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PAIAGIAMB —Ye»terday, in New \<>rk, <«old was quoted at 1.35|. Cotton 85c. —An caih spring—jumping out of bed at five o'clock ; n the morning, —Matilda Heron is fifty years old. ami liveßr. —Marshall O. Roliert*'Grant recep tion cost SIO,OOO. —-Madame Anna Bishop is coining to New York to settle. —Victor Hugo roads KnglnJi but cannot write or speak M- —A New Jersey judge has non suited a ease of contractTfec.atisc it was made on Sunday. —The hen is n generous fowl, for every single kerne! of corn she will give a peck. When is a young mans arm like the gospel? When they make glad the waist places. —The Kansas Union Pacific Rail road has been blocked by snow bet ween Hays Citv and Sheridan since the 6 th*. —Major Dunlap, living near Chilli cothe, has raised about thirty-five thousand bushels of corn this year—a big thing. —The widowed Marchioness of Hastings will, it is said, despite the losses of her husband, come into about £5,000 a year. —There will he four eclipses during 1869, two of the sun and two of the moon. One of the hitter will be visi ble here on the 27 th of January. —The difference between Rachel, Jacob's wile, and llachol. of ixnulon Borrodaile notoriety, is said to be that while one went to the well, the other went to the bad. —An Ohio landlord dropped dead of apoplexy while caning an overcoat thief. The latter remarked that it was the judgment of Heaven, and walked off with the coat. —A wag, on being asked what he had for dinner replied : “ A lean wife and the ruin of man for the sauce.” His dinner consisted of a spare rib and apple sauce. —A society to train young men for the humanizing business of the prize ring has been formed in New York, and has adopted the very appropri ate name of “Ilitiles and jfawlites.” —The following sentiment is attri buted to Napoleon Bonaparte: ‘‘A handsome woman pleases the eye, but a good woman ]• leases thfi heart.— The one is a jewel—the other a trea sure.” —A baud of religious enthusiasts recently paraded the'atreets of Peck ham, near Londoi), singtng the hymn, “Come to God,” to the tune of Tommy Dodd.” There is a man named Smith, in Dubois county, Md., who is now living with his eighth wife. Dei th Jias re lieved him of three, and divorce Ire friended him on four occasions. —War has been declared ami the first battle fought between Greece and Turkey. 'Hie well-known sympathy of the former for the Cretans was the cause of the declaring of hsotili ties. - -Senator Kellogg, of Louisiana, in connection with General Longstreet, has prepared a bill for the rebuilding of the levees on the Mississippi, which he will introduce after the holidays. - -The people of Cranberry Summit, on the Baltimore A Ohio Railroad, • H aded three miles through the snow, and fed gratuitously the passengers of a train that was snowbound. —The Washington Home in Boston, is prospering. Since its foundation more than 2,900 drunkards have been reformed, at an average cost of about RIO dollars each. —“I say, Clem,'’ cried two disput ing darkies appealing for decision to a sable umpire, “which word is right— dizactly or dezactlyThe sable um piro reflected a moment and then with a look of wisdom said, “I can’t tell )>erzactly.” —Ad attorney, about to furnish a bill of costs, was requested by his client, a baker, “to make it as light as he could!” “Ahreplied his attor ney, “that’s what jou may say to your foreman, but it's not the way I make my bread.” —The Swiss watchmakers are stead- Hy approaching perfection, in 1862 the average deviation of the Neuf chatel chronometer was 1.61 seconds per day ; but one was recently finished and tested which gave only 1.61 of a second variation in twenty-four hours. —llmmicatt's paper, the Xcio Xa- Richmopd, Ya., has wholly sus pended. lie charges the Republican managers with having proscribed him, and announces himself as a candidate for Congress in opposition to the regu larnominee. —The Sheriff of Cumberland county, Kentucky, becoming wearied of dun ning a tax payer for his dues, seized upon his splendid net of false teeth.- The delinquent had to gum it on milk aud mush until hr settled the reckon ing. —Captain John Travis, tho pistol* shooter, challenges all the world to a match. Tie will shoot his pistol u]»- sidc down, backwards between his legs, his opponent to shoot in the reg ular way, using only one hand. This is to l>e done for $5,000. —The champion eater of the United States is named Josiah Plumb. A few davs ago he entered a restaurant in IJudson, New York, aud ottered to cat all that any one would pay for. The challenge haring been accepted, he disposed of the following articles; Ten pieces of apple pie, six com cakes, a quarter of a pound of crackers, six cups of peanuts, thirty pickled dams, four lemons, an ounce <4 candy, and two bowls of claw soup. He then drank six tumblers of Water, and offered to cat one hundred run oysters. No one doubted his ability to accom plish tlie feat, but nu one was willing to pay for the oysters ; and so he went off, grumbling’ that he wasn’t half fWI. -a dr NultoimlHcpubliftm A ! i.V>L'A. <>A. FRIDAY MORNING Dec. 25 lx# 1 IL Inion---Liberty Just ice. This is a Republic where the Will of the People is the Law of the Land. [U, 8. Grant. “lie/cA over the preservation "J the ( nion vith zealous eye. and indignantly Jiovn upon the first dawning of eceig attempt to alicnate any portionjf the Count»•// frow, lke r< or to enfeeble the- sacred ties. which m ir Iml. together the various parts.'— Hihiixstiw’s Farewell Address. TO THE PUBLIC. On the first of January, 1860, the Augusta Daily Press will be re sumed, and its publication continued thereafter as an Independent News, Commercial and Agricultural Journal. The Daily Press will be published by Col. C. R. Hanleetej:, a gentle man whose name is familiar to the people of the State, as the editor and proprietor of the Southern Miscel lany and National American, at At lanta, from 1842 to 1861, and whose superiority as a newspaper manager is recognized by the profession throughout the entire South. The Local and Commercial depart ment, which will be a speciality of the paper, will be under the general super vision of Mr. John M AVeigle, a Southron by birth and education, and who has been personally known from childhood to all our people, as a steady, upright, intelligent and honorable member of the community. The Daily Press will pot champion any politician or political organization. It will be independent \\\ its comments on current events. It will reserve the right to commend that which is com mendable, and to rebuke, in dignified language, that which may be detrimen tal to the public interests. To con tribute to the restoration of the old fashioned prosperity of Georgia, and the happiness of its people, and to publish the anil cheapest newspa per in the State, will be the highest ambition ol all connected with it. I only ask that the paper shall be judged by its merits. The Augusta Weekly Pees;— containing all the News, Market Re ports, Editorials, and other interesting matter of the Daily Press —will be issued on Saturday, the 2d of Jan . uary, 1869, and regularly i every Saturday' morning thereafter. Terms: Daily, one year, Five Dol , lajss; Weekly, one year, Two Dol lars —invariably in advance. K. 11. PUG I IE. Ben Butler After a Preacher Theenemies of Ben Butler charge that he has not the most sacred regard fur the rights of other people's prop erty. Whether this is true or not, the great majority of the American people believe it. “ Give a dog a bad name and you had just as well kill him.” If the rights of property are sacred to him it is about all that is. If ho had been in the place of Moses he would not have removed his shoes when approaching the burning bush. We are led to these remarks by the perusal of a caustic, flippant and irreverent letter addressed by him to a Rev. Mr. Strong, of Cleveland, Ohio, which we find in the Herald, of that city. The reverend recipient of Butlir’s communication may de serve the rebuke, but die Scriptural quotations arc made in an inexcusable irreverent maimer As the letters of great men, of good men, of notorious men, and of very bad men, arc always eagerly read by the jmblic, we annex Butler's letter, leaving the leader to decide to which of the above classes he belongs; IVAHiriNi.roN. Dec. 1.!. HMJB. lt<r. .Mr. Httoug, t'hreinnd. tdn'o. Siß: 1 lutve read your sermon on ijiauks giying Dny, which, being n son of'secular (Sabbath. ««ins to have cauaod you to use the pulpit for the purpose of vituperation in the interest of capital luhl tlie monev chatunsrs. whom our DR inc Master drove out of God’s I Holy temple with a scourge of small eords. j Nay, He expeilc i therefrom those who .«>ld I doves— an innocent occupation compand I w ith that of the gold gamblers mid specula- | tors, to whom you warn to have given Hie j beix-tits of the sanctuary It seenis you were not even aware of the i lartsupo.’i which you prodiciletl your per sonal attack, frointhe pulpit, u;s>n ifiyaelt by I iw, nnd the majority of the Republican | Repr«<si'Hlixri in Con’gr»«* There wa« no I proposition to tax the Ix»nds, only the Income I th rived from them, nsthc Government al ways , has done. Tlint proposition did not go to a i committee furconskteration,but the committee I was oidcred to bring in a bill to make that pr<>iK>aiiinn law. At 1 assume, if you had known the facts, you would not have borne I “fal-c witness against ymir nctahbon.” 1 . •end you with tint note h copy oi my speech. ! which, if you will read carefully, will show you wiuit was proposed, and also an extract from a letter in reply to a gentleman who, while lie was dis|»ose<l to criticise, \ut- just enough to liud <>ut what my views were be fore he condemned them. Pardon me, rev erend sir. If your sennou had not been sent me iu the Cleveland Hcrol'l marked, 1 should no. have troubled you with a reply at all, mid even now, 1 should class the publication witli tlie lucubniUous of Brick Pomeroy and 1 linnis t i’Flahcriy. which you will find print ed on the ba k ol your sermon, did I not sup pose vou were h mestiy mistaken, and might lie willing tn be et right. Respectfulßl.n.i. F. Ill"i i.eh. P. S.- I should be pleased to hear a ser mon from you on this text: "Why dost thou judge thy brother ?" or, "Why dost'thou set at nought thy brother? for we"shall all stand before the judgment of Christ.” « Christmas! T<> our readers, one and all, ami to every member of the commimity, we .send greeting, with a heartfelt wish that this may be a “ merry Christ mas!” May the flow of egg-nogg be inexhaustible, and each dinner-table to-day be graced by a good fat turkey, ami may those to whom these luxu ries are denied, have- something extra on this the holiday of mankind. This is a day into which politics cannot be lugged. It is too sacred for their in terference, and too joyous for their jealous schemings. No person has a right, to be miserable on t'liristmas Day. Too many fond memories of ’ the past cluster around the day to indulge iu reflections on the real or imaginary grievances ol the present. There are none deprived of the indul gence of the “Pleasures of Memory,” and much quiet happiness is to be derived by this means. As the birthday of the ReoeemEi:, whose mission was “peace on earth, and good will to men,’’all should honor the day and manifest the spirit of Him in whose honor it is named. And there is no better way of exercising this Christian good-will than for those tables groan with plenty to-day to send a portion to their poor neigh bors, who are barely able to supply their tables with necessaries, much ]ess luxuries. Those who divide their dinners with the poor will easily di gest what they eat themselves. Those who may be too selfish to “remember the poor,” it makes no difference if they do groan in their sleep, have the nightmare, and are forced to take castor oil. Communicating happiness to others is the surest means of secu ring and retaining it for ourselves. Then, dear reader, if you would.enjoy a real, genuine “merry Christmas,” see that those about you are made “merry' by some kind act of your own. But wo must be fore the buys drink all the egg-nogg. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribum telegraphs to that paper of Monday: “The official report from the officers of the Freed men's Bureau of Georgia for the year ending mi the Ist of this month, show that seventy-one colored citizens were murdered during that time by the whites, for which fifteen whites were arrested- Throe were acquitted out right. and none were punished. The report also shows that fifteen whites were murdered b.v /<>r which ( /Ourtecn arrests were made—seven have been punished, two acquitted, and the rest are on trial Major 11. W. Husted, an old and prominent citizen of Raleigh, North Carolina, died in that city,of paralysis of the heart, on Sunday hist. Josh Billings on the Frog.— Josh Billings replies- to a correspond ent this wise: “ Benvolio." In writing to you an analy sis of the frog, I must confess that a have copied the whole t liing terafiis ud liberating, from the works ova celebrated French writer ov the 16th century. 1 The frog is in the first place a tadpole, and body and talc without coming to a head. He travels in pond holes by the side of a turnpike, and is accellorated by tlie activity of his tale, which wriggles witli uncommon limberness and vivacity. By and by, before long, pretty soon, in a few days, his tale is no jnoro, and legs begin to emerge from the south end of the animal, and from the north at the same time, may be seen a disposition to head out. In this cautious way the frog is built, and then for the first time in his life he begins to get liis head above water. His success is now certain, and soon, in about tive days more, he may be seen sitting down bv hiriwelf on the side of the pond hole, anil looking at the dinner baskets of the children on the way to the district school. As the children come more nearer, witli a club or a chunk of brick in Ins liand to snoot him with, he rates upon his hind legs and enters the water head fust, without stopmng to open the door. Thus the frog docs linsiness for a spell uv a times, till he gets to lie 21. and then his life is more ramified. Frogs have 2 natures, ground and water, and iz as free from sin as an oyster. 1 never knew a frog tu hurt enybody who INiid his honest dues. I don’t recollect whether a frog has any before legs w not, and if he don't it ain’t nobody's business but the frog’s. Their hind legs are used for n frcslunents. but the rest won't pay for eatin. A frog is the 011 R person who can live in a well and not get tired. The bull frog is the bos of the puddle, and lias a log to sit on over on the other side .of the puddle, aud talks tu the rest of the frogs, way down his throat, so that .von cannot understand more than hall lit sez. lie is generally a cross, lazy old devil, all over wnrtz. This is all there is worth knowing now about the frog, except that the\ ketch flics in th time, and in winter bv freezing Up solid. I’. t>,~ 1 have <;llii>.u<lore<l to llullsiitle mi 1 autiierclo.se, but it iz lull hi render all hi but its into our tung without Ixulin the I M*nse. • \ ictoi Hugo reads english. Lut i- j llll.tble |O IJW'tii or write it. r Frotn the Congressional Globe. THE CONDITION OF GEORGIA. A Debate in the Congress of the United States Mr. Pomeroy. I ask leave, without previous notice, to introduce a bill re lating to the State of Georgia. I would not have introduced this bill if I had seen in any of the other bills on this subject a mode of relief which 1 thought would be the most easy of attainment for that State. I find that the Constitutional Convention of Geor gia did not dissolve, but adjourned for one year, subject to be called together if Congress should require anything further in relation to reconstruction. But the difficulty with the Constitu tion of Georgia is that it prescribed no qualifications for holding oflicc. TTiis bill simply provides for the reas sembling of that Convention, requir ing of them to put in a qualification for holding oflicc not in conflict with the amendment of the Constitution of the United States called the Four teenth Article, and then to submit that Constitution thus amended to Congress; and when approved, then for the reassembling of their State Legislature organized according to the Constitution-. That, I think, will re construct the State of Georgia; at any rate, that is my bill. By unanimous consent leave was granted to introduce bill (S. No. 716) to provide for the reassembling of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Georgia, and prescribing the duties of the same; and it was read twice by its title. Mr JEkmunds. I wish to say, in connection with the observation of my friend from Kansas, that I think one of the chief virtues of the Consti tution of Georgia, which has been re cently adopted, is that it docs not have any qualifications tonxhing the right to hold office, but gives that right to every citizen of the State, “without regard to race, color, or previous con dition,” as the technical phrase is. If my friend means to say’ that lie thinks its construction is to legalize the conduct of that body that called itself a Legislature, which met there a while ago, and to hold that that body acted in accordance with its funda mental law in expelling nearly one third of its members because there was a different shade of complexion to them, then I think he is decidedly mistaken. Mr. Pomeroy. If the Senator, as I presume he has, has read the Consti tution carefully, he will see that it is silent on the question of holding office. Mr. Edmunds. Exactly. Mr. Pomeroy’. AVhat the Senator says is only implied. The facts are that that Constitutional Convention before it adjourned legalized, if any Constitutional Convention can do it, all the laws of the State that came in conflict with the Constitution; and the Constitution expressly providing nothing in relation to holding office, it legalized it, as they construed it, the old law of the State, which was that no colored num should hold office. The Constitution-whieh wc accejitcd legal ized that okk law. There being noth in the Constitution against it, they have construed that that was binding on the Legislature. Mr. Edmunds. Do you think that is a fair construeaion ? Mr. Pomeroy, Ido not thiiik it is; but that is their construction. Mr. Stewart. I think the Constitu tion of Georgia is a little more than silent. Ido not think it is silent on this subject. The first section pro vides who shall be citizens of the State: all who are born in the «mt ail who nr.- o/.e..iaffzed under the laws of the United States. Then the section that does prescribe the qualification of members of the Legislature says that they shall be citizens. Mr. PO.MDROY. They are all citizens. W omen are citizens but not voters. Mr. Stewart. It says all male citi zens over the age of years: so that I think the Constitution of Georgia, by a fair construction, guar antees to all male citizens of the State over the age of twenty-one years, not convicted of crime and laboring under no disabilities of that character, the right to hold the office of member of the Legislature. I think that is very clear. It can bear no other fair con struction. Mr. Pomeroy. The fact that a Con stitution provides that all the citizens of the State shall have equal rights is not construed in any of the States to mean that they have equal political rights, 'fhe Constitution of Georgia does say that all male citizens of a pre scribed age may vote; but it is not all the voters who are entitled to hold of fice, as they construe it, because they had a law legalized by this Constitu tional Convention prohibiting a certain class from holding office. We accepted the Constitution with that provision, and I want the Constitutional Conven tion to reassemble, it having provided for its r« assembling if-called together, and adjust that question. I do not want it left to construction. One law yer or judge may construe it in one way and another in another. This question of holding office should not be left to construction. Mr. Howard. I merely rise to make an inquiry of the honorable Senator who last addressed the Chair, whether the bill he has now presented contem plates any alteration or change in the operation of the act which we passed at the last session autliorizing the re admission <>f the several recently in surrectionary States into the Union ? Mr. Pomeroy. The provision- of ilmt act arc held in abeyance. Mr. Howard. Let me call the Hen ator's attention to a danse in the first Mction of that act: “Thateach of the States of North Carolina, South Caro lina, lx*ui«iNia, Georgia, Alabama and I'loi'hlu, shall be entitled and admitted to representation in Congress ns n State •>i tiro Union when the Legislature of Kiich State shall Imve duly ratified the amendment of the Constitution of the United State* proposed by the Thirty- Ninth Congress, and known as article fourteen,” tiiiorf*’certain fundamental conditions which do not relate to this subject. The query which T wish to put to the honorable Senator is this : whether or not the right of that State has not already become fixed and un alterable by our own legislation,and by the compliance on the part of the Legislature of Georgia with those terms? It is, I think, an important question 1 desire to know whether the bill he has now introduced has in view the alte ration of the act to which I have alluded, and if so, upon what ground he bases it. Mr. Poms not. The bill which I have introduced suspends the action of that law until after the State has been recognized by the reception of its members in both branches of Con gress. The reconstruction act that we passed did not contemplate that our action should be final on the question until their members were received; but wl»en the members from those States were received in the two Houses of Congress that completed the work of reconstruction so far as Congress had anything to do with. it. Until that period, however, they are still subject to the legislation of Congress; and indeed I do not know but that they arc afterward. They certainly are up to that time. This bill contem plates the reassembling of inc Consti tutional Convention of Georgia to complete this work. They anticipate that other things might be required of them, and they adjourned to an other time for that purpose. The year is not out. Mr. Davis Mr. President,! under •tand that the reconstruction laws have been carried out by the State oi Georgia; that a portion of her people have formed a Constitution in obedi ence to the mandates of the recon struction laws, as they are termed. The honorable Senator from Arkansas nods his assent. I would modify that by saying “the destruction laws,” if he will accept the modification. Now, what is the main purpose and princi ple of the bill introduced by the hon orable Senator ? It is to dictate to the people of Georgia, through their Con vention, which has continued its exist ence by an adjournment, a particular principle or clause in their Constitu tion. The honorable Senator from Kansas is a very able statesman and a very able constitutional lawyer, and I should be obliged to him if he would suggest to me and to ihe Senate from whence the Senate derives the power to pass such a bill. If he will give me a legitimate authority for the exercise of such a power, and satisfy me that it is wise, just and prudent to exercise that power in the form which he proposes, I will vote for the meas ure. Mr. Pomeboy. The form which I propose is simply the form which has been used in the reconstruction acts. The bill does not require of them any particular qualification for holding office, but only that they shall make a qualification in harmony with the Constitution of the United States as amended by the fourteenth article. If they refuse or neglect to do it, it will still be in the power of Congress to receive or reject their members. Mr. Davis. The honorable Senator has ignored my question. I did not ask him what the reconstruction laws were, or what the Convention of Geor gia had done in their effort to execute the reconstruction laws, but to tell me the source of power which would authorize Congress to pass the bill which he has now introduced. Mr. Pomebot. The source of power I apprehend to be the same that ex isted in Congress at the timo of the pass.-w* tf ' c reconstruction acts. I hold that we obtained the right to legislate for the States in rebellion by the surrender. The difficulty between the Senator from Kentucky and myself is that I believe the Union cause tri umphed, and that in that triumph the rebels surrendered everything that was in controversy between the par ties ; and one of the things in contro versy be'tween the parties was the dogma of State authority over the General Government. They held, and the Democratic party generally have held, that in this Government of ours there were some thirty-seven sovereigns, and that therefore Con gress could not legislate for a State; but I apprehend that that dogma of State rights and State sovereignty was surrendered when they gave up their old horses and commissary stores to General Grant and General Sherman; that is they surrendered not merely the materials of the war, but they surrendered the elements of the war, all that went to make up the controversy anti the issues between the parties. They surrendered what tliey went to war about. They sur rendered the question of State rights over slavery, State sovereignty as against the General Government. We acquired the right to legislate for them by' that surrender. Mr. Davis. That is the mostextra ordinary explanation of the principle I have ever yet heard, that a State raising an insurrection or rebellion against the General Government may upon its military coercion surrender its sovereignty and all its rights into the hands of tlie General Government. Will the honorable Senator inform me wltence the General Government derives its authority to become the depository of such power, and whence States acquire their power to surren der the .sovereignty and the reserved rights of the people in the hands of the General Government or any vic torious Generals acting under the authority of the General Government? Mr. Pomeroy. It docs not follow that the State surrenders the reserved rights of the people. It is in regard to State rights that, the difficulty’ with the Democratic party has been 'from the beginning. I was here when five •States had gone out of this Union, < ami the question was submitted to Mr. • Buchanan and his Cabinet what can j we do? They met in full Cabinet 1 < counsel and discussed it. They nd- < jnnrned until the next day, when they j met nnd disenswd it again, and finally, ■ on the third day, they came to the conclusion, and Mr. Buchanan promul gated it, that there was no power under the Constitution in the General Government to coerce a State; that if rebellion assumed State authority they could not help it, and they had no remedy for rebellion when it assumed the authority of a State organization. They believed that we could put down individual rebels or a rebellion like the Dorr rebellion in Rhode Island ; but if rebellion assumed Slate authority, the State had a sovereignty that the Gen-! oral Government could not coerce. That was the dogma; and it was one of the great difficulties that led to the immense proportions of the recent re bellion. It was the feeling with men in the South that they owed supreme alle giance to their State As Gen. Lee said, when he was serenaded at Arling ton* the State of Virginia had called him; he deprecated war ; he hated above all things civil war; but the State of Virginia, the mother that bore him, had called him to lead her troops, and he owed his first allegiance to the State of Virginia." It was that dogma of his that led him to war against the authority of the national Government, and it was this dogma which the Democratic party have held that led to the dissolution of this Union, so far as State rebellion could dissolve it. My own belief is that State rebellion against the General Government by a State as a political organization is State suicide; that when that political organization rebels, when it forms another government, when its officers swear allegiance to that other government not known to this country, its political organization has committed suicide. That is where we get the right to legislate for these communities, because we conquered them. We were the party that took their surrender ; we did not surren der ; and in that surrender we took everything that was in controversy, and they submitted. 1 ask that the bill be printed. Mr. Fessenden. I came into the Senate late, and I am not aware what the question is that is now before the body. Will the Chair be kind enough to state it ? The President pro tempore. The question is on referring the bill intro duced by the Senator from Kansas to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Davis. Mr. President, I have only one word to say to my honorable friend, the Senator from Kansas. His final refuge is now in an opinion ex pressed by President Buchanan at the time the rebellion had its inception. I think the honorable Senator is in a great strait when he resorts to that opinion of Mr. Buchanan as authority for the introduction and passage of this meas ure; but the more the honorable Sen ator is urged upon this subject the more hjs confusion becomes confound ed, the more his darkness is intensified; at least, it is so to ray mind, for that reason I shall not follow up this dis cussion with the honorable Senator. The President /»ro tempore. The question is on the motion of the Sena tor from Kansas, that the bill be re ferred to the Committee on the Judi ciary, and printed. The motion was agreed to. SEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Letters of Dhmissioii STATE OF GEORGIA— Richmond County. Whereas. Hilliard E. Wolle, Administrator of tbc estate of David M. Wolfe, late of said eouuty, deceased, applies to mo for Ix-tters of Disrais . sion— These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all • and singular, the kindred aud creditors of said , joceaseu, to be and appear at my office,op. or be fore the first Monday in July next, to show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be granted. Given unde-my band and official signature, at Augusta, this 23d dav of December. 1868. SAMUEL LEVY, ' de2s—Gm • Ordinaiy. IMSUKAJIiCE. FIRIWMWO rpHE SUBSCRIBER IS THE AGENT OF the following well known responsible Com panies, representing h paid up capital and surplus of more thau slo,ooo,oo6—viz; Hartford, Conn. Phenix Insurance Company, Hartford, Conn. Howard Insurance Company, JVew York Manhattan Insurance Company, A’etc York Standard Insurance Company, Nc'u> York. Astor Insurance Company, Aeto York Commerce Insurance Company, New York. Fireman's Insurance Company, New York. Lamar Insurance Company, New York Commercial Insurance Company, New York. Mercantile Insurance Company, New York Phenix Insurance Company,. New York The .EI’NA. of Hartford, the HOWARD, MANHATTAN and FIREMAN S, of New York, were chartered ne.,r a half century since, and are known as among the best and most substantial Companies in the United States, as are the oilier Companies named with them. I eau insure sloo.olloon Cotton, in any one of our Warehouses, and $70,000 on Cotton iu a good Steamer, from Savannah or Ckarleston to New York, or other Northern Ports. Irfies.-s equitably mijnsted mid promptly paid. Tim potronage of lue public is respectlull v so iicited. oct'M—3lll Wm. SHEAR. Agent. AUGUiTi. October 22, 1808. Northern district of Georgia- i Madison, Ua , December 21, 1868. I The nadenigueil hereby wives notice of bis I uuMiiuiuieut ns Assigoccof BERRY M. THOMI* t SON. of Madison riumtv, and State of Georgia, I within said Dietric., who has teen udindqed a I Bankrupt iqion his own pulitioa bv the District 1 Court «f said Diatrict. < Dated thia 2let dnv of December, A. D . 1868. i R I< BULUtCH, < d*»-nwßw A«wnc.. special notices. AMMTAVT BcMniWTK»t, MMT ', Q r ,.., ' oeokoia railroad, Augusta, G.., Daeembar 2*th. Isas DELEGATE* TO THE Geofltia CMferMM of Colored Preachers. t 0 U lieti 111 Augusta, January 6tli, will p l( ., f returning, on |i\ saltation of eertifical, llf berahip from the preaiding officer of c, i.f*.,,.",. 8 K. JOHNSON J*’—Sup. SI I’ERINI I.NI'E ,T’S „ F1 ... . Aiavar* A SVMXanviLLi R. R. Co ’( At er»TA, G*., Dec. 21. 1 sag. j CHRISTMAS DAY Hie Caia upon the City Lines of this Com",imv will be withdrawn. Upon Summerville Line Cars will leave Depot at 8.30 a. m. aud 2p. m., and will leave Arsenal at 9.30 a. ni. and 3 p. iu. JAMES J. DAVIES, ~de2s— It Superintendent Ordinary's Olilcc, Richmond Co., Augusta, Ga,, Dec. 10, [ Proposals for keening the Poor 11 mse in this County for the year 1869, will be r. reived at Ulv office until Monday the 28th, iiut. SAM L LEVY. ■ dec 11 td llniiiia;.,. Mayor's Office, at City u al , , Avgusta, December 5, 1868. ’ j Ou and after Monday, the 7th hist., my o^te hours will bo from »i p. ui , to 5 p. m., and a n chitons having official bininen with ine willcal ot the Mayor's office during thane hours, and not at my place of hue luces. H. F. RUSSELL dee6—tf Mayor C. A. ASS’T SUPERINfiNDENTTtIEFICF 2 , Geokgia Railroad, ’ I Augusta, Ga., November Utli. 1868 I ON AND AFTER MONDAY November 16th, 1868, the Night Train on the Washington* Branch will run only twice a week —Monday and Tuesday nights—leaving Washing ton at 10:00, p. ni. Returning, arriving at Wash ington at 3:20, a. m. „ t 8. K. JOHNSON novio—tf Assistant Superintendent. an ordinance To provide for the control and management of , persons condemned to labor on the Public Works of the City of Angnsta. Section 1. Be it Ordained by the City Oouneil of Augusta, and it ie hereby Ordained by tin ou- ■ thvriiy of the same, That it shall be ihe dutv of . the City Jailor, each morning (Sundays ex ' oepted), to place in the keeping of such a uard ■ a-may be selected by the Mayor an! Police Cutumittei f. r the purpose, all ot those prison ers, able to work, who have been sentenced to labor on the Public Works of this city. Set. 2. He it further Ordained, That said . Guard shall take charge ot said h orlyug Gang, , shall seo that they faithfully perform all labor required of them,and shall prevent entirely any .ntercourse whatever between citizens anil the ! prisoners whilst they are under its charge and , direction. The Guard shall bo governed by such rules as may be prescribed by' the Mayor ’ and Police Committee, and shall e force such - discipline, and punish insubordination amongst , the prisoners in such manner as shall be ap • proved of by the Mayor and Police > ummittee. Sxc 3. Be it further Ordained, TLat it shall . bo the duty of the Mayor to order or procure for the prisoners such clothing a the Police i Committee shall determine to be suitable, which ! clothing shall be worn by them until their dis- - charge. But no clothing, tools, or other articles . shall bo purchased for the uso of the Working ) Gang, except by order of the Major or Police ' Committee. M.O'. 4. Be it further Ordained, Tr.attlie Librr . i f the prisoners shall be employed in such man ’ ner and npon such of tbo Public Works as may be indicated by the Mayor or Street-Cemmitke. - the hours of labor to be from fi to 12 o’clock a. m., and from 2 to 6 o’clock p. in , unless otb.r- , wise directed by the sane auth rity. Sec. 5. AnddeG /arMer Ordaimd, That ail Ordinances and parts of Ordiuaucos militating . aga nst this Ordinance be, aud the same are hereby, repealed. Ddnc in Connell this 18th day of December, A. D., 1868. [seal] 11. F. RUSSELL, Mayor C. A. ‘ Attest: L. f. Blomk, Clerk of Council. de2B—lOt Wanted, A SITUATION, BY AN OLD AND E.X!’> KIKNCED BOOK KEI PER. , Apply at TillS OFFICE. de22—3t. I ASSIGNEE’S SALE OF ' Valuable Real Estate, BY BIGNON <1- CRUMP. C. V. WALKER, Auctioneer. Plantation in Richmond County- Homestead in Richmond Co. WILL BE SOLD. IN PURSUANCE OF an order from Albert G. Foster. Register iu Bankruptcy, on the FIRST TUESDAY in JAN UARY, 1869, between the usual hours of sale, nt the Lower Market House iu the city of Augusta, at public outcry, for cash, free from the incum brance of liens by the creditors, themtire Prop erty belonging to the estate of Francis Holman, of said coutfty, a bankrupt, consisting of One Plantation in tlie county of Richmond, with the improvements thereon, containing acres, more or lea. ; bounded uonh by land of Hez-kian Wil iianis, east by land of Williams, Thomas Smith, and the estate of William Fulcher; south by land ol the estate of Elisha Alien aud McKean Creek, aud west by land of James Sykes and Jeremiah Atwood, and known us the Templeton Place. ALSO, That very desirable Property three miles from Augusta, on both sides of the Georgia Railroad, containing about ten ac>-es, and bounded by lands oi Dr. Dugas, Jesse Osmond, and William U Davidson, aud now occupied by Francis Holman- On said land is a house containing seven rootne. facing sou tit, on the north side of the railroai., wbic.n runs uireotly in front of it, making the ap proach to the city easy aud convenient: a hue stable and all other usual outbuildings. I pu" ’h® whole this is one of ihcmost desirable hvmestca .s in the county. Also, all the Notes and Accounts belonging W said estate. HENRY JnNES. Asrignee of Francis Holman, delo—eodtd _ IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ,Hl ' A United States for the Southern District el Georgia. In the matter of | WILLIAM G. BELL and I GEO. AUG.TARBUTTON IN BANKRUPKI and i BELL 4 TARBUTTON, | (Partners), Bankrupts. J , To all whom it may concern : The andeisig l ’ 1 ’ 1 hereby gives notice of hie appointment as A signee ot Wm. G. Bell nnd Geo. Aug Tarbottou. and BELL & TARHUTTON, copartners, ot the county of Wasliiugton und State ot Grt’O* I *] within said District, who have been adhi<6.® Bankrupts upon their own petition by tae o trict Court of said District. H. L. WAJiTHEN, deXA—Uwthv Awny c s United States Marshal's Sale. V. 8. MARSHAL S OFFI< E, ' Southbrn District of Geobsu- > qpilE UNITED STATES vs. 15 ACRES A Land, uoar Macon. Ga. . i.«,ied By virtue of a writ of venditioni expom*’- , from the District Court of the United e’a'J” the Soothe™ District «f Gaoi-gia, in the a.. ,j titled cause, dated March 2,’», IW, to i«e 1 l)1( , and delivered. 1 at publn- . w(u | first Tncaduv in January next, within the law* hours of salkut the Court House ."'"[ep' J j Macon. Bibb county, Ga., u certain °• pr ,2S2?i Di*