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ffEWNAIT, GEORGIA.
Friday Marring, October 9,1869.
for FrtEsfDfarr.
HORATIO SEYMOUR,
Of New "York,
for vick President.
FRANCIS P. BLAIR,
Of Missouri.
STATE ELECTORAL TICKET.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE.
Gf.s. JOHN B. GORDON, of Fulton.
Hon. JOHN T. CLARKE, of Randolph.
FOR THE DISTRICTS.
1. JOHN C. NICHOLS, of Pierce.
2. Col. CHARLES T. GOODE, of Sumter.
Z. RAPHAEL J. MOSES, of Muscogee.
K. AUGUSTUS 0. BACON, of Bibb.
6. Maj. J. B. GUMMING, of Richmond.
G. H. P. BELL, of Forsyth.
7. Col. JAMES D. WADDELL, of Cobb.
FOB hetbesentative of tub third congressional
DISTRICT,
H(J«H BUCHANAN,
Of Coweta.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
The following is the Platform adopted by the
National Democratic Convention at New York:
The National Democratic Party, in National
Convention assembled, reposing its trust in the
intelligence, patriotism and discriminating jus
tice of the people, standing upon the Constitu
tion as the foundation and limitation of the pow
ers of the Government and the guarantee of the
liberties of the citizen, and recognizing the ques
tions of slavery and secession as having been
settled for all time to come by the war or the vol
untary action of the Southern States in Consti
tutional Conventions assembled, and never to be
renewed or re-agitated, do, with the return of
peace, demand—
1st. Tho immediate restoration <5fall the States
to their rights in the Union under the Constitu
tion, and of civil government to tho American
people.
2u. Amnesty for all past political offenses, and
the regulation of the elective franchise in the
Statesby tho citizens, and the payment of the
public debt of the United States as rapidly as
practicable.
3d. All money drawn from tho people by taxa
tion, except so much as is requisite for the neces
sities of the Government economically adminis
tered, to be honestly applied to sjieh payment,
and, where tho obligations of th<5 Government
do not exprbssly state upon their face, or the law
under which they were issued does not provide
that they shall bo paid in coin, they ought in
right and justice to be paid in the lawful money
of tho United States.
4th. Equal taxation of every species of prop
erty, according to its real value, including Gov
ernment bonds and other public securities.
5th. One currency for the Government and the
people, tho laborer and tho office-holder, the
E ensioner and the soldier, the producer and the
ond-holdor.
Gth. Economy in the administration of the
■Government; the reduction of the standing army
and navy; the abolishment of the Freeumen's
Bureau, and all political instrumentalities de
signed to secure negro supremacy; the simplifi
cation of the system and discontinuance of the
Inquisitorial boards of assessing and collecting
internal revenue, so that the burden of taxation
may be equalized and lessened, the credit of the
Government and the currency made good, the
repeal of all enactments for enrolling the State
militia into national forces in time of peace, and
atariff for revenue upon forigu imports, and such
equal taxation under the internal revenue laws
as will afford incidental protection to domestic
manufactures, and as will, without impairing the
revenue, impose the least burden upon and best
promote and encourage the great industrial in
terests of tho country^.
7th. The reform of abuses in the administra
tion, tho expulsion of corrupt men from office,
the abrogation of useless offices, the restoration
of rightful authority to and the independence of
the Executive and Judiciary Departments of the
Government, the subordination of the military
to tho oivil power, to the end that the usurpa
tions ol Congress and the despotism of the sword
may cease.
8th. Equal rights and protection for naturalized
aud native-born citizens at home and abroad.—
The assertion of American nationality, which
shall command tho respect of foreign powers,
furnish an example and encouragement to people
struggling for national integrity, constitutional
liberty, and individual rights, and the mainten
ance of the rights of naturalized citizens against
the absolute doctrines of immutable allegiance,
and tho claim of foreign powers to punish them
for alleged crimo committed boyond their j uris-
diction.
In demanding these measures and reforms, we
arraign the Radical party for the disregard of
right, and the unparalleled oppression and tyran
ny which have marked its career.
After the most solemn and unanimous pledge
of both Houses of Congress to prosecute the war
exclusively for the maintenance of tho govern
ment and* the preservation of the Union under
the Constitution, it has repeatedly violated that
must sacred pledge under which was rallied that
uoble volunteer army which carried our flag to
Tictory,
Instead of restoring the Union, it has, 60 far
as was in its power, dissolved it, and subjected
ten States in a time of profound peace to miiitary
despotism and negro supremacy.
It has nullified the right of trial by jury.
It has abolished the writ of habeas corpus—
that most sacred writ of liberty.
It baa overthrown the freedom of speech and
of the press.
It has substithtod arbitrary seizures and ar
rests aud military trials and secret starchamber
inquisitions for constitutional tribunals.
It has disregarded in time of peace the right
of the people to be free from search ond seizure.
.It has entered the post and telegraph offices,
aud oven the private rooms of individuals, aud
seized their private papers aud letters, without
any specification or notice or affidavit, as requir-
ed'bv the organic law.
It lias converted the American capitol into a
bastile.
It has established a system of spies and official
espionage to which no constitutional monarchy
of Europe would now dare to resort.
It has abolished the right of appeal in impor
tant- constitutional questions to the supreme judi
cial tribunal, and threatens to curtail or destroy
its original jurisdiction, which is irrevocably vest
ed by tho Constitution, 'While the learned Chief
Justice has been subjected to great and atrocious
calumnies merely because he would not prostitute
his high office to the support of the raise and
partisan charges preferred against the President.
Its corruption and extravagance have exceeded
anything known in history, and by its frauds and
monopolies it has nearly doubled the burdens of
debt created during the war.
It has stripped the President of his constitu
tional power of appointment, even of his own
cabinet. : }
Under its repeated assaults, the pillars of the
Government are rocking -on their base, and,
should it succeed in November next, and inaugu
rate its President, we will meet as a subjected
and conquered people, amid the ruins of liberty
and the scattered fragments of the Constitution.
Aud we do declare aud resolve, that, ever since
the people «f the United States threw off all sub
jection to the British Grown, the privilege and
trust of suffrage have belonged to the several
States, and have been granted, regulated, and
controlled exclusively by the political power of
each State, and any attempt by Congress, on anv
pretext whatever, to deprive *auy State of this
right, or interfere with its exercise, is a flagrant
usurpation of power which can find no warrant
in the Constitution, and, if sanctioned bv the
people, will subvert our form of government, and
can only end ins single, centralized, consolidated
government; ifi which the separate existence of
the States will be entirely absorbed and an un
qualified despotism be established in place of a
Federal Union of equal States.
That we regard the reconstruction acts of Con
gress, so-called, an usurpations, unconstitution
al. revolutionary and void.
That our soldiers and’ sailors, who carried the
flag of our country to victory against a most gal
lant and determined foe, must ever be gratefiillv
remembered, and all the guarantees given in
cutto? VOr VUStba carried into- exe-
That the public lands should be distributed as
wtdclv among the people as possible, and should
be disposed of either under the pre-emption or
homestead law, and sold in reasonable quantities,
and to none but actual occupants, at the mini
mum prices established by the Government.—
When grants of public lands may be deemed
necessary for the encouragement of important
public improvements, the proceeds of the sale of
such public lands, and not the lands themselves,
should be applied.
That the President of the United States, An
drew Jonson, in exercising the power of his high
office in resisting the aggressions of Congress on
the constitutional righto of the States and the
people, is entitled to the gratitude of the whole
American people, and on behalf of the Demo
cratic party we tender him our thanks for his
patriotic efforts in that regard.
Upon this Platform the Democratic party ap
peal to every patriot, including all the conserva
tive element and all who desire to support the
Constitution and restore the Union, forgetting
all past differences of opinion, to unite with us
iu the present great struggle for the liberties of
the people, and that to all such, to whatever par
ty they may have heretofore belonged, we pxtend
the right hand of fellowship, and hail all such
co-operating with us as friends and brothers.
in reply, why allow the Radical politicians to said Ordinary Way p**s an order th .»
blind the people by false statements ami make: 8bo ald said pr ,. Ddrty (describ:..- the same)
them believe that the national debt is being.., » A •> -r^..
diminished, wh**n in fact the Government is; w sohx by Virtue ot an}’ order,
not meeting its expenditures by upwards of one i judgment, of decree of any Cdurt in this
hundred and fifty milfioOs of dollars per an-; State, tWo thousand dollars in specie, or
num. which must be made up by an increased j it * equivalent in carrefiCy, of the proceeds.
taxation upon the people. Other subordinate
officials have attempted, by well written arti
cles, to prove the treasury to be in a most heal
thy condition. Director Del mar has used his
thorough knowledge of facte and figures to ex
pose its rottenness, and the Radical wire-pul-
i iers at Washington are made to howl over this
I unexpected blow, which they admit is a stun-
; ner. The Hon. Robert J. Walker, the rccog-
! nized financier of the country, has read this
j exposure, ami pronounces it perfectly oVer-
i whelming He thinks it will arouse the whole
i country to a lively appreciation of the reckless
; extravagance of the dominant party, and lead
to the annihilation of the Radical p^rty.
Motiev. speakers and documents are >ent _ From the National bdethgencer.
oil dariy. fur-semee in thtr RefftdhiTStafe. Horrible Atrocities on the Frontier—'
but from all appearances they misrbs as ; . The Army Needed there, and not in
well be kept at home. The advices 1 from | ij^e South.
Pennsylvania are of the most cheering ,
character. A Democratic majority pf l Tw > or ;hree days since we published
Atlanta Business Directory
Drugs Sc ifledicines.
REDWINE k FOX, wholesaleand retail d Ctl ;.
[communicated.]
News of the Week from Bowden.
Rowdox, Oct. 5, 1868.
Cotton is brisk at twenty cents ; old com is
still selling at seventy-five to eighty cents:
peas of the new crop opens at sixty cents for
colored, and seventy-five cente for white. It
is thought that new com will be plentifully de
livered in Bowden at fifty cente. Chickens sell
ing from ten to fifteen cente ; eggs ten ; butter
twenty—there is a great demand for these ar
ticles. Dried peaches, rough, is worth seven
cents ; pealed is worth from twelve and a half
to fifteen cents ; pealed apples four cente.
Bowdonjias but five business houses, two
shoe shops, three blacksmith shops, two wood
6bops, the Coliege and the Primary and Fe
male school, and three churches.
One thing Bowdon is very much in need of,
and that is a Tan Yard. Mr. Editor, please
send us a good Tanner, and we will try to get
you an additional number of subscribers to your
very interesting paper. The health of the coun
ty is generally very good, but there is some
cases of chills and fever, near mill ponds, and
also Borne of typhoid fever. One man, Mr Z.
Hood, who has just returned from Arkansas,
is now in this place, and is very sick. He is
satisfied with the west—having tried it two
years. Carroll is the best country yet, poor
os it is. Very Respoctfuilly, &c.,
N. S.
Southern Cultivator. —The October number
of the Southern Cultivator, tilled with an inter
esting variety of reading matter lies upon our
table. Win. & W. L. Jones, editors and pro
prietors, Athens, Ga.
The Savannah, Griffin, and North Ala
bama Railroad-
The following are the officers, recently elect
ed, of this Road to wliicb the the State,
eight thousand dollars per mile, upon certain
conditions, has been promised :
W. M. Wadley, President Road.
W. M. Chapman, Griffin.
C. C. Peeples, Griffin.
T. A. Grace, Newnan, Ga.
G. E. Smith, Newnan, Ga.
G. W. Camp, Carroll county.
Atlanta Business Directory.
We call especial attention to the cards, of
Business Houses in Atlanta, under the above
head. The gentlemen connected therewith
are reliable business men—have large stocks,
and hold out great inducements to Merchants
and others to try Atlanta, before going else
where.
Peterson for November.—We are indebted
to the proprietors of this popular Magazine
for the November number.
Treasury Statistics-
Hon. Alexander Delmar, director of the bu
reau of of statistics at Washington, in reply to
inquiries by Henry Grinnell, Royal Phelps, Wil
son G. Hunt, and others of New York, has
written a lengthy statement of the condition
of the national finances, which has created a
stir, politically and otherwise in New York.
The paper shows that the treasury is involved
in the current year s finances, and will need a
large sum to complete its engagements up to
next June. Mr. Delmar estimates the defi
ciency at $154,339,202,25, without reckoning
the needs of the postoffice, or those matured
claims which have been deferred. This deficit
will at the end of the fiscal year lie an addition
to the present amount of the public debt, a re-
result against which Congress was warned by
the Secretary of the.Treasury, whose letter Mr.
Delmar quotes. According to the Treasury es
timates presented to Congress, the expendi
tures of this fiscal year, if none are deferred,
will amount to $475,950,202,23. as follows :
Ordinary expenditures, 1868 9, $398,317,183.95
Alaska,'1868’69. 7.200.000 00
Private appropriations. 1868 69, 553.669.81
Deficiencies, 1867 68. 19,275.706,97
Principal af loans,1847'8,1868‘9, 8.582.641,80
Treasurer's exp., 1808'9, 42,000,000,00
$475,959,202,13
Without including the Postoftice deficiency,
which will amount to $6,100,000.
ESTIMATED REVENUE OF THE CURRENT FISCAL TEAR.
To meet the 475,959,202,23 of expenditures
for 1868 9, we shall (Mr. Delmar says) give the
following receipts :
Register's receipts.
Customs, $150,000,000
Internal Revenue, 122,120.000
Public Lands, 1,000.000
Direct Tax, 1,500.000
Miscellaneous (excluding gold prem., 5,000,000
Treasurer’s Receipts,
$279,620,000
42,000,000
Total, $321,620,000
Thus if the Treasury endeavors to meet its
current expenditures this year (to say nothing
of matured claims deferred, or of the postotfice
deficiency.) it will show a deficit of $154,339,-
202, 25 at the end of the year, to be obtained
from increased taxes or loans.
Mr. Delmar closes his lengthy exhibit with
the following remarks:
“ The reconstruction measures and tennra-of-
office law are the main cause of all the extrav
agant expenditures which, under economical
management, 1 think could be diminished with
in a year to $200,000,000 per annum, includ
ing gold interest on the public debt. Without
a total change of policy, however, such re
trenchment is impossible. A continuance of
present measures means a continued heavy ex
penditure, and this can only be met by increas
ing the public debt.
AN ACT.
To provide for setting apart % Homestead
of Reality and Personality, and for the
valuation of said property, and for the
full and complete protection and ‘securi
ty of the same to the sole use aud bene
fit of families as required by Section
First of Article VII of the Constitu
tion, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by authority
of the General Assembly of this State, «&c. t
That each head of a family, or guardian, or
trustee ofa family or minor children, shall
be entitled to a Homestead of reality to
to the value of Two Thousand Dollars in
specie, and personal property to the value
of One thousand Dollars in specie, both to
be valued at the time they are set apart,
and no Court or ministerial officer in this
State shall ever have jurisdiction or au
thority to enforce any judgment, decree
or execution against said property so set
apart, including such improvements as
may be made thereon from rime to time,
except for taxes, money borrowed and ex
pended in the improvement of the Home
stead, or for the purchase money, of the
same, aud for labor done thereon, or ma
terial furnished therefor, or removal of
encumbrances thereon j Provided, the
same shall have been set apart and valued
as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2. Every person seeking the bene
fit of this act, and of said section of the
Constitution, shall make out a schedule
and description of the pers mal property
claimed by him to be exempt under said
section of the Constitution from levy and
sale and hand the same to the Ordinary,
of the county in which he resides, and
shall apply to the said Ordinary for an or
der to the county Surveyor, or if there be
none, some other Surveyor, to lay off his
homestead allowed by said section of the
Constitution, aud to make a plat of the
same, which order the Ordinary shall is
sue at once and give to the applicant.
Sec. 3. When said schedule has been
so filed, and said application has been
made the said Ordinary shall publish in
the Gazette in which Sheriff’s sales, for
said county, are published, not more than
twice, a notice as follows : A. B. has ap
plied for exemption of personalty and set
ting apart and valuation of homestead,
and I will pass upon the same at
on the day of 186—, at
my office.
C. D., Ordinary,
filling said blank, so that all persons may
know the time for action by the Ordinary
on said petition.
Sec. 4. The time fixed by said notice
shall not be less than ten nor more than
twenty days from the date of the order of
the Ordinary to such surveyor. The sur
veyor to whom said order shall be deliv
ered by the applicant, shall lay off the
homestead on or out of the land claimed
by the applicant, and make a plat of the
same, and make an affidavit that the same
is correctly platted and laid off, and that
the same is, to the best of his knowledge
and belief, not worth more than two thou
sand dollars in specie, and return the
same to the Ordinary before the day ap
pointed iu the order for passing upon said
application. Should any county survey
or fail to comply with his duty, as pre
scribed by this act, be shall be, by said
Ordinary, punished for a contempt of
court. -
Sec. 5. If, at the time And place ap
pointed for passing upon said application,
no objection shall be urged by any credit
or of the applicant, the Ordinary shall
endorse upon said schedule, and upon said
plat, approved, this the day of ,
186—, (filling the blanks.) and shall sign
the same officially, and hand the same to
the Clerk of the Superior Court of his
county, who shall record the same in a
book to be kept for that purpose in his
office. .
Sec 6. Should any creditor of the ap
plicant desire to object to said schedule,
for want of sufficiency and fullness, or for
fraud ot any kind, or to dispute the valua
tion of said personality, or the propriety
of the survey, or the value of the premises
so platted as the homestead, he shall, at
said time and place of meeting, specify
the same in writing thereupon, unless the
applicant shall so alter said schedule or
plat, or both, as to remove said objections,
said Ordinary shall appoint three disin
terested appraisers to examine the proper
ty concerning which the objections are
made and to value the same, and oa their
return (which shall be made under oath)
. . . ... mce we puonsnea | in Dnig8i Medicines nnd Chemical*^ w ‘"
it they do not exceed that amount, shall: front ten to fifteen thousand is confident- Gen. ©rieretan s letter, settwg tbrt»* the j Wfrhelnill and Alabama streets. ’ COrntr
be. by the levying offices, paid over to the ; ly predicted by Democrats there. • entire inadequacy of the rniHtavy force un- } J. S. WILSON. M. D„ (late Wilson fc r
Ordinary lor the time being, to be inves- i Ohio ond Indiana also- send us pood. ; der his command to protect the people on j dealer in Drugs, Medicines and Surgical Instru^
ted by some proper person, ro be appoint- * news, and we shall be disappointed if they i the Plains or on the frontiers from Indian ments i under National Hotel,
ed by the Ordinary, in a home for the do not go Demuoratic in October i ravage and bh>*dy ruid, and also the over- j HardlFarf, Ac,
The greenback issue, irbich rather hurts ' land routes, and the railways in process J. M. k J. C. ALEXANDER, dealers in II
In the East, helps in the West, and we ot construction. Gen Sherman, from i ware, Iron, Steel, Bolting Cloths, Ac. dr
are informed, draw a large number ofj party considerations in connection with j XobacCO, See*
Republican votes to the Democratic ticket, i Ura election, is undoubtedly doiug the best j JORDAN, HOWARD k HAR\LS0V
The prospect is, in fact, as hri. ht and ; he can under the circumstances to hide bacco;Commission Merchants, Whitehall3tre°t*
benefit of the family of the applicant,
which shah be exempt as if laid off un
der this law, and shall cause the Clerk of
the Superior' Court to record said order
in said book.
Sec. 8. Should any ministerial officer I cheering as could be desired, except in j from the people upon the frontier the fact! Atlanta, Ga.
of this State, upon being shown a certifi
ed copy of such order, fail to retain and
pay over to said Ordinary said proceeds,
as above required, or should any Ordinary
receiving the same fail to appoint said
person to have the same invested, and
turn over the proceeds to him, said offi
eers and their securities, respective.}',
shall be liable to said applicant for said
trooly loil” eyes, which view it through that whatever of bloodshed and loss of
very sombre spectacles.
Downfall of the Bourbons in Spain.
The last Spanish revolution has been a most
successful one. The armies of the late Queen
have l»een defeated and scattered. She who
wore the crown a short mwnfh ago is now a fu
gitive in France. The arms of her family have
money, and twenty per cent, interest there ! ben lorn from every public building in her lute
on, while they respectively wr-ngfuiiy
withhold the same or any part thereof.
bee. 9. In all eases, before the approv
al of said Ordinary can be demanded, as
aforesaid, the applicants shall pay the
costs of said proceedings, including the
Clerk’s cost for recording the same, to the
Ordinary. He shall be bound for 6uch
costs if be approves the same; the said
officers shall each have for his said ser
vices the same fees as are now allowed
him, or shall be hereafter allowed him, by
law for services; Provided, nevertheless,
that if any person, filing objections to said
schedule or plat, shall fail to have the
same sustained, he shall pay the cost of
said proceedings.
Sec. 10. Any officer knowingly levy
ing on or selling said property thus made
exempt from sale, shall be guilty of tres
pass, and the wife or family of the debtor
may recower herefor for their exclusive
use.
Sec. 11. Said property so set apart can
not be encumbered or alienated by the
husband, but if the same be sold or en
cumbered by bim and his wife jointly,
(in the case of husband and wife,) or with
the approval of the Ordinary for the time
being endorsed on the encumbrance or
deed, paid encumbrances or deed shall be
valid as if said property had never b.-en
so set apart.;--’ ;
Sec. 12. Said property as set apart shall
be for the use of the wife or widow, and
chiidren during her life or widowhood,
and at her death or intermarriage, be
equally divided between the children of
her former marriage then living.
Sec. 13. Shouid the husband refuse to
apply for said exemption, his wife or any
person acting as her next friend may do
the same and it shall be as binding as if
done by the husband. Should any trus
tee or guardian of a family of minor chil
dren fail to apply for said exemption the
Ordinary may upon application of any
next friend for the minors allow him or
her to act in lieu of such trustee or
guardian and this shall be as binding as
if done by the said guardian or trustee.
Sec. 14. Nothing herein contained shall
be coustrued to. prevent any debtor, who
does not wish to avail himself of the bene
fits of this act. from claiming the exemp
tion alldwed by section 2,913 of Irwin’s
revised Code’and, Should he claim them,
then he shall get the benefit thereof by
complying with the law prescribed in this
act, but no person who shall be allowed
the exemptions under these laws shall
take any benefit under this act, nor shall
any person, who shall be allowed the ex
emptions under this act,' be allowed the
exemptions under said laws, except the
articles named in parts 10,11, 12 and 13
of said section 2,013.
Sec. 15. Be it enacted, etc, That all
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this
act be and the same are hereby repealed.
Benjamin Conley,
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President of the Senate.
A. E. Marshall,
Secretory of the Senate.
• R. li. McWhorter,
Speaker House Representatives.
M. A. Harbin,^ .r. -
Clerk House .Representatives.
Approved October 8,1868.
Rufus B. Bullock.
Governor:
Office Secretary of State, )
Atlauta, Ga., October 5, 1868. j
I hereby certify that the above and
foregoing pages contain a true and correct
copy of the original act of file in this of
fice. Given under my hand and seal of
office. David G. Cotting,
|*seal] Secretary of State.
The Prospect in New York—Tremend
ous Efforts of the Radicals in Penn-
sylvania -The Greenback Issue in the
West. .
The New York - correspondent of the
Boston Post, writing .under date of Sept
ember 25th, says :
Grant’s friends, profane and otherwise,
have given up all hope of carrying New
York. They do npt stand a ghost ofa
chance. The prospect for Seymour
Hoffman improves daily, and will gro*
capital. Her Ministers have deserted her. Ev
erywhere her euemies have triumphed. And
Isalielia may be added to the list of munarchs
out of business. Who will grasp the sceptre
so rudely and suddenly torn from the hands of
a ba<l and incapable queen ?
Spain is hardly ripe for a Republican form of
government. A monarchy of some kind will
be established. A worse one than that just
subverted it is difficult to imagine. A better
condition of affairs will doubtless follow the
dethronement of Isibilla. It is to be hoped
that wise, just and uuseiffsh counsel will pre
vail with those who now wield the balance of
power in unfortunate Spain. Let them profit
by the misrule of the forcibly but deservedly
dethroned sovereign, and prove to the world
that Spain still boasts men worthy of the an
cient renown of that once great kingdom.—
Phil. Enq.
property has arisen, and whatever of ne
cessity exists tor the return of emigrants
and stock raisers to the more densely pop-
Commission merchants.
W. M. k R. J. LOW 7 REY, Grocers and Gen
eral Commission Merchants, and Wholesale
Dealers in Yarns and Domestics—keep con-
Spanish News Confirmed.
Secretary Seward on Thursday received an
official cable dispatch from our Minister to
Spain, Hon. John P. Hale, dated at Madrid, the
1st inst.. confirming the news of the flight of
Queen Isabella, and establishment of a provi
sional government in that country. The dis
patch reads as follows;
A provisional government has been organiz
ed by the insurgent chiefs. The Queen left the
Spanish territory yesterday.
John. P. Hale,
Washington Chronicle, 3d.
SPAIN.
Her Present Condition and Glorious
Past-
The prominent position accorded to Espar-
tero in the present Spanish insurrection gives
it a dignity which it does not derive from the
name of General Prim, who has no such politi
cal or military record, and who does not com
mand the confidence of the intelligent middle
class of Spain. General Espartero is now sev
enty-six years old, and is what is called in our
country, “a self-made man,” being the son of
a wheelwright, aud enlisting as a common sol
dier in the army in 1808. He afterwards went
to a military school, and passed through the
various grades of the service to the highest
rank. He has been the original and most stead
fast champion that Queen Isabella ever had,
and the sway of absolutism must have become
intolerable, which a L-nated si c'i a friend and
arrayed him against her government. It is
not true, however, as seems to be assumed by
some of the press, that Espartero is a Republi
can. His regency was distinguished by his op
position to the extremities of that party, though
there is no doubt of his moderate liberal ten
dencies.
Whilst it is difficult to ascertain what may
be the designs of the present insurrectionary
movement in Spain, there is no country of
Europe whose national character combines
more of the qualities which are requisite for
the success of free constitutional government.
The intelligence and culture of her leading and
upper middle classes, the pride and dignity of
personal character, exalted courage aud stern,
unyielding perseverance, common to the whole
nation, give hopeful augury of her future. The
past history of Spain is an attestation of the
sterling virtues of her people, which, however,
6he may l»e depressed fir the present, invests
with unusual interest every strgggleshe makes
for liberal and material progress. Can Eng
land itself show such a record of vitality of
race, and of stubborn and eventually success
ful resistance to foreign invasion as Spain can
exhibit ? Far from it. England was success-
si vely overrun by Danes, Saxons, Normans;
but Spain, invided b/ the Moors in 711, de-
despoiled of her finest provinces, her people
compelled to find a refuge in the mountains of
the Asturias, and her fugitive chiefs holding a
council in a cavern, kept up a war of resistance
with hut little intermission till 1492. The an
nals of history m*y be searched in vain for a
contest as long,.« bitter and involving so ma
ny antagonistic elements of race, religion, tem
perament and interest. For seven hundred
and eighty-one years the Spanish nation strug
gled to throw off the Moorish yoke, a grand
consummation which was accomplished in that
magnificent reign of Ferdinand and Isabella,
resplendent with the glories of two hemis
pheres.'.
Scarcely had Spain emerged from this long
night of centuries, springing like the tropi
cal sun, suddenly and full orbed from the
darkness, when Bhe, who had for so long a pe
riod been convulsed in a life and death strug
gle for her own existence, gave birth, through
the enlightened patronage of her court to Chris
topher Columbus, to a new world. The names
of her gieat Captains, De Leon and De Cordo
va, and of her illustrious statesmen, Mendoza
and Xinomes, are indisolubly linked with that
brilliant period of her history, and gave the
impetus to that career of greatness which made
her tor two centuries the first country in Eu
rope. Notwithstanding the subsequent de
cline of Spain in material strength, her insur
rection against French rule in 1808, when half
a mi.lion of combatants waged a guerilla war
fare of four years against tue usurpers, and il
lustrated their heroism by the immortal de
fence of Saragossa, Geioua, Cadiz, Tarragona
ana Valencia, demonstrated that the lofty
courage and inflexible purpose of the Spanish
nature had survived the decadence of its polit
ics! power. With a national character ihat
hts much of the grave austerity, pride and per-
, j severance of the Romans, modified in some de-
aDr J ! crae by the pacific and practical tendencies of
;ke age, with one the finest climates, and
ulated settlements, and whatever of dau- | 3ta i nt, . v r lH .[g^ 3tot 'k3 of these goods on hand.
ii I i , and solicit the trade of Merchants and others
gcr menaces all who mav go beyond them, | , 0 Georgia and Alabama. At th.ir old .land
on Alabama street.
Hals, Caps A Ftrrs.
J. M. HOLBROOK, Wholesale and Retail
dealer in Hats, Caps, Furs, Triinks, Valises,
Caues, Ac., adbis old stand on Whitehall street.
FOR RENT.
O NE house and lot, in the town ofNewnan r
now occupied by A. J. Smith, Esq., will
be sold low for cash, or on time, by paving
one-third cash, and balance in two annual in
stallments, with interest. Price §1500.
SPEER k SPEER,
Attorneys at Law,
Oct9tb-'G8-3m. LaGrange, Ga.
comes from that Radical policy in the
South to overcome white men by blacks,
which requires all the army of the Uniited
States to aid in effecting the ever infam
ous object. The army is taken from the
Western frontiers, where it is needed,
and hence the Indian scourge of the bor
ders. The people in the remote States
and Territories are paving in blood for
Radicalism:
“Near Denver,” says the Frontier In
dex, “possibly twenty eight or thirty miles
away, was located a small settlement of
white citizens with their families. A few
days ago ail the men but three or four
were out buntiug. Shortly after their;
leaving home a band of fiends, number j
ing one hundred aud fifty, descended upon
this peaceable abode. The men were
killed and scalped; the dwellings were
burned, with contents. These scenes we
arc accuftoined to hear of every day, but
that which follows seems incredible:
Seventeen women and girls were taken
out and every one ravished by the blood
thirsty hell-hounds—not once, nor twice,
but six, eight, twelve and one of them
forty times. Not satisfied with this, they
were mostly dismembered, hacked to
pieces, some of them even having the
bowels torn out and flung in their faces.
Every one still living was compelled by
cuts and slashes of the knife and blows
across the face to stand and witness the
tortures of the victims. One poor woman
was found alive with three arrows stuck
into her person. She lived long enough
to relate the horrible tale.
“General Sherman attempted to make
a speech at Denver, and was hooted down.
He would have heeu mobbed for saying
that “the Indiaus are now quiet; there is
no more dangerbut the civil authori
ties protected him. As it was, he was
hung and burnt in effigy by the excited,
indiguat people. To prove that Sher
man’s words belied his own belief, he
took along three companies of cavalry to
proteet him when he went up the coun
try. Three, days subsequent to this inci
dent followed the horriblo atrocities men
tioned above. And yet when asked, day
before yesterday, while up the track with
Frank Blair, “why he made these speeches,
he repled, laughingly, that “if he preach
ed war and depredations, it would retard
the Eastern immigration; the people East
would not come West to locate.”
Bold Robbery.—Another singular and daring
robbery was perpe rated in Wall street yester
day. A gentlemanly looking man entered the
office of Philip Dater & Co., aDd asked to see
a directory While be was examining the di
rectory Mr. Dater placed $10,000 in bonds in
the drawer of a desk near at hand. The stran
ger then entered into conversation with Mr.
Dater, and passed out of the office with him.
He soon returned, however, and asked again to
see the directory, which he received at the
identical desk where the bonds were placed.
He again withdrew with a non-chalant air,
after a quiet examination of the directory, and
the $10,000 bonds went with him—New York
Herald, Oct. 3d.
T HE undersigned having purchased the
right to manufacture and sell Aurora Oil,
offers inducraents to those who wish cheap and
safe lights. Its burning qualities are in every
particular, superior to Carbon or Coal Oil, and
cannot fail to give universal satisfation. It
will burn longer and give 30 per cent, better
light than Coal Oil or. any other in use. It
does not 3moke the chimney. It will not grease
any kind nf fabric—is not explosive. Ail we
ask for it is a trial. Can be found for sale at
the Drug Store of Dr. C. D. Smith, Newnan,
Ga. Price 75 cents per gallon.
Also for sale by War® and Hill, LaGrange,
Ga.
HENRY ORR,
Newnan, Ga., Oct. 9th.
JOHN ESTEN COOK’S NEW NOVEL.
TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE.
4 LL those who have not paid their Tax, „
/> for the year 1867, and whose names have
been placed on the Insolvent list, are notified
to come forward and pay the same. I will
be in Newnan, Friday and Saturday the 9th.
and 10th inst—and on Friday and Saturday
the 16th and 17th inst. Those who fail to
come forward as notified by the last mention
ed date, will have their names published in the
Newnan Herald, and posted at the Court house
door the day of Election on 3d Of November
next, and they will not be allowed to deposite
their votes until all taxes are paid.
2t. J. P. NEELY, T. C.
Hi ^
J. T. Kirby,
S5
Head Quarters
S *
T. Kirbv.
—:o:—
FOR-
if either be found to be too large such al- j brighter all along. But jf the Radicals-lmost lroitful co^utriesm Europe, and a conse-
teration shall be made in said schedule ! l.^re given up the S
Mr. Delmar’s Report—Excitement in
Washington.
The Washington correspondent of the Balti
more Gazette says : s
Telegrams to Secretary MKJulloch announc
ing the publications to-djiy, in Boston and New
York, of an expose ot the true condition of the
Federal Treasury, from the pen of Alexander
Delmar. the Director of the Bureau of Statis
tics, has raised a gr<£it storm in the Depart-
partment, and political circles here are in a per
fect foment. Who is Mr. Delmar, that he
shouid Urns.assume the task of exposing the
.condition of qur finances? Mr. Delmar aeka,
aud in such plat as the Ordinary may {hone tose.-j,. it in another
deem proper, to bring the same withiu [or to Senator Morgan will be
the limits of lira value allowed by said J the next Legislative, and the whol
section of the Constitution, ard he shall i strength of tho party will be put forth to
then and there approve said schedule and change the complexion of the Assembly,
said plat, as n q.rred by the filth section j so that Morgan may be succeeded by a
of this act. and iund the same to the clerk I man of his own stripe. The Radical
of the Superior coart of hia county, who | managers are trying to bargain for a’ * 1 *x
State in one way t hg y phys.ori development not surpass^ by
'-! any n*cr on the continent, it is reasonable to
A success -conclude that there are elements of recupera
elected by' lion and resource in such a people which not
only give lair promise of their capacity to sus-
tama constitutional government, but to regain
much of tneir old military and commercial as
cendancy iu Europe.
F. J. HUNTINGTON & CO.,
549 BROOME ST., NEW YORK,
Have in press, to be ready in October,
MOHUN;
Or, the Last Days ot Lee and his Paladins
By J. Estex Cook,
Author of “ Surry of Eagles’ Nest.”
Of “ Subby,” of which Mohun is a Sequel,
Ten Thousand copies were almost immediately
sold. The new work is still more intensely in
teresting. Printed on fine-toned paper, and
richly hound in cjoth, with upward of 500 pa
ges, it has for its frontispiece a fine steel me
dallion head of Gen. Lee, and four beautiful il
lustrations in Homer’s best style. Either hook
is sent by nuiil, post free, on receipt of the price, $2,-
25. For sale by all Booksellers and Newsdeal
ers in town and country. Oct9—3t.
DRY GOODS
AND
GROCERIES!
W E have just received, and are dailv re
ceiving from NEW YORK, one of the
BEST AND LARGEST
STOCK OF GOODS
Ever offered in this market, consisting of
Calicoes,
Dress Goods,
J aconets,
Swiss, Balmoral,
And Hoop-Skirts,
Dress Trimmings,
Hosiery, Gloves,
Ilankerchiefs, Ladies Cloaks, Shawls, and
a general
Assortment of Notion*!!
Also, a splendid selection of
Piece Goods, Kcrsies, Tweeds, Jeans, Linsey^,
Cassiineres. Red, White, Opera and SauU-
bury Flannels, Bleached Shirt
ings, Sheeting, Osnabugs,
Bed Ticking, Yarns,
Fine Bed and Saddle Blankets, &c.
xm- m ^ s 9
Ladies, Misses and Children’s Shoes.
Mens and Boys' Boots and Shoes,
Ditching Boots, Trunks and
Hi Off id IS YT LfiJ UB
CLOTHING,
Such as Coats, Pants,
Collars, Vests,
Under Shirts, Over Shirts,
Rubber Over-Coats, &c.
Also, a fine assortment of
CROCKERY & GL1SS WIRE,
Hardware,
Pocket & Table Cutlery,
Table & Tea Spoons,
Axes, Spades, Shovels,
Shovels and Tongs,
Steelyards,* Fire & Sad
Irons, Breast Stetchers,
Trace Chains, Collar*..
Castings, Grind Stones,
Nails, Tacks, Sprigs,.
&c., &c., &c.
TO RENT.
O N the First Tuesday in November next,
will he rented before the Court
RzpiSTRATios IN Aiabama.—The Mail says j y j Wli! he „. nteci bt>fore the House,
. , - _ toe Sell ste bill passed the house yesterday with J , n Newnan. Coweta county, within the legal
shall record tlra same as required byjsec-j change of Votes in the Assembly di.-tri*i -. j a Unimportant amendment*. Ihe bill j hours of sale, ihe plantation belonging :o the
Coffee,. Sugar, Fisb^
Syrup, Cheese, Flour,
Bacon, Salt, Powder,
Shot, Pistols, Pepper,
Spice, Bluestone, Sulpher,
Indigo, Madder, Smoking
and Chewing Tobacco,
Bagging, Rope & Ties,
Oil Cloths, Table Cloths,
Mens, Boys & Ladies’ Saddles,
And also, a great soany other articles too nu*-
merous to mention.
All we ask is to call and examine our stock,
before purchasing. We are determined to sell a*
LOW AS THE LOWEST!
Our motto is
QUICK SALES AND SHORT PROFITS 1
No use of blowing the horn, come and see for
yourself. Our DRY GOODS are at the old
stand of J. T. KIRBY—our Groceries in tho
tion the fifth of ibis act; Provided, Thai
either parry dissatisfied with the judg
ment shall have the right to appeal, nn
tier the same rules aud regulations and
restrictions as are provided by iaw iu ea°es
of appeal from the court of Ordinary.
S«o. 7. If the applicant seeks to have
a homestead s**t apart ont of town proper
They Otfcr Radical votes for Hoffman in | to enable tue negro counties to be re-
y .. .. . .. , ; a n-terau, aud to cut off the white counties. In
uxcfiauge .or Democratic vofeg lor i>id! . tUtJ j^taut white lOOittus tuera is barely time > v L ., ir
cal Assemblymeu, and they offer tuJney j to give reasonable notice. Wnite men! be ! c ! u 11 '* J
besides. There is nut the slightest prob- [ready to take liie o.ith and register I
ability, however, that t|ra]i.«ril »nec#ed *a
Public Schools in Alabama.—An act passed
his scheme. The Derate rets hav* bsea
warned, and are wide awake, and the next
Assembly wiii probably be
evec uiuiu
ty, exceeding in value two thousaud Joi- J strongly Democratic than the present
lars in specie, and it cannot be so divid j one.
ed as to «rve a homestead of. that vaineJ Desparing of carrying New Tork in
he may make application to the Ordinary, | November, the Radicals are working hard
•nd upon satisfying him that this is true { * to secure Pennsylvania in Qctobex.— [for botjj white and colored children.
estate »f Joseph R. Meriwether, deceased, nrae house formerly occupied by Glass, North &Co.,
miles west of Newnan. ou the Franklin road, j Greenville Street. Our
Prin’p’l Salesman, J. A. HUNTER, Dry Good*.
Ass’t, “ o. McClendon, ••
Pr p i, “ R. L. HUNTER, Groceries.
P. S MERIWETHER
W
D. MERIWETHER, } Adm ’ rs *
0.-t.9-tdr.
by the Legislature of Alabama provides Unit iu
a,; case shall it be lawful to umte in one school,
both colored and white children, unless it be
the unanimous consent of the parents or guar
dians of such children, but township Trustees
shall, in all u’ ner cases, provide separate schools
GEORGIA, Cowetoj Coanty
1 - Wt> MONTHS after date application will
be njade to the Court of Ordinary of
said eonoy, for leave to sell, at private sale,
.11 tbe wild land belonging to the estate of
Srancis Q. Bowen, late of said conntr, deceas
ed. JAMES B, MARTIN,
Qct9l8«*8—tda > Administrator,
Ass t, “ B. T. THOMPSON,
We will barter for COUNTRY PRODUCE,
and assist the farmer in ling his cotton when
necessary, WITHOUT CHARGE.
j.I. iT. KIRBY.
T. KIRBY will be on hand to pay the HIGH
EST MARKET PRICE for COTTON-
Qc fcl.1868—