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Srg;/> gh’n\ / sm <>sn r.\<. /:. is touching appeal heeded? Let; man who belonged to the “clique hat the resolutions condemn an sw|r fcr his party. A it was in reference to that state of things exactly tiiat Dr. Jones reported., as 1 have already read to the House, in his re port which was mutilated before that com mittee of Congress and in the trial of Wirz —it was in consequence of that very state of things that Dr. Jones said that depression of mind and despondency, and home-sick ness of these nrhwmers, carried to their graves than <fd'"physical cantos of disease. This was not wonderful at all. But, Mr. Speaker, why were all these ap peals resisted? Why <1 id the Federal au thorities refuse to allow their own surgeons to go with their own soldiers and carry them medicine and clothing, and comfort and treatment? Why? Why did they refuse to exchange man for man and officer for of ficer? Why did they refuse to stand up to their own solemn engagements, made in ISG2, for the exchange of prisoners? Who is at Tan#? There must be a reason for this. That is the next point to which I wish to call the attention of the House. Sir, listen to the reading. The New York Tribune. referring to this matter in 18(54, said—l sup pose you will believe the Tribune in 1864, if you do not believe it now : In August the rebels offered to renew the ex change itun for man. General Grant then telegraphed the following important order : “It is hard on our men held in Southern prisons not, to ffrc+nngp them, but it is hu manity to those left in the ranks to fight our battles. Every man released on parole or otherwise becomes an active soldier against ns at once, either directly or indirectly. If we commence a system of exchange which liberates all prisoners taken, we will have to light on till the whole South is exterminated. If we hold those caught they amount to no more than dead men. At this particular time to release all rebel prisoners North would insure Sherman's defeat and would compromise our safety here.” Mr. Garfield—What date is that? Mr. Hill—Eighteen hundred and sixty four. Mr. Garfield —What date in that year. Mr. Hill—l do not note the day or month I have real the telegram which is taken from the New York ' Tribune , after August. 1864. Here is General Grant's testimony before the committee on the exchange of prisoners, February 11, 186A. You believe him, do you not? Question. It has been said that we refus ed to exchangb prisoners because we found ours starved, diseased, and unserviceable when we receivc<Ltbem. and did not lit e to exchange sound ipen for such men. That was,Ljie question propounded to him. His answer was: Answer. There never has been any such reason as that. That has been a reason for making exchanges. I will confess that if our men who are prisoners in the South were really well taken care of, suffering i othing except a little privation of liberty, then, in a military point, of view', it would not 1 e good policy for us to exchange, because every man they get back is forced rigiit, into tie army at once, while that is not the case with onr prisoners wlgyi we receive them : in fact the half of our tetirrned prisoners will rever go into the army again, and none of them will until after they have had a furlough of thir tyor sixty days. Still, the fact of their suf fejang as they do is a reason for making this ehahge as rapidly as possible. w. ®nd never has been a reason for not making tlul esfchauge ? - A. ft mjver Has. Exchanges having beensus pen<le*hv reason of disagreement on the part of ngKhts of exchange on both sides before I came in command of the armies of the United States ; and it then being near the opening of the Spring cam paign, I did not deem it advisable or just to the mcn.who had to tight our battles to re-enforce the enemy with thirty or forty thousand disciplined troops at that time. An immediate resrmption of exchanges would have had that effect without giv ing us corresponding benefits. The suffering said to exist among our prisoners South, was a power ful argument against the course pursued, and so I felt it. There is no disputing the fact that, w'ith the knowledge that his prisoners were suffering in the South, he insisted that the exchange should not be renewed, because it would increase ihe Military power of the enemy. Now, that may have been a good military reason. Ido not quote it for the purpose of reflecting upon General Grant in the slightest, l.am giving the facts of history. 1 in sist that the Confederacy shall not he held i espon aihle for the results of the war policy of the Fed eral Government, especially when the record proves that the Confederate authorities made every possible effort to avert these results. Nor do I allege inhumanity on the part of General Grant or the Federal Government. I give you the facts, and 1 have given you General Grant's interpreta tion of those facts. I.ct the world judge. Now, sir. we have other authority upon that sub ject. Here is a letter by Junius Henri Browne. Ido not, know the gentleman. He signs his name to the lojUcr. He writes like a scholar. He is a Northern gentleman, and I am not aware that his statement has ever been contradicted. Now, what does he say? New York. Augusts. Moreover. General Butler in his speech at Low ell. Massachusetts, stated positively that he had been ordered by Mr. Stanton to put forward the negro .question to complicate and prevent the ex change. ***** Every one is aware that when the exchange did take place, not the slightest alteration had occurred in the question, and that our prisoners might, as well have been released twelve or eighteen months before as at the resump tion of the cartel, which would have saved to the Kepn-bhe at least twelve or fifteen thousand heroic lives. That they were not saved is due alone to Edwin M. Stanton's peculiar policy and dogged obstinacy, and. as 1 have remarked before, he is unquestion ably the digger of the unnamed graves that crowd the vincinity of every Southern prison with historic and never to be forgotten horrors. That is the testimony of a northern man against Mr. Stanton. And he goes on : I regret the revival of this painful subject, but the gratuitous etfort of Mr. Dana to relieve the secretary of war from a responsibility he seems willing to bear, and which merely as* a question of policy independent of all considerations of hu manity must be regarded as of great weight, has compelled me to vindicate myself from the charge of making grave statements without due consider ation. OnCe (or all. let me declare that I have never found fault with any one because 1 was detained in prison, for 1 am well aware that that was a mat ter in which no one but myself and possibly a few personal friends would feel any interest; that mv sole motive for impeaching the secretary of war was that the people of the loyal north might know tto whom they were indebted for the cold-blooded and needless sacrifices of their fathers and broth ers, their husbands and their sons. 1 understand lllat Mr. UnvvviK, l is a contributor to Harper’s Monthly. and was then. The man. so he tells you. wlfo> was responsible for these atrocities at An dcrsonville was the secretary of war, Mr. Stanton. Now. Mr. Speaker, what have I proven ? I have proven that the federal authorities broke the car tel for the exchange of prisoners deliberately ; I have proven that they refused to re-open the* car tel when it was proposed by Mr. Stephens’, as a commissioner, solely on the ground of humanity; 1 have proven that thev made medicine contra band of war. and thereby left the south to the dreadful necessity of treating their own prisoners with such medicines as jould be improvised in the confederacy : 1 have proven that they refused to allow surgeons of their own appointment of their own army, to accompany their prisoners in the south, with full license and liberty to carry Fojkl, medicine, and raiment, and every comfort that the prisoners might need ; I have proven that when the federal government made the pretext for interrupting the cartel for the exchange of pris oners. the confederates yielded every point and proposed to exchange prisoners on the terms of the federal government, and that the latter refused it: T have proven that the confederates then pro posed to return the federal sick and wounded without equivalent in August. 18G1. and never got a reply until December, 1874; I have proven that high federal officers gave the reason why they would not exchange prisoners that it would he humanity to the prisoners hut cruelty to the sol diers in the field, and therefore it wa# a part of the federal military policy to let federal prisoners suf ' for rather than that the confederacy should have an increase of its military force, and the federal j government refused it. when by such exchange it would have received more prisoners than it rc ! turned to the confederates. Now. what is' the answer to all this? Against whom does the charge lie. if there are to he accu sations of any, for the horrors of Andcrsonville? Mr. Bright. What was the percentage of deaths in the prisons ! Mr. Hill. I have already given it. I have prov ed also that, with all the horrors of Andcrsonville. the gentleman from Maine has so ostentatiously paraded, and for an obvious partisan purpose of exacting upon this floor a hitter sectional discus sion. from which his party, and perhaps himself, may he the beneficiary, greater sufferings occur red in the prisons where confederate soldiers were confined, and that the percentage of death was three per cent greater among confederate troops in federal hands than among federal troops held by the confederates. And I need not state the contrast between the needy confederacy and the abundance of federal supplies and resources. Now, sir. when the gentleman rises again to give breath to that affusion of unmitigated genius with out fact to sustain it. in which he says— And 1 here, before God. measuring my words, knowing their full extent end import, declare that neither the deeds of the Duke of Alva in the low countries, nor the massacre of Saint Bartholo mew. nor the thumb-screws and engines of torture of the Spanish inquisition, begin to compare in atrocity with the hideous crime of Andcrsonville, let him add that the mortality of Andcrson ville and other confederate prisons falls short by more than 3 per cent, the mortality in federal pris ons. Sir, if any man will reflect a moment he will see that there was reason why the confederate government should desire exchange of prisoners. It was scarce of food, pinched for clothing, closed up with a blockade of its ports ; it needed troops ; its ranks were thinning. Now, Mr. Speaker, it is proper that I should read one or two sentences from the man who has been arraigned as the vilest murderer in history. After the battles around Richmond, in which Mc- Clellan was defeated, some ten thousand prison ers fell into the hands of the confederacy. Vic tory had perched upon its standard, and the re joicing naturally following victory was heard in the ranks of the confederate army. Mr. Davis went out to make a gratulatory speech. Now, gentlemen of the house, gentlemen of the other side, if you are willing to do justice, let me sim ply call your attention to the words of this man that then fell from his lips in the hour of victory. Speaking to the soldiers, he said : You are fighting for all that is dearest to man : and, though opposed to a foe who disregards many of the usages ot civilized war, your humanity to the wounded and the prisoners was a lit and crown ing glory of your valor. Above the victory, above every other consider ation. even that victory which they believed in sured protection to their homes and families, he tells them that at last their crowning glory was their humanity to the wounded and prisoners who had fallen into their hands. The gentleman from Maine yesterday introduced the Richmond Examiner as a witness in his be half. Now it is a rule of law that a man cannot impeach his own witness. It is true the Examin er hated Mr. Davis with a cordial hatred. The gentleman could not have introduced the testimo ny of perhaps a bitterer foe to Mr. Davis. Why did it hate him? Here are its reasons: “The chivalry and humanity of Jefferson Davis will in evitably ruin the confederacy.” That is your witness, and the witness is worth}' of your cause. You introduced the witness to prove Mr. Davis guilty of inhumanity, and he tells you that the humanity of Mr. Davis will ruin the confederacy. That is not all. In the same paper it says : “The enemy have gone from one unmanly cruelty to another.” Recollect, this is your witness. En couraged by their impunity till they are now and have for some time been inflicting on the people of this country the worst horrors of barbarous and uncivilized war.” Yet in spite of all this the Examiner alleged “Mr. Davis in his dealing with the enemy was as gentle as a sucking dove.” Mr. GARFIELD. What volume is that? Mr. HILL. The same volume, page 531, and is taken from the Richmond Examiner—the pa per the gentleman quoted from yesterday. And that is the truth. Those of us who were there at the time know it to he the fact. One of the persis tent charges brought by that paper and some oth ers against Mr. Davis was his humanity. Over and over again Mr. Davis has been heard to say, and I use his very language, when applied to re taliate for the horrors inflicted upon our prison ers. “ The inhumanity of the enemy to our pris oners can be no justification for a disregard by us of the rules of civilized war and of Christianity.” Therefore he persisted in it. and this paper cried out against him that it would ruin the confedera cy. I am sure T owe this house an apology for hav ing detained it so long; I shall detain it but a few moments longer. After all, what should men do who really desire the restoration of peace and to prevent the recurrence of the horrors of war ? llow ought they to look at this question ? Sir, war is always horrible ; war always brings hardships ; it brings death, it brings sorrow, it brings ruin, it brings devastation. And he is unworthy to be called a statesman, looking to the pacification of this country, who will parade the horrors insepa rable from war for the purpose of keeping up the strife that produced the war. 1 do not doubt that I am the bearer of unwel come messages to the gentleman from Maine and his party. lie says that there are confederates in this body, and that they are going to combine with a few from the north for the purpose of controll ing this government. If one were to listen to the gentlemen on the other side he would be in doubt whether they rejoiced more when the south left the union, or regretted most when the south came back to the union that their fathers helped to form, and to which they will forever hereafter contribute as much of patriotic ardor, of noble de votion. and of willing sacrifice as the constituents of the gentleman from Maine. 0, Mr, Speaker, why cannot gentlemen on the other side rise to the heightof this great argument of patriotism? Is the bosom of the country always to be torn with this miserable sectional debate whenever a presi dential election is pending? To that great debate of half a century before secesssion there were left no adjourned questions. The victory of the north was absolute, and God knows the submission of the south was complete. But, sir, we have recov ered from the humiliation of defeat, and we come here among you and ask you to give us the greet ing accorded to brothers by brothers. We pro pose to join you in ever}’ patriotic endeavor and to unite with von in every patriotic aspiration that looks to the benefit, the advancement, and the honor of every part of our common country. Let us. gentlemen of all parties, in this centen nial year indeed have a jubilee of freedom. We di vide with you the glories of the revolution and of the succeeding years of our national life before that unhappy division—that four years’ night of gloom and despair—and so we shall divide with you the glories of all the future. Sir. my message is this : There are no confeder ates in this house; there are now no confederates anywhere ;therc arc no confederate schemes, am bitions. hopes, desires, or purposes here. But the south is here, and here sue intends to remain. [Enthusiastic applause.] Go on and pass your qualifying acts, trample upon the constitution you have sworn to support, abnegate the pledges of your fathers, incite rage upon our people, and multiply your infidelities until they shall be like the stars of heaven or the sands of the seashore, without number; but know this, for all your ini quities the south will never again seek a remedy in the madness of another secession. [Continued ap plause.] We are here ;we are in the house of our fathers, our brothers are our companions, and we arc at home to say. thank God. [Much applause.] We come to gratify no revenges, to retaliate no wrongs, to resent no past insults, to re-open no strife. We come with a patriotic purpose to do whatever in our political power shall lie. to re store an honest, economical, and constitutional i administion of the government. We come charg ing upon the union no wrongs to us. The union never wronged us The union has been an un mixed blessing to every section, to every state, to every man of every color in America. We 1 charge all our wrongs upon that “higher law” fa- j naticism, that never kept a pledge nor obeyed a law. The south did seek to leave the association of those who, she believed, would not keep fidel ity to their covenants ; the south sought to go to herself; hut, so far from having lost our fidelity for the constitution which our fathers made, when we sought to go we hugged that constitution to our l*oSoms and carried it with us. Brave union men of the north, followers of W eb stev and Fillmore, of Clay and Cass, and Douglas —yon who Fought for the Union for the sake bf the Union; you who ceased to fight when the battle ended and the sword was sheathed—we have no quarrel with you, whether republicans hr demo crats. We felt your heavy arm in the carnage of battle, hut above the roar of the cannon we heard your voice of kindness, calling “Brothers, come hack!” And we hear witness to you this day that that voice of kindness did more to thin the confed erate ranks and weaken the confederate arms than did all the artillery employed in the struggle. We are here to co-operate with you ; to do whatever we can. in spite of all our sorrows, to rebuild the union ; to restore peace; to he a blessing to the country, and to make the American union what our fathers intended it to be, the glory of Ameri ca and a blessing to humanity. But to you, gentlemen, who seek still to contin ue strife,’and who. not satisfied with the suffer ings already endured, the blood already shed, the waste already committed, insist that we shall be treated as criminals and oppressed as victims, on ly because we defend our convictions—to you we make no concessions. To you who followed up the war after the brave soldiers that fought it had made peace and gone to their homes—to you we have no concession to offer. Martyrs owe no apol ogies to tyrants. And while we are ready to make every sacrifice for the union, even secession, how ever defeated and humbled, will confess no sin to fanaticism, however bigoted and exacting. Yet, while we make to you no concession, we come even to you in no spirit of revenge. We would multiply blessings m common for you and for us. We have one ambition, and that is to add our political power to the patriotic union men of the north in order to compel fanaticism to obey the law and live in the union according to the con stitution. We do not propose to compel you by oaths, for you who breed strife only to get oifice and power will not keep oaths. Sir, we did the union one great wrong. The un ion never wronged the south ; but woof the south did to the union one great wrong ; and we come, as far as we can, to repair it. We wronged the union grievously when we left it to ho seized and rent and torn by the men who had denounced it as “a covenant with hell and a league with the devil.” We ask you, gentlemen of the republi can party, to rise above all your animosities. Lest us unite to repair the evils that distract and op press tie country. Let us turn our backs upon the past, and let it he said in the future that he shall be the greatest patriot who shall do most to repair the wrongs of the past and promote the glories of the future. [Applause on the*floor and jn the galleries.] Debt Abroad and at Home. The cost of governing Great Britain is about s:> 15,000,000 ; the cost of governing the United States is $645.000,000 —these sums including all the expenses of Federal, State, county and municipal government. Great Britain, at less expenses than the United States, keeps up a brilliant court, manages her vast colonial system, and has a large ar my and navy. The Edinburgh Scotchman gives us these facts : The city of New York, with a population of less than one million, has a debt of $31,515,678. while London has a debt of only $5,181,700. Baltimore and Boston, the first with 207,354 people, and the second with a population of 240,426, each have debts much larger than London. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Brooklyn, Bal timore, Washington, New Orleans, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati. Jersey City, Louisville, Newark, Providence, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Portland, Charleston, Memphis, ‘Savannah, San Francisco, Albany, Mobile, Milwaukee, Detroit, Bangor, Augusta, St. Joseph, Indian apolis, St. Paul. Lynchburg and Columbus— the thirty-two principal cities in the United States, with a population of 4.835,704 —have a debt of $105,126,545, while London, Liver pool, Manchester. Leeds, Bradford, Bristol, Bolton, Brighton, Birmingham, Oldham, Sal ford, Rochdale, Huddersfield, Wolverhamp ton, Preston, Newcastle, Blackburn, Ashton, Sunderland and Swansea —the twenty-one principal English cities, with a population of 6,384,173 —have a debt of only $22,332,730 —less by $0,182,048 than the debt of New York. —Awjusta Chronicle. Ifl Only Had Leisure. “ If I had leisure I would repair that weak place in my fence,*’ said a farmer. lie had none, however, and while drinking cider with a neighbor, the cows broke in and injured a prime piece of corn. “If I had leisure, ’* said a wheelwright last winter, “I would alter my stove pipe, for I know it is not safe.” But lie did not find time, and when his shop caught fire and burned down, he found time to build another. “Ifl had leisure,” said a mechanic, “ I should have m} r work done in season.” The man thinks his time had been all occupied, but he was not at work till after sun-rise : he quit work at 5 o'clock, smoked a cigar after dinner, and spent two hours on the street talking nonsense with an idler. “If I had leisure,” said a merchant, “ I would pay more attention to mj r accounts, and would try and collect my bills more prompt ly.” The chance is, my friend, if you had leisure you would probably pay less atten tion to the matter. LiiF The editor of the Atlanta Constitution, in a late number of that paper, has a labored essa} T in favor of high salaries for public of ficers. There may be many substan tial reasons why the editor of that paper should be in favor of high salaries, which the peeple at large would not appre ciate. The salaries of many of the State officers are spent in Atlanta, and the more money they receive the more they have to spend. High salaries would enable each of ficial to pay blackmail, to help them to retain men in office who had it. In the course of his argument the editor makes the startling assertion : “If we want integrity, we must pay for it.” We have always believed there were some men that were naturally honest, but here is a plain intimation—in fact, an assertion—that if we want officials to be honest we must bribe them to be so. We presume there are but few, if any men, even in Atlanta, that could not be hired to be honest for a few days at least, but would such integrity be worth the purchase? A man that is honest because he is paid to be honest, would be dishonest if paid a little more to be dishonest. That kind of integrity which must be bought will not wear well; yet this seems to be the only kind of integri ty of which this Atlanta editor is acquainted. Is this the standard of Atlanta integrity?— Union and Recorder: CHURCH I'AIR. There will be a Fair at the Colored Peo ples’ Church, at the “west end” of Jefferson, on Saturday, the 29th inst. Admittance, 25 Cents. The white citizens are most respect fully invited to turn out and aid us in our efforts to finish and pay for our Church. Your ob't servant, In tlie bounds of the Gospel, Rev. J. C. Waggoner. iucjaf Jlifoertiscmeuts. Q.EOKGLI, Jackson county. A PPLICATION having been made to the Com missioners of Roads and Revenue fol* Jackson county, for a road commencing at the Athens and Clarkesville road, near the residence of Washing ton Farabee, and running in the direction of W S Rogers, over the lands of W Farabee, A J Hud son". J P Hudson, A P Butler, Wm Thurmond, H B (Sober, L V Dunston, Nancy Dixon, Newton Harris, Henry Strickland, W P Ilembricß’, J A Sailors. Henry Hawks, J G II Pittman, J T Rogers, Jane White, Zedekiah Hardeman and W S Rogers, and connecting with the Athens and Oarnesville road near the residence of said W S Rogers, to be opened and made a public road, and reviewers having been appointed to review said road, and said reviewers having made their report that said road will be of public utility, this is, therefore to cite and admonish all parties inter ested that after the publication of this notice thirty days in The Forest News, a newspaper published in Jefferson, Jackson county, Georgia, said application will he granted, if no good cause is shown to the contrary. Application also having been made to said Com missioners for anew road leading from McElhan non’s Bridge, by C C McElhannon's, J D John son's and Robert Shields’, and intersecting the Federal road near the residence of Wm Thomp son, to be opened and made a public road, and re viewers having been appointed to review said road, and said reviewers having made their report that said road will be of public utility, this is, there fore, to cite and admonish all parties interested that after the publication of this notice thirty days in The Forest News, a newspaper published in Jefferson, Jackson county, Georgia, said applica tion will be granted, if no good cause is shown to the contrary. WM. SEYMOUR, W. J. IIAYNIE, AY. G. STEED, Commissioners of Roads and Revenue of Jackson County. N. B.—The Justices of the Peace are requested to report the names of all the paupers in their re spective Districts to our body on the fourth Satur day in February next. •J an 22 —Jackson County. AVhereas, II M Appleby and R S Cheney, Ad ministrators, de bonis non cum testamento annexo , of William Appleby, late of said county, deceas ed, represent to the Court, in their petition duly filed, that they have fully administered said de ceased's estate agreeably to the law and said de ceased’s will— This is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned, kindred and creditors, to show' cause, if any they can, why said Administrators should not be dis charged from their administration, and receive let ters of dismission on the first Monday in April, 1576. Given under my official signature, at office, Jan uary 4th, 187(1. AY I LEY C. HOWARD, dcclo Ordinary. Jackson Sheriff’s Sale. 1 )C 0,1 the first Tuesday in Fcbru- T V ary next, before the Court House door, in Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga, within the legal hours of sale, the following property, to wit: Two certain tracts of land in said county, one known as a part of the Overby tract, adjoining lands of T L Harrison, J N Pinson, qnd others, containing, according to plat, 2J4.1 acres, more or less, and the other tract known as the Jackson Bell place, adjoining lands of Stephen Roberts, es tates of R T Carithers and J I) Long, and others, containing 172 acres, more or less. The former tract of land has a good dwelling house and neces sary out-buildings thereon. On both places there is about 125 acres in cultivation, ten of which is bottom land, the balance original forest and old Held—on the waters of the Oconee river. Said land sold for purchase money. Pointed out by plaintiff \s attorney. All levied on as the propertv of the defendant, by virtue of a ti fa issued from the Superior Court. Samuel P Thurmond vs. C C Thompson. Controlled by Hunter & Beus.sc. Also, at the same time and place, will be sold, nine hundred acres of land, more or less, on the waters of the Oconee river, adjoining lands of T L Harrison, J N Pinson, Stephen. Roberts, and others ; well improved, good buildings, about 200 acres ofiand in cultivation, 75 of which is bottom land, the balance original forest and old field. — Levied on as the property of C C Thompson, by virtue of a tax fi fa issued by J L Williamson, Tax Collector, vs. said Thompson, in favor of the coun ty of Jackson and State of Georgia. Property pointed out by defendant. Levy made and return ed to me by W F Hunter, L C. Also, at the same time and place, fifty acres of land, more or less, on the Walnut Fork of the Oconee river, adjoining lands of A M Park, Jere miah Murphy and others. Said land is all origi nal forest, except four acres of old field, with two log cabins thereon. Levied on as the property of E A|pMizc, by virtue of a tax fi fa issued by j L Williamson, 'I 1 C, in favor of the county of Jack son and State of Georgia, vs. said Mize. Property pointed out by defendant. Levy made and re turned to me by D M Roberts, L C. janß J. S. HUNTER, Sh’ff. Money for Some People! GEORGIA, JACKSON COUNTY—In the Court of Ordinary, January Term, 1876. IT appearing to the Court by the application of Alfred Smith and Noah W Pittman, adminis trators of Charles Smith, late of said county, de ceased. for a discharge from their administration of said deceased’s estate, that the distributive shares of William Smith, deceased, who was a brother of said deceased, and of Nancy Pittman, dec’d late the wife of Martin JI Pitman, late of Randolph county, Ala., who was a sister to the deceased, arc not paid over because the heirs at law of each of these distributees have failed to Idle their claims and identify themselves as such, and that the residence and some of the names of said parties are unknown to said Administrators— Therefore, it is ordered, that said parties be and they are hereby notified to come forward and claim their respective interest in the.said Charles Smith's estate ; and that this order be published for three months in The Forest News, a newspa per published in said county of Jackson. Given under my official signature, at office, January 3d, 1876. janß 1\ 1 LEY C. HOWARD, Ordinary. Executor’s Sale. A GREEABLI to an order of the Court of Or fA dinary of Jackson county, will be sold be fore the Court House door at Jefferson, in said county on the first Tuesday in February, 1876, within the legal hours of sale, at public outcry, to the highest bidder, the following property, to wit: Lot of land known and distinguished as number one hundred and sixteen (116) in the fourth Dis trict of originally Lee county, containing two hun dred and two and a half acres, more or less. Sold as the property of Jonathan Martin, late of said county of Jackson, dec’d, for the purpose of dis tribution. Terms, Cash. T. N. HIGIIFILL, Executor j an 8 J. Martin, dec'd. —.laeliNon County. Whereas, Alfred Smith and Noah W Pittman, Administrators of Charles Smith, late of said count}', dec'd, represents to the Court, by their petition duly liled. that they have fully administer ed said Charles Smith’s estate according to law, and ask to be discharged from the same and for letters of dismission— Therefore, all persons interested are hereby no tified and required to show cause, if any they can, on the first Monday in April. 1876, at the reg ular term of the Court of Ordinary, to be then held in and for said county, why said Administra tors should not be discharged and said letters of dismission be granted, as prayed for by applicants in their petition. Given under my official signature, at office, Jan 3d ; 1876. WILEY C. HOWARD, J an 8 Ordinary. —Jackson County. f. Bird Aker, colored, makes application for exemption of personalty ; and I will pass on the same at my office in Jefferson, in said county, at 11 o'clock, A. M., on the 20th day of Jan. 1876. Given under my official signature, this January loth. 1876. ‘ WILEY C. HOWARD, j an 22 Ordinary.. BARGAINS! NEW GOODS 5 REDUCED PRICES; STANLEY k PINSON, HAVE JUST RECEIVED A FULL ASSORTMENT OF Dry Goods, Groceries, lints, Caps, Roots, Shoes, Hardware, Earthenware, Hoilo W . W|^ Ready-Made Clothing, Ladies’ and Misses Dress Goods, of various styles ; Medicines, Drugs, Dye-Stuffs, p a j ntl Oils. A FULL VARIETY OF NOTIONS to please the little children as well those of a larger growth. All of which, together with many other things, 'Will be sold Cheaper than Ever, FOR CASH. {fe LOOK HERE, LOOK HERE! AND THEN COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES, THAT F. M. BAILEY (At tiie Old Stand of J. G, McLester.) HAS JUST RECEIVED AND WILL KEEP CONSTANTNY ON HAND, A FULL ASSORTMENT $ DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARD-WARE, EARTHEN-WARE, GLASS-WARE, HOL. LOW-WARE, ROOTS & SHOES, LADIES’ & GENTLEMENS’ HATS, Ready-Made Clothing, ALL QUALITI^ CS and Drugs, Medicines, Faints and Dye-Stuffs, LADIES’ DRESS GOODS -A. IN'ID T DRUM! AMINOS In rich Variety, and a multitude of Pleasing Notions in great Profusion! These G-oods will he sold at Athens and Gainesville Prices! Call and have this assertion verified ! Oct 16 PENDERGRASS & HANCOCK Would Respectfully Call tiie Attention of CASH BUYERS § PROMPT-PAYING CUSTOMERS, TO TIIEIR NEW STOCK OF FALL GOODS, Which consists of TIIE REST PRINTS at 10 cents per yard, FINE RRANDS OF PLEACHING at and 15 cents per yd. GRANITEYTLLE DRILLING at 12.( cts. per yard. BRUMBY’S BROGAN SHOES, $1.75 per pair. MEN! BOYS* Ready-Made CLOTHING OF TIIE LATEST FALL STYLES. Ladies * flats and Bonnets,. Irtificial Flowers, Ribbon, <>. The [Largest steek. of Soots and Shoes THAT HAS EVER BEEN BROUGHT TO JEFFERSON! CHEAPER TUJAAISr EVER I LARGE STOCK OF OVERSHOES, Umbrellas, &c. SADDLES, RRIDLES, COLLARS, k FACTORY JANES, Cassimeres, Cotton Yarns, Osnabtirgs. (’hecks, Shirting, Pleaching, TICKINGS, BLANKETS, &c. LADIES’ and GENTS’ SHAWLS, Linseys, Flannels, &c. Crockery and- Glass-'Ware! A SELECT STOCK of LAMPS AND CHIMNEYS. PAINTED BUCKETS, CEDAR BUCKETS, WELL BUCKETS, <s-c. LARGE STOCK OF HARDWARE, Table Cutlery, Pocket Cutlery, &c. ■:^.H ats and Caps, FULL LINE OF NOTIONS, Drugs and Patent Medicines, Glass, Putty. Spice, Pepper, Soda, Salts, Rlue Stone, Coperas, &c. KEROSENE OIL! (fiPOCI-PIFQ COFFEE, TEAS, MOLASSES, SYRUPS, LARD, HAM, uay Vbfvltdj CHEESE, FLOUR, bacon, salt, k ALL TOILET ARTICLES, Perfumery, HAIR OIL, TOILET SOAPS, &c. In fact almost everything except artificial teeth, tombstones and playing cards. October 16, 1875. and see us when you come to town L. SCHEVENEIX <fc Cos., Broad street, Athens, G-a., Dealers Iu American and Imported 'Watches, Cloeks, Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware, -{I BRIDAL PRESENTS,!)' GUNS, PISTOLS, MUNITION, SPECTACLES, EYE-GLASSES, MUSICAL INSTRUCTS, CANES, FANCY ARTICLES, sc.„ <£c. * HATING BEST AND EXPERIENCED WORKMEN, WE ARE PREPARED To do Repairing and Gold and Silver Plating in superior Athens, Ga.] CALL AND SEE XJS I [July3l IT Q.EORGIA, Jackson County. Whereas, John A Daniel, administrator of the estate of John I \\ Randolph, late of said coun ty, deceased, represents to the Court that he has fully administered the estate of said deceased, and makes application, in proper form, for Letters of Dismission— Therefore, ail persons concerned, arc hereby notified to file their objections on or before the first Monday in February, 1876, if any they have to the granting of said letters of dismission or else Letters Dismissory. as prayed for by the ap plicant will, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary to be held in and for said county be granted. ✓ J ’ Given under my official signature, this Ist of Nov.. 1875. no 6 W. C. HOWARD, Ord’y. SPECIAL NOTICE. A l if i pcrsons indebted to the firm of J. D. A JX 11. J. Long, are most earnestly requested to tome forward and settle their indebtedness either >v ( ash or Note. The death of the Senior lnom >er of the firm, necessarily dissolves the partner ship, and it is important that the books be closed at once. _ H. J. LONG, Nov G, 1875. Surviving Partner, r SEND 50 CENTS FOR A YEAR’S SUBSCRIPT 0 * the “typos Guide,” a valuable CATION TO ALL INTERESTED IK ART OF PRINTING. J/O v Cn Yyr jy y richMokq -- 1 fyyggj FOUNDRY, tl % 1200-1208 Ax/ ALL THE TYPE ON WHICH THIS rAI’L J{ 1 ED WAS MADE AT THE RH’HM ()>1 TYPE FOUNDRY-