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fOEWS & HERALD.
BY J. H. ESTILL.
Clol.W. I’. THOMPSON, - - Editor.
Official Paper of the City.
lARBEET CIRCaJLATimi IN CITY ABO GOUNTRY.
BIONDAV> AUGUST 2*. 1868.
foh president,
HOll. HORATIO SEYMOUR,
Os New York.
FOR VICK PRESIDENT,
General FRANK P. BLAIR,
Os Missouri.
State Electoral Ticket,
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE :
Gen. JOHN B. GORDON", of Fulton.
Hon. J4)HN T. CLARKE, of Randolph.
ALTERNATES:
Gen. W. T. WOFFORD, of Bartow.
T. 51. NORWOOD, of Chatham.
FOR TIIE DISTRICTS :
1. JOHN 0. NICHOLLS, of Pierce.
2. Col. CHAS. T. GOODE, of Sumter.
5. R. J. MDSES, of Muscogee.
4. A. 0. BACON, of Bibb.
6. Major J. B. CtJMMING, of Richmond.
6. H. P. BELL, of Forsyth.
7. Col. JAMES D. WADDELL, of Fulton.
ALTERNATES :
1. J. H, ntTNTER, of Brooks.
2. WM. O. FLESIING, of Decatur.
3. W. D. TUGGLE, of Troup.
4. Dr. IIENRY WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
6. Gen. D. M. DcBOSE, of Wilkes.
6. GARRETT McMILLAN, of Habersham.
7. Col. Y. A. GASKILL, of Fulton.
DEJIOBRATIC STATE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE.
E. G. CABA.NIBS, of Monroe, Chairman.
J I. WHITAKER, of Atlanta.
WM. EZZARD. of Atlanta.
Dr. J. F. ALEXANDER, of Atlanta.
L. J. GLENN, of Atlanta.
D. P. HILL, of Atlanta.
J. F. COOPER, ot Atlanta.
E. D. HOGE, of Atlanta.
G. N. LESTER, of Marietta.
P. W. ALEXANDER, of Columbus.
General A. R. WRIGHT, of Augusta.
NELSON TIFT, of Albany.
5. G. SMITH, of Banks county.
GEORGE A. MERCER, Savannah.
GEORGE S. BLACK, Rome.
VAPT. ADMIT I'KD TO HIS
SEAT AT LAST.
It. is with pleasure that we aunounce that
Capt. Rufus E. Luster, Senator from the
First District, has at length been admitted
to his seat. The State has been loser by his
absence from the Senate, in which he will
be an able advocate of the honor and inter
ests of her people.
■ As His Espress-agency has got pretty well
through with his appointments, we see no
reason why he should persist in ordering an
election to fill a vacancy which does not
exist.
Stcamtiup Enterprise.
fFrom the New Yo.k shipping List, August 19tli ]
Savannah, which, since the rebellion, has
outstripped nearly all the Southern seaboard
cities in the race Ifor commercial supremacy,
taking the lead of Charleston and Mobile, and
fairly rivalling New Orleans, is about to
strengthen her claims for superiority as a trade
mart, by adopting direct steamship communi
cation with Liverpool. The new “Georgia and
Liverpool Line" is to be inaugurated in No
vember next by two new iron screw steamships
—the Savannah and Satilla—now in course of
construction on the Clyde. In due time these
ships are to be followed by five others, the
Waverly, Leith, Stirling, Riga and Don, as will
be seen by the Company’s advertisement else
where in our columns. The freight capacity
of these steamships will vary from fifteen
hundred to three thousand bales, each ship
being built with special reference to speed and
strength.
Thus, slowly but surely, steam is superseding
sails on all the great pathways of commerce,
and it is by no means improbable that our
entire European carrying trade will gravitate
to screw ships within a very few years. One
of the causes of the decay of the American
shipping interests, as is well known, was the
partial drying up of the sources of those great
Southern staples, Cotton, Tobocco, Sugar,
Naval Stores, Rice, dec., through the instru
mentality of the late war. But the well springs
of these great staples are gradually beginning
to flow again, and we shall thus soon have need
for more tonnage. It will be well for American
merchants and capitalists to bear this fact in
mind, and to bear in mind, also, the important
truth that steam, instead of sails, will, in the
coming year, be called upon to perform the
functions of the best portion of the American
carrying trade.
The only thing about this new Savannah line
to be regretted is, that it is under British iu
siead of American auspices, and it behooves
our countrymen to bestir themselves, or all the
fields of American ocean commerce will speedily
be as effectually covered by foreign steam
lines as is that between New York and the
principal European porls.
PLAVISO WITH EDGED TOOLS.
The New York Journal of Commerce, speak
ing of the outrages being perpetrated upon the
people of the South by the Radical disunion
ists and revolutionists, warns them that they
are “playing with edged tools,’’ and says: “We
would avoid the mistake of lulling our readers
into a false confidence in the permanence of
peace under all the provocations that may be
given.” The editor says the people of the
South desire peace on a sure, permanent basis,
and would long since have been “back in the
Union in spirit as in fact, but for the agencies
at the North, which are exerted le prevent
reconciliation.”
“These agencies,” says the editor, “work
partly above board, through the newspapers
and the public action of parties, committees
and individuals, and partly by secret, stealthy
methods, which we cannot trace, and of
which we perceive ODly the disastrous results.
Since our last article on this subject, two re
markable measures have been introduced
in the Radical Legislatures of two Southern
States, which measures are so nearly alike
in their import as to leave little doubt that
they were suggested by Radical plotters at
the North with a view to influence the com
ing election. We feel confident that the
Southern Radicals would not, without the
■mot dordre and tbe pledge of support from
Washington, take steps so dangerously bor
dering on civil war. The measures to which
we refer are as follows:
“In the State of North Carolina the Legis
lature have hastily adopted a tyrannical mi
litia system, under the false title of a ‘Police
bill.’ The kind of police which it provides
for is the armed police ot France and Spain—
a standing army scattered over the entire
State, and responsible to one head, Governor
Holden.
“And these grave perils are to be encoun
tered, for what ? Why, to make a sure thing
of the next Presidential election ! Thus it is
that soulless politicians at tbe North, keep
ing their own precious bodies well out of the
fray, sport with the passions and prejudices
of the impulsive people of the South. It is a
very hazardous business.’’
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens bag gone to
the White Sulphur Springs of Virginia for
the benefit of his health.
WHAT THE RADICALS MEAN BA'
PEACE.
General Grant, in hia luminous lcttor of
acceptance, says, “Let us have peace' I —the
Radical presses and speakers of the North
re-echo the Napoleonic sentence on all occa
sions, and the miserable pensioned scalawag
organs of the party in the South, when chal
lenged to the hopeless task of defending the
usurpations, outrages and wanton persecu
tions to which the white race in these South
ern States is subjected, can only whine,
“Let us have peace.” Vile, recreant crea
tures, traitors to their country, to the prin
ciples which they once professed to 'society,
to their race and to their posterity, when
they are told of a violated constitution
and a usurped and revolutionized gov
ernment when they are reminded
of the unconstitutionulity of the recon
struction acts, of the oppression, injustice,
fraud, and overy species of political, moral
and social iniquity perpetrated under their
pretended authority—without the audacity
to attempt a defense of what is utterly inde
fensible they seek a cover for their perfidious
servility in the cry “We want Peace !” They
know that the government of the constitu
tion has been usurped aha revolutionized—
they know that the constitution itself lm s
been trampled under foot, that the State
governments have been destroyed, and a
lawless despotism erected in their stead,
which has its head in the Radical Congres
sional Directory at Washington—they know
that the people of these States are no longer
governed by laws enacted in accordance
the forms of Republican governments, by
the will of the people, but by the caprice
of au irresponsible and revolutionary cabal
in Washington, backed by the military
power—they knew that that vile faction is
seeking to complete the overthrow of
the Federal Government of the Oonslitution,
and erect in its stead a consolidated mili
tary despotism which shall rule all the
States without the restraint of Constitutions
or laws, and in defiance of tho will
of the people. They know all this, and dare
not and do not deny it; but they “want
Peace !” For office and the hope of office
they have consented to become the servile
instruments of the conspirators against^the
liberties of their country—with them their
political fortunes are cast, and in the per
petuity of their power is their only jhope of
protection from just retribution. They seek
no restoration of the Union of the Con
stitution, they desire no repeal of unconsti
tutional laws, no re-establishment of civil
government with the rights and liberties of
the people. Their cry is, “Let U3 have
peace !”
But what is the peace that is promised the
country in the name of their great Missionary
of Peace ? Is it the Peace that reigned iu
Warsaw, the Peace of the Empire, or that
peace which all good men desire, which can
only come to our distracted country with
the re-estabhshment ot law, order, right and
justice.
General Grant has not taken the paiu3 to
define what kind of peace he desires. When
Napoleon said, “the Empire is peace,” the
world were not long in understanding what
he meant. Perhaps General Grant thinks
his language is as easy of interpretation by
those who understand him. It may bo in
teresting to our readers to know how he is
nterpreted by the organs cf his party. For
their enlightenment on this subject we give
the following extract from a writer in the
New York Times, a leading organ of the
Radical party, who signs himself “Peace.’"
This Angel of Peace maintains that the
people of the Southern Slates having taken
up arms sgainst the party controlling the
Government of the United States, in defense
of what ihey believed to be their constitu
tional and Siaie rights, being defeated, “lost
all claims to civil and political rights, to
the tights of property, and even life itself,
and are completely dependent upon the
mercy of the Government which they have
defied.” “This,” says the writer, “was the
condition of the rebels at tho close of the
war, and they have never from that day to
this had a claim ot right, excepting such as
the generosity of the Government has ex
tended to them. ***** xheir
rights are exactly such as the Government
accords—no more, no less.”
This dove-like bearer of the olive branch
is highly insensed at the people of the South
for their persistent opposition to Radicalism
with all its usurpations, outrages and corrup
tions. He reprobates Southern obstinacy
and turbulence, and, like General Grant, is
determined to have peace. The following is
his plan of securing the “welfare and peace
of tho country.” General Grant himself will
hardly be able to improve upon a plan which
will apply as well to the Democratic States
of the North as to the South—to one State
of the Union as another. He says:
“I now urge the necessity of continuing,
and, if necessary, extending military rule
over every Southern State where the factious
element shows its head ia a threatening man
ner. I would urge this upon the grounds of
absolute necessity to the welfare and peace
of the country. Nothing short of this will
keep the peace for any length of time. * *
* The Military Government should be made
strong and efficient, but mild and placable,
as tar as possible ; and the warrant for such
a form of government to continue until the
loyal element is at least equal in numbers to
the disloyal, would be the same as that
which justified the nation in raising armies to
subdue the rebellion.”
Again the writer says :
“Had they (the South) at the termination
of the rebellion accepted the situation and
all its duties, and proved by their conduct
and spirit since then that the old leven of
mischief had departed out of them, we
should be justified in doing what we have
done and are doing in order to restore them
to citizenship; but every intelligent person
knows that we have iu the first place as
sumed as a fact what we from our hearts
desired should be such, namely: that the
South through their sufferings had become
at least a passively loyal people, but our ex
perience with the observation of them during
the past three years, and more especially the
violent and encroaching spirit which ani
mates them now, must convince every well
wisher of his country that a military Govern
ment, for years to come, is our only securi
ity against serious Troubles, and probably
another civil war.”
Perhaps this sort of peace will suit the
carpet-baggers and scalawags of Georgia,
but we sincerely hope the Democracy of the
country will give us some better “security
against the serious troubles” which disturb
our unhappy country.
West Virginia. —The Washington corres
pondent of the Baltimore Gazetie says Chief
Justice Chase returned last evening in fine
health and much pleased with his official
visit to West Virginia. He expresses the
opinion that the Conservatives are largely
in the ascendancy in that State, and will
control the Presidential ticket.
Affairs in Hath.—Advices from Hayti
by the gull cable state that Salnave is pre
paring to leave, and intends to favor the
United States with his presence. Jhe in
surgents captured one of his war vessels, on
board of which were his mother and his
Minister of War. Salnave had imprisoned
the Prussian Consul, and threatened the life
of the British Minister, for which insolence
the British man-of-war Favorite was pre
paring to bombard.
PKKPAIimONS FOR CIVIL WAR.
A BILL TO RAISE A STANDING ARMY
IN GEORGIA.
The Heuil Carpet-Uaggor to be Com
<nan<ler-iit-CUiet'.
It is impossible for any one who is at all
informed of what is passing in the political
world to escape the conviction that a deep
aid and concerted plot is forming on the
part of the Radical leaders, the object of
which is to control the Presidential election
in the Southern States if need be by military
force. This diabolical plot originated with
the Radical Congressional Commettee in
Washington. The original plan was to organ
ize and arm the loyal or Negro militia, for
which purpese a bill was introduced in Con
gress a tew days before the close of the iate
session. But this measure, which necessarily
embraced all the States of the Union, and
could have been applied to the Congressional
districts of New York as well as to thosii of
Georgia, giving to the partisan Governor
of each State a force of two thousand militia
and a battery of artillery to each district,
.was so shocking to the sensibilities of the
American people, and raised such a storm ot
remonstrance throughout the country that it
was suddenly abandoned. The next scheme
proposed and which was urged by the carpet
bag representatives of the reconstructed
States, who found their way to Washington
during the last hours of the session, just in
time to get their per diem aud mileage, was
to organize and arm the loyal militia after
the plan adopted by the political matricede,
Brownlow of Tennessee. This scheme, how
ever, was liable to some of the same ob
jections as tho first—it was a risky matter
to undertake to arm only tho loyal—the
arms might get into the hands of white men
—and it was in turn abandoned. Still an
armed force sufficient to overawe an unarm
ed aud peaceable people was deemed, indis
pensable to carry out the Radical Mme
for guaranteeing Republican forms of gov
ernment to the States, and to protect those
patriotic instrumentalities in the work, the
carpet-baggers and scalawags, from personal
barm. Then it was that the Jacobin Di
rectory at Washington conceived the idea
of copying after those liberal governments
of France and Spain, in the establishment
of an armed State Police, to be unlimited
in numbers and under the immediate
control of the ruling Jack Cade of each
State. This plan, confining the wrong and
the burthen of the expense to the subjugated
States, while it would be equally effective
for their diabolical and despotic purposes,
was not so liable to alarm the apprehensions
and excite tho indignation of the honest,
liberty-loving people of the North. It would
place an immense amount of power and pa
tronage in the hands of their most servile
tools, and give employment and subsistence
to the “toil” blacks. With the approbation
of the carpet-bag representatives in Washing
ton, the mandate ,is sent forth to the chief
wire-puller in the several State Legislatures,
and almost simultaneously we see bills tor
the organization of a military police iu al
most precisely the same form introduced in
the so-called Legislatures of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Louisi
ary, in all of which States we believe the
measure has been adopted by a strictly party
vote. A friend has sent ns the following
copy of a hill which has been introduced in
the Georgia House of Representatives by the
scowhegan member, Bryant, from Richmond
county :
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A STATE POLICE.
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from
and alter the passage of this act, there snail
be appointed by the Governor, with the
consent of the Senate, an officer to be enti
tled a Constable of the Slate, who shall be
commissioned to hold office for four years,
unless sooner removed, such officer shall re
side ia the city of Atlanta, and keep an
office at some place therein, to be appointed
by the Governor. Ho shall appoint as many
deputies a3 the Governor may direct.
Sec. 2. Said Constable of the State and
his deputies shall have and exercise all the
common law and statutory powers of con
stables, except the service of simple pro
cess, and also all the powers given to the
police or watchmen by the statutes of the
State, or the charters or ordinances of the
several cities and incorporated towns eon
currenly with, such offioers, and their
powers as Constables shall extend throughout
the State, and said Constables and his depu
ties shall at all times obey all orders of the
government in relation to the preservation
of the public peace, or the execution of ihe
laws throughout the State; and it shall be
their duty to see that the laws of the State
are observed and enforced.
Sec. 3. The Constable of the State shall
be paid out of the Treasury of the State an
annual salary of thousand dollars, in
equal quarterly payments, aud his deputies
shall be paiij at the rate of dollars per
day, when on duty. When required to travel
on duty from one city or county to another,
they shall be allowed the same compensa
tion which is allowed by law to sheriffs and
their deputies. The accounts of the deputy
constables shall be verified by the affidavits
of said Constables, and shall be approved
by the Constable of the State before being
presented to the Comptroller-General, and
when duly audited, shall be paid out of tbe
Treasury of the State.
Sec. 4. The Constable of the State, with
the approval of the Governor, shall make all
needful rules for the regulation of the police
duties of his deputies.
Sec. 5. The Governor shall have power at
all times, in any emergency of which he shall
be the judge, to assume command of the whole
or any part of the municipal, police and con
stabulary force in any place, and to author
ize the Constable of the State to command
their assistance in the execution of crimi
nal process, in suppressing riots, and in pre
serving the peace.
Sec. 6. Repeals conflicting laws.
We deem it unnecessary to comment on
the provisions of this monstrous bill; it has
the merit at least of simplicity and clearness.
No one can fail to comprehend its meauing,
the objects which it is designed to subserve,
or the unlimited and dangerous powers which
it confers.
We do not believe for one moment that
such a biil can by any possibility be
passed by a legislative body in this State,
the majority of whose members are jwhite
men; we would sooner expect to see tbe
creature who has the audacity to propose
such a measure of outrage and wrong to the
once freemen of Georgia expelled from tbe
body as a madman and incendiaryi When
such a bill is entertained by the men who
now claim to exercise the Legislative powers
of the State, and becomes a law by their ac
tion, it will then be time tor the people
whose lives, liberty and property are en
dangered to take council bow to meet it.
A vert Short Cotton Crop. —The reports
from Southern and Southwestern Georgia
are very gloomy. The cotton yield is going
to be light—unexpectedly light.
IMPORTANT MOVEMENT IN CHARLES*
. TON.
Meeting of tile White Citizens for Ibc
Preservation of Law and Order-Ad
dress to the President.
A meeting of a number of the prominent
.citizens and tax-payers of the city of Charles
ton was held at the Hibernian Hall, on Friday
afternoon. Mr. Daniel Ravenel was called to
the Chair, and General Conner stated the.ob
ject of the meeting. He said that there was
hardly a man present who did not realize the
anomalous and perilous condition in which the
community was living. There was not within
the State a single Court organized for the
trial of offenders. The municipal authority
was, by its own confession, powerless. Every
protection which the law formerly afforded was
swept away, and yet at the same time a large
portion ot the population was actuated by a
spirit of lawlessness, and incited by bad men
to deeds of violence, in order that political
capital may be manufactured to influence the
Presidential election. Nothing but the for
bearance and self-control of our people had
thus far arrested a conflict. The evil was
clearly apparent. What was the appropriate
remedy was not so clear. A few gentlemen
had endeavored carefully to consider the ques
tion. The wisest course" that they could sug
gest was, that a number ol the responsible and
influential members of the community should
address their fellow-citizens, setting iorth
truthfully thelfelangers which threatened them,
counseling/forbearance, and yet earnestly
advising them to prepare themselves to protect
their persons and property; and that the Hon.
J. B. Campbell should be requested, on behalf
of his fellow-citizens, to present the address
to the President of the United States, and
request him to take such measures for the
preservation of the public peace as in his
judgment may be deemed proper.
General Conner then read the address which
had been piepared, and which, on motion, was
adopted and signed by all present, and ordered
to be published.
Copies of the address are left at the offices
of the Courier, Daily News and Mercury, where
all citizens who are disposed to lend their aid
to the preservation of law and order, are invi
ted to sign it.
Conservative Meeting in Liberty County
llinesville, Liberty Cos., Ga., August 17.
Editors Neil’s and Herald :
Pursuant, to a previous call, a large number
of the Conservative party of Liberty county
convened at Hinesville, on this day. The
meeting was called to order by Dr. J. W.
Farmer, requesting the Hon. T Q. Cassels to
take the Chair, and William Hughes, Jr., was
appointed Secretary.
On motion of Colonel William B. Gaulden,
a Central Executive Committee for the county,
consisting of seven gentlemen, were appointed,
and three from each of the Militia Districts of
the county. A number of the colored voter.3
of the county were present, having been in
vited to come out to hear speakers who would
address them.
Henry Gwinn, of Bryan county, was then
introduced by Col. Gaulden, who spoke at
considerable length, and was listened to with
great attention, telling bis colored friends that
they had .suddenly emerged from a state of
slavery into one of freedom; that they needed
advice in regard to their true interests and
duly, warning ihem against carpet-baggers and
scalawags, who Cnly would lead them astray,
in order to securertheir -votes;, that ibuir best
friends were those with whom they were
railed.
Col. Gaulden then introduced Francis
McNeal, of Savannah, who gave the freedmen
some good advice, telling them the importance
of casting their votes for Seymour and Blair;
warning them against the decepaou of carpet
baggers and Radical incendiaries.
Tue meeting, after taking a short recess, re
assembled, and was addressed iu a few very
appropriate remarks by Dr. J. W. Farmer.
Col. Gaulden then followed in a lengthy
speech, addressing the audience in an able
and impressive inarm' r, urging on all the im
portance of electing Seymour and Blair; that
alone in the triumph of Democratic principles,
and the utter overthrow of Radicalism, with
all of its diabolical corruptions, depend the
salvation of the country from the worst des
potism that ever cursed a nation. His remarks
to the freedmen were very appropriate; he also
showed them plainly what their true interests
were; the necessity of their casting lheir votes
for our candidates, and the consequences re
sulting from a different course.
It is to be regretted that all of the colored
voters of the county were not present to hear
the speeches on the oceasiou, large numbers
of them being kept away through the influence
of some of their leaders, telling them it was a
trap Set for them, etc.
The following resolution was offered by
William Hughes, Jr., and unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That we mutually pledge our
selves to use every honorable exertion to se
cure the electioa of our candidates in the
approaching elections, and that we will brand
every man among U3, either white or colored,
who supports the Radical ticket, as an enemy
to his country and a foe to society.
On motion of J. A. Girardeau, tbe thanks
of the meeting were tendered to the speakers,
and the meeting adjourned, with thauks to the
Chairman and Secretary, requesting the pro
ceedings to be forwarded for publication.
T. Q. CASS If LS, Chairman.
Wm. Hughes, Jr., Secretary.
The Tennessee Loyal Melish.— The Ban
ner has evidence to show that the negroes in
Kentucky are pouring down to Nashville,
under ordt rs to join Brownlow’s Melish. By
the friendly aid of the Kentucky negroes,
who leave a State where they can’t vote, the
Nasiivlilo Radicals boast that they will poll
ten thousand majority for Grant in Nashville
alone. That helps Grant, aud if he can’t be
effectually helped by fraud and violence, he
is a gone case.
Cheering News from Louisiana. —A bu
siness letter from New Orleans to a gentle
man iu Atlanta, referring to the political
siiuaiion, says “I am glad to inform you that
I have never known such a change in the col
ored population as has taken place here in
the last month. I don’t think there will be
one-sixih of the negro voters who will vote
the Radical ticket in November, iu Louis
iana and Mississippi.”
General Rosecrans.— A Washington dis
patch says General Rosecrana is on a short
vi fit to Virginia, and intends to call on
General Lee before returning. Notwith
standing the promiuont part he took in put
ting down the Confederacy, the Radicals
have no more earnest opponent than the
General. In a conversation the other day,
he remarked that the Radical policy had
about as much conciliation in it as the action
of the butcher who endeavored to conciliate
the calf by knocking it on the head.
The bed of the Savannah, Griffin and
North Alabama Railroad, says the Griffin
Herald, with all its rights and appurte
nances. is offered for sale by the sheriff of
Spalding.
Confirmations. —On Friday the Senate, in
Executive Session, confirmed as Judge of
the Superior Court: Ocmulgee Circuit—
Phillip R. Robertson, of Greene counl y;
ns Solicitor of the same Circuit, Fleming
Jordan, of Jasper county. Mr. Robertson is
a Babtist Clergyman.
While Baltimore is having a fair retail
trade, and many visitors, New York is said
to be as dull as a deserted village.
Hy Telegraph.
FROM ATLANTA.
Captain R. E. Lester Admitted to Ills Seat,
Atlanta, August 22. —The seat made va
cant by the expulsion of Bradley in the First
District, was granted to Captain R- E. Lester
to-day: Yeaslß, nays 11. Captain Lester
was sworn in and took his seat.
From Vi nulling ton,
Washington, August 22.- Hiram Ketch
am, ot New York, has been appointed Col
lector ot Alaska, and is at the Treasury De
part men t to-day receiving instructions.
. Mr. Evarts spends two weeks in Ver
mont.
The Government employees have petitioned
to the President against the .Secretary of
war’s decision about the eight hour law.
she petition argues that the debate and
votes pending the passage of the bill indi
cated no reduction of wages to follow the
reduction ol time.
r l he following are the supervising districts
under the new tax law: Tenth—Virginia
and West Virginia. Eleventh—North and
South Carolina. Twelfth—Georgia, Flori
da and Alabama. Thirteenth—Louisiana,
Mississippi and Arkansas. Fourteenth—
Texas. Filteenth—Tennessee.
McCulloch has taken no action on Rollins’
nominations for supervisors.
Sherman’s dispatches corroborate tbo
newspaper accounts of Indian outrages.
General Sheridan telegraphs that they aro
too horrible for detail. Sherman directs
Sheridan to follow and administer summary
punishment.
Secretary Wells has arrived at New York
from his inspection tour. He returns next
week.
Foreign News.
London, August 22.—The passenger train
from Holyhead, with Irish passengers and
mail, ran into a Petroleum train In conse
quence of a misplaced switch. Seven per
sona were killed by the collision. The con
cussion exploded the Petroleum and caused a
fire, whereby eighteen cars were burned to
ashes.
The international yacht race has been
postponed till Tuesday.
Lucerne, August 22.—Tho authorities
have indisputable evidence of a plan to assas
sinate Victoria during her visit Here.
Paris. August 22, Messrs. Arman, against
whom tho United .States got judgment for
building iron dad., have been declared
bankrupt by the High Court of Appeals.
Bt.ki.iN, August 22.—The ship Liebine,
formerly Liebrilz, has been seized by the
government for giving emigrants insufficient
food and shelter, whereby many died.
New Cotton in Cltaileston.
Charleston, August 23 —The first bale of
new cotton was received here to-day.
Genernl News.
Cincinnati, August 22.—The cattle plague
has appeared in re. Seventeen cows belong
ing to one dairy have been stricken and are
dying rapidly.
New York, August 22,— The Board oi
Couhcilmeu, fifteen in number, wore arres
ted to-day by ilia Sheriff. The board ad
journed and accompanied tho sheriff to the
Supreme Court.
Alexandria, Ya., August 22.—Judge Un
derwood directs tho Alexandria and Wash
ington Railroad to be restored to the lessees
under requisite bonds. Trains will be re
sumed on Monday.
Washington, August 23.—Rollins has
nominated nineteen Supervisors, three of
whom only are acceptable to McCulloch.
The nominees are Raid to be extreme Radi
cals. It is stated that McCulloch wilt tie the
whole matter till after the election,rather than
allow the immense patronage which the law
gives these Supervisors, to bo used entirely
in the Radical interest.
Chicago, August 23.—The bridge at Ster
ling, Illinois, on the Chicago and Northwest
era Railroad was burned to-day.
£ruic;4rapi*ic norresponUenea of the Augusta Chroni
cle and bentinelJ
FROM ATLANTA.
Atlanta, Auguff 23, p. m.—la the Senate
the special order for to-day was Ihe ques
tion seating Colonel Rufus E. Lester, from tbo
First District, vice. a. A. Bradley, who was
recently expelled. The question was taken
up, arul, after con iderablo discussion, it was
decided to beat, Colonel Lester. He was
then sworn and took his seat. The vote
stood, ayes 18; nays 11.
The Senate is now considered decidedly
Democratic, ana the uame may be said of
the House.
The more moderate and respectable of
both blanches of the so-called Legislature
are thoroughly disgusted with. Radicalism,
and begin to see and fi-el its evil effects.
In the House the bill exempting foreign
capital, invested iu manufactures, which was
lost yesterday, was reconsidered to-day, and
will he so amended as to exempt all manu
factures of wooilen, and cotton, aud will
probably be passed.
The House has finally decided to limit
speakers to fitteen minutes.
Several propositions have been made to ad
journ to an early day. (Probably the small
(?) saiary of niue dollars a day ia not consi
dered an equivalent lor their valuable ser
vices.)
The Radicals aro getting disheartened and
say that they had better adjourn, as their
party can pass no measure.
A bill to reorganize the municipal govern
ment of Savannah was made the special or
der for Monday.
The House has accepted the proposition of
tbe City Council ot Atlanta, to take the
Opera House tor the use of the State Legis
lature, so-called. X.
Montgomery matron the Prospects.
Montgomery Blair made a speech in Alex
andria, Va., last week, in which he counsel
ed moderation and patience, at the same
time with earnest work for the cause of
Democratic liberty, and a trust in the honest
patriotism of the people. He said :
I have a living faith io the people, Norlh
and South, and I see in the elections of this
and last year that tbe people are awakened
to the dangers that surround them, aud that
they cannot be deceived by the cant of loy
alty to acquiesce in the usurpations of the
dictators of ihe secret caucus which rules
Congress, and which is now in alliance with
the General ot the Army to make him mas
ter of the country by tne direct application
of the military in the elections. It is this
ohseiing uprising of the people of all sec
tions of the country which warms your
hearts again to the old flag. I assure you
that it will be again the symbol of constitu
tional government, aud not of your degrada
tion aud oppression.
Jail Delivery.—Some fourteen prisoners
confined in the county jail broke out about
breakfast time on yesterday mdVning. We
have not learned if any of them have been
re-captured by parties who pursued them.
This is the third time, we believe, the jail of
this county has been emptied this year, and
every time through the door. Is it not time
the matter was looked into, and somebody held
responsible ” If there is no remedy, then the
jail had as well be abandoned, and the expense
of keeping it saved to the tax-pafyers. There
is certainly a screw loose. Columbus Sun.
Ex-President Fillmore—An intimate
personal friend of ex-President Fillmore, in a
letter to the Hon. Alexander H. H. Stuart,
of Virginia, says:*
“I do not violate private confidence in say
ing that ex-President Fillmore and the
men who honor him for his patiiotism and
statesmanship are firm supporters ot Horatio
Seymour.”
±3 utter I _B Litter l—
AT
30 WniTAKiR STREET. 30
THE BEST GOSHEN BUTTER,
In any quantity desired, lor sale by
ang2o-iiiT 0. J. BEATTY, Agenri_
-Pure Leaf X^ard!
AT
VJ WHITAKER STREET. 30
' ~ PURE LARD IN FIRKINS,
Tubs or Cans, and at retail by
anysn :!w 0. J. BBA TTY, Agent.
Hand-bills, show-bills, i'usteus
find PROGRAMMES printed at the A’etflj and
Hsi aid Job Ufict, 111 hay (treat.
Special Notices.
ISTptice,
Savannah, August 12, 1868.
Tbo snbscribor to now ready to receive the Special
Tax (authorized by the Convention, j also all state
and county taxes remaining nnpaid on the Digest ol
1867. C. H. HOPKINS, Jr.,
aug22-eod»t T. O. 0. 0.
NOTICK.
CITY DISPENSARY, 1
Savannah, August 21, 1868.)
The hours of the Dispensary will in future be as
follows:
From 8 A. M. to 1 P. M.
From 3 P. M. to 7 P. M.
ON SUNDAYS.
From 10 A. M. to 12 P. M.
From A P. M. to 6 P. 11.
By order of the Mayor.
W. N. VALLE AU,
aug2l-tf Keeper City Dispensary.
Proclamation by the Governor.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, - !
Atlanta, Ga., August Bth, 1868. J
Whereas, By rouson of the resignation of A. Al
peoria Bradley, Senator trom the First District, a va
cancy exists In the Senate;
And Whereas, By section 7, article XI of the Con"
stitutlon, Ordinaries of counties are authorized to
perform the duties of Justices of the Inferior court:
Now, therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor, by
virtue of tho power vested in me by the second sec
tion of article IV. of the Constitution, and by section
1321 of the Revised Code, do heroby Issue this, my
writ of election to the Ordinaries of the counties of
Chatham, Bryan and Effingham, composing said Dis
trict, directing and requiring them to order and pub
lish a day for bolding an election to fill said vacancy,
by giving at least twenty days’ notice, as required by
the law.
Qlven under my hand and the seal of the Executive
Department, In the Capitol, at the city of Atlanta, the
day and year above written.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK, Governor.
By the Governor:
B. B. DbGraffenbeid, Sec’y Ex. Department
augH-lawtd
Ordinary’s Office, Chatham County, (
August 22,1863. )
Iu accordance with the above proclamation, said
election will be held at the Court House, In the city
of Savannah, on MONDAY, the 21st day ol Septem
ber next, under the dlreotton of tho Ordinary.
The polls will be opened at eeven o’olock a. m. and
close at six o’clock p. m.
The Sheriff of the county and bis Deputies are
hereby required to be in attendance to preserve
order. HENRY S. WBTMORE,
au24—td Ordinary.
To the Public.
Savannah Gas Light Company, )
savannah, June 4, 1868 )
The Savannah Gas Light Company, wishing to sup
ply Gas to its patrons on as cheap terms as may be
consistent with a fair return for tbe capital and labor
applied in Us manufacture, and believing that the
active business which may be reasonably expected
during the coming winter In this city, will cause an
increased demand; and further, that a diminution in
price will induce many to bnrn Gaa that have hitherto
had recourse to other means of illumination, which
are more dangerous and less cleanly and convenient:
and that tbe consequent increase will lessen the cost
of manufacture, and thus justify tho Company in
making a reduction in price.
Tnerefure, it has been determined that from and
after the FIRST OF NOVEMBER next, consumers
will bs supplied at tbe rate of
FIVE DOLLARS AND FIFTY GENTS PER THOU
SAND CUBIC FEET,
aud that a further reduction of Fifty Cents per Thou
sand Feet will be made to all who shall pay their bills
at this office within FIVE DAYS after presentation.
J. F. GILMER,
junefi-Stawtnovl President.
Notice to Gas Consumers.
You aro respectfully invited to call at the office of
the SAVANNAH IMPROVED GAS LIGHT COM
PANY, corner of Bull and Bay Btreets, 2d floor, be
tween the hours of 7 and 8 o’clock P. M., to witness
and to.ttne improvement in tho light from common
cliy gas effected by the Company.
With the same light now obtained a deduction o f
about 26 per cent, in cost may be relied on.
This Company has been in operation about four
months, and we would refer to our present pations
as to the general satisfaction given.
Tbe apparatus is introduced tree of cost.
GEO W. WYLLY, President.
Dm Witt Bbuyn, Secretary. aug 19-ly
Notice.
SOUTH-WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY, 1
Office Macon, Ga., August 13th, 1868. j
DIVIDEND NO. 29 A DIVIDEND OF FOUR
($4 00) Dollars per share on tbe stock oi this Com
pany, as held on the 31st ulitmo, has this day been de
clared by the Board of Directors, from the earnings
of the road, for the six months ending 31st ultimo,
payable on and after the 17th instant, in United Statce
currency.
The United States revenue tax will be paid by tbis
Company.
Stockholders in Savannah will receive their Divi
dend at the Central Railroad Bank.
JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET,
augls-lmo Sec’y and Treasurer.
Mercer University.
THE FALL TERM OF THIS INSTITUTION
will open on Wednesday, August 26th.
Tuition for the term, $26.
Good board, including washing, fuel and lights, cau
be bad at $lB to $25 per month. If the student join
a boarding club, bis expenses for the collegiate yea
need not exceed $275.
J E. WILLET, Sec. Fac.
Peafleld, Ga, augls-9
]Slotice !
TO MEET A NECESSITY LONG EXISTING
in their vicinity, Messrs. Uallage; & Fowke will keep
their Drug Store open for the compounding of pre
scriptions at ail hours of the night from this date.
augl4-tf
Office, cor. St. Julian st. and Market Square.
j027-ly
Osborne, Oculist-Optician
Office Corner of Congress and Drayton
Streets,
Is open dally in business hours, for fitting accu
batelt, all who need
SCIENTIFIC ALLY ADJUSTED SPECTACLES OR
EYE-GLASSES OF SUPERIOR CJUAI.ITY.
“An ounce o[ caution is worth a pound of cure.”
Jy3-3taw-3moe
BATCHELOR’S HAIR DYE.—This
splendid Hair Dye is the best In the world. The only
true and perfect Due— Harmless, Reliable, Instanta
neous. No disappointment. No ridiculous tints,
R * medics the 1U effects of Sad Dyes. Invigorates
and leaves the hair, soft and beautiful, black or brown.
Sold by all Druggists and Perfumers, and properly
applied at Batohelor’s Wig Factory, 16 Bond street.
New York. ]anl6-ly
ESSAYS FOR YOUNG MEN.
On the errors and abuses incident to Yonth and
Early Manhood, with the humane view ol treatment
and core, (ent by mail free of charge. Address,
HOWARD ASSOCIATION,
m»y2o-3mos Box P, Philadelphia, Pa.
What is the Matter with You ?
This is tbe familiar question put to evory invalid.
In many cases the answer is, “I don't know exactly,
but I don’t feel well.” Look at the countenance oi
the man or woman who makes this reply, and you
will generally find that the eyes are dull and lustre
less, the complexion sallow, the cheeks flacid, and
the whole expression of the face dejected. Interro
gate the Invalid mgre closely, and yon will discover
that constipation, the result of a disordered
stomach and a torpid liver. Is at tile bottom of the
mischief. “That’s what’s the matter.” Whoever
has experienced the effects of
fARRANT’S
EFFERVESCENT SELTZER APERIENT
in such oases, need not be told to recommend It as a
remedy.
TARRANT & CO., wholesale druggists, 278 Green
wich and 100 Warren streets, New York, bole Pro
prietors.
Sold by all druggists. marchl2-6m
Blank books ruled aud bound to any
Pattern at the NEWS AUD UEHALU JOB
OtriOß, 111 ay street,
New Advertisements.
TO RENT,
Murom is« October, the dwelling
14a BROUGHTON STREET. For terms,
Ac., inquire of Messrs. A. A. SOLOMONS & CO ,
Market Squire. au24 —ts
NOTICE.
MY TEMPORARY ABSENCE FROM
the oity, Mr. A. J. AYLSWORTH and S. U. TARNEE
will attend to my business.
an24—4t GILBERT BUTLER.
Basting, Iron Ties, and Twine
For sale by
aug24—lt _ A. MINIS.
BACON! BACON!
HUMS, CLEtAH SIDES, PRIME,
fj HHBS CLEAR KIU SIDES, PRIME.
FOR SALE LOW BY
3?u.r*se & I’homas
111 BAY STREET.
aug24 3t
CORN FOE SALE.
pRIME TENNESSEE CORN ON HAND AND
for sale by
an24—lf SLOAN, GROOVER ft CO.
BLACK JACK!
BLACK JACK!
Come One! Come All!
Now 1 is tlie Time to lay in your
WINTER’S WOOD, while
you can buy it
LOW DOWN FOR CASH I
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A TRAIN LOAD
of very fine BLACK JACK WOOD. Also, a
train load of HIGHLAND OAK WOOD, which we
nl,l sell at tee following prices:
Black Jack or Oak Wood, sawed any length $8 00
Uosawed, in stick 7 00
Pine, sawed 7 (0
Unsuwed, in stick C 10
Llghtwood, sawed 7 60
Cnsawod, in Btick 6 60
Thankful for the past favors so liberally extended
to ns, we solicit a continuance of the same. Oraer
boxes may be found at Mr. Jacob Lippraan’s Drug
Store, coiner Barnard and Whitaker street*; also at
the Post office. Wood Yard at the Canal bridge, jnat
below the Central Railroad Depot.
_au?4—lf BUTLER & HARDWICK
FRESH MACKEREL
7(' PACKAGES ON CONSIGNMENT AND FOR
t) sa’o by
an24-2t BBARDEN k GAINES.
Administiator’a Bald.
BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER from the Court of
Ordinary of Gumdcu county will be told, on tbe
Flit ST TUESDAY liN OCTOBER, ISGB, at the Couit
Home door in said county, between tho legal hours
of sale, the TRAOT uK LAND known as WHITE
OAK, on the While Oak Creek, containing about six
hundred acres, more or less, consisting of unim
proved swamp and pine lands, belonging to N. A.
Brown, deceased. A.so, the interest ol the estate in
the widow’s dower, containing good improved plant
ing lands and buildings. Also, a part interest in
fourteen hundred acres of pine land, well timbered;
suited for getting timber. Also, a certain ot of
notes aud accounts. terms cash, purchasers paying
lor tides. THOd. D. uAh BISON,
au24—lawtd Administrator.
“ROYAL
Inruranee Company Office.
DURING my abivnee from the city MU. TBOS. *
(iIBBS is my duly authorized attorney.
_aagCT3t_ WM. u. COdENd, Agent.
Mr. McClellan’s School
FOE BOYS
WILL RE-OPEN ON THE STH OF OCTOBER,
18G8, with the m.ruc course ol studies as be
fore the war. Pupils prepared for business or fitted
for college, at the parents’ wish. Ancient and Mod
em Languages taught, with a ,ull course of English
studies. Caiefnl attention given to beginners.
SESSIONd—The school year will be divided Into
three sessious.
TERMS—S3S par session, with Language?; S3O pet
Setsion for bcginueis. Bills payable at the beginning
of each se.sion,
Thankiul for liberal patronage in years past, the
subscriber solicits a share of the public favor.
R. M. MdOLSLLAN, A. M.
flSrlo the absence of Mr. McClellan apply to or ad
dress TJBON A GORDON or DAVID WALDHAUH.
auy2i-law6w
TOBACCO"
100 PACKAGES, Halves, Quarters and Caddies,
Direct from manufacturers.
For sale by
ang22-tf CHAMPION k FREEMAN.
500 Bushels Corn,
IN GOOD ORDER, for sale low to close couslnnHht
by
ang22-tf CHAMPION & FKEgMIN.
New Mackerel.
2Q HALF BARRELS
NEW NOS. 1 and 2 MACKEREL
Just receive! and lor Stic by
aug22-tf CHAMPION ft FREEMAN.
C H EE S E!
fjQ BOXE3 ENGLISH DAIRY,
FACTORY and STATE CHEESE
For sale by
aug22-tf CHAMPION A FREEMAN.
SUGAR AND MOLASSES.
JJORTO RICO and MUSCOVADO SUGAR lnhhds,
Crushed, Powdered A, B and C Sugar,
Molasses in barrels and hhds,
For sale by
aug'22-tf CHAMPION ft FREEMAN.
H AMS!
2Q TIERCES ‘ Bcargraes- SUGAR-CUBED CAN
VASSED HAMS
In store and for sale by
aug22-3t OCTATUS COHSN & CQ.
Tobacco! Tobacco!
7Q BOXES MANUFACTURED TOBACCO, VitleC*
grades, in store aid for sale by
ang22 lw FERRfLL A WE3LOW.
AV anted,
THREE TILT CARTS FOR GO DATS, to be em
ployed filling and grading Gwinnett and Bolton
streets. Any one wishing to litre ihe above will please
apply to JOHN B. HOGG,
i.ug22-2t C.lly Surveyor.
BOAR DM
IjißON T AND BACK PARLOR, WITH or without
Board. For farther information apply st the cor
ner of President und Lincoln sts. aazM-ft*
LOST,
TWO DRAFTS ot Young & Langdon, Darien, Ga.,
on 8. P. Edmands k Cos., Sav innah, viz: No. 661,
Aug- 17, 1868, at sight, in favor D. Bsteman, $249 fOr'
No. 69L Aug. 17,1869, at sight, in tavor D. Bateman.
SBO. All persons are cautioned against negotiating
the above drafts, as payment has boon stopped.
aug2o-St D. BATSMAN-
A Furnished Bed-chaier for lit
k
YN THE HOUSE of a small private famby. For
X particulars apply by letter to “J. 8.,”
Herald office, “J*- 0 J
