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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