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BAINBRIJGE, GEORGIA. MARCH ,16 1876-
Number 23
ggN. E. RUSSELL, - Proprietor.
gtj E Rhekll, % - R. M, Johnston,
EDJTOB8.
P A imirib«*, (»a., March 16, 1876.
At the request of Col. Carey W. Styles,
* e take rest.pleasure in the
,nnp.«<l i‘»rft\ i I W J
i To Mexican .Veterans.
flaring been appointed, by Gen. W. S.
Walker, President of the Association of
Mexican Veterans for Georgia. Chairman,,
of tlie Committee to collect unwritten in-
tidents, facts and matters of interest con
nect'd with the campaigns to the city of
be Aztecs, 1 respectfully invite contrilm-
ti«m« from vetrans everywhere, but more
pccially from residing in South Caroli-
ninnd Georgia.' Short letters, detailing
incidents, facts, circumstances and inter
esting events, personal and otherwise, will
be thankfully received, and carefully com
piled and printed for the Association.
Georgia and Carolina papers will please
copy.
Carey W. Styles,
Albany, Ga.
CURREN’Tevents
The Savannah News is lecturing Ben.
Hill.
Alfonso Taft, of Ohio, has beenappoin-
| ted Secretary of War.
It is thought Congress will adjourn
| about the first of May.
Belknap has been arrested and gave bail
| in the sum ot $‘25,000 for his appearance.
Cook A Cheek, of Atlanta, htjye failed,
with liabilities of $300,000.
The Pinchback case is settled, and
Pinch is left out iu the cold. The vote
w»s 32 to 29 against him.
A raid on a low gambling den in Wash
ington the other night surprised nearly a
! hundred department clerks playing keno.
The New Orleans Democrat says : “The
j. licioit. distribution of $ (5.000 among
I tin' negro 's and white scatrips of the Loui-
siana Sen ito saved Kellogg from impeach-
I went.”
Srheni’k. the corrupt Minister to Y.ng-
n i, another one of Grant’s proteges, has
l.o n oum;s'lloil to resign. It. II. Dana,
of Massachusetts, has been appointed his
Potash Par row lias been re-appointed
1 nitod Stales District Attorney for Gcor-
[ gia, the ollorts of Jack Brown, Sloan and
others to defeat him, to the contrary not
withstanding.
Mississippi seems to have gone into the
impeachment business with a vim. The
House of Representatives have procured
articles of impeachment against both Go f.
Ames and Lieut Gov. Davis.
In the House, Pur man, of Florida,
m idea personal explanation. lie accuses
his accuser of swindling neypoes while
sgeiit of the Freedman’s Bureau and the
Frecilman’s Bank.
The Sub-elections Committee reported
bsai a majority of them agree upon facts
which, if accepted by the Committee,will
result in a report to the House favorable
'o Finley as against Wall, the sitting
member from Florida.
It is reported from Washington to the
Western Press that it will be shown,
before the close of the session, that Bel
knap, Babcock, Boss Shepherd, Robeson,
Ingalls and Horace Porter have constitut
ed a ring, and made a great deal of money
finning out otlices.
Let no guilty paper escape. Let us
have the whos and the wherefores in this
State Road Lease business. Investigate !
In the Senate a number ofprivate fills
verc passed.
Gordon called up the bill to amend the
revenue laws. His speech attracted great
attention.
There arc about ten thousand contracts
for the next four years awarded on straw
bids by the Post Office Department.
A prominent member of the House and
a member of the investigating Committee,
thinks that three of the seven members of
the Cabiuet will be impeached.
lleister Clymer is quoted as saying that
everything in the War Department is sale
able. Belknap sold ever the wharfing
privileges about Washington.
Ex-Secretary Delano and his son, John,
will be before the House Committee for
selling trading stations on the Indian res
ervations.
Babcock has resigned the position of
Secretary to the President. Grant, Junior,
sueceeeds him.
The State election in New Hampshire
occurs on March 14th. It is a great un
certainty. For the last two years, the of
ficial returns show that a change of five
huudred votes in the total of seventy-five
thousand would have reversed the deci
sion. •
Ths Elections Committee, with three
dissenting votes, decided to report in
favor of seating Finley who contests Wall's
**1 fro® Florida. Wall is cbkfirtd.
Professor Silliman gave evidence that
he had examined the Emma mine and bad
given a certificate,but the quality of silver
ore had fallen off, and the yield decreased
in value. The depreciation was beyond
anticipation, and no man could foretell it.
There is reason to believe that England
will demand reparation on behalf of the
Englishmen who suffered by Schenk’s en
dorsement of the Emma mine swindle.
Mr. Ferry, President pjg tan of the
ggnate, has caused the doorkeepers to J»e
udUtied |h£t Pincljjjaek is suit
uUeato the privileges of the floor of the
Senate. Pinch’s case may come up to-j
day in a motion to reconsider.
The New York Herald has got no words
of condolence for the administration 4n
tli^hour of its sore tribulation. It says
“the President’s acceptance of Belknap’s
resignation is an act worse than the of
fense of the Secretary,” for which he is
impeached. The Herald maintains that
Grant was thoroughly posted in regard to
Belknap's guijt more than a year ago.
The Spencer vs. Morey case from Loui
siana has been referred to a sub-committee,
consisting of Beebe, House and Well’s.
The Acceptance of the Resignation
The President’s acceptance of Mr. Bel
knap’s resignation is an act worse than
the offense ot the Secretary. To screen
him from the consequences of this arbi
trary interference between Congress and
the guilty official. General Grant’s friends
claim that lie was not aware of the extent
of the Secretary’s offenses when he ac
cepted the resignation. But this defense
will not do. The President had been in
formed of the scandals of the War De
partment, and besides this the very fact
that Mr. Belknap resigned was revelation
enough. President Grant had no excuse
under these circumstances Tor accepting
the .resignation instantaneously and with
“great regret,” but was bound by official
dignity and duty to consult with tbeOabi-
uet and await the action of Congress.
The reason why we consider the act of
the President worse than the offense of
the Secretary are these:
First. The President lias endeavored
officially to protect a criminal who con
fessed to hi.n his crime. It matters not
how far that crime was confessed or how
“confused and incoherent” was the man
ner of the offender. The President knew
there was guilt.
Beeond. The President has endeavored
to prevent Congress from vindicating the
honor of the Republic. The disgrace
which Mr. Belknap inflicted upon the
coun’ry required Congress should instant
ly purge tlio Government by his impeach
ment and conviction. This W’us necessa
ry to the honor of the country, and this
the President has forbidden. The articles
of impeachment adopted by the House, it
is feared, will fall like spent bullets. The
President, has pardoned Air. Belknap
before the Senate could try him.
, Third. The President crowns by this
act of interference a long series of acts of
protection to officials who were suspected
or accused or convicted of crime. The
list need not be repealed now, but the
final act easts a retroactive shuwdow over
a record already dark ami doubtful
enough.
Fourth. General Grant lias by this act
placed the Executive in a suspicious atti
tude in the sight of the world. \\ hat the
world may think of Ulysses S. Grant may
not be important, but in the opinion that
other nations may bold of the President
of the United States the people have cer
tainly an interest. The President dis
graces the people when he uses his
authority to protect criminals, and puts a
veto upon their punishment. The felony
of the Secretary of War was bad enough,
but the act by which the President re
moved him from the hands of Congress,
and tried to baffle impeachment and pre
vent the nation from vindicating its honor,
constitutes a moral offense which the law
inay^A tie ab|t\$q J>itpj§h, but%hich the
people, who made them will not forget.—
N. Y. Herald.
Radical Republicanism.—Here is a
definition of Radicalism from the Cincin
nati Enquirer worthy of a place in Ap
pleton's Encyclopedia. The Enquirer
says: “The Rapublicau party is a party
that exists simply on its hates. It hates
the white people of the South. It hates
foreign-born citizens. It hates Catholics.
It hates skeptics iu religion. It hates
everybody that doesu't keep Sunday and
fails to regulate his diet according to
its ideas. It hates Democracy. It has
some loves, but they are all connected
with itself. It loves office. It loves fraud.
It loves speculation, and it loves stealing.
By the Republican party iu this we mean
the averag® Republican politician, and
not the manly Republican voter who is
honest but misguided.
RETURNING HEALTH-
The Baltimore Gazette takes a ra
tional and hopeful view of the political
situation, in which the honest patriots,
of the country, of all parties, may fiud
encouragement for the futn e, if not
consolation for the past. It does not
consider the recent disgraceful revela
tions at Washington to be an unmixed
evil. It is good, sayB the Gazette, for
a republic, or any form of government
to be sometimes brought face to face
with crimes and shames of then in high
office. -By the theory 67 a republic,
o»r executive officers are our servants,
not our masters, and it is well for us to
be remiuded occasionally that thay are
faithless servants, to be kicked out with
as little ceremony as we turn away a
cook for stealing tea and sugar. When
a great man is placed in a high office
there is phase of flunkeyism which is
ready te fall down and worship him, to
flatter, to excuse his faults, blunders,
brutalites and even his crimes. The
great man grows pampered, self-willed
and imperious. Hs ceases to adminis
ter law, aDd begins to administer his
own will and his own whim. Then the
flatterers say with approval tb^j, he is a
“strong man,” that he has “a will of
his own,” and that be has “put his foot
down,” and so the great man comes to
think that it is a floe thing to be a
strong man and put his foot down.
Then # he gets encouraged to put his
toot down on the throat of the liberties
that he had sworn to protect, aud again
the crowd of flatterers fall into ecstasies
of admiration. King Log gradually
becomes converted into King Stork,
aud still the little frogs croak their fee
ble admiration.
This republic has had three periods
of danger from this adoring flunkeyisn,.
First with George Washington. The
adoration in which he was held made
hint too strong for the safety of a re
public He, however, was too lofty a
character to make a bad use of his pow
er ; and so .hat danger parsed. Next
was Andrew Jackson, but the sturdy,
manly Democracy of his era was a
slrong counterpoise to his power. Next
came Lincoln, but his sudden and d;s.
astrous death closed what might have
heou a dangerous c ntraiizauou of pow
cr. Now comes Grant. His popular
ity when he first came to the executive
chair was unli.. ited. The North wor
shipped, and even in the South he was
known as a magnanimous soldier, who
had made it his first duty to feed star
vtng Vicksburg after its fall; who had
granted honorable terms to the con
quered army at App< uiattox. and had
rescued Lee from a humiliating trial
for treason. The whole country had
pictures#f him, liked his bluntness, bis
omnipresent eigar. his taciturnity. He
was a ‘Great Silent Man.”
The great silent man nae used the
vast power which gratitude and popu
larity gave him. tc the utter debauch-
rnent of everything respectable and sa
cred in government. He and his crea
tures have trampled upon the rights of
States by military force, and rotted
them by judicial frauds.
He has disgraced diplomacy by his
Schenks and piokies, his cabinet by ac
cepting a swindler’s resignation, law by
his Williams and Pierrepout, finance by
his Bout wells and Richardsons, com
merce by his Fisks Goulds, Jay Cooks,
Henry Clews and Corbins, the criminal
procedure by his interference in the
Babcock and Harrington trial, the In
dian servioe by his brother Orville
Grant and Daiano, the army by refu
sing to accept Babcock’s resignation,
and thus holding him out as an officer
and a gentleman, the internal revenue
distrust them, suspect them, insisting
always upon the strictly lawful exercise
of their functions. They are our ser
vants, not our masters ; they are ap
pointed by us to administer specific
things, not to govern. Qease ess vigi-
lauce is the price of liberty ; and it is a
wholesome thing to respect an office
and despise the holder of the office.
Grant is a better president now that
he is almost universally Aespised, We
have no reason to blus^j>60W for our
republic. We are no more disgraced
by the Schencks, Belknaps and such,
than a large and honorable busines
firm would be by finding out a pilfering
shop boy.
THE GOVERNORSHIP.
From the Atlanta Constitution.]
Governor Alien, of Ohio, has recently
said, as reported by a correspondent, in
regard to the Republican aspirants for the
Presidency of the United States, that
“some distinguished gentlemen who are
seeking the greatest office on the globe re
mind me of commercial drummers run
ning around the country showing their
samples. No man has ever made himself
President yet, and I hope no man can.”
Is it not true that we have a parallel il
lustration upon a somewhat lower plane
in connection with the Gubernatorial of
fice in this State?
In .he unprecedented canvass for the.
office of Governor, which has been in
progress in the State of Georgia for the
last two years, who has been responsible?
Surely not the people of the State. Noth
ing has exercised them less, it must be
admitted by every candid mind, than the
question, who was to be the successor of
the present Governor, more than satisfied
as they have been with his successful ad
ministration of the affairs of State, under
the most trying and difficult circumstan
ces.
All honor to him that it is not known
to this hour whether he would accept a
re-election to the position he has occupied
with so much advantage to the State, and
in which he has repeatedly given evidence
of a high order of statesmanship.
White refusing to give any manifesta
tion of a disposition to seek k continu
ance of the office, he has very properly
declined to lower his dignity by refusing
an office which had not been tendered
him, or to distrauchise himeeif by (iqtlar
iug ttiat be would act accept a renewal of
the trust if it were offered.
We have hud no communication, either
direct or indirect, with the Governor, aud
have no means of knowing what the views
of the present Executive are, but of one
thing we are positively certain, that if he
has wares lor s.tle, they hare not been
publicly hawked about, aud that he has
made a wise and faithful Governor, and
that the State is not likely to lose anything
of honor or prosperity by his re-election:
hut if for an3’ good reason lie should de
cline the honor, if tendered, or if the peo
ple prefere a change of ruler, there is no
lack of able men in addition to those who
have so early and so persistently manifest
ed their willingness to serve the Stute in
that capacity.
With Jenkins, Johnson, Lawton, the
Jacksons, Bleckley, Simmons, Bacon,
Wofford, Trammell, Dabney, Crawford
and many others, besides those who are
already conspicuous as candidates, the
people will have no difficulty in selecting
a competent Governor for themselves at
the proper time.
No Politician.
THE LONDON PRESS ON BELK
NAP.
London, March 4.—The Time* this
morning says edilorially of the Belknap
scandal: “This event is the more grave,
because it is confirmatory of A suspicion
which has long prevailed among Ameri
can people. Even the Europeans cannot
but be struck with the altered tones is
which Americans speak, if not of their
institutions, at least of the men who have
the present direction of them.”
The Hem, alluding to the same subject,
says: “American political life seems to
be in anything but a healthy condition.”
It refers to the whisky fraud trials, the
Emma mine scandal and the downfall of
Belknap, and says that “these scandals
, , . r» i j t j * lift the veil from a class of society which
bv his McDonalds. Joyces and Averys, , .
* ’ _ i it was hitherto pretty generally supposed
the civil service by filling the offices had ^ Jet escapcd the impu ritie8 of the
with bin relatives, personal friends, and social c tni ta below, and they lead one to
by his special and unfailing preference ; fear that some of the worst vices of muni-
for blackguards and knaves. Every- | cipal government may be percolating into
thing has felt his leaden, selfish and de
grading influence. He has defied and
i now defies even common honesty and
decency.
Purman, the notorious carpet-bag Con
gressman from Florida, who is now re
ceiving some attention at the hands of a
committee in relation to his attempt to
peddle cadetships, instead of attempting
to disprove the charge, is trying to show
that bis accuser is himself a person of
easy virtue. This is probably Purtnan’s
best card, for his proposition to sail a ca
detship to a citizen of Monti cclto, Florida,
is, if we remember correctly, susceptible
of veJW prdof .—Sm
the Federal administration.”
The Telegraph s&ys: “Disclosure after
disclosures, charges after charges, vary
ing in degrees of truth, but with the same
ugly and untoward character, have lately
All this was possible, because the ! darkened the commercial, religious, judi-
pei.plo loved him too much aud trusted * cial and administrative institution!i olT the
r » rru- United States. Some have proved false
him too far Things are ge e j and others true, and more await evidence:
bow because they love and trust him ; jj Ut g ecera i effect, beyond denial, has
less. It is not the finding out of polit-. b ^. ea t0 bring the‘blu-h of shame and anx-
ical crimes tlftt is the shame j that is * iety into the face of all honest Americans,
returning health.. It * the not find- ■ and to make countless friends of the Re-
„ , . ... , , , miblic in this country s'lent and sorrow
ing of them out that i- t e anger a f a j wb en its enemies rejoice over these
the shama. These things bring us recurring revelations.”
back to the true principles of a repub- The Standard says: “Happily, countries
lie. It is not good for us to love snd f are few where so gross an abuse of trust
rrust tmr ruin. We must watch them, j would he possible."
GENERAL SLOCUM ON BELKNAP
General H. AY. Slocum, who is now
President of the Brooklyn Board of City
Works, in Con venation with a reporter
yesterday concerning the Belknap expos
ures. said! “While on the trip with Gen
eral Sherman last summer I went from
post to post, and was there told by regu
lar army officers Nbat the positions were
being sold and they had to suffer for it.
They would speak more freely to me than
they would to General Sherman, know
ing that I was a Democrat and opposed
to the administratiaii. These officers com
plained that since a change bftd been made
in the manner of appointing post traders
the commanding officers of the posts had
lost all control over the traders as to what
should be sold and what prices charged.
The old system used fo be to have the
post trader appointed by what was called
a council of administration, which con
sisted of the three officers highest in rank.
This council not only appointed the post
trader, but they took his invoices and ar
ranged the prices that he should charge
for goods he sold, on the basis of the in
voice he presented to them. The trader
was subject to the orders of the command
ing office* of the post in everything, just
as a soldier was.”
“Who was responsible for the abolition
of that system and the establishments
the new one?”
“Why, Belknap himself was. He got
the law passed. Well, these officers com
plained that after the' old system was
done away with and the appointment of
the post trader given to the iecrltary of
War that the post trader not ouly became
entirely independent as to the prices he
should charge, hut as to what he should
sell, and at more than one post I was told
by officers that entire strangers had come
in there and taken traderships, and raised
the price of goads sometimes two, three
and four hundred per cent. There being
no other place where the officers and sol
diers could buy little supplies they were
completely at the mercy of the trader. It
was the general belief among the officers
that appointments were corruptly made.”
The General said he was told by offi
cers that they could furnish him with wit-
nessess to prove just what has now come
out. The information referred to Fort
Bill and other posts. He said: “I liked
Belkuap. i know hint personally, and I
like him. I don’t chuckle over his falL
I thiuk it is > great misfortune. Between
you aud me, I thiuk Grant has done more
thuu Belknap. Bui if members of Con
gress are not smart enough to find out
that such things are going on they are
not tii for their places. You can see what
this disgrace is going to result iu. It will
have a tremendous effect in Europe and
greatly injure the good name of _our Re
public. It is a very sad affair.”—Neu>
York Herald.
THE PRESIDENT’S ATTEMPT TO
PROTECT BELKNAP.
In an interview with the reporter of
the Baltimore Gazette, Captain Robinson,
of the Tenth United States cavalry, says
he wrote to Grant three years ago inform
ing him of Belknap’s bonanza, and the
President cashiered him for his officious
ness. There is abundance of other evi
dence going to prove beyond question of
a doubt that Grant was informed of the
Fort Sill villainy, as well as other rascal
ities of his late Secretary of War, more
than a year ago, and yet he attempts to
excuse his efforts to shield him by instan
taneous acceptance of Ids resignation on
the ground that even after listening to
Belknap’s confession he was ignorant of
the gravity of bis offense. No excuse
could be more preposterous. Even if the
President had known nothing of Belknap’s
guilt, the time and manner in which the
resignation was tendered, accompanied
by a request for its immediate acceptance,
should have deterred him from such
prompt compliance. It is impossible to
believe that a President entirely free from
complicity with the thieves by whom he
is surrounded would so willingly inter
pose his power for their protection. Every
day’s developments strengthen the convic
tion the government is in the hands of or
ganized banditti—that the people are be
ing plundered on every hand by Forty
Thousand Thieves, and that Grant is the
Hasarac of the band.
The Atlanta Constitution publishes
some evidence going to show that we
printed some articles for Joey Brown in
regard to the State Road lease. True,
quite true. But a reference to our files
will show that the articles are marked as
advertisements—indeed, the receipts pa
raded in the Constipation prove this: In
Ibe words of Colonel John Lowlow, late
of Robinson’s immense aggregation of
caravan, “Bring in another Boss 1"
The Kimball House has been levied on
as the property of Hi Hannibal. His
friends, *he holders of the bogus bonds,
ought to come to his relief.—Savannah
New*.
It is currently reported in Washington
that there are other charges of corruption
against Belknap besides the one in which
hU wife figured, and that the Committee
have obtained veiy positive testimony.
A Washington dispatch says the im
peachment of President Grant “is warm
ly discussed and is thought highly proba-
tfle.”
Naming the Nominee.
The Atlanta Courier, as well as Senator
Gordon, believes in Mr. Thurman, as the
coming man of the Democracy. A cor
respondent of the Boston Post has assum
ed that Mr. Blaine would be the Presi
dential nominee of the Republicans and
Mr. Hendricks of the Bemocrata, and
npgn this basis figures out a majority of
one hundred and five electoral votes for
the Man from from Maine—giving him
the votes of such States as Florida, Loui-
sifla, New Jersey, New York, Ohio,
Pennsy'vania and West Virgipia. This
calculation moves the Courier to say:
We suggest the following change in the
situation to the “Six Spectators.” Put
Thurmau in Hendricks' place. We believe
that his candidacy would secure New
York with its 35 votes, Ohio with its 23
and New Jersey with its 9. Now deduct
from Blaine’s 237, AVest Virginia’s 5, and
Carolina’s 6, which any candididate will
take away from him, and he has 256 and
Thurman will have 143. Now transfer
New York (35), Ohio (22),anci New Jersey
(9), aud the vote will stand: Blaine, 160,
and Thurman, 209. But it may be said
that Thurman cannot carry Indiana, after
he has beaten her favorite son in the
nomination. All right, with Indiana (15
votes),transfered.the vote would be; Thur
man, 194, Blaine, 175. Thurman would
have, besides the above vote, which may
be counted pretty certain, good chances
at New Hampshire, Louisiana, Florida
and Connecticut, and we believe he could
carry Indiana also. It is our deliberate
opinion that, with Blaine aud Tliurm n
in the field, Thurman would get a rousing
majority of the electoral votes. But Thur
man is, in our opinion, the only man who
can be sure of carrying the flag to victory.
Hendricks is strong in the West, but
could not control the Eastern vote. Tild-
en and Bayard are strong in the East, but
cannot control the AVestern. vote. Thur
man can control Ohio, and is as strong in
the East as any Eastern man could be.
His nomination is, in our opinion, the
only key to the situation.
E. 0. Wade, “Deputy Collector of In
ternal Revenue for the Southern District
of Georgia,” who resides at Quitman,
seems to ht\ye been employed by his mas
ter in Washington to run the “outrage
mill” in this State. He acquits himself
most admirably in his position, as is evi
denced by a letter which he recently
wrote to the “National Republic” at
Washington. Many liars have done well,
Mr. Wade, but “thou excellest them all.”
You ' ave proven that nothing can be too
falsejfor 3 r ou to utter for the truth, if it
will serve your party purposes ; no work
too t*Rse for you to engage in, if but bid
den by j’9ur master to do so. We doubt
not your position is serure during the
reign cf the present administration. If
you have any fears on the subject, you
have only to add stealing to lying and
3'ou are safe.—B'uihely New*.
It may be interesting to some of our
readers to know that one W. L. Clark,
who occupied a seat in the Georgia Senate
for four years, claiming to live in Thom-
asville. is now editor and proprietor of a
sheet published ip Atlanta called “The
Atlanta Republican,” the general charac
ter of which is full)-' disclosed by the fact
that he endorses Wade's lies as being true,
and heads his,?Wade’s, lletter as “the
ring of the true metal” when tie knows
that there is not a grain of truth in the
whole letter. The intention of the Rads
evidently is to stir up the North again
with the old cry that the South is still un
subdued and longing for another war.
Move somewhere else, Mr. Clark, you are
so well known in this Stale that you can
not even get the poor ignorant negroes to
believe anything you say.
Blaine is acc sed of not only trying
to steal Grant’s thunder on the school
question, but of trying to out-do Mor
ton as a bloody shirt shrieker, in order
to get ahead of them in the race for the
Presidency. The way in which he
envies Morton the possession of that
bloody shirt is really painful. He has,
as everybody knows, a bloody shirt of
his own, but it does’nt satisfy him. By
the side of Morton's it looks as if, in*
stead of having been dyed in loyal
blood, it had simply been dipped in
A r enetian red or Spanish brown.
Good Idea.—The Grand Jury of
Decatur county at their late session,
recommended to the board of county
commissioners to have a detailed state
ment of tbc county finances published
at least every three months. If ws are
not mistaken there is a law compelling
county treasurers to publish an annual
statement of the condition of the treas
ury. but nothing of tbe kind has been
dene in this county for the past eight
yean. Just at this time a detailed
statement of tbe financial condition of
the coonty, its receipts and disburse,
meats, would be interesting reading
matter. Whose duty is it to make the
Report, the Treasurer, or the Connty
Commissioners? Let the duty fall on
.whom it may, we hope the Report will
Be AfltitVbming—Sutmjpa- HefnJdXoax.
Dissolution Of Copartnership.
The Copartnership existing under the
name of ftteininger A Smith is Jbia day dis
solved by unreal consent. Either of the
parties are authorized to collect the outstand
ings of the firm and receipt for the same.
JULIUS STEfNINGER.
ABRAHAM E, SMITH.
Baintrhlgs, Ga., March 1st, 1876—2m.
GEORGIA—Dscatcr Coc.ntt.
G W. Raiqis Guardian of E. J. Garland
haring applied to the court of Ordinary
of said county for a discharge from his guar
dianship of E. J. Garland person and prop
erty, this is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to show cause by filing objection#
in my office why the said G. W. Itaigin
should not he dismissed from bis Guardian
ship of E. J. Garland and received the ȴo-
al letters of dismission. Given under my
official signature this Nov. 3. 1875.
HIRAM BROCKETT.
* Ordinary D. C.
LOST OR MISLAID.
Two notes of huq0, signed by Messrs.
Babbit & Warfield, one fot $574.48, dated
September 27tb, 1875. and payable to Hen
ry & John Paret’or order, four months after
date, and due January 27th, 1876- Also
one note signed by Babbit & Warfield, for
$92.13. dated October 25th, 1875, payable
to Henry & John Faret or order, and duo
October 25th, 1876.
Any one finding the above notes will
confer a favor by handing same to Messrs.
Babbit & Warfield, as they have paid same
to me as agent of H. ^ J. Paret, N. Y.
jan25-4t J. II. WHITE.
CITATION.
To All Whom it May Concern t
GEORGIA—Df.catcr County.
Elias Harrell and Littleton Harrell having
in proper form applied to me for permanent
letters of Administration on the estate ■ ot
Elisha Harrell, late of said county, this is to
cite all and singular the creditors and next
ot kin of Elisha Harrell to be and appear at
my office within the term allowed by law,
aud show cause if any they can why perma
nent. Administration should not be granted
to Elias Harrell and Littleton Harrell on
Elisha ‘Harrell’s Estate. Witness my hand
and official signature.
HIRAM BROCKETT,
Jan. 4, 1876. Ord y 1>. C.
Notice.
The co-partnership heretofore existing
between the undersigned, under the firm
name of Babbit tk. Warfield is this day dis
solved by mutual consent. The business
will be continued by William Warfield, who
assumes the liabilities and to whom payment
of inoeMoaness to tw- into firm is ta L«
made _ ~F. L. Babbit
William Warfield
Bainbridge, Ga- Feb/ 1st 1878 feb-10.
GEORGIA—Decatur County.
W 11EREA8 Reuben Chasou adm’r of
H. B. Overstreet represents to the
Court in his petition dui3> filed and entered
on record, that he has fully administered
[{. B. Overstreets Estate This is therefore
to cite all persons concerned to show cause
if any they can, why said administrator
should not be discharged from hiB adminis
tration and receive letters of dismission on
the first Monday tu April next.
Hiram Brockett
Dee. 30th, 1876- Ord’y D. tt
GEORGIA—Decatur County.
Bradford Rodgers Guardian of R. C. Gray,
having applied to the Court of Ordinary of
said county for a discharge from his Guar-
lianship of R. C. Gray person and property,
this is therefore to cite all persons concern
ed to show cause ny filing objections in my
office why the said Bradford Rodgers should
not be dismissed from bis Guardianship of
t. C. Gray and receive the usnal letters of
dismission. Given under my official signa
ture. HIUAM BROCKETT
Ordinary D. C.
Dec. 28, 1875.
GEORGIA—Decatur County.
Whereas. John B. Williams, Administra
tor of Nathan Williams, represents to the
1 ourt in his petition duly filed and entered
on record, that he has fu’ly administered
>a*han Williams’ estate, this is therefore to
cite all persons concerned, kiudred and
creditors, to show cause, if any they osh,
why said Administrator should not be dis
charged from his administration and receive
letters of dismission, on tbe first Monday in
May next. HIRAM BROCKETT,
Feb, 1st. 1876. Ordinary D. C.
To All Whom it May Concern.
GEORGIA—Decatur County.
Abraham B. Belcher having in proper
form applied to me for permanent letters of
Administration on the estate of Louisa M.
Swieord, late of said county, this is to cite
all and singular the creditors and next of
kin nf Louisa M. Swicord to be and appear
at my office on the first Monday in Feburary
next and show cause if any they can why
permanent administration should not be
granted to A. B Belcher, on Louisa M. Swi-
cord’s estate. Witness my hand and official
signature, this January 3rd, 1876.
Hiram Brockett,
Ord’y D. C.
GEORGIA—Decatur County
peter J. Morison has applied for setting
apart of homestead and exemption of per
sonality, and I will pass upon the same at
my office on the 26fh. of Fe' ruary 1876, at
10 o’clock a. m. This February 16, Id76,
HIRAM BROCKETT,
Ord’y D. C.
GEORGIA—Decatur County.
By virtue of an order from the Cburt of
Ordinary of Decatur County, will be sold on
the 1st Tuesday of March 1876, at the court
house door in said county between the legal
hours of sale the following tract of land No.
254 in the 27th dist. of said county, contain-
i ng 250 acres, more or leas—belonging to
the estate of I). W. Lewis, deceased, sold for
benefit of heirs and creditors. Terms cash.
Elizebeth Lewis,
Admx. Let D. W. Lewis.
Feb. 10,1876.
GEORGIA—Decatur County.
8. W. Patterson has applied for setting
apart of Homested and exemption of per
sonalty, and I will pass upon the same at
my office on Saturday the eleventh day of
March 1876 a. m.
HIRAM BROCKETT.
Mar* », IF*. Ord’y-D. C.
HUB