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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1866)
The Monroe Doctrine to be Enforced-- lmport&nt Disclosures. ■Washington, January 9 —The President to day transmitted to the House of Represents tires, in compliance with the resolution of t 18th ultimo, requesting information in regard to steps taken by an European power to secure re coition by the United States of the so-called Mexican empire, a report from the Acting Secretary of State, and the papers by which it was accompanied. _ . The first of these papers is a communication from Sen or Arrego to Mr. Corwin, of March 2d 1865, in which he desires to ascertain whether the habitation and recognition of our consuls can be obtained. He also says that the gov ernment, which was that of Don Benito Juarez, does not exist, whether de facto or de jure A memorandum by Mr. Seward notes that the Marquis de Montholon, on the 17th of July, cal’ed at the Department of State, saying that S special agent had arrived from Mexico bear ing a letter from Maximilian to the President of the United States, which paper made certain explanations relative to matters on the Rio Grande The Seere ary, after conference with the President, returned the letter to Montholon, saving that the United States was in friendly communication with the Republican govern ment-of Mexico, and the President declined to receive the letter or hold intercourse with the agent who brought it. On August 9ih, in re ply to a communication from Mr. Romero to Acting Secretary Hunter, asking whether the government recogiies the right of Maximilian to make the appointment of commercial agent in New York, in which position Don Louis Arrego was acting, Mr. Seward says that no law of the United States prevented a person from advertising himself as consnl, but that this government, in all its official correspond, ence, has recognized no other government in Mexico except that of Jaurez, and assures him that such a commercial agent can perform no consular act relating to the affairs of his coun trymen in the United States. To prohibit him from attesting invoices and manifestoes, says the Secretary, would be tantamount to an in terdiction of trade between the United States and those Mexican ports which are not in the possession of the Republican government of that country. On the sth.of November Mr. Seward address ed a letter to Minister Bigelow, saying that the present operations of the French army in Mex ico, and its maintenance of authority there, is cause' of serious concern to the United States. The authority which the French army is main taining is in direct antagonism to the policy of this government, and the principle on which it is founded.. He further says that the United States regard the attempt to establish perma nently a foreign and Imperial government in Mexico as disallowable and impracticable.— They are not prepared to recognize any politi cal institutions in Mexico which are in opposi tion to the Republican government with which we have so long and so constantly maintained relations of amity and friendship. Mr. Bigelow, under date of November 14, reports reading the dispatch to M. Drouyn de L'Huys, who thanked him, though he felt obliged to say that he derived neither pleasure nor satisfaction from its contents. Mr. Seward, on December 16th. says that it js the President’s purpose that France be re spectfully informed upon two points. ‘jrirst. That the United States earnestly de sires to cultivate sincsre friendship with that That this policy would be brought into immediate jeopardy, unless France could deem it her interest to desist from the prosecution of armed intervention in Mexico, to overthrow the domestic Republican government existing there, aDd establish upon its ruins the foreign monarchy which has been attempted to be inaugurated in the capital of that country : and in conclusion, he says that the United States will not recognize Maxi milian, even if the French troops should be withdrawn from Mexico. The papers submitted include a confidential letter from M. Drouyn De L’Huys to Marquis Mentbolen, dated Paris, October, 1865, saying that the French government would withdraw the auxiliary troops as soon as circumstances would allow it, and that the best guarantee that the French government would have that the Federal government would not impede the consolidation of the new order of things in Mexico, would be the recognition by it of the Emperor Maximilian. News from Fortress Monroe. Fortress Monroe, Die. 29 1865. Mrs* Clay is still here, and there sre no in dications of her visits to her husband being brought to a speedy close. She remained with her husband till nine o’clock last evening, and this morning, without stopping to take break fast at the hotel, rejoined him again in hia prison apartment in Cafroll Hall; and it is an apartment with little of the rough and stern features of a prison about it—no ponderous prison bars and damp walls and scanty and unwholesome food, and rode, lynx-eyed jailer. His is a snug, cosey room, and the same firle scription is applicable to that occupied by Jeff. Davis, with cheerful appointments of furniture and cheery fire in an open grate, and books of varied range—historical, biographical and all the departments of belle It trts. poetry, fiction and the fine arts. Thus far Mrs. Clay has taken her meals with her husband, and however epi curean and fastidious her tastes, I will guaran tee she has no occasion to find fault with the prison cutsine as developed in the meals served her husband. This restriction is placed on her visits—an officer is present all the time. Thus far this rather disagreeable duty of forming the third parly has devolved on Captain Hitch •ock, -Provost Marshal. The Actbbfs and the Priest —A Pbesenti meet. —The Roman Cathclic Church of this city bag met with a severe loss in the death ofßev. J. W. Cummings. * • • In this connection it is worth while mentioning a mos< remarkable incident (a presentiment it might be called) which transpired on the night after Christmas, at an annual dinner party by Mrs. Dan Bryant, in honor of the Jerry Bryant Club, at the Maison Doree Rev. D.\ Cummings was one of the . invited guests, who likewise included Mr. Manager Wheatley, John Duff, Mrs John Wood, and a few other members of the dramatic profession, in al just thirteen. I don’t know whether a ladv of Mrs. John Wood’s gay and lestive disposition is super stitious or no", but this I do know, that aa soon as she discovered the fact that that num ber of persoos were at the table, the remark was made that when such was the care at din ner partie?, someone of the members would die 'efore another year Sbe had never known it to tail Her companions smi ed at this, but. in d< ffUrence to her ecrup es. Mrs. Brvant’slit'le boy was summoned to the table in -irder loraake aneven r umber The death of the beloved pas or of St. Stephens’ so soon after the barqnet recrils th t incident, and convinces one that often when we leas’ suspect it. “ coming events do ca3t their shadows before.” . [New York Cor. Phil. Ledger. News from Washington. From the Herald’s Washington correspond ence of the 6lh we make the following extracts: THB AGGREGATE NUMBER OP TROOPS CALLED FOR DURING TAB WAR The Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, has furnished a statement of the number of volun teers called for by the President at various periods, as follows : Aggregate re duced to three States. Aggregate, yrs' standard Maine 71,745 56,695 New Hampshire 34 605 30 827 Vermont 36.256 20,052 Massachusetts 151,785 123,844 Rhode Island 23,711 Connecticut 57.270 50,614 New York 454 668 380,980 New Jersey 79.511 Pennsylvania 366 326 26. 558 Delaware 13.651 Maryland 49,730 40,691 West Virgin a 30.003 27,6a3 District of Columbia 16,872 11.606 Ohio 817,183 239.976 Indians 195,147 162.283 inintis 253,217 212 m Michigan 90.119 f0,8«5 Wisconsin 96,118 Minnesota .. 25.034 lowa .75,860 68,182 Missouri 108,773 86,192 Kentucky 78,540 70,348 Kan5a5.......... 20,097 18 - G64 Total 2,653,061 2,129.041 This information was called for. to facilitate the business of the special committee on the war debt of the loyal States, to whom it has been referred. THE RADICALS ON THE PRESIDENT'S MISSAGE, The Radicals of the House appeared in most excellent spirits during the delivery of Mr. Scalding’s speech in the Committee of the Whole on the President’s message this after noon. Mr. Spalding foreshadowed the Radical programme for reconstruction, while Mr. Ste vens and others drew up their chairs closer and smiled approvingly. They have sue cumbed to Mr. "Raymond’s logic so far as to agree with him that the lately rebellions States are really in the Union—that is, they are in the Union to be governed, bnt not to participate in the governing power. They disagree with Mr. Raymond in his view that the President has the power to restore that "impaired vitality” which he speaks of in the message. Congress alone can do that. They scout the idea that Mr. Johnson proposes to use the nse the appointing power for the over throw of his enemies as a rebel bugaboo.— Finally they produce a platform, one plank of which is negro suffrage in th© District ot lumbia, another that no State shall have rep resentation in Congress for her negro popula tion unless they vote, and another that no person who has ever borne arms against ns shall ever represent anybody in Congress. CLAIMANTS FOB THE REWARDS OFFERED FOB BOOTH. There are eight hundred claimants for the rewards offered by the government and city authorities for the capture of Booth and his conspirators. There are three hundred thousand dollars to bo divided among them at no distant day, although a persistent boriDg of Secretary StaDton has failed to discover when. As soon as those persons entitled to the re wards are recognized by the War Department the systematic prosecution of claims for the re wards pffered elsewhere will be commenced. THE NEW YORK OOLLECTORSHIP. ' The New York oollectorship still continues to attract great swarms of hungry «pplicantfl with their faithful adherents and backers.— Occasionally one or two of those first mentions ed for the place pay the capital p flying visit, pay their respects to the President, shake Sec retary McCulloch by the hand and make a has ty departure for home. Os this number, with-, in*a week, were Mr, Davies, in behalf of bis brother, apd Comptroller Denniston, on his own account. The last person named fer the po sition seems to be Chester A. Arthur. Quarter mast.er'General of New York during Governor Morgan’s administration. The hope ot all is likely to be deferred still longer, however, THE TRIAL OF SEMMKS. The Mr. Pendleton Colsten, of Baltimore, who ia associated with Judge Hughes for the defence of Raphael Semmes, is son-in-law to the latter. The trial will probably Commence in a fortnight, or as soon as Commander Wins low, of the Gulf squadron, who is an import ant witness, can arrange to come on from New Orleans. The detail of the court for the trial of Semmes has not yet been prepar and. In the meantime all persons present at any capture of vessels by him are requested to report the facts, with their names and address, to John A. Bolles. E--q., Naval Judge Advocate General, Washington. PUBLIC LANDS IN SOUTHERN STATES. It was shown in the House to-day that there are nearly forty-seven millions of acres of public lands in five of the Southern States. It i.s proposed to appropriate these lands to the ex clusive use of actual settlers, under the pro visions of the (homestead law, in tracts of eighty acres. 00TT0N CLAIMS. The Treasury Department is waiting for Congressional action, and declines to settle the vast number of cotton claims and claims for commissary and quartermasters’ stores seized during the rebellion, although many of them are urged by persons of undoubted loyalty. RECEIPTS FOR CUSTOMS. The receipts for customs at the fonr princi pal ports of the United States for the six months ending December 31, 1865, "were in round numbers seventy-seven millions and a half. The 'otal receipts from all onr ports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1865, were only eighty-four millions. It is probable that the past half year has equalled, if not exceeded, the twelve months that preceded it. SALTS OF CONFISCATED AND ABANDONED COTTON The records of the Treasury Department show that during the last two years the gov ernment has realized from sales of confiscated and abandoned cotton, sugar, Ac., in the State of Mississippi over $6,000,000. Froze to Death. —We understand a tfegro man was found dead on one of the back streets early ye-terdav morning. His death resulted from want and exposure. T..is case should be a warning to the many npgroes who are still idliog their time away, and who have nothing whatever with which to sustain life. It is a seitlen fact that the negroes must work or they will surely suffer —Montgomery Mail, of the l0:h. The bridges on the Nashville and Decatur railroad are repaired and through Ireight will be received on the 10th inst. The Secretary of the Treasury h isdeoided that canal has duly enrolled, and on which ton nage tax he« b en paid, are no', liable to itrer— nal revenue tax. From the Republican Banner. Bill Arp to His Old Friend. Mr. John Happt —Bur. I want to write to you personally about some things that? weigh in on me, I look upon you as a friend, and I feel like droppin a few lines by way of uubur tbenin my sorrowful refiuxtions For the last few years you have travelled round right smart and must have made a heap of luminns obser vations, I hear you are now livin in Nash ville, where you causee all sides of everything and read all the papers—where you can study Paradise lost without a book, aud see the devil and his angels, without drawin on the image, nation, and I tho’t may be you might assist me in my troubled feelings. I have always, Mr. Happy, endeavored to see the bright side of every pikter if it had any, but there is one or two subjects about which I bad mity nigh gin it up. I want you to tell me if you can, about what time are the black republicans are, goin to quit persecutin our people ? What are they so ev erlastin mad with us about ? Old Skuball says its for treeson that we’ve gone and done, and that I am the slowest perseevin man he ever seen not to have found it out. Now Treeson is amity bad thing, and any man fouod guilty of treeson ought to be talked to by a preacher right under a gallus, and then be allowed to stand on nothin for a few hours by the clock-. Shore enuf treeson I mean. Tree son where a man slips around on the sly in time of war, and takes sides agin his country. Jest as though for instance, I should have worked agin my suvrin State after she had aeceeded, and had stole her powder or deserted her in time of peril, while she was defending herself against the combined assaults of the world, the flesh and the devil. I wouldnt have blamed no body for hangin me for the like, would you ? But Skewball says we aint got no suvreen States—that the war have settled the question agin us on that pint I dont think so my friend. I admit that we aint nothin in partikler now, but we did hav suvreen States before the war, and the sword aint settled nor unsettled no great principles. There aint no trial of right or wrong by wager of battle now a days. For m ; ty nigh a hundred years this country have been a big debating society on these questions. From the time of Hamilton and Jefferson down to 1861, the right of a State to dissolve her own partnership hav beffd argued by powerful mind ed men, and there baa been more for it than agin it. More Presidents, more Senators, more Statesmen, more judges, more people. Massy ebusetts and Connecticut were for it at one time, and bellered round and pawed dirt arnazln to git out, but they found out Barcus was willin and they didnt go, I believe, however, that old Nutmeg did stay out about two hours and a half. Well, the South went out mity unwillingly, Mr. Happy, as you know. She had been mity nigh kicked out for a loDg time, and there was a big party that wanted us to go out and stay out. Every body knows we didnt git along in peace, so we concluded to do like Abraham and his brother-in-law; to Separate our households. What they wanted to keep us for I never could see, and cant see yit. I wouldnt have a nigger or a dog to stay round me that didnt want to. Some say they wanted us to strengthen em agin their enemies in case of a furrin war.. Does any man in his sences expect us to help the black republicans whip any body ? Have we got any worse enemies than they are 7 They cant make us fight I reckon if we dont want to. We’ve fout enuf and made nothin by it but glory, and we aint a goin to gine in another war to gratify other people. Dodds says before he’d pull a trigger for Thad Stevens, he’d have his soul transmigrated to a bench leg’d flee, and bark at his daddys mules 2000 yerrs. I wender if the experience of the last 4 years aint satisfied these fellows that our boys are a dangerous set to be turned loose in time of war. Wouldent you thiDk that as a matter of policy they would soft sodder us a little, and quit their slanderin. If we do fight for em, there will be one condi tion certain—they mout be put where David put Uriah, and -our boys mout consent to make a charge or two behind ent at tne pint of the bagnet. But I want you to tell me, John, if I am right about the history of this business. It aint a long story and I’ll Tfsll it the way I see it.— Old Pewrytan went off one day with some ships, and took a few beads and juce-harps and bought up a lot of captured uiggers from the Hottentots or some other tots, and stole a few more on the coast of Afriky and brought em over and educated em to work in the field, and cut wood, and skeer bars and so forth," nut not includin votin nor musterin nor the jury bisness nor so forth. Well, after while they found that the edd winds, and codfish airtt of New England didetit agree with the nigger, and so they begun to slide em down South as fast as possible. After they bad sold em and got the money, they jmed the church and became sanctified about slavery, sorter like the woman that got cpm verted and then give all her norvels awa/Yo her unconverted sister. Well the Old Domin ion and sich of her sons as Washington, and Jefferron, and Madison, and Randolf, brought em end worked em to satisfaktion whereupon old Pew got jelous and began to preach agin it to break it down. The fakt is they wouldent work gals in their faktories if it warent so profitable, for they are concientiously opposed to everything that dont put muney in their pockets. After while they went into the strip ed almaoak business, makin bloody pilfers of poor laßerated niggers gettin a hundred lashes for nuthin, and mournin for their first born.be caus they were not. Then they started the stealin program, and while we were tryin all the big courts and little courts to git back one eikly mellater by the Dame of Dred Skott, they were stealing from five to fifty a day, and cov erin their carcasses all over with nigger lar ceny, and smuglin the Constitution into an abolishun mush. They built a fence around the institution as high as Hainan's gallus, and hemmed it in, and laid Beige to it jest like an army would beseige a city to starve out the in habitants. They kept peggin at us untell we got mad—show enuf mad—and we resolved to cut losse from em and paddle ourpwn canoo. Now all this {itne we had some good friends among 'em—s- me who swore we were im posed upon, and said we had good cause to dissolve the partnership. They said that if we did seseed and the aboliahunest made war np on ns, they would stand by us, and throw their lives and fortunes and their sacred hon or right in the breach, and the first fight would be over their dead bodies and so forth and so on My memory is bad, but I remem ber some of em were named James Buchanan, aDd Dan Dickinson, and John Cokran, and Logan, and Cushtnir, and Bu'lr-r, snrnamerl the beast, and Mcl>rnand, and Steven A Douglass, who got his comm'ssion about the time he died, and carried it with him to part? unknown, and lastly a man bv the name ot Andv Johnson who I suVpose are some d ; s an< relation to the President of the United Stater of Ameriky. Bat a mail aint responsible for the bad conduct of bis relations, and don’’ throw it up to nobody. I suppose that onr President are doing the best he an. and Mr. Etheridge oughtent to be rakin no nis record Well 'he war come on, end show enuf Logan and Cushia and McLernard and Butler and Company buzzed around a while like bumble bees till they were brought up and then they lit- over on the other side. They got their re ward and they were welcome to it so far as I am concerned. How is it now, Mr. Happy 7 They conquered us by the sword but they havent convinced us of nuthin much that I know of. All is lest save honor, aßd that they can’t steal from us nor tarnish. If they bad held out the hand of fellowship, we would have made friends and hurried the hatchet. But the very minit they whipped us, they began to holler treason fi om one end of the country to the other, just like they had made a bran new discovery. It seemed to strike em all a sudden like an Xpo«t facto law, and they wanted to go into a general hangin business, and keep it up as long as they could find rope and timber. Now the idea of several millions of Ameri can freeman being guilty of treason at once I The idea of applyinsuch a crime to eleven great suvreen States, which met in solemn convention and in the light of day dissolved a Union they had created, and which bad been a disunion for twenty years t The idea of applyin treason to the Old Dominion the muther of States and of Washington and Jefferson and Madison and Marshall and Patrick Henry and all the Lees, and who give away all the territory in the northwest for nuthin ! Is she to be scandal ized by these new light Christians who are compounded from all the skum of all creation, and think that Paul and Peter and Revelations hav been for 200 years makin special arrange ments for receivin their sanctified souls in Paradise. Treason the dickens I Wheres vour dictionary 7 Wheres Dan’l Webster 7 Wheres the history of the Amerlkin revolu tions. No it aint treeson nor seeson—but its devil ish infernal inhuman hate. What do they keep Mr- Davis in jail fort I hear sum say that it aint Mr. Johnson’s voluntary doings ; but the tremengiouß pressure of surrounding circum stances. Durn the circumstances. Aint Mr. Davis a great aDd good man 7 If Andy John son aint an infidel, wouldn’t he swap chances for heaven with him and give all his earthly estate to boot. If Mr. Davia’s honor and integrity, and patriotism, and true courage were weighed ih a balance against Sumner’s and Stevens’, and all his enemies wouldent he outweigh em all ? Wont his conduct in Mex ico, and in the late war, and his nobility of chaiacter live longar.d grow bright in bis his tory, while the memory of the howns tnat are baying him in his dungeon will sink into ob levion ? I think so—tbars what I Bay, and I'll bet on it, and Charles O’Conner and all the women in the country will go my hslves. But there aint no particular point in all this, Mr. Happy. It’s only my opinion, that's all. I may be a tarnal fool, and I sometimes feel like I am a fefol about everything and don’t know nothin. I’m tryin my best, howevr, to take things jest as I find ’em, and my princi ple bisness for the last two months hav been weanin niggers to make em feel free. I put em all out to take care of themselves, but they keep comiu back to me, and it keeps me day and night to provide for em, Ivebeen willin a long time for em to bes; ee if they could take care of themselves, and I don’t know what Thad Stevens is a fnssln about, unless he isjastmad because our boys burnt bis iron works. If that’s all, we can plead the mins of various similar establishments in these re* gions, and get a judgment agin him. But I’m about through, Mr. Happy, with what I had to say. Only this—if there ever was an afflikted people that needed friends its us. If we’ve got any friends anywhere. I want em to show their hands and stand by us in onr trouble. I feel like reaching out to the five points of the compass in search of sym pathy, and if there is an honest stateman or a brave Boldier north of the line who lorss bis fellow men, let him open bis heart and meet ns on half-ground. We aint afeerd of beast or varmints—of devils or demons—of Stevens or Sumner—but we qre a warm-harted and for given people, and love ojir friends. Aint we and dont we? Yours, everlastingly, Bill Arp. P. S.—ls Brownlow dead yit? t‘m writin his obituary, aud thought I would like for the sad event to come off as soon as possible" I wish you would send me a list of your mem bers who voted for .that resolution declarin Gen. Lee and'Mr. Davis infamous. We are getting up a bill in the Leorgy Legialater, de clarin them infa ous who voted for the reso lution, Fight the devil with fire is iqy motto, K- 4. TUe‘‘Bonney Blue Flag” AN EDOQUENF APO&TR'-PUE. The following beautiful extract ia from a speech delivered by tho Hon. Alexander White, in the Alabama State Convention : ♦ * 0 The Bonnie Blue Flag no longer reflects the light of the morning sunbeam, or kisses with its silken folds the genial breezeof our Southern'clime. The hands that waved It along the fiery cfest of a hundred battle-fields, and the hearts that, for the love they bore it. so often defied danger and death, no longer rally around it.. Another banner waves iff triumph over its closed and prostrate folds, bnt proud memories and glorious recollections clus ter around it. "Sir, I will refrain. The South needs no eulogy. The faithful record of her achievements will encircle her brow with glory brightaDd enduring as the di dem* that crowns the night of her cloudless skies. The scenes of Marathon and Plafse have been re-enacted in the New World without the beneficent results which flow from those battle-fields of freedom, end our count y lies prostrate at the feet of the aonqueror. But-dearer to me is sbe in this hour of her humiliation than was sbe in the day and hoar of her pride and her power. Each blood stained field, each track of devastation, each new made grave of her sons fallen in the de fence, each mutilated form of the Confederate soldier—her widow’s tear, her orphan’s cry are but so many chorda that bind me to her in the midst of her desolation, and draw my affections closer around my stricken country. W en I raise my voice or lift my hand against her, may the thunders rive me where I stand Though I be false in all else, I will tc true to her. Though all others may prove feu thless, I will be faithful still. And when, in obe dience to the great command, "Dust to dust,” my heirt shall return to that earth from whence it sprung, it shall sink into her bosom with the proud consciousness that it never knew one teat noiin unison with the honor, the interests, the glory of my country. The re3ignat,ionsof Major Gene-al Kilpatrick, appointed Minis'er to Chili; Gin. J D Cox, Governor elect of Ohio; and Mwj <r General Henry E Davies, appointed Public Adm : nis Tutor under Mayor Hoffman, New York, have tieen accepted, to date January l, 1866. Rev. Fathe- Maguire, former’y th i pcpu'ar orts dent of Georgetown Colb-ee, is tp pointed to that important poeiuon, the term of 1 the esteemed Father Kiriy having expired. Five Priests Indicted In Missouri. We hare been surprised to read in the 8t; Louis Republican, of a recent date, that five priests—Fathers Knowd, McGerry, Ryan, O’Rea gan and O’Donoughoe. gentlemen who constitu ted the.ficultv of St. Vincent’s College in that State, distinguished for their teaming ard refine ment—have been indicted by a grand jury, and called to appear before a criminal court to an swer to the indictment which has some reference to the "test oath,” so-ea’led. the constitutionality of wh'ch is now before the Snpreme Court of the country. When the caseß were called, the rever end fathers petitioned for a postponement until next term, in order that they might continue teaching the Seminaries until nextylune. They were accordingly heln to bail in SI,OOO each. The arrest was made on a Saturday night, but they all gavo bail to appear on Monday, and the arresting officer left. The people on Sunday were in the highest degree excited, and it might have required but a word to aronse them to armed resisiince. But the good priests need their influ ence In another direction. I> is a fine and a beau tiful commentary on the epirit of the Catholic re ligion which counsels obedience to law and au thority. The Fathers instead of eomplaining and exciting feeling already too much aroused, sat them an example in the other direction. The church, at the 10 o’clock mass, was densely crowded. After the Gospel (which was about Jchn in prison) the officiating priest preached a beautiful sermon on patience. He showed to his congregation that they should not be angry against the people who had caused the trouble, and in the end commanded the Catholic portion of the inhfibitnnta, by all the authority he had ever them, not to say or do anything that could get np an excitement. Father McGerry, one ot the parties arrested, is described as a venerable old man, over seventy yean of age. the friend of Bishop Dubats, the second superior of Mount St. Mary’a College, Emmetsbnrg, and for miny years pas'er of a church at Washington. His memory is full of recollections of the past time, stories of the revo lution, in which his fathers fongh L He is a man whom all love and revere for his goodness and kindness. It was a strange thing to see that fine old man stand at the bar of a orim'nal court charged with a crime nnhnown to the laws. It is to be hoped that before the case is oalled for trial in June, better counsels will prevail, and that these unoffending and loyal priests will be permitted to depart anmoles*ed to pnrsae their mission of love, charily, and good will to men. Fatal Accident.— We regret to record sn accident to Mrs. Lewis, the wife of our venera ble and esteemed fellow-citizen, John Lewis, Esq. It appears that on Tuesday evoning last, while Mrs. L. was in the room with her hus band, who has for some time past been con fined to his bed, her clothes took fire from the grate. Mr. Lewis, being paralyzed, was üben ble to render any assistance, and by the time her friends who were all at that time down stairs, could come to her assistance, Bhe was very badly burned. The remedies applied were of no avail, and death released her from her sufferings about 6 o’clock yesterday morning. Her funeral will take place at 11 o’clock this morning, from the residence of Noble A. Har dee, Esq.—Savannah Advertiser, Jap. lli NOTICE. TWO months aftsr date application will be mode to the Court of Ordinarv of Richmond oounty, for leave to sell the Real Estate belong ing to the estate of Charles Bherron, late of said connty. deceased. ELLEN BHERRON, Janl6 Administratrix. NOTICE. * TWO months after date application will be made to the Court of Ordinary of Wilkes oounty, for leave to sell the Real Estate belonging to the estate ot J, J. Hamilton, deceased. JAMES D. SMITH, fanlS Administrator, i NOTICE.— All persons indebted to the estate of F. C. Danaway, late of Wilke* connty, deceased, are requested to make imme diate payment, and all those having claims against said estate are requested to present them aooord ing to law. BENJ. DUNAWAY, ]anl6 Administrator. NOTICE —All persona indebted to tbs estate of A. TANARUS, Holliday, lase of Wilkes county, deceased are requested to make imme diate payment, and all those having demands against said estate are requested to present them according to law ELIZABETH HOLLIDAY, jiinlo Administratrix. ADMINISTRATOR’S~SALE. WILL be sold; beforo the Court House door, in Oibßon. Glasscock county, on the first To-sday in FEBRUARY next, one tract of Land, l\ing in said own'’- in the waters - ” ' adjoining lands of George Underwood, Lawson lh< meson and others, containing one hundred and nicety-three (193) acres. Sold by virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary, as the pro pel ty of Robert M. Thomp -on, deceased, for the ber.»tit of the heirs and creditors. It will b? told subject to the widow's dower. Terms made known on the day of sale.- JACOBI! KITCHENS, Adm’r, This December Bth, 1865. dec's—<o VITILL bo rold, before the Coart Hotf*e dbor YY In Warrentou, Warren county, on the first Tuesday tn February next, pnrauant to an order from the O dinary of raid county, one House and Lot in said town, containing one acre, more or lew. Bold as the property of the estate of Laic B. Huff, deceased, for the benefit of heirs and creditors, and sold rubiect to- the widow’s claim of dower. Terms on the day. dec23—td R, M. WII DER, Adm'r. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALf WILL be sold, on the first Taeiday in MARCH nex', :,t the Market House, In the town of Louisville, the House and Lot be longing to the esta'e of William J. R. Carswell, deceased, containing one aere more or less, and adjoining tots of James J. Brown, and fronting on th* streets leading from the Market Honso to the Waynesboro road. Hold aa the property of the estate of W Iliam J. R. Carswell. Term* on the day of sale. • WILLIAM WARNOCK Adm’r, With the will annexed. January Bth, 186*. juris ctd ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE BY virtn* of an order of the Court of Ordina ry of Jefferson connty, there will be sold, at the Market House, In the Hewn of Louisville, ia aai t connty, within the legal hours of sale, on the first Tue-day in MARCH next, a tract of Land, situated, lying and being in said couaty, adjr ining the lands of Augustas C. Newsome and Obediah Pierce, known as the Old Batin’ Place, and containing ninety acres, more or less. Also, one tract of Land, situated, lyiog and being in said connty, on the Ogeechee river, adjoining ’he lands of Asa Holt, known as the Parson’s Place, and containing one hundred and fifty acres, more er leva.' Hold as the property of the '•riate of .John Batts, of said county, deceased, and for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of -aid deceased, t Terms on the day of rale. B. W. SNELL. Administrator de bonpi nod. January 8 H, 1866. r NOTICE- “ ALL p»rs >ns indebted 'o the esst- of T. W *K. late of LWumbia cun'r, de ceased, are required to make immediate pirment .’o the under-igned. and those having oUiqu igainst -ait estate will present them wi'hin the time prescribe! by law. JOHN M. DAVIES, A' , minit*ra‘orde bonis non, com ’e?*"'" so annexe. janU c6w /
