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EARAGKANS.
—Yustereiay, in New York, Gold was
quilted at 1.31 j. Cotton, 25}0.
-One of the survivors of Dr. Kane's Arctic
expedition runs a Cincinnati streetcar.
-The cotton, tobacco,'grain and provision
crop this year is estimated at $2,739,000,000.
Paris papers announce that Mrs. Lin
coln m going to pass the winter in Nice.
—Moat of the shadows that cross our path
through life are caus’d by our standing in
our own light
—Twenty-five fires in New York last
month involved a loss of $520,000 —nearly
double that of the previous month.
—A Boston Court has at last decided
umbrellas property. We shall immediately
bring suit against twelve individuals.
* Official returns from all but two counties
in Indiana give a Republican majority of
1,020.
—Vigilants hanged a man in lowa the
other day for murder, before the victim had
died, and ho is likely to recover.
—The subscription for the monument to
Maximilian at Trieste, has reached the sum
of forty thousand florins.
—Nevada silver mines have nearly reached
the place where earthquakes arc made. At
the bottom of some the temperature is 100
. degrees. ,
—A counterfeit fifty cent note manufac
tory has been broken up in New York,
• au3 about $1,500 in spurious currency cap
tured.
—A blind child of three years plays the
piano in , Baltimore, in a skillful manner,
.uking its elbows as well as its hands.
Between Ihe Ist of and 30th Sep
tcmlier California shipped 72,257 barrels of
flour, and 74,491,900 pounds of wheat.
A farmer, near Mayesville, Ky., has this
season raised, on one vine, twenty-two pump
kins, averaging fifty-six pounds each.
—A married couple in Springfield have
not spoken to euch other for years. The
man boasts that he has the happiest home in
the country.
Distillers in the blue grans regions of Ken
tucky have contracted to make and deliver,
daring the coining year, 25,000 barrels of
whiskey at $1.30 per gallon, tax included.
The bull ring in Valencia, Spain, Ims seats
for 16,816 persons, and the one in Barcelona
seats for 11,972 persons.
—Some clergymen deal in rhetoric, some
in logic, and some in common sense. The
fiyat are popular with most ladies, the secund
with most meu, and the third with an un
commonly few of either sex.
—General Washington never made a
speech on any occasion in Congress of more
than fifteen nifntrtes in length, yet his
silence did not se m to indicate any lack of
ability.
•-- Only think of 400 souls surviving the
earthquake, in Ecuador out of 40,000, who
were swallowed up in an instant by the
subsidence Os the whole district, which is
now covered by a lake! Horror enough for
one day.
--Mrs. Mary Small, of Maine, has one
hundred and nineteen groat grand children
alive. She probably looks upon it as a Small
affair, and upon those descendants as only
little things-
—The New York Herald says the latest
style in, hat is “a cross between a Kossuth,
a sombrefv, a round high private’s forage
cap knocked out of Jbape during his last
spree, "
—The National Guverumeut has offered
a reward of SB,OOO, gobi, to the inventor of
any practicable mode preserving beef for
exporutliou. More than four hundred ex
periments have been made, and none have
.succeeded.
—ln Paris the ladies are beginning to
wear gariauds ol roses, yellow and red, on
the top of the forehead, tow shoes, and short
dresses. After this who can wonder at any
thing in the Way of dress?
--During tho year 1867 over nirrety-two
nnuten pounds ot sterling passed through
probats iu. the courts of England, u sum
equal to £l9B for every death in the
year,
. —Buckwheat has been found useful in
dyeing wool. The dried flowers yield differ
ent Shades pf green, and the succulent stems
and blossoms. with addition of bismuth of
tin, produce a beautiful brown.
*-At Port Ht. Mary's, opposite Cadiz,
there is a college ter yourig Priests. They
were ail (twenty-four iu number) packed in
On open boat and s»l adrift by th? Spanish
revolutionists, but were picked up by a
vessel passing.
—-On Wednesday morning, the 14th, the
, Methodist Convention, in session in Boston,
united in singing the Doxology, “Praise
God from whom ail blessings flow,” in
for the result of the October
ofoetious. fl-'x
—lt is said tout one of the first acta of
thp'wew government of Madrid will be to
demand the restoration of the crown jewels
curried sift’ by the Queen.
—“While ia tho midst of life we arc ip
death’’war recently sears ully verified in a
■small town of Belgium. A young girl,
wjulp teuictog 14 gallop, died iu the arms of
ten part nut *
--Xu a garden in Lyiui is a pejw tree
■which wag drafted four years ago, and by
mistake as apple seton was put into it. It
Im now on it several ripe apples of a new
variety nnkwown to fruit growers.
--Corvespondence from Otmstaalioople
slftteg that tho quantity of gold recently dis
covered in the bed of the river Ingurc, near
to- KotiUte, is equal in proportion to the
yield in California.
—A'lah Isaac Menkiu, according to the
authorities, died of whiskey and peretouitis,
and absinthe and a severe cold, anti expo
sure and eoneumpti-jn, and about a hundred
other things,
—The Philadelphia J</c says that over
J.OtHf new buildings, estimated to have cost
J 40.000,000, have been put up in that city
tiring llra months from January Ito Octo
ber 1.
—Santa Atma has sailed from Cuba for
St. Thomas. It is a bad place for people of
ordinary tastes and impulses to live in; but
ft ought to suit Santa Anna. His restless
disposition will quite agree with a daily
earthquake.
-v>i. AV. Jones, of WiuHbroolt, Me., has
packed mo less than MOO,OOO cans of green
corn thia year. He has employed over 700
hands, not to motion buskers, and has had
1,30 ft acres corn under cultivation.
This business, how so large, was quite un
kno* u but a few years ago.
-“-The wife of Bill Porter, who was kilted
by Ainos Carlin os .Friday night, at Mem
phis, on bearing of her husband’s deafth, tell
down ia a swoon, and expired without speak
ing a word. Carlin has been released oh
four thMsand dollars bail, having established
the fact that Porter had threatened to kill
him on sight.
—A Paris paper says, foe Ifov. Mr.
Maurach, id Uvouia, begs the public to
send hire nW posing.- -tamps, | ( . r wivieb he
pays <me ibater a thousand, and sends them
to the (knyn'i iwhsiou in Cl.iaa They are
.in great don’iaxl by Ute Chinese, who" use
them !d pkpgr their wails,, blinds JL«„ of
their house... The votasion take a >.mtag*
of this new fashion to eachauge the slanqe
for the children of the pone, who are solfl as
•lave« or ihnrwH into tie Jifer when tl, it
parents cannot aapaaet item—stamps
aaves tire Ills of a c hild.
NfltionalUepnblifnn
AUHUHTA. (I A.
THURSDAY .October J 9, 1868
This is a Republic where the Will cf
the People is the Law of the Land.
|U. S. Grant.
“ Watch over the preservation nJ the Union ;
with zealous eye, and indignantly frown upon
the first dawning of every attempt to alienate
any portion of the Country from the rest, or
to en feeble the sacred ties, which now link
together the various parts."— Washingtos’s
Farewell Addxkss.
THE ELECTORAL TICKET.
In a former number of the Rrpi'Hl.k an
we explained the danger of ninny Ilepttbli
caus making some fatal error in reference
to their vote on the 8d of November. For
the convenience of all such, we append the
ticket as it should 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, w ith the
assurance that it is all right and will cer
tainly l>c counted. Here is your ticket:
For PRESIDENT
Os the United States:
ULYSSES
FOR VICE PRESIDENT;
Schuyler Colfax.
OF INDIANA.
Republican Elector al Ticket.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE.
HENRY P. FARROW, of Fulton.
AMOS T. AKERMAN, of Elbert.
FOR THE DISTRICTS.
l.sZ District— F. M. SMITH, of Charlton.
‘DI District—.lSO. MURPHY, of I(ougherty
3d District—E. I. HIGBEE, of Talbot.
■\th District— Wm. H. WHITEHEAD, of
Butts.
5/A District-— J. £. BRYANT, of Richmond.
6/A District— S. C. JOHNSON, of Dawson.
'lth District — J. L- DUNNING, of Fulton.
REPUBLICAN I*l, ATFOHin.
The National Republican party of the Unlteil States,
assembled in National Convention, in t)ic city of Chi
cago, on the 30th day of May, 186 S, make the following
Declaration of Principles :
Ist. Wc congratulate the country on the a wared suc
cess of the reconstruction policy of Congress, a*
evinced by the adoption, in a majority of the Slates
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 t<»
prevent the people of such States from being remitted
to a state of anarchy.
2d. The guarantee, by Congress, us 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 suff rage
in all the loyal States propedy 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 all creditors, at home and abroad, not only
according to the letter, but the spirit of the hws
under which it was contracted.
4th* It is due to the labor of the nation that taxation
should be equalized and reduced as rapidly as the na
tional faith will permit.
sth. The,national debt, 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 Congresa to reduce the rate of in
terest thereon, whenever it can honestly be done.
fitb. That the best policy to diminish our burden of
debt Is to so improve onr credit that capitalists will seek
to loan us money at lower rates of interest than we now
pay, and must continue to pay, so long as repudiation,
partial or total, open or covert, ia threatened or sus
pected.
7th. The Government of the United States should be
admiuUtered with the strictest economy, and the cor
ruptiouM which have been so slmmefully nursed and
fostered by Andrew Johnson call loudly fur r.vdkal re
form.
Bt.h. We profoundly deplore the untimely 1 and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accossiou of
Andrew Johnson to the Presidency, who has acted
treacherously to the people who elected him and the
cause he was pUdged to support; has nmirpod high
legislative and ludicial functions 4 has refused to exe
cute the laws; has used hit high office tu 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 dorruptly
. resisted, by every measure I 9 his plover, every proper
attempt at the teconatruction of the Slates lately in 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.
Vth. 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 hazard by the
United States, as a relic ot the feudal time, not author
-Ized by the law of nations, and nt war with our national
honor and independence. Naturalised citizens are enti
tled to be pwtectedin all their rights of citizenship as
though they were natural born, and no citizen of the
United States, native or naturalixed, must be liable to
arrest and imprfsonumut, by any foreign power, for acts
done, or words spoken, in this country, and if $0 arrested
and imprisoned, it is the duty cf the Government to
Interfere in his bahalf.
10th. Os all who were faithful in the trials of the late
war, there were none entitled <0 more especial honor
than the brave soldiers and seamen, who endured the
hardships of the campaign and cruise, and Imperilled
their lives in the service of tho country. The bounties
and poasions provided by law for these brave defenders
of the nation arc bbllagtions never to be forgotten. The
widows and orphans of the gallant dead arc the w ards of
the people, a sacred legacy bequeathed to the nations
protecting care.
Hth. Jkireign immigration, which in the past has
added so much to the wealth, development of resources,
and increase of power of this nation, the asylum of the
oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and Giicvur*
aged by a liberal and just policy.
12th. This Convention deciares its symp ithy with all 1
the oppitsted people which arc struggliug fur thuir
rig
SEND US THE NEWS.
Our friends in all the county towns of
the State will oblige us by sending us, at
as early a day as possible, after the elAetion,
the vote in their respective connties. Dox'r
fOKGET Tilts.
TO FOREIGNERS.
Every male person who hus declared his
intention to become a citizen—who has been
six montlis resident in the State, nnd thirty
days in the county, and who Iras paid all
legal taxes which have been required of
him, and which he has had tut epportuiuty
of paying, is entitled to vote for President
at the ensuing election.
Remember this, foreigners ! Go to the
Clerk of the Superior Court, “ deciare your
intentions,” and then, on Tuesday next,
cast your first vote for Grant and Co wax.
Let us have Peace !
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
No one is required to register in order to
vote for President and Viec President.
All qualified voters, wliether they are
registered or not under the Military Bills,
are entitled to vote in the election next
Tuesday.
* •
Change or Commaxorrs.- The Confed
erate* attempted to change commanders at
Donelaon when Graut kad-cerrimi the outer
Lne», mid ‘’proposed so move on th Jr works.’’
Pillow turned ike command over to Buckner
who iutmediately suvrctiderctl. Gen. Grant
has now again < anted the outer lire* of the
enemy's works iu the tlctober 11 hl, and
once more they-propose to change their
commanders. Il makes no odds whether
thay do ne not. They wpl hare to sevretider 1
wheu Grufil’p niny inots-s on rijeir WfjrL in,l
a few days.
HORATIO SEYMOUR.
Horatio Seymour, (may hi. tribe grow less!)
Awoke one night from dreams of wretchedness,
And saw witbin the midnight of his room,
Ten times more black than midnight’s blacko-t
gloom,
Mant. Marble, writing for tho “ New York
; World"
A loader long. Horatio’s brain quick v, hirled
With fear, and, with a startled look, ho cried,
What writest thou? Mant. M. as quick replied,
And, with a look, not all of sweet accord,
Called out, the name by man the moil abhorred.
And is that Grant ? asked Seymour. No, not so.
Horatio scratched his head, and spoke more low
And dismal still, and said, I beg thee, then,
Write him as one despised of men.
Mant. Marble wrote and vanished. The next
night
Horatio read by lightning’s flashing light,
The names that Western freemen most bad
blest,
And lo! Ulysses's name led all the rest.
. .. >.
No One Disfranchised.—lt should be
borne in miud that no one is prevented from
voting for President by reason of any dis
franch'n-ement under the Reconstruction
laws. Let every white and colored man in
the State be sure to attend the election*
urge a friend to go along with you, and cast
your votes for Grant and Colfax. Let us
have Peace!
Communications.
From onr own Correspondent.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Assuuiuationu in Arkansut—lLnyretuntu Hinds
find Brooks—Another Camilla Massacre—
Johnson** Endorsement of Seymour on _ th,
Stump —Another Democratic Blunder —Govern-
ment Employees Going 11-rme to Vote —Dram
Drinking and Gambling in Washington.
Washington', October 25. 1868.
.The rebel Democracy of Arkansas have
redeemed their reputation with their sister
Southern States by she assassination of Re
publicans. We have a telegram to-day an
uotinciug tho killing of Hon. James Hinds
and Janies Coolsey, and tho serious wound
ing ol Hon. James R. Brooks, in Monroe
county —all Republicans. Hinds and Brooks
were elected members of the present Con
gress, and Coolsey was an outspoken advo
cate of the elcetiou of Grant and Colfax.
The three were engaged in canvassing the
county when assassinated. I have seen a
letter written by Hinds, in which he refers
to tie intention of Brooks and himself can
vas'ii'g Monroe county, but he expressed no
fears of assassination. While in Washing
ton, during the last session of Congress,
both Hinds and Brooks made a favorable
impression by their earnestness in the cause,
and gentlemanly bearing, and none of their
acquaintances here can be made to believe
that they ever provoked assassination»by
any ungentlemanly or illegal ucl. Their
offence was, doubtless, that for which thou
sands of others have suffered throughout the
South —they were Republicans. We have
the consolation of believing, however, that
these lawless acts will prove the salvation of
tho country. Tho loyal people of the North
are aroused as they never have been since
April, 1861, and Grant once i't tho head of
affairs, law and order will oiicu more be the
rule, and not the exception, thronglmut
the length and breadth of the land. Just
the necessary force will bo used, mid no
mere, to accomplish this result.
As 1 write a “special dispatch” comes
from a rebel source in St. Louis, attempting
to relievo the rebel Democracy of all blame
for the recent murders iu Arkansas. The
Statement contains internal evidence of the
truth of the original dispatch. The same
telegraph asent gives us an account of a
Camilla affair nt Dardanelle, Mo., on the
20tii instant —gut up in Nasby’s best style.
He says “fifty negroes attacked the place,
firing into the houses of the whites, when
the whites rallied and drove them out, A
I Dice meeting was held by the whiles next
day I"
President John&ui, on personal applica
tion of Montgomery Blair, has written a
letter approving Mr. Seymour’s taking lhe
stump. This lecble wiggle of Mr. Johnson
is bis hist and till '.hat he is willing to do for
expiring Democracy.
Private letters received here represent n
perfect reign of 'error in several of the
Southern States, particularly in South Caro
lina and Texas, where the rebel leaders ap
pear to bo so desperate as to give counte
nance to anv atrocities committed by their
dupes. These lenders Will meet with their
deserts .->t no distant day. Though not gen
erally actual participants in the desMs of
blood committed, they are nevertheless re
sponsible, mid will be called upon io answer
Cringing and fawning hereafter will not save
them from punishment, as it has done here
tofore. There will not be “Uriah Heap” in
tbo Executive Mansion after lhe 4lh ol
March next, nor will there be any weak
kneed Republican Congressman hereafter,
and the last embers of rebi ldom will bo
“stamped out,” if necessary.
Placing Seymour on the stump iu looked
upon by the Democratic leaders l-.erc as
another blunder by his
managers of the World newspaper. He is
a mere child in the hands of the New York
politician*; but their only hope is to carry
New York State through his influence, The
Tammany Hall ring would sacrifice the
national ticket to secure the. election of
Hoffman, who, though personally unexcep
tionable., is us supple as potter's elay, iu the
hands of the “ring.”
Nearly two thousand Government clerks—
three-fourtha of them Republicans—will
leave here during the present week to vote
ill their respective States on Tuesday of
next week. Arrangeinetil* have been made
with the different railroad companies by
which the ch'iks ceu go home on half
fare.
The election to take plac-u on Tuesday
next is the absorbing topic of conversation
here. AU admit the election of Graut, but
there is a difterritew of opinion as to the
number of electoral votes he will secure,
nnd .Slate majorities. Large bets ware made
xlttrutg the last week on the majorities in
New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana and
Ohio. The result ol the recent .Stale elec
tion in Waul Virginia took nearly every one
by surprise. Through the manipulations of
Tom Florence nnd Andrew Johnson, last
year, the disabilities were removed from a
forge class of [•ersous who were disfran
chised, and, ths State being sparsely settled,
afforded the rebel Detnoeracy peculiar op
portunities to practice their specialty—
fraud and intimidation ; ami hence the
first announcement that the fkatfi -lxad X o,ia
anti-R‘’ptiblican did not create much sur
prise. The surprise was much greater when
lite antiouncCaienL was made, yesterday,
that Ute Hepubticans had carried the State
by between two nnd three thousand ma
j'*’’!- ...
Notwithstanding the unueasing agitation
of the subject »f temperance, in season and
ont tvf seiwuxi, in this District, hire mu of
alcoholic stimulants reem to increase rather
than dimmixli. if the number of “tippling''’
plrnms recently opened can he taken as an
mdientiou Now s:t|«en« are opened ntinost
every week and famished in ft *^yl F V*
tempt the iqqictii.. -jw well fls the faacy >'f
the tißuary: and chi ■ Mabtf.sbcd baaut*
are uuustantfy Is-iug refitted and rchirnislred.
showing a degree of prosperity unknown to
the great bulk of business enterprises in
this community. It is true that this is the
great Mecca of strangers, and that these
places are mainly supported by non resi
dents, for be it known that even in Wash
ington it docs not promote the interest of a
clerk or business man, resident here, to be
recognized as a constant visitor to a fash
ionable "tippling” house. The moral in
fluence of tho community has had the effect,
at all events, to drive away from these places
a majority of young men residing here, but
it is doubtful if much good has been ac
complished thereby. The driving of this
class from the saloons has caused a new
business to spring up in connection with the
sale of groceries. The path of the Depart
ment clerk is beset with temptation, as he
wends his weary way homeward to the
lonesome lodging or hoarding house, at
almost every corner.
A majority of the small family grocers
have a little bar improvised in the back of
their stores, generally with a rear or private
entrance. It does not affect a man’s social
status to be seen going into a grocery store,
for his errand is, prima facia, legitimate
and proper. At the same time he can ob
tain in this quiet retreat, at much lees cost
than at the saloons, intoxicating beverages.
With married men who keep open accounts
and are inclined to drink, the temptation to
do so is great, for immediate payment is
not required and u dime is of small value
in the eyes of a man who has it charged.
Liquor selling at these groceries has got to
be one of the greatest of our social evils and
one not so easily reached as at the more
public places,
Drinking in whiskey itself is but a small
part of the evils. Under its influence men
do things which, under other circumstances,
they would not think of. Gambling is the
greatest of all evils here, with all classes.
There arc scores of faro banks open to all
comers, and it is well understood that there
is not a “square” game—that is, where there
is no cheating—played in the city. Strangers,
of course, are fleeced most unmercifully,
and it is a notorious fact that a majority of
their victims are from the South. Advice to
avoid these “hells,” I presume, would he
thrown away ; but the chances for winning
money at any game iu Washington is about
like the chance of being struck by light
ning. The gambling fraternity here is com
posed of a set of sharpers. Capital.
THE AUGUSTA CANAL.
Mr. Editor—ln the reports of Mr. Phil
lips, Engineer of the Augusta Canal, I regret
that his statements were made with such
studied brevity that the advantages of the
“Big Ditch,” as some of our old friends used
to call the Canal, are not fully developed.
I hope you can afford mo a place for the
following calculations, made, mainly with
the view of calling public attention to this
matter.
He says 9,663 bales of cotton were brought
down the Canal during the last year. Now,
as a mere fact, this is simply a matter of
general information, and I propose to work
out the details. If this cotton was merely in
transitu, the drayage, storage, etc., would
necessarily leave in the hands of draymen
and others at least only one dollar per bale,and
we would have added to the material interest
of the city only $9,663.00. But it is fair to
assume this cotton is sold here at an average
of SBO.OO per bale, then of course we would
have to move a capital of $773,040.00, and
us capital is not easily moved without a per
centage, we can see that at five per cent
somebody gets $38,652.00. Again, it is
reasonable to suppose that at least one-half
of the value of this cotton is invested in
merchandise for the up country, and as our
merchants, as a general rule, do not sell
without profit, we may see that at even so
low as ten per cent., the $386,520.00 would
pay them $38,652.00. Thus wo have an
addition to the money value of the trade in
cotton alone of nearly $87,000.00. It may
be objected to this as a claim of tho advan
tages of the Canal, that if the Canal had not
been made, the trade would have coms by
tho river, and by wagons, etc., but it is cer
tain that such an objection could only be
half true, for before the Canal was made,
half, and oven more, of this trade went to
Hamburg- Yet we claim, after meeting this
objection to its full extent, the Canal has
increased the trade of Augusta, in cotton, to
the full amount of $43,000.00. In the
report alluded to. there are many other pro
ducts mentioned which, in the same line,
contribute to our material interests, bat
they may be overlooked for the present.
Wheiptho Canal was projected, the impor
tance of improved navigation was a minor
consideration. We looked forward mainly
to tho development of our manufacturing
industry. This, then, was a new idea. Let
us see how it stands now, and if we cun ever
clear ourselves of political and other preju
dices, give some credit to the gentlemen who
ventured, to act upon it. By Mr. Phillips'
report wo find, in the case of the Augusta
Factory, that the water power of the Canal
has put in operation 14,729 spindles, which,
with 457 operatives, as they are. Called, pro
duce 7,886,545 yards of homespun of No.
14 yarn. We need not go into the calcula
tion of the money value of this product; the
dividends of the Company (5 per cent, ptr
quarter On $600,000) show that twenty per
cent, is made here', and that $120,000 is added
to the material interests cf the stockholders in
this concern. But, beside this, Mr. Phillips
states there are about 1.500 persons depend
ent mi these mills, bes'de the operatives—say
altc.; -tber 2.000 persons. This, for the pur
poses ol political economy, may bo consid
ered a very import.iut addition to our popu
lation. but when we reflect that nil these
people must be fed, clothed, shoed, etc., we
see ul once the material interests of the city
is promoted to a very considerable extent.
To feed them, we must have 365,000 pounds
of b:tci>u, or its equivalent, and 26,000 bush
els of meal, per year. As every one hand
ling this bacon and inenl finds some money
in it—say for the bacon $3,650, and the meal
$2,600—-we get at the figures $6,200 per
year. Os the dry goods, hats, shoes, etc.,
etc., We have no data; but suppose we take
the very low average of $25 per year for
2.000 persons; then, iu these articles (too
tedious to mention, us the vendors say), we
have a trade of $50,000. In these branches
of trade, thirty per cent, is considered the
minimum, and, of course, somebody in the
good city of Augusta gets about $15,000 in
this line.
Tot down tbo t'orntany for¥l2o,ooo
Groceries 6,200
Dry Ge0i15;.,..... .. . 15,000
$131,200
And we find tire Canal has added to out
material Interests about $131,200 per year
tn ahis establishment.
Let me now do some cyphering for the
I Flour Mills:
Corn. What.
Augusta Mills grind.. ... SO,OOO bus. 30,000 bus.
Grande Mills grind7,o,ooo “ 60,000 “
Vrquhart'sMills grind...,. 10,000 “ 2,000 “
Danforth’s Mills grind... 22,000 “ 4,000 “
Snuff Mills grind3l,ooo “
T0ta1.173,000 mi, 000
Now if we take the 173,0t0> bushels of
c »rn at au avenue of SI.OO per bushel, and
tho toll, which is usually ]0 per eent., we
have 8173,000 yielding * 17,100.00 per year
to somebody for grinding it. The 00,#l)l>
bireliels of wheat will make at least 10,200
l;:trrpof fine ftour, at JtU.ffO qwr barrel ax
am average. Wo hire hero a capital of
$ Itii.OiMl.iWl, and supposing the profit to be 1
#tilr ♦i.ftri per trarre! we have for !
grinding, etc.
Iter intr pre. ot pmpo.'o; we caw afford io
leave out Maciiite. ihiqra, etc,, 'included in i
Mr. Phillips’ report, and find the grand
result as follows:
Material Interests of the City of Augusta to the
Augusta Canal—
Advantage of improved navigation... #43,000 00
Manufactures, Cotton Mills 131,200 00
Manufactures, Flour' Mills. 36,500 0 11
For the year 1868 $210,700 00
The income from the Canal, 1 am told, is
$4,730.00, and the expenditures, except fur
tho last year, average $12,0(10.00, so that to
secure these advantages we have only lo
pay $7,270.00.
Os tho enlargement of the Canal, if we
are fortunate enough to secure the men
capable of appreciating the idea, f will have
the pleasure of communicatiug with you
again. Respectfully, etc.,
Gil Blas.
Be Sure. —Be sure that the names of
the Electoral candidates are on the Ticket
wl.cn you vote for Grant and Colfax.
Cut out the Ticket at the head of our
Editorial colunn B—and8 —and you will make sure
of it.
Yon don’t have to pay taxes before i
you vote for Presidential Electors.
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“QUONDAM,"
Writing from this city to the New York
Times, furnishes some interesting political
items, which we extract, as follows:
The result of the October elections has
been a heavy blow and great discourage
ment to the Democrats of the State. They
counted with great confidence on carrying
two if not all of the three States where elec
tions were held on the 13th, and the disap
pointment is so complete and so crashing,
nobody can now be found who does not
believe that Grant’s i lection is as certain ns
he had been already inaugurated, and in the
White House. * * The disappoint
ment, therefore,is very great. All hope of
Seymour's election is gone, and the impres
sion is very generally entertained tliut in
many States where the Democratic Party was
really strong and would almost certainly
have succeeded had the October elections
been otherwise. Grant will now, in all proba
bility, obtain a majority, from the natural ten
dency of the people to be on tho winning side.
* * ♦ a f ew extra-sanguine people ad-
vise their friends to “pick their flints and
try again,” never to say “die,” to “close
their ranks and fight to the last,” to “slick
to the ship,” and employ a number of these
figurative forms of encouragement to denote
that there is still a chance that Seymour
and Blair may bo elected. The majority,
give it up, and do not entertain a doubt of
Grant’s election. * * * I find also
among the calm sensible men—unflinching
Democrats, too, who will vote for Seymour
and Blair as certainly as the 3d of Novem
ber comes, aprevailing faith that Grant will
be a conservative President, and will not
sanction the'extreme radical measures which
his party is said to favor. These meu argue
that Grant’s ambition, when he reaches the
highest round of the political ladder, will
be to make his administration famous in
history by restoring the Union, reestablish
ing peace, renewing the bonds of fraternity
between the sections, and maintaining the
Constitution and the laws. They do not
fear that ho will resort to a coup d'etat,
make himself dictator and overthrow the
Constitution ; nor do they fear that he will
place himself altogether in the hands of
Butler, Logan and Boutwell, and make
himself the blind instrument of their will.
In short, men are looking the inevitable in
the face, and trying to make the best of it.
* *■ They look for the silver lining of the
cloud, and find it in Grant's conservatism,
moderation and good sense. They also
expect that the Republican party, trium
phant, having gained all it can expect, will
not be disposed to be vindictive or harsh,
and that as even “ the devil is not as black
as he is painted,” the Radicals may not be
as bad as they are represented. But the
great dependence is in Grant’s con
servatism.
Re member, that if the names of
Grant and Colfax are at the head of the
ticket, and the Democratic Electors are on
the ticket; it is a vote fok Sevjljvb and
Blair.
- ■■ ♦
®®“if you put the names of Grant and
Colfax in the ballot-box, without the names
of the Electors, it will not be counted.
From tho New York Times.]
GRANT AND SOUTHERN QUIET.
Nothing short of the triumphant election
of Gen. Grant will restore good order to the
Southern people. By triumphant we mean
that the popular decision in his favor on the
3d of November ;.tiould be so overwhelming
ns to silence all serious opposition to his ad
ministration ; all hope ot future Democratic
interference with the rebel element in the
Confederate States and in the State of Ken
tucky. The present condition of things in
that quarter is most deplorable. It has
been growing from bad to worse ever since
the Fourth of July Convention, and would
become intolerable to every Union white
man. and destructive to the civil rights of
the whole negro population in the contin
gency of Seymour's election. These arc
truths, on information which no one dare,
question, that lose none of their grave im
portance because the chances of such a con
tingency h.ivn been greitly lessened by the
October eh retinas. They arc truths which
should inspirit every friend of Grant and
Peace to redoubled efforts through the next
ten days to render the result of the contest,
if possible, thoroughly and literally unani
mous in all States of the North. It may
be too much to hope that the Border States
of Delaware and Maryland will vote for
Grant, bnt, with these exceptions, no elec
toral vote north or west of Ohio River should
be cast fur Seymour and a second rebellion.
Our present conviction is that no such vote
will be east, but to make this sure, the
Republicans of New York, New Jersey, and
and Connecticut must strive to emulate each
other to make their decision as emphathic
as the verdict rendered by Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana.
A friend who listened a few nights since
to a speech from Col. Brown, of Kentucky,
on Staten Island, tells us that he was never
so deeply impressed with the gravity of the
consequences to the Southern people, loyal
as well ns disaffected, dependent upon this
election, as by the plain, straightforward and
really alarming narrative of this gentleman- I
an authority of practical experience, un
questioned veracity, and of brave and out
spoken candor—of the condition of society,
so ial as well ns political, in his own and
other Southern States, titrough many of
which lie has recently traveled. Co). Brown
expresses his honest conviction that if Grant
should fail to be made President, and Sey
mour placed in the Presidency, as the nomi
nee and creature of the rebel element, the
intestine conflict not between races alone,
hut between the whole loyal people, includ
ing the enfranchised futcdttten aud tba
unreconstructed rebels, will at once become
bloody and terrible, i.isul must remit in the
extcruiiuatiun of oho or the other party : for
the toynlist3 of both colors hare Innde up
tK ir purpose to protect and defend them
selves to the death, if all hope is lost to them
oi Government protection.
. . . . .i <
Xf We. have only OnhJUv Io vote tor
Preakk-Rt.
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•an siaepkig can. r 4 * 5 > • '
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oct29—3mos
SPECIAL NOTICES.
CLERK OF COUNCIL’S OFFICE, 1
Augusta, Ga., October 16tfi, 1888. j
PROPOSALS WILL BE RE
CEIVED at this Office until 12 o’clock neon, on j
November I, 186 s, for Painting and Repairing i
the Lower Market.
Hy order of the Mayor.
’ CHAS. P. MoCALLA,
oct7 —td Clerk Council.
ASS’T si'I’ERINTENDENT S OFFICE, 1
Georgia Railroad, >
Augusta, Ga October 16tli, 1868. )
EXCEPT SUNDAY NIGHT, A
Train will run on the Wasliington Branch, iu
connection with onr Night Passenger Trains, on
ami after Monday, the H>tli instant, leaving
Wasbingtou at 10:6’1, p. io. Returning,arriving
at Washington at 3:20, a. m.
8. K. JOHNSON,
Assistant Superintendent.
Washington Gazette copy oo!7 —ts
Assistant STt'eniRTENDBNT’s Office,)
GEOitHIA KAILROAD, S
Augusta, Ua., October 6th, 1867. )
NOTICE TO MERCHANTS.—ON
and after this date, Hie rate on ROPE is reduced
to .$1.20 per 100 lbs. from St. Louis, Mo., and
Louisville, Ky., via. Hickman, Ky., and Nash
ville, Tonn , to Augu»la, Ga.
S. K. JOHNSON,
<>ct6—-Im Assistant Superintendent.
Macon A AvarsTA R. R. Company, I
Augusta, October 16, 1868. j
ATTENTION OF STOCK
HOLDERS, who are indebted to this Company,
id directed to tho subjoined resolutions of the
i oard of Directors, parsed at tbeir meeting on
the 15th instant;
*• ], That all resolutiona heretofore
passed authorizing a forfeiture of Stock be, and
they are hereby revoked and repealed, and the
Treasurer t-hall proceed tv collect all instal
ments called and unpaid.
2. That R>r aU the instalments called, and
remaining unpaid, the Treasurer may take
notes, with interest added, payable the firat of
January next, and in all cases whero the .Stock
holder declines to pay, or liquidate on the terms
above stated, suit rihall be forthwith commenced
to recover the amount. 0
’ * .# * J if # #
Stockholders in arrears, to the Company will
please call upon the Treasnrer without delay
and pay the instalments which h vc already
been called upon their sabscriptions. By order
of the Jbnvrd. J S. MibLKJAN,
oc 47 —2awdA2iw Treasurer.
NOTICE
FROM
COMMISSION US
OF
REGISTRATION.
Ltf IN PURSUANCE OF THE ACT PASSED
by the Geit«riil Assembly of Georgia oofilled "An
Act to Reorganize the Municipal Government of
the City of Aogneta,” the undei-signc! will, on
MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF OCTOBER
18G8, open tlie Regii-fry for voters at tho oilice, iu
lhe basement of the City Hall in said city, former
ly the office o* the County Judg«. Said Registry
will continue open until .2 o’clock p. in. on Tues
day the first of December next, from 9 o'clock a.
m. till '-'o'clock p. m of each day, except Sunday
JOHN C. SNEAD,
IV. K. MeLAWS,
E. M. BRAYTON,
WILLIAM DOYLE.
R A. HARPER,
Cominissionors of Registry.
The following oatfl wdl be administered to each
appli<aut for registry .
Y'ou do solemnly swear that you are a citizen of
the United Stater, ilmt you are twenty-one years
of age, that von have resided in this State for lhe
last twelve months, in this city for Urn last six
months, ami iu tliis district oj- ward for the last
teij-days; that you have considered this State
your home for tie- last t welve niontbe, that you
have paid all taxes,and madenll returns required
by the Ordinances of tins city that have been in
your power to pay or make accordingto said ordi
naucee. oet I—td
Concept Hall.
For Two Nights Only!
MONDAY AND TUESDAY EVENJNHS,
NOVEMBER 2d and 3d.
R«?tnrsi ol' the Favorites for Two
Kights Ouly I
EMJRB CHANGE OF PROGRAMME
EACH EVENING!
| Admission to Parquet, $1; Gallery, 50 ets.
JOE GAY LOUD,
octW It Business Manager.
RATE OF QUARTERLY TICKETS*
BUPRRLNTKNDEXT’S OFFICE, )
AvttVsr* a.xi> Summerville li. R, Co., I
(Depot McKinnie Street,)
Avgusta, Ga , October 22, IH6B. I
IN ORDER TO AFFORD COMPLETE
facilities for Cheap Passage upon this Road,
Tickets, entitling the purchaser to unlimited
passage over the City Line, for the period of
three months, are offered by tide Company for the
sum of TEN DOLLARS
These tickets cm be obtained at the office of the
Treasurer of the Company, in the Depot Build ,
ing. on McKinnie street.
JAS. J. DAVIES.
0c123—6 . Superintendent, j
Tax Notice.
Make Tour State Tax Returns.
All persons take notice that, !
for the purpose of receiving said Returns, (
I shall intend the following places, from October 1
-.•(> to Doeamber 15, 18«8:
At the tipper Market, on every Monday, from ■
!* a m. io 1 p and from 3 to (> p tn.
On Tuesdays at Mwers. Day fc Inman's Alic
tion Room, on Broad street.
<m Wednesday*. at the Court House.
On Thursdays, at the Scale Home.
On Friday*, nt the Court Honee.
.hi Natiirdays, a' District Court, Grounds, of
wlikli <lne untie. will be given.
All citw.eUH, white and colored. between the |
ages of twenty imeaiid sixty, are liable to return
..mi pay a Poll Tax of Que Ihdlar. and Mich other !
taxes fts may ba imposed by tin- A’onnly. For ’
failure t.» umke viur return*, of all propertv, or tn .
rouinly with the law, now of force, the penally of I
die law will be stikily eafureed, iinbamed aid i
Impartial. on all defaulters. ,L
N B. For failure tn making return*, the
pojniltv is n double tpx.
J to VAUUBN,.
II 1. Ji R ihomeuT (t n.' t <
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r-.iergf—Lleet., •
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BURTON’S CELEBRATED AND (ALOEIqus
TOODLES.
PARTICULAR NOTICE-PRICES.
To prevent the recurrence *f a mirtake re
garding prices, the following liberal scale will
be adhered to:
Reserved Scats, in Parquette oo
All other Scats, in Parquette 75
Gentlemen to Gallery jq
Boys and Children 25
Colored Box jq
Colored Gallery 25
Reserved Scats at J. C. Schrsi»bii <fc Soxs.
oct29—lt
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF TBh
1 United States for tho Northern District ol
Georgia.
In the matter of )
HORACE 11. WITT, jIN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. I
To all w hom it mar concern : The uudersigu
off hereby gives notice of his appointmentUs
Assignee of the estate of Horace 11. Witt, of
Atlanta, county of Fulton, and State of Geor
gia, within said District, who has been ad
judged a bankruptupon his own petition by the
District Court of snid district.
NOAH B. FOWLER,
oct 29—law2w Assignee.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
-L United States for tho Northern District of
Georgia.
In the matter c.f )
ROBERT U. CASSELS, >IN BANKEUPTCI
Bankrupt. )
To all w hom it may concern : The undersign
ed hereby gives notice of his appointment as
Assignee of Robert Q. Cassels, of Atlanta,
county of Fnlton, State of Georgia, who has
been adjudged n bankrupt upon his own peti
tion, by the District Court of the United States *
for said district.
NOA I R. FOWLER.
oct ’-‘9—law2w ‘
Richmond. Sheriff’s Sale.
1 i 'ILL BE SOLD, ON Till: FIRST TLES-
W DAY IN NOVEMBER next, between the
legal hours of at the Lower Market
in tho city of Augusta, tho folluwiog properly,
viz: One Tract of Land and improvements
thereon, situate in said county on tho oast side
of East Boundary rGreet, of the city «»I Augusta,
containing, sixteen and a half acres, more or lets,
tand bounded West by said East Boundary? street,
North by road leading to Sand Bar Kerry, Kftst
by land now (or formerly} owned by Dr* Me
Whorter, and South by Lind of- -7-, Except
such portion of land as is claimed by defendant
as exempt from levy and sale —levied on a« tho
property of Robert C. Easterling, to satisfy a
Common Law fi. la. issved from tbtf' .Superior
Court of Richmond county, in favor of Johu
Phinizy against Robert C. Easterling, and for
costs due on the same ; said land being now in
possession of Robert C. Easterling, and notice
tliis day served on h'm according to law.
Levied tho said fi. fa., also, upon the growing
crop of every description on that Tract of Land
owned by defendant, about three miles from tho
city of Augusta-, and known formerly as tho
Mealing Plantation, on the Augusta and Savan
nah Railroad, adjoining lands of DeT/aigle and
Phinizy, on Rocky Greek. Given tiio defendant,
also, notice of this levy.
ALSO,
levied the above fi. fa. on the growing rrip
of every dcssription 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 loading to tho Sand Bar Ferry,
East by land now (or formerly) owned by Dr.
McWhorter, and South by land of , as the
property of Robert C. Easterling, to Satisfa a fi
fa. issued from the Superior Court of said county
in iavor of John Pbinir.y against Robert C.
Easterling. The above property pointed out bv
John Phtniey, an 1 notified defendant of said
levy this 3d t'otobcr, IHfiS.
WILLIAM DOYLE,
oof til Deputy Sheriff Riehniond C<o_
CITY ORDINANCE.
AN ORDINANCE to prohibit tho Turebase,
Salo, or Barter of Certificates of Registry.
Section 1. He il Ordained by th< City (bnmiil
of Anyuita, That the purchase, sale, and barter,
or exchange of Certificates ol Registry issued
under the authority of an Act nf the Legisla
turo of Gaorgia, entitled “An Aet, to Morganite
the Municipal Government of lira t-'ily <>j
Augusta,’’ be, and tho camo is hereby, prohil'itcd
and unlawful.
Sue. 2. Any person who shall buy, .ell, bar
ter, or exchange any such Certificates of Regis
try fer money, or anything of value, or shall
i employ any other person to do the s.un , shall,
i on Conviction thereof before tlio Recorder of said
i city, be lined in a sum not exceeding five h' in '
■ dred dollars.
Site. 3. AU Ordinancas or parts of Ordinances
1 militating against this Ordinance are hereby rs
■ pealed.
Done iu Council, this 14th day of October,
I A. I’. 1868.
FOSTER BLODGETT,
! Attest; Mayor.
Chas. P. McCalla,
Clerk of Council.
. ocl?—lDt ,
City Sheriff’s Sale-
WILL BE SOLD ON THE FIRST TIES'
DAY IN NOVEMBER next, at the Lower
Market House in the city of Auguste, between
; the usual hours of sale, one House and Lot, M
-1 20 Walker street, in tire city of Augusta, uu«
: bounded on the north by Walker street,
i east by lot of tho estate of George Morn •
! south by lot of Quinn, and west by lot of Stepuei
Faugbnan. Levied upon as the property
Stephen Faughnan, to satisfy one tax fi- «• ws ' l ij
by the City Conned of Augusta versus the san
Steuben Faughnan, for Me city taxes forth
year 1807.
W. B. CHEESBOKOVGH,
octi—t'i Deputy Sheriff Cits <rf A«kM«C‘_
Bemoval.
ft f 188 A. C. JAMES. AGENT FOR HIE
AL FLORENCE SEWING MACHINE.
leave to annonuee Hull ehe has removed u> •
251, over’ Mrs. McKinnon s Millinery Btore.
Mtre JAMES ia amply prepared to M* ““J.
orders with the latest Piuierna to make I*
and ChiMreu s Dreeses. Mantle*. Mr.
oct'.’7-J«o -
To Bent.
L?ROM THB FIRBT DAY 5
J? the Hou****, N<». 7** oru><«i
iH'esMit oc« , nin» , <l by ih-. Wilsnp. ' h cimbufl*
night room*, rm* and
offihniMingS.
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