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About The National Republican. (Augusta, Ga.) 1867-1868 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1868)
FA RAGRAMS. —Yesterday, in New York, G»ld was quoted nt 1.44 J. Cotton, 26Jc. . Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Geor- gia, arrived iu Balfimore on Friday last. . Rev. Mr. Hoffman, of Philadelphia, orthodox, has been chosen Rabbi and Reader of a Synagogue in Baltimore. —Heller, who is so well-known here as a conjurer, is performing very successfully at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London. —Henry Gale Dunnell, one of the most eminent homeopaths of New York, died last week. , —Hon. Horace Maynard has been ap pointed Special Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, for September and October. ' —Bedbugs and fleas ride in the New York horse cars, collecting their fares of the passengers. —The Cliff copper mine, on Lake Supe rior, is now 1 600 feet deep—below the bot tom of the lake. —lt is said that Patti’s husband concealed the amount of his debts from her. Trouble is anticipated. ■ —Signor Blitz, the famed magician, has reappeared in public in New York city, after fifteen years’ absence. —Rochefort, the /zt Lanterns man of Paris, talks of coming to this country until the storm about his head has blown over. —II. F. Parrish has a nursery of over sixty thousand fruit trees growing near the Mission Ridge battle-field, nt Chattanooga. -—Brigadier and Brevet Major General Joseph Hooker has been ordered before the Retiring Board, at New York, for examina tion- -Ex-President Pierce still continues to gain. He is not yet out of danger, but the probabilities are strong in favor of his re covery. —The indications are that the Republi cans of the Ninth District of Pennsylvania will elect Mr. 0. J. Dickey to fill the late Thaddeus Stevens’ scat in Congress. —General Den Pedro Ampudia, a famous old politician and officer of the era of our Mexican war, died recently in the city of Mexico. —A gentleman from New had the custody of twelve marriageable daughters at Long Branch this year, and has the whole of them yet on hand to start business with next season. —John Hawley, a negro, was detected in the act of outraging a girl twelve years old, in the woods at Stratford, Conn., by two uncles of the girl, and arrested. —Lewis W. Caswell was hold iu two thousand dollars bail nt New York, a few days since, by the United States Commis sioner. for embezzlement while a clerk in the post office. —The funeral of the late Bishop Fulford, the Metropolitan Bishop of Canada, took place Sunday afternoon,, at Montreal, and was attended by an immense number of persons. —Joseph Skinner, of Independence, near Cleveland, was shot dead in his own house by burglars, who escaped. No robbery was committed. Jack O’Neil, a noted burglar and thief, was arrested on suspicion. —The body of Mrs. Gamble, which was disinterred some time since at New York, has been found by chemical analysis to con tain poison. She left a large fortune to her husband, and he has been arrested with his paramour. —An envious Michigan paper, referring to the numerous meetings of pioneers in Ohio, says that “ there was never, perhaps, a State which required so many pioneers as Ohio to settle it, er where they liyed so long and diet! mo often." —More money is lent in California at 1J , to 2 per cent a mouth than at less rates, aud the most favorable terms on the longest time, with the best real estate as security, is one per cent, a month. Two per cent, a month is the general discount on street paper at 30, 60 or 90 days. —lt is now reported concerning the Binekley-Courtney difficulty that the Secre tary of the Treasury will soon dispense with the services of Mr. Binckley, while the Pres ident will suspend Mr. District-Attorney Courtney. —Thomas bivine, employed as a laborer • on the farm of T. Van Vanauken, on the Cohoes road, near Troy, New York, at tempted t> murder Mrs. Van Vanauken Sunday afternoon, for her mopey, but did • wot succeed. He fled, but has since been captured. Mr. Van Vanauken will probably recover. —Tender hearted Democrats are dis tressed about one or two violent and in cendiary speeches reported to have been made by colored men lately : but what can we expect of uneducated and enslaved negroes, whose only examples of political moderation are Wade Hampton, Albert Pike, Frank Blair and driver Forrest ? —The New Bedford Standard says that Mrs. Edward 11. Green, nee Hetty H. Robinaon, now in London, being a great heiress, herself, has an heir to her immense property. It is a fine, large, healthy child, was bom on the 22d ult„ and is named Edward Howland Robinson Green. Both and million heir arc doing well. —The New York jjitn (Independent) thus speaks of the state of the political betting market: “Immediately after his nomination th? betting was two on Grant to op Seymour. Then it changed to 120 . on G|ant to HO on Seymour, and this is the best show Seymour has ever had. Since then his stock has gone back dreadfully in the betting market, till now the quotations among betting men are three on Grant to one on Seymour.” —An attempt was reoeutty made to lynch a tallow in Kentucky who had the reputation wt beating his mother, but he shot one or ' two of his assailants, and discouraged them. His mother now writes a card, saying that it was all a mistake; that she sometimes fought with her son’s wife, but never with him, and that it was all in the family at any rale. —One of the returned Ayssinisu captors gives the following pleasant account ot the people; “Biggars jtrfest the land; the priests are ignorant and besotted ; the sol diers the curse of the country. Abyssinians, I regret to say, are cowardly adepts at lew treachery, lazy, pretentious, and pompous. Naturally drunkards and gluttons, they are very abstemious by necessity, and their fes tivals are but low and coarse orgies. They have no literature, iiv means of recreation. Their Conversation is a revolting, incoherent talk, partly blasphemous, partly lascivious, and when diey favored us with their society, always ending in request for favors. When we state that cleanliness is a shame, de bauchery no disgrace, robbery, treachery and mufder glorious deed.--, w« have summed up ths qualifications most prized by that degraded race; and if their timorous nature made them recoil before the daring art of murdering the white men. their guests, they eqjoyed, at least for a while, the idea of their importance, and swaggered, full of pride, before the few helpless individuals I their King detained in captivity and in I chains.” ~ i NalionnlUcpiiblicnn ai'i.wrA. <ja. FRIDAY MORNING September 18, 1868 For PRESIDENT Os the United States: ULYSSES S* «BAWT. FOR VICE PRESIDENT: Schvyler Colfax, OF INDIANA. Republican Electoral Ticket. FOR THE STATE AT LARGE. HENRY P. FARROW, of Fulton. AMOST. AKERMAN, of Elbert. ALTERNATES. Judge Dawson Walker, of Whitfield. C. H. Hopkiss, of Chatham. FOR THE DISTRICTS. Is/ District— A. WILBUR, of Chatham. Alternate— E. E. Howard, of Chatham. 2<Z Dis/ric/—JNO. MURPHY, of Dougherty Alternate— S. F. Salter, of Pulaski. 3d District-E. I. HIGBEE, of Talbot. Alternate— J. R. Thompson, of Carroll. Uh District— Wm. H. WHITEHEAD, of Butts. Alternate— Henry Glover, of Jasper. 5/7i District— J. E. BRYANT, of Richmond. Alternate— F. J. Robinson, of Oglethorpe. Gth District—S. C. JOHNSON, of Dawson. Alternate— Isaac S. Clements, of Forsyth. Ith District—J. L- DUNNING, of Fulton. Alternate—F. A. Kirby, of Chattooga. WHO BIDS? We have S2OO to bet on Grant’s and against Seymour’s election in Novem ber. Coqie along with your greenbacks, Democrats, and you shall lie accommo dated. A LYING DISPATCH. In our telegraph column this morning will lie found a telegram from Raleigh, N. C., purporting to give the number in at tendance. at the great Grant mass meet ing held there on the 16th. We have no doubt that the author greatly underrates the numbers in attendance on that occa sion; but that is only a comparatively harmless lie. The statement as, to the in cendiary declarations of Hon. Joseph W. Holden is not of that character. That is a wicked, malicious falsehood, and is sent over the South to increase the antagonism of the Democrats against the blacks, and also against the white Unionists. Wc know that the language attributed to Mr. Holden docs not express his sentiments, and that he would not give utterance to any such diabolical opinions. The author of the dispatch is the editor of the Raleigh Sentinel, an old Methodist preacher by the name of Wm. E. Pell, a saint in church and a devil in state. What can be thought of a man that sanctimoniously claims that the Almighty has specially called him to preach the everlasting Gospel to a sinful and per ishing world, and then deliberately engages iu the editorial management of a revolu tionary partisan organ, and uses his energies, not in saving souls, but iu fomenting discord and hatred among the people because of polit ical differences. same political preach ers are the worst enemies of Religion. Ac tive agents of the devil, the pulpit, politico.] forum, and editorial sanctum are all dese. crated to the base purposes of the master they serve, with, alas, too much success. Don’t believe Pell’b lying dispatch. It is a lie, as we will prove as soon as B reaches the eye of Mr. Holden. • NOT WANTED. Ben Hill and Bob Toombs have been felicitating themselves with the idea of “ swinging around the circle” at the North) and instructing the people there as to their duty in the coming contest. But the»e model patriotshave met with n rebuff from a quar ter inpst unexpected. Th«y anticipated a reception of open arms, and to be honored as martyrs to Constitutional liberty. But instead of a shout of welcome, they are freezingly notified that their presence will not be agreeable, and that as to their making speeches to the people, the Republicans have already played the devil with Sey. mqur’s chances by publishing them as campaign documents. If you would not ruin us, do not come among us, say the Northern Democracy. By your conduct at home, you have crippled us ; if you wore in our midst, our parly would be annihilated. The North will not tolerate rebel raiders— such wieked ones as you, particnlarlv. Not only docs the Northern Democrats give Hiu. and Toombs the cold shoulder, but “My Maryland ” substantially admits that they would injure the party in the West. What can be thought of the pros pects of a party when its most prominent leaders dare not show their faces to the people in the most populous sections of the country ? Does it look like victory was possible for such an organization ? Does it never occur to those few Democrats in our midst, whose heads have not become crazed with passion and prejudice, that if the Northern people can not tolerate such men as Hill and Toombs «s leaders out of office, that they will scarcely vote for a man for the Presidency that might make Hill Attorney General, or Bob Toombs’ Secretary of War < There is no guarantee, if Seymour should Ire elected, that in three months after his inauguration, Gen. Toombs, os Secretary of War, would not be issuing orders to Quart, Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, Hancock, and other of the nation’s beloved heroes. The Democratic leaders have curtly notified Hiu. and Toombs tjiat they arc “ not wanted.” The people of the whole Union will notify all such politicians, in November, that they are “ not wanted.” If the people of Georgia could only break the chains of party, rise above prejudice, and speak out their honest sentiments, they, too, would re-echo “ not wanted." Such men are “not wanted.” Os what service have they ever Imjcb to Georgia? They arp only the guilty authors of deso lating war, an<l skulkers from its <«w qucnces. A WORD TO THE WHITE REPUB LICANS OF AUGUSTA. There are several hundred white Repub I icons in this city. They are an intelligent and patriotic class, who have braved per secution, proscription, and danger in de fence of the right as “God has given them to understand the right.” But they lack organization. Each is doing as much as in him lies individually for Grant and Peace; but there is not that unity of action as well as purpose, which should govern tho members of all parties. Our colored friends are thoroughly massed. They are working with the wisdom of ex perienced partisans. They present a solid front to the enemy, and resist all his at tacks with glorious success. Then let the white Republicans organize, appoint com mittees, cut out work for the campaign, and perform that work when it is cut out- The lines of the enemy arc weakening- Already some of the most prominent citi zens, lieretoforc identified with the Democ racy, have expressed a preference for Giiant. These men have property —something to lose—and they arc unwilling to place it at the mercy ot such wild revolutionists as Frank Blair. Hope is departing from the breasts of those who, four weeks since, would have bet their bottom dollar on Seymqur. There is no chance. The people see it, and they will make matters worse by “kicking against the pricks.” Besides, they begin to recognize the fact that Gen. Grant is as generous as be is brave. By studying his history they have ascertained the fact that it is not in his nature to become the tool of proscriptive and fanatical politicians, and that lie can not be otherwise than generous to those noble braves of the South who sacrificed everything in the vain attempt to destroy their country. The cry of “ nigger t nigger!” too, has ceased to exercise the talismanic influence it once did. Sensible people comprehend the absurdity of that unfortunate race ruling any country or any party. Then let us organize. “Up and at them,” white Republicans. When shall a club be organized ’ EXPLANATION. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 17, 1868. Editor National Republican: Dear Sir.—Will you have the kindness to define my status, in the National Re rußi.icAir, as editor, associate editor, corres pondent, or contributor ? Respectfully, Martin V. Calvin. Mr. Calvin occupies no status whatever either as “editor, correspondent, or con tributor.’’ Some time since one or two articles on education appeared in our columns over his signature: with that ex ception, and the handing into the office of one or two little items about the public schools, he has not written anything for the Republican. • Inquisitive persons can very readily in form themselves as to the personality of the writer for this journal ; and it is a little sin gular, and possibly malicious, that bi? sins (if sins they be) should be charged to Mr. Calvin or any gentleman other than the writer of this paragraph. We don’t even know Mr. C’s politics ; neither do we earc what they are. We attend to our business, he attends to his, as we presume. If every , body else would do the same, there would be fewer falsehoods and slanders current. THE WORK GOES BRAVELY ON. That the people maybe better able to com prehend tUp intense enthusiasm of the great West for the noble leader of the Union hosts throughout the war, we insert an account of the Republican organization in Indiana, taken from the New York Times. Let the Democrats read and takd comfort- if they can : There are now upward of 900 Grant and Col fax elabs, with nearly 100,000 members, in this State. By the first of next month this number will be increased to at least 120,000. No party in Indiana could ever boast of such an organlm tion,ll»e popularity of Grant and Colfax having wonderfully facilitated the formation of these clubs, of which there is at least one in every township in Indiana, and one in nearly every ward in our cities. There are in this State, fur thermore, sixty German Grant and Colfax clubs, with botwecn B,OOP and 9,000 members, and about 20,000 “Fighting Boys in Blue,” many of whom, however, are also members of the Grant and Col fax clubs. This vast Republican host, embrac ing upward of 100,000 voters, is more active than any party in this State ever was before ; holds daily,on an average, 200 meetings throughout the State; dispute every inch of ground with the enemy, and will certainly secure, on election day the polling of a very full vote, aud that is here in Indiana always exceedingly injurious to the Democracy. The same writer says there are less than 300 Seymour clubs in the State. The hopes of the revolutionists “grow small by degrees and beautifully less.” The Entire Race Branded.—There usurpers in the House of Representatives .of Georgia have decided by the provisions of their jury bill, that there is not a single “in telligent-and upright” colored man in the State. Is this true ? Rather is not the law—if it should become a law—a living lie? r- Too Sensible to Vote for Seymou*. —The Democrats say that the colored citi zens have not sufficient intelligence to vote understandingly. There is scarcely one of them that has not too inudb sense to vote for Seymour and Blair. —swe ————-■■■-« The Terrible EAHTuquAKK M Sou u America.—We publish a highly interesting article on “ Earthquakes,” from the Charles ton Cotirier, of yesterday morning. It will ■repay perusal. —A writer says that all the men of emi nence can be found in Broadway, New York. John C. Calhoun keeps a dry goods store ; Daniel Webster a millinery establishment; Henry Clay a barbershop; George Wash ington a boot store; William C. Bryant a tailor’s establishment; John Bright a hosiery ; Thus. Carlyle a card printing es tablishment ;’ Robert BroWnin? ft fnro bank, and so on to Ihe end. —The official returns show a Republican majority of 27.500 at the late election iej Vermont. This is in a State where, as the Democrats tell us, uo interest was felt in the' CQiAest, aud neither party made any con siderable effort. As the result of entire in difference, the result is not a bad one ; the majority will be largely increased, .however, when bo’ll dailies take hold in earnest —ns they will in November. —General Bismarck’s horse, during a little private race, fell into n ditch and rolled over him, recently. DEATH OF AN EDU OR. 1 he Savannah papers, received last even ing, contain the unwelcome announcement of the death of John E. Hayes, Esq., editor of the Republican of that city. By the fol lowing account of the immediate cause of Mr. Hayes’ unexpected demise, wc infer that this is another instance of self-destruc tion : The deceased died übeut hall-past ten o’clock yesterday morning." We learn that since an attack made upon him last winter, when he was struck upon the head, he has been subject to occasional attacks similar to neuralgia. On Monday evening last one of these attacks camo oh him, and, after re tiring, finding that he could not sleep, he made use of an anodyne, On Tuesday he was still unwell and kept his bed, and that night, in order to obtain the nice sary rest, again used the same remedy. He at first only took a tea-spoonful of laudanum, but us it failed to produce any effect, he repeat ed the dose, taking altogether about a table spoonful. He then, sunk into a sound slum ber, from which he did not awake. Mr. Beard, who roomed with the deceased, sup posing, when he arose in the morning, that Mr. Hayes was asleep, came down town without attempting to disturb him. About an hour after the departure of Mr. Beard, a boy was sent from the office to receive the commands of Mr. Hayes, and found him iu a convulsion. The boy iinme dietely alarmed the inmates of the house, and Doctors King and Schley were sum moned, and administered emetics and used the stomach pump, but their- efforts were of no avail, he dying a short time after their arrival. The deceased was twenty-eight years of age, was born in Boston, Mass., in 1840. Previous to the war he was connected with the Boston Traveller. During the war he was an army correspondent of rhe New York Tribune, aud was with Gen. Bank’s army in Louisiana, and also with General Sherman, with whose army he came to Savannah and commenced publishing the Republican, which has been under his con trol up to the hour of his death. He had a mother, two sisters and a brother attendant upon him. The body will be sent them at Roxbury, Mass., to-day. WAR THEIR OBJECT—LET US AVOID IT. The N. C. Standard has republished the patriotic letter of Chief Justice Pearson, of North Carolina. As we have before stated, thc*author has been Chief Justice of the State for nearly a quarter of a century, aud at the last election was continued iu office'by the unanimous vote of the people. He is one of Nature’s noblemen, and is as pure as he is great. Although a Conserva tive, he can not partake of the feast to which tho leaders of Iris party invite him. Understanding the disastrous consequences which must inevitably result from the elec tion of Seymour, he repudiates the so-called Democratic candidate, and calmly appeals to the good sense of the people of the Old North State not to be guilty of tho criminal folly of encouraging another war, that will only make bad worse. We have already made extracts from this irrefutable docu ment. Nevertheless, the following estab lishes so incontrovertibly that the policy of the Democrats will lead to war, that we again ask for it an attentive perusal. Judge Pearson says: Examine the several modes that have been suggested, and you will be satisfied that Ahey all lead to civil war. First- Let Congress repeal or expunge the recon struction acts, and declare everything that has been done to be of no effect. In tlje first place, this mode is too slow. It is ndt expected there will boa majority in the Senate that would so vote under four years. And in the second place, as the State is now in the Union, with all the rights of a State, the Government, according to a principle admitted on all sides, has no right to inter feie with its internal affairs will the in coming administration commit an act of palpable usurpation in order to undo what has been done under a supposed usurpa tion of a formw administration ? If so, there is anarchy. Oh, Mexico I unhappy Mexico! is my country ponied to thy sad fate ? Second —Let the President, with the concurrence of the House of Repre sentatives, send the army South, expel the State officars, tear up the constitutions, and prevent the negroes from voting. This is Mr. Blair’s plan, fully endorsed by the leading organ of the nullifiers in this Sta te, [See Sentinel of the 18th July.] This is war. This plan has been faintly disowned, not by Mr. Seymour or Mr. Blair—they are silent in regard to it, and stand on the platform—but by some irresponsible men of the party. Third—Let the House of Representatives eject the members from States where free negroes vote, and the President refuse to recognize the. State Governments. [See Watchman and Old North. State.] AVcll, what is to be done with the Governor, mepibers of the Legis lature, Judges and other officers? Arc they to be ejected by mob law ? Are we to have a second Dorr to carry out what was attempted in Rhoflc Island ? God save our State. My countrymen 1 it is time to pause, and refuse longer to follow the lead of violent politicians. We should discard prejudice ami passion, and act dn our own judgment, as to what should be done uuder the circum stances by which wd find ’ ourselves sur rounded. The most violent members of any party, provided they cau get members enough at the start to make a respectable showing, always carry their point, tor reason is put aside, vituperation and abuse are hurled at all who hesitate—“he is not a friend to the South, be is a traitor to Ids race and color,” etc., etc. The women and children (creatures of feeling) join in the clamor, aud so it goes. You and 1 wereopposed to secession, the bulk of the people opposed it, yet we were h-urrecd into it. After the ordinance, like true men, we adhered to our State, and rendered faithful allegiance to the Confed eracy up to the surrender. Wnalrtifl we gain by it ? I should rather ask, who can can estimate what we lost by it ? 1 will specify instances where bad was made worse by violent ;>oiiuciaus; Ist. We labored under a supposed incon venience in not being allowed to carry slaves into and, owing to the preju dices against slavery, a fugitive slave could not be reclaimed uuder the act of Congress, without more cost than his value. To rem edy this, the South seceded. We lost all onr Slaves I 2d. At- the Forties* Monroe conference it was in our power Io be' restored to all the righta of a State, provided we woald sub mit to gradual emancipation, that is, every negro lx>rn after a day to lie fixed, wtnmld be free at the agfi of 21. But the cry was, “independence or ndthing,” ' fight it, eui,’’ when it was kuown that we. could not open the Spring campaign without a re-inforoc wi nt of 2U0.000 negro soldiers which was impossible, of'iT possible, fat;d to our cense. The result w.w -a surrender without terms, followed by instant emnncipatioti : irilh four millions <if freedmen in our midst! No bad was again made worse. :’>d. What was to be doifco witii tlic freed men ? The idea of four millions of people, not slaves,. exisuug in onr midst without some political rights,was out of the question. Such a condition of things never has within the memory of man, and never will exist. It is against the eternal laws of nature 1 At that time we had it in our power to put all things right, by submitting to qualified negro suffrage. That is let every freedman who could read and write, Or owned, say SIOO worth of property, have the right to vote. Not much harm would have come of this, for the negro vote would have been scattered and neutralized. But no 1 “This is a white man’s government." Prejudice excluded reason. How did it result? The State is reduced to a military district, with a provisional government, subject to the order of the “General commanding.” Tho freed men arc entitled to fall suffrage and the right to hold office. These terms imposed by the General Government have been submit ted to and acted upon. A clear majority of 20,000 votes has fixed the matter. So bad was again made worse. Let me ask, why did Gen. Lee surrender ? Because he could not help it 1 For the same reason we must submit to the political, not the social (for that is a thing under our own control) equality of the freedmen. This is “the situation,’’ Ths question is, shall we go on and again make bad wbtse, or shall we try to make the worst of it ? [From the Charleston Courier, 17th. THE EARTHQUAKE. Humboldt, the great traveller, geographer and philosopher, said of the region near the Andes, in Peru, that earthquakes are so frequent there that they excite but little more surprise than a sudden shower does in Europe. Though this is, of course, a some what exaggerated expression, it nevertheless conveys a striking idea of the frequency ot earthquakes in that region, and of the degree to which the people have become familiarized with these awful convulsions of nature. It is said, on almost equally good authority, that, taking the range of the West coast of South America, from the Southern part of Peru to the upper part of Ecuador, there is scarcely a day without a shock of some kind, and it is estimated that the coast of Peru has risen eighty-five feet from these causes since it was first inhabited. Intelli gence of a terrible convulsion of this kind has been published in our columns, and the calamity, as described, is of the most fearful character. It appears that, on the 13th of August, a wide-spread earthquake devastated a laige part of the coast of Peru and Ecua dor, totally destroying from fifteen to twenty cities and towns, some of them being more than a thousand miles apart. The accounts do not enable us to identify all the places mentioned- At least six of them, however, viz: Arica, Iquique, Moquegua, Pisagua and Locuiuba are in the department of Mo quegua, the most southerly part of Peru; two others, Arequipa and Chincha are in the department of Arequipa; and Chala may be either of the Peruvian towns of that, name, one being in Moquegua, and the other in Arequipa. Ibarra and San Pablo are in Ecuador. Arequipa is the capital of the department of that name, and was a city of about forty thousand inhabit ants, with many well-built and substantial public buildings, a cathedral, churches, convents, etc. It had been four times pre viously devastated by earthquakes. Arica was once a very important place, having been the shipping port for the large wealth furnished by the mines of Potosi. It for merly had a population of over 30,000, but had been reduced to about 4,000, though it is now put down at 12,000. Tacna was a town of about 10,000 population, and to united with Arica by a government railway of about forty miles in length. Moquegua was the capital of the department of that name, with a population of about 10,000, Iquique and Chincha were small seaport towns, with populations of probably 1,000 each, deriving their chief importance from the guano islands of the same name in the immediate vicinity. Pisagua is a small sea port, and Locumba is an island. Ibarra, one of tho destroyed towns in Ecuador, is situated about fifty miles to the Northward of the city of Quito, which was so dreadfully ravaged by an earthquake in 1859, and is at the foot of the volcanic mountain Imba bura. It was a well-built and beaufiful town, containing about 15,000 inhabitants Sun Pablo is in the same vicinity. These towns contained from eighty thous and to one hundred thousand inhabitants, • and if they were totally destroyed, as stated, there must be fully that many people hotne- i less and ruined. How many of the unfortu nate inhabitants perished outright is not so I clear. One account says twenty-five thous and, but from the much smaller numbers re ported to have perished in Arica and Iquique, • there is g„o 1 reason to hope that twenty-five I thousand is an exaggeration. But be this as 1 it may, the loss of life, the destruction of property, and the utter ruin of so many thriving cities and towns, are awful subjects for contemplation. As usual in such cases, the horrors of the event, when the earth was rising and falling as if it was so much water, and when houses were reeling and tottering, were fearfully aggravated by the sudden rising of the sea, which rolled in upon the shore in a great wave, like a wall, forty feet high. Lima, the capital of Peru, which appears to have suffered but little damage on this oc casion, has experienced heretofore upwards of twelve tremendous earthquakes, which were terribly destructive to life and property, iu one of which every house in the city was destroyed; but in none were so many lives lost as this last fearful calamity. The origi nal town of CallaO, the port of Lima, six miles distant, was demolished and submerged by an earthquake in 1746. The recorded ’ phenomena of earthquakes exhibit so much resemblance to those of volcanoes that it is difficult to resist the conclusion that they are produced by the same chemical process, acting at a great depth beneath the surface of the earth. Ecuador, which has suffered so severely in common with Peru from the late visitation, has twenty-two mountains which rise above the limits nf perpetual snow, and twenty five more above 10,600 feet, of which a majority are volcanoes, some constantly active, others occasion ally so. The accounts so far which have reached us of the late earthquake give a fearful picture of the working of the terrific subter ranean forces which have swept off whole populations and laid large, portions of cities in ruins. The sea and the yawning earth seem to have been contending for the prey of human life. What boartiardment of artillery can be compared to a shock which, in five minutes, destroys a town like Are quipa, built ol the strongest- granite and containing thirty-five thousand inhabitants. How puny the most formidable motive power invented by man compared to the enormous tidal wave which carries stout ships, some of them war vessels, a distance on shore, leaving them high and dry on the mainland I It is difficult for the human imagination to conceive such a spectacle of terror, horror and misery ; such an exhibi tion of the utter impotence of man in presence of a grand convulsion of nature, as is exhibited in the late scenes of Peru aud Ecuador, of wholesale destruction of thou sands of human lives, and the panic, anguish .aud uttor destitutiou of many of the sur vivors. Th'wc t r.-ific shocks to what we are in the habit of callifig the solid earth, show wbnt a frail matter it is after all when as sailed by the mighty forces pent up beneath its comparatively thin crust. This earth quake probably extends over an area of a thousand milgs square, and many millions of cubic miles of rock and earth and water must have been upbeuved. There is no form of hituiati expression th st can give an j idea of such a power. Yet there it is all the time in active existence but a few miles beneath our feet. But seldom manifesting itself in our vicinity, it is in ceaseless action in the neighborhood of volcanoes, whether they be active or extinct. And volcanoes arc the great characteristics of the. Pacific coast of South America. Os the two hun dred and twenty-five volcanoes that have been in a state of activity within the last hundred and sixty years, a largo majority are on the Pacific coast of this continent. The Andes are full of them, some of the volcanic peaks of that great range being among the highest mountains in the world? In the neighborhcXid of Arequipa, which appears to have ''been about the centre of this last terrible visitation, there are moan tains between four and five miles in height, and the inconceivable powers that upheaved those vast masses are beyond all doubt the same that have been recently at work over throwing the feeble productions of human hands, upon which we sometimes look with such wondering eyes. The only earthquakes of modern tirnei which compare in special interest with the terrible tragedy are those of Lisbon in 1755, and the Kingdom of* Naples in 1838. The loss of life in the latter, according to some statements made at the time, were from 22,000 to 40,000. The destruction, however, was not as instantaneous as in the late calamity. In that of Lisbon, however, 60,000 poisons are believed to have perished in six minutes. It has been observed in former remarkable earthquakes, among them that at Lisbon, that the waters of distant oceans and lakes exhibited, about the same time, an extraor dinary agitation, the tide in some places rising twenty feet. Something similar to this is believed to have accompanied the late earthquake in Peru. A telegram from San Francisco, published in the Atlantic cities about the last of August mentioned that on the 15th of that month a series of waves commenced flowing upon the coast of San Pedro, Southern California, causing the tide to rise stxty-three or sixty-four feet above the" ordinary high water mark, which was followed by the falling of the tide an equal distance below the low water mark. This rise and fall is said to have occurred regularly every half hour for several hours, and it is now conjec tured that this tidal phenomenon had its cause in the convulsions-of the waters pro duced by the shock in Peru, the waves having travelled nearly four thousand miles within the two days or less that intervened between the shock in Peru and the effect in California—that is, nearly one hundred and nine.miles an hour. The shock of this earthquake appears to have affected neuriy the whole Western coast of South America, some 2,500 miles, aud to have reached inland, nt some points, to the Cordilleras. During the first half of this century, 3,240 of these visitations were noticed, or about one every week. In Europe, during the last ten years, there have been 320 earthquakes, or one every nine days. At the commence meiM, of the fifteenth century, only 750 of these shocks had found a place in history. During the next 300 years,2,Bo4earthquakes are recorded, or almost four times as many as during all the preceding ages. From these facts, it has been inferred that, whatever may be the origin of these upheavings of the crust of the earth, the phenomena are greatly increasing in number, and their causes in violence. SPECIAL NOTICES. Or/icis Ass’t Sue r Georgia Railroad, I Augusta, Sept. 14th, 1868. J JO t ”REDUCED RATES ON VIRGINIA SALT,’ COAL AND LAND PLASTER.—UntiI further notice, on aud after the I Sth instant, the following will bo the charge per car load of 16,090 lbs., on Coal from Chattanooga to Augusta ....$32 10 Coal from Coal Creek via Knoxville to Augusta 46 10 Salt Bristol to Aagusta 76 65 Land Plaster from Bristol to Augusta 51 10 S. K. JOHNSON, sepls—3ot Assistant Superintendent. GRAIN AND FLOUR SACKS I! 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 pi in ted to order. Information promptly furnished upon applica tion. W. B. ASTEN & CO., ’ je 17—3 m 25 Pearl Street, New York City. Aetna Fire Insurance Co. OF HARTFORD. CONN. AVilliam Shear 18 THE ’ AGENT OF THIS COMPANY FOR AUGUSTA AND VICINITY, Andis tho ONLY AUTHORIZED PERSON to notify parties when their Policies will expire, or to renew tho same, or to issue new Policies for the Company. LUCIUS J. IIENDEE, sep!3—lw President. September 12tb, 1868 h'or UNDERSIGNED OFFERS FOR A KENT, from the first of October ultimo, a Small Fann, contain! ng twelve and three quarter acres, with dwelling, out houses, and good water, at present occnpicd by Mr. J. V . Moore. ALSO, From the first of January next, a Fann of three hundred and seven acres, on which is a dwelling and all necessary out houses. Both the above being about six miles from the citv of Augusta, on the Washington road, x lie also oif'era for rent,his Saw Mill, situated about five miles from the city, near the Washing ton rqad, with the use of an abundant supply of timber, a good carrylog, etc. Possession given immediately. WILLIAM SKINNER. sepl2—l2t United States Marshal s Sale. FTNITED STATES OF AMERICA—SOUTH <J ERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA. JOHN T. DORAN, Libsllant,] vs. | IN Sloop Mariah and Caroline, 1 Her Boate, Tackle, Apparel ; ADMIRALTY, and Furniture. J Under aud by virtue of a writ of vendilione exponas iseued out of the Honorable the District Court of the United States for the Southern Din trict of Georgia, in the above entitled cause, dated September 16, 1868, to me directed and delivered, I will sell at Public Auction, on TUESDAY, the 15th day of SEPTEMBER instant, between the legal hours of sale, before the Court. House, in the city ol Savannah, Ga,, the Sloop Mariam and Caroling, her Boats, Tackle. Apparel and Furni ture. Dated at Savannah, Ga., this Hllh day of Sep tember, 1868. WM. G. DICKSON, sepl2-td U. 8. Marshal, District of Georgia. Assignee's Sale. \VILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT V V House door, in the town of Sparta, Han cock county, cn the FIRST TUESDAY IN OC TOBER next, between tho legal hours of sole, the following property, to wit : Five hundred and sixty-seven and one-half (5671) Acres of Land, more er less, on the east bank of the Oconee river, in said county, and adjoining lands of Wilkins Harper, Wyatt Har per, and Alpbeus Butts. Also, one judgment and execution against John Bass, of. Newton county, principal and interest amounting to $949.19. Sold as the property of Jesse G. Butts, senior, Bankrupt, of Hancock eonaty, free from the in cumbrance of liens, undar a deems in Bank ruptcy. Terms cash. ARCHIBALD C. McKINLKY, -epl«- law3w Astignoe, etf. NEW advertisements. Official. - Proclamation byjhe Governor. W HtREAB, Io&w-abiding citizens f.. fectiOM of the State unite in commuitaSS *"“">■ tins Department, setting forth that mil “ I,J poisons are stirring up strife amoniz il.it by unlawful acts ot violence against t |" aud property of citizens, on account of me 1 ? 011 opinion; and V>at persons distinguished hostility to the Government of tin, and of thia State, are promoting said act -nf lence by publicly denouncing the laws a> , tionary, unconstitutional and void and del • jug in u manner tending to excite reaiatatiM i .? lawful authority of the State, and’to nX tk ' others to ioiu iu a combined resiatan<-« uL.A disregard of the civil riglita of citezeM* Ud a whereas, it Is farther communicated that itabte result bf said acts of violence and ii>» " lev tionary appeals is already becoming maaif™?" the rapid spread of a disposition on the nie 11 those who maintain tlie validity of the L, w Congress, and of the State Governments . ?? f lished thereunder, to protect themselves from said acta of violence, aud from satd n nations against their civil rights ; aud wk.®"’' the General Assembly has adopted the ftdi* preamble and resolution : “Whereas it t practice of a portion of the citizens of thisV* to assemble in large numbers with arms r, ,ilit purpose of exercising in military tactics’>K| r other unlawful purposes, without authorit law, and to the terror of the good citizens it J Resolved, therefore, by the Senate and Representatives, Tluil Ms Excellency r. o ernor be, aud he is hereby, respectfully reon. ? V ; to issue his proclamation, prohibiting such„ B * aud unlawful assemblages. But the right .V®] 11 people to peaceably assemble for the consider,- of auy matter shall not be impaired bv lamation of the Governor.” } I f rM Now, therefore, I, Rufns B. Bullock Gov.,, of this State, and Commander iu-Cbief of T army and navy and militia thereof, do fai. tr my Proclamation, commanding all citizens ™ i stain from any acts of violence against Wtßnn „ property, or from persuasions which wifi tend? excite to violence or unlawful combinations.? from all interference with the coiistittitioiia! of persons to assemble for political or other w ful purposes; and to yield prompt and resnecifS obedience to the officers of the law under slip cumstances-, and also charging upon th. ; lr , tha exwaw of great/vigilance tht 'S majesty of the civil law be vindicated and 2 caution that all their acts may be fnllv justified I and done in pursuance of our.Coiwtltutica a „j laws. And to make known that no autlioritvZ been granted by the Executive for the lonnation of armed or unarmed organizations ot any kind or character ; and that the drilling or exercising i, military tactics with arms of any organized fa of men within this State, except'the army of Hi United States, is unauthorized, unlawful ,?| against the peace must be immediately suspended The following extracts front the Coustitci,,,, and the Code are commended to the tlioiwhiM consideration of tlie public; ARTICLE I—CONSTITUTION. Section I. Protection to person and property i« the paramount duty of Government, and sbalfbe impartial and complete. Sk«.2> All persons boru or naturalized in the United States, and resident iu this State, are hereby declared citizens of this State, and no laws ehall be made or enforced which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, or of this State, or deny to atty person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws. And it shall be the duly, of the General Assembly, by appropriate legislation, to protect every person in Ute due enjoyment of th? rights privileges, and immunities guaranteed iu this section. Sec. 5. The right of the people to appeal to.the Courts, to petition government in all matters, aud peaceably to assemble for the consideration of any matter, shall never be impaired. Sec. 6. Every person charged with an offence against the laws shall have the privilege and ben efit of counsel, and shall be furnished, on demand, with a copy of the accusation and a list of the witnesses on whose testimony the charge against him is founded, shall have compulsory processes to compel the attendance of his own witnesses, shall bo confronted with the witnesses testifying against him, and shall have a public and speedy trial by an impartial jury. Sec. 9. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are inherent elements of political liberty. But while every citizen may freely speak, or write, or print on any subject, he shall be respon sible for the abuse of that liberty. Sbc. 10. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, (mpers and effects again<t unreasonable searches and seizures shall not te violated, and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, particularly describing the place or places to be searched, and the person or things to be seized. Bec. 11. No person shall bo molested for tie opinions, or be subject to any civil of political iu capacity, or uire any civil or political advan tage in co. .aencc of such opinions. Sec, 14. right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. CODE. Sec. 4249. Insurrection shall consist in any combined resistance to the lawful authority of the : State with intent to the denial thereof, when the ■ same is manifested by acts of violence. Sxc. 4250, Any attempt, by persuasion cr otherwise, to induce others to join in any com bined resistance to s lawful authority of the , State, shall constitute an attempt to incite insur rection. • Sxc, 4251. Any person convicted of the ollence of insurrection, or attempt at insurrection, etali be punished with death, or if the jury recommend to mercy, confinement in the Penitentiary for I term not less than five nor more than twenty rears. Sec. 4252. If any person shall bring, introduce, permit, or circulate, or caused to be introduced, circulated, or permitted, or aid or assist, or tain ■ any manner instrumental in bringing, introducing circulating, or printing within this State, any paper, pamphlet, circular, or any writing for tta purpose of exciting insurrection, riot, orconspi racy, or resistance against the lawful authority of the State, or against the lives of the,inhabitant! thereof, or any part of them, sucli person or persons so offending shall be guilty of a high mie demeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by confinement in the Penitentiary for a term not less than five nor longer than twenty years The conditions upon which parole was granted to these persons in tins State, who were prisoners of war, are that the persona paroled “ will not be disturbed by the United States authorities so long as they observe their parole and the laws in force where they reside.” RUFUS B. BULLOCK, By the Governor : Governor. David G. Cottins, Secretary of State. sep!B—2w Appointments by tho Governor. Executive Department, I Atlanta, Ga., September 17,1868.) Ordered, That John L. Conley. Esq., of the county of Richmond, be and he is hereby ap pointed State Librarian, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the 67th section ol the Code. RUFUS B. BULLOCK. By the Governor: Governor. B. B. DiGbavfenrbid, Seo’y Ex. Department. Official. Proclamation BY THE GOVERNOR- Whehkis, official information has beau ” ceived at this Depai tmeut that a murder was i mitted in the county of Chatham, near tn« porate limits of the city of Savannah, on GJ’ ~ of Angnst, ultimo, npon the body oj Charles Wilson, a youth of fourteen years of age. un unknown person or persons, and that sa l known persons have ned-from justice. . ue 1 have thought proper, therefore, to - t this, my Proclamation, hereby offering » ' L,, of Two Hundred Dollars for the appreh‘ n « f and delivery of the said unknown person or I sons to the’Sheriff of said county and And I do moreover charge a™., r *T u ”; Ilf officers in tliie State, civil and M id vigilant in endeavoring to apprehend « M unknown person or persons, in order tn«» thev, may be brought to trial for the with which tliey stand charged. , , ,j ie Given under my hand and the Great. eai ■ ((h State, at Hie Capitol in the city of Atlanta,UH day of September, in the year of our Lota, e>g hundred and sixtv eight, and of the liaiepeJia <>f the United States of America, the ninety RUFUS B. BULLOCK, By the Governor: Govern • DAVHI 0. CoTTUWI, .Secretary «f sep 17—St
