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About The National Republican. (Augusta, Ga.) 1867-1868 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1868)
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. - -♦ ♦ ♦- - ——. “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. ■ CtftiiMu rMlroaditrs are tn eqjoy jkmr>i •an siaepkig can. r 4 * 5 > • ' STALMMGrS fc RO6ERS, 13 2 Broad Street, .Augusta, Cra. F'TJ Ft JXrITUKE Os Every Description, from the Finest to the Cheapest!! Having enlarged our Establishment, we invite the Public to examine OUR NEW AND EXTENSIVE STOCK 11 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 < Arfyirwh, Oig.'bm‘,’t fWW. • . ■ i r-.iergf—Lleet., • NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. THEATRE-CONCERT HAIL Lessee and Manager Jvun Templetox, Special Attraction! Great Fashionable Double Bill! LiRGEAND SELECT AUDIENCES, THURSDAY EVENING, October 23 DOUGLAS JERROLD’S CELKUIIATED AND BEAUTIFUL DRAMA OF THE SEA, BLACK-EYED SUSAN, OR All. IN THE DOWNM. 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. Apple to ” S , 1
