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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.” NationalUcpnblkan * 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. wp4-34