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IfEWNAN, GEORGIA.
Friday Morning, July 10, 1868.
.aGrange Dist. Meeting M. E. Church,
South,
Will Ijc held in LuGrange, Ga., commencing
July 29th, 1608, with Divine service at eight
o'clock, p. m.
Ministerial Brethren who expect to attend
dll please notify Rev. R. W. Bingham, La
knge, Ga.
flic Atlanta and West Point Railroad will
delegates to and from the meeting at one
h C . L. J. Davies, P. E.
j Johnson. Radical, of Dawson county, were an
nounced as candidates. Upon the fir?t vote,
which was viva voce, Mr. Eardin received 83
votes and Mr. Johnson 78 votes. Mr. Hare in
was then qualified as Clerk, Mr. L. Carrington
as First Assistant, or Reader at the Desk H. F.
Merrell, Journalizing Clerk, and S. B. C’ag-
horn as Principal of the Engrossing Depart
ment
large
THE LATEST.
'J he 3 p. m. Thursday’s train
*
trom West Point, brings the
news that Horatio Seymour
as been nominated for Presi-
mt. by the National Derno-
itic Convention.
Aiti.v Brantley*.—This gentleman, ex-
ely known in Georgians the editor of tlie
penmcc Banner, published for many years
V-nnfield, died in Little Rock, Ark., on the
June.
^Tuesday the Radicals, assisted by a few
Is, elected a Democrat named Linc-
r Capt. G. W. Anderson, another
Imocrat. The same day, in the Senate,
of A. A. Bradley was referred to a
committee.
Utirw Female College.—Dr. A. L. Ham-
1, the worthy President of this flourishing
^lege, located in Cuthbcrt, Ga., has present-
ps with a neatly printed catalogue of the
From it wc learned that the College
in a flourishing condition. We wish the
dor continued success.
■Dr. Kiiksccy, another of the Columbus
ers, has proved he was at home on the
and at. tlie liour of Ashburn’s assassi-
FBoth Houses have notified Gov. Bullock
feir organization and readiness to proceed
business. The Governor informed the
committees that he would communicate with
both Houses as soon as lie was instructed by
.Gen. Meade.
Not Voting.—Judge Long, member of the
ipusc from Carroll, amid the confusion attend-
election of Speaker, did not vote.
Ibout the Peace that Grant Wants.
iat right had the Entaw (Ala.) prisoners
[mplain of their treatment in being chain-
dogs and carried to the Dry Tortugas,
hard labor, and finally released without
or transportation ? To speak of this is
mg according to Grant’s notion, for lie says
et us have peace ’ ’
Why should men like Duke, who was forty
ties from. Columbus when Ashburn was assas-
1, object to being arrested oil the charge
^murdering Ashburn, transported to that
of death, Fort Pulaski, thence to Atlanta,
'stifled in 3x10 airless cells, tried by a Mil-
i-y Commission, on the evidence of witnesses
.-acknowledged guilty of perjury and assas-
jation, and who have been tampered with
*d by detested detectives into swear
1st the prisoner? Oh, no! ye rich
From the Atlanta Constitution.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
Atlanta, Ga., July 4. 1868.
According to the Governor’s Proclamation
convening the Legislature, the members of
both Houses assembled in the Senate Chamber
(west wing of the capitol, late City Hall, At
lanta,) at 12 o’clock M., on the 4th day of July,
1868. The Hall being rather small for such
an occasion, was crowded to overflowing by
the mas? of persons collected there—some for
legitimate purposes—some for—well we won’t
say what. Besides the members proper, there
were any amount of eager office-seekers, as
well a3 others whose chief motive no doubt
was to satisfy a very excusable curiosity. If
the crowd inside was large, that outside was
still more so. The black element wns here
predominant. A guard stationed at the en
trance below prevented the ingress of the
masses. By special permit of Governor Bul
lock (for which he will please accept our
thanks) we were permitted to enter the arcana.
The regulations for the admission of persons
were well conceived and as well carried out.
We noticed within the Hall a wholesome
sprinkling of the military. All things consid
ered, the aggregate membership of the Geor
gia Legislature presents a fairer appearance
than can be found at present in any other
State lately in rebellion. The people have
done as well as could be expected under the
circumstances, and we hope to be excused for
expressing the opinion that the thing is, after
all, not nearly *n bad as it might have been.
At 12 o’clock, 0^)v. Bullock, with Genera!
Meade, Judge Erskinc, J. R. Parrott, entered
the Senate Chamber, and tnouuted the rostrum, I mation enthusiastically. The rules of the
Gen. Meade seating himself on the left, and | Democratic Convention of 1864 were adopted.
Carolina 9 ; Ohio, 21; Oregon, 3 ; West
Virginia, 5.
Hancock—Louisiana, 7; Maine, 44;
Massachusetts, 11 ; Mississippi, 7 ; Mis
souri, 2$ ; New Hampshire, 2; rest scat
tering. Arknansas for English.
Sixth ballot resulted—Pendleton 122$;
From the St. Joseph (Mo.) Union. June 24.
Lac? rated by Lightning —A man
parsed through the city yesterday who
who had been made a perfect curiosity by | was often a little too smart for himself.
Undersold Himself.
Old Jacob J. was a shrewd Quaker merchant
in Burlington, X. J., ana, like all shrewd men,
lightning. His story is that about a week j
since he was driving along in a covered j
wagon through Iowa, when a thunder|
Parker 13: Church 33; Backer 27 ;; storm came up. To prevent the raiu
An old Quaker lady of Bristol, just over the
river, bought some goods at Jacob’s store,
when he was abseut, and in crossing the river
! on her way home, she met him on board the
boat, and, as usual with him on such occasions,
— t r?- — o ~''*'*** w } ^ 7 — — j s * s r DOH l, Rim, rn u^u*h unu ,
t. Jesse Otdin was elected Messenger by a President 21; Doolittle 12; Hendricks from coming into the front end of the j he immediately pit- bed into her bundle of
s majority, his vote being 98. 30 ; Blair 5. wagon, he held up a piece of oilcloth.— i goods, and untied it to see what she had been
National Democratic Convention-
New York, July 4.—New Tammany Hall is
admirably arranged for the Convention. It is
elegantly festooned with large American flays,
and decorated with elaborately jiaiuted escutch
eons of all the States.
Accommodaiions for delegates are ample,
and those for the press are excellent, except
that the managers persistently refuse admission
to’the accredited messengers to receive reports.
The Convention w;is called to order at twelve
minutes past 12 o’clock by Auguste Belmout,
Chairman of the National Democratic Com
mittee.
SECOND DISPATCH.
New York, June 4. — The crowd in the vi
cinity of Tammany Hall render the street? al
most impassable. There are over fifty thous
and applicants tor admission to the Convention.
Pendleton’s forces preserve their enthuriasrfi
and confidence. Johnson men are few in num
her, but very determined. Hancock’s suppor
ters seem in had temper. Rumors of a Chase
letter, bearing stTongly on State's right?,
excites much attention. The Southern dele
gates applaud Johnson for his Amnesty Procla-
enthusiasticallv. “
Balloting during the day merely skir- This the lightning struck, passing down
mishing, and at adjournment indication
; of final result.
1 Convention meets at ten in the morn
ing.
Seymour received nine votes on the 3d
i ballot, when he again positively declinod.
No mention of choice yet made.
Virginia voted for Pendleton on the
3d ballot. Cheers on the fourth.
Florida changed from Hancock to Doo
little.
North C-rolina gave Perdleton 2$;
Arkansas, 3. Georgia voted for Blair.
New York, July 8.—On the seventh
ballot Indiana split—the minority voted
his left arm and tearing out a .large por
tion of the muscle. It then passed down
his body, burning its course along his i
skiu to the left side of his abdomen where :
it burned a considerable hole and divided,
one branch running down his left leg, j
taking with it a considerable portion of ,
the calf of his leg, and the other down j
the right, burning his thigh pretty severe j
ly, and ended with tearing the soles off j
of both his boots, and passing through the |
wagon body, partly melting the king bolt
A knife in bis pocket was melt< d by the
intense heat. Strange to say. the gentle
man was not so severely injured but that
he was able to pursue his journey, and
j for Hendricks, Mississippi for Pendleton, passed through here yesterday on his way
Tennessee 4$ for Pendleton. On the to a new home in Southern Missouri.
Cpoor men, ye wives and children, do
of wrongs, of injustice, of suffer-
distress, for it would touch the popular
rt and awaken indignation. This is all
[long, for Grant says “let ns have peace.”
Codcy was innocent of the crime of kil-
;a Federal soldier in Wavrenton ; if he was
ftheless arrested and insulted in liis own
Tf he was carried to Milledgeville and
eoned with disgraced soldiers; if these
^rs did kick him and abuse him ; if he
Shackled; if he was refused for a time
sel; if he was stifled ; if he was finally
in a manner and form forbidden by the
titution; if he was on each day of his
* marched two miles between armed sol-
[through dust and heat; if he was forced
id liis substance in proving his innocence
ly if lie suffered and did all these things,
Tie not wrong to say anything about it ? —
jy tell the people of this portion of his his-
? Oh! yes, Cody, be quiet, for Grant says
let us have peace.”
our lawful State government has been
rerthrown, our lawful Governor removed and
(riven into exile, our rights trampled in the
aud twenty thousand Georgians whom
r we have trusted and honored heretofore been
denied the ballot, aud are now denied the right
of holding office, why complain, for Grant
says “ let us have peace.”
Don’t think about tne past. Deceive your
selves into the belief all these things are for
our good, and were so meant, aud that (he
Radicals want “ peace ” for our and not their
good. Of course their hearts are tender and
they regret whatever of wrong they have com
mitted, and desire to remain in power for the good of
tite country, (this must be so, for they say so,
and when did this party ever tell anything but
the truth ?) and the leaders would cheerfully
retire from the bustle, care, confusion and dis
traction of public life, were such a course con
sistent with the public good—for does not
Grant say “ let us have peace ”?
Reader, dt> you not feel like silencing the
laboring men when you hear them complain of
the partiality of the government in paying
them greenbacks and taxing their little, while
that same government pays the bondholder in
gold and demands of him no taxes ? To talk
of these things will produce commotion, and
this is all improper, for does not Grant say
“ let us have peace ’ ’?
Well we believe that, in spite of all these
appeals from the great Hiram Simpson Grant,
the people won’t keep the peace, but will talk
and \ote, if byso doing Grant’s peace is broken.
If such is the case we are resigned.
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Convention.
Illinois McC iernand, of
aSSSSjgjBjf
vas nominated President of the CkiuveS ’
Judge Erskine and Col. Parrott on the right
of the Governor. Gov. Bul.ock then rose ami
announced that Mr. Taylor would read the acts
and orders under which the Legislature was
now assembled. The act was then read, fol
lowed by the proclamation of Gov. Bullock.—
General Orders No. G8, Headquarters Third
Military District, came next, followed by Gen
eral Orders No. 90, announcing the names of
persons elected to the Legislature. The first
name called was A. A. Badley, who answered
present.” Senators absent four.
The Clerk then read the oath required by
the State Constitution.
Senator Ilolcomhe inquired whether, at this
stage of the proceedings, those persons whose
seats were contested, and especially those
whose scats were contested on account of in
eligibility-, would-be allowed to qualify?
The Governor replied that all those whose
names are embraced in General Orders No. 90
would be allowed to qualify.
.Judge Erskine lose and announced that by
request of his Excellency, the Governor elect, he
would now administer the oath as required by
the Constitution. Senators, as their names
were called, approached the Clerk's desk by
threes and took the oath.
The Governor announced that, for the pur
pose of effecting a speedy organization,Senators
would now go into an election for President
of the Senate, which was accordingly done,
and resulted as follows: Benjamin Conley 23,
C. B. Wooten 15, C. R. Moore 1, John Harris 1.
Mr. Conley, Augusta, (Rad.) having received
a majority of all the votes cast, was therefore
announced by the Governor as duly elected
President of the Senate.
Au election for Secretary of the Senate was
then held, with the following result: E. A.
Marshall 25, L. N. Trammell 15.
Mr. Marshall (Rad.) having received a ma
jority of the votes cast, was therefore declared
by the Governor as duly elected Secretary of
the Senate.
The Governor appointed Senators Harris,
Wooten and Moore a committee to escort the
President elect to the chair.
Mr. Conley, on assuming the Chair, expressed
his thanks for the honor conferred upon him
in a neat and appropriate address, at the con
clusion of which he was applauded.
In pursuance ot a previous annou-ncement
by the Governor, that the House would pro
ceed to their Hall on the other side of the
Capitol and organize in the same manner as
the Senate had done, the President informed
members of the House of Representatives that
an opportunity would now be allowed them to
retire.
Senate then took a recess of half an hour,
during which the members proceeded to the
House of Representatives to witness the organ
ization of the Lower House.
At the end of the recess the Senate was
called to order by* the President, when Mr.
Nunnally made a motion to adjourn until 10
o’clock Monday morning next.
Mr. rose to debate the question.
Mr. Chandler said a motion to adjourn was
not debateable.
Mr. Speer hoped that’ no Republican Senator
present would vote for the motion.
A division was called for, when the vote
stood yeas 19, nays 13.
So the Senate adjourned until Monday 10
o’clock a. m.
In justice to Mr. Trammell we will state that
he announced that he was not a candidate for
the position of Secretary of the Senate.
HOUSE.
Tn the House the programme was gone thro’
with as in the Senate.
After the reading of the Act and General
Orders under which the General Assembly had
been summoned to meet, the roll of members
was called, when 152 Representatives answer
ed to their names. Absent 22.
Gov. Bullock then requested members elect
to present, themselves in front of the Speaker’s
desk in squads of ten for the purpose of ta
king the oath prescribed by the Constitution
of Georgia. The oath was administered by
His Honor John Erskine, of the U. S. District
Court foi Georgia, that judicial officer being
clothed in his robe of office.
The Governor then directed an election for
officers to proceed. Capt. Duulap Scott ob
jected, andflppealed to the House. Gov. Bul
lock said that there was no appeal except to
the military. Capt. Scott replied, “ 1 appeal,
then, to the military.” After a short confer
ence with Gen. Meade, Bullock ordered the
election to proceed.
Whereupon an election for Speaker of the
House was gone into, which resulted as fol
lows :
W. P. Price, of Lumpkin, (dem.) 74.
R. L. McWhorter, of Green, (rad.J 76.
Holden 1.
The Governor then announced Mr. McWhor
ter as duly elected Speaker of the House of
Representatives, and appointed a committee of
two, Messrs. Price and Holden, to conduct him
to the Chair.
Mr. said. Mr. Chairman, when Mr.
Price voted for McWhorter, it was done with
the impression that McWhorter would vote for
Price, and Mr. Price claims to change his vote.
The Governor said that he had no objection
to one vote being added to Price—which was
done.
The Governor then said that he had already
declared McWhorter elected, and that any mo
tion in future must be made to him. MoW hor-
ter assumed the Chair and. briefly addressed the
House, referring to the reconstruction measures
and the pleasure he felt in seeing his native
t?tate again resto’ed to her place in the Union.
It should be his purpose to discharge faithfully
the duties pertaining to his office.
The Speaker then announced the next busi
ness in order to the election of a Clerk, and
that members as their names were called would
vote for the man of their choice.
Upon the Clerk’s attempting to call the roll,
a band of music on the outside created such
confusion as made it necessary to adjourn until
Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
On Monday, the Senate elected Thom, Dem
ocrat, Doorkeeper, and Cameron, Democrat,
Messenger, passed a resolution to procure the
services of a Chaplain and adjourned.
On the same day the House met and pro
ceeded to the election of a Clerk—Messrs. M
■ A-. Hardin, Democrat, of Bartow, and Sam. C.
Territories were excluded from a voice in the
Convention Committees on credentials, reso
lutions, and a permanent organization were
appointed ; when, after reading the Declaration
of Independence, the Convention adjourned to
Monday.
New York, July 6.—The police arrange
ments are inadequate this morning to keep
back the surging crowd which blocks the shed.
The delegates experienced some difficulty in
entering.
At half past ten the delegates were gener
ally in their seats.
The Convention was called to order at a
quarter past eleven.
Prayer was offered by Rev. Win. Quinn.
The readiug of the journal of Saturday was
dispensed with.
The delegation from the Working Men’s Con
vention was invited to seats.
The Committee on Permanent Organization
reported for 1'resident Horatio Seymour, of N.
York. [Great cheering.]
One Vice President and one Secretary from
each State was recommended
The rules adopted by the Democratic Con
vention of 1864 were recommended for the
government of the Convention. The repoit
was adopted and the committee discharged. •
The Committee on Resolutions asked leave
to sit during the session of the Convention,
which was granted.
The Chairman appointed Messrs. Bigle, of
Pennsylvania, and Hammond, of South Caro
lina, a committee to conduct the President to
the Chair.
Seymour proceeded to the platform amid
great cheering, long continued.
He returned thanks for the honor conferred
upon him, and counselled moderation, tolera
tion and harmony. He. said most important
questions were forced upon the consideration
of this Convention—some of them were forced
by the resolution of the late Chicago Conven
tion. He discussed briefly the Republican
platform ; accused the paity of violating its own
declarations against repudiation and unequal
taxation, and the asserted solicitude for sol
diers and soldier’s widows and orphans; ac
cused the now dominant party of extravagant
wasting of the public moneys, tainting the
national credit, expediting immigration by
over-burdeuiug labor with taxation, and break
ing down all constitutional guarantees of re
publican liberty. He denies the assertion of
the Republican Convention that the principles
of the Declaration of Independence are now
sacred on every inch of American soil, for in
ten States of the Uniuu military power sup
presses civil law.
A large number of resolutions were offered
anti referred.
Resolutions endorsing Johnson and applaud
ing Chase, on impeachment, created applause.
Resolutions urging universal amnesty t with
out any exception, unanimously adopted.
Adjourned to four o’clock.
Massachusetts aud Rhode Island will vote for
Chase on the first ballot.
Rentlleton's friends claim 180 votes on the
first, ballot. It is generally believed it will re
quire twenty or thirty.
Chase’s letter is published alluding to suf
frage and other domestic affairs. He expresses
himself in favor of according suffrage v.o all
citizens, and says: As regards this question, I
adhere to my old State lights doctrine ; and in
the event of my nomination and success, I
trust that I should so act that neither the great
party which makes the nation, nor the great
body of patriotic citizens whose co-operation
would insure success, would have cause to re
gret their action. It is an iutense desire with
me to see the Democratic party meeting the
question of the day in the spirit of the day,
and assuming to itself a long duration of as
cendancy It can do so if it will.
The Convention assembled. The Soldiers'
and Sailors’ Convention presented an address,
expressing no preference for candidates, but.
breathing harmony and confidence in the re
sult. The effort to overthow the two-thirds
rule failed.
The Convention adjourned at. six o’clock
without a ballot or platform.
eighth ballot,* Louisiana voted for Pen
dieton, New York for Hancock amid the
wildest excitement and cheers and hisses
ResultPendleton 156$, Hendricks 77-
On ihe ninth ballot Pendleton 144,
Hendricks 80$, Hancock 34$—balance
wildly scattered.
Pennsylvania adheres to Packer.
The tenth and eleventh show little
change. On the eleventh Chase received
one and a half amid great applause and
some hisses.
On the twelfth ballot Pendleton 145$,
Hancock 30, Hendricks 89, Chase $*—
Cheers.
On the twelfth ballot McClellan re
ceived one vote.
The thirteenth ballot showed little
change beyond McClellan’s same does
not appear.
Franklin-Pierce received one vote.
On the 18th ballot New Jersey gavo
Hancock 3. Illinois votes, solid, tor
Hendricks. Result: Pendleton 56; Han
cock 144 ; Hendricks 87.
To-day’s ballot shows nothing definite.
Hancock’s friends were confident of a
favorable result on the 18th ballot., but
the event discouraged them very much,
and they reluctantly yielded to adjourn
ment.
Coalition between Hendricks and Pen
dleton is hopeless, and it is apprehended
that Hancock has achieved his
vote.
highest
From the Macon Telegraph.
Nut Grass.
The Floridian of the 30th ult. says that
this terrible pest is spreading over that
country, aud that a week or two ago his
gardener, in digging Irish potatoes, found
a potato which had been perforated com
pletely by a spear of this grass. We have
seen it perforate chips, which had been
only very slightly decomposed. The edi
tor speculates about a remedy ; and there
is none that we know of except very care
fully d igging up the grass and destroying
it. This we have done with great labor
and complete success.
The nut grass is abundant in Yineviile,
and will be a great trouble to household
ers unless they attack it with vigor. We
have noticed two species of it on our
homestead. In one of these the root
shoots down perpendicularly to the depth
of four to six inches—then forms a nut,
from which another root shoots off lateral
ly three or four inches and then forms
another nut, and so on, each root, as it
matures, throwing up the blades of the
grass. In this species the root or fibrous
connection is comparatively large and
strong, and, occupying no great depth of
soil, the grass can be exterminated with
comparative ease. In this species the
nut is very bitter.
The second kind produces a nut sweet
and agreeable to the taste, and it is found
at depths in the soil varying from four to
fourteen inches* The fibre which con
nects this nut with the blade is very
small, delicate and easily broken. As
this nut matures, it shoots out more fibres
obliquely which reach the surface and
develops, in grass—which in its turn
sends down a perpendicular shoot upon
the end of which another nut soon forms,
to repeat the process.
It wili be exceedingly difficult to ex
terminate this grass where once it has
got possesion of a piece of land. It can
only be done by carefully trenching the
soil to the depth of the lowest nuts laying
bare all the fibrous roots in succession
with'their termini, and carefully collect
ing them with the hand. The process
must be repeated once or twice at a
month’s interval during the summer, and
subsequently the scattered stalks can be
attacked with a spade or grubbing hoe.
IfaUowed to grow two or three Sum
mers in succession the land is not only
valueless for cultivation, but it is a pest
from which this grass will be propagated
through the deposits of animals feeding
upon it ail around the vicinage Xhe
grass eradicated should be carefully burn
As well scatter small-pox, as throw
this grass around with the idea that cat
New York, June 7.—Peter dagger
and John T. Devlin, were thrown from
their carriage. Cagger killed; Devlin
seriously hurt.
dagger’s death was announced.
Resolutions from Alexander H. Ste
phens were read and referred. The name
of Stephens was cheered,
Tne Platform unanimously adopted
amid immense cheering; slavery and se
cession are regarded as dead issues ; bonds
‘payable in lawful money, unless the face
calls frr coin ; equal taxation on all pro
perty, including coin ; one currency for
all; economy, reduction of the army and
uavy, abolition of the Freedmen’s Bureau
and inquisitorial modes of collecting rev- J ed
enue; tariff fur revenue; subordination
of the military to the civil authorities; _ _
restoration of all the States; amnesty for isun. The groans over this grass in the
tie will destroy it or it will perish by the !
all political offenses, including the restora
tion of suffrage in all the States; suffrage
belongs exclusively to each State; Con
gress has usurped it in violation of the
Constitution ; reconstruction acts uncon
stitutional and void; thanks Johnson,
and invites all parties to unite on this
platform.
The Convention then
nomination ; Maine, Hancock and Pen
dleton ; New Jersey, Packer and Johu-
son.
name not mentioned.
Later.—On first
105; the Southerners nearly ail voted
for Johnson.
Naughty, Naughty Man.—Among
Leou Gazlau’s posthumous papers was
found au essay on the characteristics ot
women, which will not add to his popu
iarity among American ladies. Just read
this outrageous paragraph : A French
woman wili love her husband if he is
either witty or chivalrous; a Qerrnan wo
man, if he is constant and faithful; a
Dutch woman, if be does not disturb her
ease and comfort too much ; a Spanish
woman, if he wreaks terrible vengeance
on those who are under her displeasure ;
an Italiaiu woman, if he is dreamy and
poetical; a Danish woman, if he thiuks
that her native country is the brightest,
and the best, and happiest country on
the earth ; a Russian woman, if he des
pises all Westerners as miserable bar
barians; an English woman, if he suc
ceeds in ingratiating himself with the
royal court and the aristocracy; an Ameri
can woman, it—he has plenty of money.”
*►* *•*
The Conservative Soldiers’ Convention.—
Scarcely less important than tlie National Con
vention is the Convention of Conservative Sol
diers. which is to be held on the same day.—
This Convention will hold the balance of pow
er, aud being composed of straightforward
soldiers, will do as little unnecessary talking
as possible. Those already here are outright
for old Greenbacks, and say, when they nomi
nate a ticket, they are going to stand by it
through thick and thin. They are disposed to
co-operate, but will not be dictated to. They
have secured the Moflatt House, the old Fenian
headquarters, and the Cooper Institute, and,
what is better, they have paid for them for the
entire mouth of July. There will he over
6,000 soldiers present on the occasion, and after
forming a procession, they will march in full
uniform to the Cooper Institute to “ name their
man.” Among the prominent persons who
will participate: Major Generals William B.
Franklin, of Connecticut; Gerham Mott, New
Jersey ; private O lleilley, American ; D. C.
Buell, Kentucky ; Lovell H. Rousseau, Ken
tucky ; Thomas Ewing. Ohio; W. II. H. Davis,
Pennsylvania; Henry W. Slocum, New York ;
Andrew Porter, Pennsylvania; Kirby Smith,
George P. Estes, Uen. Duryea, N. York ; Wil
liam B. Steadman, W. F. Smith and many
otners.
Mr. Belmont, Chairman of the Democratic
National Executive Committee of Tammany
Hall, has informed Mayor Hoffman that the
Committee will not meet until two days before
the meeting of the Convention, when arrange
ments will be made for the distribution of
tickets of admission to the Convention, at
which time due notice will be given as to the
mode in which those tickets will be distributed.
The duties of a policeman in Memphis
have become as dangerous as the deadly
field of battle. Within the last four
months six officers have been killed while
in the discharge of their duty, and six
more severely wounded, in all about
twelve per cent of the average police force
who have suffered death or maiming at
the hands of actual or would be assas
sins.
The total Catholic population of the
United States is estimated at 5,000,000.
The Regular Baptists are put down in
I860 at 1,094,800. Episcopal Method
ists, North and South, 1,850,000 Con-
uregationalists, 267,353. Presbyterians
-O. S., 247,350 ; N. S., 161,538 ; South
ern, 66,628. Protestant Episcopal, 178,-
102. Lutherans, 87,933. Reformed, 57,-
846. German Reformed, 52,815.
An old minister asked a woman what
could be done to induce her husband to
attend church. “ I don’t know,” she
replied, “ unless you were to put a pipe
and a jug of whisky in the pew.”
The Board of Trustees of St. John’s
College at Annapolis, Md., conferred, on
Tuesday last, the honorary degree of L L.
D. on Hon. Reverdy Johnson. Mr.
Johnson is an alumnus of that institution,
and he is the fifth person who has re
ceived this dignity from the Board since
the foundation of the college, in the year
1784.
A Washington dispatch says: Secretary Sew
ard has nearly completed negotiations for the
purchase of Greenland and Ictland from the
Danish Government. It is said he is to give
five and a half millions in gold for them, and
that he has already promises of sufficient sup
port in the Senate to secure the ratification of
the measure, Mr. Seward now having printed,
at the Government Printing Office, a volumi
nous account of those countries, their popula
tion. great resources, climate and history,
which he will send, into the Senate with a copy
of his new treaty.
The Radicals in the Rump Senate had a good
deal to sav about the rights of American c-iti
having.
“Oh ! now,’’ said he. “how much a yard did
you give for that?” taking up the several
pieces ot goods. She told him the price,
without, however, saying where she had got
them.
“Oh! now,” he said again, “I could have
sold you those goods for so much a yard,”
mentioning a price a great deal lower than
she paid.
•‘You know,” said he, “I can undersell eve
rybody iu the phree.” And so be went on
criticising and undervaluing the goods, till the
boat reached Bristol, wheu he was invited to
go to the old lady’s store, and when there the
goods were spread out on the counter, and
Jacob was asked to examine the goods again,
and say in the presence of witnesses the price
he would have sold them for per yard, the old
lady, meanwhile, taking a memorandum. She
then went to the desk and made out a bill of
the difference between what she had paid and
the price he had told her; then, coming up to
him, she said:
“Now, Jacob, thee is sure thee could have
sold these goods at the price thee mentioned?”
“Ob! now, yes,” said he.
“ Well, then, th v young man must, have made
a mistake, for I bought the goods at tbv store;
and of course, under the circumstances, thee
can have no objection to refund me the differ
ence.”
Jacob, being thus cornered, could, of course,
have no objection to refund the difference. It
is to be presumed that thereafter Jacob’s first
inquiry must have been: “Oh! now, where
did you get such and such goods?” instead of,
“Oh! now, how much did you pay?”
LOST CO A’
STRAYED from the Rnhsajl >er
[on the morning ot the G,] cr
brindle, white faced, no ' lst ’ :
medium size, marked with a crop off
under bit
COW; medinm size, marked v-* 1 10rnc d
both ears, a hole in one ear and t
the other. These last marks not recolUao !n
to which ear. The last heard of her she « •. •"*
the neighborhood of Mrs. Anna Storey amUY*
W. Dixon's. Any information coccernin- i
will be thankfully-received. b Uer
June 10-tf. W. H. MEIGS
ESTRAY SALE.
w
ILL be soid at
Hood, of the 64
the residence of J n-
7th DiSt., G. \[ p ’ *’
Loweta
county, on Friday, the 24th inst.. betw eeu .v/
hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 2 o’clock ;> ^
as an estray, one cow of the following i>e 3( .; 1
tion: Color white, with red spots ort her shir
and mostly red ou her shoulders and neck-
her left horn saved off about four inches from
her bead ; about 10 or 12 years old. Apprais
ed to be worth twenty dollars.
July 10-11. W. G0LD8BERRY, C. I. C.
,r |lWO months after date application will be
made to the Court of Ordinary of Heard
county for leave to sell alb the lands belonging
to the estate of Lazarus Summerlin, deceased
M. C. SUMMERLIN
II. Q. WILKINSON,
Adrn’rs de bonis nen, with will annexed.
July l0-2m.
I NWO months after date application will ho
made to the Court of Ordinary of Heard
county for leave to sell all the land belonging
to the estate of R. D. Cato, deceased.
July !0-2m II. H. COOK, Adm’r.
T
WO months after date application wili bo
made to the Court of Ordinary cf Heard
county for leave to sell all the land and Rail
Road stock belonging to the estate of William
H. Glenn, deceased.
ELIZABETH R. GLENN, Adm’x,
GEO. W. GLENN, Adm’r.
July 10-2tu.*
South are destined to be heart rending ]
before Ioqo It is getting a strong hold ; zens abroad—all of which is buncombe, nothing
| but buncombe. Men who contemptuously jg-
ia many parts or TSlbb county. j nore the rights of native American citizens at
-v i — - j home, are only playing hypocrit when they
HlS Own Sister.—One of the most ; profess to be Solicitous for the welfare of natu-
t a f .1,,, Snntk P irnlini Statesmen ■ ralized eitizens abroad. When the adminiatra-
learned of the South tarolina Statesmen ^ of tfae ^ overnment is entrusted to Demo-
was a foundling, and was taken to tne - cmtic j. ant i s citizens of all classes will have
home of an eminent lawyer while an io-1 the “rights” of which they are at present
proceeded to ! reared and educated by him, and deprived by tyrants and traitors—foreign and
finally taken into his office. He fell in j domestic
love with his patron s daughter, who re
Many others nominated, but Chase’s ciprocated his attachment*
j protested, and the lovers arranged for an
ballot, Pendleton | elopement, which was exposed andfrus-jj
but not before.
While some negro boys from the negro Eet-
H e r father Cement opposite Newbern, N. C., were swim-
! ming in Scott’s Creek, a branch of the Trent,
on Sunday, June 14. one of them was seized by
! an alligator, and before any help could be ob-
trated by a servant. The young man was ; tained was literally eaten up.
the
he
youngs
“ loved
Rumor has it that a young lady living near
Powder Spring?, was fatally poisoned by using
asked to an interview with
Second Ballot—Pendleton, 99; Packer, lady’s father, who said that
26; Johnson, 52 ; others scattering. and honored him beyond utterance; but a twig for a tooth brush, wherein the locusts
daughter, for the ! h * d deposited them eggs. How true thts is
New York, July 7.—First ballot, reason that she. is uour sister!" W e have
JohnsoD—Alabama, 8; Florida, 3 ; Geor
gia, 9 ; Maryland, 2$ ; Michigan, 8 ; 3Iis-
souri, $; South Carolina, 6; Tennessee,
10 ; Texas, 6 ; Virginia, 10.
Pendleton—Maine, 4; Missouri, 5
you can not marry my ‘ j we do not know, but whether true or not, it
reason that she is your sister. We nave a caution not to use anything the
this from the highest authority, but do j„ cus ts have placed their eggs in. for, it is said,
not think it necessary to menriou names, j their eggs are deadly poison. We learn from
a Tennessee paper that six boys—three white
Things I Like to See.
I like to see whole neighborhoods get
into a quarrel about nothing, it shows
there are independent spirits in the
world.
I like to hear the character of my friend
slandered; it gives me a chance to de
fend him.
1 like to hear long prayers on Suudays,
I can sleep better during the remainder
of the exercise.
I like to be praised to my face; it
makes me think I am no fool.
1 like to hear religious denominations
slander each other ; it is conclusive that
their cause is good, and that they are tak-
iug the best possible means to advance
it.
I like to see fifteen or twenty young
men parade themselves in front of meet
ing-houses on the Sabbath, and stare at
the ladies as they pass; it shows they
have read Chesterfield’s advice to his
son.
I like to see young ladies laugh and
play at religious meetings ; it shows they
possess fine feelings, and take an interest
in serious matters.
I like to be surrounded by a lot of
idlers when I ain in a hurry; it teaches
me to be patient.
I like to have a person ask me the
news, and before I have time to answer,
tell it himself; it shows he knows more
than I do myself.
I like to see church members aroused
from slumber to partake of the sacrament;
it 9hows the spirit is willing, but the
body is weak
I like to see people haunt the taverns
on the Sabbath, talking politics and
scandal, it shows that the day is regard
ed.
I like to hear the bell toll half the
time ; it tells strangers that we have one.
I like to see people ride for pleasure,
go to fishing or hunting on Sunday; the
better tlie day the better the deed.
1 like to see young ladies walk out late
at night; it shows that they are not all
afraid.
I like to have a man take a book or
paper out of my hands without asking
me ; it shows me he knows manners.
I like to have a man prying into my
business ; it shows he has an enquiring
mind.
I like to see a man in company engross
the whole conversation, it shows he thiuks
himself a very smact fellow.
I like to see young ladies assemble at a
window or door to make witty remarks
upon people as they pass; it shows they
want to talk of something they can’t
think of.
I like to see a young man have an ex
alted opinion of himself; he is sure there
is oDe that thinks well of him.
I like to see young ladies slander each
other, it is a sign their characters stand
fair.
I like to see one praise himself; it
saves one the trouble of doing it for him.
“Job printing!” exclaimed an old woman
the other day as she peeped over her specta
cles at the adverti.-ing page of a country paper.
“ Poor Job ! they’ve kept him printing, week
after week, ever since I first learnt to read;
and if be wasn’t the most patientest man that
ever was, he never could huve stood it so long,
nohow,”
Anatomist, say that man changes every
seven years. “ Therefore,” says the in
imitable Jones, “ my tailor should not re
mind me of the bill contracted in 1854—
I ain’t the man !”
A cautious old bachelor, who knows
that the present is leap year, says : “If
you meet a young lady who is not very
shy, you had better be a little shy your
self.”
In New York, on Friday morning, two-
sons of Dr. R. Ogden Doremus, the cele
brated chemist, were playing in a wooden
play-house, when it was accidentally set
on fire, and the youngest of the two
perished in the flames.
A hard-pushed Radical falls back upon the
encouraging fact that his party carried New
Hampshire at the last election. Prentice says
that is much line the man running away with
his own wife. But tne signs are that the wife
in this case will get a divorce before November.
“ White men must stand back.” That was
an inscription upon a banner borne by Forney’s
negro mob on the night of the Washington
electron.
NEW
H aving
I now
stock of
MRiMEiTOTS.
bought out the Messrs. Johnsons
offer a new and well-selected
Calicoes, Muslins, Mosenbique,
Plain and striped Jaconets,
Swiss Nansooks,
Black and brown Shirting and Sheeting,
Dress Trimmings,
Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, Linens,
Cassiiuers, Piece Goods, Cottouades,
Stripes, Ticking, Osnaburgs,
READY MADE CLOTHING,
3® ©WS, SHOES & MATS,
A fine assortment of
Crockery and Glass Ware,
Hard Ware, Powder, Shot,
Spice, Pepper, Ginger,
Soda, Copperas, Sulphur,
Indigo, Madder,
Coffee, Sugar,
Spades, Hoes, Shovels,
Scythe Blades,
Haines, Traces, Buggy Whips,
Umbrellas, Truuks, Buckets, Ropes,
Bacon, Flour, Meal, Sa5t,
A fine lot of
T O 33 -A. C O O -
Together with a great many other things
too tedious to mention, all of which will be
sold at reasonable prices.
jgJ-g^Come and see and be convinced. 1
gSg“-Mr. R. L. Hunter, as pleasing as ever,
will be on hand at all times to serve the La
dies, or those who wish to look or buy. I
return my thanks to all former customers, and
solicit a continuance of their patronage, ho
ping to be able to satisfy them in future as it
has been my desire to do iu the past.
Newnan, Ga., May 23-tf. J. T. KIRBl.
NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS!
We have received our new Stock of Goods
from New Y'otk,
Purchased Entirely for Cash,
Consisting of
Dry Goods and Notions,
Boots, Shoes Hats, Clothing,
Hardware, Cutlery, Crockery,
Shoe Findings of every descript’n,
Buggy Trimming of all kinds,
Saddlery, Harness Leather,
Sole Leather, Calf Skins,
In fact everything usually kept in a Mixed
Stock. All of which we will sell
JLOW FOB CASH.
We are agents for one of the best importing
bouses in Ntw York for the sale of all kinds of
Mill Stones and Spindles,
Bolting Cloths,
Smut Machines and fixtures,
Hoisting Screws and Bales,.
All of which we will sell at New York whole
sale prices, with freight added to this place.
Persons wishing to purchase Mill Materials,
before making their purchases will find it great
ly to their advantage to compare our price mt
with, those from other houses.
Thankful for the very liberal patronage be
stowed upon us heretofore, we respectfully
solicit a continuance of th- same at the old
stand of RED WINE & CULPEPPER,
North-East Corner of Public Square,
May 30-tf. NLV NAN, GA.
Nebraska^ 3 ; New Hampshire, - ; North 1 somewhat injured his back
A Montreal dispatch savs: Jefferson Davts, and three black were found dead under a
i while coming down stairs with his children in mulberry tree, from eating the bemes ia which
: 1 his arms in the hotel at Lennoxville, fell and , the locusts had placed their egg?
^Marietta Journal.
The Japanese Dickens, Kloyte Bhkm by
nam$, has written one story in one hundred
and six volumes, which was thirty-eight years
going through the press.
It cost the Australians over $1,500,000 to
entertain Prince Alfred, which may be called
paying rather dear for one’s whistle.
WM. S. HILLEY,
Agent and Commission
MERCHANT,
(Store ox tee South-West Corner of Publi®
Square,)
D EALER in all kinds of
Provisions,
Family Groceries,
Shoes and Crockery.
Country Produce token in Exchange f“‘
Goods.
Tb&
ana
He will sell a3 cheap as the cheapest,
public are respectfully solicited to call
examine his Stock. Come and see yon
get bargains, [^ a . v *