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PARAGRAMS.
—Yesterday, in New York, Gold was
quoted at 1.44}, Cotton, 29}c,
—Brooklyn covers acres.
—Napoleon has warned the Paris printers
not to touch Victor Hugo's.paper.
—Hungary is about to celebrate its
thousandth anniversary as a kingdom.
—Hudson of the New York Herald is
■writing his “recollections.”
—Banana trees in Florida are bending
to the earth with fruit.
—Wooden railways arc recommended for
wild, hilly regions of thin population.
—American carriages arc used on the
Mon Cenis railway.
—New York has 5,000 children offered
for adoption.
—An autograph letter of Washington to
Henry Laurens sold for about SSO in Lon
don recently.
—The New Orleans Picayune says the
number of ladies who apply daily to the
Mayor for relief is incredible.,
—Louis Napoleon’s old mistress lives at
Brussels, and tells a great many “ good
things on the Emperor."
—“Doctor, do you think tight lacing is
bad for consumption “Not at all, madam;
it’s what it lives on !”
—A Peruvian buck deposited $200,000 in
gold at New York, as the basis of his sum
mer operations at Saratoga.
—The wild fruit in Minncssota is more
abundant this year than those which were
cultivated.
—Victoria said to Eugenie : “Use your
gracious influence on the Emperor, Madam,
to prevent a war which tears children from
mothers.”
—Poor Carlotta’s insanity has taken a
turn, and she has become both violent and
silly. She now gets up at night, tears her
bed to pieces and throws the pillows out of
the window.
—William S. Pennington, son o( the late
’Governor Pennington, and Secretary of
Legation nt Paris, under President Lincoln,
died yesterday, at his late residence in
Newark.
—Col. George French, a colored man,
aged 106 years, died in Poughkeepsie yes
terday afternoon of extreme old age. He
was known to every Poughkeepsian abroad,
and had ti history full of absorbing in
terest.
—The Chicago Times says: “In Mis
souri it will not require any secret or armed
organization to defeat the Radical ticket."
Then what are the Democrats arming
for ?
—After advising its friends not to be too
outspoken “just at present,” a Tennessee
paper adds: “ Wait until after November,
and then we would rather be a nimble
squirrel than a white Radical.”
—The President of the National Typo
graphical Union has issued a proclamation
of Amnesty to all offenders against the rules
and laws of the Union, if application be
made before the Bth of December, 1868.
—Charming Miss Kellogg is coming back
to the United States after her operatic tri
umphs in Europe. She will reach New York
about the middle of September.
—“l’m afloat, I'm afloat!” screamed a
young lady of powerful lungs, and fingers
to match, as she exercised both at the
piano. “I should think you"were,” growled
sin eld bachelor, “judging from the squall
you raise.”
—Within the lust six months more than
fifty doctors have left Memphis, the scarcity
of money and the difficulty of collecting ac
’ counts being the reasons. There are still
about one hundred and seventy-five doctors
remaining.
—The distinguished English Methodist
divine, the Rev. Mr. Punshon, has been
married in Canada to his deceased wife’s
sister. It is believed that, in case of his re
turn to England, the Canadian marriage
would be pronounced invalid.
—The ordinary expenses of the Govern
ment for the last fiscal year were a hundred
and forty-six million dollars. A reduction
has been made in the appropriations for
the present year from one hundred and
forty-six to ninety-one millions. And yet
it is charged that the financial administra
tion of the Republicans is frightfully ex
travagant.
—A new style of hod-carrier is to be seen
at the new building in Broadway, near
Crosby street, consisting of an elevator
worked by a small donkey engine, which at
tracts much attention. A similar machine is
used at the Park Bank, Stewart’s store, and
other new buildings. The Irish emigrant
who wrote home that it was so easy to make
a living in America—"all you have to do is
to carry a little box up a ladder and then the
other man does all the rest”—would be,
doubtless, much astonished at this change,
which is only another instance of th® way
that muscle is being superceded by steam.
—George Wilkes who is considered to lie
a safe adviser in sporting matters, in an
swer to a Grant man who desired to ‘hedge’
his bets, says: “Our friend is too prudent;
we advise him not to hedge at all; but if
he wants to make his betting nearly as sure
■ a thing as possible we would advise him,
■ after laying out his $5 000 on Gram, to in-
Ba vest about one hundred in buying Confed
erate bonds. He cun get ten thousand dol
lars' worth in that sum, and if Seymour is
elected they will soon be worth fifty cents
on the dollar.”
—The returns of the Vermont election
have been received from 208 towns with
the following result: Page, Republican,
30,000; Edwards, Democratic, 13,725;
Page's majority, 25,973. Thirty-three towns
remgin to be heard from. Reports from 193
towns show elections to the Legislature as
follows: Republicans, 185; Democrats, 7 ;
no choice, 4. A proportionate Republican
majority in the remaining towns would give
about 30,900 Republican majority in the
State. The Democratic vote id four rimes
as large as it was in 1862,.when the Repub
lican majority was 25,308.
—A curious ease is before the Circuit
CourlofLouisville,in relation to the custody
of a little girl twelve years old, an.i said to
worth $1,000,000i inherited from her
, maternal grandfather. The facts are
bricky these: Dr. S: E. McKinley, son of
the late Judge McKinley, of the U. S. Su
preme Court, married Miss Morrison, of
Louisiana, by whom he had the girl in ques
tion. • In 1867 he put her in the Ursuline
Academy, at Louisville, and went to New
Orleans. lie recently sent for the child, but
the Superior refused- to let the child go,
because, as alleged, McKinley was a drunk
ard, and unfit to have charge of her, and
because she was not his child. The Court
has adjudged the answer insufficient, and
the respondent was required to ..state the
time and means by which she obtained pos
session of the child ; a mere allegation that
the Doctor was not her father, it is also
held, is no ground for the respondent to
retain her. While ’ the Doctor was away,
some two weeks ago, it seems that the Supe
rior applied to the County Court to become
her guardian. It is further stated that she
has become a Catholic, contrary to her
father’s wishes, who is an Episcopalian.
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WEbNKSDAY .MOHNING...SeptMfIbcrJ), I«SS
For PRESIDENT
Os the United States:
ULYSSES S. GRApT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF INDIANA.
Republican Electoral Ticket.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE.
HENRY P. FARROW, of Fulton.
AMOS T. AKERMAN, ol Elbert.
ALTERNATES.
Judge Dawsox 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—V. I. HIGBEE, of Talbot.
Alternate— J. R. Thomasson, of Carrol).
Uh District—Wn. H. WHITEHEAD, of
Butts.
Alternate—Henry Glover, ol Jasper.
5tA District — J. E. BRYANT, of Richmond.
Alternate— F. J. Robinson, of Oglethorpe.
6/A District—J. S. FAIN, of Union.
Alternate— lmac S. Cements, of Forsyth.
Uh District ■
Alternate—Y. A. Kirby, of Chattooga.
THE STATE ROAD.
Five seedy and hungry revolutionary
cormorants, as bankrupt in funds ns in
patriotism, wish to become as fat as our
friend Harris, supervisor of the
Road--and all out of the resources of the
State. To accommodate these political
lazzaroni the usurpers have adopted a bill
taking the Western & Atlantic Road out
of the hands of the legitimate custodian of
the people’s property and the people’s in
terests, and placing the entire road in the
hands of five nameless leeches. The pro
position is monstrous, but the Atlanta ma
chine can only beget monstrosities.
The whole plan is to divide the
responsibility for corruption among
five commissioners, responsible to no one
but a set of unprincipled legislators. The
Executive of the State is the person now
held to a strict accountability for the suc
cess of the management of his subordi
nates. How can you hold commissioners
responsible ? If anything goes wrong,
each commissioner will say that the re
sponsibility is with the other four, and in
the absence of n responsible head the sub
stance of the people will be consumed. It
is a shameless party trick, without the
shadow of justification or apology. It is
an unblushing act of corruption which
will soon entitle the members of the Georgia
Legislature to as much character as have
tbc members of the Common Council of
New York city.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINA TION.
The importance of our Congressional
nomination can hardly be over-estimated.
We have a clear Republican majority in
this district, but it is not large enough to
admit of any unpopular or doubtful move
ment. We all know the importance of
securing a member of Congress. An unwise
step may not only lose us that, but the
State, and a loss of the State might lose us
the Presidential election. However sure
we may feel, it is better to view the subject
in this practical nml safe light, ami to act
accordingly, than to be over-sanguine and
allow the election to go against us by de
fault. There is too much at stake to allow
any relaxation of effort, however prom
ising the prospect may be.
We must not only put forward our best
man, but do it in such a spirit of harmony,
good feeling and interest in the cause, As
to heal all differences ami secure the united
action of nil our forces. Personal prefer
ences and minor considerations must be
willingly sacrificed tor the good of the
party and of the country. Every dele
gate should cuter the nominating conven
tion prepared to conform to the will of the
majority, and to act solely for the best in
terests of the district, with the full faith
that our local interests and those of the
State and nation are not antagonistic, but
mutual and harmonious, if not identical.
Every delegate (will doubtless' go into
the convention with his individual prefer
ences. It is unreasonable to expect any
thing else. But it is not too much to ex
pect each and every delegate to sink his
preferences and prejudices the moment h<>
discovers that they arc not the ones calcu -
lated to secure the success of the party. It
is our object to make such a nomination as
will surely win. If we fail in this, we fail
in everything, and had better make no
nomination at all. Success is what we are
after; and the man who stands the best
chance to harmonize all interest and achieve
the greatest triumph, is the man we want
to put in nomination.
The first thing to be considered is the
fitness of the man for office. Has he the
necessary ability and qualifications to fill
the office creditably to himself ami con
stituents, and so as to promote the general
welfare ? This question settled in the
affirmative, the next one arises—ls he the
most popular and the strongest hum we
can put up for Congressman ! Does he the
most completely embody the principles of
the republican party, and represent the
will of tiic majority of the people in the
district ? Can he poll the full vote of the
party ? If not, can he draw enough, or
more than enough, votes from the opposi
tion to counter-balance all he will lose ?
These arc all important considerations
which every shrewd politician knows can
not lie safely overlooked, if we hope to win.
The convention meets to-morrow, in this
city.
Ron in Pickle.—WeTiave qrod in pickle
for the Macon Telegraph, which will be ap
plied at the proper time.
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
DODGING.
The Atlanta Constitution finds it neces
sary, in the interest of the Democratic par
ty, to attempt to deceive the people as to
its party's real objects in the event of suc
cess. In reply to our exposure of the re
volutionary designs of the Seymour Dem
ocracy, its editor says:
Now every one knows, except the ignorant
editor of the Rki'l'Blican, and bis kind, that
neither Frank Blair, nor the Domocratio party,
propose to disperse these bogus Governors, and
their carpet-bag governments l>y any means
other than such as are provided by the Constitu
tion and the laws. According to tbc logic of the
Republican, should the Supreme Court declare
the reconstruction measures unconstitutional and
the governments under them null and void, the
Radical party would deem it sufficient cause to
involve “the country in another civil war.”—
This is the position of the Radical party. It
holds that its acts arc not only the Supreme but
the permanent law, and that neither the courts
nor the people, by their subsequent votes, have
the right to set aside their illegal measures.
Wc take issue with the Constitution*
and boldly challenge every assertion that
is contained in the above extract. The
Constitution says that “ neither Frank
Blair, nor the Democratic.party,, propose
to disperse these bogus Governors and
their carpet-bag governments by any other
means other than such as nrc provided by
the Constitution and the laws.” While wc
admit that the editor of the Constitution
ranks high in local politics, we deny
his right to speak for Frank Blair-
Although the faults of the latter are multi’
tudinous, a want of' perspicuity in the
statement of his opinions, or candor in
avowing them, docs not constitute a por
tion of those faults, lie does not conceal
his revolutionary programme, but pro
claims it in language so unmistakable
that “every one, except the ignorant editor
of the” Constitution “and his kind,” willnoj
question his meaning. We quote Blair
in reply to the Constitution :
There is but one way to restore the Govern
ment and the Constitution, and that is for the
President elect to declare these acts null and
void, compel the army to undo its usurpation at
the South, disperse the carpet-bag btato govern
ments, allow the white people to organise their
own governments, and elect Senators and Repre
sentatives. The House of Representatives will
contain a majority of Democrats from the North,
and they will admit the Representatives elected
by the white people of the South, and, with the
co-operation of the President, it will not be
difficult to compel the Senate to submit once
more to the obligations of the Corstitution.
Is there anything in the above extract,
or, indeed, in all the letters and speeches
of Frank P. Blair, during this campaign,
advising an appeal to the Supreme Court
to decide the constitutionality of Recon
struction? Not one word. On the con
trary, all his declarations imply as great
contempt for the Judicial as the Legisla
tive Department of the Government. In
the letter from which we have already
quoted, he asserts that reconstruction cau
"only be overthrown” —not by an appeal
to Congress, for the Senate (and he might
have added House, too), will still be Re
publican ; not by an appeal to the Supreme
Court, for he knows that Chief Justice!
Chase has already recognized the Four
teenth Article as a part of the. Constitution
of the United States —but "by the authority
of the Rtvcutiec" alone. Is this not an
unequivocal declaration of war ? Is it not
proof positive that the Republican has
correctly stated the purposes of the Demo
cratic tenders <
But the Constitution does not rest con
tent with an attempt to parry the odium
which properly attaches to its party candi
date and platform, but would lead the
public to misapprehend the position of the
Republican party. We flatly deny that
the Republican party would disregard and
disobey a decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States on the question of
Reconstruction, or any other question.
That party has ever l>een the party of law
and order, and has never, in a single in
stance, disobeyed one decision of the Su
preme Court. It is truo»that many Repub
licans contend that this question of Re
construction is purely political in its char
acter, and that as such the Supreme Court
has no jurisdiction. This seems to be the
opinion of the majority of the Court itself,
for it has steadily refused to give the
Southern demagogues who have made po
litical cases for its adjudication any en
couragement in involving this august tri
bunal ia interfering with the prerogatives
of other branches of the Government.
Name Them. —A majority of the intelli
pent Federal Generals are unalterably op
posed to the iraud of Radical reconstruction,
and zealous supporters of Seymour and
Blair.— Atlanta Constitution.
Such statements as the above are but
vain boastings begotten by the desperation
of the cause of Seymour and Blair, “A
majority of tho intelligent Federal Generals*'
for the revolutionary Democracy, indeed I
Bosh! Give us their names. We pledge
ourselves to name six “ intelligent Federal
Generals” now supporting Grant and Col
fax for every one that the Constitution can'
truthfully name as supporters of Seymour
and Blair.
A Few Words to Colored Voters.—
You are daily asked by men whom you have
known all your life to vote with them—that
is to. vote as they do, and it is urged upon
you that you should do so, because these
men have been known by you for a number
of years, and that they are your real friends.
When you are asked thus, ask them if they
will not do as much tor you as they ask you
to do for them ; namely, vote with you and
as you vote, and thereby help you to protect
your interests. If they have such a sincere
regard for your welfare, they certainly ought
to assist you in electing those men who will
protect you, and who will so administer the
laws ns to give you an equal showing. Tell
them all yon ask is fair play, and if they are
really willing to give you that, why are they
not willing to help you elect men who say
the right to vote -shall not Ims taken away
from you. It is important to you that men
should be elected who believe that you have
rights which a white man is bound to respect.
It is important to you that men should rule
this country who do not believe this a
white man’s or a black man's country, but a
free country fur all men; a country in
which the color of a man’s skin is not the
important question, but the color of his
heart. Ask your friends to help you elect
such men. Ask your friends to help you to
bo men —and see if they will do it!
NO ELECTION FOR CONGRESS.
Neither the new Constitution or the
Code contains any provision for the elec
tion of Congressmen this year. The Atlanta
Constitution advises the Legislature not to
pass any law authorizing anMcction until
after the Presidential election. This is
but another evidence of the revolutionary
designs of the Democracy. It is intended
to prevent, by legislation, colored mon
from voting, when the election comes off-
Well, there is no help for all this, unless
Congress shall deem it a duty to stand by
its own work. The only question now is,
whether a set of Georgia revolutionists —
many of them in office by trampling in
the dust the Constitution of the State and
of the United States—shall be permitted
to defy the Congress of the United States?
Somebody must back down.
WILL THE VOTEOF GEORGIA DE
COUNTED?
The editor of the New York Times, after
quoting from an editorial which appeared
in the Republican, some days since,
taking the position that, if the colored
members of the Legislature were not now
eligible, they never have been, and if they
never have been, the Constitutional Amend
ment has not been legally ratified, makes
this important declaration:
And if Georgia has not legally ratified the
Constitutional Amendment, Georgia is not le
gally entitled to representation in Congress, and
will not bo entitled to participation in the Presi
dential election. On this supposition, the session
of the Legislature amounts to nothing, and the
State may be required to resume its place under
military government. These are matters, how
ever, which Congress will probably decide. In
conjunction with the proceeding which gives
them prominence, they may turn the balance in
the Congressional mind in favor of an early re
assembling at Washington.
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A Lesson That Was Needed.—The
New York Tribune remarks that there was
at one time danger that many colored men
in Georgia would be seduced into support
ing Seymour and Blair. Since the revo
lutionary action at Atlanta, however, the
editor writes:
The Georgia rebels, in their blind greed and
hate, have averted that danger. They have
given every Black or Yellow fair notice that
Sham Democracy loathes them, and will not
tolerate them in no capacity aboee that of serfs,
waiters, concubines, and other beasts of burden.
They have fully justified the spirit, if not the
precise act, of those blacks who treat every negro
who pretends to boa Democrat as a base rene.
gade and traitor. They have made it plain,
even to the most benighted, that Human Liberty
has a deadly, implacable foe in the Democratic
party, and will continue to have to the end.
There need no longer be a doubt that every re
constructed State will vote for Grant and
Colfax-
Back Your Judgment.— A number of
noisy Democrats in this city profess to have
faith in Seymour’s election. One hundred
dollars has been placed in our bands for the
accommodation of any Democrat that may
think Grant won’t be the next President
Out with your weasel skins, gentlemen.
The money is ready to be staked on the
man who never lost a battle, and who did
not cry like a baby when he was nominated
Attenhon Foreigners!—The Macon
Journal Messenger objects to two of the
representatives in the Legislature, from
Bibb, because one of them is a German and
the other an Irishman. Foreigners, make
a note of this.
Who are They?—lt is said that a num
ber of the citizens of Hamburg, 8. C., cam*
to this city, yesterday, with the. inquiry:
* Who arc tiiose distinguished leaders of
Souther.i sentiment—ll. F. Russell and
T. I’. Branch ?” Hamburg is at the other
end of the Augusta Bridge.
Pshaw!—Some persons at Atlanta have
got the idea into their heads that persons
elected to represent Georgia in the Fortieth
Congress can hold seats in the Forty-First
Congress without again being voted for by
the people. The “ gentlemen of the legal
profession,” who originated this idea, had
better take to hoeing cotton, or some busi
ness that requires neither brains or informa
tion.
« . —•
■ Krei' Your Promise.—We understand
that the gentleman who did th>- heavy lob
bying at Atlanta, in securing the passage of
the municipal bill for the Augusta Demo
crats, pledged Senators and Representatives
that, if the bill passed, the people would
come up promptly and pay their taxes. We
shall see whether this solemn promise is re
deemed. V
Governor Bullock. — Harpsr's Weekly
of last week contains a very inferior likeness
of our distinguished Governor. The pic
ture by no means does the Governor justice.
Elections this Year.—The following
state elections are yet to occur this year.—
To save answering a thousand questions we
ask people to cut out this table and save it
in their pocket:
Maine Sept. 14
Nebraska ’• Oct. 6
OlTio Oct. F 3
Indiana ~.f..i Oct. 13
Pennsylvania Oct 13
lowa Oct. 13
West Virginia Oct. 22
New York Nov. 3
Now Jersey - Nov. 3
Delaware '. - Nov.
Maryland . - Nov. 3
Illinois ....... Nov. 3
Michigan * I Nov. 3
Wisconsin • ..Nov. 3
Missouri Nov. 3
Kansas X, Nov. 3
Nevada ....Nov. 3
Massachusetts Nov. 3
‘ Tin: Electoral Vote or the States.—
It is generally known that the electoral
college is constructed so that it contains just
as many electors as there are Senators and
Representatives in Congress. The follow
ing table will be found convenient for ref-
Louisiana 7
Maine 7
Maryland 7
Minnesota 4
Mississippi 7
Nevada 3
Nebraska 3
New Hampshire 5
New Jersey 7
Rhode Island 4
South Carolina 6
Texas ... •>
Vermont 5
West Virginia. 5
North Carolina V
Wisconsin...., 8
lowa 8
Michigan 8
Total -....31
erence :
Illinois i 16
Indiana 13
Kentucky 11
Massachusetts 12
M issouri... 11
New York 33
Virginis 10
Ohio 21
Pennsylvania .........26
Tennessee .10
Alabama 8
Arkansas „ a
California... 5
Connecticut 6
Delaware 3
Florida 3
Oregon 3
Ueargiaj. 0
Kansas 3 j
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Presidential Campaign—The Prospects
Brighter than ever—The Plans of the Democ
racy—Effect of the Vermont Election — A Hush
of Politieiasu to ths Capital— A Ku-Klux Out
rage in Washington—The Heassembling of Con
gress—Affairs in ths Different States.
Washington, Sept. 5, 1868.
Recent developments explain why the De.
niocracy have expressed themselves so san
guine of success in the November election.
Their sole ground for hope has been founded
upon the expectation that their schemes of
fraud would be entirely successful. In New
York city they rely upon the vote of South
ern carpet-baggers and “repeaters” to over
whelm the Republican country districts In
Philadelphia, through the agency of the Sec
retary of the Navy, they expect to colonize
enough there to overcome the Republican
majority in that State ; on the Northwestern
border they expect to run enough border
ruffians intfi Ohio, Indiana, hud Illinois,
from Mississippi, to carry those States. This
is the scheme on loot to-day. But to be
forewarned is to be forearmed, and the
scheme, as all other rebel schemes have
during the last decade, will prove a disas
trous failure. The loyal people of this coun
try are aroused to the impending danger of
rebel rule as they never were before. Ver
mont sends forth the first response to the
Democratic nominations, and gives several
thousand more Republican majority than she
ever gave before at a State election. This
is the desired work of the New York Con
vention interpreted by Blair’s letter, and*
Wade Hampton & Co. Before the election
the World and kindred Democratic sheets
declared that if Vermont should give a
larger Republican majority than heretofore,
it would be looked upon as the drift of the
popular current. That is just what the elec
tion docs indicate, and I predict that each
State will show a proportionate increase in
the Republican vote, which will (as I have
before predicted would be the result) elect
Grant by a larger majority than any Presi
dential candidate ever received.
Since the Vermont election scores of
Democratic candidates and wire-pullers
have flocked to Washington to induce the
President and heads of departments to aid
them by efficient patronage. Two of the
principal hotels are as lively to day as is
usually the case during a session of Con
gress. Nearly all the strangers belong to
the Democratic persuasion, and they talk,
act and look as if their ease was hopeless.
Their great object nowjs to make a gain on
Congress, or else, as one of them said to
the President to-day: “the party (Demo
eratic) will fall to pieces.” A squad of these
visitors called at the White House yester
day, but did not receive much encourage
ment in that direction.
The Secretary of the Navy is doing all
he can for the success of Seymour and
Blair, and is making particular efforts in
the navy yard district of Philadelphia,
where the Hon. Tom Florence is the Demo
cratic candidate. The district is now re
presented by P. Neill, an active Republi
can. The Secretary of the Treasury
signalized his support of the Democratic
candidate by promoting a conservative from
Kentucky, who had not been in the De
partment three months, over the heads of
clerks who have become familiarized to the
duties of their office by years of service.
The anxious candidates called upon him
yesterday for support but being a poor poli
tician he did not give them much encourage
ment. It is currently reported and gener
ally believed that two hundred clerks will
be discharged the present month—all Re
publicans —and their places filled by sound.
Democrats. A similar reorganization is to
take place in each Department. The Demo
cracy are really getting desperate.
Rebel sympathizers in this city, encour
aged by the false light held out by the Dem
ocratic presses and orators, are more out
spoken to-day than at any time since 1861.
Old copperheads, who retained their places
under Government by keeping silent, now
utter boldly the most bitter denunciation of
the Government’; even Mr. Johnson, our
Minister to England, is denounced and villi
fied for the patriotic course he took on sev
eral occasions while in the Senate. In all
public places Republicans are liable to be
insulted, if they attempt, by argument, to
sustain the principles of their party. These
croppings out of the rebel spirit also extend
to the poor color d population. Only last
night, at about nine o’clock, as an inoffen
sive colored man was proceeding to his
business, in a saloon directly opposite Wil
lard's, he was assailed-by five white ruffians,
who cut bis throat from ear to ear, before
any remonstrance could be made. Not a day
passes without some manifestation of the
old rebel spirit, right here in the capita! of
the nation. *
Nothing definite will be determined as to
the reassembling of Congress before the
17th inst. It is believed, however, by
those who know most of the influences at
work to this end, that Congress will reas
semble on the 21st of this month. The
condition of affairs in Texas, Mississippi,
Virginia and Arkansas, particularly, seem
to render a meeting necessary, to say
nothing of keeping the President under a
wholesome restraint.
An attempt was made a few nights since
in Charlottesville, Va, to assassinate Mr.
Carrington, the District Attorney of this
District, while on a visit at his mother's
house. The would-be assassin made a
mistake, and seized Mr. Carrington's
brother, who was seriously injured.
This is the rebel spirit that is rife
throughout the laud to-day, encouraged and
sustained by the Democratic leaders.
In Tennessee a committee of the Legisla
ture estimate that the Ku-Klux Klan have
murdered one Union man every twenty
four hours during the last six months in
East Tennessee alone. The proper authori
ties in the city are fully advised as to its
organization, which now contains not less
than half a million ex-rebels within the
Southern States alone. Nine weeks hence
it will be difficult to find a Ku-Klux or a
Seymour and Blair Democrat as to that
matter.
News reaches us to-day of the alarming
illness of the Rev. Dr. Stockton, Chaplain
of the House of Representatives, at his
residence in Philadelphia.
Capital.
—Despite the fact that his obituary fitly
appeared in the journals of this city nearly
one year ago, General Santa Anna is again
maturing a conspiracy against the Mexican
Government. It is time that this petty
scheming should cease. Notwithstanding
the chrome disorders in Mexico, the Juarez
Government is the strongest that country has
enjoyed for many years, and it is strange
that Santa Anna will not recognize what all
the world is agreed upon, namely, that he is
dead either for good or evil.
—Successful experiments, it is reported,
have recently been made at Koenigsberg,
Prussia, with a now firearm having thirty
seven' barrels. From two hundred and
twenty-two to three hundred and thirty-three
shots can be fired per minute, and the balls
carry fifteen hundred paces. One man can
manage it, firing from a rest, and the recoil
is counteracted by a powerful spring. Seven
per cent, of the shots struck the target at
eight hundred paces.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
THE FIRST ANNUAL MEET
ING ul the Reliance Loan and Building
Association will bo hold at the City Hull, on
THURSDAY NEXT, 10th instant, at 8 o’clock
p. in.
There will be an election for President and
Directors for the ensuing year.
Members can pay their instalments to the
Treasurer, 8. 11. Shepard, until 5 o’clock of the
same day-. W. 11. EDWARDS,
sop6—2t Secretary.
SPECIA L NOTICE !—A MASS
MEETING will be held at the City Hall on
THURSDAY EVENING next, at 3 o’clock, Sep
tember 10th. Speakers are expected to bo pres
ent to address the meeting.
Come Ono! Come Everybody ! !
G. B. SNOWDEN,
Sec. of Grant Club.
GEORGIA RAILROAD, >
Augusta, Ga., September 1, 1868. $
NOTICE TO MERCHANTS.—
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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.
S. K. JOHNSON,
sepl—7t Assistant Superintendent
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. _
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
I United States for the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of )IN BANKRUPTCY
JOSEPH PALMER, >
Bankrupt. 5 No. 59.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court
for a discharge from all his debts provable under
the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is
hereby given to all persons interested to appear
on the 6th day of October,lß6B,at 10 o’clock in the
forenoon, at Chambers of the said District Court,
before Frank S Hesseltiue, Esq., one of the Reg
isters of the said Court in Bankruptcy, at his
office at the Hotel in Fort Valley, Georgia, and
show cause why the prayer oi the said peti
tion of the Bankrupt should not be granted. And
further notice is given that the second and third
meetings of creditors will be held atthe same time
and place.
Dated at Savannah, Ga., this sth day of Sep
tember. 1868.
james McPherson,
sep9 It Clerk.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
T United States for the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of )
JAMES STEWART, >IN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. No. 332.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the
Court for 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 21st day ofSeptember,lß6B,at 10
o’clock a. m., atchambcrs ot said District Court,
before Frank S. Hesseltinc, Esq., one of the
Registers of the said Court in Bankruptcy, at
his office at the corner of Buy and Drayton
streets, Savannah, Ga., aud show cause why
the prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt
should not bo granted. And further notice is
given that the second and third meetings of
creditors will be held at the same time and
place.
Dated at Savannah, Ga., this sth day of Sep
tember, 1868, .tames McPherson,
Bsp9—lt Clerk.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE : That on the
Itli day of September, A. D. 1868, a Warrant
in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of
WILLIAM R. COZART,
of Dawson, in the county of Terrell, and State of
Georgia,who Ims been adjudged a Bankrupt on his
own petition; and that the payment of any debts and
delivery of auy property belonging to such Bank
rupt, to him or for his use, and the transfer of any
property by him, are forbidden by law ; that a
meeting of the creditors of the staid Bankrupt, to
prove their debts, and to choose one or more
assignees of his estate, will be held at a Court of
Bankruptcy, to beholden at the Court House, in
Cuthbert, Ga., before Frank 8. Hesseltinc, Esq.,
Register, on the Bth day of October, A. D. 1868,
at 4 o’clock p. m.
WM. G. DICKSON,
sepb—lt • U. 8. Marshal os Messenger.
IN BANKRUPTCY
U. 8. MARSHAL’S OFFICE, >
, Atlanta, Ga., September 7, 1868. )
rpiIIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE .- That on the
1 21th day of August, A. D. 1868, a Warrant in
Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of
PARKER E. BROWN,
of Bear Creek Diet., iuthe county of Henry, State
of Georgia, who ha&Jieen adjudged a Bankrupt on
bis own petitions and that the payment of auydebts
and delivery of any property belonging to said
Bankrupt, to him or for his use, and the transfer
of any property by him, are forbidden by law;
that a inefct-ng of the creditors of the said Bank
rupt, to prove their debts, aud to choose one or
more assignees of his estate, will be held at a
Court, of Bankniptcv, to be holden at the Reg
ister’s office, in the Farrar Building, Griffin, Ga.,
before Alexander G. Murray, Register, on the
18th day of September, A. D‘, 1868, at 10 o’clock
a. m.
CHARLES 11. ELYEA,
sep9—lt U.S. Dep. Marshal as Messenger,
IN BANKRUPTCY.
U. 8. MARSHAL’S OFFICE. )
Atlanta, Ga., September 7, 1868. j
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on tho
19th day of August, A. D., 1868, a Warrant
in Bankruptcy was issued agaiust the estate of
■ JOHN Q. SPIRES,
of , in the county of Lincoln, and State of
Georgia, who lias been adjudged a Bankrupt on
bis own petition; aud that the payment of any debts
aud delivery of any property belonging to said
Bankrupt, to him or lor his use, and the transfer
of any property by him, are forbidden by law ;
that a meeting of the creditors of said Bankrupt,
to prove thqir debts, and to choose one or more
of his ostato bo hold at a
Bankruptcy, to be holdeu at the Register’s offiee,
in the city of Madison, Morgan county, Georgia,
before Albert G. Foster, Register, on the 21st day
of September, A. D 1868, at 16 o'clock a. m.
CHARLES 11. ELYEA,
sep9—lt U. S. Dep. Marshal as Messenger.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for the Northern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of )
JOHN M. BURNS, IIN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. J
To whom it may couceru: The undersigned
hereby gives notice of his appointment as
Assignee of John M. Burns, of , in the
county of Jackson, and State of Georgia, within
said District, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt
on his own petition by the District Court of said
District
Dated the 20th of August, 1868.
WILLIAM A. PIKE,
sep9—law3w Assignee,etc.
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Retailers of spirituous liquors
vyhose County License have expired, or who
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 accord
ing tv law. SAMUEL LEVY,
au 25—10 t Ordinary Richmond County.
- NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
, Official.
Pro clamation
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BY THE GOVERNOR.
Executive Depautment, i
Atlanta, Ga., September 7, 1868. J
Whereas, At the August Term, 1867, of Mod.
roe Superior Court, General Taylor was convicted
Os the offence of involuntary manslaughter, and
sentenced by his Honor, Alexander M. Speer
Judge of said Court, to hard labor in the Penitcn’.
tiary for and during the term of one year:
And Whereas, It appears from the statement
of the Principal Keeper of the Penitentiary, that
tho conduct of ths said General Taylor hu been
uniformly good during his said confinement, and
being desirous of restoring him to his civil rights
Noir, therefore, I, Rufos B. Bullock, Governor
by virtue of the power aud authority vested in me
by the Constitution of the State of Georgia, do by
these presents fully aud freely paidonthe said
General Taylor of the offence of which he stands
convicted, and restore him to bis civil rights and
order that he be forthwith discharged from’cou
finemeutand set at liberty.
Given under my hand and Seal of the Executive
Department, at the Capitol in Atlanta, the day
anti year above written.
R. B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor: Governor
B. B. DbGbaffbnbied,
Sec’y, Ex. Department. sep9—3t
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
Slates for tho Southern District of Georgia.
In the matter of )
WM S. TRULUCK, VIN BANKRUPTCY
Bankrupt. j No. 323.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Cour
for a discharge from ail his debts provable under
the Bankrupt* Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is
hereby given to all persons interested to appear
on the Gtn day of October,lß6B,at 10 o’clock a. in.,
at-chambers of said District Court, before Frank
8. Ilesseltine, Esq., one of the Registers of said
Court in Bankniptcv, at bis office at the
Hotel in Fort Valley, Georgia,' and show
cause why the prayer of the said petition of
the Bankrupt should not be granted. Aud further
notice is given that the setond and third meetings
of creditors will be held at the same time and place.
Dated at Savannah, Ga , this- 7th day of Sep
timber, 1868. JAMES McPHERBON,
sep9—lt , Clerk.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of )
WILLIAM H. WII.LtS, >ln Bankruptcy.
Bankrupt. J No. 179.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the
Court for 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 oth day of October, 1868, at 10
o’clock a. in., at chambers of said District
Court, liefore Frank 8. Hesseltinc, Esq., one
of the Registers of said Court in Bankruptcy,
at Ids ofnee at the Hotel at Fort Val
ley, Georgia, and show cause why the
prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt
should not be granted. And further notice is
given that the second and third meetings of
creditors will be held at the same time and
place.
Dated at Savannah, Ga., this sth day of Sep
tember, 1868. JAMES McFHERSON,
sep9 —lt Clerk.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of I
WILLIAM J. LEWIS, jIN BANKRUPTCY
Bankrupt. ) No. 222.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the
Court for a discharge from ail his debts prova
ble under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867,
notice is hereby given to all persons Interested
to appear on the Bth day of October. 1868 ( at 10
o’clock a. m., at chambers of said District
Court, before Frank S. Hesseltinc, Esq., one of
the Registers of said Court in Bankruptcy, at
his office at the Court House, In Cuthbert, Ga.,
and show cause why the prayer of the said
petition of the Bankrupt should not be granted.
And further notice is given that the second and
third meetings of creditors will be held at the
same time and place.
Dated at Savannah, Ga., this 7th day of Sep
tember, JAMES McPHF.RSON,
sep9—lt Clerk.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States, for the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of 1 In Bankruptcy.
A. A. WI LKI N , J-
Bankrupt. ) No. 37.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court
for a discharge from all bis debts provable under
the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is
hereby given to all,persoue interested to appear,
on the Bth day of October, 1868, at 10 o'clock a.m.,
at Chambers of said District Court, before F. 8.
Hesseltine, Esq., one of the Registers of said
Court in Bankruptcy, at the Court House, Cuth
bert, Ga., and show cause why the prayer of the
said petition of the Bankrupt should not be
granted And further notice is given that the
second and third meetings of creditors willbe held
at the same time and place.
Dated at Savannah, Ga., this 7th day of Sep
tember, 1868. JAMES MCPHERSON,
sep9—lt Clerk.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of 1
GEORGE McGINLEY, [IN BANKRUPTCY
Bankrupt. J No. 58.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the
Court for 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 tbelith day of October, 1868, at W
o’clock a. m., at chambers of said District
Court before Frank 8. Hesseltine, Esq., one of
the Registers of the said Court in Bankruptcy,
at h»s office, at the corner of Bay and Drayton
streets, Savannah, Ga., and show cause why
the prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt
should not be granted.
Dated at Savannah, Ga., this 7th day of Sep
tember, 1868. JAMES MCPHERSON,
sep9—law3w Clerk.
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