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PARAGRAMS. —Yesterday, in New York, Gold <i» quoted at 1.344. Cotton 26c. —John Bright is the flr*t Quaker ' ever in the British Cabinet. There is now only two and a half days’ staging between Boston ;uul Han Fran Cisco. —General Shoup, an ex-Confederate Brigadier, has become an Episcopal Minister. -» —The Manchester cotton Mills arc only running three days in the week, at present. —The Charleston Street Car < oin pany have declared a quarterly divi dend of $1.25 per share -•-Colfax “Refuses to lecture any more. lie has that done lor him at home. —The London Times of the 24th takes “a very disheartening view of American finances.** ; , —Six hundred anfl fifty students Imve entered the Kentucky University * this year. ettr with freight for Selma recently arrived in that city, in five days, from New York. Ondit at Washington, that Grant demands the repeal of the tenure-of ofiice law before he “ begins.” —The Berlin correspondents of Swiss papers say that Bismarck’s dis ease is simply delirium tremens. -rThewe arc over sixteen millions of dollars in the Savings Banks of San Francisco, belongkig to the laboring, class of city. —Thomas If. Wynne, of Baltimore, has been elected Superintendent of the Richmond and Petersburg Rail road. —A German in St. Louis wrote a letter one hundred and forty-four pages long and then hanged himself. No wonder. -—No less than Afty beef-packing es tablishments are in operation in Texas; and factories for making glue, soap and neats’ foot oil are springing up all over the State. —The fruit crop of the Bahamas is very abundant this year, but as there is no demand for it for transportation, millions of oranges are rotting on the trees. —ln a recent French press trial, one of the lawyers urged that there should bo more calmness and gravity in French politics, saying that in America •e people prepared themselves for au election by several days of fasting. —A Paris correspondent writes that the Prince Imperial is in excellent health, and is growing fast. The Em peror is so fond of him that he can scarcely bear him out of his sight. —England now has an army of one hundred and seventy-seven thousand men, of which seventy thousand two hundred and ninety-two are garrisoned in the British Isles, fifty-nine thousand in India, and the remainder in her other dependencies. —An old man named Faulkenberg, lately from Georgia,'and residing near Girard’, Ala., and a white woman named Boyd, were outrageously beaten and left for dead, on Sunday night last, by parties unknown. Seven or eight dol lars was taken from the pockets of the former. —Florida is called the poor man's paradise by a correspondent. He says a five hundred dollar house there is as good as a two thousand five hundred dollar one at the North, There are no wood pile or hay’ mow to provide, and the land is fifty cents an acre. —The New York Tribune says: “On Wednesday, Mlle. Tostee, in de scending a flight of stairs at her resi dence, caught her foot in her skirt, and. was precipitated to the bottom, sustaining severe injuries, which, it is feared, will for some time incapacitate her from assuming her usual place on the stage.” —lt is again proposed in New York to build dwelling houses on the French plan, and it is reported that a com . pany of capitalists will engage in the enterprise-next spring. If the plan could be well carried out it would enable a great many poorly paid mar ried men to keep house quite com fortably. —Two San Francisco policemen tried to arrest a Chinaman on the 2d of this month. They found it neces ■k sary to leave him a moment, and so • handcuffed him with his arms each side of a.lamp post. When they re turned their prisoner was gone; he » had climbed up the post and swung his arms over the top. —A meeting of commercial travel lers, or, as they are generally termed, ‘drums’ washeldin the Astor House, in New York, recently, for the purpose of securing the abolition of the present obnoxious license laws of the various , cities and States. A committee was appointed to raise subscriptions, in order to test the legality of the license laws with reference to commercial travellers. —A deluded citizen of Portland, Me., becoming impressed with an idea that the world is soon to be visited by a second deluge, has applied his whole property ($6,000) to the building of an ark of refuge. The boat will be fifty feet long, fifteen fee* wide, flat-bottomed, square-sterned, round bows, with a house a little aft of amidships. He is sole planner and builder, and intends when it is com pleted, to furnish it with necessary provisions, and calmly await the rising of the waters. —The Howard University, at Washington, D. C., established for the purpose of preparing colored pupils for the learned professions, has organ ized a department of law. The lion. A. G. Riddle, once a member of Con gress, and now a lawyer in Washing ton, is one of the professors, and with luin is Associated a colored lawyer, John M. Langston,a native of Virginia, educated at tho Ol>erlin College in Ohio, *n<l for the last twelve years a pructioner of law in that State. The law school will open on the 4th of Jan uary with fifteen pupils. 1 NutionulHcpublifun XUOCStA. OA. THURSDAY MORNING....Dec. 81, 1868 Union—Liberty—Justice. This it a Republic where the Will of the People is the Law of the Land. [U. S. Grant. “Watch over the preservation of tlw Union with zealous eye, and indignantly frown upon the first dawiiing of every attempt to alienate any portion o f the Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties, which now link together the various parts."— Washington’s Farewell AnußEss. TO THE PUBLIC. On the first of January’, 1869, the Avgusta Daily Press will be re sumed, and its publication continued thereafter ;ta an Independent News, Commercial and Agricultural Journal. The Daily Peeks will be published by Col. C. R. Hanleiter, 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. Weigle, 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 notehampion any politician or political organization. It will be independent in 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 best and cheapest newspa per in the State, will be the highest ambition of all connected with it. I only ask that the paper shall be judged by its merits. The Avgusta Weekly Press— containing all the News, Market Re ports, Editorials, juul other interesting matter of the Daily Press—will be issued on Saturday, tho 2d of Jan uary, 1869, and continued r<w"A“Zj’ every- Snt»«h»y morning thereafter. Terms: Daily, one year, Five Dol lars; Weekly, one year, Two Dol lars —invariably in advance. E. 11. PUGHE. — “A Missing Proclamation”—Lincoln’s Recognition of the Confederacy. The Washington Evening Express of Saturday contains a disclosure of a startling character, in reference to the Peace negotiations of the Commis sioners from South Carolina, with the authorities at Washington, in 1861. The editor of the Express says “ the writer” of the extraordinary state ment “is well known to and received by us, and we have every confidence in the reliability of his statements.” Notwithstanding this high endorse ment of its correspondent by the Ex press, we believe his pretended revela tions to be sheer fictions. He states this to be the condition off affairs at Washington when Lincoln was first inaugurated: It will be remembered that on the inaugu ration of Mr. Lincoln. South Carolina deputed three commissioners to negotiate (to be concise) terms of separation, and settle up the business of the partnership, so far as that State was concerned. Os course, Mr. Seward sought to gain time for the new. Administration, and refused to see or ac knowledge them officially, etc., but still lured them to remain. At last they dispatched to the Executive of their State belief in the utter hopelessness of peaceful solution, and announced their purpose to leave the Capital. This resolve was not executed, simply be cause Judge Campbell was authorized to say Unit if their departure, was delayed results might be obtained tliev little hoped for. On this hint they lingered, but only to be disap ]x>inted, and then they Uxik their departure. If the reader had noticed tlic overture of Judge Campbell to delay the Commissioners, he will suppose that gentlenum had some ground for his opinion, and had reasonable assurances that a happy issue, in his judg ment, would grow out of tho delay he craved. Wlurt those grounds and assurances were can only lie conjectured; but they must have proceeded from high official sources; and, viewed in the light of what 1 am idsrut to say, and which is true as damonstrntion, makes conjecture reality. Our recollection is different from “Pacolet.” Those commissioners Iro In K-.uth Carolina were not ap|>ointcd ••on the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln,” bnt some time previous. They did not attempt to negotiate for terras of separation with Lincoln, but with Mr. Buchanan, who positively de clined to have anything to do with the members of the delegation in their official capacity as Commissioners from the sovereign State of South Carolina. Mr. Bi < iianan took the position that if hejreceivcil the delegation it would be regarded by the country as recogni tion of the legality’ of secession. The President, w hile declining to sec the Commissioners officially, cordially in vited them tocall on them as citizens; but the latter, maintaining that they were no longer citizens of the United States declined all his overtures. All this transpired before Lincoln’s ar rival in Washington. But her£iJ the essence of “Paco let’s” “startling discourse” in his own language: Shortly after the breaking off of the efforts to avert the dire catastrophe of war, a gentle man having free access to the private office of President Lincoln repaired to the capital rtf South Carolina, and deposited With a high official of that State a manuscript proclama tion by President Lincoln, duly prepared and ready for his signature, announcing to the American people, that rather than plunge the country in civil war, the Executive Gov ernment of the United States acquiesced in the dismemberment of the Union. With this was a column editorial, in slip form, with corrections, supposed to lie Mr. Lincoln’s, re citing freely the words of the instrument, vindicating the Executive act, and challeng ing for it flic approval of the American peo ple. This is my statement of the missing record. That it was not issued was due to the intense feeling evolved by the firing on the Star of the West. That there were members of Mr. Lincoln’s Cabinet favorable to the issuance df such a Proclamation, we have very good reason to know ; but Mr. Lincoln did not concur with them. He constantly dwelt on the idea, advanced in his first inaugural, that he “had an oath registered in Heaven” to see the laws faithfully exe cuted and the Union preserved. Mont gomery Blair backed hint up with the usual malignancy of the family, boldly advocating what was then characterized as coercion. Mr. Chase thought if the South were “let alone” their leaders would soon quarrel among themselves, and the people would re-, turn to the old Union. Seward acted as' only Seward can act. At least, this was the understanding in the best informed circles in Washington at that time. It was a little remarkable that the Abolition element of tho Republi can party were at first disposed to let the “wayward sisters depart in peace.’’ But Sumter changed the cry, and a terrible war was the result. It will be seen that the Express cor respondent says he has personally in spected both documents, and is quite positive as to their genuineness : 1 will not defy contradiction of the state ment herein made, but from personal inspec tion of both documents, and certain ear marks inherent in the second, 1 affirm their genuineness as confidently as I believe in the existence of my being. Gigantic Frauds in New Orleans. The New York Tribune of the 26th has the following highly interesting dispatch from Washingtsn : A gentleman who lias just arrival in this city from New Orleans, and who, during his visit at that city, took particular pains to in quire into matters in connection with the collection of the revenue, reports the most appalling corruptions in all branches of that service, lie says that, with but two or three exceptions, thieves and plifhdcrcrs. I from the first, been in Louisiana, i/n-o'subordinates have been suin [ cicntly in collusion with them to enable them to cany out their schemes and robbery; that officers of different districts have been leagued together in perpetrating and cover ing up the immense cotton frauds amounting to millions. Ife says that there were over forty licensed distilleries running in New Orleans during the last fiscal year, and that the Government did not collect tax enough to pay the salaries of the stare-keepers. No dis tiller hits ever yet been prosecuted in Louisi ana, to a final conviction. Bonded ware houses for liquors have ■ been robbed of thousands of barrels. Warehouses were burned down where the liquors had been previously stolen. Bonds of Collectors have been wliolly worthless, the securities when accepted being notoriously insolvent. Ware house bonds have been largely of the same character. He reports that the Judge of an imporflmt court is openly denounced as un faithful to his trust, and’that the U. 8. Dis trict Attorney is charged with being in tlie “ring,” and that the defendants in certain wine law-suits soon to lie tried in that city have openly boasted that they have so “fixed” things that the Government can never obtain a verdict in the U. 8. Court. The Secretary’ of the Treasury lias been advised by merchants of high standing in New Orleans that gross frauds were commit ted last Winter and Spring iu the Custom House, and that Custom House officers and Internal Revenue officers have colluded to gether in the fraudulent shipment of whis key; that men holding small salaried offices have suddenly become rich, some buying plantations and valuable stock, others valua ble city property, some spending tens of thousands upon ~ last women, and others losing still larger sums at the gaming-table and horse-races, while yet another, as rumor has it, is enabled to pay $40,000 to get elected to a high Congressional ]K>st, filling certain New Orleans offices from top to lx>t tom with the negro legislators, and paying ■ them $3 a day ft>r doing nothing. Tlie gen tleman who is here and gives this informa tion, save that all these matters have been reported over and over again to the Secretary of the Treasury’ anti other authorities con cerned. but that nothing lias been done to stem the tide of corruption that is sweeping over the whole country, except to send down a mere boy from the Treasury Department, who writes buck to Washington telling ot the vast amounts of money tliat he could get if lie would only join teams witli the revenue officers. This gentleman further says the only remedy that now seem* possible is to send a Congressional committee of investiga tion to New Orleans, with power to examine fully into the alleged frauds and corruptions. From all the information we have been able to obtain, tho above is not an exaggeration of the frauds which have been carried on by Government officials since the Federal occupation of New Orleans. This “gentleman” to whom this corres|unid<'iit alludes, ha* made no new discovery. As he —■■!■ 11 says, these wholesale frauds extend back for years and amount to many millions. Absolutely, there seems. to be no means of bringing these fashion able thieves tojustice—they are abund antly able to purchase all of her offi cers. The Government’s experience in making removals has been that a set of surfeited rascals go out and another set come in. The proposition to send a Congressional Committee to investigate the matter is simply a trick to .allow several “fast” Congressmen to spend a few weeks iu New Orleans at the expense of the country. At the end of their spree they would make a voluminous report, in which they would declare the Government had been defrauded of millions; but they would not propose any plan to recover one dollar of the stolen funds. It is stated that General ’Grant declares he will break up thege rings if .he has to fill all the officcswfith army officers. It is doubtful whether this plan would produce the desired result. It is a notorious fact that many of the biggest Government thieves served their apprenticeship in the army during the war. There is a plan by which General Grant can fill the offices with faithful men, and that is in no instance to appoint any applicant endorsed by any politician that hangs round Washing ton and makes a living by selling his supposed influence. Most of the ap pointments to fat offices since the war have been secured by bribing these lobbyists, and it may be set down as morally certain that the man who will buy an office will rob the Government to get his money lack. Let General Grant reject all such applicants, and he will have honest subordinates; otherwise, not. Interesting Statement of the Savings of Freedmen. The following table shows the total amount of deposits made by freedmen in the National Savings Bank on the Ist of December, 1867, jmd on the Ist of December, 1868. The exhibit is very creditable to the colored popu ation: BRANCHES. DBC. 1, ’B7. DKC. 1, '6B. Augustasl2,47o.l6 $16,533.99 Baltimore 46,771.44 ■ 74,738.21 Beaufort 48,618.00 77,726.80 Charleston 47,911.66 75,7*7.54 Huntsville 4,506.46 9,906.17 Jacksonville 20,181.73 20,957.15 Louisville *7,659.42 73,456.56 Martinsburg 00.00 632.63 Macon 00.00 1,437.08 Memphis 18,673.83 32,793.78 Mobile 29,666.87 35,811.96 Nashville 27,433.04 45,218.45 Newberno 12,800.57 22,771.48 New Orleans 51,181.44 58,768.05 New York 18,928.89 20,867.96 Norfolk 35,101.96 46,901.58 Raleigh 00.00 6,953.51 Richmond 11,598.28 19,612.10 Savannah 27,903.39 43,093.34 St. Louis 0.000 9,022.73 Tallahassee 9,888.54 12,738.29 Vicksburg 14,138.21 101,850.60 Washington 58,959.38 115,495.53 Wilmington 2,153.13 6,553.72 556,673.31 932,889.21 —> Disgraceful.—lt is authoritatively stated that the frank of John Lynch, a member of Congress, is being used to pass bags full of New York weekly Five bags of them were ' received at Cincinnati on Tuesday last. A stamp was used, and it is pos -1 sible that Mr. Lynch was ignorant of the wholesale fraud. Rough Currying.—The Atlanta Constitution curr»«» « <?ue “U. G. Jrauxii;,” who figured in Georgia during the war, for writing a rank Radical letter for the New York Independent. Mr. Peabody’s Latest Gift. The London papers of the 7th iqst., publish the following communication from Mr. Peabody to his Trustees : London, December 5,1867. My Lord and Gentlemen:— l ac quaint j'ou who have so kindly undertaken tnc management of the fund set apart under •my second deed of gift of the 19th of April, 181 JG. for the benefit of the poor of London audits vicinity, that in pursuance of an in tention which I have entertained since the creation of that fund, I am desirous now of adding to it a further sum of £IOO,OOO. In comtcmplation of this 1 purchased, about three years ago, a tract of freehold building land, of about fifteen acres in ex tent, at Brixton, near the city of London School, easily accessible, and witliin a few minutes’ walk of frequent trains to and from London. This land has incrertsed in value, and can now be let on building leases of eighty years at rents producing about eight per cent, per annum on the cost, wliich is £111,285, 17s. 3d. Tiiis land 1 propose to con vey to vou with the same powers as are con ferred by the deed over the other property of tiiis trust, and with discretion to you either to deal with it as a source of income by let ting it, or any portion of it, on lease; or, should you deem it expedient, to retain it in your own bands as sites for dwellings to be erected by the trust Pursuant to my letter of the 29th of Jan uary, 1866, 1 transferred to you, subject to u contingency therein explained, 5,000 shares in the Hudson’s Bay Company, which ac cordingly stand in your names, together with 642 additional sliares purchased by tlie re-in vestment of tbe accruing incoming of the previous 5,000. These 5,642 shares 1 have since redeemed, conformably to the deed of tlie 19th of April, 1866, by ’the payment of £looiooo on the first ot February last. I have now to acquaint you tliat it is my in tention, so soon as the necessary deeds can be prepared, to hand the shares over to you, to be retained or dealt with according to your best judgment and discretion. The price of these sliares sliall be fixed on the 17th instant Exchange sales on tliat day, when I will hand to you a check for the lialance, to make the gift a cash value of £IOO,OOO. Tiiis amount will increase my former du nation of the second trust to £200,000, and, including mv gift under tlie First Trust in March, 1802, of £150,000, a total of £3-50.000. 1 trust you will see manifested in this further donation an expression of my en tire satisfaction with the manner in which yon have conducted the affairs of the trust. I am, with great respect. Your humble servant, George Peabody. To the Right H<>n Ixird Htanley, M P., tUluinnuin. Ilis Excelhmcy, ItoverdyJohn -j>n, (United Stales Minister), Bir Curtis M. tampaon, Bart, Hir James Emerson Tennenl, Hart., J. R. .Morgan, Esq. SPECIAL MOTICES. AND TKKAS ÜBER'S NOTICE. -Merchant,. Factors, C..n tractor*, and nil oilier penwto* reqtflrcd by the City Ordinance* to make qnarteily return* on the Kron sale* and reetipta, and pay the tax npon the name, are hereby notified that such retnrna and payment* for the quarter ending 31st Oeceuiber, 1868, must be paid ou or before the Iffiii day of January next. And all licenses (Dray and Retail license excepted) expfre on Slat December. 1868, and the came must be renewed on or before the 10th of January next. All arrearages for Uxe* charged on the digest for 1808 must be paid on or before the 10th day of January next,or they will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff with ItYper cent, added thereto.* I. P. GARVIN, Col. & Trees. Dec. 31, 1868. decol- It aerdftDINARY’S OFFICE, AU- GUSTA, GA., December 31st, 1868.- The Hoard of Education for Richmond county will meet al the Ordinary’s Office, at 3 o’clock p. m., on the second Saturday in January, February and March' for Uie purpose of renewing certificates and examing teachers for the ensuing year. H. W- HILLIARD, Coniniis’r. SAMUEL LEVY, Ordinary. dec3l-2am3m Assistant SorxmNTKNDENT’s Office,) GEORGIA RAILROAD, - Augusta, Ga., December 24th, 1868.) TO THE Georgia Conference of Colored Preachers, to be held in Augusta, January Cth, will be passed free returning, on presentation of certificate of mem bership from the presiding officer of Conference. 8. K. JOHNSON, de2s—td Ass’t Snp’t. Mayor’s Office, at City Hall, 1 Avgusta, December 5, 1868. J On and after Monday, the 7th inst., my office hours will be from 3J p. m., to 5 p. m., and all citizens haring official business with me will cal at the Mayor's office during those hours, and not at my place of business. 11. F. RUSSELL, dec6—tf Mayor C. A. . M . - ASS’T SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE, 1 Gecbkiia Railkoad, V Augusta, Ga., November 14th, 1868. ) 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. m. Returning, arriving at Wash ington at 3:20, a. m. 8. K. JOHNSON, nov!s—tf Assistant Superintendent. LOST ! Bank book no. 349, belonging to CHARLES TOOLE. Plehse retard it to the National Freedman’s Savings and Trust Com pany. D. A. BITTER, dec29 — Cashier. Notice. I HAVE THIS DAY SOLD OUT MY entire stock in the Book, News and Sta tionery Business to DANIEL QUINN, who is authorized to settle up the business of the old firm at this place. PATRICK QUINN. Having purchased the stock and interest of Mr. P. QUINN in the Book, News and Stationery Business, I will continue ' the same in all its branches, and solicit a con j timjance of the patronage so liberally extended to ' my predecessor. 1 dec29—6 DANIEL QUINN. 1— ; Proposals. * Augusta, Ga , Dec. 29,1868. J PROPOSALS FOs KEEPING CLEAN, i A and in good order mid condition, the streets, , drains and crossings of thto city for twenjw-jpouths, ’ will be received by the undersigned until noon, January 9th, 1869. ' Bona, with good security, will lie required tor ’ the faithful performance of the work. 2 The live and other stock and utensils belonging - to the city may be purchased at reasonable prices. I The privilege reserved to acccept any or reject all proposals J. V. 11. ALLEN, i Ch’n Com. on Streets and Drains. dec29—td Pressman Wanted, At this office, one who is well qualified to take charge of and run an , Adam’s Platen, Hoe’s Railroad, Potter’s Cylin der, Gordon’s Jobbers, two styles; Davis’Oscil - lator, Babcock’s Card Press, etc., etc., can obtain ~ a good and permanent situation. 1 None but a first-rate workman need apply. Address H- PUGHE, d e 22 A * I Make your statu and Comity Tax Returns. 1 AT 01 ’ 101 ' 18 HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL ; 1' parties concerned that, for the purpose of giving them an opportunity of making said re turns in accordance with the law, I shall attend at. the store of Armstrong A Kelly, from 10 a. m. to 2p. m., from Monday the Bth instant until the closing of tiie digest—Saturdays excepted—on which days I shall attend at the Court Grounds , of the County Districts, on their respective Court days. All persons who have made their returns 1 to Jahn B. Vaughn must see that they are in ac cordance with the law, and will have to call on me at once for that purpose. MATTHEW SIIERON, ■ l< , c~.. l ii—tf Tax Receiver, R. C. IYSIRAME rpHE SUBSCRIBER IS THE AGENT OF A the following well known responsible Com panies, representing a paid-up capita! and surplus of more than $10,000,000 —viz: 2Etna Insurance Company, « Hartford, Conn. Phoenix Insurance Company, Hartford, Conn. Howard Insurance Company, New York Manhattan Insurance Company, New York Standard Insurance Company, New York. Astor Insurance Company, New York Commerce Insurance Company, New York. Fireman's Insurance Company, New York. Lamar Insurance Company, New York Commercial Insurance Company, Aew York. Mercantile Insurance Company, New York Phenix Insurance Company, New York The ASTNA, of Hartford, the HOWARD. MANHATTAN nod FIREMAN'S. of New York, were chartered near a hall century since, and are known as among the best and meet snbslantial Companies in the United States, as are the other Companies named with them i can insure *loo.oooon Cotton. in any one of oar Warehouses, and |*o.th«ton Cotton in a Rood Steamer, from Savannah or Charleston to New York, or other Northern Porta. k>MMW equitably adjusted and promptly paid. Tlie patronage of the pnblie )« reaper tt til I v so Mted. -i j ocUW—ini W«t. SHEAR. Agent I Aitacdra.OrtoUrTf, !«•». NKW ADVERTISEMENTS. Theatre-Concert Hall! . LdMaand Manager—.lNO. TEMPLETON. f.A s7’ ,VZG'7/K— POAITI I 'E. ♦♦*■ i LhM Time oi’llie <>rcn* New York NurccMM, UNDER THE GASLIGHT! I BT THE GREAT COMPANY! THURSDAY. DECEMBER 31st. Iteal Hail Road, ENGINE AND C.YKNt MAN ON T ii*E TRACK! IMMENSE .1 TI'RAC TION! < ♦ ♦> TICKETS TO-DAY, DECEMBER 31st! ONLY CHANCE! dcc3l—l ' UNITED STATES MARSHAL'S SALE. UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF WRIT OF a writ of fieri facias, issued out of the Honor able the Fifth Circuit Court of the United States* foi the Southern District of Georgia, in favor of the plaintiff, Wm. Richards, in the following case, to wit: Wm. Richards vs Wm. A. Baker. I have levied upon as tlie property of Wm. A. Baker six open carriages, two close carriages, three otpnibusses, three baggage wagons, five buggies, nine sets carriage harness, two sets double buggy harness, three sets single buggy harness, four sets stage Itarnees, two sets baggage wagon harness, mid twenty two head of horses; and will sell the same at public auction, at the stable of Wm. A. Baker, on State street, between Whitaker and Bull, in the city of Savannah, county of Chatham and State of Georgia, on the Bth day of January, 186#, between the lawful hours of sale. Terms cash. Property pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney. Dated at Savannah, Ga . Dec. 29,1868. WM. G. DICKSON, dec3l—7t U. 8. Marshal. UNITED STATES MARSHAL’S SALE. UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A WRIT of fieri facias, issued out of the Honorable the Fifth Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia, in favor of the plaintiffs, Clark, West & Co,, in the following case, to wit : Clark, West & Co. vs. Henry H Hodges, John I, Hodges, and Wm. R. Mathis. I have levied upon, us the property of Henry 11. Hodges, all that lot or parcel of laud containing 280 acres, more or less, together with all the im provements thereon, situate, lying and being near Union, in the county of Stewart and State of Georgia (number and district unknown), known as the place on which the defendant, Henry 11. Hodges now resides; and will sell the same at Sublic auction, at the Court House in the city of lacon, county of Bibb and Stalo of Georgia, on the first, Tuesday in February next, between the lawful hours of sale. Terms cash. Property pointed out by plaintiffs attorneys Dated at Savannah, Ga., Dec. 29,1868. WM. G. DICKSON, dec3l -law4w J U. S. Marshal. UNITED STATES MARSH AL'S SALE. UNDER AND BY ’ VIRTUE OF A WRIT of a fieri facias, issued out of the Honorable the Fifth Circuit Court of United States for the Southern District of Georgia, in favor of the plaintills, Cahart & Bro., in*the following case, to-wit; Cahart & Brother vs. Edwin P Jones. I have levied upon, As the property el Edwin P. Jones, all that half let or parcel land, together with the improvements thereon, aßpate, lying and being on Residence street, in the ciqp of Albany, county of Dougherty andjitateof Ga., and known in the' plan of the city as lot No. 17, owned by E. T. Jones, and occupied by Mrs. L. G. McMath on September llth, 1868; and will sell the same at public auction, at the Court House in the city ot Macon, county of Bibb and State of Georgia, on the First Tuesday in February next, between the lawful horns of sale. . . Terms cash. Property pointed outl>y plaintiff’s attorney. Dated at Savannah, Ga , Dec. 28, 1868. WM.G. DICKSON, decJi law Iw U. S. Marshal. IN BANKRUPTCY. THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the 11th day of December, A. D., 1868, a War ’ rant in Bankruptcy was issued against the es tate of JOHN If. GILBERT, of Lumpkin, county of Stewart, and State of Georgia, whohave been adjudged Bankrupts ou their own petition;andthatthe payment of anydebts and delivery of any property belonging to said Bankrupt,to them or for their use, and the transfer of any property by. them. are forbidden by law; that a meeting of the creditors of the said Bank rupts, to prove their debts, and to choose one or more assignees of their estate, will be held at a 1 Court of Bankruptcy, to be liolden nt the office of Arthur Hood, in Cuthbert, Georgia, be fore F. S. Hesseltine, Esq., Register, on ■ the 28th day of January, A. D., 1869, at 4 o'clock P ' W. G. DICKSON, I .lecßl—lt U. 8. Pep. Marehnl a* Messenger. IN BANKRUPTCY. I>HIB IS TO GIVE” NOTICE : That on the . 11th day of December, 1868, a Warrant in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of C. A. WILLIS, of Morris’ Station, county of Quitman, and Slate of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on bis own petition; and that the pay rnent of any debts and delivery of any property belonging to said Bankrupt, to him or for his use, and the transfer of any property by him, are forbidden by law; that :i meeting of the creditors of said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or more assignees of his estate, will bo held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be holden at the law office of Arthur flood, in Cuthert, Georgia, before F. S. Hesseltine, Register, ou the 28th day of January, A. D., 1869, at 1 o’clock p. in. W. G. DICKSON, de3l—lt U. S. Dep. Marshal, as Messenger. IN BANKRUPTCY. frillS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That on the _L llth day ot December, A.D. 1868, a Warrant in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of GEO. M. T. PERRYMAN, 1 in the county of Randolph, and State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on his own petition, and that the payment of any debts, and delivery of any property belonging to such Bankrupt, to him, or for his use, and the transfer of any property by him, arc forbidden by law ; that a meeting of the creditors of the said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, aud to choose one or more Assig nees of his estate, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be holden at the law office of Arthur Hood, in Cuthbert, Ga., before Frank 8. Hesseltine, Esq., Register, on the 28th day of January, A. D. -1868, at 4 o l elock p. m. WM. G. DICKSON, doc3l—lt U.S. Dep. Marshal as Messenger. IN BANKRUPTCY. riIHIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That ou the A 11th day of December, A. D. 1868, a War rant in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of ~~ J NO. M. L. RANDLE, of Lumpkin, in the county of Stewart, and State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on his own petition, and that the payment of any debts, and delivery of any property belonging to such Bankrupt, to him, or for his use, and the transfer of any property by him, are forbidden by law; that a meeting of the creditors of the said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or wore Assig nees of bis estate, will be held at u Court of Bankruptcy, to be holden at the law office of Arthur Hood, in Cuthbert, Ga, before F. 8. Hesseltine, Register, on the 28th day of Janu ary, A. D , 1869, at 4 o’clock p. in. WM. G. DICKSON, decal—lt U. 8. Dep. Marshalas Messenger. IN BANKRUPTCY. THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: Thai on the 11th day of December, A. D. 1868, a Warrant in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate* of THOMAS P. DAVISON, of Cuthbert, in the county of Randolph, and State of Georgia, who has been adjudged Bankrupt on his own petition, aud that the payment of any debts, and delivery ol any property belonging to such Bankrupt, to hiu, or lor his use, aud the transfer of any property by him, are forbidden by law : that a meeting ot the creditors of said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or more j Uslg necs or his estate, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, lie hidden at the law oilice of Arthur Hood, iu Cuthbert, Georgia, be tore F. S HcsMiltini*. Esq., Register, on the Mtli day of January, A. !>., IBW', al f o’clock p. tn. W. <l. DICKSON, de.'il—lt U. B Dcp. Marsh*! as .Messenger. MHW ADVIRTIBIMENTB IN IHE DISTHICI f . rl<l •UX for s ' ,ut,, ' rn “ In th* patter of ) NEUcST SHUTT, Gn Ba. M . urTcr , BaakapL ) n - The said ItotJcrapt having Ulo c fora .luwlmrget'X.ijiaU In. d,|.t, proval.l,, nmj,! be Bankrupt Act of Maul, ;,|, uu.; Illltl( .,. J hcrebv given to all |H-rsomi Inlet eated to u .,,„ the 2t,tb day of January, I8(,q. u t 10o’clwk n . at rhauilmra of lh* aaid District Court li’ tore Frank 8. Hesacltiae, E«;, ou. of the Re' "«>«* Court in Bankruptcy at the office of Hinea fc Hobbs. Albany. Georafe . i d show eimae why tlie prayer of lb. aatf p£ rt ’ 011 “ the llaiumipt should not be granted. And lurth,., notiM 1* given that the second and thin meetings of creditors will be held at the same time and place. 1 Dated at Savannah, Ga .Ahis 20th day of Dr cember, 1868. JAS. McPHERSON .... I’i.-ik TN the DISTRICT COURT o/’thf A United States for the Southern District ot Georgia. In the matter of 1 H. H. SUTTON, - W BANKRUPTCY Bankrupt. ) No. 384. The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all hfa debts prova ble under the Bankrupt Act of Match 2d 1867 notice is hereby given to all persons interested to appear on the 25th day of January 186't at 10 o'clock a. m., at chambers of said DistiictCourt,beforeF. B.Hesseltine,Esq one of the Registers of the said Cqurt in Bank ruptcy, at the office of King & Branham, Fort Valley, Ga., and show cause whv the prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt should not be granted. And further notice is hereby given that the second and third meetings of creditors will be held at tha same time and place. Dated at Savannah, Ga., this 29th day of De cember, 1868. 3 . JAS. McPHERSON, dec3l—lt Clerk. IN THE DISTRICT COURT 01? THE UNITED Slates for the Southern District of Georgia. In the matter of | P. L. MIZE, | jIN BANKRUPTCY. Bankrupts. J No. 262. The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all his debts provable under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is hereby given to all persons interested to appear outhe2Btbday of January, 1869, at lOo’clockal m., at Chambers of said District, Court, before F. 8. Hesseltine, Esq., one of the Registers oXsaid Oourt in Bankrtfficy, at the office of Arthur ‘ HOod, Cuthbert, Ga., and show cause whv the PMiye» of the Slid petitiemof the Bankrupt should not be granted. And fiirtlisr notice is given that the second mid third meetings of creditors will be held at the same time and place. Dated at Savannah, Ga., this 29th day of De cember, 1868. • JAMES McPHERSON deo3l—lt Clerk. IN. THE DISTRICT COURT OT THE A United State* for the Southern District of Georgia. In the matter of ) JA. GLENN, [IN BANKRUPTCY Bankrupt. ) No. 229. The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from alHheir debts prova . bit: under the Bankrupt Act. of March 2d, 1867, notice is hereby given to all persons interested to appear on the 28th day of January, 1869, at 10 o’clock a. in., at chambers of said District Court, before F. 8. Hesseltine, Esq,, one of the Registers of said Court in Bankruptcy, at the office of Arthur Hood, Cuthbert, Georgia, and show cause why the prayer of the said pc trtion of the Bankrupt should not be granted. And further notice is given that the second and third meetings of creditors will be held at the same time and place. Dated at Savannah, Ga., this29th day of De cember, 1868. JAMES McPHERSON, dcc3l—lt Clerk. TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE I. United States for the Southern District of Georgia. In the matter of 1 W. R. W. YOUNGBLOOD !• IN BANKRUPTCY. Bankrupt. ) ’73. , The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all bis debts prova ble under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is hereby given to all persons interested tojappear on the 14th day of January, 1869, at 10 o’clock a. m., at chambers of said District Court, before Lawson Black, lisq., one of the Registers of said Court ip Bank ruptcy, at his office at Newnan, Georgia, and show cause why the prayer of the said petition ! of the Bankrupt should not be granted. And further notice is given that the second and third meetings of creditors will be held fit the same time and place. Dated at Savannah, Ga., this 29th day of Dc ’ cember, 1868. JAMES McPHERSON, ; dec3l—lt Clerk- IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE United States for the Southern District of Georgia. In the matter of ) WM. H. HOWARD, VIN BANKRUPTCY Bankrupt. J No. 68. The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all his debts prove-* ! ble under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice Is hereby given to all persons interested to appear on the llth day of January, 1869, at iff o’clock a. m., at chambers of the said District Court, before Lawson Black, Esq., one of the Registers of the said Court in Bank ruptcy, at liis office at Newnan, Georgia, aud show cause why the prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt should not be granted. And further notice is given that the second and third meetings of creditors will be held at the same time and place. Dated at Savannah, Ga., this 29th day of De cember, 1868. JAMES McPHERSON, dec3l—lt Clerk. TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE .1 United States f»r the Southern District of Georgia. In the matter of )IN BANKRUPTCY'. JOS. C. BASKIN, [ Bankrupt. J No. 135. The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all his debts prova ble under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is hereby given to all persons interested to appear on the 2otli day of January. 1869, at 10 ’o’clock a. m., at Chambers of said District Court, before F. 8. Hesseltine, Esq., one of the Registers of the said Court in Bankruptcy, at the office of King & Branham, Fort Valley, Ga,, and show cause why the prayer of the said petition of the Bankrupt should not be granted. And furthernoticc is given that the second and third meetings of creditors will be held at the same time and place. Dated at Savannah, Ga., this 29th day of Decem ber, 1868. JAMES McPHERSON, dec»l—lt cle L k L. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED States for the Southern District of Georgia. In the matter of ) MERRICK BARNES, )IN BANKRUPTCY Bankrupt. J No. 140. The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all hi:} debts prova ble under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, Dab, notice is hereby given to all persons interested to appear on the 26th day of Januaiy, 1869, at jo o’clock a. in., at chambers of said District Court, before F. 8. Hesseltine, Esq., one of the Registers of the said Court in Bankruptcy,at the law office of Hines A Hobbs, Albany, Ga, and show cause why the prayer of the said petition ot the Bankrupt should not bo granted. Dated at Savannah, Ga., this 29th day of December, 1868. JAMES McPHERSON, de3l—lt C lerk - IN THE DISTRICT COUkT OF THE United States for the Southern District <? Georgia. . In the matter of [ H. C. DASHER, F Is Baskbuptct. Bankrupt. I No. 1-8. The said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court for a discharge from all his debts prova ble under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, lw<, notice Is hereby given to all persons interested to appear on the 26th day of January, 186», 1 10 o'clock a. m., at chambers of said District, Court, before F. 8. Hesseltine, Esq., one oi the Registers of said Court in Bankruptcy, at the law office of Hines A Hobbs, Alabany, Ga., anti show cause why the prayer of the said pct tion of the Bankrupt should not be grantto- And further notice Is given t bat the second a third meetings of creditors will be held at tut same time and place. n . Dated at Savannah, Ga., this day cember, 1868. jAlflti McPHERSON, d«JI— lt __ Clerx Northern district op Georgia— Jefferson, Ga., December l‘J, 1868. ~ The undesigned hereby give* notice ot ni appointment a* A*.i S n*. vs ALKXAN ’’ HtIELOB, of ,in the county of Jackson, ■ State of Georgia, within s.lii Di.Jnct, who h*» been adjudged * D**kruf< »P<”' 1 tion bv the Dhtrlct Court of Mid Di«‘ r " • ~ D.teltbM!.* l^d.yotDww-^ ; P. d*22--|»«3w A«»lgnM, «t’•