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PARAGRAMS
—Yesterday, in New York, Gold
was quoted at 1.351. Cotton 2tjc.
- Nevada UMS mahogany for fuel.
Two of the students of the low a
Agricultural College are women.
All the ,»oh to Price clerk' in Cleve
land are females.
—Europe is said to have #938,000,-
000 invested in American enterprises.
r-A hotel to cost three-quarters of
a million is to lie built in Chicago.
Seven hundred trains pass each ,
oilier daily at the Clapham (Lohdon) |
Junction.
—Snakes, in large numbers, are
shipped to Cuba from Tampa Bay,
Florida.
--Powers, the sculptor, is coming
home after an absence of thirty-one
years.
—Wisconsin has a greater propor
tion of foreign born citizens than any
other State.
—There is a man in Lowell so thor
oughly neutral on all public questions
that he never takes a side-walk.
—Ripe strawberries was gathered
on the James river, Va., as late as the
15th of November.
—Gen. Humphrey’s estimates the
cost of a ship canal around Niagara
.Falls at §12,000,000.
—A book has been made in Hart
ford which weighs anvonty-five pounds,
and contains 1,050 pages.
—Sight-seers are already engaging
rooms in Washington for inuugcration
week.
—Prussia is now engaged in main
taining the peace of Euroge, by forti
fying all her railway stations.
—Speaker Colfax, as a wedding
present, gave his bride a set of pearls,
brooch, necklace, and braclet.
—A Vermont editor writes obituary
notices of delinquent subscribers, and
iu this way brings them to life.
—Richardson, the manager of the
Georgia Minstrels—the slave troupe —
has absconded and left the company
in Canada, penniless.
—A Chicago minstrel troupe gives
away SIOO nightly, and §2OO at mati
nees, in greenbacks, and considers it
cheap advertising.
—At the funeral in New York, of
Dr. Negros, a colored physician, the
remains were followed to the grave
by five hundred colored Free Masons.
—Railway travelling is said to be
more slow and uncomfortable in
Italy than anywhere else in the
world.
• —The Mormon organ in Salt Lake
City complains that the young saints
wr their hats in the Tabernacle on
Sunday during service.
—A St. Louis husband has applied
for a divorce on the ground fliat his
wife is in the habit of throw ing the
children at his head.
—'At the Cannon station,
Londpn, 527 trains pass each other
daily, and at the Clapham Junction
station, 700.
—The English papers have a new
■ direction for-becoming a Prime Minis
ter —“turn round and round till you
~ on the witness stand
eight consecutive days in the Howland
will case.
—Captain li. T. Fisher, of Jackson,
has been appointed Chairman of the
Republican State Committee of Mis
sissippi.
—ln the late British Parliament,
one hundred and thirty-six sons,
brothers, and other relatives of peers
were elected, and, to all appearance,
the representatives of the peerage in
the new House will not fall short of
that number.
—The Mobile Register says South
ern planters are better oft’ to-day than
they were before the war. They are
free from debt, and receiving more for
their co<>ton titan ever before. For
merly they were always one crop in
debt, and belonged to’ their factors.
Now they have learned economy, and
arc their own masters.
—Tim Hon. Horace Maynard is an
applicant for a Cabinet office. Gov.
Brownlow, in the Whig, urges his
claim in an editorial, and names him
as the man to represent the South.
He nominates him for Postmtstcr-
General, Mr. Maynard is also under
stood to be a candidate for the posi
tion of Speaker of the House, as suc
cessor of Mr. Colfax.
—Mary Walters, an English w oman,
x better known by her soubriquet of
“Skittles,” died recently in Paris.
She was of that notorious circle in tlie
fkmiittcmde to which the Cora Pearl
and Theresc belonged at one time and
another, and was she favorite of a
good many titled and untitled men of
wealth. Once dining in the Bois de
, Boulogne, she made a bet that she
would bow to the Emperor while pass
. ing his carriage. She did so, and
threw a kiss at his Majesty, which, it
is hardly necessary to say, was not re
turned. Next day her carriage was
excluded from the park, and an agent
of the police visited her with the sug
gestion that the air of Paris was not
suited to her complexion, and that her
passport was ready, with the official
vita pwtir. There is a story that a
young English lord, on leaving her one
morning, presented her with a fifty
pound note, and apologized for the
slender donation. “My father,’’ he
said, “allows rfe a mere pittance; when
he dies I sliall have more opportunitv
to be liberal ” “Many l - thanks,” said
Skittles, “John, (turning to his ser
vaat), “show out I .ord , and ad-
mit him again when his father is
dead.”
Remember, Rememberl
The 7th of Decent her I
A ND make your amugeinew* to meet | tlß]
■Quan. , . ... , . OAN CASTELLO
«ill l».-li«re mid will drive awav ear* A n( (
Hi? iK-opk- will go in erowda to see him.
DECEMBER 7th.
National Republican
AUIIVHTA, OA.
SUNDAY MORNING.... .. Det «,
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1 nion—Liberty—Justice.
This is a Republic where the Will of
the People is the Law of the Land.
| U. s. Grant.
“Watch' over the preservation ofthe 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 enfeeble the sacred ties, which now link
together the various parts."'— Washington’s
Farewell Address.
The Necessity of Two Parties
In all governments of the people
there will necessarily be two parties.
As the minds of men are constituted,
there will be a difference —and a wide
difference at that—of opinion as to the
policy which would best promote the
public interests. Such a division is
necessary to a healthy administration
of public affairs. The fact that the
Outs are watching the Ins always re
strains the latter to some extent. It
cannot be denied that in the general
demoralization there are few officials
that will not bear watching, no matter,
to what party they may belong. If
not dishonest themselves, they are
usually surrounded by partisan suckers
who are proficient in the rascally art
by which the serpent overcame the
Mother of Mankind.
Two parties being both beneficial
and inevitable in the very nature of
things, it naturally follows that our
beauti{;d city will form no exception
to the rule—that there will be a divis
ion of opinion among our people on
the political questions of the day. In
this division a particular side may
have a largely preponderating major
ity. If so, that majority will be abun
dantly able to take care of itself. The
generous aiyl truly brave of the ma
jority will respect the minority.—
They will restrain the vicious and
thoughtless of their own party, by
setting a manly example of toleration.
We have heard many protestations,
since the election, from leading Demo
crats, which leads us to hope we are to
1 U-A • -- ’1
toleration. We trust the hopes of
our most sanguine friends may be
realized. Assuredly, the Repu blican
will place no stone in the way.
Ineffably Mean.—We find the
following extract in the Covington
(Ga.) Enterprise, which that paper
says is the conclusion of an article
from the Atlanta Era, “abusive” of
the National Republican:
With tliis, we can dismiss the Reuuli.k an.
Its extreme and unreasonable, not to ®y
crazy course, has frutilized it for co-operation
with any movement tliat seeks the good of
the country. Men have lost confidence in
its judgment, and are afraid to be led by it
now.
The Era, containing the article of
which this is the conclusion, never
reached our office. We suspected
that that paper had been denouncing
us, and intentionally neglected to mail
us a copy of the papers containing its
assaults. 11 wc are correct in this
surmise, we have this only to say, that
the editor of the Era is the only man
in Georgia capable of such ineffable
meanness.
.
. Passed Marching.—The Lagrange
•O “
Jieporlcr inquires whether wc inarch
with negroes? No—our inarching
days have long been over. We know 7
that many of our Democratic friends
marched to the polls with colored men
on Wednesday last, and were very'
glad to do so, at that. We didn’t
blame them.
A Difficult Job.—An exchange
says the President will haVjj 53,000
officials under his control. He will
find their control more difficult than
it was to control the Federal army
during the war.
Not “Outkai. cd.”—The Lagrange
Jleporter is informed that our “God
dess of Liberty” .has not been “out
raged. Wc have, up to this time,
been able to protect her against such
fellows as the editor the Jitporter.
——
The Ret. Mr. Nasby intimates
that President Johnson would be an
acceptable candidate for the Spanish
throne, because he has all his life been
putting the Bourbon down.
THE GREAT EASTERN DRAMA,
entitled
THE HALT IM THE DESERT,
"11/TLE be produced for thelirm timein Augu»t«.
'“jf'*"'"* a HERD OF CAM ELS.H* rare.
Poiim*, Women ano Children, to ti ie number of
ooebuttled, in Dan Castello* Great Show, on
MONIMT A TVI'SDATDEC 7th & Sth
jFoi the National Republican.
Georgia
Mb. Editor —Recogniiting the fact
that reconstruction, in Georgia, is
complete ; that the State is restored
to full fellowship in the Union qf Stales
known, as the United States of
America. 1 beg leave, through votir
columns, to present to the jieople of
Georgia and of the I nited States, an
other question of little less magnitude
or importance than the great problem
of reconstruction itself, ami in some
degree, allied to it; viz.:
Has Georgia, since herireadmissioti
into the i nion, violated the Four
teenth Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States?
I assume the affirmative of this
proposition, and propose to establish
its truth by the following fart and
arguments:
The said Amendment is as follows :
Section 1. All persons liom or natural
ized in the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United
States and of the State wherein they reside.
No State stall make or enforce any law
which shall abridge the privileges or immu
nities of citizens of the United States; nor
shall any State deprive any person of life,
liberty or property, without due process ol
law, her deny to any person within its juris
diction the equal protection of the laws.
Sec. 2. |This Section does not bear upon
the question, and is therefore omitted.]
Sec. 3. N<> person shall be a Senator or
Representative in Congress, or Elector of
President and Vice-President, or hold any
office, civil or military, under the United
States, or under any State, who. having pre
viously taken an oath as a member of Con
gress. or as an officer of the United States, or
as a member of any State Legislature, or as
an Executive or .Judicial officer of any State,
to support the Constitution of the United
States, shall have engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against the same, or given aid or
comfort to the enemies thereof. But Con
gress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each
House, remove such disability.
Sec. 4. [This Section, being irrelevant, is
also omitted.]
Sec. 5. Congress shall have power to en
force, by appropriate legislation, the provi
sions of this article.
Each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly of Georgia,’ at a
session thereof convened and held at
the Capital, in the‘city of Atlanta,
Ga„ during a part of the month of
July, all tlie months of August and
September, and a part of the month
of October,. 1868, certain members
thereof who had been legally elected
thereto, sworn, and had taken their
seats therein as such, were afterwards,
by resolution of the House wherein
they were bo seated, ejected therefrom,
solely upon the ground and for the
reasoq that they and each of them
had in their veins more than one
eighth of African blood ; that they and
each of them were persons of African
descent; while they and each of them
were, under the Constitution and laws
of the State of Georgia, in force at the
time of their election and expulsion as
aforesaid, eligible to seats in the said
General Assembly; anft, by the adop
tion of such resolution iu each of said
Houses, and by force thereof, the fol
lowing named persons, members as
aforesaid, were so declared ineligible
and ejected from their scat.-, to wit:
From the House of Representatives:
T. M. Allen, member from Jasper
•county; E. Baring, from Hancock;
T. G. Campbell, from Mclntosh ; G.
11. Clow er, from Monroe; A. Colby,
from Greene; J. T. Costin, from’ Tal
bot ; Monday Floyd, from Morgan;
8. Gardner, from Warren; W. A.
—, ...... .lu..,vuvi», v. u. Houston,
from Bryan; Philip Joiner, from
Dougherty; George Linder, from
Laurens; R. Lumpkin, from Macon;
Romulus Moore, from Columbia ; Pe
ter O’Neal, from Baldwin; Jas. Porter,
from Chatham; A. Richardson, from
Clarke; J. M. Simms, from Chatham;
Abram Smith, from Muscogee; Alex
ander Stone, from Jefferson; 11. M.
Turner, from Bibb: J. Warren, from
Burke; Samuel Williams, from Har
ris; M. Claiborne, from Burke, and
T. P. Beard, from Richmond county.
From the Senate : T. G. Campbell,
Sr., from the 2d Senatorial District,
and George Wallace, from the 20th
Senatorial District.
In support of the foregoing propo
sition, I submit the following sub
proposition, to show that the above
named colored members were ille
gally deprived of their seats, by
“making or enforcing a law which
abridged the privileges or immuni
ties of citizens of the United States."
Are colored citizens of Georgia
eligible* to scats in the General ri.s--
sembly thereof?
In the examination of this auxiliar-v
question, 1 propose to be governed
solely by the plain, inflexible letter of
the law, swerved from a straight line
of impartial investigation, neither by
the restraints of fear, the beguilements.
of prejudice, nor the allurements of
passion. I would premise, in the first
place, that the question is not, ought
colored persons to have seats in the
General Assembly? It is not whether
or not they are fitted physically, mor
ally, or mentally to that position, but
simply, “Have they a right, under
existing laws, to seats in the General-
Assembly of this State?” In other
words, “Are they eligible ? Can they
be legally chosen as such?
Preteemitting, then, all questions
and arguments' as to their fitness for
the discharge of the duties of legisla
tors, I proceed to consider the ques
tion in its restricted, legal sense—the
naked right, under the Constitution
and laws of Georgia, for them to hold
such position. First, I submit this
proposition : Under .the Constitution
and laws of Georgia, all citizens of
this State, without regal'd to race or
color (subject to certain exceptions
and restrictions common to lioth
races), have a like, equal right to be
chosen members of the General As-
"Eligible. —l use this word in its legal
sense only, viz: qwtlifled to be chotcii ; not as
expressing fitness to discharge the duties of
an office; but only as expressing the
right to lie appointed or elected to any office
or position.
Napoleon Dan
WILL BE HERE ON
Monday, December 7th-
WAIT FOR HIM .’
sembly; I Kith alike are eligible there
to, w hile both alike arc subject to the
same disabilities, and to no others.
The first point to be settled, then,
is, who are citizens of Georgia? Sec
tion 2d of article Ist of the Constitu
tion, styled in that instrument fauda
»/« ntal principles, is as follows: “All
persons born or naturalized in the
United States and residents in this
State, arc hereby declared citizens of
this State ; and no laws shall be made
or enforced which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities .of citizen- of
the United States, or of this State, or
deny to any person within its jiyisdic
tion the equal protection of its laws ;
and it shall lx the duty of the Gener
al Assembly, by appropriate legisla
tion, to protect every person in the
due cnjoyihea: of the rights, privileges
ami immunities guaranteed in this
section.”
.This provision of the Constitution
without doubt, and beyond all contro
versy, confers citizenship alike upon
black und white persons. It applies
equally and alike to both races.
Section 1648 of the Code of Georgia
is in these words: “Among the rights
of citizens, are the enjoyment of per
sonal security, of personal liberty, pri
vate property and the disposition
thereof, the elective franchise, the
right to hold office, to appeal to the
Courts, to testify as a witness, to per
forin any civil function, and to keep
and bear arras.” The next section in
the Code, viz: Section 1640, says:
“All citizens ire entitled to exercise
all their rights as such, unless special
ly prohibited by law.”
By articles 11, Sec. Ist of the Con
stitution of Georgia, it is declared that
“the laws of general operation in force
in this State, arc, as the supreme
law of the land, first, the Constitu
tion of the United States, tlie laws of
the United States in pursuance thereof,
and all treaties made under Rie au
thority of the United States,” second,
as next in authority thereto, this
constitution ; third, in subordina
tion to the foregoing, all acts passed
by any legislative body sitting in this
State as such, since the 19th day of
January, 1861, including that body of
of the laws known as the Code .of
Georgia, and the acts amendatory
thereof, or passed since that time;
which said Code and acts are embodied
in the printed book known as Irwin’s
Code: and also so much of the Com
mon and Statute laws of England and
of the Statute laws of Georgia as
were in force in this State on the 19th
day of December, 1860, as are not
superseded by said Cotte, though not
embodied therein, except so much
of the said several Statutes, Code and
laws as may be inconsistent with the
Supreme law herein recognized, or
may have been passed in aid of the
late rebellion against the United States,
or may be obsolete, or may refer to
persons held in slavery, which excepted
laws arc inoperative and void."
From the foregoing adopting clause
in the State Constitution, it follows
that the Code of Georgia (Irwin’s
Code) is of force in this State, in all
cases of statutes embodied therein,
which are not excepted as above ; and
then, when so excepted, they are in
operative android.
The two sections of the Code, above
w u veep tea; ana are, therefore, still
valid statute laws of Georgiii, in full
force and effect, under the Constitu
tion of the State, and next in au
thority to the Constitution itself.
The said 1648th section of the Code
of Georgia, in so many plain words,
gives to all citizens “the right to hold
office,” and “to perform any civil
function.”
The place or position of a member
of the General Assembly is an office,
in both a legal and common accepta
tion of the term. Bouvier’s Law.
Dictionary, in which he says : “An
office is a right to exercise a public
function or employment, and to take
the fees and emoluments belonging to
if. Shelf, on Mortem. 797; Cruise,
Dig., Index, b. t.; .3 Scrg. and R.
149.” Offices may be classed into
political and military. Civil offices
may be classed into political, judicial
and ministerial. Die political offices
are such as are not connected imme
diately with the administration of
justice, or the execution of the man
dates of a superior officer. The office
of the President of the United States,
of the heads of Departments, of the
members of the Legislature, are of this
number.”
Recurring, then, to the proposition
as stated above, that, under the Con
stitution and laws of Georgia, all citi
zen? of this State, without regard to
race or color (subject to certain ex
ceptions and restrictions common to
both races), have alike equal right to
be chosen members of the General
Assembly— both alike are eligible
thereto, while both alike are subject
to the same disabilities, and to no
others.
By a just construction of the last
clause of the above quoted section of
the Code of Georgia, which gives a
citizen the right “to perform any
civil function,” a colored person, a
citizen of this Spate, being otherwise
eligible, would undoubtedly have the
right to occupy a seat in the General
Assembly, if legally elected thereto.
Now, let us see what those excep
tions and restrictions are, which are
applicable alike to both and all races
ot citizens, and ascertain whether or
not citizens of color, or of African
blood, are embraced in such excep
tions and restrictions. If they are
not. then they are clearly eligible to
the office or position of members of
the Genera] Assembly; for the Code
of Georgia, in the 1649th section, ex
pressly declares, that “all citizens are
entitled to exercise all their rights as
such, unless specially prohibited by
law.”
Tlic following citizens of this Stale,
Wait For The Boss !
HE WILL BE HERE SURE,ON
.Monday, Dec. 7th
by exnrw* prohibition of law, nre
ineligible, ana cannot hold ’■cats in
the General Aewinbly of this State,
viz.:
‘lst. All lumah > --< ode, M*. UlsO.
2d. All ciUlcii»uiid<Ttwiiitv-oi>cyeai>ol<l, I
fur tbe Huu»e of ll<]imru/i'tjre». and under |
ttffntg-jlre fin tin Senah. -Const. of (is. 2 i
Hoc.. 3 Art.; id*, 3 item. see. 3of 3 art.
3d. No citizen, after first election under ‘
the Constitution, is eligible to the oflice of '
Senator, who has not Imh ii a citizen of the
State for two years, and for one year resident
of the District from which elected. Consti
tution. art. 3, ace. 2.
Ith. No citizen (after first election under
(he Constitution! is eligible to the office of
Representative, who has not been a citizen of
this State one year, and for six months resi
dent of the county from which elected.- -
Constitution, art. 3, see. 3, item 3.
Sth. Any person convicted of felony or
larceny before any Court of this State, or of,
or in,’the United States, unless such person
shall have been pardoned.—Constitution of
Georgia, art. 2, sec. 3.
6tb. All citizens who arc holders or re
covers of public moneys of this State, or any
county thereof, who have refused when
called upon, or failed after reasonable oppor
tunity, to account for and pay over the same
to the proper officer. —Code of Georgia, sec.
120, item 2. •
7th. Any person convictedaond sentenced
finally, for any felony under the laws of this
or any other State, involving moral turpitude,
the offence being also a felony in this, unless
restored by a pardon from the proper execu
tive, under the Great Seal of the State, to tdl
the rights of citizenship.—Code of Georgia,
sec. 120, item 3.
Bth. No person holding a military com
mission, or other appointment or office hav
ing any emolument or compensation annexed
thereto, under this State or the I’nited States,
or either of them (except Justices of the
Peace and officers of the militia), nor any
defaulterffor public money, or for any legal
taxes required of him, shall have a seat in
cither House.—Constitution, art. 3, sec. 1.
item 4.
9th. Persons of unsound mind, and those
who, from advanced age or bodily infirmity,
are unfit to discharge the duties of the office,
to which they are chosen or appointed.—
Code, sec. 120, item 5.
While I do not assert positively that
the foregoing nine classes embrace all
persons, citizens of this State, who are
“specially prohibited by law” from
occupying scats in the General Assem
bly of this State, I do assert unequiv
ocally, that in neither of the above
classes, nor in any article,
section, or item of the Constitution of
. this State, nor in any statute of force
in Georgia, are persons of color, of
mixed or African blood, as such merely,
so excepted or “specially prohibited
by law. It follows, then, that “col
ored persons are eligible to seats in the
General Assembly of Georgia,” under
the Constitution and laws of force in
Georgia.
recapitulation.
The facts and arguments in this
tvhole question arc in a nut-shell:
M'rsf—The Constitution of the State makes
colored persons citizens.
Second —lt adopts the Code of Georgia us
embracing tho statutes of force in Georgia.
Third —The Code provides that citizens of
this State shall enjoy certain rights, among
them the right “to hold office,” and “to per
form any civil function” in this State.
Fourth— The position of members of the
General Assembly is an office, and also a
“civil function.”
Fisth — The Code says: “All citizens are
entitled to exercise all their rights as such,
unless specially prohibited by law.”
Sixth —Colored citizens are not excepted in
any terms, much less “specially prohibited
by law’,” from being eligible to seats in th6
General Assembly; therefore, it followMliat,
“under the Constitution and laws of Gemsfla.
all citizens of this State, without regard to
race or color (subject to certain exceptions
and restrictions common to both races.) have
a like equal right to l>e chosen members of
the General Assembly."
ot Georgia gave"to colored citizens,
the same to white citizens of the State
(being citizen’s of the United States),
tho right to be members of the Gen
eral Assembly, or, in other words,
rnqde all alike eligible, subject to like
exceptions only, then the ejection from
their seats therein, of such colored
members, when duly elected thereto,
on account of color only, was clearly
in violation of that clause in the said
first section of said Amendment, which
says, “No State shall make or enforce
any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of
the United States.”
I apprehend no one will question
the truth of the assertion, that the
position of a member of the General
Assembly, is an “office” in the mean
ing of the Code of Georgia, or “a civil
position,” and that to eject a colored
citizen from his seat, or position, as a
member of the General Assembly of
the State, merely because of his color,
after he has been legally elected
thereto, and sworn and seated therein,
is to “abridge the privileges or immu
nities of a citizen of the United
States.” •
If the foregoing assertion of facts is
true, and the deductions drawn there
from arc correct, it follows that Geor
gia has, since’her readmission into the
I niou, violated the Fourteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States.
The next consideration is, what is
the remedy for such violation ? The
answer is a simple one. The sth
section of said Fourteenth Amend
ment, or Article of the Constitution of
the L nited States, as quoted above,
declares that “Congress 'shall have
power to enforce, by appropriate legis
lating, the provisions of this Article.”
Here, then, in. the Congress of the
I nited States, and'there alone, we
find the power to afford a remedy, and
that by “ appropriate legislation;”
and this, I affirm, means such legisla
tion as may be necessary to enforce the
observance of every requirement in
the F ourteenth Amendment, by any
md every State embraced within the
Juitcd States of America, however
loyal or disloyal, powerful or weak
such State may be. We may notice
here, that no power is reserved in this
fifth section to the United States, or
to Congress, to inflict any penalty
upon any recusant State, but only “the
[lower to enforce, by appropriate legis
lation, a due observance of the "re
quirements of the Amendment.”
With profound deference to older
and wiser heads, and with all possible
respect for the wisdom and justice of
those whose province it is to apply the
REMEMBER
DAN CASTELLO’S
Great Show!
! Will not perform in Augusta until
MONDAY. DEC. 7th.
remedy in thia caae, 1 will suggest I
that the necessary legislation byCon
gress should lie an act declaring thei
eligibility of colored citiußiis, other-1
wise qualified, to scats in the General
.Assembly of Georgia, as also to tiny I
ciiil office in the Statepthat mere I
race or color, or former condition,
shall not disqualify from holding any
office, civil or military, or from |ier
fonning auy civil function in the State
of Georgia; that the persons so ejected
from their seats in the General As
sembly oi this Stale, as aforesaid, are
entitled to, and may resume, their
seats therein as such, when that )»ody
again convenes ; that the persons who
were permitted to have the seats of
the colored members so ejected shall
not resume such seats: and that the
Government qf the United States
shall enforce the provisions of such
act of Congress, if necessary, by mili
tary force. And, to prevent a recur
rence of a like or some other infrac
tion, by Georgia, of the provisions of
the said article of the Constitution of
the United States, and to carry out
the same, Congress should also pass an
act enforcing, especially, all the pro
visions contained in the third section
of said Amendment.
. If a law is not right, amend and
make it right; but never violate it.
H. H. W.
Atlanta, December 4, 1808.
FUNERAL NOTICE.
GP*Tlie friends and acquaintances of Mrs. Jane
Gordon and family, and of her son, JOHN M.
GORDON, are respectfully invited to attend the
funeral of the latter, from St. James' MeUiodist |
Church, THIS (Tuesday) MORNING, at 10
o’clock. I
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Mayor's Oflice, at City Hall, I I
December 5, 1868. J
On and after Monday, the 7th inet., my office
hours will bo frem 8J p. m , to 5 p. m., and all
citizens having official bueiuest with me will I
at the Mayor'a office during those hours, and not
at my place of business.
11. F. RUSSELL,
dec6 —ts MayorC. A.
RELIANCE LOAN AND BUILD
ING ASSOCIATION.—The Regular Meeting of
this Association will be held at the City Hall,
en THURSDAY NEXT, 10 h inst., at 7 o’clock.
Members can pay their instalments to the
Treasurer, S. 11. Shepard, at the store W. 11.
Tutt A Laud. W. H. EDWARDS,
dec 6—sifcthu Secretary.
Assistant Supbristbndbht’s Office,)
GEORG IA RAILROAD, !■
Augusta, Ga., ovember, 20tb, 1868.)
Until further notice the SUNDAY BERZELIA
TRAIN -vill tie discontinued.
8. K. JOHNSON,
no2t>—lm . jAes’t Sup t.
ASS’T SUPERINTENDENT 8 OFFICE, 1
Georc.ii Railroad, >
, Augusta, Ga., November 14th, 1868. )
g©“ ON, AND AFTER MONDAY
November 16th, 1&68, the Night Train on the
Washington Branch will run only twice a week
—Monday and Tuesday nights—leaving Washing
ton at 10:00, p. m. Beturning, arriving at Wash
ington at 3:20, a. m.
8. K. JOHNSON,
novl.7—tf , Assistant Superintendent.
It is Supposed
THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS
rm r a riT t » a at /~t a Cirri? I. I 4 A’ul
GRAT SHOW
Will not perform until
.Houday, Dec. 7th.
iSswuSc® ~
FIRK, MARINE & INLAND
rpHE SUBSCRIBER IS THE AGENT OF
A. the following well known responsible Com
panies, representing a paid-up capital and surplus
of more than tlll.nia) ono_ v j 2 ■ r
JEtna Insurance Company,
Hartford, Conn.
Phoenix Insurance Company,
Hartford, Conn.
Howard Insurance Company,
New York
Manhattan Insurance Company,
New York
Standard Insurance Company,
New York.
Astor Insurance Company,
New York
Commerce Insurance Company,
New York.
Fireman’s Insurance Company,
A’w York.
Lamar Insurance Company,
New York
Commercial Insurance Company,
New York.
Mercantile Insurance Company,
New York
Phenix Insurance Company,
New York
of Hartford, the HOWARD,
MANHATTAN and FIREMAN S, of New York j
were chartered near a half century since, and are
known as among the best and most substantial
Companies in the United States, as are the other
Companies named with them.
I can insure SIOO,OOO on Cotton, in any one of
onr Warehouses, and $70,000 on Cotton in a good
Steamer, from Savannah or Charleston to New
York, or other Northern Ports.
Losses equitably adjusted and promptly paid.
The patronage of the public is respectfully so
licited.
oct22—3m Wm. SHEAR, Agent.
AiwtbTA, October 22, 1868.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
1 United States for the Northern District ol
Georgia.
In the matter of 1
ROBERT J. McCLAHY, [ IN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. J
The undersigned hereby gives notice of his
appointment sis Assignee of the estate of
Robert J, McClary, of Whitney, in the county
of Calhoun, in said District, who has, upon
his own petition; been adjudged a bankrupt
by the District Court of said District..
At Macon, 2d day of December, 1858.
. J. JOHN BECH,
deco—law3w Assignee.
The Renowned
COOK
\VILL EXECUTE HIS
*» REMARKABLE LEAPS
In Dan Cu.stello'a Great .Show,
MoHtlny A TnrtKtny. Dee.7th A Sth
,lw
STOHE &
ftoMBINATIObT-
Triumphal Return
OF-
STONE AND MURRAYS
Superb
I
WITH JTB AMASSED
MIRACLES OF SKILL!
AND
MARVELS OF MAKING.
teSßfc
This Grand Circus
Will again visit
Augusta,
ON
Saturday, Dec. 19th,
•I AND GIVE
TWO PERFORMANCES’
> I
•I (Day and Night)
I Coiuineiieing Mt 2 1-2 and 7 I--.*.
Doors opvt ii one hour previous.
, ADMISSION, --- 75 CENTS
Children under 10 years, 50 els.
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Stone & Murray
Deeire so repeat their
earnest thanks for tho
unparalleled patronage
which has thus far been
•- - A
in their efforts to
AMUSE
The Public,
and to respectfully an
nounce that they will
again exhibit their
CIRCUS
AUGUSTA,
ON
SATURDAY,
Dec." 19.
Fully appreciating (he
many favors extended to
them.
STONE A MURRAY
will make it their con.
slant aim to render their
Circus worthy of a con
tinuance of public con
fidence and popular sup
port.
TUB SAME 1
PREDOMINATING I
FBATLUBg
which has given this Cir
cus an exalted reputation |
forexeellenceand respect- |
ability will over govern,
and
STONE A MURRAY
will endeavor, by a well
directed use of tbc abund.
ant resources a t their
command, to make the
coming Exhibitions the
most
Refined and
’ INTERESTING
Ever Given.
The miscellaneous at
tainments of the extra
large
TROUP OF
Performers
have acquired u perfec
tion which no previous
attempts have reached,
superceding in
Splendor
AND
NOVELTY
All Establishments en
gaged in the vocation of
amusing the public, and
positively
Beyond
THE RESOURCES
Os any other
EXHIBITION,
ofwhatever kind, tv imi
tate.
Many of the Acts and
Feats are
ENTIRELY NF’?
in
n MERIC AI
And will be executed by
Artists having
NO PARALLELS
In their amazing Special
ities.
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