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Y J. W. BURKE is. CO. Georgia Journal & Messenger, J. W. RI RKG A f«.. Proprietor*. a. w. hkkw:,i 8. RASEi ! _ WEDNESDAY, JL f LY 15, 1868. >lll. NOBLE LKI'TEIi. Wo print, below, the letter from Mr. Pendleton read In the New York Conven tion on Thursday last, authorizing the withdrawal of his name as a candidate for nomination to the office of President of the United States. To add one word of comment would be like gilding refined gold, and we withhold it. When Presi dent Seymour takes possession of the White House, the Democracy of the Na tion will demand that Mr. Pendleton have his choice of the offices in the gift of the Chief Magistrate of a redeemed country : Cincinnati July 2, 1868. Washington Mr Lean, Fifth Avenue 71<>tel: My Dear Sir —You know better than any one the feelings and principles which have guided my conduct since the sugges tion of my name for the Presidential nom ination. You know that while I received the good opinion of my countrymen, and would feel honest pride in so distinguished a mark of their confidence. 1 do not desire it at the expense of one single electoral vote, [Great applause] or of the least dis turbance of the harmony of our party. I considered the success of the Democratic party in the next election as of far greater importance than the gratification of any personal ambition, however pure and lofty it might be. [Loud cheers.J If there fore, at any time, a name shall be sug gested, which, in the opinion of yourself and those friends who have shared our confidence, shall be stronger before the country, or which can more thoroughly represent our own party, I beg that you will instantly withdraw my name, and I pledge to the Convention my hearty, zealous, and active support for its nom inee. Very truly yours, Guo. H. Pendleton. ■>tuKOVTIOA itt.Mitfc.il Griffin, Ga., July 10, lsoß To tlu Editor of the Journal and Messenger, : Sir —I find in the list of Permanent Sec retaries to the National Democratic Con vention at its recent session in the city of New York, the name of V. A. Gaskill, of (leorgia. 1 desire to know if this is the man commonly known as Varney Gas kil), who was, up to the time of his re moval from office by Hubert, a Radical of the sharpest and quickest kind, and if he is, what process has been resorted to to cleanse him sufficiently of his political filth to make him a fit person to be thus honored by a Democratic Convention ? 1 wish also to know liow he got the posi tion, who recommended him, and upon what grounds. J am an old-fasliloned Democrat, and cannot bring myself to be lieve that it is either wise or decent thus to reward deserters while there are true men to be remembered. Inquisitive. Note by the Editor.— Gaskill was ap pointed upon the recommendation of the Hon. Cinciunatus Peeples, of Griffin, a delegate from this Congressional district, who was a member of the committee upon Organization, and who was requested to select a suitable person from Georgia, for the office referred to. We presume Mr. P. must have been satisfied ot the sincerity of Gaskill's conversion, thus to have made him the representative of the Democracy of Georgia among the officials of the Con vention Georgia Editors in New York. —We had the pleasure of meeting a number of our editorial confreres in New York at the recent session of the National Democratic Convention : Messrs. Randall, of the Con stitutionalist, and Moore, of the Chronicle A \ Sentinel, at Augusta; Wyun, of the Co-j lumbus Enquirer Willingham, oftheLa- \ Grange Importer . Hancock, of the Amer icas lit%)ubliep,n : Atkinson, of the Athens Banner . and Shecut, of the Madison Audi tor, were among the “outsiders,” while j Gen. Wright of the Chronicle & Sentinel, j Reid of the Telegraph, ami Styles of the ; Atlanta Constitution, were among the del- j egates. So far as we know, they all kept J duly sober, and did uot fall into any of the thousand and one man traps with which that stirring town is infested. We pre sume that most of them will tell their “ex perience” during the current week. IKK ED>ll All* ELEC’TOK U. BILL. The following is the text of the bill in troduced by Edmunds, Senator from Ver mont, and which, being passed by botli Houses, was sent to the President yester day for his signature: Resolved, That none of the States, whose inhabitants were lately in rebellion, shall be entitled to be represented in the electoral college for the choice of President and Vice-President of the United States, norshall any electoral votes be received or counted from any such States, unless at the time prescribed by law for the choice of electors, the people of sucli Slates, pur suant to the acts of Congress in that be half, shall have since the fourth day of March, 1807, adopted a Constitution of State Government under which a State Government shall have been organized, and shall be in operation, and unless such election of electors shall have been held under tHe authority of such Constitution and Government, and such State shall have also been entitled hi be represented in Congress, pursuant to the acts of Con gress in that behalf ANS WEB ed. —'The Atlanta Constitution wishes to know how it is that Gen. Dunn, a Federal official, can treat the lady wit nesses for the defence in the case of the Col- j unibus prisoners with deference and re- j spect while Joe Brown, the hired blood- j hound of the Radical party, is rude and in sulting to them ? We answer : Because Dunn, if not a gentleman, has associated sufficiently with that class to learn how to counterfeit one, while Brown is by na ture, and in spite of hiaopportunities, rad ically and unchangeably the reverse. He has hated gentlemen and ladies all his life, on the principle, we suppose, that their virtues only serve to make more evilly and odiously conspicuous his own mental and moral deformities. He would antagonize Nature did lie act otherwise. Moke Georgians on the Road to Pardon. —In the National Intelligence/’ , of Thursday last, we find the names of the following Georgians whoso disabilities have been removed by the House of Rep resentatives, in which action the Senate will certainly concur. Considering their past and present {supposed) political status the group may well be characterized as motley : P. M. 15. Young, Cartersville; R. W. Bell, Banks county ; 11.11. Took, Thomas county; Walker Brock, State Senator elect; \V. C. Daniel, Savannah ; William T. Martin, Banks county ; John W. H. Underwood, Augustus Wright, Rome; Charles E. Broyles, Dalton ; all of Georgia. Janies L. Seward, Thomas county, Ga. As We Predicted. —The modest Gas kill, as we predicted before the Conven tion would he tlie ease, worked hard for Pendleton, at New York, and the result was that gentleman’s defeat. If Governor Seymour really desires to carry Georgia, we would suggest that lie promise Gaskill gome sort of an office to keep his mouth shut from now till November. If liecoukl be induced to “spend himself’’ lor Wash burn and Colfax, it would he still better. deargin §anrtfrl nil Ipeiiettpi^ Uriel llio£rn|»hh*« of Our raudidatt**. In the Baltimore Sun, of Saturday, we find tlie annexed condensed biographical notices of the next President and Vice- President of the United States: Governor Seymour, the Democratic can didate for the Presidency, is about 5G years of age. He is descended from Richard Seymour, one of the original settlers of Hartford, Connecticut. His paternal grandfather, Major Moses Seymour, served in the war of the revolution, and was af terwards for seventeen years a member of the Legislature of Connecticut. His ma ternal grandfather, Col. Forman, served through tiie revolutionary war in the New Jersey line. His father, lleury Seymour, was a distinguished citizen of Western New York, and served in the State Legis lature witli signal ability. At the time of his death he held tHe office of canal com missioner, which he had filled for many years. Governor Seymour inherited from his father an ample estate. He married a daughter of the late John R. Bleeclitr, of Albany. One of his sisters married Hon. Roscoe Conkiiug, United States Sen ator from New York. Mr. Seymour lias been from early boyhood an earnest and useful member of tiie Episcopal Church, and is generally respected for his purity and uprightness of character. General Francis P. Blair, Democratic candidate for tiie Vice Presidency, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, February 19,1821. He graduated at Princeton Col lege, New Jersey, and is a lawyer by pro tession. He was three times elected to Congress from the St. Louis District, in 1850, 1800 and 1862. At the outbreak of the late civil convulsion he was the first man to make effective resistance to the supposed disunion designs of Governor Jackson, in the Slate of Missouri. He commanded the first Missouri regiment in the first campaign in that State, and was at its head in the battle of Wilson’s Creek, where General Lyon fell. Subse quently lie was made Brigadier and Major General commanding in the army of Ten nessee, under Sherman, McCleruaud an t Grant, in tiie Vicksburg campaign. Du ring Sherman’s match, in ISG4, he com manded the seventeenth army corps. + ♦ Press Dispatches from Atlanta Why does not the]Agent of the Associated Press for Georgia appoint an agent at At lanta 0 We have dispatches from Raleigh, from Columbia, and other State capitals, but none from Atlanta, our own capital. We hope Mr. Walsh will look into this matter, and not allow the press of the State, outside that city, to be so complete ly dependent upon the Atlanta papers for information. Public interest in Georgia centres in tiie proceedings of tiie Legisla - ture, and a synopsis, at least, of their ac tion should be telegraphed every night. Row AMONG THE Raiders. —Our infor mation from Atlanta is very suggestive of that good time coming when honest men get their dues. Tiie Radical " ro quarrelling over the spoils, and biting, kicking, cursing and scratching each other most refreshingly Bryant and Josh Hill, against the Chicago vocalist, and the Au gusta, mink ere the parties. Gibson of Augusta, backs the B’s, and Josh Hill does the talking for ttu* new firm of Bryant and Hill. If the former can’t bring heavier metal to bear upon tiie enemy than Dele gate Gibson—who wants to be a very “or nary” Judge—they had best c nnprotnise at once. Josh Hill carries decidedly too many gnus for any such orass mounted pocket pistol as the ex-Colonel of the IStli i Ga. Regiment—mere sliame to him. • -*• OIK NEXT PRESIDENT. Iloralio Seymour Accepts the Nomination. New York, July 10.—Governor .Sey mour delivered the following speech at n ratification meeting to-uiglit: Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of tiie Committee; 1 thank you for the courteous terms in which you have communicated the at ion of the Democratic Convention. [Cheers.] 1 have no words adequate to express my gratitude for the good will and kindness which that body has shown me. Its nomination was unsought and unex pected. It was my ambition to take an active part, from which I am now exclud ed, in tiie great struggle going on for the restoration of gopd government, of peace and prosperity, [Great cheering,] but I have been caught up by the overwhelming tide that is bearing us to a great change and find myself unable to resist its pres sure. [Loud cheering.] You have also given to me a copy of the resolutions put forth by the convention, showing its position upon all the great questions which now agitates the country. As the presiding officer of that conven tion, I am familiar w ith the scope and im port, and as one of its members I am a party to their terms. They are in accord ance with my wish, and I stand upon them in the contest into which we are now | entering, and 1 shall strive to carry them out in the future wherever I may he placed in public or private life. [Cheers.] I congratulate you and all conservative men who seek to restore order, peace, ; ; prosperity and good government to our land, upon the evidences everywhere j shown, that we are to triumph at the next election. ( Prolonged cheers ] Those who are politically opposed to us flattered themselves there would be discord S in our councils. They mistook the uncer tainties of our views, as to the hesi. meth ods of carrying out our purposes, for dif ferences of opinion. With regard to those purposes they mistook an anxiety to do no act which should not be wise and judi cious, fora spirit of discord ; hut during the lengthened proceedings and earnest discussions of the Convention there lias ! prevailed an entire harmony of inter course, a patient forbearance, and a self sacrilicing spirit which are the sure tokens i of coming victory. Accept for yourselves, gentlemen, my wishes for your future welfare and Happi ness. |Cheers.] In a few days I will an swer the communication you have just banded me, by letter, as is the customary form. [Tremendous and long continued cheering.] Mil. REMU.KroVW < OKIHU. EVOORsIvMEV I OF GO\ . SKY Mill It New York, July 9.— The following pri vate letter from Mr. Pendleton was ad dressed to Washington McKean, or the Ohio delegation, before that delegation left Ohio, and was liauded to John A. Green, Jr., on their arrival in New York : "Cincinnati, June 25. —My Dear Bik : You left my office this morning before I wa aware of it. 1 seek you at home, but you are not these. I must say what I want by note. As soon as you get to New York see Governor Seymour. You know well what was my feeling before and after I heard from him last fall. He is to-day the foremost man in our party in the Uni ted States. His ability, cultivation and experience put him at the head of our statesmen. He commands my entire con lideuce. I would rather trust him than myself with the delicate duties of the next four years. You know 1 am sincere. Make' him feel this, and that he can rely on me and my friends. 1 have a natural pride an honest pride, I believe, in the good will of my countrymen; but you, better than any one else, know that it is neither egotistical nor overruling, and that I am really anxious to give up the nomination to anybody who can get one single vole more than myself. Express all this frankly to the Governor, hut deli cately, and let him understand my views of men and measures as I have frequently given them to you. Good-bye. God bless you. Yours truly, “George 11. Pendi.eton. “To Washington McLean, Esq.” Honored.— lt is announced in the Radical papers that Col. B. B. deGraffen reid, of Milledgeville, has been honored by Bullock with the post of Private Secre tary. As he is expected to furnish the Malvolio of Hie Southern Express Compa ny not on’y with brains, hut grammarand spelling, we are inclined to the opinion that lie will find the office no sinecure. £3?" Apples from this country sell for two dollars in gold a dozen in Hong Kong. THE NO>HN VTION. How it wax Received—Rejoicing Kverywh**rr. Spceitil to the Louisville Journal. Washington, July 9. THE NOMINATION AT THE WHITE HOUSE. The nomination' of Seymour takes every body in Washington by surprise, it is generally approved. Secretary Welles was the first to eoHHpuiiiipte St to the Presi dent. lfe found Mr. Johnson in his office, and said: “Well, Mr. President, the Con vention has made a nomination.” “Well,” says A. J., smiling pleasantly, “who is it?” “Guess,” said tiie Secretary. “O," says Johnson; I know it ain’t me, who is it?” “Seymour,” said Welles. “Good,” replied the President. “Capital!” they could not have done better.” It is said by all Mr. Johnson’s friends that he will support the ticket cordially, aud that he is per fectly satisfied. Special to the Louisville Courier. Frankfort, Ky., July 9, 10:35 p. m. A large and enthusiastic meeting is be ing held to-night to ratify tiie nomination of Seymour and Blair. Eloquent and stirring speeches are being made by Col. S. B. Churchill, Hon. G. W. Craddock, Colouel W. P. BuhLi, Hon. James A. Daw son, Attorney General Rodman,and Judge Janies. The greatest enthusiasm prevails The following resolutions were read and adopted amid deafening applause: Resolved. That we heartily indorse the action of the Democratic Convention, as well as that of the Soldiers’ ami Sailors’ Convention, which recently met in New York. Resolved, That we cordially approve of the platform, and pledge Kentucky to give a greater majority for Seymour and Blair than has ever beeu given in this State for any candidate whatever. A national salute was fired upon the re ception of the news of tiie nomination. Bonfires are blazing on the streets, music is playing, aud the wildest enthusiasm prevails. Kpecittl to the Louisville Courier, Lexington, Ky., July 9. A large and enthusiastic ratification meeting is being held here tonight. Can non are firing, bonfires blazing, and great enthusiasm prevails among ihe people. M. C. Johnson, Gen. John B. Huston, Gen, Leslie Coombs, and other prominent men, are addressing the vast audience. Resolutions pledging a hearty support to and endorsing the candidates aud plat form were adopted. Our people are more unanimous in their approval of what has been done at New York than they ever wore before. Sr. Louis, July 9. A large Democratic meeting was held at the Court-house to-night, to ratify the nomination of Seymour and Blair. R. L. Letcher, of Saline county, D. A Sutton, Major W. O. Jones, Captain Tobin and others spoke. A national salute was tired, and thirteen extra guns for Blair. An unusual amount of enthusiasm was manifested. A fine display of fireworks, music, etc., coupled with a large number present, made it out one of the most suc cessful meetings that has been held here since the war. . . , ti.c-. auutiiiaUunt seem to give universal satisfaction to the Democrats, and the mention of the names at the meeting was received with loud and long continued acclamation. Chicago, July 9. On receipt of the nomination of Hora tio Seymour a salute of one hundred guns was tired. Another salute was tired this evening. A ratification meeting will lie held some time next week—time not stated. Bowling Green, July 9.—9:30 p. m. There is great enthusiasm here for .Sey mour, The town is illuminated, and bands of music are playing, the people crowding the streets anil rejoicing general ly. We all feel that a winning ticket is nominated. Hurrah for .Seymour and Blair! Special Uispatcti to the Ilaltiiuore Sun. THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS IN WASH INGTON—DOTH PARTIES SATISFIED. Washington, Jot;/ 9.—The news from New York to-day created a good deal of excitement in the House of Represent i tives. Speaker Colfax, who naturally felt much interest in the result, was the recip ient of continuous bulletins by telegraph of the progress of events at the Conven tion The news of Mr. Seymour's tiomi nation came rather unexpectedly, and the Republicans seemed to be very jubilant when it was ascertained beyond a doubt who Grant’s competitor was to be. A bill from t he Indian committee was under con eratiou when the news was received. The confusion in the hall at once became so great that tiie Speaker could scarcely have business properly attended to. Mr. E. B. Wushburne tried to excuse the confusion by remarking that the Republican side of the House had a right to be exultant over Seymour’s nomination. When General Blair’s nomination for ! the Vice Presidency became known tin* I Radicals seemed to be perfectly satisfied. | The Democratic members present were in I an equally happy frame of mind, though ! they failed to see auy great cause of jubi lation by the Republicans. The Cincinnati Pres* on the Nomination*. The Enquirer of the 10th says of the nomination of Seymour : “For twenty years no man has exerted a wider influ ence upon public affairs in the Democratic party. No man is better known or more highly admired as an orator, lie not only lias no equal of any party in New York, but helms no rival. Gifted with a fine presence of mind, with a remarkable and copious flow of language, he is unsur passed as an orator. He is the pride and ornament of the Empire State He com nieuced life as a Democrat, and has never wavered in his advocacy of that political faith. In liis private life there is no blem ish. His morals are pure, his reputation untarnished. He was not a candidate for the nomination for the Presidency, but repeatedly declined, and it was only upon the solicitation of the West, and the unanimous voice of the Convention, that he accepted the nomination Why, then, should lie not be supported by the Detn ocracy of the entire country? What ob jections can reasonably be urged against him? His character and qualifications are eminent as an orator. He is distin guished as a statesman. There is no com parison between him and Grant, either personally or politically. He will be sup ported by the Democracy, and will be triumphantly elected. He was not origin ally Hie choice of the West, as is well known. They preferred, with extraordi nary unanimity, the Hon. (ieorge H. Pen dleton, Hut owing, however, to adverse circumstances, lie lias been defeated, and the nomination has fallen upon Governor Seymour through the action of Mr. Peu dleton’s friends. We do not hesitate to pledge him their support. The Commercial says, Mr. Seymour is not a liberal and progressive Democrat. He stands by the traditions of the party. He shares its prejudices ; lie sympathizes with every effort to continue a social caste created by slavery, aud appeals to antip athies of races solely for political ends. His partisan record will prevent tiie Re publicans of the East from going over to Hie Democracy. His sympathy for the bondholders will seriously affect his pros poets in the West, and he will not he able to poll more than a strictly party vote. He is a weak man for the Presidency and ought easily to be beaten. The Gazette say Mr. Beymour is a man of respectable abilities. In this respect he may he rauked at Hie top of the Democrat ic politicians wiio were named for the nomination ; lie is a cunning politician, and is sufficiently unscrupulous for tiie demagogue course which is a necessity to a Democratic candidate. During the war he differed from his party iu that lie ad mitted the constitutional powerto pull down thesecession rebellion,buthecouuter acted this by such a course of partisan at tacks on everytbingwhich the Government diit that lie gave as much aid to the spirit of disaffection in Hie North and as much encouragement to tiie rebellion as the others, who declared the national defence unconstitutional- Burned to Death.— Williams, the ne gro murderer of the brothers Luke, in lr? win county, was burned to deatli in the jail of that county, last week. The build ing was entirely destroyed. A Long Dry BpeliD.—The Talbotton Gazette, of Friday, says enough rain fell in that section for the first time in eight weeks to run in the streets. MACON, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1868. THURSDAY, JULY l(i, 1868. THE ASHBURN TRAGEDY. TUI VI. OK THE fOU Mill * PH IMlNKils TeMljilt.liv for 111.- HHViier I nn!u . *-U--■ llnhe Vltbl. ELEVENTH DaY. [CONTINUED.] C. K. AKRINGION SWORN. I reside in Carroll county. I was at Mr. Duke's when I first heard of the assassi nation of Mr. Asliburn. r was in the blacksmith shop. It was on Tuesday or Wednesday. Mr. Dukes, the accused, was at the shop when I first heard the news. I went to Mrs. Duke’s on Sunday, and stayed there four days. Mr. Dukes was at his father’s, when 1 reached there On Sun day. He was there on Sunday nGht. I slept with him He was there Monday night. He slept with me that night in the house there. His.mother and father aud some of his sisters slept in the same room. He was there on Tuesday night. He aud I slept together every night while 1 was there. They called it about forty miles to Columbus, i don’t know how far it is. Mr. Duke's mother is my sister. C R< MSB-KX A MI N AVION. I have a family. I reside in Carroll county, about 43 miles from Mr. Duke. I walked to Duke’s. I only went thereon a visit. It took me a day and a piece, I don’t recollect what sort of weather I had during the trip. I left home on Saturday. I don't remember whether it mined on Saturday or Sunday. 1 reached Duke's about two hours by sun. J was alone. I found Duke’s family at bom© wtien I arrived there. William Duke was at home. He was getting be fore Ihe fire when 1 went in. I spent Monday at the blacksmith shop nearly all day. A negro man and one of Duke's brothers were there. Mr. Duke’s father was there too. I was not in the black smith shop all day. I was at the house part of the day. I don’t know exactly what time we retired. They have no time piece. I judge it was between nine mid ten o'clock. I think there were three beds in the room. I slept in the back part of the room. I don’t know the-size orthe room—it was a utrge one. It had three doors 1 think. The front door facet! the big road—South I think. The bed In which I slept was on the right as I enter ed. I never noticed whether it wa * against the wall or not It was at the end of the house I entered—in the right hand corner. The other beds were in the other end to the left. (Names all the persons who s'ept In the room./ Duke lias two or three married sisters. One of them slept in ay adjoining room He has a married brother. He did not sleep in that room. 1 was at the shop and bouse, backward and forward,on Tuesday. I was there also on Wednesday. There wi re several other men there. 1 am a farmer. I first heard of the murder of Ashburii on Tuesday or Wednesday. I don’t know which. 1 don’t know w!“* broiiubi '»*■* rt «as some man there In the settlement that told it at the shop. It was light nights I think. I am not cer tain if it was Tuesday or Wednesday. I say it was one or tiie other of these days, because they said he was killed on the .‘toth of March, arid it was a day or two after ward. 1 got there on the 29th, Monday was the ,Bnth. The first day I left home 1 traveled about 30 miles. 1 don’t know the name of the mans stayed with. It w.ts about three quarters of a mile from Dr. Pierce's. Dr. Pierce lives in Meriwether county. I stopped before I got to Dr. Pierce’s The house was a sort of a double cabin. I got there after night awhile The house is right close at the road. I think it was a little cUudy when I stop ped that night, ami do not know whether tiie moon was shining. Ido not res in her if the moon was shining on Kui :uy, Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. I left Duke’s to go home soon on Thurs day' nioriiiug, and came 8 miles this side of LaOrange the first day, and- tayed with my father-in-law that night. I arrived at his house just before night. I think it rained that evening I went home on Friday. I don’t know exactly how fur it is from my father-in-law’s house—lt’s about 35 or 10 mile- 1 did not reach home that day. I stayed with my broth er-in-law, Handy who lives in Carroll, near the Chattahoochee river, with a man by the name of Akers, on what is called the “Fire Natch” road. Igo home Satur day. I was absent, I think, six days. [Witness described the family where lie stayed the first uight.] f first heard that Duke was accused of connection with the murder of Ashburn last night was a week ago, at home It was communicated to me by Mr. fluke’s brother. I recollect so particularly about Duke’s being at home on the 30th of March by being there and hearing of Aahburn’s death. BY THE COURT. The moon, I think, was about full when I visited Duke’s house. ROBERT T. C. TUCKER SWORN. I live in Meriwether county. I know William Dukes, the accused. (Points him out.) I think the first I heard of Ash burn's murder was at Duke's shop on Wednesday evening. William was there. I saw him in the field on the Saturday be fore, and once before at Hie shop. 1 saw him at the shop Monday evening after the sun was down. (Named others who were at the shop at the same time, and identi ties Arrington as one who was there, though he was unacquainted with him,) I did not see him (Arlington) there the evening I heard of the deatli of Ashhurn. The shop is about forty miles from Colum bus. CROSS-EXAMINATION. I live from three to four hundred yards from Duke's shop since Dukes moved there last winter was a year ago. 1 am frequently at Ins shop. 1 have all my wood-work done there. lam there .some times every day in the week and some times not for two or three weeks. It de pemlson my health and business. It is re garded as a' public place for the neighbor hood. Ido not remember who was at the shop the next time I was there after the time about which 1 testify. I remember who was there on WeiJiies day, because there I fir.-t heard of the deatli of Ashhurn. 1 had made arrange ments on Tuesday for my wagon to taite a load of cotton up to LnGrange, and after they started, on Wednesday, 1 walked down to the shop, and while there heard that Ashhurn was killed, and when my son and son-in-law returned from La- Grange they confirmed the report. It was tiie last of March or tiie first of April. I know 1 am right about the time, because a neighbor wanted me to haul a load of cotton to LaOrange. I could not do so unless my son-in law would spare a por tion of his team. He did not want to go, as he wanted to go to planting cotton. I told him there was plenty of time to bed up his land, and if 1 was ready I would not go to planting before Monday, the 6th of April. Ido not keep a memorandum of the time I commence or finish plant ing. I frequently just mark in my alma nac tiie day. I did not mark this year, and do not speak from any memorandum, but from a positive knowledge. I keep a memorandum, sometimes, for reference a long time afterward. 1 could not have located this day but by concurrent circum stances. I commenced planting cotton on the oth of April. I had the day set apart to commence. I don't know that 1 ever thought about Duke being at home at that time until he was arrested. He was ar rested Wednesday or Thursday, two or Hiree weeks ago. The arrest of Duke, a near neighbor, made a decided impression upon my mind, under the circumstances, knowing, as I did, that he was at home when Ashhurn was killed, aud if lie was arrested, I might he also. I only remem ber Hint he was arrested on Wednesday or Thursday. I remember the circumstance of Duke being at home, because I could not have sent my wagon and mules off the place at any other time. I had finished planting my corn, and was bedding my cotton land, and between planting corn and commencing to plant cotton, I had time to send my wagon oft'. 1 should never have remembered what day I fin ished planting corn, had it not been for the circumstance occurring at the time. (Here, as well as in other places, a large portion of the cross-examination is omit ted because we have not the space to de vote to it.) I think I heard that Duke was charged with connection with the mur der of Ashhurn tiie next day after his ar rest. Ineversuspectedanythingof tliekind before his arrest. If he had not been ar rested I don’t know that I should ever have remembered so particularly about his being there at that time. If he had not been there I should have remembered that as well. I don’t remember everybody I saw that Monday. . KK UIHSU’. ’A •*. I am sixty-seven years old. 1 am a farmer. RE-CROSS EX AMINATIO.N. My memory is not so good as it was when I was a young man. RE-RE-DIRKC T E X AMI NAT 11) N . From the sensation produced at the time I am positive of the leading facts that I have stated here. I was at one time Judge of the Inferior Court of Meriwether county. HE-RE-CROSS EX AM I NATION. I suppose a greater sensation was pro duced on my mind by the arrest of Duke than did the death of Ashburn. After concluding with this witness the Court adjourned until ten o’clock on Mon day morning. THE b IKE A Id HI. TWELFTH DAY. Pursuant to adjournment the court met at 10 o’clock Monday morning. The record of the proceedings of Salur duy was read and approved. JUDGE RORT. T. C. TUCICKR RE CALLED. Examined by Gov. Brown, l ire cotton carried to LaGrange belonged to a young man named Duke, who hud come down aud bought it from a man attuned T. Par ham. I do not know now many lodes were bougyt. My wagon carried six. My son-in-law, Blumer W. Williams, drove my wagon. 1 do not know to whom he delivered it, nor did 1 hear him say. Par liam’sson went with the cotton. He lives about a mile aud a half from me. 1 sup pose Duke lives in LuGruuge. 1 frequent ly see him there. 1 don’t know that he has a place of business. I usually meet him on the street. Ido not know that he is a Cotton buyer. JOAB ABNEY SWORN. 1 have been peddling fur the last three or four years. 1 have a distinct recollec tion of where I was when I tir-t heard of the death of Ashburn. I was in the porch of my own house near Columbus. It was on Tuesday morning. I heard it front black people. The Monday before l was at home. The day before, I w.s at home from eleven o’clock till night. I left home on Thursday morning, to carry Wilt am Duke to tils father’s in Meriwether coun ty. f got there the same night and re mained there ail night; next morning 1 went to my brother’s, fourteen miles further. 1 remained there on Friday night, and got home to Columbus at eleven o’clock Bun day. lam positively and ab solutely certain of these facts I have sworn to. CROSS EX AMI NATION. UiclfianU o? carrying persons in my buggy for pay. 1 wanted to go to my broth s, and Diike asked me to take him to is lather’s, so that he could get rid of the chilis. 1 have known Duke ever since J have lived in Columbus. After iiis father moved to Meriwether county lie called that his home. I bail often seen him in Columbus. He boarded at Martin Burke’s 1 do not know how long he had been in Columbus this time. He boaided about six hundred yards from my house. It is forty miles from Columbus to his lather's. We made the trip in oue day. \V e worked one horse —a large hay, twelve years old. Horse belonged to Christopher C. Abney, my son. i started su tiie last Thursdad of March. 1 first heard that Duke was accused of connection with the Ashburn murder, some six or eight weeks ago. My son told me lie bad heard of it. Prior to that time J had not thought anything particularly of going home with Duke. \\ hen my sou told in© of the charge against Duke 1 told him it was all non sense. Duke was in Meriwether, as we all know. I suppose it was about two months after the occur rence, I do not always remember the dat • of au occurrence two months ago. I made no memorandum of the date. 1 went himi« Iliihc. At lime I went home I did not consider that there was anything interesting iti the transac tion. It raitied in the evening; we got there before dark ; I don’t know that the moon shone at all; I stayed at liuke'a until eight o’clock next morning; i got to my brother’s that evening about one o'clock, and left about the same time next day ; 1 left my brother’s on .Saturday ; it is litiv two miles from my brother's to Columbus; Saturday night i stayed twenty miles from Columbus ; I do not remember the j name of the man 1 stayed with ; i >aw him again six or eight weeks afterward. [Here we omit a large portion of the cross examination.] I got home on Sunday, ami laid down and rested until three o’clock, and thvu there was a prayer meet ing at my house; 1 was at home on Mon day, and’did nothing ; I was at the upper end of the street, at my son’s ; it is about three hundred yards, I judge, from tin- Perry House; 1 have no recollection of whom 1 saw on the streets; 1 heard nothing of Ashburn’* death on Monday. I first saw colored jieoplc on Tuesday — ju-tat hgfit. They told me Ashburn was killed. 1 heard several white persons say that lie was killed. I cannot say who they were, there were so many. My mem ory" is tolerably good. 1 will lie sixty three 'ears old next month. I can recol lect the date of any particular occurrences. I do not remember the dates of the late election. RE-DIRKCT. A prayer was appointed at my house before I left home, and i told them 1 would be certain to be there. Ihe meet iug was appointed for 3f "o’clock. RE CROSS EXAMINATION. We had a good many prayer meetings at my house during the spring, always on Sunday and about the liotu# I C'in not name the day wheu any other meet ing occurred, without referring hack. I can refer to my almanac ami teil whe i every one were held. I noticed this one more particularly from having just come home from carrying Mr. Duke. It was the first meeting held in that house. UK-RE DIRECT. r did not hear that my testimony would be desired in this case about we. k before last I beard it from my son. I next heard of it last Thursday, in Marion coun ty, forty-seven miles from Columbus, where I waa subpoenaed. BY THE COURT. When I returned from my brother’s in March last I did not pass Duke’s. The tirst prayer meeting in my house was held on the last Sunday in March. S. A PARHAM SWORN. i reside in Meriwether county. 1 know William Duke. [Points him out | 1 live about a mile and a half from his father’s, j I saw him there in the Jast week in March, j I saw him about the 30tli—on Monday. He was at home—at the shop. The sun ! was about an hour high. I saw him next morning about two nours by sun. I was called up there at that time by the sale of some trees, on the place where Duke lived. T went up there to see about it on Tuesday. 1 was in LaGrange when Hirst heard of the death of Asi burn. f left home on the Ist day of April. lam cer tain that I went to see about the logs the Monday and Tuesday before I went to La- Grange to sell some cotton. I am certain ami positive that it was this Monday evening that I saw William Duke at his father’s shop. CROSS-EXAMINATION. Mr. Williams’wagon hauled my fath er’s cotton to LaGrange. Mr. Williams is a son -in law of Tucker who has testified here. The cotton was sold before I left home. I went up to deliver it. The cot ton had been sold to Mr. Frost in Meri wether county. Mr. Williams’ wagon carried six bales. I received the money for it i, >m Mr. Abrams ; he went to Frost’s and brought it down to his house for me. I think there was a receipt given at the time. X don’t recollect who signed it. 1 don’t recollect the exact amount I received —it was between SBOO aud SBOO. 1 think it was on Thursday—the second day of April. I live about 20 miles from La- Grange. I got home about dark- I went to my father’s next day and paid hint the amount of money his cotton brought. 1 don’t remember what I did the next day, 1 nor the next. 1 was not at borne when Duke was arrested I did not hear of it until I was summoned to come up here. 1 was not at home, I heard of it only a few miuutea before I was summoned. . The summons was at home when I got there. I received the sumuiqns sometime last week. The uewsof the arrest did not make a very particular impression on my mind—of course It made some impression. (We here again omit a large portion of the cross examination.) L was at Duke’s shop frequently during March and April, but can locate no other special day, nor name the persons I met there on other days. 1 planted corn about tiie tenth of March. Ido not remember when I com menced planting cotton. RE-DIRECT. If my mind was directed to any of these eveuts T could probably remember the particular day on which they occurred, i am positive aud distinct that these events occurred at the time I have stated to-day. I atn certain they occurred in connection as stated. KK ( ROBS EXAMINATION. [Witness was desired to take time to re lied and think, and satisfy hitnself as to the day of the week and month lie first heard of the arrest of Duke ami the re ceipt of the summons. He answered after a short reflection that he could not remem ber either the day of the week or the month.] i am so positive about tiie in cidents about the 30th of March, because they rested stronger on my mind —made more impression on my mind. [Tiie cross examination was extended to some con siderable length.] DR. C. A. STYLES SWoltN. I reside in Meriwether eoimiy, I am a physician. I know William Duke. [Points him out.] 1 reside about 3 miles from his father’s. I saw him at bis father's on Monday, the 30th of March, between 5 ami 0 o’clock I*. M. My attention has been called specially to the time I saw him. 1 recollect when I first heard of the death of Ashburn. I heard it in Duke’s shop, and Jie was present. I think it was on Thurs day lam certain I saw bitn on the Mon day, before I heard this news. CROSS-EXAMINATION. 1 am certain of this, because I was call ed into the neighborhood to see some pa tients. (States who they were and how far they lived from the shop.) 1 vi-ited those patients more than once —several times, about twice a week. 1 can’t give the precise days of the week ami month on which I visited each ot these patients each time, as 1 havn’t my record with me. I had no idea I would be called on for my record, or 1 would have brought it. I am not certain whether I came here under a subpoena or not. I was notified by the gentleman who came f>r me, and I came on. I received no writ ten subpoena. 1 passed by the shop at other times. lam in the habit of passing there once or twice a week. I cannot lo cate other days particularly. I have been practicing in that neighborhood for three «m>hoi locate any other day in the past year in which 1 passed the shop, un less I had my record; after referring to my record to refresh my memory in refer ence to this particular visit, i atn able to say from memory, aud not from tiie re cord, that my statements are correct. [Wit ness then proceeded to state concurrent circumstances which served to fix the above in his mind, and satisfy him that lie had seen Duke on the 30th of March.] Question by Gov. Brown Why can you so clearly recollect things that transpired on the 30th, and uot tilings that transpired on the 29th ? This was objected to by General Ben ning. Without action iu the matter the Court adjourned until ten o’clock to-day. THIRTEENTH DAT'. McPherson Barracks, July 14, ’6B Court met pursuant to adjournment. The record of the testimony of Jacob Abney and of ri. II Pitrrham was read over in their hearing. Mr. Abney had do corrections to make. Mr. Parrhani stated that, upon reflection, lie recollected to have left home on t lie 7th, and that he ar rived here on the 6th of July. The re cord, us thus amended, was then ap proved. -riiM reading nf i>r. s-tyres' TFStimony was deferred uutil to morrow, by tiie ad journment of the Court in consequence of the indisposition of Mr. Stephens, leading counsel for the defence. Mr. .Stephen-, was not pres'-ntto day, hut Col. Crawford, associate counsel, stated that it is proba ble Mr. S will be able to attend at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. fourteenth day. McPherson Barracks, July 15, Isos. Court met at tiie u-uai hour. Mr. .-tephens was sufficientiy improved in health to be able to attend to liis duties as leading counsel for the defense Proceedings of yesterday read and ap proved. Dr. .Styles,- a witness examined in part on Monday, was called into Court and his examination continued: On referring to my memorandum I did not see tiiat 1 had visited Mr. Greer on tiie 2'th, but that 1 did on the 30 li March : that was the day 1 passed Duke’s shop; did not find any reference to having visited Greer at any time near the 30th of March ; had not been to Greer’s for some lour or five days before or alter that date; he had infiama tio.i of the st<>mach (chronic); hi- wife had irritation of the spine ; 1 attended pa tients On tiie plantations by coulract, hence I made no memorandum of the visits t<» them ; there was a connection in my mind between the visit to Greer and tpe meeting with Duke, from the fuel that 1 remembered that on re turning from Greer’s 1 met Wayne Duke with a pair of steers, and on refer ring to my memorandum 1 found the visit : to (jreer was on that day, and that 1 had gone with Wayne Duke to the shop, where I met William Duke, the accused : a lew days afterward 1 heard me death of A. at the shop ; and located myself as to where i was when 1 heard of it; 1 was not apprehensive that 1 would be accused of connection with the murder; wheu 1 heard of the arrest of Duke, i felt certain of his iuuoceuce, and I remembered hav ing tirst heard from him that A- was as sassinated; never had thought of the ne cessity of locating Duke until 1 first heard of Du lie’s arrest, which was about a month ago; J think it was on Saturday ; heard it on the morning following his arrest; it made a decided impression on my mind not greater than that of the assassination of Asltbuni, from the fact that a notorious character, well-known in our couuty to whites aud blacks, as a cruel overseer aud bad man, Itad passed away by the hands of masked assassins; a treedmau by the name of John Reese, another by the name of Cooper, Sambo Illges, and others, had told me of A.’s cruel character as an over seer; I saw in the papers that tbe assas sins were marked ; do not remember that Duke told me about the masks—he merely asked me if had heard of the assassina tion ; I read of the masks in the Columbus (Stt.a, I think shortly after the occurrence ; the paper was at* the Sulphur Springs, lying on the desk. [Col. Crofteu,a mem ber of the Court, objected to tue interrog atories of Gov. Drown as irrelevant to tlie case. Gov. Jirowu stated that lie was try ing to test tiie memory of the witness, who had sworn positively to one fact; it was important to know whether witness could swear as positively to other facts. Court retired. On its return, the Judge Advocate announced that the objection lnul been overruled.] Witness continued . When Duke told me of Ashburn’s death, 1 asked him when it was; he told me it was a fe\y days before, and I afterwards read it in the papers. He told me the day of the week, but not of the month. 1 had not thought of the date of A.’s death again until I heard of Duke’s arrest. 1 referred to my record after I found that I would be needed here. J looked at other entries near the 30th of March, and found that I had not passed iu that direction on my way coming from Greer’s. 1 stated that X passed theshopabout twice a week. I was there on Monday and perhaps again on Saturday; went thereon Thursday to have some work done. I did not examine tiie record particularly us to tiie number of times I visited-Greer tiie week before and tiie week alter the 30th of March, be cause I did not think those dates were near enough to the date of tiie death of A., to have anything to do with this ease. If the assassination had been on tlie 2Sth of March, and you hud found an entry on your books fitting that day, would you not have believed aud stated here that that was the day on which you saw Duke? •paißuissßssn kbm v qoiq-w no Asp aqi .sbAt qaJßp\[ jo qioj; oqi IBqp paioqtaomaj eaYiq jou p(UOM j astißOoq ‘4oa p[no.w | The entire testimony of Dr. Btyles was then read in his hearing. No corrections were made. By tiie Court.—Question. Why did you not bring your record with you to confirm your evidence? Ans. Because I had no idea that I would be called upon to pro duce it; never having been on the stand before, Iliad no idea wliat questions would be propou uded. F. G. Wilkinsswora.—By Mr. Stephens, for the Defence.—l reside in Columbus, Georgia; when A. was killed I was at my and welling in the Northeast portion of the city; was then Mayor of Columbus; Rob ert H Green was City Treasurer; M. M. Moore, Clerk ; Janies Barber, Wharfiu gcr; Dr. Roper, City Physician ; Mrs. Catharine Anderson, Hospital Keeper; James Lyner, Magazine Keeper aud Clerk of the Market ; M. M. Murphy, Marshal ; Robert A. Wood, Deputy Marshal; A. W. Allen, Captain of Police; had reduced police officers about one-half [Witness here named many of the Policemen then employed, among whom was A. C. Rojier and James Wiggins.] I was first inform ed of the death of A. about ten minutes to 2 o’clock at night; went immediately to tiie scene; w'ent into tiie house accom pauied by the Marshal and some police men ; saw iu the bouse four persons only —a negro woman (Hannah Flournoy) a white woman, a negro boy aud a white man named Bennett ; knew Hannah and Bennett; assembled the woman and Bon net together, and tried to ascertain if they could give me any definite idea as to who had perpetrated the act; had previously lost sight of the negro boy ; they seemed very much frightened ; not learning any tiling from them I went to the room where A. was lying ; bad him straighten ed ; sent a policeman after the Coroner; told the Coroner to summon a jury of in quest and to take none but the most intel ligent gentlemen in the city; instructed the Marshal to distribute his men to the bent possible ad vantage aud to arrest all persons found roaming about between that and day, this brought it to about3o’clock; instructed tiie Marshal to keep a man iu the neighborhood of the house where A. lay ; also, to summon the Board of Alder men to meet me at the council chamber, 1 at 9 o'clock, which wasdone ; an ordinance j was introduced condemning the act, and offering a reward of $5<X) for the arrest of tiie parties, (one or more) to the deed ; the Governor usually offers from S2OO to SSOO reward iu such cases; remember no occa sion before this tor my offering a reward; during tlie day J increased the police force to sixty men, and had them on duty by night with instructions to each oue to be vigilant, and do everything he could to ferret out tiie jierpetrators ; kept the great- j er portion of them on duty until after the ' election which took place on the 20th of j April ; would not have recollected tbeda»s i of a.'h x u< *“ , 1 referred to ttie papers since tins trial has been going on. The Court then adjourned, in conse quenee of the indisposition of a member of the Court, until 10 o’clock to-morrow. ♦ ♦ ♦ GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. Atlanta, Ga., July 13. SENATE. The Senate met pursuant to adjourn ment, and was opened with prayer. 111 order to give further time tothe com mittee on eligibility, on motion of Mr. MPEA R the Senate adjourned until Wedn esday morning at 10 o’clock. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, July 13, 1868. House met pursuant to adjournment, speaker McWhorter in the Chair. Prayer by Rev. J. Bpilmnn. Roll called, and proceedings of Satur day’s session read and adopted. Mr. BRYANT, of Richmond, having tiie tloor, resumed his speech of Saturday in reply to Mr. Scott, of Floyd, in support of the O’Neal resolution, and in opposi tion to tlu* motion for its reconsideration. Mr. O’NEAL, of Lowndes, author of support of it, aud in reply to Mr Scott, of Floyd. In concluding, he called for the previous question. This latter motion, the Democratic side of the House claimed, was discourteous, as it did not permit the opponents of the resolution to respond. After some little discussion it was with drawn, when Mr. HARPER, of Terrell, replied at some length in favor of the reconsidera tion of ttie O’Neal resolution, and in re sponse to the arguments of Messrs. Bryaut and O’Neal: He deprecated the party spirit which had been j»ermitted to enter the discussion, and insisted that such a course could result in no good. He favored an open and fair investigation of the elig ibility of members, etc. When lie concluded, the previous ques- ; tiou was called for, and resulted as follows: : Yeas, 79; nays, 82, by which the motion to reconsider was lost. [And heie, lest the reader shall forget the character and import of the resolution under discussion, we re-publish it. It was introduced by Mr. O'Neal, of Lowndes, and reads as follows : R(%olofx.l, That there be a committee of five appointed by the Speaker, whose duty it shall be to proceed immediately to in vestigate tiie case of each member of this House, and report the facts in reference to tiie eligibility of each under tiie act of Congress referred to in the message of his Excellency, the Governor, and that said committee have power to send for persons and papers, and to swear and take evi dence of witnesses who, under the laws of this State and of the Flifted States, are competent witnesses in civil cases. And as tiie effort to reconsider this reso lution failed, it stands as the only business now before the House.] The Speaker then appointed as the com mittee called for by the resolution: J. W. O’Neal, of Lowndes, (rad. ; J. E. Bryant, of Richmond, (rad.); A. 11. Lee, of New ton, (rad.); I. E. Shumate, of Whitfield, (deni.); F. M. Harper, of Terrell, (dem.) Leaves of absence were granted for a few days to Messrs. Hall, of Glynn, Pow ell. of Decatur, and Butt, of Marion. The House then adjourned to 11 o’clock on Thursday next. Wednesday, July 15,1868. Senate met pursuant to adjournment. President B. Conley in tiie Chair. Prayer by Itev. Smith. .Roll called. Proceedings of last meeting read and adopted. Mr. HIGBEE offered a resolution that tlie Committee appointed to enquire into tiie eligibility of Senators bo instructed to enquire also into such cases of eligibility as might exist among tlie officers of tiie Senate. Adopted. Mr. CANDLER offered a resolution re questing tlie Provisional Governor to transmit to this body such papers or doc uments effecting the eligibility of Senators as he may have in his possession. This resolution elicited considerable dis cussion pro et con. It was alleged that, inasmuch as the committee on investiga tion were empowered to send for persons and papers, it was respectful to His Ex cellency to ask him for that which should only go to tlie committee. This was the Radical view of the question, while the Democratic side of the House disclaimed any purpose to be discourteous, but a dis position to unnecessarily delay matters was apparent, anil as the investigation was moving too sloth fully, itsspeed might be accelerated by the Senate demanding of His Excellency to send forward the documents. Upon the motion being put, Mr. Cand ler’s resolution was adopted A motion was then made to adjourn the Senate until Friday at 10 o’clock. Mr. HOLCOMBE moved to amend by adjourning it until Wednesday next, in order to give the committee plenty of time. This amendment was lost, when ttie Sen ate adjourned until Friday at 10 o’clock. No Cotton Worm this Year.—A St" Landry cotton planter, of great experience expresses the opinion that there will be no caterpillars to attack the cotton this year. According to the Opelousas “Journ al,” lie bases his opinion mainly on the fact that every stalk of cotton is covered with myriads of black ants, which devour instantly the eggs of any insect deposited upon its leaves, and which seem to be in creasing, instead of diminishing, each day. VOL LX-, M> -20. FRIDAY JULY 17, 18G8. ■OH TKSTIMOSI 1* MiMK UTI RKD. Read the affidavit of John Stapler, the Columbus negro, to be found In auothei column. Jt shows how the scoundrels who ar 3 seeking the blood of innocent men, make testimony. It isshocking. It Is monstrous. It is damnable. In no other country but this, aud under the rule of no other crew than that which curses'a con tinent with its foul domination, could such things happen. These erimesaud cruelties are instigated by the party that has Grant for its leader, and Brown for its bloodhound—which has well nigh throt tled Liberty in her chosen home, and spit upon and degraded every right guaranteed by the blood and sufferings of tbe Fathers of the Republic. Weappeal to our Northern and Western cotenijsjraries, to give these, and similar documents a wide circulation. Let the sturdy freemen of those sections set; bow Radicalism wars, not only upon law and justice, and the Constitution, but upon the cominouest suggestions and demands ot humanity. Let them see what Grant's “peace” means. Let them see what a scorpion is hatching down here for their own punishment, should they fall into Its power. Let them know that this whip is for their backs, too, the very moment they consent to endorse, and continue in power, those who wield it. Radicalism in its l»~t analysis is the incarnation of pitile ferocity and cruel craft. Having ruled and robbed the South, its foul appetite yearns for the spoliation aud ruin of the North. If her jieople do not crush it in November, they will realize, when too late, the depth of its malice, the inflexibil ity of its feii purposes, aud the insatiable greed of its appetite. Its mission is but hall performed in the ruin of the South. I twill not l>e wholly accomplished till the scenes of outrage and oppression that have mat k ed its career down here, are related up there. Liberty is to be driven from its last citadel, and its last defender put to the sword, ere the monster wipes his bloody weapon, and proclaims Peace! Let Grant and Colfax be elected, and woe to Northern Democrats ! Our condition will he tolerable indeed, compared with theirs. VOX POPIXI. ioe bearlie , t j- rntu «“• ... and most enthusiastic response to the nominations of Seymour and Blaik. There has been more enthusiasm displayed and more meeting held to ratify their nominations in the six days that have passed since that event, than even the most rabid Radical sections have exhibited in all the two months that have elapsed since Grant and Colfax were put on the track. The dillerence cannot fail to strike the most prejudiced jaundiced opponent of Democracy. It is as marked as ii is gratifying, and augurs most cbeeringly of the final result in November. It shows that a chord In the popular -heart long silent has been struck with a master hand, aDd that its vibrations will not cease till a pealing symphony of triumph shall break upon the National ear, and fill the Na tional heart. Sick nigh uuto death of the robbery aud jobbery, the plots and schemes of Radicalism against rights, and honor and liberty, the people have re solved to cast down the oppressor, and drive from power the betrayers of their hopes. These wretches have robbed, and plundered, apd murdered until the earth frowns upon a lavra ITfdrt ?uu iWraw* them. We may look for a popular up rising in November that will mark, in its destructive dots to the National enemies, a new era in the history of the country. It will stand for all time to eorne a monu ment to show where forbearance ceas i t<* be a virtue, and how fearful is the ven geance a betrayed people take upon tie authors of their ruiu. Radicalism is doom ed. The very air is thick with portents of its coming destruction. Let the 1- l'opuli in its strength and terrible majesty be indeed Vox Dei , and of an en- I during triumph shine once more upon a ! rescued country. PROCLAIM VTIU\ B\ THE PRESIDENT. Aiißounrenunt thal lilt- Lraiiilaturt* ol Nt.plh I ar*t l aroiinn lloa BallM the 4'on»titnlional Niueti.t meut-The Pi.-.iti.-m I >«,-•. \»« Rraagntee ih* Ratification by Eloriila. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATE OF AMERICA —A I’ROULAMATION. Whereas, by an act of Congress, entitled an act to admit the Slates of North Caroli na, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georg.a. Alabama and Florida to representation in Congress, passed oil the 25th day ot June. 1868, it is declared that it is made the duty of the President within ten day- alter n ceiving official information ot the ratifi cation by the Legislature of either of said States of a proposed amendment, to lb*- Constitution, known as Article Fourteen, to issue a proclamation announcing tb: fact • And whereas, the said act seems to be pros pecti ve ; And whereas, a paper purporting to l>e a resolution of tiie Legislature ot Florida adopting the amendment of the thirteenth and fourteenth articles of the Constitution of the United States was received at the Department of .State on the 16th of June, 1868, prior to the passage of the act of Con gress referred to, which paper is attested by the names of Horatio Jenkins, Jr., jo- Fresideut pro tttn. of the Senate, and \\ . W. Moore as Speaker of the Assembly, aud of William L. Aptborp as Secretary of the Senate, aud William Forsyth Bynum as Clerk of the Assembly, and which pajier was transmitted to the Secre tary of State in a letter dated Executive Office, Tallahassee, Florida, Juue 10, 1868, trom Harrison Reed, who herein signs himself Governor. And whereas, on the 6th day of July, 1868, a paper was received by the Presi dent, which paper, being addressed to the President, bears date of the 4th of July, 1868, and was transmitted by and under tiie name of W. W. Holden, who therein writes himself Governor of the State of North Carolina, which paper certifies that the said proposed amendment known as Article Fourteeu did pass the Senate and House of Representatives of the General Assembly of North Carolina on the 2d day of July, instant, and is attested by the names of John H. Bouer, or Bower, nr. Secretary of the House of Representatives and T. A. Byrnes as Secretary of the Sen ate, and its ratification on the 4th of July, 1868, is attested by Tod R. Caldwell n- Lieutenant Governor, President of the Senate, and J. W. Holden as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Now, therefore, be it known that 1, Andrew Johnson, President of the l ni ted States of America, in compliance with, and iu execution of, the act of Congrer-s aforesaid, do issue this proclamation an nouncing tiie fact of the ratification of the said amendment by the Legislature of the State of North Carolina in the manner hereinbefore set forth. In testimony whereof I have signed these presents with my hand and have caused the seal of the United States be hereto affixed. Done at the City of Washington,. 1 11th day of July, in the year <>t «»j* «* ;; 1868, and of the independence of t ted States of America the nme y tluru. AMUEBW By the President. < WUUAM H. SEWARD, State. . beaten for that office, ‘ twice by uia ! 250 votes. He was respectively. ijoritiee of 10,000 and-o,OW.