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jULLEDGEVI L E E
TUESDAY APRIL 9, 1861.
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED.
Tin- State Convention* of Alabama, Georgia
Louisiana, Texas Mississippi, and South Carolina,
lutvinjr ratified the permanent Constitution of the
Confederate States, the same is now established
H s the Supreme law of the land, even should
Florida decline acceeding to it, of which, lioxv-
, vi-r, we have no apprehension.
While we recognise the people as the legitimate
source of power in a representative government
like ours, we are not disposed to join in the attacks
made by some of the public journals South, on
tlm Conventions which elected Deputies to the
Southern Congress, by whom the Provisional Gov
ernment was framed and carried into operation,
and who also, with elaborate care and admitted
sagacity, prepared a permanent Constitution for
tl„- Confederacy—all resulting from the election of
delegates by the people to their respective State
Conventions to determine on the course best for the
siaveholdiug States, after the election of a Black
Republican President. Thus called upon hv the
State Legislatures, the people did not hesitate to
exercise the rights of sovereignty, and at ouce con-
lided their interests to delegates who w ielded para
mount authority as the occasion demanded, and
tv ho, in the name of the people, dissolved the Un
ion under w hich they were aggrieved, and formed
another butter suited to their peculiar circumstances,
la this w hole proceeding, the people in their pri
mary relations to the body politic, have bad no
voice, except such as their delegates took for
grained, from the necessity of the case. Great
dangers require bold action, of which we have a
decided example in the Southern Government.—
As Napoleon overwhelmed his foes by the rapidity
of his movements, to the rejection of old methods
of warfare, so we of the South have bewildered
the Black Republican administration, against
which we declared hostilities at Savannah on the
night after the election in November. “ All’s well
that ends well,” in spite of refined quibbling.
WAR VESSELS—ENGLAND AND FRANCE.
What reliance is to he placed in the rumor, we
do not undertake to say ; hut the X. V. papers, on
the authority of a letter from Paris, mention the
fact that the French and English Governments are
lilting out powerful war steamers for the United
States, at the suggestion of England. France is
to furnish three first-class frigates. The English
contingent will perhaps be large. The fleet sails
with sealed orders.
Public credulity has been so innch taxed of late
hy sensation mongers, that we are inclined to sus
pect the authenticity of this intelligence. We can
not imagine any reason why the two leading pow
ers of Europe should join their fleets in such an
expedition, when there is no possible result to be
accomplished to their advantage on the American
diores. We have no idea that a spirit of conquest
unheralded hy any declaration of war, actuates
England or France toward either the United States
or the Southern Confederacy. We have no fears
from any quarter.
U. S. OFFICE-HOLDERS SOUTH.
I lw most remarkable instance that has come to
our knowledge, of Southern tenacity for office, is
tlut of the Hon. Gkorgk W. Lane, who has been
appointed by President Lincoln. Judge of the Uni
t'd States Court for the Northern and Southern Dis
tricts of Alabama. It is said that he will attempt
to hold his Court at Athens ; but xve presume that
it will be nothing more than an attempt, so far as ju
risdiction may be claimed by virtue of his office. In
0n<> tldug, however, Judge Lane will succeed most
vtlcctually, and that is in disgracing himself in the
estimation of honorable men. We care nothing for
his talents or for his reputation hitherto,—we have
no desire to pry into cither. The people of the
.Smith have littered judgment, and that man who
'Mies it, will be sure of the contempt which never
fails t" overwhelm imbecility or treason in high
I'.aces. Judge Lane was ouce a Judge of the Cir
cuit Court of Alabama, and it is mortifying to liis
Southern fellow citizens to see him fall so loving
ly into the embrace of our abolition enemies.
A e are also pained to see that Willie P. Man-
'■klm Jr., of North Carolina has received the ap
pointment of U. S. Consul to Ningpo, whose place
hi the map of the world, xve have not taken the
trouble to ascertain. Ningpo maybe a respccta-
commercial town or district, across the ocean,
md the cilice may afford honor with the salary ;
bnt we deem it a very small Inducement for a
Southern man, especially one bearing so honored a
name, to compromise his sectional pride and so-
bai instincts by accepting office of any kino, great
small, from a Black Republican President. We
fee! something like personal regret to find such a
name as Willie 1’. Mangrnm, which used to shine
s0 brilliantly in the days of Clay and the Whig
P : wty, now associated with sectional fanatics who
proclaimed war upon tiie South in their platform,
; inj by their persevering efforts in every shape
tl'it human malignity can invent. We have not
weii it stated, however, that Mr. Mangum will
am ‘pt the office. There is at least some oonsola-
tiun in the uncertainty.
NEW TERRITORIES.
At its late session, the Congress of the United
states passed acts for the organization of three nexv
brritoties—Docotah, Nevada, and Colorado, for
"lath the President, with the advice and consent
"t the Senate, has appointed the necessary officers.
" e presume that it will be many years before these
territories will have a population sufficient to nu-
'ui'iise their admission into the Union as States,
then- is no telling, however, what rule maybe
adopted by the majority in Congress, as alt fixed
P r "icip,rs are laid aside, and tin- policy of couven-
n nee lias been substituted to meet the exigencies
J the hour. We infer that such is the necesary
l l " "i progress—that wisdom comes from experi-
. and that all innovations will unfold latent
'-""'l to satisfy the wants of mankind. At least,
'bis view of matters will reconcile us to the difli-
‘ultivs through which we are called to pass in our
pnlitical condition, and perhaps is the most clicer-
' l 'pcct in which life should be viewed.
^difficulties of recognition.
llll ‘ s ouihem Commissioners at Washington
llJ wait patiently for the Cabinet decision
subject of recogrrtsing, or refusing to recog-
! *be govefumerit of tbc Confederate States.—
have regarded the dilatory and vaeiiiatiug
'"iirsi- of Air. Lincoln as a symptom of weakness
j 11 bis counsels, in regard to the Southern Forts;
l"‘rkaps this opinion xvoiild be modified if we
""" the intrinsic embarrassments which belong
“ 'be question, and to winch Mr. gTEMICKS in
' l!> s perch at Savannah thus alluded:
r,... I by President seems to think that lie caunot
1 - "glaze our independence, nor can he, with and
- 'be advice of the Senate, do so.”
Heie we have the difficulty admitted by our Vice
r ‘*ident, with the qualification elsewhere in the
i“" h, that the Congress of the United States
“‘'r-U. consent to the separation, and recognise the
"I'i'Cru Confederacy. This course he suggested
'be most peaceful, aud as the. safest and wisest
uuiMruction of the organic law. We refer to it
113 distinctly to apprise our readers of the obsta-
* 65 'o be overcome.
“ THE SOUTHERN FINANCES."
Under this head, the Washington correspondent
of the Baltimore American, says:
I he tidings from the “ Confederate States of A-
mcriea” forbodc trouble rathe military chest, from
au unw illingness or inability of the people to take
up the fifteen million loan. The unstable ground
on which the Confederacy has been built, acknowl
edging t!i« right of States to secede at. pleasure and
destroy the Government lias tightened the purse
strings of capitalists, and the people who have the
w ill to subscribe find their private affairs so involv
ed in the prostration of all manner of business that
they cannot attempt to make permanent invest
ments. It is also well known that tbc great mass
of the men ot wealth in the Seceded States were
opposed to Secession, aud still look forward to a
hope of reconstruction, hence it is not to be expec
ted that they will be very liberal in their contribu
tions. Tin- visit of Mr. Forsyth to New York Is
said to be in the hope of making some arrangc-mcut
with the capitalists of that city.
We do not suppose that the writer of the above
paragraph designed to do injustice to the Southern
Confederacy by his speculations on the future ; but
we feel convinced that his reasoning is defective,
and as such deserves exposure. In the first place,
there has been no opportunity to test the financial
credit of the Confederate States, as subscriptions
fora third of the tri5,000,0l'ft loan, authorized by
Congress, will not be opened until 17th inst., as
will be seen by the public advertisements. The aid
already furnished has beeu purely of a voluutarv
character, not in response to any offer in the mar
ket of Treasury obligations.
We think it also very possible that the writer in
the American, however usually accurate his infor
mation in regard to Washington affairs, totally
misapprehends the feelings of Southern capitalists
when he ascribes to them a distrust of the stabili
ty of the .Southern Government, because the doc
trine of secession is admitted in its fundamental
law. This, lie asserts, will render the security af
forded by the public revenue, and by tin- plighted
faith of the Confederacy, too precarious for the in
vestment of large sums, as any State, or number of
States, dissatisfied, may withdraw from the part,
nership. This, at least, is the scope of the objec
tion.
We likewise deny that there is any prostration
of Southern interests resulting from the new Gov
ernment, w hich is not altogether temporary in its
nature, and will not soon be removed by the pro
ductive energies of the South. Whoever predicts
or believes the contrary shows cither a limited
knowledge of the commercial laws of supply and
demand, or a disposition to frame pictures in which-
darkness rather than light, error rather than truth,
shall prevail with disagreeable supremacy.
SELF-ELECTIONS.
When the Georgia Convention elected seven of
its own members us u part of the ten deputies to
represent the State in the Southern Congress, there
was complaint in certain quarters, that the Con
vention had manifested no little selfishness in thus
monopolising public honors within its bestowal.—
For our part, though the action of that body seem
ed to justify the criticism, we believed the selections
to have been demanded by the nature of the case,
and we arc still of that opinion. Where could sev
en gentlemen be found in Georgia better qualified
for tin- post than Messrs. Toombs, Bartow, Nisbet,
Hill, T. R. R. Cobb, Kenan and Stephens ? We
have no hesitancy in saying, that it was by far the
ablest delegation in the Congress at Montgomery.
From a stroke of pleasantry in the House of Rep
resentatives of Louisiana, in the form of resolu
tions offered by Mr Bradley, it appears that the
same fault-finding spirit prevails there, though in
a complimentary disguise aa follows :
Iti it resolved, That it is the sense of this House
that the Convention now sitting in New Orleans
be required to re-district this State with six Con
gressional districts, which shall not be changed so
long as the State of Louisiana remains a member
of the Confederate States of America.
Be. it further resolccd, That they he requested to
elect six Congressmen and two Senators: Provid
ed. That such-persons so elected he chosen from
among the delegates now sitting in said Conven
tion.
Be it further resolved, That to relieve the said
Convention from the modest embarrassment under
which they now labor, they are hereby authorized
and requested to constitute themselves into a per
petual legislative body, with full power in case of
vacancy, from any cause whatever, to choose their
successors: Provided, That no ordinance or legisla
tive enactment passed by the self-constituted body
shall he submitted to the people for their ratifica
tion or rejection.
Be it fa ether resolved, That the Speaker of the
House and the President of the Senate be request
ed to pack all the books, papers, and records of
both Houses, as well as the unfinished business,
and transmit them, immediately after the adjourn
ment of tiie General Assembly, to the President of
said Convention.
Pending discussion, and ou motion of the mem
ber from St Landry to layou the table, the House
adjourned to dinner.
“BOGUS” LETTERS.
We have long since been acquainted with the
fact, that many of the leading sensation papers at
the North have habitually imposed on the public a
variety of correspondence from all parts of tin-
world, which was written in the Editors rooms, on
some hint, or some newspaper paragraph, or, xvhat
was often the case, from a mixture of probabilty
and invention, thrown in the shape of a letter from
“ our special correspondent” in Kansas, at San
Francisco, at Pike’s Peak, at London, at Paris, at
St. Pctersburgh, at Holonliula, at St. Helena, at
the Orkney Isles, at Bherriug's straits, or in some
other remote corner of the earth. There was a pre
tension in all tills parade which gave the papers
assuming it a wide circulation and influence, just
as it xvas designed, without any regard for the
truth, outlie plan of the New York letter writers
from Washington, which has been lately exposed
by a Committee in Congress in the case of the
Southern members who had been charged with
abstracting “ books from the Library, Ac.”
Within the last two months, the New York Tri
bune and World, have professed to have a corres
pondent at Charleston, giving details about Fort
Sumter, the policy of the Confederate States, and
the arrival of President Duris to superintend the
military operations against the Fort. The whole
of this was fabricated to make the papers spicey
and to show enterprise, and is thus noticed by the
Charleston Courier :
We were reluctant for a while, to believe that
even the Now York Tribune xvoiild enqourage such
systematic fraud aud deception, but the evidence
of observation and comparison, and tin* repeated
misstatements of its Charleston correspondent,
have convinced us and uiauy others, lhut cor
respondence has not been written in or near
Charleston, but as we believe in Washington.
We have no disposition to cast reproach where
it is unmerited, nor do we venture to include all the
Northern papers in the category of a false corres
pondence, such as that exposed at Charleston; but
we cannot refrain from expressing our satisfaction
that the Southern press has maintained its propri
ety unmoved by bogus bulletins, aud Northern
ambition to crvule astonishment !
OCONEE SHAD IN ALABAMA.
The Montgomery papers notice the taking of
shad in the Alabama River, as the result of the
transportation by Mr. GliSSKEU of Milledgeville,
several years ago, of some 1200 or 1500 young shad
from the Oconee. This singular euteiprise was
projected and carried out on scientific principles
hy the gentleman we have named, aud xve aie
glad to learn that an abundant supply ol this
choice table luxury, xvhich seems hitherto to have
beeu denied in all rivers emptying into the Gulf of
Mexico, has been realized from his praiseworthy
exertions. When our Alabama friends are enjoy
ing tlu-ir suiuplnous fare, in the shad line, we hope
they will not forget to w hose generosity they are
indebted. It affords us pleasure to record the suc
cess of the experiment.
LAWS OF 1860.
We are indebted to the courtesy of Messrs.
Boochton, Khwt A Baksei*, Slate Printers’ for
a copy of llic Laws passed by the General Assem
bly of Georgia, at the Session of 1 Stiff, forming a
neatly bound Pamphlet of tJGS pages, arranged by
Tomlinson Foiit, Esq . under Executive appoint
ment. The number of Acts is ‘Job, and Joint Res
olutions Hi, with a complete Index, attached.
From the N- 0. Bulletin.
FOREIGN COIN AS LEGAL TENDER.
We yesterday announced the gratifying intelli
gence, that the Congress of the Southern Confed
eracy had adopted au ordinance inakiug certain
toreign coins a legal tender. We were certified
that, such was the fact, aud we are now assured,
upon the authority of a member of Congress, that
we were correct. We are unable to give an exact
transcript of the ordinance as it passed, but we
feel very confident that the following draft was
either adopted substantially, or perhaps to the very
letter. Our estimable fellow citizen Edni. J. For-
stall, Esq., w ho is so well conversant with all mat
ters relating to the subject of finance, originated
the following act, and the remarks appended :
As Act.—Section 1. Be it, etc., That all laws
and parts of laws now in force for the regulation
of the Mint and Branch Mints of the United States,
and fertile government of the officers and persons
employed therein, and for the punishment of all
offenses connected xvith mint or coiuage of tiie
United States, shall be, aud they are hereby de
clared to be in full force in relation to the mints of
New Orleans and Dahlonega
Sec. 2. That.all laws now in force in reference
to the coins of the United Slates, and the striking
and coining the same, shall, as far as applicable,
have full force and effect in relation to the coins
therein authorized, whether the said laws are pe
nal or otherwise, and xvhether they are for pre
venting counterfeiting or debasement, for protect
ing the currency, for regulating and guarding the
process of striking and coining and the prepara
tions therefor, or for the security of the coin, or for
any other purpose.
See 3. That the silver coins issued in conform
ity with the law of the United States of 21st Feb
ruary and 3d March, 1853, shall be legal tenders
in payment of debts for all sums not exceeding
$ll>, all laws to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 4. That the following foreign gold coins
shall pass current as money within the Confede
rate States of America, and be receivable for the
payment of all debts and demands at the following
rates—that is to say : The pounds sterling of Eng
land of no less a weight than five penny-weights
and three grains, aud of the fineness of nine hun
dred fifteen and one half (9J54) thousandths, shall
be deemed equal to $4 82. The Napoleon of the
weight of four pennyweights three grains and one-
half (4 34). and of a fineness of not less than eight
hundred ninety-nine (899) thousandths, shall be
deemed equal to §3 82. The Spanish and Mexi
can doubloons of no less a weight than seventeen
pennyweights eight grains and one-lialf (17 84),
and of the fineness of not less than eight hundred
ninety-nine (899) thousandths shall be deemed
equal to $15 53.
Sec. b. That the following foreign silver coins
shall pass current within the Confederate States
of America, and be receivable in payment for all
debts and demands at the following rates—that is
to say : The American dollar (412£ grains,) and
the dollar of Mexico, of not less than eight hun
dred ninety-seven (897) thousandths in fineness
aud four hundred and fifteen (415) grains in weight
shall be deemed equal to 103 cents. The live
franc piece, of not less than nine hundred (900)
thousandths in fineness, aud three hundred eighty-
four (384) grains in weight, shall be deemed equal
to 9b cents.
REMARKS.
The Pounds Sterling Coins at our Branch
Mint. # 4 83 1-10
The Napoleon Sterling Coins at our
Branch Mint. J 83J
The Spanish and Mexican Doubloons
Branch Mint. 15 53
The Mexican Dollar at the Mint price
of $1 21 per oz. averages 1 05
The b Franc piece “ “ “ 95J
There cannot be the least reasonable objection
to giving currency to foreign coins at our own
Mint’s coinage value, whilst the advantage to both
government and commerce is obvious.
1. To Government it would save a “Bullion
Fund” the Government of the United States has
never been able to keep up to the great loss aud
annoyance of commerce.
2. To commerce it xvould save heavy interests
incurred during the operation of coinage, and the
loss in valuable coins for purposes of exchange
melted to meet a temporary money perturbation.
During the panic of 1857, which did not last one
month, Spanish doubloons, the currency of Ha
vana at $17, were melted and coined at the rate
of 15 53. During the last China war, Mexican
dollars were worth in London 5s 2Ad per oz of
the fineness of 697 thousandths, whilst Standard
Bar Silver (925) was selling at 5s J£d, being a dif
ference against the purer metal, and in favor of
the coin of 2 per cent.
But for the demoneytization of foreign coins by
the Government of the United States on the 21s”t
February, 1857, the run on the New Orleans banks
in October of the same year could not have taken
place or would have been immediately checked,
as they held in their vaults upwards of two mil
lions dollars in Spanish Doubloons and Mexican
Doilavs, as it was by the operation of the above
law.
This large sum was of no avail; a “ Dead
Weight,” the slow operation of coining could not
make available for the emergency. Foreign coins
generally come to our great produce market in
times of revulsions to buy our staple commodities
when regular exchanges are checked in their usu
al function, and when money is immediately want
ed to restore confidence ; hence the great advan
tage commerce would derive from such coins be
ing again made current, at their Mint coinage val
ue as now proposed.
Silver coins in England are legal tenders for all
payments not exceeding 40 shillings—say about
#9.6*.
These coins, by mintage regulations, are kept in
the country by the higher relative value given
them as against gold. In this country, France,
and most other countries, 1 portion of gold is rated
equal to 154 like portions of fine silver, or the rela
tive mintage values of silver to gold are 1 to Jb£
while in England they are as 1 to 14.287.
This mixed metalic currency adopted nearly
half a century ago by England, is proved to work
extremely well. The nation is supplied to the ex
tent of its wants with silver coins at full standard
(925) and weight for all its daily petty payments,
which it is certain to keep in the country, since
they have no value approximate to their English
current value in any other country.
Our small silver coins are also full standard (900)
in fineness, but arc made a fraction below 7 per
cent lighter than the standard weight of the A-
merican dollar (4124 grs,) whereby wc are certain
to keep these coins in the country, as in England,
although another mode, since they have no value
approximate to their American current value in
any other country. These coins are a legal tender
for payments not exceeding $5 dollars only—say
nearly 50 per cent, less than in England, where
this system has worked so well. It is now pro
posed to make them legal tcuders for payments
not exceeding $10. If this could be combined
with an impost by the Confederate States of 1 cent
per dollar on all paper money of the denomination
beloxv $20, the immediate effect would be to drive
out of circulation millions of paper money now in
the hands of the people, which would he replaced
hy a weil regulated and xvell guarded silver cur
rency, as above explained, and thU would ho the
most effectual remedy for those periodical money
panics creating runs upon our banks, and causing
perturbation in all branches of commerce and in
dustry.
According 4o a report to the Congress of the
United States, 1st January, 1860, the circulation
of paper money in the hanks of the United States
was then stated as follows:
Notes of $1
.. 8,000,000
$20.
..16,000,000
2..
..5,000,000
50..
.. 15,000,000
3.]
..4.000,000
100..
..19,000,000
5.
. 16,000,000
500..
..37,000,000
10..
..6,000,000
1000..
..32,000,000
39,000,000
5000..
.. .3,000,000
113,00*1,000
DEATH OF JUDGE THORNTON.
The lion. Hariiv I. Thornton xvas a native of
Kentucky, where he married a sister of the Hon
John J. Crittenden. Thence ho removed to Ala
bama, and held the office of U. 8. Attorney for the
Northern District. The Legislature elected him a
Judge of the Supreme Court, xvhich station ,he
tilled xvith eminent ability. In 1844 he xvas one
of the Vice Presidents of the Baltimore Convention
xvhich nominated Mr. Clay, and we see it stated by
some of our exchanges that had Mr. Clay been
elected President of 1 lie United States, he would
have offered a seat in his Cabinet to Judge Thorn
ton. Mr. Fillmore appointed him a Commissioner
of Laud Claims in California, which induced biui
to settle in that State. Previous to Ills removal
from Alabama, he was for many years a Senator in
the Legislature, and at the time of his death, some
weeks ago, he xvas a member of the California Sen
ate, in which he acted a distinguished part. Judge
Thorutxm xvas a dignified, Christian gentleman,
very agreeable in his manners, and has left a spot
less reputation to his family and friends.
Utr” VYc refer our readers to the card of Messrs.
Hanleiter <&■ Adair, proprietors of *• The Southern
Confederacy," published at Atlanta, aud take
pleasure in recommending their paper as worthy
of public support. - *
THE NEXT GOVERNOR
By geueral consent and from the necessity of the
caac, old party distinctions have beeu abandoned
in Georgia, in the more absorbing duty of sus
taining the Government adopted by the Confed
erate States. Old issues that divided the country
have become inapplicable to our 'new condition,
and hence we can unite with oar former political
rivaG m a labor of love and patriotism demanded
by the occasion, to uphold the fortunes of the
South.
The fact has not escaped our notice that several
gentlemen have already beeu suggested for the
office of Governor; and without expressing au
opinion on the merits of either, we respectfully
recommend that the candidate be selected from
that class of men who have not been prominently
identified of late years with any political organi
zation, whether of Whig, Democrat, American,
Southern Rights or Union. We have a number of
such gentlemen in Georgia xvell qualified for the
office, one of whom may be brought forward in
harmony, without any reference to party associa
tions. We indicate no particular name, and at
present merely declare what we conceive to be the
proper disposition to be made of the subject, to
promote uuion among ouselves aud the best inter
ests of tiie people of Georgia.
JUSTICES WAYNE AND CAMPBELL.
We have been expecting the resignations of the
Hon. James M. Wayne, of Georgia, and the Hon.
John A. Campbell, of Alabama, as Associate Jus
tices of the Supreme Court of the Uuited .States,
ou the ground that no citizen of the Coufcdeiate
.States cau retain an office so honorable and lucra
tive, while the Black Republican party has control
of the Government. It has beeu rumored several
times, that Justices Wayne and Campbell intend
ed speedily to resign, and to cast their fortunes
with their respectives State Governments, as their
pride of character dictated. But we learn that
they consider it advisable to remain on the Fede
ral Bench for a two-fold reason—first to prevent
vacancies xvhich would be filled by Black Repub
lican successors, and secondly to participate iu the
adjudication of any matter which may possibly
come before the Court touching the sovereignty ct’
the Confederate States, aud the character of the
Government which they have established. In this
light their conduct is greatly relieved from the pre
judice xv hich would otherwise attach to their names.
NO MOKE WANTED.
We are requested to state (upon authority) that
the tender of service, by the Volunteer companies
of Georgia, far exceeds the demand for troops to
Fort Pickens or elsewhere, and that until a further
requisition is made by the Executive, it is desired
that the several Volunteer Corps now in Commis
sion, and those gentlemen who kindly offer to form
additional companies tor the public service, will
decline pressing their claims for employment, as
none can be afforded above the force now accepted
and ready for the field. We are warranted in the
opinion that 10,000 Volunteers could be rendez
voused at Macon, for active duty, in less than
twenty days. While this evidence is gratifying to
the Executive, and will not be forgotten on future
occasions, it has been deemed necessary to make
this public statement for the information of parties
concerned
TEMPORISING POLICY.
On all principles of fair dealing, xve think the
time has fully come when President Lincoln
should declare his purpose, either to make war on
the Southern Confedraey. or to abandon Forts Sum
ter aud Pickens from necessity, or as an earnest ot
his peaceful intentions. If he has any judgment
of his own, he should be governed by it in spite of
any outside pressure from the masses of his party ;
or if lie has surrendered himself to the dictation of
others, it is due to the world that his helpless atti
tude should he confessed, so that pity and con
tempt may be entertained in due proportions for
one. who, innocently or otherwise, lias been the
means of a revolution whose progressive effects are
rendered painful to the public mind only for the
want of manliness on his part.
Week after week. day after day, have xve been
tortured with telegraphic collisions, until we have
utterly despaired of any decisive result. The Con
federate States are acting strictly tn self defence,
and only await some formal aggression to end the
difficulty in true martial style.
DEATH OF JUDGE McLEAN.
The Hon. John McLean, one of the Associate
Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States,
died at Washington City on the 4th inst., after a
service on the Bench for more than thirty years.
He was appointed Post Master General in 1824,
by President Monroe, and was continued in office
throughout the administration of President Adams.
In 1829, President Jackson nominated him to the
Senate to succeed Mr. Justice Trimble, who died
that year, since which time, until his death Mr.
Justice McLean has been a distinguished and hon
est expounder of the laws and Constitution of his
country, though on some occasions he differed from
a majority of the Court ou issues affecting the
rights of the South. His opinions, however, xvere
not uniformly adverse to what the Southern peo
ple regard their Constitutional guaranties In.
several cases, as the Reports bear record, Judge
McLean showed the independence and soundness
of his judgment on the fugitive slave law. Ho
was eminent for his personal piety, and it may be
truly said that a great and good man has fallen —
His age, perhaps, xvas almost seventy-five years.
NEW GOODS.
Mr. Lanterinau, xvho lias lately returned from
New York, informs us that he is receiving his stock
of Dry Goods and Millenery Goods, which compris
es nearly all the novelties of the season, and that
notwithstanding he has paid duties ouall his goods,
he can sell cheaper than those who bought early,
as the price of goods at the North has been much
reduced within the last mouth. The truth of his
assertion may be tested by a call at his store, and
an inspection of prices. His advertisement will
appeal - next week.
At the annual meeting of the Wardens and Ves
try of St. Stephen’s Church, Milledgcvillc, held on
Easter Monday, April J, 1861, the following were
unanimously elected officers for the ensuing Ec
clesiastical year :
Hardens—Dr. J. R. Dotting and Col. John S.
Thomas.
Vestrymen—H. C. Wayne, Dr. C. H. Hall, H.
Tinsley, B. B. DeGr.iffcnried, R. M. Oime, Jr. and
W. H. Scott.
Delegates to the Diocesan Convention—II. C.
Wayne, J. S. Thomas and J. R. Cutting.
Alternates—W. II. Scott, Dr. C. II. Hall and H.
Tinsley.
Secretary and Treasurer—W. H. Scott.
MAJOR W T. W. NAPIER.
On last Wednesday eveuing, according to pre
vious announcement, this gentleman appeared be
fore a large audience in the new Methodist Church
at this place, and delivered an address ou the sub
ject of Temperance.
7 The Major seemed to be quite at home vpon the
occasion, and gave us some very interesting facts
of his own experience, by way of illustrating and
enforcing his theme.
We hope much good was done to the young aud
old men who were preseut and gave undivided at
tention while the Reformer poured forth into—not
the *• flowing bowl”—but the ears and hearts of the
audisneo tiie “ sparkling and bright” strains Ot his
original and soul-moving eloquence. *
In conclusion, we way. Go on, Major! Yonrs is
a noble cause. Do not pot your “ light under a
bushel.” But put it upon a “ candle stick.” Go
forth ! Be a good soldier! And when your war
fare is all over, you aud all other jewels which shall
be Snatched from the degradation of intemperance
and irrchgiou, shall be saved in a better world !
Central Georgia*.
SPRINGCOUBTS.
Oueot the editors of the Southern Recorder w ill
attend the following Courts at their sitting, viz:
Dooly, Sumter, Pulaski and Houston. We hope
that our friends will make it a point of conveni
ence to attend the above Courts and pay their
dues. The sum from each individual is generally
small, hot it is by the cuitertiow of small sums that
mu aggregate u made to meet oar engagements.
Later from
Europe.
Arrival of the
RltndUi
AMERICA.
IIAi.lt’AX, April 2.—The steamship America
xvith dates t<> 23d from Liverpool, lias arrived xvith
the following report of that
Market
Sales of Cotton for the week 133.000 hales, spec
ulators taking 2*5,000 and exporters 26,000 bales.—
The market has advanced \ 'a }d.
Breadstuff's aud Provisions quiet* Consols fill
to !*2 for money, and 924 'a 92-J for account.
Later.
.Sales oi'Cotton iu Liverpool on Saturday 15,000
bales, speculators and exporters taking6,000 bales,
Hewitt’s circular says that the market is firm aud
advancing.
Breadstuff’s and Provisions quie.t and firm.
Consols 915 for nioucy, 92J for account.
Frw Washington.
Washington, April 3.—The Cabinet had a long
s|>ecial session 011 the subject of Fort ftuuiw, to
day. Some member proposed its execution as a
peace measure: Others, that Major Anderson remain
and be starved out.
Lieut. Gilman arrived from Fort l’ickens. stated
that reinforcements had been landed there, xvithon*
dotibt.
Excitement xvas manifested on reeeptof the news
from Texas.
Three prominent officers of the Army have been
ordered to take charge of the fortifications on the
Pacific coast.
Wigfall. of Texas, will address a large cro*vd at
the Mills House to-night.
Important from Washington.
So more Corn spondcnce icilh the Seceded Slates !—
The Brooklyn's Troops to Reinforce port Pickens-
Washington, April 4—Orders xvere sent yester
day from the Interior Department to the’ Pension
office to the effect that there should be no corres
pondence hereafter with the seceded States.
The Herald's correspondent states on the au
thority of a Cabinet officer that the Brooklyn's
troops really intend to reinforce Fort Pickcns.ymd
says it is stated that xvithiu the past forty-eight
hours the Gox*ernment has received advises lead
ing to the belief that trooops have been landed
there.
Troeps Despatched South.
Washington, April 4.—Two or three light ar
tillery companies, aud twenty or thirty city .car
penters employed by the Government, left this city
on a special train this morning, ostensibly for Fort
Hamilton.
A Black Republican Spy.
Montgomery, April 4.—An officer of the United
States Army is in Nexv Orleans xvho xvas sent out
hy Ids Government about the rime of the seces
sion of Texas, and xvho- remains there for the pur
pose, as is suspected, of giving information to the
enemy. The War Department of the Confederate
.States have a sleepless eye upon him. He is be
lieved to be a Pennsylvanian.
The Confederate States Loan.
Montgomery, April 4.—The Treasury notes of
• lie Confederate States xvere issued to-day under
the law authorizing the million issue. The first
bond issued by the Confederacy for 1.000 sold for
20 per cent. prem.
(Special Despatch to the Savannah Morning News.)
Important from Sew York.
I far Vessels and Troops Hound South—Fort Pick
ens to be lleiitforced.
New York. April 4.—All preparatiilbs are being
made here to send troops South. One thousand
troops are now on Governor’s Island ready for ser
vice.
The steamer Poichuttun is to sail with sealed or
ders on the 6th inst., supposed to reinforce Fort
Pickens, and then blockade the mouth of the Mis
sissippi river.
Four or five hundred troops are coining here
from Washington, possibly to go on hoard the
Powhattan.
Store-ship Belief sailed this evening -at. four
o’clock. The Daniel Webster is getting ready for
sea. All these vessels carry sealed orders.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Washington, April 6.—Lieut. Talbot, of Fort
Sumter arrived here to-day from Charleston.
The Pawnee xvill receive her orders on arriving
at Norfolk. This vessel left for the South this
morning with 250 men.
A gentleman xvho has just left the President,
says that he stated in a positive manner that the
Administration xxill not, under any circumstances
institute hostilities, but that in consequence of re
liable reports that the Confederate States had to
attack Fort Pickens, the present movement is in
tended to repel such an attack.
FORT SUMtEE.
The Charleston Mercury of the 5th says:
During the whole of yesterday afternoon all kinds
of rumors were rife on the streets. A vague im
pression had somehoxv got abroad that the long
agony of suspense and inaction xvas to he speedily
and abruptly ended ; but how, or xvlicn, or by
xviiose orders, nobody could tell. We have made
diligent inquiry : and, (in the absence of official
information, which in a juncture like this, is sel
dom made public), xve deem the following facts
to be reasonably certain.
First. That the supplies of provisions and the
mails, hitherto furnished regularly to the garrison
of Fort, Sumter, are to he cut off to-day, aud that
no further communication xvill be allowed between
M ajor Anderson and the Government at Washing
ton.
Second. That the troops at all the State fortifi
cations are noxv finally disposed, equipped aud
provided for, so as to be ready for action at a mo
ment’s warning.
Third. That no attack of any kind will be made
upon Fort Sumter until further orders, unless such
an attack should be prox'oked by Major Anderson
or by any attempt on the part of his Government
to bring aid to the beleagued fortress.
Fourth. That these measures are taken at the
instance of the Government, of the Confederate
States, xvhich has lost all confidence in the profes
sions of the Lincoln Administration.
VIRGINIA STATE CONVENTION.
Tin- first two resolutions of the report of tho
Committee 011 Federal relations in the Virginia
State Convention, xvere, on Thursday last adopted
without amendment. They are as follows :
1. Be it resolved and declared by the people of the
State of Virginia, in Convention assembled, That
States which composed the United States of Ameri
ca, xvlieu the Federal Constitution xvas formed,
xvere independent sovereignties, and iu adopting
that instrument the people of each State agreed to
associate with the people of the other States upon
a footing of exact equality. It is the duty, there
fore, of the common Government to respect the
rights of the States aud the equality of the people
thereof, and xvithiu the just limits of the Constitu
tion to protect xvith equal care tho great interests
that spring from the institutions of each.
2. African slavery is a vital part of the social
system of the States wherein it exists, and as that
form of servitude existed when the Union xvas
formed, and the jurisdiction of the several States
over it within their respective limits xvas recogniz
ed hy the Constitution, any interference to its pre
judice by the Federal authority, or by the authori
ties of the other States, or hy the people thereof,
is iu derogation from plain right, contrary to the
Constitution, offensive and dangerous.
Forts of Entry.
The following important publication is by au
thority :
CwNFKIlKK XTE STATES OF AMEKII A.
Treasury Department,
Montgomery, March 19, 1861.
In pursuance of the Act of Congress of Februa
ry 28th, 1861, entitled an act to authorize the Sec
retary of the Treasury to establish additional Ports
or Places of Entry and delivery, I hereby estab
lish the following Ports and Places of Entry and
delivery that is to say:
Norfolk, at Nelms’ Landing on the Mississippi
River.
Hernando on the Mississippi and Central Rail
road .
Holly Springs, on the Mississippi and Central
Railroad.
Eastport, on the Tennessee Riv, r.
Corinth at the crossing of tiie Mobile and
Ohio, aud of the Memphis and Charleston Rail
roads.
Athens, ou the Railroads from Decatur to Pu
laski.
Stephenson, at the Jnnction of th- Memphis and
Chattanooga Railroads.
At Atlanta, at the Junction of the Georgia Rail-
r >ads, tlie Western aud Atlantic, and various other
Rai l roads.
Chester, at the junction of the Cliarlotte and
Columbia and of the King’s Mountain Railroad.
Florence, at the junction of the Wilmington and
Manchester, and of the North Eastern aud of the
Che raw and Darlington Railroads.
(Signed) C. G. MEMMINGER.
Secretary of Treasury.
PLEASANT 1NCJ DENTS.
On the eve »f the departure of tho Quitman
Guards trom Forsyth, a few days ago, the sum of
|ll ,2(K* xvas raised by the citizens, for the benefit
of tiie families of those members of the Corps who
might need aid dining their absence.
At lYrry, the same liberality was manifested and
$ 1,2*Mi raised iti a few mmneuts, for extra equip
ments of the Southern Rights Guards, Capt. Moo
sef," of HousJoii CVnnTy fiTHi'S jxTe<IgiTY?WtT!?fliitl
lhat the draft of the cnmpmiy for a simitar amount
on the citizens would be promptly honored, when
ever piesentjJ. Such token of liberal patriotism
'erve to nerve the heat of the Volunteer soldiers to
meet all the emergencies of the campaign with nn-
fiinching energy and devotion.— (lee. Citizen-
DEATTI OF ini. ROBERT COLLIN?.
Wc deeply regret to announce flie death of Dr.
Robert Com.ins. of this city, a melancholy event
which took place, yesterday morning at 6 o’clock.
It is well known that Dr. Collins has been in fail
ing health for more than a year, aud. for the last
six months, has been obliged to retire from active
business, and his friends lnve been deeply paiued
to see him wasting axxav. day bv day, with an m-
enrabbj disorder. To those familial' with Macou.
xve need not say that f»r many years Dr. Collius
lias held a leading position in almost every public
enterprise, and his ample pecuniary resonroes were
always freely drawn upon in liehalfof public ami
private charities. His hospitality was of the most
expansive and liberal character, and iu short, he
was one of those men of mark and influence in our
community, whose withdrawal leaves a lasting
void behind them.
We oiiiit further remarks now, as we shall liere-
aftcr publish a full obituary notice
f Macon Telegraph, April 5.
MILITARY ELECTION.
On Wednesday, an election took place at the
Camp, for officers of the new Regiment and Bat
talion, now convened here, which resulted as fol-
loxvs : —
FOR COLONEL.
I.ieut. James X. Ramsey, *W
Capt. S. II. Jones, 27**
Capt. J. S. Pinckard, 84
FOR LICIT. COt.ON EL.
Capt. J. O. Clarke 664
FOR MAJOR.
Capt. G. II. Thompson, 284
Capt. F. G. Wilkins - 14-»
Private C. J. Mminerlyn, 143
Capt. C. G. Campbell 84
The Colonel elect was a member of Company D.
Southern Guards, and is xvell known as a talented
lawyer of Columbus. Ho is a gallant fellow,bold,
impetuous and chivalrous. He is also eloquent of
speech and if a little taik is necessary to arouse the
patriotic spirit of his command on the eve of bat
tie. he is " the light uiau in the right place. —
The Lieut. Colonel elect is the experienced and
very capable commander of the Oglethorpe Infant
ry of Augusta. The excellent discipline and drill
of this corps, at ihc Camp, speak xx ell for the effi
ciency of tlu-ir Chief Officer. The Major elect is a
son of Dr. Thompson, of Atlanta, and whilom Cap
tain of a Volunteer Company of the Gate City,
but late a Captain of the Geoigia Army.
At the election held the same day, for Major of
the Independent Battallion of Georgia Volunteers.
Captain Larry, of the Etowah Infantry, was elect
ed without opposition
We understand that our folloxv-eitizen, Capt. Z.
T. Conner, has been appointed Adjutant ot the
Regiment.— (Ico. Citizen, Apr. 5.
SECESSION IN ARKANSAS.
We learn from the Little Rock True Democrat
of the 21st instant, that the deliberations of the
Arkansas Convention 011 the question of secession
resulted as xve have heretofore stated, in the defi
nite rejection of the secession ordinance.
The Convention, after having elaborately dis
cussed a secession ordinance, proceeded to vote
upon it on Monday, the 13th instant, that being
the thirteenth day of the session. This ordinance
was rejected^ ye.-us 35, nays 39, every member vot
ing. If it had beeu passed it required the sanc
tion of the people before going into effect.
After the rejection of this ordinance the two par
ties in the Convention compromised their differ
ences, on the 20th instant, by the adoption of an
ordinance providiug for an election throughout
the State ou the first Monday iu August next, at
which the people are to x'ote on the question of
“ co-operation” or “ secession,” and another ordi
nance, in the form of a resolution, providing for
the sending ot five Commissioners to a Conference
ot the Border 8tatcs, proposed to he held at Frank
fort, Kentucky, on the 27th of May next, with a
viexv to endeavor to effect an adjustment of the
pending troubles. The Convention then adjourn
ed to the 17 th of August.
The effect of the vote of the people to be taken
ou the third day of August next will be as follows :
If a majority of all the votes cast shall be for “se
cession,” then such vote is to be regarded as in
structing the Convention to pass an act of imme
diate secession, and the Convention is at once to
pass such an ordinance ; but if a majority of all the
votes shall be cast for “co-operation,” then the
Convention is immediately to take such steps as
may be deemed proper to farther co-operation with
the Border or unseceded Slave States, 111 efforts to
secure a permanent and satisfactory adjustment of
the existing sectional controversy.
Judging from the “ True Democrat,” which is a
secession journal, we should suppose that there
xvas no lack of outside pressure to influence the
decision of the Convention. But the Union dele
gates stood firm to the last. The following earn
est appeal to Arkansas to unite her fortunes with
the seceding States was laid before the Convention
on Saturday, tiie iflth instant, aud the Commis
sioner therein alluded to courteously received.
Montgomery, Ala., March 9, 1-01.
To the President of the Convention of Arkansas :
Sir—The Government of the Confederate
States of America having an earnest desire that
the State of Arkansas should unite her destinies
xvith ours, I have bfeti authorized to appoint,and
do hereby appoint Williamson 8. Oldham, a deie-
atc in tiie Confederate Congress from the State
of Texas, as special Commissioner of this Govern
ment to the State of Arkansas. And I have the
honor to introduce him to you, and to ask for him
a reception and treatment corresponding to his
station and to the purposes for which he is scut.—
These purposes he xxill more fully explain to you.
“ I have learned with great satisfaction that you
and tiie body over which yon are called to preside
have assembled for the purpose of taking into con
sideration y out relations to the Government of the
United States. Feeling that wc have common
interests, common wrongs, and common dangers,
xve cordially invite you to unite xvith us and adopt
the only mode of redress, xvhich, iu our judgment
xxill secure our future tranquility and safety—sep
aration from the United States.
“ Hoping that through his agency these objects
may be accomplished. I avail myself of this occa
sion to offer to you the assurance of my most dis
tinguished consideration.
Jury. Davis.
TRAVELS OF A PENNSYLVANIA REPUB
LICAN THROUGH THE SOUTH.
The Bucks County Intelligencer, an ultra Re
publican paper, gives in its last issue a lengthy ac
count of the recent travels through the Slates of
tin- Southern Confederacy of Mr. David AValton,
“an elderly man, and a member of the society of
Friends t”
Mr. Walton, in company with several members
of his family, left Florida, xvfacre he had spent
some four months for the benefit of his health, ou
his return homeward, early in February. He
travelled by sloxv stages, taking a circuitous route
and stopping several days in e.tcli of the principal
towns and cities on the way. Landing at Savan
nah he proceeded across the country hy way of
Macon, Montgomery, Mobile, Ac, to Nexv Or
leans, and thence to Pittsburg.
His experience is presented in the following ex
tract from the annexed statement, which the edit
or obtained from Mr. Walton himself;
Mr. Walton and his daughters were uniformly
xvell treated throughout their xv hole Bontlieru jour
ney*. On 110 occasion xvas the least rudeness or
discourtesy shown them, though they made no ef
fort to conceal the fact tint they were residents of
the North, and that their views on the question of
slavery did not accord with those held by the peo
ple of the South. Fri nd W. acted with great cau
tion, never volunteering to discuss polities with
the fire-eaters. On learning that he xvas a North
ern man, his views ou political questions were fre
quently solicited—ou xvhich occasion he took no
pains to conceal his political principles, civilly aud
mildly giving his Interrogators to understand tLat
he xvas a Northern man in sentiment, and to infer
that he had voted for Abraham Lincoln. Their
responses were invariably iu the same kiud spirit.
Not uutiequently he had long conversations xvith
them 011 the question of slavery, and it: relation to
the subject of secession. Many of them discussed
the matter candidly, calmly and reasonably.
The prejudice again-t tiie North generally is
most decidi d. The South does not Understand the
North. They look upon most Northern men as
their bitterest enemies. II,» frequently met the
strongest kiud of Union nu n. who sincerely de
preciated secession, aud severely denounced ail
those who xvere instrumental in precipitating tiie
Cotton States into their present difficulties. Some
of these men would lay the blame directly to the
imbecility of James Buchanan, and with much
fervor regret that that there xvas not a Jackson at
the head of the Government, to crush out tiie se
cession movement xvlicn it first reared its hideous
head in Hotith Carolina, as was nullification in
1832- Now it had obtained such a headway that
no one could tell where it would end. One man
strongly regretted that South Carolina had not
been cut loose long ago. and stmt a drift on the
ocean. He did not witness one instance of rude
or harsh treatment of Nortkernwcn of whom,
notwithstanding the present political difficulties,
are traveling all through the South. Au indiscreet
man, one who xvoiild permit himself to be drawu
Tmr MvrruTlh the •
subject of general remark that uo regftm-nt of Vol
unteers was ever rtiand in Georgia, or any where
else, that had more of the geunind characteristics
and personal tspir 'U dc carps ot' the soldier, than
the body of men now rendezvoused in this city.
Among them are men of stalwart proportions. (17
of the Washington Rides being each 6 feet highj:
men of wealth and standing iu their respective
neighborhoods; Lawyers, Doctors, Planters and
Mechanics, all animated hy the same burning pa
triotism—leaving the honors of civil life and tho
luxuries of home society for the dangers and toil*
of the tented field and with an nndymg devotion
to the cause of their country. All ii»nor, we say,
to the gallant men, who have tlm a promptly step
ped forward in defence of the priceless inheritance
of freedom —Georgia Citizen.
At Enterprise. Florida, on the Hth nit., of ram-
sumptiou, l’rof. I. N. Loom**, a Member of the
Faculty of th ■ Reform M>-dicsl College, Macou, Ua.
In Miiton county, ou 3Jst nit., after a long; ift-
uess, Gen. El.I Me t’tiNNtu, late Keeper of the
Pcniteniiaiy of Georgia.
A LIST OF LEITERS
Remaining in tiiis Office the first April, and
which, if not called for before the first July, will
be sent to tiie Post Office Department.
Audrews, J. W.
Anderson, G.
Buneley, Rich’d
Baugh, Jno. H.
Brooks, Leander
Chancery, J. A. *
Cotiold, finis.
Cashaui, E.
Cnlver, J. W.
Choice, L. T.
Collins,NY. J.
Collins, IiVl E. M.
Dawson & 9^ \V. C
Geiger. Mrs. A
Grase, Silas
Gunby, Wm. S.
Grit) bill, John
Harris, Wm. A
Hufpfichton, David 1?
Hody, Will.
Holston E. P.
llickry, Col. Wm. E.
Ingram, Mrs. Elizabeth !8t
Jewell, D. A.
Jones, Zachariah
Jones. R. V.
Jenkins. Stephen D.
Johnson, Irvin 2
Johnson,J.R.
Johnson, Henry
Jackson, W. li.
Karr, Silvester
Laurence, Mrs. M. E.
Laurence, L-
Lewis, Mrs. A. E
Liimley, Wm. H. 2
Logue, Miss M. A.
Lis
tg, Craw ford,
Mii
# Alexander
Mk
111 brook, J. If.
M:J
Ftin, Benjamin
>ij
r.-field. Jas. D.
NWJliutock, TIiod.
iisou, That.
>rtou, Kobt.
eefy, J. J.
aimer, Miss Lizzie
’ovx ers, T. J.
volar. Isaac
ialay, James
ceres, M. C.
care, B J.
fc\ivers Ik. Buck halter,
eus, Mrs. Elizabeth
SmitV Mrs. M.irah ,
Sinit n\jy m.
Byraonds, Juo. 2
Wright, L. G.
Wiigbt, Miss Jane F. 3
Wilds, D. G.
Warthcn, W. Thos.
Wilds, Col. David
When calling for any of the above letters, say
advertised.
A. B. BUCKNER, P. M.
Sparta, Ga., April 1st, 1861. 15 it
Caution
1 FOREWARN ail persons
promissory note mad
Tyns for one hundred do
next, as the consideration for xx
given has wholly failed, and I
to par the same unless compel
J.
Hancock co , April 9,1861
trading for a
payable to Lewis
th December
note was
d not
law.
ANDREWS.
15 4t
Not ire.
T niS IS to inform all men that three thirty
dollar notes juven to Williamson Porter xvere
fraudulently procuVd, and xve therefore forewarn
nil men from trading or contrnctiflg for the same.
II. A. liaitiey, B. F. 1‘itt-
fh**rc is a total failure of
part of^jTrid Forterqwt pe-
nent nnlSDfWnrpfined by
notice of thetsame.
HIRAM A. HARTLEY,
]?. F. PITTMAN,
"WM. II. FRICK.
Wilkinson c#., April 9, 1861 14 lit*
Said notes are
man, W. H. Price,
consideration on th;
remptoriiy refuse pa
law; said l’oiter Lav
Sale of Laud.
B Y' VIRTUE of an order from the Conrt of Or
dinary of Jones county, xvill !*•• sold 011 the
first Tuesday iu June next, at the Court-house
door in said county. In xveen the legal hours of
sale, a tract or pM^mlo laud containing two hun
dred and forty acres^l M%Hkkss; said lauds ad
joins the lauds of Baile; Bel^xWhvJlouller, Sam
uel ,Hodge and others: The same belonging to
the children of Daniel ! eslie.
DAN’L. MESLIE. Guardian, &c,
April 9, 1861 15 tds
rpwo MONTHS after
-L made to th*- Court
county for an order to sell
to the estate of Samuel Joli
ty, deceased, for division »
MAR
April 9, 1*61
lirafion will be
of Baldwin
d belonging
f said couu-
beirs.
EK. Ex’rx.
15 9t
T WO MONTHS after
notice I shall apply
of Hancock county for lea'
of Irby Hudson, dcc’d,,lyi
SAMUEL R. V
will
April 9, Ii3<il [tii
^publication of tins
k Court of Ordinary
)he real estate
county.
Urn’r.,
tie will annexed.
15 **t
Notice to Debtors ajrtl Creditors.
^j^LL PERSON’S ind
Reynolds, 1;
are required to
those having demand
sent them to the
JA
April 9, 1861
to the estate of John
ck county, deceased,
diate payment, and
the same, will pre
recording to iaxv.
REYNOLDS, Adni'r.
[tii a] 15 tit
t ’ EORGIA, TATTNALL COUNTY.
* To all lehom it may concern.
Jonathan B. Brexvton hav
plied to me for permanent
ou the estate .if Nathan J
county, deceased—
This is to cite all at
next of kin of Nathan
pear at my office w itliiu
and show cause, if any the
letters of administration sin
Jonathan B. Brexvton on N
tab*
Witness mv hand and official signature, this 1st
April, 1861, ' P. G. T1PP1NS, Ord. T. C.
April 9, 1861 15 f4
g in proper form ap-
rs of administration
rewtou, late of saiu
the creditors and
to be and ap-
Iqxved by law
rinanent
granted to
linn J. Brexvton's cs-
OTATE OF GEORGIA! L.xi *k\.s Co* sty.
O April Term, 1861—(toart of Ordinary.
Whereas Eli Warqni, elect:tor of the will of
Robert Higdon, Sen.^D^^ed, having filed hi*
petition for letters of disini»^*uu>tiee is hereby
given, that all persons interest 1 ■ objec
tions, if any they have, on on before tlieutbtAloii -
day in October next, to the wanting of said letters.
W itness my hand and offilal signature, this 1st
April, 1861.
WASHINGTON £AKER, Ordinary.
April 9, 1861 15 nitiui
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Atlanta Georgia.
April 9,1861. 15 It
W E ARE AUTHORIZED announce CW.
O. O-ZETOIFUSTEJofl^
ki county, as a candidate for Brigadier General of-
the First Brigade of the .Sixth Division of Georgia
Militia.
April 2,1861 14 If
G eorgia. Baldwin county.
Whereas Sarah Jane Bagley applies to mo
for guardianship of the minor children of Lewis
Bagtey, deceased—
This is to require all persons concerned to show
canse on or before the May Term of the Court of
Ordinary for said comity, why letters of guardian
ship should not l>e granted according to the statute
into a discussion of politics xx herein he would say
anything decided against the South of Southern .
institutions, would certainly get Inins.-If iu serin as **• ****** cases made and provided. .
trouble, and might be 'turned over to the tender “X band at office, this 2d day of
April. Httl.
April 2, 1861
JOHN HAMMOND, Ordinary.
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