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BOCGHTON, BARNES & MOORE. Publishers and Proprietors. I. IV. ROrcHTON, Editor. £jje Jfcbcrai Pinion ]s published Weekly in Milledgerifle, Ga., Corner of Hancock <$' Wilkinson Sts., At $3 a year in advance* ADVERTISING. Transient.—One Dollar per square often lines for first insertion, end seventy-five cents for each sub sequent continuance. Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies, (Obit uaries exceeding six lines, Nominations for office,Com- iiiuitL-ationa or Editorialnoliees foriudividual benefit,; charged as tiansieut advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Sheriff’s saleR, per levy of ten lines, or less, $2 50 •• - Mortgage fi fa sales, per squnre, 5 00 Tax Collectors Saies, per aqua e, • 5 00 Citations for Letters of Administration, 3 t‘f> “ “ “ “ Guardianship, 3 Cfi Letters ot application for dism’n from Adm’n, 4 50 .* »« “ “ “ “ Ouard’n., 3 00 Application for leave to sell Land, 5 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 00 gules of Land.&c., per square, 5 00 perishable pioperty, 10 days, per square, 1 50 Estray Notices, 30 days, 3 00 f oreclosure of Mortgage, per sq., each time, 1 00 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Laud, &.C., by Administrators, Executors er Guardians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month; between the hours of 10 in I lie forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court House in the Coumyin which the property is situated Notice of these sales must be given in a public ga zette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be given in.like mnnuer 10 days previous to sale day. Notices to the debtors aud creditors of p.n estate must also be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Conrt of Ordinary for leave to sell Land, must be publish ed for two months. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardian ship, &.C., mnst be published 30day»--for dismission from Administration, monthly six mouths—fordismis sion from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must lie published monthly for four months—for establishing lost papers, fur the full space of tluee mouths—for compelling titles from Executorors or Administrators, where bond hue been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued according to these, file legal requirements, unless otherwise or He red. TO DB.UOIHATIC CLIBS IN UEOB- CIA. Rooms Central Executive Com Natonal Dem. Party of Ga. Macon April 2, 1868, The attention of the Democratic Clubs, of the several counties of this State, is called to Order No. 48, of Maj. Gen. Meade, prescribing regula tions to be observed, as to the chal lenge of voters at the election to be held on the 20th instant, and the three following days. J t is prescribed in said order that “no person, who is not a registered voter, will be permitted to challenge the right of any person to vote.” In order that illegal votes may be challenged, and to avoid any conflict with the order above mentioned it is suggested to the Democratic Clubs in each county, and in counties in which no Clubs have been organized, to the Democratic Party, to appoint two pru dent, discreet and intelligent challen gers, who are registered voters, for each place of voting, who will attend at the polls during the hours of voting, for the purpose of challenging all who may attempt to vote illegally. A strict watch will be necessary to prevent illegal votes from being re ceived, and it is hoped, and expected, that no person, who may be appointed challenger, will fail to discharge the duties assigned him. E. G. Cabaniss, Chairman Central Executive Committee Dem. Party. Democratic papers in this State are requested to give the above three in sertions, and to call special attention to it. THE PERILS OF TUB HOIR—LHC-1 TI RE AT SAWTEK’8 BOOMS. Mr. A. H. H. Dawson, late of Geor- delivered a lecture last loud peals of its answering thunder have come leaping over the plains to „ . , ^ , us, from the coast of the Pacific Ocean, *la, delivered a lecture last evening j s „j tbe base f ^ Rocky J!ou „, ains •t Sawyer a room., earner Jay street i_ for CnMforni , and Montana bath and Fulton Avenue, upon the above! ke , once . xhe „ ext audible subject The attendancei was lair and , „>„ tteH saItlled us from Iolvo a „ d the lecturer was repeatedly interrupt- ^ a8 clou(Js t east , ed in the course of the lecture by hear-; „ d arker aud grander, its light- y api’ uuse. . ntngs warmer and brigbler.aud its ful- Mr. Dawson in commencing said: j P . „„ . . , . 'T, , : initiations louder aud looser, until its An impenetrable pall of gloom ... i • . , • . f , r , * , r , ' v ,, explosions shattered into atoms a lvaoi- shrouds the future. T he nolitica ! / c . , , ... .. 1 . cal Senator s castles iq the air, in Ohio, heavens swarm with evil omens anx.e- an d t|)e dreams of a Rai i ica i Mpiraot ty and apprehension, doubt and drear t(J , he ho „ orsofthe ermine went down quicken the throbs of the national 1, , , ■, , „ , i Tfi , , ,, . , |“unwept, unbonored and unsung to heart. What sha lour country do to Li * u n i . , .? ,, , j , ,« , , . - the tomb of the Capulets, beneath the be saved, is the invo untary mterroga-• r- . e • r j 11 u i .. . ’ . , J a fury of its wrath, in good old Pennsyl- tion impulse propounds to reflection. ! - — - ° - —- , , .auia. Then in New York and New past we have silently j Jersey y,e whole face of the land was 1 : k -thed in a blinding blaze of old Con- For months watched the gradual growth of cloud that is lowering now so darkly upon onr land, and through the angry frowns of which the smile of Hope’s [„ pale star struggles so faintly, and while we agree with some of the views we see daily published, about the immediate causes which have conspired to force our public affairs into their present critical condition, we cannot agree with those who insist that the appall-j^j iiig danger now’ darkening the horizon of our destiny, is attributable in a in degree whatever, to the existence in our midst of political parties. Pui ties are the legitimate offspring of fi government. They have flourished temporally, under all forms of govern ment and types of civilization, in all nectieut lightning, and the founda tions of Radicalism were shaken as by an earthquake, by the thousand and one rattling claps of young California thunder that followed, and it takes no prophet to see the opening next No vember of the Red Sea of public feel ing to allow God’s chosen people, the true and tried friends of the Constitu tion, to pass on to Washington, and | the closing then of its whelming | waves over the staggering and strug gling hosts of Pharoah, clamoring as ll ’|tliey flounder and perish amidst the c< billows of public wrath for confisca tion, impeachment, universal suffrage, African supremacy South, Congres- , .. * * . , . . . isionul supremacy at Washington, gold ages of time and portions of the globe. \ c • . r , * A ° .- ° , , 8 l r ... . 8 ’! ior bonds, and a military despotism to Book and Jeb Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED, AT THIS OFFICE. 1S68. Fifth Volume* 1868. AN IMPORTANT SICCKSTION. Have you registered ? asks the At lanta Inte'ligencer, and have you con sidered the vital importance of going to the polls on the 20th of April, and doing all in your power to save Geor gia from the domination of negro rad icalism, and political adventurers from New England ? Georgia will need every vote her true sons can give her, and it is vastly important that all who have not done so should go and regis ter. The Registration Books will be opened on Monday, the 6th day of April, and remain open for a period of five days, during which time it is hop ed that every man who is in favor of Georgians ruling Georgia will go and have his name enrolled. Many good men did not register when the books were opened before, but they certainly will not neglect it now. The follow ing is an extract from General Orders No. 39, dated March 14, 186S, issued by Gen. Meade: V. It shall be the duty of the Boards ©f Registration in Georgia, in accord ance with said acts, commencing four teen days prior to the election herein ordered, and giving reasonable public notice of the time and place thereof to revise, fur a period of five days, the registration lists, and upon being satis fied that an)’person not entitled there to has been registered, to strike the name of such person from the list, and such person shall not be allowed to vote. And such Boards shall also, during the period, add to such regis try the names of all who, at that time possess the qualification required by said acts, who have not already regis tered. In deciding who are to be stricken from or added to the Registration lists, the Boards will be guided by the acts of Congress relating to Reconstruction, and their attention is especially call ed to the Supplementary acts which became a law July 19, 1867. It will be seen from this that all who have failed to do so, heretofore, now have an opportunity, and no true son of Georgia will neglect it. Judge Stephens on Relief.—The Augus ta Constitutionalist, commenting on the speech of Judge Linton Stephens in that city, Thursday night, says : “Mr. Stephens was particularly hap py in his illustrations of the folly of relief, comparing the parties who be trayed their country for a bribe to Judas, who had the satisfaction of get ting his money, a consumation which would be denied to those consenting to treachery on a false pretence. He demonstrated that though Congress and Georgia Judges might wink at the relief ordinance, the United States Court, under the bankrupt act, would explode all ordinances militating against established laws. Creditors would be still empowered to force dehtnrs into bankruptcy, Bullock and nis i -iief bill to the contrary, notwith standing. He further proved that the only parties actually to be relieved were rich men owing small sums (un der $500) to poor widows and indi gent men. The New Era denies that Col. Bui lock ever took an oath to support the Constitution of the Confederate States. There are parties in Atlanta who were present when he took that oath. A denial of the fact by the New Era amounts to nothing. We observe, moreover, that not The Friends of the Black man.—'Out even the New Era denies the report of one thousand tickets of admission to; that Col. Bullock held an office at the the Senate gallery for the trial of Mr. 1 North before the war, and that he took Johnson, not one was bestowed by any an oath to support the Constitution of Radical Senator upon any colored man the United States. If these charges or woman. Social equality is a differ- iare all true (and they have not been ent thing in practice from what it is in denied) Col. Bullock is clearly ineligi- but the history of Republics is more j j. I especially the history of the successes j | )OU „j 1{ and reverses, rise and fall of parties, where powers from, awes thought, they come aud go like shadows on the wall. outrol ali ballot boxes that cannot be i Earnestly as I have insisted j that rival parties are indispensable, 1 J am not prepared to deny that the very j perils that make the crisis in which i we are trembling now, are in truth i attributable alone to a political party,! to legislation that has lost sight of the { Constitution, the Union, humanity, justice, mercy, the will and the wel fare of the people, and also the will . ... e . - - .and the precepts of our Heavenly the press, it 16 often the proud province! T , , J of bold words to hold power itself in | F “ ,her °“ ly t0 awe. Then discussion takes a wide j range, the public mind becomes bet- j “ Like tlie Borealis moe That flit ere you can point tbe piaoe.' : Without a mission they come, and without a sign, depart, but where I neither edicts, fiats, or statutes fetter feeling, silence speech, or proscribe: rpHE PROPRIETORS OK THIS WELL-ESTAB I LISIIED SOUTHERN MONTHLY announce, on entering the third year of its publication with a a patronage of several thousand subscribers.and with a corps of contributors unsurpassed upon this Conti nent, that it is their design to furnish A FIRST-CLASS MONTHLY ! Equal in all respects to tha best Northern and English Periodicals. Among the leading serials of the present year will be THE GEORGIA CAMPAIGN, By the author of “ Field and Camp.’’ This will be a South-side view of Sherman's “ March to the Sea.” Battles and Campaigns of the Army of Tennessee, By one of the most gallant officers of I hat Department Tent and Saddle in the Holy Land, Bv Rev. R. A. Holland, of Kentucky. Also, a superb Serial by Coi. W. T. Thompson, author of “ Major Jones’ Courtship.” The usual number of Reviews,.Essays, Novelettes, etc., will also appear. Now is the time to subscribe. TERMS INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE: 1 copy, o ie year - .-t 4 00 5 copies, oue year IS 00 10 copies, one year 3G 00 20 copies, one year 70 00 40 eopies, one year 130 00 50 copies, one year 150 00 Specimen copies sent on receipt of 35 cents. Clergymen, Teachers and Postmasters supplied at $.1 50 per uonum, and they are authorized to act as Agents, letaiuing 10 per cent, commissions. l^*News Dealers supplied at 28 cents per copy, cash in advance. Remittances at onr risk may be made by Express or Post-office orders, or by Draft. Address SCOTT tr PITTMAN, Atlanta, Ga. Jan. 20, 1868 VOtf MONO FOR THE DEMOCRACY. BY MAX MOXCKTON, Ho, Georgians ! Ye who cherish still The Dimes yonr fathers bore 1 Ho, men who dare to maintain Your manhood aa before 1 Come rally round the dear old cause Before its flames expire ! Coma from the field, the wood, the town, And light your ancient fire .' Ho, strong of Heart! The hour has como ! Lift up each drooping lid : Let’s stand upon our brethren’* graves And there the wrong forbid. By all the hopes a patriot feels Let’s strike our cause to save 1 The dallier is the dastard now, The laggard is a knave. What, give the slenth-hound* leave to coma And pillage, rule and rob Where lies the dost rf grand old Troupe, The dust of patriot Cobb 7 Is there no hand to stay the tide 7 To save the old renown 7 To lift the good, the true, the brave, And drag the caitiff down 7 Ay 1 Ay ' we still have manhood left, To battle for the right 1^ The recreant Georgian is a slaTe— A coward in the fight. Crushed, wretched, still we've strength To make our blow* complete. And drive them till the bead of wrong Is reeking at our feet- I.ook, youths, into your sweetheart’* eyes, Which now the tear-drop lave*, And swear that those dear maiden breasts Shall never nourish slaves. Then rally, rally, till the air Is ringing with yonr shout! Exalt the brave, the good, tha true. Drive interlopers out. Atlanta, Ga., April 4, I86S. ter instructed, national wants more thoroughly understood, and threaten ing perils more gratefully appreciated, and therefore, I must respectfully beg leave to dissent from those who de plore the existence, and denounce the utility of political parties. I hold that they are not only unavoidable because ! 1 while men’s passions are the same,! their intellects are not. Parties are the result, and a fortunate result it is, I perpetuate the rule[ and reign of a party. Mr. Dawson then went on to speak ol negro suffrage which he described as a pet project of the Radical party. He said, 1 am certeinly not willing to stand off and fold my arms in cold and | lifeless apathy while a political party, | whose sole aim is power, is seeking to ! thrust the African race into a snare i through the perils of which it can ' ever pass and survive. The same reckless partisans who now unlieed- ingly tell him he ought to vote at the r , , i • l* i i oouth, where he is not educated, after lor, however much their bickerings , , .. . ,, , - , , , ,, ’ • >. xl • • i ° having abruptly told him he should may annoy society, their jealousies j guard the government, and they atone for the toleration of weak and wicked demagogues,iy the production of good and great statesmen. Moreover, no government can be administered with out an exchequer, aud wherever there is money that may be stolen, there thieves will swarm. National treasuries then, must have vigilant sentinels, which the party in power, of course, will always claim the right to select. But, peradventure, it may become necessary to watch the watch er, and it takes the party out of power to do that faithfully. Did not topics of paramount practical importance claim our attention, we. might spend an hour profitably, perhaps, examin ing the causes which have hitherto not vote at the North, where he is edu cated, lose no favorable opportunity to instill into his benighted mind, the poison of prejudice against his white neighbor, which if kept up, must eventually end in a deadly war of races, and when that war is inaugurated the African will learn, when it io also too late, that their total obliteration is not only a foregone conclusion, but that the army that will be organized for j their extermination will swarm with \ Radical quartermasters, commissaries, j sutlers, chaplains, bummers and camp followers. There is no sincerity in the blatant profession of the Radical’s affection for the African. Affection is the offspring ! of taste, reciprocal sympathies, kiu- i dred sift3 and similar habitudes of precipitated the downfall of political, , P , , , , u * * thought, and who could be more un- parties, for man was not more certain- ... ° f , ’ ,. xl x x- like, utterly and totally dissimilar than ly born to die, than that parties rise; . ’y, J - m T > • J ^ r „ rjM. - • i i-x . the Puritan and African. The Puri- only to fall. The political probity oi j the people is proverbial, but they are too frequently and too easily misled bv ! 1 demagogues, one hundred per cent. ol| j . ^ ^ whom are born scoundrels, who as i long as they can control constituencies that will cancel their corrupt contracts and connive at their crimes, never . . - - .. ., Af . .- . . , x x, x hi giously pragmatic, the African is not; pause to count what they cost. When ° . -\. 1 8 ., , ’ . . , ’ *. li i . one is thoughtful, the other thought- the masses are manageable enough to |. , ^ ? tamely consent under the lash of the j e8sie , ? K , ,i i x ^ „ i. xi -in i gy, the other lethargy: the one is pro law to pay all taxes, as the middle and i. tan is educated,'the African is illiter ate; the Puritan is metaphysical, the in only physical; the Puritan futuie, the African is behind the present; the Puritan affects refinement, the African is innocent of that hypocrisy ; the Puritan is prodi- humbler classes of society are doing now, to enable their party leaders to i hold all the offices, the resurrection!' blast of Gabriel’s golden trumpet will j startle from their dreamless slumbers gressive, the other retrogressive; one is impulsive, the other repulsive ; one is restive and the other is restless ; one is parsimonious, the other prodigal; one is a miser, the other is a spend- ,, , x i t x, x i i r ! thrift; one savesall he makes, the other the deepest stepere of the tomb before | nothing tJ save; the Puritan you will ever find one ot these patriot-1. ° ic office-holders indiscreet enough to explain to the people how the success i of another party than his own would 1 lighten the burdens under which they J may be bending and groaning. When j driven‘to the wall, however, nobody kuows it quicker, feels it more acutely or resents it more indignantly than do the people. That point, however, reckless demagogues sometimes fail to recognize wheu they reach it, and re strained by the recollection of no pun is niggardly, and the negro is not pu ritanical. The lecturer then proceeded to dis cuss the motives alleged to be the cause of the Radical desire for negro suffrage, proving them all to be insiu- ccre. lie also gave a description of the peculiarities of the African race, founding upon them a statement that if the question of repudiation should ever come up, the black votes would be the first to clamor for it. At the conclusion of the lecture, Mr. son announced that it was con- theory. ble.—At. Opinion. ishment in the past, and awed by the! £ >aw dread of no penalties in the future. ' 1 v , . , , . , f , j . , W, - xl • j tempiated to start a course of lectures they drive headlong on .0 their mad ;for l, b ()f 0Mara , Lee’s scheol, career of stupidity and crime, until: , . . . . , they cut open their golden egg-lnying I “P 0 ” al1 P re6eDt t0 lel P 10 goose, exhaust the Christian charity ot j *_ the people, trample rudely under foot i ji dge irvin. —not only the law’s sacred spirit, but From a private letter from Judge its literal letter, conspire perhaps to Irwin to one of our citizens, we make cunningly circumvent the constitution, | the following extract for the benefit until they torture patriotic patience | of our Clubs in this part of the State: into frenzy, aud draw down upon their j “The accounts 1 have received are the heedless heads a storm of popular in-[most flattering from all parts of the dignation and condign retribution, and [State except yours, from which 1 hear if I possess any weather wisdom wliat-' nothing definite. Bullock can easily ever, there is just such a storm brew- 1 be beaten by 25,000 votes. I shall ing now, and has been steadily brew-1 publish an address to the people, re- ing for the last twelve months. I commending General Gordon. I hope We have seen the warning flashes [every friend of our good old State will of its lightning playing along the'exert himself for him. Cherokee will horizon of Connecticut and Maine, and | do her whole duty.”—Chron.SpSent. LET rs PRESS FORWARD. The present is a time of peculiar trial to our Southern people, both politically and financially. As to our political trials much has already been said. But the political madness which rules the hour is also hurtful to the financial interests of the South. We, in common with the people of the United States, are suffering from the piostration of trade and business. The Northern people, however, are rich enough to bear this evil much better than we are. And furthermore, the great interest of the South being agri cultural, the derangement of labor and the sudden depreciation of cotton, have well nigh destroyed our lately risen hope of financial recuperation. The consequence is that there is much despondency throughout the country in reference to our material prosperity in the future. But we must not succomb to such depressing influences. We must “ learri to labor and to wait,” and by this means ultimately surmount difficul ties that appear at first as insuperable. Our material prosperity, despite all our troubles, is only a question of time. No such country as ours, with such vast wealth ©nly awaiting develop ment, can long remain depressed.— Capital and population are certain to flow into it ere long in immense vol umes. Our present plans and efforts may not be as successful as we desired and expected. But the native wealth of the country will inevitably attract it to the means and the facilities of its developments, and the difficulties growing out of the present condition of affairs will be obviated. What we most desired to say is, that the two duties now most incum bent upon all the Southern people are hard labor and economical living. These two valuable lessons we learned and practiced most successfully during the war. Let us return to them now when they are as much needed as ever before, and even more. Let them be imprinted upon every heart and faith fully adhered to, and we shall ulti mately become a happy and prosper ous people. Let us press forward in the great struggle against adverse for tune with the determination to achieve success, and to do this we must “ bide our time” with that magnificent cour age which distinguished our ancestors at the close of the Revolutionary war. History teaches us that they put their hands to the plow and never looked back. We should be instructed and encouraged by their noble example. [Exchange. GEN. GORDON AND THE COLORED PEOPLE. It may not be uninteresting to the colored people of Georgia, to know something of the past history of this gentleman towards themselves. During the latter part of 1866, the colored people of Georgia were build ing a church and a school house for themselves at Brunswick, where Gen. Gordon was then residing. General Gordon contributed quite liberally to aid them in their work. In the early part of 1867, he was a member of the Grand Jury of that county, and advo cated a pro rata distribution of all the funds raised in the county for educa tional purposes, between the white and colored people of the county, each to have separate §phools. He also introduced a resolution, which passed the Grand Jury, appointing a committee to solicit from Northern people aid, for the purpose of educat ing the colored people of his county. In view of this course the colored Trustees of the Brunswick school wrote a letter to the General asking his advice upon their educational and political interests. The General re plied quite at length, declining how ever, to give any political advice. In this letter he advises them to educate themselves and their children, to be industrious, save money and purchase houses, and thus make themselves respectable as property holders, and intelligent people. In this letter he also advocates their rights in every particular, and their full protection under the law. This was all done before the negro was admitted to the privilege of the ballot; and at a time, too, when the General had not the remotest idea ot ever becoming a candidate for their suffrage. We publish this simply as a matter of information to the colored people, that they may see the difference be tween one who was their substantial friend without a motive, and one who has only become their acquaintance and professed friend since he has become a candidate.—At. Opinion. Tiik Duty of White Men.—The Wilmington Journal says with force and justice: “The time has now come when good men 'must not and cannot afford to sacrifice the right to vote to a natural and commendable repugnance to mingle in the motley and disreput able concourse around the polls. The vote of every decent man is now of the utmost importance, and a failure to use the franchise now may result in ina bility to do so in the future. See to it, that none entitled to register fail to do so. A white man who voluntarily disfranchises himself in this crisis is an enemy to his race.” Louisville has a trotting mule which has made tbe mile in 9.2i. ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA. We cordially commend the subjoin ed address from the Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee to the the people of Georgia, to the earnest consideration of our readers. It pre sents, briefly, but comprehensively, all the facts connected with the with drawal of Judge Irwin from the caD- vass for Governor, and the adoption, by the Committee, of Gen. Gordon as the candidate of the party, for that of fice. Rooms Central Executive Com. ^ National Democratic Party of Georgia. / Macon, Ga., April 7, lsii8. ) A recent change in the candidate for the office of Governor to be run by the Democratic Party of Georgia in the election ordered for the 20th inst., having been made, it is proper that the reasons which induced the withdrawal of Judge Irwin, and the immediate substitution of another in his place, should be known. When Judge Reese declined a can didacy for the office of Governor, the Central Executive Committee found Judge Irwin before the people as a candidate, and knowing him to be a man in whose bands the interests of Georgia, might safely be entrusted in the event ot his election, and not rec ollecting the fact oi his having been on the Electoral ticket of his State which voted for Jefferson Davis for President, and A. II. Stephens forYice President of the Southern Confedera cy, in 1S61—and riot being aware that giving such a vote as an Elector, and the holding of the office of Judgcof the Superior Courts of the Blue Ridge Circuit before the war, would render him ineligible to office, accord ing to the Reconstruction Acts of Congress—the Committee, without hesitation, recognized him as a candi date in whose integrity, ability and moral worth the people might confide, and advised all who have the honor aud welfare of the State at heart to cast their votes for him. The facts before stated, that he held an office before the war which required him to take an oath to sup port the Constitution of the United States, and that in 1S6I he voted as a member of the electoral college of this Stare for Jefferson Davis for President and A. H. S.tephens for Vice President of the Southern Confederacy, having been brought to the notice of Major General Meade, commanding the Third Military Department, he has de cided that the giving such vote comes within the purview of the constitu tional amendment, commonly known as the fourteenth article, and renders Judge Irwin ineligible to office under the reconstruction acts of Congress, and If elected by receiving a majority of the votes cast, he would not permit him to be qualiGed aud installed into office. Uuderthe circumstances, and yield ing to this decision, Judge Irwin deem ed it useless to permit his name to be used as a candidate for Governor, wheu hiselectiou, if effected by the votes of the people, would be unavailing. He immediately withdrew his name, and so notified the members of the Com mittee, to whom he then had ac cess. The three members of the Commit tee who were then in the city of At lanta, and were notified of the with drawal of Ju !ge Irwin, and the reasons therefor, saw at once that, owing to the short time to elapse before tbe election, the immediate substitution of another candidate in his place was necessary—aud for this purpose, they proposed, by telegraphic dispatch, to the members resident in tbe city of Macon, who, with themselves consti tute a majority of the Committee, the name of a distinguished Georgian as a candidate for the office, and asked their concurrence. This was given in the afternoon ol the same day, as soon as the members in Macon could be consulted; and there fore, the Chairman of the Committee, who was then in the city of Atlanta, immediately announced that, by au thority of the Central Executive Com mittee of the National Democratic Party of Georgia, they recommend Gen* John B. Gordon, of the county ot Fulton, as a candidate for the office of Governor of Georgia, at the election ordered for the 20th inst. And the Committee felicitate themselves that they were thus able to announce the name of asuitablecandidate timuitane- ously with the withdrawal of the oth er. Before proceeding to do so, howev er, in order to guard against a like con tingency to the one which threw judge Irwin out of tbe canvass, a let ter was addressed to General Meade, stating that General Gordon had never held any office before the late war, which required him to take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States—that he was a Major General in the Army of the Confederate States, and has not been pardoned, and his opinion as to bis eligibility was re quested. He answered by letter, that according to repre»entations male, be considers General Gordju eligible to office. And the Committee, with pleasure, annouuce that General Gordon had yielded to their recommendation aud the solicitations of a large and enthu siastic meeting of his fellow-citizens of Fulton county, held in the city of At- tanta on the evening of the 4th inet., and consented to be a candidate for Governor at the approaching elec- tion. And now, fellow-citizens, the Cora- mitteee having promptly discharged with fidelity to your interests, the delicate duty entrusted to them, and with a desire to subserve and promote the public good, as far as their power extends, it remains for you to perform your duty, end do your part of the work. We trust that we have recommend ed to you a candidate worthy of your confidence—a Georgian who has never turned his hand against his native land, aud upon whose bright escutcheon no spot or blemish can be found—-one who in sterner times than these illus trated the character of Georgia, and gave ample evidence of the pure and bright patriotism which burns within his bosom. We ask men of ail parties, names and faith to unite in honoring this native son ot Georgia, and by hon oring him, to honor themselvea. We especially call upon the young men of the State, and invoke them to work constantly, vigorously, earnestly, zealously, faithfully, to secure the election of him whom they have often seen tried and never found want- ing. Vie request the Democratic clubs and the Democratic party in each and everv county in the State to use all lawful means in their power to bring the legal voters of their respective counties to the polls; to canvass their counties thoroughly, and see that none fail to vote, and, as far as this appeal can be received in time for action, to see that all who are entitled to register and have not done so, attend to that duty without failure and without de lay. We repeat the request for the appointment of challengers for each place of voting, who will not leave their posts during the time the elec tion is being held. Afid in order that the challengers may act understand- ingly, and not violate the order which has been issued for their regulation, we will add definite instructions as to the grounds upon which challenges will be allowed. No challenges will be allowed at the polls but upon two grounds, aud these are identity and non-residence. If it can be shown that a porsou offering to vote is not the one whose name he professes to bear, or that he has not resided in the county the time requir ed to entitle him to vote, either will be a good ground of challenge, and will be permitted to be made- But no objection for any ground existing prior to his registration, will be heard at the polls. All such objections are presumed to have been heard and de cided by the Registrars at the time of registration, and are not permitted to be opened afterwards by challenge at the polls. If any one has registered improperly, upon due proof thereof be fore the Board of Registration while in session, his name may be stricken from the list. For instance, if one under twenty-one years of age has registered, the fact of non age will not be al lowed as aground of challenge, but the objection should be made to the Registrars while in session for the pur pose of revising the lists, and upon due proof thereof it will be their duty to strike the names. These regulations for challenges have been prescribed by the Major General commanding the third District, add all persons who may be appointed 'challengers on the part of the Demo cratic party, are requested to observe them strictly and conform to them. If any persons are known to have regis tered improperly—minors, for instance —let all who are cognizant of such cases make the necessary proof to the Board of Registration, and have the names stricken. The objection in such cases will come too late at the polls. In conclusion, we again invoke all who desire that Georgia shall retain tbe exalted character she has always borne, to go to work at once, and to work for victory. One united and vigorous effort by all who have the honor and welfare ofthj Mate at heart, may yet save Georgia from disgrace and degrada tion. E, G, Cabaniss, Chm’n. Cen. Ex. Com. Nat. Dem. Party of Ga. Terror Among the Colored Peo ple.—A planter from Twiggs county says that the “raw-head and bloody bones” procession and speeches in this city, last Monday week, has inspired a great many colored men with terror. They believe that if they don’t come to the polls and vote on tbe 20th of April, they will be bunted down by Radicals and some terrible punish ment inflicted upon them. Many really desire to have nothing whatever to do with the election, aud all such are in cessantly intimidated by threats. An organization has been effeefbd in that county, each member being re quired to pay twenty-five cents does every month. The explanation given the planter’s carriage driver for this collection, was that “when a colored man killed a sheep or stole a hog, this money was to be applied to defending him before the law.”—Jou. Mes. Wear your old clothes till you OTf able to pay for new ones.