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• PARAGKAMB.
—Yesterday, in New York, Gold was
quoted at 1.44}. Cotton, 29jc.
-* A sailor defines a comet as a star sprang
aleak. ,
—A San Francisco girl has made a bcd
quilt of 2,<501 pieces.
—The best thing to do with a glass of
bitter beer—“put it down.”
—England has to go back forty or fifty
years to find a season so hot as the present.
—Ned Buntline is doing temperance lec
tured in San Francisco.
Bayard Taylor and family arc home
from Europe. Now for a new book.
—Victor Hugo predicts a revolution in
Francs .'Napoleon lives two years longer.
—A Boston street rowdy was caned by
one of the Chinese embassy the other day.
—The Hungarian gypsies in London have
got into tronhle by exhibiting dancing bears
with a predilection for hugging spectators.
—Napoleon has recently bought a clock,
surmounted by a man swallowing as many
eggs as the hour hand strikes.
—Mr. Palmer pays Mr. Wheatley $50,000
for his lease of Niblo’s Garden. The lease
has three years to run.
—A Schaffhausen tavern-keeper has in
his room, in a nico frame, a board bill which
Louis Napoleon has owed him fur thirty-nine
years.
San Francisco has a matrimonial
agency, “in charge of a lady of discretion,
mature years, and conscientious Christian
principles.” Fee, five dollars.
—The daily ornaments of Ben Griffith, a
Texan desperado, were three six-shooters
and a double-barrelled shot-gun. Through
the energy of a sheriff, he now ornaments a
rustic graveyard.
♦ —Sun Tajen, one of the Chinese embassy,
has bestowed SSO and the promise of a SSOO
annuity on the man, George Boyce, who
saved him from drowning at Buffalo, New
Y ork.
—The rebels of Helena, Arkansas, are so
hard pushed to secure the company of
colored people at their barbecues that they
have been compelled to offer them the choice
of tables.
—John B. Marko, of Nelsonville, Athens
couuty, Ohio, a soldier of the war of 1812,
will vote the Republican ticket for the first
time at the next election.
—The manufacture of wood-sole boots
and shoes is one of the latest Boston novel
ties. It is claimed that they will lost much
longer, are impervious to water, and only
cost about one-half as much as leather.
—G; L. Bittincer, Esq., alcading Demo
crat of Montana, Boone county, lowa, and
chairman of the Democratic Executive com
mittee for the Eleventh Judicial Distrid-,
has declared his intention to support Grant
and Colfax.
-y-M, Orth, in his debate with Gen. Man
son, at Oxford, Indiana, referring to the
question of taxation, said that county paid
a tax of $413. in view of this fact, he
thought the dogs legitimate game for the
Democratic party.
-—An illustrated Paris paper publishes
engravings of the feet of certain famous
ballet girls, who, it is said, have to pay a
round sum for the insertion. .Some of tbe
young ladies refuse to furnish pictures of
their feet. .
—Reverdy Johnson made a speech nt the
annual feast of Cutlers, at Sheffield,England,
on the 3dj saying that ho visited England
on a mission of peace, aud claimed that the
Americans entertained the kindliest feel
ings toward England.
—A rather fast youth was relating the
experience of his voyage across the ocean
to a sympathizing friend. Said he, “I
tell you what, old fellow, there’s one good
thing about it, though. You can get as
tight as you please every day, and every
body thinks you’re only sea sick.”
—The ordinary definition of an island is
“a portionvof land entirely surrounded by
water." A Hibernian of our acquaintance
declares that this does not meet the case in
Ireland, which, considering the position of
tbe State Church, is best described as “ a
portion of land entirely surrounded by the
sees.”
—A band of the Ku-Klux Democracy
recently whipped a woman most unmerci
fully at Versailles, Rutherford county, Ten
nessee, because they suspected her of di
vulging some of their secrets. There’s
chivalry for you! Whether they are the
same gang who are said to have whipped a
female member pf AdMew Johnson’s family
is not known.
—A person who was recently called into
court for the purpose of proving the cor
rectness of a doctor’s bill, was asked by
the lawyer whether the doctor did not make
several visits after the patient was out of
danger ?” “ No,” replied the witness, “ 1
considered the patient in danger as long as
the doctor continued his visits?’
—The trial of Chelan and the other par
ties accused of the mflrder of the Hon. T.
D. McGee will take place this week. The
Assizes for the county of Carleton, at which
the trial will take place, open at Ottawa on
Wednesday, but the trial will probably not
begin before Friday. The witness Lacroix,
is still retained in jail for safe keeping. It
is said that the defence will be able to de
stroy the value of the evidence materially.
—The late Thaddeus Stevens thought
Homer's Odyssey superior to the Iliad. He
called the latter “an account of a scries of
fights among Greek bullies, gods and men,
with an occasional interlude about god
desses and the wives and mistresses of the
bullies, filled out with counsellings and plots
by the elders in this fighting fraternity, in
culcating a morality admitting of a great
deal of improvement” The Book of Job he
ranked as the grandest drama in any lan
guage.
—Judge Ransom Balcom, of the New
York Supreme Court, has written a letter,
addressed to a Republican club in Unadilla,
strongly endorsing the nomination of Grant
and Colfax. After saying that he has
taken no part in political discussions since
was appointed a Judge in 1855, he says:
“ In my judgement it is as necessary for the
peace and prosperity of the people, the
protection or Union men in the Southern
States the credit of the Government and the
preservation of the Union that General
Grant should be elected President of the
United States, as it was for the Union army
to defeat the Confederate forces and crush
the rebellion.”
—The German doctors have lately been
playing their leeches a droll trick—making
one worm do the work of many. When the
little blood-sucker has taken his fill, and if
about to release his bite, he is tapped. A
small incision is made in his side that serves
as an outlet for the blood, and he goes on
sucking in happy ignorance of the cause of
his abnormal appetite as long as the doctor
pleases. Bdellatomy is the name given to
the practice, and it is urged that it is not
cruel, hut contrarywise, since it does the
leech a good turn by enablipg him to enjoy
his rich feast indefinitely. He does not die
under the operation, but with proper treat
ment is soon healed, and may be incised over
and over again.
National ttepttblican
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A.trous'rjL. ua.
TUESDAY MORNING Septamber 8, 1808
For FT4ESIISEINT
Os the United States:
ULYSSES S. (.KAM.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF INDIANA.
Republican Electoral Ticket*
FOR THE STATE AT I.ARUf.
HENRY P. FARROW, of Fulton.
AMOST. AKERMAN, of Libert.
ALTERNATES.
Judge Dawson Walker, of Whitfield.
C. H. Hopkins, of Chatham, '
FOR THE DISTUKTS.
is/ District— A. WILBUR, of Chatham.
Alternate— E. E. Howard, of Chatham.
2<Z District—,E. R. HARDEN, of Randolph.
Alternate— S. F. Salter, of Pulaski.
3d District—K. I. HIGEEE, of Talbot.
Alternate — J. R. Thomas tox, of Carroll*.
Mh District—Wx. H. WHITEHEAD, of
Butts.
Alternate— Henry Glover, of Jasper.
sth District—3. E. BP. YANT, of Richmond.
Alternate— F. J. Rovinson, of Oglethorpe.
6/A District—J. S. FAIN, of Union.
Alternate—lsaac 8. Clements, of Forsyth.
Uh District — ■
Alternate— F. A. Kirby, of Chattooga.
THE LEE MANIFESTO—THE HEAL
ISSUE DODGED.
We publish elsewhere, as matter Which
will be eagerly read by the people, more
for tlie distinguished reputation of its
author than for its intrinsic value, the re
ply of those eminent Southern leaders,
Robert E. Lee, Henhy F. Russell, and
others, to the letter of Gen. Rosexceanz.
No man who engaged in the rebellion has
so much of our confidence as Gen. Lee.
He is so great and good that he imagines
all the rebel leaders are the same way.
That is his mistake. If the issues wete
left to Gen. Lee’s arbitrament alone, wc
know there would be no persecution or
proscription on account of political differ- *
ences. We know the black man would be
protected in his civil and political rights.
We know there would be no war against
regularly organized State Governments in
the South. We know’ that he would res
pect the fiag under which lie was educated,
amt which has since compelled his
obedience. But the history of the past, ad
monishes us that Gen Lee can not control
the demagogues andhotdioadsofthe South.
If he could do it now, lie would have
doue it in 1861. Then he did not believe
in secession, and was opposed to war. His
opposition availed nothing. He is equally
powerless for good now. In war, the coun
sels of Geueral Lee were heeded, but in
peace, he lias little more influence than any
other distinguished and honorable citizen.
We have read the General’s manifesto
carefully. It is smooth and harmless enough
on the surface, but we submit to the candid
reader whether it does not ignore the ques
tion which is now so greatly agitating anif
alarming the people of the country t That
question is, briefly : Do the late rebels pro
pose to forcibly overthrow the constitutions
of the reconstructed Southern States, in the
eveut of the election of Seymour and
Blair? Blair answers that question in
the affirmative. Conn, and Hampton, and
Toombs, and Forrest, all claim that
as the purpose of the Democratic party.
General Lee is too inlelligeut a gentleman
not to know that such are the public declara
tions of the leading Southern politicians, as
well as the declarations of the Pomeroys
and Valt.andiuHAMS of the North. His
silence on this question is painful and omiti
’ ous. How easy would it have been for him
to have said if revolutionary means were
used by the Southern States, he would not
only not join this army of force, but that he
would use bis great influence to prevent its
success. He did not give utterance to any
such sentiment. We fear he does not enter
tain any such feeling. Indeed, when we
come to analyze his letter, it amounts sim
ply to a declaration that his late comrades in
arms will be very peaceable and law-abiding
provided they receive ichat they conceive to be
their constitutional rights, and the loyal
blaeks and whites are placed at the
mercy of the rebels. Boil bis language
down to a point, and it is a reiteration of
the threat to the loyal people of the North,
that if the rebels don't get what they want,
tlu-ra will l» tn>ul4»'. It is true thix threat,
is masked in meek language, but never
theless, the old rebtjl spirit is quietly and
prominently lurking in every line and sen
tencc of the manifesto. He has no word
of rebuke for Southern hot-heads, but
alone finds fault with a Government which
has been remarkably generous towards
him. At one time we were fearful that
this Sulphur Springs convocation would
injure General Grant, but now we rejoice
that General Rosecranz, for- once, got
something beside morphine in his head. It
will render essential service to Grant.
General Lee is regarded as the mildest
type of a revolutionist, and when Am utter
ances contain so much masked treason, the
Northern people will judge correctly of
the revolutionary purposes of Toombs.
Forrest & Co.
-—Mt •
“How we Apples Swim.”—The appear
ance of the names of H. F. Rrussell and
T. P. Branch, Esqs., of this city, attached
to the Lee Manifesto will undoubtedly cause
a broad grin of amusement on the faces of all
parties.
Old Rosy went to White Sulphur to con
sult the leading men of the South, and be
hold the irrepressible H. F. issues a mani
festo to the North. “How we apples swim.’
“Admonisuek.”—Read the interesting
communication of “Admonisber” in another
column. It is from the pen of one of the
most sagacious, patriotic and distinguished
citizens of Georgia.
IMBECILITY AND TREACHERY OF
SEYMOUR.
Col. Wm. Brown, of Kentucky, the “right
bower” of Mr. Chase, in the movement to
nominate the Chief Justice as the Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency, re
cently delivered a speech in his State (to
which reference has been heretofore made
in the columns of the Republican) which
has caused quite a fluttering among the
Seymour pigeons throughout the country.
Col. Brown having made public some of
the secret workings of the New York Con
vention, which were questioned by the Now
¥ork World, Brown cuts and comes again
in lively style. He doos so in a manner,
too. which will compel the “ World to take
water,” and the “ Artful Dodger” blush for
shame. In reply to the World’s charge
that he was “ignorant” of the workings of
the Convention, Col. B. says :
I beg leave to refer him for information, first
to the Chief Justice himsolf; second, to Gen.
J. S. Whitney, of Boston; Hon. Alexander
Long, of Cincinnati: lion, Hamilton Smith, of
Cannelton, Ind.; Hon. John .1. Cisco and Col.
John D. Van Baren, of New York. It is In the
power of these gentlemen to verify every state
ment in my speech concerning Mr. Seymour. I
also refer the JForta to an article signed “R,”
and which appeared in the Went it South day
before yesterday. “R” is a better Democrat and
a better newspaper writer than the editor of the
World, and his long connection with the Cincin
nati Enquirer secured fer that paper much of its
circulation and influence. Ho sustains every
position taken by me; goea even further, and
says things which "my sympathies for Mr. Suv
moub’s misfortunes forbade me to utter. I know
that, after Hit was over, Mr. Sbymuur cried for
hours like a newly weaned baby ; but it appears
to be really unkind and cruel that this shameful,
disgraceful weakness of the poor man should
have been made public.
Colonel Brown then proceeds to inform
the. World that he has in his possession the
proposed Chase platform, which was sub
mitted to Mr. Seymour and approved by
him, and that if he dares deny it, the proof
will be forth-coining. This platform favors
colored suffrage.
Hon. Alexander Long, late Democratic
member of Congress from Cincinnati, thus
write? to the <£• South, a Democratic
newspaper:
He (Seymour) spoke in favor of Mr. Cha.-e’s
nomination, in the New York delegation, on
Thursday morning, after which a vote was
taken, when thirty seven of the delegates ex
pressed their preference for the Chief Justice,
and a majority was to cast a vote as a unit. On
hi* way to the Convention, and in less than, two
hours before he was noinin&tc d, hs read to Dr.
Thomas Cottman, of New York, an elaborate
prepared speech, which he intended to make on
seconding the nomination of the Chief Justice
von behalf of New York; he expecting, as did the
Convention, that Mr. Chase would be nominated
that morning. Ho had made arrangements with
General Price, of Missouri, to occupy the Chair,
that he might speak from the floor, and had
this speech in his pocket at the time ho was
nominated.
In view of all these incontrovertible facts,
Henry ReEd, Esq., one of the ablest Demo
cratic writers in the West, triumphantly
says:
The question, so far as Mr. Seymour stands
affected, is this : Was he dishonest, or merely
weak? Was his conduct the result of treachery
or imbecility ? (That Mr. Seymour was cither
weak or dishonest, that his conduct owed its
origin either to treachery or imbecility, is a thing
so palpable as to forbid denial. His act was
that of a knave or of a fool; and that knave or
fool—whichever it may have been—of no* com
mon magnitude. It is not complimentary to
Mr. Seymour when his apologists can only main
tain his integrity at the expense of his under
standing, and his understanding at the expense
of his integrity. It is not fortunate for a party
to be committed to a candidate in respect to
whose character there is a question which can
only be answered by an impeachment of either
his intellectual or his moral fitness for the place
to which it seeks his elevation.
FORREST AND THE KU-KLUX.
We publish the details of a highly hn
portant interview of a correspondent of the
Cincinnati (JummercM with the whilom
negro trader and rebel General, N. B.
Forrest. This desperate man talks with
brutal frankness.” lie boastingly con
fosses more than has ever been charged
against the lawless Ku -Klux organization,
although asserting in the same breath, the
falsity, of all the charges of the friends of
tbe Government against it. He says that
there are 40,000 in Tennessee aloiie, and
550,000 in the Southern States. This is
more than live times as many men as sur
rendered to General Grant and Sherman
in 1865. He boasts of his ability to organize
an army of 40,000 in five days—more than
constituted General Dke's immediate com
mand when that officer tendered his sword
to General Grant. He declares that the
Domes of the white Union men are already
picketed by Ku-Klux, and not one will be
allowed to escape alive. General Forrest
unconsciously admits the bloody character
of the organization, when he says that they
have Iveen compelled to execute three of
their own number for committing depreda
tion*. Can honest men longer doubt that
war is the purpose of these desperate
men ? We have neither time nor room for
further comment this morning. Forrest’s
admisßioii is a triumphant refutation of
the honied declarations of the amiable
leader of the armies of the late Confed
cracy. To-morrow the subject will be
resumed.
Bad Treatment.—U. L. Ridley, Presi
dent of the colored Democratic Club of
this city and a white Democrat entered
the bar-room of a Democratic Hotel on
Broad street a few days since, and ordered
‘‘poison” for two. The proprietor informed
them that he did not permit “niggers” to
drink at his bar. “But Mr. Ridley is a
Democrat,’’ expostulated the white.—
“Don’t care a d n, he can't drink here.”
curtlj’ retorted the exasperated specimen
of the negroes’ “best friend.” go.
The Removal or Mr. Patterson—The
Chronicle is indignant because Mayor
Blodgett has seen fit to order the dismissal
of Mr. J. S. Patterson as Assistant Collec
tor and Treasurer under Dr- Garvin. Ac.
cording to Mr. P.’s own showing, he was
unable to render any service to the city, and
any candid man will admit that there is no
propriety in his drawing « salary for doing
nothing. Mr. P.’s polities were known when
he was appointed, and hence the allegation
that he was dismissed for political reasons is
absurd.
New Pater—We have received the first
number ot a new Democratic paper, just
commenced at Fort Gaines, Ga. It is well
printed, and we wish it pecuniary success.
Tucker A Perrtman, Proprietors. Price
$2 per annum.
SHOOTING AND MURDER OF
NEGROES IN ELBERT.
We have heard rumors of bloody out
rages done to colored people in Elbert
county. To-day wo are able to present to
our readers »n account of these shameful
deeds, in u letter from a citizen of that
county to A gentleman who had inquired of
him for the facts. These facts need no
comment. The good citizens of that county
of all colors and all parties owe it to them
selves to innkc the guilty persons feel the
rigor of the law. If man below fails to
avenge their wrongs, the retribution is sure
to come from a righteous God above. Here
are the facts:
Elbert County, Ga., Aug. 31, 1868.
Dear Sir : In answer to your inquiry
about the outrages recently committed on
colored persons in Elbert county, I give
you the following facts as I heard them
from persons likely to be correctly in
formed :
First. Early in this mouth, on the planta
tion of Mrs. Baker, one Scott, a white man
employed on the plantation, shot with a
pistol William Morrison, a colored boy, as
lie was harmlessly riding a mule to water—
a duty to which the boy had been ordered
by a lady having charge of affairs at the
place. The ball entered the back and the
wound was at first supposed to be fatal;
but, under the oare of a skilful and humane
physician, the patient is better, and may
recover.
Second. On the the 22d day of this month
a colored preacher, named Elias (some
times called Elias Whitner), came to Ruck
ersville, in this county, from his home in
Anderson, S. C. Soon after his arrival he
was approached by three white citizens of
the village, who ordered him to leave the
place in one hour, one of them adding, “if
you don’t go we’ll skin you alive.” Elias
tried to talk to them, but they refused to
hear him. He then got his mule and bug
gy and meekly departed homewards. Be
fore the expiration of the hour allowed him
in his warning, he was found dead in the
road, about a mile from Ruckersville, shot
through the body. The only reason I have
heard given for expelling him from Ruck
ersville were, that he woe concerned iu an
affray in South Carolina year before last,
in which a young white man was killed ;
and that he was supposed to be active in
getting' up meetings of the “Loyal League.”
1 understand that he was concerned in that
unfortunate affair in Carolina, but that the
whole matter has been investigated under
the laws of that State, and the offenders
punished according to their guilt, and that
his offence was so slight that he was dis
missed, with a fine. I have no information
respecting his connection with “Loyal
Leagues.”
Third. On the 25th of August, Nathan
Thompson, a colored man of good character,
who teaches a school in the lower part of
.the couuty for colored children, when on the
way from the school-house to his home, was
shot at twice by some white person in am
bush near the road. One of the shots took
effect in his shoulder, but the wound is not
serious. ,
Fourth. A day or two after the above, a
black man named Mattox was shot dead at
Hopewell Factory by a white man. The
quarrel grew out of an accusation that Mat
tox had thrown some peach-stones at a boy
—a relation of the man who perpetrated the
killing. There are different reports of the
affair. Tlie most correct is that the negro
gave the white man the lie, and upon re
peating it was shot.
Four cases of shooting negroes, iu one
month, in one small county 1
Yours, etc., etc.,
OVER HALF A MILLION OF KU
KLUX S IN THE SOUTH—ADMIS
SIONS OF GEN. FORREST.
bead! read!! read!!!
After being seated iu his office, said :
“ Gen. Forrest, J come especially to learn
civil and political affairs in the State of
Tennessee and the South generally. I
desire them for publication in the Cincin
nati Commercial. I do not wish to mis
represent you in the slightest degree, and
[ therefore only ask for such views as you
arc willing 1 should publish.”
5 “ I have not now,” he replied, “ and
-' never had any opinion on any public or
f political subject which 1 would object to
t having published. I mean what I say,
I earnestly and honestly, and only object to
being misrepresented. I dislike to be
3 placed before the country in a false posi-
- tion, especially as I have not sought the
- reputation which I have gained.”
, I replied: “ Sir, I will publish only what
you say, and then you cannot possibly be
; misrepresented. Our people desire to know
your feeling toward the General Govern
ment, the State Government of Tennes
see, and the Radical party, both in and out
of the State, and upon the question of negro
suffrage.”
“What are your feelings toward the Fede
. ral Government, General ?"
. “1 loved the old Government in 1861. I
love the old Constitution yet. I think it is
the best Government in the world, if admin
f istered as it Was before the war. Ido not
hate it; I am opposing now only the Radi
cal revolutionists who are trying to destroy
it. I believe that party to be composed, as
J I know it is in Tennessee, of the worst
r men gn God's earth—men who would hesi
j tale at no crime, and who have only one ob
s ject in view, to enrich themselves.”
“In the event of Governor Brownlow’s
: calling out the militia, do you think there
will be any resistance to* their acts?” I
asked.
“That will depend upon circumstances.
If the militia are simply called out, and do
not interfere with or molest any one, I do
• not think there will be any fight. If, on the
f contrary, they do what I believe they will
j do—commit outrages, or even one outrage
uyon the people—they and Mr. Brownlow's
1 government will be swept out of existence ;
not a Radical will be left alive. If the
[ militia are called out, wo can not but look
, upon it as a declaration of war, because Mr.
Brownlow has already issued his proclama-
1 lion directing them to shoot down Kn-Klux
wherever they find them, and he calls all
Southern men Ku-Klux.”
“Why, General, we people up North have
regarded the Ku-Klux Klan as an organiza
tion which existed only iu the frightened
imaginations of a few politicians.”
“IV ell, sir, there is such an organization,
not only in Tennessee, but ' all over the
South, and its numbers have not been exag
gerated.”
“What are its numbers, General?”
"In Tennessee there are over 40,000 ; in
all the Southern States they number about
550,000 men.”
“Ahntis the character of the organiza
tion, may I inquire ?”
“Yea, sir. it is a protective, political,
military organization. lam willing to show
any man the constitution of the society.
Tfie members are sworn to recognize the
Government of the United States. It does
not say anything at all about the Govern
ment of the State of Tennessee. Its objects
originally were, protection against Loyal
Leaguers and the Grand Army of the Re
public, but after it became general, it was
found that political matters ami interests
could best be promoted within it, and it was
then made a political organization, giving its
support, of course, to the Democratic party, ’ f
“But is the organization connected
throughout the State ?”
“Yes, it Ib. In each voting precint there
is a Captain, who, in addition to his other
duties, is required to make out a list of
names of men in his precinct, giving all
the Radicals and all the Democrats who
are positively known, and showing also the
doubtful on both sides of both color. This
list of names is forwarded to the Grund
Commander of the State, who is thus
enabled to know who arc our friends and
who are not”
“Can you, or are you ut liberty to give
me the name of the commanding officer of
the State ?”
“No, it would bo impolitic.”
“Then I suppose that there can be no
doubt of a conflict if the militia interfere
with the people; is that your view
“Yes, sh'; if they attempted to carry out
Governor Brownlow's proclamation by shoot
ing down Ku-Klux—for he calls all south
ern men Ku-Klux—if they go to huntiug
down and shooting these men, there will be
war, and a bloodier one than we have over
witnessed. I have told these Radicals here
what they might expect in such an event.
I have no powder to burn shooting negroes.
I intend to kill the Radicals. I have told
them this and more ; there is not a Radical
leader in this town but what is a marked
man, and if a trouble should break out not
one of them would be left alive. I have
told them that they were trying to create a
disturbance and then slip out and leave the
consequences to fall upon the negro, but
they can’t do it Their houses are picketed,
and when the fight comes not one of them
would ever get out of town alive. We don’t
intend they shall ever get out of the coun
try. But I want it distinctly understood,
that 1 am opposed to any war, and will
only fight in self-defence. If the militia
attacks us, we will resist to the last, and if
necessary, I think I could raise 40,000 men,
in five days, ready for the field.”
“Do you think, General, that the Ku-
Klux have been of any benefit to - the
State ?”
“No doubt of it. Since its organization
the Leagues have quit killing and murder
ing people. There arc some foolish young
men who put masks on their faces and ride
over the country, frightening negroes; but
orders have been issued to stop that, and it
has ceased. You may say further that
three members of the Ku-Klux have been
court-martialed and shot for violations of
the orders not to disturb or molest people.”
“Are you a member of the Ku-Klux,
General?”
“I am not; but am in sympathy and will
cooperate with them. 1 know that they
are charged with many crimes that they are
not guilty of. A case in point is the killing
of Bierfield, at Franklin, a few days ago.
I sent a man up there especially to investi
gate the case, and report to me, and I have
his letter here now, in which he states that
they had nothing to do with it as an organi
zation.”
CORRESPONDENCE.
The following correspondence has been
handed us for publication. The Chronicle’s
charges, which elicited these letters, have
been made in political circles for some time,
and were generally believed. It is under
stood that the Democrats will order an
investigation, and their committees, liko
Military Courts, are generally “organized to
convict.” However, it will be seen that the
Assessor is quite explict in his denial:
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 5, 1868.
Colonel John Bowles, Assessor Internal
Revenue, 3d District Georgia.
Sill: My attention has been called to a
charge, made this morning in a city paper,
that I drew pay as an Assistant Assessor for
the whole time I was a member of the late
Constitutional Convention ; and that I now
hold the office of an Assistant Assessor in
this District. I respectfully ask that you
will state the facts in the case.
Very respectfully,
J. E. Bryant.
Assessor’s
Third District of Georgia, >
Augusta, Sept- 7, 1868.)
Sih —Your communication of the sth
instant, asking a statement of facts relative
to certain charges made against you, has
been received, and, in reply, I would state
that you did not draw pay as an Assistant
Assessor for any time you served as a mem
ber of the late Constitutional Convention. I
would state, further, that your resignation as
an Assistant Assessor was made to take
effect on the Ist day of July'last, since which
time you have not exercised the function of
that office, or drawn pay therefor.
Very respectfully,
J. Bowles, Assessor.
Colonel J. E. Bryant.
[Communicated.
A PROPHECY.
Editor of the Augusta Republican:
The Democracy compelled the United
Slates to free the negroes ; next, to give
them the ballot; aud finally, they will com'
pel it to give them arms.
As to the first, the United States began
the war, as it declared, not for conquest, but
to enforce the laws ; but the rebellion became
so persistent aud successful, that it bad to
free the negroes to conquer the South. All
will recollect that it whs two years of war
before Lincoln, reluctantly, issued his Email
cipation Proclamation; and then gave us
one hundred days to return, with our slaves,
but the South would not, and left, no other
alternative for the United States but to free
the nnvroes or suffer the nation to be de
stroyed.
As to the second folly, the United State's
offered reconstruction to the whites alone, on
the mild terms that a few old fogies, who had
been guilty of perjury, as well as treason,
should not hold office until two-thirds of
Congress should consent. And if Congress
had been met with a proper spirit, such con
sent would, no doubt, have been given before
this- But no, the conquered required it
should be on their terms, and not on those
of the conqueror; that after having taken
the garrison, the United States should put
back the same officers and soldiers to hold
it, and revolt again, if they wished.
As the vanquished whites would not re
construct, the United States could do no
thing else than let the loyal black element
do it.
And now, as to the third thing. The
leaders, who have twice misled the white
people, as above shown, will cause them to
compel the United States to arm the negroes.
They exasperate the already demoralized
multitude to murder, to break up Grant clubs
and Loyal Leagues. When the Democrats
fill the country with their clubs and murder
ous K. K. K. organizations, and will drive
away the negroes from the polls, and all
without any rgdress, until, at length, the ear
of Justice will be compelled to hear and the
hand to act. 01 the hundreds of blacks
murdered by whites in Georgia since the
surrender, not one has been punished. Such
things can not and will not continue in this
Christian and humane age. I have no hope
of staying the hand of the murderous Ku-
Klux until the negro is armed; and the
United States will be driven to this strong
measure as it has been to the two former.
They will have it so as they would have the
two former measures. Admoxisher.
—Horace Greeley has invested $5,000 in
u garden farm in Connecticut..
THE GRAN! CAMPAIGN.
COL. FAHROW CHALLENGES THE DEMOCRATS
TO A FAIR DISCUSSION.
I will address the people upon the issues
now before this country, at the following
times and places, unless Providentially
hindered.
Newnan, Coweta county, September 12.
Cartersville, Bartow county, Tuesday
September 16.
Calhoun, Gordon county, Saturday, Sep
tember 19.
Alpharetta, Milton county, Tuesday, Sep
tember 22.
Cumming, Forsyth county, Thursday,
September 24.
Dawsonville, Dawson county, Saturday,
September 26.
Dahlonega, Lumpkin county. Monday,
September 28.
Cleveland, White couuty, Wednesday,
September .30.
Clarksville, Habersham county, Friday,
October 2.
Clayton, Rabun county, Monday, Octo
ber 5.
Iliawasse, Towns county, Wednesday, Oc
tober 7.-
Blairsville, Union county, Friday, Octo
ber 9.
Morganton, Fannin county, Monday, Oc
tober 12.
Ellijay, Gilmer county, Wednesday, Octo
ber 14.
Jasper, Dickens county,Friday,October 16.
Canton, Cherokee county, Saturday, Octo
ber 17.
Ringgold, Catoosa county, Monday, Octo
ber 19.
LaFayelte, Walker county, Wednesday,
October 21.
Spring Place, Murray county, Friday, Oc
tober 23.
Dalton, Whitfield county, Saturday, Octo
ber 24.
Campbellton, Campbell county, Monday,
October 26.
Dallas, Paulding county, Tuesday, Oc
tober 17th.
Buchanan, Harralsou county, October
30th.
Carraliton, Carroll county, Friday Oc
tober 31st.
At each of which appointments the nomi
nees of the Democratic party, for Electors
for the State ut large, arc most respectfully
invited to meet me in fair and courteous
discussion, as it is my purpose to deal in
argument and not abuse, with assurances
that the time will be equally and fairly
divided with them.
. llexky P. FaHbow.
. SPECIAL NOTICES.
THE FIRST ANNUAL MEET
ING of the Reliance Loan aud Building
Association will be held at the City Hall, on
THURSDAY NEXT, 10th instant, at 8 o’clock
p. m.
There will bo an election for President and
Directors for the ensuing year.
Members can pay their instalments to the
Treasurer, S. 11. Shepard, until 5 o’clock of the
same day. - W. 11. EDWARDS,
sep6—2( Secretary.
sT ECI AL _ NOTICE MASS
MEETING will bo held at the City Hall on
THURSDAY EVENING next, at 3 o’clock, Sep
tember Ifith. Speakers aro expected to bo pres
ent to address the meeting.
Come One! Como Everybody ! I
G. B. SNOWDEN,
See. of Grant Club.
GEORGIA RAILROAD, )
Augusta, Ga., September 1, 1868. $
NOTICE TO MERCHANTS.—
Until further notice, on aud after Ist ot Septem
ber, 1868, the rate on BACON from St. Louis to
Augusta, by Nashville and Northwestern and
Nashville and Chattanooga Railreads, is reduced
to ONE DOLLAR per 100 lbs.
> r S. K. JOHNSON,
gepl4-7t Astunt Superintendent,
jjsgp GRAIN AND IL<’LOuIF SACKS ! !
The 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 furnished upon applica
tion. W. B. ASTEN A CO.,
jo 17—3 m 25 Pearl Street, Now York City.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
To Rent.
rpHAT NEAT COTTAGE RESIDENCE,
JL Nv- 202 South Telfair street, between Kol
lock and Cumming streets, at presen t occupied
by Henry Edmonston, Eeq.
Apply to Ji. S. AGNEW,
sepß—tf 360 Broad st.
Notice.
two MONTHS AFTER DATE APPLICA
TION will bo made to tbe Court of Ordinary
of Richmond county for leave to sell the Real
Estate of William H. Cooper, late of said county,
deceased.
September 2, 1868.
JOSEPH P. CARR,
sopß—eow2m Administrator.
Letters of Dismission.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
RichuuMd County.
Whereas, James T. Bothwell, Administrator
of the Estate of Thomas B. Smith, deceased,
applies to mo for Letters of Dismission.
Those aro theretore to cite and admonish all
and singular, tbe kindred and creditors of said
deceased, to be and appear at my office on or
before the first Monday in March next, to show
cause if any they bare, why said Letters should
not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature at
office in Augusta, this 7th day of September,
1868. SAMUEL LEVY,
sepß—lin6m Ordinary.
Letters of Dismission.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Richmond County.
Whereas, William J. Farr, Administrator
de bonne non of the estate of George P. Green,
deceased, applies to me for Letters ot Dismission.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
and singular, the kindred and creditors of said
deceased, to be and appear at my office on or
before the first Monday in March next, to show
cause, if any they have, why said Letters shouli
not bo granted.
Given under my hand and official signature
at office in Augusta, this 7th day of September,
1868. SAMUEL LEVY,
sep?-lm6m ’ Ordinary.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for the Northern District of
Georgia. .
In the matter of )
GEORGEP BRADLEY IIN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. J No. 128.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the
Court /or a discharge from all his debts prova
ble under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867,
notice is hereby given to all persons interested
to appear on the 28th day of September, 1868,at10
o’clock in th? forenoon, at chambers of said
District Court, before Lawson Block, ’Esq., one
of the Registers of the said Court in Bank
ruptcy, at the Register’s office in Atlanta,
Georgia, and show cause why the prayer of the
the said petition of the Bankhipt should not lie
granted. And further notice is hereby given
:hat the second and third meetings of creditors
will be held at the same time mid place.
Witness the Honorable John Erskine.
[real,] Judge of the said District C’onrt, and
tlie seal thereof, this bth day of
September, 1868. W. B. SMI TH,
sepS—law2w» Clerk.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
For Sale.
Y FINE LOT OF
YEW SHELVING;
AT
«opß—2t 140 BROAD STREET.
Licenses!
OFFICE CLERK OF COUNCIL, >
Avsusta, September 7, ltj«s
IYTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, -f U V T
11 the annual Licenses iisued to Drayniw,
Hackmen, and to vendors of Liquors, will expire
on the last day of the present month. Parties
wishing to renew their Licenses should attend to
the matter at once.
JAMES N. ELLS,
aep>B—lot Clerk irf Connett.
Official.
Proclamations by the Governor,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, i
Atlanta, Ga., September 4, 1888 [
Whereas, In accordance witli tbe folluwintr
resolution, adopted August 31,1808:
“ Resolved, That the Secretary of tire Senate
be [directed to furnish his Excellency, the Gov
ernor, With a complete copy of the proceedinv
of the Senate as to tlie eligibility u s Aaron A
Bradley aa Senator from the First Senatorial Din
triet, and the Seating ot Hon. Rufus E. Irester < s
Senator legally elected and qualified from said
District,” the said proceedings have beeu placed'
to this office ; and irhereas, from tlie said proceed
ings it appears that tlie cause 6f tlie alleged i ne |j.
gibility was the conviction of said Bradley of an
offense, punishable with imprisonment in ih e
penitentiary, and that the said Bradley had been
convicted of seduction in the State of New York
in the year 185 J, and was sentenced to the Stale
prison of that State for two years ; and it further
appearing from said proceedings, that on tbe fifth
of August, 1868, the following resolution was
adopted, to-wit:
“ Resolved, by the Senate, That A. A. Bradley
whs Ht the time of his election, and still is ineligf
ble to a seat as a member of this Senate under the
Constitution of the State;’’ aud whereat. from
the said proceedings it further appears, that on
the ISM day of August, by a vote of a majority
the claim of the said Ruins E. Letter, that be
having received tbe next highest number of vote
was entitled under tlie laws of the State to the
seat of the said Bradley, was granted, and that he
was thereupon sworn m as Senator from the First
Senatorial District:
Now, therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor
of the State of Georgia, aud Commander iu-Chief
of the army and navy thereof, do issue thia, my
proclamation, recalling the prockumition of the
Bth day of August, 18G8, to the Ordinaries of th#
counties of Chatham, Effingham and Bryan, and
commanding that Ute election, therein ordered, do
not take place.
Given under my hand uud the Seal of the
Executive Department, at the Capitol iu Atlanta,
the day and year above written.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor: Governor.
B. B. DeGraffenreid,
Sec’y Ex. Department.
sepß—3t
Executive Dsi'abtmknt, |
Atlanta, September 2, 1868.1
By tbo provision* of the United States Internal
Revenue Act. passed May 10th, 1867, all bonds
“ for the due execution or performance of duties
of office'' require a stamp of the value of oue dol
lar. Any failure to comply with this necessary
provision of the law, renders the law invalid.
All officers duly elected by the people to county
or other offices, where bonds are by law required,
will take notice of this provision, and govyu
themselves accordingly.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor: , Governor.
B. B. DeGbaffenbeid,
Scc’y Ex. Department.
sepß—3t
Executive Dkl’artment, /
Atlanta, Ga., September 1,1868. (
Whereas, It is a matter of much importance
that the Penitentiary should bens little expense
as possible, if it can not be made a source of rev
enue to the State, and considering that a certain
class of the convicts tlierein may be more profitably
employed outside than inside the walls, in consid
eration wbereof-
Ordered, That the Principal Keeper of the
Penitentiary be, and ho is hereby authorized to
take out of the Penitentiary and employ at hard
labor, such convicts us he, in the exercise of a
sound discretion may think proper, on any lands
or buildings pertaining to mid adjoining the State
Lunatic Asylum,and atany place or places within
the corporate limits of the city of Milledgeville,
always keeping a suitable guard about such con
victs to prevent escape: Provided, That he take
no convict outside of the walls who is or may be
confined therein under sentence of any Court of
the United States, or who is to be confined during
life.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Exec
utive Department, at the Capitol, in Atlanta, the
day and vear above written.
RUFUS. B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor; • Governor.
B. B.
Sec’y Ex. Department.
sepß—3t
Executive Department, /
Atlanta, September 5, 1868. j
7e tie Sheriff or hie lawful Deputy of Jiiehmond
County:
Whereas, At a session of the County Court,
held in January, 1868, in and for said county of
Richmond, Samuel Gray was convicted of the
crime of larceny from tho house; and was by
presiding Judge of said Court, then and there,
therefore, sentenced to be imprisoned for the
term of eight months iff the common jail of said
county, to which be was committed on.the six
teenth day of January aforesaid; and whereat,
it is represented to me by tho surgeon in charge
of said jail, that the health of said Samuel Gray
has become so impaired that ho is unable to
work : that tho said convict has conducted him
solf'properly during imprisonment; and whereat,
tho said surgeon, iu consideration of tho impair
ed health and good conduct of said Samuel Gray,
recommends hit discharge from said confine
ment, and the remission of all fiucs and costs in
said case :
It in hereby ordered, That ho, tbo said Samuel
Gray, be, and ho is hereby fully pardoned ; that
ajl fines and costs adjudged against him in said
case, are hereby remitted ; that ho bo restored
to all civil rights as a citizen of this .State, and
be forthwith discharged.
Given under my hand and tho Seal ol the
Executive Department, at tho Capitol, in At
lanta, the day and year above written.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor : Governor.
B. B. DeGbaffehubid,
Sec’y Ex. Department.
eepß-3t _ _
g IT y ANCE
AN UKDiNAhuE To Fix tho Tenn of Om<~ of
tho Teachers of the Houghton Institute, and
for Other Purposes.
Sec. I. Be it ordained by the City Council
Avyueta, and it it hereby Ordained by the authority
of the tame, That the term of office of the Prin
cipal (male) and three (3) Assistants (females) of
the Houghton Institute, this day to be elected,
shall be for and during the time preceding the
regular meeting of the City Council in the month
of September, eighteen hundred and seventy
two (1872), and -until their successors are duly
elected.
Sec. 11. An election for said Principal and
Assistants shall thereafter (eighteen hundred and .
seventy-two) take place at the regular meeting
of the City Council in tho month hereinbefore
mentioned, quadrennially. .
Sec. 111. From and after the passage
Ordinance, there shall be held but one session
per day in the said Institute—beginning at 8*
o’clock a. tn., and closing at 2 o'clock p. m.
Sec. 4. It is hereby made the duty of the
Principal of the Institute aforesaid to report to
the City Council, quarterly, the condition and
manner of conducting the same, together with
all information relating thereto.
Sec. V. All Ordinances, or parts of Or* ll
nances, militating against this Ordinance are
hereby repealed.
Done in Council September sth, 1868.
FOSTER BLODGETT, Mayor-
Attest: JAMES N. ELLS, Clerk of Council.
sopß—lOt ___
CITY ORDINANCE. .
AN ORDINANCE to amend the Thirty-cighm
Section of tho General Ordinance. ,
Sec. I. Be it Ordained by the City CottneK q
Any veto and it it hereby ordained by the au
thority of the tame, That the Thirty-eighth sec
tion of the General Ordinance is hereby amend
ed so that the price of dray licenses shall oo
twenty dollar* instead of thirty as heretofore.
Sbc. 11. And be it further Ordained. That all
Ordinances and parts of Ordinances militating
against this Ordinance be and the same are here
by repealed.
Done In Council September Sth. 186 S.
FOSTER BLODGETT, Mayor.
Attest: JAMES N. ELLS. Clerk of Council.
sepS— lOt