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published Every Thurtday y “HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED B TINFL UENCB AM) UNBRIBED BY GAIN.- 4 Two Dollar* Ttt A*u.u,a Volume 5 -r " L HHJ H 9 fhe Weokly Democrat. 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 »¥o- 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