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. volunteer force oi local defence and special ssrvicc, of ut least an ,q ,al number, be mustered and reported as tu>,j ct to b’.B call lor service, within >our luis does not look much k» it the call wn ma je lor troops 'or the war! Was it lor tio <;-■■ oU ye as a seuera. turn lurougu. ut toe owe- I Horn tne e-ttne Uooumeut. iou e -y, •‘it becomes eseeuual, that the reserve, of our population, capable of bear.ng arms, e c., be reued on lor employment in the local <l.hence ol important cities, and in repelling, m ta,< i- , goncies, the sudden or transient ivui ioii- of The enemy.” Again, "local orgamz ions or j eniistineute by volunteering 101 nmu - Pf 110 ' , and special purposes, il they can be indm a, would afford more assurance of prornp. ana } eflicieut action." You then reler to tue two actaoi Congiobb for local defence and tpoc.a* service, and enclose copies ol them au.i can my attention to im m AuJ you proceed w •«> » "under the former oi cues •, ii organization! could Ire effected, with the limitations prescnb ed in their muster roils ol eervico only a . home or at specilied points of importance withiu tun particular State, they would bo admirably adapted to obtain the desired end,’ In si iug of the inducements to be held out to tnu.-,- who will form volunteer companies undm ui< act of Congress you speak ol mem as “orgaa izations ior special service within ihe Biau, under otucers of their own select on, and won the privilege of remainingat home, in me pm suit of their ordinary avocations, unless called tor a temporary exigency to active da ty.” in reference to the vicet •i e p ed by these organizations, you then use this language. ... “Without the general distubanoe oi a call on the militia, the organizations nearest to the points ot attack, would always be readily Mini moued to meet the emergency, and the popu lation resident in cities and their vicinities would, without serious interruption to tneii business or domestic engagements, stand or ganised and prepared to man their entrench ments and doieud, under the most tmimating incitements, their piopt ty and homes. You remark again, “Alter the most active and least needed portion ot the reso - ves were embodied under the loriner law, the Jatiei would allow smaller organizations with more limited raQgo oi service, lor objects of police and the pressing contingencies ot neigabor hood deleuse* Could tUcse laws be generally acted on, it is believed, as full organizations of the reserve population would he seemed for casual needs, as would be practicable. : There is not a wool m any ot this, about service as the general iuie throughout the btaie. But every expression looks to locs and limited seivices in sudden emoigeuce suen us incursions oi tue enemy, aud to the deieuse ol tueir own homos, and tue •uueucu"'euw around* them, by tuose w o live lu cities "to neighoo'hood delensc, ' couUai laias,” etc , with the clear promise u. an, tuat so boon as stub emeigeucy nad j res ell, iuey ouuUul lie pel milled lo 1 . iijrn Mill auO aileuii 10 itloir "old u.uy aVutiati. uo i ou'iuea or Uoareol CengageinojUl),'' uli 1.. c woops recollect now this piomise w,i aepv oU you uarge that I had Formed nomi ne oi B a«.z ris not eonioim eg 10 the reg u4.-*0..00. ru« t'lovinuiial army, seaut m ih< in office! s, wiin everyvtvari ry o. ,/Uu„-c.uu 10. local service, gcueraaiiy 1 ill-cut tool-mod cuaracier, and for the brier periou oi ou -y six months. Licit organization formed by me was in con fortuity to the statifleg, copies of which yen enclosed as the guide for my action, s aml for; the exact time designated in your requi:>iu."u over your own signature. Each had the num ber of men specilied in the statutes, and no one of them had a supernumerary officer, wi‘,n my consent, or so far us I know or believe, 'l ho repuisitiou expressly authorized nie to ac troops for local defense, of the most t Btric«€d character, with “the limitations prat-* Bcr.bed in their muster rolls, ot service only at home or at specned points of importance Bnt while you expressly authorized tliis Ii fused to do it, except in case oi companies i mechanics and other workmen in cities - - hie operatives in factories, uud the employee-oj,- railroads, etc., when the nature of their avoca tions trade it actually necessary, fa ail tariff!' cases 1 refused to accept the companies when' 1 tendered, if their master rolls eiki not e•. w and b ad them to defend, at Ii ol the whole territory of the Stale. Many of them covered the whole territory ot the state' with the conditions of their muster loliff. Homo complaints wore made at my course, Ixt* cause I required more thau was required in either the acts of Congress, or the requisition' ot the Secretary of War. (( Anotner charge is, that when called ouc scarce a decent division ol four thousand men ci.'u.il be mustered tor the field, and then only lor six months ” Your obi iv oil mesa ol - as well as of records, is indeed lvmai kabitn- Only those whoso muster rolls ein-'rac-d A hu*# la and tho territory between it and the j a-, nesrtoo lino were called out (ill near the end of' the period for which all were enlisted, and von got a d'.visiou of many more than four tkous aud within that boundary. Ihe others, over twelve thousand, were id home, engaged in their “ordinary avocations ” ready to respond to your calf in . case of > emergency, or “sudden incursion of tho enemy. ' But you never called for au- * il'BQi till a short time before th© inid o> i -of ihoir enlistment, 'those you vi. Called out you aevei even armed and it, • believed by them that they were only a- i bled tor the convenience of the conscript ..ni cer*, to save them the trouble of soar- -g through the country to see if any among ai'fu Were subject to conscription. Nobody yre ..aid ed that there was any "emergency,” ov ~ den incursion of the enemy’’ at the time of fibre last call, in tho sections ol the Stale ilu*v h i . agreed to defend - 1 have gone thus Sully iuui. this record for the purpose oi showing t-hc p .i pablo injustice which you attempt, to do in aud of exposing the flimsy pivtcx. u let - whs 1> you seek to defend tue bad faith winch was t x ereised by ihe Government towards the laut men who, by their prompt response, , r thau doubly Oiled your requisition i ; - hi.: ; and spirit. * Asa last means of escape von s.iy I >c ; •ntly claimed that they should be h ; ; regarded as militia. "In that case tin v t o not, if dismissed, be recalled ou cm. local troops, and this naturally indiuvd detention for the full period ot i ,j r ;■ term ot service.” 1 should have b -n Obliged ii you had given an mustered iuto service for the per ~and months, with the express promi should be permitted to remain at h : y, pursuitol’ their “ordinary aveca ie .s. , in‘‘emergencies” or to meet •> ,« transient incursions of tie enemy,” con id reoeirefurloughs and return home “emergeucitia” or "sudden and ?i ■ ,ot ;■ cttrsious of the enemy,' audivussi-i : . , recurrence of the emergency. -« hy the same men, living in the sain.' . - united for the same purpose, to u same territory agaiustr'suddea ;tid incursions of the enemy,* ’ have reec-i m loughs to return home and attend to -.he suit of their “ordinary avocations,” i; . Militia aud commanded by otlicers :• p - • . at the Constitution provides, by the ~: „Ut as well as if called local comnauits, ami e " minded by officers appointed by the i\,. What strange magic is thereabout itte i' dent's commission which would enable re organised tor service uuder officers h--I<lim; to receive furloughs when uot needed in r vice, which the same men, organ : z-d he .. same service, couid uot get it the is -..tSners c - ved thwir commissions iu tli-> con-'li'u’ i-... •nod in m the stare? If the same C >;• - , - •oomo**wa <•! the same effieeis aud m i>e lempotarily dismissed vhen nor . the service thry have eugagid to ■ • ' \ ' calUd by the name "local compact" may this uot be dona when they ar o the name Militia? ' 0 by As no reason can exist for the .1; ,< you attempt to draw as a jnstiticati. n President s conduct?none was assign •“ . ‘ It U simply absurd to say that militia Ln‘ V aud 9eat hom ‘ ) wht>a out need. ' f“5 £“T ”■ ; “ *m*T£ niiG«iora et U» orguww militi. »,, nm tL , “ed in the act of ■ • when the hour of peril o out of all ihe large numlx j | vM- trie act oi G .ngre- aud turned ovei nil i*> tr-i bv bin •of ihe L ii •- - V • ■ ■■} i-oui v.r h :i muStet .a id- hanu cj aid iu tue ueiense of i iic .-late. Os all tr.-e Ooiifeiiera'it res-rves, to vfbivf; ri.-o s .t« -i ioi-i she might safely to >k xor uefense, not u man w.th a. musket in is h oof W: at the front duringina whole march onhe federal army from Dalton till its tri umi-a'ant nor mcc into At inta. And if action ft ad been delayed unlit the President called, as shown by the date of his call, not a man of ail the reserve militia of the estate would have i een tae The - lonfederate reserves organ ized "were not. sumc ’ally numerous to,guard unarmed Fed-. - rd prisoners ia the State, and l ha- to fuvi; . ; h, when-their services were ■ meh xu and dat trie trout, a battalion of mili- tia to aid mein- ... ~,tkiu oy the State authorities, to v q ' ,ii, r, ia • ntirely imaginary. i",| .(h; !he Legislature, your officer? ,vvre ied p>-; fee t y li e to execute the law of .j, nli m rigor But it it were real, -ui.u, ihe i.’rusidorit, with the aid ol his large ind.hu State, should have been i.j,e to get ■ oiuebody to the front. A single , , , v,: li a / I>. * i musket might nave rendered ••orric assistance. Or if this, by reason of in sufiic ency, could not be done, if he had or here . h - coips of conscript officers there, as I ordered the btafce cflieers, they were sufficient ly n- ci -rous to have done essential service, i even thin favor, at that critical period, the people of Georgia would have been under ■ rear obligations to him. I mm!, not lo ■ m >ther of the call, a.-, you term it, .vnieu was th™some of these troofis, (ten thousand organized militia) had oee’i ue- died for objects not.admitted by on rolling officers iu ihe IState to be authorized by Confederate law, and others were claimed as primarily liable, or pi tjjously subject to Con federate service. Tnis, you say, Lad “engen dered controversy,” which is was most he sirable.to 4 'anticipate and preclude.” As Con federale enro! ing officers had domed the rigixt ot the iSiaie to make details, and had claimed certain iii-.n whom the Governor held as part of 'ho mb it.a ot tho 8 tale, and as the Governor did not o once yield to the pretensions of . in . - ■ but was diposed to contend for the righ sos the Btate, the Presi-. dent, umvuiiug to allow the controversy, de termined to relieve the tate ot her whole rui ixtia, by ini-k) sg requisition for it, ana. takiDg it ait into bis own hands, which would “antici pate and preclude” any further controversy; as tim .Slate, having no militia left, need have no furt.no;’ eonirevecry about her right to auy particular individuals as part of it. T.ii new in avory oi the President of the rn ■i" ,if: m a controverted right, aud the 11), re I'.in.iiity si re ,t.i .mantiiiip displayed t»y h-m tin.- :i iic, jaauot be too highly appro .-tui _\. By miii-atiug his example in iuture, cue .-uotb.er p -r;y can always- make a speedy ; ; ui -. . .ii ne i,.-a,K;:i', wituout allowing ,uv ;i;ip,• I, ac conn• w isy abouc rights. You I ,-iia..a, dial m.y aeC;ouaiid pub i, t-x a.mr- .1 1! g*Vrii eneouragemecr to m en >iiies, to to : ii irtili .‘acioa oi many pa i. ioM-: :iizj * the; ■ -utederacy, may i - : p)operly (:-c- .s- \ .-‘t lay liie « ngre remark, .li t. if we m ... judge <i the o, our . n;; ;u'- -’ y the general expression oi thei. nn.;.; joinnai.., i I’ics aeui. gave them more (ietight, iu;, -. and eh-.\Hfraguiuent, by his sin gie speech at Maotm, uian a,U the past acts aud public ijxprew ;ious ot my iiie ouiU. have done, hail I labored coniuaiuiy to aid uud encour age them.* He who can satisfy the enemy th.-.t two.thir '.•) of lhe men who compose our gaihiut armies are absent from theu- posts, uf io • : 11■ • <i- light Hud eacouragemeut indeed, ■■is iii, y will u » longer doubt, if this be true, that the spirit m our people is broken, aud that our deieuderu can uo longer be relied oa to su„iuia out cause iu the field. All remun bfcr the mo: tih •:>. ton which the speech ot the Pioskteiii, caused to the patriotic ot ihc Concede-...ey. It it had been true, surely it sijouid-i;ot nave been publicly proclaimed by the P--e;,i<le«t ? B”.t. lam satisfied it was not true, and that, in m.kirg the statement, the i' .esie-. ,r dl l grteVmiQ. injustice to the brave men who compose our gaiiaut, self-sacrificing armies it has aI:.o been agreeable to you to speak of my acPou as springing from a spirit ol op po-ition to the' O.uutrierate Government, aud aaimo>itv to the (Jliiei Magistrate. 1 have but a word of reply to this unjust and ungenerous attack.. Some men are imahie to distinguish between upp-uiitlon to a Government, and un~ wiiliu : ::-- s in. i».imliy to endorse ail the errors us an adiui .istratian; or to discriminate be-' tween loyalty to a cruise, and-loyalty to their muster, aty loyalty is only due to my country, you su| i-- ,>w joins where your interest or iiudujutiou may prompt. * I do not coi; ,it r t.litvt the point you attempt ~tu Uu’ yiy uivl 1-llti.-JUCO of the uiiiii,m,, wjme under the Confederate General Co!Hiu-.*ud'-:ug the Departmeat, ii.-a iu it even -a sho <r of j . rh j .-. ere accepted by , him tor oho viuie, as an ;.>i” auizatiou, and .vhiie uiiiii ise>»mrol, ho lus the absolute comamu'i «*t Uuuu, u ; the Governor of the Stii e does not, ex; roise the slightest control over them. :V i;. possible pretext for sayimv i > i v.e a* i-iis division subsisted .n p . iji: as any other division under Ins couim 1 . just a-. much r-m. n for bill ag iov a Divhiiou of Georgians, uudti . . i.-c- i'snouUt not be subsisted and p.i id by ihc Oonteiteracy, whiteunder his command, as ; .i; Divisipa under Gen. Hood should ■ ioi be subfii«ied ad p u while he commanded vhem The o utb id J. uottom es all this is so v s ', /, tu:»‘ iyf ‘.uaot bo concealed even by L 1 fun: .■ 1 ;«*iar emphasized by you J that the t ii i'4u f• m C.aiic-de:ate States pi Wet to ket, p rfcrri ' . |fwai As the -• ttes woe I sovereign iu.«esiif.d. alt power when they I ,mu'-va: i.m-V : ; .tutidia which gave life to the j a',; ... . lout, neif r. that Gov - j ernmeut ■•or t Con? .utiou could confer any • J pvi .Vi" uii j;.,e ot Taey rebiiaod all that, they dill not confer upon it. Hut admit your I l sutciu-.-at. and what iofiows? You were oblig ! v.l o. o; ... i.o i.cx: sentence, that t..e j ’Si * did i.-serves ch i petvor. Having reserv ed t, t . • •;.■• • ■ ■■■, .i.f.horiseti to exercise jit. A you a.,;, i they not only reserved the :■■:•. • vi.tion xtiualiy includes ■'• • -uv =.■ ; ish ho object ■ ■ ... o iiapt ua explain it ! .iwuv. by tb.al ihe reservation means | t..iu .. -ad in lt’-io . contend that the Con . ‘ • .•>. a: y*. !•■• . the St tie filie •>■ ,0,0 ra which site has re j 1 1 ;■ ;1* vivvvr i..i i\- <’jy. without violating the j : \ g ■-■ : hi other words ; .. - , . j . ■'i v >1 the right to keep |Vo - ie ■ actually invaded. elfci is su bordi - !• ii:v«‘ to (.-«• wi,- m i.i • .’ns..leak, who may take Ac.'.-'fu. x > • im de »-f reasoning, it a j • at f ' 1 ' 1 ' : ' oy - 14,10 su; ’ I v_ . ■■-■ i.Mvu .• -w s, and may oe | ■ t : .: » a. i, in..- ta necessary to enable j j ei to c.\-r. .. a to iheir tubes; extent, the j ' ■• -.' ucleg ~ powers liberally, and the re- | 1 i u, r V- ; ;-d r - >' *PH>I -t conmi. i ci-'.i- - . • : a ■-■- * ' -•■ ■■ l ice eg - ted power.- sre limited j .3 u ; c ' : v . erv. ; ~owc:s. mss well : e t i "..e s u.iia- a! o* \uu when it > ... the Cop ted., .w Adaiii’-is'iiat . _ ...cud you claim tua. j thep'V.Cv i -;-e: ved . , the 6 .u>s to- keep,; u'oeps U; ihue ci w..i, ... cu iicuislly iuvaue.i. i simpvc means tbat they may kei-p them tiif j the Confe.ieniu- i-ixtviliive chooses to call tor uud 1.,a.0 1... Uri §ue of tb.em out oi their ; coutroh -i. ,lt> justify nil this, you are driven to the u-vtat pica of necessity. You say it was needs- I ; us e m ’: . Goc.g i . 't* e sci vice.' and cubjeot, lios to i inv tuukTin 4 Knf j . v *. 4-i Ui>j L>Ul h-. ~ixJ CvutrOi ui } tx nonstuudonai Comm mdei-m-Chiei. vr-.> Ut ‘t J ' Prsddcat s. or ever can be j v.iwoai l t eor,<eut of the State, the Const l- : r-ia Chief of the whole mi- j dura of Ihe State. Wueu we take the whole! context together, the Cons‘itntion is plain [ u ><>n this point II" is (i‘clarcd to be the C > nman ier-in-Ca’«f ” the A>mv and Navy i of the C mf-derare States e.nd of the miiiti, of j :h® -weral '-tat, 3, w ou cade iia jto •. ' - service of the Confederate S ates. Congress has power to oroyide for calling forth t tie inititi t to execure the law ;of t Ooo'ede’iiie States, suppress insurrections aud : repel invasions. Congress has power to provide for orgamz ing, arming and disciplining the militia aud for governing such part of them as- may be employed in the service of the Confederate States. Then comes the qualification. The states reserve the right to keep tioops in time oi war, when actually invaded. If she is not mivaded, under provision made by Congress they may be exiled forth, if the emergency -■‘ •quires t If she is invaded, she may keep i.uoh par- f them as she thinks' proper, under her rw-erv-.-i. iighi, uni they cannot be taken without her consent. Th-* whole case is in a nutshell. . Congress may pr^v : de for calling forth tao ml. t*a, and for governing such part ot them as au employed in the service of the Confederate St ites Ihe President is, for the time, Commander in-Chief of ail who are so employed. And all may oe so employed, ex cept such as the State deter ffinesto keep-, by virture of her reserved right in time of war, when actually invaded. These Congress has no right to call forth, and no right to provide for governing, and of these the President is not the Constitutional Commanderin-ia-Chief, but the Governor of the State is, so long as the State keeps them, and she has an unquestion able right to keep them as long as the inva sion ol her territory lasts This I understand to be the constitutional right of the State of Georgia. By this, as ber Executive, I stand, aud regard with perfect indifference all assaultssupon either my loyal ty or motives by those who deny this right, or seek to wrest it from her, to increase their own power or gratify their own ambition, A word, as to the use I shall make of this mii'dia and of all the troops at the command •of the .Stafe. No sentence in my former letter iu an “inconsiderate utterance.” No word in it justifies tse construction, that I will array my State in “armed antagonism against the Confederacy.’’ On the contrary, I will use the troops to support aud maintain all the just rights and constitutional powers of the don federacy, to the fullest extent. No State is truer to the Confederacy than Georgia ; and none will make greater sacrifices to maintain its rights, its just powers and- its independ ence. The sacrifices of her people at home, and the blood of her sons upon the battle field have abundantly established this truth. But while l will employ ali the torce at my com maud, to maintain all she constitutional rights of tfie Confedaracy and of my State, I shall not hesitate to use thh same force to protect, the same rights against external assaults and internal usurpations. Those who imagine themselves to be the Confederacy, and consid er only loyalty to themselves as loyalty to it, and who recognise in neither the people nor the States any rights which conflict with their purposes or future designs, doubtless see intjais the “foreshadowing of a guilty purpose.” It is, to say tue least of it, a fixed purpose. It is not only my right, but my duty, to up h nd the constitutional rights and liberties ol the people Qt .Georgia, by force, if necessary, against usurpations aud abuses of power by the Central Government. The militia is, un der the Constitution, one of the proper instru mentalities for that purpose. There is scarce ly a single provision iu ike-Constitution, for the protection of life, liberty or property in Georgia, that has not been and is not now constantly violated by the Confed erate through its officers and agents It has been but. a short time since oae of the stores of the State of Georgia, containing pro perty, in the peaceable possession of the State, was forcibly entered by a Confederate officer, aid the property taken therefrom by force i had no mhitia present at the t : me So repel iids invasion of ihe rights of the sovereign State, but should have Had them there soon if me property had not been restored. Jr single Confederate Prov st Marshal, in Georgia, admits that thirty citizens and sol diers, h ive been shot by liis guard, without his right to shoot citizens being questioned till within the last few days, when ha was greatly enraged ,that a true bill for murder should have been found by a grand jury against one of them for shooting down a citizen iu the streets, who offended him by queTrtmiug his authority over him. Every citizen in the State, both man and woman, is arrested in the cars, streets and bighw >ys. who presumes to 1 travel without a pass. They are arrested without law. and imprisoned at pleasure. < f Government officials. The houses, lands and (Meets of the people of Georgia are daily seiz ed and appropriated to the use of the Govern ment or its agents, without; the shadow .of law without just compensation, and in defiance of the decision of the Supreme Judicial Tribune of the State: and her officers of justice are openly resisted by the officers’of the Confede rate States The property of the families of mUliers, now under arms to sustain the GOll - is forcibly taken from them without hesitation, and appropriated, in many cases, v|*h.-uif compensation. In >. . state of things, the militia are neces sary to uptrend the civil tribunals of ihe State, md wi.i oe use.! for f-hat- purpose whenever the proper call is made by the proper authorities. No military with" Tty, Stifle or C nlederate, can lie lawfully used for any other purpose than to uphold the civil audit .rides, and so much of it as the Constitution of my country has confinded to my hands snail be used for •dial purpotai, whether civil society, its Consti .luion aud laws'shall be invaded from without -r trom within. Measured by your standard, is doubtless disloyalty. Tested by mine, ii, ia a high duty to my country. Respectfully, etc, JraEPFi E. Baow.v. Confedkratb States of America. ) War Department > Richmond, Va., Dt-c. 13, 1861. ) Bis Excellency Jos. K. Brown. Governor of Georgia, Macon, Got. : Sir—Your letter of the 14ih nit bus been received. In accordance with the rule I have prescribed to myself in my correspon dence with you, 1 shall avoid all notice of the observations ia your tetter which do not iu my opinion form matter proper for official commu nication ; and therefore much ot your letter will have no response. An Act of Congress of the 28th of Feb ruary, IS6I, provided : “I'bat to enable the Government.of the Confederate States to main tain its jurisdiction over all questions of peace and war, and to provide for the public defence, the President be. and he is hereby authorized and directed to assume control of all military op radons in every State, having reference to or (•.•nnecdon with questions between said States, or any of them, aud powers foreign to thnn.” Ou the Gth March of tho seine year they em powered the President “to employ the militia, military and naval forces of the Confederate Suites, to repel invasion, maintain the rightful pc: session of the Confederate States ia every portion of 'he territory belonging to each Stale, and to secure the public tranquility and. independent against threatened invasion.’ - ' — These Acts of Congress do not exceed the com petency of that body -under the Constitution they confer plenary powers upon the Presi dent to employ the military power of the Coa re; - r<ie States to meet the extraordinary emer :■ -vie- that might arise, and which were ibeu shadowed. Yon do not deny the existence 01 too cm rgenev aiitioipafed and provided for by Congress. You simply contend that you should 1 mploy the militia instead of the Presi dent Thai you should conduct some mMiuiry ■pe; .lions, rather than the Resident, and that Congress judged unwisely in eunfidiuirfspowfß -10 b:ai, rather thau to yourself, viu-my jtffig meut, these Acts ol bind tiptn :.■> a cjf t. n u • an offiCCT-.' and you ‘owe pioiupt.-cordial and sohesitatlhg obeff&nhe f§ them. v, ’ , ’■ v,• .*•■ In stating the parallel qaso of the refractory Governors of aud Connecticut iu the war with rerfeat Britian, during the administration of Mr. Mbdisdtr, i is aware that the former had tne support of ;b-* i.piniou of the Judges ut tuat Suite, as c nn-reDfed in a letter aUitresscd .him, an tas T. ed by you. They had aiso thA‘ -support of i hen Stake Legislatures, and of the reeMve? of i u; Hartford Convention, composed t>< deie > ates from those and other 8• ates. liie au tuority of these different public ofifioeis and ageucies support your Excellency ; but tffie judicial opinions of the Supreme Court of New j lork, ard of fft e supreme Court of the United - .aies, a- rendere.l ia the line cf their duty iu •a-ri before them and tie general sentiment: t.'C j: \ p ! e. an<T tbe uniform action of the aitho.ities of loyal States, afford no such sup o. rt. M j. Gen. Cobb informs the Department ha ac nos made a satisfactory adjustment of this difficulty, and I dismiss the subject with out further remark. In the summer of 1863, it became apparent that uniess the population of the different States who were not embraced in the Acts of Congress of the 16th April and 27th Septem ber. 1862, providing for the public defence, usually termed Conscription Acts, were organ ized for sorv ce, that the country would be exposed to frequent and injurious incursions irom the enemy, by which it would be devas tated before the means of defence could be carried to the place of invasion. A proposal •r tiie organization was prepared and cPmrnu nieated to the Governors of all the States. — This plan was to organize all the non-conscript population in companies under the Acts of Congress to provide for the local defence or special service. These Acts provided only for voluntary enlistments, aud an alternative, or rather an auxiliary proposition, was presented to facilitate the accomplishment of .this lead ing and prominent object. I addressed you on the Gth of a letter 011 the subject? a telegram on the 12th, and a secon t letter on the 19th of the same month, ti'he General orders of the Department, embodying its views as to the nature of these volunteer organizations, and disclosing the derails of the measure, were published by the Adjutant aud Inspector General, the 2'2d June, 1863. these orders required that those com panies should be formed for service during the war; that they were not to be called into service except iu cases of emergency; that they were not to be omployed beyond the limits of the State; and when the emergency terminated they were to he dismiss; and to their homes; that service iu tfeose companies would excuse from service as militia; that those companies were preferred to militia organi zations; that they were to be armed by the Uonfederate States as far as necessary, and were to be paid by them while in service. A copy of this order is enclosed. These views were disclosed in the letters I have h tiore referred to. The extracts you have m ide from them to defend your conduct, do not represent the views of the Department fairly. In my letter of the Gth of June, I state the necessity for organization ot the non-con script population; the many and grave objec tions to the use of the militia; the superiority of the system of defence proposed by Volunta ry organizations for home defence, and- the mo lives that might be addressed to the peo ple to adopt that mode of defence. I stated in that tetter that : “For this (the organi zation) the legislation of Congress has made a lull provision by two laws, one entitled An Act to Provide for Local Defence and Special Service, approved August 21st, 1861; the other entitled An Act to Authorize the Formation of Volunteer Companies tor Local Defence, approved October 13th 1862, to which your attention is invited, and of which, as t: ey are brief, copies are appended.' Under tbe former of these, if organizations could be effected with the limitations presented in the muster* rolls of service only at home or at spocifihd points of importance within the par t'cul ir State, they would be admirably adapted to obtain tbe desired ends, of calling out those bred qualified for v-iie service; of employing them .'fliy when and so long as they might be needed; of having them animated with esqrit da corps ; reliant on each other and their ae iecfea officers, and of thus securing .the lar gest measure of activity and efficiency, per haps attainable from other than permanent soldiers After the most active and least needed portion of the reserves were embodied under the former law, the latter would allow smaller organizations with more limbed range ot service, for objects,or police aud the pressing contingencies of neighborhood defence. Gould these law-; be generally acted on, it is believed as full organization of the reserve population would be secured l'or casual needs as would be practicable. • • I clone that letter by saying: “I am in structed by the President in his name to make ou you 'a requisition for five thousand men, to ise iur-iished by your State for service therein, unless in Ihe intermediate,time a vol unteer lorce, oiganized under the iaw for lo cal defence and special service of at least an equal number be mustered and reported as subject to his call for service within your State.’ ’ In my telegram of'the 12th, I say: “Your assurance of’’co-operation is gratifying. Or ganizations under the law of the Provisional Congress are preferred, because of their longer term of duration and. greater adaptation tor ready call on temporary service, and then for dismissal to their ordinary pursuits.” Iu my letter ol the i9th of June, I repeated the ' arguments, in favor of organizations for local defence in preference “to militia organ* izatiom; or organizations on a basis similiar to the militia' for a limited period of service.” I stated to you that "I did not suppose there would be such difficulties, delays or confusion as yofi r.ntiuipatdd; that the progress of form ing tfio organizations is very simple and fa miliar to your people as having been general ly adopted ia volunteering for the Provision al-Army ti i’here will* l>e no occasion to send ou to Ihi£ Department here anything but the muster./oils, which, under the regulations to jbe issuf-d may be verified by a judge, justice or colon-:’- of militia. I thiuk, with deference to your opinion, the whole matter of prompt and easy 'accomplishment.’ ’ - * The :eguiations referred to -were published on the 22d of June, 1863. They declare their object to be x to 'fford ‘instructions as to the method by which such organizations may be made, and the privileges they may claim,” and with these regulations, the Act of Congress of August 21st, 1861, was published, which au iborizeu the President to accept the services of volunteers of suoa kind and in such propor tion as he may deem expedient to serve for suclijtime as he may prescribe, for the defence of exposed places or localities, or such special service as he'foay deem expedent. The general features of these regulations I have already stated. They define with ex actness tin conditions as to the time of enlist meat, the .place of service,, the duration of their special and 'pa’ticular service upon the Presidential all. These were the organize tious that you were expected to form, and you seem to hasc entirely overlooked or forgotten the duty that you undertook to fulfil*. It hr not pretended by you that you carried into efi’.ct rhi.} plan for the organization of the .State. aud that vonr promised co re-. Dion was unproductive of the results an iici/;Ueti nom 1t Y'ou followed the sugges tions of ybmF&vn mind, and did not act, and, so tar as thus Department knows, did not at tempt to. apt. -contoi tnajly to the views pre sented tpyou/ I ma'd-i no complaint of your failure to do this, nor whs The tailure made the subject of any observation, uatii you assumed the ground of being the iojnved party, from which you nuied an and the Department, as waiutiqg fa faith to you ; while the fact was. if there fires any want of faith or breach ot duty: you alone were the guilty party. I re | CtV t-kSI/" now simply the | misrp|>i'«#ritsitja« of the . conduct of the De~ ireiiian. ut garbled extracts from its e rr: pmvTreß-’te -extracts which do not exhib it iairiyThd' , subjfecv under consideration. I abstain nc<*r<K»m imputing your conduct to bad faithjip. ji#* Department, in repelling the waptou aiffijeckiass assault upon the integri ty of tho aiTiiiinl. - • -.lion ot this Department. - Your fenaxHti ufir-h the patriotism ' and ser vffiert ui»-people of- Georgia WiH" - jr i'iliii"u':|jßP n i iaily .^appreciate both." I hav .ot breieved that .tbejr c could e be seduced from -uei/fftielily to (h'e Confederate -jnTt*** or tin A# fhefr cdnaflttftlon.. Jj &ave not .qipruiEed that they! - ceukl be Mr ga.yc-4, into, may teaertiou... <4 the common "ckuiv/ ..The unanimous ■tnfetiif tii. '-“tie w.Ts uot requited to as'suie rue »r thei(EX?mh and loyalty, it has but eon tiriaed ui"} opinion tuat the seeds of baleful j-aiou tit-', suspicions and irritation that have to industriously been scattered among them, have been wholly unproductive of the fruit autjcipatpd. It is to be hoped in the future that all energy that har been thus employed, will be diverted to the legitimate object of achieving the independence of the .Confederate States, securing the peace and tranquility of the Con federacy, and promoting thereby the true greatness of Geovgi 1. Very respectful,y, your o’-’d! serv’t, James A. Seddox, Secretary ot War. Executive Department, Macon, Ga . January 6, 1865. j Bon. James A. Seddon, Secretary of Bar : Sir—lt becomes my duty to notice your communication of 13th December, which reached me a few days since. After citing the acts of Congress of 28th Feb ruary and ihe 6th March, 1861, conferring power upon the President to assume control of military operations iu the States, and to call forth the militia, etc., you declare that Con gress in passing these acts did not exceed its competency under the Constitution, and you then insist on a construction of these acts, which denies the right reserved by tfie States to keep troops in time of war, and which con fers upon the President the power *0 call upon one State for a class ot her population which are not subject, under any law of Congress, to do military duty, and for which he makes no similar requisition upoli any other State. The acts which you quote are not properly susceptible of any such construction as you are obliged to place upon them to make them serve your purpose. If they were, there could be no doubt upon the mind of any lawyer who understands tfie . rudiments of constitutional law, tfiat Congress had uo power, or authority to piss them. No candid lawyer will insist, for a moment, that an act of Congress can take from the States ihe right which they have plainly.reserved in the Constitution to keep troops in time of war, or that the President has any power or control over any troops which a State may so keep, or that he can justly and legally make requisition lor them, or tnat he has any legal or just grounds of complaint if a State refuses to turn them over to him, if he should transcend his legal authority by mak ing the requisition. Nor will any lawyer in sist that the President has any power to make requisition for militia which Congress has uot made provision for “organizing,” or for men or boys not subject to militia duty under the laws of Congress. As these acts of Congress could confer upon the President no powers which are denied to him by the Constitution, and as his late requisition upon the Executive of this State was in clear violation of her re - served rights under the Constitution, I am sur prised that you should attempt to justify this usurpation of undelegated powers by a resort to Congressional action as directory to the President to violate the rights of the States. In your former letter, you declared that my refusal to fill this requisition of the President, was analogous in “ all particulars” to the con duct of the Governors of Massachusetts and Connecticut in the last war with Great Brit ain, in refusing to fill the requisition made upon them by the President of the United States. In my answer, I showed too conclu sively. for reply, that the cases were not analo gous in auy particular. Without attempting to make good your assertion, or to controvert a single position in my argument, or to trace the analogy in a single particular, yon again allude to the subject in your last letter by saying:* “In staling the parallel case of the relractory Governors of Massachusetts and Con necticut,” etc. Ngw no one know better than yourself that the cases were in no degree parallel; and that you could neither trace the parallel lines nor point out the analogy. To avoid a misstatement contained in your former letter that “ the judicial tribunals de termined adversely to the pretensions of these’ Governors,” you say you were aware that the former (tbe Governor of Massachusetts) had the support of the opinion of the Judges of that state, and#of the Legislatures of those States, etc.; aud that the authority of these support me in my position. Here, again, you are as incorrect as I have shown you to be in almost every important statement which hue been made by you. There is nothing ia the opinion of the Judges of the Supreme Court ot Massachusetts sustaining the Governor of that State, which gives the slightest support to my position, or that has the least bearing upon the controversy between us. What were the points decided by that opinion of the court ? They were substantially the following : Ist. That when the President made a requi sition upon the Governor of q State for, the militia to repel threatened invasion, it was the right of the Governor to judge whether the emergency existed. He decided that it did not • 2d. That when tho militia were called out under a requisition from die President no Fed eral officor but the President in person had the right to command them. These were the po sitions of tne Governor of Massachusetts, and the opinion of the Judges sustained lfim. Neither of these questions has arisen in this discussion. 1 have not denied the exigency, but foresaw it aud had tho reserve militia in the field iu battle with the enemy months be fore the President seems to have seen it, at least months before he realized it to an extent to cause him to make the requisition. I have uot raised the question as to the right of a Confederate officer, other than the Presi dent in person, to command this militia so caHed out by me while in service. On the contrary, I had placed them under the com mand ot a Confederate General long before the requisition was made. With these facts be fore you, a little reflection cannot fail to show you how much mistaken you are when you make the assertion that the decision of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, or of the Legislatures of those two States sus tain my course or any position I have taken. As tlieie is neither analogy nor parallel between ihe cases cited by you and my own ease, no de cision sustaining the governors iu those cases can either sustain or condemn my course upon an entirely different state of facts and circum stances. But yffu say the judicial opinions *of the Supreme Court pf New York and of the Su preme Court of the United States as rendered in the liue of their duty, aflqrd no such sup port. As you have not shown how the action of the Governors of Massachusetts and Connec ticut, or the correctness of their position could have come judicially before the Supremo Court of Ne w York, or the Supreme Court ol the United States; and as you have not been able to cite any case in which the question of the conduct ot those Governors was ever be fore either of said Couvta, I am left to sup pose that you are, as I have shown you to be in so many instances, again unfortunate iu your stateni'jk'- 01 facts, and that in attempt ing to sustain an erroneous statement in your otber letter, you have added another to former mistakes. As an excuse for dismissing the subject without iurciier attempt to sustain your posi tion yon remark tnat Major General Cobh in forms the Department that he lias made a sat isfactory adjustment of. this. difficulty. While there has been perfect harmony between Gen eral Cobb and myself in military matters from the commencement of Sherman’s advance up on Atlanta to-the present time, as there has been between Generals Johnston, Hood, Beau regard aud myself; there jiaa been no adjust ment whatever between rne and General Cobb, of what you L<*temi “this difficul ty’.” I have neitiaam by-, word nor act -done anything to the right of the Presi dent to make this requisition, or to admit tise obligation of the Governor to fill- it. I have stqod in reference to General Cobb as I have towards you and the President upon the re served rights of the Stare, and have refused to relinquish the control of the State over her reserved militia, while she determines to keep them, or to fill a requisition which ihe Presi dent right to make. I am happy to find that upon reflection you seem (a, see your tffi&ffdad are prepared to accept this as a sat -tisfactm’ya&djt»tnment of a controversy youMave ufijqgtiyprovfikfcd, and tin? wtHfth you yo-ursfeif upqa auy kaywn prin ciple of law, v . t r .. 'To , ievote a greater part p f your letter to Xnofii c "attempt to justify your bad Tulih to the Georgia troops called ous under th£President’s requisition of 6th June, load, and to prove contrary to the piain language of,, tne requisi tion, that they were called for duripg the war. You complain of what you call my “garbled extracts,” and you quote extensively from the requisition, but you are particniariy careful td so “garbla” your own extracts as not to quote that essential part of it twice stated in the letter, as I hare already gh'orm, tW they were required only for six months. It was upon this requisition, with the two acts of Congress, which vou sent with it aa the guide for my con luct, that I promised co-operation With yon in the organization. The piomise was redeem ed both in letter and spirit, aud your call f r eight thousand men (not five thousand as you now erroneously state in your last letter) was met with more than double the number re quired, organiz and ia 6tnct accordance with the plain language of the requisition and the acts of Congress o« that subject. As candor and'truth at least are expected ot one occupying your position, it is painful to witness the shifts to which you resort to do in justice to my State and to misrepresent the con duct ot her Executive in a matter where he more than doubly filledjour requisition. lam now favored by you with a copy of a General Order issued by Adjutant General Cooper, weeks after the requisition was made, which I do not recollect that I ever saw, till 1 received your letter, and you complain that I did not cany out your views as expressed in that order. I obey uo orders from ycur De partment: nor was this order furnished to me when you made the requisition, or during the organization of the troops with even a request that I conform to it. 1 was asked by you to organize the troops iu accordance with your letter containing the requisition and the two acts of C ingress, of which you enclosed copiess, for six months service” with the pledges con tained in your letter, to which I referred in my List, letter, that they should only be called out for sudden emergencies, etc. This 1 did on my part, aud you refused to redeem the pledges made on your part, This is the whose case, and I here dismiss this part of the subjets with my .regrets that justice to inyselt and the large number of ihe citizens of my State who suffer ed uiinecf ssarily by ycur action, has made it a duty for me to expose your bad faith aud the misstatements to which you have resorted to sustain an interpretation of your requisition which its plain language unquestionable pre cludes. By the expression ia your letter that: “It, ■(the unanimous voice of the Legislature of this State) has but confirmed the opinion that the seeds of baleful jealousies, suspicions and irri tation that have so industriously been scattered among them (the people) have been wholly un productive of the fruits anticipated,” 1 am left to conclude that in your disiugeuous effort by intinuatiou to call in question my motives in protesting against the President's usurpations and abuses ol power, you, as is your habit, base your assertion upon an assumption of facts which do not exist. The' Legislature of this State at the late session passed uo resolutions, aud expressed no unanimous voioe, upon an> question connected with the conduct oi' the Administration of which you are a member, nor did they utter in its behalf any voice of approbation. While the people of this State are true and loyal to our cause, they are not unmindful ot the great principles of Constitutional Liberty and State Sovereignty upon which we entered into this straggle, and they will not hold guilt less those in power who, while charged with tho guaidiansixip of tfie liberties of the people, have subverted hnd trampled personal liberty under foot, and disregarded the rights of pria vate property, and the judicial sanctions by which, in ail free governments they are pro tected. The course pursued by the Administsation towards Georgia, in her late hour of extrema peril, has shown so conclusively, as to require no further argument of illustration, the wis doimoi the reservation made by the States, in the Constitution, of the right to keep troops in time of war. Georgia has furnished over one hundred thousand ofher gallant sons to the ar mies of the Confederacy. The great body oi these men was organized into regiments and battalions of infantry aud artillery, which have been sustained by recruits from home, from mouth to mouth, to the extent of our ability. Those who survive of these rbgiments and nat talions have become veterans in the service, who, if permitted,^would have returned to their State, and rendered Sherman’s march across her territory aud the escape of his army alike im possible. I asked that this be allowed, if as sistauce could not be otherwise afforded. It, was denied us, and the State has been passed over by a large army of the enemy. Hundreds of miles other railroads have been for the pre sent rendered useless. A broad belt of tier ter ritory, nearly four hundred miles iu length, has been devastated. Within this belt mostot the pubiic property, including several court houses with the public records, and a vast amount of private property, including many dwellings, gin houses, much cotton, etc., have been destroyed. The city of Atlanta, with several vilages of the State, havo been burnt; the Capitol nas been occupied and desecrated .by the enemy, and Savannah, the seaport city ot the State, is now in his possession. During the period of Sherman’s march from Atlanta to Milledgeville, there was not one thousand men of all the veteran infantry regiments aud battalions of Georgians n6w in Confederate service, upon the soil of this State. Nor did troops from other States fill their places. Thus “abandoned to her fate” by the Res ident, Georgia’s best reliance was her reserve militia and state line, whom she had organized and still keeps, as by the Constitution gfie has a right to do. Without them much morepto periy must have been destroyed, and the city oi M icon, so important to the State and tho Con - ledevacy, must have shared the fate of Atlanta and Savannah, while Augusra, with the small Confederate force by which she wa3 saved, di vided with Macon, must also have fallen. These troops whom Georgia keeps have not only acted with distinguished gallantry upon unay bloody battle-fields upon the soil of their own State, but they have when, an important service could be rendered by them, marched into the interior of other States. The noble conduct of the Troup County Militia in their march to Bollard, Alabama, to aid in the pro tection ot the prople aud property of that State against the devastations of the enemy, aud the heroic valor displayed by Maj. Gen. G. W. Smith and part 01 his command then wUh him at Honey Hill, in South Carolina, where he won—with the Georgia Militia, her State line and a small number of gallant Con iederate troops most of whom were Georgians —one of the most signal victories of the war in proportion to the number engaged, fully at test the correctness ol uiy assertion in their be half. la view oi these facts, with late bitter ex~ peaienee of the people oi this State fresh in his recollection, tne Georgia statesman must indeed De a blind worshipper of the President, who would advocate the policy of turning over to his control, to be carried out of the Seate at his bidding, old men and boys not subject un der the lawa of Congress to military service, and of a class not required by him ot any other State. ' I cannot close this communication without noticing certain expressions in your letter, which are not unfrequentiy used by persons in authority ut liichmond, such as “refractary Governors,” “loyal States,” etc. Our people have become ac-ustomed to these accustomed to these imperial utterances from those who wield the cetral despotism at Washington, but such expressions are so utterly at variance with the principles upon which we entered into this contest in 1861, that it sounds harsh'- iy to our ears to have the officers of a Gov ernment, which is the agent or creature of the States, discussing the loyalty or disloyalty of the sovereign States to their central agent— the loyalty of the creator to tho creature — whicn lives and moves and has its being only rt the will of the States; and to hear their praise of the Governors of sovereign States for their subserviency, or their denunciation o f those not subservient as “refractory.” If our iibert re are lost, the fatal result will »ot be propei.y chargeable te disloyal States, or “re lractory Governors,’' but it will grow out of the betrayal, by those high in Contederate au thority, of the sacred principles of the Consti tution, which they have sworn to defend. Had some officials labored as successfully for the pubiic good as they have assiduously to concentrate all power iu the Confederate Gov ernment, and to place the liberty and property of every citizen of the Confederacy subject to the caprice and control of the President, the country would not have been doomed to wit ness so many sad reverses. Nor would we now be burdened to support the vast hoard of su pernumerary officers and political favorites, who are quartered upon us to eat our substance, while they avoid duty and danger in the field, having other little duty, to perform, but to en dorse, indiscriminately and and P u *“ c 1 newspaper communications §yery act of the Presideflt, whetket right or j wrong; and to reconcile the people, by ev» , r meat)? in their power, to the constant encronph mont-i which are made upon their ancient mire j ge-. customs and ’liberties. B 1 > ’ ’lavrrßs 01 poTcr who are rb> ffir aenve dnty. a-.-d whose support in the sty’s in which they live white ail around them is i.-,i s;ry aud want, costs tbe people millions of <i< - sirs, w.--e sen-- to tbe field and compelled to .! j their part in battle, the President would lur* no reason to make illegal requisitions upon u. ? State lor her o'd men and, boys, who are w 1 subject to his control under any law State , - Confederate; but he would soon be able, t >• heavy reinforcements, to fill the depleted ranks of the armies of the Confederacy. A the President is clothed with all the power ne cessary to compel these p littcal favorites a shoulder arms and aid in driving back the in vader, the subject is repectfully commended t i your consideinfxon as well worthy of ener getic action. I am, very respectfully, Your obedieui servant, , Joseph E, Brown . i'-' CATIONS s-.i tratii ■ citate of a. •> ten a, Richmond county. ire Sv.veny applies to me for Letter.- : aaroiniiimti. ontao K-t.ite ot auh C. lUglies, late 0: . ..re cou-ity, deceased. These arc. 1 horefore. to site and admonish all, and sinsr.reu. the kli.ilivd iisut creditors of saui deceased, to be and Spin.! .* my office ot. or ’oeiore- the first Monday in April next, to .-i.rev cause, if any they have, why said Letters should not granted. Utvon under my h;;;,,land ofcial signature, at office ;i. a j gusta, this Ist day 01 :„.uc,.. IS>«3. mill IwlO OaVID L. ROATH, O.iiina > £( TAT“EOF“gEOKUX A, fiIUHMONO COUNTY, ire ••• hereas, tr • Lat.e applies to me for Letters ot/.. minktra :«••• on ! re, of i> unis Lane, late of said rw „ ty (i> ee.-.s and. T ANARUS: ..v,;..-r re, lo die and admonish all, and sing’te - ased, to b« and appe. my i.-: ~u ~r i- re t first. Monday in April uexi, .. show C..HS-, : an .my have, why said Letters should ut . , granted. Cl Ire 11 under my hai.d and official signature, at office iu . gusta, .this Ist day ot March, 1565. min-twill DAVID L. ROATH. Ordina reireTl ti." ti hi')Koi a, nu)TLuom> counts. ire Whereas, Jcrunia L. Z. 1 ■ ett and Sarah K. McOwK apply to me for Letters ot administmtion on tse estuie 1 Eli. - , tbe t-ii Skinner, late of said county, deceased: These are therefore to cite and admonish, all and singula: tire kindred and cie :ii 1 of said deco ;sed, to lie and appeal - a". - :. office on or first Monday in April next, to sko.r cause, if any they have, why said tetters should uot be gran . ed. (liven under my hand and ofilclal signature at office iu A i gusta, this Ist day of March, ISCS. mill IwiO DAVID L. KOATH, Ord’y. re TAX'K OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY, ire Wheieas, Michael May applies to me ior Letters ol ;... ministration on the Estate ot - Thomas May, late of Bald ct.u ty, deceased, i hese arc theicfbre to cite and admonish, all and singular! in kindivd and creditors ol find deceased, to be and appear ut, office, on or h. fore the first .Monday Iu April next, to sin. . cause, ii any they leave, why suul letters should not be gruH Given under my hand and official signature at office In . gusta,th s Ist day of March, ISsiO. inhl 4w 0 DAVID L. ROATH, Ordinary. State STUB mond county. 'Wa-nas, Uans"o:d a. Dunum applies to me for Lettem of Adnnuistraiion on the istate of deluxe W. L. Twiggs, la:, ol said comity, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite anil admonish all, and singula: the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear ai my office,on or before the first Monday in April next, i„ show cause, if any they have, why said Letters should not l, granted. Given under :r.y hand and official signature, at office lb Au gusta this -st day of March, 15(,5. ilihl 4wio DAVID L. ROATH, Ordinary QTATE OF G EORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY. W hereas, John G dviu applies to me for Letters ot s,t ministrati non the Es-ute of W illiam Moleny. lute ol said cjun.y, decease. : These are therefore, to cite,and admonish, ail and singul.i* the kindred and cred" rs of said and tea ed, to be and appear at my olilce ou or belore the first Monday in April next, tu show cause,-if any they have, why said letters should uot bn granted. Given tinder my hand and official signature, at office in Au gusta, this Ist day 01 Alaich, Into. mhi 4wA) DA "PL. ROATH Ordinary, STATE Os UEOe.Gi/t, R JiiMONDO .Civi l. Whereas, Jeremiah L Z. Cliett and fcayah K McCorkla appl to me lor Letters anministraiiou bn the estate of iviiliam fcki .ner late nfsnid county, deceased. These are therefore to cit.noud admonish ali, and singularths kindred and etc iitors of .-aid deceased, 10 be and appear at my office, on or before the first Monday in April next, to Show cause, if arty they have, why said Letters should uot be grauted. Given render my hand and official signature, at office in Au gusta, this Ist day of March, 1805. OaVID L. KOATH, Ordinary. mill ' 4wlo ti t■- t eofoeokgT -time 1 1 mo n duoun ty . Ire W hine s, William H. B rre t applies to n e ior I&ttera ofadminis! ration on the Estate of Edmond B.Olasacock, late of srid eou ty, deceased: The?e arc tlieief . re, lo cite and admonish, all aud singular the kindred and creditors < f s:,id deceased, to be and appear at my office, on or b.d re the fi,.st Monday in April seat, to show 1: iiise, if any they have, why said letters iliould uot be granted " v - 1 under mv hand an,' official signature, at my office ia Augrsta, this 2a day of March, 186D, DAVID L. RO ATH. mhS 4 win • Ordiunrv STATE OF OEOKGIA. WII,KK unUßiy. 1 i.kbs » O FfioK J.’f i'smou Court, Fe ru iry 2. r ,IF, 186* AU per.-o-.a mtcres . and au; liereliy col lied that Joliu W. Heard of the l«4lh Diet. O and . toIX be ore O. A. booVr aud Isaac A* i> eken, Fr. e holders c f said District, as an estrajr one vert c aide bay mar-, about live or iis years old, with a gore on the left knee, vaiued li; -aid O. it Hooker and Isau ■ A.Dickeit at one lh;,u ami dollars. The owEe-ot said Estray is requir ed t ■ come forw rd, pay charges and take taid mare away, or she wil be dtalt with as the iuw diiects. A,i rue extract from the Eslray 80, k feb’26 6w9 O. G NORM AN, O. I. C. ST -TE - F GEORGIA, WiLKES < uU.VI’V. ~ lilkrk’s t'ririOK i.NTFKii* 1 oubt, F'elirua y 21 and, 186S All pe-runi mteies'.cd are hereoy notilled that A. J. Paschal of the 177th District toils h fore T. it. Strother and David Campbell, Free holders of said Di.-trict, as an estray, a Brown llor.-e Mule, suppos- and ’o t lB >e.r.- old, 14 hands high, bl ck mane and'till, v.iu.d by said X. H. Strother and D. Campbell at six hu* dred dollars The owner of said astray is required to c me forwa, and, pay char cs and lake said mule away, or he wi l be dealt with as the law directs. a true extract from the Eotray Book. iebiStiwk G. G. NORMAN, C. I. C. fiT - TK OF GEORGIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, in Whereas, Mrs Nancy Culpepper, Administratrix on the estate ot W. W. Culpepper, deceased, applies tome for let ters of dismission: These are,t herefore, to cite- and admonish all, and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be aud appear at lny ofticc, within the timepresciihed by law, and show cause, if any they have, why said letters Would not be granted to the said applicant.. Given under my hand and official signature, at offloe, in Ap pling. this 21 sit day of February, ;86S. fei>24 2 . 9 W. W. SHI ELDS.Ordinary. CSTATX OF GEORGIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY. 11 Wliereas,Lucinda j. Holmes applies lo me for lettersof admlnis tj: ion on the estate of <ias. S. Holmes, late of said County, ucc used : . These -r *, the-afore, to cite and admonish all, and singular the kindred and creditors of said Uuceased, to be and appear at my oiilcc within Ihe. time prescribed bv law, to !#iow cause, if any l cy have, why said letters should n t begr.uited. Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Ap pling, this 2 hit day of Fcoruary, IbOi. W ,W. SHIELDS, feb2 4w9 Ordinary. ST AT E OFG •nOivGlA.. rt'ILKES COUNTY. Whereas, John H. Walton applies to me lor letters of ad minist ration on tho estate of A. J. Aehmorp, late oi said coun ty, ceee eed. .These are therefore to cite and admonish, all and singular the Mndred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear atrny offi.e wilhin Ihe -ime pre-crincd bylaw l» show eausa. If au v they have, why said i.etder* rhouid not ha granted. Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Washington, this February 9th, irO-i. V. U. NOitMAN. Ofdinarv. teb 14 __ 4wT STATE OF GEORGIA, GOLli AIDiA tun NT Y. Whereas, i e» to me tor letters of gn>wf tauslip of the persoi - r and proper.y of Maty Anna Adecaptola and .i best liurt n Wiik sob. I ),g are tiu.rejore to c;l ; aud admornrhnil and Rlngnlar the kindred and.creditors ot said min irs, to he and appear at my office within ihe time pn a ribed by law, lo show cause, if any they have, why said let’em sbou! i not be granted. Given under my baud and ofik-inl signature, at office in Ann.inv in l - ud t.r ot i-eo.uary, 1 ut■> PP- *' W W fcHIKLDB, feb 16 6wf ordinary, „ QTATEOF4 C 3 COUNTY I n * her as, J . . or; - applies to me for letters of .dniinistriil-ou on tn« Estate of Ei.J-.it Norman, late of said C& T:i>s? arYlri. •eforat > cite and admonish, all and singular the khnl ; ■ and a.ul cieditors of ->.:u deceased, to be and appear at my oil F-e within the ti ;.e preserhed by law, to show cause, If «nv they have, why saio let ere s ouid not be granted. a.; u ._yto ti and ■ t"--r.l sign* urn at office in era hlngion. this 28d day of January, lSiit. Jan 27 4wi G.G. NORMAN, Ordinary. t|TATE OF GLORHI \ WILtC KiI COUNTY. VVherea-, £l ria 1, Tripistt ap l:?s to me for letter* of acministraU :i with ihe vuii annexed on tne estate of Ann Triplett, late of s id county, d-.cca..ed 'J lir.-x-are therefore to cite and admonish, all and singultr the kindred and cr ditors f said deceased, to be and appear afmyolfl wit-dn the tirn urea .-rtred by aw, to thow cause, fan they ii.v.-;, why aud lette-n .-iiomd not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature at office in ■Washington, this 23d day ot January. 1865. I ,n27 4w5 G. O. NoKnvl AN. Ordinary. LJ i ATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE COUNTY: £9 Wh- was, G orge w. (.nnniagham aud Eliza be th O. Flcsman appiii to me for letters oi administration on the e>* tate of John s. Fieemth. late of eaid county, deceased. These are tberef -re to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and triends of said deceased to be and apptar at my officr-, within the time prescribed by law, to show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not l«e granted. Wi'nesi my hand and official signature, this 81st day. f January, 1865. E. G. ciiAuKELFOKD, feb2 4w<; Ordinary C* TATE Os GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE GOUNTYT " I*? Wnerea-, Holley D. Fieeman apphesto me tor lcttersol adminiatralion e bonis n nup n the state of Thorns* r lee man. late of sud county, dteeased. These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred a. creditors oi' aid deceased to be and appear at my office w. iiin the time p: - ribed by law to show aoH; if any tliey have, why eaid letters should not be granted said aP &-ltae* my hand and official -ignatiTre at offise in Lexing to“eb26^6*°ay otJul s?yf Odinasy. C TATE OF GKOR JIA, O JLEI of H Whereas, Doiley ;VF. Fleeman, lata administration upon tne oi of bald county, ccceaacu. , admonisli, all and Bltigular These are thennor j r-* ;i . : ~to be and appear at the iiliidred ar i oread a---- law show my office caul letters eiiould not be cauee, if any if.ey haye, aay i- . my hand and official «SnaUre this *lst day of Jar.uaob l-'Jv. f. C. ORD. Ordinary. hi)LXiiitn a gounty S 1 et r o; T. .“W"*** fed. . rote to A1 'ru aU and singular t he lhe=e a.eti. • - r _ j cle- -g .-J, to be apdappear at my kindred aau ‘ *, r .scribed oy l-.vr.to show cause, if any Oiflce V7l blit Ir l *'Via 4-1 AUininitfiiati n should not be granUffi a to e Gcurgl- W. Gray. Clerk ot, 'superior Court, of said county. hand and official signature at office,in . thii 24:h day 01 January, 1865. A bP“iii’w6 w. W. SHIELDS, Ordinary. NT i ,nsindebted to the Estate of James L. Grlffla, if -ot Columbia County, deceased, arc requested to make immediate payment to the uuder*lxned, and tnoae having eiaims wains: caid estate, will present them within Ul* time presc iued by law, properly tttwtet}, *° .’gjgfegf P W§W? * ’