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Cljrtratcle & Sentinel
PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY,
BY W. S. JONES.
WEDNESDAY ITIORN’G, DEC. 5, 1860.
Tlie Convent on
—unanimously called by the Georgia Legislature,
for resistance, meets in Milledgeville on the lfith
day of January next. The election for delegates
to that Convention takes place on Wednesday,
the second day of January, at the same time as
the election for County officers. This will cer
taiuly be the most important and eventful meet
ing, Legislatrie or Conventional, ever held by
the people of this great old commonwealth, not
even excepting that which, in this city, in Janu
ary, 1788, agreed to the Constitution of the United
States. Many persons seem strangely heedless
about this matter, callous and unconcerned, as
if it were a common event. But nothing like it
has ever occurred in our history. It will truly
form an epoch, not only in the lives of each one
of us, but an epoch in the history of Georgia, of
the Union, and of Republican Liberty.
To the three hundred and one citizens, who, by
the sanction of their peers at the ballot-box, shall
assemble at Milledgeville on the third Wednesday
in January, 1861, will be committed the lives, the
fortunes, the safety, the security, the interests
aud the honor, of nearly a million of free people.
And not only these great trusts for the living will
be in the hands of Georgia’s chosen delegates, but
the destinies even of the unborn. It will become
this Convention wisely to consider, firmly to de
termine, adequately to prepare for every contin
gency likely to arise. With a devout reliance up
on Him who stood by our Washington through
all the stormy perils of the Revolution, thorough
ly imbued with the vastness of the trust commit
ted to them, firm of purpose, calm df judgment,
fearless in execution, passionless and just, let them
go to their great work.
The position of delegate to this Convention, is
neither to be sought nor avoided. Georgia owes
it to herself, every citizen of our glorious State
owes it to himself and to his wife and children,
that the very best, the coolest, the most honest, the
most conscientious, the ablest, the most faithful,
and the most upright citizens in each county, be
chosen as delegates, for such a crisis as the present
no citizen of Georgia has ever seen before—whether,
he appreciate it or not. In all probability we are,
as Mr. Stephens said in his City Hall speech lost
September, rapidly drifting, not only to dissolu*
tiou, but to anarchy—not only to the breakingup of
this government formed by the fathers, but to the
destruction finally of free government on this cou
tinent.
Then let passion be hushed, let patriotism arise
let every heart be fired as with a live coal from
that sacred altar erected in the old time, around
which Washington, and Greene and Marion wor
shipped. Let partisans stand aside, and let us
have the sovereign voice of the peojde of Georgia
—let vox populi be really for this time vox dei.
When that voice shall be fairly and legally ex
pressed by the Convention of January, it will,
must, shall be obeyed, or else anarchy is come.
Many of the counties are already moving in the
work of nominating delegates. Let them all set
about it without delay. All are for resistance in
some form or other—some are for immediate se
cession, others, among them Mr. Stephens, Gov.
Johnson, and Mr. Hill, are for making still an
other effort to preserve the Constitution, the
Union, and, in and with them, the rights, the in
terest, and the honor of the State of Georgia.
Our efforts shall be cast in the latter scale, but if
the immediate secessionists succeed, we shall
most humbly bow to the expressed will of the
State. We are bone of her bone, flesh of her
flesh—we have lived with her, we shall die by her.
We shall ask the people of Georgia to consult
with her sister States of the South upon some
common policy. It is not honorable nor brave
that Georgia should madly insist upon making
Virginia and the other border States a bulwark
between this State and her Northern enemies.
What is not degrading nor dishonorable to Vir
ginia can not be degrading nor dishonorable to
Georgia, for the best men that came from the old
world to this continent settled Virginia, and their
descendants are brave, chivalrous and true.
Mr. Hill, we know, is misrepresented as to his
policy, because individuals conceive it to be their
interest to have the people dislike him. We
know he is faithful, capable and honest, and we
shall stand by him to the last, come what may.—
His policy is to make the election of Lincoln the
crisis upon which our destiny shall turn. Be
tween this time and the fourth of March, Georgia
and her Southern sisters, as a matter of sound
policy and of statesmanship, should make all hon
orable efforts at an adjustment of our difficulties.
It we can have our rights and our honor in the
Union, if we can have security, safety, justice and
peace, and if the North will make the advance,
propose the terms, and guarantee them to our
satisfaction, then we believe the Union ought to
be preserved. If we can not have these by the
fourth of March, then we would disrupt every tie
which binds Georgia to the Union. Immediate
secession we think impolitic—we believe it wise
to make an attempt to preserve all our rights in
the Union, for four months longer, but we
must have a final adjustment within that time.—
If, by the fourth of March next, it becomes
manifest that we cannot have what we desire and
what we believe essential, in the Union, then will
be the time, in our judgment, for Georgia to take
her own affairs into her own keeping, and to bid
adieu to the Confederacy. This is the best plan,
as it seems to us now, looking at everything calm
ly, and dispassionately ; but if, when the Conven
tion meets, a better can be devisad, we shall be
ready, regardless of pride of opinion, to approve
it—and if the Convention determine on immedi
ate secession, we snail heartily acquiesce, though
the action may not then, as it does not now, meet
the approval of our judgment.
From the Charleston Mercury.
Washington, Dec 2.— The President’s Message
is unite long, filling eleven columns of the Consti
tution newspaper. It is positively certain that
the President recommends a Convention of the
States to re-construct the Constitution. It is also
cetain that he announces his purpose to cuforce
the Federal laws, while deprecating secession.
The Abolitionists held a caucus to-night, and
had a division on a proposition which Briggs, of
New York, will introduce into the House of Rep
resentatives, and which is, in effect, a restoration
of the Missouri Compromise, and a modification
of the Fugitive Slave law. The majority present
favored it, but the party, as a whole, is against it.
The Americans are also favorable to this compro
mise, but the Southern delegations indignantly
spurn it. The proposition is understood to ema
nate from the Seward wing of the Abolitionists.
The Abolitionists intend to thrust forward Wm
H. Seward ns their Great Pacitiactor. He is pre
paring to make a set speech very soon after the
session opens. Hon. Horace Maynard, of Ten
nessee, intends introducing a proposition to ap
point a commmittee of the House, consisting of
one member from each State—thirty-three in all
—to which all questions relating to slavery shall
be referred. Mr. Nelson, also from Tennessee,
will propose a compromise similar to that of Mr!
Briggs, but not immediately.
Gov. Brown, of Mississippi, is here, and says
we need have no fears m relation to the course of
that State—that her secession i3 certain.
A caucus of the Douglas party has decided to
take the Union side against the States Right men.
Douglas made a Union speech last night.
Mr. Breckinridge is not for immediate seces
sion. He favors the co-operation of the Southern
States, and a general conference upon the ques
tion of dissolving the Union, to be followed by a
demand of Southern rights with the alternative
of immediate dissolution presented.
Movements of the Southern States.
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ber°l7th Carolina State Conv ention, meets Decem-
Louisiana Legislature, (special session,) meets
December 10 th.
Alabama election for members of the Conven
tion, December 24th.
Alabama State Convention, meets January 7th
Virginia Legislature, (special session) meets
January 7th.
Georgia Legislature now in session: election for
delegates to State Convention ordered for 2d Jan
uary, 1861 : Convention sits 16th January.
Florida Legislature now in session ; election
for Delegates to State Convention ordered 22d
of December; Convention meets 3rd January,
18(51.
The Legislature of Mississippi, (special session)
met on the 26th ult. Bills were immediately in
troduced providing for a State Convention, which
will probably pass unanimously.
Virginia State Convention—Able Letter
from Senator Mason.
The following letter from Senator Mason, giv
ing his views on the condition of the country, and
more especially in regard to the expediency of the
call of a Convention of the people of Virginia, to
consider what it may become the State to do in
the crisis which is upon us, will command gene
ral attention. It is in response to a letter address
ed to him by one of the editors of the Richmond
Enquirer. Senator Mason says that Whilst he is
disinclined at all times to volunteer his opinions,
he has not the slightest indisposition to express
them when they are asked. He proceeds :
I have observed, with great satisfaction, that
the Governor has called the Legislature to meet
at an early day, and deeply impressed with the
disordered condition of tne country from causes
far beyond the reach of legislation, have taken it
for granted their first act will be to order elections
for a general Convention of the State.
The questions now forced upon the country are
vital -in their solution, to the peace, the honor,
and the safety of the Southern States. Virginia’
whether in territory, in population, or in position,
certainly takes no inferior rank in the South ; and
it is of the last importance to her, as it is to them,
that the matured sense of her people should be
expressed in deliberation on these grave ques
tions, and, if necessary, carried into execution,
in the solemn forms of her sovereign authority.
All that has happened, and much that has yet
to come, was foreseen and predicted by those not
claiming to be wise beyond their generation, as
the legitimate and ineviable fruits of the ascen
dancy of the Abolition party in the North. How
could it be otherwise ? The election just over has
established in the seats of Federal authority, and
by overwhelming majorities in the non-slavehold
ing States, a great political power, whose open and
avowed mission is to break up and destroy in
terests in property, and in society, and in all the
slaveholding States, which, when effected, must
reduce their lands to deserts, and throw their peo
ple as outcasts upon the world. The public voice
ordaining this atrocious wrong comes from a peo
ple who have no part or lot in the great interest
so recklessly assailed, for it will stand as a re
corded fact that not a single electoral vote will be
cast in support of this power in any State where
this interest pertains.
Who does not see and feel that when the States
of the South are subjected to this dominion they
will be brought, against their will, uuder a gov
ernment to which they are not parties, and over
which they hold not the slightest check ? This is
not the form of government which our ancestors
gave us, nor is it a government which our people
will endure. The people of the North, in thus ac
ting, have separated themselves from the people
of the South, and the government they thus inau
gurate will be to us the government of a foreign
power. We shall stand to such powers as Italy
to Austria, and Boland to Russia. It will be one
people governed by another people. Who can
wonder, theD, at the startling events which have
crowded before us since the anti-lederal act of
this Northern election ?
What w r as seen yesterday but in dim distance,
is the reality to day ; and that which is looked to
but as a probability to-day, becomes the stern
fact of to-morrow. Our people at the South are
intelligent, brave and sensitive. When a hostile
arm is raised against them they do not wait for
the blow, but rush at once to disable the adversa
ry. And this is what they are doing now.
’ Let us review events and then we may the better
understand what may devolve on Virginia in the
political exigencies of the times.
The election of President is made, aud nothing
remains but formally to cast, and then to count
the electoral vote. There are those who believe —
aud I am one of them—that no safety remains to
the Southern States and their people, but such as
shall be vindicated by a stern purpose of self-pro
tection. The event that fixes this belief is not
the election of the man, it is the accession of the
pow er, of which he is the minister. They deter
mine the political intentions of that power, not
by its party platform, (gross and insulting though
it be,) nor by .the threats and taunts of its inso
lent lieutenants, or its demoralized press.
They determine it by the spirit of the Northern
mind, evinced by an obdurate tenacity of pur
pose, through evciy vicissitude of political for
tune ; by the statutes of the Northern States, pass
ed as well in violation of all honorable faith as of
highest constitutional obligation, paralyzing the
laws of Congress made in pursuance of the Con
stitution, to protect the property of Southern
people ; by the encouragement and support given
at the North to conspiracies and conspirators
within their borders, against the lives and proper
ty of the people of the South, aud by their refusal
or failure to pass laws for the punishment of such
offenders, or for prevention of the like in future ;
by the open recommendation of their Senators
and Representatives of publications issued at the
North, for circulation at the South, designed by
false and calumnious charges, to foment divisions
amongst our people, and to incite the servile class
to insurrection and rapine ; by the sanction given
to such inhuman and cruel conduct by constitu
ents at the North, in returning such Representa
tives back to the Federal councils ; and, if more
were wantiug, by that fixed and settled policy,
made the corner-stone of the incoming administra
tion, (to which there is no party exception at the
North,) which refuses to the people at the South
a common right with the people at the North, in
the common Territories o ‘the Confederacy.
Such are some of the reasons which, I believe
have satisfied those of whom I speak ; which cer
tainly have convinced me, that the Southern peo
ple must now look to their own State authorities,
and to them only, for their safety in the future ;
whether in the form of other and higher seen
rities in the present Confederacy, or in anew
Confederacy, the injured States must determine
in Convention.
Indeed, in the progress of events, so far, the
field of deliberation may be narrowed. One State
has already made her election to abandon the
confederation. I think, as to South Carolina, we
may safely assume that as a fact, and with w hich
the future has nothing more to do than to estab
lish it in history. As to three other States, and
most probably tour, there is every reason to be
lieve they are prepared also to secede as soon as
the acts of separation can be reduced to form. —
What may be the sense of other States m this
great crisis, (for great it certainly is,) as to the
proper measures to be adopted for their safety, I j
will not venture to anticipate. But the secession |
of one State is a disruption of the Union. ]
Whether, in the opinion of other States, she has
determined wisely or unwisely, the State is to be
the arbiter of her own act; her destiny is in her
own keeping, under submission alone to the Su
preme Ruler of the universe. To reason other
wise, is to treat a State of the Confederacy not as
one of the confederates, but as an integral part of
a consolidated Empire. Fortunately for the occa
sion and its consequences, this is not an open
question in Virginia.
Our honored State has ever maintained that our
Federal system was a confederation of sovereign
powers, not a consolidation of States into one
people ; and, as a consequence, whenever a State
considered the compact broken, and in a manner
to endanger her safety, such State stood remitted,
as in sovereign right, to determine for herself,
and under no responsibility, save to the opinion
of the civilised world, both the mode and measure
of redress.
The disruption of the Federal Union, thus im
minent, or, I should more properly say, actual, is
a great and pregnant event; and in considering,
therefore, how it may become the Convention of
Virginia to act, we must look to that event as a
material if not a controlling element in its delibera
tions. In the first place, it may, and most proba
bly will, force upon the Federal Government the
settlement between it and the several States, of
the question of the right of secession. If that
right is denied, anew and paramount issue will
be made between the States and the Federal power,
which will be presented to the Virginia Conven
tion in limine. One thing is very clear, Virginia
(no more than any other Southern State! will be
passive, should any attempt be made, by force,
to reduce such seceding State or States to subjec
tion.
In the next place, it is to my mind equally clear,
should one of the States separate from the Union
on this slavery question, the disruption will ne
cessarily carry with it the like separation of all
those slaveholding States whose destiny it is to
continue such ; unless, under a returning sense
of right and justice in the Northern mind, all
may remain on such securities for the future us
will establish this great social interest in the ex
clusive charge of those to whom it pertains.
I have ventured thus, though with unfeigned
diffidence, to look forwurd to what Virginia may
be called on to consider and determine, in regard
to the great issues forced upon her counsels by
events in progress. The magnitude of the occa
sion may be well estimated by the magnitude of
those events. State follows State into Convention
to deliberate on the necessity of breaking up a
government which they believe has levied war
against the essential interest and dearest rights
of their people. The Southern States, happen
what may, have never been the aggressors in this
strange, unnatural contest. In what they have
done, or what may yet remain for them to do,
they ace prepared to meet all the consequences.
There can be no doubt or hesitancy, therefore, in
my mind, as to the course of Virginia. A Conven
tion is the only authority competent to the occa
sion, and it should be assembled at the earliest
day practicable.
In conclusion, I will only add, that the crisis
which for unborn posterity will fix the destinies
of the South, is upon us, and must be fearlessly
met —certainly with calm and prudent discretion,
and all sobriety of judgment; but with an obdu
rate purpose to establish the just rights of our peo
ple, and to yield nothing that pertains to Virginia
as a free and sovereign State. Very resp’v, yours,
J. M. Mason.
Political Truth. —M. de Talleyrand, when re
proached by a friend for certain diplomatic finess
ings usually attributed to him, replied : “There is
nothing in the sphere of politics so hard to get
at as the truth. Whenever I have revealed the
pure and simple truth, I have been suspected of
dissimulation; I have always been believed when
I have resigned myself to the necessity of con
cealing it. I predict that the first statesman who
shall have the moral courage to avow, hour by hour
all that he thinks and all that he knows, will
create for himself the reputation ot being the
most consummate hypocrite.
A Novel Suit.— A singular case, involving the
right of an owner of property to occupy the side
walk in front, is to be tried in New York. The
plaintiff is the owner of the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
and was removed from the sidewalk by the police
on the occasion of the visit of the Prince of
Wales. He therefore brings a charge of ussault
and battery against Superintendent Kennedy and
other officials.
From the Columbus Enquirer.
What Must the South Do ?
It is now openly avowed by those who are giv
ing direction to the secession movoment in the
South, that nothing else but disunion will satisfy
them—that they are for immediate and uncondi
tional secession, hoping for the co-operation of
other States, but resolved to take their own State
out of the Union in any event, solitary and alone
if need be. This we understand to oe the pro
gramme of Messrs. Yancey, Rice and Cochrane
in their speeches here on Saturday. This we
know to be the declared policy of Hon. James
Johnson in his “experience” speech on the same
occasion. The latter gentleman announced em
phatically that he would vote no man as a
delegate to the Convention who did not pledge
himself to unconditional secession ; he was will
ing to “consult” with other States through com
missioners, but was not willing for Georgia to
make her action contingent on their co-operation.
We might reasonably have regarded this extreme
purpose as merely the exuberant zeal of the new
convert, and not the calm sentiment of the party
he was addressing, were it not for the uproarious
applause with which the declaration was received.
That emphatic manifestation of concurrence, cou
pled with the reported declarations of all the
other speakers, leaves no room to doubt that this
is the settled programme of the secession organi
zation in this part of the State.
Our readers are prepared for the avowal that
we have not yet advanced to the brink of this
alarming precipice. We still hope for the re
covery und future preservation of the rights of
the South in the Union ; aud though, as we have
heretofore announced, we shall readily abide by
and firmly maintain the position which our own
State may assume through the action of the tri
bunal to which she has referred this momentous
question, we shall endeavor to give a different di
rection to the course of that body by counselling
the adoption of other efforts at redress, and espe
cially hy urging concert and union with our South
ern sister States, before resorting to separate se
cession—a measure which would sacrifice and
abandon all our valuable share in the public lauds,
the army and navy and all their appointments,
and the immense property owned by the Federal
Government in its stores and public buildings.
We cannot connect the idea of “resistance” with
an abandonment of these, nor can we disconnect
the idea of “submission” from a surrender of rights
and interests with which we are constitutionally
and rightfully invested.
We believe that the South has it in her own
power to enforce redress for the actual grievances
of which she complains. We think that she
ought to have done so long since, and that even
her patient endurance of wrongs heretofore has
not barred her protest and her remedy now. The
prospect of early retirement from power seems to
have suddenly aroused one party among us to a
quick perception of outrages which we Have long
and vainly urged the South to take cognizance ot
and resent. Even the present Administration ap
pears to be rubbiug its eyes and awaking to a
sense of its lethargy and neglect! Montgomery
and his baud of desperadoes are no longer to be
permitted to wage a war of fire und blood against
.Southern settlers in Kansas and slaveholders in
Missouri—they are to be “exterminated,” as they
ought to have been last year! The fugitive slave
law is no longer to be regarded as a “dead letter”
on the statute book, but the Administration is
bringing to punishment those who frustrate it
with force aud arms! We may even hope that
John Brown, Jr. will be dragged from his strong
hold in Ohio and made to suffer the fate of his co-
murderers for his Harper’s Ferry work !
Who will say that this is not a favorable reac
tion already enforced by the South ? and w T ho
doubts that she can constrain Lincoln to adhere
to any Executive policy which Buchanan may in
augurate ? As regards the action of those States
that have by legislative opposition nullified the
fugitive slave law r , vve are a believer in the justice
aud the efficiency of those measures of retaliation
and redress recommended by the Governor of
Georgia. We are at least convinced that the in
tent and spirit of our compact of Union with
them, the admitted advantages to us of the Union
constitutionally administered, and our great inte
rest in its power, glory and possessions, require
that we should make one energetic and united
effort to correct the abuses and aggressions of
which we complain before surrendering all to the
rapacity and injustice of our enemies at the North.
Anil if we can obtain a more just and faithful ad
ministration of the Federal Government and
coerce back to their obligations and good faith
the States that have wrongfully invaded our con
stitutional rights, can any one but a disuuionist
per se demand more V
We wish it to be understood, however, that we
regard it of the most vital importance that the
South should, in the present emergency, be con
tent with no less than this. After the movements
already made, it would be ridiculous for her to
abate a jot of her just demands. To accept less
would make her the laughing-stock of her ene
mies of the North ; the insulting taunts of John
Wentworth (which we copy elsewhere) would
then be well-directed because capable of specific
application. Let there be a settlement of this
conllct before this agitation is abandoned ; and,
for one we do not hesitate to say that we hope for
such a settlement as will secure and strengthen
the constitutional rights of our State aud section
in the Union.
But vve have referred to the policy of securing
the co-operation of the other Southern States in
this movement. The proposition to call a conven
tion of all the States of the Union to determine
this question,*we repudiate as erroueous and pro
bably ineffective. A Southen “bill of rights” is
demanded first, and we wish it supported by the
power and weight of the whole South.” \\ ithout
this, we cannot hope for the co-operation of any
but the “cotton States.” Without this, secession
must be a surrender of many valuable rights to
secure others. Without ths, we will leave to the
remaining States (constituiug four-fifths of the
Union) all the possessions power aud prestige of
the great Confederacy that has so soon become a
young giant among the nations of the earth.
Without this, we will separate a dependent section
of planters from the Southern States that supply
the live stock and provisions necessary to the
economical prosecution of their business. Without
this, we separate slave-selling Virginia from slave
buying Alabama and Mississippi, and subject the
former to an aggravated crusade against frontier
slavery, which must greatly hasten its extermina
tion there. But secure the co-operation of the
whide South (which can be done by a course of
“wisdom, justice and moderation”), ana if the
united demand fails to secure the rights of all
we can take with us from a dissevered Union our
fair share in its possessions and renown, aud be
gin our new career with strength and resources
sufficient to command respect and start us auspi
ciously on the highway of prosperity and expan
sion. Is not this contrast faithfully drawn ? And
does not the advantage of the oue prospect strong
ly suggest that we should make a united and de
termined effort to realize it, before submitting to
the lesser benefits and glories of the other ?
There are losses and dangers to be incurred by
hasty separate State secession, which we intended
to allude to in this article, but which we must
defer.
The ultraism of the secession party in forcing
upon us the question whether we shall surrender
without a struggle all the rights and advantages
in the Union constitutionally our due, and sepa
rate at once as well from the aggressive Northern
States as from those of the South, having peculiar
interests and institutions like our own, that are
not willing or prepared to take this step ; or
whether wo shall first make a light in the Union
for the redress of wrongs already perpetrated, and
in the meantime rally and organize all the South
ern States to unite in a demand which will either
obtain for us ample indemnity for the past and
security for the future, or, failing, cement in one
bond of brotherhood and nati Duality the whole
fifteen States interested in the preservation of the
institution which this movement is designed to
protect and secure. Our position upon this issue
is clearly defined in the above view of the subject.
Prospects of Wheat. —Owing to the partial
failure of the late wheat crop in Tennessee, and
the scarcity of seed, it was expected, says the
Southern Homestead , that the amount of wheat
sown this fall would be comparatively small.—
From what we have seen and heard, however, w'e
are satisfied that these circumstances led to a re
sult the opposite of what was anticipated. Doubt
less the scarcity and high price of seed deterred
some farmers from sow ing as much as they desired,
but from what we have been able to - gather upon
the subject, we are inclined to believe that there
is a greater breadth of land now in wheat in Ten
nessee than has been known for many years. We
urged the sowing of wheat from several consid
erations, the chief among which were that we
believed it would be remunerative, and, again,
that during the present winter, it would, by af
fording pasture for stock, go far towards helping
out the farmers of the State, in taking their ani_
mals comfortably through the rigors which ne
cessarily follow a protracted mid-summer drouth.
The present growth of the young wheat
throughout the country is represented as remark
ably fine. It is healthy and vigorous, and there
fore exceedingly promising. Having been sown
early, and put in the ground better than usual, as
a general thing, the stalks are well rooted. The
weather has been highly propitious. From these
considerations it is evident that the danger of
freezing out is much less than last winter. If
properly managed, by being kept well grazed off,
and favorable weather attends the crop, an ex
ceedingly prolific harvest may be anticipated.
Punch on America. —The large picture in Punch
is entitled “Latest from America,” and repre
sents the Prince of Wales on his return home af
ter his American tour. The royal youth has suf
fered a change during his absence. He has be
come Americanized, and now sits before the grate
with his legs resting on the mantel-piece, a cigar
in his mouth, and a pocket-pistol in his hand,
while a box of fragrant Havanas is on a table
near by. A sherry cobbler, with its characteris
tic straws, is on the mantel-piece. The young
Prince wears a shocking bad hat, tipped over on
one side; sports a goatee, and really looks quite
like “one of the Boys.” In the back-ground
stands Prince Albert, gazing on his son with an
expression of amazement, not unmingled with
fear. His Royal Highness, Junior, patronizingly
remarks to His Royal Highness, Senior, “Now,
sir-ree, if you’ll liquor up and settle down, I’ll
tell you all about my travels.”
Florida.— The Legislature of this State has by
a unanimous vote, passed a bill authorizing the
Governor to call a convention on the 8d January,
1861. The resistance feeling, both in the Legis
lature and among the people, is said to be strong
. and daily increasing.
A General Convention.
The idea of a general Convention in which all
Southern States should meet through their repre
sentatives and take counsel together, seems to be
gaining general favor. Parties appear to acquiesce
in it as the best thing that, in the present condi
tion of public affairs, can be done. The idea
seems to us to be founded in wisdom and to be
sustained by a variety of weighty considerations.
In all important concerns, it is wise to consult to
gether. What may not occur to one mind may to
another; and by free interchange of sentiments
the views of parties that previously conflicted,
may be made to harmonize, either through the
better understanding of each other’s opinions, or
the removal of objections, by mutual suggestions.
If this is true as a general proposition, applica
ble to all business of much moment, its truth be-
comes overwhelmingly greater and more impres
sive when applied to the present condition ot the
Southern States. The greatest variety, or rather
contrariety ofiviews prevails upon very important
matters. Some are tor tolerating elec
tion, and uniting to overthrow his party at the
next election. These are very few. Some are for
precipitating the Southern tier of States into an
immediate revolution. Some are for retaliatory
legislation of various kinds. Some would move
with hot haste, and some would proceed with due
deliberation. Some are in favor of trying inter
mediate measures before resorting to extreme
ones, while great numbers are in favor of giving
the Black Repvblicans a foretaste of the irrepres
sible conflict through the pocket nerve. South
Carolina is for going with a leap and a bound out
of the Union at a single plunge, or appears to be
thus disposed, and the majority in Georgia, Ala
bama, and many elsewhere, approve
of her course, while there are some in Maryland,
Delaware, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Vir
ginia, North Carolina and Missouri, who are de
cidedly opposed to so precipitous a step, and who
are disposed to endeavor to harmonize existing
difficulties, and make another effort to preserve
the rights of the South in the Union. But the
effort will be in vain.
Now, in the midst of this confusion of ideas
with respect to the proper course to be pursued
under present circumstances, common sense
Mould seem to suggest that the most feasible and
practicable mode of evolving order out of
chaos, and unity of views out of discord, would
be for all parties to meet and interchange opin
ions and talk over the questions involved in a
friendly and free manner.
One thing wonld at least be settled, and that is,
whether all the Southern States concerned could
or could not unite upon any common plan of pro
ceedings for mutual protection, and the common
good of all. That, it strikes us, would be some
thing gained. Then such a body would natural
ly be composed, if proper care were taken in ap
pointing the delegates, of the oldest, wisest,
ablest, most sagacious and weighty citizens of the
respective States. Would not such a body, thus
composed, be likely to indicate to the respective
States interested the best course for them to pur
sue, all things considered ? Would its recommen
dations not carry weight with them? Would
they not create greater harmony and unity in the
South than now, manifestly, prevail ? In so grave
and momentous a matter as Revolution in a great
country —for Secession and Revolution are syno
nymous terms—are not the counsels of such men,
of such a body of men, peculiarly needed? Would
it be expedient or safe to proceed without them ?
Does not the gravity of the occasion require such
a couviction, such advice and suggestions as it
would afford ? Suppose two or three States should
secede precipitately without consulting the other
might not these remaining States
feel that they had been unfairly or unfraternally
dealt with, and thus a foundation be laid for cool
ness and alienation where it was least expected,
and which in time might grow into feuds in anew
quarter? Mr. Barnwell, of South Carolina,takes
this view of the snbject.
In such an issue we should look, we humbly
submit, in all directions, and omit no important
considerations, lest in escaping Scyllaon the one
hand we run into a worse Charybdis on the other.
A general convention of all the Southern States,
therefore, seems to ns to be, under the circum
stances, eminently proper, and to be dictated by
the highest and weightiest considerations of duty,
patriotism, wisdom, honor ana safety.
Unless such a convention be held, we doubt
whether anything like harmony of opinion or ac
tion on the part of the various Southern States
can be secured ; and without such harmony of
opinion and action, in the main points at least,
confusion will be likely to become worse con
founded, and the separate States occupy positions
antagonistic to those of other States having com
mon interests, and which should pursue a com
mon path.— A r . 0. Com. Bulletin.
ORDERS NO. 10.
lleadquabters 10m Regiment, O. M., )
November 12th, 1860. $
Pursuant to orders of Brip. Gen. R. Y. Harrisa, to
organize the 10th Regiment G. M., an Election will be held at
the Un ted States Hotel, on MONDAY, December 10th, 1800,
for Lieutenant-Colonel and for Major, to command the Ist and
2d Battalions 10th Regiment G. M. Lewis Levy, Esq., Edwin
Richards, Esq., and Mr J. A. Van Winkle, are hereby appoint
ed Managers to superintend said election.
J. L. KNIGHT,
novlS-dtd Colonel 10th- Regiment G. M.
US S- Sealed Proposals will he r<ceived at my Office up to
the 10th of December next, at 12 o’clock, M* for the Paving the
SIDE WALK on the west side of Campbell street, from Walk
er to Talcot street. S. 11. GRUMP,
novll-dlm Clerk Council.
Fever and Ague, and all f'evers, are oured by
perseverance with
BRANDKETIIS PILLS,
which takes all poisons, of whatever nature they may be, from
the circulation.
Mr. John Y. Haight, Supervisor of Newcastle, Westchester
county, New York, says, Nov., 1858: “I was two years ago
attacked with Fever and Ague, which, notwithstanding the
best medical advice, continued sorely to afflict me for six tedi
ous months ; I liecame as yellow as saffron, and reduced to
skin and bone. Medicine and physicians were abandoned in
despair. As an experiment, I concluded to try a single dose of
six of Brandeth's Universal Vegetable Pais, on an empty
stomach, early- in the morning. The first dose seemed to atouse
all the latent energies of my exhausted frame. I feared the
worst—their purgative cflect was different from anything l had
ever used or heard of. At length this effect ceased, and I norm
ed lighter and breathed freer. That evening I was indeed tin
sibly better and slept soundly ail night. The next day I tol
lowed tho same course, and continued to take the Pills in th is
way about three weeks, when I found myseif entirely cuicd.
My health has been surprisingly good ever since.”
Price 25 cents per box. Sold by all respectable dealers in
medicine. decl-dawlm
Bryan’s Tan to less Vermifuge.— Half the sufferings
of children which are attributed to other causes, really arise
from the presence of worms. This preparation kills and brings
them away within twenty-four hours. It contains no mineral,
and is so pleasant, as well as harmless, that no child rejects it.
Sold in Bottles, price 25cents, by
novlO-lm PLUMB A LEITNER. Druggists.
tiff” Dr. MrPlintork’s I'ertoral Syrup.— ln the name
of Its inventor, (second in celebrily to no member of the pro
fession in America,) we ask all who have the symptoms of con
sumption, bronchitis, or any other dangerous pulmonary com
plaint, to try this remedy. Life or death is in Uie balance. The
first dose will relieve.
Pricesl. For sale by PLUMB & LEITNER.
novlO-lm Druggists.
YVe would rail particular attention to McLean's
notice in another column. Wc add the following from the St.
Louis llerafd, which speaks volumes in its favor. We say to
ail, give it a trial:
“Wc take especial pleasure in recommending McLean’s
celebrated STRENGTHENING CORDIAL as an Invaluable
remedy for general debility and weakness. We have seen it
tested in a circle under our own Immediate observation, and
vouch for its efficacy and worth. It is an article which should
be kept constantly in every family, as it is certainly£n Invalu
able medicine. See the advertisement in another column.
nov2l-d&w2w
Mrs. Winslow, an experienced nurse and Fema
Physician, hasa SOOTHING SYRUP for children Teethinge
which greatly facilitates the process of teething by softening the
gums, reducing all inflammation—will allay all pain, and is
sure to regulate the bowels. Depend upon it, mothers, it will
give rest to yourselves, and relief and health to your infants.
Perfectly safe in all cases. See advertisement in another
olumn. nihlC-U&wly
t&~ Messrs. Clark, Gregory A Cos., Nashville
Tenn.—Gents : Some three months since I had the misfor
tune to be bitten by a large rat, while asleep in my room. 1
was tiitten entirely through the nose, so t hat the blood ran
through my nostrils. Knowing a rat bite to be very danger
ous, I felt much alarmed, and having tried your AMBROSIAL
OIL for many ailments, and fluding relief, I applied it thor
oughly during the balance of the night and next day. It
healed at once, and I have never experienced any ill effects
from the same. I felt that the world should know the magic
power of your justly celebrated AMBROSIAL OIL.
W. M. Collins.
Nashville, October Ist, ISGO.
For sale by
decl-d&w2w x F. TIJTT, Augusta, Ga.
Dr. J. Hosteller’s Celebrated Stomach Hitters
is one of the greatest strengthening preparations extant. It is
especially adapted to those who are afflicted with the Fever
and Ague, or any other disease arising from a disordered condi
tion of the digestive organs. For Fever and Ague perhaps no
medicine in the world equals it, as it enters, purifies and re.
plenishes the blood, which is so important to. bring about a
healthy action in diseases of this nature. The Bitters are now
among the most popular, and at the same time, valuable sped-
Acs in the medical world. In recommending it to the public,
we are fully conscious of doing them a great service, knowing
as we iso, their many excellent qualities, and sure and speedy
action in all cases where the disease is caused by the irregulari
ty of the digestive organs. A trial will suffice for the most
skeptical.
For sale by Druggists and dealers generally everywhere.
decl-d&wlw M
IW~ No better aperient can be found than WILSON’S
PILLS. Dyspepsia, .Sour Stomach, Costiveness and Torpid
Liver, arc instantly relieved by them. All the Druggists in the
United States keep them. decl-d&wlw
Dr. McClintock’s Cold and Cough Mixture—
Is a combination of nature’s vegetable antidotes to the irrita
tion and disturbance of the breathing apparatus, which pro
duce colds, coughs, hoarseness and sore throat. It removes in
a very short time every vestige of inflammation from the lungs
and throat, and renews the free respiration of perfect health.
Price 25 cents. For sale by
novlO-lm LElTNEß,Druggists.
Notice.—All persons indebted to me, either by note or
account, will please call and settle, asil wish to close up my old
books, having formed a co-partnership with John C. Chew, on
the 10th of lsst month. M. J. JONES.
fW~ Boggs A Parker, Auctioneers, hsve this day
REMOVED to the Store formerly occupied by D’Antignac &
Weems, 292 Broad Street. Persons requiring the servioee of an
Austionesr, would do well to give us a call.
txxT BOGGS & PARKER.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
lIT Chas. G. Butler for Tax Collector.— l oiler ray
self to the citizens of Richmond county for the offlee of Tax
Collector, at the ensuing election in January.
dec-2* CHARLES G. BUTLER.
jyilr. Editor : Please announce that lama candidate for
Tax Collector of Richmond county, at the election in January
next. [noT2s*j DAVID A. PRILPOT.
fW“ We are authorized to announce nENRY P.
WALKER as a candidate for Tax Collector of Richmond
county, at the election in January next. novl-4*
tW We ore authorised to announce Dr. JAMES T.
BARTON as a candidate for Tax Collector of Richmond coun
ty, at the ensuing election in January next. novrdtd
tW We are authorised to announce JAMES BRAN
DON, Jr., Esq., as a candidate for Tax Collector of Richmond
county, at the election in January next. Many Votkeb.
oct2o*
SPECIAL NOTICES.
I '3T” Masonic Notice.—A Regular Meeting of Adoniram
Council, No. 1, will be held THIS (Wednesday) EVENING,
6th inst., at 7 o'clock.
By order of the T. I. M.
decs C. DWELLE Recorder.
HOME LOAN ASSOCIATION.
P?“ The sixth monthly meeting of the Home Loan As
sociation, will be held at the office of the Solicitor, John K.
Jackson, THIS (Wednesday) EVENING, December 6th, at
7 o’clock.
Members will please be punctual, and come prepared to pay
their instalments. A. F. PLUMB, Sec'y.
Augusta, Dec. 6,1860. It
The Regular Monthly Meeting of the Augusta
Typographical Union, No. 41, will be held THIS (Wednes
day) MORNING, at 9 o’clock.
dec6 AVERELL, Sec’y.
tW Office Aug. Ins. A Banking Company, Dec. 4,
IB6o.— The Annual Election for FIVE DIRECTORS of
this Institution, will be held at the office of the Company, on
MONDAY next, between the hours of 10 o’clock A. M. and 12
o’clock M. [dec6-st] ROBT. WALTON, Cashier.
GLOBE HOTEL -FREE LUNCH!
£2?” Green Turtle §oup will be served up THIS DAY,
(Wednesday,) at 11 o’clock. AUSTIN MULLARKY.
decs
Slf'C.S. Mallette’s Ladies and Gentlemen’s CLASS
IN SINGING, will commence their second term, THIS
EVENING, December 6th, at 1!4 o’clock.
Mr. M. is desirous of forming a LADIES’ CLASS in Voca!
Music, at his Academy, on THURSDAY AFTERNOON, at
4 o’clock. All interested are invited to be present.
dot-6
ZW Augusta and Savannah Railroad.— Augusta,
Nov. 21, 1860.—During the Fair at Macon, commencing Dec.
3d and ending Dec. 22d, Tickets to go and return FOR ONE
FARE, can be procured at this Offlee, as follows !
Dec. Ist and 6th, to return on 7th ;
Dec. 10th and 11th, to return on 15th ;
Dec. 17th, to return on 20th ;
Dec. 20th, to return on 24th.
Articles for Exhibition will be charged regular freight to Ma
con ; if not sold, will be returned free to station from whence
shipped. [nov22] ‘ W. C. JONES, Agent.
If The Oxygenated Bitters.— For years medical sci
ence has been taxed and the skill of the physician exhausted in
the hope of discovering some remedy available to cure that
most distressing of all diseases—Dyspepsia, as well as its long
train of evils under their various names.
No medicine existed which could speedily, permanently, ef
fectually anil radically cure and expel these diseases from the
system until Dr. Green made known his discovery of the OXY
GENATED BITTERS. Such is its remarkable power and
peculiarity, that eases which for years have baffled the most
potent medicine and the highest professional skill, yield to this
remedy as readily as if the disease were but of a (lay's standing.
For all diseases of the Stomach and digestive organs, and for
General Debility it is equally salutary and certain.
[From W. A. Harp, Esq., Editor of the Covington (Ga.) Times.]
Covington, April 7,1860.
Messrs. S. W. Fowle ACo Gentlemen : Having derived
benefit from the use of the Oxygenated Bitters, 1 am glad to do
the public a favor by recorn mending them. For Dyspepsia and
its attendant evils, I consider it a remedy of inestimable value.
W. A. llakp.
Hon. Wm. W. Lamb, formerly Mayor of Norfolk, V*., has
just rendered the following testimeny of the reeults produced
by the use of the Oxygenated Bitters:
Messrs. Seth W. Fowle &Cos Gentlemen : One of my ser
vants suffered for several years with Prolapsus Uteri, anil was
so much prostrated by the disease as to be confined to her bed,
expecting to iie. She then took the Oxygenated Bitters and
recovered her health. Wm. W. Lamb.
Prepared by Seth W. Fowle & Cos., Boston, and for sale by
HAVILAND, CHICHESTER & CO., Wholesale Agents;
also, BARRETT & CARTER, PLUMB & LEITNER, and
by Druggists generally novl6-d&w4w
IF - Headquarters Ist Brigade, 2d Div. Georgia
Militia, Augusta, Ga., Nov. 12, IB6o.— Elections will
be held on the 10th DECEMBER, 1860, by the persons anil at
the places appointed by law, in Columbia and Warren coun
ties. In the former for a COLONEL, to command the 11th
Regiment, and in the latter for a COLONEL to command the
12th Regiment of Georgia Militia ; and for the purpose of fill
ing all other vacancies now existing in the Battalions and Com
panies of the Regiments. Officers holding Commissions in the
11th and 12th Regiments, will take due notice, and have all
vacanciesjn their respective Commands filled on or before the
10th of December next.
By order of Brigadier General Harris.
JOS. B. GUMMING,
nov2l td Aid'de-Camp.
BARRETT, O/UtTER & CO..
Wholesale and Retail Druggists, always having
on hand as LARGE AND WELL SELECTED A as
any demands require, will sell as low as any one could desire to
purchase. oct26-d3m
Rock Bridge Alum Water!
83F* Just received, Fifty Cases, direct tre m the Spring.
BARRETT, CART R & CO.
Pamphlets sent gratis, upon application to us, con ‘lining full
particulars. octe dim
Lunch ! Lunch !—The usual popular and substantia
LUNCHES will be served up at the WINTER GARDEN
every day, at 11 A. M. and 10 P. M. Gentlemen will find
something to suit their taste. nov6-tf
ONION SETTS.
tW We have just received our stock of Fresh ONION
SETTS. Dealers supplied as usual.
oct27-swtjanl PLUMB & LEITNER.
VW Removal. The subscriber begs to Inform his custom
ers, and the public generally, that he has REMOVED from his
old Store, opposite the Augusta Hotel, to the Store recently oc
cupied by O’Donolioe & Wray, a few doors above the Planters’
Hotel, where he is now ready to fill orders from his old cus
tomers, aud all who may favor him with their patronage.
His stock consists of choice old BRANDIES, WINES,
WHISKEYS, ALE, CIDER and SEGARS. The MONTE
BELLO CHAMPAGNE WINE constantly kept on hand.
oct3-dtf THOMAS WHYTE.
IPP“ Butch Bulbous Roots !—New in store, HYA
CINTHS, forty choicest varieties ; TULIPS, fifteen varieties
GLADIOLUS, four varieties ; CROCUS, seven varieties ;
IMPERIAL, five varieties; LILIES, four varieties; NAR
CISSUS, seven varieties, etc., etc. Just received by
PLUMB & LEITNER,
Oct4-dtf 212 Broad street, Augusta, Ga.
Fresh Garden Seeds.—-Wc expect to receive out
stock of GARDEN SEEDS this season, much earlier than
usual. The assortment will be more extensive and morn com
plete than formerly, having added several new and choiee va
rieties to our already large catalogue.
out 12 PLUMB A LEITNER, Druggists.
HI'BBGft AND LEATHER
a-
All Widths, 1)4 to 14 Inches, always on Hand,
ALSO,
Rubber and Hemp
STEAM PACKING,
RUBBER HOSE,
LACE LEATHER, RIVETS, &C,
For sale by
CARMICHAEL & BEAN.
sep4-dAwßm
MACHINE
CRACKER BAKERY F
rpilE subscriber, having added several Improvement* to hlr
A BAKERY, is now prepared to furnish the ceSmriunity
with any and everything in the Bakery line, at the lowest prices.
On Hand, Made Every Day,
FAMILY BREAD.
CRACEERH— BISCUIT—
Butter, Soda,
Extra Butter, Boston,
Water, Wine,
Fancy, Milk,
Ginger, Seed,
Lemon. Sugar.
3?ilot Bread.
Fine CAKES and TIES, FRESH EVERY DAY C*f
MlWnds. JAMES BOWEN. ‘
No. 341 Broad Street,
VOCAL MUSIC
Cl 6,MALLETTB’S ii Ladie ß and Gentlemen’s Class in
Mb
p’riVATE LESSONS on the Cultivation of the Voice, will
be given at hiß Academy, or at residences. nov&!
Suspended Banks of So. Carolina.
for Groceries or for Notes due us. p ’
Charleston, S. C„ Nov. 29.1860!’ W ‘ WlLLlA “valm°’
SIOO Reward!
I” i J „ uly lMt i “Y Negro Woman ELIZA.
AU . aid Woman is 38 years old ;of dark copper color: about
: all l' er front upper teeth decayed ; speaks like
a low country Negro The above reward will be paid for her
ae "™ ry '“wKuEsais.rSisr 1
nOT3 °- lm Kaolin, 8. C,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
LOST !
IN the neighborhood of St. Paul’s Church, on Sunday last, a
Plain GOLD RING. The Under will be liberally rewarded
on leaving it at this office. dec6-2t
LOST,
the night of the 8d inst., between the Bank of Augusta
V / and the corner of Centre and Reynold streets, a FITLIi
CUFF. The finder will please leave it at the offlee of thus
paper. decs-tf
GROVER & BAKER
SEWING MACHINE,
At Reduced Prices,
NO. 255 BROAD STREET, AU6USTA.
I WOULD respectfully inform the public, that prices of the
GROVER & BAKER MACHINES, have been greatly
reduced, and they are now within the reach of every family, l
have, and shall keep on hand, all the different styles, with the
latest improvements, lncudlng the FAMILY SHI 11 Dr.
MACHINE. . u . .
Persons purchasing, can have their choice between the Shut
tle and the Spool Machine.
All are warranted to do coarse and fine Sewing of every de
scription.
Machines will be furnished to Clergymen with families, and
to all religious and charitable societies, where the Machines
are to be used for purposes of charity, at a discount of twenty
five per cent from retail prices.
SEWING, of every description, done with neatness and de
spatch at the Sales Room.
All orders from the country will meet with prompt atten
tion.
Ii . A. JONES, Agent.
decs-lm
ROOMS TO RENT.
mW’O ROOMS, suitable for young gentlemen, within three
I_ minutes’ waik of the Post Offlee, can be hired at a reason
able rent. Apply at this offlee. decs
“CORN, BACON, FLOUR, &c.
1000 bushels Tennessee and Western CORN ;
2000 pounds Tennessee BACON ;
‘S barrels Tennessee LARD, (new.)
Also, FLOUR, IRISH POTATOES, APPLES, &e.
For sale by J. C. Sc D. B. JONES.
(1.-r S-lit
2 O barrels Choice Eating POTATOES;
25 barrels Choice New Orleans SYRUP.
For sale by FLEMING & ROWLAND.
decS-lw ___ _
Heavy W oolen Plains
FROM RICHMOND FACTORY,
FOR SALE BY
TJlerniiig & Rowland.
decs-lw
5000 pounds Choice BACON SIDES ;
5000 pounds Choice SHOULDERS.
For sale by FLEMING & ROWLAND.
decs-lw
TATE OF GEORGIA. RICHMOND COUNTY.—
Whereas, Robert Wiggins applies toine for Letters of Ad
ministration on the estate of George R. Rountree, late of said
county, deceased:
These are therefore to cite and admonish, all and singular,
the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at
my office, on or before the second Monday in January next, to
show cause, if any they have, why said Letters ehould not be
granted.
Given under my liand and official signature at offlee in Au
gusta, this 4th day of December, 1860.
FOSTER BLODGET, Jb., Ordinary.
December 5,1860.
OGLETHORPE SHERIFF’S SALE.
ILL be sold, before the Court House door in the town
It of Lexington, in said county, on the first Tuesday in
JANUARY next, within the legal bouts of sale, the following
property, to wit •
A iract of Land, situate and being in said county, and known
as the Millstone Store tract, containing one hundred and twen
ty acres, more or less, adjoining lands of Daniel Harris, John
; Eberhart and others : Levied on as the property of Samuel M.
Stephens, to satisfy a mortgage fl. fa. in my hands, issued from
Oglethorpe Superior Court, April Term, 1860, in favor of Lewis
J. Dupree, vs. Samuel M. Stephens principal, and Samuel
Lindsey endorser, this Nov. 30,1860.
Dec. 5, 1860. JOB N P. TILLER, Sheriff.
ACRES LAND
FOR SALE!
THE underigned offers the following LANDS for sale: In
the 6th district of Dooly county. Nos. 215, 227,109 ; in the
7th district Irwin county, Nos. 60, 115, 69, 172, 21, 72. 16, 118,
84, 12. 11, 152, 173 ; in the 3d district Early county. No. 161;
in the 17th district Early county. No. 141.
1 am anxious to sell the above named Lands, and any one
w-siting to buy, will do well to call on, or address me, at Cool
i Spring, Wilkinson county, Ga. N. J. BROWN.
decs
STATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUN’TY.-
Whereas, Amos F. Evans applies to me for Letters ol
Administration on the estate of Mrs. Malialy E. Evans,
late of said county, deceased :
These are therefore to cite and admonish, all and singular, the
kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my
office, on or before the first Monday in January next, to show
cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand ami official signature at office in Au
gusta, this 3d day of December. 1860.
Dec. 4,1860. FOSTER BLODGET, Jk., Ord’y.
EORGIA. LINCOLN COUNTY-TO ALL WHOM
IT MAY CONCERN.
David Callahan, having in proper form applied to me for per
manent Letters of Administration on the estate cf John
Crozier, late of said county, deceased :
This is to cite all and singular, the creditors and next of kin of
John Crozier, to be and appear at niv offlee, within the time
allowed by law, and show cause, if any they can, why per
manentletters of administration should not be granted to Da
vid Callahan on John Crozier’s estate.
Witness my hand and official signature.
Dec. 2. 1860. B. F, TATOM, Ordinarv
CfOURT OF ORDINARY, RICHMOND COUNTY.
) —DECEMBER TERM, 1860.
Uponlthe petition of Abram M.Perryman, one of the Execu
tors of Elisha Perryman, deceased, setting forth that Jeremiah
Perryman, his co-executor, has removed himself from this coun
ty and State, and thereby impeded the administration thereof;
and further that he lias funds in liiS bauds as such executor, be
longing to the legatees, which he neglects aod refuses to pay
over, and, by all of which it is feared that said estate and lega
tees will suffer loss and damage by the mismanagement and
misconduct of the said Jeremiah Perryman, and praying that
citation be issued in teams of the law-, Ac.:
Whereupon it is ordereu by the Court that tne said Jeremiah
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three weeks previous to the next Term of this Court.
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PUBLIC SALES
CITY SHERIFF’S SALE.”
ON the first Tuesday in JANUARY next, will be sold,
at the Lower Market House, in the City of Augusta,
within the legal hours of sale :
AU that lot or parcel of Land, with the improvements there
on situate in the city of Augusta, between Twiggs street and
Washington street, boundetf north by a lot formerly owned by
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yearlß6of Au^usta ’ VB ’ Jam< * ISAAcTeVY,sheriff C? A.
November 2, 1.960.
CITY SHERIFF’S SALE.
ON the first Tuesday in JANUARY next, will be sold at
the Lower Market in the city of Augusta, within the legal
h °AU thattot or parcel of Land, situate, lying and being in the
city of Augusta, on the south side of the Augusta ( anal, be
tween Campbell and Marbury streets, bounded north by D An
tignac street, upon which it fronts 200 feet, more or less ; east,
bv Carrie street, on whiah it fronts 104. feet, more or less; south
by lot of William A. Walton ; and west by Cunaming street:
Levied on as the property of Herbert Stalling!, to satisfy an
execution issued from the City Court of Augusta in lavor of
Mary Bird vs. StaUings.
A LSO,
At the same time and place, wiU be sold, a Mulatto Boy
slave named Charles, about 14 years of age : Levied on as the
property of Elizabeth Rowe, to satisfy an execution issued from
the City Court of Augusta in favor of C. A. Platt & Cos. vs.
Elizabeth Rowe. ISAAC LEVY, Sheriff C.A.
December 2,1860.
RICHMOND SHERIFF’S SALE.
ON the first Tuesday in JANUARY next, within the
legal hours of sale, at Lower Market House, in the city
of Augusta, will be sold.
All that lot or parcel of Land, situate in the city of Augusta,
on Marbury street, between Gardnier and D’Antignac streets,
known as Lots Nos. 91, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28, in a plan of
Lots made by William Phillips, having a front of 160 feet on
Marbury street, and running back of like width 240 feet—said
Cot composed of eight Lots numbered from 21 to 28 inclusive—
being bounded North by Gardnier street, east by II or Oak
street, south by lots Nos. 19 and 20, and west by Marbury
street, together witli the Buildings and Machinery of every
kind, on the before described Lots : Levied on as the property
of Solomon C. White, John O. Quien and Harlan Rigby, to
satisfy an execution on the foreclosure of a mortgage issued
from the Superior Court ot Richmond county in favor of Leoni
das A. Jordan, administrator ofthe estate of Benjamin Jordan,
deceased, vs. SolomonC. White. John C. Guein and Harlan
Rigby. WM. V. KER, Sheriff R. C.
Dec, 2, 1860,
TRUSTEE’S SALE. ~
UNDER and by virtue of a decree in Chancery of the Jlon.
W. W. Holt, Judge of the Superior Court of the county
of Richmond, I shall, on the first Tuesday in JANUARY next,
at the Lower Market House, in the city of Augusta, at public
outcry, offer for sale a certain Negro Boy, named Joe, aged
about twenty-five years, a Candy Maker. Sold as the property
of Itosella V. Zinn and her children.
Dec. 1, 1860, HE:\RY L. LEON, Trustee,
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
A GREEABLY to an order of the Court of Ordinary of
J\_ Richmond county, will he sold at the Lower Market
House in the city of Augusta, on the first Tuesday in JANUA
RY next, between the legal hours of sale, a Negro Woman,
named Eliza, about 60 years of age. Sold as property belong
ing to the estate of Mary Pierce, late of said county, deceased.
Nov. 21, 1860. G. W. HALL, Adm’r.
POSTPONED
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.
BY virtue of an order from the Court of Ordinary of Lin
coln county, will be sold before the Court House door in
said county, on the first Tuesday in JANUARY’ next, the
following property, to wit:
Six hundred acres of Land, more or less, in said county, on
the waters of Soap creek, adjoining lands of Adam Harnes
berger, Martin B. Cliett, Robert Blanchard, William Dallis
and William Murpliey ; it being the same place whereon de
ceased lived at the time of his death. Sold subject to the
widow’s dower.
Also, the following Negroes : Mime, a woman 55 years old ;
Charles, a man 45 years old, and Green, a man 21 years old.
Sold as the property belonging to the estate of Allen T. Si.v
trunk, for the benefit, of the heirs and creditors of said estate.
Terms on the dav of sale. WILLI Ail DALLIS, Adm’r.
December 4, 1860.
EXECUTORS^S^ALE~OT~
L A.NDS
UNDER and by virtue of a decree of Chancery, granted at
the May Term, 1860, ofthe Superior Court of Burke coun
ty, the undersigned, as Executors of the last, will and testa
ment of Henry I* Jones, deceased, late of said county, offer for
sale the following Lots of LAND, belonging to the estate of
said deceased:
Knob. | hist. ountt. nos. | dist. sec
59 3d Appling. “n 5 ! Ist Ist.
56 2d Carrol, SSfi
43 3d “ 1106 Sd
293 7th “ 72-i 4th “
79 Bth “ 413 sth
188 44 44 649 44
93 9th “ 807 6th “
86 18th “ 181 Bth “
7 14th Decatur. 252 9tli •*
84 4 4 44 69 11th
212 “ “ 106
26 1 44 4 4 4-12 12th “
330 16th 44 956 44 ••
846 44 44 293 18th
72 19th 44 29 14th
26 2 44 44 1 7” “
92 20th “ 612 15th
114 2d Dooly. 201 1 fit h
98 12th 44 127 18th
804 18th 44 169 Ist
841 44 44 107 2d “
|49 44 44 1200 3d 44
850 267 6th “
357 “ “ 210 lith *
221 Ist Early. g°9 “ u
87 4th 44 174 12th
HI !! “ 219 13th
226 8 09 13th
827 16tii •
228 6th 44 “
112 6th 44 •*
23* Bth “ 698 16th
in oth 948 17th
St “ 166 18th
221 44 “ lr.th. th ;;
88 10th 44 ..
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178 26th 44 Vi- sist
278 44 44 .r
60 27th 44 44
86 7th Houston. 5.0 05th
177 4th Irwin. 2d J
428 Bth 44 sd *fi
807 9th 44 I( i7
287 11th 44 pth
Lf * 4 | l” 181 h
905 “ 801 19th n
200 -1 st ovi SJOtii u
63 16th Lowndes.
84 8d Monroe. .23 .. “
284 10th Muscogee. I gS 22d ..
105 12 h h !! 362 sad
sa 9oth *. 139 24th
122 17th Thomas. % h “
Z :: :: & 4 4th
190 28th Twiggs. 2?}
203 Ist Wayne.
21 Bth Wilkinson. 1(Ul
803 13th 44 ®| „ ? n .
118 16th “ ®il Broad street
273 ** w[ in Albany,
29 19th “ 71 1 Geo -
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