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PARAGRAMS.
Yesterday, in New York, Gokl was
quoted at 1.36#. Cotton, 25}c.
—No groomsmen at the weddings in New
York now.
Japan# is arming itself from American
workshops.
—A Fifth Avenue “mansion” rents for
$2,000 a month.
—Oliver Cromwell originated our use of ’
the word “platform.”
• —Brfughnrse is the singular name of a
Philadelphia undertaker.
—A match of cattle butchering impends
among the profession in New York.
—Texas offers corn at ten cents per
bushel, and there are no buyers at that.
—Four mysterious ppisoning cases in
New York are ruining the drug stores there.
—Bustles are worn by all fashionable
ladies.
—The Austrian Field Marshal Guilay,
who lost the battle of Magenta, is dead.
—The Rhipe is alive with workmen erect
ing new forts, yet peace is everywhere prom
ised.
—The average life of New England min
isters. who preach twice on Sabbath, is
shown 'to be sixty years.
. —A New York undertaker, in the dullness
of business, tried to kill his wife so as to get
up a funeral,
—Napoleon has called upon the poets and
composers of the empire to get him up a
new national hymn.
—The church in Tarsus, the Apostle
Paul's birthplace, is flourishing
care of American missionaries.
A New Y’ork paper says scarcely a
night passes but some mewling baby is
found in a garbage-box or on a door-step.
—Sixty shares of City Railway stock were
sold at auction in Charleston, a day or two
ago, and brought par. #
—Kangaroo sausages are on the way to
England from Australia. They arc said to
be belter than pickled elephant’s ears.
—Napoleon 111 was thrown by a restive
horse at the camp of Lannemeaau the other
day. He hung by the mane, and wasn’t
hurt.
A citizen of Cleveland, Ohio, was as
tonished the other morning to discover in
the milk just left at his house by the milk
man a lively fish three or four inches in
length.
—The King ol Prussia has ordered the
museum of the Guelphs, in Hanover, to be
sold. It belonged to the late royal family
of Hanover, and is rich in historical treas
ures.
—The Emperor of Russia’s private coach
man is dead. The Emperor esteemed him
so highly that be made him a count, gave
him a seat in the Council of State, and hon
ored him in other ways.
—There is a steatn engine in New York
that runs one hundred and twenty-five
presses, prints fifty different newspapers,
makes hoop skirts, binds books, and runs a
mile of shafting.
—Governor Bcffeman, of West Virginia,
requests’ that troops may be sent to that
State to preserve the peace at the coming
election, as, he says, the disfranchised rebels
in several counties threaten to vote at all
hazards.
—Joseph Warren Revere, formerly a well
known merchant of Boston, died in Caifton,
Ma is., recently, aged ninety-one years. He
was a son of Paul Revere, of revolutionary
fame.
—General ?>. J. Sieinmer, distinguished
in the early days of the rebellion by his de
fence of Fort Pickens, Florida, with a hand
ful of men against a large force, died re
cently at Fort Laramie, of which post he
held command.
—The Princess Koziosky, a beautiful
Russian lady, has opened a cigar store in
Moscow. Iler father having lost her for
tune, the nobles of Moscow offered them
2,000 roubles a year, but she prefers to make
her own living.
—The New Orleans /he says that the
storm of last week had a most disastrous
effect upon the sugar cane in Western Louis
iana, blowing it down in all directions.
Should this report prove to be correct, the
crop will be cut short to a considerable ex
tent.
A paper iu Northern Maine says the
base-ball mania is having a fearful run in
that section. All ages ot the male persua
sion from four to forty years range all the
way from mildly insane to raving crazy on
the subject.
—The making ot shoe laces has become
so important that a companyfor their manu
facture, the Indian Manufacturing Com
pany, has been established in Warren, R. 1.,
and is doing a large business ; 600 braiders
ar; in use, and a large amount of new ma
chineiy has lately been put in.
—Mrs. Mary L. Hutchinson, the mother
of the Hutchinson family of singers, died of
- paralysis at Mi'ford, New Hampshire, Sep
tember 20th, aged, eighty-three. She was
the mother of sixteen children, to whom
the musical powers with which she was
naturally gifted were generously transmitted.
- An experienced sugar-refiner of New
York is about to establish n bcct-sugar fac
tory in Buena Vista county, lowa. The
machinery is to come from France at a cost
of SIOO,OOO. Five thousand acres of land
to grow the beets have been purchased.
«-Some. ot the German papers report that
Mis, Lincoln is going to take up her resi
denqp at Frankfort on the Main, where her
income will enable her to live in much
| better style than in the United States. She
' will be received in a very flattering manner
in Germany, where Abraham Lincoln’s mem
ory is revered no less than in America.
—A decoction of Chestnut leaves (casta
nca V'sca) is said to be a sovereign remedy
for whooping cough. Steep three or four
drachms of the leaves in boiling watCE, and
give it either hot or cold, with or without*
sugar. Carbonate of lime should be put in
saucers about the room in which there is a
sufferer from this disease. It prevents in
fection.
A French journalist, writing shortly
before the last Spanish revolution, sketches
Queen Isabella’s portrait frankly, without
fear or favor: She is 38 but looks older;
has Bourbon obesity, and premature wrin
kles ; round face, turned nose, small blue
eyes, highly colored complexion, short,
swollen, and slightly scaly hands, mascu
line manners and voice, and dresses richly,
but looks like a Queen in Sunday finery.
-Ex-Governor S. W. Beall, of Wiscon
sin, was killed at Helena, Montana, on Sep
tember 26th. in an altercation with George
M. Pinney, editor of the Moittana Post- -
The Governor had called .upon Pinney to
to demand a retraction of several scurrilous
articles against him, published in the Post,
and when he called again, armed, was shot
down by his antagonist, A Coroner’s jury
rendered a verdict of justifiable homicide.
The deceased was a son-in-law of Fenimore
Cooper.
—At the opening of an important meeting
Tingly was called upon io offer prayer. He
bowed before God and in the presence of his
brethren, and prayed as follows: “Oh. Lord,
teach us to feel the need of thy grace and
seek it; to know thy will, and do it; to find
our place, and keep it- Amen.” The lan
guage and sentimeut of this.short prayer
were decidedly appropriate, and no one could
have grown weary while listening to it. This
could n<Jt in trutn be said of long prayers
which we sometimes hear.
NiilionalUcpubliitui
AUGUSTA. GA.
SUNDAY MORNING Octobar M, IMJ
Thia is a Republic where the Will of
the People is the Law of the Land.
|U. S. Grant.
“ Watch over the preservation of the Union
with zealous eye, and indignantly frown upon j
the first dawning of every attempt io alienate
any portion of the Country from the rest, or
to en feeble the sacred ties, which now link
together the carious parts."— Washington’s
Farewell Address.
77/// ELECTORAL TICKET.
In a former number of the Republican
wo explained the danger of many Republi
cans making some fatal error in reference
to their vote on the 3d of November. For
the convenience of all such, we append the
ticket as it shoitli] be voted. By cutting
this out. in its present form, the voter need
not ask information from any source : but
can just put it in the ballot-box. with the
assurance that it is all right and will cer
tainly be counted. Here is your ticket:
F<>r I*IIESII >ISIN T
Os the United States:
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
Schuyler Colfax,
OF INDIANA.
Republican Electoral Ticket.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE.
HENRY I’.-FARROW. of Fulton.
AMOS T. AKERMAN, of Elbert.
A
FOR THE DISTRICTS.
Is/ District— F. M. SMITH, of Charlton.
2d District—JSO. MURPHY", of Dougherty
od District— lE. 1. HIGBEE, of Talbot.
■Uh District—Wn. H. WHITEHEAD, of
Butte.
5/Zt District— J. E. BRY'ANT, of Richmond.
C/7i District— S. C. JOHNSON, of Dawson.
Uh District—J. L- DUNNING, of Fulton.
HEPUBIzICAN platfor in.
Tlie National Republican party of the United States,
assembled in National Convention,in the city of Chi
cagoan the 90th day of May, 186 k, make the following
Declaration of Principles :
Ist. We congratulate the country on the assured suc
cess of the reconstruction policy of Congress, as
evinced by the adoption, in a majority of the States
lately in rebellion, of Constitutions securing equal civil
and political rights to all, and regard it as the duty of
the Government to sustain those institutions, and to
prevent the people of such States from being remitted
to a state of anarchy.
2d. The guarantee, by Congress, of equal suffrage to
all loyal men in the South was demanded by every con
sideration of public safety, of gratitude and of Justice,
and must be maintained, while the question of suffrage
in all the loyal States properly belongs to the people of
those States.
3d. We denounce all forms of repudiation as a "na
tional crime, and the national honor requires the pay
ment of the public indebtedness, in the utmost good
faith, to ail creditors, at home and abroad, not only
according to the letter, but the spirit of the laws
under which it was contracted.
4th. It is due to the labor of the nation that taxation
should be equalised and reduced as rapidly as the na
tional faith will permit.
sth. The national debi, contracted, as it has been, for
the preservation of the Union for all time to come,
should be extended over a fair period for redemption,
And it is the duty of Congress to reduce the rate of in
terest thereon, whenever it can honestly be done.
6th. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
debt is to so improve our credit that capitalists will seek
to loan us money at lower rates of interest than we now
pay, and must continue to nay, so long as repudiation,
partial or total, open or covert, is threatened or sus
pected.
7th. The Government of the United States should bo
administered with the strictest economy, and the cor
ruptions which have been so shamefully nursed ami
fostered by Andrew Johnson call taudly for ridical re
form.
Bth. We profoundly deplore the untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession of
Andrew Johnson to the Presidency, who has acted
treacherously to the people who elected him and the
cause he was pledged to support ; has usurped high
legislative and judicial functions; has refused to exe
cute the laws; has used his high office to induce other
officers to ignore and violate the laws; has employed
his executive powers to render insecure the property,
peace, liberty and life of the citizen: has abused the
pardoning power; has denounced the National Legisla
ture as unconstitutional; has persistently and corruptly
resisted, by every measure in his power, every proper
attempt at the reconstruction of the States lately tn re
bellion; has perverted the public patronage into an
engine of wholesale corruption; and has been Justly
impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and
properly pronounced guilty thereof by the vote of
thirty-live Senators.
9th. The doctrine of Great Britain and other European
powers, that because a man is once a subject, he-is
always so, must be resisted at every Lazard By the
United Slates, as a relic of the feudal time, not author
ized by the law of nations, and at war with our national
honor and independence. Naturalized citizens are enti
tled to be protected in all their rights of citizenship as
< though they were natural born, and no citizen of the
United States, native or naturalized, must be liable to
arrest and imprisonment, by any foreign power, for acts
done, or words spoken,in this country, and If so arrested
and imprisoned, it is the duty of the Government to
interfere in his behalf.
10th. Os all tvho were faithful in the trials of the late
war, there, were none entitled to more especial honor
' than the brave soldiers and seamen, who endured the
F hardships of the campaign and cruise, and imperilled
their lives in the service pf the country. The bounties
and pensions provided by law for these brave defenders
i of the nation are oWiagtions never to be forgotten. The
( widows and orphans of the gallant dead nre the wards of
the people, a sacred legacy bequeathed to the nation’s
1 protecting care.
11th. Foreign immigration, which in the past has
added so much to the wealth, development of resources,
and increase of power of this nation, the nsyiuni of the
oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encour
aged by a liberal and just policy.
19th. This Convention declares its sympathy with all
the oppressed people which are struggiing for their
r is
Belmont and the N. Y. \Vorld FOB
Grant. —Thu Ku-Klux organ here chargee
• that the lion...mUUßtßei.mont, Chairman of
1 the National Executive Committee, and the
Ncav Y’ork World are secretly, but industri
ously working for Grant. All right 1 We
reckon that between the Republicans, the
war Democrats, the friends of peace,and Bel
mont and the World, we shall manage to
squeeze Unconditional Surrender into the
* Presidency. *
The Difficulty Not There. -The De
mocracy throughout the North and South
are agitating the question as to the pro
priety of a change of Presidential' candi
dates. It is not right for the Democracy to
lay their recent Waterloo defeat to their
candidates. It is the revolutionary, reac
tionary principles of the party that has de
feated it. It must change its old reversion
principles before it can ever hope to succeed
in the United States, no odds how popular
the candidates may be.
'•■— • »
My Bull and Your Ox.—The Ku-Klux
editor is indignant because a man named
Simons, a Republican, preferred having a
hearing on n writ before Justice Reynolds
rather than Justice Phixizy. This demand
the editor regards as unprecedented and
arrogant. How about the case of Mr. E.
Purcell, a day or two previous ? He took
his case from Justice Doyle to Justice
Phijhzy. It is only another illustration of
the case of my bull and your ox.
We have confidence in all the niagis
trates.
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Swallowed Him.—Some weeks since Mr.
Seymour complained that his friends had
‘■plunged him into a sea of troubles.” The
sea has now swallowed him.
GRANTAND SEYMOUR'S CHANCES.
We give the following table as the result
of the vote for President, two weeks hence
on Tuesday- Our readers will please pre
serve it, to see how near we come to the
final result:
G RANT.
Maine 7 lowa 8
New Hampshire 5 Minnesota 4
Vermont 5 Kansas 3
Massachusetts 12 Tennessee 10
Rhode Island 1 Missouri 11
Connecticut 6 Louisiana 7
Now York 33 South Carolina a fi
Pennsylvania 2fi North Carolina It
Now Jersey., 7 Florida 3
Ohio 21 West Virginia 5
Indiana...,. 13 Nebraska 3
California 5 Nevada S
Illinois IB
Wisconsin 8! Total 2IS
Michigan 8 |
SBY.MOI n.
Delaware 3 Georgia 0
Maryland 7 Arkansas 5
Kentucky 11 Oregon 3
Alabama 8
Total 46
Total number of electoral votes 2111
Necessary fer a choice. 1 IS
According to our calculation, the totals
will be: Grant, 248; Seymour, 16; ma
jority for Grant, 202.
This will turn out, we believe, as near, if
not nearer, than any calculation yet made.
The Real Rebel Spirit.—ln noticing
the arrival of a company of Federal troops
at Columbus, the Sun speaks of them as
“the enemy.” How can United States sol
diers be the enemies of United States
people ? These soldiers are a portion of the
people of the country; so is the Sun editor.
And the sooner he brings himself to feel and
recognize that fact, the sooner will he get
rid of the unhappy sulks with which he is
now afflicted.
.
Funny.—The Ku-Klux organ in Augusta,
Ga., reading the recognized organ of the
party for the whole country —the New York
llVM—out of the party : “On what meat
doth this, our C.esaii, feed, that ho has
grown so great ?”
"A PROPOSITION FOR A POLITICAL
REFORM A TION.
Editor National Republican : •
Dear Siu —I am much pleased with your
editorial of the 14th inst., headed “The Late
Elections,” and doubt not it will be heartily
approved by all fairminded men who may
chance to read it. I feel confident of your
sincerity, because the spirit in which the
article was •conceived seems to bear that
impress.
Well, then, for one (who has always op
posed Carpet-Bay Republicanism), 1 am
willing to meet you half-way; by promising
to vote with you, hereafter, provided you will
give your influence, and that of your jour
nal. in favor of the selection, for Members of
Congress ami all other positions of equal
responsibility, of none but Southern men of
character and influence —men who were
either born aad reared at the South, ar who
have resided here with their families suffi
ciently. long to become thoroughly identified
with our interests and gain the respect and
confidence of our people, white and colored.
There is nothing wrong intended by this
proposition. On the contrary, if accepted,
1 believe it will serve as an entering-wedge
to conciliation and harmony among thou
sands in our own midst who have been
already too long and causelessly estranged.
I believe that more than half the bitterness
of feeling that has marked the present and
preceding canvasses in our State would
have been avoided, had the Republicans put
up as candidates for Congress Hyd other
high positions, such men as Bigham, Gib
son, Fannin, Cotting, Snead, Saffold, Millen,
Barnes, Akerman, McDaniel, Andrews, and
other moderate and reasonable men who
might be named, instead of strangers. See
how, already, what a change has been
wrought in the Fourth District by the nomi
nation of Colonel DeGraffenried for Con
gress 1 He is well known as a gentleman of
talent, character and influence, and the
people, while they may not approve his poli
ties, will admire his principles and take
care not to oppose him with that unrelenting
hostility that they would a Carpet-bagger.
Do you accept my proposition?
And Bullock rind Conley 1 Why should
not these two gentlemen be sustained in
their new positions 1 They are old residents
of our State, are thoroughly identified with
■its interests —have always shewn.a com
mendable public spirit, and contributed more
• of time, labor and money t-> public and pri
‘ vate enterprises and charities than mne
, tenths of those who now so bitterly oppose
and unjustly revile them. This is surely
i wrong, unjust, suicidal. No people on the
■ face of the earth have oc can pro per, for
! any considerable time, whose views and
i practices are so entirely contracted and sei
; fish. ft is to oqr interest —a duty we owe
our State and section—to encourage the
settlement among us -of enterprising men
from other sections, How else can we hope
to build up our waste places ; and who, in
all the wide wqrld, so well qualified to aid
us in the work-as the thrifty, go-ahead men
of the North ? But they will not selfie
among us, ol invest their capital here,
unless they are treated with greater kind
ness—with more of respect and confidence,at
■ least by the people "to the manor born.”
Let all, then, resolve henceforth to act more
in accordance with the golden rule, and “Do
unto others as we would have others to do
unto us.”
I agree with you that the recent elections
in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana (while
they show a small gain in members of Con
gress in favor of the Democrats), are decis
ive of, and settles the Presidential question
in favor of General Grant; and while 1 do
not believe that he is, in very many respects,
as well qualified as Mr. Seymour to admin
ister the Government of the United States,
still I think, under all the circumstances —
and particularly, in view of the protracted
estrangement between the various sections
of the Union, as well as the "‘unnecessary
and criminal bitterness of feeling at present
existing between one portion of our own
people kgainst another—that it would be at
least patriotic in Mr. Seymour to withdraw
his name from the canvass, and permit
General Grant (who is evidently the choice
of a large majority of the people in all por
tions of the Union) to complete the race
without opposition. No greater damage can
possibly result to the people, or to the na
tion, than the protraction T>f the present
state of feeling. This must be patent to
every reflecting mind. Why not, then, “bury
the hatchet," and revive Old friendships and
associations? God knows, and every reason
able man will acknowledge, ;li l >.o v
already had enough of strife nnd hatred to
satisfy the most depraved, of any nation in
any period oUHie world. How trfie that
“Dissensions, like small stream*, at first begun,
Scarce seen, they rise and gather as they run.”
Most earnestly, and with no selfish or sin
ister motive, do 1 eall upon you, Mr. Editor,
to second my proposition in behalf of Peace
and I’uity, between bur own people and the
people of the whole country. Prosperity
and Happiness—individual as well as State
and National—will as surely result from the
■ urse herein recommended as that the sun
w ill perform his circuit on the morrow.
'mi haio my crude and undigested
thoughts. Dispose of them ns you may sec
proper. J am a working man, possessing
but little time to devote to, or knowledge of
State-craft; yet I have a heart full of love
for my native land and the people among
whom my lot has been east, and would re-,
joice to see them as in former days—United,
Prosperous and Happy.
Very i-espectfuily,
A Whig of 1840-*4B.
Augusta, October 15, 1868.
We recognize in the writer of the article
signed “A Whig of 1810—'48” a gentle
man who has heretofore exercised much
influence for good in the State. One, in a
word, if whose counsels had been hcedetl,
m;u% firesides, now desolate, would be
merry and cheery as of old.
We are particularly pleased to hear from
him at this jitneture, and to know that he
recognizes the election of Gen. Grant as
a fixed fact. His suggestions, too, come in
admirable good time, and with slight ex
planations of our meaning, meet our en
tire and hearty approval.
We arc not opposed to a man because he
is a carpet-bagger. Such opposition is not
in keeping with the spirit of American in
stitutions, sound commoti sense, or good
policy. We welcome all settlers from neigh
boring States, and think none the less of
them for being called carpet-baggers. On
the other hand, we will stick the closer to
them, because they may be scorned.for
what is no fault at all. But we do have a
decided objection to any man, or set of
men, that may squat in any particular
locality in Georgia or elsewhere, for the
avowed purpose of manipulating the un
suspecting, getting a nomination for the
Legislature or Congress, and forcing the
Republican people to elect them rather
than the old reactionary Democracy. We
wish persons elected to office who will
stay and fight it out with us if he should
be beaten. More than that, we want men
that would be regarded as lit for Legisla
tive or Congressional honors at their old
homes. Wc do not mean those that have
actually been spoken of for office; but
those whose nomination and election at
home would •excite neither surprise* nor
disgust.
No stronger Federalist ever put pen to
paper than the writer of this; but wc be
lieve the man who would not be regarded
as a suitable Representative or Senator from
Massachusetts would not be suitable to repre
sent Georgia.
It must be remembered, however, that
the people have a right to cleet whomso
ever they please to office, and it is the
criminal fault ,of such distinguished gen
tlemen as “a Whig of’lß4o-’48,” that they
have not before now taken hold of this
matter, swallowed prejudices that fate has
decreed it is right shoiild be swallowed,
and united with the only party that is
truly catholic and national ip the land.
But we will say no more about this matter
now.
In a leading editorial sonic days since,
we declared that, inasmuch as there would
be no election for Congress in November,
we regarded the Congressional nomina
tions then made as no longer binding on
the constituencies in the several districts
‘We think so still. The Republican partv,
ami Georgia, demands a higher standard
of capacity in the next Congress than she
has in this. We don't want any one that
you will have to brand “M. C.,” to get
strangers ,to believe he is one. Incom
petent men would ha ve ruined the Repub
lican party of Georgia had it not peen for
the insane treason of the Democracy. The
misdeeds of the Denweracy have been so
glaring as to overshadow our short com
ings. Governor Bullock stands like a
mountain of sternness and truth, but he
has to stand almost solitary and alone.
Heaven bless him; the people will yet de
clare “well done thou good and faithful
aeTvant,” etc.
In conclusion, we would say to our
esteemed correspondent that there never
was a better chance for conservatively
inclined men to declare for the support of
Gkaxt. It is not only a good chance, but
inevornble'.duty imperatively demands
that they should do so, and do so at mice.
There may be an election for Congress in
February, or there may not. Wc have not
heard that the'bill, or resolution, which
passed the Legislature, in relation to an
election at that time, has received the
Governor's signature.
Then, come and go with us. Y’ou can
help us and wc can help you ; ami wc can
all 1 y.l p Georgia nnd the Union. Every thing
must be done in the folds of the Republi
can party, and under the leadership of
Gen. Gkaxt. AVe know' him to be mag
nanimous, noble andtruc % Come!
POLITICAL.
The Nashville Gazelle predicts that Ken
tucky “will a' year hence be the uiCGt Radical
Slate of the Union. The moment Grant is
elected, and tree . speech and free thought
becomes a possibility, the rebound wilt be
tremendous.’’
Mr. Harkins, a Democratic member of
the Alabama Legislature, who claimed to
represent a district legislated out of exist
ence, informs the Mobile Register that he is
on his way to stump his county for Seymour
and Biair “until there isn’t one Radical left,
in it”' • *
Gov. Morton, of Indiana, has modified his
views on the irrecnhack and repudiation
policy. In a recent speech at LaFayettc,
Indiana, he said: “It was a fraud and a
swindle, and, if carried into’ effect, would
involve the whole country iu financial ruin,
ami overwhelm our people with disgrac
The largest political flag ever made in
this country was raised on Third Avenue,
New York, Saturday night. It is thirty by
forty feet, and bears portraits of Grant and
Colfax fifteen feet, high, and their names in
gold- letters two feet high.
L. C. Norvell, of Mobile, Alaba .na, has
published an address to the Old Line Whigs
vl th ' South, urging them io vote for Grant
ami Coif.ix, on the ground that their election
will best subserve the interests of the South
<rn people. The success of the Democratic
party, he says, “means war—bitter, relent
less, devastating war.” That of Grant means
peace and prosperity. /
Ihe Richmond Enquirer says: “We are
in receipt of numerous letters from all sec
turns of the State making inquiries and sug
ge tionsin regard to the vote «f Virginia in
the Presidential election. The tenor of
tl.i -e letters is decidedly in favor of giving
the people an opportunity to cast the vote
<■l the Slate, and leaving the question of
having it counted m lie determined here
after.”
[From our own Correspondent.
OLll WASHINGTON LETTER.
The I’aiou Adeamiaff Th' Recent I ie-
toriee— Effect Here) anil Ehewhei e- Election
I'cawl*—A. J.’e altefnj.* to injure Hrant — Con*
ijren—Marriage of Speaker Colfax.
Washington, October 11. 1868.
The people of four more States —Pennsyl-
vania, O’uio, Indiana, and Nebraska—yes
terday endorsed the candidates of the Re
publican party for President and Vice Presi
dent, making, with the three States wherein
elections have been heretofore hold sin’cc the
nominations were made (in Vermont, Maine,
and Connecticut), seven in all, having eighty
one of the one hundred and forty-nine elec
toral votes necessary for a choice. It is
thus the delusions of the hour are being dis.
polled, and modern Democracy stands before
the country rebuked and practically annihi
lated Full returns, of course, have not
been received of the elections held yestor"
day ; but it is known that the four States
have gone Republican by decided majorities,
and not varying materially from the Repub
lican estimates made two weeks ago. As
four of these States were relied upon by the
Democracy to cl ct Seymour and Biair, and
their presses having frequently slated that
they must carry Pennsylvania, Indiana and
Nebraska in October, or their candidates
would not stand a ghost of a chance of
being elected, we presume that hereafter, to
be consistent, there will be no opposition to
the election of ’Grant and Colfax.
An Interesting as we'l as important fact
in connection with the elections yesterday
is, that in all the localities where Democrat
ic gains arc claimed they are the very
localities where fraud was anticipated, and
the intention to defraud proclaimed and
guarded against so far as possible by the
Republicans. Take for illustration certain
wards in Philadelphia which the Democra
cy expected to carry by imported voters and
the use of fraudulent or bogus naturalization
papers ; one or more counties bordering on
Maryland and the river counties in Ohio
and Indiana—these were the spots marked
as specially to be watched, and these are
the exact localities where the opposition
claim to have "increased their vote. For
tunately for the country these suspected
districts were under surveilaneo, or other
wise we might now be compelled to chronicle
adversity instead of a glorious triumph.
It is feared the enemy have, howeverjfcuc
cecded in foisting upon the people, by fraud,
several members of Congress in districts
where the Republican voters really arc in
the majority. But we have gained else
where, so that the political complexion of
the next will be about the same as the last
Congress.
The most intense excitement prevailed
throughout the city last evening. The dif
ferent newspaper offices and political head
quarters were surrounded by an anxious
crowd of people, eagerly listening to the
returns of the elections, which were read as
received. By ten o’clock, however, the De
mocracy became satisfied with what they
had heard, and for the most part retired in
disgust, while Republicans, as may be sup
posed, were very enthusiastic. To-day, it is
next to impossible to find a government
office-holder in this city who does not favor
the election of Grant and Coltax. There
has been a wonderful change during the last
twenty-four hours. Men who, two weeks
ago, were loud-mouthed Democrats, are as
demure to-day as lambs. Will not these
elections have a similar effect throughout
the South? The Union men, at least of that
section, ought now to be satisfied that the
day of relief is near at hand. Will not their
oppressors take warning in time ? Ihe elec
tion of Grant and Colfax is conceded by all
parties here, and the voting in November
will be a mere matter of form, to make llreir
elevation legal.
New Jersey gives notice of what the result
will be in that State in November. At the
municipal election, held in Newark, yester
day, the Republicans carried th > city by 100
majority, a gain of 350 since lust year. The
ball is M-. motion.
It is stated’, on good authority, that the
President had ordered the dismission of
about five hundred Republican office-holders
in this city, to give place to Democrats, but,
to-day the order was revoked. The voice of
the people is heard even at the White
House.
Ti e recent order issued with General
Grant’s name attached, substantially telling
the Military Commandants Tn the unrecon
structed States .that they must not interfere
to prevent the people voting for President
and Vice-President, in November, it is
proper to statu was never seen by that
officer. 11. came from tho . White House,
and was promulgated by the Adjutant Gen
eral, and was doubtless intended to injure
Gen. Grant, and aid the rebel cause.
General Rawlins, General Grant’s chief
of-staff, is in Indiana, and quite ill, having
had hemorrhage of the lungs.
Vice President Wade and Speaker Colfax
are expected here on the 15th. On the 16th
.both Houses of Congress will be adjourned
over to November 10th. Mr. Colfax and
Miss Wade,’a niece of the Vico President,
will be united in marriage on the 27th
instant.
The defeat bf Congressman Carey, the
renegade Republican, in tho Second Dis
tiict of Ohio, causes very general satisfac
tion.
Captain Duilois, of the Third United
States Cavalry, now stationed in Saute Fe,
New Mexico, writes a letter to a friend in
this city, which 1 have seen, that he wrote
the celebrated “Jew order” issued at Holly
Springs, without the knowledge of General
Grant, for which act he was Suspended from
command nt the time.
The colored people here-, ’as at the South,
are frequently made the scape-goats to cover
Up-crimes committed by the white people.
few uigbts ago two white men, while in
toxicated, engaged in a quarrel in an out
df-tlic-way place in Seventh street, when
both were severely injured—one by a pistol
shot, the other by a slung shot. The cries
of one of the injured men aroused the police,
when he stated that they had been attacked
by seven colored men for refusing to drink
with them. The detectives a large
number of arrests, but after “ few days
had elapsed the “victims” owned up to the
facts, as stated abovq,
Colonel O’Bicrne, President of tljo Con
servative Soldiers'and Sailors’ Union, came
out for Grant and Colfax last night in a
speech at Union League Hall.
Capital.
CITY TAXES—LAST NOTICE.—
Persons who eland charged on the Tax Digest
for 180. S, will take notice that unless their City
Taxes are paid on on before Tint first of
November next, executions, with ten per cent,
damages added thereto, will bo issued against all
defaulters. I. P. GARVIN,
oc 15—lilt Collector-and Treasurer.
Assistant St rKtunTKXoKNT’s Office,)
GEORGIA RAILROAD,
Augusta, Ga., October fith, 1567. »
|&jy- NOTICE TO MERCHANTS.—ON
and after this date, the rate an B'IPE is reduced
to $1.20 pir 100 H'S.*lfotn St. "Louis’, Mo?, and
Louisville, Ky„ a i*. aiiektuun, Ky , and Nash
ville. Tenn., to Angn-la, Go.
S. K. JOHNSON,
octo Im Assistant Superintendent.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Official.
By the President of the United States
of America.
A Proclamation.
In the year which is now drawing to its end,
the art, the skill, and the labor of the people of the
United States have been employed with greater
diligence and vigor, and on broader fields than
ever before, and the fruits of the earth have been
gathered into the granary and storehouse in mar
velous abundance. Our highways have been
lengthened, and new and prolific regions have
been occupied. We are permitted to hope that
long protracted political and sectional dissensions,
at no distant day, will give place to returning
harmony and fraternal affection throughout the
Republic. Many foreign States have ent red into
liberal rtgreenients with ns, while nations which
are far oft, and which heretofore hate been
unsocial and exclusive, have become our friends.
The annual period of rest, which w-e have
reached in health and tranquility, and which is
crowned with so many blessings, is by universal
consent a convenient and suitable one for cult!
voting personal piety and practicing public devo
tion.
1, therefore, recommend that Thursday, the
twenty-srxth day of November next, be set apart
and observed by all the people of the United
States as a day of public praise, thanksgiving and
prayer to the Almighty Creator and Divine Ruler
of the Universe, by whose ever watchful, merciful
and gracious providence alone States and Nations,
no less than families and individual men, do live
and move and have their being.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done’at the city of Washington, the twelfth day
of October, in the year of onr Lord,
[seal.] one thousand eight hundred and sixty
eight, and of the independence es the
United States the ninety-third.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President:
Wm. If. Seward.
oct!7—td Sec’ry of State.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
CLERK OF COUNCIL S OFFICE,).
Augusta, Ga., October 16th, 1868. )
fifeT PROPOSALS WILL BE RE
CEIVED at this Office until 12 o'clock noon, on
November 1, 1868, for Painting atid Repairing
the Lower Market.
By order of the Mayor.
’ chas. p. McCalla,
ocl7—td Clerk Council.
ASS T SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,)
Gbobuia Railboad, >
Augusta, Ga., October 16th, 1868. >
EXCEPT SUNDAY NIGHT, A
Train will run on the Washington Branch, in
connection with our Night PasaengerTrains, ou
and after Monday, the 19th instant, leaving
Washington at 111:00, p. hi. Returning, arriving
at Washington at 3:20, a. m.
S. K. JOHNSON,
Assistant Superintendents
Washington (»'«aeZ/e copy ocl7—tf
Macon 4 Augusta R. K. Company, I
Augusta, October 16, 1868. J
B@“T11E ATTENTION OF STOCK
HOLDERS, who are indebted to this Company,
is directed to the subjoined resolutions of the
Board of Directors, passed at their meeting on
the 15th instant: 1
“ Recoined 1, That all resolutions heretofore
passed authorizing a forfeiture of Stock be, and
they are hereby revoked and repealed, and the
Treasurer shall proceed to collect all install
ments called and unpaid.
2. “ That for all the installments called, and
remaining unpaid, the Treasurer shall take
notes, with interest added, payable tho first of
January next, and in all cases where the Stock
holder declines to pay, or liquidate on the terms
above stated, suit shall be forthwith commenced
to recover the amount.”
Stockholders in arrears to the Company will
please call upon the Treasurer without delay
and pay tho installments which have already
been called upon their subscriptions. By order
of the Board. J A. S. MILLIGAN,
oc 17 —2awd&2tw • Treasurer.
Assistant Superintendent's Office,)
GEORGIA RAILROAD, I
Augusta, Sept. 29, 1868. J
TO PARTIES SENDING
ARTICLES TO THE FAIRS, AND TO PER
SONS WISHING TO ATTEND. Parties at
tending tho Farmer’s Club Fairs at Stone Moun
tain and Eatonton, Ga., 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.
S. K. JOHNSON,
scp2'J—t2otboc‘ Assistant. Superintendent.
Assistant Superintendent’s Office, )
GEORGIA RAILROAD CO., A
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 22, 1868. )
CIRCULAR.—I. DONATIONS
marked and consigned to “Fair First Baptist
Church, Atlanta, Ga.” to be held in that city ou
the 6th October, proximo, will be transported
FREE over thin Road.
11. Visitors attending the Fair above referred
to will be returned FREE over this Road, upon
presentation to tho Conductor of a proper certifi
cate issued by the Secretary of the same. W L.
Abbot, Esq., that? the bolder was actually in
attendance thereon, and bad passed over the
Georgia Railread on his route thereto, such cer
tificate to be recognized until and inclusive of the
20th October, 1868. S. K JOHNSON,
eep 23—td Assistant Superintendent.
ISTOTiCE
from
COMMISSIONERS
OF
REGISTRATION
PURSUANCE OFTHEACT PASSED
by the General Assembly of Georgia entitled “An
Act to Reorganize the Municipal Government of
the City of Augusta,” Aho undersigned will, on
MONDAY. THE FIFTH DAY OF OCTOBER
1868, open lhe Registry for voters at the office, in
the.basemeat 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. in. ou Tues
day the first of December next, from 9 o'clock a.
m. till 2 o'clock p. ni. of each day, except Sunday
JOHN C. SNEAD,
W. R. McLAWS,
E. M. BRAYTON,
WILLIAM DOYLE,
R. A. HARPER,
Comniissionera of Registry.
The following oath will be administered to each
applicant for registry:
Yon do solemnly swear that you are a citizen of
the United States, that yon are twenty one years
of age, that you have resided in this State for the
last twelve mouths, in this city for the last six
months, and in this district or ward for the last
ten days; that yon have considered this State
yonr home sos the last twelve months, that you
have paid all taxes, and madeall returns 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
Apprentice Wanted.
\BOY, WHO HAS BEEN SOME TIME
. at the Printing Business, and is desirous of
Finishing his Apprenticeship in a first class Book
and Job Office, can obtain a good sitnati< n by
applying to E. 11. FUGUE,
('u"l<;—tf 190 Broad Str*t.
Magistrate’s Office.
Ellis Lyons, being appointed
Notary Public ami I'x Officio Justice of the
Peace for Itichmond county, has opened his Offive,
corner Monument and Ellis streets, where he
offers his services to the public at large, with the
r.SHUiam o that such will be rendered t<» the be: t
of his ability, unbiased ami impartial
oc H‘»—tf
CITY ORDINANCE.
AN ORDINANCE to prohibit tho p„ r i
Salo, or Barter of Cortificates of Rcgi,", 466 ’
Skctiox 1. Re it Ordained 1,,, tKc Ciin e
of Angueta, That tho purchase, sale an q
or exchange of Certificates of Renistrv ; r ’
under the authority of an Act of th7l 1
turo of Georgia, entitled “An Act to
tho Municipal Government of the Cirv '
Augusta,” be, and the same i.« Lcril.v ... 7. ° r
aui unlawful. • " ‘ y> I ' ruhll ’Hc.|
Sec. 2. Any person who shall buy sell i
ter, or exchange any such CertifieU - a u s R •
try for money, or anything of value, ur X-j
employ any other person to do the .. Ulll . * ,[*
on conviction thereof before tho Recorder 'of - J
city, be fined in a sum not Tjxceedin- fiv. u
dred dollars. “ ve hl,n -
Sf.c. 3. All Ordinances or parts of Ordinin
militating against this OHiuAnee are herd,/,*
pealed. ' 18
Done in Council, this 11th day of n P( .i
A.D. 1868. * uetober,
FOSTER BLODGETT
Attest; ’
Chas. P. McCalla, )or '
Clerk of Council.
_oo 17—lot
Official.
I " W let ’ w i
BY THE GOVERNOR.
Weebbas, on the 3d day of November u „.
an election will be held of the various places
State established by law for holding ehetkng
by the people thereof, for nine Electors of Presi
dent and Vice President of the United States'-
And whoroas, from the increased number of
qualified voters in this State, additional o M or
tunities must be afforded, that it must be poesi.
ble and convenient for all persons, who arc en
titled to exercise the elective franchise, to vote
at said election;
Now, therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor
and Commandor-in-Chief of the Army and Nav
of tho State of Georgia, and of the Militia there
of, do hereby issue this my Proclamation order"
i-ng and requiring that, in addition to the elec"
tion in each Militia District, there shall be at the
county site election precinct, three ballot-boxes
used, and three boards of Superintenden Is of
election duly qualified and organized to each
ballot-box, ansi tho election shall be conducted
by each board of Superintendents, in the sijfcie
manner, and with the same formalities, as if
there were but one ballot-box and one board i t
Superintendents. Each Board will make separate
returns, as required by law.
Gh en Under my hand and lhe < .real Seal of th-
State, at the Capitol in the city of Atlanta,this 12th
day of October, in the year of our Loid, eighteen
hundred and sixty-eight, and of the Independence
of the United States of America, the ninety third
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
By the Governor : Governor.
David G. Cutting,
Secretary of Stat-.
oct 11—tde
Richmond Sheriff’s Sale.
W/ILL BE SOLD, ON THE FIRST TH:.
» V DAY IN NOVEMBER next, between the
legal hours of sale, at the Lower Market House,
in tho city of Augusta, the fallowing propsriy,
viz: One Tract of Land and improvement
thereon, situate in said county on the oast side
of East Boundary street, of the city of Angusta,
containing sixteen and a half acres, more or les;,
and bounded West by said East Boundary street,
North by road fading to Sand Bar Fgrry, East
by land now (or formerly) owned by Dr. Mc-
Whorter, and South by land of , except
such portion of land as is claimed by delondant
as exempt from levy and sale—levied on as the
property of Robert C. Easterling, to satiify a
Common l aw fi. fa. Issued from the Superior
Court of Richmond county, in favor of John
I’hinizy against Robert U. Easterling, and for
costs due on the same ; said land being how in
possession of Robert C. Easteiliug, and notice
this day served on him according to law.
Levied the said fi. f.*., also, upon the growing
crop of every desMjption on that Tract of Land
owned by defendant, about three miles from the
city of Augusta, and known formerly as die
Mealing Plantation, on the Augusta and Savan
nah Railroad, adjoining lands of DeLaiglo and
I’hinizy, on Rocky Creek. Given the dofehihnt,
also, notice of this levy.
ALSO,
Levied tho above fi. fa. on the growing crop
of every description on the above Tract of Land,
owned by defendant, situated in said county as
described above, on the east side of East Boun
dary street of the city of Augusta, containing
sixteen and a half acres of land, more or less,
and bounded West by said East Boundary street,
North by road leading to the Sand Bar- Ferry,
East by land now (or formerly) owned by Dr.
McWhorter, and South by land of , as tho
property of Robert C. Easterling, to satisfa a li.
fa. issued from the Superior Court of said county
in favor of John I‘hinizy egainat Robert C.
Easterling. The ab'ove property pointed out by
John I’hinizy, an 1 notified defendant, es said
levy this 3d October, 1868.
- . WILLIAM DOYLE,
oc4- 11 Deputy flb rtff Richmond C .
llfchmond Sheriff’s Sale-
BE SOLD ON THE FIRST TUES
V V DAY IN DECEMBER next, between the
legal hoprs of eale, at the Lower Market House
iu the city of Augusta, the following property,
viz., situated in the county of Richmond: One
Tract of Land, about three miles from the city of
Augusta, ou the Augusta and Savannah Railroad
(excepting the right of way of said railroad
through said tract of land}, c.»ntaiuing three ban
died and nine acres, more or less, bounded BOUtli
by lands of John I’liinizY and Rocky Creek, on
the west by lands now or formerly owned by De
Laigle, On the. north by laud now or formerly
owned by DeLaigle and* a lane of John riiiuizy,
ea«t by land of John Phipizy. Levied on under
ajiioitgage ti. fa. on foreclosure is/:nJ from tbc
the Superior Court of Richmond county, in favor
of John Phinizv against Robert (’. Easterling, t”
satisfy said debt and costs, as the properly ot
Robert C. Easteiliug, being for tuc purchase
money of said tract of land, except such portion
of said land as claimed by defendant as exempt
from levy ami sale; said land being now in r •?-
session of John C. Spinks. ’And notice this day
served on him according to law. The above prop
erty pointed out by John Phinizy.
October 3 1 . 1868.
WILLIAM DOYbE
octl-ld Deputy Sheriff Richmond co«~
City Sheriff’s Sale.
ttflLL BE SOLD ON THE FIRS'! TUES-
V V DAY IN NOVEMBER next, at Hie Lower
Market Houso in the city of Angusta. between
the usual honra of sale, one Houee ami Lot. ■ °-
211 Walker street, in the city of AugosO. mi
bounded on the north by. Walker Gieei,
east by lot of the estate of George Mort
south by lot of Quinn, and west'by lot ot Mi'piie
Fanghnan. Levied upon as the property
Stephen Fanghnan. to satisfy one tax fi. ta is.“> l
by the City Council of Augnst.i versus the sa<
Steuben Faughnan, for bis city taxes lor 1
year 1867.
W. B. CHEESBOROUGII.
petl-td Deputy Sherilf City.of Aug»sta_
OPKMVG!
MILLINERY AND FANCY fiWDS
Ml!i . M.
NEW YORK with a Select Stock of thosb’VC
named Goods and will have a
Grrand Opening
ON TUESDAY, THE 20th INSL>
To which the Ladies are respectfully invited.
At 215 EtfCOAD STKBET,
ocl) —l2 t Central llotid’
THE PIANO BOOK
WHICH CAN NOT BE EXCELLED
IS
RICHARDSON’S NEW METHOD!
Regular Sale, 30,OO» a Vea»-
COLD BY ALL MU SIC DEALERS l’Kl< 15
$3'75. Sent post-paid.
OLIVER DITSON A
I’.il.li her . 277 Wa hington SI.. luo-um-
CHAS. 11. DITSON * c"” .
oc 15—If 711 Broadway. New *' rl "