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PAR A (Ml AMS.
—Yesterday, in New York, Gold was
quoted at 1.39 J. Cotton, 26|c.
—Sweet sixteen is the newest perfume.
—Detroit ladies are forming boat clubs.
—The New York bootblacks have struck.
• —Solid granite coffins are very fashion
ble.
—There is a local news reporter in Des
M'jins 1 Low.*wlio is hliiitl.
-—A $126 bonnet is for sale in a New York
inilliuory establishment-
—Charles H. Grappen, of the Philadelphia
Sunday ALritry, died on the 27th.
Governor Chamberlain’s official ma
jority in Maine is 20,172.
“ Jean Ingelos’ father was a barber.”
Well, what of it?
—Orders have been issued for a suspen
sion of the sale of all government arms.
—Austria has suppressed a paper called
the Viennese Lanterne.
—Democratic music—hisses. It will be
, come groans in November.
—“Fire the Southern heart.” That is what
they do at Camilla, Ga.
—Gen. Stoneman is recovering. He vis
ited headquarters, at Richmond, on Friday,
for the first time in two weeks.
—A fine new market house has just been
completed in’ Philadelphia, the city of
m arkets.
—An aged negress, of Toulon, by digging
clams for her master to sell, got the French
Academy prize for virtue.
—A fire at St, Andreas, Calaveras county,
Cal., on the 25th of September, destroyed
sixty buildings. Loss, $75,000.
—iSince the | assage of the Bankruptcy
Act, 1,800 cases have been adjudicated in
New York city.
—A gentleman at Long Branch presented
a lady on Saturday with a $75 basket of
flowers.
—A pleasant family in New- Hampshire
contains sixteen cases of whooping-cough
just now.
—Pet foxes are good things to have about
the house ; one in Naples ate the baby which.,
had been left lying around loose.
—Brandreth, the pill man, talks of writing
up his European experience for the New
York Post, His letters will then be from
pill-cr to post— Chicago Post.
—Bayard Taylor has won a comfortable
little fortune for himself, and is said to be
worth about SBO,OOO, besides three shares in
the New York Tribune.
—John Isherwood, a native of Belgium,
ugevl twenty-six yeas, was killed by an
Erie Railway train, in Passaic, N. J., the
other do v
—Hon. T. D. O. Fessenden, formerly a
member of Congress, died at Lewiston, Me.,
on the 28th. Senator Fessenden is n brother
of the deceased.
—A society of women has been formed
in Paris, who takes an oath never to wear
a low neck dress, or embroidered garters.
James Thompson, of Columbus, Ohio,
a member of the National Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee, has come out for Grant
and Colfax.
—The brother of the Democratic nominee
for Congress, in the Columbus (Ohio) Dis
trict, is on the stump for the Republican can
didate.
—ln Milan, Italy, there is a man sixty
eight years old, who married his fourth
wife about a year ago, and during the last
few days hud his thirty-first child baptized.
—Good judges of Wm B. Astor’s wealth
range in their estimate from $50,000,000 to
$100,000,000. The difference between fifty
and a hundred millions is so small, you
know, that a loose calculation is allowable.
•—Bishop Quiutard, ot Tennessee, says
that there is no such organization known,
either to the Bishop or the Convention of the
iscopal Diocese of Tennessee, as the
Church of the Blessed Virgin.
—James Gordon Bennett has a fortune
of $3,000,000. which he leaves in his will to
his two children, James G., Jr., and a
daughter, said to be pretty, and only seven
teen years olp.
—Those young ladies who adopt paniers
would do well to use some other filling
besides newspapers. They set the panier
out beautifully, but when the wind blows
them up (as it is very apt to do) the ladies
look like a vvalking perio Heal establish
ment.
—Jesse L. Williams, of Indiana, General
IL G. Wright and J. Bleckensterdcrfer, Jr.,
of Ohio, have been appointed Commissioners
to examine, under instructions of the Secre
ts iy of the interior, the road and telegraph
lines of the Pacific Railroad, and to report
to the Secretary of the Interior.
- —Mr. Longfellow, at last accounts, was
sojourning at Vevay, on the borders of Lake
Geneva. Next month he will probably
si And in Paris. His new book, ‘‘The New
England Tragedies,” will be published on
the same day, namely, the 10th of October,
in London, Leipsic, Paris, and Boston.
—Secret weddings are all the rage in
lowa. They get married on the sly, and
keep their marriage secret until it tells its
own story. As it is now, the young men of
Pella, are afraid to beau around any of the
girls, for fear tlioy are courting some other
man’s wife.
—There is a dray horse in Columbus
which has run away three times in the last
three weeks. 0n Monday he attempted to
L climb the stairway leading to the office of
an accident insurance company, but he
couldn't get the dray through the door, and
so failed to take out a policy.
—An insane man in St. Charles, Mo., a
few days since took possession of an engine
which he found on the track with steam up,
and started for St. Louis. Fortunately a
switch was turned and the engine ran off
the track. But for this he would have run
into an express train nearly'due. Ho was
arrested and taken care of.
—Two attempts were made recently to
burn the White Suipher Springs (Va.)
property. Three of the cottages were en
tirely consumed, and but for the timely as
sistance rendered by the Snmmer visitors
all the buildings would jiave been destroyed.
Two negroes have bben arrested on suspi
cion.
—A French paper announces the mar
riage of M. Odilon Barrot, son of the former
Ambassador at Madrid, and now an attache
of that Embassy, to Miss Fanny Forbes,
daughter of Paul 8. Forbes. M. Barrot
is a nephew of the illustrious French
statesman of that name, and brother-in-law
of Count Joachim Murat, member of the
Chamber of Deputies.
—Since the Indians have begun war
there is no way but to put down and punish
tin ir ferocity. But after it is over, the Gov
ernment should adopt General Pope's idea,
abolish the tribal relations of the savages,
. make citizens of them, and subject them to
the operations of the laws, like other
people. That alone can prevent future
ware, and save the Indians from extermina
tion.
—Governor Hayes, of Ohio, in his speech
in Cincinnati, called attention to the fact
that the Maine election was held among
those most anxious for Ex-Governor Sey
mvai's nomination, in opposition to Pendle
ton. In view of this, he. asked, if he can’t
do better there for his party, what will he do
in the Centra! and Western States, among
the friends ol Pendleton, who was slaught
ered for bis benefit ?
Natioimllkpnblican
AUrtUSTA, C+A. k
FRIDAY MORNING.October 2. 1888 a
For PItESIDENT '
<
Os the United States:
ULYSSES S. GRANT. ;
FOR VICE PRESIDENT: ‘
Schi'yler Colfax, i
OF INDIANA. 1
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For Congressi I (
FIBBT DISTRICT —J. W. CLIFT;
Second District—WM. P. PIERCE.
Third District—J. 11. CALDWELL.
Fourth Dist—B. B. DeGRAFFENRIED
Fifth District—C. 11. PRINCE.
Sixth District—JOHN A. WIMPY.
Seventh District—lAMES ATKINS.
Republican Electoral Ticket.
for the state at large.
HENRY I*. FARROW, of Fulton.
AMOS T. AKfiRMAN, of Elbert.
ALTERNATES.
Judge Dawson Walker, of Whitfield.
C. 11. Hopkins, of Chatham.
FOR THE DISTRICTS.
Ist District-
Alternate — E. E. Howard, of Chatham.
2d District— JNO. MURPHY, of Dougherty
Alternate— S. F. Salter, of Pulaski.
3d District— E. I. HIGBEE, of Talbot.
Alternate —J. 11. Thompson, of Carroll.
Mh District--W*. H. WHITEHEAD, of
Butts.
Alternate— Henry Glover, of Jasper.
5/A District— J. E. BRYANT, of Richmond.
Alternate — F. J. Robinson, of Oglethorpe.
ft th District— S. C. JOHNSON, of Dawson.
Alternate— lsaac S. Clements, of Forsyth.
"llh District — J. L- DUNNING, of Fulton.
Alternate— F. A. Kibby, of Chattooga.
LAST NOTICE.
We have recently mailed accounts to
many delinquent subscribers. Sonic have
responded, while others have not. The
papers of all subscribers who have not
paid, or do not pay 1 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.
HON. 11. B. DcGRAFFENRIED.
Hon. B. B. DdGbaffenried has been
placed in nomination for Congress in place
of Mr. Fitzpatrick who patriotically de
clines, to insure haryiony in the ranks of
the party.
GREENE COUNTY.
We offer no apology for the space oc- .
cupied by Mr. Newsom, the Ordinary of ,
Greene county, in reply to a partizan pre
sentment of the Grand Jury of that county.
This conclusive vindication shows how far ,
partizan hate is carried in Georgia. Good
men should use every exertion to put an
end to it. We hope there may be no peace
until the Democracy cease that species of
warfare. Arc citizens to be made the
slaves of partizans ? A bloody riot shows
no greater spirit of hate than does this
treatment of Mr. Newsom. We tell all
such men that the Republicans in Georgia
will yet have their day.
THE JOGRNA Zff- *MESSENG ER AND
GEN. GORDON.
Gen. John B. Gordon, a tew days since,
declared that if Gen. Grant should be
elected President, and his inauguration
should be resisted, he would draw his
sword in his defence. For this manly de
claration the Macon Journa! <t- Messenger
takes the General to task, and declares
that in such a contest the latter could
carry in a dug-out all the Southern men he
could induce to follow him. This sort of
spirit is what is actually ruining the
South. As we remarked the other
day, there is no sentiment ol
nationality among our people. It is all
hatred of the United States Government)
or indifference to its fittc. The warlike
Journal & Messenger would glory in a con
flict about Presidential aspirants. We are
glad to know that the less warlike John
B. Gordon is not indifferent, and would
sustain the legally elected President against
any and all opposers. In case of an actual
conflict, could not John B. Gordon obtain
more than a dug-out ot followers ? Is it not
a slander of Georgians to say that he could
not. We are aware, that the accommoda
tions of the Great Eastern could never
induce such noisy blow-hards as the Macon
Journal <£ Messenger to sustain the consti
tuted authorities of their country. In what
regiment did the editor of that journal
serve during the late war ?
CONFESSIONS OF WEARNESS.
The New York correspondent of the
Ku-Klux organ, yesterday, delivers himself
of a pitiable wail over the absence of en
thusiasm among the Northern Democracy.
There is no silver lining in the terrible
clouds hanging over the hopes of the De
mocracy. Whenever, in the history of the
past, did a Democrat write such despond
ing words as the following;
Why there should be Ibis deproseion it is hard
to say, but it is probably because tbo Radicals
are assiduously inculcating the idea that Grant’s
election will be tho prelude of peace. Tho North
is absolutely sick of the continued turmoil in
which the country is now plunged, and the cry
that Grant's election means peace is having
great effect, especially among tho moneyed men
of this section, though it. is most astonishing
that a class so shrewd hr financial matters
should not be able to see that such a Presiden
tial choice would inevitably lead to new and
more aggravated disorders. I cannot but think
that tbo Democratic loaders hero are not doing
as well as they might. They seem to lack
pluck, foresight and energy, and arc rather led
than leaders. Tho people of tbo North are pe
culiarly to energetic impression, and if, instead
of pattering about the “loyalty” of their party
in the war, these Northern Democrats would at
once make the broad issue, which is tho correct
ono also, that there can be no lasting peace in
this country shoit of a return to constitutional
principles, they could stem the tide with far
greater prospects of success than wait upon their
present policy.
Democratic Ultimatum.—The Griffin
Star boldly proclaims that "negro suffrage
meuns negro extermination.’’ We shall see.
In the meantime, members of colored Demo
cratic clubs will take notice.
When Unconditional Surrender Grant is
inaugurated as President, all such gliin
merers as the Griffin twinklcr will change
their lone.
THE SOLE REASON.
The Northern Democrats will not permit
Ben. Hill to speak; but they have not
been able to sqqelcli him in the writing
and talking line. We have no doubt there
was malice in the heart of the Philosopher
of the Tribune, a few days since, when he
sent a reporter to Ben’s room for the pur
pose of having an interview for the benefit
Of* tll n Thoro ia nnlv nnp (Ipcl/H’B,-
tion of Mr. Hill, in this interview, to
which wc wish to call the attention of
Georgians. It is this: That the Constitution'
al Amendment icas rejected solely beemse it
denied to certain politicians th< right to hold
offee without the consent of Congress. This is
precisely what we have charged against
the old rebel politicians. They have not
opposed the reconstruction laws of Con
gress because of any right or principle
which it denied to the mass of the people
of the South. They have not opposed
them because of any Southern or States
rights’ principle which would be thereby
sacrificed. Their opposition was purely
personal and selfish. Ben Hill says the
“sole” ground of opposition to the How
ard amendment was that it disqualified
certain leaders from holding office. Isn’t
the South paying dearly for her
whistle ? The South went to war because
these politicians’ persuaded her to do so,
and now they have kept them in a state of
uncertainty and of anarchy, “ solely” be
cause a certain set of leaders were disqual
ified from holding office. Are the sup
posed rights of a few men of so much con
sequence that the great interests of an
entire people should be ruthlessly sacri
ficed in a futile effort to obtain that which
they could not obtain from the people it
they were to run for office on their own
merits. Who believes that Bob Toombs,
or Ben Hill, or Cobb, could be elected
to any office in Georgia ? We go in for
the rights of the people. Let the politicians
look out for themselves.
ii * i
From tbo Chronicle & Sentinel, Nov. 19, 1861.
APPEAL 10 GEORGIANS.
BY SENATOR HILL.
To the People oj Georgia :
You have now the best opportunity,ever yet
presented to destroy tho But everything
at the disposal of our Generals. Remove all
provisions from the path of the invaders ; and
put all obstructions in his path.
Every citizen with his gun, aud every negro
with his spado and axe, can do tho work of a good
soldier. You can destroy tbo enemy by retard
ing his march.
Georgians, be llrrn I act promptly and tear not.
(Signed) B. IL Hill.
Wc make no charge for the publication
of the above scrap from Ben. Hill’s war
record. It conclusively shows how brave
anil earnest a war man Ben. was, and, no
doubt, now is. He telfcs the New York
Tribune that he never saw the day in which
he would not sacrifice his life for his prin
ciples. Incredulous people hereabouts
laugh at this declaration, and say that
Ben. is gulling Horace. We revive the
above warlike manifesto ter prove the con
trary. When Sherman was marching to
the sea, Ben. promulgated that document.
He met William Tecumseh and Frank
Blair with that dangerous paper bulletin,
but they recklessly disregarded it. He re
mained at Richmond and directed the peo
ple how to defeat Sherman’s march, and
to put out the fires of dwelling-hAuses that
Frank Blair was setting lire to. Like
the renowned war-horse of old, he “snuffed
the battle from afar.”' That smell was
enough for him. He did not rush to Geor
gia to defend his own fire side. In the
above glowing words, he directed the
people here to do so for him ; but he kept
his own carcass at a safe distance from the
scene of conflict and of danger. He was
richer at the close than at the commence
ment of the. war. He lost nothing by the
war but bis right to hold office. To regain
that right, he wishes to madly engage in
another conflict of arms. Arc the people
of Georgia so anxious for Ben Hili, to
hold office that they arc willing to engage
in another terrible Avar for the chance of
success? How much would Georgia gain
by getting an office for Ben Hill ? I low
much will she lose if hq never obtains one ?
An Outrage.—Does the Atlanta Intelli
gencer endorse the scandalous insult to Mr.
Mathews, Solicitor-General,by the Ku-Klux,
at Elberton, last week? They painted bis
mule and shaved its inane and tale. Is this
right? Is it decent? Is it luwlul ? Will
any gentleman endorse it? We say nay-
Yet such tricks are in keeping with the
teachings aud practice of the Democratic
party. We shall never hive ahy healthy
political sentiment in Georgia until the
rebels arc defeated in this, their last struggle
for power.
——•— ♦—
Yo u'kk Engaged.—The lust Columbus
Sun says:
“Bullock’s radical organ whoops and hur
rah's over their acquisition (of Jim Seward)
and cries out, ‘Roll the Balk’ We suggest
that the job be turned over to the tumble
bugs.”
You're engaged. Take him, ami roll him
where you will. You're suited to that kind
of work, and Jim Seward deserves to be
rolled over the gullies by just such a tumble
bug.
- —•— ...
Can’t Answer—We have received nu
merous inquiries as to the whereabouts of
Captain C. 11. Prince, Republican candi
date for Congress. We can furnish no infor
mation on this point. We fear the Ku-Klux
have got him.
Going Crazy.— “ My Maryland” is going
crazy over a speech of Frank Blair’s, in
favor of Woman’s Rights. ‘Rah for the
Blairs and Bloomers.
[No reference to the Ku-Klux local.]
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-—Henry Perry Leland, Esq., brother of
Charles Godfrey Leland, and like him, a
writer ol merit, died on the 22d, in Phila
delphia, aged forty-three. A few years ago
he published a Volume of sketches of foreign
travel, 1 Americans in Rome,” which was
full of delightful reading. He also published
a volume of humorous sketches under the
title of “The Gray Bay Mare.”' During the
war, he served as a Lieutenant in the Fl Sth
(Corn Exchange) Regiment.
—The French Emperor is urged by his
cousin, Prince Napoleon, to have the line of I
thq Rhine, if he has to fight for it.
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A CARD BY THE ORDINARY OF
™GREENE COUNTY.
Office Ordinary GriieNe Co., )
Greensboro’, Ga., September 28, 1868.)
Having seen the Presentments of the
Grand Jury, made at the last term of the
Superior Couit for Greene county, and find
ing they contain paragraphs reflecting on
the solvency of the Ordinary’s official bond,
and those of tha Tax Collector and County
Treasurer (the two last mentioned accepted
by myself). I bog that you will publish the
following, simultaneously with the Present
ments, that the citizens of the county may
see both tho allegations and the answers,
and decide as to the solvency of my bond, ns
well as to judge of my official acts in my
acceptance of the bonds of the l ux Collec
tor and County Treasur r:
The bonds were accepted by direction ol
his Excellency, Governor Bullock, that the
Homestead should not be considered in their
acceptance, no Homestead then, by legisla
tive action, having been set apart. Prior to
the action of the Grand Jury a petition
against my bond was conveyed to the Gov
ernor, and his Excellency had answered all
the objections taken to it. The sureties to
the Ordinary’s bond for SI,OOO are three in
number, whe, under oath, give in taxable
property to the amount of $7,200. (Refer
ence, tax books.) Two of these sureties
were caused to justify to their being worth
$1,500 above all their debts—five hundred
dollars more than this bond is for.
The third surety was not asked to testify
as to his worth, for the reason that the ap
proving officer deemed the bond at this
juncture perfectly valid. Certainly three
sureties giving in taxable property to the
amount aforementioned, and two of them
justifying as aforesaid, makes a bond of
SI,OOO valid, especially when the Hon. In.
ferior Court, which I have the honor to suc
ceed in the approval of bonds ol civil officers,
accepted on the 13th day of April, 1896, a
principal and two sureties to a bond of five
hundred dollars, neither of whom gave in on
the tax book an acre of land, and whose
total property, alter deducting two hundred
dollars was forty dollars. Reference is made
to minutes Inferior Court, pg. 143, and tax
books, and attention called to the fact that
the Grand Jury, by its non-action then, pro
nounced this bond good; and now, by its
action, pronounces mine, with three sureties,
two of-them justifying, etc., aud the three
giving in taxable property to the amount of
seven thousand two hundred dollars iu the
aggregate, worthless. So much for the’ Or
dinary’s bond.
The Tax Collector’s bond, approved and
accepted by myself, is fixed at eight thou
sand five hundred and thirty dollars, by tho
Comptroller-General, and is subscribed to
by the principal and four securities who, by
their tax returns, swear that they are worth
about twenty thousand dollars. See tax
books. One of these securities, on the 3d ol
April, 1866, was accepted on an official
bond of eighteen thousand dollars, and with
only one other security, who gives in taxable
property to the amount, of nine thousand
dollars. Is it not strange that he was thus
accepted then, and now is pronounced a
surety not good, when it is known to all his
neighbors that in 1866 aud 1867 his receipts
have been at least forty thousand dollars,
and this amount been husbanded, makes
him worth eighteen thousand dollars now—
for bond of eighteen thousand dollars.
Reference made to minutes Inferior Court,
page 144.
The County Treasurer’s bond, fixed at
fifteen thousand, approved and accepted by
myself, is signed by W. Hugh McWhorter,
principal, James H. McWhorter, of Ogle
thorpe county, W H. McWhorter, sr., and
Robert L. McWhorter, sr., of this county, as
sureties. This-principal and these sureties
give in property to tho amount of near
twenty-five thousand dollars.
Now Jet the public decide as to the sob
vency o( the bonds accepted by me. One
word notv in answer to the objections taken
to the Ordinary’s bond upon the grounds
that one official received and subscribes to
it, and another approved it. This is true,
and resulted from the fact that the first offi
cial applied'to, in my judgment, was intimi
dated by parties telling him the Homestead
must be considered in his acceptance of the
same, and resulted further from the demand
he made, that all the seals to the bond, four
in number, must be filled. What is true of
this officer’s intimidation is likewise Hue of
Others, who promised cheerfully to sign my
bond, but said the pressure was so great that
they were intimidated, and begged to de
cline. When the time camo for me to qualify,
Redmond T. Asbury, who signed the bond,
and who, afterwards, being told that it would
disgrace himself and family, withdrew his
mime, being intimidated. But for threats
like the above, and social ostracism, I could
have given a bond for fifty thousand dollars,
as patties worth tbe amount promised to
subscribe to it, had it not been for intimida
tion.
Is it right that those opposed to me pili -.
ically should, by their own acts of intimi -
datioti, produce a result and then blame
others for what their inagtianinious and un
generous acts produced ? Having answered
the objections taken to my official bond aud
conduct satisfactorily to my own conscience
and an unbiased public, I ask that you will
allow me, in this communication, to assign
briefly my reasons for aceptiug the nomina
tion of Ordinary, as well as those for my
past and present identification of the Re
publican party.
I accepted the nomination of Ordinary
because 1 knew of Judge King’s ineligibil
ity at the time and for the additional rea
son that I was assured that tho Republicans
intended to defeat him with some one hav
ing some identification with them or Recon
struction. I was a Reconstructionist, and
feeling as competent as a majority of the
inexperienced of either political party—and
hearing the office was remunerative—a soft
place for years—l accepted, was elected,
and am now enjoying the exercise of the
office. In this connection I beg to assure
the citizens of the county, that I will en
deavor, to the utmost of.'my ability, discharge
well the duties of the office.
The reason I submit for my past and
present identification with the Republican
party are: Ist. lam and ever have been a
Union man ; never thought there was just
cause for secessions and wars. 2d. Believ
ing the war wrong and impolitic—the result
of demogogueism, I thought we ought to
have accepted the first terms offered after
the decision by the sword. 3d. As these
terms was rejected, and, as a consequence,
terms being offered more odious still, and
believing in tho maxim, “ Error is the per
petual source of error,” and folly assured re
sistance thereto would but recoil on the
people of the South, I could but vote for
Reconstruction. 4th. A fourth reason is,
that I hoped Congress, in its acceptance of
the new Constitution, would pronounce the
Relief clauses a non-w: post facto, and there
!|y keep from starvation bankrupts, widows
nnd orphans at least, made such by an
unjust, relentless and bloody war. sth. And
last reason is, that I was not particeps
criminis to the late war, nor do 1 intend to
be to the prospecting next.
It shall ever be my highest aim and
proudest ambition to support and maintain
a Republican form of government, and God
speed the day when strife and war shall
cease, and peace and good will abound in its
stead.
Thankful for the space my communication
occupies in your columns, I am, very re
spectfully, your obedient servant,
I>. A. Newsom, Ordinary.
—A. C. Wilder has sold one-half of the
Rochester Express to his partners for twenty
five thousand dollars.
I For the Augusta Republican.
THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO I
BEAR ARMS.
The right of the people to keep and bear
arms shall not be infringed.— lst Amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States, Article 2d.
The negroes of Mitchell county are people,
citizens and free people, and have the above
right in spite of laws, proclamations, and the
drunkards nf the county aforeaaiil.
Arms shall not be carried secretly, by the
laws of Georgia, which I have no doubt the
Sheriff of Mitchell county violated at the
lime he' was issuing Ins illegal and unconsti
tutional order fur the citizens not to enter
Camilla nrmed.
“The Constitution,” “the Constitution,’' is
constantly on the lips of these traitors to tbe
Constitution, and here are a few rowdies of
Mitchell county violating it without a grunt.
The Legislature of Georgia—and so the
courts have decided—much less a Governor's
proclamation,, could not deny the humblest
citizen, though black as hell, the inestima
ble right ol carrying arms for self-defence.
There is a claim here set up for a procla
mation that would not have been allowed
under Henry VIII., of England, the most
absolute monarch known in English history;
for all he done dark was, that his proclama
tions might have the force of law, after
having had such authority by act of Parlia
ment.
There is no act ol the Legislature of
Georgia even giving tho Governor’s procla
mations the authority of law. It was there
fore issued as a mere vertmn pulmen by the
Governor, to appease, in his good nature,
the clamors of an unreasonable, exacting
and traitorous demand of the Ku-Klux.
I not the Governor’s proclamation
before me, but 1 recollect it well enough to
say that it did not prohibit the bearing of
arms, or the assembling in public with arms,
but only there should be no drilling with
arms. So there was no prohibition, or pre
tended legal prohibition, to the assemblage
at Camilla with arms, except the law of the
Ku-Klux, issued by proclamation of their
Sheriff.
The first article of the above amendment
of the Constitution of the United States
provides that “ Congress shall make no law
* * abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press, or the right of the people peace
ably to assemble, and to petition for the
redress of grievances.” And if let alone,
the contemplated meeting at Camilla would
have been ten times more feasible than the
hundreds of torch-light processions and
drunken pow-wows of the Ku-Klux all over
Georgia.
The Republicans had just before, at
Americus and other places, been violently
assaulted in attending public meetings, hav
ing had their musical instruments broken,
other insults committed, and it was but
reasonable they should have gone to Camilla
prepared with their constitutional weapons
to defend themselves against the violence of
the Ku-Klux.
Suppose the Ku-Klux had found it neces
sary for defence at their public meetings to
carry arms—their constitutional right, and
as all do, secretly when not publicly—and
they had been shot down, and women and
children retreating ten miles from the
place had been murdered, there would have
been, and properly, a general howl of the
whole pack from the Bay of Funday to the
Rio Grande.
The great offence was, they were Repub
licans, and" not Democratic voters, that were
assembling with arms. Neither Congress,
Legislatures nor Governors had any right to
prevent such an assemblage. So far it was,
aird no doubt would have continued peacea
ble, if let alone. Constitution.
NEW FALL
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sop 20
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ry'WO MONTHS AFTER DATE AI’PLICA
1 TION will bo made to the Court of Ordinary
of Richmond county for leave to sell the Real
Estate of William 11. Cooper, late of said county,
deceased.
September 2, 1868.
JOSEPH I’. CARR,
sepS—eow2m Administrator.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
CITY COLLECTOR
AND
TREASURER’S NOTICE.
J-iTTHE CITY TAXES ON SALES, RE
CEIPTS aud other Taxes payable quarterly, fall
due THIS DAY (October Ist) for the quarter
WITHIN FIFTEKN DAYS.
Every person engaged iu the sale of Spirituous
Liquors either by retail Or in quantities less than
one gallon are required to take out a License
within ten DAYS from this date.
Every person running a Dray, Hack, or other
Vehicle for hire, is required to take out a License
within ten days.
The penalties provided by the Ordinances for
failure will be rigidly enforced.
I. P. GARVIN,
octi —d6t Collector aud Treasurer.
NOTICE
FROM
(OMinsSIOM’RS
OF
REGISTRATION.
EP’IN PURSUANCE OF THE ACT PASSED
by the General Assembly of Georgia entitled “An
Act to Reorganize the Municipal Government of
the City of Augusta,” the undersigned will, on
MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF OCTOBER
1868, open the Registry for voters at the office, in
the basement of the City Hall in said city, former
ly the office of the County Judge. Said Registry
will continue open until 2 o’clock p. m. on Tues
day the first of December next, from 9 o’clock a.
m. till 2 o’clock p. m. of eachday, except Sunday
JOHN C. SNEAD,
W. R. McLAWS,
E. JI. BRAYTON,
WILLIAM DOYLE,
R. A. HARPER,
Commissioners of Registry.
The following oath will bo administered to each
applicant for registry:
You do solemnly swear that you are a citizen of
the United States, that you are twenty-one years
of age, that you have resided iu this State for the
last twelve months, in this city for the last six
mouths, and in this district or ward for the last
ten days; that you have considered this State
your home for the lust twelve mouths, that yon
have paid all taxes, and made all i-eturns required
by the Ordinances of this city that have been in
your power to pay or make according to said ordi
nances. ’ oct I—td
Office Ass’t Sup’t 'Georgia Railroad, 1
Augusta, Sept. 14th, 1868. j
fl®-REDUCED RATES ON VIRGINIA
SALT, COAL AND LAND PLASTER.—UntiI
further notice, on and after tho 15th 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,
sep!s—3ot Assistant Superintendent.
Assistant Superintendent’s Office,)
GEORGIA RAILROAD, [
Augusta, Sept. 20, 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, Ga., on October 21st, 1868,
and articles shipped to such Fairs, will be passed
over tho Georgia and Macon and Augusta Rail
roads for ONE FARE.
S. K. JOHNSON, '
sep29—t2othoct Assistant Superintendent.
Assistant Superintendent’s Office, )
GEORGIA RAILROAD CO., [
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 22. 1868. j
gjg- CIRCULAR.—I. DONATIONS
marked aud 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 bad passed over the
Georgia Railroad on his route thereto, such cer
tificate M be recognized until and inclusive of the
20th October, 1868. S. K. JOHNSON,
sep 23—td Assistant Superintendent.
SUPKBINTBH®BNT’S OFFICE, )
Augusta & Summerville R. R. Compact, !■
• Augusta, Ga , Sept. 2'J, 1868. I
W CHAN G E O F AFTERNOON.
SCHEDULE ON SUMMERVILLE LINE.—
On and after October Ist, proximo, Cars on tho
Summerville Lino will leave Depot during the
afternoon as follows: 2, 4,6; and will leave
Arsenal at 3,5, 7.
Tho Car leaving Arsenal at 5 p. m. will pro
ceed to the corner of Broad and Jacksou streets,
and will leave that point for Arsenal at 5.45
p. m.
The new Schedule begun on the 25th instant
is otherwise unchanged.
JAS. J. DAVIES,
scp.3o—3t Superintendent.
Assignee’s Sale.
W ILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT
House door, in the town of Sparta, Han
cock county, on the FIRST TUESDAY' IN OC
TOBER next, between the legal hours of sale,
the following property, to wit:
Five hundred and sixty-seven and one-half
(5675) Acres of Land, more or loss, on tbe east
bank of tho Oconee river, in said county, and
adjoining lands of Wilkins Harper, Wyatt Har
per, and Alphcuo Dutts. Also,, one judgment
and execution against John Bass, of Bewton
county, principal and interest amounting to
$949.19.
Sold as the property of Jesse G. Butts, senior,
Bankrupt, of llancock county, free from the in
cumbrance of liens, under a decree in Bank
ruptcy. Terms cash.
ARCHIBALD C. McKINLEY,
' sep!6—lawZw Assignee, etc.
IN TIIE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of )
M. M. BENJAMIN, [IN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. J
To whom it may concern : The undersigned
hereby gives notice of his appointment as
Assignee of Milton M. Benjamin, of Augusta,
Richmond county, State of Georgia, within
said District, who lias been adjudged a Bank
rupt upon his own petition byjhc District
Court of said District.
Dated at Augusta, this twenty-first day of
..September, A. D., 1868.
CHARLES G. GOODRICH,
sep 32~1aw3w Assignee.
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Tables on Debt and Taxation, Revenue and Ex
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The Political .Manual for 1868, separately,
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Address EDWARD McPHBRSOJf,
Clerk of the House of Representatives,
sopl—tNov3 Washington, D.C.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Postponed U. S. Marshal's Sale
TINDER AND BY VIRTUE OF THREE (lb
, , wr i lß "’f lt,suud 0111 °f the Ho,,'
arable the Fifth Circuit Court of the United St.,,
for the Southern District of Georgia, in i^ o “ te “
the plaintiffs, in the following cases to. wit ■ 01
CARHART & BROTHERS vs. BENJ AMDr,.
ADAMS ' r.
A.T.STBWART A. COMPANY vs.BENJAMiv
F. ADAMS, lIN
WILLIAM C. BROWNING, .Survivor ob,
BENJAMIN F. .ADAMS ’ ’ Vt-
I have levied upon, as the property of Beniamin F
Adams, a Plantation, containing twenty six hii
dred (2,60<1) acres, more or less, Situate, Ivin
and being in the county of Randolph, aud
of Georgia, Humbert oflots unknown, but lyinew
aud immediately around Ward s Station, on th.
Southwestern railroad.
ALSO
One lot of Land, containing one hundred (lotr
acres, more or lees, with a dwelling.],„ ll!<e
buildiugs, and other improvements, bei u .,'
residence of Benjamin F. Adams, and adjoinin'
the property of Col. J. A. Wingfield, A.O.Jloslev
W. E. Adams, K. C. Jenkins, and others, in
town of Eatonton, county of Putnam, mid Stat*
aforesaid.
ALSO
Two Store Houses and Lots ou the Comi
House square, known as Hudson and Thomas cor
ner, now occupied by B.F. Johnston &Co
Benj. F. Adams. z
ALSO
One Store House and Lot, occupied by Ethrido,
& Davis, druggists.
ALSO
One Store House and Lot on Main street <><•<■,,
pied by J M. Ballard, Jr. ’ ctll '
ALSO
One Town Lot near the Railroad Depot now
vacant.
All the said Town Lots situate, lying and be
ing in the town of Eatoutou, county ol Putnam
and State aforesaid.
AndwilPsell the same at public auction at the
Court House in the city 61 Macon and county of
Bibb, and State of Georgia, on tile FIItSTTITFS
DAY IN NOVEMBER next, between the law.
fill hours of sale.
Dated at Savannah, Ga., this Bd dav of Senr,.„,
her, 1868, WM. G. DICKSO.f
oct2-law4w U. S. Marshal Diet, of Ga
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Letters of Dismission,
OTATK OF GEORGIA.
k? Itichnioud County.
Whbrkas Timothy C. Murphy, Administrator
on the estate of Phillip McGee, late of said coun
ty, deceased, applies to mo for Letters of Dis
mission :
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all,
and singular, the kindred and creditors of said
deceased, to be and appear at my office, ou or
before the first Monday in April next, to show
cause, if any they have, why said Letters should
not be granted.
Given uuder my hand and official signature,
at office in Augusta, this Istday of October, 1868.
SAMVEL LEVY,
oct 2—lani6ui Ordinary.
TN THE DISTRICT £OtfRT OF THE
j United States for the Northern Dist-ict of
Georg'a.
In the matter of )
JEREMIAH CLEVELAND, tln Bankruptct.
Bankrupt. j
To whom it may concern: The undersigned
hereby gives notice of his appointment ar
Assignee of Jeremiah Cleveland, of the county
Franklin, and State of Georgia, within said
District, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt
upon bis own petition by the District Court of
said District.
Dated the 22d day of August A, D., 1868.
ALBERT G. BAGWELL,
oct2-law3w* Assignee.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for tho Northern District of
Georgia.
In tlie matter of )
E. M. CAMP, [IN BANKRUPTCY
Bankrupt.
To whom it may concern; The undersigned
hereby gives notice of his appointment as As
signee of E. M, Camp, of the county of Franklin,
and State of Georgia, within said 'District, who
has been adjudged a baukrupt upon his own
petition by the District Court of said district.
Dated this 25th day of August, A. D., 1868.
THOMAS T. DOROUGH,
oct2—law3w* Assignee.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
1 United States for the Southern DistricPof
Georgia.
In the matter of )
MICHAEL G EHRLICH >IN BANKRUPTCY
Bankrupt. I No. 190.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court
for a discharge from all his debts provable under
the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867', notice is
hereby given to all persons interested to appear on
the 21st day of October, 1868, at 10 o'clock,
iu the forenoon, at chambers of the said Dis
trict Court, before Frank S Hessellinc, Esq., one
of the Registers of the said Court in Bank
ruptcy at the Court House, in Quitman.
Georgia, and show cause why the prayer of tbe
said petition of the Bankrupt sliouhl not be
granted.
Dated at Savannah, Ga., this 29tli <lay of Sep
tember, 1868. JAMES McPHERSON,
ocl—law3w Clerk.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
United States for the Southern District of
Georgia.
In the matter of )
JAMES D. LENNARD, [IN BANKRUPTCY•
Bankrupt. J
At Cuthbert, Georgia, this the 31st day <’*
August, 1868.
The undersigned hereby gives notice ol ms
appointment as assignee of James D. Lennard,
of Cuthbert, in the county of Randolph and Statu
ot Georgia, within said District, who has been
adjudged a Baukrupt upon his own petition by
the District court of said District.
COLUMBUS 0. BROOKS,
au2l—law3w Assignee.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
-L United States for the Southern District ol
Georgia.
In the matter of )
THOS. N. JOHNSON, [IN BANKRtPTCY
Bankrupt. J , .
To whom it may concern : Tbe undcrsigncu
hereby nives notice of his appointment; 10
Assignee ol Thomas N. Johnson, of Augusta,
Richmond county, State of Georgia, within saiu
District, who has been adjudged a bankrupt.up
on his own petition by the District court o
said district. „ ,
Dated at Augusta this 21st day of Scptembci
A.D., 1868. R. S. AGNEW,
sop 22—lawSw Assignee. ~
Assignee’s Sale
OF
REAL ESTATE.
WILL BE SOLD, ON THE 7th DAY OF
V V OCTOBER, 1868, before tho Court House
door in the town of CALHOUN, Georgia. ,
tween the legal hours of sale, tbe followi g
properly, belonging to the Estate of John
Green, of Gordon county, Bankrupt, to-wit:
Nos. 274, 275, 276, 267, and a part of 26b. »
in the 13th district of the 3d section of Gordon
C °Sold by order of the United States District
Court, September I6th, 1868.
The Lands are sold subject to the Bankrupt
homestead. WILLIAM It. DIBNI’A,
WILLIAM J. CANTRELL,
sep 20—td Assignees
To Rent.
1111 AT NEAT COTTAGE RESIDENCE
. No. 202 South Telfair street, between Koi
lock and Cumming Streets, at present occupie
by Henry Edmonston. Esq. .
Apply to It. S. AGNEW,
Mps-tt . 360 Broad st.
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