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Newspaper Page Textaf<attttaTl Jountal. Published Weekly, at 157 Bay St., $2.00 a Tear in Advance THURSDAY,: AUGUST 22, 1872. For President, ULYSSES S. GRANT, (OF ILLINOIS.) For Vice-President, TTJECISTPLY WILSON, (OF MASSACHUSETTS). FOR GOVERNOE, DAWSON A. WALKER, Of Whitfield County. Rooms of the Congressional! Committee, First District, > Savannah, Ga., Aug. 15th 1872.) At a meeting of the Congressional Com mittee of the First District, held this day, it was resolved that a Convention of the Union Republican party of this district, be held at St. Andrew'3 Hall, Savannah, on Thursday, September sth, 1872, at 12 M., for the purpose of nominating a candi date for the Forty-third Congress. The basis of representatiou was fixed at double the number each county is entitled to in the lower House of the General As sembly. R. W. White, Chairman. Wm. Cantwell, Secretary. Rooms Republican. Executive Committee, i ■’o Congressional Hist op Georgia, !• Albany, Ga., Aug. 14th, 1873. ) 4 T A MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE HELD this (lav for the purpose of calling a Conven tion to nominate a candidate to represent the District in the 43rd Congress. It was ordered that said Convention do assemble at Albany on SATURDAY, 31st day of AUGUST. Each Comity will lie entitled to twice the repre sentation it lias in the lower branch of the General Assembly. Under the late Act redistricting the State, the following counties compose the District: Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Loundes, Mitchell, Miller, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell. Thomas, Worth. It is earnestly requested that every county in the District be represented. Charles Arnold. F. H. Hampton - , John Few, 3d Congressional District, Ex-Committee. POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN FLOR IDA. The Democratic State Convention of Florida, which met in Jacksonville a week ago, followed in the footsteps of the Democratic State Convention of this State, and snubbed the Liberal Republicans that were in session in convention at the same time; refusing to put on their State ticket a repre resentative as was asked by the Lib erals; and though the dispatches assert that the Liberals afterwards endorsed the Democratic ticket as nominated, they failed to state that many of the more prominent leaders of the Liberal Republicans repudiated the whole action, and declaimed they would support the regular Republican ticket. The delegation from whole counties bolted, disgusted with such treatment. Among them the dele gation from Leon county. The success of the Republican tick et in Florida is assured. The party is united as it has not been before for three years. The ticket nominated is a good one, and popular. Judge Hart, the candidate for Governor, is a man against whom the shafts of in vective cannot be hurled. He is an honest man of ability; a Southern man, and true to Republican princi ples. That lie will be elected, no one at all familiar with the situation in Florida for a moment doubts. Rut speaking of the “ snubs ” the Liberals are receiving from the Dem ocrats all round, we say to those Lib erals not already disgusted with such treatment, like Oliver Twist, walk up to the manger and ask for more of the same sort. The idea that any one who has heretofore affiliated with the Republicans asking to be recognized and represented on the Democratic ticket, is supremely preposterous. Oli! no, gentlemen, you have all along been classed by your Democrat ic allies as “thieves,” “scoundrels,” “carpet-baggers,” and “scalawags how can you expect from them even decent treatment when such is their opinion of you. The following extracts from lead ing Democratic papers show what they think of the result of the election in North Carolina: Tliat was but the verdict of a his toric national party. You have pro nounced in advance the verdict of a nation.—[New York Tribune. The “ Old North State” is a tradi tional leader in the work of liberty. She has unfurled again the flag of 1775. It means liberty now.—[N. Y. World. However, it may be interpreted as foreshadowing the great event of November next, —[N. Y. Journal of Commerce. At the same time, the friends of union, peace, and reconciliation, are jubilant over the work accomplished by their brethren in North Carolina. Grant’s Appomatox has been reached in that State.—[Philadelphia Age. Let us all recognize this great event in the fullness of its meaning. The oracular voice of that history has spoken through the people of North Carolina, and its meaning has no doubtful or ambiguous interpreta tion.—[Richmond Enquirer. All hail the victory that is the be ginning of the end!— [lndianapolis Sentinel. A Connecticut paper says that Gen. Banks’ letter is a startler. Yes ; but it is not half so startling ns the North Carolina election. [New York Sun. I GREELEY’S NOMINATION. The statement that Greeley was first nominated by a convention of Republicans at Cincinnati, conveys what is not true. The only legiti mate and true nomination of him by any considerable body of the people was at Baltimore. The Baltimore Convention, or rather the delegates to that convention, did represent a con stituency, and in placing in nomina tion Greeley, they select him as the representative through their action of that constituency, and Greeley is therefore the nominee of the Demo cratic party, and no other party. He is their selected standard bearer in this campaign. The mass meeting gathered at Cin cinnati on the first of May, was not composed of persons selected by a constituency, or under the call that gathered them together were they called for the purpose of putting in nomination candidates for President and Vice President; but were called together to consult on revenue and civil service reform; called more especially to advance the interests of Free Trade. Any one was author ized to come, and persons attended on their own option. It was but a mob in one sense. In one instance a sin gle person pretended to represent a whole State, and actually cast the vote of the State As well might the citizens of the city of Cincinnati have gathered together and placed in nom ination candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency, and claimed in so doing they were the candidates of a national party, or a considerable offshoot of a party, and that the can didates nominated were national candidates. Those who gathered at Cincinnati, proceeded beyond what the call that gathered them authorized them to do; and after placing Greeley and Brown in the field, they hastily returned to their homes to hunt up if possible a constituency that -would endorse their action. In this they have met with signal failure. The nomination of Greeley at Cincinnati is in no sense a Republican nomination; but his nom ination by a convention of delegates that represent a solid constituency, as was the case at Baltimore, makes him the nominee of that party that elected those delegates, which is the Demo cratic party. llow do you, gentlemen, Democrats like your candidates ? You of the South, how are you pleased with a candidate that has said of your wives and daughters,'“That nursed by blacks, filled with animal passion, im bibo it from tlicir nurses, and on arri ving at the age of puberty, immediate ly manifest a desire to gratify sen suality?” And how, Mr. Democrat, are you pleased with a candidate that says, “may it be written on my grave that I never was a follower of the Democratic party, and lived and died in nothing its debtor ?” And again, how do you like your candidate when he says, “a purely selfish interest attaches the lewd, ruffianly criminal, and dangerous classes to the Demo cratic party V’ And you who fought bravely for what you considered your liberty and independence, how are you pleased with your candidate, when he says, “ when the rebellious traitors are overwhelmed in the field, and scattered like leaves before an angiy wind, it must not be to return to peaceful and contented homes. They must find poverty at their fire sides, and privations in the anxious eyes of mothers and rags of children ?” If with these sayings of your candi date you are highly pleased, perhaps next week we will give you other of the trite sayings of your much loved and admired leader. Too much of a good thing at once might not digest well, so we refrain from quoting fur ther sparks from your philosopher’s anvil to-day. POLITICAL NEWS. The Republicans of Fulton County elected the following delegates to the State Convention: 11. P. Farrow, John L. Conley, Win. Finch, James Atkins, M. Mitch ell, Robert Johnson, James L. Dun ning, James Tate, D. D. Snyder, M. Cargyle, V. Spalding, J. McHenry, W. L. Scruggs, Andrew Jackson, Geo. S. Thomas, Ilarry Jones, J. R. W. Johnston and Geo. McKenney. General Banks has had his griev ances. He says he helped Gen. Grant to his reputation by declining to su persede him in the command at Vicks burg, as directed by Secretary Stan ton, and lie has hinted that Grant might have shown his gratitude by giving hima mission to Paris, or least giving him a larger share of patron age. The country owes Banks a ddbt of gratitude in this matter, even if Grant does not acknowledge it. It is impossible to say what disaster might not have happened if the hero of the Red River campaign had been placed in command at Vicksburg. One of the grandest ovations ever extended to a public man was given to Senator AVilson at Indianapolis. The principal feature was a torchlight procession three miles in length, 2>ass mg through streets that were thronged with people the entire dis tance. At the stand a very small pro portion of the enthusiastic throng could get within sound of the Senators voice. He spoke an hour and a half, and was listened to with profound at tention. METHODIST MINISTERS AND POLITICS. We have seldom seen the display of so bad a spirit in editorial writing as in a late number of the Southern Christian Advocate, a professedly re ligious paper of Macon, Georgia, in a leader entitled “Bishop Haven and Politics.” Bishop Haven, of that branch of the Methodist church known as the Northern, has written a political article for a newspaper, in which he expresses the opinion that the election of Greeley would bring very harmful consequences to the Southern Republicans, white and colored. For this, the Advocate gives him a column of censure, exhib iting more of malice, hatred and un charitableness than is often found even in the vfinomous Democratic press of Georgia. We have not seen llie Bishop’s article. The extracts from it in the Advocate probably contain the sharp est paragraphs. These are to the effect, that in the event of Greeley’s election there would be hanging and slaying in the South ; that is, that the Ivu Klux would be unchained. And what is more probable ? The Advo cate dares not deny that murder has been rife in certain parts of the South and that Grant’s hand has stopped it for the present. The Advocate dares not deny that every unrepentant Ivu Klux prefers Greeley to Grant. The Advocate dares not deny that the election of Greeley would encourage the Ivu Klux, and that the election of Grant would discourage them. But the complaint of the Advocate is, that a Christian minister, and espe cially that a Bishop, should say such things. And why ? Greatly concern ed for the spiritual usefulness of Bish op Haven, it declares that lie lias made enemies of the members of the Democratic party by his newspaper article, and “therefore they cannot receive the gospel from his lips.” On this, we must pause. The Democrat ic party, comprising, according to the Advocate, “ three millions of men, with their wives and children,” cannot receive the gospel from the lips of an eminent divine, because lie gives em phatic expression to political views different from theirs! This is an admission of Democratic bigotry be yond our previous conception of it. It seems that Democrats hale Dr. Haven’s Republicanism more than they hate sin, and will even resist the gospel when it comes from his lips. “The word of God is not found,” says an Apostle. “ The word of God is bound in Democratic bigot i y,” (be sentiment of the Advocate. Conscious that it might lie going too for, the Advocate puts its case on the assumption that Dr. Haven lias pronounced all Democrats criminals This is a small piece of sophistry. The triumph of a party may result in crime, when great numbers of the party intend no such consequence. We may truly say, that a Democratic success would promote robbery and murder, and all the other forms of Ivu Kluxery, without saying or mean ing that all Democrats arc Ivu Klux. God forbid, that such a saying should ever be true! The Advocate remarks that Bishop Haven has been assigned to the South. Hence perhaps comes the wrath of the Advocate ; with a hos pitality more Democratic than Chris tian, it tries to prejudice its readers against him. The Advocate belongs to the church South, and with keen delight attacks a Northern Bishop about to labor in a Southern vineyard. We suppose that the Bishop is a man of gifts and graces. We suppose that God has blessed his work at the North, and, supposing that the Holy Spirit that works there is the same power that works here, we hope for like fruits of his labors in the South. But this, we are sorry to say, the Advo cate is impiously laboring to prevent. For we venture to say, that not one in a hundred of the people of the South would ever have heard of the Bishop’s political writings, but for the Advocate. The Advocate spreads among them a story wli’ch if expects will close their cars to “the gospel from his lips.” Then if any souls to whom this channel of gospel grace is thus closed shall therefore bo forever shut out from that grace, will not awful guilt rest upon the Advocate ? The Advocate is a good illustration of the divine allusion of the mote and the beam. A newspaper which pro fosses to be exclusively religions, is at least .as much bound to keep from party politics as a Bishop. Yet the very article in the Advocate which condemns Bishop Haven, is itself full of extreme political partisanship. We give a few instances : It as serts that at least one half the popula tion of the country are Democrats. The elections for the last few years show the Democrats to be eonsidera bly less than half. It asserts that in the South, ninety nine out of every hundred white men are Democrats. This is a monstrous fiction. Witness the Republican triumph in North Carolina, where there is a majority of thirty or forty thousand white voters. Look at East Tennessee, at North Georgia, at West Virginia, and Kentucky, and you will find that notwithstanding all the persecutions, ecclesiastical and civil, which white Republicans have received in the South, enough are still found on the side of liberty and union to make the Advocate’s figures ri diculously false. It asserts that “ there is no moral or religious question at issue in the political campaign.” Democrats may think so; but we are of a different mind. Wc believe that religion and morals require the suppression of the Ivu Klux, the promotion of education, the abandonment of the hitter section alism, which taints so much of the Southern mind. The complete over thow of Tammany corruption, and its imitations in both parties at the South, and the establishment of that peace and good will among nations, which Grant has done so much to bring about; and hence we are for Grant on relig ious and moral grounds. In another- part of the same paper, we find more evidence of the same partisanship. A letter from Athens, giving an account of the Commence ment, qubflP* from a speech of Toombs, in which the “ Tanner of Galena ” is named in connection with “despicable, ignorant, stupid, thievish, brutal military despotism,” and then pronounces the speech a “ noble expo sition and defense of national and constitutional liberty.” A religious paper, so called, gives circulation to the quintessence of the lowest party slang, pronounces a eulogy upon the speech containing that slang, and yet rails at Bishop Haven for writing “an intemperate political document.” The effrontery of the Advocate is wonder ful. The Advocate is opposed to “ min isters of the gospel publicly participa ting in party strifes.” Then instead of its lecture to Bishop Haven, it might have reprimanded men of its own communion here in Georgia. We are informed that among the most reckless Democratic speakers in the State; among the most reckless Democratic members of the Legisla ture and of the party committees are certain Methodist ministers. If they succeed in undoing on Sundays the mischief that they work during the week, the clerical office is wholesome to their souls. But we fear that the Advocate’s ideas of right depend on the ownership of the gored ox. We do not undertake to say how far a preacher may properly be a politician. Let each man’s conscience guide him. But YrC*?tVcT persuaded that a Metho dist Bishop, North, has as good a right to write Republican politics in a New York paper, as a Methodist Doctor of Divinity, South, has to write or publish Democratic politics in a religious paper at Macon. TIIE CANVASS IN MAINE. The canvass going on in the State of Maine at the present time is but a transfer of the vigorous effort that was made during the late canvass in North Carolina. It is but a change of the theatre of action, and the dis tinguishing marks are as plainly seen as in North Carolina. The Republi can party is thoroughly organized, and our friends are making herculean efforts that will bring its result at the election. The Democrats are by no means united, or are they at all san guine of success. In some parts of the State are found a few sorehead Liberal Republicans, but tlicir num bers are more than overcome by Democrats, who openly declare their intention to vote the regular Republi can ticket. Some have even joined Grant and Wilson campaign clubs. The best campaign speakers on both sides arc earnestly canvassing the State, and great enthusiasm is mani- fested. A thorough canvass of the whole State has lately been made by going into all the counties, and it is shown that the grand old Pine Tree State-4-the leader in the van of Presidential elections heretofore—will hold her own and more too. Gov. Peril am will be re-elected by an increased majority over that of last year, and in November a majori ty of from ten to fifteen thousand will be rolled up for Grant and AVil son. The rotten Democracy of the past, under its new mask, is being fully shown up, and the chicanery of its leaders in having a set of principles for the North and another for the South, will receive no help at the hands of the honest, patriotic lumber men, farmers and mechanics of the down east State, who have always been true to the Union and Government. Speaker Illaine is doing splendid work in organizing and canvassing, and to him more than any one should the meed of praise he awarded when the grand result is attained 5 and he will receive it with the heartfelt thanks of all true Republicans nil over the country. A .stylish bonnet can he obtained from Paris mr $125. Indulgent husbands and fathers will please cut. this out to show to their wives and daughters. It is s.i id that young ladies who wear solitaire diamond rings never refuse to play the piano prhen called upon. NEW CONGRESSIONAL DIS . TRICTS. A Bill to be entitled an act to lay out and establish Congressional Districts in this State, in conformi ty with the last apportionment of Representatives in the Congress of the United States. Sec. 1. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia, do enact, that from and after the passage of this act, there shall be in this State nine Con gressional Districts, which shall he as follows, to wit: The First District shall include the counties of Appling, Bryan, Bullock, Burke, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Clinch, Echols, Effingham, Emanuel, Glynn, Liberty, Mclntosh, Pierce, Screven, Tatnall, Ware, and Wayne. The Second District shall include the counties of Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Lowndes, Miller, Mitchell, Quitman, Randolph, Ter rell, Thomas, and Worth. The Third District shall include the counties of Coffee, Dodge, Dooly, Erwin, Lee, Montgomery, Macon, Pulaski, Stewart, Schley, Sumter, Taylor, Telfair, Webster, and Wil cox. The Fourth District shall include the counties of Campbell, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Coweta, Douglas, Harris, Heard, Marion, Merriwether, Muscogee, Talbot, and Troup. The Fifth District shall include the counties of Crawford, Clayton, De Kalb, Fayette, Fulton, Henry, Hous ton, Milton, Monroe, Pike, Spalding, and Upson. The Sixth District shall include the counties of Baldwin, Bibb, Butts, Jas per, Jones, Laurens, Newton, Put nam, Kochdale, Twiggs, Walton, and Wilkinson. The Seventh District shall include the counties of Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Cobb, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Harralson, Murray, Paulding, Polk, Walker, and Whit field. The Eighth District shall include the counties of Columbia, Elbert, Glasscock, Green, Hancock, Ilart, Jefferson, Johnson, Lincoln, McDuffy, Oglethorpe, Richmond, Talliaferro, Warren, Washington, and Wilkes. The Ninth District shall include the counties of Banks, Clarke, Daw son, Fannin, Forsyth, Franklin, Gil mer, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison, Morgan, Pickens, Rabun, Towns, White, and Union. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that from ami after tho passage of this act, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict therewith, he and the same arc hereby repealed. CHATHAM COUNTY. The Republicans of Chatham Coun ty have perfected a thorough organi zation. There are eight militia dis tricts in the county, and a Republi can Club has been organized in each district, officered as follows ; FIRST DISTRICT. L. B. Toomer, President; C. L. DeLamotta, Vice President; I*. C. Simmons, Secretary; Thos. Walker, Treasurer. SECOND DISTRICT. John A. Lawrence, President; The odore Basch, Vice President; Wm. 11. Morrell, Secretary,; Wm. E. Hun ter, Assistant Secretary; Stephen Braswell, Treasurer. THIRD DISTRICT. A. N. Wilson, President; Jas. B. Mathews, Vice President; C. P. Free man, Secretary; J. J. Newton, Assist ant Secretary; John lieiley, Treasu rer. FOURTH DISTRICT. John. H. Deveaux, President; Henry Fields, Ist A T iec President; J. AV. Fleming, 2d A'ice President; AVin. Cantwell, Secretary; King. S. Thomas, Assistant Secretary; Win. AVoodhouse, Treasurer. SIXTH DISTRICT. Scipio Gordon, President; Joseph Snead, A’ice .President; AVatkins AVeston, Secretary; Jack Peek man, Treasurer. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Sawney Gordon, President; James Grant, Ist A r ice President; Fortune AVatson, 2d A T ice President; Caesar Walburg, Secretary; Henry Beebcr, Treasurer. EIGHTH DISTRICT. AVm. AVallacc, President; Isaac Charlton, Ist A’ice President; Edw'd Houston, 2d A’ice President; John McGilvery, Secretary ; AVm. Bizznrd, Treasurer. The following resolutions were passed l>y the 2nd District Grant and AVilson Club at its last meeting: AVher eas, the ladies of the Lone Star of Bethlehem, and Social Union Societies, in their patriotic ardor have contributed a sum of money to this club, for their use in the coming cam paign, therefore, lie it Resolved, That wc appreciate the kindness of the ladies of said societies, and direct our President, to return the thanks of this club to them. And be it further Resolved, That the editor of the Savannah Journal bo requested to publish these resolutions. John A. Lawrence, President, Wit. E. Henter, Secretary pro tern. The supcrintemlency of the weather signal station at Pike’s Peak, is the high est office in the gift of the government. It is 14,000 feet above the sea level. 'fhe Washington Star thinks it strange that “contractors” should he employed to “widen the streets.” CLAIMS OF SOUTHERN LOY ALISTS. We clip the following from the leading morning papers of Wednes day the 14th instant: The Commissioner of Claims ap pointed under act of Congress of March 3d, 1871, and May 11,1872, to receive, examine, and consider the justice of such claims as shall be brought before them, have found that, owing to the great expense attending the taking of testimony before them in Washington city, D. C., many poor persons with small claims, arc obliged to abandon said claim for want of means to prosecute. In order, therefore, to place the bene fit of the acts of Congress within the reach of all, special commissioners have been appointed throughout the South for the purpose of taking testimony in all eases amounting to ten thousand dollars or less, for pro perty taken by or furnished to the United States Army, such as horses, mules, wagons, cattle, hogs, beef, pork, bacon, poultry, hay, fodder, fence rails used for fuel, cord wood, lumber used in tents and fortifica tion, etc. The Special Commissioner in this city has lately been- receiving and disbursing money appropriated by Congress during its last session, to claimants on claims allowed and pas sed upon by the Board of Commis sioners in Washington. Persons having claims of the above nature can obtain any desired infor mation by calling upon, yr addressing Virgil llillyer, Esq., the Special Commissioner of Claims, Custom House, Savannah, Ga. There is as yet hut a small propor tion of our people who realize the fact that this is one of the most beneficent measures ever yet extended to the Southern people by a Republi can Congress. Every citizen has at least an indi rect interest in having every claim collected which it is possible to col lect. For let us suppose for a minute that there was a million dollars worth of property taken in this and adjacent counties, and that one half of that amount be claimed in due form and paid by the Government; we will then have brought into the communi ty the sum of five hundred thousand dollars clear increase in the pecuniary condition of the community over and above its present condition. To be sure, it will not come iii a lump, nor into any one man’s pocket; hut it will be put where it belongs, in the hands of legitimate claimants, a little here and a little there, to be by them in turn circulated through every branch of industry. Ol T R WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, I). C., Aug. 10, 72_ The readers of the Journal will be interested to know that Senator Sum ner does not propose to relax in the least his efforts in behalf of the color ed man. Last night lie responded to a sere nade, after being introduced by Dr. Augusta, and giving a brief review of the advance made by the friends of Equal Rights, in securing the civil, political, and public rights of the col ored people, pledged his future ef forts to perfect this triumph by the enactment of a full and complete Civ il Rights Bill. The serenade was given by Mr. Sumner’s colored friends, but the crowd which assembled to hear the Senator speak was largely composed of white men, many of whom are Democrats, and it was very cheering in view of tlicir recent prejudices, to hear these latter applaud the radical utterances of the great abolitionist. The newspapers announced the serenade as a political demonstration, but in his speech lie made no allusion to the Presidential question, only say ing incidentally, with great empha sis—“ The colored people should vote for those who are true to them; and let the measure of their support be equal to the fidelity of the candidate.” The first political speech to which your correspondent ever listened, was from the lips of Charles Sumner. Since then, for twenty years his utter ances have been to me “like apples of gold;” and when I heard this re newal of his vows to Freedom, I could not refuse to believe that the grand old man is true to the Right, “ as God gives him to see the Right,’’, and regret the attacks upon his sincer ity which arc daily seen and heard here. Last Monday night, a Georgia Re publican campaign club was organ ized here, with Judge J. Iv. Davis, of Augusta, Ga., as President, and Capt. Wm. P. Pierce, Secretary. Georgia Republicans are not numerons in Washington, but they are zealous. Capt. John A. Madden, of Burke comity, a member of the last Legisla ture of Georgia, and previously of the Constitutional Convention, has been promoted from a first class clerk to a second-class clerkship in the Post-Of fice Department. All who know the Captain will rejoice that his bodily sacrifice to his country’s cause is not wholly unappreciated by his country’s government. Although Capt. Mad den lost one arm during the war, the hand that is left him is never with held from the down trodden. Yours, Say vnn mi. Arrangements are making for a grand New England gathering ol the friends of Grant and Wilson, at, Lake Pleasant, Montague, near Fitchburg, Mass., early in "September. At the lake is a spot of ground whieli forms a natural nniphiteatro, capable of seating twenty five thousand persons within easy range of a single voice. Ex cursion trains from all points will ho run at half fare and less, and it is the intention to make this the greatest j popular demonstration ever witnessed in New England. ' CORRESP ONDENCE. Waynesboro, Ga, Aug. 17, 1872. Editor Journal: The Republicans of old Burke county turned out here by hundreds to-day to organize for the fight and to send delegates to the State Con vention to be held in Atlanta on the 21st inst. to nominate our candidate for Governor and for electors on the Grant and Wilson ticket. The meeting was called to order by Charles McLelian by moving that Jesse Wimberly, Esq., be requested to preside over the deliberations of the meeting and B. G. Hughes to act as Secretary. The chairman upon motion appoint ed Henry Warren, Willis Smith, Morris Jones, James Kelsey, Sam’l Gardner and Louis Burk a committee to report a plan of county organiza tion. Asa committee to report delegates to the Atlanta Convention he ap pointed, John Mack, Charles McLe han, Jack Rciney, Edmund Harper, Frank Vincent, Phillip Jenkins, and B. G. Hughes. While the committees were pre paring to report, Col. Janies Atkins, Collector of the Port of Savannah, was invited to address the assem blage. lie spoke at length, showing the nature of the issues involved in the campaign, the character of the two rival candidates for the Presidency, and the plain duty of all to vote for Gen. U. S. Grant to remain in his present position for four more years. His remarks were listened to with marked attention and often interrupt ed by vociferous cheering. At the conclusion of Col. Atkin’s speech, Mr. Henry Warren, chairman of the Com mittee on county organization, report ed as follows, viz : We the Committee appointed to present a plan of county organiza tion, recommend that a County Com mittee to be composed of three (3) from each militia district, be appoint ed by this meeting, to wit:—For the Waynesboro district, Henry Warren, Willis Smith, and James Kelsey; for the Gist, William Pinkney, James Nash, and Jacob Jones; for the G3d, Samuel Gordon, Harvey Williams, and George Lewis; for the 68th, Ed mund Harper, Allen Royal, and Aaron Chandler; for the 70th, Abra ham Hart, Stalling Sharp, and Leu Williams; for the G7th, John Mack, Jonas Mack, and Dobbin Walker; for the 71st, P. P. Hall, Solomon Sapp, and Charles Bostick; for the 72d, Frank Vincent, Rias Johnson, and Paul Gardner ; for the 74th, Stephen Brown, Freeman Brown, and Ned Law. We also recommend that the per sons above named meet and organize by electing a chairman before leaving this place, and that when organized they chose eight persons to act as the County Executive Committe; con ducting the campaign, and managing the political affairs of the county, under the supervision of the county committee. We recommend that the three members of the county committee, resident in each militia district, be re quired to organize and to act as a District Committee in their respect ive militia districts, with full power and duty, where clubs are not already formed to organize Grant and Wil son clubs; said clubs where already formed or hereafter to be formed, to elect officers who shall keep a list of the names of all the members of their respective clubs, tlicir place of resi dence, and ages, and who shall see that every member of their respective clubs have paid their poll tax for 1871 before the Fall elections; also his poll tax for 1872 before the Jan uary elections. The foregoing report was unani mously adopted without alteration or amendment: Mr. John Mack, in behalf of the committee to suggest the names of suitable persons to attend the Atlan ta Convention, presented the names of Jesse Wimberly, John Mack, Frank Vincent, Edmund Harper, G. W, Lewis, and B. G. Hughes. These persons were chosen by acclamation. A resolution was then passed, au thorizing any delegate who may not go to Atlanta to appoint his own proxy; also one authorizing the County Committee to select delegates to the Congressional nominating con vention when called. Rev. 11. M. Turner by invitation then came forward and addressed the audience in strains of eloquence and logic, seldom surpassed. He kept the large audience in an uproar for about an hour. After Mr. Turner closed his address the County Committee elected P. I’. Ilall, Esq., as their permanent chair man ; deferring the election of a sec retary to another meeting. It also selected to act as the Executive Committee, Jesse Wimberly, Esq., Chairman, P. P. Hall, Henry War ren, John .Alack, James Kelsey, Frank Vincent, Charles Thomas, Charles McLclian, Sterling Sharp, and Ed mund Harper. Thus ended a glo rious day in old Burke. She is ready for the light. Gi: \xt ro Beat Ghkki.kv. Political.' —The next elections that are to occur will take place in West Vir ginia, Vermont ami Maine. The election in West Virginia will lie held oil Thursday, August 22d, when a full State ticket, four Judges of the Court ot Appeals, anew Con stitution, and three members of Congress are to bo voted for. Election in Vermont will be held on Thursday, September 3d, when State offi cers will be chosen. The candidates for Governor are Julius Converse, Republican, and A. B. Gardner, Democrat and Liberal Republican. The election in Maine will be held on Monday, September 3d, when State oflicesr and members of Congress will be voted for. The candidates lor Governor arc Sidney Perliam, Republican, the present incumbent and Charles l*. Kimble, Democrat and Lib eral Republican. A Western paper suggests that the mar riage service might be improved by read ing, “who dares take this woman:’’ And the groom shall answer “I dare.”