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Newspaper Page TextPARAGRAMB. —Yesterday, iu New York, Gold was quoted at 1.41 j. Cotton, 26c. —At NapMeons fete 20,000 rockets were fired off at once. —New York city expended’ $3,020,832 for school purposes last year. —The cost of the Lincoln monument at Springfield, Illinois, will be $200,000. —Stocks that are always up—those around the neck. Susan B. Anthony has adopted the Grecian Bend. —Barney Hanman, during a fight in Baltimore, was killed by a kick. —Prince Napoleon’s wife is dying of consumption. —A Kentuckian has sold $5,300 worth of watermelons this season. —Six big weddings, with ‘'new features in the ceremony.’ - are announced for next month in New Y’ork. —Newport, R. 1., has a cucumber sixty nine inches long. It wears the Grecian bend. —A man telegraphed another shipment of beans. He received for reply, “N. B.— (Nota bene.) —J. L. Ridgely will deliver the next annual address to the Odd Fellows Na tional Convention. —A woman, named Jane Alford, was found murdered in the streets of Toronto, recently. —Tommy Rodney, of the New York Water Street Conversioniste, was recently arrested for shanghaing a sailor. —The carpet-baggers, at the decent municipal election in Nashville, defeated the native Radicals that coalesced with the rebel element. —The English papers are discussing the question: “Is the nation that spent five mil lions sterling to ruin King Theodore bound to provide for his-son ?” —Mr. Isaac B.'Cohen, on his way from Fredericksburg, Va., to Marquette, Mich., on the ~Central Railroad, was robbed of $1,421 on Thursday. —Frederick Lopez, a youth of seventeen years, accidentally shot himself dead while gunnin?, in Canton, Mass., recently. —The colored girl now sculpturing at Rome has had an order for a statue of Clio from Prince George of Prussia. —Queen Olgs, of Greece, is an ardent admirer of our American poets, and has them all in her library. —Three quarters of a million of dollars were realized by the sale of pews in the Jewish Temple in New York. —A beautiful young giraffe hast j ust been Handed in New York. It does the Grecian better than a Saratoga belle. —At last the circle has been squared. There is a drill on exhibition in Brooklyn which bores a square hole. —Glove and moucicr boxes are now got ten up with settings of red cameos. These, of course, are very expensive, and all the more desirable. —Julia E. Harshell, a Connecticut lady, lately received $l5O damages and costs from the Shore Line Railroad for careless handling and smashing her trunk. —Mayor Wilstach, of Cincinnati, offers a reward of S2OO for the arrest and con viction of any person who may tlistrub a political procession or meeting. —Like cap-a-pie, which means from bend to foot, barbecue means from head to mil—Barbe el queue, or cue — that is, entire. In fact, “the whole hog.” —The London Times rather thinks it would like to see the United States take Mexico, if the United States would pay the • Mexican delrf. Shouldn’t wonder 1 —A California paper speaks of nn enter prising and highly successful murderer as having “a wonderful talent, for bereaving any funAly he does not happen to like.’’ —Goudon’s “Faust,” in a Polish version, has just been brought out at Warsaw. It is probable that no opera haS. within the same period, been translated into so raatiy tongues as "Faust.” —The Dubuque (Iowa) Times states that Bishop Hennessey is excommunicating all Catholic children, and the parents of such children, who attend the public schools. • —Thc.tomb of William Rufus, in Win - Chester Cathedral, has been opened, and the bom sos the red-haired monarch, with the veritable arrow of Tyrell, found resting quite comfortably. —The Victoria Falls on the Zambesi River, South Africa, completely eclipses Niagara, being 1,900 yards wide and 400 feet deep. Niagara is only 1,000 yards wide and 150 feet deep. —Dr. Joseph N: McDowell, one of the most distinguished surgeons in the West, and a resident of St. Louis twenty eight years, died recently .of congestive chills, in the sixty-third year of his age. —E. L. Stanton, son of eX'Secretnry Stnntoto has just returned from Judge Bingham's district in Ohio, where he made speeches at a dozen different points, lie repsrts that the Republicans consider that district perfectly safe. —Silas and Charles T. James, who mur dered Joseph Clark, in Worcester, Mass., in February last, were executed in that city on Friday forenoon. The scaffold used was that upon which Professor Webster and Green, the Malden murderers, were hung. B >th made speeches on the drop, and Charles confessed their guilt. —A boy living in Rome, Ohio, recently picked up a small bright stone from the grade in t}ie town, which proved to be valuable. A Cincinnati firm offered him S4OO, then $475 for it. He took it to another establishment, however, who said it was either a ruby or a diamond, and very valuable, probably worth $7,000. He sent it to New York to dispose of. —Why is Reverdy Johnson running about England, making speeches at the Ministry, instead of ta them, concerning the Alabama claims? That, we can tell him, is not the method which will be adop ted by his more straightforward and more American successor. When Horace Gree ley goes to England as the representative of the United States, there will be less blarney and more business. Said an old darkey, when Sherman was moving Southward, “ I reckon he will win. They always whip him, they say, but still he keeps a cornin' and a cornin’.” . It is pretty much so with these Democratic gains. They have gained jevery year since the Re publican party was born, but still it “keeps a cornin'.” Bye and bye, no doubt, the rebels will get it just where they want it, modi as they used to do with Grant and Sherman. And then, probably, they will surrender at discretion.. The Postmasler-Gcueral has ordered that from the first day ol January next, the ' registration fee on all letters registered and addressed to any part of the United States shall be fifteen instead of twenty cents, the same to be in ajl cases fully prepaid in post age stamps, affixed to the letter and can celled. The present rate will continue until New Year’s day. On Thursday next, the first day of October, the Post-Office Depart ment will open 255 additional money-order Post-Offices, making 1,463 in all. The amount of money transmitted ’ during the fiscal year just closed is about $15,000,0(10, against $9,000,000 the previous year Nationalßcpublifnn A x IOUBTA . JUIA . WEDNESDAY MORNINO . -September 30, 186 S For PRESIDENT Os the United States: ULYSSES S. GRAM. FOB VICE PRESIDENT: Schuyler Colfax, OF INDIANA. For Congress* First District—J. W. CLIFT. Second Distrii t-WM. P. PIERCE. Third District—J. 11. CALDWELL. Fourth District—JAS. FITZPATRICK Fifth District—C. 11. PRINCE. Sixth District—JOHN A. WIMPY. Seventh District—JAMES ATKINS. Republican Eltetorai Ticket. FOR THE STATE AT LARGE. HENRY P. FARROW, of Fulton. AMOST. AKERMAN, of Elbert. ALTERNATES. Judge Dawson Walker, of Whitfield. C. H. Hopkins, of Chatham. FOR THE DISTRICTS. Ist District . Alternate— E. E. Howard, of Chatham. 2d District—,lSO. MURPHY, of Dougherty Alternate— B. F. Salter, of Pulaski. 3d -Dis/ncZ-E. I. HIGBEE, of Talbot. Alternate —J. R. Thompson, of Carroll. 4th District—Tin. H. WHITEHEAD, of Butts. Alternate— Henry Glover, of Jasper. sth District—J. E. BRYANT, of Richmond. Alternate— F. J. Robinson, of Oglethorpe. f>th District—S. C. JOHNSON, of Dawson. Alternate— lsaac S. Clements, of Forsyth. Uh District-}. L. DUNNING, of Fulton. Alternate— F. A. Kirby, of Chattooga. LAST~NOTICE. We have recently mailed accounts to many delinquent subscribers. Some have responded, while others have not. The papers of all subscribers who have not paid, or do not pay up between this date and that time, will be discontinued alter the Ist of October, proximo. We cannot extend further indulgence; neither should our friends desire it. OUR CONGRESSIONAL TICKET. Now that it seems certain there will be an election for members of Congress on the 3d of Nowimbcr, wc have hoisted at our mast-lican the names of the several gentlemen who haVc been nominated as Republican candidates. Unlike the New Era we have not made ourselves the judges as to who should, or who should not, have been put in nomination by the party. And if we were determined to strike off any one name from the ticket, we should (jesitate some time before wc erased the name of James Fitzpatrick. His chief crime, in the eyes of malcontents and snivellers, seems to be that he is an Irishman, who, like most Irishmen has had the small-pox, and like them, is a straight up and down square-out lighter for the Right. YVe should have preferred Mr. Gote as a candidate in that District, but as Mr. Fitzpatrick was the lucky man, this paper will sustain him as long as he is on the track. WOFFORD ONTIIE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS. We were right in the assertion that Gen. YVm. T. YVofford’h heart is with us. He made a speech in North Georgia a few days since, in which he denounced Hill Toombs, and Cobb by name, uud charged them with making hundreds and thou sands of votes for Grant. YVe regret that Gen. Wofford did not see proper to in clude the name of Rance Wright in his anathemas. Rance will feel agrieved. He is ambitious of his ability to create as much discord, hate and deviltry as the other persons honored with the scornful repudiation of an honest Democrat. Per haps Wofford considers the results of the effortt'of Rance as,barren and unworthy of notice. Poor Rance, his own party ginores him. RANCE HAS CONGRESSIONAL ASPIRA TIONS. YVe are creditably informed that Rance YV right is working earnestly, but secretly, with the Ku-Klux Democracy, to obtain the Democratic nomination for Congress. Trot him out, ye mid-night prowlers. The Republican party will make a complete ghost of him before November. Rancels said to have a competitor in his party, in the person of the redoubtable Yai.ler steed. Gen. Gordon and Grant’s Inaugura tion,— It is reported that General John B. Gordon expressed a willingness to draw his sword in defence of General Grant, in case that his inauguration should lie re sisted, if elected. General Gordon's sword will not be needed. We are all aware that no one will dare attempt to prevent Gene ral Grant’s inauguration, although George ■H. Pendleton urges the Texans>to vote in defiance of the laws of Congress. By the way, how does General Gordon stand on that point ? Is he in favor of a defiance of the laws of Congress in the States of Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas ?. We repeat, no one anticipates war if Grant is elected. That is why we support him so earnestly. We know that the elec tion ot Seymour and Blair means war. That is why we oppose them. Judge Cabi xisa may palaver, and twist, and turn as much as he chooses about Democratic in tentions. He is not the Democratic party of Georgia or of the country. He is not even one of its conspicuous leaders. One scowl from Bob Toombs would send him crestfallen to his hole. ’He is simply a cautious, cunning, timid man who never had a right to speak for any party. A Hyena.—The Early County News, is edited by a Hyena, whose pet name is Grouby—(pronounced Grubby). He digs into graves, and resurrects the bones of the dead for the purpose of insult ing and slandering them. Ilislate villain ous attack on the lamented Jas. N. Ells is a case in-point. THE LEGISLATIVE ADDRESS—TO MR. I. E. SHUMATE. Stand up here, sir, we have a talk for you and your kind. As Chairman of a Legislative Committee, you have just pub lished an address, which simply amounts to entering a general plea of not guilty for your party. We have no objection to your attempt to make political capital by this means ; but as you arc somewhat of a novice in such matters, we deem it to your interest thvt wc should tell wherein you fall short of the accomplishment of your aims. In the first place, although the recon struction- laws originated with Congress, these laws arc not the mere requirements of one of the branches of the Government. Those laws are the expressed will of the Government. They arc just as much the laws of the country as is the Augusta Bill the supreme law in relation to the next municipal election in Augusta. Your next mistake is in stating that re construction in Georgia is an accomplished fact. Y’ou don’t believe it is accomplished if Seymour is elected, and we know it is not an accomplished fact if Grant is elected. So, if your man wins you don’t believe reconstruction is accomplished; and if our man wins, we know it is not accom plished. Georgia has repudiated the contract by which she gained a partial restoration of her rights in the Union. Thanks to such indiscreet politicians qsyou, Mr. Shumate, the so-called Legislature went back on its contract before the restoration of Georgia was irrevocably consummated. YViser men would havp billed their day with patience; but fools rush swiftly to destruc tion. Now, Mr. Shumate cither your head or your heart is wrong in another particular. Y’ou say that criminally false assertions have been made in the public prints and in public speeches “for the express pur pose of arousing the negro race against the white race. Shumate, boy, you couldn’t have believed that when you penned it. Republican papers and speakers have attempted to cause the colored race to distrust the Democratic party. That is all. The Democratic party is not the white race and you know it. A white Republican don’t belong to the black radc; neither does a Democratic negro belong to the white race. The white race no more belongs to any political party than it belongs to any particular church. Heaven help many whites if all are blacks that don’t vote the Democratic ticket. If that were so, we should have black domination in this country, sure. The Democrats arc only a minority of the white race of the United States, and your attempt to pass your party off as the white race is a piece of intolerable impertinence, of which none but a novice in State craft would be guilty. Your slap at carpetbaggers only sug gests the question : How long have you resided in Georgia., Mr. Shumate ? Why do you deprecate a fact which is no fact, sir ? It is not a fact that there are men in your midst that charge the Democ racy with an intention of remanding the negro to his Ibrmcr condition of slavery. The Republicans have made no such charges, and you ought to know it. YVe believe you do. .The Republicans say that without the ballot freedom is not worth a farthing to the negro. That is all. We challenge you, Mr. Sin mate, to gainsay this proposition. Mr. Shumate, you speak of the misap prehension of the negro race as to their right to hold office. Did you not, sir, in your county, before the adoption of the •Constitution, allege that the Constitution gave tho-negro the right to hold office ’ All your party leaders did. Were they all liars? If they were all liass then, what arc they now ? Speak out, sir. Then, there is the jury business, sir. Do you believe there is an intelligent and upright colored man in Georgia ? If there is, what right had you, and your elan, to deny to him the rights, or exempt hiiJl from the duties of a juror ? Why should colored men, whose litigation is to go before a jury, always be compelled to accept white jurors ? Now, sir, you can sit down. We have some hope of you. If you expect to suc ceed, however, you must be candid. There is a wonderful absence of fairness and candor in your buncombe report. MANAGEMENT OF THE STATE . ROAD. We publish elsewhere a correspondence between Governor Bullock and Colonel Hulbert, with "reference to the inannW ment of the State Road. The people will ,be agreeably surprised at the grand econ omy which characterizes Colonel Hul bert’s skilful management of this valuable State property. The report shows Colonel Hulbert to possess business qualities, which the State was fortunate in securing. The Negro to be Disfranchised. —“Wil- loughby,” in a late letter to the Democratic organ in this city, from New York City, says of the expulsion of the negro from the Georgia Legislature, ’although right in itself, was premature. The writer says the Democracy should have waited until al r Seymour's election, when “ the whole sys tem of carpet-baggers, negro voting, as well as negro office-holding, and the wb St >■ ■ Government resting thereou, will sink into oblivion.” Here is the broad declaration that Democratic success means colored dis franchisement. Yet, there are said to be such creatures as colored Democrats—men who will vote to disfranchise themselves and degrade their own race and children. • • A Mistake.—We called Cabiniss ad dress, in our last issue, a “clear back down.’ lt.was not only a back down, but a complete break down. The party is split and broken down in Georgia. Dr. Horatio Virgil Milton Miller for Grant.-—The New York Tribune says that the above named gentleman is out for the next President—Grant I MR. SEYMOURS PROPOSED WITH DR A WAL. The New York Sun gives the Express to understand that its recommendation to Mr. Seymour to withdraw from the canvass originated with sonic gs the most prominent meu in the party. It says : We are sorry to observe that our friends of the Express receive with the passion of par tisans, rather than the calmness of philoso phers, the suggestion that Governor Sey mour’s withdrawal from the canvass would be for the interest of the Democratic party. We desire to have it understood,that the idea is not ours. It is one entertained for several days past in the minds of prominent and active members of the party, whose names we are not at liberty to mention. We have no doubt that the execution ot the project would rescue the Democracy from all danger of that destructive defeat to which they are uow marching at double quick time. If, they do not choose to accept our advice, however, they are perfectly at liberty to leave it alone. We tried earnestly to save them up to the very day of the Tant many Convention ; and there is not now an intelligent and cool-headed man in the country who will not agree that if they had adopted our counsel and nominated Chase and Hancock, they would not now bo in so desperate a predicament. We were not dis turbed because they refused to concur with our opinion then, and we shall take it with equal composure now. LIST OF KILLED AM) WOUNDED. The following is a list of the killed and wounded Republicans, at the Camilla mas sacre, as forwarded to Washington, through the regular channels,.by Major Howard: Twelve freedmen, names unknown, at a pond near Dr. Dosher’s, two miles from Camilla; 13. I). O - C. Polhirs, freedman, shot dead; 14. Peter Henes, freedman, shot in leg, wrist uud neck ; 15. Unknown freed man, shot through bowels and in head— mortally wounded; 10. Janies Ingraham, freedman, killed—shot repeatedly while lyins wounded on the ground ; 17. YVilliam Des sau, freedman, shot in shoulder; 18. Un known freedman, shot in thigh; 19. Un known freedman, shot in knee and breast; 20. James Dickerson, freedman, shot in arm ; 21. YVesley Chatham, freedman, shot in back; 22, Unknown freedman, shot in ■back ; 23. Freedman, shot dead ; 24. A. H. Collins, freedman, killed—shot after being wounded, while on the ground; 25. Wm. Landsey, freedman, head cut by blow with clubbed musket; 26. Randolph, freedman, shot in leg; 27. Burrill Johnson, freedman, shot in shoulder; 28. Squire Acre, freed man, shot in shoulder; 29. Ben. Lumley, freedman, shot in thigh and in leg, below the knee; 30. Howard Bunce, freedman, six gun-shot wounds in head, ear, shoulder, arm, elbow and side—dangerously wounded ; 31. Handy Robinson, freedman, shot in both legs ; 32. John Murphy, white, contusion of head by blow of musket barrel; 33. J. P. Pierce, white, shot in leg ; 34. F. F. Putney, white, shot in shoulder. Os the attacking party, only two are reported wounded—Jas. Johns, the ringleader, who has a pistol ball in the forehead and two in his back, said to be mortal, and Collins, slightly wounded. It is estimated that at least fifty freedmen were killed and wounded. Respectfully submit ted, O. H. Howard, Brevet Major U. S. A., Sub Assistant Commissioner. - CORRESPONDENCE. Executive Department, 1 Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 24, 1868. ) Col. E. Hulbert, Superintendent: Dear Sir : As there are many and various reports, more or less public, reflect ing upon the management of the State Road, I will thank you to give me a report, stating the number of employees and the expenses at the time of the appointment which placed you in charge, and the num ber of men and amount of expenses reduced since that date, in accordance with the suggestions made by myself at that time. , Ab the law places the .management of that public work entirely in the hands of the Superintondent, I desire, if necessary, to place before the Legislature and the country, factj that will show my selection of a Superintendent to have been wisely made. Very respectfully, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor. Western ano Atlantic Railroad, I Office of Superintendent, > Atlanta, Ga., September 28,18G8.) His Excellency, Rufus B. Bullock. Governor of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga: Deaf. Sir: Yours of the 24th instant, calling for information as to the present management of the-State Road, ii at hand, and in reply I beg leave to state that the number of men employed in’ the several Departments when I was placed hi charge was as follows: EMPLOYED IN AUGUST. Transportation Department .195 Motive Power Department 157 Supervisor’s Department 155 Car Factory 59 Total 566 EMPLOYED IN SEPTEMBER. Present force, Transportation Dep’mt....l 1G Present force, Motive Power Dep’t 124 Present force, Supervisor’s Dep’t 144 Present force, Car Factory Dep’t 31 Total 415 Total in August...... 566 Total in September 415 Reduction., 151 The expenses have been reduced at the rate of $10,266.64 per month : at $123,199.08 per annum. It is proper to state, in connection with this: mattet, that a considerable reduction in salaries and the price paid for labor has been made, and it is believed that a still -further reduction can be made without in jury to the service, and still maintain as -high a rate as is paid by other roads. An ample supply of wood for the winter months has been purchased and paid for, from the earnings of last month. . Eight thousand dollars were paid from last month’s earuings for re-rolled rails, which are being rapidly laid down. About «thc same amount is now due on the same account, which will be paid from this month’s earnings, and the rails laid down as rapidly as possible. About 500,000 pounds of accumulated scrap’ iron has been sold to_ the Atlanta Rolling Mill Company at $25 per ton, in exchange for re-rolled rail at $35 per ton ; the former price paid being S4O per ton, thus effecting a saving of $450 per mile. There being about forty miles of rails requiring to be re-rolled, the total saving, in this item alone, will, in rouml numbers, be SIB,OOO. Very Respectfully, Your obedient servant, E. Hulbert, Superintendent. Death of T. C. Hindman.—A telegram anffounces the death of General Thomas C. Hindman, of Arkansas. He bad led an ad venturous and violent life. True it is that “those that live by the sword shall perish by the award.” Special Notic e.—We do not undertake to return rejected communications. 01/TRAGE IN OGLETHORPE. Lexington, Ga., Sept. 28, 1868. Editor Republican: Deaii Sir—ln this county, in Goose Pond District, lying adjacent to Wilkes and Elbert counties, a Ku-Klux Klan of about twenty five or thirty, on Friday night last, between 12 m. and 2 a. m., went to the house of Jonathan Hopper, Esq., an old and feeble man (who had four or five sons in the rebel army, and is mourning now over the loss of two of them through Democratic lust for power), and dragged him from his house, choked, beat and otherwise abused him, so that he has been in a physician’s hands ever since; and, le says, they only spared his life by his promise (which he was compelled to make) that he would vote a Democratic ticket. His family consisted wholly ol females, who were driven off, and the house ransacked by this chivalrous crowd. Is the United States Government and the Govern ment.of Georgia so impotent that such acts will be allowed to pass without notice ? Governor Bullock has been informed of these facts, and the Government of the United States, which is bound to protect its citizens, will be, also. This crowd of assassins were masted and fantastically dressed, using a speaking-trumpet to give orders through. Some of them ore known, and it is to be hoped" that an example will be made of the braces, who, at night, in droves like wolves, seek to intimidate and coerce white men — better men than they are— into such Klans ; and, as in this case, attempt to murder a feeble old man for his principles’ sake. Such is Democracy 1 God save us from such a crew 1 Brutus. [For the National Republican. THE DEMOCRATIC BACK DOWN. Mr. Editor : The clear back down which you mentioned yestertlay, is a clear meta physical consequence of the action of our present Confederate Legislature. Our political friends have “visions in the night" and very naturally expects to .“see sights" on the meeting of Congress in October, as well as at the election in November. lam sorry for them as well as myself, for if their anticipations are realized, and we have four years more of military occupa tion and K. K. K. disorganization, it will play the devil with us. Having so gracefully backed down, let them “right about face,” bo dismissed, and “fall in on the other side of the gate.” They will find themselves in good company, and we can then be “marching along" under the banner of Peace to the election of Grant and Colfax. Gordon indicates this course, Toombs and Hill will soOu follow, and if they behave themselves we will unanimously elect them to stay at home and hold their tongues. We cannot desire to punish them for they have done us much good. Zerio. Special Correspofi-dcnco N. Y. Tribune.] THE GEORGIA MASSACRE. THE REPUBLICANS AMBUSHED AND ASSASSINATED. Albany, Ga., September 20.—1 hasten to lay before your readers an account of the recent important events in this section. On the 15th instant, Captain Wm. P. Pierce, a Kentuckian by birth, a gallant officer of the Union array during the late war, a staunch Republican, and the regular nominee of the Republicans of this (Second) Congressional District for the United States Congress, pro ceeded to Americus, Sumter county, a town but a few miles from Andersonville, for the purpose of making his first speech in the canvass of his district. He was accompa nied by Mr. John Murphy, a native of In diana, and now a citizen and the Sheriff elec of this county, elected by a Republican majority of about 700 in a poll of about 2,200. Reaching A mericus, they registered their names at the hotel Five minutes thereafter, they were informed by the pro prietor that his boarders insisted upon his turning these gentlemen out of the house. They were Radicals, they must .leave, or he could not be a landlord of theirs. The gen tlemen replied: “Erase our names from your books." Shortly after this, they addressed the colored Republicans, amid the mutter ings and curses of the white citizens, who were in town in force. After Speaking, they went, by invitation, to the house of H. K. McCoy, a Republican, and Associate Chief Justice of the State, While there, the colored 1! epublic.ms attempted to march through the public square with drums and fife, though unarmed'. They were ordered by the Judge of the Superior Court, then in session, to stop the noise, mean ing that of the drum and file.— Some colored man, not hearing the order of the Judge, nor comprehending the cause of the cessation of the music, called out “go on with the music," whereupon the whites drew their pistols, shot-gups, knives, etc., and drove the colored men from the square. Messrs. Pierce and Murphy, knowing nothing of this, approached the public square, paying littk- heed to the warnings of the colored people who told them that the whites had sworn to kill them. The Mayor addressing the mob was informed by angry men that the blacks should not be harmed, but the “two d—d white scoundrels” should die. As Messrs. Pierce and Murphy neared the square an old white man said, more to himself than to either of these gentlemen, “God d—n you, you'll never leave that square alive." They then turned, and by a circuitous route reached the office of Mr. W. C. Mor rill, Agent of the Freedmen’s Bureau, where they, took refuge. They remained concealed thus until after nightfall, when Mr. Morrill sent * his servant with them through the fields to a point outside the town where be mr’t them with a wagon, in which they escaped into Lee county, and thence so this place. Returning over the road upon which he had taken out the wagon, Mr. Morrill found it picketed* by half a dozen armed men. These men in quired of colored men who passed over the road after Mr. Morrill for two men,' giving a careful description of Messrs. Pierce and Murphy. That night every road leading from Americus, in any direction, was picketed by armed bodies of white men. Similar bodies of men kept watch over houses where the two gentlemen were sup posed to bo concealed. None of these people made any ’ secret of their in tentions of murdering Messrs. Pierce and Murphy? Yesterday, 19th inst., Mr. Pierce, accompanied by Mr. Mur phy, the Rev. F. F. Putney, Phillip Joiner (a colored man, recently a member of the Georgia "Legislature, but who was ex pelled on account of his color), and about seventy-five colored men, approached the town ot Camilla, Mitchell county, where Messrs. Pierce, Murphy and Joiner were to •ddres% the colored Republicans. Four miles, from Camilla they were met by a white man named James Johns, who at first stated that he was in search of a “doctor” to attend a colored man who had been injured by a falling tree. As soon, however, as he learned the character of the party approach ing, lie declared himself a “courier"’ sent to notify Mr Murphy that the people of Camilla and ot Mitchell county would permit no Radical speaking in Camilla—that the county was theirs, and they intended to rule it. He then dashed-off to town, and the party moved toward the town, not believing thnt the people would use force to prevent a po litical speech. Mr. Pierce, however, heeded the warning of the man Johns so much as to send a note bv a freedman to the Sheriff of the county. The contents of this note are unknown to your correspondent, but from subsequent actions of the Sheriff, it is supposed to have been a note asking the protection of the civil authorities. At a point two miles from the town the party was met by the Sheriff and a posse. The Sheriff asked that, in detercnco to the wishes of the citizens, Mr. Pierce would not enter the town. Mr. Pierce answered that as he was violating no law of the county, and no right of the people, he would speak in Camilla." He thought he had the right to do so. Upon that the Sheriff and his posse, all being armed and mounted, dashed off to town. . Mr. Pierce, in a buggy with Mr. Putney, proceeded toward the town, followed at some distance by the rest of the party. With these latter was a plantation wagon drawn by four mules, containing the colored band, consisting of two drummers and a fifer. Messrs. Pierce and Putney drove ints the town, dismounted from their buggy, and hitched their horses at the Court House. At a hundred yards from the Court House the band-wagon was met by the man Johns wtth a double-barreled shot gun, which ho discharged into the wagon, wounding two colored men. Upon this, there rose up from either side of the road upon which the colored people were ap proaching the town, a large number of white men, who had been concealed in the undergrowth, who opened a cross fire upon the colored people in the road. A few of the colored people having pistols endeavored to defend themselves, but the majority of them fleck- Messrs. Pierce and Putney rushed toward the contending parties. Mr. Pierce throwing up his hands and calling upon the freedmen to stop, say ing “ don’t do that, don’t do that." Upon this tile whites, or a portion of them, turned upon Pierce and Putney, and fired, wounding Mr. Pierce in the leg and Mr. Putney in the elbow and shoulder. Both, however, took to the woods and escaped, reaching the plantation of Messrs. Flag and Fish, two gentlemen from Massachu setts, at 3 o’clock this morning. To return to the battle or massacre at" Camilla. The freedmen who were armed, having emptied their pistols, fled for their lives—such as had not already been placed hors du combat —leaving the wounded on the ground. The whites pursued, some of them first assuring thnnselves that those colored men left on the ground were dead by repeated shots at their prostrate bodies. Murphy and Joiner endeavored to escape in their buggy, but eight miles from Camilla were overtaken by five or six mounted men, both dismounted from the buggy, Joiner taking to the woods, and Murphy taking refuge in a deserted house, where he pre pared to sell his life as dearly as possible. His pursuers surrounded the house, and demanded his surrender. ■ He refused, and told them to commence firing. After som<? parley, upoii solemn promise that he should not be harmed, nor detained, he catne out, and while talking to some of the party, he was dealt a horrible blow upon the head, with a barrel of a gun, in the hands of an other. He was then, after some questioning and examination, allowed to proceed on his way. Up to eight o'clock, this morning the white people were still in pursuit of the fleeing and wounded with horses and blood hounds. • The white people of Camilla boast that one pond contains twelve dead “ niggers." The pond is near the house of Mr. Dash er, some two miles from Camilla. SPECIAL NOTICES. SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE, ) Augusta & Summerville R. R. Company, > Augusta, Ga , Sept. 29, 1868. J CHANG E O F AFTERNOON SCHEDULE ON SUMMERVILLE LINE.— On and after October Ist, proximo, Cars on the Summerville Line will leave Depot during the afternoon as follows : 2,4, 6; and will leave Arsenal at 3,5, 7. The Car leaving Arsenal at 5 p. m. will pro ceed to tho corner of Broad and Jaokeon streets, and jvill leave that point for Arsenal at 5.45 p. m. Tho new Schedule begun on tho 25th instant is otherwise unchanged. JAS. J. DAVIES, sep3o—3t oSuperintendent. Assistant SurEiiiNTENDENT’s Office, ) GEORGIA RAILROAD, ) Augusta, Sept. 29, 1868. J NOTICE TO PARTIES SENDING ARTICLES TO THE FAIRS, AND TO PER SONS WISHING TO ATTEND.-Parties at tending the Farmer’s Club Fairs at Stone Moun tain and Eatonton, Ila., on October 21st, 1868, and articles shipped to such Fairs, will bo passed over the Georgia and Macon and Augusta Rail roads for ONE FARE. 8. K. JOHNSON, sop 29 t2othoct Assistant Superintendent. A FAIR WILL BE HELD AT the Bethel A. M. E. Church, Catopbell street, on Thursday and Fjiday evenings, October Ist and 2d, for tho purpoA of relieving the Church. . AU are invited to attend. C. L. BRADWELL, sep29—2t Pastor. Assistant SupeMenßent’s" Office, ) GEORGIA RAILROAD, > Augusta, Sept. 26, 1868. ) TO THE PUBLIC.—TO ACCOM MODATE visitors to the Miss Meeting, which will bo held at Washington, Ga , on Thursday, October Ist, 1868, a SPECIAL TRAIN will run between Augusta and Washington on Schedule, as follows : THURSDAY, OCT. 1, 1838. Leave Augusta..... 5.00 a. m. Leave Washingtonll.3(l "p. m. Ariivo at Augusta 5.30 a. m. Arrive at Washingtonlo.oo a. in. Faro for the Round Trip, $2 00. S. K. JOHNSON, sop27—st Assistapt Superintendent. Assistant Superintendent’s Office, i GEORGIA RAILROAD CO., J- Augusta, Ga., Sept. 22. 18Q8.) CIRCULAR.—I. DONATIONS marked and consigned to “Fair First Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga.” to be held in that city on the 6th October, proximo, will be transported FREE over this Road. ♦ 11. Visitors attending the Fair above referred to will be returned FREE over this Road, upon presentation to the Conductor of a proper certifi cate issued by the Secretary of the same, W. L. Abbot, Esq., that the holder was actually in attendance thereon, and had passed over the Georgia Railroad ou his rente thereto, such cer tificate to be recognized until and inclusive of the 20th October, 1868. 8. K. JOHNSON, sep23—td Assistant Superintendent. Office Ass’t Sup’t Georgia Railroad, 1 Augusta, Sept. 14tb, 1868. J RATES ON VIRGINIA SALT, COAL AND LAND further notice, on and after the I Sth instant, the following will be the charge per car load of 16,000 lbs., on Coal from Chattanooga to Augustas32 10 Coal from Coal Creek via Knoxville to Augusta 45 10, Salt from Bristol to Augusta. 76 65 Land Plaster from Bristol to Augusta 51 10 - S. K. JOHNSON, seplS—3ot Assistant Superintendent. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Letters of Administration. OTATE OF GEORGIA— Wl. vn t. Richmond County. Whereas, Ellon Dowe applies to mo f or , ters of Administration on the estate of j,"l Dowe, late of said county, deceased These are, therefore, to cite and admonish a |i and singular, the kindred and creditors of Ji deceased, t o bo and appear at my office on or Us the first Monday in November next,to show can 0 if any they have, why sai-1 Letters should n ., t i ’ granted. 1 ue Given under my hand and official office in Augusta, this 29th day of September its SAMUEL LEVY »ep3o—lm Ordinary. Change of Schedule x ON SUMMERVILLE Superintendent's Own s i AUGUSTA £ SUMMERVILLE R. R. ij 0 I 'Augusta,Ga., Sept. 21,1868 ( ON AND AFTER THE 25th INSTANT Cars on the Summerville Lino wilt x ’ follows: ru '“ as Leave Depot—At 7.30 a m ; 9.30 am- t, 2pm; 4pm; 5.30 pm; 7 pm. Leave Arsenal—At 8.30 am; 10.30 am- I m ; 3pm; spm; 6.30 pm; Bpm, I' SUNDAY SCHEDULE On Summerville Line will be as follows ■ Leave Depot—At 8.30 am ; 12.45 p lu . , m;3pm;4pm;spm. ’ 1' Leave Arsenal—At 930 a in; 1.30 pm- ; m;4pm;spm;6pm. ’ I 1 Cars leavihg Arsenal at 8.30 a m and 1 will proceed to corner of Broad an I Jackson streets, as heretofore. JAS. J. DAVIES 22—BtSupcriatendent. Official. Proclamation ’u - r r \ H / BY THE GOVERNOR. Executive Department. ) Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 26, 1868, j By virtue of tho power and authority con ferred upon me by a Joint Resolution ot the Gen -1 oral Assembly, “To authorize tho acceptance of the charter of the Bank of Savannah,” approved the 22d of September, 1868, I do hereby accept the surrender of the charter of the said Bank of Savannah, and all tho chartered rights, priv ileges and franchises upon said corporations con ferred in and by virtue of the original Act of in corporation, and all other Acts amendatory thereof. RUFUS B. BULLOCK, governor. By tho Governor: B. B. DeGuaffbnreid, Scc’y Ex. Department. i-027—31 Letters of Dismission. STATE OF GEORGIA— Richmond County. Whereas, John 11. Fearey, Administratorou the estate of Harry Hughes, deceased, applies to me for Letters of Dismission— These, are, therefore, to cite and adiuouish al! and singular, the kindred and creditors of the said deceased. to be and appear at my office on or before the first, Monday in March next, to show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature a office in Augusta, this 28tb day of September, 1868 SAMUEL LEVY, 1 sop29—6m Ordinary. Copartnership. ON THE FIRST DAY OF OCTOBER, 1868, tho Firms of A. G. HALL aud BARBER <t LATHROP will be consolidated, for the transaction of a GENERAL INSURANCE BUSINESS in all of its branches, at No. 221 Broad street, under tho name and style of HALL, BARBER <t CO. The policies .-sued by tho Companies represented will bo signed by their respective Agents as heretofore i (Signed) A. G. 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