deposits in specie are repaid in specie-
All other deposits are repaid in “Greenbacks”
or National Bank Bills.
All the profits belong to the depositors.
Investments are only made in Securities of
tho United States. GEO. 11. HARRIS,
Chairman Advisory Committee.
ROBERT T. Ki NT,
Secretary-
DAVID A. RITTER,
Acting Cashier.
au2l—d<kwtf .
Postponed U- S. Marshal’s Sale
tYnder and by virtue of a writ
LJ of fieri facia* issued out of the honorable the
Fifth Circuit Court of the United States for the
Southern District of Georgia, in favor of the flam
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 Bank
of Commerce, part of lot of land numbered ten
(10>, Jekyl Tylbing, Derby Ward, together with
ail the improvements thereon, consisting ft a
building, known as the Bank of Commerce Build
ing, situate, iyiug, «uu being & the city n '
vannah. county of Chatham, and State of Georgia,
and will sell the same at public auction, attire
Court House, in the city of Savannah, Chatham
couuty, Georgia, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN
OCTOBER uext, between the lawful hours o‘
Dated Savannah, Ga., May 29th, 1868.
WM. G. DICKSON,
sep2-law4w U. S. Margin
TN THE ImSTMOT COURT OF THE
1 United States for the Northern District ci
Georgia.
In the matter of ) ~v
WM. 11. BRIMBERRY, >IN BANKRUPTCY-
Bankrupt. J No. 180.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Cour
for a discharge from aU his debts provable unce
the Bankrupt Aet of March 2d, 1867, notice r
hereby given to all persons interested to appear on
the 22d day of September., 1868, at 10
at Chambers of said District Court before Aloe
G Foster, Esq., one of the Registers of
Court in Bankruptcy, at the Register s
in Madison, Georgia, and show cause why ,
prayer of tbe said petition of the Bankruptsh
not be granted. And farther notice Is given
the second and third meetings of creditors win
held at tbe same time and place. .
Witnesa, the Honorable John k.r« ,n .'
, . Judge of said Dstrict Court, and tn
seal thereof, this 3d day of
1868. W. B. SStm.
seps—law2w»
Official
Appointments by the Governor-
•Exxcutivk Dxr*ar»<*ifT. I
Atlanta, Ga., August 2»th, 1868.)
Ordered— That John Scott Esq., of the cotro .
of Baldwin, be, and he is hereby, appointed yve
seer of the Penitentiary, by virtue of «>e a
thority vested in me by the HrJtitb eectfou «
Code of Georgia.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor : Governor-
B. B. DKGnAYFEwn<n>j
Sec’y Ex. Department.
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